okay, yes, the flashplugin is a snafu, I heartedly agree with you there.
But chrome cannot run anything that will affect the *entire* system. unless you run chrome as root, there is absolutely nothing chrome can do outside your own home folder (assuming you haven't done something incredibly stupid, like change security on everything to 777). Even the repo it adds on Ubuntu/Debian(assuming you are using the deb from google, not chromium) can only update chrome inside the confines of the dpkg system. For the most part *all* of the security problems with chrome are on Windows (maybe OS X too).
Does the java runtime run code with higher privileges than the user has on linux? if so, that is terrifying, and should be removed completely.
yea, i had to explain to my parents this weekend that me using wikipedia for school research did not make me a terrorist. (regardless of what my professors say ;) )
yea, i had to explain to my parents this weekend that me using wikipedia for school research did not make me a terrorist. (regardless of what my professors say ;) )
The difference with Google is that you can install all the nice little extensions that block this stuff, plus Google themselves supply an extension that disables the google analytics(and, yes, it does do the job correctly).
And while Google uses it as a base, chromium is just as removed from Google as firefox is.
Just the fact that IE doesn't support extensions(add-ons & plugins are a joke compared to Firefox's and Chrome's implementation of extensions) is good enough reason to never use it (the fact that it is Windows only guarantees that for me). It would have been a good thing seeing the IE people actually trying to change for the better, but i would rather they work on bringing IE into this decade on the whole web standards front.
Those last two paragraphs are telling.
How much further as a species would we be if patents were limited to less than a decade? As it is, it takes forever for any competition in any field to catch up to company A, and, by that point, company A is making so much off of the original product that they fight tooth and nail any advancement that might, no matter how short term, lower their profits.
Then again, it may be the culture of business in the developed world: you must always make profits, even at the expense of your customers, the rest of the economy, human advancement and even human lives.
Isn't capitalism great?(not that anything else is any better -_-)
wait, their solution to no legal way to watch DVD's/Blu-ray on Linux is to use another OS? How fucking retarded are these people? So let's see, not including the cost of the hardware, to watch a DVD, for someone who uses Linux 100% of the time would have to buy the 20$ DVD, buy a 99-200$* OS and possibly a 20-40$ codec just to watch the movie? F-ck that to hell.
I really hate people sometimes.
*of course if you are buying OS X, there is a good chance you already have OS X (remember, hackintoshes are still illegal), so that is a moot point
Wait, so he was infringing, but "towing the Wordpress line"(calling him on the GPL violation) is bad, even though, in this case, Wordpress was right? Huh?
If you make only one of something, and then sell it, how can you claim copyright on it? You sold the only copy. If anyone should have the copyright, shouldn't it be the person buying the work/item? What keeps the physical owner(s) from making as many copies as they want and selling them, or gifting them into the public domain? Should the owner(s) be limited in what they can do with something they own?
You know, I know this site has a lot to do with how badly the recording companies are hurting the music industry, but not every article has anything to do with it . These are cool experiments.
Get over yourself.
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But chrome cannot run anything that will affect the *entire* system. unless you run chrome as root, there is absolutely nothing chrome can do outside your own home folder (assuming you haven't done something incredibly stupid, like change security on everything to 777). Even the repo it adds on Ubuntu/Debian(assuming you are using the deb from google, not chromium) can only update chrome inside the confines of the dpkg system. For the most part *all* of the security problems with chrome are on Windows (maybe OS X too).
Does the java runtime run code with higher privileges than the user has on linux? if so, that is terrifying, and should be removed completely.
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And while Google uses it as a base, chromium is just as removed from Google as firefox is.
Just the fact that IE doesn't support extensions(add-ons & plugins are a joke compared to Firefox's and Chrome's implementation of extensions) is good enough reason to never use it (the fact that it is Windows only guarantees that for me). It would have been a good thing seeing the IE people actually trying to change for the better, but i would rather they work on bringing IE into this decade on the whole web standards front.
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How much further as a species would we be if patents were limited to less than a decade? As it is, it takes forever for any competition in any field to catch up to company A, and, by that point, company A is making so much off of the original product that they fight tooth and nail any advancement that might, no matter how short term, lower their profits.
Then again, it may be the culture of business in the developed world: you must always make profits, even at the expense of your customers, the rest of the economy, human advancement and even human lives.
Isn't capitalism great?(not that anything else is any better -_-)
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I really hate people sometimes.
*of course if you are buying OS X, there is a good chance you already have OS X (remember, hackintoshes are still illegal), so that is a moot point
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Get over yourself.
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(and DRM-free is non-negotiable)
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For love of all things Internet, please back the f-ck off.
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