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Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware
SomeGuyNamedMike writes "I realize the thought of using Flash and Actionscript is considered beneath many Slashdotters, but here's this piece, anyway: Macromedia is receiving (and answering) a a lot of flack from several blogs over its decision to package Yahoo! Toolbar with its Flash player. Will your company develop Flash content knowing Macromedia is using its runtime as its own marketing piece?"
Ok... somebody get Google on the case to get us an alternative... QUICK!
sure you can: DRM
why must people continue to make computing such an esoteric excersise?
Because you're stupid.
Macromedia Flash continues to not have a 64-bit linux version.
I make sure to leave a note to all websites that use flash heavily for ads, that they did not even have a chance at getting any money due to my visit.
badness 10000
your witty attack has left me useless and gasping for breath.... i shall never show my face on slashdot again....
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> sure you can: DRM
Anything not nailed down is yours.
Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.
If at first you can't crack it, get a bigger hammer.
Corollaries:
If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
If the only tool you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of hacking fun.
If the only tool you have is a shotgun, every problem looks for the nearest exit.
post history? just look at his name dumbass.
wud
But for all the folks out there who simply have juvenile comments on the order of "Flash sucks"... well, I guess I just don't understand what you think you're contributing to the topic.
;)
It's like this. When you describe dogshit, you don't say "I don't like the smell, although it is a very pretty shade of brown." and you don't say "I don't like the way it sticks to my shoes, although it is very good for growing plants" . You just say "Dammit, I fucking hate dogshit. This sucks."
Now I may be wrong, but it seeems to me that what he was saying wasn't "I don't like Flash because it's not open source and can be used to create really annoying ads, but it's great for stupid cartoons" and it wasn't "I don't like Flash because it isn't available for 64 bit linux"
Again, I may be wrong, but it appears to me that he was saying something more along the lines of "Flash is a lot like dogshit. It sucks and I hate it."
Hope I was able to clear that up for ya!
Oh, b.t.w... VB sucks too!
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The future is now.
Methinks SomeGuyNamedMike had a lot of trouble learning the language.
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
I had the amazing idea, run a clean linux system, and then a tainted xp system inside of vmware session (well I guess vmware modules techincally would taint your kernel ...dammit), make the vm session a playground where you can install and run all the crap, flash, realplayer, quicktime, etc. Spyware? no problem... It's a crappy solution, but at least this way, when you just absolutely have to see site x using format y, you can do it without your precious box being completely molested by who knows what it's doing...
If all you have are hammer and nails, every problem starts to look like a Messiah...
That'll work great until your Trusted Computing compliant machine can attest that you're running the proper advertising delivery vector^W^W^W browser and the site can then and only then deliver their valuable "content" to you.
for some values of good
I couldn't view them, is that good ?
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