Sadly, it was always only a matter of time until this happened.
Obviously the powers-that-be feel powerful enough to attack an ancient service like Usenet.
If they succeed in this lawsuit then it is the end of binary newsgroups, every time another Usenet server/company take control of the distribution backbone, then they'll be sued too.
The ones who said they were using an Anti-Spyware solution who actually weren't, may well have falled victim to the classic "You have a virus! Give us your money and we'll sort it out!" popup and ended up with more spyware.
Ed
To run Vista, businesses will need new machines (that is, if they bought the current machines for XP) with higher spec, they costs money. Also you have to roll it out, which costs money Also you have to buy the Vista itself, which costs a lot of money You have to make sure your apps run, if not fix them, which costs money. You have to take support calls for those who can't use Vista, which costs money.
All this, for a differant UI (some argue better, I disagree).
Thats all well and good, we've all got to earn a living. However, I hope they give the option to turn off video ads and replace them with images/text. Otherwise you'll see a big migration toward Yahoo from the dial-up users (and no, a lot of the world still uses dial-up, look at the 3rd world countries)
This sounds a little stupid to me, as the kind of privicy aware person who'll want to use Tor, is also the kind of person who'll have Anti-Virus software and won't fall for classic malware tricks.
Why is it that every time I hear about SCO, they're involved in some kind of lawsuit related to Unix.
Its never "SCO Release [Product] Killer" or "SCO continues to surprise us with their innovative ideas". No, its always some frivolous Unix patent lawsuit.
SCO: Shut the fuck up and do something useful with what little money you have left.
"In an interview with Newsweek magazine earlier this year, Dr Venter claimed that a fuel-producing microbe could become the first billion- or trillion-dollar organism. The institute has already patented a set of genes for creating such a stripped-down creature."
A fantastic money making idea. However, do we really need an unlimited supply or carbon positive fossil fuels?
I can just see the motorways jammed with Stretch Humvees of all shapes and sizes, gracefully spewing that grayish black smoke into our already pissed off atmosphere.
With cheaper fuel prices, why walk? why cycle? Everybody will drive. We'll need more and more roads to cope, how will we manage? Bulldose the already thinning vegetation on this planet to build that new bypass we all REALLY need.
Shit, it'll be fine, they'll probably come up with an organism that can take carbon dioxide and produce oxygen! Now what a feat that would be, modern science today hey...
You whine about this. Then when the US fails to stop terrorism, you whine about that and ask why the govenment haven't done more to catch these people.
The innocent have nothing to fear, and if you accounts are in order, then why should it bother you if they're glanced at by a security official.
Its like a/. post a while ago when people were shocked and horrified when a Tor server was seized. I ask you, what are you doing that merits total anonymity? Forgive my cynicism, but could it be something illegal?
You're blatantly a bus driver aren't you...
Taunted and traumatized by Kids on your bus.
Blinded with their home made laser beams.
Made bitter by the Police's unwillingness to help.
You're a perfect candidate for vigilanteism. Drive a Taxi instead...
We need to arm kids before they go to school in the morning. How would you feel as a parent, knowing that your kid is at school without his automatic weapons? As we all know, gunman attacks are ten a penny nowdays, happening up 19 times a day in each school, what if your kid was the only one who can't return fire? "Easy target!", I hear you cry!
I personally wont let little Johnny leave for school without his Heckler & Koch MP5, extra ammunition, and frag grenades. It pays to be safe.
"exposing their systems to next generation threats such as Cross site Scripting, Cross Site Request Forgery"
New? New how? All this scaremongering is making me feel like partying like its 1999 (obscure millenium bug reference)...again.
"Web 2.0" (I really can't stand the term), IMHO is largly considered to be the "next generation" sites using AJAX. AJAX is nothing new, its Javascript, XML and DHTML. The principal is EXACTLY the same as a webservice request (its just from a Javascript client).
So: Write secure webservices (We've been doing this for years, its not a problem) Write secure javascript (We've been doing this for years, its not a problem)
How do you write secure javascript with the advent of XMLHTTP Components? Excatly the same way you'd write secure server side code, Don't output unvalidated user controlled data (Cross Site Scripting) Dont do anything stupid like entering a user controlled, unvalidated data into a DB (SQL Injections)
With regards to Cross Site Request Forgery, its been around for years, now the requests are being made silenty (i.e With no refresh) rather than just redirecting the Victim elsewhere. It's a clever kind of Cross Site Scripting.
Please feel free to correct, or enlighten me of any unique security issues associated with "Web 2.0", but as far as I can tell, nothings really changed.
Poof go those nice "Digg this site" buttons. That had to be the only time I ever dugg(?) anything. I think with a site the size of digg, that one loser in a million paying people to click, is just piss in the ocean.
True. However I don't belive any such agreement exists in the UK, the US or elsewhere. This entire claim is based on extremely shakey legal ground and
A) Wouldn't be surprised if this mountain is the result nothing more than a molehill somewhere deep within the RIAA, not an official initiative. B) The RIAA are going through some internal upheaval, with the company torn on these issues (Should we keep suing innocent people and inventing copyright law as we go along, or work on a more reasonable, more long term business modal.) C) ????? D) Profit!
NO ADOBE! Just no! How on earth do you expect to beat the latest "Microsoft release *PRODUCT HERE* killer! *SOFTWARE COMPANY* are panicing" release by alienating your userbase? Just to make a quick buck? Very very naughty.
"They have also challenged popular teaching methods, suggesting that teachers should focus more on giving students the answers, instead of asking them to solve problems on their own."
No justification given for that comment. Sure, the kids will get the answers correct more often (after all, you just told them the answers).
School isn't just about passing those GCSEs (UK people will know that they have nothing to do with raw intelligence, its a matter of listening to the "correct" answer and regurgitating it on paper, they're there to teach you to think through a problem.
The reason more and more children are obese nowdays, is becuase they eat MORE and exercise LESS. There's no trickery about it, people will lose weight, when they begin to exercise MORE and eat LESS.
They do this because the Americans have somehow made it socailly acceptable to be fat. It isn't.
We've got it worse however. Eating out, is part of the American culture, food in restaurants is cheap over there, and a great many Americans eat out on a daily basis. Over here, a halfway decent restaurant is VERY expensive, as a result, we (in that way we do) have taken on the eating out culture (Where we'd normally stay home and cook), but your average UK person is going to go to McDonalds, KFC, whatever, simply becuase its good food and the price isn't a piss take. Sadly its stuffed with calories and all those lovely things that make little kids FAT. If better quality food was available for better prices, we'd see a population with an anerage weight more like France, who share the eating out culture, but with "better" food.
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Sadly, it was always only a matter of time until this happened.
Obviously the powers-that-be feel powerful enough to attack an ancient service like Usenet.
If they succeed in this lawsuit then it is the end of binary newsgroups, every time another Usenet server/company take control of the distribution backbone, then they'll be sued too.
The ones who said they were using an Anti-Spyware solution who actually weren't, may well have falled victim to the classic "You have a virus! Give us your money and we'll sort it out!" popup and ended up with more spyware. Ed
...the stuff Hollywood flops are made of.
To run Vista, businesses will need new machines (that is, if they bought the current machines for XP) with higher spec, they costs money.
Also you have to roll it out, which costs money
Also you have to buy the Vista itself, which costs a lot of money
You have to make sure your apps run, if not fix them, which costs money.
You have to take support calls for those who can't use Vista, which costs money.
All this, for a differant UI (some argue better, I disagree).
Aww stop with the greed thing. Google provide a world class set of free services, all supported by non-intrusive ads.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to make a nice phat profit? Greedy would be having a premium service, or selling non-adword rankings.
Thats all well and good, we've all got to earn a living. However, I hope they give the option to turn off video ads and replace them with images/text. Otherwise you'll see a big migration toward Yahoo from the dial-up users (and no, a lot of the world still uses dial-up, look at the 3rd world countries)
This sounds a little stupid to me, as the kind of privicy aware person who'll want to use Tor, is also the kind of person who'll have Anti-Virus software and won't fall for classic malware tricks.
Why is it that every time I hear about SCO, they're involved in some kind of lawsuit related to Unix.
Its never "SCO Release [Product] Killer" or "SCO continues to surprise us with their innovative ideas". No, its always some frivolous Unix patent lawsuit.
SCO: Shut the fuck up and do something useful with what little money you have left.
"In an interview with Newsweek magazine earlier this year, Dr Venter claimed that a fuel-producing microbe could become the first billion- or trillion-dollar organism. The institute has already patented a set of genes for creating such a stripped-down creature." A fantastic money making idea. However, do we really need an unlimited supply or carbon positive fossil fuels? I can just see the motorways jammed with Stretch Humvees of all shapes and sizes, gracefully spewing that grayish black smoke into our already pissed off atmosphere. With cheaper fuel prices, why walk? why cycle? Everybody will drive. We'll need more and more roads to cope, how will we manage? Bulldose the already thinning vegetation on this planet to build that new bypass we all REALLY need. Shit, it'll be fine, they'll probably come up with an organism that can take carbon dioxide and produce oxygen! Now what a feat that would be, modern science today hey...
You whine about this. Then when the US fails to stop terrorism, you whine about that and ask why the govenment haven't done more to catch these people.
/. post a while ago when people were shocked and horrified when a Tor server was seized.
The innocent have nothing to fear, and if you accounts are in order, then why should it bother you if they're glanced at by a security official.
Its like a
I ask you, what are you doing that merits total anonymity? Forgive my cynicism, but could it be something illegal?
Blimey! There's a spanish /.! and its all orange! Nice.
Look at the story title! Have the Eds finally got bored of the oh so tacky "[Company] releases [Product] Killer!!" line?
I like to think so!
Goodnight London.
All your users are belong to us!
You're blatantly a bus driver aren't you... Taunted and traumatized by Kids on your bus. Blinded with their home made laser beams. Made bitter by the Police's unwillingness to help. You're a perfect candidate for vigilanteism. Drive a Taxi instead...
K-Meleon anybody? Geko engine in a nice lightweight UI. Got preloading too...
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download
We need to arm kids before they go to school in the morning. How would you feel as a parent, knowing that your kid is at school without his automatic weapons? As we all know, gunman attacks are ten a penny nowdays, happening up 19 times a day in each school, what if your kid was the only one who can't return fire? "Easy target!", I hear you cry!
I personally wont let little Johnny leave for school without his Heckler & Koch MP5, extra ammunition, and frag grenades. It pays to be safe.
Better yet, lets just invade another country...
These guys just want to be named the Registrar (is that the term?) basically they'd get to sell these new domains and make a quick buck.
"exposing their systems to next generation threats such as Cross site Scripting, Cross Site Request Forgery"
New? New how? All this scaremongering is making me feel like partying like its 1999 (obscure millenium bug reference)...again.
"Web 2.0" (I really can't stand the term), IMHO is largly considered to be the "next generation" sites using AJAX. AJAX is nothing new, its Javascript, XML and DHTML. The principal is EXACTLY the same as a webservice request (its just from a Javascript client).
So:
Write secure webservices (We've been doing this for years, its not a problem)
Write secure javascript (We've been doing this for years, its not a problem)
How do you write secure javascript with the advent of XMLHTTP Components? Excatly the same way you'd write secure server side code,
Don't output unvalidated user controlled data (Cross Site Scripting)
Dont do anything stupid like entering a user controlled, unvalidated data into a DB (SQL Injections)
With regards to Cross Site Request Forgery, its been around for years, now the requests are being made silenty (i.e With no refresh) rather than just redirecting the Victim elsewhere. It's a clever kind of Cross Site Scripting.
Please feel free to correct, or enlighten me of any unique security issues associated with "Web 2.0", but as far as I can tell, nothings really changed.
Poof go those nice "Digg this site" buttons. That had to be the only time I ever dugg(?) anything. I think with a site the size of digg, that one loser in a million paying people to click, is just piss in the ocean.
True. However I don't belive any such agreement exists in the UK, the US or elsewhere. This entire claim is based on extremely shakey legal ground and
A) Wouldn't be surprised if this mountain is the result nothing more than a molehill somewhere deep within the RIAA, not an official initiative.
B) The RIAA are going through some internal upheaval, with the company torn on these issues (Should we keep suing innocent people and inventing copyright law as we go along, or work on a more reasonable, more long term business modal.)
C) ?????
D) Profit!
NO ADOBE! Just no! How on earth do you expect to beat the latest "Microsoft release *PRODUCT HERE* killer! *SOFTWARE COMPANY* are panicing" release by alienating your userbase? Just to make a quick buck? Very very naughty.
Then don't play it. Its a fucking silly game anyway.
"They have also challenged popular teaching methods, suggesting that teachers should focus more on giving students the answers, instead of asking them to solve problems on their own." No justification given for that comment. Sure, the kids will get the answers correct more often (after all, you just told them the answers). School isn't just about passing those GCSEs (UK people will know that they have nothing to do with raw intelligence, its a matter of listening to the "correct" answer and regurgitating it on paper, they're there to teach you to think through a problem.
The reason more and more children are obese nowdays, is becuase they eat MORE and exercise LESS. There's no trickery about it, people will lose weight, when they begin to exercise MORE and eat LESS.
They do this because the Americans have somehow made it socailly acceptable to be fat. It isn't.
We've got it worse however. Eating out, is part of the American culture, food in restaurants is cheap over there, and a great many Americans eat out on a daily basis.
Over here, a halfway decent restaurant is VERY expensive, as a result, we (in that way we do) have taken on the eating out culture (Where we'd normally stay home and cook), but your average UK person is going to go to McDonalds, KFC, whatever, simply becuase its good food and the price isn't a piss take. Sadly its stuffed with calories and all those lovely things that make little kids FAT. If better quality food was available for better prices, we'd see a population with an anerage weight more like France, who share the eating out culture, but with "better" food.
For every potential Microsoft employee they lose through immigration, they also avoid 600+ crazed crackhead niggers with handguns. A fair trade.