A web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs
If you don't like it, don't use it. While you sit around telling kids to get off your lawn the rest of us will bask in the new technology that's on offer.
If all a person ever needs to do is read a document published on the web, he doesn't even NEED any features.
At least you've made the clarification. There are too many people who reckon Acrobat is bloated because they have never done anything more with a PDF than double-click the icon and read it. In the Industry I work, Acrobat is missing features that we need, which we make up by using plugins.
Is your home address shared by everyone else in your vicinity at random intervals? Does it sometimes change when you leave the house? If I send something to your home address is there a chance that are ~INF people with the same address?
While I don't think IPs should be public information, the house analogy doesn't quite work. We need a car analogy.
Did Google's Chrome OS have something to do with this move
No, I think it was more that Microsoft contributed code the Kernel and they didn't want to be accused of having closed-sourced software when even Microsoft was opening up. Or maybe it was the vulnerabilities found in the Kernel, they decided if exploits could slip into the most-watched open source project they need to get more eyes on their code. It could have even been that because the world is supposed to end in 2012, but I think I would be drawing a correlation where there isn't one if I said that.
Thank you. Why do they not have this info in their announcement?
I was in the process of checking out the code using:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel/
Which I found after looking in the code for the setup script, but that's exactly what I wanted.
First problem is they require bzr 1.16.1 to download their rocket-fuel-setup script, the latest available version in the Ubuntu repo is 1.13.1 -- so you have to manually add the PPA source.
Why do they not have the version *they* use in the repo for *their* operating system?
That aside, the rocket-fuel script then downloads, unpacks, installs, alters and generally takes too long. And if that wasn't enough...
## Note that this will make changes to your Apache configuration if
## you already have an Apache server on your box. It will also add
## entries to/etc/hosts and it will setup a postgresql server on
## you box.
## If you want to play safe with regards to your existing Apache,
## try this out in a virtual environment first.
And because there's no way to just _get the source_ (ie. a tarball with source files in it) there's no way to download it without screwing with Apache.
How about a way to browse it online? I just wanted to see what language it was in, according to the docs it's Python but it would have been nice to be able to take a look at it without spending "a few hours to get everything" jumping through hoops.
Nope. The spots are only partly genetically based, also depends on development and a range of other factors. Much like the first cloned cats were a different colour from the original.
The South Korean Government has been throwing money at canine cloning since about 2003 (they funded the research of the Snuppy cloning) and they've been cash-rolling all the development since then. So either they're spending the money cloning them just because they can (which is what they *have* been doing for the last 3 years) or they spend it on drug dogs. It actually works out cheaper as prior to this they were paying for drug dogs and cloning.
i haven't been following the progress on cloning so i wouldn't know if this is the first success story or not)
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29">Dolly the sheep was the first cloned mammal, in 1996. The first success story for canine cloning was Snuppy back in 2005. South Korea (where Snuppy was cloned) have been cloning animals fairly consistently since then. I actually thought they had cloned working dogs long before now.
I followed the Snuppy project quite closely, (in fact I am the main contributor to the Wikipedia article - shameless plug), so it's great to see further developments stemming from that. However something that a Kennel Club spokesman said when Snuppy was first cloned comes to mind here:
"Canine cloning runs contrary to the Kennel Club's objective 'To promote in every way the general improvement of dogs'... Cloning cannot be used to make improvements because the technique simply produces genetic replicas of existing dogs." [src]
So what they have now are the best drug dogs they will ever have, their abilities can't improve any - they will be the same as the dog they were cloned from.
If Wikipedia has changed their terms and are allowing cc-*-nc-* licensing, then I'll be very happy to stand corrected. If they still require licensing of all uses including commercial ones then I'm sorry, but I simply can't play that game.
Free, open content doesn't have restrictions on its uses. If it does, it isn't free and open.
So because Firefox was open when it crashed, Firefox must have caused it? Couldn't be that because most people have their browser open 99% of the time chances are that it will be open when something goes wrong?
The proof of concept has crashed every browser I've tried it on; Firefox (obviously) (and the 3.6 nightly), Epiphany, Chromium, Opera and Android Browser. So is Firefox the only browser that is exploitable during the crash or other browsers affected?
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It's an open protocol, you can make whatever GUI you want. In the video they were using a terminal client.
A web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs
If you don't like it, don't use it. While you sit around telling kids to get off your lawn the rest of us will bask in the new technology that's on offer.
Who the heck still uses Acrobat Reader?
Anyone who needs to do more with a PDF than simply read it.
If all a person ever needs to do is read a document published on the web, he doesn't even NEED any features.
At least you've made the clarification. There are too many people who reckon Acrobat is bloated because they have never done anything more with a PDF than double-click the icon and read it. In the Industry I work, Acrobat is missing features that we need, which we make up by using plugins.
Is your home address shared by everyone else in your vicinity at random intervals? Does it sometimes change when you leave the house? If I send something to your home address is there a chance that are ~INF people with the same address?
While I don't think IPs should be public information, the house analogy doesn't quite work. We need a car analogy.
Did Google's Chrome OS have something to do with this move
No, I think it was more that Microsoft contributed code the Kernel and they didn't want to be accused of having closed-sourced software when even Microsoft was opening up. Or maybe it was the vulnerabilities found in the Kernel, they decided if exploits could slip into the most-watched open source project they need to get more eyes on their code. It could have even been that because the world is supposed to end in 2012, but I think I would be drawing a correlation where there isn't one if I said that.
Thank you. Why do they not have this info in their announcement?
I was in the process of checking out the code using: bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel/ Which I found after looking in the code for the setup script, but that's exactly what I wanted.
First problem is they require bzr 1.16.1 to download their rocket-fuel-setup script, the latest available version in the Ubuntu repo is 1.13.1 -- so you have to manually add the PPA source.
Why do they not have the version *they* use in the repo for *their* operating system?
That aside, the rocket-fuel script then downloads, unpacks, installs, alters and generally takes too long. And if that wasn't enough
## Note that this will make changes to your Apache configuration if ## you already have an Apache server on your box. It will also add ## entries to /etc/hosts and it will setup a postgresql server on
## you box.
## If you want to play safe with regards to your existing Apache,
## try this out in a virtual environment first.
And because there's no way to just _get the source_ (ie. a tarball with source files in it) there's no way to download it without screwing with Apache.
How about a way to browse it online? I just wanted to see what language it was in, according to the docs it's Python but it would have been nice to be able to take a look at it without spending "a few hours to get everything" jumping through hoops.
Except if you screwed up you didn't cause several people to explode.
For Vista, the following steps may need to be performed manually after installation:
1.
2.
-- README.txt
Wow, even rocket scientists don't know how to make code work on Vista.
Leave the Netbook in tact but take a hammer with you, just in case it gets stolen and you need to destroy it.
Desecration of the dead is a war crime under Article 15 of the Geneva Conventions, and is certainly not something sanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI
Doesn't say anything about dead "enemy combatants" though, does it?
Nope. The spots are only partly genetically based, also depends on development and a range of other factors. Much like the first cloned cats were a different colour from the original.
Out of interest though, here's Snuppy, and another shot and here's the dog he was cloned from (on the left).
The South Korean Government has been throwing money at canine cloning since about 2003 (they funded the research of the Snuppy cloning) and they've been cash-rolling all the development since then. So either they're spending the money cloning them just because they can (which is what they *have* been doing for the last 3 years) or they spend it on drug dogs. It actually works out cheaper as prior to this they were paying for drug dogs and cloning.
That should be Dolly the sheep. Clicked right through the preview.
i haven't been following the progress on cloning so i wouldn't know if this is the first success story or not)
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29">Dolly the sheep was the first cloned mammal, in 1996. The first success story for canine cloning was Snuppy back in 2005. South Korea (where Snuppy was cloned) have been cloning animals fairly consistently since then. I actually thought they had cloned working dogs long before now.
"Canine cloning runs contrary to the Kennel Club's objective 'To promote in every way the general improvement of dogs' ... Cloning cannot be used to make improvements because the technique simply produces genetic replicas of existing dogs." [src]
So what they have now are the best drug dogs they will ever have, their abilities can't improve any - they will be the same as the dog they were cloned from.
If Wikipedia has changed their terms and are allowing cc-*-nc-* licensing, then I'll be very happy to stand corrected. If they still require licensing of all uses including commercial ones then I'm sorry, but I simply can't play that game.
Free, open content doesn't have restrictions on its uses. If it does, it isn't free and open.
It's on the internet so it must be true?
No, that's what I see on every browser. I thought I must be missing something but it looks like this entire "exploit" is a non-event.
Porn mode.
So because Firefox was open when it crashed, Firefox must have caused it? Couldn't be that because most people have their browser open 99% of the time chances are that it will be open when something goes wrong?
The proof of concept has crashed every browser I've tried it on; Firefox (obviously) (and the 3.6 nightly), Epiphany, Chromium, Opera and Android Browser. So is Firefox the only browser that is exploitable during the crash or other browsers affected?
The only thing they can do now is
buy a spaceship, recruit a crew and do random jobs about the galaxy. Get attacked by criminals and savages, harbor known fugitives.
But they'll still be flying.
Use the numbers MS' Marketing dept. will use; 6,000,000 in 10,000,000.