But ActiveX *is* dangerous. It's a technology embedded on the very inner workings of the operating system (there's only one ActiveX - the one provided by M$) so any flaw on the technology affects the OS itself. Firefox execute its extensions inside a jail without real access to the OS. Sure, there were (and will be) flaws on the Firefox model... it's just that is harder to bork the OS working this way than working the ActiveX way,
I'm sorry if I were a bit rude on the previous post, but this matter manages to touch my nerves. I'm sure you understand.
About the recent spanish story: long story short, after the spanish Civil War the whole country was destroyed. We did not have an Industrial Revolution - the little and developing industry we had by that time was completely destroyed by bombs.
After that, 20 years of insane government repression, while people were starving on the street. Argentina had to help us (thank you argentinos), sending a huge amount of food overseas. People were, in some areas, literally dying all the time because lack of food and medicines.
America did some pressure on Franco on the 60's, and the dictatorship loosed a bit its leash on the people. The economy began to run, slowly but properly, till mid-70's because of the tourism. The problem was that the economy growth was somewhat artificial, very dependant on the government. Add to that the petroleum crisis in '73, and the death of Franco in 1975: the economy was almost destroyed when the new democracy arose. We needed like 20 years to reach some stability.
are you fucking crazy? My whole family had to left Spain in the 40's because they were socialists. My grandpa was like 15 years in prison. The economy only began to rise in late 60's. And all the democratic transition were driven by political forces (IE king Juan Carlos, Adolfo Suárez, Blanco...) with the aid of the police forces.
Sure, USA viewed Franco with good eyes... they were SURE that Spain would not become communist while Franco had the power.
I was totally serious. Yeah, you can discuss some things here and there, but I think that it's a very good description of the problem for the non-techies.
Man, this is the best explanation I've ever seen about the evil of software patents. With your permission, I will quote the entire text everytime somebody asks me about this matter...
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The problem is mainly letting some moron to do design decisions like giving Outlook or IE the hability of executing things. Why the heck should be able Outlook to interact with the Windows kernel execution routines (mainly through ActiveX) in any way? It's a PIM, by god's sake!
Nope, not true. It's a Mozilla problem with relative table sizes. It simply calculates the distribution the wrong way (before the end of the document load), so it can only render the page properly if it's on the cache.
Jokes aside, the point is that having such high speed at home would benefit outsourcing to India _a lot_. I mean, it's like not having to build huge infrastructures to host even more outsourced workers... they only have to work at home.
Dunno, but f-prot says the following when asked for a count on its virus database:
servidor:~# f-prot -virno SIGN.DEF created 28 December 2004 SIGN2.DEF created 28 December 2004 MACRO.DEF created 28 December 2004 DOS/Windows: 47456 viruses and 55669 Trojans Word/Excel: 8311 viruses and Trojans Java: 2 viruses and 286 Trojans BAT: 3264 viruses and Trojans IRC INI: 1646 viruses and Trojans Script: 6310 viruses and Trojans INF: 7 viruses and Trojans Unix shell: 279 viruses and Trojans Ami: 2 viruses and Trojans WinBat: 4 viruses and Trojans PIF: 23 viruses and Trojans PalmOS: 4 viruses and Trojans PHP: 26 viruses and Trojans Unix: 419 viruses and Trojans In addition, over 15750 viruses are identified using generic identification, so the total number of viruses and Trojans known to F-PROT is somewhere over 139400.
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But ActiveX *is* dangerous. It's a technology embedded on the very inner workings of the operating system (there's only one ActiveX - the one provided by M$) so any flaw on the technology affects the OS itself. Firefox execute its extensions inside a jail without real access to the OS. Sure, there were (and will be) flaws on the Firefox model... it's just that is harder to bork the OS working this way than working the ActiveX way,
I'm sorry if I were a bit rude on the previous post, but this matter manages to touch my nerves. I'm sure you understand.
About the recent spanish story: long story short, after the spanish Civil War the whole country was destroyed. We did not have an Industrial Revolution - the little and developing industry we had by that time was completely destroyed by bombs.
After that, 20 years of insane government repression, while people were starving on the street. Argentina had to help us (thank you argentinos), sending a huge amount of food overseas. People were, in some areas, literally dying all the time because lack of food and medicines.
America did some pressure on Franco on the 60's, and the dictatorship loosed a bit its leash on the people. The economy began to run, slowly but properly, till mid-70's because of the tourism. The problem was that the economy growth was somewhat artificial, very dependant on the government. Add to that the petroleum crisis in '73, and the death of Franco in 1975: the economy was almost destroyed when the new democracy arose. We needed like 20 years to reach some stability.
I agree. I think that, if you have to provide ActiveX in a browser, a whitelist would be wiser. Only enable, by hand, ActiveX on sites that you need.
Said that, ActiveX is a piece of crap when it comes to security, user-friendliness (ie uninstalling them) and non-standard.
are you fucking crazy? My whole family had to left Spain in the 40's because they were socialists. My grandpa was like 15 years in prison. The economy only began to rise in late 60's. And all the democratic transition were driven by political forces (IE king Juan Carlos, Adolfo Suárez, Blanco...) with the aid of the police forces.
Sure, USA viewed Franco with good eyes... they were SURE that Spain would not become communist while Franco had the power.
the title of the book is encrypted anyways. Don't expect that the military intelligence will be able to break _that_
Wait... Military intelligence?!?
Like most kids nowadays, he probably thinks he knows better!
He knows better *what*? Where to find free adu:1t pr:0n?
Any strategy that involve an axe.
Do not talk about Microsoft encryption.
I was totally serious. Yeah, you can discuss some things here and there, but I think that it's a very good description of the problem for the non-techies.
:)
Thank you
Man, this is the best explanation I've ever seen about the evil of software patents. With your permission, I will quote the entire text everytime somebody asks me about this matter...
Sure, it would be like listening to Kerberos on the Black Gate of Pain.
Sure. They're already doing it.
Sure it will win a Pulitzer.
The problem is mainly letting some moron to do design decisions like giving Outlook or IE the hability of executing things. Why the heck should be able Outlook to interact with the Windows kernel execution routines (mainly through ActiveX) in any way? It's a PIM, by god's sake!
LOL
Nope, not true. It's a Mozilla problem with relative table sizes. It simply calculates the distribution the wrong way (before the end of the document load), so it can only render the page properly if it's on the cache.
OMG!! this is the funniest comment I've ever read on /. LOL!
I have a bigger and stinkier nebulae around me. And I *know* it's not spherical, after all it comes from an asymetric place...
duuu....
DU HAST!
What cojones does "ocho" mean?
Actually I thought about Gomorrah...
Jokes aside, the point is that having such high speed at home would benefit outsourcing to India _a lot_. I mean, it's like not having to build huge infrastructures to host even more outsourced workers... they only have to work at home.
Sodomization it seems... very appropiate nickname, though...
He seems to have been in MDMA. It does exactly the same effect in my mind. The best drug I've ever tried.
Didn't know also that that thingie of command + click without getting the app to the front. In KDE you can achieve the same effect with CTRL+ALT.
Sure. You can do really crazy things when you're on M.