I find it amusing that Slashdot readers ask for Firefox torrents even when mozilla.org's primary mirrors are doing fine, but don't ask for Opera torrents when half of Opera's primary mirrors either don't have the file or give strange FTP error messages. Is this because more Slashdot readers use Firefox, or because Slashdot readers care more about helping the Mozilla Foundation save money than they care about helping Opera ASA save money?
It is not Firefox's responsibility to protect itself from other programs you have installed. It is the operating system's responsibility to either protect programs from each other (few operating systems do this) or decide not to (in the case of Windows, Mac, and Linux). On operating systems that decide not to, programs cannot protect themselves from each other.
You don't need an extension to ensure that the phrase "horrid blood sucking registration required" appears next to NYT links. Simply add this to your user style sheet:
TypeKey will be to protect blogs by banning abusive IPs. Before TypeKey, each IP address a spammer acquired allowed him to spam every MT blog. With TypeKey, each IP address will probably get banned before it spams a hundred blogs.
WFM using Firefox 1.0 on Windows and using web-sniffer.net. I have no idea why you're getting an img/jpeg content type for http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer.
Dynamically allocating memory doesn't always solve buffer overflows. For example, if the int32 passed to malloc can be overflowed, then it is likely that the buffer can be overflowed.
This could be an example of bad publicity. Now everyone knows that Perfect 10's content is available for free on infringing sites, and how to find those infringing sites.
This xbiz article (ads on that page are NSFW) has more information about the lawsuit:
In a letter to Google in June, Perfect 10 attorneys wrote that Internet users can find certain infringed-upon images by "doing advanced Google searches using the model name on the second line and 'nude' on the first line. So, for example, the first URL below was found by doing an advanced Google search using 'nude' and 'Monika Zsibrit.'"
The suit alleges Google committed 12 counts of intellectual property violations against Perfect 10 magazine and the website, including trademark dilution, wrongful use of a registered trademark and unfair competition.
I wonder why Perfect 10 didn't just use the DMCA to make Google remove/hide the links to the infringing pages. Google has complied with such DMCA requests in the past and has even published a DMCA Policy. It is interesting that the suit mentions trademark dilution, wrongful use of a registered trademark, and unfair competition rather than (or maybe in addition to) copyright/DMCA violation.
This FAQ entry has a link to a program that will let you submit crash reports for hangs. I haven't tried it. The author of the program is Josh Soref (timeless), a Mozilla developer. I'm curious as to how well the program works, so please reply with Talkback IDs.
Don't label him as an enemy just because he claims to experience more crashes than you. It's entirely possible that he's telling the truth -- many crash bugs (not just system problems) affect some users more than others. Maybe his Firefox installation or Firefox profile somehow became corrupted. Maybe the sites he visits trigger crashes in Firefox more than the sites we visit. Maybe the extensions he uses are buggy (in which case he should blame the extension).
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I find it amusing that Slashdot readers ask for Firefox torrents even when mozilla.org's primary mirrors are doing fine, but don't ask for Opera torrents when half of Opera's primary mirrors either don't have the file or give strange FTP error messages. Is this because more Slashdot readers use Firefox, or because Slashdot readers care more about helping the Mozilla Foundation save money than they care about helping Opera ASA save money?
I agree with you and Eric Meyer that many web developers take browser marketshare statistics too seriously, but does that explain why Google would remove their browser statistics?
It is not Firefox's responsibility to protect itself from other programs you have installed. It is the operating system's responsibility to either protect programs from each other (few operating systems do this) or decide not to (in the case of Windows, Mac, and Linux). On operating systems that decide not to, programs cannot protect themselves from each other.
I could volunteer my services as a random Firefox mirror and who's to know if I'm distributing doctored copies?
Just because you volunteer your server as a Firefox mirror doesn't mean it will be in mozilla.org's list of primary mirrors.
Can you link to that post? I'd like to read it.
You don't need an extension to ensure that the phrase "horrid blood sucking registration required" appears next to NYT links. Simply add this to your user style sheet:
a[href^="http://www.nytimes.com/"]:after { content: " (horrid blood sucking registration required)"; }
How would requiring users to register help? Spammers can register more easily than legitimate users can.
TypeKey will be to protect blogs by banning abusive IPs. Before TypeKey, each IP address a spammer acquired allowed him to spam every MT blog. With TypeKey, each IP address will probably get banned before it spams a hundred blogs.
WFM using Firefox 1.0 on Windows and using web-sniffer.net. I have no idea why you're getting an img/jpeg content type for http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer.
Underlined names people who became "community champions" by donating to the ad effort and getting 9 other people to donate.
[Spyware is] simply so common that even the best managed networks of any size get infected constantly.
If spyware can get onto computers within your network without your permssion or at least users' permission, then it is not well-managed.
The donation required to get your name in the ad was $10 for students and (I think) $30 for non-students.
Dynamically allocating memory doesn't always solve buffer overflows. For example, if the int32 passed to malloc can be overflowed, then it is likely that the buffer can be overflowed.
Not necessarily. Firefox's download count resets between versions and (I think) includes download.com downloads.
Interesting. It omits "sex", "porn", and "lesbian", but not "gay".
According to this Red Herring article, most of the claims were copyright claims.
This could be an example of bad publicity. Now everyone knows that Perfect 10's content is available for free on infringing sites, and how to find those infringing sites.
This xbiz article (ads on that page are NSFW) has more information about the lawsuit:
I wonder why Perfect 10 didn't just use the DMCA to make Google remove/hide the links to the infringing pages. Google has complied with such DMCA requests in the past and has even published a DMCA Policy. It is interesting that the suit mentions trademark dilution, wrongful use of a registered trademark, and unfair competition rather than (or maybe in addition to) copyright/DMCA violation.
What are RSIZE, VSIZE and RSHRD? Which one does "Memory Usage" in WinXP correspond to?
This FAQ entry has a link to a program that will let you submit crash reports for hangs. I haven't tried it. The author of the program is Josh Soref (timeless), a Mozilla developer. I'm curious as to how well the program works, so please reply with Talkback IDs.
Don't label him as an enemy just because he claims to experience more crashes than you. It's entirely possible that he's telling the truth -- many crash bugs (not just system problems) affect some users more than others. Maybe his Firefox installation or Firefox profile somehow became corrupted. Maybe the sites he visits trigger crashes in Firefox more than the sites we visit. Maybe the extensions he uses are buggy (in which case he should blame the extension).
It's ok to tell him that his experience doesn't match yours, but at least give him a FAQ item that might help him work around or report the crashes rather than attacking him.
Have you tried posting the question in your sig on Google Answers? The last time I visited, a lot of questions were like yours.
The FireFox signtool team has been extremely unhelpful so far. Their responses have been of the "Figure it out yourself, dumbass" type.
Who works on signtool? I want to know so I can reassign some documentation I no longer maintain.
Our plugin won't run under FireFox 1.0 since the browser won't allow the user to install unsigned plugins.
Firefox allows users to install unsigned extensions.
IE for MacOS is not the same browser as IE for Windows. They have different rendering engines and features.
I think I understand the distinction between "tactical" and "strategic" now, but what is "operational"?