This is just another reason for banning cell phones altogether. It's bad enough the idiots who use them run over pedestrians (and trees, fire hydrants and small children and pets) while ignoring their surroundings, talking on their cells. To mention nothing of the pedestrian use of these, wherein it's proven that some people CANNOT walk and talk at the same time, the abuse of "ring tones", inappropriate talking,... arrrgh!
AND NOW we find out that these are actually being used by the extraterrestrial intellegences to pin point our small small blue planet in the expanse of space.
Well, I for one welcome our future ET rulers, and their supression of the evil mobile telephones.
I agree... MicroSoft won this. By spending a paltry (by their measure) $9M, plus legal fees they have a precendent for using this case for their own profit.
This decision will be trotted out when they start defending their own patents.
An ironic twist would be if someone (FSF?) had backed MicroSoft in this case to help them win.
Well, yes. Opera really looks good. Take a look for yourself.:-)
Seriously, the problem is that this was (supposed to be) killed in a previous version of the Gecko browsers. It should not have revived itself.
The following browsers are not affected:
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and later
* Mozilla 1.7
* Opera 7.52
* Netscape 7.2
* Camino 0.8 (build 2004062308) Source Secunia
I guess you are one of those people
Yeah, I get that a lot.
... like me
Whoa - that's different
Seriously, yes, I want my mouse to do more for me, no matter what the application. (I blame Opera.)
You might want to check out strokeit. (Yeah, it's not what you're thinking, if I'm really like you.) Take it along with you on your USB key.
Well, that's nice and it is one of my favourite features in Opera. (Well, one of many.)
However, until the "Mouse Gestures" extension is supported, it's not a full replacement for that Opera feature.
Will "Mouse gestures" ever be incorporated into the main code base? (Yeah, I know it goes against the development philosophy at Mozilla, but to my mind it's a major part.)
Well, it's simple: "Google" released control of Earth (our planet) [all hail our Google overlords] to the planet Beta [all hail our new Betan overlords].
Only the web intelligentsia seem to know about Opera. If you see an article which does not mention it, particularly in a context such as this, you can be fairly certain that the author isn't broadly educated on web browsers.
I'm not saying they don't know what they are talking about - they just don't know enough to talk about it in a global (world wide?) context.
From TFA "And there are 656,000 files on this system, each created by different people.
Wow. 656000+ people at that school. No wonder they can only put up one file apiece, and that the admins can't educate all of their people to not use that one file to post sensitive data.
The guy has gone about this the wrong way - leaving aside the poor research done (the history bears a superficial resemblance to the way it was, there is nomention of other browsers) the focus is on the software, when the real focus should be on the user.
On the other hand, if this scares away enough people, perhaps some sites won't be slashdotted by the time I try to see them.
This site is really slow, but this text was rescued off the page found there.
Note that this is REALLY REALLY OLD!
Text says:
Thanks! But we were kind of slashdotted:-)
Intro
Well guys you really made my day -- poor old Duron 800/512M with some 3 dozens of sites and 300 gigs of free software on FTP was literally crawling until I've limited this vhost to 1 conn/IP. And figuring it out has taken some of my lame time, too.:-]
Okay, nevermind that -- hope that those who managed to get the contents yesterday enjoyed the situation.:-)
Facts
This is old news: the event happened on October 9, 2004.
Microsoft rep in Ukraine had to use free software to get on with a presentation on a free software conference since his munition failed to cooperate with projector.
See below (also posted to the places I could track down).
Resources
Please refer these images if you need and not original gallery -- these are hosted on 4-way Xeon, SCSI RAID and faster pipe, not on overloaded all-in-one server:
[Links omitted for pity's sake...]
Re:Family Takes Down Metal That Covered Home
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Tinfoil Hat House
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· Score: 2, Informative
Check out the link - there is a survey as to whether or not people think they should have been forced to remove the sheeting.
Slashdot Mirror
AND NOW we find out that these are actually being used by the extraterrestrial intellegences to pin point our small small blue planet in the expanse of space.
Well, I for one welcome our future ET rulers, and their supression of the evil mobile telephones.
This decision will be trotted out when they start defending their own patents.
An ironic twist would be if someone (FSF?) had backed MicroSoft in this case to help them win.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that it isn't way more painful than it should be.
I guess they figured I wasn't going to get through. I'll show them ... someday.
Now, if his handle had been "Luke", he could have just waved his hand and said "this is not the hacker you're looking for".
Ob. 1 Star Wars reference
How could he "hack" if he is 950 thousand pounds, anyway? Sounds like this should be in the Weekly World News.
Well, that could be because the flaw was fixed in Opera 7.52.
This might be a better indication of how Opera handles security. Other browsers also have a good record.
As opposed to say, this or that old browser.
Seriously, the problem is that this was (supposed to be) killed in a previous version of the Gecko browsers. It should not have revived itself.
The following browsers are not affected:
* Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and later
* Mozilla 1.7
* Opera 7.52
* Netscape 7.2
* Camino 0.8 (build 2004062308)
Source Secunia
At least in Opera, dead bugs stay dead.
Yeah, I get that a lot.
Whoa - that's different
Seriously, yes, I want my mouse to do more for me, no matter what the application. (I blame Opera.) You might want to check out strokeit. (Yeah, it's not what you're thinking, if I'm really like you.) Take it along with you on your USB key.
Oh my god! Did we just SLASHDOT PEOPLE??
However, until the "Mouse Gestures" extension is supported, it's not a full replacement for that Opera feature.
Will "Mouse gestures" ever be incorporated into the main code base? (Yeah, I know it goes against the development philosophy at Mozilla, but to my mind it's a major part.)
Well, it's simple: "Google" released control of Earth (our planet) [all hail our Google overlords] to the planet Beta [all hail our new Betan overlords].
Which might not show if he had a different hat.
The limit of this is that people will only write OSS for MS-Windows. NOBODY wants that!
Hey what happened to those silly image thingies? Did /. managlement listen to the whines of the readership? (Falls to ground, quivers)
I'm not saying they don't know what they are talking about - they just don't know enough to talk about it in a global (world wide?) context.
Sob. T'Pol where have you gone?
HEY! That's the job of the /. editors. At least the scientists aren't accused of dupes.
Charisma is the Holy Grail?
Wow. 656000+ people at that school. No wonder they can only put up one file apiece, and that the admins can't educate all of their people to not use that one file to post sensitive data.
On the other hand, if this scares away enough people, perhaps some sites won't be slashdotted by the time I try to see them.
Text says:
Thanks! But we were kind of slashdotted :-)
Intro
Well guys you really made my day -- poor old Duron 800/512M with some 3 dozens of sites and 300 gigs of free software on FTP was literally crawling until I've limited this vhost to 1 conn/IP. And figuring it out has taken some of my lame time, too. :-]
Okay, nevermind that -- hope that those who managed to get the contents yesterday enjoyed the situation. :-)
Facts
This is old news: the event happened on October 9, 2004.
Microsoft rep in Ukraine had to use free software to get on with a presentation on a free software conference since his munition failed to cooperate with projector.
See below (also posted to the places I could track down).
Resources
Please refer these images if you need and not original gallery -- these are hosted on 4-way Xeon, SCSI RAID and faster pipe, not on overloaded all-in-one server:
[Links omitted for pity's sake ...]
Check out the link - there is a survey as to whether or not people think they should have been forced to remove the sheeting.
According to the video, they've already done that and also have foil blankets on their beds.
Folks, watch the video - otherwise you're missing out on the funniest part of the story.
And what the hell is with the screwy font in the "confirm you're a smart autoposting script" image?
Seeing that I'd have to do it so much more for MS than for OSS, I'd hope that it's cheaper. I'd hate to pay more for more pain in the ...
.. and microsoft patched three holes in ONE day, we could have a fully secure MS IE in ... oh, wait, ... nevermind.
It's still too long, isn't it?
"We are developing artificial tactile sensors that will imitate the functionality and efficiency found in biological structures such as human fingers," said Chang Liu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "We have shown that simple, low-cost sensor arrays can be used to analyze and identify surface textures."
World imprisonment rate
One of them must be wrong ...
What's a Cubian?