And for most of NS8's official first day, anyone not using NS8 were redirected to this "alert" page, even users of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4! "Your current browser is outdated," my tail.
It's so Not A Good Thing(TM) that a commercial product needs a security upgrade on the first day of going official.
For what reason would we be cheerful when we have such devastating incidents daily such as the Dreaded 404, which has already been shown by logs to spread depression.
I'd rathter read comments about comments (ad inf.) about real news, than read unsubstantiated anonymous rumors passed off by the mainstream press as real news. It's not that blogs are so journalistic or reliable, it's that mainstream media news is so unreliable and devoid of journalism, that blogs make better news sources these days.
This reminds me of the Sony Watchman and all the other micro TV sets when they hit the market en force. (I remember an episode of Home Improvement, I think it was, where something happened to the great room TV, and everyone tried watching football on a screen this small... With a magnifying glass, no less.)
If you don't need glasses yet, I'd wager that the eye strain from trying to play this thing will make you need a pair right quick.
RFID tags embedded in the disposable packaging and reuseable palettes I can understand. That is indeed a practical and productive use of RFID technology.
However, RFID tags embedded in the product itself is a Very Bad Idea (TM). The article discusses nothing more than combating lawlessness by punishing the law-abiding. By definition, the law-abiding are not lawless, so even if this idea catches on it's doomed to fail in its stated goal.
I live an hour from anywhere, and the only DVD player I have is my PC. I got tired of Windows long ago and put Linux on it, and it plays my DVDs without problems.
Now these liberal-indoctrinated college pinheads, naturally believing piracy to be bad, but without understanding the real problem, are telling me that I'll have to buy a TV set and "RFID-enabled" DVD player just to watch a movie that I pay good money for? All in the name of stopping piracy?
Wrong answer. It is not the end that justifies the means, Hollywood and college kids. It's the means which must justify the end.
No, it hasn't. The rate of flaw discoveries in Mozilla's applications (Firefox included) has remained statistically level since before Firefox was called "Phoenix." Quite obviously, the Mozilla Foundation's marketshare has not remained steady since then, as you argue.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. It is a fundamentally flawed concept, which I would've thought Slashdotters realized. To suggest that an open-source project like Firefox doesn't know that is simply absurd.
The rapid response of the Mozilla Foundation, even if the ten-day hush-hush rumor is true, far outpaces Microsoft's publically announced thirty day delay after this vulnerability's announcement. And that's not counting the delay between the IE flaw's discovery and announcement.
Do those USB-to-serial port converter devices not work in Linux? I'd have figured that as long as usbdevfs is mounted, it would detect the new device as a serial port, and udev (in kernel 2.6, anyway) would mount the new port device as/dev/ttyS*
The Windows version of Firefox includes its own update notifier: a red up-arrow conspicuously placed next to the spinner. (All it needs to do is jump up and down like icons in a default KDE install.)
And unlike regular Windows updates, if the Firefox update fails due to insufficient user permissions (not logged in as Administrator), the installer is left on the desktop ready for the admin when the user calls the help desk about problems updating, saving bandwidth from another download.
It's true that it's not enough for updates to merely exist, but it's not like the Mozilla Foundation hasn't gone out of its way to all but force updates on Windows systems.
As far as *nix versions go, those distros that have Firefox in their repository already update Firefox as part of the distro's overall update process.
(I don't know about Mac OS versions. Any insight?)
And let's not forget about missing important calls or dropping calls because a) the phone crashed, b) the phone is too busy playing spyware ads, c) you can't dial because of all the pop-ups, or d) microsoft suddenly thinks you're pirating the windows mobile OS in rom and has disabled your phone until you call the reactivation number.
Ah, yes. The unstoppable replicators, which could only be defeated by, as the asgard Thor put it, human stupidity. No self-replicating form of artificial intelligence can stand up to natural stupidity.
I am not Sarah Connor, and I don't know anyone destined to stop these evil self-replicating robots, terminators, or Skynet. Just wanted to make that clear.
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It seems to me that their goal is to regulate their equivalent to Ma Bell, not the Internet itself. However, given the Canadian government's socialist-leaning tendencies, I wouldn't doubt such a thing is far behind. Even VoIP has to come out of the Internet at some point and into a conventional telco exchange, right? What little the article tells me says that this is what the government's using as its basis for regulation.
This was a PC sold on Walley World's Wonderful World Wide Web Site, right? That truly sucks, but it's right in line with the kinds of cheap-in-many-ways suppliers they decided to align themselves with since Mr. Walton's passing. Proof enough, I guess, that they can stain Linux on laptops with a rap as bad as Windows on E-Machines and Compaq laptops. Shame.
The main reason MS-Antispyware Beta is so good is because MS only recently just bought the anti spyware company GiantCompany.com and Giant Antispyware came as part of the deal. MS just hasn't finished microsofting Giant Antispyware yet. Trust me, from twenty years of seeing the wheat that is the typical MS beta turned into the chaff that is the typical MS final product, Microsoft Windows Antispyware will become so ineffective (and possibly destructive) that it might, just might, become the first Microsoft product to be officially declared spyware by the compsec industry.
The thing looks like crap, regardless of how well it works. It looks like a science experiment kit straight out of a '60s Radio Shack catalog. All that's missing is a picture of kids and a mom on the box front.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was software that caused the vehicles to become disabled.
I'm reminded of the software bug that destroyed a very expensive Ariane rocket. Both guidance computers essentially bluescreened and the main computer used the error code as it had other values.
So the guys over at WarChalking aren't wasting their time after all? It's a good thing I don't give out my email address or order things by credit card except with my cordless non-Interweb-emabled phone. Ah goody, Microsoft really does care about my computer's security, because they just sent me another patch as an attachment to one of their spiffy emails. Excuse me while I go run the patch... stupid antivirus warnings...
*snicker* Since when did security hold any technology back?
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It's so Not A Good Thing(TM) that a commercial product needs a security upgrade on the first day of going official.
For what reason would we be cheerful when we have such devastating incidents daily such as the Dreaded 404, which has already been shown by logs to spread depression.
I'd rathter read comments about comments (ad inf.) about real news, than read unsubstantiated anonymous rumors passed off by the mainstream press as real news. It's not that blogs are so journalistic or reliable, it's that mainstream media news is so unreliable and devoid of journalism, that blogs make better news sources these days.
This reminds me of the Sony Watchman and all the other micro TV sets when they hit the market en force. (I remember an episode of Home Improvement, I think it was, where something happened to the great room TV, and everyone tried watching football on a screen this small... With a magnifying glass, no less.)
If you don't need glasses yet, I'd wager that the eye strain from trying to play this thing will make you need a pair right quick.
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RFID tags embedded in the disposable packaging and reuseable palettes I can understand. That is indeed a practical and productive use of RFID technology.
However, RFID tags embedded in the product itself is a Very Bad Idea (TM). The article discusses nothing more than combating lawlessness by punishing the law-abiding. By definition, the law-abiding are not lawless, so even if this idea catches on it's doomed to fail in its stated goal.
I live an hour from anywhere, and the only DVD player I have is my PC. I got tired of Windows long ago and put Linux on it, and it plays my DVDs without problems.
Now these liberal-indoctrinated college pinheads, naturally believing piracy to be bad, but without understanding the real problem, are telling me that I'll have to buy a TV set and "RFID-enabled" DVD player just to watch a movie that I pay good money for? All in the name of stopping piracy?
Wrong answer. It is not the end that justifies the means, Hollywood and college kids. It's the means which must justify the end.
No, it hasn't. The rate of flaw discoveries in Mozilla's applications (Firefox included) has remained statistically level since before Firefox was called "Phoenix." Quite obviously, the Mozilla Foundation's marketshare has not remained steady since then, as you argue.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. It is a fundamentally flawed concept, which I would've thought Slashdotters realized. To suggest that an open-source project like Firefox doesn't know that is simply absurd.
The rapid response of the Mozilla Foundation, even if the ten-day hush-hush rumor is true, far outpaces Microsoft's publically announced thirty day delay after this vulnerability's announcement. And that's not counting the delay between the IE flaw's discovery and announcement.
We all know that their software is already commensurate with Wal-Mart's quality, but I dread the day when their hardware is as well.
"Welcome to Micro-Mart, the only computer and gaming store you need."
Do those USB-to-serial port converter devices not work in Linux? I'd have figured that as long as usbdevfs is mounted, it would detect the new device as a serial port, and udev (in kernel 2.6, anyway) would mount the new port device as /dev/ttyS*
If I'm wrong, then please pardon my ignorance.
The Windows version of Firefox includes its own update notifier: a red up-arrow conspicuously placed next to the spinner. (All it needs to do is jump up and down like icons in a default KDE install.)
And unlike regular Windows updates, if the Firefox update fails due to insufficient user permissions (not logged in as Administrator), the installer is left on the desktop ready for the admin when the user calls the help desk about problems updating, saving bandwidth from another download.
It's true that it's not enough for updates to merely exist, but it's not like the Mozilla Foundation hasn't gone out of its way to all but force updates on Windows systems.
As far as *nix versions go, those distros that have Firefox in their repository already update Firefox as part of the distro's overall update process.
(I don't know about Mac OS versions. Any insight?)
And let's not forget about missing important calls or dropping calls because a) the phone crashed, b) the phone is too busy playing spyware ads, c) you can't dial because of all the pop-ups, or d) microsoft suddenly thinks you're pirating the windows mobile OS in rom and has disabled your phone until you call the reactivation number.
Ah, yes. The unstoppable replicators, which could only be defeated by, as the asgard Thor put it, human stupidity. No self-replicating form of artificial intelligence can stand up to natural stupidity.
I am not Sarah Connor, and I don't know anyone destined to stop these evil self-replicating robots, terminators, or Skynet. Just wanted to make that clear.
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It seems to me that their goal is to regulate their equivalent to Ma Bell, not the Internet itself. However, given the Canadian government's socialist-leaning tendencies, I wouldn't doubt such a thing is far behind. Even VoIP has to come out of the Internet at some point and into a conventional telco exchange, right? What little the article tells me says that this is what the government's using as its basis for regulation.
Absolutely, without a doubt!
This was a PC sold on Walley World's Wonderful World Wide Web Site, right? That truly sucks, but it's right in line with the kinds of cheap-in-many-ways suppliers they decided to align themselves with since Mr. Walton's passing. Proof enough, I guess, that they can stain Linux on laptops with a rap as bad as Windows on E-Machines and Compaq laptops. Shame.
I tried to do it on my TI-85 and I keep getting an error!
Turn your calculator upside down on the step just before the error.
The main reason MS-Antispyware Beta is so good is because MS only recently just bought the anti spyware company GiantCompany.com and Giant Antispyware came as part of the deal. MS just hasn't finished microsofting Giant Antispyware yet. Trust me, from twenty years of seeing the wheat that is the typical MS beta turned into the chaff that is the typical MS final product, Microsoft Windows Antispyware will become so ineffective (and possibly destructive) that it might, just might, become the first Microsoft product to be officially declared spyware by the compsec industry.
The thing looks like crap, regardless of how well it works. It looks like a science experiment kit straight out of a '60s Radio Shack catalog. All that's missing is a picture of kids and a mom on the box front.
I wonder if Canadians can sue CRIA for racketeering like one or two Americans are the RIAA.
RIAA countersued Under Racketeering Laws.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was software that caused the vehicles to become disabled.
I'm reminded of the software bug that destroyed a very expensive Ariane rocket. Both guidance computers essentially bluescreened and the main computer used the error code as it had other values.
Official ESA account of the Ariane 5 Flight 501 (1996) failure
Three page report of "The Bug That Destoyed a Rocket" [pdf]
So the guys over at WarChalking aren't wasting their time after all? It's a good thing I don't give out my email address or order things by credit card except with my cordless non-Interweb-emabled phone. Ah goody, Microsoft really does care about my computer's security, because they just sent me another patch as an attachment to one of their spiffy emails. Excuse me while I go run the patch... stupid antivirus warnings...
*snicker* Since when did security hold any technology back?
"There's a sucker born every minute." In the grander scheme of things, that's so true.