"A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go unused, because Wi-Fi has become so prevalent"
What happens when everyone moves to Wi-Fi and we end up with spectrum congestion
"Before a patch can bve installed on medical equipment, the hardware vendor has to validate the patch"
What are the technological and legal issues in relation to computerized medical equipment. How does one go about validating a patch. Who is responsible when something goes wrong. At least one hospitable has had equipment rebooting during surgery. How do you test the patch, apply patch, scrub up and attend operation, wait for BSOD and click on restore ?
"that old nas easily infected 20 other machines - including machines which were shipped to hospitals because they will not allow us to install virus scanners"
Interesting, would these other machines have been protected if they did have AV installed. See here where they refer to an arbitrary code execution during path canonicalization'. I think they mean a buffer overflow in the RPC service.
"A patch was released by Microsoft last October by November that fixes the problem, but the computers infected were reportedly too old to be patched"
This doesn't make technological sense. If they were capable of running the unpatched version, they were equally capable of running the patched version. I mean Conficker ran ok on these old systems.
"it isn't clear to me what the problem is with that aspect"
Because once they drove AMD out of business they would have an effective monopoly and prices would have shot right back up and it's illegal to do this kind of below-cost-selling.
"Just open a new browser so you only have 1 tab. Now middle click on that tab. Pre b4 that would close that instance of FF. Now it does nothing (assuming you have "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" set to true)"
I'm not sure how this is a bug. By default it won't close the last Windows. If you set closeWindowWithLastTab to false, it closes the window and opens up a new blank one.
"By default it changes the shutdown to clear all cookies"
No it doesn't, I just logged into Slashdot, visited Youtube and set default location, then shutdown and restarted. I'm still logged into Slashdot and Youtube no longer prompts for 'Suggested Country Filter'.
This complete myth apparently started with this article on the SlashDot news site. Too bad the editors did neither care to check the submitted link nor even tried to contact us, we could have helped them!
It is true that we have been contacted by Apple's legal department, but that has never been in the clear intent of suing us, which isn't too surprising given that FreeType doesn't harm Apple in any way."
"I find the new versions of firefox are far less stable when it comes to AJAX sites. It appears to be getting better, but I just want th crashes to stop
"it suggests that some of the concerns raised by critics, who say the settlement would unfairly give Google an exclusive license to profit from millions of books"
Google Book Settlement M. Settlement Agreement Between Publishers and Google
'4. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, the Publishers have and retain
all rights that they have under the Class Action Settlement'
J. Summary Notice of Class Action Settlement
'The settlement, if Court-approved, will authorize Google to.. maintain an electronic database of Books.. At any time, Rightsholders can change instructions to Google regarding any of those uses'
You gotta communicate with 'em SOMEHOW. Are you proposing the banking system, the hospitals, and the military all SEPARATELY.. dig up the country and run their own private network?
You are talking technological nonsense. All it would take is secured encrypted VPN nodes running on embedded devices.
"(And harden it against manhole-divers with bolt cutters while they're at it?)"
And having more then the one redundant path, so as to protect from when someone accidentally or otherwise digs up the cable.
[quote] As of 15 January 1999, the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has required MHPCC to restrict access to our computers to valid users who:
1. Are running Kerberos or Secure Shell software on their local computer, and 2. Have a one-time password SecurID card issued to them by either HPCMP or MHPCC.
[unquote]
"If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"
What country would be foolish enough to connect its power grid, hospital systems, air traffic control and it's banking system to the Internet.
"Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, pressed an amendment that would strike a provision from the bill that prohibits terror suspects from challenging their detention in the courts. ''What the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years,'' said Mr. Specter, who traced the ability to challenge one's detention to the Magna Carta"
"OpenOffice is part of a patent cross-licensing deal between Sun and Microsoft that resulted from all the anti-trust cases that Sun won. If OO is detached from Sun, it loses that umbrella patent protection and would likely be targeted by Microsoft"
What umbrella patent protection?. According to this Microsoft gets Sun to find any 'patent violation, and pay for any subsequent litigation. Not much protection then. I don't know any other company who would have the cohones to get a rival to sue it's own custoners and pay for the privelage:)
'Sun Microsystems may have saved itself from years of costly litigation when it settled with Microsoft over their long-running Java dispute, but a clause in the landmark deal has open source supporters parsing its potential impact'
'Under their agreement, Sun must notify Microsoft if a claim surfaces and must let Microsoft take control and responsibility for fighting the charges in court. Sun must also help Microsoft defend its case against a potential OpenOffice licensee. For its troubles, Microsoft will reimburse Sun an undisclosed sum for certain damages, according to the filing'
Slashdot Mirror
lets call it, transitory chilled fever syndrome (TCFSS) or 'tranfer' for short. As in renaming Global Warming to 'climate change', made it go away .. :)
"A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go unused, because Wi-Fi has become so prevalent"
What happens when everyone moves to Wi-Fi and we end up with spectrum congestion
"Before a patch can bve installed on medical equipment, the hardware vendor has to validate the patch"
What are the technological and legal issues in relation to computerized medical equipment. How does one go about validating a patch. Who is responsible when something goes wrong. At least one hospitable has had equipment rebooting during surgery. How do you test the patch, apply patch, scrub up and attend operation, wait for BSOD and click on restore ?
"that old nas easily infected 20 other machines - including machines which were shipped to hospitals because they will not allow us to install virus scanners"
Interesting, would these other machines have been protected if they did have AV installed. See here where they refer to an arbitrary code execution during path canonicalization'. I think they mean a buffer overflow in the RPC service.
"A patch was released by Microsoft last October by November that fixes the problem, but the computers infected were reportedly too old to be patched"
This doesn't make technological sense. If they were capable of running the unpatched version, they were equally capable of running the patched version. I mean Conficker ran ok on these old systems.
"Remember the DOJ's anti trust case against Microsoft?"
YEA, what Intel should do is get the themselves appointed to a compliance board set up by the EU to monitor their future behavior.
"the irony might be that the EU's actions result in reduced competition when a company simply packs up their products and leaves"
War is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength, anti-competition practices reduces competition.
"it isn't clear to me what the problem is with that aspect"
Because once they drove AMD out of business they would have an effective monopoly and prices would have shot right back up and it's illegal to do this kind of below-cost-selling.
"I never understood why did they include speed in a browser test?"
To compare how fast different browsers render on the same machine.
"it would mean that the best browsers would fail on a slower computer, and the worst would pass on a faster one. This is not objective"
I do believe they meant you to compare browsers on the same machine.
"If the web developers have use decent and modest scripting, it will go faster, if they created inefficient monsters, it is going to crawl"
I do believe they meant you to compare the same site on the differing browsers on the same machine, like the ACID test.
"In related news, I've run Midori on a slow Neo 1973, and it passes ACID 3. I found that surprising"
Do you have a screen capture of Midori running ACID 3?
"what is Firefox doing? Making Javascript faster instead of working on SVG fonts"
It says here on this Mozilla SVG Project site that Firefox can render SVG fonts since version 1.5
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"Just open a new browser so you only have 1 tab. Now middle click on that tab. Pre b4 that would close that instance of FF. Now it does nothing (assuming you have "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" set to true)"
I'm not sure how this is a bug. By default it won't close the last Windows. If you set closeWindowWithLastTab to false, it closes the window and opens up a new blank one.
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trawl.bugzilla.troll.slashdot
"By default it changes the shutdown to clear all cookies"
No it doesn't, I just logged into Slashdot, visited Youtube and set default location, then shutdown and restarted. I'm still logged into Slashdot and Youtube no longer prompts for 'Suggested Country Filter'.
'One of the requirements is that the be able to render TrueType fonts. Correct rendering of Acid3 requires displaying a TrueType font called "Ahem"'
According to this Ahem is is in the public domain
"The big question: Does correct rendering of Ahem in Acid3 require the patented parts of TrueType?"
Freetype and Patents
"Myth 2: Apple Is Suing (or Sued) FreeType
This complete myth apparently started with this article on the SlashDot news site. Too bad the editors did neither care to check the submitted link nor even tried to contact us, we could have helped them!
It is true that we have been contacted by Apple's legal department, but that has never been in the clear intent of suing us, which isn't too surprising given that FreeType doesn't harm Apple in any way."
"That is good but in the latest b4 they have disabled closing the windows by middleclicking the last tab, it now defaults to noop"
FF 3.5b4 seem to work here for middle clicking to close last tab. Does anyone else have the same problem?
"I find the new versions of firefox are far less stable when it comes to AJAX sites. It appears to be getting better, but I just want th crashes to stop
What sites exactly?
The main problem is Windows inability to differentiate between RUN and OPEN
"it suggests that some of the concerns raised by critics, who say the settlement would unfairly give Google an exclusive license to profit from millions of books"
.. maintain an electronic database of Books .. At any time, Rightsholders can change instructions to Google regarding any of those uses'
Google Book Settlement
M. Settlement Agreement Between Publishers and Google
'4. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, the Publishers have and retain all rights that they have under the Class Action Settlement'
J. Summary Notice of Class Action Settlement
'The settlement, if Court-approved, will authorize Google to
The Free Software Foundation considers the Apache License, Version 2.0 to be a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL.
"putting vital systems on the Internet (Score:5, Funny)"
.. he he hee ... heeee ... fucking nymshifting mod trolling moron
"The reality is that several million computers have reported infections of the Conficker.C virus"
Hospital Equipment Infected with Conficker
Royal Navy warships lose email in virus infection
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he he
You gotta communicate with 'em SOMEHOW. Are you proposing the banking system, the hospitals, and the military all SEPARATELY .. dig up the country and run their own private network?
You are talking technological nonsense. All it would take is secured encrypted VPN nodes running on embedded devices.
"(And harden it against manhole-divers with bolt cutters while they're at it?)"
And having more then the one redundant path, so as to protect from when someone accidentally or otherwise digs up the cable.
[quote]
As of 15 January 1999, the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has required MHPCC to restrict access to our computers to valid users who:
1. Are running Kerberos or Secure Shell software on their local computer, and
2. Have a one-time password SecurID card issued to them by either HPCMP or MHPCC.
[unquote]
"If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"
What country would be foolish enough to connect its power grid, hospital systems, air traffic control and it's banking system to the Internet.
What the US should do is stop connecting 'computers' to the Internet that can so easily be hijacked in phishing/malware/spam attacks.
"Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, pressed an amendment that would strike a provision from the bill that prohibits terror suspects from challenging their detention in the courts. ''What the bill seeks to do is set back basic rights by some 900 years,'' said Mr. Specter, who traced the ability to challenge one's detention to the Magna Carta"
"OpenOffice is part of a patent cross-licensing deal between Sun and Microsoft that resulted from all the anti-trust cases that Sun won. If OO is detached from Sun, it loses that umbrella patent protection and would likely be targeted by Microsoft"
:)
What umbrella patent protection?. According to this Microsoft gets Sun to find any 'patent violation, and pay for any subsequent litigation. Not much protection then. I don't know any other company who would have the cohones to get a rival to sue it's own custoners and pay for the privelage
'Sun Microsystems may have saved itself from years of costly litigation when it settled with Microsoft over their long-running Java dispute, but a clause in the landmark deal has open source supporters parsing its potential impact'
'The provision allows Microsoft to "sue or otherwise seek recovery from an authorized licensee of OpenOffice" that was in use prior to April 2. In this way, Microsoft could in theory file suit if it finds pieces of OpenOffice that it contends infringe on its Microsoft Office patents'
'Under their agreement, Sun must notify Microsoft if a claim surfaces and must let Microsoft take control and responsibility for fighting the charges in court. Sun must also help Microsoft defend its case against a potential OpenOffice licensee. For its troubles, Microsoft will reimburse Sun an undisclosed sum for certain damages, according to the filing'
That comment totally 'addresses' the defects in current CPU design and begs the question as to why fixing these defects were never a priority.