Okay, so somebody essentially builds a Javascript replica of the Firefox browser which activates as a popup when somebody clicks on a link. For this, the Mozilla folks are being raked over the coals. This is like saying a bank vault is insecure because it can be breached with explosives. Any browser could be spoofed this way and this has been going on with IE for a long time ("Your computer is infected with spyware, click OK to install more spyware^W^Wour software.")
Granted, I'd like to see it more secure by default , e.g., it doesn't install software by default, Javascript disabled, etc. This also isn't uniquely a Mozilla problem as the first versions of Red Hat shipped with telnet and rlogin ports open by default. It all goes back to the age old debate about security versus functionality.
Yes, and it was the brainchild (abomination) of one Melinda French . . . now Melinda Gates. It's the only genuinely "innovative" thing M$ has ever done and it was a miserable failure. A male project manager would have been summarily shown the door, but Melinda stayed in on her back.
Golly, if it's that serious maybe I should start stocking up on MREs and ammunition in preparation for the day the assembly lines come to a screeching halt."
After looking through hundreds if not thousands of job postings, everyone is looking for 3+ years of network admin experience or 5+ years of C++ experience even for an entry level position. How is one expected to gain that kind of experience when no one will hire you without the experience?
They don't intend to hire anyone. Those job postings mainly are (1) vapor postings to see what's out there, and (2) just a prelude to getting an H1B because of a "labor shortage," which is what they plan to do anyway. And if you think the Bush labor department is going to do anything about the rampant H1B fraud, well, I'd like some of whatever it is that you're smoking.
I wouldn't call Northwood the boonies either. Matter of fact, I'd say you lived up there off Argonne where the rich people live (well, the ones who don't live in Mead, Liberty Lake, or the South Hill anyway).
That's nice if you live downtown. When I lived in the Spokane Valley (between 1997 and 2002) . . .
You mean the new (retch) city of Spokane Valley? They finally passed it after God-only-knows how many tries. You couldn't get high-speed anything? How far out in the boonies were you?
I got out at 22 after growing up there. Most of my friends called me an escapee, but a few called me a turncoat for moving to "the coast."
Spokane has very little to offer you if you're not into meth or bad football. Pullman is worse - drunken parties, meth, cow tipping, or bad football. You know someplace is pathetic when you call going to Spokane a trip to a "real city." Are they still doing saturation coverage of the state "B" basketball tournament? And has anybody else noticed the abundance of restaurants, car lots, and funeral homes in Spokane?
Granted, the cost of living is cheaper than Seattle, but if there are no jobs to be had, what's the use? And it's a lot worse now that Kaiser is completely shut down. This is a place where the idiot then-mayor Sheri Barnyard^WBarnard brought in Alaska Airlines' competitor to keep out the maintenance facility they wanted to build.
"...and will support e-government initiatives and a more productive mobile workforce."
Let's see how many buzzwords we can pack into that last dependent clause:
"...and will grow e-civil management initiatives and will improve the morale of the mindshare in a more immersive global knowledge worker production environment."
This is fairly typical of Spokane. As late as 2000, I knew people in Spokane who were talking about "getting on that new Internet thing" and suchlike.
Spokane is a pathetic backwater that is still basking in the afterglow of Expo '76. Anyone who doubts this needs to realize that about 80% of Spokane's college grads leave town as soon as they get their diplomas. You think the job market sucks where you are? Spokane's economy is perennially depressed. Spokane unemployment rate actually spiked during the 90s boom years! Besides, Spokane has lots of crime and not nearly enough cops.
This is yet another futile attempt to get on board with "the next big thing." Trouble is, WiFi has been around for a couple of years now. Its latest attempt to be one of the cool kids is nothing short of pathetic.
You forgot that the public is going to be on the hook to fix the PoS stadium he built. How about the raping of the South Lake Union neighborhood? That's right - when he was unsuccessful in bulldozing it to turn it into a homeless encampment^W^Wpark, he's just going to kick out all the small businesses there for some biotech pipedream. Oh, and how about the home of the SFM? That would be the eyesore right underneath the Space Needle known as EMP.
Obviously everybody should either patch their kernel or upgrade to a new one to fix this problem. But in the meantime, set the noexec bit on/home and problem solved.
This is another good reason to have/,/usr,/tmp, etc., each on separate partitions.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Open standards are nice, but only if you embrace them fully. Palmsource does not.
You have some good points, and it's easy to see where your biases are given your nick. And you are correct that it bites having to find bugs via byte-for-byte reverse engineering. One has a right to expect better from an admittedly expensive commerical product like Palm.
But you'd rather have Microsoft?
The perfect is always the enemy of the good.
/. is largely populated by faithful, Unix-loving geeks who view anything to do with Microsoft as The Great Satan.
The Unix model of programming is to have one tool do one thing well and another to do another thing well. This is why so many text editors, etc. The Microsoft model is to have one tool with the kitchen sink and more.
Having a separate phone and PDA neatly fits the Unix model. The phone is there to make calls and can also act as a modem (Bluetooth is your friend). The PDA is for email, contacts, checkbook, notes, etc.
By contrast, smartphones represent Gatesian bloat and feature creep. They are, inevitably, a half-assed kludge of the two that do both things half-assed but neither particularly well. Usually, you end up with a PDA on a cell-phone sized screen.
Sony's failure had nothing to do with the PDA market being dead. Granted, it's not like it was in the boom days, but it's far from dead. No, Sony's latest units were huge, overpriced ($600 or so), and used their proprietary memory format that just happened to cost double or triple what the others did. Hell, the NX60 (?) had a CF slot, but it only accepted Sony's proprietary wifi adapter. A Sandisk CF wifi adapter costs on the order of $30. Sony's cost $150.
Personally, my Palm Tungsten T has all the usual PDA stuff on it (contacts, calendar, note pad, etc.) plus my checkbook, several games, and an MP3 player. Oh, and did I mention that it also has Bluetooth *and* uses industry-standard SD/MMC cards?
I suffer with running Mozilla on a 700 MHz Celeron at work and it's way too slow.
I'll probably get modded into oblivion for having the temerity to say anything negative about a piece of open source software, but Mozilla is bloatware. Mozilla's bloat is the stuff of legends. It out-Gateses Gates.
The whole point of selling products or services for a profit is to increase the financial health of a company. This means people get paid, they can retire, they can invest and create more jobs, etc.
You're partly correct. It's more like this:
The whole point of selling products or services for a profit is to increase the financial health of a company. This means people (read: executives) get paid, (executives) can retire (on their big fat golden parachutes while everybody else gets Enroned), (executives) can invest (and add more zeroes to their already obscene bottom lines) and create more jobs (in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Budapest, Ankara etc.), etc.
In America, we have a right to profit from our labors.
So I have an inalienable right to profit from my, say, buggy-whip making labors? In a free society, who is going to enforce that right?
This is because we have the right to pursue happiness, and we're capitalists. (Emphasis added)
If you succeed at starting your own business, great. The odds are at least four to one against you. You have a right to try and achieve wealth, but when you fail, get a job at Wal-Mart like everybody else.
It's an effort / reward system here. If I put in the effort to find a cure for cancer and actually do it, there are great rewards for accomplishing this feat.
Yeah, Pfizer or Eli Lilly comes along and says, "we patented that ten years ago. Hand it over." Since you trying to fight them is like trying to put out a forest fire with an eyedropper . . .
This is especially true in light of the (heavy) losses they've taken on the XBox, MSN, games, and just about every other area outside of operating systems and desktop applications.
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Or when they'll file bankruptcy.
Okay, so somebody essentially builds a Javascript replica of the Firefox browser which activates as a popup when somebody clicks on a link. For this, the Mozilla folks are being raked over the coals. This is like saying a bank vault is insecure because it can be breached with explosives. Any browser could be spoofed this way and this has been going on with IE for a long time ("Your computer is infected with spyware, click OK to install more spyware^W^Wour software.")
Granted, I'd like to see it more secure by default , e.g., it doesn't install software by default, Javascript disabled, etc. This also isn't uniquely a Mozilla problem as the first versions of Red Hat shipped with telnet and rlogin ports open by default. It all goes back to the age old debate about security versus functionality.
Yes, and it was the brainchild (abomination) of one Melinda French . . . now Melinda Gates. It's the only genuinely "innovative" thing M$ has ever done and it was a miserable failure. A male project manager would have been summarily shown the door, but Melinda stayed in on her back.
How does an interview with a failed left-wing nutcase of a presidential candidate relate in the slightest to technology in any way?
/. is populated by left-wing freakazoid Deaniacs who wet their pants every time Dean farted.
Wait, I forgot -
Offtopic, but I've got karma to burn, so fuggit.
Golly, if it's that serious maybe I should start stocking up on MREs and ammunition in preparation for the day the assembly lines come to a screeching halt."
Meals Refusing to Exit?
Meals Rejected by Ethiopians?
Quoth the author:
After looking through hundreds if not thousands of job postings, everyone is looking for 3+ years of network admin experience or 5+ years of C++ experience even for an entry level position. How is one expected to gain that kind of experience when no one will hire you without the experience?
They don't intend to hire anyone. Those job postings mainly are (1) vapor postings to see what's out there, and (2) just a prelude to getting an H1B because of a "labor shortage," which is what they plan to do anyway. And if you think the Bush labor department is going to do anything about the rampant H1B fraud, well, I'd like some of whatever it is that you're smoking.
I wouldn't call Northwood the boonies either. Matter of fact, I'd say you lived up there off Argonne where the rich people live (well, the ones who don't live in Mead, Liberty Lake, or the South Hill anyway).
Quoth the poster:
World's Fair, Expo '74, not Expo '76.
Oops! I think that was a hybrid of Expo '74 in Spokane and Expo '86 in Vancouver, BC.
Does this mean I have to turn my Spokane native card?
Quoth the poster:
That's nice if you live downtown. When I lived in the Spokane Valley (between 1997 and 2002) . . .
You mean the new (retch) city of Spokane Valley? They finally passed it after God-only-knows how many tries. You couldn't get high-speed anything? How far out in the boonies were you?
I got out at 22 after growing up there. Most of my friends called me an escapee, but a few called me a turncoat for moving to "the coast."
Spokane has very little to offer you if you're not into meth or bad football. Pullman is worse - drunken parties, meth, cow tipping, or bad football. You know someplace is pathetic when you call going to Spokane a trip to a "real city." Are they still doing saturation coverage of the state "B" basketball tournament? And has anybody else noticed the abundance of restaurants, car lots, and funeral homes in Spokane?
Granted, the cost of living is cheaper than Seattle, but if there are no jobs to be had, what's the use? And it's a lot worse now that Kaiser is completely shut down. This is a place where the idiot then-mayor Sheri Barnyard^WBarnard brought in Alaska Airlines' competitor to keep out the maintenance facility they wanted to build.
I'm really sorry. You go cow-tipping alot? Howzabout them Cougs and their former coach?
Quoth the poster:
"...and will support e-government initiatives and a more productive mobile workforce."
Let's see how many buzzwords we can pack into that last dependent clause:
"...and will grow e-civil management initiatives and will improve the morale of the mindshare in a more immersive global knowledge worker production environment."
This is fairly typical of Spokane. As late as 2000, I knew people in Spokane who were talking about "getting on that new Internet thing" and suchlike.
Spokane is a pathetic backwater that is still basking in the afterglow of Expo '76. Anyone who doubts this needs to realize that about 80% of Spokane's college grads leave town as soon as they get their diplomas. You think the job market sucks where you are? Spokane's economy is perennially depressed. Spokane unemployment rate actually spiked during the 90s boom years! Besides, Spokane has lots of crime and not nearly enough cops.
This is yet another futile attempt to get on board with "the next big thing." Trouble is, WiFi has been around for a couple of years now. Its latest attempt to be one of the cool kids is nothing short of pathetic.
I'm sorry.
BTW, how's that parking garage deal working out for you?
This will be your friend.
Oh, and a whole hell of a lot of HDD space.
:)
You forgot that the public is going to be on the hook to fix the PoS stadium he built. How about the raping of the South Lake Union neighborhood? That's right - when he was unsuccessful in bulldozing it to turn it into a homeless encampment^W^Wpark, he's just going to kick out all the small businesses there for some biotech pipedream. Oh, and how about the home of the SFM? That would be the eyesore right underneath the Space Needle known as EMP.
This just shows that a woman still has the right to change her mind at anytime, and will exercise that right at the drop of a hat.
Which is exactly why i run Firefox instead. It is much, much lighter and faster.
And you know what, you're right. I installed it, ran it, and did "emerge unmerge mozilla" very shortly thereafter. Thanks for the tip!
Obviously everybody should either patch their kernel or upgrade to a new one to fix this problem. But in the meantime, set the noexec bit on /home and problem solved.
This is another good reason to have /, /usr, /tmp, etc., each on separate partitions.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Quoth the poster:
Open standards are nice, but only if you embrace them fully. Palmsource does not.
You have some good points, and it's easy to see where your biases are given your nick. And you are correct that it bites having to find bugs via byte-for-byte reverse engineering. One has a right to expect better from an admittedly expensive commerical product like Palm. But you'd rather have Microsoft? The perfect is always the enemy of the good.
/. is largely populated by faithful, Unix-loving geeks who view anything to do with Microsoft as The Great Satan.
The Unix model of programming is to have one tool do one thing well and another to do another thing well. This is why so many text editors, etc. The Microsoft model is to have one tool with the kitchen sink and more.
Having a separate phone and PDA neatly fits the Unix model. The phone is there to make calls and can also act as a modem (Bluetooth is your friend). The PDA is for email, contacts, checkbook, notes, etc.
By contrast, smartphones represent Gatesian bloat and feature creep. They are, inevitably, a half-assed kludge of the two that do both things half-assed but neither particularly well. Usually, you end up with a PDA on a cell-phone sized screen.
Sony's failure had nothing to do with the PDA market being dead. Granted, it's not like it was in the boom days, but it's far from dead. No, Sony's latest units were huge, overpriced ($600 or so), and used their proprietary memory format that just happened to cost double or triple what the others did. Hell, the NX60 (?) had a CF slot, but it only accepted Sony's proprietary wifi adapter. A Sandisk CF wifi adapter costs on the order of $30. Sony's cost $150.
Personally, my Palm Tungsten T has all the usual PDA stuff on it (contacts, calendar, note pad, etc.) plus my checkbook, several games, and an MP3 player. Oh, and did I mention that it also has Bluetooth *and* uses industry-standard SD/MMC cards?
Score another one for open standards.
Quoth the poster:
I suffer with running Mozilla on a 700 MHz Celeron at work and it's way too slow.
I'll probably get modded into oblivion for having the temerity to say anything negative about a piece of open source software, but Mozilla is bloatware. Mozilla's bloat is the stuff of legends. It out-Gateses Gates.
Quoth the poster:
You'd definitely burn extra calories hiking with that thing.
No worse than the old Army AN/PRC-77 (also known as a "Prick-77.")
Quoth the Kool-Aid addled poster:
The whole point of selling products or services for a profit is to increase the financial health of a company. This means people get paid, they can retire, they can invest and create more jobs, etc.
You're partly correct. It's more like this:
The whole point of selling products or services for a profit is to increase the financial health of a company. This means people (read: executives) get paid, (executives) can retire (on their big fat golden parachutes while everybody else gets Enroned), (executives) can invest (and add more zeroes to their already obscene bottom lines) and create more jobs (in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Budapest, Ankara etc.), etc.
In America, we have a right to profit from our labors.
So I have an inalienable right to profit from my, say, buggy-whip making labors? In a free society, who is going to enforce that right?
This is because we have the right to pursue happiness, and we're capitalists. (Emphasis added)
If you succeed at starting your own business, great. The odds are at least four to one against you. You have a right to try and achieve wealth, but when you fail, get a job at Wal-Mart like everybody else.
It's an effort / reward system here. If I put in the effort to find a cure for cancer and actually do it, there are great rewards for accomplishing this feat.
Yeah, Pfizer or Eli Lilly comes along and says, "we patented that ten years ago. Hand it over." Since you trying to fight them is like trying to put out a forest fire with an eyedropper . . .
This is especially true in light of the (heavy) losses they've taken on the XBox, MSN, games, and just about every other area outside of operating systems and desktop applications.
Would that be the series of three vaccinations? It is? Well, that's the vaccination for Hepatitis "B"!
Where did you get your nursing degree, Sir Speedy's Instant Printing?