"Can somebody tell me why programmers of open source browsers decide not to code to standards?"
The real question should be why do programmers write web apps that display differently on differing browsers. Assuming this isn't willful sabotage unlike the case of MS making Hotmail not work on Opera. This was achieved by moving text 30 pixels to the left so as to make the text look all jagged.
"Firefox 3 includes "security" functionality.. This behaviour is turned off if browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone is set to false"
In Firefox 3, if a Windows user has an antivirus program installed, it is launched to scan files when they finish downloading. During testing of the feature, concerns about delays and double-scanning files surfaced. As a result, this preference -- controlling whether the virus scan is automatically triggered -- was created.
"Somehow infected with pop-up window Spyware (Advertisemen) that only affects firefox.. have since included information on this spyware in the info files"
"Here's an example. The US government probably prevents you from selling your open source software to Cuba"
Where does it say that, there is no mention of the GPL on the U.S. Treasury Cuba Sanctions site.
"I hope the same applies to this theory that Microsoft is forcing people to violate the GPL and therefore lose their rights to the code"
Microsoft claims that the Linux kernel used in Tom Tom devices violates Microsoft own patents. If Tom Tom were to start paying Microsoft royalties for such, that would be in violation of section 7.
'Yes, well, three of the eight patents in this dispute read on the Linux kernel as implemented by TomTom.. What I mean is the patents cover the implementation of the Linux kernel done by TomTom in their products'
"If TomTom would use its patent pool to cross license patents with MS to resolve the situation, where does this violate GPL2 (which is a copyright license)?"
'7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License'
'If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program'
"We're probably looking at someone.. 5-7 years experience programming"
I doubt that the people who wrote the rootkit are the ones benefiting from it, more likely it was outsourced. As to how you tell all this from linked to article, maybe you should be doing psychic readings on the television..
"Re:Best models in the world are useless... If you are using bad data"
How do you quantify human behavior and peoples confidence in the opinions of supposed experts. And in the case of the sub-prime crises, the brokers diced-and-sliced the mortgages so as the buyers wouldn't be able to tell they were worthless.
"The magic consisted of turning risky mortgages into investments that would be suitable for investors who would know nothing about the underlying loans"
So, if a broker makes an offer and an expert says to buy, and people believe him, then they buy and the stock goes up. Else they don't buy or sell and the stock goes down and the expert is replaced. Simple isn't it. I should patent the formula..
A massive shell game foisted on the public by the traders to disguise the fact that these financial 'instruments' were worthless. A glorified ponzi scheme + some magic numbers..:)
"You don't state a reason why you think it is a good idea to switch"
'View a cost comparison chart (pdf) that shows how open source solutions can leverage your costs'
'The use of open technologies in education is now commonplace throughout the world with one notable exception, the United States. School and district technology leaders need to become aware of how these other educational systems are leveraging the use of open technologies to improve student learning, engage parent and community interest in education, provide home access to technologies used in school and use their financial resources in the most effective way possible. Consider these possible benefits..'
* Cost: License Fees and TCO -
* Data integrity/interoperability -
* Independence and Flexibility -
* Stability and Reliability -
* Broader Access to Information -
* Community Support -
* Engage Students in Collaboration -
'Google, Yahoo, IAC, AOL, and Lycos -- the major Internet search companies other than Microsoft -- on Wednesday filed a motion to compel the Software Rights Archive (SRA) to reveal who is behind its 2-year-old patent lawsuit against them'
'Microsoft today argued that US House and Senate Judiciary Committees that the proposed Google/Yahoo deal, claiming that Yahoo's agreement to support ads through a non-exclusive deal is anti-competitive and would allegedly hurt innovation'
Methods and arrangements for interacting with controllable objects within a graphicaluser interface environment using various input mechanisms
'Improved methods and arrangements provide user interface platforms.. The behavior models consider the notion that the user interface will most likely include various focusing (e.g., function selection) and/or editing (e.g., parameter modifying) capabilities. As such, the methods and arrangements can support several different behavior models, including, for example, a full-focus mode, a focus-free mode, and an edit-free mode'.
A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system.
The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, including both vehicle-related applications (e.g., vehicle security application, vehicle diagnostics application, communications application, etc.) and non-vehicle-related applications (e.g., entertainment application, word processing, etc.). The applications may be supplied by the vehicle manufacturer and/or by the vehicle user.
'While hundreds of companies have donated to this week's Republican presidential convention, Microsoft may have the most at stake. Microsoft gave US$900,000 in software and US$100,000 in cash to the committee hosting the convention'
'Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard'.
'the Bush administration has sharply changed course by repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad against accusations of anticompetitive conduct'
A real solution would be to have an independent third party inplimenting and documenting the protocols. What effect has the antitrust case had on Microsofts way of doing business. It strikes me that the whole business of 'updating' and documentating the new protocols is nothing more than MS doing business as usual. Which is continually keeping Windows a moving target so as to continually wrong-foot their competitors. Publishing API calls and some source code was not exactly what the EU commision meant when they said open up the protocols, as Microsoft well know. The difference between this and the eleven year old US case is that the EU commision seem to actually want a real resolution.
"Our own research, however, has concluded that open source software exposes users to significant and unnecessary business risk, as the security is often overlooked, making users more vulnerable to security breaches,"
"That's not to say that commercial software isn't without risks, but any flaws on commercial applications tend to get patched a lot faster than on open source, as the vendors producing the software have a lot more to lose than an open source programmer,"
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"Can somebody tell me why programmers of open source browsers decide not to code to standards?"
The real question should be why do programmers write web apps that display differently on differing browsers. Assuming this isn't willful sabotage unlike the case of MS making Hotmail not work on Opera. This was achieved by moving text 30 pixels to the left so as to make the text look all jagged.
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
http://www.w3.org/
"Fuck all mention about the fact that Chrome eats RAM like it's gone out of fashion"
NO, NO, NO, it's always Firefox that has the memory leak issues. Chrome clones certain features of the Gazelle browser OS that don't exist yet.
"Firefox 3 includes "security" functionality .. This behaviour is turned off if browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone is set to false"
.. have since included information on this spyware in the info files"
In Firefox 3, if a Windows user has an antivirus program installed, it is launched to scan files when they finish downloading. During testing of the feature, concerns about delays and double-scanning files surfaced. As a result, this preference -- controlling whether the virus scan is automatically triggered -- was created.
"Somehow infected with pop-up window Spyware (Advertisemen) that only affects firefox
What info and where?
"Here's an example. The US government probably prevents you from selling your open source software to Cuba"
.. What I mean is the patents cover the implementation of the Linux kernel done by TomTom in their products'
Where does it say that, there is no mention of the GPL on the U.S. Treasury Cuba Sanctions site.
"I hope the same applies to this theory that Microsoft is forcing people to violate the GPL and therefore lose their rights to the code"
Microsoft claims that the Linux kernel used in Tom Tom devices violates Microsoft own patents. If Tom Tom were to start paying Microsoft royalties for such, that would be in violation of section 7.
'Yes, well, three of the eight patents in this dispute read on the Linux kernel as implemented by TomTom
"If TomTom would use its patent pool to cross license patents with MS to resolve the situation, where does this violate GPL2 (which is a copyright license)?"
'7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License'
'If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program'
'then points to another blog that promotes a "fascinating theory"'
.. points to a fascinating explanation by Jeremy Allison of the Samba project...
Actually that's
"We're probably looking at someone .. 5-7 years experience programming"
..
I doubt that the people who wrote the rootkit are the ones benefiting from it, more likely it was outsourced. As to how you tell all this from linked to article, maybe you should be doing psychic readings on the television
What indemnification do the brokerages and their customers get in cases such as this.
"Re:Best models in the world are useless... If you are using bad data"
..
How do you quantify human behavior and peoples confidence in the opinions of supposed experts. And in the case of the sub-prime crises, the brokers diced-and-sliced the mortgages so as the buyers wouldn't be able to tell they were worthless.
"The magic consisted of turning risky mortgages into investments that would be suitable for investors who would know nothing about the underlying loans"
So, if a broker makes an offer and an expert says to buy, and people believe him, then they buy and the stock goes up. Else they don't buy or sell and the stock goes down and the expert is replaced. Simple isn't it. I should patent the formula
A massive shell game foisted on the public by the traders to disguise the fact that these financial 'instruments' were worthless. A glorified ponzi scheme + some magic numbers .. :)
"This is like the EU deciding what oil individuals should use in all their cars"
...
As distinct from CompTIA, ACT and the BSA
'Microsoft leaned on EC to spike open source report'
'One might ask, "Who are these lobbyists?", so let's take a closer look'
"For me the Pro's and Con's are about even. I use Linux as my main OS, but I don't think that it is ready for 100% mainstream use yet"
...
In a school environment, what isn't Linux yet ready for.
"Unfortunately in education there are alot of specialty software programs that are needed by the teacher"
Apart from this 'specialty software', what other educational software could provide similar functionality that isn't yet available under Linux.
"I also don't like the idea of teaching kids how to use an OS that isn't used in the workplace"
You're kidding, once a kid learns how to use one desktop GUI, s/he's learned them all.
"Schools are for preparing kids for life and work"
As far as I could see, schools prepare kids for passing exams
"You don't state a reason why you think it is a good idea to switch"
..'
'View a cost comparison chart (pdf) that shows how open source solutions can leverage your costs'
'The use of open technologies in education is now commonplace throughout the world with one notable exception, the United States. School and district technology leaders need to become aware of how these other educational systems are leveraging the use of open technologies to improve student learning, engage parent and community interest in education, provide home access to technologies used in school and use their financial resources in the most effective way possible. Consider these possible benefits
* Cost: License Fees and TCO -
* Data integrity/interoperability -
* Independence and Flexibility -
* Stability and Reliability -
* Broader Access to Information -
* Community Support -
* Engage Students in Collaboration -
you're kidding aren't you, tell me you're kidding ...
"I can't help but feel that a more integrated product (e.g. not based on 100% commodity hardware) could be a little cheaper"
£210 for a set-top box is too expensive, get real would you
'Google, Yahoo, IAC, AOL, and Lycos -- the major Internet search companies other than Microsoft -- on Wednesday filed a motion to compel the Software Rights Archive (SRA) to reveal who is behind its 2-year-old patent lawsuit against them'
'Microsoft today argued that US House and Senate Judiciary Committees that the proposed Google/Yahoo deal, claiming that Yahoo's agreement to support ads through a non-exclusive deal is anti-competitive and would allegedly hurt innovation'
Methods and arrangements for interacting with controllable objects within a graphical user interface environment using various input mechanisms
.. The behavior models consider the notion that the user interface will most likely include various focusing (e.g., function selection) and/or editing (e.g., parameter modifying) capabilities. As such, the methods and arrangements can support several different behavior models, including, for example, a full-focus mode, a focus-free mode, and an edit-free mode'.
'Improved methods and arrangements provide user interface platforms
A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system.
The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, including both vehicle-related applications (e.g., vehicle security application, vehicle diagnostics application, communications application, etc.) and non-vehicle-related applications (e.g., entertainment application, word processing, etc.). The applications may be supplied by the vehicle manufacturer and/or by the vehicle user.
'While hundreds of companies have donated to this week's Republican presidential convention, Microsoft may have the most at stake. Microsoft gave US$900,000 in software and US$100,000 in cash to the committee hosting the convention'
'Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard'.
'the Bush administration has sharply changed course by repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad against accusations of anticompetitive conduct'
A real solution would be to have an independent third party inplimenting and documenting the protocols. What effect has the antitrust case had on Microsofts way of doing business. It strikes me that the whole business of 'updating' and documentating the new protocols is nothing more than MS doing business as usual. Which is continually keeping Windows a moving target so as to continually wrong-foot their competitors. Publishing API calls and some source code was not exactly what the EU commision meant when they said open up the protocols, as Microsoft well know. The difference between this and the eleven year old US case is that the EU commision seem to actually want a real resolution.
"Our own research, however, has concluded that open source software exposes users to significant and unnecessary business risk, as the security is often overlooked, making users more vulnerable to security breaches,"
"That's not to say that commercial software isn't without risks, but any flaws on commercial applications tend to get patched a lot faster than on open source, as the vendors producing the software have a lot more to lose than an open source programmer,"
"New variant of Conficker worm circulates"
Is this a flaw in the Operating System or a flaw in the application like the Adobe one and who is to blame this time ...
Firefox can't find the server at www.microsoft.com.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-22elevateamericapr.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-22elevateamericapr.mspx
Firefox can't find the server at www.microsoft.com.