I wonder: How do you let the Firefox developers know of a security hole without making it public, thus making it an exploit?
Is there some submission setting in Bugzilla so that only a select group can view the bug description? Or did the security group just e-mail some of the head developers?
My comment claims that playing the embedded clips is not part of any sort of sabotage, but a consequence of the request given to them.
I read the article again carefully, and was unable to find any other examples or evidence that Microsoft had actually sabotaged their system in any way. The article can be broken down in order as follows:
1. Statement that the EU Commission has begun an investigation.
2. Summary of the legal justification for asking MS to exclude Media Player.
3. Reference to WSJ claim about Word documents.
4. Statements about how the EU Commission is going to investigate this stuff.
5. Statement about RealNetworks using the system without problems.
I'm not given any evidence that they've actually done anything, just statements like "The sleuths have found something!"
Perhaps there's something in the Wall Street Journal, but I'm not going to pay to find out.
The first poster seems to have nailed it: Word almost certainly relies on Windows Media Player (what else would it use?) to play embedded clips. If it's been removed, of course you won't be able to play anything.
I know it's fun to make Microsoft jokes here on Slashdot, but are they really at fault this time?
This raises an interesting challenge, I think. Programmers and other problem solvers like trying to create programs that print themselves, called quines. How about creating images that when this technology is applied describe themselves? Imagine a picture of a shore that when moved over played the sound of waves crashing.
The large number of colors and the complexity of language waves would probably make this near impossible though.
Think about an object traveling that does not follow the trajectory described the quadratic equation. For example, a piece of paper dropped from a building.
gt^2 + v_0t + h_0 doesn't apply here. However, we are still able to move around and grab the paper out of the air! And I think these brain functions are apart of the same class as the ones used to catch a baseball flying into left field are.
Well, the trig used for calculating how far away something is and the quadratic in trajectory physics are tools invented by us to describe and predict those two things. Our brain does not perform those same algorithms that we consciously do.
It seems like that might be what you mean to say, but it was written in such a way that it seems you think our brains actually solve quadratic equations in the same way we do, only much faster.
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How can something be as extinct as the dinosaurs? Are there different levels of extinctness? Can one thing be just 50% as extinct as another? :)
I wonder: How do you let the Firefox developers know of a security hole without making it public, thus making it an exploit?
Is there some submission setting in Bugzilla so that only a select group can view the bug description? Or did the security group just e-mail some of the head developers?
My comment claims that playing the embedded clips is not part of any sort of sabotage, but a consequence of the request given to them.
I read the article again carefully, and was unable to find any other examples or evidence that Microsoft had actually sabotaged their system in any way. The article can be broken down in order as follows:
1. Statement that the EU Commission has begun an investigation.
2. Summary of the legal justification for asking MS to exclude Media Player.
3. Reference to WSJ claim about Word documents.
4. Statements about how the EU Commission is going to investigate this stuff.
5. Statement about RealNetworks using the system without problems.
I'm not given any evidence that they've actually done anything, just statements like "The sleuths have found something!"
Perhaps there's something in the Wall Street Journal, but I'm not going to pay to find out.
The first poster seems to have nailed it: Word almost certainly relies on Windows Media Player (what else would it use?) to play embedded clips. If it's been removed, of course you won't be able to play anything.
I know it's fun to make Microsoft jokes here on Slashdot, but are they really at fault this time?
This raises an interesting challenge, I think. Programmers and other problem solvers like trying to create programs that print themselves, called quines. How about creating images that when this technology is applied describe themselves? Imagine a picture of a shore that when moved over played the sound of waves crashing.
The large number of colors and the complexity of language waves would probably make this near impossible though.
Whoa! That guy looks familiar. Oh my god, it's ME!
Think about an object traveling that does not follow the trajectory described the quadratic equation. For example, a piece of paper dropped from a building.
gt^2 + v_0t + h_0 doesn't apply here. However, we are still able to move around and grab the paper out of the air! And I think these brain functions are apart of the same class as the ones used to catch a baseball flying into left field are.
Well, the trig used for calculating how far away something is and the quadratic in trajectory physics are tools invented by us to describe and predict those two things. Our brain does not perform those same algorithms that we consciously do. It seems like that might be what you mean to say, but it was written in such a way that it seems you think our brains actually solve quadratic equations in the same way we do, only much faster.