I'm concerned about privilege escalation from untrusted objects. There's already been on installer fix for a privilege escalation from an arbitrary web page.
Some add-on authors create binary components not because they want to interact with Firefox at the C++ level, but strictly so that they can make use of third party DLLs. If this is the only reason you are using a binary component instead of JavaScript, take a look at the new JavaScript C-Types support introduced in Firefox 3.6. It allows JavaScript code to load functions from DLLs on windows, and should allow you to eliminate your dependence on binary components entirely. This leads to a better compatibility path as new versions of Firefox are released.
They say this can only be used from Chrome, but... um... I'm still not happy about having this in the API at all.:(
Probably not: Firefox still has to handle platform-based plugins written for APIs that predate the Firefox extension framework. I'm sure that Acrobat will keep reinstalling itself, too.:(
FreeBSD 1 and FreeBSD 2 had slightly different semantics for some system calls, but FreeBSD 2 changed the system call numbers, so it was possible to modify the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 kernel to run the binary Netscape for FreeBSD 2.x by implementing the new API for one call in the old kernel. Alas, I can't find the patch now, which is embarrassing because I was the one hosting it... about 15 years ago.
"It won't always be possible, of course, to gain energy from each encounter, but that's why we start in a higher orbit, so as energy is inevitably lost it can be replenished by moving to a lower orbit."
Changing to a lower orbit will increase velocity, yes, so in a sense you're trading off potential and kinetic energy... but in the sense that matters... maintaining the ability to change your orbit... it doesn't matter if you go up or down, it matters only that you are changing your orbit. Any change in orbit requires you to shed reaction mass. And it's the mass that you need to conserve, not any fuzzily defined energy.
But wait, there is one possible solution, you could use conductive tethers. You could use them to raise your orbit by pumping current through them, or lower your orbit by running the current from them through a load, like a generator. You'd probably NOT want a polar orbit for this trick. And you'd need lots of big heavy solar panels to provide the power. Or maybe a radiothermal generator. No, that'll never fly.
The big problem, though, is that the operational lifetime of the device has to be large enough that it results in a net reduction in trash. And it's deliberately colliding with junk? Eventually it's going to mess up and hit something with the wrong part of the device, particularly if it's using tethers for maneuvering, and now you'll need to have another net handy to collect IT as well as the trash it collected.
Because releasing the link database doesn't keep the links working?
You need to maintain the link database AND make sure that the TLD stays with someone that maintains the redirection service. In this case, they're exchanging the link database for that maintenance.
There might also be data mining issues if you just release the database.
I'm seeing this kind of "MMO style" user interface more and more, where the desktop becomes more and more obscured by locked down immovable user interface elements. I've gotten used to the task bar on Windows and the Menu Bar on the Mac and the Panel, I can deal with that, there's one box and it's pretty small and I can stuff everything into it... but Microsoft keeps turning menus into big obtrusive blocks (ribbons and sidebars and the start panel and so on) and this new Gnome scheme seems to be putting this horrid scheme on steroids.
If you look back at the history of Christian debate on this, it divides into two camps. There are those that believe that it is human destiny to bring salvation to the aliens, and those who believe in multiple incarnations
What about the possibility that alien species have not Fallen or suffered from Original Sin?
It's not the effort of installing it so much as the fact that I'm not the guy setting up the boxes, I'm usually called in for a one-off poke-around and after I'm done I'll never see it again... and there's no good reason for Microsoft to pull the telnet *client* out except sheer bloodyminded NIH.
so windows server 2003, sql serevr 2005 are crappy software?
Compared to anything but Windows Server 2008 (which I hate with a burning hate every time I try and open Telnet on a new server and go "oh, right, WTF, Microsoft, WTF...") and Microsoft's original SQL Server?
Either the browser has to restrict the applet to only show up if it's explicitly told to, or the applet itself has to include something like flashblock
That should be
Either the browser has to restrict the plugin to only see applets if it's explicitly told to, or the plugin itself has to include something like Flashblock
That's basically what Flashblock is supposed to be doing, but it doesn't seem to grok all the cases where the Flash plugin would go "OH HAI! UR FLASH! IMA RUN U NOW!"
It's not cross-site scripting because it's not cross-site. The swf really does come from the same site and domain.
On further checking... the problem is that Adobe's plugin will wake up and run a flash applet even if the flash applet doesn't have all the right HTML "hey, this is an applet, here's its parameters" wrapped around it.
Either the browser has to restrict the applet to only show up if it's explicitly told to, or the applet itself has to include something like flashblock so flash applets don't run automatically. And you can just imagine how much Adobe wants to "break" all the Flash sites that people have created that don't follow the rules.
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I'm concerned about privilege escalation from untrusted objects. There's already been on installer fix for a privilege escalation from an arbitrary web page.
So this is basically the first step to a Copy of a cat.
They say this can only be used from Chrome, but... um... I'm still not happy about having this in the API at all. :(
Probably not: Firefox still has to handle platform-based plugins written for APIs that predate the Firefox extension framework. I'm sure that Acrobat will keep reinstalling itself, too. :(
Did you use thousand dollar oxygen-free copper dielectrically balanced speaker wire, or did you use a bunch of coat hangers?
Personally, I think that MP3 is warmer and more human than these newfangled "lossless" formats, anyway.
Zombie vs Zombie action: "Aww man, you trashed my hoodie".
These games are usually running full screen.
FreeBSD 1 and FreeBSD 2 had slightly different semantics for some system calls, but FreeBSD 2 changed the system call numbers, so it was possible to modify the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 kernel to run the binary Netscape for FreeBSD 2.x by implementing the new API for one call in the old kernel. Alas, I can't find the patch now, which is embarrassing because I was the one hosting it... about 15 years ago.
That was my first reaction, too.
This isn't a time bomb, fellows, it's a love bomb. Quit worrying and learn to love it.
Yeh, that's the kind of thing I was thinking of. And Lewis wasn't the only one by any means.
"It won't always be possible, of course, to gain energy from each encounter, but that's why we start in a higher orbit, so as energy is inevitably lost it can be replenished by moving to a lower orbit."
Changing to a lower orbit will increase velocity, yes, so in a sense you're trading off potential and kinetic energy... but in the sense that matters... maintaining the ability to change your orbit... it doesn't matter if you go up or down, it matters only that you are changing your orbit. Any change in orbit requires you to shed reaction mass. And it's the mass that you need to conserve, not any fuzzily defined energy.
But wait, there is one possible solution, you could use conductive tethers. You could use them to raise your orbit by pumping current through them, or lower your orbit by running the current from them through a load, like a generator. You'd probably NOT want a polar orbit for this trick. And you'd need lots of big heavy solar panels to provide the power. Or maybe a radiothermal generator. No, that'll never fly.
The big problem, though, is that the operational lifetime of the device has to be large enough that it results in a net reduction in trash. And it's deliberately colliding with junk? Eventually it's going to mess up and hit something with the wrong part of the device, particularly if it's using tethers for maneuvering, and now you'll need to have another net handy to collect IT as well as the trash it collected.
Cool, now you can get your OH JOHN RINGO NO goodness at http://www.socuteurl.com/cheekyfuzzydoo
My heart is about to explode from the cuteness.
Because releasing the link database doesn't keep the links working?
You need to maintain the link database AND make sure that the TLD stays with someone that maintains the redirection service. In this case, they're exchanging the link database for that maintenance.
There might also be data mining issues if you just release the database.
600 pixels? I used to DREAM of 600 pixels! My Toshiba Libretto was 800x480.
I'm seeing this kind of "MMO style" user interface more and more, where the desktop becomes more and more obscured by locked down immovable user interface elements. I've gotten used to the task bar on Windows and the Menu Bar on the Mac and the Panel, I can deal with that, there's one box and it's pretty small and I can stuff everything into it... but Microsoft keeps turning menus into big obtrusive blocks (ribbons and sidebars and the start panel and so on) and this new Gnome scheme seems to be putting this horrid scheme on steroids.
No, no, no, ten thousand times, no.
If you look back at the history of Christian debate on this, it divides into two camps. There are those that believe that it is human destiny to bring salvation to the aliens, and those who believe in multiple incarnations
What about the possibility that alien species have not Fallen or suffered from Original Sin?
I do take some personal responsibility.
I don't get phone service from Verizon.
That's the responsible thing to do.
Asshole.
It's not the effort of installing it so much as the fact that I'm not the guy setting up the boxes, I'm usually called in for a one-off poke-around and after I'm done I'll never see it again... and there's no good reason for Microsoft to pull the telnet *client* out except sheer bloodyminded NIH.
That wasn't a quantum black hole, it was a quantum tuned cosmic string.
I'm using telnet to connect to switches and routers and the like.
so windows server 2003, sql serevr 2005 are crappy software?
Compared to anything but Windows Server 2008 (which I hate with a burning hate every time I try and open Telnet on a new server and go "oh, right, WTF, Microsoft, WTF...") and Microsoft's original SQL Server?
Damn, I hit preview and I still didn't see it:
Either the browser has to restrict the applet to only show up if it's explicitly told to, or the applet itself has to include something like flashblock
That should be
Either the browser has to restrict the plugin to only see applets if it's explicitly told to, or the plugin itself has to include something like Flashblock
That's basically what Flashblock is supposed to be doing, but it doesn't seem to grok all the cases where the Flash plugin would go "OH HAI! UR FLASH! IMA RUN U NOW!"
It's not cross-site scripting because it's not cross-site. The swf really does come from the same site and domain.
On further checking... the problem is that Adobe's plugin will wake up and run a flash applet even if the flash applet doesn't have all the right HTML "hey, this is an applet, here's its parameters" wrapped around it.
Either the browser has to restrict the applet to only show up if it's explicitly told to, or the applet itself has to include something like flashblock so flash applets don't run automatically. And you can just imagine how much Adobe wants to "break" all the Flash sites that people have created that don't follow the rules.