That was an interesting [citation needed] Wikipedia article about a phenomenon I hadn't heard of before[citation needed]. I'm so glad [citation needed] we have a great reference [citation needed] like Wikipedia around for interesting [citation needed] factoids like this.
I don't know about the spacecraft (my guess is the density is so low that even a big "shock" is perhaps a very very light shove), but didn't the mission finish something like 20 years ago? I don't think the mission is in danger.;)
Speak for yourself. Demon Stone is a really fun game, and I've actually wanted to play it again for awhile now but I'm far too lazy to bring up my Xbox from the basement, find the VGA adapter for it, plug it all in and play. Dark Alliance too, both of these games are really fun if you have a buddy over to do co-op with. (I can't speak for the other titles in this update, as I haven't played them.)
Maybe you have a point, but surely that doesn't apply to the photos BBC chose to run. Nothing was stopping them from publishing photos of the riots in progress.
You can see propaganda on mainstream news sites, if nowhere else. Look at the coverage of recent riots in France on CNN, and notice how the culprits are always described as "youths." They used to be described as "Muslim youths" a few years ago, but the word "Muslim" was dropped. Also look at the photos the BBC decided to run to accompany their article, and notice how it includes photos of burning cars, buildings, and cops-- but there's not a single photo of any of these "youths".
I'm not a crazy conservative "bomb them all" type. But let's call a spade a spade: these riots are Muslim vs. Christian.
I've been hearing the "I want real books" argument since the early 80s, which was when people first started to talk about ebooks. Always made by somebody who hadn't really tried the alternatives.
There's a surprising amount of luddite-ism in the tech industry. I think that's one of the appeal of Linux, honestly. (Look! My Unix program from 1977 still runs!) Just yesterday, Raymond Chen at Microsoft posted a list of reasons the Registry in Windows is superior to storing settings in.ini files, and the vast majority of replies were programmers arguing the merits of.ini files-- while utterly ignoring the initial list of reasons they aren't ideal. (Post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/26/6523907.aspx if you care.)
I was struck by the number of people whose argument basically summed to, "we like.ini files better because it's always been done that way!" You'd think that an industry so new would be more flexible, but apparently not.
But unless your running FF as root that really shouldn't be a big a problem.
Oh yeah, it just has full access to your home directory and all your important files. Sure, it'll delete your income tax returns for the past 6 years, but that really shouldn't b a big problem.
Cripes, when will Linux get it in their thick heads that the user data is the valuable data? It takes a couple hours to reinstall an OS, my personal writings are literally unreplacable. Other documents are replacable only though months of document scanning and re-typing.
Microsoft gets it with Shadow Copy, and Apple gets it with Time Machine, when will Linux get it? (And not just get the technology, but get the concept and stop telling users there's nothing to worry about if the malware doesn't have admin access?)
I hate it when smart people reading Slashdot, people who are out there programming device drivers and creating huge server farms, have a complete and utter inability to think like a user of computers.
From the user's perspective, Firefox crashed/was exploited. From the user's perspective, visiting the same page from IE or Safari doesn't result in a crash/exploit. Nothing else matters.
Now you're right that the problem isn't in Firefox's code. Welcome to Microsoft's world, where most complaints about Windows problems are actually problems in someone else's code. Sorry, Firefox, it's tough but you'll just have to take the bad press on this one.
I hate to think of what kind of IT systems people like you are creating without the ability to put yourself in a user's mindset. Actually, I already know because I've had to suffer through them: Lotus Notes and Oracle Apps.
Did you read the article? Firefox is the only (popular) browser susceptible to it. IE catches the overflow, and they couldn't reproduce the problem on Safari. Firefox isn't being "singled out", from the end-user perspective, Firefox is the only browser to be worried about.
Hey, and least Americans (and American companies) care and fight back against governmental abuses like this... take a look at the UK, or mainland Europe, if you want to see a legendary amount of kow-towing to government demands. (You can't really blame China when they never had rights in the first place.)
The thing that always bothers me the most about "the size of a football field" is that they never specify whether it includes the end-zones or not.:) I mean, that's significantly longer if you include the end-zones!
Oh I know, I played HL2 on a AthlonXP 2100+ with a Radeon 9600xt. If you remember, it actually came bundled with that card. (Then Valve delayed it for a full year! By the time I actually was able to play it, the card was almost obsolete.)
WTF? Didn't Comedy Central fund MST3K for like a decade? Or almost a decade? Didn't Comedy Central buy this MST3K from a teeny local broadcaster in the first place? WTF?
I hate to break this to you, but it runs fine on Xbox 360 which is, what, 2 years old now? Video game consoles (at least non-crappy ones) have no problem running Half-Life 2 engine games whatsoever.
Would be interesting to see a follow-up to see if they:
1) Are still using open source software, and don't have any Microsoft products 2) Are in violation of any licenses. (After all, that's what they got busted for in the first place-- you can violate an open source license too.)
But this on Slashdot, it's a non-story. It was news in 2002.
I'd comment on the article, but there is no article, just two ads. Brilliant. Half the comments here are talking about how this story is from 2002, half are making fun of the abacus comment, and the original article doesn't exist!
No, I just like to wait until there's actually a problem before we "solve" it. Sure you can come up with hypothetical situations until the cows come home, but has this feature actually *harmed* anybody? And if you don't know, or if the answer's no, just say so. Because I suspect the real answer is no.
The problem with Slashdot is that there are so many privacy zealots on this site that it's basically crying wolf all the time, like with RFID chips in products. It's hard to figure out what's ACTUALLY a threat, and what's plain harmless.
if I was MS I would put people on mailing lists and message boards for free software projects and then have them bitch and moan about every conceivable potential violation.
Why should MS bother? We already have a Slashdot.
Someday I want to total up the number of Slashdot stories about software development and compare them with the number of stories about licensing-- everyone here does nothing but bicker about licenses while not writing code, it seems.
So you're arguing that if someone gives you something for free, they should be allowed to do you harm in order to recover their costs or make a profit?
Back up a step... how does better-targeted advertising harm you?
Besides, I'm sure Facebook would rather hear complaints from users than have a mass exodus for no apparent reason.
Or they can be like World of Warcraft where the level of bitching (on the forums at least) is legendary, and yet nobody quits anyway. Talk is cheap, that doesn't necessarily mean anybody's going to quit over it.
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That was an interesting [citation needed] Wikipedia article about a phenomenon I hadn't heard of before[citation needed]. I'm so glad [citation needed] we have a great reference [citation needed] like Wikipedia around for interesting [citation needed] factoids like this.
I don't know about the spacecraft (my guess is the density is so low that even a big "shock" is perhaps a very very light shove), but didn't the mission finish something like 20 years ago? I don't think the mission is in danger. ;)
Speak for yourself. Demon Stone is a really fun game, and I've actually wanted to play it again for awhile now but I'm far too lazy to bring up my Xbox from the basement, find the VGA adapter for it, plug it all in and play. Dark Alliance too, both of these games are really fun if you have a buddy over to do co-op with. (I can't speak for the other titles in this update, as I haven't played them.)
Maybe you have a point, but surely that doesn't apply to the photos BBC chose to run. Nothing was stopping them from publishing photos of the riots in progress.
Why should Fox be on the ready for datastreams that QT handles wrong? Should we have Fox set up to keep an eye passed to every plugin?
;)
In this particular case, since Firefox's competitors do it, yes Firefox should also do it.
Glad to have helped.
You can see propaganda on mainstream news sites, if nowhere else. Look at the coverage of recent riots in France on CNN, and notice how the culprits are always described as "youths." They used to be described as "Muslim youths" a few years ago, but the word "Muslim" was dropped. Also look at the photos the BBC decided to run to accompany their article, and notice how it includes photos of burning cars, buildings, and cops-- but there's not a single photo of any of these "youths".
I'm not a crazy conservative "bomb them all" type. But let's call a spade a spade: these riots are Muslim vs. Christian.
I've been hearing the "I want real books" argument since the early 80s, which was when people first started to talk about ebooks. Always made by somebody who hadn't really tried the alternatives.
.ini files, and the vast majority of replies were programmers arguing the merits of .ini files-- while utterly ignoring the initial list of reasons they aren't ideal. (Post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/26/6523907.aspx if you care.)
.ini files better because it's always been done that way!" You'd think that an industry so new would be more flexible, but apparently not.
There's a surprising amount of luddite-ism in the tech industry. I think that's one of the appeal of Linux, honestly. (Look! My Unix program from 1977 still runs!) Just yesterday, Raymond Chen at Microsoft posted a list of reasons the Registry in Windows is superior to storing settings in
I was struck by the number of people whose argument basically summed to, "we like
But unless your running FF as root that really shouldn't be a big a problem.
Oh yeah, it just has full access to your home directory and all your important files. Sure, it'll delete your income tax returns for the past 6 years, but that really shouldn't b a big problem.
Cripes, when will Linux get it in their thick heads that the user data is the valuable data? It takes a couple hours to reinstall an OS, my personal writings are literally unreplacable. Other documents are replacable only though months of document scanning and re-typing.
Microsoft gets it with Shadow Copy, and Apple gets it with Time Machine, when will Linux get it? (And not just get the technology, but get the concept and stop telling users there's nothing to worry about if the malware doesn't have admin access?)
I hate it when smart people reading Slashdot, people who are out there programming device drivers and creating huge server farms, have a complete and utter inability to think like a user of computers.
From the user's perspective, Firefox crashed/was exploited. From the user's perspective, visiting the same page from IE or Safari doesn't result in a crash/exploit. Nothing else matters.
Now you're right that the problem isn't in Firefox's code. Welcome to Microsoft's world, where most complaints about Windows problems are actually problems in someone else's code. Sorry, Firefox, it's tough but you'll just have to take the bad press on this one.
I hate to think of what kind of IT systems people like you are creating without the ability to put yourself in a user's mindset. Actually, I already know because I've had to suffer through them: Lotus Notes and Oracle Apps.
Did you read the article? Firefox is the only (popular) browser susceptible to it. IE catches the overflow, and they couldn't reproduce the problem on Safari. Firefox isn't being "singled out", from the end-user perspective, Firefox is the only browser to be worried about.
I'd be a LOT more concerned if they were buying this:
http://www.amazon.com/StarBird-David-Greenley/dp/0738812439/ref=sr_1_22/002-3699275-9111221?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176468104&sr=8-22
(Here's a sample chapter, in case you enjoy pain: http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=553 )
Hey, and least Americans (and American companies) care and fight back against governmental abuses like this... take a look at the UK, or mainland Europe, if you want to see a legendary amount of kow-towing to government demands. (You can't really blame China when they never had rights in the first place.)
The thing that always bothers me the most about "the size of a football field" is that they never specify whether it includes the end-zones or not. :) I mean, that's significantly longer if you include the end-zones!
Oh I know, I played HL2 on a AthlonXP 2100+ with a Radeon 9600xt. If you remember, it actually came bundled with that card. (Then Valve delayed it for a full year! By the time I actually was able to play it, the card was almost obsolete.)
If he's buying open source software from MySQL or RedHat, there are a variety of things he could be doing to violate the various agreements involved.
WTF? Didn't Comedy Central fund MST3K for like a decade? Or almost a decade? Didn't Comedy Central buy this MST3K from a teeny local broadcaster in the first place? WTF?
I hate to break this to you, but it runs fine on Xbox 360 which is, what, 2 years old now? Video game consoles (at least non-crappy ones) have no problem running Half-Life 2 engine games whatsoever.
What predictions are there to make? It's just a kernel.
"We're going to focus this year on making Linux more stable and task-switching more efficient."
There, that's the summary for every year. Getting an article on GNOME or KDE would be much more interesting.
Would be interesting to see a follow-up to see if they:
1) Are still using open source software, and don't have any Microsoft products
2) Are in violation of any licenses. (After all, that's what they got busted for in the first place-- you can violate an open source license too.)
But this on Slashdot, it's a non-story. It was news in 2002.
I'd comment on the article, but there is no article, just two ads. Brilliant. Half the comments here are talking about how this story is from 2002, half are making fun of the abacus comment, and the original article doesn't exist!
Pure class.
No, I just like to wait until there's actually a problem before we "solve" it. Sure you can come up with hypothetical situations until the cows come home, but has this feature actually *harmed* anybody? And if you don't know, or if the answer's no, just say so. Because I suspect the real answer is no.
The problem with Slashdot is that there are so many privacy zealots on this site that it's basically crying wolf all the time, like with RFID chips in products. It's hard to figure out what's ACTUALLY a threat, and what's plain harmless.
if I was MS I would put people on mailing lists and message boards for free software projects and then have them bitch and moan about every conceivable potential violation.
Why should MS bother? We already have a Slashdot.
Someday I want to total up the number of Slashdot stories about software development and compare them with the number of stories about licensing-- everyone here does nothing but bicker about licenses while not writing code, it seems.
So you're arguing that if someone gives you something for free, they should be allowed to do you harm in order to recover their costs or make a profit?
Back up a step... how does better-targeted advertising harm you?
Besides, I'm sure Facebook would rather hear complaints from users than have a mass exodus for no apparent reason.
Or they can be like World of Warcraft where the level of bitching (on the forums at least) is legendary, and yet nobody quits anyway. Talk is cheap, that doesn't necessarily mean anybody's going to quit over it.
You do realize you're replying to a joke, right? WTF!