how in the living hell were that setting changed though? Did you suffer from a registry crash, messing up the values? No software released by Microsoft do this, I'm pretty sure.
Wake me up when they open source the main.NET framework. They put this out there because no one is using it.
It's basically already with souce code available through the.NET Reflector, down to variable and method names. The license is in your way though, of course.
... anyone using Facebook, that is. It's a pit of shady applications. Not even the nice applications are not annoying in some aspect. You can't even take a quiz there without having it try force itself onto others. Sometimes trying to fool you into thinking that the only way to see the results is to publish it to your friends.
There was a time when we couldn't dream of malicious quizzes, and infesting horoscopes, but Facebook brings the necessary application intelligence to us. In a bad way. Their application API must be like a spammer's wet dream.
It seems like it would take a big budget, yet be otherwise feasible for them to record _everything_ and dump it off.
Exactly my point. They'd have to sift through tons of information to find their needle in that haystack, since there's no way to deal with this kind of data in any form of structured and efficient way.
If you were REALLY bothering them, they could then use that data to backdoor your box and read your DRIVE encryption. I'm sure they could probably have you on the list in under an hour.
Lay off the CSI.;-) You're talking of the same government who've failed far easier cases than these. Can you name one documented case where this happened (decryption of drives within hours) despite the common use among criminals?
Isn't there a problem besides the privacy concern here. That they're getting too much noise from creating a too indiscriminate collection of information, thereby shooting the signal-to-noise ratio through the roof? I understand if it looks good on paper from a security perspective, but what about a practical standpoint? To me, this feels more and more like something that is bad both from a privacy perspective and in practice.
Besides, their analyzed tubes will sure get noisy as wireless connections keep getting more common in society, along with their encrypted connections.
And which terrorist, pedophile or what-have-you with a brain using the Internet to communicate do so over unencrypted social networks?
Instead of being a small, simple browser that just did one thing well; Firefox has become way too bloated and indeed the plans for the future seem to impart it with a ribbon-like interface and more nonsensical things. Doesn't sound too good for a nice well-loved product.
The original goal was to make a browser that was just a browser, not a suite of browsing, mail, newsgroups...
Firefox is still that. This is why the Thunderbird project was started, and is still going, for that matter.
It was intented to be a project that did a browser, and did a browser well. It wasn't about making minimalist barebones features everywhere. There are other browsers for even leaner feature sets.
And no; "just turn it off" studiously avoids the OP's complaint - which was that things like this shouldn't have needed to be added in the first place.
... and the possibly upcoming law now, making it illegal to WATCH child porn. No, not consume it or otherwise support pedophile circles, merely watch it.
It's exactly these things that make me against that law. Sure, you'll probably easily explain it if it really did happen to you, but what if the search warrant was about something else? "Oh, look, he had child porn on his computer too, besides all this movie piracy." Where both can be a result of low computer security and a hijacked WiFi connection, neither of which being illegal to have. It's so sad when we sidestep common sense with laws like this.
So Bush initiates Project Constellation, and at a time when it's barely started, after lots of time and resources have been plown into structuring the project, it's on the verge of being shut down?
Well, if it's shut down, at least we saw some cool flames at the back of a rocket!111 Durr...
What's new? This is always the recommendation. It has never not been the recommendation to jump on a Windows product as soon as it's been released by a support firm. Is it just posted here to give Slashdot readers a space to vent their Windows 7 thoughts on?
SeaMonkey Composer is the best way to make WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, HTML files.
From what I read, no one even merged the Nvu code improvements back into the Composer source tree, much less the improvements to Nvu that now form KompoZer. Besides, there are other up-to-date and free WYSIWYG editors for HTML. Do SeaMonkey Composer for example even support modern HTML standards and cross-browser validation?
Hey, I can't have sex with you, you're obviously a different species! Probably they thought to themselves, Two arms, two legs, looks about right, the bits are in the right places, why not?
Actually, given human psychology, I wouldn't be surprised if neanderthals were kept as sex slaves. H. Sapiens were after all more intelligent.
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how in the living hell were that setting changed though? Did you suffer from a registry crash, messing up the values? No software released by Microsoft do this, I'm pretty sure.
^-- The above is of course not true.
Sorry, but I won't run a HTTP server where the author think running native code extensions with no security checks is good.
Wake me up when they open source the main .NET framework. They put this out there because no one is using it.
It's basically already with souce code available through the .NET Reflector, down to variable and method names. The license is in your way though, of course.
Especially with some guys behind this, also behind Plan 9.
Fired? Isn't that exaggerating things a little? ;)
Be sure to let us know when the client gets hacked and the streaming movies can be saved to your HD.
It's easier and faster by going to The Pirate Bay. That also doesn't require registration.
It's not phishing, you're added to the queue. But it's a pretty long queue.
... anyone using Facebook, that is. It's a pit of shady applications. Not even the nice applications are not annoying in some aspect. You can't even take a quiz there without having it try force itself onto others. Sometimes trying to fool you into thinking that the only way to see the results is to publish it to your friends.
There was a time when we couldn't dream of malicious quizzes, and infesting horoscopes, but Facebook brings the necessary application intelligence to us. In a bad way. Their application API must be like a spammer's wet dream.
Read the first claim. It's far more specific than what sudo does. Sudo is just about elevating rights via a command, this is much more specific.
It seems like it would take a big budget, yet be otherwise feasible for them to record _everything_ and dump it off.
Exactly my point. They'd have to sift through tons of information to find their needle in that haystack, since there's no way to deal with this kind of data in any form of structured and efficient way.
If you were REALLY bothering them, they could then use that data to backdoor your box and read your DRIVE encryption. I'm sure they could probably have you on the list in under an hour.
Lay off the CSI. ;-) You're talking of the same government who've failed far easier cases than these. Can you name one documented case where this happened (decryption of drives within hours) despite the common use among criminals?
Isn't there a problem besides the privacy concern here. That they're getting too much noise from creating a too indiscriminate collection of information, thereby shooting the signal-to-noise ratio through the roof? I understand if it looks good on paper from a security perspective, but what about a practical standpoint? To me, this feels more and more like something that is bad both from a privacy perspective and in practice.
Besides, their analyzed tubes will sure get noisy as wireless connections keep getting more common in society, along with their encrypted connections.
And which terrorist, pedophile or what-have-you with a brain using the Internet to communicate do so over unencrypted social networks?
I simply screenshot it and uploaded it to an image host. *shrug* The cat is already out of the bag now, and MS will have to fix this.
Instead of being a small, simple browser that just did one thing well; Firefox has become way too bloated and indeed the plans for the future seem to impart it with a ribbon-like interface and more nonsensical things. Doesn't sound too good for a nice well-loved product.
The original goal was to make a browser that was just a browser, not a suite of browsing, mail, newsgroups...
Firefox is still that. This is why the Thunderbird project was started, and is still going, for that matter.
It was intented to be a project that did a browser, and did a browser well. It wasn't about making minimalist barebones features everywhere. There are other browsers for even leaner feature sets.
And no; "just turn it off" studiously avoids the OP's complaint - which was that things like this shouldn't have needed to be added in the first place.
But some people like to search in page content.
It's a trap! ;)
Honestly, I remember that one and thought it was nice of them. :)
They also did it again for Firefox 3.
http://www.openbuddha.com/2008/06/17/ie-sends-mozilla-a-new-cake-for-firefox-3/
... and the possibly upcoming law now, making it illegal to WATCH child porn. No, not consume it or otherwise support pedophile circles, merely watch it.
It's exactly these things that make me against that law. Sure, you'll probably easily explain it if it really did happen to you, but what if the search warrant was about something else? "Oh, look, he had child porn on his computer too, besides all this movie piracy." Where both can be a result of low computer security and a hijacked WiFi connection, neither of which being illegal to have. It's so sad when we sidestep common sense with laws like this.
It's .NET code. It's already "Open Source" by virtue of tools like Reflector [red-gate.com] existing.
Are you Chinese? :o
So Bush initiates Project Constellation, and at a time when it's barely started, after lots of time and resources have been plown into structuring the project, it's on the verge of being shut down?
Well, if it's shut down, at least we saw some cool flames at the back of a rocket!111 Durr...
And bookmark sync is coming to Firefox at some time around spring 2010 with Firefox 3.7. :)
Yes, some time until that date, but I wouldn't be surprised if Google Chrome 4 is released in final form around that date too.
I bet google would love to see your bookmarks, I bet advertisers would pay dearly for that sort of info.
I bet I don't care if advertisers know I like Slashdot.
Also, on this topic...
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090611/uac-in-windows-7-still-broken-microsoft-wont-fix-code-injection-vulnerability/
You can elevate arbitrary code in Windows 7 to admin privileges with the Windows 7 default settings, no UAC questions asked, and MS won't fix that.
What's new? This is always the recommendation. It has never not been the recommendation to jump on a Windows product as soon as it's been released by a support firm. Is it just posted here to give Slashdot readers a space to vent their Windows 7 thoughts on?
SeaMonkey Composer is the best way to make WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, HTML files.
From what I read, no one even merged the Nvu code improvements back into the Composer source tree, much less the improvements to Nvu that now form KompoZer. Besides, there are other up-to-date and free WYSIWYG editors for HTML. Do SeaMonkey Composer for example even support modern HTML standards and cross-browser validation?
Hey, I can't have sex with you, you're obviously a different species! Probably they thought to themselves, Two arms, two legs, looks about right, the bits are in the right places, why not?
Actually, given human psychology, I wouldn't be surprised if neanderthals were kept as sex slaves. H. Sapiens were after all more intelligent.