Hey, I know I'm alerted to updates as soon as they are available - I run Ubuntu, so the update notification pops up in my system tray and all I have to do is click on it. The hell with Mozilla's update feature.
Oh hea, I forgot: google secure access, google desktop search, google print, google personalized homepage, google personalized search, google web accelerator, google ride finder, google suggest, froogle, google compute, and (wtf?) google sets...
No, next is google beta beta - It will be a search engine to find all of the various google beta services like google mail, google news, google maps, google local, google scholar, google wireless, google tv, google mobile, etc. etc.
has been released for a security hole that Firefox patched just yesterday
Sounds like damn good response time to me! When was this first discovered? How many days total did it take for the patch to be released? Yes, it sucks that the vulnerability was there to begin with, but you have to admit that this is a good demonstration of how well an open source community project can respond.
Hah! I love it! Suggesting a solution to the problem which, clearly, a large number of people are not aware of (or why would they buy a TiVo?) is "redundant"!:-) Go ahead, mod this one "troll" or "flamebait":-) !!
People who don't like computers or the internet buy AOL, because they think they have to. They think it's the internet.
Then it would be a marriage made in heaven. These are the same people who run Windows because they have to, and they think that it is part of their computer. In fact most of them currently think that IE is "the internet".
And the automobile and auto-suburbs which began growing post WWII created another dramatic shift. People who moved out of the city into suburbs became dependant on automobiles for all of their needs - shopping, work, visiting friends, etc. The stores that these people began to shop at more and more provided massive amounts of parking - the downtown shops were far less convenient and suffered because of it. Now we live in a society where most people rarely eat, shop, or do much of anything someplace that they can reach on foot. This has had a huge effect on communities where people are far less likely to know more than a handfull of their neighbors and even those that they do know are only seen in their cars or going from their house to their car and visa versa. Chances are that they will rarely meet anyone that they know at the grocery store as it is far from their house and serves an enormous geographic area. As a result, people are more isolated and communities less cohesive. It will be interesting to see if fuel prices will ever become expensive enough to cause a reverse shift.
# Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
# Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Based on those definitions, the alternative would seem to be group non-think. Actually I think that calling the majority of Slashdot posts "Liberal" is an unearned complement, most are far from achieving that ideal.
It has nothing to do with Mozilla's browser, nor the browser's security. A binary is a binary and any elf binary can be infected. (and BTW, this happened a long time ago - the editors should have read the article). Think of it like this: a new Mini Cooper has six air-bags, crumple-zones, awsome breaks, etc. a 1970 dodge dart had drum breaks and....err... well... seatbelts. However, if a two ton rock falls on either car, they will both be crushed along with their passengers. It has nothing to do with the design in question, just the fact that it was in the way of a fast moving rock.
This isn't a mozilla specific bug:-) Any binary could be infected, it just happens that some jackass infected the binary that was put up for distribution. I find it very hard to believe that it was an accident either:-(
Everything I've seen says that climate scientists say there's no connection at all.
I take it you avoid all news sources but Fox then? I have seen articles in quite a few papers, as well as reports on the BBC, CBC, and NPR all stating that the number of cat 4 and 5 hurricanes has nearly doubled in the last 30 years due to rising water temperatures. There is also a near universal consensus in the scientific community that, while no single storm can ever be identified as being absolutely caused by any one thing, the number and severity of these storms *will* continue to increase as temperatures continue to rise. It is impressive and frightening that you have managed to isolate yourself to such a degree that every news source you watch/listen to/read has entirely neglected the issue.
Or a potential fuck you *from* anyone who doesn't want the public to be able to document them. Immagine if these were used to keep any non-approved journalists from taking pictures/recording events? Or used to cover an entire area where a protesters are demonstrating to make covering the event harder?
OMG! This got modded offtopic! Now, clearly my comment on the modding *IS* offtopic and will soon be modded thus, but perhaps the moderators need to actually READ the post before moderating?
Six hour lines? Nope. Only when those in charge screw up royally - intentionally or not. This was far from routine. It changes the situation a lot when you are expecting to stand in line for a half hour or so, and instead find lines so long that volunteers are bringing food to people who have been waiting all day in hopes that they won't just give up and leave - as actually happend in several ohio disctricts.
What recount? Predominately Democratic districts like those in inner city Cleveland and Columbus had too few polling places with people often forced to stand in line for six hours or more. An enormous number of people just couldn't vote at all because they didn't have the option of waiting that long. The sub/ex-urban areas had no lines at all - and are much more Republican. A recount won't do much good because the missing votes are those that never got to be cast to begin with. The media kept painting the long lines as a good sign of great participation and turnout - what it was was a breakdown of the voting system and a desaster that excluded anyone would couldn't afford to lose their job for taking six hours off to go vote or who couldn't afford to find a babysitter on such short notice to watch children too young to wait in line with their parent(s).
I must admit I was actually serious but in regards to the wrong message:-) I saw the first AC response which at least appeared to be serious, and didn't bother actually reading the second - I just saw that the link there was the same (at first glance at least). I did notice a number of typos but they didn't quite register since this is slashdot and that is the norm. It was only after I replied that I saw that every instance of 'r' had been changed to 'd' in the second message.
Two AC posts and neither could come up with a working link. Did it occur to you to test first? Oh, I forgot if right-wingers started actually fact-checking then their entire world view would come crashing down in no time. Good work.
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That is still only two, he counted SCO as still being "in the UNIX business".
Hey, I know I'm alerted to updates as soon as they are available - I run Ubuntu, so the update notification pops up in my system tray and all I have to do is click on it. The hell with Mozilla's update feature.
Oh hea, I forgot: google secure access, google desktop search, google print, google personalized homepage, google personalized search, google web accelerator, google ride finder, google suggest, froogle, google compute, and (wtf?) google sets...
No, next is google beta beta - It will be a search engine to find all of the various google beta services like google mail, google news, google maps, google local, google scholar, google wireless, google tv, google mobile, etc. etc.
Hah! I love it! Suggesting a solution to the problem which, clearly, a large number of people are not aware of (or why would they buy a TiVo?) is "redundant"! :-) Go ahead, mod this one "troll" or "flamebait" :-) !!
http://www.mythtv.org/
And the automobile and auto-suburbs which began growing post WWII created another dramatic shift. People who moved out of the city into suburbs became dependant on automobiles for all of their needs - shopping, work, visiting friends, etc. The stores that these people began to shop at more and more provided massive amounts of parking - the downtown shops were far less convenient and suffered because of it. Now we live in a society where most people rarely eat, shop, or do much of anything someplace that they can reach on foot. This has had a huge effect on communities where people are far less likely to know more than a handfull of their neighbors and even those that they do know are only seen in their cars or going from their house to their car and visa versa. Chances are that they will rarely meet anyone that they know at the grocery store as it is far from their house and serves an enormous geographic area. As a result, people are more isolated and communities less cohesive. It will be interesting to see if fuel prices will ever become expensive enough to cause a reverse shift.
Does it run Linux? Oh, I see it does... nevermind.
Deja Vu.
It has nothing to do with Mozilla's browser, nor the browser's security. A binary is a binary and any elf binary can be infected. (and BTW, this happened a long time ago - the editors should have read the article). Think of it like this: a new Mini Cooper has six air-bags, crumple-zones, awsome breaks, etc. a 1970 dodge dart had drum breaks and....err... well... seatbelts. However, if a two ton rock falls on either car, they will both be crushed along with their passengers. It has nothing to do with the design in question, just the fact that it was in the way of a fast moving rock.
This isn't a mozilla specific bug :-) Any binary could be infected, it just happens that some jackass infected the binary that was put up for distribution. I find it very hard to believe that it was an accident either :-(
Read the blurb, you don't even need to read the article. Think about it. Then read the post. Get it now?
Or a potential fuck you *from* anyone who doesn't want the public to be able to document them. Immagine if these were used to keep any non-approved journalists from taking pictures/recording events? Or used to cover an entire area where a protesters are demonstrating to make covering the event harder?
OMG! This got modded offtopic! Now, clearly my comment on the modding *IS* offtopic and will soon be modded thus, but perhaps the moderators need to actually READ the post before moderating?
Six hour lines? Nope. Only when those in charge screw up royally - intentionally or not. This was far from routine. It changes the situation a lot when you are expecting to stand in line for a half hour or so, and instead find lines so long that volunteers are bringing food to people who have been waiting all day in hopes that they won't just give up and leave - as actually happend in several ohio disctricts.
What recount? Predominately Democratic districts like those in inner city Cleveland and Columbus had too few polling places with people often forced to stand in line for six hours or more. An enormous number of people just couldn't vote at all because they didn't have the option of waiting that long. The sub/ex-urban areas had no lines at all - and are much more Republican. A recount won't do much good because the missing votes are those that never got to be cast to begin with. The media kept painting the long lines as a good sign of great participation and turnout - what it was was a breakdown of the voting system and a desaster that excluded anyone would couldn't afford to lose their job for taking six hours off to go vote or who couldn't afford to find a babysitter on such short notice to watch children too young to wait in line with their parent(s).
I must admit I was actually serious but in regards to the wrong message :-) I saw the first AC response which at least appeared to be serious, and didn't bother actually reading the second - I just saw that the link there was the same (at first glance at least). I did notice a number of typos but they didn't quite register since this is slashdot and that is the norm. It was only after I replied that I saw that every instance of 'r' had been changed to 'd' in the second message.
Two AC posts and neither could come up with a working link. Did it occur to you to test first? Oh, I forgot if right-wingers started actually fact-checking then their entire world view would come crashing down in no time. Good work.
Yup, can't type worth crap today. Make that misinformation, confusion and lies.
Colaborative effort to spread misinformation and confuse lies? I thought that had already been done: http://www.rnc.org/ ?