I think you missed the memo. This is, what we, in theoretical quantum wave dynamics, refer to as, a joke. It's not part of the default instalation of Firefox but simply a 3rd party add-on/script that pokes fun at the sequence of namechanges that the project has gone through.
Why even lie about it? Just make Moz/FFox the default browser (being able to easily do this and hide IE is about the only thing that came out of the anti-trust suit). If somebody asks where IE went, tell them that it was removed for security reasons (with the exception of that one chick in the payroll office who actually needs to use to to use some webapp that's poorly written that's used to get you paid).
To me, the spinning Firefox icon has always looked like a quad-damage glyph that somebody had bitten the corner off. I guess it's more of a "a little bit over two and a half times as much damage" thingie now...
Mozilla is, what we refer to, in theorerical computer science, as, 'Emacs Complete'. This means that it would be a fairly straightforward exercise to implement Emacs in XUL.
The upshot of is is that, if somebody were ever able to implement Mozilla in a non-bloated way, we'd have a non-bloated Emacs & by extension, have non-bloated versions of countless other programs.
The problem is that the economies of these "remote pacific islands" aren't going to bennefit beyond the small amount produced by a business registration and a domain registration. We know these companies are run by USians who simply run the servers outside of the US to avoid any government interference, and whats' to stop somebody who's fucking over one gov't from doing so to another?
Let's face it, setting up an internet casino hosted on some remote island isn't fundamentally different than running a back-alley card-house. They know almost all of thier customers are going to be USian, they just get far enough outside the hands of the government to avoid regulation and taxation.
The whole point is that the US can't stop this from going on but that, if there are to allow it to go on, they can be a major force towards regulation fo the industry. With the US behind a globalized regulation of online gambling, it'll prevent a company 'registered' in Elbonia from running a crooked game of tiddly-winks.
It could easily be argued that, even when gambling is legalised, some sort of regulation is required. If most games of "fooBall" are played with the house havine a 2:1 advantage and the populace understands that there are specific odds on the game, anyone hiding the fact that they're offering 4:1 odds and still calling the game "fooBall" should be regulated in the same way that agricultural & drug companies are regulateed, if for no reason other than that somebody must enforce some norm on the marketplace & punish those who try to mislead their customers.
Making gambling illegal, OTOH, is an entirely different argument but, if it is allowed, the government is obligated to regulate it as much as they do any other trade or business transaction.
Samba has fsck all to do with MSFT APIs. An API is the definition of how a program interfaces with the OS or libraries. Samba implements a protocol, a standard for information exchange between systems.
This is why what MSFT does to its APIs doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with reverse engineering, it's just that they're two completely different things.
It's perfectly understandable, tho... I mean, really... what's the difference between getting 100 spams per day and getting 100 "we blocked some spam' messages?
There's a big difference. Every time a F/OSS project's box get's hacked, it's a single machine getting broken into. When there's a windows flaw, the next day there's a worm that compromises MILLIONS of computers.
The two events are incomparable, since there are numerous ways a single box can be compromised that are not directly related to an OS flaw.
WTF are you talking about? I'm seeing well over 200 seeds, and like a 7:1 leech:seed ratio, which is pretty decent, especially for a young torrent (it may have been around for a while, but the flood of/. users is new to it).
How long would it be before one of the 'alternative' DNS providers starts selling.mail domains? If need be, they'd use adware to add their DNS servers to your lookups.
The first obvious step here would be to transition ourselves from low level, command oriented (ie imperative) programming languages to higher level, goal oriented (ie declarative languages like Prolog and ML) languages to develop the software in.
The fact that computer software is currently stuck in such a command-based paradigm is incontrovertably intertwined with the the imperative languages used to write them and the resultant development models and view of computing in general. When you consider that additional bennifits of declarative languages being demonstrably simpler to verify and that they inherrently rule out entire classes of security flaws and bugs, you're left with a system that not only has less problems but should also eventually result in more usable software.
With all the other crap that needs to be done, WTF is everyone so hung up on getting transparency working under X? Even on systems where transparency works cleanly, I've never seen a good use for it other than showing off the fact that you can use transparency.
I used to like shooting up heroin while having unprotected gay sex. But when that whole AIDS thing blew up, I had to give it up.
If you, or anyone else, 'have to use outlook at work' then:
a) the powers that be had better make damned sure they're scanning that email for viruses. Running a spam-filter and stripping out any javascript and HTML from email is probably going to help too. If anyone bitches about money, remind them that Outlook's not cheap nor is the Exchange server that makes it worth using (and without Exchange, there is no reason to require using Outlook)
b) Nobody should even think about using Outlook to read a private email addy. The best thing to do is to block all connections to outside POP & IMAP severs at the firewall.
What's the big deal? I'm sure there's logistical reasons to not allow large transactions from an ATM. With that kind of money being moved, I think I'd still prefer to walk into the bank and deal with a real person...
...not that it really matters now that every ATM card is a Visa and most clerks don't bother checking ID. Granted, it stops ppl from being able to rip off ATMs for drug money but the system is still wide-open to abuse (and I'm suprised there's not more of it).
Maybe the old hardware they embedded in there (286s? became hard to get? "Customers Demand" color interfaces? They required Unicode support to localize the machine for Asian markets?
RTFA. It overwrites random bits of the HDD until it finally cripples the system. This not only leaves you with an unbootable system (and it might not be the boot sector, it could be any key OS files getting overwritten) but also a chance that any piece of data on the drive might possibly be corrupt. By the time you're trying to recover data, it might not be worth saving anymore.
Maybe you could introduce me to them. I could hack their machines and then buy the 'dead' machines for pennies on the dollar, fixing them up and turning around and selling them at a profit.
If it directly hosed the boot sectors, that'd be an easy fix. The real damage comes from the gradual corruption of all the data on the drive.
With that said, there are -plenty- of places on a windows machine where randomly writing 64KB of data would 'destroy the machine', but even that it recoverable. Data is harder to bring back, especially if you've made backups between getting infected and noticing the infection.
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I'm just wondering why the editors didn't put the foot down and make is clear that this is supposed to be humourous...
I think you missed the memo. This is, what we, in theoretical quantum wave dynamics, refer to as, a joke. It's not part of the default instalation of Firefox but simply a 3rd party add-on/script that pokes fun at the sequence of namechanges that the project has gone through.
Why even lie about it? Just make Moz/FFox the default browser (being able to easily do this and hide IE is about the only thing that came out of the anti-trust suit). If somebody asks where IE went, tell them that it was removed for security reasons (with the exception of that one chick in the payroll office who actually needs to use to to use some webapp that's poorly written that's used to get you paid).
At least that's what we're doign.
To me, the spinning Firefox icon has always looked like a quad-damage glyph that somebody had bitten the corner off. I guess it's more of a "a little bit over two and a half times as much damage" thingie now...
Mozilla is, what we refer to, in theorerical computer science, as, 'Emacs Complete'. This means that it would be a fairly straightforward exercise to implement Emacs in XUL.
The upshot of is is that, if somebody were ever able to implement Mozilla in a non-bloated way, we'd have a non-bloated Emacs & by extension, have non-bloated versions of countless other programs.
The problem is that the economies of these "remote pacific islands" aren't going to bennefit beyond the small amount produced by a business registration and a domain registration. We know these companies are run by USians who simply run the servers outside of the US to avoid any government interference, and whats' to stop somebody who's fucking over one gov't from doing so to another?
Let's face it, setting up an internet casino hosted on some remote island isn't fundamentally different than running a back-alley card-house. They know almost all of thier customers are going to be USian, they just get far enough outside the hands of the government to avoid regulation and taxation.
The whole point is that the US can't stop this from going on but that, if there are to allow it to go on, they can be a major force towards regulation fo the industry. With the US behind a globalized regulation of online gambling, it'll prevent a company 'registered' in Elbonia from running a crooked game of tiddly-winks.
It could easily be argued that, even when gambling is legalised, some sort of regulation is required. If most games of "fooBall" are played with the house havine a 2:1 advantage and the populace understands that there are specific odds on the game, anyone hiding the fact that they're offering 4:1 odds and still calling the game "fooBall" should be regulated in the same way that agricultural & drug companies are regulateed, if for no reason other than that somebody must enforce some norm on the marketplace & punish those who try to mislead their customers.
Making gambling illegal, OTOH, is an entirely different argument but, if it is allowed, the government is obligated to regulate it as much as they do any other trade or business transaction.
Samba has fsck all to do with MSFT APIs. An API is the definition of how a program interfaces with the OS or libraries. Samba implements a protocol, a standard for information exchange between systems.
This is why what MSFT does to its APIs doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with reverse engineering, it's just that they're two completely different things.
It's perfectly understandable, tho... I mean, really... what's the difference between getting 100 spams per day and getting 100 "we blocked some spam' messages?
There's a big difference. Every time a F/OSS project's box get's hacked, it's a single machine getting broken into. When there's a windows flaw, the next day there's a worm that compromises MILLIONS of computers.
The two events are incomparable, since there are numerous ways a single box can be compromised that are not directly related to an OS flaw.
WTF are you talking about? I'm seeing well over 200 seeds, and like a 7:1 leech:seed ratio, which is pretty decent, especially for a young torrent (it may have been around for a while, but the flood of /. users is new to it).
Oh boy. Cheap, nasty 3rd rate pr0n whores draped over computers. Are these the rejects from Easy Rider and lowrider mags?
For some reason, I always prefer http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html
So? There's also still people that talk about the browsing WEB on their MAC like the words are some sort of acronyms.
How long would it be before one of the 'alternative' DNS providers starts selling .mail domains? If need be, they'd use adware to add their DNS servers to your lookups.
The first obvious step here would be to transition ourselves from low level, command oriented (ie imperative) programming languages to higher level, goal oriented (ie declarative languages like Prolog and ML) languages to develop the software in.
The fact that computer software is currently stuck in such a command-based paradigm is incontrovertably intertwined with the the imperative languages used to write them and the resultant development models and view of computing in general. When you consider that additional bennifits of declarative languages being demonstrably simpler to verify and that they inherrently rule out entire classes of security flaws and bugs, you're left with a system that not only has less problems but should also eventually result in more usable software.
With all the other crap that needs to be done, WTF is everyone so hung up on getting transparency working under X? Even on systems where transparency works cleanly, I've never seen a good use for it other than showing off the fact that you can use transparency.
I used to like shooting up heroin while having unprotected gay sex. But when that whole AIDS thing blew up, I had to give it up.
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If you, or anyone else, 'have to use outlook at work' then
a) the powers that be had better make damned sure they're scanning that email for viruses. Running a spam-filter and stripping out any javascript and HTML from email is probably going to help too. If anyone bitches about money, remind them that Outlook's not cheap nor is the Exchange server that makes it worth using (and without Exchange, there is no reason to require using Outlook)
b) Nobody should even think about using Outlook to read a private email addy. The best thing to do is to block all connections to outside POP & IMAP severs at the firewall.
What's the big deal? I'm sure there's logistical reasons to not allow large transactions from an ATM. With that kind of money being moved, I think I'd still prefer to walk into the bank and deal with a real person...
...not that it really matters now that every ATM card is a Visa and most clerks don't bother checking ID. Granted, it stops ppl from being able to rip off ATMs for drug money but the system is still wide-open to abuse (and I'm suprised there's not more of it).
$1100? Don't most ATMs limit you to like $2-300 at a time?
Maybe the old hardware they embedded in there (286s? became hard to get? "Customers Demand" color interfaces? They required Unicode support to localize the machine for Asian markets?
RTFA. It overwrites random bits of the HDD until it finally cripples the system. This not only leaves you with an unbootable system (and it might not be the boot sector, it could be any key OS files getting overwritten) but also a chance that any piece of data on the drive might possibly be corrupt. By the time you're trying to recover data, it might not be worth saving anymore.
Maybe you could introduce me to them. I could hack their machines and then buy the 'dead' machines for pennies on the dollar, fixing them up and turning around and selling them at a profit.
If it directly hosed the boot sectors, that'd be an easy fix. The real damage comes from the gradual corruption of all the data on the drive.
With that said, there are -plenty- of places on a windows machine where randomly writing 64KB of data would 'destroy the machine', but even that it recoverable. Data is harder to bring back, especially if you've made backups between getting infected and noticing the infection.