You poke a dog with a stick often enough and eventually it'll go for you. Something people in wikileaks and all those naive kids calling themselves Anonymous (or whatever silly name they've thought up this week) and similar groups don't appear to realise.
What really happened here: They built H.264 into the next version of the Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox.
Using Windows Media Player, back in the day, was just begging to get the virus that had cleverly disguised itself as hot_chick.mov. Using Windows Media Player is still just begging to get a virus. Granted now I have an antivirus that should catch those threats even if I’m a clueless idiot, being a clueless idiot just isn’t my thing.
I still won’t install the Windows Media Player plugin.
Heat pumps generally pump relatively small amounts of heat but do it very efficiently... much more efficiently than the best traditional furnaces.
If you’re not losing large amounts of heat quickly, they do quite well. But if you are, they can’t keep up. Then the regular old furnace part of the heat pump kicks in, which is much less efficient than the heat pump, and your average efficiency drops toward that of the traditional furnace.
Firefox is running the flash player in a separate process. That process is not sandboxed.
If an exploit in flash is discovered, and you visit a page with malarious flash content, the flash player process can do anything that the user running firefox can do.
Yeah, I wasn’t thinking about that subtlety. However, that’s still a form of sandboxing; it’s sandboxed away from the rest of the browser, though not sandboxed from the OS.
I know exactly what you mean. I’ve debugged slow WinXP machines for people where it turned out they were “slow” because they only had 256MB of RAM. Good grief, people, drop the $40 or $20 it takes to get a gig or a half a gig of RAM (and tell them no, I don’t want to pay $60 for you to unscrew the panel on the case and pop it in for me), your computer will run just fine...
It isn’t “informed” to happen to have the right opinion without having enough information to support your opinion when somebody else expresses a contrary opinion.
Well, not unless you understand how to create a RAMdrive and are familiar with MKLINK (in Windows).
They’re just stored in your application data folder. Firefox has addons that will automatically delete Flash cookies (e.g. BetterPrivacy). Does Chrome? And even if Chrome doesn’t, it’d be easy enough to make a script that would do it on startup or shutdown.
Heck, I think Firefox did it already... I think Flash must have released an unstable version recently. I’ve had Firefox lock up on me a couple of times. Killing the “plugin container” process in Task Manager immediately made Firefox start responding again and display an info bar on pages that had been using Flash saying that a plugin had crashed (gee, wonder why?) and suggesting that I reload the page.
There is a difference, and a significant one at that, between all of the following statements:
1) Fox News makes its viewers less informed. (What headline said, which is impossible.) 2) Viewers of Fox News tend to be less informed. (What headline meant.) 3) Fox News makes its viewers more mis-informed. (What summary said.) 4) Viewers of Fox News tend to be more mis-informed. (What summary should have said.) 5) Viewers of Fox News tend to believe stuff that I think is hogwash. (What summary meant.)
It’s not a very strong password because it’s stored using the old Windows password hash method which broke the password into 1 or 2 case-insensitive 7-character pieces and hashed them separately (i.e. any password up to 14 characters is stored as two 7-character passwords). So that password was stored as the two separate hashes of Fgpyyih and 804423.
Then the two password hashes were cracked using a rainbow table containing the hashes of (almost) every possible 7-character combination of letters and numbers.
Including special characters makes the necessary rainbow table exponentially larger. Furthermore, just using >14 characters for your Windows password forces it to use a newer (and better) password hashing algorithm.
My "good" password pattern that I use for my computer, bank, etc, is 9 characters long. This is definitely approaching the limit of what I can remember, or be bothered to type in all the time.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation”:
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Pick a phrase that is memorable to you, apply similar rules.
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You poke a dog with a stick often enough and eventually it'll go for you. Something people in wikileaks and all those naive kids calling themselves Anonymous (or whatever silly name they've thought up this week) and similar groups don't appear to realise.
That works the other direction too.
What really happened here: They built H.264 into the next version of the Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox.
Using Windows Media Player, back in the day, was just begging to get the virus that had cleverly disguised itself as hot_chick.mov. Using Windows Media Player is still just begging to get a virus. Granted now I have an antivirus that should catch those threats even if I’m a clueless idiot, being a clueless idiot just isn’t my thing.
I still won’t install the Windows Media Player plugin.
This new plug-in, known as the HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in, is available for download
UGH. Never mind, no thanks. H.264 can’t persuade me to install the Windows Media Player plugin.
Heat pumps generally pump relatively small amounts of heat but do it very efficiently... much more efficiently than the best traditional furnaces.
If you’re not losing large amounts of heat quickly, they do quite well. But if you are, they can’t keep up. Then the regular old furnace part of the heat pump kicks in, which is much less efficient than the heat pump, and your average efficiency drops toward that of the traditional furnace.
Well, they do say too much sodium is bad for your blood pressure.
Processes should already be running under limited user access, so I was thinking more in terms of stability than security. But you’re right.
Next time the sun comes, up, the salt's all cooled down, right?
TFA says it’s capable of producing electricity 24 hours a day, so presumably it doesn’t cool all the way down overnight.
Am I missing something?
You’re converting heat to mechanical energy, so you want something that holds a lot of heat.
When I said “stuff that I think is hogwash”, I was speaking from the perspective of whomever wrote that article.
Water holds a lot of calories per degree, relatively speaking.
Whoosh.
If you’d add a bit of butter you’d make the bitter battery better.
Firefox is running the flash player in a separate process. That process is not sandboxed.
If an exploit in flash is discovered, and you visit a page with malarious flash content, the flash player process can do anything that the user running firefox can do.
Yeah, I wasn’t thinking about that subtlety. However, that’s still a form of sandboxing; it’s sandboxed away from the rest of the browser, though not sandboxed from the OS.
I know exactly what you mean. I’ve debugged slow WinXP machines for people where it turned out they were “slow” because they only had 256MB of RAM. Good grief, people, drop the $40 or $20 it takes to get a gig or a half a gig of RAM (and tell them no, I don’t want to pay $60 for you to unscrew the panel on the case and pop it in for me), your computer will run just fine...
You RTFA? I’m sorry, but I’ll have to take that claim with a grain of salt.
It isn’t “informed” to happen to have the right opinion without having enough information to support your opinion when somebody else expresses a contrary opinion.
It couldn’t use hardware acceleration before. It can now. They’re releasing a new version that does.
I think you mean, Flash used to suck... and it wasn’t really entirely its fault.
It took me 4 reads just to find the two puns that you appear to be so steamed over.
Less trouble to install an extension than set up a RAMdrive, I think. Either way, it’s done and you can forget about it.
Flash cookies, not as easy.
Well, not unless you understand how to create a RAMdrive and are familiar with MKLINK (in Windows).
They’re just stored in your application data folder. Firefox has addons that will automatically delete Flash cookies (e.g. BetterPrivacy). Does Chrome? And even if Chrome doesn’t, it’d be easy enough to make a script that would do it on startup or shutdown.
Heck, I think Firefox did it already... I think Flash must have released an unstable version recently. I’ve had Firefox lock up on me a couple of times. Killing the “plugin container” process in Task Manager immediately made Firefox start responding again and display an info bar on pages that had been using Flash saying that a plugin had crashed (gee, wonder why?) and suggesting that I reload the page.
There is a difference, and a significant one at that, between all of the following statements:
1) Fox News makes its viewers less informed. (What headline said, which is impossible.)
2) Viewers of Fox News tend to be less informed. (What headline meant.)
3) Fox News makes its viewers more mis-informed. (What summary said.)
4) Viewers of Fox News tend to be more mis-informed. (What summary should have said.)
5) Viewers of Fox News tend to believe stuff that I think is hogwash. (What summary meant.)
It’s not a very strong password because it’s stored using the old Windows password hash method which broke the password into 1 or 2 case-insensitive 7-character pieces and hashed them separately (i.e. any password up to 14 characters is stored as two 7-character passwords). So that password was stored as the two separate hashes of Fgpyyih and 804423.
Then the two password hashes were cracked using a rainbow table containing the hashes of (almost) every possible 7-character combination of letters and numbers.
Including special characters makes the necessary rainbow table exponentially larger. Furthermore, just using >14 characters for your Windows password forces it to use a newer (and better) password hashing algorithm.
My "good" password pattern that I use for my computer, bank, etc, is 9 characters long. This is definitely approaching the limit of what I can remember, or be bothered to type in all the time.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation”:
4s&7yAOfb4thOtcAnn
Pick a phrase that is memorable to you, apply similar rules.