What good is the damn document if in 20 or 50 years it will mean something entirely different? What good is the amendment process if we can subvert it by just saying "...well, I think it means THIS now"? You do realize that this quote, and indeed almost the whole response you wrote and TFA itself, can be applied to the big three religious books as well as law? In fact, the two are almost one and the same. Look at the fractured, nonuniform interpretations of religion to gain a broad view of the same phenomenon regarding the law.
I am in total agreement with you. Many of those angered by the images had not come to their own conclusions. They were told that the images were meant to insult the prophet with the specific intention of igniting them. It certainly is fact bending, though I'm sure both the east and the west manipulate their subjects in such a manner. This week: war on Eurasia!
I personally know of two incidents of legal Windows XP (not Vista) installations failing WGA tests. Google it, it seems to be not unusual. Now, I freely admit that I'm a Linux slut, but I can objectively say that WGA will flag a legal system as counterfeit. And this was not after some hardware change. One is a neighbor, who still has her original disk, and hasn't pulled the computer out from under the desk in maybe four years. The other is family.
Wow... 3 posts before some twat turned it into a platform for bashing Windows.
Pretty good. That's 2 more posts than I expected when I read the headline... Yeah, my wife also complains that I get to the point rather quickly. I know you girls hate that.
Who buys computers? I build my computers, I buy the components.
And in my country, most computers bought in a computer store were assembled right there in that store. There are very few Dell, HP, and other systems here. That is very common in the world outside those manufacturer's home country. These systems do not 'come' with Windows anymore than a Mustang 'comes' with a V8. You pay extra for it. Or you don't.
I just successfully used this exploit on a Fedora 7 box running 2.6.22.4. A bit out of date, yes... Fedora 7 is not out of date yet. It's got at least another two months of official support if I'm not mistaken, and it will get a whole lot more than that. I'm still running FC6 on one box.
And even if it isn't on its way (and while it isn't here) you can still get the source and remove the problematic part if you don't need it. Try recompiling Flash or some other commercial software without the section that has the exploit in;) Well, you could always just enter a blank CDR in the drive. I'd say that's about as close as you are going to get to "remove the problematic part" from Windows.
Of course if you act like a lemming, you will be treated like a lemming. After OS X, Intel Switch which made Mac very credible thanks to popularithy, distros like Ubuntu... Why do we blame MS anymore? It is end user/customer to blame. Let them sit with their WGA bugging OS who treats them as a thief. Actually, a large percentage of Microsoft's userbase _are_ thiefs, according to a rather broad definition. That's why they go to the lengths that they go. MS Windows is the number one pirated software, closely followed by Adode Acrobat and MS Office. Paintshop is a distant fourth.
I know people who have paid $400 for it, that doesn't meet my or their definition either. No, MSO is not adware. It may 'suggest' that the user do it the MS way, and might try to pry more money out of the end user, but that does not make it adware.
I completely agree here. This is not your field. It may look like IT to those who don't do IT, but it's not. The maintenance of a website is IT, not the design.
According to Wikipedia:
The PDF combines three technologies:
* A sub-set of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics.
* A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents.
* A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate. So it seems that the document structure is a subset of PS, but in addition to that subset of PS, PDF has the ability to generate tar-type files that contain the PS code, the necessary fonts, and possibly other data (images? music? scripts?).
For Joe and Jane Sixpack, PDF=Acrobat, www=IE. Saying that other readers/browsers are safe is irrelevant for the majority of people. Now why do you think that is? Because of misleading articles like this. When bugs are found in IE, should the media report that the Internet is flawed?
So if one in four KDE users used Konqueror, it would be acceptable? Or does it need to be one in four web users? Or since that will obviously eat into Firefox's market share, does it now have to be one in three web users? Or less, as Firefox+Konqi eat into IE's market share, so it only needs to be one in five web users?
Where do you draw the line? I say that you don't. I say that you write apps in the cross-platform nature that the web intended.
This is NOT "Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild" but rather "Adobe Acrobat Reader Exploits In the Wild". The problem in is Reader, not in PDF. That's like calling Outlook scripting worms "email viruses". Oh, wait, blame the technology, not the software. Sorry, I forgot.
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Microsoft has been doing this for years with software patents ~
That's what you have lawyers for. To do the leg reading for you.
A site that I administer has a great introduction to DKIM for those interested:
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/domainkeys_identified_mail.html
(disclaimer: I am affiliated with that site)
I am in total agreement with you. Many of those angered by the images had not come to their own conclusions. They were told that the images were meant to insult the prophet with the specific intention of igniting them. It certainly is fact bending, though I'm sure both the east and the west manipulate their subjects in such a manner. This week: war on Eurasia!
I personally know of two incidents of legal Windows XP (not Vista) installations failing WGA tests. Google it, it seems to be not unusual. Now, I freely admit that I'm a Linux slut, but I can objectively say that WGA will flag a legal system as counterfeit. And this was not after some hardware change. One is a neighbor, who still has her original disk, and hasn't pulled the computer out from under the desk in maybe four years. The other is family.
Pretty good. That's 2 more posts than I expected when I read the headline... Yeah, my wife also complains that I get to the point rather quickly. I know you girls hate that.
Who buys computers? I build my computers, I buy the components.
And in my country, most computers bought in a computer store were assembled right there in that store. There are very few Dell, HP, and other systems here. That is very common in the world outside those manufacturer's home country. These systems do not 'come' with Windows anymore than a Mustang 'comes' with a V8. You pay extra for it. Or you don't.
I know people who have paid $400 for it, that doesn't meet my or their definition either. No, MSO is not adware. It may 'suggest' that the user do it the MS way, and might try to pry more money out of the end user, but that does not make it adware.
I completely agree here. This is not your field. It may look like IT to those who don't do IT, but it's not. The maintenance of a website is IT, not the design.
* A sub-set of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics.
* A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents.
* A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate. So it seems that the document structure is a subset of PS, but in addition to that subset of PS, PDF has the ability to generate tar-type files that contain the PS code, the necessary fonts, and possibly other data (images? music? scripts?).
PDF is a subset of PS. In fact, valid PDF is valid PS.
Why uBox? They should call it the iBox and everybody would buy one.
I'd like a shirt made of this stuff. It could probably provide enough to charge a cellphone, or a soldier's communications device.
Of course Google is not a real company. If Google was a real company, then Steve wouldn't be buying their competitor. They'd be buying Google.
Not when they are falling in Redmond and you are in Sunnyvale.
So if one in four KDE users used Konqueror, it would be acceptable? Or does it need to be one in four web users? Or since that will obviously eat into Firefox's market share, does it now have to be one in three web users? Or less, as Firefox+Konqi eat into IE's market share, so it only needs to be one in five web users?
Where do you draw the line? I say that you don't. I say that you write apps in the cross-platform nature that the web intended.
This is NOT "Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild" but rather "Adobe Acrobat Reader Exploits In the Wild". The problem in is Reader, not in PDF. That's like calling Outlook scripting worms "email viruses". Oh, wait, blame the technology, not the software. Sorry, I forgot.