fair and unfair is extremely subjective. I'm not really sure how the argument of, "the world's unfair get use to it," really answers what the person was asking.
How does one justify attacking the RIAA for protecting the artist's IP? When we'd attack someone breaking into our house (or at least expect someone to come and protect us.)
That's like saying, "I can't believe that you're pressing charges on that poor guy who stole your TV from your house."
Oh yeah, fair use, right? I grant the next guy fair use any day. But c'mon a whole song on your iPoo is not fair use.
<humor>
Anyway, biggest excuse I always hear is, "Well I support independent artist who freely give their music away! That's right my 1.3 TB music collection is made up of 100% independent artist who gave their music away."
Really?! Let me see it.
"Um, no. It's too long."
Really? Well I've got nothing better to do then look over 1.3TB of music song by song.
(yes, I read slashdot aka I have no life)
</humor>
That's true. My comment is a little double sided without being entirely clear.
They are going to have transmission troubles at GEO hence my comment about "Rectenna size-distance ratio issue." The clear solution is to use LEO (since there was nothing in the news article about which orbit was to be used so I said something about GEO and LEO) which carries the hazard of debris. However I didn't note that I had switched mid-comment, my bad.
However even in GEO there is going to be transit material (as you stated), micro-comets, and since we are talking about a giant mirror pointing at the sun, drag from solar wind.
However, I applaud you for pointing out my omission.
First off:
PG&E is not placing any up front capital to these bozos. So all the people who are saying this is a trick to get PG&E to fund fluff, please, RTFA.
Second: Microwave Power Transmission (MPT) actually being used as a death ray is way too cool to be real. Sadly, this is the case. MPT just doesn't provide enough radiant energy per square centimeter to actually fry someone. In fact it's a little over the amount that leaks out from your microwave oven. Sorry, I would have love the idea of zap, poof, he's dead Jim.
Third:
I don't think these sucker are actually going to get this thing off the ground, seriously. The biggest thing that has kept people from doing this in the 60's was:
Motivation to do so.
Funds to do so.
The actually ability to handle all the logistic needed to get this type of structure built in space.
Making it actually profitable. Space junk has a nasty way of ruining giant mirrors and a rig this big isn't going to be easily push out the way for on coming traffic.
As far as I can tell these turkeys have item 1 checked and are praying for the rest. I can only bet they are hoping that number 2 comes from Obama. If they do succeed I'd love to know how they get pass Rectenna size-distance ratio issue.
(better if read with slightly double plus non-good Russian accent.)
10GB cap. Meh.
Why in my day we didn't have the fancy, pants Internet you kids have today. We used our favorite browser lynx from the terminal and read our webpages, not the other way round with your fancy flash and AJAX and what-have-you.
Really, the Internet suffers from bloat, just like the fancy programs you kids run on your netbooks with processors that servers from the 90's would have killed for.
More, more, more is all that you can say. What happened to the people who used to get on Slashdot and say less, less, less?
I say keep your fancy, pants Internet and I'll keep using the Internet for what it was built for; Gopher and WAIS. And stay off my lawn you net urchins!
- There is no common way to install and remove software.
Not going to happen. I see this as a feature not so much as a bug. This allows ISVs that wish to implement their own system for installation to fore go trying to override the Linux "default" installation mechanism. This is very akin to how Windows CE back in the day did it.
- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)
The idea of FOSS is to promote "open" drivers. I'm not very sorry if binary drivers find this a problem. I promise you that if you start with an open source driver it is very easy to maintain in the kernel.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
I'm terribly sorry if this confuses you. However, I believe that is your beef with the distro and not GNU/Linux - FOSS proper.
- Gimp is *not* Photoshop. Sorry. I know I mentioned this, but I'll repeat it again. You insult people who actually use Photoshop by making this claim.
I don't think anyone on the GIMP website makes that claim. Maybe your problem is with the fanbois. ZOMFG! Maybe you can take that up with them. GIMP is a tool, if you find that tool useful then that's great news to the programmers. If you don't, then I doubt that will change any opinion of any developer of GIMP, unless you actively want to help out and change that aspect (ahem, which is something you could never do in whatever that other program was that you were talking about.)
- Ponies.
I think you are at odds with the people who actually give a damn about market penetration. You need to take your issues up with the distros, the vendors, and the fanboys. I think it high time they added their two cents into the mix and everyone stopped banking on the programmer to fix everything. You want Photoshop on Linux? Stop bitching at the Wine developers and start screaming at Ubuntu to have their team add it to Wine.
The community is about freelance programmers who come in program at whatever leisure they have. They are not beholden to some penetration and I'm so tired of the idiots on Slashdot who keep painting this epic struggle between Windows and Linux (Really you guys are just feeding the fire). Who really f'ing cares? The only ones I can think of are the ones that have a paycheck based on the success or the foaming at the mouth fan of Linux.
Really you need to go ask Ubuntu, Novell, RedHat to take a realistic look at their software and product offerings, they're the ones who actually depend on the stuff selling.
That's not to say they aren't working on it. Ubuntu has been working on a Netbook remix, Redhat has it's server software they work on, Novell has it's suite of applications that they work on. That's because that's what matters to them. If you agree with what they are working on then by all means go see what they are peddling. If not they why are you bitching about it? (Why would you bitch about fuel efficiency in a Hummer? Maybe, you should have gotten a Focus.)
But let's get this straight. The programmers owe you nothing and most don't care if their software is used by anyone. I rather Linux not compete with anything and remain true to the FOSS idea. Not some mutt view that most people have taken with it. Be damn it's popularity.
PS: (And this is totally my view so add equal amounts of salt grains) You are talking out you rear-end thinking that Oracle of all things is this great and mighty software! It's alright, but it's a bitch to work with and develop for. I dunno about the DB admin side of it, maybe that's what you're talking about.
I'm just wondering if the reboot statement deals with the install process or during the lifetime of the computer?
If with the install process, then I feel really sorry for all the people who use Windows that must go through more than one reboot (from install to working system) to get an OS installed. But I guess that's still something to strive for in the 21st century.
If it means during the lifetime of the computer, that would be a sight. I'm not sure if MS has produced anything that has been stable enough to really be able keep count of reboots during the lifetime of the OS/Computer. I'd loose count after a dozen or so reboots, after that I'd just accept my computer crashing/having to apply major updates as a part of life, which is pretty sad.
However, I won't have to worry about any of this, so kudos to MS if you got it right this time and sorry to everyone else if they didn't.
From what I can gather you're asking the Mozilla team to change their current assumptions on how software should be install and how privileges work with the XPI system.
I honsetly belive that the current rules in place by the Firefox developers are well minded and do a good job at keep malware base XPIs from getting into a system. However, I think this whole line of thought is a personal taste as opposed to something that the developers should take onto themselves.
However, I would like to address your first point. Where you stated that XPIs should not be initiated from a web page.
Which the point of this is to allow a cross platform installer. I would hate to think that if you made an extenstion for Firefox, you would have to write an installer for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, SkyOS... This solves that problem.
Now I understand your concern. It's a very logical concern, but if a user goes to malwarefreaks.blowyourcomputerup.com and installs an XPI from there (even after all the popups that tell that user not to do so) and then the user's computer becomes unusable. Well, I find that the fault of the user and not the developers or the XPI system.
There again. You have some really valid points but you can't keep a person from being a total idiot. I believe the defaults of Firefox give enough security with flexibilty.
I would like to first address a lot of the people who are taking this as a chance to really dog Firefox and the Open Source Community as a failure on their part.
Because someone has discovered this problem, one can now fix the problem. That is the whole idea of Open Source and all that rot. If anyone would love to submit a patch for Windows 95 to make it run longer than 52.5 days, I'm waiting. It's a known problem, why isn't it fixed? Well because someone, somewhere said they weren't going to fix Windows 95 because it's too old. Which this is the case a lot in closed source. you know there is a bug and you'd like something to be done about it, but nothing will be done unless MS sees that a patch for the software is a cost justified.
Also aside from the fact that this is an extension of Firefox, I know it's just as bad as if the package was faulty. Up till today I had never heard of this extension. So I'm not sure as to how widespread this problem is, but I'm guessing that good chunck of all Firefox users do not have GM.
To top it all off, the writers of GM have issued a fix for their extension by means of version 3.5. Yes I know it breaks API compatibilty, which sounds like something MS would do, but just like what the Mozilla team did with IDN, they turned IDNs off until they could make a good way of handling them. Which the Mozilla team came up with a fix in a fairly decent amount of time. I find it highly possible that this peice of software will do likewise. As opposed to MS breaking things with SP2 and then telling all of the vendors to just get over it, (which I will agree that only a small amount, twenty or so, of vendors got 'left behind', so not horrible, just bad.)
Now secondly, from the story, GM only returns results of files that are world readable (aka the Everyone group if you are a Windows person). Now, I'm not sure how everyone has their system setup so this could all vary from one person to another.
In Linux my home directory (the one with all my private stuff) is only owner read, write, traversable (700 or rwx------).
If I remember correctly, in Windows the C: (root) drive's premissions for the Everyone group is.
-Traverse/Execute -List Folder/Read -Read Attributes -Read Permissions (I may have missed a few because I don't have a Windows machine handy)
At no part is write premission granted to Everyone.
Therefore, your OS is mostly secure to protect you from getting some form of malware on your system.
However, this does allow someone to read data from your system if, and this is the big if, you set your private stuff as world readable (aka readable by the Everyone group.)
Which as far as I know all of your cookies and history is stored somewhere in.mozilla (Linux) My Documents (Windows)
Which as stated previously/home/$USER on my machine is (700 or rwx------) which prevents/home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/* from being displayed (and just to be safe all things ~/.mozilla/* should be 700)
Now if I correctly remember for Windows, My Documents, does not even have an entry for the Everyone group to do jack crap with. I know, gasp , Windows Permissions actually working for the user?!
So this leaves the would be hacker mostly your system configuration (and not even the good parts) left open to be read. I know they can't read a bunch of my/etc folder (Linux's folder for configuration) because a lot of it is owned by root with 700 or 770 permissions. So that leaves for the most part things that a hacker could have already found out if they had just used nmap on my system. Same goes for Windows.
I mean really, what good does it do one to only be able to read the boot.ini file??? "Ok, now I know you have two installs of Windows, or you use the Windows bootloader to load Linux for you (or what not.)" It's not like they can change it, only read it.
This problem isn't a very high security threat if you have some wits about you, but it is a problem indeed and it needs to be fixed. However, this problem is being hyped up as if this was allowing world write access to your system, which is just not the case.
Ok this reeks of tin foil hat. All of you need to get over yourselves. How dare the US issue me a SSN to uniquely ID me, or how could the State give me a Driver ID number to provide me some form of ID that is unique to everyone else.
What I don't get is why is everyone tossing a fit about a figer print scanner? Let's say you use your current library card (which I'm not sure how it works were you live.) Here, the card has a barcode on the back on it. Now if someone really wanted to they could look through the System and use my library card to find all the books I've read. Chances of it actually occouring? Next to nothing. I just don't see myself that importnat that someone is really going to look over my flipping study habits. And if they did, fine, it's not like I'm reading, "How to make a bomb to blow the frigging White house up 101."
Besides this is for Internet use anyway. It's not like libraries don't already have measures to track what you're looking at anyway.
Using a fingerprint isn't going to make it easier to track who is reading stuff that is dangerious. No that would be some sort of tracking database that reads what your are reading. Good God. What will happen when they start issuing Credit cards that use your finger print? Or start making doors that use finger prints?
You guys need to take the tin foil hats off and breath a little. If you want to keep private then I suggest you not post to/. and go live in the woods.
No, really I would love to see people actually do something to derail the current track that our country runs on.
This is how I see it. A bunch of people get together and start some crap in DC. In turn, that forces somebody to actually pass a bill (yadda yadda yadda) until it turns into law. People are happy that the law has been made and go on their way. Later, when no one is looking, companies come in pay to get some law passed (yadda yadda yadda) now there is some law that counter-acts everything you just did. Now you have to get your people together, again, and head to DC, again. (repeat)(repeat)(repeat)
You may as well save yourself the trouble and just go shoot the BSA members yourself and blow up all the buildings they work in, otherwise you'll be spending a lot of time running in circles, and if you like running in circles, fine, have fun. I'll just go be a dirt farmer when the shit gets bad and not give a care as to what the hell happens.
Well put. So many companies and a couple of FOSS people always seem to look at just one or two segments of ownership and say, "Oh well we're cheaper that so and so here."
Generally speaking, if you reduce the cost fo something in one part, it usually raises the cost in another part. You just have to find the model that best fits your company.
No this is just capitalism at work. Basically, you don't like what is going on, therefore, you should start your company, get support from others who share your goals, and then setup some sort of group call the anit-BSA (or whatever).
Yeah that's all crap. By the time you get about 25% done some company will just buy you out or you'll be too old to really care anymore.
The thing that always surprises me is that people are actually mad that this thing is going on. Rich people (however defined by a nation's society ) have always had more power than the poor.
For many reasons I won't just say, "get used to it," but a lot of people are just so unmotivated to do anything about it. So this patteren will continue until something rubs a majority of the lowwer class the wrong way. Because, it seems to me, no one does anything until someone jams a hot poker up their ass.
Take away my freedoms... Ok.
Take away my beer... I'll kill you all!
Screw the U.S. IT market. Big companies have screwed everyone in it and now we are at the verge of the breaking point. There isn't any value in the IT field, unless you like working a job with unstabilty, and now students are reacting to this. This is the market they (companies) wanted, so let them have it. Who care if the software is crappy or the programmers speak broken English and it takes five hours to explain a new feature over the phone. This is what they wanted.
Fire me if you will. But hear my warning, for I have written shell scripts that shall replace you all, and on my last day they shall be loosed upon you all!
Agreed. It would be a PR nightmare if it came to light that PJ and O'Gara were paid for anything by the paries in the case. I don't think either side would in their wildest dream try it, at least not as conservative as everyone has gotten here (ie America) lately. And the point stands that O'Gara more than likely just did what most of today's reporters do. Stir-up people's hate.
However, Dvorak believes that reporters can hype shi* up and find no retribution for all the crap they've stirred. Which is a bad assumption.
Yes the Linux community has some nut bags, at times I'm part of that group. But we've also got rapist, murders, and just generally sick people in every country. Every section of society is not totally perfect.
And now that I think of it that is a good parallel. We have sicko's in life and the news seems to report them 98% of the time. What makes Dvorak's story any different.
Bottom line was that O'Gara was way, way out of line with her story. Yes, some reasonable people spoke up, yes some really crazy people also acted. That is going to happen when you piss people off. So I'll just brush this stuff off because its the same drain that most of today's jourilism is going down.
Microsoft believes that software features will prevail in the console market. That tends to make me think that Xbox support will be emulation software that is loaded by the firmware.
Microsoft aims with XNA is to offload a lot of hardware features into software. Which to a point I understand but software isn't perfect so I wouldn't deligate such features to software, somethings are better as hardware.
Yes but the curious thing is, why are you on a VoIP Laptop while your house is burning down? If this is a major emergency for you, trust me, you're not going to pull out the laptop to make a call.
The point boils down to this. The only time you're ever going to be in a location where the address of where the call is comming in from is from an unknown is when you are roaming around. If you are at home and use VoIP, well, they (the ISP) already have your addess and just forward that information to the 911 service.
The service I purpose is simply there when the address is an unknown. Which is a question the 911 operator is going to ask you anyway.
Well that will be the first question the judge asks before he gives a summary judgment of, "ha ha ha ha ha, oh wait you're serious?!"
No really, the point being is that even given the context of the market of what we are speaking in, one can not reasonably trademark a single english word and hold on to it for a reasonable amount of time.
Well the USPTO ought to be proud their system works.
Maybe they'll just be required to have a forwarding service that simply asks, "Where are you calling from?"
Then just route the call from there to the proper 911 service.
I dunno, sounds simple enough.
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My John Deere has a fifty speed cup holder and runs Linux in Soviet Russia.
*ducks*
fair and unfair is extremely subjective. I'm not really sure how the argument of, "the world's unfair get use to it," really answers what the person was asking.
How does one justify attacking the RIAA for protecting the artist's IP? When we'd attack someone breaking into our house (or at least expect someone to come and protect us.)
That's like saying, "I can't believe that you're pressing charges on that poor guy who stole your TV from your house."
Oh yeah, fair use, right? I grant the next guy fair use any day. But c'mon a whole song on your iPoo is not fair use.
<humor> Anyway, biggest excuse I always hear is, "Well I support independent artist who freely give their music away! That's right my 1.3 TB music collection is made up of 100% independent artist who gave their music away."
Really?! Let me see it.
"Um, no. It's too long."
Really? Well I've got nothing better to do then look over 1.3TB of music song by song. (yes, I read slashdot aka I have no life) </humor>
Wow, hindsight is indeed 20/20.
*So long as you are not connected to the Internet.
That's true. My comment is a little double sided without being entirely clear.
They are going to have transmission troubles at GEO hence my comment about "Rectenna size-distance ratio issue." The clear solution is to use LEO (since there was nothing in the news article about which orbit was to be used so I said something about GEO and LEO) which carries the hazard of debris. However I didn't note that I had switched mid-comment, my bad.
However even in GEO there is going to be transit material (as you stated), micro-comets, and since we are talking about a giant mirror pointing at the sun, drag from solar wind.
However, I applaud you for pointing out my omission.
PG&E is not placing any up front capital to these bozos. So all the people who are saying this is a trick to get PG&E to fund fluff, please, RTFA.
Second:
Microwave Power Transmission (MPT) actually being used as a death ray is way too cool to be real. Sadly, this is the case. MPT just doesn't provide enough radiant energy per square centimeter to actually fry someone. In fact it's a little over the amount that leaks out from your microwave oven. Sorry, I would have love the idea of zap, poof, he's dead Jim.
Third:
I don't think these sucker are actually going to get this thing off the ground, seriously. The biggest thing that has kept people from doing this in the 60's was:
As far as I can tell these turkeys have item 1 checked and are praying for the rest. I can only bet they are hoping that number 2 comes from Obama. If they do succeed I'd love to know how they get pass Rectenna size-distance ratio issue.
Cheers!
(better if read with slightly double plus non-good Russian accent.)
10GB cap. Meh.
Why in my day we didn't have the fancy, pants Internet you kids have today. We used our favorite browser lynx from the terminal and read our webpages, not the other way round with your fancy flash and AJAX and what-have-you.
Really, the Internet suffers from bloat, just like the fancy programs you kids run on your netbooks with processors that servers from the 90's would have killed for.
More, more, more is all that you can say. What happened to the people who used to get on Slashdot and say less, less, less?
I say keep your fancy, pants Internet and I'll keep using the Internet for what it was built for; Gopher and WAIS. And stay off my lawn you net urchins!
- There is no common way to install and remove software.
Not going to happen. I see this as a feature not so much as a bug. This allows ISVs that wish to implement their own system for installation to fore go trying to override the Linux "default" installation mechanism. This is very akin to how Windows CE back in the day did it.
- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)
The idea of FOSS is to promote "open" drivers. I'm not very sorry if binary drivers find this a problem. I promise you that if you start with an open source driver it is very easy to maintain in the kernel.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
I'm terribly sorry if this confuses you. However, I believe that is your beef with the distro and not GNU/Linux - FOSS proper.
- Gimp is *not* Photoshop. Sorry. I know I mentioned this, but I'll repeat it again. You insult people who actually use Photoshop by making this claim.
I don't think anyone on the GIMP website makes that claim. Maybe your problem is with the fanbois.
ZOMFG! Maybe you can take that up with them. GIMP is a tool, if you find that tool useful then that's great news to the programmers. If you don't, then I doubt that will change any opinion of any developer of GIMP, unless you actively want to help out and change that aspect
(ahem, which is something you could never do in whatever that other program was that you were talking about.)
- Ponies.
I think you are at odds with the people who actually give a damn about market penetration. You need to take your issues up with the distros, the vendors, and the fanboys. I think it high time they added their two cents into the mix and everyone stopped banking on the programmer to fix everything. You want Photoshop on Linux? Stop bitching at the Wine developers and start screaming at Ubuntu to have their team add it to Wine.
The community is about freelance programmers who come in program at whatever leisure they have. They are not beholden to some penetration and I'm so tired of the idiots on Slashdot who keep painting this epic struggle between Windows and Linux (Really you guys are just feeding the fire). Who really f'ing cares? The only ones I can think of are the ones that have a paycheck based on the success or the foaming at the mouth fan of Linux.
Really you need to go ask Ubuntu, Novell, RedHat to take a realistic look at their software and product offerings, they're the ones who actually depend on the stuff selling.
That's not to say they aren't working on it. Ubuntu has been working on a Netbook remix, Redhat has it's server software they work on, Novell has it's suite of applications that they work on. That's because that's what matters to them. If you agree with what they are working on then by all means go see what they are peddling. If not they why are you bitching about it? (Why would you bitch about fuel efficiency in a Hummer? Maybe, you should have gotten a Focus.)
But let's get this straight. The programmers owe you nothing and most don't care if their software is used by anyone. I rather Linux not compete with anything and remain true to the FOSS idea. Not some mutt view that most people have taken with it. Be damn it's popularity.
PS: (And this is totally my view so add equal amounts of salt grains) You are talking out you rear-end thinking that Oracle of all things is this great and mighty software! It's alright, but it's a bitch to work with and develop for. I dunno about the DB admin side of it, maybe that's what you're talking about.
I'm just wondering if the reboot statement deals with the install process or during the lifetime of the computer?
If with the install process, then I feel really sorry for all the people who use Windows that must go through more than one reboot (from install to working system) to get an OS installed. But I guess that's still something to strive for in the 21st century.
If it means during the lifetime of the computer, that would be a sight. I'm not sure if MS has produced anything that has been stable enough to really be able keep count of reboots during the lifetime of the OS/Computer. I'd loose count after a dozen or so reboots, after that I'd just accept my computer crashing/having to apply major updates as a part of life, which is pretty sad.
However, I won't have to worry about any of this, so kudos to MS if you got it right this time and sorry to everyone else if they didn't.
From what I can gather you're asking the Mozilla team to change their current assumptions on how software should be install and how privileges work with the XPI system.
... This solves that problem.
I honsetly belive that the current rules in place by the Firefox developers are well minded and do a good job at keep malware base XPIs from getting into a system. However, I think this whole line of thought is a personal taste as opposed to something that the developers should take onto themselves.
However, I would like to address your first point. Where you stated that XPIs should not be initiated from a web page.
Which the point of this is to allow a cross platform installer. I would hate to think that if you made an extenstion for Firefox, you would have to write an installer for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, SkyOS
Now I understand your concern. It's a very logical concern, but if a user goes to malwarefreaks.blowyourcomputerup.com and installs an XPI from there (even after all the popups that tell that user not to do so) and then the user's computer becomes unusable. Well, I find that the fault of the user and not the developers or the XPI system.
There again. You have some really valid points but you can't keep a person from being a total idiot. I believe the defaults of Firefox give enough security with flexibilty.
I would like to first address a lot of the people who are taking this as a chance to really dog Firefox and the Open Source Community as a failure on their part.
.mozilla (Linux) My Documents (Windows)
/home/$USER on my machine is (700 or rwx------) which prevents /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/* from being displayed (and just to be safe all things ~/.mozilla/* should be 700)
/etc folder (Linux's folder for configuration) because a lot of it is owned by root with 700 or 770 permissions. So that leaves for the most part things that a hacker could have already found out if they had just used nmap on my system. Same goes for Windows.
Because someone has discovered this problem, one can now fix the problem. That is the whole idea of Open Source and all that rot. If anyone would love to submit a patch for Windows 95 to make it run longer than 52.5 days, I'm waiting. It's a known problem, why isn't it fixed? Well because someone, somewhere said they weren't going to fix Windows 95 because it's too old. Which this is the case a lot in closed source. you know there is a bug and you'd like something to be done about it, but nothing will be done unless MS sees that a patch for the software is a cost justified.
Also aside from the fact that this is an extension of Firefox, I know it's just as bad as if the package was faulty. Up till today I had never heard of this extension. So I'm not sure as to how widespread this problem is, but I'm guessing that good chunck of all Firefox users do not have GM.
To top it all off, the writers of GM have issued a fix for their extension by means of version 3.5. Yes I know it breaks API compatibilty, which sounds like something MS would do, but just like what the Mozilla team did with IDN, they turned IDNs off until they could make a good way of handling them. Which the Mozilla team came up with a fix in a fairly decent amount of time. I find it highly possible that this peice of software will do likewise. As opposed to MS breaking things with SP2 and then telling all of the vendors to just get over it, (which I will agree that only a small amount, twenty or so, of vendors got 'left behind', so not horrible, just bad.)
Now secondly, from the story, GM only returns results of files that are world readable (aka the Everyone group if you are a Windows person). Now, I'm not sure how everyone has their system setup so this could all vary from one person to another.
In Linux my home directory (the one with all my private stuff) is only owner read, write, traversable (700 or rwx------).
If I remember correctly, in Windows the C: (root) drive's premissions for the Everyone group is.
-Traverse/Execute
-List Folder/Read
-Read Attributes
-Read Permissions
(I may have missed a few because I don't have a Windows machine handy)
At no part is write premission granted to Everyone.
Therefore, your OS is mostly secure to protect you from getting some form of malware on your system.
However, this does allow someone to read data from your system if, and this is the big if, you set your private stuff as world readable (aka readable by the Everyone group.)
Which as far as I know all of your cookies and history is stored somewhere in
Which as stated previously
Now if I correctly remember for Windows, My Documents, does not even have an entry for the Everyone group to do jack crap with. I know, gasp , Windows Permissions actually working for the user?!
So this leaves the would be hacker mostly your system configuration (and not even the good parts) left open to be read. I know they can't read a bunch of my
I mean really, what good does it do one to only be able to read the boot.ini file??? "Ok, now I know you have two installs of Windows, or you use the Windows bootloader to load Linux for you (or what not.)" It's not like they can change it, only read it.
This problem isn't a very high security threat if you have some wits about you, but it is a problem indeed and it needs to be fixed. However, this problem is being hyped up as if this was allowing world write access to your system, which is just not the case.
And just for anyone wondering here is the slashdot story about it. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/29/ 221235&tid=109&tid=1&tid=106
It's funny how earlier MS said they wanted to work with the F/OSS community. It's things like this that provide reason why no one should trust MS.
Ok this reeks of tin foil hat. All of you need to get over yourselves. How dare the US issue me a SSN to uniquely ID me, or how could the State give me a Driver ID number to provide me some form of ID that is unique to everyone else.
/. and go live in the woods.
What I don't get is why is everyone tossing a fit about a figer print scanner? Let's say you use your current library card (which I'm not sure how it works were you live.) Here, the card has a barcode on the back on it. Now if someone really wanted to they could look through the System and use my library card to find all the books I've read. Chances of it actually occouring? Next to nothing. I just don't see myself that importnat that someone is really going to look over my flipping study habits. And if they did, fine, it's not like I'm reading, "How to make a bomb to blow the frigging White house up 101."
Besides this is for Internet use anyway. It's not like libraries don't already have measures to track what you're looking at anyway.
Using a fingerprint isn't going to make it easier to track who is reading stuff that is dangerious. No that would be some sort of tracking database that reads what your are reading. Good God. What will happen when they start issuing Credit cards that use your finger print? Or start making doors that use finger prints?
You guys need to take the tin foil hats off and breath a little. If you want to keep private then I suggest you not post to
No, really I would love to see people actually do something to derail the current track that our country runs on.
This is how I see it. A bunch of people get together and start some crap in DC. In turn, that forces somebody to actually pass a bill (yadda yadda yadda) until it turns into law. People are happy that the law has been made and go on their way. Later, when no one is looking, companies come in pay to get some law passed (yadda yadda yadda) now there is some law that counter-acts everything you just did. Now you have to get your people together, again, and head to DC, again. (repeat)(repeat)(repeat)
You may as well save yourself the trouble and just go shoot the BSA members yourself and blow up all the buildings they work in, otherwise you'll be spending a lot of time running in circles, and if you like running in circles, fine, have fun. I'll just go be a dirt farmer when the shit gets bad and not give a care as to what the hell happens.
Well put. So many companies and a couple of FOSS people always seem to look at just one or two segments of ownership and say, "Oh well we're cheaper that so and so here."
Generally speaking, if you reduce the cost fo something in one part, it usually raises the cost in another part. You just have to find the model that best fits your company.
No this is just capitalism at work. Basically, you don't like what is going on, therefore, you should start your company, get support from others who share your goals, and then setup some sort of group call the anit-BSA (or whatever).
Yeah that's all crap. By the time you get about 25% done some company will just buy you out or you'll be too old to really care anymore.
The thing that always surprises me is that people are actually mad that this thing is going on. Rich people (however defined by a nation's society ) have always had more power than the poor.
For many reasons I won't just say, "get used to it," but a lot of people are just so unmotivated to do anything about it. So this patteren will continue until something rubs a majority of the lowwer class the wrong way. Because, it seems to me, no one does anything until someone jams a hot poker up their ass.
Take away my freedoms... Ok.
Take away my beer... I'll kill you all!
Screw the U.S. IT market. Big companies have screwed everyone in it and now we are at the verge of the breaking point.
There isn't any value in the IT field, unless you like working a job with unstabilty, and now students are reacting to this.
This is the market they (companies) wanted, so let them have it. Who care if the software is crappy or the programmers speak broken English and it takes five hours to explain a new feature over the phone. This is what they wanted.
Fire me if you will. But hear my warning, for I have written shell scripts that shall replace you all, and on my last day they shall be loosed upon you all!
(insert dramatic music here)
Muw-ha ha ha ha!
Agreed. It would be a PR nightmare if it came to light that PJ and O'Gara were paid for anything by the paries in the case. I don't think either side would in their wildest dream try it, at least not as conservative as everyone has gotten here (ie America) lately. And the point stands that O'Gara more than likely just did what most of today's reporters do. Stir-up people's hate.
However, Dvorak believes that reporters can hype shi* up and find no retribution for all the crap they've stirred. Which is a bad assumption.
Yes the Linux community has some nut bags, at times I'm part of that group. But we've also got rapist, murders, and just generally sick people in every country. Every section of society is not totally perfect.
And now that I think of it that is a good parallel. We have sicko's in life and the news seems to report them 98% of the time. What makes Dvorak's story any different.
Bottom line was that O'Gara was way, way out of line with her story. Yes, some reasonable people spoke up, yes some really crazy people also acted. That is going to happen when you piss people off. So I'll just brush this stuff off because its the same drain that most of today's jourilism is going down.
Well I believe that this holds true to their XNA software platform.
Microsoft believes that software features will prevail in the console market. That tends to make me think that Xbox support will be emulation software that is loaded by the firmware.
Microsoft aims with XNA is to offload a lot of hardware features into software. Which to a point I understand but software isn't perfect so I wouldn't deligate such features to software, somethings are better as hardware.
Point stands that if Mr. Murphy feels that he has such an elevated view on the matter maybe he should provide legal advice to SCO.
At this point anything might help them from themselves.
Yes but the curious thing is, why are you on a VoIP Laptop while your house is burning down? If this is a major emergency for you, trust me, you're not going to pull out the laptop to make a call.
The point boils down to this. The only time you're ever going to be in a location where the address of where the call is comming in from is from an unknown is when you are roaming around. If you are at home and use VoIP, well, they (the ISP) already have your addess and just forward that information to the 911 service.
The service I purpose is simply there when the address is an unknown. Which is a question the 911 operator is going to ask you anyway.
Well that will be the first question the judge asks before he gives a summary judgment of, "ha ha ha ha ha, oh wait you're serious?!" No really, the point being is that even given the context of the market of what we are speaking in, one can not reasonably trademark a single english word and hold on to it for a reasonable amount of time. Well the USPTO ought to be proud their system works.
Maybe they'll just be required to have a forwarding service that simply asks, "Where are you calling from?" Then just route the call from there to the proper 911 service. I dunno, sounds simple enough.