Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Still guilty (Score 3, Informative) 327

..at least not in Scandinavia..

What do you mean by that? You are aware that "Scandinavia" is actually three different countries with three different sets of laws, right?
Here in Denmark we do not have the same laws as the Swedes do. And since Norway isn't even a member of the EU, some parts of Danish and Swedish law is very different than Norwegian law.

Comment Re:Still can't uninstall? (Score 1) 275

Is this a failed attempt at trolling?

It's a PLUGIN, not an ADD-ON. There is no way to uninstall ANY Plugins in Firefox. You can disable Add-Ons, you can uninstall Add-Ons and you can disable Plugins. But you cannot uninstall Plugins from within Firefox. Firefox simply loads all files in a specific Internet Plugins folder (not a Firefox-only plugin folder) and if it detects a plugin, it uses it.

Delete the file and you're good to go.

Someone should mod parent up.
You cannot uninstall plug-ins, no matter who releases them or how they were installed, from inside the Firefox add-on panel.

Comment Re:Isn't this a good thing? (Score 4, Interesting) 275

Mozilla is taking Microsoft's word that these plugins, which install in their software without notice, don't have any vulnerabilities and are working just fine.

Just like every other plugin on the market. Apparently the .Net plug-in isn't vulnerable, the WPF one is.
I know we like to bash Microsoft here, but the plug-in safety process (in FF) seems to work fine.
How do you know that there aren't unknown vulnerabilities in another plug-in somewhere?

Microsoft's plugins should be required to behave as every other responsible plugin. It shouldn't install with stealth, there should be a way to easily disable, and there should be a way to easily uninstall.

You disable it by going to Tools > Add-ons > .Net plugin -> click either 'Disable' or 'Uninstall'
I works fine for me, I just uninstalled the plugin.

And Microsoft aren't the only ones who install by stealth. I don't remember installing Nokias 'PC Sync2 synchronisation' extension. It just installed itself with some other software.

Comment Isn't this a good thing? (Score 5, Insightful) 275

Now I'll admit that there are only a few posts above mine, but already they are generally negative. Which I don't get.
Isn't this a good thing?

Microsoft releases a couple of Firefox plug-ins.
A security vulnerability was discovered in the plug-ins.
Mozilla disables the plug-ins.
Microsoft and Mozilla has a talk about the the vulnerability and it appears that one of the plug-ins aren't vulnerable.
The plug-in is re-enabled.

As far as I can tell, this is the system working properly.

Comment Re:Yep (Score 1) 667

Maybe, but terrifying sure is. Victims of stalking find that they are incapable of doing day-to-day things. The lady had a legitimate fear, she told her friends, then she later was ridiculed for those fears. This is all the fault of Toyota.

I for one hope that she wins the whole $10 million. Maybe only that way will dumb-ass marketers start *thinking* about what they do!

How is terrifying worth $10 million? Even if she is too scared to work a single day for the rest of her life, she wouldn't have lost that much money. Or even half of it.
If she's around 30 years old (with around 35 years left to work) and earns about $6k a month (sounds reasonable to me, I have no idea how much you make in the US), that equals around $2.5 million. No way in hell is whatever terror she suffered during those two months worth three times the wage she's going to earn for the rest of her life.

I've never understood how the "damages" you can sue for in the US doesn't have to reflect the real damages you suffer in any way.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit." -- David McCord

Working...