That's XP's fault. You are using a piece of hardware to stop your machine receiving incoming connections. That's insane; you should be allowed to just close all ports somehow in software. I cannot believe that there is any feature of NAT which could not be implemented easily in software.
No remote execution or personal data being revealed, it just hangs the browser. It doesn't even seem to slow down the rest of the system, it just makes Firefox unresponsive. So?
It's easy to do that to almost any browser. Loading a lot of really big images will crash Firefox when it runs out of memory, and has the side-effect of slowing the rest of the system (or probably crashing it if it's based on windows 9x).
The "exploit's" entire HTML source reads like this: <html><body><strong>Mozilla<sourcetext></body></ht ml>
It's clearly a silly bug, but I feel that saying "it is clear that this exploit will indeed need patching as soon as possible" is excessive hype. This is not a security issue. This is part of the known problem that Firefox is not very tolerant of buggy code, which is a general serious issue that does need fixing.
I wonder if this is a Gecko bug? An email version of this for Thunderbird would be very annoying.
YOU are dark matter. You do not emit light. The point is that if this is true, we don't have to worry about how to fit absurd amounts of this into the universe.
This is Google we're talking about. They would be Adwords text ads, integrated into the HTML of the page. Adblock is for filtering other files loaded by the page (img, iframe, embed, etc.). Great for blocking flash and banner ads, but can't filter out a few lines of text. Most people aren't bothered enough by them anyway.
4. No standard API for printing, the raison d'etre for an office suite.
Does this matter? Generate some printable HTML and let the browser do it. Or if that's still too unpredictable, generate a PDF, or better a Postscript file, and let the browser or it's PS plugin print that.
That is the most obvious thing I have ever seen modded above +2. Yes. Yes it does mean you can play HD-DVDs without region controls. Read the subject. Furthermore, I would expect that the movie industry is probably unhappy.
This sort of thing almost always results in someone making a fork. Is there really so little OSS involvement that a GPL fork (from the most recent GPL version) would not be able to compete with the closed app?
Even assuming that the file system returns in the same state you left it in, you've killed all running processes. Data still in RAM, etc. Unsaved changes. For example, if you're running mldonkey, it sometimes leaves it's files in stupid inconsistent states if it is kill -9'ed.
I've often thought of trying to find some sort of tech support for one of those things, maybe whatever contact is on the maker's website, complaining that it must work on my system because the banner ad said my "system could be optimised", and how do I run exe files on my Unix box/phone/whatever. It especially amuses me when they try to make it look like a system alert of some sort by using Win XP window decorations.
Insightful? Funny, idiots. Why do you two get mod points, and I don't anymore...
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Gentoo, though I think Debian is just as fast on normal hardware.
MSI. So what's the command or GUI to install Firefox or Openoffice or Quake 3 (if you have a license), without having to look around for an installer? MSI is only user-friendly for uninstallation. It's not what people call a "package manager". A package manager involves automated installation of different software with the same interface, and a centralised system of tracking installed software. Windows has the latter.
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Many good points, but:
Fedora is slow for a Linux system, my system is now 3-5 times faster at most things than when it was running Fedora.
Linux needs better package installation? Windows doesn't even have a package manager for installation!
So what constitutes criminal obscenity, and how does that relate to our first amendment rights? Under current American law, the Miller test is the means by which the courts determine if content is obscene and consequently not eligible for first amendment protection. The Miller test evaluates the literary, artistic, political, and scientific value of content as well as contemporary community standards.
Is it OK for the law to be that subjective? Which community? You can probably legally sign up for cable channels and magazines which are obscene to some American communities.
NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY "OS PRODUCT" (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT 4.0, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000, MICROSOFT MILLENNIUM EDITION, MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP, OR ANY OTHER MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING OPERATING SYSTEMS) YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
P.S. Slashdot's lameness filter correctly identifies this EULA as lame. Now we can begin our project to replace IP lawyers' brains with trivial text filters...
IE is not free, even as in beer. IE for Mac is now abandoned. Recent versions of IE work (legally) only in Windows. Being included in Windows is not the same as being free (again ignoring widespread violation of relevant laws).
Human eyes adjust to differing light levels much better than cameras, so as the device uses only enough light to overexpose the image rather than destroy the camera, it will probably only trigger instinctive pupil contraction and blinking in humans. Also, it is probably possible to distinguish glasses and camera lenses.
IMHO, the real risk is telescopes and binoculars. They use externally indistinguishable optics from a camera, and could concentrate the light enough to make it really harmful.
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That's XP's fault. You are using a piece of hardware to stop your machine receiving incoming connections. That's insane; you should be allowed to just close all ports somehow in software. I cannot believe that there is any feature of NAT which could not be implemented easily in software.
No remote execution or personal data being revealed, it just hangs the browser. It doesn't even seem to slow down the rest of the system, it just makes Firefox unresponsive. So?
t ml>
It's easy to do that to almost any browser. Loading a lot of really big images will crash Firefox when it runs out of memory, and has the side-effect of slowing the rest of the system (or probably crashing it if it's based on windows 9x).
The "exploit's" entire HTML source reads like this:
<html><body><strong>Mozilla<sourcetext></body></h
It's clearly a silly bug, but I feel that saying "it is clear that this exploit will indeed need patching as soon as possible" is excessive hype. This is not a security issue. This is part of the known problem that Firefox is not very tolerant of buggy code, which is a general serious issue that does need fixing.
I wonder if this is a Gecko bug? An email version of this for Thunderbird would be very annoying.
YOU are dark matter. You do not emit light. The point is that if this is true, we don't have to worry about how to fit absurd amounts of this into the universe.
This is Google we're talking about. They would be Adwords text ads, integrated into the HTML of the page. Adblock is for filtering other files loaded by the page (img, iframe, embed, etc.). Great for blocking flash and banner ads, but can't filter out a few lines of text. Most people aren't bothered enough by them anyway.
IMHO, IE is neither a browser, nor particularly designed.
That is the most obvious thing I have ever seen modded above +2. Yes. Yes it does mean you can play HD-DVDs without region controls. Read the subject. Furthermore, I would expect that the movie industry is probably unhappy.
This sort of thing almost always results in someone making a fork. Is there really so little OSS involvement that a GPL fork (from the most recent GPL version) would not be able to compete with the closed app?
Also, I once had a reiserfs partition become unbootable after an unrelated kernel panic forced a hard reboot.
Even assuming that the file system returns in the same state you left it in, you've killed all running processes. Data still in RAM, etc. Unsaved changes. For example, if you're running mldonkey, it sometimes leaves it's files in stupid inconsistent states if it is kill -9'ed.
I've often thought of trying to find some sort of tech support for one of those things, maybe whatever contact is on the maker's website, complaining that it must work on my system because the banner ad said my "system could be optimised", and how do I run exe files on my Unix box/phone/whatever. It especially amuses me when they try to make it look like a system alert of some sort by using Win XP window decorations.
So how does this differ from http://forums.gentoo.org/ and irc://irc.freenode.net/gentoo (I don't think /. wants me to linkify it...)?
The difference with professional support is normally that they have to fix it because you pay them.
Insightful?
Funny, idiots.
Why do you two get mod points, and I don't anymore...
Gentoo, though I think Debian is just as fast on normal hardware.
MSI. So what's the command or GUI to install Firefox or Openoffice or Quake 3 (if you have a license), without having to look around for an installer? MSI is only user-friendly for uninstallation. It's not what people call a "package manager". A package manager involves automated installation of different software with the same interface, and a centralised system of tracking installed software. Windows has the latter.
Many good points, but:
Fedora is slow for a Linux system, my system is now 3-5 times faster at most things than when it was running Fedora.
Linux needs better package installation? Windows doesn't even have a package manager for installation!
Haha, now Slashdot is illegal in America.
Glad I live in the EU.
Better startup times, theme integration. I use Firefox for pages that misrender badly or have lots of ads.
This fixes the Firefox bug but adds a minor bug in Konqueror. The copyright notice at the bottom of the page overlaps the search box and button.
I like the new Post Comment page design.
Um... it's illegal to use it without a (paid-for) copy of Microsoft Windows. Legally (though not, as MS claims, technically), it is a part of Windows.
IE is not free, even as in beer. IE for Mac is now abandoned. Recent versions of IE work (legally) only in Windows. Being included in Windows is not the same as being free (again ignoring widespread violation of relevant laws).
Human eyes adjust to differing light levels much better than cameras, so as the device uses only enough light to overexpose the image rather than destroy the camera, it will probably only trigger instinctive pupil contraction and blinking in humans. Also, it is probably possible to distinguish glasses and camera lenses.
IMHO, the real risk is telescopes and binoculars. They use externally indistinguishable optics from a camera, and could concentrate the light enough to make it really harmful.
So you need root access to read /etc/ on your box?
Therefore you run your web server as root?
I guess technically they're IDPs as they haven't crossed international borders, but I think "refugee" is good enough for day-to-day usage.