I think the point of this is to be used on computers where the users are not administrators, e.g. most corporate environments, in such case you couldn't edit the registry or install "USB Detection Blocker" software, etc.
I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Very useful for companies keeping data secure.
After RTFA, yes, the passwords were stored using SHA-512. However, for three days the login form for one of the compromised services was altered, possibly allowing clear-text passwrod grabbing.
Is Apache a valuable target? I'm interested in what people would crack this site for, if not for fun or proof of concept.
Also, inb4 "Ubuntu sucks" or similar trolls. Linux haters would be in here if it were Ubuntu or Red Hat. Netcraft would be trolling if FreeBSD were the host OS. And God Forbid Apache had been using Server 2008.
Or do they have a moral obligation to their shareholders to not spend money if they don't have to (keep up the bottom line)?
I think that's the point: If the company is going to go by the "bottom-line-trumps-all" ideology, then users get to make it relevant to the company's bottom line by letting consumers know about the company's inferior customer care initiatives.
I can't manage it in a corporate/enterprise environment. Push out updates? Not as a limited user. Push out configuration? Not simply. Push out plugins, or plugin updates? Not simple.
That, more than anything else, will keep firefox out of the enterprise/corporate markets. If that even matters to them, seeing how this is still an issue.
Additionally, FF has been approved for use in many businesses, as well as the DoD/DHS to run on their networks..
Roffle. Perhaps if Parent were using an operating system that pushed updates through its own package manager, rather than having to go through the application?
Also, why would you want to be able to push out updates as a limited user? Seems very insecure to me. I do understand the desire for simple enterprise deployment, and i can't honestly state whether Firefox is good for that or not. I still use it instead of Chromium because I like it, it integrates with Ubuntu better, and I'm skeptical of letting Google too far in my life (I know Chromium is not the Google version, but I'm paranoid).
Battle of the Browsers simply isn't what it used to be.
You say this as if that's a bad thing.... I think.
Browsers should be competing on user satisfaction and Internet freedom, not on attempting to be as intrusive in the user experience as possible, simply for the sake of being able to do so and get away with it.
Youthful inexperience can be just as bad as old age in causing arrogance and close-mindedness.
That said, to call every fresh graduate worthless and that they always are claiming proficiency is better... that is off too. I'm quite the humble 21-year old, and I'm willing to learn from the old coots as much as I can.
Unexpected results != failure. I wish more people understood this.
I guess I love NASA so much because I've lived in Clear Lake my whole life, and drove past JSC every day until recently. My dad worked on Ops-LAN (the communications tech). It's really romanticized; the elementary school Alpha programs ("gifted/talented" students) often go to Space Center to learn about aeronautics and concepts of space travel. The schools have pictures of all the astronaut parents of the students, and many local restaurants (Frenchies, Colosseum, Outpost Tavern [RIP], Fuddruckers, etc.) and even the barber shops have autographs from astronauts. It's a huge thing in that area.
So forgive my bias. I do agree that NASA seems to have grown to afraid of funds cuts or accidents to have done anything useful in recent years. I was really disappointing when I realized that it's useless as a base for going further into space (moon, esp.) because of its orbit, which we compromised with Russia over. I don't know... it's just depressing to see so much true talent in that area go to waste on seemingly nothing right now. We should seriously be going back to the moon, going to Mars, etc.
Unmanned missions are great, but they are not a substitute for sending humans away from Earth.
Time to build a new Internet. We'll call it "Freenet" (not to be confused with the encrypted file hosting protocol). It flows off the tongue well... "Look it up on the Freenet". Good.
Now, we need cabling. Everyone, donate your spare switches, hubs, repeaters, and cables. We'll bond the links, and throughput will quickly approach existing backbone speeds.
Now, location. It'd be good to centralize this movement in a geographically smaller area; stable, fairly populous, but open, so we don't have to deal with urban politics. West Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, maybe a coast? We'll run ethernet on the ocean floor for internationalization.
Next, the software for the backbone. Cisco is not trustworthy; nor likely is any other specialized routing hardware. We'll build the routers with OpenBSD, and end-nodes must be of Unix or Linux heritage.
Email me your donation checklist, guys. We'll get this going.
How is a driveling, abusive, content-less post like yours modded up for insightful? You are compliant with the GIFT.
For what it's worth, the Wall Street Journal was and is an excellent source of objective news and discussion on the op-ed. Murdoch is old and out-of-touch, but rather irrelevant, it seems to me. I think Steve Jobs has as much potential to damage the Internet's openness than Rupert Murdoch or Comcast.
I go to Texas Tech; most of the employers at the job fair there do paid internships. Both the IT internships I've gotten were excellent pay, excellent experience.
Unpaid internships are for when you don't have time to look up a well-paying one, or it's a company that's so badass you're willing to do free work.
complaining about a tradition many more people DO find amusing. It's one day, you know it's not real, get over it. No one thinks you're more cool or mature because you're 'above' this.
I agree, I don't think they have any legal right to stop the dev from creating a completely user-side tool. The only thing they could do (IMO) is block its functionality for users.
Facebook is getting more and more annoying. It's unfortunate how much of a deathchoke they have on social networking (I don't know very many people without facebook; it is my main mode of online communication).
It's known that an IPO is inevitable; if their motives have been in question now, it won't be when public stockholders are involved.
Time to hop on the next social bandwagon. How hard can it be to host asite with 400,000,000 unique VISITORS a month?
I have pondered the idea of a decentralized Social networking protocol, similar to email/Jabber/etc. Standard IM protocols along with standard (XML based?) data formatting for social information would be used to allow socialnetworking servers to talk to each other, and find friends.
The issue is that SOME sort of centralization is probably best for this kind of online interaction; the question is to what extent your secure content is hosted and in your own control.
Best option: Don't put private shit in a public place.
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I think the point of this is to be used on computers where the users are not administrators, e.g. most corporate environments, in such case you couldn't edit the registry or install "USB Detection Blocker" software, etc.
I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Very useful for companies keeping data secure.
After RTFA, yes, the passwords were stored using SHA-512. However, for three days the login form for one of the compromised services was altered, possibly allowing clear-text passwrod grabbing.
Is Apache a valuable target? I'm interested in what people would crack this site for, if not for fun or proof of concept.
Also, inb4 "Ubuntu sucks" or similar trolls. Linux haters would be in here if it were Ubuntu or Red Hat. Netcraft would be trolling if FreeBSD were the host OS. And God Forbid Apache had been using Server 2008.
They have 750 server farms vying for 11th.
I love networking and datacenters... it seems very exciting to me to think about designing and maintaining a datacenter like that.
This was one of the most exciting threads I've ever read on Slashdot, if that tells you anything.
Or do they have a moral obligation to their shareholders to not spend money if they don't have to (keep up the bottom line)?
I think that's the point: If the company is going to go by the "bottom-line-trumps-all" ideology, then users get to make it relevant to the company's bottom line by letting consumers know about the company's inferior customer care initiatives.
I second the AC above: If someone has a link for all Chinese Internet-routable subnets in order to drop, that'd be cool.
No, it won't protect against malicious fake routes, but it protects against attacks/scans/connections from legitimately Chinese networks.
I can't manage it in a corporate/enterprise environment. Push out updates? Not as a limited user. Push out configuration? Not simply. Push out plugins, or plugin updates? Not simple.
That, more than anything else, will keep firefox out of the enterprise/corporate markets. If that even matters to them, seeing how this is still an issue.
Mr. Spontaneous: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1613364&cid=31793650
Additionally, FF has been approved for use in many businesses, as well as the DoD/DHS to run on their networks. .
Roffle. Perhaps if Parent were using an operating system that pushed updates through its own package manager, rather than having to go through the application?
Also, why would you want to be able to push out updates as a limited user? Seems very insecure to me. I do understand the desire for simple enterprise deployment, and i can't honestly state whether Firefox is good for that or not. I still use it instead of Chromium because I like it, it integrates with Ubuntu better, and I'm skeptical of letting Google too far in my life (I know Chromium is not the Google version, but I'm paranoid).
Battle of the Browsers simply isn't what it used to be.
You say this as if that's a bad thing.... I think.
Browsers should be competing on user satisfaction and Internet freedom, not on attempting to be as intrusive in the user experience as possible, simply for the sake of being able to do so and get away with it.
I see you play FF8, you must be a yungin'.
But seriously, you both have a point.
Youthful inexperience can be just as bad as old age in causing arrogance and close-mindedness.
That said, to call every fresh graduate worthless and that they always are claiming proficiency is better... that is off too. I'm quite the humble 21-year old, and I'm willing to learn from the old coots as much as I can.
Unexpected results != failure. I wish more people understood this.
I guess I love NASA so much because I've lived in Clear Lake my whole life, and drove past JSC every day until recently. My dad worked on Ops-LAN (the communications tech). It's really romanticized; the elementary school Alpha programs ("gifted/talented" students) often go to Space Center to learn about aeronautics and concepts of space travel. The schools have pictures of all the astronaut parents of the students, and many local restaurants (Frenchies, Colosseum, Outpost Tavern [RIP], Fuddruckers, etc.) and even the barber shops have autographs from astronauts. It's a huge thing in that area.
So forgive my bias. I do agree that NASA seems to have grown to afraid of funds cuts or accidents to have done anything useful in recent years. I was really disappointing when I realized that it's useless as a base for going further into space (moon, esp.) because of its orbit, which we compromised with Russia over. I don't know... it's just depressing to see so much true talent in that area go to waste on seemingly nothing right now. We should seriously be going back to the moon, going to Mars, etc.
Unmanned missions are great, but they are not a substitute for sending humans away from Earth.
Time to build a new Internet. We'll call it "Freenet" (not to be confused with the encrypted file hosting protocol). It flows off the tongue well... "Look it up on the Freenet". Good.
Now, we need cabling. Everyone, donate your spare switches, hubs, repeaters, and cables. We'll bond the links, and throughput will quickly approach existing backbone speeds.
Now, location. It'd be good to centralize this movement in a geographically smaller area; stable, fairly populous, but open, so we don't have to deal with urban politics. West Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, maybe a coast? We'll run ethernet on the ocean floor for internationalization.
Next, the software for the backbone. Cisco is not trustworthy; nor likely is any other specialized routing hardware. We'll build the routers with OpenBSD, and end-nodes must be of Unix or Linux heritage.
Email me your donation checklist, guys. We'll get this going.
How is a driveling, abusive, content-less post like yours modded up for insightful? You are compliant with the GIFT.
For what it's worth, the Wall Street Journal was and is an excellent source of objective news and discussion on the op-ed. Murdoch is old and out-of-touch, but rather irrelevant, it seems to me. I think Steve Jobs has as much potential to damage the Internet's openness than Rupert Murdoch or Comcast.
Google could buy guns and have a million nerd volunteer army.
I'm migrating from GMail pretty soon, and logging out any time I do a search.
inb4 "You're overreacting" warblgharbl.
Debian 27 plans to drop support.
I go to Texas Tech; most of the employers at the job fair there do paid internships. Both the IT internships I've gotten were excellent pay, excellent experience.
Unpaid internships are for when you don't have time to look up a well-paying one, or it's a company that's so badass you're willing to do free work.
complaining about a tradition many more people DO find amusing. It's one day, you know it's not real, get over it. No one thinks you're more cool or mature because you're 'above' this.
Well, we tend to think in terms of the number ten. 1024 is 2^10. "Mibi" is 2^20, "Gibi" is 2^30, etc.
I think you and I are on the same page.
To GP: I see your point. Interesting thought.
Are you kidding? We have our own SI PREFIX!
If Fedora or Mandriva did this, I assume it would have been covered, as well.
Well placed subtle troll ("junk like this").
I agree, I don't think they have any legal right to stop the dev from creating a completely user-side tool. The only thing they could do (IMO) is block its functionality for users.
Facebook is getting more and more annoying. It's unfortunate how much of a deathchoke they have on social networking (I don't know very many people without facebook; it is my main mode of online communication).
It's known that an IPO is inevitable; if their motives have been in question now, it won't be when public stockholders are involved.
Time to hop on the next social bandwagon. How hard can it be to host asite with 400,000,000 unique VISITORS a month?
Nexuiz as it exists (GPL cross platform FPS, v 2.5.2) will continue to be developed by the community.
The 'new' Nexuiz is a closed source, re-implemented version of GNexuiz that only shares the name and the 'style' of the original.
Correct?
I have pondered the idea of a decentralized Social networking protocol, similar to email/Jabber/etc. Standard IM protocols along with standard (XML based?) data formatting for social information would be used to allow socialnetworking servers to talk to each other, and find friends.
The issue is that SOME sort of centralization is probably best for this kind of online interaction; the question is to what extent your secure content is hosted and in your own control.
Best option: Don't put private shit in a public place.
teabaggers and libertarians: in SOME avenues of life, not all, the government is good, and works for you. you reject it at the price of your own impoverishment. that's the simple obvious truth
If we could reject them, we would. Our philosophy is for all people to choose their own poison. You're forcing it down everyone's throat. ONCE AGAIN, states' rights. If California or Iowa or [state] wants to enact this legislation, alright. But don't force it on 300m people! Our nation is too large for the high government to be representative of the people. Such sweeping, life changing, nation-bankrupting legislation is best reserved for the better-representing states, where only a portion of the country will be affected.