Ben174 - Slashdot User

Comment Yay, Apple (Score 1) 96

by Ben174 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @07:58PM (#50918441) Attached to: Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS

Important to understand that due to Apple's restrictions, this is not a port of the Gecko engine to iOS. It simply embeds a Safari's UIWebView into Firefox's 'skin'. Same goes for Chrome on iOS. Furthermore, Apple uses unexposed JavaScript optimizations to make Safari faster and doesn't allow those same optimizations in a UIWebView embedded in third party apps. So, unfortunately, Safari will always be the fastest browser on iOS. Yay, Apple. http://www.extremetech.com/mob... http://www.engadget.com/2011/0...

Comment Re:Where's "Scroll Lock"? (Score 1) 698

by Ben174 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:23PM (#50209425) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards?

I think they're referring to the Context Menu button on your standard 104-key keyboard (next to the right win-key or super-key). They might be calling it the 'right-mouse button' because on Windows it pulls up the same context menu the right mouse button does.

Comment Re:Requires Constant Internet Connection (Score 1) 418

by Ben174 on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:47PM (#39504487) Attached to: New <em>SimCity</em> To Require Constant Internet Connection

This is just another thing to turn normal consumers into pirates.

80% of Browsers Found To Be At Risk of Attack 196

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 17, 2011 @02:00PM from the zomg-we're-all-gonna-die dept.

CWmike writes "About eight out of every 10 Web browsers run by consumers are vulnerable to attack by exploits of already-patched bugs, a security expert said Thursday. The poor state of browser patching stunned Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, which presented data from the company's free BrowserCheck service Wednesday at RSA. 'I really thought it would be lower,' Kandek said. BrowserCheck scans Windows, Mac and Linux machines for vulnerable browsers, as well as up to 18 browser plug-ins, from Adobe's Flash to Windows Media Player. When browsers and plug-ins are tabulated together, between 90% and 65% of all consumer systems scanned with BrowserCheck since June 2010 reported at least one out-of-date component. In January 2011, about 80% of the machines were vulnerable. The most likely plug-in to require a patch: same as last year, Oracle's Java."

Comment Re:oh, it's a troll (Score 1) 174

by Ben174 on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @04:34PM (#35072122) Attached to: World's Worst Hacker?

Sometimes when I'm trying to just find out how good of bandwidth a server has, I just wget some random giant file that's freely available on a big server. Windows Service Packs meet that requirement.

Comment Re:Um no (Score 1) 234

by Ben174 on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @07:37PM (#32259356) Attached to: Chrome Private Mode Not Quite Private

Not only that, but you *zoom in* on red-hot-midget-porn. Presumably because midgets are smaller and must be enlarged to show texture.

Comment Re:Market share (Score 2, Informative) 481

by Ben174 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @04:55PM (#28696137) Attached to: YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6

I've had several times where I'm testing a site in IE6, find a bug or quirk, then press Ctrl-N to open a new IE6 window, and browse to W3C (or other web development related site) to find a reference to that particular element and determine its compatibility with the browser I'm currently in. I'd say that's pretty common.

Comment Re:Worst Mistake That Still Needs Fixing (Score 1) 806

by Ben174 on Monday June 15, 2009 @04:05PM (#28339771) Attached to: Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes

* Stand up.

Sorry, you lost me there.

Comment Re:8==C=A=P=T=C=H=A==D (Score 1) 522

by Ben174 on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @04:37PM (#27509135) Attached to: Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed

That captcha looks painfully easy to break. All a bot would have to do is render the HTML to a image and OCR it.

Comment Re:"Mostly" monitors? (Score 1) 341

by Ben174 on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @01:36PM (#25041751) Attached to: How Nvidia Wants To Bring 3D Glasses Back

This is why you have to learn to see in pseudo-3D. If you start watching 3D when you're young, your mind will become trained to it, and won't try to compensate of the lack of other depth queues.

Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product 842

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @12:03AM from the foregone-conclusion dept.

Shadow7789 writes "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC World has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"

Comment Infinite loop (Score 0) 565

by linvir on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @10:39AM (#19221347) Attached to: Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales'

Report them to themselves for ratting out rats. When they add that to their database, they'll be guilty of ratting themselves out for ratting out rats, which means they need to add another entry to their database...

Just don't tell them I sent you.

Journal SPAM: UNHAPPY MACNAM 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday May 07, 2007 @02:34PM

Please, your making the Doctor Happy / Not Happy.

Censoring a Number 1046

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @03:44PM from the you-can't-copyright-that dept.

Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?

Xbox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked 232

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:48PM from the they're-in dept.

ACTRAiSER writes "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the Xbox 360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well." From Bugtraq "We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access."

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