What I was actualy reffering to would be the knowledge in the hands of those that want to use it for evil (or atleast naughty) purposes.
Ok, so MS takes for ever to patch, we know this.
FF patches relatively quickly, we know this again.
But how long were vulnerabilities actualy LIVE (as in some one was tryign to exploit them) in the wild? That is much more interestign to me, everythign else is just sorta old hat.
My bet is that the number that COUNTS is probably larger (also larger for FF), the number of days where there was a vulnerability that was known by malicious groups, just not publicly posted.
So, wasn't the new congress going to start trying to do something about these signing statements? Yay for a horrible abuse of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in our system.
Well, MySQL seems to be rather tied up in the GPL (from Kaj Arno's blog: "MySQL has been part of the GPLv3 Committee B advising FSF since the GPLv3 draft was announced in January 2006."), so the "GPLv2 or later" was probably some sort of support for the GPL in general. Now with GPLv3 nearing compleation (it is, isn't it? I am not really following it atm), there are probably a couple things that wory them and thus they want to stay with v2 untill there is either a wide addoption of v3 or untill the things that bug them about v3 are hammered out.
Down the hall from my office is a vending machine. The screen is fubar, and it is mostly empty. However every so often it gets restocked. The fun part is that if you start punching in random numbers it will start running the coils. The only reason there is anytihng left in it is that you can't get some of the coild to run at all. Yet they keep on restocking it!
Now, in this case all that happens is the idiot who ones the machine is out a nice chunk of cash (especialy as he keeps on restocking it). If this was to heppen with a voting machine it might be a bit of a bigger problem. "Yes, I hit E7 tryign to vote for the Mr. X for the state legislature, however the screen flashed a bunsh of thigns then thanked me for voting and to let the next person use the machine." Instead of: "Yah, I hit E7 and then ever 2nd screw on the E line went off in order"
I had a teacher who did that (showing up sloshed).
He was fired.
As some one who has 2 parents that are profs and now works for a college I have to say a few things. Tenure != Can't be fired. There are 2 ways to get rid of a Tenured prof. The first is if the school is gowing through cutbacks they can ditch any one they want. The second is that if you don't do your job, you get fired. And that includes sitting there and not teaching.
I college I had possibly 3 bad profs (and they were team teaching psych 101), before that I had very few, mabey I was just lucky.
He said a number of the Bluetooth chipset manufacturers appeared to be infringing on the patent. One company, Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom, agreed to license the technology. Another company CSR of Cambridge, United Kingdom, did not, Reagh said.
Matsushita, Samsung and Nokia are some of CSR's largest customers, said WRF attorney Steven Lisa. Instead of suing CSR, he said the organization decided to act against the handset makers because the chipset manufacturer may not know which chips are headed to the United States, where the patent is enforceable, but the device-maker would.
So they HAVE been enforcing the patent. And a US based chip manufaturer (Broadcom, a anme most of us are familiar with) DID license from them (IANAL but I think this gives them a leg to stand on). However a UK based one did not (After all, the patent is only valid in the US, and I am willing to be the same patent is held by some one else outside of the us).
So the question is: Can you sell imported items that violate a patent in the US, but are covered by some one elses in the UK (do we have any sort of trade agreements that cover things like this?).
Ha, I had seen refference to Bone becoming an episodic game, but I didn't know it was happening already. (I also figgured it was related to the refference I had seen of Bone becoming a movie...)
TFA really has no information in it. basicly it boild down to "They told us that our stuff sucked but didn't tell us anything else, so we broke the contract, and now want to sue them for breakign the contract".
Untill there are details I will with hold judgment on either side.
If anyone tried to release an epesodic game for $50-60 they would be laughed at and fail.
as for bugs? well, that is standard for most companies now (Release THEN patch)
And for half assed games? If the episode sucks, the peisode sucks and people will not buy it or the next one.
What holds true for full retail games almost always holds true for episodic games. You need to release a good game that works or people will be turned off from yuor future products (be it yourGame 2 or yourGame Ep2).
the perfect examples of this? SiN Episodes tanked, why? the game sucked. HL2 Ep2 is eagerly beign looked forward to, why? Most people like Ep1. Same holds true for Sam and Max.
The interestign thing to me is that the 3 big name episodic games are folow up on previous franchises. my question on that is why? Is it simply that no one is willing to test the watters with a no name game? Are the developers figguring on cashign in in brand name recognition (stupid idea with SiN as the orig was rather bad)?
I would actualy disagre with that. Minors is defined as >17, and I would say the key age range for those games probably goes up to late 20s to early 30s, and starts around 15 or 16 (key range, I know you will find samples out side of the range as well, but not as many). That would be enough people above the age of being a minor to be no longer aimed at minors.
Hopefuly MS will simply ignore Wako Jako, or possibly shoot him down.
However there is a small dark corner of my mind pointing out that MS could join a campaign to keep GTA:4 from being sold to minors (after all, it isn't supposed to be sold to them, thatis what the "M" stands for), however in doing so it would add some credence to the nutjob.
no, but we did try to light one on fire after school once(note, there is some silly law that states childrens toys must be fire resistant. Second note, this was in HS, now we would know to use alcohol to help). We then caried aroud the slightly scorched device and passed it around for the next few weeks.
As for ontopic? If it can't think or feel why should it have rights? I have nothing stoping me (emotionaly or legaly) from crashing my paper airplane into the ground 5K times. If I add a ruber band engine to it should I now stop? (I say no) What about a gas/electric engine? (Still no) And if I add in some basic range finding/sensory hardware and navigation software? (still no, nothign has changed)
Now if we were able to give in intellegence and emotion, then I might have some quams about it, but before then it is nothing more then materials.
Mercury Site: Remote tele-excavation via the Web. An interdisciplinary team at the University of Southern California has made available Mercury Site, a World-Wide Web server that allows users to tele-operate a robot arm over the Net. Users view the environment surrounding the arm via a sequence of live images taken by a digital camera mounted on a commercial robot arm. The robot is positioned over a terrain filled with sand. A pneumatic system, also mounted on the robot, allows users to direct short bursts of compressed air into the sand at selected points. Thus, users can "excavate" regions in the sand by positioning the arm, delivering a burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region. To operate the robot, you'll need an Ethernet link and a WWW client that handles forms. Have a blast at http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders.
God I loved that thing. I was relatively young at the time and it was unbelivably facinating to me.
basucly it alocated upload so that it will likely improve performance, if it can not come up with a spot that will improve performance then it will dump that alocation on other users.
The only downside is that peopel who would hit and run can do so faster.
However it will be only a matter of a couple days before people/trackers just start banning the client. (even thoguh it soundsl ike it is not actualy a bad client).
The only possible downside of the client is that people who regularly hit and run will be doign so that much faster (and thus end with an even lower ratio).
so, a nifty tool in the hands of the godly, and an abomination in the hands of sinners. (or somethign to that effect)
probably gore's movie. (or possibly Thank You for Smoking, but that is just b/c it is wonderfuly done).
However what I was reffering to are all the movies/tv shows that TRY, but fail to be topical/witty/whatever (aiming for +5 insightful, and ended up with 0, Offtopic), where if they just aimed to be a movie about cool hero(s) trying to foil the Dasterdly Evil Guy, they would have been better.
I admit, I was actualy more reffering to movies/tv. There are still enough good books out there (though I can always use more, thank you).
I also admit I made those coments hopeing that people would prove me wrong (thank you again, and to the person that pointed out the radio drama website!)
couldn't you easily destroy a checksum by inserting somethign random into the file?
All it should take (I tihnk) is some one to create a nice little program that detects file type and manualy inserts a white pixel into a corner of every frame. IF that is not enough just randomly change the colour of the pixel, or insert any other sort of noise that we (as humans) would not percieve, but would destroy a checksum.
I honestly hope they DON'T ditch the pulp fiction feel of it.
What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows (I will admit that the day and age of the radio drama are probably gone, though they could be revived via the use of netcasts).
I have honestly been goign back and reading some of the old stuff (before my time) jsut because it is hard to find anytihng like it that is current. After all, I can only take so many pieces that are trying to be high-brow/intelectual/witty/etc. Every so often I need something that is just pure release and nothing else.
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Last I saw was that Sony (and possibly Toshiba with HDDVD) was refusing to license any player that could play both formats?
or has some one (LG?) gotten around this some how?
Hey I got modded troll, nifty!
What I was actualy reffering to would be the knowledge in the hands of those that want to use it for evil (or atleast naughty) purposes.
Ok, so MS takes for ever to patch, we know this.
FF patches relatively quickly, we know this again.
But how long were vulnerabilities actualy LIVE (as in some one was tryign to exploit them) in the wild? That is much more interestign to me, everythign else is just sorta old hat.
you know the drill.
My bet is that the number that COUNTS is probably larger (also larger for FF), the number of days where there was a vulnerability that was known by malicious groups, just not publicly posted.
NO!
This is America we Demand instant gratification!
I want my BigMac Meal, Fiberoptic TV/Net/Phone, a new car, laws protecting net nutrality, and the impeachment of bush as of yesterday!
they had better get on the ball!
[/silly]
Honestly I just hope they take the ball and run with it, prefferably starting with this signing statement, as it is a rather horrible one.
So, wasn't the new congress going to start trying to do something about these signing statements? Yay for a horrible abuse of the checks and balances that are supposed to be in our system.
Well, MySQL seems to be rather tied up in the GPL (from Kaj Arno's blog: "MySQL has been part of the GPLv3 Committee B advising FSF since the GPLv3 draft was announced in January 2006."), so the "GPLv2 or later" was probably some sort of support for the GPL in general. Now with GPLv3 nearing compleation (it is, isn't it? I am not really following it atm), there are probably a couple things that wory them and thus they want to stay with v2 untill there is either a wide addoption of v3 or untill the things that bug them about v3 are hammered out.
that is what they did.
Down the hall from my office is a vending machine. The screen is fubar, and it is mostly empty. However every so often it gets restocked. The fun part is that if you start punching in random numbers it will start running the coils. The only reason there is anytihng left in it is that you can't get some of the coild to run at all. Yet they keep on restocking it!
Now, in this case all that happens is the idiot who ones the machine is out a nice chunk of cash (especialy as he keeps on restocking it). If this was to heppen with a voting machine it might be a bit of a bigger problem.
"Yes, I hit E7 tryign to vote for the Mr. X for the state legislature, however the screen flashed a bunsh of thigns then thanked me for voting and to let the next person use the machine."
Instead of:
"Yah, I hit E7 and then ever 2nd screw on the E line went off in order"
Things mess up, things can be broken into (Vending Machine Hacks).
I had a teacher who did that (showing up sloshed).
He was fired.
As some one who has 2 parents that are profs and now works for a college I have to say a few things. Tenure != Can't be fired. There are 2 ways to get rid of a Tenured prof. The first is if the school is gowing through cutbacks they can ditch any one they want. The second is that if you don't do your job, you get fired. And that includes sitting there and not teaching.
I college I had possibly 3 bad profs (and they were team teaching psych 101), before that I had very few, mabey I was just lucky.
So they HAVE been enforcing the patent. And a US based chip manufaturer (Broadcom, a anme most of us are familiar with) DID license from them (IANAL but I think this gives them a leg to stand on). However a UK based one did not (After all, the patent is only valid in the US, and I am willing to be the same patent is held by some one else outside of the us).
So the question is:
Can you sell imported items that violate a patent in the US, but are covered by some one elses in the UK (do we have any sort of trade agreements that cover things like this?).
Ha, I had seen refference to Bone becoming an episodic game, but I didn't know it was happening already. (I also figgured it was related to the refference I had seen of Bone becoming a movie...)
Time to do more research!
My thoughts exactly.
TFA really has no information in it. basicly it boild down to "They told us that our stuff sucked but didn't tell us anything else, so we broke the contract, and now want to sue them for breakign the contract".
Untill there are details I will with hold judgment on either side.
If anyone tried to release an epesodic game for $50-60 they would be laughed at and fail.
as for bugs? well, that is standard for most companies now (Release THEN patch)
And for half assed games? If the episode sucks, the peisode sucks and people will not buy it or the next one.
What holds true for full retail games almost always holds true for episodic games. You need to release a good game that works or people will be turned off from yuor future products (be it yourGame 2 or yourGame Ep2).
the perfect examples of this?
SiN Episodes tanked, why? the game sucked.
HL2 Ep2 is eagerly beign looked forward to, why? Most people like Ep1. Same holds true for Sam and Max.
The interestign thing to me is that the 3 big name episodic games are folow up on previous franchises. my question on that is why?
Is it simply that no one is willing to test the watters with a no name game?
Are the developers figguring on cashign in in brand name recognition (stupid idea with SiN as the orig was rather bad)?
I dono.
I would actualy disagre with that. Minors is defined as >17, and I would say the key age range for those games probably goes up to late 20s to early 30s, and starts around 15 or 16 (key range, I know you will find samples out side of the range as well, but not as many). That would be enough people above the age of being a minor to be no longer aimed at minors.
or were you just trolling?
wow, dark day, eh?
Hopefuly MS will simply ignore Wako Jako, or possibly shoot him down.
However there is a small dark corner of my mind pointing out that MS could join a campaign to keep GTA:4 from being sold to minors (after all, it isn't supposed to be sold to them, thatis what the "M" stands for), however in doing so it would add some credence to the nutjob.
no, but we did try to light one on fire after school once(note, there is some silly law that states childrens toys must be fire resistant. Second note, this was in HS, now we would know to use alcohol to help). We then caried aroud the slightly scorched device and passed it around for the next few weeks.
As for ontopic?
If it can't think or feel why should it have rights? I have nothing stoping me (emotionaly or legaly) from crashing my paper airplane into the ground 5K times.
If I add a ruber band engine to it should I now stop? (I say no)
What about a gas/electric engine? (Still no)
And if I add in some basic range finding/sensory hardware and navigation software? (still no, nothign has changed)
Now if we were able to give in intellegence and emotion, then I might have some quams about it, but before then it is nothing more then materials.
yup.
I still think it would be better if private trackers (like the one you probably use) just ban people based on ratio instead of desired client.
God I loved that thing. I was relatively young at the time and it was unbelivably facinating to me.
RTFA
That is exactly what the client does
basucly it alocated upload so that it will likely improve performance, if it can not come up with a spot that will improve performance then it will dump that alocation on other users.
The only downside is that peopel who would hit and run can do so faster.
However it will be only a matter of a couple days before people/trackers just start banning the client. (even thoguh it soundsl ike it is not actualy a bad client).
The only possible downside of the client is that people who regularly hit and run will be doign so that much faster (and thus end with an even lower ratio).
so, a nifty tool in the hands of the godly, and an abomination in the hands of sinners. (or somethign to that effect)
very true!
I would actualy consider that to be pulp. Probably because it is a remake from a graphic novel, and those are the modern day decendants of pulp!
however, one movie does not make a solid trend.
probably gore's movie. (or possibly Thank You for Smoking, but that is just b/c it is wonderfuly done).
However what I was reffering to are all the movies/tv shows that TRY, but fail to be topical/witty/whatever (aiming for +5 insightful, and ended up with 0, Offtopic), where if they just aimed to be a movie about cool hero(s) trying to foil the Dasterdly Evil Guy, they would have been better.
I admit, I was actualy more reffering to movies/tv. There are still enough good books out there (though I can always use more, thank you).
I also admit I made those coments hopeing that people would prove me wrong (thank you again, and to the person that pointed out the radio drama website!)
couldn't you easily destroy a checksum by inserting somethign random into the file?
All it should take (I tihnk) is some one to create a nice little program that detects file type and manualy inserts a white pixel into a corner of every frame. IF that is not enough just randomly change the colour of the pixel, or insert any other sort of noise that we (as humans) would not percieve, but would destroy a checksum.
I honestly hope they DON'T ditch the pulp fiction feel of it.
What the entertainment industry lacks currently is light stuff like pulp fiction, be it books, movies, or tv shows (I will admit that the day and age of the radio drama are probably gone, though they could be revived via the use of netcasts).
I have honestly been goign back and reading some of the old stuff (before my time) jsut because it is hard to find anytihng like it that is current. After all, I can only take so many pieces that are trying to be high-brow/intelectual/witty/etc. Every so often I need something that is just pure release and nothing else.