You're right, they don't. I'm being over-general here, of course. But patch levels do start at one during development of the distro, and that they went through 14 patchlevels before release day is still very telling.
The problem isn't browsers, it's the operating system they're running on. Any operating system that allows normal users to execute privileged code without entering some sort of authentication before allowing those privileges is inherently broken.
Mozilla Corporation's goals are substantially to do activities which bring in revenue, as with Microsoft. Mozilla's main vehicle for doing so is to package and distribute a browser through which income is generated via Google searches. To maximize revenues, they need to maximize both market share and usage of their browser.
Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned susidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. As such, it's revenue-raising activities are limited in scope to assist in raising money for the Foundation and to fund development activities for Mozilla's projects.
As such, Mozilla Corporation is profit seeking only in as much as it furthers Mozilla Foundation's goals.
Under those 30 MB or so of binaries, libraries and other stuff, I'm sure exists a small feature subset set which would give all Internet users a compelling reason to switch to and stick with Firefox, if that feature subset were promoted correctly.
See Epiphany and Chrome/Chromium. These projects are exactly that, but they're based on the leaner and faster Webkit libraries, rather than Gecko. Firefox aims to be a full-featured product, as you mention; the others aim at being lightweight and promoting Web standards, which were Firefox's original goals.
That would be a valid argument if Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation had similar goals; they do not. Microsoft is a multibillion-bollar global company intent on making money; Mozilla just wants to make a browser and a few related applications.
It was a minority browser then. Most people do not install plugins, or install very few. Most people do not want to work out which plugins are incompatible with each other. Most people judge a browser by how good it is out of the box.
There's a word for that. It's called 'integration'. You add new features as extensions and then you provide browser packages which include a few extensions installed by default. That way, those who do not want a particular feature can remove it.
You're both right. New features getting adding to the stable kernels have done much to reduce stability between kernel versions. So much so that distros have had to pick up the slack by introducing an increasing number of patches. Have you ever looked at the patchset list for Ubuntu? There have been like 17 different kernel patchlevels for Karmic Koala since it was released in October. That's more than one patchset a week, and each patchset can have anywhere from 1-10 patches.
I've been a customer of AT&T since the "AT&T wireless" days (pre AT&T, pre "cingular", etc.) and I can count the number of dropped calls on one hand. I currently have an original iPhone, jailbroken/unlocked, on a very old AT&T Wireless account. $30/month for a regional plan = awesome (as is having one device to surf the web where I can get Wifi, play games, listen to music, and make phone calls.)
Anecdote != data
Living in New England, I also haven't heard many complaints from 3G iPhone users. Seems to be mostly NYC where people are screaming (yes kids, NY and NYC are not "New England.")
The plural of anecdote is also not data; it's anecdotes.
Generally, 3G failover problems are going to come from two classes of users: 1) people who drive a lot, especially those who drive long distances; and 2) people who live or work in very densely-populated urban areas where there are lots of interference from tall buildings, industry, lots of radio noise, etc. Note that the vast majority of "New England" doesn't fall into category 2, with the exception of Boston. (New England = [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont])
I was there for the switch to 3G in OH and though the service is fast, the batteries don't last (heh); my phone(s) would be dead with very limited surfing.
The batteries don't last in a lot of EVDO phones either. That's the fault of stupid phone manufacturers who switched radio chipsets without bothering to improve battery capacity or power consumption in the rest of the phone.
The real problem seems to be that AT&T has very limited 3G coverage, while their EDGE network has very good coverage. Unfortunately, as you allude to, they had to degrade the EDGE network for the 3G iPhone. The 3G-EDGE failover problems actually have nothing to do with the iPhone and everything to do with GSM. This has never worked very well, not even in other dual band phones. EVDO to CDMA fails over pretty seamlessly, though in the very early days of EVDO back around 2005 or so, several phones (like the Moto Razr) had problems failing over as well.
That's what those articles, stuff with ads and "Prev | 1 2 3 4 | Next | Last" links displayed are all about! I could go on an on about infoporn, but that, in itself, would be infoporn, right?
They also claim that you get the advantage of the debian package system, but other than a gui I see no outstanding advantage over the FBSD package system, with the exception that I think they still don't make a screen package due to some kernel interface issues that break it when used with a kernel compiled with slightly different options
What are you talking about? I have screen installed on FreeBSD 8, all I had to do to install it was 'pkg_add -r screen'.
Need? Want I can see, and I appreciate that submitting to the search is a condition of being granted entry, but I really don't see where the need comes from.
It's all in the interests of national security, and not necessarily to only stop terrorists as the Department of Homeland Security purports. Just as they search your luggage for physical weapons, they're searching laptops for virtual weapons.
So they can't refuse you entry; (assuming the law permits it) they can have you arrested and possibly charged for failing to comply?
Border security is also about smuggling illegal items into the country. For instance, there are plenty of U.S. citizens who would cross the border hoping to smuggle in drugs, weapons and other illegal contraband. These laws apply to laptops as well.
That's marginally true, but that's besides the point. There is no way in hell any American programmers can live on that salary. You won't get a programming job without a college degree, and if you haven't noticed, the cost of getting a college degree is very, very steep in the U.S.
Wow. $10,000-15,000 a year. Do you realize what you're saying here? Most of them are working below the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour! Burger flippers at McDonald's make more than that.
Do you have any idea what you just said? On the day of the Hiroshima "event," 70,000 people died and another 70,000 people died by the end of 1945, most from radiation poisoning.
Two days' warning: Imagine if one these things hit a major U.S. city. Think of the problems evacuating New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Do you still think 2 days is adequate?
In the U.S., there is an undue negative stigma attached to diesel engines. A lot of people think that diesel engines are still the noisy, finicky engines that smell bad, break down a lot, and need glow plugs when it's cold.They're simply unaware of the major improvements that have come about in past 20 years in diesel engines.
Furthermore, due to government-mandated additives that must be added to diesel, combined with extra diesel taxes designed to make truckers pay more for road construction, diesel is actually more expensive in the U.S. than regular gasoline. Finally, diesel is not available at every gas station and many gas stations that carry diesel have only 1 pump for diesel.
This combination of factors makes diesel engines extremely unpopular in the U.S.
So it's more of a marketing decision than anything
Vendors promise all sorts of things. That doesn't make them true. I'll believe it when I see Tom's Hardware or someone equally competent test one of these things and they actually get 12 hours.
Until then, I'll file this one under "vendors promise the world".
No, it can't. There are quite a few limitations, race being one of them. Its certainly not anything goes.
While there are various laws that vary greatly from state to state, there are no federal hotel consumer protections other than the general protections found in contract law and torte law. See this for more information.
Generally, consumer protections in various states deal things like liability for lost or stolen valuables, a requirement to post the maximum rates for each room, requirements to conspicuously post hotel policies regarding check out time, emergency exit locations, etc. Most states have no specific laws on the books whatsoever in regard to race or anything else. In general, a hotel management can deny service to anyone for pretty much any reason. If you've prepaid for a room and get ejected, your sole remedy is that available under contract and torte law. Which, in most states means the hotel has to refund your money. That's about it.
Like most people, you assume many, many things which are simply untrue.
The term "responsible disclosure" is newspeak for "keep your mouth shut". The alternative to 'responsible disclosure' is that the vulnerabilties continue to exist for sometimes years, with wild exploits happening perhaps unknown for long periods of time.
I think it's okay to notify the company and give them time to fix the bug, but time on the order of years is completely unreasonable. On the Internet, a year is a very, very long time.
1. So your justifying that since CES came rolling into town, they are now the new overwhelming authority?
Handing someone a large sum of money in exchange for them to become your puppet is being anti-competitive, is it not?
Not at all. They rented out the hotel's conference center and a huge block of rooms. That makes the hotel CES' bitch.
2. These companies were PAYING customers, and under the guidelines most hotels follow (See my OP), they had no jurisdiction to kick them out, it was only when the CEA came in and complained that they were sent packing.
A hotel is private property. That's all the 'jurisdiction' they need. They can remove anyone from their property they wish.
3. Yes, I'm sure that Vegas is hurting...look at Dubai "The Playground for the Rich".
You, sir, are incredibly naive... (okay, read you're signature, you're only 15, so I guess that's allowed)
First of all, when CEA comes into town handing the hotels a nice sum, they fully expect that the hotels are going to enforce the policy CEA has handed down for CES. That the hotels did exactly that should come as a surprise to no one.
Secondly, a hotel can refuse service to anyone, at anytime, for any reason. Hotels are privately-owned businesses. If you don't like the hotels exercising their private property rights, you're free to not patronize The Palazzo or The Venetian. Furthermore, the hotel reserves the right to determine what constitutes "disorderly conduct" or using "false pretenses" to obtain accommodations. Renting out a suite is an obvious attempt to deprive CEA of the money they're asking for a booth.
Thirdly, if you think The Palazzo or The Venetian are starving, think again. Maybe you don't have the money to stay there, but there are plenty of rich people with money to burn. I recently read an article in the Miami Herald about how, for example, super-luxury 180-360 day cruises around the world (starting at $100,000 and rising to $500,000 and up) aren't hurting one bit, despite the economy.
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You've almost got it. The problem isn't Adobe, it's Microsoft for allowing such broker processes in the first place.
You're right, they don't. I'm being over-general here, of course. But patch levels do start at one during development of the distro, and that they went through 14 patchlevels before release day is still very telling.
The problem isn't browsers, it's the operating system they're running on. Any operating system that allows normal users to execute privileged code without entering some sort of authentication before allowing those privileges is inherently broken.
Mozilla Corporation's goals are substantially to do activities which bring in revenue, as with Microsoft. Mozilla's main vehicle for doing so is to package and distribute a browser through which income is generated via Google searches. To maximize revenues, they need to maximize both market share and usage of their browser.
Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned susidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. As such, it's revenue-raising activities are limited in scope to assist in raising money for the Foundation and to fund development activities for Mozilla's projects.
As such, Mozilla Corporation is profit seeking only in as much as it furthers Mozilla Foundation's goals.
Under those 30 MB or so of binaries, libraries and other stuff, I'm sure exists a small feature subset set which would give all Internet users a compelling reason to switch to and stick with Firefox, if that feature subset were promoted correctly.
See Epiphany and Chrome/Chromium. These projects are exactly that, but they're based on the leaner and faster Webkit libraries, rather than Gecko. Firefox aims to be a full-featured product, as you mention; the others aim at being lightweight and promoting Web standards, which were Firefox's original goals.
It works for Microsoft.
That would be a valid argument if Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation had similar goals; they do not. Microsoft is a multibillion-bollar global company intent on making money; Mozilla just wants to make a browser and a few related applications.
It was a minority browser then. Most people do not install plugins, or install very few. Most people do not want to work out which plugins are incompatible with each other. Most people judge a browser by how good it is out of the box.
There's a word for that. It's called 'integration'. You add new features as extensions and then you provide browser packages which include a few extensions installed by default. That way, those who do not want a particular feature can remove it.
Releasing when a feature is ready sounds both chaotic and reasonable. Chaotic is not neccessarily bad.
Three words: Duke Nukem Forever.
*ducking*
You're both right. New features getting adding to the stable kernels have done much to reduce stability between kernel versions. So much so that distros have had to pick up the slack by introducing an increasing number of patches. Have you ever looked at the patchset list for Ubuntu? There have been like 17 different kernel patchlevels for Karmic Koala since it was released in October. That's more than one patchset a week, and each patchset can have anywhere from 1-10 patches.
I've been a customer of AT&T since the "AT&T wireless" days (pre AT&T, pre "cingular", etc.) and I can count the number of dropped calls on one hand. I currently have an original iPhone, jailbroken/unlocked, on a very old AT&T Wireless account. $30/month for a regional plan = awesome (as is having one device to surf the web where I can get Wifi, play games, listen to music, and make phone calls.)
Anecdote != data
Living in New England, I also haven't heard many complaints from 3G iPhone users. Seems to be mostly NYC where people are screaming (yes kids, NY and NYC are not "New England.")
The plural of anecdote is also not data; it's anecdotes.
Generally, 3G failover problems are going to come from two classes of users: 1) people who drive a lot, especially those who drive long distances; and 2) people who live or work in very densely-populated urban areas where there are lots of interference from tall buildings, industry, lots of radio noise, etc. Note that the vast majority of "New England" doesn't fall into category 2, with the exception of Boston. (New England = [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont])
I was there for the switch to 3G in OH and though the service is fast, the batteries don't last (heh); my phone(s) would be dead with very limited surfing.
The batteries don't last in a lot of EVDO phones either. That's the fault of stupid phone manufacturers who switched radio chipsets without bothering to improve battery capacity or power consumption in the rest of the phone.
The real problem seems to be that AT&T has very limited 3G coverage, while their EDGE network has very good coverage. Unfortunately, as you allude to, they had to degrade the EDGE network for the 3G iPhone. The 3G-EDGE failover problems actually have nothing to do with the iPhone and everything to do with GSM. This has never worked very well, not even in other dual band phones. EVDO to CDMA fails over pretty seamlessly, though in the very early days of EVDO back around 2005 or so, several phones (like the Moto Razr) had problems failing over as well.
I wonder if this method would work at a bank?
I might save some time in the drive thru...
Well, it would definitely attract the attention of the FBI anyway...
Haven't you ever heard of infoporn?
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That's what those articles, stuff with ads and "Prev | 1 2 3 4 | Next | Last" links displayed are all about! I could go on an on about infoporn, but that, in itself, would be infoporn, right?
What are you talking about? I have screen installed on FreeBSD 8, all I had to do to install it was 'pkg_add -r screen'.
Need? Want I can see, and I appreciate that submitting to the search is a condition of being granted entry, but I really don't see where the need comes from.
It's all in the interests of national security, and not necessarily to only stop terrorists as the Department of Homeland Security purports. Just as they search your luggage for physical weapons, they're searching laptops for virtual weapons.
So they can't refuse you entry; (assuming the law permits it) they can have you arrested and possibly charged for failing to comply?
Border security is also about smuggling illegal items into the country. For instance, there are plenty of U.S. citizens who would cross the border hoping to smuggle in drugs, weapons and other illegal contraband. These laws apply to laptops as well.
Don't laugh. The U.S. DoD is already largely outsourced.
That's marginally true, but that's besides the point. There is no way in hell any American programmers can live on that salary. You won't get a programming job without a college degree, and if you haven't noticed, the cost of getting a college degree is very, very steep in the U.S.
I guess we're all going to have to move to India.
Wow. $10,000-15,000 a year. Do you realize what you're saying here? Most of them are working below the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour! Burger flippers at McDonald's make more than that.
(a Tunguska or Hiroshima sized event)
Do you have any idea what you just said? On the day of the Hiroshima "event," 70,000 people died and another 70,000 people died by the end of 1945, most from radiation poisoning.
Two days' warning: Imagine if one these things hit a major U.S. city. Think of the problems evacuating New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Do you still think 2 days is adequate?
A bunch of reasons actually.
In the U.S., there is an undue negative stigma attached to diesel engines. A lot of people think that diesel engines are still the noisy, finicky engines that smell bad, break down a lot, and need glow plugs when it's cold.They're simply unaware of the major improvements that have come about in past 20 years in diesel engines.
Furthermore, due to government-mandated additives that must be added to diesel, combined with extra diesel taxes designed to make truckers pay more for road construction, diesel is actually more expensive in the U.S. than regular gasoline. Finally, diesel is not available at every gas station and many gas stations that carry diesel have only 1 pump for diesel.
This combination of factors makes diesel engines extremely unpopular in the U.S.
So it's more of a marketing decision than anything
Who needs a big red "Turbo" button, when you have that uber-cool big red "Turbo" speedometer-thingie?
Vendors promise all sorts of things. That doesn't make them true. I'll believe it when I see Tom's Hardware or someone equally competent test one of these things and they actually get 12 hours.
Until then, I'll file this one under "vendors promise the world".
No, it can't. There are quite a few limitations, race being one of them. Its certainly not anything goes.
While there are various laws that vary greatly from state to state, there are no federal hotel consumer protections other than the general protections found in contract law and torte law. See this for more information.
Generally, consumer protections in various states deal things like liability for lost or stolen valuables, a requirement to post the maximum rates for each room, requirements to conspicuously post hotel policies regarding check out time, emergency exit locations, etc. Most states have no specific laws on the books whatsoever in regard to race or anything else. In general, a hotel management can deny service to anyone for pretty much any reason. If you've prepaid for a room and get ejected, your sole remedy is that available under contract and torte law. Which, in most states means the hotel has to refund your money. That's about it.
Like most people, you assume many, many things which are simply untrue.
The term "responsible disclosure" is newspeak for "keep your mouth shut". The alternative to 'responsible disclosure' is that the vulnerabilties continue to exist for sometimes years, with wild exploits happening perhaps unknown for long periods of time.
I think it's okay to notify the company and give them time to fix the bug, but time on the order of years is completely unreasonable. On the Internet, a year is a very, very long time.
1. So your justifying that since CES came rolling into town, they are now the new overwhelming authority?
Handing someone a large sum of money in exchange for them to become your puppet is being anti-competitive, is it not?
Not at all. They rented out the hotel's conference center and a huge block of rooms. That makes the hotel CES' bitch.
2. These companies were PAYING customers, and under the guidelines most hotels follow (See my OP), they had no jurisdiction to kick them out, it was only when the CEA came in and complained that they were sent packing.
A hotel is private property. That's all the 'jurisdiction' they need. They can remove anyone from their property they wish.
3. Yes, I'm sure that Vegas is hurting...look at Dubai "The Playground for the Rich".
Vegas != Dubai.
No. Viagra converts software into hardware.
You, sir, are incredibly naive... (okay, read you're signature, you're only 15, so I guess that's allowed)
First of all, when CEA comes into town handing the hotels a nice sum, they fully expect that the hotels are going to enforce the policy CEA has handed down for CES. That the hotels did exactly that should come as a surprise to no one.
Secondly, a hotel can refuse service to anyone, at anytime, for any reason. Hotels are privately-owned businesses. If you don't like the hotels exercising their private property rights, you're free to not patronize The Palazzo or The Venetian. Furthermore, the hotel reserves the right to determine what constitutes "disorderly conduct" or using "false pretenses" to obtain accommodations. Renting out a suite is an obvious attempt to deprive CEA of the money they're asking for a booth.
Thirdly, if you think The Palazzo or The Venetian are starving, think again. Maybe you don't have the money to stay there, but there are plenty of rich people with money to burn. I recently read an article in the Miami Herald about how, for example, super-luxury 180-360 day cruises around the world (starting at $100,000 and rising to $500,000 and up) aren't hurting one bit, despite the economy.