All Firefox does is scan a directory for extensions. Anyone can write to your profile even when the browser isn't running. You just need to dump files there. How can Firefox protect a directory when Firefox isn't even running?
If extensions were handled 100% through an online Mozilla service, then no one could touch that. And your extensions would travel from computer to computer.
I have Google Chrome and Google Earth installed. I don't have any Google plugins installed in Firefox. So I'm not sure what he is talking about, unless something changed with Google Earth recently.
Adobe demands to install an extension just to let you download Flash, because downloading normally is out of the question.
Microsoft is the worst offender here, where they use Windows Update to push a Firefox.NET Assistant extension, don't ask your permission, and don't allow you to remove it.
We have a population of 300 million. It certainly isn't beyond reason that some city has reached that level. But I haven't heard of it personally, and it certainly isn't the norm.
Actually, I stand corrected. You are right there was a more recently release. But that was already fairly public knowledge. High ranking officials have already said publicly that they didn't think waterboarding, etc. constituted torture, and that they defended the practice.
The thing that gets me is when I watch a movie or TV show and the "hero" beats answers out of a suspect. Everyone cheers for it. Bad guys deserve what is coming to them, right?
If your friends were dying around you, and you saw the enemy bomb civilians, or use civilian as human targets. And you believed a little pain or psychological torture would get answers that would save lives, what would you honestly do in the scenario? Where should that line be drawn?
Having watched it many times myself, you can see an individual with a camera before they come around the building. The guy on the ground crouched pointing up with an object is holding something MUCH larger than the camera you see earlier in the video.
And the people who scream foul claim the entire group was innocent, ignoring the fact that most of the group was clearly sporting rifles in a restricted area. That doesn't scream innocent journalist to me.
My wife just spoke to one of her relatives in Canada. They asked if we still had police service or power in the US. They said the news in Canada frequently reported the US economy was so bad it literally crumbled, with all government services stopped. Martial law had replaced police enforcement, and many cities went without electricity.
In turn, I'd be curious to see how the rest of the world truly thought of the US.
Wikileaks claims all information should be in the open, everyone deserves to be judged, and that no one is above the law.
Yet they won't disclose all leaks given to them. They refuse to acknowledge where their funding comes from. They have little to no transparency as an organization, Their leader is currently under investigation for breaking the law.
And while "rape" has a very different connotation in Sweden (reports have it that he slept with two women in a short period of time, refusing to use a condom and didn't disclose to the other there was a second woman), it is still breaking the law.
Could Wikileaks stand up to the same scrutiny it wants everyone else held up to?
It should be noted that during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was an unprecedented amount of media in the front lines. The media was granted all the access they wanted to document what was going on in the front lines. Some people (live Geraldo on Fox News) abused that and broadcasted secret troop movements. But it isn't like the media have been kept in the dark.
That scripture suggests that all actions will be exposed and judged in an afterlife. It doesn't mean all actions will be judged and revealed now. Plenty of secrets remain secrets in this life.
The last release was marketed as definitive proof that the US military actively practiced murder. The big "bombshell" was a video in which people on the ground have clearly visible rifles. Then it appears one peeks around the corner with an RPG and points it at a US helicopter.
The US soldiers radio back and ask permission to engage. They don't engage until permission is given. There are some individuals that are shot, but survive. The US soldiers don't initially shoot again to kill. They wait for further orders, and then see a van pull up, trying to grab the wounded individuals. They are given permission to open fire again.
The questionable aspect of the whole scenario is opening fire a second time on wounded targets, even if they are being taken away from the scene. But if you truly believe these targets were going to open fire on you by firing an RPG on you in a restricted area, then anyone assisting those targets are targets themselves. In a combat zone where the enemy doesn't wear a uniform, the lines are not clear. The actions are not 100% defensible, but it was also a far cry from the random murder of innocents that it was marketed as.
Soldiers should be accountable for their actions. They are not above the law. But care must be taken when making snap judgments about them, when they are being asked to make rapid decisions of life and death. Most of the people making judgments have no understanding of what it is like to be in those circumstances. And while I was never deployed in a combat zone, I'm a Marine myself. So I've at least put some serious thought into what it means to take a life in the defense of another.
World of Warcraft and many of their games run fine on Wine already. Eve Online officially supported their game in Linux for a while, and that was just Wine + their Client bundled together. If Blizzard officially recognized and supported their clients on Wine, that alone would be a huge win for Linux.
And if Google is really pushing for greater success of Linux, helping advance Wine would help them.
If you already have a fairly successful Linux game now, why wouldn't you put in a bid for this? It would take less work for you to port your game than one designed from scratch. And you can prove that you already know how to deliver on the Linux platform.
That being said, shooters come and go. Their are 10 million. Even with shooters being the most popular genre typically, I think a great platform game would be more likely to steal headlines and gain attention.
Retro-style platform games (New Super Mario Bros, Megaman 9 and 10, Sonic 4) are all the rage. Deliver a good looking game with old school sensibility as a platformer, and everyone will fall in love.
If I'm a start-up trying to explode with a commercial product, I'd see if I could buy the Commander Keen license on the cheap, end up landing a great engine here for free and capture the social/platformer market with releases on XBox Live, PSN, Wiiware, PC, Mac, Linux and maybe even iOS.
If someone steals this idea and does literally make a new Commander Keen game, please consider bringing me on for design.
Older builds of Android have a file system bug that causes really slow ext3 performance. The Cynogen Mod actually fixes this bug and helps with performance.
The problem is everyone shipping old verisons of Android coupled with crap-ware included that is often running in the background all the time.
Someone could put out a new, fast and clean build of Android to deliver a nice tablet experience. Sadly no one has.
Android isn't going to get 90% market share or anything like that.
I expect iOS, Blackberry and Windows Mobile to continue to challenge and compete in the market. Four serious contenders in the same market should provide for a reasonable amount of competition and innovation.
That article is about Wine gaming specific benchmarks, where as a wider range of benchmarks showed SD was superior. Cherry picking one benchmark doesn't prove that Linus was right.
For one, Linus argued that one use case shouldn't be focused on, but rather the wide range of uses for the kernel. So why cherry pick one use-case?
Secondly, Linus argued for three years that Linux didn't need a new scheduler at all, and that Con's approach was completely wrong.
Even Ingo admitted his CFS was based on SD's principle and was largely inspired by it. The fact that CFS performed vastly better than the previous scheduler actually proved Con was right and that Linus was wrong in arguing for no new scheduler.
Linus justifies the decision not to go with SD saying Con was argumentative and wouldn't support his patches. Con had been supporting and improving them for three years. I emailed him personally and got support. He answered questions on the LKML and on his own mailing list. He listened to criticism and constantly improved his patches for years.
Linus not only made his decision on personality rather than code, he did so by making up lies about Con as a person.
Face it. It was a dick move. And up to that point, I was a big Linus fan.
If you have a netbook with only 1 GB of memory, and your browser causes you to pagefile after 10 minutes of browsing, and your HDD is constantly thrasing with light computing, then yes, memory becomes a key component of performance.
Windows and Linux bootup tests are rarely fair. They typically test the time to display the desktop from the time you press power. In Windows they display the desktop well before the computer is done booting, where as in Linux, displaying the desktop is all but the final task.
If you're using a netbook with limited memory (most ship with 1GB or less) I'd like to see how much memory is consumed by the base OS.
The new Brainfuck scheduler isn't designed to scale past 16 CPUs, so it doesn't work for every scenario. But what is the percentage of users with over 16 CPUs?
His original scheduler (which became Staircase) was a pretty good general scheduler that would work well for anybody. That is why the CFS in mainline is pretty similar to the Staircase scheduler that was rejected.
Linus used it as an excuse to say you shouldn't focus solely on the desktop, but really that didn't apply to Staircase.
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All Firefox does is scan a directory for extensions. Anyone can write to your profile even when the browser isn't running. You just need to dump files there. How can Firefox protect a directory when Firefox isn't even running?
If extensions were handled 100% through an online Mozilla service, then no one could touch that. And your extensions would travel from computer to computer.
I have Google Chrome and Google Earth installed. I don't have any Google plugins installed in Firefox. So I'm not sure what he is talking about, unless something changed with Google Earth recently.
Adobe demands to install an extension just to let you download Flash, because downloading normally is out of the question.
Microsoft is the worst offender here, where they use Windows Update to push a Firefox .NET Assistant extension, don't ask your permission, and don't allow you to remove it.
Halo 3 broke all the video game sales records. So yes, it does have something on Madden.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202102318
We have a population of 300 million. It certainly isn't beyond reason that some city has reached that level. But I haven't heard of it personally, and it certainly isn't the norm.
I don't read others opinions of the news. I read the leaked reports for myself, and watched the video for myself.
How about you?
Yes, I watched the full video the day it was leaked. I watched it repeatedly over the next two weeks, and posted my comments then on Slashdot.
Unlike you, I don't post AC and you can find a history of my comments. I own up to my opinions. I'm consistent on them, and you can research them.
How about you?
Actually, I stand corrected. You are right there was a more recently release. But that was already fairly public knowledge. High ranking officials have already said publicly that they didn't think waterboarding, etc. constituted torture, and that they defended the practice.
The thing that gets me is when I watch a movie or TV show and the "hero" beats answers out of a suspect. Everyone cheers for it. Bad guys deserve what is coming to them, right?
If your friends were dying around you, and you saw the enemy bomb civilians, or use civilian as human targets. And you believed a little pain or psychological torture would get answers that would save lives, what would you honestly do in the scenario? Where should that line be drawn?
Honestly, I'm not sure.
Having watched it many times myself, you can see an individual with a camera before they come around the building. The guy on the ground crouched pointing up with an object is holding something MUCH larger than the camera you see earlier in the video.
And the people who scream foul claim the entire group was innocent, ignoring the fact that most of the group was clearly sporting rifles in a restricted area. That doesn't scream innocent journalist to me.
My wife just spoke to one of her relatives in Canada. They asked if we still had police service or power in the US. They said the news in Canada frequently reported the US economy was so bad it literally crumbled, with all government services stopped. Martial law had replaced police enforcement, and many cities went without electricity.
In turn, I'd be curious to see how the rest of the world truly thought of the US.
Wikileaks claims all information should be in the open, everyone deserves to be judged, and that no one is above the law.
Yet they won't disclose all leaks given to them.
They refuse to acknowledge where their funding comes from.
They have little to no transparency as an organization,
Their leader is currently under investigation for breaking the law.
And while "rape" has a very different connotation in Sweden (reports have it that he slept with two women in a short period of time, refusing to use a condom and didn't disclose to the other there was a second woman), it is still breaking the law.
Could Wikileaks stand up to the same scrutiny it wants everyone else held up to?
It should be noted that during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was an unprecedented amount of media in the front lines. The media was granted all the access they wanted to document what was going on in the front lines. Some people (live Geraldo on Fox News) abused that and broadcasted secret troop movements. But it isn't like the media have been kept in the dark.
That scripture suggests that all actions will be exposed and judged in an afterlife. It doesn't mean all actions will be judged and revealed now. Plenty of secrets remain secrets in this life.
The last release was marketed as definitive proof that the US military actively practiced murder. The big "bombshell" was a video in which people on the ground have clearly visible rifles. Then it appears one peeks around the corner with an RPG and points it at a US helicopter.
The US soldiers radio back and ask permission to engage. They don't engage until permission is given. There are some individuals that are shot, but survive. The US soldiers don't initially shoot again to kill. They wait for further orders, and then see a van pull up, trying to grab the wounded individuals. They are given permission to open fire again.
The questionable aspect of the whole scenario is opening fire a second time on wounded targets, even if they are being taken away from the scene. But if you truly believe these targets were going to open fire on you by firing an RPG on you in a restricted area, then anyone assisting those targets are targets themselves. In a combat zone where the enemy doesn't wear a uniform, the lines are not clear. The actions are not 100% defensible, but it was also a far cry from the random murder of innocents that it was marketed as.
Soldiers should be accountable for their actions. They are not above the law. But care must be taken when making snap judgments about them, when they are being asked to make rapid decisions of life and death. Most of the people making judgments have no understanding of what it is like to be in those circumstances. And while I was never deployed in a combat zone, I'm a Marine myself. So I've at least put some serious thought into what it means to take a life in the defense of another.
World of Warcraft and many of their games run fine on Wine already. Eve Online officially supported their game in Linux for a while, and that was just Wine + their Client bundled together. If Blizzard officially recognized and supported their clients on Wine, that alone would be a huge win for Linux.
And if Google is really pushing for greater success of Linux, helping advance Wine would help them.
If you already have a fairly successful Linux game now, why wouldn't you put in a bid for this? It would take less work for you to port your game than one designed from scratch. And you can prove that you already know how to deliver on the Linux platform.
That being said, shooters come and go. Their are 10 million. Even with shooters being the most popular genre typically, I think a great platform game would be more likely to steal headlines and gain attention.
Retro-style platform games (New Super Mario Bros, Megaman 9 and 10, Sonic 4) are all the rage. Deliver a good looking game with old school sensibility as a platformer, and everyone will fall in love.
If I'm a start-up trying to explode with a commercial product, I'd see if I could buy the Commander Keen license on the cheap, end up landing a great engine here for free and capture the social/platformer market with releases on XBox Live, PSN, Wiiware, PC, Mac, Linux and maybe even iOS.
If someone steals this idea and does literally make a new Commander Keen game, please consider bringing me on for design.
Older builds of Android have a file system bug that causes really slow ext3 performance. The Cynogen Mod actually fixes this bug and helps with performance.
The problem is everyone shipping old verisons of Android coupled with crap-ware included that is often running in the background all the time.
Someone could put out a new, fast and clean build of Android to deliver a nice tablet experience. Sadly no one has.
Android isn't going to get 90% market share or anything like that.
I expect iOS, Blackberry and Windows Mobile to continue to challenge and compete in the market. Four serious contenders in the same market should provide for a reasonable amount of competition and innovation.
That article is about Wine gaming specific benchmarks, where as a wider range of benchmarks showed SD was superior. Cherry picking one benchmark doesn't prove that Linus was right.
For one, Linus argued that one use case shouldn't be focused on, but rather the wide range of uses for the kernel. So why cherry pick one use-case?
Secondly, Linus argued for three years that Linux didn't need a new scheduler at all, and that Con's approach was completely wrong.
Even Ingo admitted his CFS was based on SD's principle and was largely inspired by it. The fact that CFS performed vastly better than the previous scheduler actually proved Con was right and that Linus was wrong in arguing for no new scheduler.
http://kerneltrap.org/flames
Linus justifies the decision not to go with SD saying Con was argumentative and wouldn't support his patches. Con had been supporting and improving them for three years. I emailed him personally and got support. He answered questions on the LKML and on his own mailing list. He listened to criticism and constantly improved his patches for years.
Linus not only made his decision on personality rather than code, he did so by making up lies about Con as a person.
Face it. It was a dick move. And up to that point, I was a big Linus fan.
You do have to watch out for those toddlers. Have you seen the kinds of drugs they have 3 year olds on these days?
If you have a netbook with only 1 GB of memory, and your browser causes you to pagefile after 10 minutes of browsing, and your HDD is constantly thrasing with light computing, then yes, memory becomes a key component of performance.
I don't use Ubuntu. I'm an openSUSE/KDE guy.
Windows and Linux bootup tests are rarely fair. They typically test the time to display the desktop from the time you press power. In Windows they display the desktop well before the computer is done booting, where as in Linux, displaying the desktop is all but the final task.
If you're using a netbook with limited memory (most ship with 1GB or less) I'd like to see how much memory is consumed by the base OS.
As I posted above, normally when Linus flamed someone he was both entertaining and right. In this case he was neither.
The new Brainfuck scheduler isn't designed to scale past 16 CPUs, so it doesn't work for every scenario. But what is the percentage of users with over 16 CPUs?
His original scheduler (which became Staircase) was a pretty good general scheduler that would work well for anybody. That is why the CFS in mainline is pretty similar to the Staircase scheduler that was rejected.
Linus used it as an excuse to say you shouldn't focus solely on the desktop, but really that didn't apply to Staircase.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address