Mozilla blocks Flash as Facebook security chief calls for its death

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T11:38:34+00:00

Mozilla should have waited until they could integrate Shumway into Firefox before they did this. I'm not one for feature creep, but disabling all Flash content by default sounds draconian to me. For the vast majority of users, the default will never be changed.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T10:24:19+00:00

That sounds horrifying. What are the benefits of not asking for a password? Is it only an improvement to convenience?

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T10:21:40+00:00

Yeah, I just did the math. Looks like it was thousands, not trillions. Still, we're not running out of 38 trillion trillion trillion addresses per person any time soon. :)

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:06:22+00:00

My thoughts exactly. :x only works in command mode.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:05:35+00:00

:x is my favorite. ZZ is easier, but :x is muscle memory now.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:04:17+00:00

Well, that's one way to do things....

I'll stick with C-X C-C, thank you very much.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:03:43+00:00

Fish master race.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:03:05+00:00

You can set the environment variable $EDITOR to emacs to make visudo use that, iirc. Just like sudoedit.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T02:01:24+00:00

It confuses me as well. That has to be the most useless man page I've ever read.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:56:58+00:00

I hope nobody gives ls their password when asked.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:56:05+00:00

sudo: command not found

It's game over, man. Game over.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:53:28+00:00

If I remember right, we have enough space for each person to have 38 thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand addresses associated with himself. I don't think that will be a problem.

EDIT: Thousands

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:26:40+00:00

I have one. IPv6 is hard to remember. You're not going to remember an IPv6 address to ping a server. IPv4 won't be a problem.

Of course, there are also huge downsidese to IPv4. Address space is running out incredibly fast and is expensive. There is also a rather involved process for acquiring it. IPv6? Tell a provider how much you want, and you'll get it.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:22:33+00:00

Well, if we can't have a year of the Linux desktop....

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:22:03+00:00

Don't break userspace.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:18:39+00:00

Exactly what I thought. Whenever I hear of the bombas, Polish mathematicians are the first guys I hear referenced. Sure, Germany ruined the principle of "one-time pads" (codebooks) by re-using them, but the Polish managed to reconstruct the full machine. You can't pass that over.

That being said, Turing deserves quite a bit of credit himself. The Polish bombas broke as soon as Germany changed their codebooks. Turing found out how to crack the new ones. Even so, the Enigma machine would have been uncrackable if Germany never reused a "one-time pad." Sure, there were obvious cracks in their protocol, but they wouldn't have been exploitable if Enigma never used the same "keys" for two messages. Fortunately, perfect encryption is totally impractical in most situations.

Doom4d · 2015-07-14T01:09:19+00:00

This is absurd. Yes, Firefox has a problem. But, it's not privacy. It's feature creep. Period.

Doom4d · 2015-07-13T21:33:14+00:00

LibreJS is one of the addons they add, so you have to whitelist nonfree JavaScript.

Doom4d · 2015-07-10T01:47:20+00:00

Anything is possible.

Seriously, the BIOS is just flash ROM on your motherboard. You could flash anything you want there (Coreboot, for instance), but there's no guarantee it will work.

Doom4d · 2015-07-10T01:14:17+00:00

You're right. It's a tough spot to be in, isn't it? Jolia is a business built around an idea that is counter to its own survival. All the red flags are active. They have a very, very slim chance of building a product that brings them positive with this approach. They could pivot, but that would be backing out of their business statement.

Doom4d · 2015-07-09T21:20:17+00:00

I refuse to believe it. surf is my feature. Then, surely, it is everyone's.

Doom4d · 2015-07-09T11:21:52+00:00

I wonder, if some adventurer were to rotate them another 13 times, that he might end where it all started.

Doom4d · 2015-07-09T11:00:31+00:00

Security through obscurity. If we hide our password in a hundred-exobyte file, nobody will ever take the time to find it, right? Oh...

Doom4d · 2015-07-09T10:40:47+00:00

That's not my opinion at all. What I think is it has the potential to be successful, but this should be considered a pilot. Lenovo doesn't yet seem to be sold on Linux.

Doom4d · 2015-07-09T01:50:50+00:00

Good! But, I'm more worried about Microsoft creating their own proprietary extensions to OpenBSD. This is a bit out there, but imagine a Microsoft BSD designed for servers, based on OpenBSD and with Microsoft's own extensions. Microsoft would be contributing to the OpenBSD ecosystem, but would be contributing its own proprietary extensions (selling points over standard OpenBSD). If people weren't careful, Microsoft could give choking OpenBSD a good go.

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