Screenshots, RAM dumps, network packet dumps, video RAM dumps, running the client (or server, if I'm a rogue admin) in a VM and dumping its RAM, network data, etc; if data enters the RAM of a machine under my control, there's not a whole lot you can do to prevent me from gaining access to it.
All very complicated. What about just videotaping the monitor?
That spirit being the ability to run the program, modify the source, and run the changed program.
Google is running the software, not you. Since they haven't distributed a copy to you then they aren't required to share their modifications. This is how the GPL is intended to work.
But it really doesn't. The whole "idea" being XSS is to get it to act in the context of a trusted site, to take session cookies, hijack browsers, install spyware whatever.
I'm afraid I might not fully understand the nature of XSS and how it works. I've read the FAQ linked to in the original comment of this thread. I've also read the Wikipedia entry on XSS. It seems that in all instances some form of browser-based scripting is required to execute the payload. Let's forget NoScript for a moment and assume that I've disabled JavaScript in my browser. If JavaScript is disabled can I still be vulnerable to a XSS attack and if so, how?
Cross site scripting works by adding a script tag to the source page. For example, imagine you have allowed scripts from slashdot because you can't use the new comments system without it. Now an evil hax0r manages to insert an XSS attack on slashdot what would happen is the attack would be embedded in a normal slashdot page, as a block. So the source would be from slashdot.org, and noscript would view it as being allowed.
You are missing the point. Think of NoScript as a firewall. Instead of accepting JavaScript from anyone you can deny by default and only run JavaScript from those sites that you have approved. Yes, you could still be vulnerable if you have JavaScript enabled for Slashdot and someone does like you say. However, there are still billions of other web sites that have JavaScript that your browser will refuse to execute. That reduces the chance of an attack succeeding significantly. Better safe than sorry, as the saying goes.
By law, copyright belongs to the author unless other arrangements have been specifically made.
It's been a while since I've had to use TurnItIn, but IIRC you make those other arrangements (give up your IP rights) when you sign up for a student account with TurnItIn and agree to their terms of service.
Those of us who care will probably fork Linux (which *can* be done, dispite Linus' incorrect claims to the contrary).
I don't think anyone has said that you can't fork Linux. However, you can't relicense it. Only the copyright holders can do that. Good luck tracking down everyone who holds a copyright to code currently in the kernel and convincing them to relicense it. If some refuse then you could always rewrite those sections of code from scratch.
So long as you are visiting, you don't need to change a thing. If you move to the state, you have X weeks to get a license and register your vehicles.
If you have moved to the state then you have 10 days to register your car and get a CA driving license. I speak from experience because I didn't do the above, got caught by the highway patrol, ticketed, and paid a pretty large fine.
Every single piece of advice I have ever heard or read on rechargeable NiMH batteries says that to ensure the longest lifetime of a battery, you should *always* "run it try" then give it a full recharge.
Yes, but only for NiMH batteries (like in home cordless phones). Almost all laptop and cell phone batteries are lithium-ion. Li-ion can only take about 400 to 500 full discharges before they won't hold a charge anymore. You are supposed to keep them charged as much and as often as possible for the longest life.
DRM on my music simply does not satisfy for a number of reasons including 1) quality (I can tell the difference).
When is this faux-audiophile bullshit going to end. DRM does not change the sound of music. It does not sound any different.
He didn't say anything about the audio of the song. Maybe you should re-read the message. I have a quality issue with DRM as well, namely that I'm not not assured of getting the same value for my money as I would when purchasing a CD. That affects my percieved quality of the product.
I still have the first CD I bought. It's a Herbie Hancock jazz CD that I purchased about 20 years ago. Today it will still play in any CD player. I'm not conviced that if I buy a song from iTunes today that it will still be playable in 20 years. I'm also not willing to run some software to crack the DRM and break the law just to ensure the longevity of my purchase, at least not while there's a viable alternative with purchasing CDs.
You, and the rest of us (most of the rest of us) slashdot types are not clients, therefore, he has no need to provide answers for specific questions.
Then he shouldn't have agreed to do the interview. That was the whole point. He was to answer some questions to help us understand the issues that he is knee-deep in every day.
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Only the little missles look like they could be USB controlled. The rest just seem to be drawing power from the USB port.
Is this phenomenal growth only rapidly killing our favorite video warehouse?
Speak for yourself. Google Video is my favorite. It has a picture that scales to fill up unused space in my browser window. Plus, as a content creator, I can upload videos larger than 100MB which you can't do on YouTube. YouTube's limitation can make the quality of your video suffer if it is too long (20 minutes or more).
I only hope that when I get to be a director, I would have the cajones to resign rather than to serve under or carry out orders from a boss with a history of such behavior.
When I get to be a director I'm going to learn to use the street-corner payphones!
What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore. He explains how copy prevention technology prevents him from making proper copies of an original work that he created and owns to copyright to.
I put this in my userChrome.css file a while back to make the current tab stand out more. From the screenshot it looks like I won't need this trick any more.
The trouble with this is that they effectively killed off the original Mozilla suite because it was getting too bloated, and hence Firefox was born. Now it seems they want to add new cruft into Firefox. I guess it all goes to show that the one thing we learn from history is that nobody ever learns anything from history.
That depends on how it's implemented. If it's done as optional extensions that can be installed at installation time (like talkback and the DOM inspector) then I think it might be a good idea. Like another posted mentioned, it would be nice if they bundled some of these with the download and gave the option of installing them at install time.
You misspelled "synchronized". RAID != backup. What happens when you accidentally garble "Doctoral Thesis.odt" and automatically overwrite your only other copy with the new version?
He may be keeping local backups and rsyncing those. That's what I do and I would have used the same terminology. I have nightly cron jobs that dump my MySQL and Postgres databases as well as tars up important files from the file system (like everything in/home). The compressed tarballs sit in a backups directory which gets rsynced to two other machines in different physical locations every morning. I have another cron job that removes old files from the backup directory to keep it at a certain size. With a 15GB backup directory I have about the last three weeks backups available.
But rsyncing the raw home dir to another place... yeah, that could be disastrous as a backup strategy.
While you may not have to follow local laws, it's general considered respectful to follow them.
I have no problem with following local laws provided I'm in the locality where the law appiles. The New York Times is published thousands of miles away from Britain. What difference would Britain's laws have on an American newspaper?
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Cool. Thanks for clarifying that for me.
I'm afraid I might not fully understand the nature of XSS and how it works. I've read the FAQ linked to in the original comment of this thread. I've also read the Wikipedia entry on XSS. It seems that in all instances some form of browser-based scripting is required to execute the payload. Let's forget NoScript for a moment and assume that I've disabled JavaScript in my browser. If JavaScript is disabled can I still be vulnerable to a XSS attack and if so, how?
I don't think anyone has said that you can't fork Linux. However, you can't relicense it. Only the copyright holders can do that. Good luck tracking down everyone who holds a copyright to code currently in the kernel and convincing them to relicense it. If some refuse then you could always rewrite those sections of code from scratch.
Not impossible but surely impractical.
If you have moved to the state then you have 10 days to register your car and get a CA driving license. I speak from experience because I didn't do the above, got caught by the highway patrol, ticketed, and paid a pretty large fine.
Yes, but only for NiMH batteries (like in home cordless phones). Almost all laptop and cell phone batteries are lithium-ion. Li-ion can only take about 400 to 500 full discharges before they won't hold a charge anymore. You are supposed to keep them charged as much and as often as possible for the longest life.
He didn't say anything about the audio of the song. Maybe you should re-read the message. I have a quality issue with DRM as well, namely that I'm not not assured of getting the same value for my money as I would when purchasing a CD. That affects my percieved quality of the product.
I still have the first CD I bought. It's a Herbie Hancock jazz CD that I purchased about 20 years ago. Today it will still play in any CD player. I'm not conviced that if I buy a song from iTunes today that it will still be playable in 20 years. I'm also not willing to run some software to crack the DRM and break the law just to ensure the longevity of my purchase, at least not while there's a viable alternative with purchasing CDs.
Then he shouldn't have agreed to do the interview. That was the whole point. He was to answer some questions to help us understand the issues that he is knee-deep in every day.
Only the little missles look like they could be USB controlled. The rest just seem to be drawing power from the USB port.
Speak for yourself. Google Video is my favorite. It has a picture that scales to fill up unused space in my browser window. Plus, as a content creator, I can upload videos larger than 100MB which you can't do on YouTube. YouTube's limitation can make the quality of your video suffer if it is too long (20 minutes or more).
Bill Gates: "I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' VM!"
When I get to be a director I'm going to learn to use the street-corner payphones!
The guy that was living there is the person suspected of fraud. You'd know that if you had read the very short article.
What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore. He explains how copy prevention technology prevents him from making proper copies of an original work that he created and owns to copyright to.
The Church of the Subgenius, of course! Eternal salvation or triple your money back. Praise Bob!
That depends on how it's implemented. If it's done as optional extensions that can be installed at installation time (like talkback and the DOM inspector) then I think it might be a good idea. Like another posted mentioned, it would be nice if they bundled some of these with the download and gave the option of installing them at install time.
Are they? I'm not aware that they are and the article doesn't state so.
That's a bad analogy. Here's something more appropriate. A book is banned in the UK and you publish it on your web site hosted in France.
He may be keeping local backups and rsyncing those. That's what I do and I would have used the same terminology. I have nightly cron jobs that dump my MySQL and Postgres databases as well as tars up important files from the file system (like everything in
But rsyncing the raw home dir to another place... yeah, that could be disastrous as a backup strategy.
I have no problem with following local laws provided I'm in the locality where the law appiles. The New York Times is published thousands of miles away from Britain. What difference would Britain's laws have on an American newspaper?