I should add that it has gotten somewhat better over the years, but as far as I know only because a bunch of webcomic fans blew up a shitstorm over the *constant* nominations for deletions.
Dozens of webcomics have been deleted in the past few months, and even some popular ones have been AfDed (such as Checkerboard Nightmare and even Megatokyo).
Megatokyo marked for deletion?! I think that says it all.
Adobe's answer is just the greatest kind of cop out. "Websites just need to make sure to check all uploaded material". But that's obviously never going to happen -- fuck they can't even do that themselves! End users can't rely on every single website out there to be vigilant at all times and never accept an upload of a flash file.
If this is really unfixable in the flash plugin, then maybe it's because your security model is fucking broken and it's time to throw this piece of shit away?
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Exactly. A million things could cause you to listen on a port. Bittorrent for a WoW update? Pretty much any multiplayer game? Did you enable remote desktop?
This argument is pure BS. It's contrived and mangled in such a way that MS can get away with classifying this as a "low risk threat" so they don't have to patch it. To hell with leaving thousand if not millions of paying costumers hanging. "UPGRADE TO WIN7 DANGIT! We need the money!"
In addition, it is my understanding that this is a remote code execution vulnerability.
Only in MS-land is remote code execution classified as a low risk threat.
It is my understanding that bankruptcy won't save you from punitive damages? If so (and assuming that there are punitive damages in this case which seems likely) doesn't that pretty much condemn him to life on the street if he doesn't find a way to vanish?
Again you fail at the simplest of things. Where would one expect to find a specification for a free format? Probably under "Documentation", right? And what would you know it is in fact there: http://www.theora.org/doc/. But even if there weren't that wouldn't even matter, since there is a BSD licensed reference implementation of the decoder which would do well enough as a specification.
Now as for that hardware thing -- no, Theora does not and probably will never have hardware decoding support and that is a reasonable reason for excluding it from being a requirement for the HTML5 standard. As are the bandwidth issues; Youtube is bleeding enough money already.
But what I do not get is why you suddenly get all defensive. Did Xiph.org kick your dog or what?
I am not affiliated with Xiph.org in any way what so ever. I just happen to be able to read what it says on their webpage loud and clear. Something that you seem to fail at.
Of course they say that. They are in the business of scaring people into buying their crap so they think they are safe -- when in actuality their vict^Wcostumers get pwned by exploitable holes in IE anydangway.
I'd say BitTorrent -- with firewall rules or some other measure so random people can't see your microscopic swarm. It uses SHA-1 hashes of chunks, so if a torrent client says a file downloaded successfully it's pretty much guaranteed to be true.
They need to do way instain adware>
who annoy thier user. becuse these user cant fright back?
it was on slasdot this mroing a user in ofice who had kill her three popups. they are taking the laptop back to the shop too get repalcement my pary are with the colleges who didnt see the persentration; i am truley sorry for your lots.
Privacy policies have been a farce ever since they were introduced (mandated by law?) in the US. I have yet to see one that didn't more or less say the same as Raymond Chen points out in this blog post.
"We won't do anything illegal... except when we feel like it". There - boiled 99.9% of all privacy policies on the (US part of the) web down to one simple sentence.
3.5 hours? Consider yourself damn lucky. I've been downloading stuff for 24 hours straight and the installer still insists there's 14 hours remaining. 20k/s speeds for the loss.
There are very good reasons why we have stuck with the ; as statement terminator instead of newline. Not the least of which being that systems simply don't agree on what bytes constitute a newline. Windows thinks it's \r\n, UNIX-ish systems that it's \n and (pre OS-X? Haven't ever owned one myself) Macs think that it should be \r. And then you have things like "logical newline" e.g. std::endl
That is not to say that putting some more work into compiler error messages wouldn't be a good idea. I assume most C++ programmers have tried receiving a _huge_ amount of garbage template crap as an error message instead of "missing semicolon" when trying to output text with std::cout.
It hit v3.0 recently and after all these versions it still doesn't support facing mode correctly. So when you have a magazine layouted for print it looks ridiculous on screen. Here's an example: http://www.dsu.dk/skakblad/sb2009/2009-01.pdf - it's in Danish, but just looking at the page layout (remember to put in Continuous-facing or facing mode) it should be obvious that it's wrong.
This has been handled correctly in evince and kpdf for quite some time now.
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I should add that it has gotten somewhat better over the years, but as far as I know only because a bunch of webcomic fans blew up a shitstorm over the *constant* nominations for deletions.
Megatokyo marked for deletion?! I think that says it all.
Adobe's answer is just the greatest kind of cop out. "Websites just need to make sure to check all uploaded material". But that's obviously never going to happen -- fuck they can't even do that themselves! End users can't rely on every single website out there to be vigilant at all times and never accept an upload of a flash file.
If this is really unfixable in the flash plugin, then maybe it's because your security model is fucking broken and it's time to throw this piece of shit away?
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Blizzard and their Chinese partners haven't found the right people to bribe yet.
Or maybe they found the right people, but they're asking too much for CWoW to be profitable?
What was your point again?
I would have written "C-C-C-COMBO CRUSHER!!!!! Eh... wait..."
Precedent is a common law thing. Brazil - and pretty much the rest of South America - has a civil law system. The common law article even has a link to a neat picture: Legal systems of the world.
Exactly. A million things could cause you to listen on a port. Bittorrent for a WoW update? Pretty much any multiplayer game? Did you enable remote desktop?
This argument is pure BS. It's contrived and mangled in such a way that MS can get away with classifying this as a "low risk threat" so they don't have to patch it. To hell with leaving thousand if not millions of paying costumers hanging. "UPGRADE TO WIN7 DANGIT! We need the money!"
In addition, it is my understanding that this is a remote code execution vulnerability. Only in MS-land is remote code execution classified as a low risk threat.
ALL non-trivial (non-TeX :D) software is either shipped with known bugs, or it costs 1000+$ per line of code (aviation, DoD, NSA - that kind of stuff).
It is my understanding that bankruptcy won't save you from punitive damages? If so (and assuming that there are punitive damages in this case which seems likely) doesn't that pretty much condemn him to life on the street if he doesn't find a way to vanish?
Again you fail at the simplest of things. Where would one expect to find a specification for a free format? Probably under "Documentation", right? And what would you know it is in fact there: http://www.theora.org/doc/. But even if there weren't that wouldn't even matter, since there is a BSD licensed reference implementation of the decoder which would do well enough as a specification.
Now as for that hardware thing -- no, Theora does not and probably will never have hardware decoding support and that is a reasonable reason for excluding it from being a requirement for the HTML5 standard. As are the bandwidth issues; Youtube is bleeding enough money already.
But what I do not get is why you suddenly get all defensive. Did Xiph.org kick your dog or what?
I am not affiliated with Xiph.org in any way what so ever. I just happen to be able to read what it says on their webpage loud and clear. Something that you seem to fail at.
Stop spreading lies and misconceptions, you dumb twat.
Of course they say that. They are in the business of scaring people into buying their crap so they think they are safe -- when in actuality their vict^Wcostumers get pwned by exploitable holes in IE anydangway.
This error message sums it up pretty well:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e4d'
/index.asp, line 3
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Too many client tasks.
Acess?! Really?!
I'd say BitTorrent -- with firewall rules or some other measure so random people can't see your microscopic swarm. It uses SHA-1 hashes of chunks, so if a torrent client says a file downloaded successfully it's pretty much guaranteed to be true.
They need to do way instain adware>
who annoy thier user. becuse these user cant fright back?
it was on slasdot this mroing a user in ofice who had kill her three popups. they are taking the laptop back to the shop too get repalcement my pary are with the colleges who didnt see the persentration; i am truley sorry for your lots.
"We won't do anything illegal... except when we feel like it". There - boiled 99.9% of all privacy policies on the (US part of the) web down to one simple sentence.
3.5 hours? Consider yourself damn lucky. I've been downloading stuff for 24 hours straight and the installer still insists there's 14 hours remaining. 20k/s speeds for the loss.
There Ain't No Such Thing As SMS From... what? Latvia?
They are beginning to puzzle the events of Godzilla vs Barkley (*) together at least!
*: Warning! Contains flash video and may make you laugh uncontrollably at horrible plot.
There are very good reasons why we have stuck with the ; as statement terminator instead of newline. Not the least of which being that systems simply don't agree on what bytes constitute a newline. Windows thinks it's \r\n, UNIX-ish systems that it's \n and (pre OS-X? Haven't ever owned one myself) Macs think that it should be \r. And then you have things like "logical newline" e.g. std::endl That is not to say that putting some more work into compiler error messages wouldn't be a good idea. I assume most C++ programmers have tried receiving a _huge_ amount of garbage template crap as an error message instead of "missing semicolon" when trying to output text with std::cout.
That only leaves the question of why the heck that is not the default? And why you can't enable this option from within the Firefox plugin?
It hit v3.0 recently and after all these versions it still doesn't support facing mode correctly. So when you have a magazine layouted for print it looks ridiculous on screen. Here's an example: http://www.dsu.dk/skakblad/sb2009/2009-01.pdf - it's in Danish, but just looking at the page layout (remember to put in Continuous-facing or facing mode) it should be obvious that it's wrong. This has been handled correctly in evince and kpdf for quite some time now.
May I recommend taking a look at http://www.thejesperbay.dk/ then?
That should be a fairly simple conclusion from the fact that (almost) anyone anywhere in the world can send email to any email address.