Perhaps they could offer a small separate sort of "Flash Guard" utility for the blocking function. We consider the possibility of rogue Flash code opening the camera and/or microphone to be a security vulnerability.…
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service.…
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC. I've been meaning to check it out to see…
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the…
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me.…
If one looks at historic FCC regulation, it was always okay to listen to communications, but not to divulge the contents to 3rd parties. Even with just those older regulations, using data "heard" would be prohibited…
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs:…
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy…
USB Specs are available here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file): http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
Keep security issues in mind if/when opening those links to .pdf files. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10168266-83.html it looks like there's an unpatched critical vulnerability in Acrobate reader that even fixes of a…
It'll be a bit like those online profiles that show people with a cellphone taking their picture in the bathroom mirror. (It's kinda funny when they're mostly or entirely naked, but the camera blocks the face) Maybe…
Yes, his more detailed piece (in two parts) tells far more. And it isn't only insightful about the blunders of the newspaper industry, much of it applies to the mess that is commercial t.v. broadcasting and the…
I too feel the internet is falling short in some ways. My take on the shortfalls is different, but related. The attempts to commercialize every aspect of the net have created this massive amount of noise that too much…
I'd be pissed too. Apple understandably takes product information releases very seriously, and partners in those products (including those whose media may be in negotiations to carry like the WSJ) are under…
By definition, something that is reasoned is NOT arbitrary. arbitrary adjective based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system With the automatic bug report generation in OS X, Apple has…
The article makes use of straw-man argument by bring up VOIP apps. But the avoiding of mentioning a competing app seems reasonable. If there was a Zune store I don't think any would think it appropriate for apps to…
I'd give Microsoft credit for killing IBM's OS/2. What really created the PC-compatible market was the creation of "clone" BIOS. I'd give Phoenix credit for that. Dell gets credit for being a pretty efficient if not…
Anything, including corrupt files, that can crash it is relevant because it is also a security vulnerability.
It's crashing for me with Snow Leopard 10.5.2 on a Core Duo (32 bit obviously) and Safari Version: 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) Build Info: WebBrowser-65312110~2 Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [157] PlugIn Path:…
Opps that was iCab 4.0.7
I confirmed the crash on iCab 5.0.7 Mac, Firefox 3.6 Mac, Safari 4.0.4 Mac and Firefox 3.5.7 under Ubuntu 9.10 in Virtual Box 3.1.2. (Using latest updated Snow Leopard)
Even if Flash 10.1 does bring performance parity with the Windows version, I won't be routinely enabling it. It's an unacceptable security risk and most of what it's used for beyond video is just annoying/fluff.
That's because Zillow.com calulates values using square footage! Calculations don't make it so! I won't disagree that square footage plays a very significant role in value, but how significant will vary. Their estimates…
At the national median price you'd be lucky to get a mobile home on a very tiny lot where I live in California. And a condominium is even more. I know elderly people with single family homes that are paid for, but the…
Perhaps they could offer a small separate sort of "Flash Guard" utility for the blocking function. We consider the possibility of rogue Flash code opening the camera and/or microphone to be a security vulnerability.…
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service.…
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC. I've been meaning to check it out to see…
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the…
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me.…
If one looks at historic FCC regulation, it was always okay to listen to communications, but not to divulge the contents to 3rd parties. Even with just those older regulations, using data "heard" would be prohibited…
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs:…
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy…
USB Specs are available here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file): http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
Keep security issues in mind if/when opening those links to .pdf files. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10168266-83.html it looks like there's an unpatched critical vulnerability in Acrobate reader that even fixes of a…
It'll be a bit like those online profiles that show people with a cellphone taking their picture in the bathroom mirror. (It's kinda funny when they're mostly or entirely naked, but the camera blocks the face) Maybe…
Yes, his more detailed piece (in two parts) tells far more. And it isn't only insightful about the blunders of the newspaper industry, much of it applies to the mess that is commercial t.v. broadcasting and the…
I too feel the internet is falling short in some ways. My take on the shortfalls is different, but related. The attempts to commercialize every aspect of the net have created this massive amount of noise that too much…
I'd be pissed too. Apple understandably takes product information releases very seriously, and partners in those products (including those whose media may be in negotiations to carry like the WSJ) are under…
By definition, something that is reasoned is NOT arbitrary. arbitrary adjective based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system With the automatic bug report generation in OS X, Apple has…
The article makes use of straw-man argument by bring up VOIP apps. But the avoiding of mentioning a competing app seems reasonable. If there was a Zune store I don't think any would think it appropriate for apps to…
I'd give Microsoft credit for killing IBM's OS/2. What really created the PC-compatible market was the creation of "clone" BIOS. I'd give Phoenix credit for that. Dell gets credit for being a pretty efficient if not…
Anything, including corrupt files, that can crash it is relevant because it is also a security vulnerability.
It's crashing for me with Snow Leopard 10.5.2 on a Core Duo (32 bit obviously) and Safari Version: 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) Build Info: WebBrowser-65312110~2 Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [157] PlugIn Path:…
Opps that was iCab 4.0.7
I confirmed the crash on iCab 5.0.7 Mac, Firefox 3.6 Mac, Safari 4.0.4 Mac and Firefox 3.5.7 under Ubuntu 9.10 in Virtual Box 3.1.2. (Using latest updated Snow Leopard)
Even if Flash 10.1 does bring performance parity with the Windows version, I won't be routinely enabling it. It's an unacceptable security risk and most of what it's used for beyond video is just annoying/fluff.
That's because Zillow.com calulates values using square footage! Calculations don't make it so! I won't disagree that square footage plays a very significant role in value, but how significant will vary. Their estimates…
At the national median price you'd be lucky to get a mobile home on a very tiny lot where I live in California. And a condominium is even more. I know elderly people with single family homes that are paid for, but the…