In fact, now that Firefox has gained some market share, it's now a target of some spyware. I just removed MyWebSearch from a computer yesterday. It had a firefox plug-in.
The history of this infection is interesting. The friend had install cursors from cursormania.com whose web site claims it installs no spyware or adware. Yea right! It had installed a dozen plugins, one of which prevented Outlook from working. User couldn't send email because Sygate personal firewall wouldn't Outlook contact the websearch site on port 80. (I'm anal and one of the things I did was limit Outlook to the smtp/pop ports on our email servers).
Foxit really is much better. I had the same problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader in both IE and Firefox on windows. I would frequently end up with a dead instance of acroread in the background. The difference was that IE would just hang the one window, whereas Firefox would hang the entire application.
Of course, this is my biggest complaint about FireFox - instability and memory leaks. If I have FireFox open for a few hours, it will consume over 200-meg of memory. Even the default install has hanging issues with Flash content which I fixed by installing the flashblock extension. Upgrading to the next version without doing a complete uninstall first has been problematic for me. (flamebait) I never had these problems with IE!(/flamebait)
Next major complaint is that fixing some of these quirks requires going to the config page which is hardly intuitive. Why are these settings in the preference dialog boxes with real explanations where a non-IT person can find and understand them?
Yes, the CO2 does eventually get back into the air. I forsee heavy industry trying to implement this just to lower their CO2 emisions as a way to reduce their "pollution bill". Perhaps even getting "pollution credits" which can be sold off. I doubt they will make enough selling the biodiesel to pay for the setup, but reduce emissions penalties might make it worthwhile.
Ok, so technically you reverse a binary, dll, etc to produce your own version of the code. You're nitpicking and know what I mean. So why am I now illegal? It is because I sound like a heretic amongst the OSS fanatics? Dang Idahoans (I'm one too.)
Use a modified Linux as the OS doesn't mean you have to release the source code for all the programs that are bundled with it. That's really stretching the already vague GPL license. Keep taking that approach and soon businesses will believe Bill Gates and start shying away from GPL software for fear of rabid slashdoters threatening lawsuits.
Only an idiot would think giving away the source code to their program would benefit Dish Networks. It would be suicide because you would suddenly see third parties out there selling cheap clones of their systems.
So if a MS employee was caught reverse engineering code, it's ok? I realize it's a stupid game, but it's against the EULA and potentially illegal as well. Damn hypocrites.
How did you arrive at 32 feet? I believe you're confusing this with sucking up a column water (ie a water pump at the top of the piping). Scroll up a few posts and you'll see someone posted the relavent equations to calculate max lift which is really just pressure differential x area.
Actually one of the recent MS updates did break SMB connectivity to many appliances. I now have a Snap Server 4000 that I can't use unless I remove that critical MS patch. Snap knows about the issue and thinks its a great opportunity to blackmail owners into buying a software update. Bloody thieves.
I'm not sure this is the whole explanation as people have reported problems accessing files on Linux servers. In this case, its samba talking to samba.
While still a clever design, this is a giant step backwards because it does not provide positive position control. Vacumn just provides a force, not a means of controlling position. From the video it looked like he had to tweak the elevator position before he could open the door.
As for opening the door above the car while it's running, remember there is a vacumn holding the door shut with at least a few hundred lbf.
Many major companies already mantain a presence on the newsgroups doing exactly what MS is proposing. Some announce their affiliation and some don't. How are bloggs any different than newsgroups other than the webpage owner hosting ads?
First, a good practice is to rename the account. I've even deleted the account/sid altogether on some machines, but watchout that some brain dead software requires the true admin account. In any case, simply renaming is somewhat pointless since anyone in the domain can reverse lookup the sid and get the new name (even anonymous users if you haven't locked that down).
Second, the admin account _can_ be locked out if you change the default setting. But I guess an MCSE would already know that right? This does pose a risk of a DOS locking the account.
Having AOL at the VOIP table means bringing in someone with the financial backing to fight the telcos and their backpocket politicians who are trying to kill VOIP through regulation. Who cares if AOL VOIP works well, so long as AOL is using their clout to defend it? Could be worse - image Microsoft rolling out voip!
Most phones also also have an rs-232 serial connection and some of the other pins are used for the initial programming (data lines to the eeprom?). If the phone just needed power and usb, I would agree that the proprietary connector should be avoided.
I expect some problems with a developmental build. I was surprised by the fact that it barely worked, took forever to come up, and ate 60-meg of ram when it finally did. Even worse, I practically had to castrate the program to be able to backtrack to the stable version. I'm just hoping the developers fix all these problems before rolling up the changes and calling it stable.
I still prefer Firefox as I think it's safer than IE. Not completely safe, though. I certainly don't feel it's stable given all the problems I've had with the regular releases (for example flash on pages crashing the browser, wierd crashes, etc). Nevermind the crap they called a nightly build. I'm still up in the air on security too
Ok, I'm back. I reinstalled 1.0.2 and Firefox would start but none of the menus worked. I had to delete my profile directory, let Firefox recreated them, and copy my cookies and bookmarks files back in. Had to reinstall all the extensions too.
Gotta love that open source software stability! You can bet I won't be trying any nightly builds anytime soon.
Great! I just installed the nightly build and it killed all of my extensions. I want my adblock back and flash blocker back (whimper). The extensions dialog box also locks up.
The link in the article was an amendment to the SF Campaign and Governance Conduct Code. The complete code can be found at amlegal.com . That and the definitions within the referenced California Political Reform Act say this applies to the candidates, anyone endorsed or controlled by the candidate, and political committees (commissioned or independant). Doesn't sound like an average blogger to me.
So this isn't a SF-specific issue. It's really California law and SF chose to add language to their local ordinances that specifically defines campaigning to include "electioneering communications". It was in response to a media blitz endorsed by a candidate that used blogs, which were not previously clearly defined as falling campaign finance rules.
I stand by my assertion that this doesn't apply to the average blogger. Just those people under control of the candidate or anyone part of an independant committee as already defined in CA law.
So campaign finance disclosure is now a bad thing?
Once again, it is apparent that/. authors and readers don't bother checking facts and blindy believe any piece of misleading drivel they find on the internet. This is yet another BS article blowing things out of proportion and trying to stir up controversy (and maybe slashdot readership?). If I want to readed misleading, inflammatory, blown out of proportion crap then I would just head down to the supermarket and open the Enquirer!
For those of you who didn't bother to actually read the ordinance before spouting off an opinion, The SF ordinance applies to people actually campaigning and doesn't specifically mention blogging. It says that if you are running for SF political office you have to disclose your expenditures. Standard policy. If you follow the editting marks in the ordinance, you'll see that it previously only referred to "expenditures". The revision added a lot of verbage to include "electioneering communications". Presumably that includes newspaper ads, radio spots, billboards, spam emails, a web site, setting up internet blogs, etc. I would be upset if a city didn't require candidates to disclose their expenditures.
The ordinance does not apply to the average Joe on the street. It does not apply to newspaper articles and blogs not commisioned by the campaigner.
Exactly. ISPs are trying very hard to distance themselves from the content they carry. They do not want to assume or admit any responsibility for the content they carry. Otherwise, they can be sued for allowing illegal content.
If the ISPs start monitoring traffic to identify owned boxes, they open themselves to lawsuits. Individuals would sue if the ISP didn't notice their box had been hacked. The govt would start demanding they filter to determine who is downloading child prn.
ISPs are starting to provide tools to the end users to protect themselves, but I think more needs to be done at the carrier level. I think commonly abused network ports should be blocked. No-one in their right might should be running exposed netbios or NFS ports for example. I don't think this would qualify as content filtering, but just limiting the service provided. Some cable-modem providers block inbound port-80 to enforce their eula which bans setting up servers, but they don't block netbios!
An even better idea, patent the use of RFID tags for automotive registration and tracking. Then sue the crap out of any state that tries to require RFID tags on vehicles.
I assume you want something somewhat off-the-shelf and not ideas for designing one from scratch. Here's a link to a company that specializes in this type of stuff and might be able to provide a ready to use product. http://www.visonictech.com/info_page.asp?info_id=4 16
I can see it now, thieves with readers embeded in their watch offering to shake hands with you. Probably a good reason to embed the RFID chip in your left hand, eh?
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In fact, now that Firefox has gained some market share, it's now a target of some spyware. I just removed MyWebSearch from a computer yesterday. It had a firefox plug-in. The history of this infection is interesting. The friend had install cursors from cursormania.com whose web site claims it installs no spyware or adware. Yea right! It had installed a dozen plugins, one of which prevented Outlook from working. User couldn't send email because Sygate personal firewall wouldn't Outlook contact the websearch site on port 80. (I'm anal and one of the things I did was limit Outlook to the smtp/pop ports on our email servers).
So you aren't keeping up on kernel updates, eh?
Foxit really is much better. I had the same problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader in both IE and Firefox on windows. I would frequently end up with a dead instance of acroread in the background. The difference was that IE would just hang the one window, whereas Firefox would hang the entire application.
Of course, this is my biggest complaint about FireFox - instability and memory leaks. If I have FireFox open for a few hours, it will consume over 200-meg of memory. Even the default install has hanging issues with Flash content which I fixed by installing the flashblock extension. Upgrading to the next version without doing a complete uninstall first has been problematic for me. (flamebait) I never had these problems with IE!(/flamebait)
Next major complaint is that fixing some of these quirks requires going to the config page which is hardly intuitive. Why are these settings in the preference dialog boxes with real explanations where a non-IT person can find and understand them?
Yes, the CO2 does eventually get back into the air. I forsee heavy industry trying to implement this just to lower their CO2 emisions as a way to reduce their "pollution bill". Perhaps even getting "pollution credits" which can be sold off. I doubt they will make enough selling the biodiesel to pay for the setup, but reduce emissions penalties might make it worthwhile.
Ok, so technically you reverse a binary, dll, etc to produce your own version of the code. You're nitpicking and know what I mean. So why am I now illegal? It is because I sound like a heretic amongst the OSS fanatics? Dang Idahoans (I'm one too.)
Use a modified Linux as the OS doesn't mean you have to release the source code for all the programs that are bundled with it. That's really stretching the already vague GPL license. Keep taking that approach and soon businesses will believe Bill Gates and start shying away from GPL software for fear of rabid slashdoters threatening lawsuits.
Only an idiot would think giving away the source code to their program would benefit Dish Networks. It would be suicide because you would suddenly see third parties out there selling cheap clones of their systems.
So if a MS employee was caught reverse engineering code, it's ok? I realize it's a stupid game, but it's against the EULA and potentially illegal as well. Damn hypocrites.
How did you arrive at 32 feet? I believe you're confusing this with sucking up a column water (ie a water pump at the top of the piping). Scroll up a few posts and you'll see someone posted the relavent equations to calculate max lift which is really just pressure differential x area.
Actually one of the recent MS updates did break SMB connectivity to many appliances. I now have a Snap Server 4000 that I can't use unless I remove that critical MS patch. Snap knows about the issue and thinks its a great opportunity to blackmail owners into buying a software update. Bloody thieves.
I'm not sure this is the whole explanation as people have reported problems accessing files on Linux servers. In this case, its samba talking to samba.
While still a clever design, this is a giant step backwards because it does not provide positive position control. Vacumn just provides a force, not a means of controlling position. From the video it looked like he had to tweak the elevator position before he could open the door.
As for opening the door above the car while it's running, remember there is a vacumn holding the door shut with at least a few hundred lbf.
Many major companies already mantain a presence on the newsgroups doing exactly what MS is proposing. Some announce their affiliation and some don't. How are bloggs any different than newsgroups other than the webpage owner hosting ads?
First, a good practice is to rename the account. I've even deleted the account/sid altogether on some machines, but watchout that some brain dead software requires the true admin account. In any case, simply renaming is somewhat pointless since anyone in the domain can reverse lookup the sid and get the new name (even anonymous users if you haven't locked that down).
Second, the admin account _can_ be locked out if you change the default setting. But I guess an MCSE would already know that right? This does pose a risk of a DOS locking the account.
Having AOL at the VOIP table means bringing in someone with the financial backing to fight the telcos and their backpocket politicians who are trying to kill VOIP through regulation. Who cares if AOL VOIP works well, so long as AOL is using their clout to defend it? Could be worse - image Microsoft rolling out voip!
Most phones also also have an rs-232 serial connection and some of the other pins are used for the initial programming (data lines to the eeprom?). If the phone just needed power and usb, I would agree that the proprietary connector should be avoided.
I presume the anonymous connections are bandwidth-limited so they don't hog your internet feed and cost you actual money?
I expect some problems with a developmental build. I was surprised by the fact that it barely worked, took forever to come up, and ate 60-meg of ram when it finally did. Even worse, I practically had to castrate the program to be able to backtrack to the stable version. I'm just hoping the developers fix all these problems before rolling up the changes and calling it stable.
I still prefer Firefox as I think it's safer than IE. Not completely safe, though. I certainly don't feel it's stable given all the problems I've had with the regular releases (for example flash on pages crashing the browser, wierd crashes, etc). Nevermind the crap they called a nightly build. I'm still up in the air on security too
Ok, I'm back. I reinstalled 1.0.2 and Firefox would start but none of the menus worked. I had to delete my profile directory, let Firefox recreated them, and copy my cookies and bookmarks files back in. Had to reinstall all the extensions too.
Gotta love that open source software stability! You can bet I won't be trying any nightly builds anytime soon.
Great! I just installed the nightly build and it killed all of my extensions. I want my adblock back and flash blocker back (whimper). The extensions dialog box also locks up.
The link in the article was an amendment to the SF Campaign and Governance Conduct Code. The complete code can be found at amlegal.com . That and the definitions within the referenced California Political Reform Act say this applies to the candidates, anyone endorsed or controlled by the candidate, and political committees (commissioned or independant). Doesn't sound like an average blogger to me.
So this isn't a SF-specific issue. It's really California law and SF chose to add language to their local ordinances that specifically defines campaigning to include "electioneering communications". It was in response to a media blitz endorsed by a candidate that used blogs, which were not previously clearly defined as falling campaign finance rules.
I stand by my assertion that this doesn't apply to the average blogger. Just those people under control of the candidate or anyone part of an independant committee as already defined in CA law.
So campaign finance disclosure is now a bad thing?
Once again, it is apparent that /. authors and readers don't bother checking facts and blindy believe any piece of misleading drivel they find on the internet. This is yet another BS article blowing things out of proportion and trying to stir up controversy (and maybe slashdot readership?). If I want to readed misleading, inflammatory, blown out of proportion crap then I would just head down to the supermarket and open the Enquirer!
For those of you who didn't bother to actually read the ordinance before spouting off an opinion, The SF ordinance applies to people actually campaigning and doesn't specifically mention blogging. It says that if you are running for SF political office you have to disclose your expenditures. Standard policy. If you follow the editting marks in the ordinance, you'll see that it previously only referred to "expenditures". The revision added a lot of verbage to include "electioneering communications". Presumably that includes newspaper ads, radio spots, billboards, spam emails, a web site, setting up internet blogs, etc. I would be upset if a city didn't require candidates to disclose their expenditures.
The ordinance does not apply to the average Joe on the street. It does not apply to newspaper articles and blogs not commisioned by the campaigner.
Exactly. ISPs are trying very hard to distance themselves from the content they carry. They do not want to assume or admit any responsibility for the content they carry. Otherwise, they can be sued for allowing illegal content.
If the ISPs start monitoring traffic to identify owned boxes, they open themselves to lawsuits. Individuals would sue if the ISP didn't notice their box had been hacked. The govt would start demanding they filter to determine who is downloading child prn.
ISPs are starting to provide tools to the end users to protect themselves, but I think more needs to be done at the carrier level. I think commonly abused network ports should be blocked. No-one in their right might should be running exposed netbios or NFS ports for example. I don't think this would qualify as content filtering, but just limiting the service provided. Some cable-modem providers block inbound port-80 to enforce their eula which bans setting up servers, but they don't block netbios!
An even better idea, patent the use of RFID tags for automotive registration and tracking. Then sue the crap out of any state that tries to require RFID tags on vehicles.
I assume you want something somewhat off-the-shelf and not ideas for designing one from scratch. Here's a link to a company that specializes in this type of stuff and might be able to provide a ready to use product. http://www.visonictech.com/info_page.asp?info_id=4 16
We have that technology now. It's called a Common Access Card (CAC) or smart card. Hasn't seen much adoption outside the military yet.
I can see it now, thieves with readers embeded in their watch offering to shake hands with you. Probably a good reason to embed the RFID chip in your left hand, eh?