It's not safer than Internet Explorer, just less exploited. There is nothing in FireFox's architecture which makes it a more secure alternative to IE. It still contains a scripting-language interface to local file storage, networking and so on. WHY does a web browser need scriptable access to local storage? The answer is it doesn't, and the weak barrier placed between internet-sourced pages and local-sourced pages is continually and repeatedly penetrated with these Firefox vulns, as with IE local zone hopping vulns.
Avoid Firefox if you want secure, trustable web browsing. Consider other gecko browsers (epiphany, k-meleon, etc.), konquerer and opera as alternatives.
XMLHTTPRequest is not specified in any standard. It's more Microsoft extension nonsense which Mozilla foolishly embraced. Then again, the Mozilla guys tend to make poor decisions (hello IDN!)
PHP-Nuke is just that - infamous for being horribly insecure, because a) the main developer is fairly amateur (by his own admission I recall) and b) PHP encourages insecure coding practices.
PHP is seriously one of the worst languages in wide use today.
Frankly, I might have bought more games for my GBA if I thought I could actually see them. Instead it sits in a drawer except for occasional forays in good lighting. Nintendo can go to hell if they think I'm going to make the same mistake twice.
the AMD marketing department should place a call over to Intel and ask to coordinate a marketing campaign explaining the irrelavency of clock speed
Good point, except this will never happen. Intel have based their marketing around the clockspeed, and to go back on that would be distasterous for them.
AMD have to pander to the 'OMG 3.2 Gigawats is better than 2.3Googawits!' idiocy.
am I mistaken or can't opera report itself as MSIE?
Yes, it can.
But why should it? It just encouranges the stupidity of most 'web designers' who look at logs and say 'Oh, 98% of visitors use MSIE5/6, no need to write correct code, just kludge some MS-only code together'. Lather, rinse, repeat.
User-Agent string fascism and spoofing is a classic chicken and egg situation. Except the chicken in this case is an MCSE armed with MS Frontpage.
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It's not safer than Internet Explorer, just less exploited. There is nothing in FireFox's architecture which makes it a more secure alternative to IE. It still contains a scripting-language interface to local file storage, networking and so on. WHY does a web browser need scriptable access to local storage? The answer is it doesn't, and the weak barrier placed between internet-sourced pages and local-sourced pages is continually and repeatedly penetrated with these Firefox vulns, as with IE local zone hopping vulns.
Avoid Firefox if you want secure, trustable web browsing. Consider other gecko browsers (epiphany, k-meleon, etc.), konquerer and opera as alternatives.
However I don't have enough money. I also have a brain which is another sticking point.
Dave Hyatt has today vowed to swim in his bathtub if his latest Mozilla Firefox extension "BehaveLessStupidlyPleaseFirefox" reaches 20 downloads.
Critics slammed him for setting unrealistic targets to avoid bathing.
what makes you think they need to store the articles on the cd/dvd uncompressed? since it's all text, it will compress extremely well
You seem to imply that FireFox supports IDNs. This is no longer true.
XMLHTTPRequest is not specified in any standard. It's more Microsoft extension nonsense which Mozilla foolishly embraced. Then again, the Mozilla guys tend to make poor decisions (hello IDN!)
2. Quote from trillian.cc, at the time I downloaded the tested version:
The free version is also adware. A fact they lie about on their website. For this reason I avoid trillian entirely.
Infamous, you mean?
PHP-Nuke is just that - infamous for being horribly insecure, because a) the main developer is fairly amateur (by his own admission I recall) and b) PHP encourages insecure coding practices.
PHP is seriously one of the worst languages in wide use today.
Have slashdot's editors been replaced with National Inquirer "reporters"? If so, WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED!?
This is a poorly written article.
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The changes to, in particular:
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Is extremely rude and bad practice.
:laffo:
If you replace 'developers' with 'marketing and publishers' in all these articles they become fairly true.
Otherwise: what
That's the non-OEM versions. The OEM versions are around £65 inc VAT or £106 inc VAT for XP Pro. £65 is around $99.
No, OpenOffice.org has had OpenOffice.org Basic as a macro language since the start.
Tell that to users of MS SQL Server users who are liable to pay royalties to a third party.
What's the practical difference buying from, say, Redhat over buying from MS or Oracle?
It's like security through the obscurity of these numbers.
This kind of thing should not be tolerated. Isn't this against his constitutional rights?
I would have thought his website would have been protected speech.
Eitherway, there needs to be a huge network of foreign isonews mirrors set up.
Probably because they're testing version 6 rather than version 7. In my experience Opera 7 has comparable javascript support to Mozilla.
Now why would Microsoft port IE to Mac? What's next, you're going to ask them to port Office, and, uh, uh, wait... damn.
Frankly, I might have bought more games for my GBA if I thought I could actually see them. Instead it sits in a drawer except for occasional forays in good lighting. Nintendo can go to hell if they think I'm going to make the same mistake twice.
Games like this?
Here is an amazing 430 screenshot pictorial
Hssssssss... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
Good point, except this will never happen. Intel have based their marketing around the clockspeed, and to go back on that would be distasterous for them.
AMD have to pander to the 'OMG 3.2 Gigawats is better than 2.3Googawits!' idiocy.
... would be Tux featuring as an incidental character in Toy Story 3 :)
am I mistaken or can't opera report itself as MSIE?
Yes, it can.
But why should it? It just encouranges the stupidity of most 'web designers' who look at logs and say 'Oh, 98% of visitors use MSIE5/6, no need to write correct code, just kludge some MS-only code together'. Lather, rinse, repeat.
User-Agent string fascism and spoofing is a classic chicken and egg situation. Except the chicken in this case is an MCSE armed with MS Frontpage.