In general, when law enforcement has an instance where someone won't give up a password, they just put you in jail anyway, effectively that is just as good as finding you guilty, either way, you end up in jail. You lose.
TRESOR is an implementation of AES as a cipher kernel module which stores the keys in the CPU debug registers, and which handles all of the crypto operations directly on the CPU, in a way which prevents the key from ever entering RAM.
Awesome, its stores the keys in the cpu debug registers when in use. The data to recreate them still has to flow into the CPU from ram, so all you're taking out is the path between ram and the CPU for an intermediate step. So all you get is a speed boost, no security gain since the attacker already knows the algorithm your using and all the data you provided to the CPU. The speed boost is nice if its being used all over the place (like for an encrypted FS) but otherwise its not that big of a deal and its certainly not new.
As for the rest, cryptfs or bitlocker with your screensaver/lock setup to throw out your keys when the screen blanks/suspends/whatever.
So basically Win7 with BitLocker enabled or whatever alternative setup results in the same thing on Linux. Its not even a little hard, and you've already got well past the point where they'll just beat the password out of you.
If you did it to learn, good for you. If you did it for some sort of practical value, then this really is one place where epic fail applies.
The number of weather extremes will get larger. A prediction which turned out true.
No shit, the longer you keep records, the bigger those records will get.
I guess that means we have baseball and football warnings as well since we get new records broken almost every year, especially when they introduce a new state.
Nothing has gotten worse, you're just using two different sets of records for your comparison. You're using one set, a modern one, man made and recorded to justify your findings, but you're randomly throwing out other findings that show our weather has been far fucking worse than anything on the planet currently sees in the past.
Storms have been worse, its been far hotter at times and far colder at times. The oceans have been far higher and far lower. CO2 levels have been higher and lower. All of these things are known to have been far worse than anything 'we have on record' so your records and 'OMG ITS BIGGER!@$!%!@%!@' shit are just silly childish 'look at me!' pleas.
Best part... when it suits you... you'll use Earth's records to justify the 'its getting worse' bits... and just ignore the bits were archeological records make your point of view wrong.
Yes, because the humidity moved down from above. The total moisture in the air is lower, even if the air around where the rain fall happened is higher temporarily.
In other news, if you jump in a like, you'll get wet. (Hint, that doesn't mean the lake is now dry).
Can we prove TODAY that higher levels of CO2 in the air trap more of the sun's energy?
Yes, thats something that your average science fair project could answer. The answer is well know and accepted, its not up for debate, its fact.
The problem however, is trying to reduce the mass of interacting particles known as 'The Universe' down to a simulation that consists of the ratio of CO2 to other gases in the atmosphere of a single planet known as 'Earth'.
You'd have to be barking mad to think you can predict the climate based on that. And yet, in some circles, we have just that.
We can't even predict tomorrows weather in most of the populated parts of the world well enough to bet on, and we know a lot more about it proportionally than we do our global climate.
Your statements about other variables involved are good points.
It just shows that if you've picked your side in the AGW debate, then you've already fucked up. We have some data that currently suggests one particular outcome. Unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things a new born child knows about as much about the way the climate works over millions of years as anyone (scientist or otherwise) actually claiming to 'know' about global warming.
There are two many variables and 0 direct observations of the past, all we have are indirect inferences. Thats not what I call science.
Without a statement from the guy who created the directory on the server, its not obvious, its just pure speculation.
While it may seem logical to name it Linux, that isn't what Linus called it, so unless they guy is just a dick (which would be weird considering he was letting him host his source on his ftp site back in the day) he wouldn't have intentionally renamed it I would think. So that makes a mistake seem far more likely to me than what is at first glance the obvious answer.
In short, you don't have any more of a clue where the name came from than the person you're responding to, just get over yourself.
The number of actively erupting volcanoes is rather high actually, not from a historical stand point, but certainly into the hundreds. So if its true that one emits more than all of humanity, than certainly humanities impact means nothing if there are hundreds of other volcanoes all emitting more than man.
So, they make up about 1/6th of the worlds CO2 emissions... IF you ignore all other sources. Significant? Certainly, but we're not big buy on the block by far, and we're only looking at 2 sources which dilute our effect on the pool even more.
Human caused CO2 emissions are, by their very nature, significantly different in their geographic dispersion than a few volcanoes, but that couldn't be a factor at all, could it?
No. Well, it could be a factor, but its a safe bet it isn't, otherwise there would be much harsher (certainly massively higher CO2 levels) environments around these locations, there aren't once you get out of the immediate vicinity, which means the CO2 is being dispersed into the rest of the atmosphere equally. So the end result is that evidence says no, volcanoes don't get any special treatment compared to humans because of there limited numbers. If there was a difference, Hawaiians would know about it, and they don't. Well, they do know that when your house gets ran over by lava that its time to move, but I don't think the CO2 emissions up the mountain are bothering them a whole lot or making their islands hotter than you'd expect for being in the Tropics.
Of course, if you want to have real fun, start browsing 'climate' websites for 'facts' about the numbers and I'm sure you can prove me right and wrong 8 different ways to Sunday.
As you resign, it may suck to give up your admin rights, but at least you can look back at it with pride knowing that the reason your sad about giving them up is that you are giving away a piece of you that you are proud of.
Slashdot is a name that will be spoken among geeks for years to come. It saw MySpace come and go, will probably watch Facebook and Twitter do the same. And through it all, it just kept doing what it does rather than just following the fad.
Be proud of what you've left behind, I would be if I were you.
Funny that you're modded down, your reaction pretty much matches mine.
MakerBot is cool, but pointless and not actually useful yet for anything that matters. The technology just isn't there yet at the hobbiest level. Its certainly out there, just not at the hobbiest level. Everything produced out of the RepRap is too big and blocky and most importantly, weak to be used in anything of value other than some art deco kind of crap around a geeks house.
Oh well, modded down for disagreeing with a factual statement. Welcome to the new slashdot, where 15 year old fanboys and spa accounts like DrBob rule the roost.
Anything you do with closed source software and libraries you can also do with GPL software.
Theoretically, sure. Practically, no.
I can easily license Windows for use in my own private projects, takes about 20 minutes. There is absolutely no way that can be done with the Linux kernel. Just tracking down all the copyright holders (every submitter since Linus started accepting patches) would be more expensive then just buying a windows license for every person on the planet I think, there is a good portion of time with no revision control system to even give you a hint as to who the submitters were.
why would one think they can just nab it and do whatever the hell they please with it? If one is of that mindset, then they already have no regard for copyright (same mindset that thinks its fine to distribute hacked closed source stuff as well), so why would the GPL give them any pause for concern?
Because thats the impression they get when zealots like yourself and Stallman go off ranting about how OSS kicks the llamas ass. You rant and rave about how it gives freedom to do with software what you want... when in actualality, GPL is nothing more than a set of restrictions defining exactly what you CAN NOT DO with the software. Its hypocrisy in living color, even if you're too dense/brainwashed to see it.
You'd already have to have some licensing agreement in place to distribute the closed source stuff, so why would they presume there are no rules for other software they are including?
Negotiating software license agreements is a rather simple process for closed source software. Two parties agree that both sides have something the other wants, then they negotiate what to exchange so both sides are happy, generally this involves money changing hands.
Negotiating software license agreements for GPLd software to be used in a package with contains closed source is impossible. Its a non-starter, because GPL is the most restrictive license there is. It allows no room for anything that doesn't believe exactly what it believes. Its GPL all the way or not at all, and you can fuck off if you don't agree with that. Again, making it more restrictive than any closed source software package I've ever dealt with. It is easier for me to work with Windows kernel code than it is to deal with a 50 line perl script covered by GPL.
you should really be going after the closed source camp
The only response I have to this is simply: Go fuck yourself you spoiled hippie.
And I'll follow it up with: GPL is really taking over the world... isn't it?
one of the few incompatible open source licenses.
There is only really one incompatible OSS license, and thats GPL and its children.
Those cases are unfortunate, but authors are often willing to work with people to make exceptions and/or dual license. This is, IMO, the only valid complaint here but, in practice, this rarely comes up and, when it does, is often easily remedied. The only big one that comes to mind for me is "ZFS" and the Linux Kernel. There's an easy immediate solution (using fuse), a recompile option (users can compile it in themselves - it just can't be distributed linked-in), and a redevelopment effort (ext4's growing feature set), and either party could change licenses if it was really that critical (in a smaller project, that'd probably have happened).
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So let me get this straight, you think FUSE is an option? Or that users should be compiling their own code for what should have been done by the actual kernel developers? You think ext4 is ANYTHING like ZFS? And the only solution you have is 'someone has to change their license'...
FUSE isn't an option for anyone that isn't living in mommies basement. Its fine if you're dicking around at home, its worthle
Except the Tivo is a general purpose computer. It's just they they've made it boot into software you can't exit from, and provided no way to access that general purpose computer's features.
So your second sentence proves your first sentence wrong... and you still don't get it.
A TiVo is NOT A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. It was designed and built for a specific task. It matters not one single bit that it shares components that a general purpose computer shares. If thats your argument, then my wrist watch is a general purpose computer and you're a moron.
You can change it... and make it into a general purpose computer, again reenforcing the original point that it ISN'T A GENERAL PURPOSE computer.
It doesnt' become one just because you want it to so you can try to make a point. If it was a general purpose computer you'd be able to use it for any general purpose out of the box. You can't because it isn't.
I can race my Jeep with or without any modification, that doesn't make it a race car, and only an idiot would try to argue that it did.
Most cash machines in the last 10-15 years have been general purpose computers too.
No they weren't. For example, they have cash drawers and credit card readers, no one on earth would consider putting those two things on a general purpose computer at home.
was deep down just a general purpose computer with an ISDN card, and some fancy software running on it.
Built for a specific purpose and intended for no other, making it not a general purpose computer.
By your definition the ECU in my car, my TV, my toaster, my microwave, my toy radar gun, my radios for my RC cars/planes, and my XBox are all general purpose computers, yet no person with any sort of grasp on reality at all would call them such things.
Its not a general purpose computer just because it has an x86 chip in it either.
It was about using browser cache as storage medium by doing some neat tricks on the server to get the browser to keep a javascript file in cache, which inturn functions as a cookie when used by various pages that reference it.
Page requests cookie.js, the server then serves cookie.js with a cache expiry of a hundred years into the future, and says it hasn't changed in a hundred years either.
Your browser caches it and then doesn't request a new copy for a 100years, why should it, it was told the file isn't going to change.
The data in the file now serves as a unique ID which can be used to associate your browsing habits.
THAT IS A ZOMBIE COOKIE. It has nothing to do with flash. This isn't new, a friend of mine and I discovered this years ago by accident due to a bug in a web app we were working on.
Not really, but your reply also makes you an asshole.
He never said it was a superior product.
It would be rather retarded for anyone to blindly state 'Linux is a superior product' without any sort of specifications, that makes you an asshole, and an ignorant one at that. For instance, your superior product is effected in the exact same way as EVERY OTHER FUCKING OS SINCE THE OS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT in this cause. The problem discussed here works perfectly fine in Firefox on Linux, so your superior product... isn't.
So now that you've just shown us how you're an asshole, and he's got a pretty valid point about avoid Linux cause it has a lot of douche bag asshole losers, why don't you just shut the fuck up and crawl back in your hole in the wall down in mommies basement.
You can have one instance of foobar.dll shared by all applications when the developers can maintain proper backwards compatibility in their libraries so that new versions don't break other existing installed software packages which depend on it... then we can go that route.
Sadly that immediately rules out pretty much all OSS software projects which run under the idea that everyone has nothing better to do than sit around keeping all their software packages up to date.
Bing toolbar also tracks the URLs you enter in the address bar rather than just your searches. That was clearly stated in the EULA you didn't bother to read. They now get all your urls, not just your search requests.
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In general, when law enforcement has an instance where someone won't give up a password, they just put you in jail anyway, effectively that is just as good as finding you guilty, either way, you end up in jail. You lose.
TRESOR is an implementation of AES as a cipher kernel module which stores the keys in the CPU debug registers, and which handles all of the crypto operations directly on the CPU, in a way which prevents the key from ever entering RAM.
Awesome, its stores the keys in the cpu debug registers when in use. The data to recreate them still has to flow into the CPU from ram, so all you're taking out is the path between ram and the CPU for an intermediate step. So all you get is a speed boost, no security gain since the attacker already knows the algorithm your using and all the data you provided to the CPU. The speed boost is nice if its being used all over the place (like for an encrypted FS) but otherwise its not that big of a deal and its certainly not new.
As for the rest, cryptfs or bitlocker with your screensaver/lock setup to throw out your keys when the screen blanks/suspends/whatever.
So basically Win7 with BitLocker enabled or whatever alternative setup results in the same thing on Linux. Its not even a little hard, and you've already got well past the point where they'll just beat the password out of you.
If you did it to learn, good for you. If you did it for some sort of practical value, then this really is one place where epic fail applies.
Because it's a target regardless of who owns it. God could own it and call it the garden of Eden and people would still blow it up
The number of weather extremes will get larger. A prediction which turned out true.
No shit, the longer you keep records, the bigger those records will get.
I guess that means we have baseball and football warnings as well since we get new records broken almost every year, especially when they introduce a new state.
Nothing has gotten worse, you're just using two different sets of records for your comparison. You're using one set, a modern one, man made and recorded to justify your findings, but you're randomly throwing out other findings that show our weather has been far fucking worse than anything on the planet currently sees in the past.
Storms have been worse, its been far hotter at times and far colder at times. The oceans have been far higher and far lower. CO2 levels have been higher and lower. All of these things are known to have been far worse than anything 'we have on record' so your records and 'OMG ITS BIGGER!@$!%!@%!@' shit are just silly childish 'look at me!' pleas.
Best part ... when it suits you ... you'll use Earth's records to justify the 'its getting worse' bits ... and just ignore the bits were archeological records make your point of view wrong.
Yes, because the humidity moved down from above. The total moisture in the air is lower, even if the air around where the rain fall happened is higher temporarily.
In other news, if you jump in a like, you'll get wet. (Hint, that doesn't mean the lake is now dry).
Can we prove TODAY that higher levels of CO2 in the air trap more of the sun's energy?
Yes, thats something that your average science fair project could answer. The answer is well know and accepted, its not up for debate, its fact.
The problem however, is trying to reduce the mass of interacting particles known as 'The Universe' down to a simulation that consists of the ratio of CO2 to other gases in the atmosphere of a single planet known as 'Earth'.
You'd have to be barking mad to think you can predict the climate based on that. And yet, in some circles, we have just that.
We can't even predict tomorrows weather in most of the populated parts of the world well enough to bet on, and we know a lot more about it proportionally than we do our global climate.
Your statements about other variables involved are good points.
It just shows that if you've picked your side in the AGW debate, then you've already fucked up. We have some data that currently suggests one particular outcome. Unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things a new born child knows about as much about the way the climate works over millions of years as anyone (scientist or otherwise) actually claiming to 'know' about global warming.
There are two many variables and 0 direct observations of the past, all we have are indirect inferences. Thats not what I call science.
Without a statement from the guy who created the directory on the server, its not obvious, its just pure speculation.
While it may seem logical to name it Linux, that isn't what Linus called it, so unless they guy is just a dick (which would be weird considering he was letting him host his source on his ftp site back in the day) he wouldn't have intentionally renamed it I would think. So that makes a mistake seem far more likely to me than what is at first glance the obvious answer.
In short, you don't have any more of a clue where the name came from than the person you're responding to, just get over yourself.
Just one question? Are you also a GPL zealot?
The only people I see get so uptight about this sort of stuff are also GPL zealots, which is ironic considering GPL depends on copyright to exist.
If by 'He' you mean cancer, than sure. I don't think Linus can take credit for it.
The number of actively erupting volcanoes is rather high actually, not from a historical stand point, but certainly into the hundreds. So if its true that one emits more than all of humanity, than certainly humanities impact means nothing if there are hundreds of other volcanoes all emitting more than man.
According to Wikipedia:
World total CO2 emissions by man kind: 29,888,121 metric tons (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions)
Volcanoes emittssions total per year: 117,934,016 (converted from 130M short tons from this source http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php)
So, they make up about 1/6th of the worlds CO2 emissions ... IF you ignore all other sources. Significant? Certainly, but we're not big buy on the block by far, and we're only looking at 2 sources which dilute our effect on the pool even more.
Human caused CO2 emissions are, by their very nature, significantly different in their geographic dispersion than a few volcanoes, but that couldn't be a factor at all, could it?
No. Well, it could be a factor, but its a safe bet it isn't, otherwise there would be much harsher (certainly massively higher CO2 levels) environments around these locations, there aren't once you get out of the immediate vicinity, which means the CO2 is being dispersed into the rest of the atmosphere equally. So the end result is that evidence says no, volcanoes don't get any special treatment compared to humans because of there limited numbers. If there was a difference, Hawaiians would know about it, and they don't. Well, they do know that when your house gets ran over by lava that its time to move, but I don't think the CO2 emissions up the mountain are bothering them a whole lot or making their islands hotter than you'd expect for being in the Tropics.
Of course, if you want to have real fun, start browsing 'climate' websites for 'facts' about the numbers and I'm sure you can prove me right and wrong 8 different ways to Sunday.
So that means by default, God exists, and we have to prove he doesn't?
Hrm, /me looks at your sig
Hmmm indeed
As you resign, it may suck to give up your admin rights, but at least you can look back at it with pride knowing that the reason your sad about giving them up is that you are giving away a piece of you that you are proud of.
Slashdot is a name that will be spoken among geeks for years to come. It saw MySpace come and go, will probably watch Facebook and Twitter do the same. And through it all, it just kept doing what it does rather than just following the fad.
Be proud of what you've left behind, I would be if I were you.
Funny that you're modded down, your reaction pretty much matches mine.
MakerBot is cool, but pointless and not actually useful yet for anything that matters. The technology just isn't there yet at the hobbiest level. Its certainly out there, just not at the hobbiest level. Everything produced out of the RepRap is too big and blocky and most importantly, weak to be used in anything of value other than some art deco kind of crap around a geeks house.
Oh well, modded down for disagreeing with a factual statement. Welcome to the new slashdot, where 15 year old fanboys and spa accounts like DrBob rule the roost.
They are intended to secure against the removal of your rights.
Ironic, considering they are in fact removing your rights themselves in an attempt to prevent someone else from doing it.
I'm afraid of dieing, will you kill me first so I don't have to? Thats pretty much what your argument for GPL equates too.
Anything you do with closed source software and libraries you can also do with GPL software.
Theoretically, sure. Practically, no.
I can easily license Windows for use in my own private projects, takes about 20 minutes. There is absolutely no way that can be done with the Linux kernel. Just tracking down all the copyright holders (every submitter since Linus started accepting patches) would be more expensive then just buying a windows license for every person on the planet I think, there is a good portion of time with no revision control system to even give you a hint as to who the submitters were.
why would one think they can just nab it and do whatever the hell they please with it? If one is of that mindset, then they already have no regard for copyright (same mindset that thinks its fine to distribute hacked closed source stuff as well), so why would the GPL give them any pause for concern?
Because thats the impression they get when zealots like yourself and Stallman go off ranting about how OSS kicks the llamas ass. You rant and rave about how it gives freedom to do with software what you want ... when in actualality, GPL is nothing more than a set of restrictions defining exactly what you CAN NOT DO with the software. Its hypocrisy in living color, even if you're too dense/brainwashed to see it.
You'd already have to have some licensing agreement in place to distribute the closed source stuff, so why would they presume there are no rules for other software they are including?
Negotiating software license agreements is a rather simple process for closed source software. Two parties agree that both sides have something the other wants, then they negotiate what to exchange so both sides are happy, generally this involves money changing hands.
Negotiating software license agreements for GPLd software to be used in a package with contains closed source is impossible. Its a non-starter, because GPL is the most restrictive license there is. It allows no room for anything that doesn't believe exactly what it believes. Its GPL all the way or not at all, and you can fuck off if you don't agree with that. Again, making it more restrictive than any closed source software package I've ever dealt with. It is easier for me to work with Windows kernel code than it is to deal with a 50 line perl script covered by GPL.
you should really be going after the closed source camp
The only response I have to this is simply: Go fuck yourself you spoiled hippie.
And I'll follow it up with: GPL is really taking over the world ... isn't it?
one of the few incompatible open source licenses.
There is only really one incompatible OSS license, and thats GPL and its children.
Those cases are unfortunate, but authors are often willing to work with people to make exceptions and/or dual license. This is, IMO, the only valid complaint here but, in practice, this rarely comes up and, when it does, is often easily remedied. The only big one that comes to mind for me is "ZFS" and the Linux Kernel. There's an easy immediate solution (using fuse), a recompile option (users can compile it in themselves - it just can't be distributed linked-in), and a redevelopment effort (ext4's growing feature set), and either party could change licenses if it was really that critical (in a smaller project, that'd probably have happened).
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So let me get this straight, you think FUSE is an option? Or that users should be compiling their own code for what should have been done by the actual kernel developers? You think ext4 is ANYTHING like ZFS? And the only solution you have is 'someone has to change their license' ...
FUSE isn't an option for anyone that isn't living in mommies basement. Its fine if you're dicking around at home, its worthle
Except the Tivo is a general purpose computer. It's just they they've made it boot into software you can't exit from, and provided no way to access that general purpose computer's features.
So your second sentence proves your first sentence wrong ... and you still don't get it.
A TiVo is NOT A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. It was designed and built for a specific task. It matters not one single bit that it shares components that a general purpose computer shares. If thats your argument, then my wrist watch is a general purpose computer and you're a moron.
You can change it ... and make it into a general purpose computer, again reenforcing the original point that it ISN'T A GENERAL PURPOSE computer.
It doesnt' become one just because you want it to so you can try to make a point. If it was a general purpose computer you'd be able to use it for any general purpose out of the box. You can't because it isn't.
I can race my Jeep with or without any modification, that doesn't make it a race car, and only an idiot would try to argue that it did.
Most cash machines in the last 10-15 years have been general purpose computers too.
No they weren't. For example, they have cash drawers and credit card readers, no one on earth would consider putting those two things on a general purpose computer at home.
was deep down just a general purpose computer with an ISDN card, and some fancy software running on it.
Built for a specific purpose and intended for no other, making it not a general purpose computer.
By your definition the ECU in my car, my TV, my toaster, my microwave, my toy radar gun, my radios for my RC cars/planes, and my XBox are all general purpose computers, yet no person with any sort of grasp on reality at all would call them such things.
Its not a general purpose computer just because it has an x86 chip in it either.
This has absolutely 0 to do with HTML5 and works in any browser since (and including) Netscape Navigator.
It does not however get around private browsing (at least not by itself, current flash implementations would allow it to do so however)
It actually wasn't about flash cookies.
It was about using browser cache as storage medium by doing some neat tricks on the server to get the browser to keep a javascript file in cache, which inturn functions as a cookie when used by various pages that reference it.
Page requests cookie.js, the server then serves cookie.js with a cache expiry of a hundred years into the future, and says it hasn't changed in a hundred years either.
Your browser caches it and then doesn't request a new copy for a 100years, why should it, it was told the file isn't going to change.
The data in the file now serves as a unique ID which can be used to associate your browsing habits.
THAT IS A ZOMBIE COOKIE. It has nothing to do with flash. This isn't new, a friend of mine and I discovered this years ago by accident due to a bug in a web app we were working on.
That would make you an imbecile.
Not really, but your reply also makes you an asshole.
He never said it was a superior product.
It would be rather retarded for anyone to blindly state 'Linux is a superior product' without any sort of specifications, that makes you an asshole, and an ignorant one at that. For instance, your superior product is effected in the exact same way as EVERY OTHER FUCKING OS SINCE THE OS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT in this cause. The problem discussed here works perfectly fine in Firefox on Linux, so your superior product ... isn't.
So now that you've just shown us how you're an asshole, and he's got a pretty valid point about avoid Linux cause it has a lot of douche bag asshole losers, why don't you just shut the fuck up and crawl back in your hole in the wall down in mommies basement.
Fucking ignorant newbies.
Really? A plugin can't just go around watching the flash directory and wipe out files as they are created?
Its not really that hard. Its a hack, but its entirely doable.
I swear to god, people have no creatativity when it comes to solving problems on computers these days.
So the browser shouldn't load the flash plugin, problem fucking solved. Next.
Yes, it can simply refuse to load flash until a version that plays nicely is made, its not hard, in fact, its really fucking easy actually.
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Seriously?
You can have one instance of foobar.dll shared by all applications when the developers can maintain proper backwards compatibility in their libraries so that new versions don't break other existing installed software packages which depend on it ... then we can go that route.
Sadly that immediately rules out pretty much all OSS software projects which run under the idea that everyone has nothing better to do than sit around keeping all their software packages up to date.
Right, because the load the Linux repositories have on them is anything like download.com ...
Yes, it is a direct result of you using an OS that no one cares about and has a statistically irrelevant market share.
Bing toolbar also tracks the URLs you enter in the address bar rather than just your searches. That was clearly stated in the EULA you didn't bother to read. They now get all your urls, not just your search requests.