What kind of "active scripting" is this? I can guarantee you that Firefox's JavaScript interpreter doesn't use OS-provided libraries to run the code - that would make cross-platform consistency impossible.
I can guarantee to you it does. How does it draw stuff on the screen, allocate memory, access the network etc. if it doesn't interact with OS provided libraries?
Mmm, I haven't looked through the source code, but I'm willing to bet that the Firefox JavaScript interpreter has to ask the browser to do things on its behalf instead of having direct access to OS libraries.
This means that the browser can and will limit what JavaScript can do. Which I'm guessing is what the grandparent was getting at.
P.S. I've quoted the appropriate part of the grandparent post as well, just so it's clear that the grandparent mentioned "Firefox's JavaScript interpreter" and not "Firefox."
As far as I'm aware, other browsers* don't allow "active scripting" to access the operating system unless a plug-in has been installed to do so (such as Java or Flash, and those have their own built-in restrictions).
* "other browsers" meaning ones that aren't IE or re-branded versions of IE.
"If you think about the fact that.NET loads DLLs into the browser itself and then Microsoft assumes they're safe because they're.NET objects, you see that Microsoft didn't think about the idea that these could be used as stepping stones for other attacks. This is a real tour de force."
So in other words, like 80+% of the other exploits on web, the exploit only works if you use Internet Explorer?
Really? I thought Summer was still hot in Australia.
Bearing in mind that Summer runs from December through March in Australia, rather than from June through September like it does in the Northern Hemisphere.
I'm surprised you mentioned Ma Bell, as AT&T seems to have almost all its pieces back together again. It seems that they aren't such a Humpty Dumpty after all.
My first assumption for being marked Flamebait is because I can't prove that all modern email applications block images. However, given that no one has cited an email client that doesn't block them (and this includes webmail), it's most likely correct.
p.s. You can cry me a river about your lost ad revenue. I don't care. Get a new business model.
I would assume their ads are text these days, since all (well, most) modern email clients block images by default. Switching to RSS won't make text ads go away.
Because an honest player puts actual effort into resource acquisition.
Whacking away at enemies seemed mostly a matter of being smart enough to not pick a fight with something stronger than you and hitting the right sequence of number keys again and again.
Where's the effort in that? I mean, you could do quests, but bots don't do quests, and monster grind is a legitimate form of leveling in WoW so....
Perfect example of a strawman. The grandparent didn't say anything about fighting monsters, but was referring to resource harvesting, most likely for the botting player to sell on the auction house.
Hasbro would have done a lot better to do something like this:
"We'll give you an endorsement and let you use the Scrabble logo and *not take legal action* if you will maintain certain standards and give us a cut of your advertising profits as a licensing fee."
And then negotiate as fair a deal as both parties can agree upon.
This is where modern copyright litigation really fails these companies: they're so quick to shut down anyone who might potentially be stepping into their IP, they're passing up really amazing opportunities at making use of their innovation. If these guys can do Scrabble so well, why not encourage them to do other Hasbro games in a way that makes Hasbro money?
That really depends on how the contract between Hasbro and EA reads.
EA may very well have exclusive rights to produce Hasbro games for computer systems, and thus not going after Scrabblous could result in EA suing Hasbro over breach of contract.
But here's the kicker: the game makers are citizens and residents of India, while the legal jurisdiction is the US. They can just sit back and let the money roll in until the tap gets turned off without any fear of losing anything. From the original article:
...the defendants could simply ignore it if they [have] no U.S. assets to seize, and aren't worried about Indian courts enforcing a default judgment.
Facebook, on the other hand, is located in the US. Hence why the DMCA takedown request matters.
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Linus was hired by Transmeta in... 1997? The Linux kernel was original published in 1991.
That's 6 years from the first release of the kernel, mind you.
Mmm, I haven't looked through the source code, but I'm willing to bet that the Firefox JavaScript interpreter has to ask the browser to do things on its behalf instead of having direct access to OS libraries.
This means that the browser can and will limit what JavaScript can do. Which I'm guessing is what the grandparent was getting at.
P.S. I've quoted the appropriate part of the grandparent post as well, just so it's clear that the grandparent mentioned "Firefox's JavaScript interpreter" and not "Firefox."
As far as I'm aware, other browsers* don't allow "active scripting" to access the operating system unless a plug-in has been installed to do so (such as Java or Flash, and those have their own built-in restrictions).
* "other browsers" meaning ones that aren't IE or re-branded versions of IE.
So in other words, like 80+% of the other exploits on web, the exploit only works if you use Internet Explorer?
D'oh, if I'd previewed that, I would have remembered to type <3 instead of <3.
3 IMAX
Too bad not all movies are made in IMAX. The tickets for IMAX here are not that much more expensive than tickets for the normal screens.
Unfortunately, the IMAX showings were sold out when some friends and I went to see The Dark Knight.
+1, Insightful.
If I only had mod points...
Really? I thought Summer was still hot in Australia.
Bearing in mind that Summer runs from December through March in Australia, rather than from June through September like it does in the Northern Hemisphere.
I'm surprised you mentioned Ma Bell, as AT&T seems to have almost all its pieces back together again. It seems that they aren't such a Humpty Dumpty after all.
I don't work with COBOL, but I'd at least hope they'd work with a network database (Honeywell IDS/2?) to store the actual payroll rates and things.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but this technique is for optical discs. 3.5" floppies are magnetic.
As much as I hate defending the government, the US is a Republic, not a Democracy.
Which might explain how Republicans keep getting voted in as presidents, but Democrats don't. ;)
Unfortunately, the editor for it has 4 Garbages... I downloaded the editor in Windows last night so I could tinker with it in my free time.
Unfortunately, my current game of choice is fairly new (Team Fortress 2), so I'm not even sure if it will run under Wine.
Unless you're using Firefox 2, in which case it's yellow for both unverified and verified certs.
We use Firefox 2 / Internet Explorer 6 where I work.
I wondered that, too.
My first assumption for being marked Flamebait is because I can't prove that all modern email applications block images. However, given that no one has cited an email client that doesn't block them (and this includes webmail), it's most likely correct.
I'm surprised your RDBMS doesn't complain that only one table is referenced in the ON statement.
Then again, I've never tried an ON statement that only references one table...
I would assume their ads are text these days, since all (well, most) modern email clients block images by default. Switching to RSS won't make text ads go away.
Perfect example of a strawman. The grandparent didn't say anything about fighting monsters, but was referring to resource harvesting, most likely for the botting player to sell on the auction house.
(I am not a lawyer)
That really depends on how the contract between Hasbro and EA reads.
EA may very well have exclusive rights to produce Hasbro games for computer systems, and thus not going after Scrabblous could result in EA suing Hasbro over breach of contract.
At least it didn't remind you of a line from an old Mel Brooks movie:
"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Of course they didn't, computers from Hell and DP* are supposed to have that shit done for you.
* Dell and HP
I admit, I haven't read the GPLv3 recently, but I thought it was the Affero GPL v3 that covered web as a service.
Facebook, on the other hand, is located in the US. Hence why the DMCA takedown request matters.
Unless you take into effect Disney getting copyright extended again, in which case it's (infinity - 1) days from now.