"Maybe they're just greedy companies who want to extract as much money as possible from the OSS trend?"
If that was so, I doubt RedHat would be one of the biggest single contributers to OSS, they contribute massive amounts of code to GCC, glibc, and the kernel (among other projects).
Actually the FiOS 10/2 service in my area costs slightly less than Comcast's much slower 6/.5. Also all new products/services that are 'superior' to old ones start out costing more. Eventually the prices drop as new products/services come out, this is nothing new.
Use a security model like SELinux (or maybe AppArmour, not sure what its capable of though), and make it so your browser is only able to write to areas it needs to (say ~/.$browser and/tmp/$user/$browser), and doesn't have permission to execute any other programs (or make a whitelist of what it can). It could also be setup so that the browser doesn't have permission to read any files except stuff in the directories its allowed to write in. Pretty much the worst case scenarios that could happen then are: 1.) All your browser's data is trashed (such as bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc) 2.) Your browsers info is stolen (again history, bookmarks, saved passwords, etc) 3.) Your browser just dumps a crap load of data in the directories it can write to and fills up all space available (solveable by limiting how much data the individual app can write, etc).
Multilayered security is generally the best option, though it's harder to setup.
Good for you, I'm sure you, little Mr. AC, is very respected in the free/libre open source community.
Also if we associate ourselves with AOL in anyway we will be banned from what? Your blog? The internet petition? (Petition to do what anyways, boycott AOL?) The wikipedia entry (not a chance)?
Also why is AOL so special in getting your boycott?
I wouldn't be surprised if you've never contributed to a single FLOSS project.
suspend2 doesn't actually use swap, it just needs a partition or file to push everything out to for while its suspended (and the common solution is to push it out to a swap partition)
but Atlantis in Pegasus won't have that luxury, and they'll show up there (the Ori haven't visited there either, evidently, which puts a whole lie to the Ancients protecting earth's galaxy, but that's another story
When was it said that the Ancients weren't also protecting Pegasus, as well as where ever the Asguard are?
The "no-military" clause makes the software non-OSS. Also there haven't been any at all large projects adopt that clause, and I'm not sure if theres been any that it would ever matter for.
Of course. Skype is written in Qt (not sure if its Qt3 or Qt4 off the top of my head), Kopete is a KDE IM app similar to Gaim that is written using Qt/KDE, Psi is a Jabber client, I think GTalk is also written in Qt.
Lots of programs already use Qt (including Google Earth, and Opera).
Ok, then a better way to word it would be: HL2/Steam stuff only runs on Win32 (Wine is a Win32/etc layer for linux).
Wine certainly proved you wrong here, since it 'translates' DirectX stuff to OpenGL shaders etc.
Microsoft's DirectX/Direct3d implementation (the official one) is tied directly to the hardware. He never said it would be impossible to make an implementation that wasn't.
I have to agree, from the video it looks like it would be pretty fun (hopefully it won't be crippled in multiplayer). It would be interesting to fight someone with only the teleporter gun (it could become very interesting if done right). I'm not sure if this counts as 'innovation', but its definitely going to make things much more interesting, FPS have been growing stale.
No, if you go to the ZDI link at the bottom it shows you this:
Disclosure Timeline:
2006.06.16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.07.25 Vulnerability information provided to ZDI security partners
2006.07.26 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2006.07.26 - Coordinated public release of advisory
So it was REPORTED to Mozilla on the 16th. Mozilla ANNOUNCED it on the 25th. Sorry it wasn't one day. Still kicking the crap out of IE updates... but thats not saying much.
Arbitrary shell code can be run on the system for many of the exploits. So it would be trivial for an attacker to infect your system with pretty much any program they want (though they may have to make the shell code download the executable to your system first if theres a limit on how much they could run at once).
From what I know Opera supports using the same filter sets as the adblock extensions for firefox. Also the Konqueror in KDE 4 will be natively cross platform (linux, windows, os x, *bsd, solaris, and many others). Konqueror also has had built in adblock as well for a while now (uses same filters as firefox to).
Firefox and Gecko devs really need to take security much more serious. It seems like they're just trying to rely on the browsers being open source and keeping security just an after thought.
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By doing it this way they can claim that its not a new tax, it had just gone unnoticed, so you shouldn't blame them.
"Maybe they're just greedy companies who want to extract as much money as possible from the OSS trend?"
If that was so, I doubt RedHat would be one of the biggest single contributers to OSS, they contribute massive amounts of code to GCC, glibc, and the kernel (among other projects).
Actually the FiOS 10/2 service in my area costs slightly less than Comcast's much slower 6/.5. Also all new products/services that are 'superior' to old ones start out costing more. Eventually the prices drop as new products/services come out, this is nothing new.
Use a security model like SELinux (or maybe AppArmour, not sure what its capable of though), and make it so your browser is only able to write to areas it needs to (say ~/.$browser and /tmp/$user/$browser), and doesn't have permission to execute any other programs (or make a whitelist of what it can). It could also be setup so that the browser doesn't have permission to read any files except stuff in the directories its allowed to write in. Pretty much the worst case scenarios that could happen then are:
1.) All your browser's data is trashed (such as bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc)
2.) Your browsers info is stolen (again history, bookmarks, saved passwords, etc)
3.) Your browser just dumps a crap load of data in the directories it can write to and fills up all space available (solveable by limiting how much data the individual app can write, etc).
Multilayered security is generally the best option, though it's harder to setup.
WebKit (based on KHTML, possibly going to be merged back with mainline KHTML soon) is Open Source (LGPL), which is what Safari uses for rendering.
Webkit is to Safari what Gecko is to Firefox and what KHTML is to Konqueror.
Good for you, I'm sure you, little Mr. AC, is very respected in the free/libre open source community.
Also if we associate ourselves with AOL in anyway we will be banned from what? Your blog? The internet petition? (Petition to do what anyways, boycott AOL?) The wikipedia entry (not a chance)?
Also why is AOL so special in getting your boycott?
I wouldn't be surprised if you've never contributed to a single FLOSS project.
Good thing Tivos and other DVRs have no way to just skip 30 seconds...
Too bad Valve didn't do this with Counter Strike, if they did maybe they would still be in business now...
suspend2 doesn't actually use swap, it just needs a partition or file to push everything out to for while its suspended (and the common solution is to push it out to a swap partition)
One encourages the other. And I'll let you in on a little secret, it's not the one the RIAA wants you to think.
Starcraft: Ghost was shelved. Don't expect to ever see it (which is probably going to be a good thing from the info that had been released about it)
The Orion was also what the Atlantis crew named the Ancient ship they found (before it went... SPOILER!!! boom)
Get a browser with a spell checker, don't ask slashdot for one.
When was it said that the Ancients weren't also protecting Pegasus, as well as where ever the Asguard are?
The "no-military" clause makes the software non-OSS. Also there haven't been any at all large projects adopt that clause, and I'm not sure if theres been any that it would ever matter for.
From http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/changelog.html for the 'next' version:
"- VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder"
Of course. Skype is written in Qt (not sure if its Qt3 or Qt4 off the top of my head), Kopete is a KDE IM app similar to Gaim that is written using Qt/KDE, Psi is a Jabber client, I think GTalk is also written in Qt.
Lots of programs already use Qt (including Google Earth, and Opera).
Ok, then a better way to word it would be: HL2/Steam stuff only runs on Win32 (Wine is a Win32/etc layer for linux).
Microsoft's DirectX/Direct3d implementation (the official one) is tied directly to the hardware. He never said it would be impossible to make an implementation that wasn't.
I have to agree, from the video it looks like it would be pretty fun (hopefully it won't be crippled in multiplayer). It would be interesting to fight someone with only the teleporter gun (it could become very interesting if done right). I'm not sure if this counts as 'innovation', but its definitely going to make things much more interesting, FPS have been growing stale.
The Cheyenne Mountain complex was never secret. They didn't use security through obscurity, they used security by freaking mountain shield.
Arbitrary shell code can be run on the system for many of the exploits. So it would be trivial for an attacker to infect your system with pretty much any program they want (though they may have to make the shell code download the executable to your system first if theres a limit on how much they could run at once).
From what I know Opera supports using the same filter sets as the adblock extensions for firefox. Also the Konqueror in KDE 4 will be natively cross platform (linux, windows, os x, *bsd, solaris, and many others). Konqueror also has had built in adblock as well for a while now (uses same filters as firefox to).
The newest version of Opera has built-in AdBlock.
Firefox and Gecko devs really need to take security much more serious. It seems like they're just trying to rely on the browsers being open source and keeping security just an after thought.