The Secure features a fingerprint scanner and a thermal sensor 'so that the finger alone, detached from the body, will still not give access to the memory stick's contents.'
Surely if somebody can chop off your finger he can also warm it up?
Just this weekend I experienced a flash game embedded in a XLS enclosed in an Outlook.eml file. I hope it does not get worse than that, otherwise I am sure we'd be breaking some laws of topology.
Clearly we are not using the same definition of a "production" release. In my vocabulary, production release is a stable release that most businesses except maybe nuclear powerplants can rely on. A release that was thoroughly tested for data-loss bugs, will not break things with another update, has some bugfix schedule and so on. I know you find this definition overly restrictive, but you can't simply "squat" a word with a meaning different from the mainstream. (Or you will create more problems than you solve.) There are certainly people who will be able to use Rakudo Star in the core of their business, but I don't think that is what the release is mainly for.
Rakudo Star is not a production release. In the linked blog pmichaud says he would like to stay away from words like "finished" or "stable" and calls Rakudo Star a "useful" and "usable" release. The "Star" itself means literal *, or "whatever", to get away from commiting versioning or release engineering terms. The release will be simply something you can hack on without major inconveniences.
I have no experience with amphetamines, but overdosing by drugs is seldom a good feeling. And if it does not work, you do might end up as a drooling idiot, because you might stop breathing long enough to damage your brain. If I were to come off this world by my own hand, I sure would have take care to have clean and peaceful mind (which is not exactly what drugs do).
The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler.
Oh, so new software takes too long to build because of lengthy manual optimization? That's news indeed. Even if it did, will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash? Will it find places when I am calculating something in a tight loop and move the code somewhere higher?
...see the post by the guy who evaluated the OOXML specification for the Czech Normalization Institute. This means that Czech Republic is most probably going to vote for OOXML when the time comes.
Wait... does that mean that the Egyptians are not trying to copyright pyramids and "a cat of a hairless breed, originally from North America"? That kind of ruins the whole article for me!
This is going to sound like a troll, but for me the situation is awful precisely and only because of Internet Explorer. I am a web designer, and my job would be infinitesimally easier and more fun if I could write for sane browsers only. I know how to work around most of the bugs now, but usually that means sticking to basic, dumb solutions (or testing like a madman). I do not need major tools, I am perfectly fine with Vim and Unix toolbox. I am happy with the div-float-clear approach as implemented by decent browsers. I do not need WYSIWYG tools, I feel much more comfortable and productive writing it myself. All I need is decent implementation of the current web standards in all major browsers.
All the doctor would have to do is to equip his assistant with an abacus. Insert a sponge, move a bead right. Remove a sponge, move a bead left. Multiple rows for tracking multiple items, each row labeled. No barcodes, no lasers, no expensive machines.
There is not a SINGLE technical detail about the bug in the article. The first paragraph pretty much says it all:
Security researchers Billy Rios and Nathan McFeters say they've discovered a new way that the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol handler technology, used by Windows to launch programs through the browser, can be misused to steal data from a victim's computer.
It is impossible to say whether this bug is really exploitable, whether it matters at all. So far they ("security researchers") can be only getting a free publicity. Is this news for nerds?
run (...) under Windows, Mac, or Linux, with a look and feel native to each
People should realize that this is impossible to do. This sounds like look&feel was something like a skin you can change at will, but it is not. Different systems have different requirements that cannot be changed programmatically, like keyboard shortcuts, icons, file placement, GUI metaphors and so on. If you want an application to feel native, simply design the GUI according to local customs, there is no other way.
Surely they need to cool the components in the middle of the stack?
Unless they decide to leave some of the holes open then anything in the middle is going to overheat?
> Of 1,800 consumers surveyed, just 21 had spent more than $400 for a cell phone.
This could simply mean that there were no phones good enough to justify the higher price tag. I mean, is there a phone with a few GB of memory, big touch screen and really good software? What kind of phone can you buy for $500 right now?
I use Gmail, receive about a one spam a month (usually a text one), I do not remember receiving an image spam and also do not remember having a legitimate image-only mail marked as spam. Seems like the situation with image-only spams is not that bad, even without OCR (I doubt they use OCR for spam filtering at Gmail).
I know, it is. That is why I asked whether there is some solution supported by WHATWG, because that could end up being standardized and implemented in more browsers.
Thanks for the link, I did not know about that. I wanted a bit more, I wanted to know whether is this feature (and the text selection control) is going to get standardized somewhere. I am just skimming the Web Applications 1.0 spec by WHATWG and it seems that not the text selection control nor the autocompletion is there. (I'll try to submit a comment if I have enough time to go through the spec draft.)
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Surely if somebody can chop off your finger he can also warm it up?
Just this weekend I experienced a flash game embedded in a XLS enclosed in an Outlook .eml file. I hope it does not get worse than that, otherwise I am sure we'd be breaking some laws of topology.
Clearly we are not using the same definition of a "production" release. In my vocabulary, production release is a stable release that most businesses except maybe nuclear powerplants can rely on. A release that was thoroughly tested for data-loss bugs, will not break things with another update, has some bugfix schedule and so on. I know you find this definition overly restrictive, but you can't simply "squat" a word with a meaning different from the mainstream. (Or you will create more problems than you solve.) There are certainly people who will be able to use Rakudo Star in the core of their business, but I don't think that is what the release is mainly for.
Rakudo Star is not a production release. In the linked blog pmichaud says he would like to stay away from words like "finished" or "stable" and calls Rakudo Star a "useful" and "usable" release. The "Star" itself means literal *, or "whatever", to get away from commiting versioning or release engineering terms. The release will be simply something you can hack on without major inconveniences.
I have no experience with amphetamines, but overdosing by drugs is seldom a good feeling. And if it does not work, you do might end up as a drooling idiot, because you might stop breathing long enough to damage your brain. If I were to come off this world by my own hand, I sure would have take care to have clean and peaceful mind (which is not exactly what drugs do).
Oh, so new software takes too long to build because of lengthy manual optimization? That's news indeed. Even if it did, will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash? Will it find places when I am calculating something in a tight loop and move the code somewhere higher?
...see the post by the guy who evaluated the OOXML specification for the Czech Normalization Institute. This means that Czech Republic is most probably going to vote for OOXML when the time comes.
Wait... does that mean that the Egyptians are not trying to copyright pyramids and "a cat of a hairless breed, originally from North America"? That kind of ruins the whole article for me!
1/infinitesimally, then. Sorry :)
This is going to sound like a troll, but for me the situation is awful precisely and only because of Internet Explorer. I am a web designer, and my job would be infinitesimally easier and more fun if I could write for sane browsers only. I know how to work around most of the bugs now, but usually that means sticking to basic, dumb solutions (or testing like a madman). I do not need major tools, I am perfectly fine with Vim and Unix toolbox. I am happy with the div-float-clear approach as implemented by decent browsers. I do not need WYSIWYG tools, I feel much more comfortable and productive writing it myself. All I need is decent implementation of the current web standards in all major browsers.
All the doctor would have to do is to equip his assistant with an abacus. Insert a sponge, move a bead right. Remove a sponge, move a bead left. Multiple rows for tracking multiple items, each row labeled. No barcodes, no lasers, no expensive machines.
"Unlike the for loop, the while loop will always execute at least once. This is because the condition test is checked after the first iteration."
-- Gray Hat Hacking, The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
(Do I have to say more?)
It is impossible to say whether this bug is really exploitable, whether it matters at all. So far they ("security researchers") can be only getting a free publicity. Is this news for nerds?
>>/dev/null? Unix joke of the year :-)
The FAQ is actually here.
This is where the Menger Sponge comes in...
This does not work everywhere, for example on vanilla OS X.
"Is it absurd to think this poses a threat to Google and Microsoft?"
Yes.
> most stand-alone DVD players sold in the UK are now region-free
How can this be? I thought that the CSS license required the players to obey the regional restrictions.
> Of 1,800 consumers surveyed, just 21 had spent more than $400 for a cell phone.
This could simply mean that there were no phones good enough to justify the higher price tag. I mean, is there a phone with a few GB of memory, big touch screen and really good software? What kind of phone can you buy for $500 right now?
I use Gmail, receive about a one spam a month (usually a text one), I do not remember receiving an image spam and also do not remember having a legitimate image-only mail marked as spam. Seems like the situation with image-only spams is not that bad, even without OCR (I doubt they use OCR for spam filtering at Gmail).
I know, it is. That is why I asked whether there is some solution supported by WHATWG, because that could end up being standardized and implemented in more browsers.
Thanks for the link, I did not know about that. I wanted a bit more, I wanted to know whether is this feature (and the text selection control) is going to get standardized somewhere. I am just skimming the Web Applications 1.0 spec by WHATWG and it seems that not the text selection control nor the autocompletion is there. (I'll try to submit a comment if I have enough time to go through the spec draft.)