I can ignore ads on the "new tabs" page. I'm more concerned about the "share" garbage they want to add to the context menu: https://bug1000513.bugzilla.mo...
I chose the word scepticism, and still I think it is. I agree that the word "unexploitable" was a bit exaggerated, but that was added by unknown lamer.
My assessment is "not exploitable" because it's a NUL byte written into malloc metadata. But Tavis disagrees. He is usually right. And that's why I'm not really sure.
Its however true that he corrects himself the same day a bit later:
>> if not maybe the one byte overflow is still exploitable. > > Hmm. How likely is that? It overflows in to malloc metadata, and the > glibc malloc hardening should catch that these days.
Not necessarily on 32-bit architectures, so I agree with Tavis now, and we need a CVE.
You can still raid several larger drives. The advantage: you can have full mirroring, and large storage space. I welcome the technological advancement, but still I've only occupied 50% of my 1.5 TB HDD, and I must note that I've copies of the kernel source, and mozilla-central.
We don't know which of them is the closest one, or has an atmosphere that can be terraformed easily. Even if we had FTL travel or at least >.1c capable ships, we probably wanted to choose the most suitable candidate before investing trillions of dollars.
X.org people themselfes admit wayland is better. X.org consists of lots of bloated stuff from the 1980s, where all modern support (OpenGL, you name it) is patched in through "extensions". Network transparency in X is also a big problem, there is the choice between using 1980s APIs and shuffling pixels around. X is broken. Do you see any disadvantages of wayland?
OK, you convinced me, they didn't waste them in that particular release. But still I'm against too frequent redesigns: they make the life of those harder, who aren't too comfortable with computers and don't use it by understanding the labels, but by memorizing "clickpaths": lower left corner of the screen, third entry, second entry, in the window the icon with the computer screen, and so on. Unfortunately these people are the majority.
OK, that's a point where KDE 4.0 got better, but still no multitouch gestures. I've tried to scroll or pitch on my KDE 4.13 netbook, and it didn't work, while it is advertised that my touchscreen supports up to 10 distinct points.
You have forgotten the worst illness of all. Homo Sapiens. Its a parasite when it lives in its home, and tries not to destroy it. Its an illness when it lives without even caring for anything except for itself, not even recognizing the long term disadvantage it can endure by heavily damaging its host. Lets hope the illness becomes a parasite, and don't kill itself by phenomena called "third world war".
True, its too hard for most new open source software to become accepted by debian. I like it rather this way than the microsoft app store way: full of scamware. That doesn't mean I like it the way it is right now. I agree think that desktop linux is only something for geeks and the only-mail-and-internet grandma. Still I use kubuntu.
KDE shouldn't waste their resources to redesign with every release, but they should rather work on exposing more system features through the GUI, and make it more stable. The average user shouldn't need to use the console.
root DNS, nothing else? There alternative DNS systems, and even when IANA blocks a TLD, the TLD operators can purchase a second-level domain from a unfrequented TLD like nauru, and run their service as a "second-level TLD".
Oh, I tremble from the might of ICANN, it can assign PORT NUMBERS!!!
Why doesn't ICANN just reserve such TLDs like.local or.lan for internal use in LANs? Then they can have mail.local, and whatever they want. I have.lan as a TLD in my private network at home, and I don't have a global dns hostname, and I don't want to use.test.
TFA didn't target the random goatse cluttering up comment systems, but they've targeted real evil trolls harming people, obviously a reaction to Zelda William's quitting to twitter.
For me, its funny when a companies naming competition gets trolled, but targeted campaigns against innocent people are truly too much even for me.
If someone does it in the US, the USA would have just yet another humanity-endangering weapon. If someone does it in Iran, it would be Iran's only one. Therefore the risk is greater that the weapon will actually be used. And if it were only used as deturrent, Iran would emerge as new power. US already has a UN security council veto chair, so there is nothing to disturb here in the world's country hierarchy.
Now thats something innovative DARPA could do: I don't want biometrics, but perhaps someone else might like it, as they don't care much for computers, and would have used a 12345qwert like password.
Come on, most of these authentication methods are inferior, I just don't have the abilities I have with passwords: evil people have to beat me with a stick until they know my password instead of just having to cut off my finger, I can change it whenever I want, a password doesn't identify me (I can stay anon), I can give it to someone else, and when I am eating (drinking, got my finger cut off because someone wanted to break into another computer of mine) something I can enter the password with my other hand, without changing the way my hand tremors.
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I can ignore ads on the "new tabs" page. I'm more concerned about the "share" garbage they want to add to the context menu: https://bug1000513.bugzilla.mo...
I've read a bit through the threads and think that the reason it took so long was because they decided to remove a feature to fix the problem:
I believe the current plan is to completely remove the transliteration
module support, as it hasn't worked for 10+ years.
The git commit message states the same. There were really some problems in that function: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc...
I chose the word scepticism, and still I think it is. I agree that the word "unexploitable" was a bit exaggerated, but that was added by unknown lamer.
Florian Weimer said:
My assessment is "not exploitable" because it's a NUL byte written into malloc metadata. But Tavis disagrees. He is usually right. And that's why I'm not really sure.
Its however true that he corrects himself the same day a bit later:
>> if not maybe the one byte overflow is still exploitable.
>
> Hmm. How likely is that? It overflows in to malloc metadata, and the
> glibc malloc hardening should catch that these days.
Not necessarily on 32-bit architectures, so I agree with Tavis now, and
we need a CVE.
You can still raid several larger drives. The advantage: you can have full mirroring, and large storage space. I welcome the technological advancement, but still I've only occupied 50% of my 1.5 TB HDD, and I must note that I've copies of the kernel source, and mozilla-central.
We don't know which of them is the closest one, or has an atmosphere that can be terraformed easily. Even if we had FTL travel or at least > .1c capable ships, we probably wanted to choose the most suitable candidate before investing trillions of dollars.
We need telescopes, on and around earth. lots of them. Kepler has only scanned a small region of the sky.
X.org people themselfes admit wayland is better. X.org consists of lots of bloated stuff from the 1980s, where all modern support (OpenGL, you name it) is patched in through "extensions". Network transparency in X is also a big problem, there is the choice between using 1980s APIs and shuffling pixels around. X is broken. Do you see any disadvantages of wayland?
All browser plugins are unmitigated disasters.
... and Linux didn't regard binary compatibility (I actually like that), so that you always need to have the source around?
OK, you convinced me, they didn't waste them in that particular release. But still I'm against too frequent redesigns: they make the life of those harder, who aren't too comfortable with computers and don't use it by understanding the labels, but by memorizing "clickpaths": lower left corner of the screen, third entry, second entry, in the window the icon with the computer screen, and so on.
Unfortunately these people are the majority.
OK, that's a point where KDE 4.0 got better, but still no multitouch gestures. I've tried to scroll or pitch on my KDE 4.13 netbook, and it didn't work, while it is advertised that my touchscreen supports up to 10 distinct points.
You have forgotten the worst illness of all. Homo Sapiens. Its a parasite when it lives in its home, and tries not to destroy it. Its an illness when it lives without even caring for anything except for itself, not even recognizing the long term disadvantage it can endure by heavily damaging its host. Lets hope the illness becomes a parasite, and don't kill itself by phenomena called "third world war".
True, its too hard for most new open source software to become accepted by debian. I like it rather this way than the microsoft app store way: full of scamware. That doesn't mean I like it the way it is right now. I agree think that desktop linux is only something for geeks and the only-mail-and-internet grandma. Still I use kubuntu.
KDE shouldn't waste their resources to redesign with every release, but they should rather work on exposing more system features through the GUI, and make it more stable. The average user shouldn't need to use the console.
Actually, its set in {La,}Tex: https://github.com/cplusplus/d...
Thanks, didn't knew that!
In soviet russia, joke averages you!
root DNS, nothing else? There alternative DNS systems, and even when IANA blocks a TLD, the TLD operators can purchase a second-level domain from a unfrequented TLD like nauru, and run their service as a "second-level TLD".
Oh, I tremble from the might of ICANN, it can assign PORT NUMBERS!!!
Why doesn't ICANN just reserve such TLDs like .local or .lan for internal use in LANs? Then they can have mail.local, and whatever they want. I have .lan as a TLD in my private network at home, and I don't have a global dns hostname, and I don't want to use .test.
Yes it does, but it needs three minutes to boot to shell, at least in firefox.
TFA didn't target the random goatse cluttering up comment systems, but they've targeted real evil trolls harming people, obviously a reaction to Zelda William's quitting to twitter.
For me, its funny when a companies naming competition gets trolled, but targeted campaigns against innocent people are truly too much even for me.
If someone does it in the US, the USA would have just yet another humanity-endangering weapon. If someone does it in Iran, it would be Iran's only one. Therefore the risk is greater that the weapon will actually be used. And if it were only used as deturrent, Iran would emerge as new power. US already has a UN security council veto chair, so there is nothing to disturb here in the world's country hierarchy.
“Before the Snowden leaks, about one percent of Internet traffic was SSL protected,” he said. “Now it’s about three percent.”
Is that a result of google, facebook and so on to use SSL in their fibers between datacenters, or can I trust I a statistic I haven't faked myself?
But the result can become correct. Lets find out whether wolfram's devs read /. ...
As does wolframalpha. New york daily news sais:
Bill de Blasio was born across the street from Gracie Mansion in the now-closed Doctors Hospital.
Gracie Mansion is the place Mr. Blasio is currently working -- as mayor of new york city.
Now thats something innovative DARPA could do: I don't want biometrics, but perhaps someone else might like it, as they don't care much for computers, and would have used a 12345qwert like password.
Come on, most of these authentication methods are inferior, I just don't have the abilities I have with passwords: evil people have to beat me with a stick until they know my password instead of just having to cut off my finger, I can change it whenever I want, a password doesn't identify me (I can stay anon), I can give it to someone else, and when I am eating (drinking, got my finger cut off because someone wanted to break into another computer of mine) something I can enter the password with my other hand, without changing the way my hand tremors.