And I hope it shuts them down. Seriously, I'm all for the idea behind Wikileaks... but *selling* your information to the highest bidder? This is about as diametral to informing the public as it gets! This is moral bankruptcy for them, IMHO.
It somewhat works on Linux, but it has issues. Search the Ubuntu Forums for "firefox flash crash" and you'll know what I mean. I currently can't watch Flash without Firefox crashing. After the crash it works fine for ~one-two Videos, then it will crash again inevitably. Also crashes on any other Flash content, like navigation elements. Without a Session Manager (using the one from TabMixPlus) and NoScript browsing would be unbearable.
From what I gathered at the Ubuntu Forums this is an issue with Flash 9 and PulseAudio, hopefuly it will be fixed with Ubuntu 8.10.
So, Flash works on Linux, but not very good, and especially not very good on one of the major Linux distributions.
Quite the opposite here. Everything worked fine and dandy with FF2 (downgraded after 8.04), but when I finally upgraded to FF3 a month ago FF started crashing each odd time I visit a site with flash content.
At the time the OP was posted nearly all news items on the front page displayed the "signed" tag. Doesn't this only happen when more than one person tags an article?
So, either not many subscribers tagged stories yesterday or some of them just "sheep tag"? And I thought I missed a new Slashdot meme.;)
Doesn't really make sense to me that a gov't so paranoid about what people do on the Internet would allow encrypted tunnels outside of their country, though.
There was a whole Article about how to circumvent the great chinese firewall in the Atlantic recently which also explains why they allow VPNs:
A VPN, or virtual private network, is a faster, fancier, and more elegant way to achieve the same result. Essentially a VPN creates your own private, encrypted channel that runs alongside the normal Internet. From within China, a VPN connects you with an Internet server somewhere else. You pass your browsing and downloading requests to that American or Finnish or Japanese server, and it finds and sends back what you're looking for. The GFW doesn't stop you, because it can't read the encrypted messages you're sending. Every foreign business operating in China uses such a network. VPNs are freely advertised in China, so individuals can sign up, too. I use one that costs $40 per year. (An expat in China thinks: that's a little over a dime a day. A Chinese factory worker thinks: it's a week's take-home pay. Even for a young academic, it's a couple days' work.)
As a technical matter, China could crack down on the proxies and VPNs whenever it pleased. Today the policy is: if a message comes through that the surveillance system cannot read because it's encrypted, let's wave it on through! Obviously the system's behavior could be reversed. But everyone I spoke with said that China could simply not afford to crack down that way. "Every bank, every foreign manufacturing company, every retailer, every software vendor needs VPNs to exist," a Chinese professor told me. "They would have to shut down the next day if asked to send their commercial information through the regular Chinese Internet and the Great Firewall."
Most of the time you're right. But in this special case, the one that Glenn Greenwald outlines, which involves those sources that confirm the Anthrax link to Iraq to ABC, someone lied. Either the Reporter who made up those sources, or the Sources themselves. It's hard to explain away this case with incompetence. I'd love to hear an explanation from ABC for that.
The tools are out there. How do you suppose these ROMs get dumped in the frist place? Want to know why they haven't spread? Because it's a whole lot easier and faster to just download a game from a ROM Site than dumping it yourself. Plus you can usually get the other ~2300 DS games you don't own there, too.
Argh, overread the "Thus, if you can get your file fetched via a web browser (e.g. embed it in a.js file or something), you don't even need a browser exploit."-part.
You still have to actively visit that site and not have execution of scripts forbidden, by e.g. NoScript. Entry level to exploit is still lower, IMO.
You're right with that tradeoff argument. But IMHO the severity of a local exploit is a few magnitudes lower than a (possible) overflow bug in this scan engine.
A bug in the file parser affects only local files, so an attacker has to find a way to get an infected file to your PC, too. Take this vulnerability from Symantec, for example. Exploiting it would involve a User actively downloading an infected RAR file to his PC, or at least exploiting another security hole in his browser to autodownload. That's several variables: a user has to have a buggy Symantec product *and* a buggy browser installed *and* you have to find a way for users to visit your infected website *or* you have make him want to download your file.
Now imagine a similar bug in that LinkScan scan engine and you'll have a disaster in spe. "Just" SEO a few infected sites into popular searches and a user doesn't even have to visit them. It's enough to visit the Google search and LinkScanner takes care for the infection all for himself by fetching and scanning all the links. This could infect thousands of AVG users before someone finds out.
... contains some kind of overflow bug? I guess hundreds of thousands of AVG equiped PCs will get infected instantly?
A programm that fetches each and every link it comes across *can't* be a very good idea. Certainly a feature invented by people without a security mindset?
OMG, I hate these stories that are split up on several pages with no possibility to display it on a single page (on halfway decent sites it hides nehind a link saying "print"...). Newsflash to site editors: I can't see your stupid ads anyways, I use Adblock! Would you please save me the hassle of clicking through tiny fractions of your article?
This isn't like the console wars or the OS wars where there is room in the market for a few options. Consumers, studios, manufacturers, don't want to have to deal with movies in multiple formats its a pain in the ass for everyone.
How is publishing a Film for different formats more of a pain in the ass for "Consumers, studios, manufacturers" then porting a game to different plattforms?
The second issue with the "WWXD?" philosophy is more practical. Xenu was an evil galactic overlord. As a galactic overlord, he had lots of resources, in particular, lots of minions and henchmen to round people up and put them on spaceships, and lots of spaceships shaped like DC-8s, and lots of thermonuclear bombs. Unless you have access to similar resources, "WWXD?" is just not practical to apply to your everyday life.
I agree this is a big problem. I don't know about any of you, but all my spaceships are shaped like DC-10s.
What should I say? I'm European, my newest spaceships all look like A380s.
Autopatcher was surely hurt by that but I believe they found a "loophole" in MS's demands. Last time I had visited the site, they are developing a client that would download the patches directly from the MS servers and after that act like the old Autopatcher.
Few threads down you can find an already existing solution from a German computer magazine, no need to wait for "Autopatcher".
Couldn't understand why people used their packs in the first place anyways, people don't trust MS with their data, but they trust a random third party on the internet, giving them complete access to their system? Could as well visiting bareback parties.
It's funny that you mention Crysis... people are freaking out over Crysis the same way they freaked out over Aero Glass a year ago.
And it hasn't not started with Aero Glass either. The first game I remember people complaining about hardware requirements was Wing Commander, and there must be earlier examples. People are stupid.
You're also mixing up two technologies. Replacing CRT Televisions with LCDs/Plasma isn't what's meant here. You can still use them with whatever signal you prefer. Most people will get DVB-S or DVB-C anyways (digital video via Satellite or Cable), which you always needed a converter for. "New" is that most TVs don't have a decoder built in for digital video via terrestrial signal anymore (DVB-T), like they had when it was analog. So you'll have to buy an external one.
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Slashdot has ads? *Checking with Opera* Currently shows a Microsoft Visual Studio ad here. O_o
And I hope it shuts them down. Seriously, I'm all for the idea behind Wikileaks... but *selling* your information to the highest bidder? This is about as diametral to informing the public as it gets! This is moral bankruptcy for them, IMHO.
It somewhat works on Linux, but it has issues. Search the Ubuntu Forums for "firefox flash crash" and you'll know what I mean. I currently can't watch Flash without Firefox crashing. After the crash it works fine for ~one-two Videos, then it will crash again inevitably. Also crashes on any other Flash content, like navigation elements. Without a Session Manager (using the one from TabMixPlus) and NoScript browsing would be unbearable.
From what I gathered at the Ubuntu Forums this is an issue with Flash 9 and PulseAudio, hopefuly it will be fixed with Ubuntu 8.10.
So, Flash works on Linux, but not very good, and especially not very good on one of the major Linux distributions.
Yawn, old news. Meh, even Slashdot had it already.
Quite the opposite here. Everything worked fine and dandy with FF2 (downgraded after 8.04), but when I finally upgraded to FF3 a month ago FF started crashing each odd time I visit a site with flash content.
At the time the OP was posted nearly all news items on the front page displayed the "signed" tag. Doesn't this only happen when more than one person tags an article? So, either not many subscribers tagged stories yesterday or some of them just "sheep tag"? And I thought I missed a new Slashdot meme. ;)
Now that you mention it... wouldn't have noticed without your post, but now I want to know, too.
Why are all articles tagged "signed" lately?
There was a whole Article about how to circumvent the great chinese firewall in the Atlantic recently which also explains why they allow VPNs:
(emphasis mine)
Most of the time you're right. But in this special case, the one that Glenn Greenwald outlines, which involves those sources that confirm the Anthrax link to Iraq to ABC, someone lied. Either the Reporter who made up those sources, or the Sources themselves. It's hard to explain away this case with incompetence. I'd love to hear an explanation from ABC for that.
Says here "news for nerds, stuff that matters". And this is definitely stuff that matters, IMHO.
Some of these Questions are kind of answered in this article: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html It's the same as with Saddam Husseins WMDs or his link Al Quaida. Your Government and your Media lied to you.
The tools are out there. How do you suppose these ROMs get dumped in the frist place? Want to know why they haven't spread? Because it's a whole lot easier and faster to just download a game from a ROM Site than dumping it yourself. Plus you can usually get the other ~2300 DS games you don't own there, too.
Argh, overread the "Thus, if you can get your file fetched via a web browser (e.g. embed it in a .js file or something), you don't even need a browser exploit."-part.
You still have to actively visit that site and not have execution of scripts forbidden, by e.g. NoScript. Entry level to exploit is still lower, IMO.
You're right with that tradeoff argument. But IMHO the severity of a local exploit is a few magnitudes lower than a (possible) overflow bug in this scan engine.
A bug in the file parser affects only local files, so an attacker has to find a way to get an infected file to your PC, too. Take this vulnerability from Symantec, for example. Exploiting it would involve a User actively downloading an infected RAR file to his PC, or at least exploiting another security hole in his browser to autodownload. That's several variables: a user has to have a buggy Symantec product *and* a buggy browser installed *and* you have to find a way for users to visit your infected website *or* you have make him want to download your file.
Now imagine a similar bug in that LinkScan scan engine and you'll have a disaster in spe. "Just" SEO a few infected sites into popular searches and a user doesn't even have to visit them. It's enough to visit the Google search and LinkScanner takes care for the infection all for himself by fetching and scanning all the links. This could infect thousands of AVG users before someone finds out.
... contains some kind of overflow bug? I guess hundreds of thousands of AVG equiped PCs will get infected instantly?
A programm that fetches each and every link it comes across *can't* be a very good idea. Certainly a feature invented by people without a security mindset?
And what countries would that be? Even Europe, who is usually the last to get Nintendo stuff, already had the Wii when Opera was in open beta.
OMG, I hate these stories that are split up on several pages with no possibility to display it on a single page (on halfway decent sites it hides nehind a link saying "print"...). Newsflash to site editors: I can't see your stupid ads anyways, I use Adblock! Would you please save me the hassle of clicking through tiny fractions of your article?
Germany already has some of the strictest immigration laws in the world. You remember the 90s?
Couldn't understand why people used their packs in the first place anyways, people don't trust MS with their data, but they trust a random third party on the internet, giving them complete access to their system? Could as well visiting bareback parties.
Even here at Slashdot there are people having this strange idea. Look at these threads:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0657258
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0657258
Come on, that's hysterical. These receivers cost very little, in the range from 30 to 100 EUR at most.
You're also mixing up two technologies. Replacing CRT Televisions with LCDs/Plasma isn't what's meant here. You can still use them with whatever signal you prefer. Most people will get DVB-S or DVB-C anyways (digital video via Satellite or Cable), which you always needed a converter for. "New" is that most TVs don't have a decoder built in for digital video via terrestrial signal anymore (DVB-T), like they had when it was analog. So you'll have to buy an external one.