Total Bollocks. If what you say is true then there are as many websites out there who DO NOT WORK in other rendering engines.
Anybody who can't write standard compliant code AND Microsoft hacks, cannot call themselves a Web Designer. In this day and age it's a rudimentary and vital skill.
Like it or not, we NEED to standardise code once and for all, and just sticking in yet ANOTHER layer will simple pave the future for more of this constant dumbfuckery from Microsoft.
This could be seen as a good thing from a webmasters perspective, if from now on we develop STANDARDS compliant websites, and to hell with Microsoft and their silly new tags, they will be forced to finally make their browser truly compliant. Unfortunatly its probably not going to happen, because you just can't hand over a site that doesn't work in IE (as I stated earlier), so its a catch 22.
Microsoft need to step up to fix the problems they've caused, becuase due to their market share, we can't.
In the meantime, I suggest you take the Hixie's adivce: "I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to include it, making sure it says "IE=7", even once IE8 ships."
All the privicy issues inherent with this clever peice of $300,000+ machinary can be defeated through the cunning use of those electrified tennis rackets.
"Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web"
Is just new Labour tripe, they bring up like 10-15 of these insanly stupid policies every month or so as to keep the backbenchers from passing out.
"They who? They psy-OPz? You're talking out your arse. You can't even own a fucking gun."
Classic US citizen response, doesn't even REALIZE that the rest of the planet (Yes! There's more to it!) hate them.
"re-floated by the Bank of England at a cost of over £24bn." and of course the first thing they do is spent as much of it as possible on lawyers for frivolous suits. You've fucked up once, why not try it a different way this time?
Iraq is dying down now. We're NEVER going to find Osama. People have grown used to the middle east kicking the shit out of each other, we're not exactly frightened or interested anymore.
Of COURSE there's a new Ultimate evil in the World, how else is the US government going to control you?
One more thing. You Americans spend your entire time bitching and moaning about abuses of power, yet how could you fail to see it coming? The new laws were well documented. You complain non stop about the president, he's a joke worldwide, yet you gave him a second term. You claim to hate big oil, yet you buy more and more SUVs. Almost every negative American stereotype that you deny, you perpetuate.
Then you wonder why they talk about Western Hypocrisy.
"So what if he could play a stupid game? It's just a nerdy version of sport hero worship."
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
I neither play chess, nor worship sports heros. However to compare one to the other shows true ignorance on your part, yet you feel the need to broadcast it on possibly the most discerning and judgemental backstreet of the Web, Slashdot.
The border gateway protocol was designed to handle broken routes, by simply jumping to the next. This effectivly mean that if you bomb the shit out of a country, and if only one remaining route is not damaged, BGP will find it and route you through it.
If the this exaflood thing DOES happen, and we're talking amount a monumental amount of data here, it will indeed cause packet congestion, and finally loss as the routers around the world become overloaded. This isn't a matter of broken routes, its simply a matter of congestion, remember the existing routers have a limited ram and clock speed. The real issue here is WILL the load be pushed high enough to cause damage by this coming Exaflood. My guess: No where near.
Technology is indeed improving all the time, however ISPs won't upgrade their routers unless they have to, or the cost would be monumental.
All these issues are sorted out by "Flow routing", so I am quietly waiting for the inventor's company to float, at which point I will spent every penny I have buying their stock. It will be much like investing in Cisco 25 years ago.
The sweet sweet irony here is that the MPAA doing, essentially, what they're trying to prevent with this software.
They have, without prior permission, taken a product, released under a specific license and immediatly violated the terms. By violating the license agreement, they have not accepted the authors terms of use, and therefore have violated the his copyright.
It sickens me that a company can quite openly break the very laws that it uses to bash (relativly) innocent people, and still the bigwigs do nothing.
RIAA, MPAA, you've known it for a while, and the latest figures show its not far away, you NEED to change your business modal. Adapt or die.
Open Sourced Hardware Gifts: The fastest way to drive a friend of loved one, up the bleeding wall.
Lets face it, Open Sourced projects are NOT known for their documentation, support or ease of use. Just try sticking an average computer user in front of a Linux distro, they'll wont have a clue what to do (manpages you cry out, but they doesn't know the "man" command.) and without instruction, they wont have a chance. Say what you like, bit Windows XP is a VERY intuitive interface, and even if you don't know exactly how to do something, chances are you can work it out without destroying the entire system.
Only when somebody comes up with an OSS model that is truely commercially attractive, will we see well supported, highly robust, well documented, easy to use application/hardware.
Ok, Its fairly clever, I'll grant you (Though, its not THAT tricky to code a BitTorrent client in Java), but with mobile data tariffs being what they are, whose actually going to use it?
Dedicated servers are cheaper. More and more countries build datacentres every day. You can even buy whole Chinese netblocks of ips. There are still plenty of sizable botnets about, available for purchase to the highest bidder. More and more spam is sent every year, and the techniques used advance quicker than filtering technology.
Don't flatter yourself google, your tawdry little webmail system is piss in the ocean to these people.
University Toolkit is server software, presumably to be run between the LAN and the WAN to log and analyse packets, much like a firewall. It wouldn't need to be installed on the client machines.
Does this mean that JK has managed to piss all of her money up the wall already? She needs to initiate a lawsuit to make a quick buck?
If not then we can just put her on the same pile as Prince. Totally selfish, and quite happy to make life difficult for their consumers for apparently, no particular reason.
Celebrities: Where's the love gone for your public? Don't forget, we made you, and can get rid of you even faster.
"There are approximately 368,000 Microsoft SQl Servers... and about 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the Internet"
Any DBA worth his salt KNOWS how to secure a SQL server without a firewall. Its not like 'sa' was left with a blank password and remote access enabled on these, its just an open port.
One of our DB servers has port 1433 open to the WAN (it was that or a site to site VPN), it is perfectly secure, even if it wasn't a complete muppet could secure a default SQL Server install.
Buy get this! I've found literally millions of servers with port 80 open to the WAN! I gather it's used for an rather obscure protocol called HTTP.
If I take a random sample of 1000 HTTP and SQL servers, I'll bet I'd get more webservers I could break into than SQL Servers (simply because there are many more attack vectors for HTTP, insecure scripts etc). This article draws attentions to absolutely fuck all.
David Litchfield is a well respected security researcher, I don't know why he see's this as such a big issue, that is, unless he's sitting on a 0day remote SQL server exploit, but I won't hold my breath.
I hope Firefox has become Google's bitch, I hope Google fires the project's current management team and replaces them with a competant one.
I hope they can get rid of the bugs that have plagued Firefox since its creation, I hope they can turn the brower back from this bloated peice of shit that I've only fired up only to offer this reply some irony, to the shining example of speed, usability and standards that we all KNEW it was going to turn into.
Firefox as it stands is slow, bloated, apallingly buggy (I'm sorry, but it is) and has lost everything that set it apart from MSIE back when we actually cared. Ever left Firefox open on Slashdot for a few hours? Just check out that efficient use of memory.
People need to stop thinking that becuase hardware is cheap, that they can produce badly optimized software, simply becuase of how cheap CPU cycles are.
The original Doom development team would hate the current state of affairs, they didn't have memory a plenty, and spare CPU for every operation, and they produced a fast and durable 3d engine which ran on pretty much any x86 hardware with a tiny CPU and a few megs of RAM. Software can be bloody quick, it's all a matter of weather the devs can be bothered.
Want my advice? Destroy the UI, smash down all the XUL shite, kill the hideous inner platform effect that's slowing forming, take Geko (the engine) and start from scratch.
Get rid of the SAME memory leak which has been present since the VERY FIRST release, take the browser that somewhere went off at a tangent, and build it into what people were expecting when Firefox 1 first hit the net.
I have brand new, fast hardware, and I don't see why my browser should run at the same speed as it did 6 years ago on Windows 95 with MSIE. I personally use K-Meleon, it uses the Geko engine, and the UI wasn't build by people who simply lost sight of what a browser is there for, its a brilliant bit of software.
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Total Bollocks. If what you say is true then there are as many websites out there who DO NOT WORK in other rendering engines.
Anybody who can't write standard compliant code AND Microsoft hacks, cannot call themselves a Web Designer. In this day and age it's a rudimentary and vital skill.
Like it or not, we NEED to standardise code once and for all, and just sticking in yet ANOTHER layer will simple pave the future for more of this constant dumbfuckery from Microsoft.
This could be seen as a good thing from a webmasters perspective, if from now on we develop STANDARDS compliant websites, and to hell with Microsoft and their silly new tags, they will be forced to finally make their browser truly compliant. Unfortunatly its probably not going to happen, because you just can't hand over a site that doesn't work in IE (as I stated earlier), so its a catch 22.
Microsoft need to step up to fix the problems they've caused, becuase due to their market share, we can't.
In the meantime, I suggest you take the Hixie's adivce:
"I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to include it, making sure it says "IE=7", even once IE8 ships."
It already has for me, albeit because of BitTorrent, I've not used my set top box for about six months.
All the privicy issues inherent with this clever peice of $300,000+ machinary can be defeated through the cunning use of those electrified tennis rackets.
"Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web" Is just new Labour tripe, they bring up like 10-15 of these insanly stupid policies every month or so as to keep the backbenchers from passing out. "They who? They psy-OPz? You're talking out your arse. You can't even own a fucking gun." Classic US citizen response, doesn't even REALIZE that the rest of the planet (Yes! There's more to it!) hate them.
"re-floated by the Bank of England at a cost of over £24bn."
and of course the first thing they do is spent as much of it as possible on lawyers for frivolous suits. You've fucked up once, why not try it a different way this time?
What with NASA currently fighting tooth and nail to keep their funding, why is NASA looking to spent what money they have on Video Games?
Not impressed.
I for one welcome out new, deceptive, robot overlords. I'll get my coat...
From the above link
The Matrix
Cyberlaw
NetTech
Networlds
Wetware
FutureNets
TechnoRisks
Homesteading
How can you take terms like these, and the people who use them, seriously?
Iraq is dying down now. We're NEVER going to find Osama. People have grown used to the middle east kicking the shit out of each other, we're not exactly frightened or interested anymore.
Of COURSE there's a new Ultimate evil in the World, how else is the US government going to control you?
One more thing.
You Americans spend your entire time bitching and moaning about abuses of power, yet how could you fail to see it coming? The new laws were well documented.
You complain non stop about the president, he's a joke worldwide, yet you gave him a second term.
You claim to hate big oil, yet you buy more and more SUVs.
Almost every negative American stereotype that you deny, you perpetuate.
Then you wonder why they talk about Western Hypocrisy.
"So what if he could play a stupid game? It's just a nerdy version of sport hero worship."
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
I neither play chess, nor worship sports heros. However to compare one to the other shows true ignorance on your part, yet you feel the need to broadcast it on possibly the most discerning and judgemental backstreet of the Web, Slashdot.
You got balls, sir.
How many cells are there on a chess board? 64.
Coincidence????
The border gateway protocol was designed to handle broken routes, by simply jumping to the next. This effectivly mean that if you bomb the shit out of a country, and if only one remaining route is not damaged, BGP will find it and route you through it. If the this exaflood thing DOES happen, and we're talking amount a monumental amount of data here, it will indeed cause packet congestion, and finally loss as the routers around the world become overloaded. This isn't a matter of broken routes, its simply a matter of congestion, remember the existing routers have a limited ram and clock speed. The real issue here is WILL the load be pushed high enough to cause damage by this coming Exaflood. My guess: No where near. Technology is indeed improving all the time, however ISPs won't upgrade their routers unless they have to, or the cost would be monumental. All these issues are sorted out by "Flow routing", so I am quietly waiting for the inventor's company to float, at which point I will spent every penny I have buying their stock. It will be much like investing in Cisco 25 years ago.
IPv6 (and indeed 8) has nothing to do with speed, its all about more address space.
I suppose laws are for other people...
The sweet sweet irony here is that the MPAA doing, essentially, what they're trying to prevent with this software.
They have, without prior permission, taken a product, released under a specific license and immediatly violated the terms. By violating the license agreement, they have not accepted the authors terms of use, and therefore have violated the his copyright.
It sickens me that a company can quite openly break the very laws that it uses to bash (relativly) innocent people, and still the bigwigs do nothing.
RIAA, MPAA, you've known it for a while, and the latest figures show its not far away, you NEED to change your business modal. Adapt or die.
Open Sourced Hardware Gifts: The fastest way to drive a friend of loved one, up the bleeding wall.
Lets face it, Open Sourced projects are NOT known for their documentation, support or ease of use. Just try sticking an average computer user in front of a Linux distro, they'll wont have a clue what to do (manpages you cry out, but they doesn't know the "man" command.) and without instruction, they wont have a chance. Say what you like, bit Windows XP is a VERY intuitive interface, and even if you don't know exactly how to do something, chances are you can work it out without destroying the entire system.
Only when somebody comes up with an OSS model that is truely commercially attractive, will we see well supported, highly robust, well documented, easy to use application/hardware.
This is just a sure fire way to cause more chans to go invite only (+i).
Ok, Its fairly clever, I'll grant you (Though, its not THAT tricky to code a BitTorrent client in Java), but with mobile data tariffs being what they are, whose actually going to use it?
Dedicated servers are cheaper. More and more countries build datacentres every day. You can even buy whole Chinese netblocks of ips. There are still plenty of sizable botnets about, available for purchase to the highest bidder. More and more spam is sent every year, and the techniques used advance quicker than filtering technology.
Don't flatter yourself google, your tawdry little webmail system is piss in the ocean to these people.
That has to be the stupidest thing I have EVER heard. Ever.
"Microsoft is not a helicopter dropping relief materials; we're there in the field."
Yeah, out there in the fields trying to sell bandages to the wounded who can't afford them...
I think you may have got this completely wrong.
University Toolkit is server software, presumably to be run between the LAN and the WAN to log and analyse packets, much like a firewall. It wouldn't need to be installed on the client machines.
Does this mean that JK has managed to piss all of her money up the wall already? She needs to initiate a lawsuit to make a quick buck?
If not then we can just put her on the same pile as Prince. Totally selfish, and quite happy to make life difficult for their consumers for apparently, no particular reason.
Celebrities: Where's the love gone for your public? Don't forget, we made you, and can get rid of you even faster.
"They will crack WWII era encrypted messages, and compete against modern PCs."
I like those odds.
"There are approximately 368,000 Microsoft SQl Servers... and about 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the Internet" Any DBA worth his salt KNOWS how to secure a SQL server without a firewall. Its not like 'sa' was left with a blank password and remote access enabled on these, its just an open port. One of our DB servers has port 1433 open to the WAN (it was that or a site to site VPN), it is perfectly secure, even if it wasn't a complete muppet could secure a default SQL Server install. Buy get this! I've found literally millions of servers with port 80 open to the WAN! I gather it's used for an rather obscure protocol called HTTP. If I take a random sample of 1000 HTTP and SQL servers, I'll bet I'd get more webservers I could break into than SQL Servers (simply because there are many more attack vectors for HTTP, insecure scripts etc). This article draws attentions to absolutely fuck all. David Litchfield is a well respected security researcher, I don't know why he see's this as such a big issue, that is, unless he's sitting on a 0day remote SQL server exploit, but I won't hold my breath.
I hope Firefox has become Google's bitch, I hope Google fires the project's current management team and replaces them with a competant one.
I hope they can get rid of the bugs that have plagued Firefox since its creation, I hope they can turn the brower back from this bloated peice of shit that I've only fired up only to offer this reply some irony, to the shining example of speed, usability and standards that we all KNEW it was going to turn into.
Firefox as it stands is slow, bloated, apallingly buggy (I'm sorry, but it is) and has lost everything that set it apart from MSIE back when we actually cared. Ever left Firefox open on Slashdot for a few hours? Just check out that efficient use of memory.
People need to stop thinking that becuase hardware is cheap, that they can produce badly optimized software, simply becuase of how cheap CPU cycles are.
The original Doom development team would hate the current state of affairs, they didn't have memory a plenty, and spare CPU for every operation, and they produced a fast and durable 3d engine which ran on pretty much any x86 hardware with a tiny CPU and a few megs of RAM. Software can be bloody quick, it's all a matter of weather the devs can be bothered.
Want my advice? Destroy the UI, smash down all the XUL shite, kill the hideous inner platform effect that's slowing forming, take Geko (the engine) and start from scratch.
Get rid of the SAME memory leak which has been present since the VERY FIRST release, take the browser that somewhere went off at a tangent, and build it into what people were expecting when Firefox 1 first hit the net.
I have brand new, fast hardware, and I don't see why my browser should run at the same speed as it did 6 years ago on Windows 95 with MSIE. I personally use K-Meleon, it uses the Geko engine, and the UI wasn't build by people who simply lost sight of what a browser is there for, its a brilliant bit of software.