Because people like us like to tell everybody that Firefox is sooo much better and safer than IE. Thus when a problem occurs, it is news... It's really our fault:)
Sigh... based upon other threads, you need network.enableIDN set to true for this exploit to work... I had changed it to false a while ago based upon the last IDN hostname exploit:)
Okay, then atleast for me I can say 'The exploit doesn't work' on my Firefox 1.0.6 running on Windows XP SP2. Clicked on your link, got to a blank page and then clicked my back button to get to your comment and then hit 'reply to this' to get here:) My browser didn't freeze, crash or in any way mess up. Who knows why? My extensions (Adblock, IE View, and AI Roboform)? The browsers fear of my retribution?
Hmmm... didn't crash my Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP SP2... The browser session I'm using to post this is the same session that I used for following the 'Real proof of concept' link of the parent...
> People should be prosecuted for their actions,not > their thoughts.
Physical or not, speech is an action (which can cause other actions...). I'd rather lock up the person who says "I'm going to kill you" before they actually kill you; however it's easier to get a conviction with an actual dead body as evidence...
If you ever want Linux to be mainstream, options 1 and 2 are not really options. As a result it comes down to the same issue you have with MS, this is, waiting for the distro vendor to release a patch.
You have no chance of winning and the majority of the populace will not even have heard of you by the time they vote. What do you hope to accomplish by running?
It's not at all clear that posting on the front page of the web site will help. How often do you browse the Cisco home page or the home pages of all of the vendors of technology that you use. Targeted email lists that alert you are the way to disseminate this information...
Anyway, as you say, we all have different ideas of how to make this info available...
No, they have a diverse set of books required for the courses, coming from the "XXX for Dummies" and "ZZZ for Idiots" series:)
Plus I'm sure alot of books from Microsoft Press...
Of course the same argument can be applied to maps.
Knowing the locations of streets, rivers, libraries, or entire cities could provide terrorists with a major intelligence coup.
Sooner we'll be just like the old Soviet Union where entire cities did not appear on maps due to National Security issues.
"An improvement of over 1000 times is spectacular in anybody's books, and is one hell of a boost for the proponents of Linux at the back-end of the financial world."
Oh come on! They consolidated 21 databases and moved to Oracle. That's why it is 1000 times faster. The move to Linux is a footnote as far as the performance issue is concerned -- as stated in the article, the move to Linux was for cost. I'm sure Solaris or god help me, Windows Server 2003 would have given similar performance results. Now if they had moved to MySQL...
Yeah, just like GIMP is a Photoshop killer:)
These projects tend to focus on the cool technology and the fact that it is open source rather than the actual needs of the actual user community (and that is not other open source developers).
No matter how you spin it, you're still in Ohio. Now if they supplied free beer (to help you forget where you are) along with that fast network access...
I've always felt that Sun had great hardware and crappy software (with the possible exception of Solaris itself). They really don't make any money off of the thing they seem to be famous for now days, Java. How will they make money? Charge even more for JavaOne? Really increase the charge for J2EE certification? Convince people that Sun's web and application servers are a good choice?
Great! Now I can fear thieves not only taking my wallet, but also cutting off a finger... Biometrics scare me because one of the ways of fooling them is to cut off (or pry out) various body parts...
> I have never seen a single spam email with chinese letters..why?
I get it all of the time (that is, my spam filters get it and discard it since I don't read Chinese).
With attribution to Monty Python...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.
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How you expect to fund a server farm sufficient to handle the query and indexing load? It's one thing to build the world's coolest search engine (and I agree that there are lots of smart people out there to do it), it's another to have the computer power to truly turn it loose to the masses.... after all, we're also used to response times or a second or so...
I guess you really gotta love Linux to use Debian, but I guess that has alway been the case, now it's even more so...
Debian has always been a bit on the extreme for me, but more power to them for keeping pure.
Yow, head in sand...
"If 3rd parties aren't prepared to play along, then they don't have to release linux drivers. They can't have it both ways."... and they won't support Linux. And who wins in this scenario? Are you really trying to keep Linux an OS for the elite who can build a machine with the limited hardware supported by open source drivers.
Get real, they want to protect there IP and some of their IP is embedded in their drivers.
Yep, it does include cookies. The Earthlink analysis and the article are misleading... I was shocked at the number until I realized that it included tracking cookies.
I heard that according to the iTunes 'get info' menu item, the 128k sampling rate for the original locked AAC file goes to 125k for the unlocked version (that is, after running PlayFair).
Seems like there is some loss or is it just bad header information...
Interesting name: Sendmails..
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Did anybody notice (or did I not do a deep enough search of the/. trail) but their company name is 'sendmails'. I wonder if anybody will confuse them with 'sendmail' and thus give them a underserved veneer of legitemacy...
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Because people like us like to tell everybody that Firefox is sooo much better and safer than IE. Thus when a problem occurs, it is news... It's really our fault :)
Sigh... based upon other threads, you need network.enableIDN set to true for this exploit to work... I had changed it to false a while ago based upon the last IDN hostname exploit :)
Ha ha ha ha! Based upon the previous problems with IDN host names I had already set it to 'false', no wonder I could not reprooduce it :)
Okay, then atleast for me I can say 'The exploit doesn't work' on my Firefox 1.0.6 running on Windows XP SP2. Clicked on your link, got to a blank page and then clicked my back button to get to your comment and then hit 'reply to this' to get here :) My browser didn't freeze, crash or in any way mess up. Who knows why? My extensions (Adblock, IE View, and AI Roboform)? The browsers fear of my retribution?
Hmmm... didn't crash my Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP SP2... The browser session I'm using to post this is the same session that I used for following the 'Real proof of concept' link of the parent...
> People should be prosecuted for their actions,not > their thoughts. Physical or not, speech is an action (which can cause other actions...). I'd rather lock up the person who says "I'm going to kill you" before they actually kill you; however it's easier to get a conviction with an actual dead body as evidence...
If you ever want Linux to be mainstream, options 1 and 2 are not really options. As a result it comes down to the same issue you have with MS, this is, waiting for the distro vendor to release a patch.
You have no chance of winning and the majority of the populace will not even have heard of you by the time they vote. What do you hope to accomplish by running?
It's not at all clear that posting on the front page of the web site will help. How often do you browse the Cisco home page or the home pages of all of the vendors of technology that you use. Targeted email lists that alert you are the way to disseminate this information... Anyway, as you say, we all have different ideas of how to make this info available...
What happened to the days when a can of Jolt was all that was needed? God I must be getting old...
No, they have a diverse set of books required for the courses, coming from the "XXX for Dummies" and "ZZZ for Idiots" series :)
Plus I'm sure alot of books from Microsoft Press...
Your posting is seriously weak. If we don't understand, educate us. If you can't do that, maybe you don't understand.
Of course the same argument can be applied to maps. Knowing the locations of streets, rivers, libraries, or entire cities could provide terrorists with a major intelligence coup. Sooner we'll be just like the old Soviet Union where entire cities did not appear on maps due to National Security issues.
Oh come on! They consolidated 21 databases and moved to Oracle. That's why it is 1000 times faster. The move to Linux is a footnote as far as the performance issue is concerned -- as stated in the article, the move to Linux was for cost. I'm sure Solaris or god help me, Windows Server 2003 would have given similar performance results. Now if they had moved to MySQL...
Yeah, just like GIMP is a Photoshop killer :)
These projects tend to focus on the cool technology and the fact that it is open source rather than the actual needs of the actual user community (and that is not other open source developers).
No matter how you spin it, you're still in Ohio. Now if they supplied free beer (to help you forget where you are) along with that fast network access...
I've always felt that Sun had great hardware and crappy software (with the possible exception of Solaris itself). They really don't make any money off of the thing they seem to be famous for now days, Java. How will they make money? Charge even more for JavaOne? Really increase the charge for J2EE certification? Convince people that Sun's web and application servers are a good choice?
Great! Now I can fear thieves not only taking my wallet, but also cutting off a finger... Biometrics scare me because one of the ways of fooling them is to cut off (or pry out) various body parts...
I get it all of the time (that is, my spam filters get it and discard it since I don't read Chinese).
With attribution to Monty Python...
How you expect to fund a server farm sufficient to handle the query and indexing load? It's one thing to build the world's coolest search engine (and I agree that there are lots of smart people out there to do it), it's another to have the computer power to truly turn it loose to the masses.... after all, we're also used to response times or a second or so...
I guess you really gotta love Linux to use Debian, but I guess that has alway been the case, now it's even more so... Debian has always been a bit on the extreme for me, but more power to them for keeping pure.
Yow, head in sand... "If 3rd parties aren't prepared to play along, then they don't have to release linux drivers. They can't have it both ways." ... and they won't support Linux. And who wins in this scenario? Are you really trying to keep Linux an OS for the elite who can build a machine with the limited hardware supported by open source drivers.
Get real, they want to protect there IP and some of their IP is embedded in their drivers.
Yep, it does include cookies. The Earthlink analysis and the article are misleading... I was shocked at the number until I realized that it included tracking cookies.
I heard that according to the iTunes 'get info' menu item, the 128k sampling rate for the original locked AAC file goes to 125k for the unlocked version (that is, after running PlayFair). Seems like there is some loss or is it just bad header information...
Did anybody notice (or did I not do a deep enough search of the /. trail) but their company name is 'sendmails'. I wonder if anybody will confuse them with 'sendmail' and thus give them a underserved veneer of legitemacy...