mrvanes - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Firefox most configurable browser on the plant (Score 1) 172

by mrvanes on Saturday July 04, 2015 @02:41PM (#50044661) Attached to: Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing

It's exactly this naive assumption of you that only one session is involved in your authentication that makes this bug so dangerous. Thousands of students all over the world log in using federated authentication that involves AT LEAST three independant sessions at independant url's of which at least one is never cleared on logout. They are told only closing their browser clears their login, WHICH SHOULD BE THE CASE if browser respected SESSION lifetime cookies to only live while the browser is open. It's a BUG, it's dangerous, it should be fixed and I don't give a rat's arse about lost shopping carts!

Comment Re:Firefox most configurable browser on the plant (Score 1) 172

by mrvanes on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:42AM (#50042801) Attached to: Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing

People unaware of this BUG are vulnerable to account hijacking when they leave the place after cosing the browser in the assumption they did the right thing to close their sessions. And yes, english is not my native tongue so I made a little mistake, I'll steer away from that in the future, thanks for noticing.

Comment Re:Firefox most insecure browser on the planet (Score 1) 172

by mrvanes on Saturday July 04, 2015 @03:41AM (#50042795) Attached to: Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing

It is insecure in the sense that people sharing a computer running Firefox and logging in on secure websites that use SESSION lifetime cookies are NOT protected against restoring their session after they closed the browser and leave (the public place). THAT is insecure BY DESIGN!! SESSION lifetime cookies should NEVER be restorable after the browser has been closed by the user nor crashed.

Comment Firefox most insecure browser on the planet (Score 1) 172

by mrvanes on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:00PM (#50040445) Attached to: Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing

As long as this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... BUG is present, Firefox is a far cry from being a secure browser. Since I know about this, I advise anybody that needs to have secure browser to stear away from Firefox!

Comment Re:Elgg (Score 1) 120

by mrvanes on Saturday January 25, 2014 @08:02AM (#46065667) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

The external Event Manager (http://community.elgg.org/plugins/736695/2.7.1/event-manager) is exceptionally cool, complete with RSVP functionality.

Comment Elgg (Score 1) 120

by mrvanes on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:59AM (#46065399) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

Have you looked at Elgg? http://elgg.org/

Comment S3QL (Score 1) 165

by mrvanes on Monday January 14, 2013 @05:08AM (#42580151) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems?

Have you looked at S3QL http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/? Mountable infinite Amazon S3 storage via fuse (no limited blockdevice setup).

Aging Reversed In Mice 554

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 29, 2010 @05:56AM from the pressing-the-reset-button dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the aging process after experimental treatment developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies. 'What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilization of the aging process. We saw a dramatic reversal – and that was unexpected,' says Ronald DePinho, who led the study. The Harvard group focused on a process called telomere shortening where each time a cell divides, the telomeres are snipped shorter, until eventually they stop working and the cell dies or goes into a suspended state called 'senescence.' Researchers bred genetically manipulated mice that lacked an enzyme called telomerase that stops telomeres getting shorter causing the mice to age prematurely and suffer ailments, including a poor sense of smell, smaller brain size, infertility and damaged intestines and spleens. When the mice were given injections to reactivate the enzyme, it repaired the damaged tissues and reversed the signs of aging raising hope among scientists that it may be possible to achieve a similar feat in humans – or at least to slow down the aging process."

Comment Re:Cool-er? (Score 1) 684

by mrvanes on Monday February 15, 2010 @04:14AM (#31141816) Attached to: It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader?

I've got one and I'm happy with it. Though Interead (as a company) is B_A_D, the device (with latest firmware) is nice. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=213

He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! 508

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @10:06AM from the those-other-people-are-blenders dept.

davidmwilliams writes "Earlier this year the Linux Foundation launched a competition for budding writers, film makers and just general Linux enthusiasts to make their own grassroots advertisement to compete with Apple's highly-successful 'I'm a Mac' series of adverts. The winner has now been announced."

Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test 711

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @10:17AM from the i-like-the-testing-part dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes " Amid the latest 'sexting' controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it seems, but not for the reasons you'd think. And it raises questions about how the same scientific principles could be applied to other matters of law." Hit the link below to read the sextiest story on Slashdot today.

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