I hardly see this as being Firefox's fault. It's been a more common denominator to have Javascript as the culprit. There's always been some "handling" issue in just about every browser ever coded. So with this continuing, I'd be pointing all fingers at Javascript and nothing else.
Compliance should be the next target of finger pointing too. If Firefox seems have its act together and it keeps falling prey to, and having to adapt to, issues of external development, I really think it's time for an overhaul on some highly exploitable Javascript code.
My initial impression: Entrapment
And since when does the RIAA get to act like feds and be part of a raid? The boundaries of law enforcement between the record industry seem to be heavily blurred if this is happening. Sounds like the RIAA wants to do a little too much CSI role playing in these setups. I'm imagining little numbered paper tents on tape reels, ziplock bags with drink straws and beer caps, carbon dust on mixing console faders, etc. This is a ridiculous waste of time and money. Who pays for this? Is this tax payer money being thrown at the desire to feel badass in a dark blue jacket with yellow letters on the back? All for the sake of abolishing the spread of entertainment. so. over. it. GET A NEW HOBBY.
When the current administration was was securing their win, a lot of promises were made in order to fuel (pardon the pun) the race for securing the last reserves. The momentum needed to be there for big investment to take place to secure wins and deliver on those promises made. So with that being considered, it stands to reason, you don't want bad advertising in the form of alarming factual statistics being relased by the scientific community being released and hindering the fund security for isolating the last of the worlds petroleum, right? So the cover was thickened. A massive veil of 'turn-the-other-cheek' was set in place in order to ensure that financial gain could be had.
Now that the whole Charade is under fire from every thing to the administrations take on the environment, space, and that god damned war, people are beginning to lift the corners of the rug where this stuff had been swept under. Unfortunately, what's been found continued to rot while it was being hidden. Now it's even more harsh to deal with. In the end, the deals been exposed, the plug's getting pulled, and I couldn't be happier about it. Just too bad a few of us were saying things like this were going to happen since back in the 70's. It's just unfortunate that we had to have an acceleration period in the last 10-20 years to solidify the problem. And too bad the delicate cycle of the Earth has been damaged permanently as a result of man's greed and quest for senseless power and control.
I do believe VoIP has had this covered for a while in it's own form.
It's just that MS decided to romance the right people and had the major phone technology under lock down until they could perfect it's usage in this means. Now that they have it figured out, they're acting like they just found The Lost Ark.
Would be to build small, one room tech centers and use 5-10-20 machines per location. I think this would give local users incentive to either save the money necessary to use the machines or work on a community level to maintain and keep the centers functioning if the services are intended to be free. Libraries in this country are centers for learning, I think situations like this should be treated one in the same: a service is provided to the local community, and through continual effort, those services can be enjoyed by all who choose to participate and help cultivate this in to some thing long lasting and ultimately, educational - the original purpose intended (we hope).
If there are still pending issues with power distribution to these areas, then yes, remove such an emphasis on placing, in the name of building industry 'face', all the eggs in one basket and shelling out unusable laptops to countries that can't even afford to power their homes with electricity.
One would think that as a totally 'use, abuse, and buy-new-when-it-comes-out, and throw the old one away' kind of country like the US, that we'd be moving a larger initiative to recycle our old machines, refurb them, and ship them off to needy locations who can use the technology that every one here thinks is outdated.
We haven't had a cloudless, starry night in weeks. The local viewing has been terrible the last few months. Waaaay too much moisture in the atmosphere. Any way, I hope it clears up for a few minutes at least. I saw this a few years ago and it was quite intense.
no, i hadn't gone any of those routes yet. i still have the modem in it's crippled state. you can plug it in and fire up ethereal and watch the show. good times. I think what ever it was may have tried to reach out to the three machines I had on the network and I was worried that it rooted linux and possibly got through to the bios.
perhaps i'm just being overly paranoid, but better to err on the side of caution, i suppose.
i have no confirmed proof other than ethereal logs
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but i just recently had an older d-link wireless router that got infected with some thing that turned it in to a spam bot. it was using the router as the spam generation unit. sending out packets to and from the most random addresses. stuff that could no doubt be spam oriented. I captured about 100MB of logs pertaining to the whole issue. it even managed to block numerous updates to the firmaware. and would not allow itself to factory default. it's like it had a hwole other firmware implanted in it and was taken control of.
the wayback machine did not have links to it, but it was registered years ago and forced to submit when the xmas island domain name fallout happened last year. Seek out one j0nkatz to find information. He was the proud owner of trollse.cx and I think dolphinse.cx.
sorry to get your hopes up, but it's been up and now, permanenetly, down. thing of the past.
I couldn't agree more with you. It, unfortunately, is a repercussion of laws that were written in haste and designed to blanket the whole. Leaving little to no room for speacial instance cases such as this. It's unfortunate there isn't a provided avenue for things like this to safely, legally, travel to ensure public safety and protect those who just wish to let people know there's a problem. I think the bridge analogy is perfect. Load tests need to be performed more often. Every where. Holding people's feet to the fire and actually owning up to the new 'accountability' buzzword is what it's all about.
because in some countries, simply looking for exploits is illegal, so you may have opened yourself up for much larger issues that just finding a way to tell them about. You may just be looking at having to find a lawyer to get you out of what ever local, state, or federal or national law may have been broken by doing it.
So, basically, you're not going to want to send them a letter, crafted on construction paper, with random letters cut from miscellaneous periodical literature, formed in words and sentences stating your conditions for release of information!
In short, I have no good suggestion other than seeking legal counsel, IMMEDIATELY.
There should be follow up to this periodically to see how progress is going for the switch. I think it's great publicity for Linux in the office world.
To me they seem largely impracticle, but I can see that people are ready for a true desktop class portable to become available - some thing more than a 17" widescreen or the occasional 19". There's nothing like being able to work on a full dual or tri-head setup, close the lid on your work, head home and plug in to your extra monitors, and re-open the work in progress a few minutes later. Albeit with a 20" you can probably cancel your membership at the gym. Some thing of this size the user is not concerned with what their having to carry back and forth, they're just psyched they have a nice work portable area.
How well can they condense the guts of it? Can they stretch out the lcd all the way to tthe edge of the bezel and keep the keys tight to the edge so there's no wasted space? The world of 17" machines like the HP 9600 (total tank) requires massive power supplies to lug around, gives you limted long-term battery life and are the loudest machines I've ever heard with 3+ fans constantly whirring away trying to keep heat to a minimum.
Virtually every access point, router, controller sold on the market today comes complete with bandwidth control functions built in to them.
Familiarize yourself with QoS, Contenet Filtering, and bandwidth throttling via caping per-user throughput.
If the traffic and workload are too heavy for small router configurations in attempt to gain control of the issue, one should seek out companies like WatchGaurd, St. Bernard, Baracuda, and many more. These are content filtering hardware manufacturers. They produce exclusive devices that do this exact task. Depending on your influence on the design of the network and budget, a content filter is always going to be the best answer. Control times, site urls, meta tag filters, etc are all normal functions of these pieces of equipment and the work very well. These are often times found in educaion networks where kids pound the network with YouTube video requests, Limewire traffic, and IM nonsense.
Lastly, I do not intend to sound insluting here, but if a 'consultant' were to be 'consulting' Slashdot for ideas on how to control things like QoS, I'd be questioning the actual hands-on-knowledge of said 'consultant' and wondering if that person/company were the right ones to choose for handling my networks.
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I hardly see this as being Firefox's fault. It's been a more common denominator to have Javascript as the culprit. There's always been some "handling" issue in just about every browser ever coded. So with this continuing, I'd be pointing all fingers at Javascript and nothing else.
Compliance should be the next target of finger pointing too. If Firefox seems have its act together and it keeps falling prey to, and having to adapt to, issues of external development, I really think it's time for an overhaul on some highly exploitable Javascript code.
My initial impression: Entrapment And since when does the RIAA get to act like feds and be part of a raid? The boundaries of law enforcement between the record industry seem to be heavily blurred if this is happening. Sounds like the RIAA wants to do a little too much CSI role playing in these setups. I'm imagining little numbered paper tents on tape reels, ziplock bags with drink straws and beer caps, carbon dust on mixing console faders, etc. This is a ridiculous waste of time and money. Who pays for this? Is this tax payer money being thrown at the desire to feel badass in a dark blue jacket with yellow letters on the back? All for the sake of abolishing the spread of entertainment. so. over. it. GET A NEW HOBBY.
did somebody ask me to bring the fucking rock? Because, ya know, I did. I brought the fucking rock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4aGXTHo7w
Thanks for letting me know that it is permission/knowledge based, but it really does not answer my question in any way.
Do we know that repeated retina scanning is healthy for our eyes?
When the current administration was was securing their win, a lot of promises were made in order to fuel (pardon the pun) the race for securing the last reserves. The momentum needed to be there for big investment to take place to secure wins and deliver on those promises made. So with that being considered, it stands to reason, you don't want bad advertising in the form of alarming factual statistics being relased by the scientific community being released and hindering the fund security for isolating the last of the worlds petroleum, right? So the cover was thickened. A massive veil of 'turn-the-other-cheek' was set in place in order to ensure that financial gain could be had.
Now that the whole Charade is under fire from every thing to the administrations take on the environment, space, and that god damned war, people are beginning to lift the corners of the rug where this stuff had been swept under. Unfortunately, what's been found continued to rot while it was being hidden. Now it's even more harsh to deal with. In the end, the deals been exposed, the plug's getting pulled, and I couldn't be happier about it. Just too bad a few of us were saying things like this were going to happen since back in the 70's. It's just unfortunate that we had to have an acceleration period in the last 10-20 years to solidify the problem. And too bad the delicate cycle of the Earth has been damaged permanently as a result of man's greed and quest for senseless power and control.
http://science.slashdot.org/ahref=
Any way. Sign me up. I'll gladly run a drill rig for NASA or what ever. I've got skills. Just get me off this war torn planet.
Why does the RIAA suck so much?
I want the RIAA disbanded and sued for every bit of money they've stole from the public and artists, and be forced to give it back!
I seriously wish more artists would boycott this stuff.
really reinventing the wheel on this one guys!
I do believe VoIP has had this covered for a while in it's own form.
It's just that MS decided to romance the right people and had the major phone technology under lock down until they could perfect it's usage in this means. Now that they have it figured out, they're acting like they just found The Lost Ark.
Would be to build small, one room tech centers and use 5-10-20 machines per location. I think this would give local users incentive to either save the money necessary to use the machines or work on a community level to maintain and keep the centers functioning if the services are intended to be free. Libraries in this country are centers for learning, I think situations like this should be treated one in the same: a service is provided to the local community, and through continual effort, those services can be enjoyed by all who choose to participate and help cultivate this in to some thing long lasting and ultimately, educational - the original purpose intended (we hope).
If there are still pending issues with power distribution to these areas, then yes, remove such an emphasis on placing, in the name of building industry 'face', all the eggs in one basket and shelling out unusable laptops to countries that can't even afford to power their homes with electricity.
One would think that as a totally 'use, abuse, and buy-new-when-it-comes-out, and throw the old one away' kind of country like the US, that we'd be moving a larger initiative to recycle our old machines, refurb them, and ship them off to needy locations who can use the technology that every one here thinks is outdated.
We haven't had a cloudless, starry night in weeks. The local viewing has been terrible the last few months. Waaaay too much moisture in the atmosphere. Any way, I hope it clears up for a few minutes at least. I saw this a few years ago and it was quite intense.
no, i hadn't gone any of those routes yet. i still have the modem in it's crippled state. you can plug it in and fire up ethereal and watch the show. good times. I think what ever it was may have tried to reach out to the three machines I had on the network and I was worried that it rooted linux and possibly got through to the bios.
perhaps i'm just being overly paranoid, but better to err on the side of caution, i suppose.
but i just recently had an older d-link wireless router that got infected with some thing that turned it in to a spam bot. it was using the router as the spam generation unit. sending out packets to and from the most random addresses. stuff that could no doubt be spam oriented. I captured about 100MB of logs pertaining to the whole issue. it even managed to block numerous updates to the firmaware. and would not allow itself to factory default. it's like it had a hwole other firmware implanted in it and was taken control of.
the wayback machine did not have links to it, but it was registered years ago and forced to submit when the xmas island domain name fallout happened last year. Seek out one j0nkatz to find information. He was the proud owner of trollse.cx and I think dolphinse.cx.
sorry to get your hopes up, but it's been up and now, permanenetly, down. thing of the past.
DOLPHINSE.CX!!!!
I couldn't agree more with you. It, unfortunately, is a repercussion of laws that were written in haste and designed to blanket the whole. Leaving little to no room for speacial instance cases such as this. It's unfortunate there isn't a provided avenue for things like this to safely, legally, travel to ensure public safety and protect those who just wish to let people know there's a problem. I think the bridge analogy is perfect. Load tests need to be performed more often. Every where. Holding people's feet to the fire and actually owning up to the new 'accountability' buzzword is what it's all about.
That people are considering this a little more dire than 'oh, gee, looks were not having grilled swordfish staeks on the ion-barbie tonight.'
because in some countries, simply looking for exploits is illegal, so you may have opened yourself up for much larger issues that just finding a way to tell them about. You may just be looking at having to find a lawyer to get you out of what ever local, state, or federal or national law may have been broken by doing it.
So, basically, you're not going to want to send them a letter, crafted on construction paper, with random letters cut from miscellaneous periodical literature, formed in words and sentences stating your conditions for release of information!
In short, I have no good suggestion other than seeking legal counsel, IMMEDIATELY.
it's like etch-a-sketch, pilsbury brownie bake oven, and toothpaste all rolled in to one!
They will become masters of SameGnome!
There should be follow up to this periodically to see how progress is going for the switch. I think it's great publicity for Linux in the office world.
To me they seem largely impracticle, but I can see that people are ready for a true desktop class portable to become available - some thing more than a 17" widescreen or the occasional 19". There's nothing like being able to work on a full dual or tri-head setup, close the lid on your work, head home and plug in to your extra monitors, and re-open the work in progress a few minutes later. Albeit with a 20" you can probably cancel your membership at the gym. Some thing of this size the user is not concerned with what their having to carry back and forth, they're just psyched they have a nice work portable area.
How well can they condense the guts of it? Can they stretch out the lcd all the way to tthe edge of the bezel and keep the keys tight to the edge so there's no wasted space? The world of 17" machines like the HP 9600 (total tank) requires massive power supplies to lug around, gives you limted long-term battery life and are the loudest machines I've ever heard with 3+ fans constantly whirring away trying to keep heat to a minimum.
Good. I'm about to move away from Linux entireley, myself.
I'm tired of beating my head against the wall and jump through hoops to get things working.
I've never wasted so much time in my life.
What a let down.
Virtually every access point, router, controller sold on the market today comes complete with bandwidth control functions built in to them.
Familiarize yourself with QoS, Contenet Filtering, and bandwidth throttling via caping per-user throughput.
If the traffic and workload are too heavy for small router configurations in attempt to gain control of the issue, one should seek out companies like WatchGaurd, St. Bernard, Baracuda, and many more. These are content filtering hardware manufacturers. They produce exclusive devices that do this exact task. Depending on your influence on the design of the network and budget, a content filter is always going to be the best answer. Control times, site urls, meta tag filters, etc are all normal functions of these pieces of equipment and the work very well. These are often times found in educaion networks where kids pound the network with YouTube video requests, Limewire traffic, and IM nonsense.
Lastly, I do not intend to sound insluting here, but if a 'consultant' were to be 'consulting' Slashdot for ideas on how to control things like QoS, I'd be questioning the actual hands-on-knowledge of said 'consultant' and wondering if that person/company were the right ones to choose for handling my networks.
IRC. We pass links back and forth like that all day.
you could always try Tinyurl-ing them and see what happens.