There is certainly no excuse for web developers not to validate output correctly, but how big of an issue XSS actually is? This one vulnerability requires you to make an user click an odd link, and it took yahoo almost no time to fix it, how many hackers are so good at social engineering that would be able to take advantage of this?
The companies have not agreed, but MS is indeed building a fortification of precedents, the more news about Linux distros signing deals with MS the more it hurts the image of Linux, regardless of what the vendors of the distros say to what they agree or not, the bussiness world just reads this as a "OHH Linux vendors need to sign deals with MS in order to legally sell their stuff" That's the image MS is trying to sell about Linux, remember that most of the bussiness world doesn't really know that these distros are small and with this news item appearing 4(WTF?!) times already in the news this it does not look good to Linux.
what's worse is that Linspire was partner with Ubuntu, darn them
If it was clearly open that is, as being very specific and not relying on any backwards compat that forwards to patented stuff, MS if you let anybody be able to implement your 'standard' I don't see any reason for people to disagree with it.
They managed to just replace the firmware, although to my own pain my 2G ipod nano got an encrypted firmware giberish or something like that, looks like apple didn't consider the ability to run Linux or RockBox a feature and actually struggled with it, kind of lame if you ask.
All right, thus he downloaded Safari for windows Beta, and instead of reporting the bug officially he makes buzz in his blog as if he was the ultimate security researcher for finding bugs in a BETA version!
I actually thought that part of using a Beta version of something was the responsibility to give as much feedback as possible guess I was wrong
He is actually acting foolishly this time since a more practical approach would have been waiting apple to keep the bugs in the retail release and then make the announcement...
I admit those are very specific items, but those are the ones that hold me back. I did not need photoshop since gimp or krita are good enough for me but my brother couldn't buy the idea of using thegimp, the question would be where to find photoshop.
iTunes I don't even use in windows, I prefer floola and Amaraok, I guess it would be different If I actually needed to use it to buy stuff.
I don't get why big companies need to use thousands of complex non-standard features on their apps, if they just used winapi using them in WINE wouldn't be an issue, but there we go.
Adobe already has to make cross platform applications perhaps in the future they will have linux versions for things like photoshop
I hate to break it to you, but typos exist, I accidentally used both decimal notation and percentage for no reason, not like recognizing it was a 50% chance makes you a genius...
I saw many sites with "captchas" involving choosing which of two pics contains a gorilla, laughed like hell since although those are very easy to people they are also meaningless to bots, if a bot got a 0.5% chance to pass a captcha it is not a good captcha...
To take an extreme position, what if google has an alternate kernel [ubuntu.com] which they think people should run. Should Microsoft be made to provide a way to turn off the normal kernel?
Hell yeah! And they already did... Imagine if computers weren't able to uninstall windows...
I loved Ubuntu when I tried it, but I still use windows a lot, why? Because of some pieces of software that lock me into it and WINE being essentially unable to run them.
But, I'd like to be realistic about this, setting up a printer was still very bad for me in Ubuntu, although that was probably HP to take the blame, the worst thing is that there is no way to make my scanner work on Ubuntu.
There were plenty of good things, OpenOffice in linux is just too good and responsive, I tried it in windows and it is not as good (sorry), I also liked some OO features that I could not find in MSOffice, for me it was a lot easier to make my usual homework in openoffice than in MSWord, seriously.
There are a lot of things that work better in Ubuntu, mainly Web development and CD burning, are things in which Windows is Horribly lacking.
It was also fun (but harder) to try more and more free software everyday, getting free games and emulators was easy, and the package manager made most of the process painless, since often even if you had to compile it, there was no need to compile the libraries, the package manager almost always had the required libraries available to install in few clicks, thus the whole./configure make make install thing was not as painful as it used to be when I first tried linux.
A downside thus is the default appearance, the good news is that Linux is amazingly friendlier than windowsXP in personalizing aspects (aka, it is actually possible without extra downloads) , I could severely change the look of everything to something more appealing.
And if Linux doesn't sound like a productivity suit, you should try using windows after getting used to exploit the multiple desktops taskbar feature, I miss it so much when I am on windows...
Gildas has not, however, registered the Vista trademark in categories of activity 9 and 42, which cover software. With this in mind, his case might be hard to prove."
Should be: With this in mind, Gildas actually has no chance at all to win.
I am unable to buy all of this stuff, maybe when I become a parent I'll be more interested in teaching morality to my children by making sure they are never EVER EVAR exposed to something immoral , of course the plan would eventually fail completely when they get exposed, it is not like I have the time or money to home school them and they will eventually have to go to the outside world.
My family, specially mom was very open about everything. I like to think that this is the reason I basically didn't go crazy when I was exposed from the bad things of the outer world. I guess it all depends.
Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars.
All right, my BS detector just exploded after reading that, won't comment further it would damage my brain to do so.
I've been using my windows XP install since 2003, it is not slower than before, and when I wanted to upgrade it I just bought a new RAM chip and the other day a new graphics card, so right now, 2007 my computer using windows XP is way faster than back in 2003, I can play new games as well, although I don't really want to.
I've been reading the comments and the three letter acronym popped out USB.
Single USB support for flash disks or hds would kind of pwn, it won't make the console bigger, and you would be able to......BACK YOUR DATA UP! , my last console was a playstation I and I know how painful it is to lose your game data...
Such an insightful comment, I have survived pretty well enabling javascript only on google, a site I administrate and slashdot. The deal is just use "temporarily enable" when some new site doesn't work for no reason.
It looks like all of these 'serious' vulnerabilities rely on two things:
The user should go to a page that wants to exploit it, uhhuh well I guess that if the user is a fool his computer will die eventually.
Requires an XSS hole in some web page.
The good thing about noscript is that even if you enabled google, if there is some XSS exploit in google it is gonna be blocked anyways.
And another plus is that it is way more effective than adblock, since a lot of ads lately are not popup windows but some very sophisticated javascript.
Who cares about Opera, seriously? I am more interested in usability than that "speed" thing that doesn't show any result.
One crash in a month is for sure less stable than my experience with firefox 2, of course, it all depends on a lot of random factors so it doesn't matter. But that session thing you mentioned about hitting "resume" is not a great deal anyways, I am not sure that IE7 got sessions though. But I guess it would be pretty lame to restore a session after flash caused a crash, it would just reload the page that caused the crash and make you crash again...
The problem is that not everybody buys US' war on terror.
Imagine, let's say that Russia stated worries about Mexican plots against them, and thus Russia built a missile shield over Cuba and Venezuela, how would USA feel about that?
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hmmm how about:?
Optimization = more specialized code = less maintainability = bugs are worse = adding features adds bloat = security issues
More powerful processors = less need for optimization
More powerful processors = Compilers take less time to do their job and developers get more time to work on their applications efficiently
Isn't that Safari and not konqueror then?
There is certainly no excuse for web developers not to validate output correctly, but how big of an issue XSS actually is? This one vulnerability requires you to make an user click an odd link, and it took yahoo almost no time to fix it, how many hackers are so good at social engineering that would be able to take advantage of this?
The companies have not agreed, but MS is indeed building a fortification of precedents, the more news about Linux distros signing deals with MS the more it hurts the image of Linux, regardless of what the vendors of the distros say to what they agree or not, the bussiness world just reads this as a "OHH Linux vendors need to sign deals with MS in order to legally sell their stuff" That's the image MS is trying to sell about Linux, remember that most of the bussiness world doesn't really know that these distros are small and with this news item appearing 4(WTF?!) times already in the news this it does not look good to Linux.
what's worse is that Linspire was partner with Ubuntu, darn them
If it was clearly open that is, as being very specific and not relying on any backwards compat that forwards to patented stuff, MS if you let anybody be able to implement your 'standard' I don't see any reason for people to disagree with it.
They managed to just replace the firmware, although to my own pain my 2G ipod nano got an encrypted firmware giberish or something like that, looks like apple didn't consider the ability to run Linux or RockBox a feature and actually struggled with it, kind of lame if you ask.
All right, thus he downloaded Safari for windows Beta, and instead of reporting the bug officially he makes buzz in his blog as if he was the ultimate security researcher for finding bugs in a BETA version!
I actually thought that part of using a Beta version of something was the responsibility to give as much feedback as possible guess I was wrong
He is actually acting foolishly this time since a more practical approach would have been waiting apple to keep the bugs in the retail release and then make the announcement ...
I admit those are very specific items, but those are the ones that hold me back. I did not need photoshop since gimp or krita are good enough for me but my brother couldn't buy the idea of using thegimp, the question would be where to find photoshop.
iTunes I don't even use in windows, I prefer floola and Amaraok, I guess it would be different If I actually needed to use it to buy stuff.
I don't get why big companies need to use thousands of complex non-standard features on their apps, if they just used winapi using them in WINE wouldn't be an issue, but there we go.
Adobe already has to make cross platform applications perhaps in the future they will have linux versions for things like photoshop
I hate to break it to you, but typos exist, I accidentally used both decimal notation and percentage for no reason, not like recognizing it was a 50% chance makes you a genius...
I saw many sites with "captchas" involving choosing which of two pics contains a gorilla, laughed like hell since although those are very easy to people they are also meaningless to bots, if a bot got a 0.5% chance to pass a captcha it is not a good captcha...
Different mods?
Remember the days when a kernel and root filesystem HAD to comfortably fit on a 1.4 MB floppy?
I loved Ubuntu when I tried it, but I still use windows a lot, why? Because of some pieces of software that lock me into it and WINE being essentially unable to run them.
But, I'd like to be realistic about this, setting up a printer was still very bad for me in Ubuntu, although that was probably HP to take the blame, the worst thing is that there is no way to make my scanner work on Ubuntu.
There were plenty of good things, OpenOffice in linux is just too good and responsive, I tried it in windows and it is not as good (sorry), I also liked some OO features that I could not find in MSOffice, for me it was a lot easier to make my usual homework in openoffice than in MSWord, seriously.
There are a lot of things that work better in Ubuntu, mainly Web development and CD burning, are things in which Windows is Horribly lacking.
It was also fun (but harder) to try more and more free software everyday, getting free games and emulators was easy, and the package manager made most of the process painless, since often even if you had to compile it, there was no need to compile the libraries, the package manager almost always had the required libraries available to install in few clicks, thus the whole ./configure make make install thing was not as painful as it used to be when I first tried linux.
A downside thus is the default appearance, the good news is that Linux is amazingly friendlier than windowsXP in personalizing aspects (aka, it is actually possible without extra downloads) , I could severely change the look of everything to something more appealing.
And if Linux doesn't sound like a productivity suit, you should try using windows after getting used to exploit the multiple desktops taskbar feature, I miss it so much when I am on windows...
Ever heard of what a counterexample is?
I am unable to buy all of this stuff, maybe when I become a parent I'll be more interested in teaching morality to my children by making sure they are never EVER EVAR exposed to something immoral , of course the plan would eventually fail completely when they get exposed, it is not like I have the time or money to home school them and they will eventually have to go to the outside world.
My family, specially mom was very open about everything. I like to think that this is the reason I basically didn't go crazy when I was exposed from the bad things of the outer world. I guess it all depends.
I've been using my windows XP install since 2003, it is not slower than before, and when I wanted to upgrade it I just bought a new RAM chip and the other day a new graphics card, so right now, 2007 my computer using windows XP is way faster than back in 2003, I can play new games as well, although I don't really want to.
I've been reading the comments and the three letter acronym popped out USB.
Single USB support for flash disks or hds would kind of pwn, it won't make the console bigger, and you would be able to... ...BACK YOUR DATA UP! , my last console was a playstation I and I know how painful it is to lose your game data...
Such an insightful comment, I have survived pretty well enabling javascript only on google, a site I administrate and slashdot. The deal is just use "temporarily enable" when some new site doesn't work for no reason.
It looks like all of these 'serious' vulnerabilities rely on two things:
The good thing about noscript is that even if you enabled google, if there is some XSS exploit in google it is gonna be blocked anyways.
And another plus is that it is way more effective than adblock, since a lot of ads lately are not popup windows but some very sophisticated javascript.
Who cares about Opera, seriously? I am more interested in usability than that "speed" thing that doesn't show any result.
One crash in a month is for sure less stable than my experience with firefox 2, of course, it all depends on a lot of random factors so it doesn't matter. But that session thing you mentioned about hitting "resume" is not a great deal anyways, I am not sure that IE7 got sessions though. But I guess it would be pretty lame to restore a session after flash caused a crash, it would just reload the page that caused the crash and make you crash again...
The problem is that not everybody buys US' war on terror.
Imagine, let's say that Russia stated worries about Mexican plots against them, and thus Russia built a missile shield over Cuba and Venezuela, how would USA feel about that?