1. Drawing simple shapes like boxes is hideously difficult, especially if the box is rotated and needs to contain a shape in the picture. 2. Changing the size and placement of selection is unnecessarily hard, so hard as to have "try do it right in the first attempt" in most external guides. Rotated ones are major PITA so (see point 1). 3. Lack of shapes like arrows, etc. Yes, a caption pointing to a circle is image manipulation - ask NASA. 4. Simplicity of generating "lava" - yes this is hindrance. This makes it impossible to believe explanation "KISS" as why boxes/etc are not in the main menu. 5. Right and middle mouse buttons are underutilized, instead you have to go to the toolbox. For example rotating a selection in other programs is right click and move mouse, in GIMP... (see point 2).
GIMP is *FAR* from perfect, it is an UI nightmare.
---cut---cut--- I'd like to repeat my unasked and unanswered questions that I posted when Bricklin first asked us what to ask Novell and Microsoft, because I'd still like them answered, despite realizing that there is no basis for "cautious optimism" that I'll ever get an answer:
1. Both Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza are reported to have visited Microsoft to say that the patent agreement as written isn't acceptable, and Microsoft said itself publicly that a change was needed. Where is the rewrite? When might we expect it? What will the changes be?
2. For Mr. Palfrey: If Linus or Groklaw or any FOSS developer sent a registered letter or published an Open Letter to Steve Ballmer, asking for a specific list of Microsoft patents that he believes support his claim that Microsoft has "IP" in Linux or FOSS, if Microsoft failed to provide the list, would the defense of waiver later be available? What other strategy might be successful, since no one in the FOSS community is interested in violating Microsoft patents, if any actually existed, but no one can ameliorate without specificity? How can such a specific list be forced out of them?
3. For Novell: You promised the community that you would use your patent portfolio to protect Linux. Now you ally with this Microsoft statement, that the deal is "enabling both companies to recognize commercial value from their respective patent portfolios." Why did you break that promise? Do you care that the majority of the FOSS community is opposed to software patents? How do you reconcile the clear intent of GPLv2 that no restrictions, such as a patent license, can be added to the GPL and what you signed? ---cut---cut---
Especially the last one is relevant here... is Novel trying to kill OOo by deliberately undermining the development?
The standard video format is, of course, H.264 (Main or Baseline profile) + Low Complexity AAC sound in MP4 container.
That is supported by most *devices* (PSP/iPod/...), either directly or by simple SW or codec installation (simpler or as simple as installing Flash).
As you said time should not be used as a security mechanism.
Unfortunately this is neither true and helpful.
It is not helpful as computer systems do control the environment - and turning something on/off one hour late/soon do have huge security implications, ranging from nuclear facilities to hospital equipment to air conditioning. None of them may not work in an unexpected manner (why did reactor cooling stop at 15:00, I entered "16:00" and says "16:00"?[1]).
It is not true because it cannot be, there are a lot of situations where e.g. "allowed hours" feature would be off by an hour meaning you/your boss cannot login to a (remote) computer... it might not be critical, but certainly is a security problem.
Now after these simple scenarios I sincerely hope you'll consider time as a security must.
[1] Yeah, I know this cannot happen and is therefore not the best example.
Timezone goes there too (a computer won't be hacked with a bad timetable. therefore it's not in security) Wrong time can cause (and have caused) disasters leading to loss of life.
I personally consider that to be "security" and sincerely hope you'll too.
As long as the version of su inside your jail doesn't have any security holes [...] Actually this is not a requirement - the su inside the jail should not have setuid flag set.
After all it is used only to change away from root. There is no (general) need for a single setuid program inside the jail.
Not to sound "unpatriotic", but... isn't the bill of rights well over 200 years old?
Could it be conceivable that at least some of the text is "showing it's age"? Or is it kinda "bible" - written by godly presence and therefore cannot contain a single error?
Politicians view of what is crime might be different from yours, but there is no point in wearing a tin foil hat.
Or, more to the point, politicians view of what is acceptable to "protect the children" most likely is very different of how much "privacy" you are willing to lose.
Myself? I both love and despise the cameras. They can (and therefore will) be used for good and bad. YMMV.
1. People would trust just anybody to get the "screen saver" to work. 2. Trusting a single Microsoft[1]/Yahoo signed script which have a security bug would destroy all trust to every script from that party.
[1] There was, a long long time ago, at least one ActiveX script signed by Microsoft which did have a fatal flaw. Microsoft never revoked their signing key so people had two possibilities: trust that no blackhat has that script or not to run any Microsoft signed script.
I cannot see why the situation would be any different today.
I do not know how this exploit goes exactly in Skype.
But please try this "exploit" in Firefox. It will not let you run the.scr, it will ask if you want to save it to disk or cancel. You *cannot* run in from Firefox. In Linux the.scr would be saved as non-executable. I'd imagine the same happens in Windows.
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In Europe we use A4 for paper. You cannot print document set up for "letter" without either scaling[1] or mixing up layout, usually completely.
... you got it.
Then different printers have different margins, again
[1] But then you'd better off with PDF.
Unreasonable - yes.
But it is the law in Finland.
Taxi drivers and barber shops (etc.) must pay (a little) to Gramex (RIAA equivalent in this sense) for "public performance".
I am certain you would not say that when Microsoft "extends" something.
I agree with you, except for Free Software (as defined by FSF). (L)GPL clearly states you cannot make money from patents.
But you still failed to answer a single question, especially the one I had: Is Novell trying to kill OOo?
1. Drawing simple shapes like boxes is hideously difficult, especially if the box is rotated and needs to contain a shape in the picture. ... (see point 2).
2. Changing the size and placement of selection is unnecessarily hard, so hard as to have "try do it right in the first attempt" in most external guides. Rotated ones are major PITA so (see point 1).
3. Lack of shapes like arrows, etc. Yes, a caption pointing to a circle is image manipulation - ask NASA.
4. Simplicity of generating "lava" - yes this is hindrance. This makes it impossible to believe explanation "KISS" as why boxes/etc are not in the main menu.
5. Right and middle mouse buttons are underutilized, instead you have to go to the toolbox. For example rotating a selection in other programs is right click and move mouse, in GIMP
GIMP is *FAR* from perfect, it is an UI nightmare.
Like those in http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070930081040440:
Especially the last one is relevant here
The standard video format is, of course, H.264 (Main or Baseline profile) + Low Complexity AAC sound in MP4 container. That is supported by most *devices* (PSP/iPod/...), either directly or by simple SW or codec installation (simpler or as simple as installing Flash).
NO NO NO!!!!
Think about a medical equipment! "Patient needs medicine X for three hours so lets make the machine stop administering it at 23:00".
If that is not security issue I wonder what is.
As you said time should not be used as a security mechanism.
... it might not be critical, but certainly is a security problem.
Unfortunately this is neither true and helpful.
It is not helpful as computer systems do control the environment - and turning something on/off one hour late/soon do have huge security implications, ranging from nuclear facilities to hospital equipment to air conditioning. None of them may not work in an unexpected manner (why did reactor cooling stop at 15:00, I entered "16:00" and says "16:00"?[1]).
It is not true because it cannot be, there are a lot of situations where e.g. "allowed hours" feature would be off by an hour meaning you/your boss cannot login to a (remote) computer
Now after these simple scenarios I sincerely hope you'll consider time as a security must.
[1] Yeah, I know this cannot happen and is therefore not the best example.
I personally consider that to be "security" and sincerely hope you'll too.
After all it is used only to change away from root. There is no (general) need for a single setuid program inside the jail.
Not to sound "unpatriotic", but ... isn't the bill of rights well over 200 years old?
...
Could it be conceivable that at least some of the text is "showing it's age"? Or is it kinda "bible" - written by godly presence and therefore cannot contain a single error?
Well, what the heck, I ain't even american
Completely off topic, but see http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/ping-1m?a=view.
This is why I use Sun manual pages (even though they miss GNU extensions and are sometimes very slow).
Do not use floating point for financial calculations. Doing so is always a bug.
What? 20m^2 is the size of a medium sized living room.
It can be argued that they are helping in committing a crime. This could itself be (a lesser) crime - at least in Finland.
Oh yes they were.
Politicians view of what is crime might be different from yours, but there is no point in wearing a tin foil hat.
Or, more to the point, politicians view of what is acceptable to "protect the children" most likely is very different of how much "privacy" you are willing to lose.
Myself? I both love and despise the cameras. They can (and therefore will) be used for good and bad. YMMV.
Instead of eSATA why not ExpressCard?
I do not think it would work. See ActiveX.
1. People would trust just anybody to get the "screen saver" to work.
2. Trusting a single Microsoft[1]/Yahoo signed script which have a security bug would destroy all trust to every script from that party.
[1] There was, a long long time ago, at least one ActiveX script signed by Microsoft which did have a fatal flaw. Microsoft never revoked their signing key so people had two possibilities: trust that no blackhat has that script or not to run any Microsoft signed script.
I cannot see why the situation would be any different today.
Seeing the system crawl to an halt while something is "archiving" .iso's and tar.gz's ... I'd rather watch the paint dry.
One question: why should static IP address become even more expensive than it already is?
...
I use dyndns.org just because static IP from my ISP is too expensive. OTOH if ISP had IPv6
Maybe next time he'll try a little less powerful batteries ...
Yes, I do think it would help. It would create an obstacle far higher than "click-yes-and-it-runs".
No, it would not stop determined idiot so most likely 90% of people would still get infected.
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
But please try this "exploit" in Firefox. It will not let you run the .scr, it will ask if you want to save it to disk or cancel. You *cannot* run in from Firefox. In Linux the .scr would be saved as non-executable. I'd imagine the same happens in Windows.