The most ridiculous option to be absent from about:config is the option to ignore the no-password-saving flag set on login forms by "super secure" sites, used for everything from online banks to Exchange webmail logins.
IIRC the justification was (and is, as the bug is WONTFIX) that banks would blacklist firefox and that - and I closely paraphrase - "The success of the project takes precedence over the experience of the users." Meanwhile, seamonkey supports the option with no problem, and so does every sane browser.
I guess the (wrong, imo) approach that firefox takes is to allow addons to implement that kind of stuff. My Firefox is locked down hard and bulletproof against active content, but it requires some addons.
Yes that's how it works, and everyone already knows that. I'm not even talking about recaptcha though, I'm talking about the impossible captchas you get when failing too many times to log into a Google account.
By the way, that wasn't just a facetious comment. TFA isn't a serious paper. It's not even typeset, just typed into Microsoft Word. And god knows why I'm being warned about VBScript macros when I try to open it.
And this isn't a case where the little guy is making real scientific progress right under the nose of the obsolete establishment. The author doesn't even have a freshman understanding of big-O notation, it's completely juvenile.
Obviously the evolution of CAPTCHA science will be toward text (or audio) that is more easily recognized by humans but not by bots. It's not just a matter of making captchas really really hard.
IIRC, as part of the marblecake time magazine vote thing, people submitted thousands of PENISes as the book word to try to get it inserted randomly into ebooks. The recaptcha people said they've anticipated such an attack and that it's not possible to influence final book word results.
It's pretty funny how everyone was outraged when that russian spy was caught, and calling for his imprisonment or execution or whatever, but the same people give you a blank puzzled look when you point out that they strongly support espionage when it's the US doing the spying...
FYI people with that attitude usually use VLC. It's open source and comes with built-in support for every format under the sun, including corrupt or partially-downloaded files.
Maybe if they would put out an attractive offering then consumers would be interested. Why would somebody outside of the >200k bracket buy a electric car when buying a normal car and gasoline is vastly less expensive?
Normally I would be sympathetic to the idea of forcing market expansion to get a new process off the ground, but we're way off from a viable electric car, and until then it's just going to be a waste of money.
Quicktime is not the only program that can play mp4 files... libmpeg2 and libavcodec can decode the video and Haali can split the container format. Then you can view those videos in any directshow player like WMP or MPC.
Or just install the CCCP.
Quicktime is an abomination and it needs to be eradicated.
You're using it wrong then. The CAS is great, especially for pulverizing ugly fractions.. it can find common denominators, multiply by the conjugate, divide out polynomial factors, clean up trig expressions w/ trig identities, etc etc.
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The most ridiculous option to be absent from about:config is the option to ignore the no-password-saving flag set on login forms by "super secure" sites, used for everything from online banks to Exchange webmail logins.
IIRC the justification was (and is, as the bug is WONTFIX) that banks would blacklist firefox and that - and I closely paraphrase - "The success of the project takes precedence over the experience of the users." Meanwhile, seamonkey supports the option with no problem, and so does every sane browser.
I guess the (wrong, imo) approach that firefox takes is to allow addons to implement that kind of stuff. My Firefox is locked down hard and bulletproof against active content, but it requires some addons.
The moment when Firefox jumped the shark for me was when I went to about:config and got some snarky anti-grandma click-through.
I'm talking about encryption you idiot.
Apparently the questioner isn't too bright. What more obvious "dead man's switch" is there than knowing your password?
Yes that's how it works, and everyone already knows that. I'm not even talking about recaptcha though, I'm talking about the impossible captchas you get when failing too many times to log into a Google account.
By the way, that wasn't just a facetious comment. TFA isn't a serious paper. It's not even typeset, just typed into Microsoft Word. And god knows why I'm being warned about VBScript macros when I try to open it.
And this isn't a case where the little guy is making real scientific progress right under the nose of the obsolete establishment. The author doesn't even have a freshman understanding of big-O notation, it's completely juvenile.
Obviously the evolution of CAPTCHA science will be toward text (or audio) that is more easily recognized by humans but not by bots. It's not just a matter of making captchas really really hard.
IIRC, as part of the marblecake time magazine vote thing, people submitted thousands of PENISes as the book word to try to get it inserted randomly into ebooks. The recaptcha people said they've anticipated such an attack and that it's not possible to influence final book word results.
You know a hacker is hard core when his site is monochrome in a monospace font, and he saves his files as straight up docx.
reCAPTCHA isn't bad, but Google's captchas are so hard they're probably more easily solved by learning algorithms than actual human beings.
It's pretty funny how everyone was outraged when that russian spy was caught, and calling for his imprisonment or execution or whatever, but the same people give you a blank puzzled look when you point out that they strongly support espionage when it's the US doing the spying...
If HOA means Homeowners Association, then I see his point.
Does Timothy even glance at the stories he approves or is it pure pin the tail on the donkey?
You can't just pick your own indent convention. Things get incredibly painful when people use editors that auto-indent to different widths.
FYI people with that attitude usually use VLC. It's open source and comes with built-in support for every format under the sun, including corrupt or partially-downloaded files.
Also, DivX is a really bad MPEG-4 decoder.
Yeah I know, that's my point. Some overzealous copy checker seized upon that word and corrected it to "come."
Well, say electric cars cost $70,000 if you make a limited run of a few hundred cars. Nobody will buy it for $70k.
But if you can sell a few thousand, the per-unit cost can get down to $35,000? Now people can afford it and the market takes off.
The initial investment to get it off the ground may be too high for failing American auto makers to assume, requiring the government to step in.
Maybe if they would put out an attractive offering then consumers would be interested. Why would somebody outside of the >200k bracket buy a electric car when buying a normal car and gasoline is vastly less expensive?
Normally I would be sympathetic to the idea of forcing market expansion to get a new process off the ground, but we're way off from a viable electric car, and until then it's just going to be a waste of money.
The only reason it takes that long is because you've never done it before and don't know anything about it.
"Why should I spend hours out of my action packed day to learn x when y works out of the box and is only a level 92 affront to nature"
Don't you mean on a role? Wait, augh! Too much slashdot!
Quicktime is not the only program that can play mp4 files... libmpeg2 and libavcodec can decode the video and Haali can split the container format. Then you can view those videos in any directshow player like WMP or MPC.
Or just install the CCCP.
Quicktime is an abomination and it needs to be eradicated.
You're using it wrong then. The CAS is great, especially for pulverizing ugly fractions.. it can find common denominators, multiply by the conjugate, divide out polynomial factors, clean up trig expressions w/ trig identities, etc etc.
Well people think movies are really good when the video is blown out and razor sharp on blu-ray.
And suddenly silverlight penetration in the Slashdot community triples.