Oracle needs to give up on browser plugins. I realize there are some mission critical business apps and a few cases where it is needed just like IE 6. We need to start pressuring the vendors to stop distributing it like we did with obsolete browsers.
With javascript and HTML 5 and CSS 3 there is no reason to keep such 20th century technology on the modern web. Consumer sites no longer even use it anymore.
With IE 6 and IE 7 gone by 2014 our eyes should focus on Java as the next technology that threatens the security of our networks that needs to bye bye. We need to do our part as IT professionals and inform PHB it is bad security just like IE 6 and demand app vendors to drop it.
Unfortunately it's easier to come up with scapegoats than address real problems.
For example, see how many people will blame Teacher's Unions or the Federal Department of Education rather than question how much emphasis the local school board puts on Football stadiums.
We should blame the teachers and the unions. If you do not meet a metric at work do you keep your job? Nope. How about ask for a raise when you dont?!
We spend more per capita on education and get consistently the worse results. We can't fire bad teachers and they have the nerve to demand raises and paid pensions while the rest of us have to work more for half the money we used to get paid. Fedex delivery drivers used to get paid $20 an hour. Now they get $9. Same with other blue collar jobs.
Bust the teachers union and start firing teachers who can't raise their test scores. I am in favor of educators being an organization who creates tests to make sure teachers are qualified or brings teaching issues to both state and federal politics. But I am not in favor of putting the teacher ahead of the student or tax payer. Washington DC schools I read spends $12k a year per student and is the worse in the country!
Sure they will not do AP right away if they lack basic arithmetic but without the bad apples of the other school the teachers can then teach rather than deal with inner city telling them to fuck off every day.
That was the whole point of waivers for poor students to go to rich kids schools 10 years ago when it was a hot button issue. The teachers may not be better but the environment certainly is and once they realize the other school wont put up with their crap they change.
Poor people can succeed, rich people can fail academically - money alone doesn't "fix" anything in education, it just makes it look nicer.
Speaking as a former educator I can tell you there is a HUGE difference. The number one problem is classroom management. Here is a very typical day in an inner city school?
How would you deal with such a rude and disrespectful student? In a rich school if a lady did that in the middle of class and ruined the day for the other 24 students she would be thrown to the principals office FAST. Well why can't you do that in an inner city school? Because I would throw out 1/4 of the students every single day.
They act like animals and give no respect to authority. Epsecially if you are white. I am not racist at all but just telling you how it is. I have to be a FUCKING ASSHOLE and instill the wrath of God within 5 minutes of class and maybe I can go over some things in an urban school.
Because we do nto want to include poor kids the school districts have quotas on how many students can be sent home each day or be disciplines. So if the quota is 6 kids per day out of 500 students in both the rich kids school and the poor kids school you are screwed!
Teaching is a great profession if the kids want to learn but you couldn't pay me enough to deal with inner city children. Even the 1st and 2nd graders act like crazy savanges and have no issue punching another student or teacher in the face. They are used to violence and watch TV all the time because the parents are drug dealers or single mothers who work 2 minimum wage jobs and are never home just to break even at the end of each month.
There are other issues too like parental involvement but I am not Superman and can't substitute teach effectively when I have 1 or 2 bad kids stealing away classtime. Yes, the poor kids then do worse on tests because the teachers just have to do classroom management instead of teach and of course no help from the parents suck too.
There are two arguments. One is unionize and be idealistic and tell your employer to shove it! The other is realistic is the right now where your bank or landlord doesnt give a shit and you are there to meet demand. No more. No less. Demand on weekends yes people have systems that need tended care whether you want to watch football or not? Hence, why they pay you.
No one working as hard as unions ever got ahead in life. You get ahead working your ass off serving customers better than anyone else. You get promoted or your startup makes you a millionaire. That is capitalism and realistically if you force companies to do this they will hire less to cut costs and overwork or move to India where they do not have to put up with that nonsence. Unionizing in a global economy is not doable. Being responsible and realizing you cant pull market power anymore like you once did is something you need to do before you end up working 2 jobs at walmart and McDs due to your resume hole.
My foelist or not it is exactly what caused the 2001 crash. No most did not work at. coms then. Most simply were Y2K work. When done they were laid off and CIOs who just blew millions had no reason to upgrade now. XP and IE 6 and Office 2k and Java 1.3 and 1.4 and office 2k3 were locked for 10 years. In 2019 the situation will repeat as Win 7 goes eol.
How about feeding your kids and supporting your family? Do you care more about your ego than putting in ocassional extra help as required? I hope he does not have a family. If the grandparent has been out of work for 6 months (common today) and he knowingly turned it down because he would have to work one saturday sometime I bet any wife with common sense would leave him.
My exgf is a chief who works 80 hours a week. Ask any business owner how many hours he or she works? ALOT! I have worked 2 jobs including a taco bell at night while I worked a job not in my field during the day with 4 hours sleep during the great recession.I have a college degree too and made deans list 3 times.Why? My step kids were eating mac and cheese and I loved them enough to suck it up until better times. It irritates the heck out of me when I read such things as a result of what I and othets been through.
Your employer owes you jack shit. They own the job and requirements. It is not 1999 anymore and if requiring you to pitch in every othermonth and keeping current on your skillset where you do not live in poverty sounds pretty darn reasonable to me. Many who work 70 hours a week make less than 30k a year! Be greateful you have a job?
It is called EPIC. That is the big one most hospitals are switching too they can do it all. The technology exists and in this case it makes an ROI to cut on costs and labor.
I support several small medical practices. They don't (or say they don't) have enough money to upgrade their systems. Like any small business, potential savings in the future don't always translate to extra income now. New systems are expensive and often included monthly fees from the software providers. In addition, if their analog, handwritten system has been working for decades, there's not a lot of incentive to switch.
According TFA "United States continues to waste hundreds of billions of dollars a year". Again it is the corporate excuse of looking good on an asset Excel spreadsheet so the beancounter can get his bonus while being penny wise, but dollar foolish.
There is a cost and NO it is NOT A cost center in this scenario as it saves money. No such term as a savings center.
In the good old days IT were the guys to save money and streamline business processes. Now it is the foul cost that needs to be contained and distracting of the real value of pinching pennies. It sounds like hospitals have inadaquite MBAs in addition to inadaquite IT departments as they refuse to see the big pictures.
Every hospital I have ever been too still uses IE 6 as well but at least there is a solid reason if they have $300,000 MRI scanners that people want to browse facebook with a more modern browser.
Intel is pushing it because consumers wont touch Windows 8 without it. I feel many are frankly not touching it all but demanding it for at least tollerance. After Vista, many including Dell sold XP units.
Why wont they do this in retail today? I bet if they sold just one model number with Windows 7 it WOULD SELL LIKE HOTCAKES. MS is probably threatening them is my only explanation and it is stupid. If I were bestbuy or Dell/HP/Asus/Samsung/Lenovo I would demand one unit to see if that one sells more.
If that is the case then switch the rest over to Windows 7. MS might be pissed but who gives a fuck? You are there to make money. Not please your suppliers.
If there is a Microcenter near your town you can build your own for cheap. My exgf was poor and needed a new computer several years ago. I had an older 4 year old system lying around so I took the board and video card out and went to Microcenter and built blue led neon lamps and a wicked looking case for $140 and a PSU.
Little did she know she was running on an older 4 year old system but all she did was type papers and IM friends. You do not need a monster computer anymore unless you run Gentoo:-)
It is a violation of fiduciary duty by the CEO. Can the shareholders sue?
The CEO gets a payout becuase the stock price caused up through the roof as assets go up on the ballance sheet. The CEO pockets a big bonus and a bigger golden parachute and the company then goes bankrupt leaving the shareholders high and dry while the private equity firm sells it for pennys on the dollar with no debt as it is freed by bankruptacy.
Funny, how we are called deadbeats if we did the same thing and can only file a chapter 13 and not a chapter 11 with our own personal bankrupatcies where we MUST PAY BACK.
I just fail how to see how this works as computer programs are the ones that jerk the price up. I think debt should never be an asset but a liability. Do the accountants know something I do not? Logically, if you borrow $1,000 then an equal liability for $1000 should be there as well?
Dell is still making money. Just not growing. I know I know the shareholders cry liquidate if they do not see results by eveyr single quarter with growth regardless of solid fundalmentals and cash onhand.
It is rumored IKahn is trying a hostile takeover with HP and with both HP and Dell gone it means big trouble for corporate buyers. Perhaps the unthinkable SamSung and Asus be corporate products?
Or will it damage the Windows and PC brand more? We keep hearing how PCs are dead and how we are all dying to do real content creation on single tasking oriented GUIs on tiny tablets (sarcasm intended).
Could there be some truth? As in the PC will remain as the mainframe for some special apps no one cares about locked in a server room somewhere? I wish Dell or HP to stay as this will cause chaos in the corporate market. Perhaps that is what is needed or not? What do you all think?
Webpages automatically run them. I heard Mozilla has a fix where you need to click on them but I wouldn't know as I have it disabled as a plugin. I have not seen any non office page have them in almost 10 years. Not worth the risk.
Java on the web failed misserably and SUN let it rot after dabbling in it in the 1990s. If Java FX came out 13 years ago where it could look all pretty and utilize native fonts and graphics and not spend a full minute compiling itself perhaps it could have beaten flash. But anyway it will live on in servers.
That is an outdated security fallacy before ads had flash and java in them. Ad networks get targetted A TON so even a legit website can be targetted. I have been reading about this on tech forums and someone got hit for checking a popular home rennovation website.
A java webstart mini icon popped up and before he could even stop webstart a fake AV popped up demanding money. Slashdot got hit last year too with a malware ad. If you had Firefox 3l.6 without AV on Windows you were 0wned.
Java needs to be downgraded to Java 6 and then disabled in the plugins to remain safe. I say downgrade, because Oracle's java 7 will renable the plugins again after each update. Java 6 doesn't do this and is more compatible with older software.
I am sticking with Java 6. It is stable and industry supported. I feel like one of these morons saying why he is still going to stay on IE 6. But it does not have this exploit and I know if I disable plugins it will not re-enable them by default. Much software is not compatible with Java 7 and we all know it has lower security setitngs by default.
Javascript is sandboxed in most browsers and in Firefox most of it is neutered in terms of access to local resources.
Java is untrusted and just runs without a user doing anything! That is the difference. Flash is now trusted and signed and Chrome auto updates it as does Windows Update now if you use IE 9. Mozilla it turns click to play now to prevent exploits.
I don't see think Java the platform is a security nightmare, but if someone doesn't need then don't install it, reduce your chances of being attacked with software you don use.
Every Chrome/Firefox release has security vulnerabilities fixes, sometimes bugs as critical as this one, and I don't see people screaming "Remove Chrome, Disable Firefox...". All software has bugs, the problem with Java is the slow response of Oracle (and Sun at that time) fixing things, the update cycles are too long and only when a critical bug very loud on the media is found you see them pushing a fix.
It is a security nightmare. You can put to geek stats and engineering and I will point to examples. At the end of the day what matters is how many exploits keep getting hit by it compared to other products. The only thing that comes close are IE 6 and flash. Even PDFs have exploits but not as many as java nor the frequency.
Other browsers and technologies like silverlight have good engineering principles and less vulnerabilities.... actually Firefox does have some as well compared to Chrome but htey update. Anyone uninstalling java yet uses Firefox 3.6 out of choice with +40 exploits is a fool. Chrome and IE 9 are sandboxed and so is silverlight. Java is sandboxed sort of, but it has RMI which sole purpose is to include untrusted unsigned c code. Corporations love it as it means +COM ojbect access for excel, but it also means a cracker can put whatever he wants in it. As Sun/Oracle try to sandbox and limit RMI it then breaks apps and teh corps end up whininng and locking down insecure old versions of it so their shitware apps work as they do with sticking with IE 6 as well.
Java still has its uses but not as a browser plugin. Java 7 is truly aweful and I sitll use Java 6 on my computer with plugins disabled on my browsers. It also doesn't turn itself back on inside the browser either. Java 7 turned security off and it re-enables itselfs in the browser according to ther slashdotters.
I highly advise anyone reading this to downgrade to Java 6 if they need it and then disable it in their browsers until all their apps no longer require it.
Java came about because you could bundle instant messenger apps on sites, upload files, interface with other programs, etc. Today I can do this with javascript. HTML 5 and ajax lets me do even more as you can see in Google Talk in gmail.
Oddly the one killer feature of using security exploits to manipulate excel COM objects is why Java is used in the office for lines of credit apps for HR, finance, and the big banks with their corporate customers. java 1.4.2 is standard as the latest ones stop these holes which the finance guys need. Other than that it is dying.
With OpenXML and even Microsofts proprietary version makes parsing it through the server easier than before where binary objects were embedded in excel 2003 files so that last option is no off the table without a +COM hack.
I used to be a HUGE fan of java a decade ago and hoped it would come back as it rocks as a development platform with an api for everything under the sun with frameworks to scale to big enterprise apps. But that day is done and.NET offers more and is easier and doesn't ahve these security issues.
It has not changed in the movies either set 3600 years later either. Remember Annakin Skywalker had to turn to Darth Vadar or quit the Jedi order. We all know what path he choose.
In the books Luke changes this rule so a repeat will not occur in the new Jedi order, but Disney tells us they wont follow cannon and will do its own thing so wh the hell knows what the new jedi order will bring if it follows the same rules or not.
What I have noticed in the game is the ancient jedi are more open to recuiting older members. Perhaps, because so many were killed with the war of the sith or they were afraid if they did not snatch them up, perhaps they would be turned to sith if the empire found them and captured them and forced them into sith.?
Still it is a darkside option for any romance as jedi. As a result I created empirical characters. They can do whatever they want and not deny their human nature. Oddly, I quickly found out they are not free in the empire either and are simply pawns to evil sith lords who are trying to undermind them constantly. So guess you are screwed either way if you are force sensitive.:-)
Just because a straight relationship is in there does not mean that has to be changed.
There is already hidden gay content in KOTOR. Click here at 2:25, then tell me a regular woman would describe just a friend that way? "... she was a dear companion for many years. We would spend nights alone and gaze at the stars..." if that does not spell out lesbian RT I do not know what else does?
EA has been quietly repairing the issues at launch. Remember it is a new game unlike WOW.
EA did 2 merges and the remaining servers are now heavily populated. They cut them down by HUGe numbers and auto merged your old characters in new realms. In addition, SWTOR now has a flashpoint finder and social points for social gear if you play in groups. A MUCH NEEDED feature that I wish was there at lunch.
Try again. You can play for free to try it out. It is a much better game and I wish people would stop bashing it. In many ways it came with features not available in other MMOs. The companions and a pvp where you score points by tanking and healing are indeed unique even if it was not tuned at first. I tried GW2. I did not like it and it felt like WOW with more primptive options but prettier artsy graphics. But that is just my taste.
It is only a failure because EA is giving up on it too soon. Yes at launch it had issues compared to WOW. It is not fair it was not as mature as WOW as it is 7 years old. IT has improved with a flashpoint finder, more dailies, more balanced PVP etc. SWTOR has things brand new in MMOs too which I like.
I disagree it is new content. What about the dialogue with your companions that is already done? Just voice edit it and enable gay mode in the menus in the game? Most straight players do not want to see the flirt options with other same sex characters anyway and it should disabled by default.
Then have the same sex content available with more than companion scenes in the new planet if the user selects it on. Putting it back in is free or very little cost with the companions. Just edit the sounds of the existing straight conversions with the new voice replying back.
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Oracle needs to give up on browser plugins. I realize there are some mission critical business apps and a few cases where it is needed just like IE 6. We need to start pressuring the vendors to stop distributing it like we did with obsolete browsers.
With javascript and HTML 5 and CSS 3 there is no reason to keep such 20th century technology on the modern web. Consumer sites no longer even use it anymore.
With IE 6 and IE 7 gone by 2014 our eyes should focus on Java as the next technology that threatens the security of our networks that needs to bye bye. We need to do our part as IT professionals and inform PHB it is bad security just like IE 6 and demand app vendors to drop it.
Unfortunately it's easier to come up with scapegoats than address real problems.
For example, see how many people will blame Teacher's Unions or the Federal Department of Education rather than question how much emphasis the local school board puts on Football stadiums.
We should blame the teachers and the unions. If you do not meet a metric at work do you keep your job? Nope. How about ask for a raise when you dont?!
We spend more per capita on education and get consistently the worse results. We can't fire bad teachers and they have the nerve to demand raises and paid pensions while the rest of us have to work more for half the money we used to get paid. Fedex delivery drivers used to get paid $20 an hour. Now they get $9. Same with other blue collar jobs.
Bust the teachers union and start firing teachers who can't raise their test scores. I am in favor of educators being an organization who creates tests to make sure teachers are qualified or brings teaching issues to both state and federal politics. But I am not in favor of putting the teacher ahead of the student or tax payer. Washington DC schools I read spends $12k a year per student and is the worse in the country!
Yes they do and statistics back that up.
Sure they will not do AP right away if they lack basic arithmetic but without the bad apples of the other school the teachers can then teach rather than deal with inner city telling them to fuck off every day.
That was the whole point of waivers for poor students to go to rich kids schools 10 years ago when it was a hot button issue. The teachers may not be better but the environment certainly is and once they realize the other school wont put up with their crap they change.
Poor people can succeed, rich people can fail academically - money alone doesn't "fix" anything in education, it just makes it look nicer.
Speaking as a former educator I can tell you there is a HUGE difference. The number one problem is classroom management. Here is a very typical day in an inner city school?
How would you deal with such a rude and disrespectful student? In a rich school if a lady did that in the middle of class and ruined the day for the other 24 students she would be thrown to the principals office FAST. Well why can't you do that in an inner city school? Because I would throw out 1/4 of the students every single day.
They act like animals and give no respect to authority. Epsecially if you are white. I am not racist at all but just telling you how it is. I have to be a FUCKING ASSHOLE and instill the wrath of God within 5 minutes of class and maybe I can go over some things in an urban school.
Because we do nto want to include poor kids the school districts have quotas on how many students can be sent home each day or be disciplines. So if the quota is 6 kids per day out of 500 students in both the rich kids school and the poor kids school you are screwed!
Teaching is a great profession if the kids want to learn but you couldn't pay me enough to deal with inner city children. Even the 1st and 2nd graders act like crazy savanges and have no issue punching another student or teacher in the face. They are used to violence and watch TV all the time because the parents are drug dealers or single mothers who work 2 minimum wage jobs and are never home just to break even at the end of each month.
There are other issues too like parental involvement but I am not Superman and can't substitute teach effectively when I have 1 or 2 bad kids stealing away classtime. Yes, the poor kids then do worse on tests because the teachers just have to do classroom management instead of teach and of course no help from the parents suck too.
There are two arguments. One is unionize and be idealistic and tell your employer to shove it! The other is realistic is the right now where your bank or landlord doesnt give a shit and you are there to meet demand. No more. No less. Demand on weekends yes people have systems that need tended care whether you want to watch football or not? Hence, why they pay you.
No one working as hard as unions ever got ahead in life. You get ahead working your ass off serving customers better than anyone else. You get promoted or your startup makes you a millionaire. That is capitalism and realistically if you force companies to do this they will hire less to cut costs and overwork or move to India where they do not have to put up with that nonsence. Unionizing in a global economy is not doable. Being responsible and realizing you cant pull market power anymore like you once did is something you need to do before you end up working 2 jobs at walmart and McDs due to your resume hole.
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My foelist or not it is exactly what caused the 2001 crash. No most did not work at. coms then. Most simply were Y2K work. When done they were laid off and CIOs who just blew millions had no reason to upgrade now. XP and IE 6 and Office 2k and Java 1.3 and 1.4 and office 2k3 were locked for 10 years. In 2019 the situation will repeat as Win 7 goes eol.
How about feeding your kids and supporting your family? Do you care more about your ego than putting in ocassional extra help as required? I hope he does not have a family. If the grandparent has been out of work for 6 months (common today) and he knowingly turned it down because he would have to work one saturday sometime I bet any wife with common sense would leave him.
My exgf is a chief who works 80 hours a week. Ask any business owner how many hours he or she works? ALOT! I have worked 2 jobs including a taco bell at night while I worked a job not in my field during the day with 4 hours sleep during the great recession.I have a college degree too and made deans list 3 times.Why? My step kids were eating mac and cheese and I loved them enough to suck it up until better times. It irritates the heck out of me when I read such things as a result of what I and othets been through.
Your employer owes you jack shit. They own the job and requirements. It is not 1999 anymore and if requiring you to pitch in every othermonth and keeping current on your skillset where you do not live in poverty sounds pretty darn reasonable to me. Many who work 70 hours a week make less than 30k a year! Be greateful you have a job?
It is called EPIC. That is the big one most hospitals are switching too they can do it all. The technology exists and in this case it makes an ROI to cut on costs and labor.
I support several small medical practices. They don't (or say they don't) have enough money to upgrade their systems. Like any small business, potential savings in the future don't always translate to extra income now. New systems are expensive and often included monthly fees from the software providers. In addition, if their analog, handwritten system has been working for decades, there's not a lot of incentive to switch.
According TFA "United States continues to waste hundreds of billions of dollars a year". Again it is the corporate excuse of looking good on an asset Excel spreadsheet so the beancounter can get his bonus while being penny wise, but dollar foolish.
There is a cost and NO it is NOT A cost center in this scenario as it saves money. No such term as a savings center.
In the good old days IT were the guys to save money and streamline business processes. Now it is the foul cost that needs to be contained and distracting of the real value of pinching pennies. It sounds like hospitals have inadaquite MBAs in addition to inadaquite IT departments as they refuse to see the big pictures.
Every hospital I have ever been too still uses IE 6 as well but at least there is a solid reason if they have $300,000 MRI scanners that people want to browse facebook with a more modern browser.
Intel is pushing it because consumers wont touch Windows 8 without it. I feel many are frankly not touching it all but demanding it for at least tollerance. After Vista, many including Dell sold XP units.
Why wont they do this in retail today? I bet if they sold just one model number with Windows 7 it WOULD SELL LIKE HOTCAKES. MS is probably threatening them is my only explanation and it is stupid. If I were bestbuy or Dell/HP/Asus/Samsung/Lenovo I would demand one unit to see if that one sells more.
If that is the case then switch the rest over to Windows 7. MS might be pissed but who gives a fuck? You are there to make money. Not please your suppliers.
If there is a Microcenter near your town you can build your own for cheap. My exgf was poor and needed a new computer several years ago. I had an older 4 year old system lying around so I took the board and video card out and went to Microcenter and built blue led neon lamps and a wicked looking case for $140 and a PSU.
Little did she know she was running on an older 4 year old system but all she did was type papers and IM friends. You do not need a monster computer anymore unless you run Gentoo :-)
It is a violation of fiduciary duty by the CEO. Can the shareholders sue?
The CEO gets a payout becuase the stock price caused up through the roof as assets go up on the ballance sheet. The CEO pockets a big bonus and a bigger golden parachute and the company then goes bankrupt leaving the shareholders high and dry while the private equity firm sells it for pennys on the dollar with no debt as it is freed by bankruptacy.
Funny, how we are called deadbeats if we did the same thing and can only file a chapter 13 and not a chapter 11 with our own personal bankrupatcies where we MUST PAY BACK.
I just fail how to see how this works as computer programs are the ones that jerk the price up. I think debt should never be an asset but a liability. Do the accountants know something I do not? Logically, if you borrow $1,000 then an equal liability for $1000 should be there as well?
Why couldn't it be HP?
Dell is still making money. Just not growing. I know I know the shareholders cry liquidate if they do not see results by eveyr single quarter with growth regardless of solid fundalmentals and cash onhand.
It is rumored IKahn is trying a hostile takeover with HP and with both HP and Dell gone it means big trouble for corporate buyers. Perhaps the unthinkable SamSung and Asus be corporate products?
Or will it damage the Windows and PC brand more? We keep hearing how PCs are dead and how we are all dying to do real content creation on single tasking oriented GUIs on tiny tablets (sarcasm intended).
Could there be some truth? As in the PC will remain as the mainframe for some special apps no one cares about locked in a server room somewhere? I wish Dell or HP to stay as this will cause chaos in the corporate market. Perhaps that is what is needed or not? What do you all think?
Webpages automatically run them. I heard Mozilla has a fix where you need to click on them but I wouldn't know as I have it disabled as a plugin. I have not seen any non office page have them in almost 10 years. Not worth the risk.
Java on the web failed misserably and SUN let it rot after dabbling in it in the 1990s. If Java FX came out 13 years ago where it could look all pretty and utilize native fonts and graphics and not spend a full minute compiling itself perhaps it could have beaten flash. But anyway it will live on in servers.
That is an outdated security fallacy before ads had flash and java in them. Ad networks get targetted A TON so even a legit website can be targetted. I have been reading about this on tech forums and someone got hit for checking a popular home rennovation website.
A java webstart mini icon popped up and before he could even stop webstart a fake AV popped up demanding money. Slashdot got hit last year too with a malware ad. If you had Firefox 3l.6 without AV on Windows you were 0wned.
Java needs to be downgraded to Java 6 and then disabled in the plugins to remain safe. I say downgrade, because Oracle's java 7 will renable the plugins again after each update. Java 6 doesn't do this and is more compatible with older software.
I am sticking with Java 6. It is stable and industry supported. I feel like one of these morons saying why he is still going to stay on IE 6. But it does not have this exploit and I know if I disable plugins it will not re-enable them by default. Much software is not compatible with Java 7 and we all know it has lower security setitngs by default.
Javascript is sandboxed in most browsers and in Firefox most of it is neutered in terms of access to local resources.
Java is untrusted and just runs without a user doing anything! That is the difference. Flash is now trusted and signed and Chrome auto updates it as does Windows Update now if you use IE 9. Mozilla it turns click to play now to prevent exploits.
I don't see think Java the platform is a security nightmare, but if someone doesn't need then don't install it, reduce your chances of being attacked with software you don use.
Every Chrome/Firefox release has security vulnerabilities fixes, sometimes bugs as critical as this one, and I don't see people screaming "Remove Chrome, Disable Firefox...". All software has bugs, the problem with Java is the slow response of Oracle (and Sun at that time) fixing things, the update cycles are too long and only when a critical bug very loud on the media is found you see them pushing a fix.
It is a security nightmare. You can put to geek stats and engineering and I will point to examples. At the end of the day what matters is how many exploits keep getting hit by it compared to other products. The only thing that comes close are IE 6 and flash. Even PDFs have exploits but not as many as java nor the frequency.
Other browsers and technologies like silverlight have good engineering principles and less vulnerabilities. ... actually Firefox does have some as well compared to Chrome but htey update. Anyone uninstalling java yet uses Firefox 3.6 out of choice with +40 exploits is a fool. Chrome and IE 9 are sandboxed and so is silverlight. Java is sandboxed sort of, but it has RMI which sole purpose is to include untrusted unsigned c code. Corporations love it as it means +COM ojbect access for excel, but it also means a cracker can put whatever he wants in it. As Sun/Oracle try to sandbox and limit RMI it then breaks apps and teh corps end up whininng and locking down insecure old versions of it so their shitware apps work as they do with sticking with IE 6 as well.
Java still has its uses but not as a browser plugin. Java 7 is truly aweful and I sitll use Java 6 on my computer with plugins disabled on my browsers. It also doesn't turn itself back on inside the browser either. Java 7 turned security off and it re-enables itselfs in the browser according to ther slashdotters.
I highly advise anyone reading this to downgrade to Java 6 if they need it and then disable it in their browsers until all their apps no longer require it.
Downgrade to Java 6.
That is what I use and it keeps it disabled in the browser. Oracle put that back in as they hoped would spurn a revivl in java applets.
Java came about because you could bundle instant messenger apps on sites, upload files, interface with other programs, etc. Today I can do this with javascript. HTML 5 and ajax lets me do even more as you can see in Google Talk in gmail.
Oddly the one killer feature of using security exploits to manipulate excel COM objects is why Java is used in the office for lines of credit apps for HR, finance, and the big banks with their corporate customers. java 1.4.2 is standard as the latest ones stop these holes which the finance guys need. Other than that it is dying.
With OpenXML and even Microsofts proprietary version makes parsing it through the server easier than before where binary objects were embedded in excel 2003 files so that last option is no off the table without a +COM hack.
I used to be a HUGE fan of java a decade ago and hoped it would come back as it rocks as a development platform with an api for everything under the sun with frameworks to scale to big enterprise apps. But that day is done and .NET offers more and is easier and doesn't ahve these security issues.
It has not changed in the movies either set 3600 years later either. Remember Annakin Skywalker had to turn to Darth Vadar or quit the Jedi order. We all know what path he choose.
In the books Luke changes this rule so a repeat will not occur in the new Jedi order, but Disney tells us they wont follow cannon and will do its own thing so wh the hell knows what the new jedi order will bring if it follows the same rules or not.
What I have noticed in the game is the ancient jedi are more open to recuiting older members. Perhaps, because so many were killed with the war of the sith or they were afraid if they did not snatch them up, perhaps they would be turned to sith if the empire found them and captured them and forced them into sith.?
Still it is a darkside option for any romance as jedi. As a result I created empirical characters. They can do whatever they want and not deny their human nature. Oddly, I quickly found out they are not free in the empire either and are simply pawns to evil sith lords who are trying to undermind them constantly. So guess you are screwed either way if you are force sensitive. :-)
Just because a straight relationship is in there does not mean that has to be changed.
There is already hidden gay content in KOTOR. Click here at 2:25, then tell me a regular woman would describe just a friend that way? "... she was a dear companion for many years. We would spend nights alone and gaze at the stars ..." if that does not spell out lesbian RT I do not know what else does?
EA has been quietly repairing the issues at launch. Remember it is a new game unlike WOW.
EA did 2 merges and the remaining servers are now heavily populated. They cut them down by HUGe numbers and auto merged your old characters in new realms. In addition, SWTOR now has a flashpoint finder and social points for social gear if you play in groups. A MUCH NEEDED feature that I wish was there at lunch.
Try again. You can play for free to try it out. It is a much better game and I wish people would stop bashing it. In many ways it came with features not available in other MMOs. The companions and a pvp where you score points by tanking and healing are indeed unique even if it was not tuned at first. I tried GW2. I did not like it and it felt like WOW with more primptive options but prettier artsy graphics. But that is just my taste.
I love SWTOR.
It is only a failure because EA is giving up on it too soon. Yes at launch it had issues compared to WOW. It is not fair it was not as mature as WOW as it is 7 years old. IT has improved with a flashpoint finder, more dailies, more balanced PVP etc. SWTOR has things brand new in MMOs too which I like.
I disagree it is new content. What about the dialogue with your companions that is already done? Just voice edit it and enable gay mode in the menus in the game? Most straight players do not want to see the flirt options with other same sex characters anyway and it should disabled by default.
Then have the same sex content available with more than companion scenes in the new planet if the user selects it on. Putting it back in is free or very little cost with the companions. Just edit the sounds of the existing straight conversions with the new voice replying back.
Put the option in the menus. By default it is off. Turn it on and options appear.
Sounds like a solution rather than spending money with same sex content and acting.