Comment "Award-winning" (Score 5, Funny) 136
Please stop using arguably the most useless of marketing slogans. Every desktop environment which has been around long enough has won an award of some kind. (Yes, even Gnome.)
Comment There goes another one (Score 4, Interesting) 79
VLC, Maemo, TwimGo, LXDE; I for one would like to see a future where GIMP is the only major application left using GTK. Poetic justice.
Comment Re:TAILS (Score 2) 234
I don't understand how they could root you if you're not running any plugin and have Javascript disabled, could you explain ?
By exploiting vulnerabilities in the browser. Being a piece of software it's no more secure than any other out there. Spoofing user-agent might help, but the dilemma runs like this:
- * Using a non-popular browser (e.g., Midori, Lynx) would make you slightly less prone to these attacks as the focus is usually on the popular ones (Firefox, IE).
- * The browser in question might have "leaks" (e.g. cookies) which Tor community tries actively to plug against by releasing a standard bundle based on a popular browser.
Comment Re:I might not be here for Hurd 1.0 (Score 5, Funny) 206
Just in time for Chrome 2147483647.
Submission + - Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft To Become CEO At Zynga
krkhan writes: It has been confirmed by Zynga that the head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, is taking over as the new CEO. Mattrick joined Microsoft in 2007 and has led the business during much of the lifespan of Xbox 360, as well as the launch of Kinect and pre-launch of Xbox One. Zynga shares jumped 12% following the news.
Comment An unsettling reminder of (Score 1) 782
Comment TFA inaccuracy: Fedora is participating (Score 2) 102
I was surprised to read that Fedora didn't have any students this year (after all, my proposal for Fedora was accepted but I chose Tor in the de-duplication process). As it turns out, Fedora actually has six projects this year. The full list of accepted projects is available here.
Submission + - ALS sufferer used legs to contribute last patch (gnome.org) 1
krkhan writes: "This is a little old but seeing as it didn't make it to /. at the time I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9 year old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."
Submission + - Microsoft to Support Javascript in Hotmail Emails (mashable.com) 1
krkhan writes: While Gmail allowed its users dynamic previews of Flickr and Youtube content, Microsoft has announced that it's going one step further by running Javascript embedded inside the emails.
Comment Re:The problem (Score 4, Informative) 299
I am in Pakistan right now and find the whole situation amusing. Perhaps they should block queries to root name servers as well since ICANN are not blocking the queries to zones that can resolve blasphemous domains. Yeah. That would service the Internet *right*!
Comment Re:Are CA's that stupid? (Score 1) 280
The lower-cost automated ones don't care. It's all handled by software; at no point in the process (on the CA side) is a human involved. And I'm betting that if the browsers aren't catching it, neither are the CAs.
Somehow all the CA softwares are reading beyond the null whereas most of the browsers stop doing so?
Comment Re:Thanks (Score 4, Informative) 909
I tried to drag and drop a jpg in a browser window (Firefox) to some photo editor. It didn't work. Macs and Windows have been able to do this since at least the mid-90s. I have no idea if you can drag an image from Firefox to the Gimp nowadays, and I don't care.
Just tried it, GIMP connected to the server and pulled the image from there. Not sure if that's how you want it to work though.
Comment Re:re comments (Score 1) 634
Microsoft is sharing its stuff because they were caught red handed.
But they obviously won't admit so.
Comment Re:re comments (Score 1) 634
Well he has said in past that GPL'ing Linux was the "best thing" he ever did.
Comment Re:free software and open source (Score 1) 634
All those poor souls with IT-dept mandated MS desktops that they're not allowed to change just moved one step closer to really running linux on that meaningless host.
People running Hyper-V in Server editions aren't exactly "poor souls" either.
