Yeah, I totally hate that one. What I would like is to have the OS keep an eye on my activity and grab a clue from that. If an application currently has focus, and my keyboard has not been idle in the last few seconds (because I've been typing, or selecting options, or whatever), pop your message forward if you really must, but leave focus with the app that already had it. Or I'll kill you. If the keyboard has been idle for more than, say, 3-5 seconds when the event occurs, then go ahead and take focus to the popup. This can still go awry, I might have just been taking a short break. So when the popup comes, for the first second or two no keyboard input will actually go to it, or anywhere, as we are momentarily in keyboard-focus-limbo. Don't buffer anything typed during this limbo period. The title bar can start out grey or something, then turn to the active colour after a second or two, by which time I should have registered that there's a popup on my screen. Using the mouse, this timeout period would not apply, you could click it to respond as instantly as you like.
That was a huge thing for me when I switched from the Amiga. On the old OS at least, I haven't tried 3.x, you could drag your mouse all over the place and the slider would continue to follow, until you let go of the mouse button. That just makes sense, doesn't it? Years later, it still makes me swear on a regular basis, especially if I slip while scrolling in a very long list that doesn't allow the scrollwheel, or rapid seeking by typing the first letter. Hey there's one too, what is up with having a scrollwheel that only works in certain scrolling places and not others?
I forget.. Why are automatically personalized menus a good thing? They are hardly personalized really. They just hide stuff you haven't used recently. Well I didn't personally ask for that. There might be an option or shortcut that I rarely use, but want to be reminded that it is there. Particularly since I use it so rarely, how else will I remember where it is unless I see it from time to time? I think it's an answer to a problem that didn't exist. Menu clutter can be managed in other ways.
Proving that no matter how simple you make something, there are still going to be dumbasses that can't figure it out. It would be interesting to see a comparative study of these nipple-impaired babies as they grow up, and whether they eventually get jobs at Microsoft.
Do you even *know* 83 people? Yes the chances of a cellphone blowing up in someone's ear is akin to 'winning' the lottery, but it *could* happen to you or anyone else that you know. It just has to happen once, to someone you care about, and your tune will change.
I'm not understanding what your point is. The average user doesn't know to follow what you say he *should* have done, go get patches. Patches? Those are those things I fix my bicycle tires with aren't they? What he was demonstrating was that, with just one visit to one website, you can get loaded up with crap. That's if you don't know what you're doing, which applies to most people out there. Just because you and I aren't swimming in this crap doesn't mean it's not a huge problem for everyone else. Oh, and us too, since we have to go fix it, and then go fix it again, and then go fix it again... Patch in between infections, and all you are ensuring is that the older stuff won't work. Plenty of new material coming down the pipe though.
The companies that actually take money for these activites should be criminally prosecuted, this junk affects everyone in a negative way.
I'll grant you that, it does appear that by my reasoning Apache should be under attack more often. However, given what I said about the attractiveness of the windows platform, more of your virus writers/sploiters are fluent in the win API's and not necessarily knowledgeable enough to dig into Apache. Just a theory really, but I think that if more virus coders were wanting to code for linux in general, then Apache would become a more realistic target for them.
Especially when you fork out 60 bucks for the game in the first place.
This is not true of all MMO's either. Two of the ones I play (Eve and A Tale in the Desert) get you into the game with a free download of the client, including free trial play. ATitD doesn't even make you register or give cc info, you just start playing for the free 24 hours they give. Then just plug in your card number (right inside the client, no website visit) when you want to start subscribing. Eve is currently undergoing a massive expansion, which is also free (unlike SWG's Jump to Lightspeed), you just keep up your monthly subscription and keep playing, the expansion is really just a massive patch to the game I am already paying for.
have to wonder what the net would be like if only relatively secure OS's were allowed to use it.
Simple, those relatively secure OS's would become less so, as greater effort would be made to find flaws. Linux is 'secure' partly by design, and partly by the fact that nobody really cares about trying to wormify it. Same for Mac. What would be the point of propagating a virus on a platform with low market-share? MS is inept, certainly, but they are also the biggest target, so more effort is put into finding Windows flaws, because that is the biggest infection vector. Make Windows magically disappear, and the urge to 'sploit will roll onto the replacement target. This will continue until there is a platform that is truly unhackable, unbreakable, unspoofable, etc. So probably forever.
There are tools that can watch your registry and inform you of things changing. You can then decide if a given change happened when you were intentionally trying to install something, or not.
But, if this is a simulation that has a strict grading system forcing you to match the findings of the report in order to get a good score, then what does it actually prove? The ideal outcome is only one thing, to show that it was possible for one gunman to accomplish. Sure, but proving a past event as possible isn't really proving much is it?
Actually, an unwatched pot with a bit of butter in the water will tend not to boil over, it will just boil. Given enough time, it will all just evaporate.
First they take the Eternet speed record out of context
Worse than that, that's only 1 pair doing a transfer. I don't think you'll have that same speed when 100 computers in Switzerland are each sending a full DVD to 100 computers in Tokyo. 100 isn't many either, by the hype the **AA is giving.
I think both the guy running the site and the users who cause injury to people are going to end up in a heap of trouble over this.
I don't know what they're planning for safety, but I don't think it would be hard for the attendants to wear radio tags that cause an invisible perimeter (just outside of range from the gun platform) to deactivate the firing control from the web interface. As soon as the attendant (presumably in a golf cart or something) is out of range and cannot be shot (intentionally or otherwise), the system is 'armed' again and the user can now fire.
It's still stupid and senseless, it isn't hunting, it's just lame.
Don't they have maps to locate lines, sewers and such? Don't tell me they're digging blindly...
To an extent, yes. The article mentions that the mapping of certain neighborhoods, particularly older ones, are prone to have errors. This should not be happening with the frequency that it is, it appears to be a combination of lowest-bidder contracting and poor records maintained by the county. Also, locates for existing underground services are typically performed by the owners of such services, not necessarily the contractors putting in new service. It appears that fault lies in a few areas, and incompetance from the past has finally caught up to all parties at once.
The google cache posted in the parent is bogus. It's a goatse link and actually managed to hang firefox. It wasn't able to render the full image before hanging, but anyhow, this looks like a trend. Fuck off, we don't need people like that here. We'll always have them, but fuck off anyway.
Because sometimes bothering to try something hard even though others can't see the value, can lead to cool new things in science. In YOUR estimation, the device they seek to build has to be the size of an LCD projector. This is not their goal, so how can you insist on knowing what the end result will be? It's big right now, they want it to be small, and that's one main thing they must work on. Work, you know, that thing that causes things to happen, as opposed to just thinking. You can't make real world tests in your head, and gain meaningful data, that's why it's in your head only, and not the real world. Yes, the goal they have set for themselves is incredibly lofty, to the point where it is thought unachievable, at least by you. Glad you're not on their team.
The Tie Fighter was shaped like a Tie fighter. Just because it has a round cockpit doesn't mean that's the overall shape. The Death Star was no starship (or moon, heh), and I've blacked out Ep1 so I can't verify.
I stand by what I said. Use your imagination to modify typical starships (why are you only looking at Star Wars?), change things very slightly, and you can make a shoe-like shape. Basically, anything with aerodynamic lines can take this on. True, you don't need aerodynamic spacecraft, but tell that to hollywood.
which meant that they couldn't integrate web browsing into wordperfect...
That's the part I'm not understanding, why are they harping on about IE? The last time I wanted to be able to browse the web from within my wordprocessor was, umm let's see.. Never. They are aware that windows is a multitasking environment, yes? Or do they close their wordprocessor every time they want to see their desktop, to load something else?
The ships will be of a more recognizable shape so that the average moviegoer doen't say "A sneaker! This is lame"
Right, so instead they get to say, "A bowling ball! This is lame"
How is a sphere more of a recognizable shape for a spaceship, over something that has characteristics which suggest a shoe? Take most visual ideas of spacecraft, break off the pointy bits, take slight license with the lines, and you can have all kinds of shoe-like craft. But a sphere.. Can someone possibly be less imaginative?
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Yeah, I totally hate that one. What I would like is to have the OS keep an eye on my activity and grab a clue from that. If an application currently has focus, and my keyboard has not been idle in the last few seconds (because I've been typing, or selecting options, or whatever), pop your message forward if you really must, but leave focus with the app that already had it. Or I'll kill you. If the keyboard has been idle for more than, say, 3-5 seconds when the event occurs, then go ahead and take focus to the popup. This can still go awry, I might have just been taking a short break. So when the popup comes, for the first second or two no keyboard input will actually go to it, or anywhere, as we are momentarily in keyboard-focus-limbo. Don't buffer anything typed during this limbo period. The title bar can start out grey or something, then turn to the active colour after a second or two, by which time I should have registered that there's a popup on my screen. Using the mouse, this timeout period would not apply, you could click it to respond as instantly as you like.
That was a huge thing for me when I switched from the Amiga. On the old OS at least, I haven't tried 3.x, you could drag your mouse all over the place and the slider would continue to follow, until you let go of the mouse button. That just makes sense, doesn't it? Years later, it still makes me swear on a regular basis, especially if I slip while scrolling in a very long list that doesn't allow the scrollwheel, or rapid seeking by typing the first letter. Hey there's one too, what is up with having a scrollwheel that only works in certain scrolling places and not others?
I forget.. Why are automatically personalized menus a good thing? They are hardly personalized really. They just hide stuff you haven't used recently. Well I didn't personally ask for that. There might be an option or shortcut that I rarely use, but want to be reminded that it is there. Particularly since I use it so rarely, how else will I remember where it is unless I see it from time to time? I think it's an answer to a problem that didn't exist. Menu clutter can be managed in other ways.
Proving that no matter how simple you make something, there are still going to be dumbasses that can't figure it out. It would be interesting to see a comparative study of these nipple-impaired babies as they grow up, and whether they eventually get jobs at Microsoft.
Actually, it made it to the front page several months ago.
Do you even *know* 83 people? Yes the chances of a cellphone blowing up in someone's ear is akin to 'winning' the lottery, but it *could* happen to you or anyone else that you know. It just has to happen once, to someone you care about, and your tune will change.
I'm not understanding what your point is. The average user doesn't know to follow what you say he *should* have done, go get patches. Patches? Those are those things I fix my bicycle tires with aren't they? What he was demonstrating was that, with just one visit to one website, you can get loaded up with crap. That's if you don't know what you're doing, which applies to most people out there. Just because you and I aren't swimming in this crap doesn't mean it's not a huge problem for everyone else. Oh, and us too, since we have to go fix it, and then go fix it again, and then go fix it again... Patch in between infections, and all you are ensuring is that the older stuff won't work. Plenty of new material coming down the pipe though.
The companies that actually take money for these activites should be criminally prosecuted, this junk affects everyone in a negative way.
I'll grant you that, it does appear that by my reasoning Apache should be under attack more often. However, given what I said about the attractiveness of the windows platform, more of your virus writers/sploiters are fluent in the win API's and not necessarily knowledgeable enough to dig into Apache. Just a theory really, but I think that if more virus coders were wanting to code for linux in general, then Apache would become a more realistic target for them.
Can one not consider them all overly expensive?
Especially when you fork out 60 bucks for the game in the first place.
This is not true of all MMO's either. Two of the ones I play (Eve and A Tale in the Desert) get you into the game with a free download of the client, including free trial play. ATitD doesn't even make you register or give cc info, you just start playing for the free 24 hours they give. Then just plug in your card number (right inside the client, no website visit) when you want to start subscribing. Eve is currently undergoing a massive expansion, which is also free (unlike SWG's Jump to Lightspeed), you just keep up your monthly subscription and keep playing, the expansion is really just a massive patch to the game I am already paying for.
have to wonder what the net would be like if only relatively secure OS's were allowed to use it.
Simple, those relatively secure OS's would become less so, as greater effort would be made to find flaws. Linux is 'secure' partly by design, and partly by the fact that nobody really cares about trying to wormify it. Same for Mac. What would be the point of propagating a virus on a platform with low market-share? MS is inept, certainly, but they are also the biggest target, so more effort is put into finding Windows flaws, because that is the biggest infection vector. Make Windows magically disappear, and the urge to 'sploit will roll onto the replacement target. This will continue until there is a platform that is truly unhackable, unbreakable, unspoofable, etc. So probably forever.
There are tools that can watch your registry and inform you of things changing. You can then decide if a given change happened when you were intentionally trying to install something, or not.
Ah, I always seem to forget about the nuts for some reason. My bad.
But, if this is a simulation that has a strict grading system forcing you to match the findings of the report in order to get a good score, then what does it actually prove? The ideal outcome is only one thing, to show that it was possible for one gunman to accomplish. Sure, but proving a past event as possible isn't really proving much is it?
Actually, an unwatched pot with a bit of butter in the water will tend not to boil over, it will just boil. Given enough time, it will all just evaporate.
Anyone can file an application for a retarded patent, but it won't necessarily be granted.
But isn't that how it works these days? Being retarded is almost mandatory.
First they take the Eternet speed record out of context
Worse than that, that's only 1 pair doing a transfer. I don't think you'll have that same speed when 100 computers in Switzerland are each sending a full DVD to 100 computers in Tokyo. 100 isn't many either, by the hype the **AA is giving.
1) An ass, and abusing a serious network.
The same things were said about Internet 1 back in the days, but you were getting pr0n off usenet like the rest of us.
2) Part of the 'problem' that has the RIAA/MPAA sniffing around a network they should stay the hell away from.
If there aren't such asses, then their sniffing yields nothing, so why not allow them to waste their time, if a waste it should truly be?
I think both the guy running the site and the users who cause injury to people are going to end up in a heap of trouble over this.
I don't know what they're planning for safety, but I don't think it would be hard for the attendants to wear radio tags that cause an invisible perimeter (just outside of range from the gun platform) to deactivate the firing control from the web interface. As soon as the attendant (presumably in a golf cart or something) is out of range and cannot be shot (intentionally or otherwise), the system is 'armed' again and the user can now fire.
It's still stupid and senseless, it isn't hunting, it's just lame.
Don't they have maps to locate lines, sewers and such? Don't tell me they're digging blindly...
To an extent, yes. The article mentions that the mapping of certain neighborhoods, particularly older ones, are prone to have errors. This should not be happening with the frequency that it is, it appears to be a combination of lowest-bidder contracting and poor records maintained by the county. Also, locates for existing underground services are typically performed by the owners of such services, not necessarily the contractors putting in new service. It appears that fault lies in a few areas, and incompetance from the past has finally caught up to all parties at once.
The google cache posted in the parent is bogus. It's a goatse link and actually managed to hang firefox. It wasn't able to render the full image before hanging, but anyhow, this looks like a trend. Fuck off, we don't need people like that here. We'll always have them, but fuck off anyway.
Hardly. If that were so, then Linux would currently be under attack by the toughest viruses and worms ever seen.
The point of that would be what? Get some more market share and then we'll talk about whether or not it's worth the effort.
Why bother?
Because sometimes bothering to try something hard even though others can't see the value, can lead to cool new things in science. In YOUR estimation, the device they seek to build has to be the size of an LCD projector. This is not their goal, so how can you insist on knowing what the end result will be? It's big right now, they want it to be small, and that's one main thing they must work on. Work, you know, that thing that causes things to happen, as opposed to just thinking. You can't make real world tests in your head, and gain meaningful data, that's why it's in your head only, and not the real world. Yes, the goal they have set for themselves is incredibly lofty, to the point where it is thought unachievable, at least by you. Glad you're not on their team.
The Tie Fighter was shaped like a Tie fighter. Just because it has a round cockpit doesn't mean that's the overall shape. The Death Star was no starship (or moon, heh), and I've blacked out Ep1 so I can't verify.
I stand by what I said. Use your imagination to modify typical starships (why are you only looking at Star Wars?), change things very slightly, and you can make a shoe-like shape. Basically, anything with aerodynamic lines can take this on. True, you don't need aerodynamic spacecraft, but tell that to hollywood.
which meant that they couldn't integrate web browsing into wordperfect...
That's the part I'm not understanding, why are they harping on about IE? The last time I wanted to be able to browse the web from within my wordprocessor was, umm let's see.. Never. They are aware that windows is a multitasking environment, yes? Or do they close their wordprocessor every time they want to see their desktop, to load something else?
The ships will be of a more recognizable shape so that the average moviegoer doen't say "A sneaker! This is lame"
Right, so instead they get to say, "A bowling ball! This is lame"
How is a sphere more of a recognizable shape for a spaceship, over something that has characteristics which suggest a shoe? Take most visual ideas of spacecraft, break off the pointy bits, take slight license with the lines, and you can have all kinds of shoe-like craft. But a sphere.. Can someone possibly be less imaginative?