I'm not excusing Firefox for having security vulnerabilities, but you have to look at the fact that Firefox is relatively young and is rapidly growing. IE has had time to work out a lot of the bugs over the years since IE6 went live. How many years has IE6 been around with little or no modifications? There's less chance of introducing a bug because of this, but the browser is nearly featureless compared to Firefox because of it. Which would you rather have?
Secondly, Firefox's exploit to patch time is miniscule compared to Microsoft's. The last exploit that came out had a "fix" within days. Although that fix didn't actually correct the error, but turned off the functionality that was broken. Then again, this is compared to Microsoft which says "don't click on links you don't trust" when a vulnerability comes out, until it comes out with its patch a month or more later. Pick your poison.
When will programmers learn that there is NO good reason to keep passwords in plain text? Just save a one way hash, so you can hash the password they entered and compare. You wouldn't have this problem if the plain text passwords weren't in the database in the first place.
While jury nullification has happened, it's very rare. This is for multiple reasons:
Lawers/defendants are not allowed to mention jury nullification to the jurors. They can be held in contempt of court for this.
Very few people even know about jury nullificatoin.
If it somehow comes up in a court room, the judge will tell the jury that jury nullification is not allowed and they must follow the charge of the judge.
Assuming this information, pleading not guilty is a very dangerous thing to do. He's already pled guilty to Apple's lawers. He would be insane to change his story now. Nearly any jury you could pick would find him guilty. Then again, the larger the damages awarded to Apple, the higher chance that he would file for bankruptcy. Not such a bad thing to do for a law student (no house, very little property, etc, rather than a million dollar+ verdict hanging over his head the rest of his life).
Call them up and tell them you don't want any more convience checks. I did that for two of my credit cards and it only took 30 seconds each, once I got through to an operator.
Yeah, that sounds good, but it's FALSE. Lots of spyware is installed using known browser security holes. So, a user doesn't even have to click a button, they just have to be using Internet Explorer, and who can fault the normal user for using the browser that came with their computers. Most users don't even know there are other web browsers out there.
Beacuse spyware is, at this point in time, *legal*. Try suing spyware creators for illegally placing it on your machine. You'd have quite a fight on your hands to prove you didn't install it yourself.
They can't. A hostile takeover is impossible unless one of the two original owners wants to sell (each owns 30% I believe). And they would never do that. No amount of money MS could offer could beat what they may make in the future.
Discover does not do this. You can create a temporary credit card, but you can not put a limit on it. The only thing it does is let you set how long you want it to last (unless they've changed it in the last few months). I use MBNA and I like signing up for things that want my credit card in exchange for a free trial of something. I give them a $1 credit card, and no matter what, they can't charge me any more than a dollar if i forget to cancel or whatever.
I work for a company with a LEGAL site license, and I happen to have the number 640. It would be pretty dumb of MS to make this many corporate users mad.
Sorry to give you one less reason to hate MS, but they are taking the money as a BOND, not as payment. MS only gets the money if the spammers don't follow their rules. Probably something like "must use real return address and have a unsubscribe link that doesn't add you to more lists."
If anyone cares for more specifics, this case was Sega v Accolade. Sega is obviously a closed-source system, and the only way that a company could create games for the console (the Genesis at that time) was to liscense the code from Sega. Accolade did not want to do this, however, and decided to reverse engineer the code. And let me note that they were very good at reverse engineering and knew how to keep it legal. Because they used a clean/dirty room setup, the people who looked at the decompiled code never wrote any of the real code. That way, there was no possible copywrite infringement.
This was great for the first version, then Sega got smart and added a "password" required for the game to operate. Accolade again decompiled a new game cartridge and found this password. The only issue, though, is that on entry of this "password", the Genesis would display a message on the screen noting that the game was either written or liscensed by Sega. Sega said this was infringement on their Trademark and that Accolade's game did not have to show this message. They were unable to prove the fact that the message could optionally be not displayed. The court sided with Accolade saying that the reverse engineering was legal as long as they did not use the code in their own design.
Great point, I didn't even think of it that way. Few people are going to be able to make it to the $50 that is required by their TOS. And on top of that, there's this clause:
In the event of technical problems or data loss which
causes a loss of account information, your account will be reset at $0.00, and
you hereby waive any and all claims for any amount previously accrued but not yet
disbursed.
Right, like anyone's going to be paid.
P.S. Yes, I already posted about this below, but I figured this would be a good place to comment on this point again.
First of all, does this mean that the mail is sent through your own mail server? If so, that's a major TOS violation for most ISPs. If your computer is going to be its own mailserver, that may not work either, because of the number of ISPs now blocking outbout mail servers on their networks.
Secondly, check out their own TOS. For example, this line:
"In the event of technical problems or data loss which
causes a loss of account information, your account will be reset at $0.00, and
you hereby waive any and all claims for any amount previously accrued but not yet
disbursed."
So, not only are you helping spammers, but if they "accidentally" drop that table in their database, they don't have to pay you a thing. Sounds like a really good scam to me. I should go buy a house and put in the contract that if I forget to pay, the house is free for me to keep and the loan is forgiven.
Well, people think they can do everything with software, but they know there are limits to cars. For example, try to throw your car into reverse at 60 mph. I think it's defintily a "bug" that you can't do that. How about security? Think your car is more secure than MS Windows or Linux? How many cars have you heard of being stolen. And yes, automakers are doing things to improve security, like coded keys, but so are software designers, but these cars still get stolen.
I am happy to say that I registered it. Granted, I only had to pay $20 because I am a student, but the browser it absolutly amazing. I have had a few problems with crashing every once in a while (no more than IE), but the browser saves your every move in each tab so that if it does crash, you come right back up where you were. Also, their small screen versions are amazing. Pretty much any page, no matter what, will fit on your screen with no horizonal scrolling (like the stupid PocketIE). If only they would create a PocketPC version, I would gladly fork over some more money.
But much easier to block. And they aren't using the ISP's mail servers usually, they have their own SMTP servers that are doing the work. All the ISP's see (if they even care to look--it's easier to turn a blind eye) is a bunch of data coming out and heading for many servers around the globe.
Spammers do not use BCC or CC. They actually do send out individual emails to each person. The only real way to solve the spam problem is to make spam expensive for spammers to send. Whether that's processor-expensive or money-expensive, I'm not sure what would work best. But nothing up to this point has really seemed to work.
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I'm not excusing Firefox for having security vulnerabilities, but you have to look at the fact that Firefox is relatively young and is rapidly growing. IE has had time to work out a lot of the bugs over the years since IE6 went live. How many years has IE6 been around with little or no modifications? There's less chance of introducing a bug because of this, but the browser is nearly featureless compared to Firefox because of it. Which would you rather have?
Secondly, Firefox's exploit to patch time is miniscule compared to Microsoft's. The last exploit that came out had a "fix" within days. Although that fix didn't actually correct the error, but turned off the functionality that was broken. Then again, this is compared to Microsoft which says "don't click on links you don't trust" when a vulnerability comes out, until it comes out with its patch a month or more later. Pick your poison.
When will programmers learn that there is NO good reason to keep passwords in plain text? Just save a one way hash, so you can hash the password they entered and compare. You wouldn't have this problem if the plain text passwords weren't in the database in the first place.
Take a look at the main gmail page. You can see the counter slowly increasing your space allotment throughout the day.
- Lawers/defendants are not allowed to mention jury nullification to the jurors. They can be held in contempt of court for this.
- Very few people even know about jury nullificatoin.
- If it somehow comes up in a court room, the judge will tell the jury that jury nullification is not allowed and they must follow the charge of the judge.
Assuming this information, pleading not guilty is a very dangerous thing to do. He's already pled guilty to Apple's lawers. He would be insane to change his story now. Nearly any jury you could pick would find him guilty. Then again, the larger the damages awarded to Apple, the higher chance that he would file for bankruptcy. Not such a bad thing to do for a law student (no house, very little property, etc, rather than a million dollar+ verdict hanging over his head the rest of his life).Call them up and tell them you don't want any more convience checks. I did that for two of my credit cards and it only took 30 seconds each, once I got through to an operator.
Yeah, that sounds good, but it's FALSE. Lots of spyware is installed using known browser security holes. So, a user doesn't even have to click a button, they just have to be using Internet Explorer, and who can fault the normal user for using the browser that came with their computers. Most users don't even know there are other web browsers out there.
Beacuse spyware is, at this point in time, *legal*. Try suing spyware creators for illegally placing it on your machine. You'd have quite a fight on your hands to prove you didn't install it yourself.
They can't. A hostile takeover is impossible unless one of the two original owners wants to sell (each owns 30% I believe). And they would never do that. No amount of money MS could offer could beat what they may make in the future.
Don't ask me. I submitted the story and set it as "index" (the default) and for some reason the editor put it under your rights online.
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Discover does not do this. You can create a temporary credit card, but you can not put a limit on it. The only thing it does is let you set how long you want it to last (unless they've changed it in the last few months). I use MBNA and I like signing up for things that want my credit card in exchange for a free trial of something. I give them a $1 credit card, and no matter what, they can't charge me any more than a dollar if i forget to cancel or whatever.
I work for a company with a LEGAL site license, and I happen to have the number 640. It would be pretty dumb of MS to make this many corporate users mad.
Sorry to give you one less reason to hate MS, but they are taking the money as a BOND, not as payment. MS only gets the money if the spammers don't follow their rules. Probably something like "must use real return address and have a unsubscribe link that doesn't add you to more lists."
This was great for the first version, then Sega got smart and added a "password" required for the game to operate. Accolade again decompiled a new game cartridge and found this password. The only issue, though, is that on entry of this "password", the Genesis would display a message on the screen noting that the game was either written or liscensed by Sega. Sega said this was infringement on their Trademark and that Accolade's game did not have to show this message. They were unable to prove the fact that the message could optionally be not displayed. The court sided with Accolade saying that the reverse engineering was legal as long as they did not use the code in their own design.
Man, that would have to be a freaking huge "baroom napkin."
P.S. Yes, I already posted about this below, but I figured this would be a good place to comment on this point again.
First of all, does this mean that the mail is sent through your own mail server? If so, that's a major TOS violation for most ISPs. If your computer is going to be its own mailserver, that may not work either, because of the number of ISPs now blocking outbout mail servers on their networks.
Secondly, check out their own TOS. For example, this line:
So, not only are you helping spammers, but if they "accidentally" drop that table in their database, they don't have to pay you a thing. Sounds like a really good scam to me. I should go buy a house and put in the contract that if I forget to pay, the house is free for me to keep and the loan is forgiven.Well, people think they can do everything with software, but they know there are limits to cars. For example, try to throw your car into reverse at 60 mph. I think it's defintily a "bug" that you can't do that. How about security? Think your car is more secure than MS Windows or Linux? How many cars have you heard of being stolen. And yes, automakers are doing things to improve security, like coded keys, but so are software designers, but these cars still get stolen.
Yes, it was sold in 1991 to Novell: source
I hope you aren't confusing venerable with vulnerable. While sendmail may have problems, that's not what the article submitter was saying.
I am happy to say that I registered it. Granted, I only had to pay $20 because I am a student, but the browser it absolutly amazing. I have had a few problems with crashing every once in a while (no more than IE), but the browser saves your every move in each tab so that if it does crash, you come right back up where you were. Also, their small screen versions are amazing. Pretty much any page, no matter what, will fit on your screen with no horizonal scrolling (like the stupid PocketIE). If only they would create a PocketPC version, I would gladly fork over some more money.
But much easier to block. And they aren't using the ISP's mail servers usually, they have their own SMTP servers that are doing the work. All the ISP's see (if they even care to look--it's easier to turn a blind eye) is a bunch of data coming out and heading for many servers around the globe.
Spammers do not use BCC or CC. They actually do send out individual emails to each person. The only real way to solve the spam problem is to make spam expensive for spammers to send. Whether that's processor-expensive or money-expensive, I'm not sure what would work best. But nothing up to this point has really seemed to work.
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