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Online Rich Media Patented

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-mine-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Balthasar has been awarded a patent on "Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet" ( USPO 7,000,180). In an article at news.com the company claims that "The patent covers all rich-media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, AJAX and XAML and all device footprints which access rich-media Internet applications including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes and video game consoles". The patent was filed on 9 February 2001, five years after the original Flash application, FutureWave Splash, was introduced in May 1996."

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  1. Goodbye web 2.0 by leuk_he · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No web 2.0 without paying a royalty to our new overlords!

  2. gay luv .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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    Mac Attack A Load Of Crap

    posted by aaronvegh on Wednesday February 22, @02:39AM
    from the wired-nose dept.

    News Finally! Here's someone in the mainstream press (well, mostly) that's willing to put the recent Mac malware attacks in their proper perspective. It's a brief piece by Leander Kahney fighting the contention that the recent problems are anything more than social engineering combined with some vulnerabilities in the OS. It's worth noting, he says, that this news would have gone unnoticed in the Windows world, where virus attacks are so massive that AV-software companies can't keep up. Yeah, no matter what, I'll stick with what I've got, thanks very much.

    http://geocities.com/francis_uy/

    Just like 99% of folks discussing this vulnerability, Leander totally misses the point. This is not Not NOT a Safari bug, it is a long-simmering MacOS problem: executables disguised as data.

    1. You have a downloaded zip file. OS X is invulnerable to zip files, so extract it.
    2. You have an extracted media file. OS X is invulnerable to media files, so view it.
    3. Oops, that media was actually a shell script in disguise. PWN3D!!!

    Mac users expect (and have the RIGHT to expect) that opening a .jpg, .mov, .txt, or .etc file will not compromise their security. Indeed, that assumption of safety is true on other operating systems, including Windows.

    Apple absolutely needs to finish the extension vs creator debate IMMEDIATELY. In specific, if a newly-arrived data file has a conflict between its extension-based opener and its metatdata-based opener, OSX should either report this to the user or ignore the metadata.
    -F.

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]

    * Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by rbannon (Score:1) Wednesday February 22, @05:26AM
    * Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by Anonymous Coward Wednesday February 22, @05:59AM
    * Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by Anonymous Coward Wednesday February 22, @08:10AM
    o Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by anthonyrcalgary (Score:3) Wednesday February 22, @09:44AM
    o Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by aogail (Score:1) Wednesday February 22, @02:25PM
    * Re:Metadata Attack is the real deal by bill_mcgonigle (Score:2) Wednesday February 22, @10:41AM

  3. OK, Second post now:(.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but I did get modded 5 once!

  4. Ludicrous by DrXym · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aside from Flash, Java et al, even IE 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.0 used just Javascript to deliver rich interactive content. IE 4.0 even used it in their desktop. In NS it was called Netcaster and included quite sophisticated channel finders and a "webtop". They also both provided documents, tools and APIs for providers to create rich experiences. Both browsers may have failed to deliver a decent experience, but anyone claiming in 2001 (a full 3-4 years after these browsers did it) that using JS and HTML to deliver interactive content is either novel or original is flat out wrong.

  5. SMASH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This makes me so angry. HULK SMASH!