SecurityMatters

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by SecurityMatters 15y ago
There are doubts about how open this project will be. I share that concern. But, I also give the guy credit for making the project at all. Maybe it will be more closed than I would like. If the project is a success and produces a lot of
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by SecurityMatters 15y ago
Give the guy credit for making some effort to put the maps up. Maybe when Stanford gets them, they will become readable. Currently, they are in some weird, proprietary, patent encumbered format and essentially unusable.
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by SecurityMatters 15y ago
There is very little reason to dread this move. I am not sure I like Unity yet, but I applaud Ubuntu for thinking outside the box. If you install Ubuntu 11.04 and want the old user interface, you can pretty much get it. Just install and
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by SecurityMatters 15y ago
There are a couple of different problems here. RedHat is actually pretty good in that they only include open software in their distribution. I, and many others, would not trust the OS nearly as much if they included things like Flash or o
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
Enough people care about the software being open that this project will have a good market, if it produces a useful product. I tried Skype several years ago, but I never felt comfortable using it. With proprietary software like Skype, you
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
Howdy, I installed Plan 9 several years ago(close to 10, if I remember correctly). I thought it was interesting, but it had a few problems. 1. It was too hard to install. I figured it out, but it was difficult enough that I thought I w
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
Howdy, 10 years ago, I was a happy user of Microsoft products and could not see any reason to use anything else. I never minded paying for software. I still don't mind, although now, all of the software I use is free(legally free). I d
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
Yes, I know that. And, I have seen developers at a loss of what to do when some gui developer tool is not available. One problem is the use of the gui tool seems to put people too far from what is really going on. Most users probably nee
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
I was talking about reliability, not stability. The activation Windows has used for a while makes the product unreliable. This may not be obvious at first. I had a client with a computer problem, which ended up needing some replacement h
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
I don't know about accessing OLAP databases, but it seems like a bad idea, anyway. The programmability of OpenOffice is quite powerful and workflows can and are automated with it. Visual Studio is not bad for people with little understandi
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
Thank you for referring me to The Philosopher's Zone. I had not heard it before. I listened to 4 programs last night. I did not get as much from it as I do from most of the In Our Time episodes. Having just one person to interview does
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by SecurityMatters 16y ago
I listen to his tech5 and crankygeeks podcast, but don't bother with the link above. It brings up a page about half obscured with what is probably a black TV. Why bother putting up a website where the content is obscured? Maybe the slow
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
I demonstrate no such thing. It may be true that a better example of an embedded video element would show why it is a bad idea. I am open to trying other examples of properly coded video elements. My point was that the author did not dem
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
A clean browser would not address the problem. I think it is insane to browse with javascript, once you understand how it works. You are essentially letting random people run their code on your machine. How could that possibly be a good
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
The author demonstrated why Firefox, et al, made the correct choice on his example page. I visited his page using Firefox and the video would not play. My guess is that you need javascript turned on to play the videos on his site. I almo
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
That is a good start. Now, if they will disallow IE7 and IE8, we can get IE users back to a version that does not use ActiveX for plugins. That would be a great security step.
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
Why would a person use this instead of FreeNX. FreeNX seemed to work for me. The thing missing was a open source NX client. I see there is a QT one now, but I have not tried it yet.
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
This is not ideological. It is practical. Adobe Flash exposes your system to a variety of vulnerabilities and is unlikely to get much better. Adobe considers making the user vulnerable a feature and they brag about it to people they sel
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
To: Femur Kurzweil does not claim to know what will happen. I have read several of his books and he mostly seems to talk about how these trends will cause major changes. He then outlines more than one possible outcome. And, he mor
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
You missed something that works without javascript. I don't run it. Any suggestions? Other than running javascript, which is way too bad an idea, security wise.
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
I have never understood why most people even created PayPal accounts. A PayPal like system that worked well would be very convenient. But, when I go try to create an account, I always get stopped by the Terms of Service. How could anyon
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by SecurityMatters 17y ago
What a completely useless site. Unless you are careless enough to run javascript, the site will not return any information. They say "To see full output you need to enable Javascript in your browser", but really return NO information with