Some stories tagged "defectivebydesign" that are not at all related to DRM:
"Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi" "Apple Issues Patches For 25 Security Holes" ""Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design" "MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems" "Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs" "QuickTime.MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD" "Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files" "Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files" "Mark Russinovich On Vista Network Slowdown" "Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs" "Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games"
That's as far as I can be bothered to read. Go look at it yourself. That tag is cheerfully applied to many, many stories about Windows or Apple bugs.
Yes, but all the malware has to do is wait for you to log in, and then you notice your login failed because it was actually the attacker who logged in.
You know, the article addressed that, but let's have it one more time:
Sure, a determined attacker with malware on your machine can get your password for anything. But these aren't determined attackers. They are people throwing their nets very, very wide, and they rely on automation to find their passwords. Getting every keystroke isn't going to tell them what your password is without manual analysis, and nobody has the time for that. And making your keylogger smart enough to figure it out by itself requires adapting it for every possible file transfer client out there.
So it is much easier to just listen for FTP connections. That's the low-hanging fruit. The software COULD do other things, but it generally DOESN'T. At least not yet.
More importantly, the story of Neuromancer is entirely self-contained. You don't need to read the later books to appreciate it. Therefore it is a separate work.
Gibson is, technically speaking, a far better writer than Stephenson. But Stephenson is so obviously enjoying writing his ridiculous tall tales, and that enthusiasm adds a lot to the reading experience, and can easily make up for what he lacks in literary skills otherwise.
The later two are pretty tightly intervowen, but Neuromancer really is more of a stand-alone work that the later books only vaguely reference. All three are definitely not a single work.
Microsoft isn't exactly showing a great interest in HTML5 anyway. And do you really think browser makers would want to care about a spec that is designed to be used as a weapon against them?
The question is not why browser makers won't support it, just that they won't. There is no point in making a spec that will not be followed, and it will only hurt the credibility of the spec itself. Because different browser makers are dead set against all the current options, there will be no codec mandated.
Putting it into the spec won't make anybody change their mind.
I learned elsewhere in this thread that Firefox 3.5 has finally implemented such a feature, although it might be off by default and hidden (I'm not sure about that, though).
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Plenty of those posts are about explaining what is actually going on, yet they are still tagged defectivebydesign.
http://slashdot.org/tags/defectivebydesign
Some stories tagged "defectivebydesign" that are not at all related to DRM:
"Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi" .MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD"
"Apple Issues Patches For 25 Security Holes"
""Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design"
"MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems"
"Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs"
"QuickTime
"Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files"
"Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files"
"Mark Russinovich On Vista Network Slowdown"
"Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs"
"Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games"
That's as far as I can be bothered to read. Go look at it yourself. That tag is cheerfully applied to many, many stories about Windows or Apple bugs.
Yes, but all the malware has to do is wait for you to log in, and then you notice your login failed because it was actually the attacker who logged in.
Wow, won't Google look silly now that you've told them that X11 exists! I bet they never even realized!
And how would that card talk to the remote site? Through the OS, which is compromised. So that gains you nothing, and just creates a big target.
You know, the article addressed that, but let's have it one more time:
Sure, a determined attacker with malware on your machine can get your password for anything. But these aren't determined attackers. They are people throwing their nets very, very wide, and they rely on automation to find their passwords. Getting every keystroke isn't going to tell them what your password is without manual analysis, and nobody has the time for that. And making your keylogger smart enough to figure it out by itself requires adapting it for every possible file transfer client out there.
So it is much easier to just listen for FTP connections. That's the low-hanging fruit. The software COULD do other things, but it generally DOESN'T. At least not yet.
First, that was not quite what I was getting at.
Second, while I'm sure golf courses can be quite an ecological burden, to compare them to strip mining is just insane.
Welcome to colloquial English.
What the hell is wrong with you?
"Hideous"? Speak for your own narrow-minded aesthetics. Plenty people think they look beautiful, myself included.
Pretty much every new video-playing device these days does h.264. iPods, iPhones, Zunes, Xboxes, PS3s, PSPs, Nokias, Palms, every Blu-ray player...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_that_support_H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
To think h.264 is somehow limited to Apple is kind of nutty.
Firefox will support h.264 sooner or later, by using the OS-provided media playing frameworks. If they don't, they'll get left behind.
Also, Youtube's HQ and HD videos for flash are already h.264, so there's very little cost for them to support h.264-in-video.
I read it plenty times. I know all that very well.
And that is a very superficial connection between the two. That doesn't in any way make them "one work", it just makes the later books sequels.
Neuromancer is an entirely self-contained story. There's no need to read the rest to enjoy it. It is a single work.
More importantly, the story of Neuromancer is entirely self-contained. You don't need to read the later books to appreciate it. Therefore it is a separate work.
Gibson is, technically speaking, a far better writer than Stephenson. But Stephenson is so obviously enjoying writing his ridiculous tall tales, and that enthusiasm adds a lot to the reading experience, and can easily make up for what he lacks in literary skills otherwise.
The later two are pretty tightly intervowen, but Neuromancer really is more of a stand-alone work that the later books only vaguely reference. All three are definitely not a single work.
Microsoft isn't exactly showing a great interest in HTML5 anyway. And do you really think browser makers would want to care about a spec that is designed to be used as a weapon against them?
The question is not why browser makers won't support it, just that they won't. There is no point in making a spec that will not be followed, and it will only hurt the credibility of the spec itself. Because different browser makers are dead set against all the current options, there will be no codec mandated.
Putting it into the spec won't make anybody change their mind.
But you can be damn sure that the MPEG LA has far more lawyers checking whether patents apply to h.264 than Xiph.Org has for Theora.
Microsoft own part of the patent portfolio for h.264, so it's hardly like they're total outsiders.
I honestly doubt they are seeing any significant profits from those patents. They are one out of many, many patent holders.
How about you click the link and read the very, very detailed explanation of what those problems with specifying formats at the current time are?
There is still video in the spec. It just doesn't specify a format, just like doesn't specify a format either.
Saying that OpenOffice.org "works well" is a bit of a stretch, no?
I learned elsewhere in this thread that Firefox 3.5 has finally implemented such a feature, although it might be off by default and hidden (I'm not sure about that, though).