If you're depending on a static blacklist of bad sites to protect yourself from bad scripts then you're doing it wrong.
Just don't run scripts without your explicit approval, require a click to enable flash/java objects, and use a secure browser (chromium, konqueror, probably kazehakase over firefox if you're in GTK+).
Gnash can handle most Flash navigation, as well as YouTube. And you're aware that Flash wasn't available for 64 bit Linux users until recently right? Even now I think only an alpha release is available.
Just setting up a decent/etc/hosts file can eliminate 95% of ads
Horror. You actually iterate through a list of hundreds of blocked domains every time you do a domain lookup?
the only Open Source OS thats even nearly practical for typical day-to-day desktop use is Linux
This is not true. Most applications that run on Linux compile just as well on a variety of platforms. Gnome and KDE4 both have packages for FreeBSD for example. If you really want something simple and portable run Fluxbox or Openbox.
A lot of things are written in Java as well, which means you even have binary compatibility. Things written in Python and other scripting languages are also portable.
Nono, every 20,000 years or so an advanced civilization rises up from the prairies and survives roughly long enough to clone the plant in a lab. The plant has naturally evolved a mechanism whereby it propagates a miles-wide fibrous network of false fossils to interest paleontologists, with the most interesting fossils around the plant itself.
Your comment makes sense, except why would you have movies stored on your iPod? Surely you don't try to squint at a 4 inch screen for 90 minutes.. Keep them on an external drive (where space doesn't cost you $25/GB)
Whoa whoa there, I'm going to have to see a netcraft report before I believe that.
And anyway, I speak for PC gamers when I say you can take your "major game developers" - we don't want them. These companies have been churning out wildly successful but completely inconsequential titles for years. Fantastic graphics, a hundred voice actors, celebrity scifi writers.. It's like a summer movie. It's awesome, funny, whatever, but months later you've completely forgotten it. Hundreds of summer movies roll by, each with their flashy effects and compelling premise and stratospheric budget, and they're all the best movie ever but they're all indistinguishable.
Well while the greedy lip-licking journeyman game studios descended the mountain to found gaming's Hollywood and make their fortunes, the wizened masters stood and watched silently from their monastery gate. The masters filed inside, leaving the gate unlocked- their students would return, extravagantly wealthy, seeking the deep secret to making a single game that doesn't utterly suck. Have fun with your awful shooter controls, forced release schedules, and games designed by executives.
I find it extremely offensive that any state would worry about that type of morality over the scientific/technological progress offered by such a man
Sounds good but on the other hand living in a world where our deepest-held moral convictions are set aside for technological progress sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Yes their convictions were way off the mark (our mark, not theirs) but it makes the world sane in a way to know that society's mores and taboos will be enforced. It's not a part of ourselves that we like, but nevertheless that instinct is a very important part of how we interact as social creatures. Like, probably the most important.
Parents probably pushed her into relics like playing with dollhouses or - if they're really progressive - even sports.
I think one of my professors is actually proud that he wasted the first 25 years of his life throwing a football and running in circles instead of "having no life" and spending all of his free time in the virtual world.
I guess the benefit is when the zombie apocalypse comes we'll have a bunch of people with really good teamwork that would make fantastic grenadiers.
But Mega Man is in the shiny chrome Jetsons kind of universe right? Spammer and government fit that image but gangsta requires some work. I am reminded of the Don Bot's space-capable 1930s towncar. Now that fits well with the shady corrupt government image but what about spammer? Clearly we need to discuss this further.
lol what? The malware is already in the hands of the fraudsters; the whole point was to find and catalog specimens in the wild so that we can have a copy too. Giving it back to them is just really expensive offsite backup as far as "these folks" are concerned.
There is the potential for people to be educated through these collected examples in the ways of cracking - but education's a good thing!
Known vulnerabilities are either fixed or should be fixed which is good enough for me. Put the library up, make it available. If anything the mob of script kiddies sweeping through and causing havoc could embarrass vendors into releasing fixes.
Hm I wonder if anyone's thought of the copyright aspects? Someone wrote the code and they are assumed to hold the copyright.. obviously they're not going to come forward and press charges, but does that give this firm the right to violate his copyrights? It's almost a blackmail position.. and if the author gets busted and has nothing less to lose, could he sue these people for charging $1700 for his IP?
I'm trying to imagine a gangsta-spammer-government boss. Like for Megaman 19 they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for boss ideas so they pick words at random.
Why won't the email site download to my home page? Why change ISP? I'm fine with Firefox. You can't hack my girlfriend's facebook? I thought you said you were good with computers. I'm this website's 1000000th visitor. Disney world here I come! My computer was warm so I turned off the firewall. Port 80? Are those like USB ports or what I don't have that many Where's a good place to buy music online? Free virus scan? Better safe than sorry. WinRAR trial expired? I'd better go buy it. 200 megabytes? How many songs is that? Hmm let's try... playboy.com My computer is the best: it has 40GB of memory My mouse is moving slow, should I get a new one? Guess what, I just bought a new 100MB internet. I just bought a new alienware computer. Man I love Quake and Starcraft What's a RAR file? It's not running in windows media player.
GPS will almost completely replace maps and mapreading skills, as it is easier, safer, and more convenient. It completely reproduces the map's functionality and adds indispensable features like traffic updates and never getting lost.
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If you're depending on a static blacklist of bad sites to protect yourself from bad scripts then you're doing it wrong.
Just don't run scripts without your explicit approval, require a click to enable flash/java objects, and use a secure browser (chromium, konqueror, probably kazehakase over firefox if you're in GTK+).
Gnash can handle most Flash navigation, as well as YouTube. And you're aware that Flash wasn't available for 64 bit Linux users until recently right? Even now I think only an alpha release is available.
Horror. You actually iterate through a list of hundreds of blocked domains every time you do a domain lookup?
Hmm... OS/2?
This is not true. Most applications that run on Linux compile just as well on a variety of platforms. Gnome and KDE4 both have packages for FreeBSD for example. If you really want something simple and portable run Fluxbox or Openbox.
A lot of things are written in Java as well, which means you even have binary compatibility. Things written in Python and other scripting languages are also portable.
It's all about wget on single user mode.
Nono, every 20,000 years or so an advanced civilization rises up from the prairies and survives roughly long enough to clone the plant in a lab. The plant has naturally evolved a mechanism whereby it propagates a miles-wide fibrous network of false fossils to interest paleontologists, with the most interesting fossils around the plant itself.
It's an extraordinarily patient tree.
They already have that you know.. if you pay for the permit and any extra costs, chances are your police department will escort you
I wouldn't go as far as to imply that the slashdot editors even read submissions to the point that they could tell if it's about Apple.
Your comment makes sense, except why would you have movies stored on your iPod? Surely you don't try to squint at a 4 inch screen for 90 minutes.. Keep them on an external drive (where space doesn't cost you $25/GB)
LOL
Whoa whoa there, I'm going to have to see a netcraft report before I believe that.
And anyway, I speak for PC gamers when I say you can take your "major game developers" - we don't want them. These companies have been churning out wildly successful but completely inconsequential titles for years. Fantastic graphics, a hundred voice actors, celebrity scifi writers.. It's like a summer movie. It's awesome, funny, whatever, but months later you've completely forgotten it. Hundreds of summer movies roll by, each with their flashy effects and compelling premise and stratospheric budget, and they're all the best movie ever but they're all indistinguishable.
Well while the greedy lip-licking journeyman game studios descended the mountain to found gaming's Hollywood and make their fortunes, the wizened masters stood and watched silently from their monastery gate. The masters filed inside, leaving the gate unlocked- their students would return, extravagantly wealthy, seeking the deep secret to making a single game that doesn't utterly suck. Have fun with your awful shooter controls, forced release schedules, and games designed by executives.
THIS. Thank you.
It's the vendors that built products early not the IEEE that defined the standard late.
Still, it would be nice to know what's been delaying the final approval for so long.
Sounds good but on the other hand living in a world where our deepest-held moral convictions are set aside for technological progress sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Yes their convictions were way off the mark (our mark, not theirs) but it makes the world sane in a way to know that society's mores and taboos will be enforced. It's not a part of ourselves that we like, but nevertheless that instinct is a very important part of how we interact as social creatures. Like, probably the most important.
Parents probably pushed her into relics like playing with dollhouses or - if they're really progressive - even sports.
I think one of my professors is actually proud that he wasted the first 25 years of his life throwing a football and running in circles instead of "having no life" and spending all of his free time in the virtual world.
I guess the benefit is when the zombie apocalypse comes we'll have a bunch of people with really good teamwork that would make fantastic grenadiers.
I'm scratching my head over this one. Office 2007 is amazing
But Mega Man is in the shiny chrome Jetsons kind of universe right? Spammer and government fit that image but gangsta requires some work. I am reminded of the Don Bot's space-capable 1930s towncar. Now that fits well with the shady corrupt government image but what about spammer? Clearly we need to discuss this further.
FTFY. We know they install spyware, because otherwise we wouldn't be looking at a report!
You mean it already is on every computer, in no time.
lol what? The malware is already in the hands of the fraudsters; the whole point was to find and catalog specimens in the wild so that we can have a copy too. Giving it back to them is just really expensive offsite backup as far as "these folks" are concerned.
There is the potential for people to be educated through these collected examples in the ways of cracking - but education's a good thing!
Known vulnerabilities are either fixed or should be fixed which is good enough for me. Put the library up, make it available. If anything the mob of script kiddies sweeping through and causing havoc could embarrass vendors into releasing fixes.
Hm I wonder if anyone's thought of the copyright aspects? Someone wrote the code and they are assumed to hold the copyright.. obviously they're not going to come forward and press charges, but does that give this firm the right to violate his copyrights? It's almost a blackmail position.. and if the author gets busted and has nothing less to lose, could he sue these people for charging $1700 for his IP?
I'm trying to imagine a gangsta-spammer-government boss. Like for Megaman 19 they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for boss ideas so they pick words at random.
Why won't the email site download to my home page?
Why change ISP? I'm fine with Firefox.
You can't hack my girlfriend's facebook? I thought you said you were good with computers.
I'm this website's 1000000th visitor. Disney world here I come!
My computer was warm so I turned off the firewall.
Port 80? Are those like USB ports or what I don't have that many
Where's a good place to buy music online?
Free virus scan? Better safe than sorry.
WinRAR trial expired? I'd better go buy it.
200 megabytes? How many songs is that?
Hmm let's try... playboy.com
My computer is the best: it has 40GB of memory
My mouse is moving slow, should I get a new one?
Guess what, I just bought a new 100MB internet.
I just bought a new alienware computer. Man I love Quake and Starcraft
What's a RAR file? It's not running in windows media player.
Spoofing multiple GPS signals in real time would be the pinnacle of human hardhack achievement. Please link me, I beg you
The Windows Sentinel app:
When they sell your info it's spyware
When they post it on slashdot it's a community-based monitoring tool
GPS will almost completely replace maps and mapreading skills, as it is easier, safer, and more convenient. It completely reproduces the map's functionality and adds indispensable features like traffic updates and never getting lost.