How many of these vulnerabilities were due to Firefox itself, and how many due to plugins?
Does it matter? If FF allows the plugins enough control over the browser to present a vulnerability in the browser, then that's a vulnerability in FF that they need to fix.
Saying "oh no, we don't have vulnerabilities ourselves, we just allow vulnerable plugins to run" doesn't speak much to the security of Fire Fox.
In other words, the cop-out doesn't fly. If FireFox is vulnerable to something another browser is not, i
t has one more vulnerability than that browser, period.
Big Jeff, you appear to put a lot of time in on Slashdot. Do you do it for a living?
This comes down to how long it is. A cosmic string isn't the same thing as a string in string theory. A cosmic string is very long macro scale topological feature of the universe while a string theory string is a model for subatomic particles. However you can investigate cosmic strings in string theory leading to the theory of stringy cosmic strings of Vafa et al..
The BBC does not hold all rights over all of its programmes, actors get repeat fees and so on, the BBC is forced to buy a large percentage of its programmes from independent producers who will retain some rights. Often the BBC will only have UK rights. For example the iPlayer makes "Heroes" available. That isn't going to happen without robust DRM. In order to make the relatively free distribution of content acceptable to rights owners they needed either DRM or a complete rethink of their commercial practices. Its new supervisors are not really up for that kind of thing and want an iPlayer type solution quickly. It claims there was no acceptable DRM alternative and will have other (Mac at least) solutions available soon.
Macs are also excluded.
Still the BBC is noticeably less ambitious than it was and Ashley Highfield does not appear to look much further if there is a Microsoft solution available.
How are you not locked in with PFS? You are just locked in to a smaller ecosystem. If I have a Sansa and want to switch to an iPod, how do I move my music? Since there are more iPods sold and development seems to be faster and better with more additional gadgets, how is PFS not in fact more restrictive than iTunes?
What is wrong with iTunes that is not also wrong with PFS? Is it anything more than that I can buy a Toshiba or a Creative product that works with PFS? But sales of all those combined are dwarfed by iPods.
The real mystery here is why iTunes is more expensive than physical CDs when costs are much lower and that is a question for the music industry, not Apple. They just have more control when they sell through supermarkets and music stores.
This suggests that the journalist didn't get the key point of the data and wrote it up very quickly. It doesn't say 3 years of what were lost so there is a units problem since IQ is not generally measured in units of time. With so many scientists reading this I'm surprised that there has not been more questioning on what the actual claim is. That does seems strangely compatible with the what it is possible to ascertain about the claim however.
MS won't get $399/console. For most products it would have to live with about half the selling price or only $200 for a per unit loss of more than $300 a unit.
And to be frank you weren't much use in the first war, took your sweet time turning up in the second and have shown you don't know how to pick your own ones very well.
But the CRT was invented in Europe! As was packet switching! DNS is not TCP/IP in any case. Your argument is like saying that because Bell invented the phone in the US, the US should have control of all telephone numbers. An American might be quite happy with that but a country that had a revolution over opposition to abolition of taxes on tea should understand that other countries might be uncomfortable with such an arrangement. Really it looks a natural for a UN outfit like the ITU.
It is slightly depressing how hand waving the description of the maths problems are, even from a magazine like Science. The desccription of the Poincare conjecture is not much better.
A small quibble: It will be the end of commercial provision of free content that cannot find another advertising model or technology. ads served by the site won't be blocked.
There was a web before there was any commercial content and blogs are mostly not advert powered.
For example when was the last time General Motors was the best at making cars? They have survived thirty years because of the size of their network and their financial strength despite being regularly whupped by Japanese and Europeanoutfits on a technical basis.
Come to think of it when was Microsoft last at the cutting edge if it ever was?
Hundreds of companies have had technical leads of Microsoft and not lived to tell the tale. All you can say is that anyone who beats Microsoft will have some kind of technical lead but the argument doesn't work the other way round.
Please consider moderating the parent positively. After all clearly every penny spent on Christmas presents would do more good if spent on world peace or basic research.
China, Russia and India are coughing up nearly half the cost and it is more accurate. I know sailors are quite excited by it. There are lots more things that will be possible. In any case I believe the GPS satellites are expected to die in the foreseeable future.
It's hardly pork and it will be better. Why the fuss?
I find it bizarre that one group is saying that there is no reason for Europe to want its own GPS system and another saying that obviously the US is preparing anti satellite missiles. Why aren't people more excited by the possibilities given by a more accurate positioning system. This is news for nerds not media for megalomaniacs.
In the good old days britain used the following system for large number naming: 10^(6*2^(n-1))= n=llion so that million = 10^6 billion = 10^12 trillion = 10^24 etc which has the advantage of making it easy to know whether you should say a million billion, a thousand trillion or a quadrillion. It is also far more economical with the use of names.
Official usage now is the much less pretty American usage 10^3(n+1) = n-llion so: million = 10^6 billion = 10^9 trillion = 10^12 and so on.
In the financial world the word milliard still lives on in the abbreivated form "yard" or perhaps "'iard" to refer to a billion. It is quite disappointing when you learn that a trader talking about a yard of yen does not mean a three foot stack of bills.
And also pay the price of more expensive clothes, more expensive computer hardware, more expensive cars, more expensive support from call centres, lower wages for currently well paid jobs etc. etc. Higher unemployment as stores close, people can't afford to buy new stuff and just rewind to the 60s.
Oh, and wave goodbye to the brotherhood of man.
Of course if the programmers had gotten visas, they would be Americans now.
The glorious revolution of 1688 was not exactly a revolution and most of Cromwell's changes didn't last. Neither really serves to undermine the point, America had a far more brutal civil war only 140 years ago.
Religious differences had little to do with Ireland's problems which were more to do with rule from abroad. The split on religious lines is relatively new and specific to Ulster. Many of the chief revoltionaries in Ireland were protestant, Wolfe Tone and Parnell for example.
A robust response from the authors of the original paper is here.
In general a paper like hte one noted here should really be put in some kind of context.
And French and German and Spanish and the colonies were not subject to normal British law under which slavery was not allowed. In any case slavery was abolished by the British in their remaining colonies in 1807, decades before it was abolished in the US. Ever heard of Wilberforce, Sharp and Clarkson or the Quakers? British navy ships were even used to prevent others to stop transatlantic trade. Remember segregation? No? Your parents might.
Oh, and those "British" people seem to have fought a war not to be considered so.
Granneman also said that it is irrelevant. If more people used other systems things would be better too. Replacing one monoculture with another is not a good idea either.
If only a lot but not everybody switches to Linux, BeOS and OS X then things would be much better as ar as point 4 goes for everybody. I know my mail box would be happier without infected Microsoft software.
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Big Jeff, you appear to put a lot of time in on Slashdot. Do you do it for a living?
This comes down to how long it is. A cosmic string isn't the same thing as a string in string theory. A cosmic string is very long macro scale topological feature of the universe while a string theory string is a model for subatomic particles. However you can investigate cosmic strings in string theory leading to the theory of stringy cosmic strings of Vafa et al..
The BBC does not hold all rights over all of its programmes, actors get repeat fees and so on, the BBC is forced to buy a large percentage of its programmes from independent producers who will retain some rights. Often the BBC will only have UK rights. For example the iPlayer makes "Heroes" available. That isn't going to happen without robust DRM. In order to make the relatively free distribution of content acceptable to rights owners they needed either DRM or a complete rethink of their commercial practices. Its new supervisors are not really up for that kind of thing and want an iPlayer type solution quickly. It claims there was no acceptable DRM alternative and will have other (Mac at least) solutions available soon.
Macs are also excluded.
Still the BBC is noticeably less ambitious than it was and Ashley Highfield does not appear to look much further if there is a Microsoft solution available.
How are you not locked in with PFS? You are just locked in to a smaller ecosystem. If I have a Sansa and want to switch to an iPod, how do I move my music? Since there are more iPods sold and development seems to be faster and better with more additional gadgets, how is PFS not in fact more restrictive than iTunes?
What is wrong with iTunes that is not also wrong with PFS? Is it anything more than that I can buy a Toshiba or a Creative product that works with PFS? But sales of all those combined are dwarfed by iPods.
The real mystery here is why iTunes is more expensive than physical CDs when costs are much lower and that is a question for the music industry, not Apple. They just have more control when they sell through supermarkets and music stores.
Would that be the massive drop leaving them up only 40% on last year?
This suggests that the journalist didn't get the key point of the data and wrote it up very quickly. It doesn't say 3 years of what were lost so there is a units problem since IQ is not generally measured in units of time. With so many scientists reading this I'm surprised that there has not been more questioning on what the actual claim is. That does seems strangely compatible with the what it is possible to ascertain about the claim however.
MS won't get $399/console. For most products it would have to live with about half the selling price or only $200 for a per unit loss of more than $300 a unit.
So how much does everyone owe Russia?
And to be frank you weren't much use in the first war, took your sweet time turning up in the second and have shown you don't know how to pick your own ones very well.
But hey, who's counting...
But the CRT was invented in Europe! As was packet switching! DNS is not TCP/IP in any case. Your argument is like saying that because Bell invented the phone in the US, the US should have control of all telephone numbers. An American might be quite happy with that but a country that had a revolution over opposition to abolition of taxes on tea should understand that other countries might be uncomfortable with such an arrangement. Really it looks a natural for a UN outfit like the ITU.
As opposed to the lack of bureacracy that was so evidently successful in managing the Katrina disaster?
Would you want those guys controlling your TLD?
Indeed!
It is slightly depressing how hand waving the description of the maths problems are, even from a magazine like Science. The desccription of the Poincare conjecture is not much better.
A small quibble: It will be the end of commercial provision of free content that cannot find another advertising model or technology. ads served by the site won't be blocked.
There was a web before there was any commercial content and blogs are mostly not advert powered.
There will also be tools for
Quite.
For example when was the last time General Motors was the best at making cars? They have survived thirty years because of the size of their network and their financial strength despite being regularly whupped by Japanese and Europeanoutfits on a technical basis.
Come to think of it when was Microsoft last at the cutting edge if it ever was?
Hundreds of companies have had technical leads of Microsoft and not lived to tell the tale. All you can say is that anyone who beats Microsoft will have some kind of technical lead but the argument doesn't work the other way round.
Please consider moderating the parent positively. After all clearly every penny spent on Christmas presents would do more good if spent on world peace or basic research.
China, Russia and India are coughing up nearly half the cost and it is more accurate. I know sailors are quite excited by it. There are lots more things that will be possible. In any case I believe the GPS satellites are expected to die in the foreseeable future.
It's hardly pork and it will be better. Why the fuss?
I find it bizarre that one group is saying that there is no reason for Europe to want its own GPS system and another saying that obviously the US is preparing anti satellite missiles. Why aren't people more excited by the possibilities given by a more accurate positioning system. This is news for nerds not media for megalomaniacs.
In the good old days britain used the following system for large number naming:
10^(6*2^(n-1))= n=llion
so that
million = 10^6
billion = 10^12
trillion = 10^24
etc which has the advantage of making it easy to know whether you should say a million billion, a thousand trillion or a quadrillion. It is also far more economical with the use of names.
Official usage now is the much less pretty American usage 10^3(n+1) = n-llion so:
million = 10^6
billion = 10^9
trillion = 10^12
and so on.
In the financial world the word milliard still lives on in the abbreivated form "yard" or perhaps "'iard" to refer to a billion. It is quite disappointing when you learn that a trader talking about a yard of yen does not mean a three foot stack of bills.
Try using Firefox and then try writing the same post.
...a new assault on the infinitive?
Sony Ericsson actually make a Bluetooth powered remote control car, It's very small and its range isn't huge but you can power it by your phone.
And also pay the price of more expensive clothes, more expensive computer hardware, more expensive cars, more expensive support from call centres, lower wages for currently well paid jobs etc. etc. Higher unemployment as stores close, people can't afford to buy new stuff and just rewind to the 60s.
Oh, and wave goodbye to the brotherhood of man.
Of course if the programmers had gotten visas, they would be Americans now.
The glorious revolution of 1688 was not exactly a revolution and most of Cromwell's changes didn't last. Neither really serves to undermine the point, America had a far more brutal civil war only 140 years ago.
Religious differences had little to do with Ireland's problems which were more to do with rule from abroad. The split on religious lines is relatively new and specific to Ulster. Many of the chief revoltionaries in Ireland were protestant, Wolfe Tone and Parnell for example.
first response
A robust response from the authors of the original paper is here. In general a paper like hte one noted here should really be put in some kind of context.
And French and German and Spanish and the colonies were not subject to normal British law under which slavery was not allowed. In any case slavery was abolished by the British in their remaining colonies in 1807, decades before it was abolished in the US. Ever heard of Wilberforce, Sharp and Clarkson or the Quakers? British navy ships were even used to prevent others to stop transatlantic trade. Remember segregation? No? Your parents might.
Oh, and those "British" people seem to have fought a war not to be considered so.
Granneman also said that it is irrelevant. If more people used other systems things would be better too. Replacing one monoculture with another is not a good idea either.
If only a lot but not everybody switches to Linux, BeOS and OS X then things would be much better as ar as point 4 goes for everybody. I know my mail box would be happier without infected Microsoft software.
Copy that!