Java ran applets well before ActiveX appeared on the scene. Javascript does have the advantage that it is not capable of doing anything outside the sandbox. A lot of Java's vulnerabilities have been because of its dual use as a sandboxed untrusted applet environment and as a full unlimited desktop and server programming environment.
Signed applets with stolen keys would still result in a prompt the first time the applet is run. Something else is going on here. There have been vulnerabilities in the JVM in the past that let unsigned apps jump out of the sandbox, and if the user has an outdated JVM these will still work - one particular nasty vulnerability is the fact that the OBJECT tag originally allowed the developer to specify a specific version of the JVM, so attackers can try to force the use of a vulnerable JVM - which will not prompt if that version of JVM is already installed alongside the most recent version.
They do have a plugni to install though. So your browser is guaranteed to be vulnerable after visiting their site - just in case you were feeling left out of the 80% majority.
Exactly. My advice to someone going to a country like this is to make damn sure you stay under the radar. Be prepared to give up your daily porn habit, your torrenting, and your urge to give your opinion on every political topic under the sun. If this is too much for you, then don't go to countries with oppressive regimes.
They have been running it in parallel since at least October. Search for "LSE Turquoise bug" for all the past outages they've experienced. There's lots of talk about "human error", "suspicious circumstances" and "network problems", but noone seems to be pointing the finger at the software itself, which was thrown together in a few months by a previously unknown software development house in Sri Lanka which LSE bought outright for less than they pay Microsoft and Accenture every year for maintenance of the previous system.
DirectX,.NET and ActiveX redistributables are explicitly not licensed to downstream users for the purpose of making derivative works. Making derivative works requires the SDK, which you have to get from Microsoft and do not have the right to redistribute.
If I wanted to use just the keyboard to rename files, I'd use Emacs. When Finder or Explorer get support for regular expressions, search and replace, and keyboard macros with auto-increment counters, I might reconsider.
After checking the current status, it has improved somewhat. Paid apps are available now in 32 countries, and can be sold by developers from 29 countries (Czech, India and Poland can buy but can't sell, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan can only sell Ad-Words supported apps).
I was always under the impression from the less technically literate around me that the hard drive is the big box under the monitor that you put CDs and floppies into.
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu can restart gdm without affecting running X sessions. So you won't get the updates to X until you log out and back in, but at least you will get them then.
2007 is around the time EDGE got deployed on European networks, due to the release of the original iPhone, which was unusual in that it encouraged the use of high-speed data, while not supporting 3G networks.
CDMA networks are quite widespread. Notably Japan and Korea, home countries of a number of phone manufacturers, have CDMA networks, though in Korea, where CDMA was the main 2G technology, its successor CDMA2000 has lived on in only one network, and in Japan the CDMA2000 network is in third place after two big WCDMA networks.
I wonder how much of the sales figures are driven by the fact that the Apple Store works pretty much worldwide, while paid apps on the Android Marketplace are still only available to users in US and a handful of European countries. This drives app developers to consider other sources of revenue if they want to tap into the growing markets in Asia and Eastern Europe.
Google is no better than Microsoft was the first time around because the hardware manufacturers are the same. The only difference for Windows Phone is that now they have Nokia as well - so even more variations in hardware to cope with. There is no way that Microsoft can release the updates itself - mobile platforms do not have the standard hardware architecture that PCs do, and making a mobile platform support all the hardware platform variations in existence would bloat it to the point where it is no longer mobile enough to compete.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I think your blowing it far FAR out of proportion.
Intentionally to make the point. Sure, it happens to a very small group...
Probably a group that can be counted on one hand, and only under very specific circumstances (Drafting a message, cancelling, then sending another message to a different contact whose phone number ends in the same 7 digits). The issue only received a huge number of spam comments after it was linked on facebook, 4chan and the like.
WP7 can play streaming music, which for legal reasons MS can only provide DRMed
I think you mean for licensing reasons, and that only applies to the major labels with whom Microsoft has negotiated deals. There is no law against streaming DRM free music, and in fact there are numerous providers doing just that. In fact, I think it is more likely to be Microsoft that is pushing their DRM to the labels rather than the other way around, in the misguided hope that they can become the exclusive distributors for the major labels by following this path.
The iPhone at launch lacked ALL of those things, Android lacked ONE, one that only corporate IT departments care about. As for Windows Mobile, isn't that dead already, replaced by a new iPhone wannabe that has been pretty thoroughly ridiculed here on Slashdot for including all the flaws and none of the desirable features of the original iPhone?
Maybe it's the fact that hotels are charging upwards of $5 per hour or $10 per day that guides users expectations of the bandwidth they will receive. Cafes less so but for those that charge, user complaints about the service may be justified.
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Java ran applets well before ActiveX appeared on the scene. Javascript does have the advantage that it is not capable of doing anything outside the sandbox. A lot of Java's vulnerabilities have been because of its dual use as a sandboxed untrusted applet environment and as a full unlimited desktop and server programming environment.
Signed applets with stolen keys would still result in a prompt the first time the applet is run. Something else is going on here. There have been vulnerabilities in the JVM in the past that let unsigned apps jump out of the sandbox, and if the user has an outdated JVM these will still work - one particular nasty vulnerability is the fact that the OBJECT tag originally allowed the developer to specify a specific version of the JVM, so attackers can try to force the use of a vulnerable JVM - which will not prompt if that version of JVM is already installed alongside the most recent version.
They do have a plugni to install though. So your browser is guaranteed to be vulnerable after visiting their site - just in case you were feeling left out of the 80% majority.
Exactly. My advice to someone going to a country like this is to make damn sure you stay under the radar. Be prepared to give up your daily porn habit, your torrenting, and your urge to give your opinion on every political topic under the sun. If this is too much for you, then don't go to countries with oppressive regimes.
Because those several hour long outages happened during the testing phase. From Monday the system went live, so outages are causing real problems now.
They have been running it in parallel since at least October. Search for "LSE Turquoise bug" for all the past outages they've experienced. There's lots of talk about "human error", "suspicious circumstances" and "network problems", but noone seems to be pointing the finger at the software itself, which was thrown together in a few months by a previously unknown software development house in Sri Lanka which LSE bought outright for less than they pay Microsoft and Accenture every year for maintenance of the previous system.
DirectX, .NET and ActiveX redistributables are explicitly not licensed to downstream users for the purpose of making derivative works. Making derivative works requires the SDK, which you have to get from Microsoft and do not have the right to redistribute.
If I wanted to use just the keyboard to rename files, I'd use Emacs. When Finder or Explorer get support for regular expressions, search and replace, and keyboard macros with auto-increment counters, I might reconsider.
PS: The * means "not really, but they can use Ad-Words".
Jordan is much closer to Tunisia than Yemen and Bahrain.
After checking the current status, it has improved somewhat. Paid apps are available now in 32 countries, and can be sold by developers from 29 countries (Czech, India and Poland can buy but can't sell, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan can only sell Ad-Words supported apps).
Actually its the other way around. More countries are able to sell apps on the Android Market than are able to buy them.
I was always under the impression from the less technically literate around me that the hard drive is the big box under the monitor that you put CDs and floppies into.
Knowing the network operators, I'd be willing to bet on them being premium rate SMS.
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu can restart gdm without affecting running X sessions. So you won't get the updates to X until you log out and back in, but at least you will get them then.
My guess is that they managed to shrink the program down to this: Facebook|http://wap.facebook.com/
2007 is around the time EDGE got deployed on European networks, due to the release of the original iPhone, which was unusual in that it encouraged the use of high-speed data, while not supporting 3G networks.
CDMA networks are quite widespread. Notably Japan and Korea, home countries of a number of phone manufacturers, have CDMA networks, though in Korea, where CDMA was the main 2G technology, its successor CDMA2000 has lived on in only one network, and in Japan the CDMA2000 network is in third place after two big WCDMA networks.
I wonder how much of the sales figures are driven by the fact that the Apple Store works pretty much worldwide, while paid apps on the Android Marketplace are still only available to users in US and a handful of European countries. This drives app developers to consider other sources of revenue if they want to tap into the growing markets in Asia and Eastern Europe.
sudo is for lusers who can't be trusted with full root access, but need to do something that you don't normally let lusers near.
Google is no better than Microsoft was the first time around because the hardware manufacturers are the same. The only difference for Windows Phone is that now they have Nokia as well - so even more variations in hardware to cope with. There is no way that Microsoft can release the updates itself - mobile platforms do not have the standard hardware architecture that PCs do, and making a mobile platform support all the hardware platform variations in existence would bloat it to the point where it is no longer mobile enough to compete.
Probably a group that can be counted on one hand, and only under very specific circumstances (Drafting a message, cancelling, then sending another message to a different contact whose phone number ends in the same 7 digits). The issue only received a huge number of spam comments after it was linked on facebook, 4chan and the like.
I think you mean for licensing reasons, and that only applies to the major labels with whom Microsoft has negotiated deals. There is no law against streaming DRM free music, and in fact there are numerous providers doing just that. In fact, I think it is more likely to be Microsoft that is pushing their DRM to the labels rather than the other way around, in the misguided hope that they can become the exclusive distributors for the major labels by following this path.
The iPhone at launch lacked ALL of those things, Android lacked ONE, one that only corporate IT departments care about. As for Windows Mobile, isn't that dead already, replaced by a new iPhone wannabe that has been pretty thoroughly ridiculed here on Slashdot for including all the flaws and none of the desirable features of the original iPhone?
Maybe it's the fact that hotels are charging upwards of $5 per hour or $10 per day that guides users expectations of the bandwidth they will receive. Cafes less so but for those that charge, user complaints about the service may be justified.