While firefox may have more vulnerabilities, these are publically acknowledged bugs. How many bugs does IE have the microsoft hasn't disclosed? Keep that in mind!
1. Ditch the portal look. Get rid of it, all together, don't hide it, don't do anything but get rid of it. Make the front page be like google's. A logo, a search box, and a button. It is ok to have to links to other services, in a non-obtrusive way. Everything currently on the Yahoo homepage that is below the Yahoo Search button should be eliminated. If they want a news thing... be like google and have people goto news.yahoo.com. Portals are so 1999.
2. Search results are too cluttered. Put your advertisements on the side in a single color. No image advertisements ever. It should be easy to tell the difference between paid search results, and real results. They should not be mixed. A clear distinction must be made, and be obvious for the stupid public. Yahoo actually has a decent search engine behind it... but I won't use it because the interface sucks. Clean it up, and you'll give google some serious competition.
3. Don't be a whore. Yahoo tends to stick advertising everywhere. If I do a search, I want real results first, no sponsored ads. Put the ads to the side. I love yahoo yellow pages... but if I search for florist, I get 2 pages of ads before I can get to real local small businesses. I don't want to have to scroll through 2 pages of junk to get to the real results.
4. Don't make people register to see things like tv listings and what not. Basic features should be free to all to see. Don't make registration a requirement, make it worth my while. Maybe for registration offer to send people an email alterting them when a favorite show is on. (with no ads or tags or anything in the email).
5. Follow google's motto, of "Don't be evil." because yahoo right now is soooooo freaking corporate and willing to whore itself out... I won't use it. Just look at yahoo.com its all been sold as real estate, look at google.com, its simple, clean, and effective.
Regardless of what's in this movie, people will find truth in it to support their preexisting beliefs. If you look hard enough you can find facts to support any ill conceived notion, no matter how off the wall. People have 'proof' Elvis is still alive! The media edits video clips to make things look worse than they actually are, it's sensationalism! It increases ratings! What makes you so sure Michael Moore doesn't edit video clips to make things look the way he wants them to look? It's the 21st century; the truth can be fabricated as easily as fiction.
Some people on here are asking what the obsd group has been up to over the past few years. Some are claiming that they have spent a couple years rewriting packet filters, and are just now checking for unsafe string handling. This is not true. The source tree was/and is continuously being audited. strcat/strcpy/sprintf can be dangerous functions, BUT BUT BUT BUT, if they are used with proper condition checking code before they are called (as the obsd src does), then they are no more dangerous than strncat, etc.
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One would really wonder if they even will. I mean regular expressions have been used for parsing log files for decades. It's nothing new. And I know have been used for quite a while as well.
Do you have any formal training in information theory, number theory, or advanced mathematics? Just because something that you have created in your bedroom appears to be secure, chances are an experienced cryptanalyst can probably find numerous flaws with it in only a few minutes. Why try and reinvent the wheel... good crypto is out there, take the time to implement it properly. Also, if you claim its provably secure, I'd like to see your proof. You claim the key is long and could fit on a USB device. Well, if it has a long key, how is it different than a one time pad? If it has a long key that you feed into some algorithm in an OFB-like mode, you really haven't invented anything new.
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While firefox may have more vulnerabilities, these are publically acknowledged bugs. How many bugs does IE have the microsoft hasn't disclosed? Keep that in mind!
1. Ditch the portal look. Get rid of it, all together, don't hide it, don't do anything but get rid of it. Make the front page be like google's. A logo, a search box, and a button. It is ok to have to links to other services, in a non-obtrusive way. Everything currently on the Yahoo homepage that is below the Yahoo Search button should be eliminated. If they want a news thing... be like google and have people goto news.yahoo.com. Portals are so 1999.
2. Search results are too cluttered. Put your advertisements on the side in a single color. No image advertisements ever. It should be easy to tell the difference between paid search results, and real results. They should not be mixed. A clear distinction must be made, and be obvious for the stupid public. Yahoo actually has a decent search engine behind it... but I won't use it because the interface sucks. Clean it up, and you'll give google some serious competition.
3. Don't be a whore. Yahoo tends to stick advertising everywhere. If I do a search, I want real results first, no sponsored ads. Put the ads to the side. I love yahoo yellow pages... but if I search for florist, I get 2 pages of ads before I can get to real local small businesses. I don't want to have to scroll through 2 pages of junk to get to the real results.
4. Don't make people register to see things like tv listings and what not. Basic features should be free to all to see. Don't make registration a requirement, make it worth my while. Maybe for registration offer to send people an email alterting them when a favorite show is on. (with no ads or tags or anything in the email).
5. Follow google's motto, of "Don't be evil." because yahoo right now is soooooo freaking corporate and willing to whore itself out... I won't use it. Just look at yahoo.com its all been sold as real estate, look at google.com, its simple, clean, and effective.
there, how to turn yahoo around in 5 easy steps.
Regardless of what's in this movie, people will find truth in it to support their preexisting beliefs. If you look hard enough you can find facts to support any ill conceived notion, no matter how off the wall. People have 'proof' Elvis is still alive! The media edits video clips to make things look worse than they actually are, it's sensationalism! It increases ratings! What makes you so sure Michael Moore doesn't edit video clips to make things look the way he wants them to look? It's the 21st century; the truth can be fabricated as easily as fiction.
Some people on here are asking what the obsd group has been up to over the past few years. Some are claiming that they have spent a couple years rewriting packet filters, and are just now checking for unsafe string handling. This is not true. The source tree was/and is continuously being audited. strcat/strcpy/sprintf can be dangerous functions, BUT BUT BUT BUT, if they are used with proper condition checking code before they are called (as the obsd src does), then they are no more dangerous than strncat, etc. i.e.
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char buf[10];
if(strlen(ptr) < sizeof(buf) - 1){
strcpy(buf, ptr);
}
This example uses an unsafe function, but in a relatively secure way.. (assuming strlen(...) works properly
One would really wonder if they even will. I mean regular expressions have been used for parsing log files for decades. It's nothing new. And I know have been used for quite a while as well.
Do you have any formal training in information theory, number theory, or advanced mathematics? Just because something that you have created in your bedroom appears to be secure, chances are an experienced cryptanalyst can probably find numerous flaws with it in only a few minutes. Why try and reinvent the wheel... good crypto is out there, take the time to implement it properly. Also, if you claim its provably secure, I'd like to see your proof. You claim the key is long and could fit on a USB device. Well, if it has a long key, how is it different than a one time pad? If it has a long key that you feed into some algorithm in an OFB-like mode, you really haven't invented anything new.