I hate to be the guy who complains about the headline of a story... but a "web bug" is an image in a web page or HTML email that allows the site owner to track who has visited the page or read the email. This story has absolutely nothing to do with "web bugs". How about "browser bug" instead?
I hate to interrupt a good old-fashioned witch-hunt, but AOL was instrumental in the creation of a little group called the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to them and donating $2 million.
CAT: No, this isn't the one. LISTER: What isn't? CAT: I'm looking for this dream I had last month on the dream recorder. It was sensational. LISTER: What was it about? CAT: Me, three girls and a family-sized tub of banana yoghurt! RIMMER: You know, cats have a very strange attitude to women if you ask me. CAT: Say what, Goalpost Head? RIMMER: It's all sex, and no sense of settling down and having a long- term relationship. CAT: Hey, I want to settle down. And as soon as I find the right small group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my wandering days are over, buddy.</pre>
I've always figured professional sports should be like auto racing. Whereas they have separate stock car, modified and Formula 1 categories, the sports world should have separate substance-free and substance-allowed events.
This has been the case in Canada for some time. If you're a DJ and you're copying CDs or records to your hard drive, you need to get a Computer Hard Drive Licence from AVLA.
Not only that, but songs from certain artists may not be copied, even with the license. Here's the list. Wanna spin some Paula Abdul from your iPod? Sorry, you're SOL.
So you can search for previous searches, but does it keep a history of your searches for previous searches? Can you search for previous searches for previous searches?
Yeah, great. And every time I try to go visit it, I end up putting the dots in the wrong places, like deli.cio.us, or de.lic.io.us. And forget about trying to tell someone verbally how to find it...
"Yeah, go check out this site, it's called delicious." "Delicious.com?" "No, d-e-l-dot-i-c-i-o... argh, just frickin' Google it. Oh wait, it's not in Google...
Also linked to from the boingboing article, some reasons why these tweaks might not be a good idea:
Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly.
The second change, setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it's worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display.
The Netcraft article noted that checking to see if your network adapter is in promiscuous mode is a good way to tell if your machine has a sniffer running on it. Unfortunately, they did not mention how one can go about doing this.
If you're using Linux, just run
ifconfig -a
and look for the string "PROMISC".
If, however, you're using Windows, you need to get a utility called PromicDetect. Run it from a command prompt. If it indicates the Directed, Multicast and Broadcast filters are active, then you're probably OK.
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The problem, as I see it, is one of accountability. In the case of financial institutions, if a computer somewhere starts "forgetting" transactions, someone will notice when they get their statement in the mail and their account is short a couple hundred bucks. But in the case of e-voting, there's no way to tell if your vote didn't get counted.
A computer is an inscrutible black box. How do you know what's going on inside it? Sure, you can open the source code up for inspection. But how do you know that code is what's actually running on the machine when you go and vote?
Pencil on paper, counted by people, remains the most incorruptible system.
That depends, are you in Canada? If you are, then yes, you must pay. See the press release from SOCAN here.
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Exactly right. The royalty system proposed by the EFF would go a long way to levelling the playing field between the major labels and the independent artists. When a band can record and release an album themselves, promote it on the internet and get paid for every download, who needs a major label?
Expect the RIAA to do everything within their power to ensure that such a scheme will not be implemented.
Which allegation in particular are you referring to? If it was something spoken in the House of Commons, he is protected by parliamentary privilege from any action or libel.
You would *think* email addresses would not be reused, wouldn't you? But when I signed up with a new ISP and set up my email account, I found I already had quite a bit of email, and none of it intended for me. After doing a little detective work I managed to track down the new email address of the rightful recipient and forwarded her messages to her until they stopped some months later.
The moral of the story? If you're cancelling an email account and there's any chance someone might be emailing you something you wouldn't want someone else to recieve, make sure you get them your new email address!
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Landon Fuller has posted a gist on GitHub with an explanation of the bug and a binary patch to the affected library.
I read the headline and assumed this would be another story about the TSA's screening procedures...
I hate to be the guy who complains about the headline of a story... but a "web bug" is an image in a web page or HTML email that allows the site owner to track who has visited the page or read the email. This story has absolutely nothing to do with "web bugs". How about "browser bug" instead?
I hate to interrupt a good old-fashioned witch-hunt, but AOL was instrumental in the creation of a little group called the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to them and donating $2 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#History
So maybe they're not all bad.
CAT: No, this isn't the one.
LISTER: What isn't?
CAT: I'm looking for this dream I had last month on the dream recorder.
It was sensational.
LISTER: What was it about?
CAT: Me, three girls and a family-sized tub of banana yoghurt!
RIMMER: You know, cats have a very strange attitude to women if you ask
me.
CAT: Say what, Goalpost Head?
RIMMER: It's all sex, and no sense of settling down and having a long-
term relationship.
CAT: Hey, I want to settle down. And as soon as I find the right small
group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my
wandering days are over, buddy.</pre>
I've always figured professional sports should be like auto racing. Whereas they have separate stock car, modified and Formula 1 categories, the sports world should have separate substance-free and substance-allowed events.
Someone who wanted to meet his sister, I would assume.
What does sending email have to do with anything?
This has been the case in Canada for some time. If you're a DJ and you're copying CDs or records to your hard drive, you need to get a Computer Hard Drive Licence from AVLA.
Not only that, but songs from certain artists may not be copied, even with the license. Here's the list. Wanna spin some Paula Abdul from your iPod? Sorry, you're SOL.
Helpful tip: you can power off a locked-up PC by holding in the power button for 5 seconds or so.
TFA is a PDF? WTF?
So you can search for previous searches, but does it keep a history of your searches for previous searches? Can you search for previous searches for previous searches?
Slashdot has covered this problem before.
If you can read this,
you don't need glasses.
Yeah, great. And every time I try to go visit it, I end up putting the dots in the wrong places, like deli.cio.us, or de.lic.io.us. And forget about trying to tell someone verbally how to find it...
"Yeah, go check out this site, it's called delicious."
"Delicious.com?"
"No, d-e-l-dot-i-c-i-o... argh, just frickin' Google it. Oh wait, it's not in Google...
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/00716
Just watch out for those nasty ANSI bombs...
If you're using Linux, just run and look for the string "PROMISC".
If, however, you're using Windows, you need to get a utility called PromicDetect. Run it from a command prompt. If it indicates the Directed, Multicast and Broadcast filters are active, then you're probably OK.
Source: Computerworld
The problem, as I see it, is one of accountability. In the case of financial institutions, if a computer somewhere starts "forgetting" transactions, someone will notice when they get their statement in the mail and their account is short a couple hundred bucks. But in the case of e-voting, there's no way to tell if your vote didn't get counted.
A computer is an inscrutible black box. How do you know what's going on inside it? Sure, you can open the source code up for inspection. But how do you know that code is what's actually running on the machine when you go and vote?
Pencil on paper, counted by people, remains the most incorruptible system.
That depends, are you in Canada? If you are, then yes, you must pay. See the press release from SOCAN here.
Exactly right. The royalty system proposed by the EFF would go a long way to levelling the playing field between the major labels and the independent artists. When a band can record and release an album themselves, promote it on the internet and get paid for every download, who needs a major label?
Expect the RIAA to do everything within their power to ensure that such a scheme will not be implemented.
You realize, of course, that the fan in the power supply also serves to cool the computer components. You still need a fan in each PC.
Which allegation in particular are you referring to? If it was something spoken in the House of Commons, he is protected by parliamentary privilege from any action or libel.
Maybe it was an actual Volkswagen Bug... if that's the case, I bet the UBC Engineers had something to do with it.
The moral of the story? If you're cancelling an email account and there's any chance someone might be emailing you something you wouldn't want someone else to recieve, make sure you get them your new email address!