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Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability)
ottothecow writes "While various attempts at video and voice support have been in the pipeline since long before GAIM became Pidgin, fully functioning support over XMPP is on its way. Lifehacker reports that Pidgin 2.6 adds voice and video support for GChat (and presumably any other XMPP network) for Mac and Linux. Windows still has a few bugs but they are being worked on. Pidgin 2.6.1 is only available as source at the moment (but precompiled versions are available at getdeb)." Less happily, an anonymous reader writes "A remote arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability has been found in Libpurple (used by Pidgin and Adium instant messaging clients, among others), which can be triggered by a remote attacker by sending a specially crafted MSNSLP packet with invalid data to the client through the MSN server. No victim interaction is required, and the attacker is not required to be in the victim's buddy list (under default configuration)."
I can't wait until Google has access to all information about everything and everyone. That's going to be great! Right? Hello?
Server side? No.. it's a client issue.
Anyway as far as I'm concerned Pidgin abandoned its credibility a long time ago. I don't need an IM application anyway; if I need to contact someone I just open Gmail. If they're not online then email is right there.
"Pidgin" is just a fancy word for the low-class broken English that most American blacks speak. Look it up if you don't believe me. So as far as I'm concerned, it never had any credibility in the first place.
I guess you're right, it's just shitty English. Sorry, I was giving them too much credit. Far too much, considering that every other ethnicity that comes to this country masters proper English and can speak it like a native within a generation or two. If a Chinese person can come to America and have children who speak English like a native speaker, how much of an excuse should we extend to black people whose ancestors have been in this country for at least 200 years?
They are trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want to maintain a distinctly separate culture with its own dialect, mannerisms, customs, and norms that flies in the face of the culture of the majority. This culture includes many maladaptive behaviors, such as glorifying and idolizing thugs or eschewing education because it's "too white". Then they insist that everyone else accept and adopt this culture because only a racist would not wish to have it imposed on him. Thus who rejects this culture is of course doing it out of racism and not because he doesn't want to acquire maladaptive behaviors rooted in an artificial group identity. This is a recipe for endless "racial" ("culture of people who look somewhat like you") conflict. Black people are their own worst enemies.
And the phrase was pretty accurate. Fo shizzle mah nizzle. Just answer one question: how many American blacks could call you on the telephone without you recognizing from their speech that they are black? The only people you might confuse them for are the suburban wiggers who are trying very hard to SOUND black. That's further proof that this is about culture and not really about race, otherwise they would be working very hard on their tans instead of working on their speech and mannerisms.
Once you see the silliness of all of this, you see it really is just shitty English and was only shitty English the whole time. It's just shitty English that enough people have identified with that it has become legitimized in the minds of those who don't think for themselves. This is defended from intellectual attack by answering all criticism with cries of "racism". Enjoy your political correctness.
There's a surprise - another Microsoft product with a remote code execution vulnerability. They should make it part of their campaign for their new "cloud" offering: "Microsoft: executing code remotely on more machines than anyone else".