If a browser accepts untrusted data, then is closed by the operating system for doing something un-program-like (in other words, crashing), then it reveals a programming flaw that might be exploited six months down the road.
Browsers should never crash.
Ideally, they should be free of crashes, but we're on the topic of "Let's keep it fair!", and I'm saying the Firefox reaction isn't as big a deal as the IE reaction. I'm not saying it doesn't need to be dealt with. It clearly does. I'm saying it isn't unfair to say that Firefox handles this better, since crashing is far better than surrendering your computer to remote control.
Dude... The same article mentioned that Firefox had more issues last year. Just they were fixed... So then, users wil have to stick into firefox too as even that will have fixes foreever...
Firefox is free, cross-platform, and frankly, less of a pain in the butt. Firefox doesn't cause people to take over your computer with its bugs.
And more importantly, Firefox programmers have no motive not to fix the bugs, as they do it for free.
Although the security threat isn't existent in FireFox, the browser still fails on these pages.
"$RANDOM_WEBSITE crashes a browser" isn't worth a news article. It's worth a bug report, and a fix, either to the site or to the browser, but it isn't worth a news story. Major crashes and computers being remotely controlled, however, is a big deal.
There are too many ways around it. Carding isn't going to make up for parenting. If we assume a "no parenting" situation, where the parents neither check the games or watch you play them, you can
1) Enlist a friend to buy it for you. 2) Get it on EBay/Amazon/EBGames (if I paid my parents back, they would let me use their credit card) 3) Illegal copies, either stolen physically or pirated off the Net (computer games) 4) Lawn/Garage Sale or Pawn Shop, where employees wouldn't know to check IDs.
I'd like to see domain names to be much cheaper, so that neophytes can get a domain name for $1US/year.
Cheap domains are bad, because for every one we get from an amateur, interested neophyte (like me), we'll get 3 spammers picking up cheap sites. A medium cost, and one with a reasonable rate hike, not an excessive one, would allow people with interest to get a site (while encouraging them not to drop something they paid decent money for), and stopping mass pickups of dozens of names.
The software is explained as non-damaging, secure, and cut-off (in the sense that it isn't supposed to phone home). The piece of software described doesn't match what they installed. Therefore no one consented to the rootkit and DRM thing. Even without the rootkit, the DRM still phones home and damages your hard drive.
Well considering there are thousands of Beatles sites, he isn't doing a bad job. Maybe it is boosting the keyword with another keyword? As in, he ranks really high if there is some other word in the search entry with Beatles? If you google George Harrison (without quotes), he's 10th, but if you google George Harrison Beatles, he's second.
no, there are 26 letters, times the major.whatevers There's.com,.net,.org,.info, then the ones that go by country, like.co.uk or.de That makes for a lot more than 26 possibilities, but you are correct that relative to the internet as a whole, it's not a lot of domains.
Nope, it's free. Based on your post, it works just like Slashdot. Have I had to pay money for/. ? Nope. Is it free then? Yup. By your logic, real radio isn't free because it has ads. Ditto broadcast TV.
I could be in a minority, but I almost never look at author links. I didn't notice this one until I saw your post. Maybe this isn't as much of an issue as you think it is.
It's not you the message is intended for, it's Google. Google ranks sites at least partially (and primarily) by a method designed to determine the usefullness of a site based on links. Links from some sites count for more than others. Because/. is so huge, we can have a major Google impact. Having your site linked to from/. helps it, esp. if it is linked with a relevant keyword, and being linked to in an article is a huge deal.
So basically this is a colony of introverts, and we get a story about how great introverts are. What does that do for us in terms of teaching us? It feels like nerds needed to give each other a pat on the back.
I feel the karma burning, but hey, I got a 4 today, so I can afford a -1.
Check the link. that's online only. I meant physically in the stores. People are getting better about it, but the average computer buyer isn't going to check Wal-Mart's website, they'll pass the computer as they walk by and see the good deal. Not that that doesn't look very nice. I'm actually gonna check it out.
YOU can build your own system. YOU can buy from someone else. Personally, I don't have the time or skills to put a computer together myself, and I haven't seen major PC distributors selling clean boxes. I'd say I am slightly above average in terms of tech-savviness. The average user sees computers as Apple, Gateway, Dell, HP, and whichever ones didn't spring to mind there. If they don't sell it at Wal-mart, Best Buy, Cost Co or maybe Office Depot, it doesn't exist to the average customer. The "MS tax" is partially dependent on people not being able to invest weeks in understanding and utilizing the computer-building resources available.
Only on Slashdot. Not only did you not RTFA, you admit it, then have the gall to ask someone else to read the whole monster and summarize it for you. And you'll probably get a up-mod or two somehow.
Just Kidding. I was actually going to ask the same thing, and you beat me there, so now I vent.:)
Apple, Google, and even Sun (talking about solaris 10 so ignore their stock price), have been out innovating MSFT since forever.
As I see it, here's the breakdown: 1) IE7 = Firefox 1.0.x (but FF1.5 or 2 will be out by then). 2) Office 12 = new UI, same annoynesses 3)Vista = Mac OS X.2 or so, while X.5 will be out by then.
Who cares if it's used for ads? I'll just be blocking them with Adblock Plus.
What if it was used in Adblock? I'd personally enjoy wandering around blowing up the pop-ups and pop-unders and Flash Ads I don't want to appear in my browsing life.
Get bookmarks, name them all whatever you want. Then you just open the bookmarks window, and start searching. If you use hotkeys, it's still pretty quick. Then you identify websites however you want to identify them. Nothing complex about it. And I assume your friends can just email you any bookmarks they feel like.
Mr. Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name, you seem to have one flaw in your arguement. And that is that you claim that popularity isn't a quantification of quality. I'd argue this. No one buys a CD they hate, so every sale indicates that someone, somewhere is made happy by the music. Therefore sales are good. However, the current popular stuff is only popular because it is all people get to hear. It seems our disagreement boils down to this key question: Is art what it is so people enjoy it, or does it have higher purpose?
I imagine we'll wind up with some sort of consolidation. We'll have something similar to phone companies with wireless. A regulated monopoly actually seems the most efficient here. I'd say the best example is radio stations. They are regulated so that they don't interfere with each other. We'll probably have wireless "markets" where different companies work. And at least here two or three could co-exist in some markets. And since competition among wireless providers means an area is more attractive to businesses, then gov't will maybe subsidize tower-building?
Thus, if you see a non-AC posting posting of an article's text or a useful link, the correct mode is "Funny" so they won't receive any karma.
But what does that do to people who personally apply penalties to "Funny" (Check your preferences page if you don't know what I'm on about)? Apparently, people do it to read/. seriously and avoid stupid jokes (personally, I love the jokes)
"Hi, I'm your Attorney General. I'm running for reelection. This term, in addition to executing a boatload (literally) of people, I brought the state two hundred million dollars by suing an evil music giant who tried to hack your computer. This same computer giant also gave my opponent a lot of money..."
Since D.I.Y. production is ever more feasible, and the joy of creating music negates any costs to making music, it's obvious that the efficient, market clearing price for music is free.
That may hold for music on the hole. However, not all music is equal. I consider some songs worth more than others. For instance, you'd have to pay me to get me to listen to country. Therefore, there will prices for music, or at least some music.
No, this is pretty typical for me. The football doesn't really bug me, because we own VT academically (by a mile), in athletics (when all sports are factored in, it's called the Commonwealth Challenge, and we usually win most of the head-to-head matchups, plus have more conference titles every year), and socially (better guy to girl ratio, plus our girls are hotter). Not to mention the original UVA campus is a UN historic site or something, and a bunch of other stuff I'm too lazy to mention.
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If a browser accepts untrusted data, then is closed by the operating system for doing something un-program-like (in other words, crashing), then it reveals a programming flaw that might be exploited six months down the road. Browsers should never crash.
Ideally, they should be free of crashes, but we're on the topic of "Let's keep it fair!", and I'm saying the Firefox reaction isn't as big a deal as the IE reaction. I'm not saying it doesn't need to be dealt with. It clearly does. I'm saying it isn't unfair to say that Firefox handles this better, since crashing is far better than surrendering your computer to remote control.
Dude... The same article mentioned that Firefox had more issues last year. Just they were fixed... So then, users wil have to stick into firefox too as even that will have fixes foreever...
Firefox is free, cross-platform, and frankly, less of a pain in the butt. Firefox doesn't cause people to take over your computer with its bugs.
And more importantly, Firefox programmers have no motive not to fix the bugs, as they do it for free.
Although the security threat isn't existent in FireFox, the browser still fails on these pages.
"$RANDOM_WEBSITE crashes a browser" isn't worth a news article. It's worth a bug report, and a fix, either to the site or to the browser, but it isn't worth a news story. Major crashes and computers being remotely controlled, however, is a big deal.
The Sky is blue!
Bears still crap in the woods!
Amazingly, the Pope is Catholic!
There are too many ways around it. Carding isn't going to make up for parenting. If we assume a "no parenting" situation, where the parents neither check the games or watch you play them, you can
1) Enlist a friend to buy it for you.
2) Get it on EBay/Amazon/EBGames (if I paid my parents back, they would let me use their credit card)
3) Illegal copies, either stolen physically or pirated off the Net (computer games)
4) Lawn/Garage Sale or Pawn Shop, where employees wouldn't know to check IDs.
I'd like to see domain names to be much cheaper, so that neophytes can get a domain name for $1US/year.
Cheap domains are bad, because for every one we get from an amateur, interested neophyte (like me), we'll get 3 spammers picking up cheap sites. A medium cost, and one with a reasonable rate hike, not an excessive one, would allow people with interest to get a site (while encouraging them not to drop something they paid decent money for), and stopping mass pickups of dozens of names.
The software is explained as non-damaging, secure, and cut-off (in the sense that it isn't supposed to phone home). The piece of software described doesn't match what they installed. Therefore no one consented to the rootkit and DRM thing. Even without the rootkit, the DRM still phones home and damages your hard drive.
Well considering there are thousands of Beatles sites, he isn't doing a bad job. Maybe it is boosting the keyword with another keyword? As in, he ranks really high if there is some other word in the search entry with Beatles? If you google George Harrison (without quotes), he's 10th, but if you google George Harrison Beatles, he's second.
no, there are 26 letters, times the major .whatevers There's .com, .net, .org, .info, then the ones that go by country, like .co.uk or .de That makes for a lot more than 26 possibilities, but you are correct that relative to the internet as a whole, it's not a lot of domains.
and the Pandora music project is not free:
/. ? Nope. Is it free then? Yup. By your logic, real radio isn't free because it has ads. Ditto broadcast TV.
Nope, it's free. Based on your post, it works just like Slashdot. Have I had to pay money for
I could be in a minority, but I almost never look at author links. I didn't notice this one until I saw your post. Maybe this isn't as much of an issue as you think it is.
/. is so huge, we can have a major Google impact. Having your site linked to from /. helps it, esp. if it is linked with a relevant keyword, and being linked to in an article is a huge deal.
It's not you the message is intended for, it's Google. Google ranks sites at least partially (and primarily) by a method designed to determine the usefullness of a site based on links. Links from some sites count for more than others. Because
So basically this is a colony of introverts, and we get a story about how great introverts are. What does that do for us in terms of teaching us? It feels like nerds needed to give each other a pat on the back.
I feel the karma burning, but hey, I got a 4 today, so I can afford a -1.
Check the link. that's online only. I meant physically in the stores. People are getting better about it, but the average computer buyer isn't going to check Wal-Mart's website, they'll pass the computer as they walk by and see the good deal. Not that that doesn't look very nice. I'm actually gonna check it out.
YOU can build your own system. YOU can buy from someone else. Personally, I don't have the time or skills to put a computer together myself, and I haven't seen major PC distributors selling clean boxes. I'd say I am slightly above average in terms of tech-savviness. The average user sees computers as Apple, Gateway, Dell, HP, and whichever ones didn't spring to mind there. If they don't sell it at Wal-mart, Best Buy, Cost Co or maybe Office Depot, it doesn't exist to the average customer. The "MS tax" is partially dependent on people not being able to invest weeks in understanding and utilizing the computer-building resources available.
Only on Slashdot. Not only did you not RTFA, you admit it, then have the gall to ask someone else to read the whole monster and summarize it for you. And you'll probably get a up-mod or two somehow.
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Just Kidding. I was actually going to ask the same thing, and you beat me there, so now I vent.
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Apple, Google, and even Sun (talking about solaris 10 so ignore their stock price), have been out innovating MSFT since forever.
As I see it, here's the breakdown:
1) IE7 = Firefox 1.0.x (but FF1.5 or 2 will be out by then).
2) Office 12 = new UI, same annoynesses
3)Vista = Mac OS X.2 or so, while X.5 will be out by then.
Who cares if it's used for ads? I'll just be blocking them with Adblock Plus.
What if it was used in Adblock? I'd personally enjoy wandering around blowing up the pop-ups and pop-unders and Flash Ads I don't want to appear in my browsing life.
Get bookmarks, name them all whatever you want. Then you just open the bookmarks window, and start searching. If you use hotkeys, it's still pretty quick. Then you identify websites however you want to identify them. Nothing complex about it. And I assume your friends can just email you any bookmarks they feel like.
Mr. Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name, you seem to have one flaw in your arguement. And that is that you claim that popularity isn't a quantification of quality. I'd argue this. No one buys a CD they hate, so every sale indicates that someone, somewhere is made happy by the music. Therefore sales are good. However, the current popular stuff is only popular because it is all people get to hear. It seems our disagreement boils down to this key question: Is art what it is so people enjoy it, or does it have higher purpose?
I imagine we'll wind up with some sort of consolidation. We'll have something similar to phone companies with wireless. A regulated monopoly actually seems the most efficient here. I'd say the best example is radio stations. They are regulated so that they don't interfere with each other. We'll probably have wireless "markets" where different companies work. And at least here two or three could co-exist in some markets. And since competition among wireless providers means an area is more attractive to businesses, then gov't will maybe subsidize tower-building?
Thus, if you see a non-AC posting posting of an article's text or a useful link, the correct mode is "Funny" so they won't receive any karma.
/. seriously and avoid stupid jokes (personally, I love the jokes)
But what does that do to people who personally apply penalties to "Funny" (Check your preferences page if you don't know what I'm on about)? Apparently, people do it to read
"Hi, I'm your Attorney General. I'm running for reelection. This term, in addition to executing a boatload (literally) of people, I brought the state two hundred million dollars by suing an evil music giant who tried to hack your computer. This same computer giant also gave my opponent a lot of money..."
See how good the opponent looks then.
No, the actual State is who benefits, not individuals, so it'll be like them calling up all the stores and figuring out how many were sold in Texas.
Since D.I.Y. production is ever more feasible, and the joy of creating music negates any costs to making music, it's obvious that the efficient, market clearing price for music is free.
That may hold for music on the hole. However, not all music is equal. I consider some songs worth more than others. For instance, you'd have to pay me to get me to listen to country. Therefore, there will prices for music, or at least some music.
No, this is pretty typical for me. The football doesn't really bug me, because we own VT academically (by a mile), in athletics (when all sports are factored in, it's called the Commonwealth Challenge, and we usually win most of the head-to-head matchups, plus have more conference titles every year), and socially (better guy to girl ratio, plus our girls are hotter). Not to mention the original UVA campus is a UN historic site or something, and a bunch of other stuff I'm too lazy to mention.