"AJAX" is just some JavaScript code which passes XML back and forth from the server and changes the current page according to it. Things like gmail use it extensively. Its very much unlike ActiveX, which allows code to run unsandboxed in the client machine.
In short: AJAX is a buzzword for fancy JavaScript. Nothing to see here, move along.
An NoScript is very nice indeed.
First of all, its not gruesome death, just the loss of an unneeded appendage. Second, its not just that I don't agree with Jack Thompson - the man is disgusting in his conduct.
'Hacker' always involved mischief. Show me a "hacker" who never did anything "blackhat", and I'll show you a bad hacker. As far as I'm concerned, crackers are things you eat with some cottage cheese.
To prosecute in civil court they must be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the plaintiff is guilty of the offense.
NO THEY DON'T!
First, you must realize that copyright infringement is not theft. Its not even a crime - its a civil offense. Which means that they are tried not in a criminal court, but a civil one. And, guess what? the "prove beyond a reasonable doubt" bit doesn't apply to civil courts.
I'm not American and I know that... If parent is American, then he should study his court system.
All you had to do to get an IP banned, is show some honeypot logs. Maybe spoof some IPs. Too easy.
Its the same problem really with todays spam black lists. Its really hard to get off one, because the second you get into one (even via a joejob) people assume you're guilty.
Well, its not "realtime". When do you remove a patched zombie machine? After a month? 2 weeks?
This solution doesn't take into account the hordes of otherwise legitimate zombie machines. It won't stop attackers, IMO.
Yes, you're right of course.
"3rd parties" (to use lawyerspeek) can't just randomly demand source code.
Hell, even if someone "acquired" some GPL source code that a company was using internally but haven't released, say all the things Google must have done to python and the Linux kernel and not release, then releasing that on his website would be perfectly illegal.
Even though the source is GPL.
What do you mean? Of course it does. You have to provide the entire source. Lets review:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Emphasis is of course mine, seeing as the GPL is a text file.
Note that the GPL says "complete". This means no diffs, not just the files they changed, or anything like that. They would have to give the entire kernel. Also, you can see that the alternative provided in 'c)' is just for noncommercial distribution and if you received the program as a binary. So, no go here either. You're wrong, thanks for playing!
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I have four words for you.
"on error resume next".
The main advantage of liveCDs is that they don't track you.
As in pr0n. Pop in that liveCD and your wife/girlfriend/mother (last one most likely, as this is slashdot) will never need find out about how you spend your time.
The perfect pr0n surfing enabling utility. And, even if they come up with Firefox/Linux exploits, they're just going to go away when you reboot!
Next time someone shows you a computer full of dialers, discreetly hand them an Ubuntu liveCD. Everyones better off, and, they'll start associating Linux with orgasms.
I had a modpoint left, but it expired.
Seriously, l33t sp33k makes for excellent passwords...
weird spelling, dropping vowels, and replacing letters with numbers, along with the either stuff j00 d0 wh3n j00 r ub3r1337 makes for passwords that can withstand a dictionary attack, are stronger against brute force because you have digits in random places (and not just at the end), and more...
Slashdot Mirror
Or "Social Engineering", even.
... "
Though I can see where the word came from - "under the pretext of
"AJAX" is just some JavaScript code which passes XML back and forth from the server and changes the current page according to it. Things like gmail use it extensively. Its very much unlike ActiveX, which allows code to run unsandboxed in the client machine.
In short: AJAX is a buzzword for fancy JavaScript. Nothing to see here, move along.
An NoScript is very nice indeed.
Fnord.
... Several unneeded (by him, anyway) appendages, then.
First of all, its not gruesome death, just the loss of an unneeded appendage. Second, its not just that I don't agree with Jack Thompson - the man is disgusting in his conduct.
2 72/Jack_Thompson_vs_Adam_Sessler.html
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/629
Stop the nonsense.
'Hacker' always involved mischief. Show me a "hacker" who never did anything "blackhat", and I'll show you a bad hacker. As far as I'm concerned, crackers are things you eat with some cottage cheese.
Hehe.
Showing us your ignorant side, eh?
The spam sketch and the dead parrot sketch are Monty Python's.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
To prosecute in civil court they must be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the plaintiff is guilty of the offense.
NO THEY DON'T!
First, you must realize that copyright infringement is not theft. Its not even a crime - its a civil offense. Which means that they are tried not in a criminal court, but a civil one. And, guess what? the "prove beyond a reasonable doubt" bit doesn't apply to civil courts.
I'm not American and I know that... If parent is American, then he should study his court system.
Because the system is really ripe for abuse.
All you had to do to get an IP banned, is show some honeypot logs. Maybe spoof some IPs. Too easy.
Its the same problem really with todays spam black lists. Its really hard to get off one, because the second you get into one (even via a joejob) people assume you're guilty.
Societal problem, meet technological solution, etc, etc...
Well, its not "realtime". When do you remove a patched zombie machine? After a month? 2 weeks? This solution doesn't take into account the hordes of otherwise legitimate zombie machines. It won't stop attackers, IMO.
Yes, you're right of course. "3rd parties" (to use lawyerspeek) can't just randomly demand source code. Hell, even if someone "acquired" some GPL source code that a company was using internally but haven't released, say all the things Google must have done to python and the Linux kernel and not release, then releasing that on his website would be perfectly illegal. Even though the source is GPL.
What do you mean? Of course it does.
You have to provide the entire source. Lets review:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Emphasis is of course mine, seeing as the GPL is a text file.
Note that the GPL says "complete". This means no diffs, not just the files they changed, or anything like that. They would have to give the entire kernel. Also, you can see that the alternative provided in 'c)' is just for noncommercial distribution and if you received the program as a binary. So, no go here either. You're wrong, thanks for playing!
I have four words for you. "on error resume next".
"Minefield" is the name they give to trunk builds... The builds of the Gran Paradiso branch (which doesn't exist yet) will be labelled thusly.
Both Outlook Express & Outlook use the IE rendering component.
Semi-correct.
Outlook 2007 uses Word's HTML rendering engine.
Why, yes, this is as horrible as you think it is. Word's rendering engine can't really do any CSS.
Why not grafiti a nice goatse next to that ad? You know you want to.
The main advantage of liveCDs is that they don't track you.
As in pr0n. Pop in that liveCD and your wife/girlfriend/mother (last one most likely, as this is slashdot) will never need find out about how you spend your time.
The perfect pr0n surfing enabling utility. And, even if they come up with Firefox/Linux exploits, they're just going to go away when you reboot!
Next time someone shows you a computer full of dialers, discreetly hand them an Ubuntu liveCD. Everyones better off, and, they'll start associating Linux with orgasms.
I had a modpoint left, but it expired. Seriously, l33t sp33k makes for excellent passwords... weird spelling, dropping vowels, and replacing letters with numbers, along with the either stuff j00 d0 wh3n j00 r ub3r1337 makes for passwords that can withstand a dictionary attack, are stronger against brute force because you have digits in random places (and not just at the end), and more...
Oh yeah. Just look at Lena.