Comment By that logic... (Score 2, Insightful) 459
... we should ban flash, acrobat reader, quicktime, and dozens of other plugins that all have regularly reported vulnerabilities.
Comment Re:The short story (Score 2, Funny) 175
Price.
Comment Re:Overpriced. (Score 1) 821
Yeah, and if I could buy snow leopard for my PC, I might actually consider it.
Comment Re:Oh the memories (Score 1) 212
I'll always look back fondly at the summer I spent at the spit brook road campus in Nashua. I interned there a couple years back working with a bunch of old DEC guys. A great team and a great building. It's a shame HP sold the building off. If someone from ZKO happens to run across this, send me a plate of Chori Pollo, stat! :)
Comment So here's the $10,000 question... (Score 2, Insightful) 300
Does the process separation prevent badly-behaved plugins needed for a good portion of websites in existence these days *cough*flash*cough*acrobat*cough* from killing your browser when they inevitably decide to break? Both plugins have been killing me on both win32 and linux. Noscript and mozplugger or foxit help to some degree, but firefox is by far the most unstable program I use these days because of plugins.
Submission + - Complaint to FSA on Phorm's statements to market (nodpi.org)
AlexanderHanff writes: "NoDPI have sent a letter of complaint to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) regarding Phorm Inc.'s statements to the press and market news services regarding support of legal compliance from various UK Government Departments and Regulators.
Phorm claim that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Home Office and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR or BERR) have all cleared Phorm's WebWise technology as being fully compliant under UK and EU Law.
This is contrary to action taken by the European Commission earlier this week, who have initiated legal proceedings against the UK Government specifically for failing to uphold and enforce EU Privacy Directives regarding Phorm's covert trials with BT in 2006/2007.
Furthermore, NoDPI have produced statements from DBERR, ICO and the Home Office which contradict Phorm's statements to the press and market news services this week.
NoDPI are calling for the FSA to investigate whether or not Phorm's statements to the market can be seen as breaking the rules of trading as they are misleading and could even be interpretted as fraudulant."
Phorm claim that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Home Office and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR or BERR) have all cleared Phorm's WebWise technology as being fully compliant under UK and EU Law.
This is contrary to action taken by the European Commission earlier this week, who have initiated legal proceedings against the UK Government specifically for failing to uphold and enforce EU Privacy Directives regarding Phorm's covert trials with BT in 2006/2007.
Furthermore, NoDPI have produced statements from DBERR, ICO and the Home Office which contradict Phorm's statements to the press and market news services this week.
NoDPI are calling for the FSA to investigate whether or not Phorm's statements to the market can be seen as breaking the rules of trading as they are misleading and could even be interpretted as fraudulant."
Comment Excellent news (Score 1) 210
Now, can we get Bell Canada to do the same?
Comment Re:Another one! (Score 1) 305
How about Leprous Lemur?
Comment Re:Can't be accessed outside of US (Score 1) 244
- ssh -D 8080 host.in.the.us
- set ff proxy to localhost:8080
- ????
- profit!
Comment Qt4 Dance (Score 1) 262
I bet the GNOME developers are going to run and go do the Qt4 Dance once they start programming in it.
Comment Here's an idea... (Score 1) 515
Swap the hard drives and run the benchmarks again.
If they're identical save for the amount of ram, then the Windows XP installation shouldn't freak out about new hardware.
Comment Re:But will it run Crysis?... (Score 2, Funny) 261
you sir, have won the game.
Submission + - Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Desktop Edition - Review (lunapark6.com)
Michael writes: "http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-710-gutsy-desktop-edition-review.html
"I'll cut to the chase and say from the start that Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Desktop Edition is simply the best desktop operating system that I have ever used. From installation, to setup, to regular everyday use Gutsy is just a thing of beauty. I have been keeping up with the release since its initial rocky Alpha period, to the polished final Release Candidate released on October 15, 2007 and then apt-get upgrading to the final release. The end result is that the Ubuntu team has put together everything that you could possibly want in a desktop operating system and more.""
Submission + - The world awaits Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (ubuntu.com)
ashokcm writes: "The long awaited version of ubuntu (7.10, Gutsy Gibbon) will be out today. The release features among others 3-D desktop effects, automatic printer configuration and automatic firefox plugin installation. Canonical is also releasing Gobuntu 7.10, which is the debut release of the Ubuntu version that is composed entirely of open source non-restricted software."
Submission + - BBC iPlayer Letter Writing Campaign (paladine.org.uk)
AlexanderHanff writes: "Today I launched a Public Letter Writing Campaign in response to the BBC's decision to limit their new "On Demand" service called iPlayer to Microsoft Windows. Many will think why is this an issue? Well the BBC is funded by a compulsory TV License Fee payable by all British people who own a television. By excluding everyone who does not use Window XP SP2, they have exculded hundreds of thousands of British TV License holders, the same segment of the public provide revenues of 10s of millions (GBP) each year to the BBC through their TV License Fees. The BBC have a public mandate to provide services which give "Value to licence fee payers as individuals, Value to society as a whole through its contribution to the BBC's Public Purposes and Value for money and cost", they have failed in all 3 of these mandates with the iPlayer service. The aim of the campaign is to send more than 10 000 letters to 4 different public bodies to match an official petition which is rapidly approaching 10 000 signatures."
