At least in spanish "depredador" (I thinked that should mean almost the same in english) usually means an animal that eats others, and in that categories are tigers, lions, sharks and t-rex. Of this collection, I think the most scary one is Microsoft:)
The EULA also says that they can delete what they want (at least what they say that violates DRM, and their sofware is not know to be very intelligent), and have others that says something like they own all what you transmit thru they servers...
In fact using their software (and then accepting the EULA) is like simply close your eyes and pray that the big depredator which is in front of you isn't hungry right now, and will not be all the long time you be there.
Because "everybody" will send you attachments in office 2003 format. At least, that is what everybody will think, then upgrade, then send themselves the o2k3 attachments
After receiving 80+ spams a day, you have a bunch of good feelings for spammers that don't include brutalizing, raping by guards, or even remove one or both eyes. Not that this are good ideas, but you simply want some more effective.
Now, you can have 2 kinds of spammers, those that act knowing how bad it is, and those who think that is ok, that they are not harming anyone sending 5M messages a day, nor slowly killing the most basic communication protocol on internet. The first ones, well, must be raped:) or at least, should pay for what they acknowledge that are bad things and harm people. The last ones, in the other hand, must understand why this is bad, and a good hint is giving them a good taste of their own medicine (after all, is his idea that this don't annoy anyone). Of course, you can't decide when a spammer belongs to a category or the other, so you must take some intermediate path.
Separating things is not good, put a difference where is not. With scripting you can do very simple things i.e. call phpinfo(), or build large and complex programs. and almost all the ground between can be called programming.
For me, if you do a sequence of instructions (and if, a loop, a sequence, whatever more complicated that a simple invocation of the scripting engine) you are programming, whatever is the language you used (mmm this definition could have problems with what "main {}" or the tipical "hello world" are:)
With this kind of concepts, visual programming, logical programming or functional programming will be soon not considered "programming", because is not is exactly the way that "normal" (procedural? modular? object oriented?) programming is.
What happens when all media (from DVDs to web sites) is delivered with MS RMS?
Or easier... What happens when all mail from Outlook users come with this?
At least with this technology MS will not suffer so much with email leaks.
Maybe rights management is a needed solution to actual problem, but a real solution all should be based in open, free, and universally available standards.
There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers.
In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a
flight simulator.
.. is normally dangerous, not because you know what bad things will happen, but because you changed with that knowledge, and the future will not be the same.
Even knowing that I will live till now would change my life, and maybe in a way the actual reality, and the final result could be far worse than actual one. What puts a little problem: should I say that I'm myself older? if not would my younger me follow my advice?
Also I could not follow the safe way, and take the risk, but this must worth it, and probably could be only one shot, if its big all could change.
In this case my best try would be checking what happened a bit after I would contact myself, and take advantage of it, like giving a paper with lotto numbers, or say something like "be there, avoid that and be a hero", and pray that what I changed on my life don't put me in Twin Towers when the attack, or in a plane that will crash, or whatever thing that make things worse, not better, that are now.
Could not be the coldest place in the universe where there is no matter at all? far away from any galaxy atom density should be very low... taking a cube with no atoms big enough you can say perfectly that is the coldest place, maybe it could count as a perfect 0 kelvin degree.
The problem seems to be when you have a long session with the server, be webmail, imap over ssl or whatever that makes you be in ssl mode for a lot of time. If you are connected in ssl mode to a site where you be for an hour, and at last you buy something with your credit card, you credit card transaction will be vulnerable. Is not related to what travels, but for how long you are connected.
If they are based on stoping access to certain domains/ip addresses, what happens with open proxies? or anonymizing software/proxies? or dinamic ips, or having different sites with the same ip address?
And if not, what way you must use to detect that some site have child porn and disable it? A transparent proxy? packet sniffing? no automatic way has proved (afaik) sure for detecting where a site talks about child abuse for good and not do child abuse.
In any case, privacy will be harmed, and will pay good for bad.
They not searched for any kind of possible bug, the article says specifically what they were looking for:
Reasoning looked for programming problems such as memory that was marked as free when it was in fact still in use, memory that was being used without being properly initialised, and attempts to store data that exceeded the space reserved for it. This last problem is often associated with buffer overruns, a major weakness that under some circumstances can let an attacker take over a computer.
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At least in spanish "depredador" (I thinked that should mean almost the same in english) usually means an animal that eats others, and in that categories are tigers, lions, sharks and t-rex. Of this collection, I think the most scary one is Microsoft :)
The EULA also says that they can delete what they want (at least what they say that violates DRM, and their sofware is not know to be very intelligent), and have others that says something like they own all what you transmit thru they servers...
In fact using their software (and then accepting the EULA) is like simply close your eyes and pray that the big depredator which is in front of you isn't hungry right now, and will not be all the long time you be there.
For me, what it is trying to do is to avoid someone else filling it and sue them or put them out of business.
The next thing they should do is open this patent, i.e. in the way described in OpenPatents.
...if in USPTO internet or intranet site they have a discussion forum for each patent filed, or something similar to this.
Is reasonable to think that the US Government, or parts of the legal system, have in many places such ways of collaborative work.
Now what Amazon should do is sue USPTO or US Government because this patent and maybe, just maybe, US patent system will gain a bit of common sense.
Known MS Slogan: "What you want to do today"
Real MS Slogan: "Do as I say, not as I do"
You said that... "betas AND releases" are under BSD license.
The practice isn't so much a bandwidth hog as it is an image problem for universities, she says.
<p>The "image problem" will be when their domain/ip range became listed in the main RBLs.
<p>Will be fun if is discovered who are the students that did that, then the "Revenge of the Nerds" movie will have a new version.
Because "everybody" will send you attachments in office 2003 format. At least, that is what everybody will think, then upgrade, then send themselves the o2k3 attachments
I wonder when they'll (or someone else) will come with that even resembles the kind of pattern matching that can do the brain.
Well... maybe fuzzy logic could be helpful there
After receiving 80+ spams a day, you have a bunch of good feelings for spammers that don't include brutalizing, raping by guards, or even remove one or both eyes. Not that this are good ideas, but you simply want some more effective.
:) or at least, should pay for what they acknowledge that are bad things and harm people. The last ones, in the other hand, must understand why this is bad, and a good hint is giving them a good taste of their own medicine (after all, is his idea that this don't annoy anyone). Of course, you can't decide when a spammer belongs to a category or the other, so you must take some intermediate path.
Now, you can have 2 kinds of spammers, those that act knowing how bad it is, and those who think that is ok, that they are not harming anyone sending 5M messages a day, nor slowly killing the most basic communication protocol on internet. The first ones, well, must be raped
And in what category will fall a C or C++ programmer if you have things like C/C++ interpreters ?
Separating things is not good, put a difference where is not. With scripting you can do very simple things i.e. call phpinfo(), or build large and complex programs. and almost all the ground between can be called programming.
:)
For me, if you do a sequence of instructions (and if, a loop, a sequence, whatever more complicated that a simple invocation of the scripting engine) you are programming, whatever is the language you used (mmm this definition could have problems with what "main {}" or the tipical "hello world" are
With this kind of concepts, visual programming, logical programming or functional programming will be soon not considered "programming", because is not is exactly the way that "normal" (procedural? modular? object oriented?) programming is.
Maybe a lot of inventions related to our own survival could not see the light because of the actual state of the patenting system.
There are more on this here
If it will be aired by Cartoon Network, where will be all the sex stuff?
Oh, I see, in the movie they reproduce by cloning.
A better question would be
What happens when all media (from DVDs to web sites) is delivered with MS RMS?
Or easier... What happens when all mail from Outlook users come with this?
At least with this technology MS will not suffer so much with email leaks.
Maybe rights management is a needed solution to actual problem, but a real solution all should be based in open, free, and universally available standards.
is more than this... the kitchen sink can even be controlled by mouse turning it on and off.
And that is ascii art is particulary appropiated, all those letters seems to be flooding mozilla zine and slashdot discussion forums.
There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers. In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a flight simulator.
about:everything will redirect to wikipedia, google or something like that, so really will include everything.
.. is normally dangerous, not because you know what bad things will happen, but because you changed with that knowledge, and the future will not be the same.
Even knowing that I will live till now would change my life, and maybe in a way the actual reality, and the final result could be far worse than actual one. What puts a little problem: should I say that I'm myself older? if not would my younger me follow my advice?
Also I could not follow the safe way, and take the risk, but this must worth it, and probably could be only one shot, if its big all could change.
In this case my best try would be checking what happened a bit after I would contact myself, and take advantage of it, like giving a paper with lotto numbers, or say something like "be there, avoid that and be a hero", and pray that what I changed on my life don't put me in Twin Towers when the attack, or in a plane that will crash, or whatever thing that make things worse, not better, that are now.
Is nice to use the TCO argument against Microsoft.
"MS SQL Server initially cost less than Oracle, Informix, etc, but if you use some features you could face aditional costs".
Anyway, I don't think that this is the first time that Microsoft sold something that they don't really own.
Could not be the coldest place in the universe where there is no matter at all? far away from any galaxy atom density should be very low... taking a cube with no atoms big enough you can say perfectly that is the coldest place, maybe it could count as a perfect 0 kelvin degree.
The problem seems to be when you have a long session with the server, be webmail, imap over ssl or whatever that makes you be in ssl mode for a lot of time. If you are connected in ssl mode to a site where you be for an hour, and at last you buy something with your credit card, you credit card transaction will be vulnerable. Is not related to what travels, but for how long you are connected.
... Murphy should be right. Is one of the more universal laws.
If they are based on stoping access to certain domains/ip addresses, what happens with open proxies? or anonymizing software/proxies? or dinamic ips, or having different sites with the same ip address?
And if not, what way you must use to detect that some site have child porn and disable it? A transparent proxy? packet sniffing? no automatic way has proved (afaik) sure for detecting where a site talks about child abuse for good and not do child abuse.
In any case, privacy will be harmed, and will pay good for bad.
There is also an article about this here.
They not searched for any kind of possible bug, the article says specifically what they were looking for:
Reasoning looked for programming problems such as memory that was marked as free when it was in fact still in use, memory that was being used without being properly initialised, and attempts to store data that exceeded the space reserved for it. This last problem is often associated with buffer overruns, a major weakness that under some circumstances can let an attacker take over a computer.