I wrote about this at length last December: . For now, suffice it to say that cracking contests are no guarantee of security, and often mean that the designers don't understand what it means to show that a product is secure.
Nowhere did I advocate any specific punishments. I never suggested that people responsible for "crimes of passion" or whatnot be jailed for live, I merely asserted that judging people for their actions and judging people for their ethnicity or sexual orientation are two completely different things.
Webkit is based off of KHTML, but if you have ever actually used both of them it will become immediately obvious it is not just a set of bugfixes. We are talking about a boatload of additional functionality.
For the record, I am not an Apple fanboi. I'm a card-carrying linux using, mac hater.
That is entirely dependant on your definition of "interesting". I couldn't give a rat's shit about their window manager, but Webkit is slick stuff that I use every day.
Race, gender, and sexual orientation are not choices that someone makes. (I swear I will personally skullfuck the first person that responds to the sexual orientation part of this, it is offtopic, just let it slide...)
Killing a man is a choice that you make.
Is it really that unreasonable to judge people by the choices they make?
Of course it is, this is a simple "predator-prey model" scenario. As our population grows, we find more ways to get food to eat. If it grows too much then we won't have any more food and the population will shrink. It is no longer practical for the human population to sustain itself by hunting and foraging, but fortunetly (with our oh so evil brains) we have found new sources of food (farming). If we ever reach the limits of what farming can produce, then we will simply find a new source of food, or die.
Every single organism in the ecosystem works like this. As much as you might like to think it, we are not special in this regard. Keep your self-loathing to yourself.
In the context of a legal discussion on an American centric website*, I think it is a fair assumption that most of the parties involved are talking about US laws. If we throw that assumption out the window then the "searches require a warrent" statment could also be considered false.
*Yes it is, and it has never pretended to be otherwise.
The GPL is considered both an Open Source License and a Free Software license. This is one of those "a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not always a square" situations.
It is shit like this that just strengthens my believe that web browsers have no business being media player. Particularly when perfectly good media players that don't have this issue already exist for every platform in existance...
They are already running absolutely absurd amounts of cheap hardware. "Just buying more" is something that I'm sure they are already doing all the time but clearly that only goes so far.
Having a hard time using 32 bit plugins in a 64 bit web browser is a completely different issue that would not at all be solved by fat executables. What would solve this issue is if 64 bit versions of those plugins existed in the first place. Using binaries from older or other arcitectures (old PowerPC binaries) is not what this is about at all.
That you don't understand this indicates that you really don't understand what this is all about at all.
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I love how ontopic your signature is.
Cracking contests are warning sign number 9 on Bruce Schneier's list of security snake oil warnings.
I love how you compare microsoft's products to similarly shitty products when claiming that they were oh so inovative.
Was DOS better than CP/M? Sure. Was either DOS or CP/M a good operating system at the time? Heeeeeeell no.
Nowhere did I advocate any specific punishments. I never suggested that people responsible for "crimes of passion" or whatnot be jailed for live, I merely asserted that judging people for their actions and judging people for their ethnicity or sexual orientation are two completely different things.
Webkit is based off of KHTML, but if you have ever actually used both of them it will become immediately obvious it is not just a set of bugfixes. We are talking about a boatload of additional functionality.
For the record, I am not an Apple fanboi. I'm a card-carrying linux using, mac hater.
Where did I say I use it with OS X? I only use linux, my webbrowser of choice is Arora, a GPL'd browser that happens to use Webkit.
Character limits and no copy/paste... I thought this was the 21st century?
That is entirely dependant on your definition of "interesting". I couldn't give a rat's shit about their window manager, but Webkit is slick stuff that I use every day.
Hardly. Traveling with a few thousand dollars in cash is not unheard of by any means.
I hereby demand that the names of all involved countries be removed from the WWII wikipedia article!
Race, gender, and sexual orientation are not choices that someone makes. (I swear I will personally skullfuck the first person that responds to the sexual orientation part of this, it is offtopic, just let it slide...)
Killing a man is a choice that you make.
Is it really that unreasonable to judge people by the choices they make?
Are you really trying to assert that DRM isn't a form of control with a straight face? Come on now...
Good timing if nothing else, KDE is getting usable and nice like 3.5 was again.
Oh, so passing Physics I in highschool makes you qualified to argue with world class scientists now? Wish I went to your highschool...
tl;dr: Go back to digg you idiot.
To be fair, he is modded +5 insightful right now, I think it is the mods more than anyone else that needs to be "woosh"ed (as is so often the case).
Why did they mention slashdot in particular? Oh I don't know, maybe because this is slashdot?
As others have stated, you are a dumbass, just give it up.
Last I checked China still does not have a bill of rights so yeah, I think I can safetly say I would still prefer to live in the US.
Now that's not saying I wouldn't prefer to live in a different country more then the US, just that it sure as hell wouldn't be China.
Of course it is, this is a simple "predator-prey model" scenario. As our population grows, we find more ways to get food to eat. If it grows too much then we won't have any more food and the population will shrink. It is no longer practical for the human population to sustain itself by hunting and foraging, but fortunetly (with our oh so evil brains) we have found new sources of food (farming). If we ever reach the limits of what farming can produce, then we will simply find a new source of food, or die.
Every single organism in the ecosystem works like this. As much as you might like to think it, we are not special in this regard. Keep your self-loathing to yourself.
In the context of a legal discussion on an American centric website*, I think it is a fair assumption that most of the parties involved are talking about US laws. If we throw that assumption out the window then the "searches require a warrent" statment could also be considered false.
*Yes it is, and it has never pretended to be otherwise.
The GPL is considered both an Open Source License and a Free Software license. This is one of those "a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not always a square" situations.
To back up this statement, please note that the GNU GPL is an OSI approved open source license.
It is shit like this that just strengthens my believe that web browsers have no business being media player. Particularly when perfectly good media players that don't have this issue already exist for every platform in existance...
They are already running absolutely absurd amounts of cheap hardware. "Just buying more" is something that I'm sure they are already doing all the time but clearly that only goes so far.
I suspect the answer to that is a very very small number.
Such things exist. Nobody uses them.
See, this is right where I write you off as a fucking moron. Slashdot is not your "bff jill", get a real keyboard and use real fucking words.
Having a hard time using 32 bit plugins in a 64 bit web browser is a completely different issue that would not at all be solved by fat executables. What would solve this issue is if 64 bit versions of those plugins existed in the first place. Using binaries from older or other arcitectures (old PowerPC binaries) is not what this is about at all.
That you don't understand this indicates that you really don't understand what this is all about at all.