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.
Well, I think Google would rather not lose that 1% market share because users that can't figure out how to fix their network. Try explaining your grandmother that because of her IPv6 connectivity Google isn't working while she can go to CNN's site perfectly.
No; your DNS server resolves the domain names at Google, so technically they're correct (although it may be a bit confusing). The idea is that ISPs with proper IPv6 can register their DNS servers so that Google will give out AAAA records to those DNS servers. Google can't help a single user since there's no way for them to influence the DNS query.
I still think that it'd be great if maybe OpenDNS or a similar service would provide an option to get AAAA records for Google.
From Google:
To qualify for Google over IPv6, your network must have good IPv6 connectivity to Google. Multiple direct interconnections are preferred, but a direct peering with multiple backup routes through transit or multiple reliable transit connections may be acceptable. Your network must provide and support production-quality IPv6 networking and provide access to a substantial number of IPv6 users. Additionally, because IPv6 problems with users' connections can cause users to become unable to access Google if Google over IPv6 is enabled, we expect you to troubleshoot any IPv6 connection problems that arise in your or your users' networks.
Simply said, some networks may have borked IPv6 which would mean that users will be unable to access Google. I can understand that they're doing this before rolling it out to everyone. Maybe there could be something like OpenDNS for IPv6 so that more advanced users have a choice?
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