That doesn't make sense:
1. Google serves all ads within Google.com from that same domain. No cross-site scripting anywhere, so nothing for the XSS filter to block.
2. For external sites (AdSense), disabling the XSS filter on Google.com won't help either: the external site would have to disable it. Otherwise anyone could just disable the XSS filter on their own domain and hack away on other sites.
Except, that was the FIRST security flaw linked in the article. The SECOND one (at The Register) is about a different security flaw, in the XSS filter. The XSS filter is new in IE8.
And, BTW, Google does indeed disable it so that they are not vulnerable to the flaw: their servers send a "X-XSS-Protection: 0" header.
There have been several beta releases for Internet Explorer 7 and 8. Still no need for nightly builds: if it's not release quality, why publish it at all?
In open source projects, nightly builds are mostly a service for developers/testers as well. And since everybody can help improve the code, having more people test can certainly be beneficial.
What if they'd just release their rendering engine, with a very simple UI which only lets testers enter a URL? After all, most of the problems are in IE's rendering engine, not in its UI. That would solve the problem of journalists etc. looking at it as a real product.
Now, I do doubt the usefulness. We can't improve the code like we can with open source projects. Giving feedback about the rendering engine isn't all too useful either, because the IE team cares about standards nowadays and uses many tests themselves (W3C testsets, Acid3, CSS3.info). They already know the bugs, so the only thing we could conclude with a nightly is how far along they are.
The package is called 'aria2', the command 'aria2c'.
Example usage:
aria2c http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
How will the ballot screen work? Will it redirect to the chosen browser maker's website, will it download an installer? If so, that'd be way too much work for 'simple' users and they'll just close the ballot screen leaving IE as the default browser.
Also, I can't help thinking that there must be a prettier way to make this ballot screen (outside of IE, preferably!).
You're correct. And to complete it:
"Larger content (Concatenated SMS, multipart or segmented SMS or "long sms") can be sent using multiple messages, in which case each message will start with a user data header (UDH) containing segmentation information. Since UDH is inside the payload, the number of characters per segment is lower: 153 for 7-bit encoding, 134 for 8-bit encoding and 67 for 16-bit encoding." -- from Wikipedia
So, in this case it's 134 bytes and not 140 since the payload probably doesn't fit in a single 140 bytes.
SMS has a limit of 160 characters, not 140. Twitter has a 140-character limit because of its SMS-interface which leaves 20 characters for commands etc. in addition to the message.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn