Microsoft says that the MS09-054 patch fixes the issue through all possible vectors, so the add-on is not a vulnerability on patched systems. Yet Firefox is blocking all versions of the add-ons. Why?
If it's to block potential future vulnerabilities then they should block all add-ons, because they all have potential future vulnerabilities.
If it's because some users may not update their systems then they should block all add-ons (especially Flash and Acrobat) because lots of add-ons have old vulnerabilities.
If it's just to stick it to Microsoft for the inconsiderate way they in which they delivered these add-ons then they should say so. I doubt Microsoft agreed to this, as Mozilla implies in their blog.
Comcast users may encounter such a message, but they will definitely encounter Comcast's tests and, if necessary, messages.
There's really no good way to do this that will get the attention of enough users other than through the browser like this. We'll have to see how it works.
These are percentages. If Win7 is growing quickly it could be coming at the expense of XP. Vista might still be growing, but dropping as an overall percentage.
It doesn't even look remotely like a browser, and I suspect you've never seen Windows Update on Vista.
Typical of the crowd here. I'm sure most of the criticism of Vista comes from people who have never actually used it.
The answer to the question, BTW, is that most people have always gotten their operating systems through OEMs and they will get their browsers that way too. If you were to do a clean install yourself you'd have to do something like download a browser on another computer and put it on a CD or USB key. Not especially convenient<sarcasm>, but a small price to pay for the freedom the EU is getting you.</sarcasm>
The fact that these products are massive sellers proves that you don't get it. Unless you think that the corporate IT world is full of idiots and that only you see the truth
I see there's a right to bear arms in that bill of rights too. Snicker.
The problem is that, while these laws are part of Britain's unofficial constitution, they are not "supreme law" as the US constitution is. Parliament could, by passing a law, revoke or modify any of the provisions in the bill of rights and that's what the hate crimes law does.
TFA makes it sound like there have never been any remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the iPhone before. There have been dozens of exploitable bugs in Webkit, for example. The fact that no phones were cracked at Pwn2Own didn't prove they weren't crackable.
They made the mistake of assuming that many/most machines have virtualization extensions, when the article states that that is not the case.
Microsoft is always forward-looking with respect to hardware requirements; they assume that new OS versions will be installed on new PCs. Every new version of Windows people look at the installed base, say it will be disappointing and they're usually wrong. This was said about XP as well, and XP has been, if anything, too popular. So the question is what the percentage of new VT-enabled PCs will be next year.
...Apple's U.S. share of the PC market reached 9 percent in third quarter, according to Gartner. U.S. recession and high average selling prices took their toll. Mac market share declined to 8 percent in fourth quarter and to 7.4 percent in first quarter 2009. Apple has even fallen below year-ago January, when U.S. share was 7.5 percent.
grand- and great-grand-parental units are dipshits. Install images install the apps, which of course you want to do. Why wouldn't you? It's all part of the standardization of the config.
Every year at Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, which are both 25 hour fasts, caffeine addicted jews get withdrawl headaches. A few years back they came up with a solution: caffeine suppositories. It seems eating is more than just putting something in your digestive system.
One arguement against that would be that it takes the user out of their context; they stick a floppy in to do something with it and Windows pops up to get them to do something? Perhaps it seemed unfriendly.
They could have had more of that Mac-like experience though. It's a shame.
About the "youthful indiscretion", from Wikipedia: "In 1997, at age 22, Kundra pleaded guilty to a petty theft charge for stealing dress shirts from a JC Penney store in Maryland. He was fined $500, but the sentence was suspended, and he only had to pay $100 plus court costs; he also was sentenced to 80 hours of community service." (source: New York Daily News)
They didn't think up checks and balances, they just implemented Montesquieu's theories in a more thorough and novel way than had been done. And it wasn't Carpenter's Hall, it was Independence Hall, then I think still called the Pennsylvania State House.
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Microsoft says that the MS09-054 patch fixes the issue through all possible vectors, so the add-on is not a vulnerability on patched systems. Yet Firefox is blocking all versions of the add-ons. Why?
If it's to block potential future vulnerabilities then they should block all add-ons, because they all have potential future vulnerabilities.
If it's because some users may not update their systems then they should block all add-ons (especially Flash and Acrobat) because lots of add-ons have old vulnerabilities.
If it's just to stick it to Microsoft for the inconsiderate way they in which they delivered these add-ons then they should say so. I doubt Microsoft agreed to this, as Mozilla implies in their blog.
Comcast users may encounter such a message, but they will definitely encounter Comcast's tests and, if necessary, messages.
There's really no good way to do this that will get the attention of enough users other than through the browser like this. We'll have to see how it works.
Zephram Cochrane?
These are percentages. If Win7 is growing quickly it could be coming at the expense of XP. Vista might still be growing, but dropping as an overall percentage.
Right, but TFA said that the electronic voting hack required a few private minutes with the machine. Could that happen in Grandma's district?
I'm just trying to hold that system to the same standards as more politically correct ones.
Give me a few private minutes with a paper ballot box and I can stuff it full of ballots for my candidate. That's an old-school hack.
Maybe only a really wise man can see it, but it's invisible to fools
Just askin'
It doesn't even look remotely like a browser, and I suspect you've never seen Windows Update on Vista.
Typical of the crowd here. I'm sure most of the criticism of Vista comes from people who have never actually used it.
The answer to the question, BTW, is that most people have always gotten their operating systems through OEMs and they will get their browsers that way too. If you were to do a clean install yourself you'd have to do something like download a browser on another computer and put it on a CD or USB key. Not especially convenient<sarcasm>, but a small price to pay for the freedom the EU is getting you.</sarcasm>
The fact that these products are massive sellers proves that you don't get it. Unless you think that the corporate IT world is full of idiots and that only you see the truth
I see there's a right to bear arms in that bill of rights too. Snicker.
The problem is that, while these laws are part of Britain's unofficial constitution, they are not "supreme law" as the US constitution is. Parliament could, by passing a law, revoke or modify any of the provisions in the bill of rights and that's what the hate crimes law does.
TFA makes it sound like there have never been any remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the iPhone before. There have been dozens of exploitable bugs in Webkit, for example. The fact that no phones were cracked at Pwn2Own didn't prove they weren't crackable.
Microsoft is always forward-looking with respect to hardware requirements; they assume that new OS versions will be installed on new PCs. Every new version of Windows people look at the installed base, say it will be disappointing and they're usually wrong. This was said about XP as well, and XP has been, if anything, too popular.
So the question is what the percentage of new VT-enabled PCs will be next year.
Where's the logic in this? We can't complain about problems in a treaty unless we ratify it? The problems are the reason not to ratify it.
But increasingly they can't command that price. Their market share has been plummeting lately.
grand- and great-grand-parental units are dipshits. Install images install the apps, which of course you want to do. Why wouldn't you? It's all part of the standardization of the config.
Only idiots and consumers do actual upgrades. Any self-respecting enterprise makes their own images and deploys them, complete with apps.
Every year at Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, which are both 25 hour fasts, caffeine addicted jews get withdrawl headaches. A few years back they came up with a solution: caffeine suppositories. It seems eating is more than just putting something in your digestive system.
Let's also ignore them selling nuclear technology to Iran and Syria. Maybe nothing will come of it.
One arguement against that would be that it takes the user out of their context; they stick a floppy in to do something with it and Windows pops up to get them to do something? Perhaps it seemed unfriendly.
They could have had more of that Mac-like experience though. It's a shame.
I agree, I think they're just trying to get ahead on the April Fools rush.
I mean they actually have a screen shot.
About the "youthful indiscretion", from Wikipedia: "In 1997, at age 22, Kundra pleaded guilty to a petty theft charge for stealing dress shirts from a JC Penney store in Maryland. He was fined $500, but the sentence was suspended, and he only had to pay $100 plus court costs; he also was sentenced to 80 hours of community service." (source: New York Daily News)
Coiuld have been worse. Nobody died like in Teddy Kennedy's youthful indiscretion.
With a massive scandal like this, if he wasn't involved and didn't know he couldn't have been all that involved with his office.
They didn't think up checks and balances, they just implemented Montesquieu's theories in a more thorough and novel way than had been done. And it wasn't Carpenter's Hall, it was Independence Hall, then I think still called the Pennsylvania State House.
Yeah, I saw a video about this recently: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work