Well, with the government's not just tepid, but non-response to the breach (they decided to drop any action against Equifax), it's a sure bet that this will embolden not only Equifax, but other agencies and businesses that keep our "secrets" "safe". No punishment for being dicks about security sends quite a signal.
This is an interesting point, the "huge amount of software" issue. When I analyze what most of my friends use on a daily basis, it basically comes down to this list: Email program, web browser, multimedia program, word processor. Occasionally they use financial programs and spreadsheets. And that's pretty much it. All of these exist on Macintosh, Linux and Windows. The only exceptions are game players, and you may fall under that category, so anything BUT Windows is probably out for you till software makers start churning out Mac and Linux versions of their games too.
Why not just edit spoofstick.css, to change all three font sizes to whatever you want. Change small to 9 point, for instance. Of course, it won't really decrease the size of the extra panel. The makers should put it in the status bar, like the makers of other extensions do.
As a gentooer, I'm not too concerned. This sounds like a replay of the sender-ID thing.
It's not the same thing at all. Sender-ID is at the software level, and USB is hardware.
I somehow doubt that manufacturers will gladly adopt this standard.
Which would be a radical departure from what they've done in the past, if it happens as you think it will.
Also, this doesn't make older USB devices stop working.
If you read the article through, you'd have learned that older devices will become READ-ONLY. Meaning, you can download from the device to the PC, but not the other way. Not "stop working", but it sure cuts their functionality down quite a bit.
I doubt it will be the end of Linux as we know it. Windows can support or not support whatever they want, it's not going to change Linux.
No, it won't be the end of Linux. But if Microsoft is successful at DRM'ing more and more hardware, they will be able to lock out not only Linux users from using these devices, but also any other OS not approved (meaning, paid their license fees) by Microsoft.
By ferociously going after Napster and consumers of other P2P technologies, the music and movie industry has "succeeded" only in polarizing the buying public and fragmenting their market even further. They can try to outlaw pirating and enforce the laws against illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted material, but they're ultimately doomed to fail. They're just going to piss off legitimate buyers with technologies that sacrifice quality and their ability to legitimately archive their media, and will drive illegal traders further underground where they can't be found. In the end, they're just pissing everyone off, making them as much an ogre in the marketplace as Microsoft.
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Well, with the government's not just tepid, but non-response to the breach (they decided to drop any action against Equifax), it's a sure bet that this will embolden not only Equifax, but other agencies and businesses that keep our "secrets" "safe". No punishment for being dicks about security sends quite a signal.
This is an interesting point, the "huge amount of software" issue. When I analyze what most of my friends use on a daily basis, it basically comes down to this list: Email program, web browser, multimedia program, word processor. Occasionally they use financial programs and spreadsheets. And that's pretty much it. All of these exist on Macintosh, Linux and Windows. The only exceptions are game players, and you may fall under that category, so anything BUT Windows is probably out for you till software makers start churning out Mac and Linux versions of their games too.
Here you go. This is Linux-centric but a similar method should work in Windows, just use PKZip or WinZip or whatever:
.xpi file.
.size1 set to 9 pt, .size2 set to 12 pt, and .size3 set to 14 pt.
p i" and press Enter or click "Go".
1. Download the xpi to your hard drive rather than install it (right click on the "install" link and save). Put it in a temp directory.
2. Open a shell window and cd to the temp directory where you stored the xpi.
3. Unzip the xpi, then delete the
4. cd into the directory it created, called "chrome".
5. Unzip spoofstick.jar, then delete spoofstick.jar.
6. cd into the directory that unzip made, called "content".
7. Edit spoofstick.css as needed with your favorite text editor. Perhaps something like
8. cd back one dir and type "zip -r spoofstick.jar".
9. Delete the "content" directory and its contents.
10. cd back one dir and type "zip -r $HOME/Desktop/spoofstick.xpi *"
11. Fire up Firefox and remove the old spoofstick installation, then restart the browser.
12. In the URL window, type "file:///home/[yourusername]/Desktop/spoofstick.x
13. After it installs, restart Firefox and spoofstick will be there at your new point sizes, and you can click "Options" to set color, etc.
14. Viola! You're done.
Why not just edit spoofstick.css, to change all three font sizes to whatever you want. Change small to 9 point, for instance. Of course, it won't really decrease the size of the extra panel. The makers should put it in the status bar, like the makers of other extensions do.
It's not the same thing at all. Sender-ID is at the software level, and USB is hardware.
I somehow doubt that manufacturers will gladly adopt this standard.
Which would be a radical departure from what they've done in the past, if it happens as you think it will.
Also, this doesn't make older USB devices stop working.
If you read the article through, you'd have learned that older devices will become READ-ONLY. Meaning, you can download from the device to the PC, but not the other way. Not "stop working", but it sure cuts their functionality down quite a bit.
I doubt it will be the end of Linux as we know it. Windows can support or not support whatever they want, it's not going to change Linux.
No, it won't be the end of Linux. But if Microsoft is successful at DRM'ing more and more hardware, they will be able to lock out not only Linux users from using these devices, but also any other OS not approved (meaning, paid their license fees) by Microsoft.
By ferociously going after Napster and consumers of other P2P technologies, the music and movie industry has "succeeded" only in polarizing the buying public and fragmenting their market even further. They can try to outlaw pirating and enforce the laws against illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted material, but they're ultimately doomed to fail. They're just going to piss off legitimate buyers with technologies that sacrifice quality and their ability to legitimately archive their media, and will drive illegal traders further underground where they can't be found. In the end, they're just pissing everyone off, making them as much an ogre in the marketplace as Microsoft.
"make mrproper" has been around for a long time. If you never bothered to read the readme's, it's your fault, not the fault of the distribution.