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Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release
Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."
With a small amount of work you can post from a different IP address every time.
Or it might be a dozen different losers cutting and pasting the same thing.
BTW, a reaction like yours will keep them motivated and posting, thanks ever so much.
That's why logs are keep at the ISPs. Get the police involved and the time of the post, and they can identify the people or bots behind it.
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
good - wasting time commenting on this stuff keeps them motivated to post.
that said, after reading your comment, I had to see what the fuss was about.. I found it quite amusing really. Well, no less amusing that "installing boyfriend 2.0" or "upgrading girlfriend to wife", or any Irish, Polish, or random celebrity jokes that no-one seems to have a problem with. (I'm not American so I don't have the same 'horror' of the N word BTW, round here it's the C word that's the 'uh-oh' one).
It obviously falls into the "not meant to be taken seriously" category (except by the author perhaps, but then he didn't care - he just cared to push your buttons).
So - ignore it and although it won't go away, you can stop caring about it. *That* is what will rile the poster.
hate speech is not a hate crime, it is protected by the US constitution regardless of how distasteful it is.
fortunately for you, being an idiot is also completely legal
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Congratulations, you just encourage it. Twice, and with multiple replies. The moderation system is designed to account for this stuff. It's designed so you just need a single person with a single mod point to mark it as troll or flamebait, cleaning up the comments for others.
The only thing you've said that makes sense is filtering multiple copies of things. Everything else is heavy-handed censorship type stuff. Police involved for being racist? That's excessive.
Just ignore it. It's going to be harder than ever, because you just fed the troll. Do not feed the trolls. But just ignore it. I get a kick out of it every time. "Oh that again, silly retard, no one reads that." But I was wrong - you read it. Ignore it.
Maybe its a good thing I am Canadian then. We do have laws that do something about this.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/03/20/13300256-qmi.html
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Yes, because no-one would change a word or two in their post or do variations on the spelling. Yay, we get to have another lameness-filter style arms race, that'll improve the quality of the posts.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
Maybe you should grow a skin and realize that you can't win this kind of pissing contest with griefers.
Seriously, just ignore it.
This very moment, some guy in his mom's basement has his pants down fwapping away to your outrage. You've provided motivation for gods know how many more cut'n'paste trolls, because you provided the kind of hysterical reaction they find so entertaining.
Good job, internet tough guy.
I thought rats got in my computer and ate my sdram module, then I discovered it was just FF 3.6. Seriously, anyone one else having a huge memory gobbling problem with this?
There is someone who would fix it and send in a patch. And there's also someone on the other side of bugzilla who will ignore it, decide it's not an issue, or reject the patch because they used 2 spaces for indentation instead of 4.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
There are more beetles grubbing in shit, too. Do you have a point?