It didn't even work in Firefox here. It says "You are vulnerable, if a pop-up window opened and showed text from Secunia and not from CitiBank.". All I got was a bar at the top of the Secunia page that said:
"Firefox prevented this site from openning 619 popup windows. Click here for options"
The point is, open a Nautilus (classic) window. Now in the View menu, deselect "Side Pane", and "Location Bar" then tear off the toolbar. With all that functionality removed you've got a spacial Nautilus.
This was forced on us as if it were some fantastic innovation. Its not, at the very least put those items in the View menu of the spacial Nautilus so we can turn that stuff back on, there's nothing wrong with it and without them it makes it harder to navigate. Simpler isn't always better.
In order to include decss in your product you have to be licensed.... You can make a DVD player without involvement of the dvdcca, but without the ability to play encrypted discs
Who says DeCSS is the only option? DeCSS used keys ripped out of a licensed player, and that is what they were sued for. There are other ways to decrypt CSS.
I almost hope they do sue me. First it would look hilarious to have a Slashdot thread as the single piece of evidence. Second, How they manage to enforce the US' DMCA laws outside of the US (I'm never travelling there anyway - I saw what they did to Dmitri). And third, MPlayer does NOT use DeCSS at all.
The only "legitimate" software that allowed that was shut down by the DVD consortium
What software is that? Surely you don't mean DeCSS, they dropped that battle. And there's absolutely nothing stopping you from ripping a DVD to your hard drive now, and burning it to DVD-R with the CSS encryption intact.
I guess the lesson to be learned is: don't get the license. Same deal with SCO, being a paying customer doesn't get you any loyalty, only legal snares to entrap you in.
The one thing the board does NOT, is setting the technical direction for GNOME.
Thats a shame, because someone definitely should. I use Gnome because I prefer it to KDE, but they aren't making it easy to justify that decision these days. GTK+ is a great toolkit, but Gnome has way too much politics.
Well said. Spacial Nautilus the kind of thing that looks good to developers because someone put forth a proposal and mentioned the HIG enough times. Look below the surface, and you'll see HIG as the reasoning for everything, often both sides of an argument simultaneously.
I really believe its time for HIG v2, so we can see if things are improving from the user perspective, or getting worse. Nautilus on the whole is VERY confusing to the users that I have introduced to it. Just try explaining why removing the toolbar is a good thing to any reasonably minded person. All you'll get is a blank stare.
I think you'll find that "Live Bookmarks" fall a bit short of the mark in as far as reading RSS feeds is concerned.
Quite the opposite. I've used many RSS viewers, and live bookmarks is my favourite, what could be better than the RSS items in a folder on the toolbar?
If I click the link it works for me
I said middle click. As in open in a new tab, like I do with any link I see on a page I don't want to leave. Point is, why not link to the main page of your site, or some blurb about the extension with a screenshot. I don't want to start a fight, just making a suggestion.
And, as far as I know, Thunderbird has a RSS news reader, not Firefox
In Firefox they are called "Live Bookmarks", no idea about Thunderbird.
or (if you are using Firefox) the installation of the XPI is being blocked
Firefox 1.0 blocks everything except stuff at update.mozilla.org by default. But thats not the problem, the link just opens a blank tab, and doesn't display the installation has been blocked bar if you middle click it like I did.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I go to a page titled 'Learn About Spoofs' in Firefox.
That's exactly what MPlayer does, as a result of not supporting the menus. I really don't care to watch the commercials/previews either.
It looks like it's got to do with what javascript is allowed to do with opened windows.
In my case, I think it has to do with my settings actually. At least according to the comments below.
Gentoo here as well. Looks like IE in Wine is vulnerable though. Way to go Wine team, great compatibility. :)
If you click the correct link, this exploit works as advertised with popup blocking on, on Firefox 1.0.
It looks fine to me.
It didn't even work in Firefox here. It says "You are vulnerable, if a pop-up window opened and showed text from Secunia and not from CitiBank.". All I got was a bar at the top of the Secunia page that said:
"Firefox prevented this site from openning 619 popup windows. Click here for options"
Is this Windows only or something?
Not without getting called into court for DMCA violations.
That law doesn't apply outside of the US.
No cca license, no dvd player.
I have an unlicensed dvd player now, what the fuck are you talking about?
The point is, open a Nautilus (classic) window. Now in the View menu, deselect "Side Pane", and "Location Bar" then tear off the toolbar. With all that functionality removed you've got a spacial Nautilus.
This was forced on us as if it were some fantastic innovation. Its not, at the very least put those items in the View menu of the spacial Nautilus so we can turn that stuff back on, there's nothing wrong with it and without them it makes it harder to navigate. Simpler isn't always better.
In order to include decss in your product you have to be licensed. ... You can make a DVD player without involvement of the dvdcca, but without the ability to play encrypted discs
Who says DeCSS is the only option? DeCSS used keys ripped out of a licensed player, and that is what they were sued for. There are other ways to decrypt CSS.
which is what the grandparent poster was saying.
And thats why I said "I'll take your word for it". Did I say something to contradict his statement in my reply?
What you do will work, because what you are essentially creating is a virtual DVD drive.
That was actually my point. How is that different from what these Jukebox people are doing, besides having actually paid them for a license?
Expect the helicopters shortly.
:)
I almost hope they do sue me. First it would look hilarious to have a Slashdot thread as the single piece of evidence. Second, How they manage to enforce the US' DMCA laws outside of the US (I'm never travelling there anyway - I saw what they did to Dmitri). And third, MPlayer does NOT use DeCSS at all.
But yeah, I did laugh. Good reply.
you would discover that it is not possible, since the part of the disc that holds the CSS keys is not writable.
I'll take your word for it, but "dd if=/dev/dvd of=MyDVD" I've done, and it plays just fine off the hard drive.
The only "legitimate" software that allowed that was shut down by the DVD consortium
What software is that? Surely you don't mean DeCSS, they dropped that battle. And there's absolutely nothing stopping you from ripping a DVD to your hard drive now, and burning it to DVD-R with the CSS encryption intact.
I guess the lesson to be learned is: don't get the license. Same deal with SCO, being a paying customer doesn't get you any loyalty, only legal snares to entrap you in.
I've known people who've NEVER used a computer. And have VCR's that still flash 12:00.
Did you ever ask them if they'd rather not have buttons on their VCR at all?
Have you tried explaining it to a user who has never used a computer before?
Are you being serious? I don't even think I've met anyone who has never used a computer before, let alone try to explain why buttons are good things.
The one thing the board does NOT, is setting the technical direction for GNOME.
Thats a shame, because someone definitely should. I use Gnome because I prefer it to KDE, but they aren't making it easy to justify that decision these days. GTK+ is a great toolkit, but Gnome has way too much politics.
Fork! Fork! Fork!
Well said. Spacial Nautilus the kind of thing that looks good to developers because someone put forth a proposal and mentioned the HIG enough times. Look below the surface, and you'll see HIG as the reasoning for everything, often both sides of an argument simultaneously.
I really believe its time for HIG v2, so we can see if things are improving from the user perspective, or getting worse. Nautilus on the whole is VERY confusing to the users that I have introduced to it. Just try explaining why removing the toolbar is a good thing to any reasonably minded person. All you'll get is a blank stare.
I think you'll find that "Live Bookmarks" fall a bit short of the mark in as far as reading RSS feeds is concerned.
Quite the opposite. I've used many RSS viewers, and live bookmarks is my favourite, what could be better than the RSS items in a folder on the toolbar?
If I click the link it works for me
I said middle click. As in open in a new tab, like I do with any link I see on a page I don't want to leave. Point is, why not link to the main page of your site, or some blurb about the extension with a screenshot. I don't want to start a fight, just making a suggestion.
Woz is everywhere.
And, as far as I know, Thunderbird has a RSS news reader, not Firefox
In Firefox they are called "Live Bookmarks", no idea about Thunderbird.
or (if you are using Firefox) the installation of the XPI is being blocked
Firefox 1.0 blocks everything except stuff at update.mozilla.org by default. But thats not the problem, the link just opens a blank tab, and doesn't display the installation has been blocked bar if you middle click it like I did.
Now call me a cynic, but I think they have a point.
Whats that? That big corporations should always get their way? This guy is right up there with Mike Rowe in my books.
then they are dumber then a dim light bulb for a billion $ company
Not to mention the iEverything nomenclature is really stupid. Come on Woz, you can do better than that.
Use Firefox?Want a FREE RSS news reader?
Whats with the sig? Firefox already has a built in RSS reader, and your link doesn't even work. Is that supposed to be funny or something?