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How dumb are the dummies at Sony?
The news is getting ever worse for Sony. Parts of Sony's DRM rootkit contain code copied from an open source project (LAME). Copyright infringement carries penalties of up to $250,000 per incident, a cool quarter million per CD. Sony is in deep s**t.
Although I can't get the link (where this info came from) to load.
But if, say, Sony sold four million CDs with this DRM scheme, they face a maximum penaty of a trillion dollars.
I love the irony of using copyright infringement as the basis for punishing the over assertion of copyright rights.
I read that the rootkit remover that Sony was providing makes your system more vulnerable, and shouldn't be used until they fix it.
::cite hunts::
Sony's Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs
Really, at this point I think the best course of action for Sony is ritual suicide.
eta:
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when a major corporation has failed as badly as you...."
I knew that was coming, tommy -- I was too lazy to check the wording myself!
I knew that was coming, tommy -- I was too lazy to check the wording myself!
I pulled the wording from memory (pretty sure it's close). Think of all the time I'll save by not having to google Serenity quotes, and all I had to do was see the movie seven times in the theater.
In a web page, why does the javascript onblur event get fired for a select combobox when I hit the 'Esc' key after typing into the select combobox?
In a web page, why does the javascript onblur event get fired for a select combobox when I hit the 'Esc' key after typing into the select combobox?
The onblur event fires when a control loses focus. Hitting the Esc key causes it to lose focus (IIRC).
Well, that's... dumb counterintuitive.
Huh. The onChange event fires too. That's less counterintuitive, but still not what I want.
OK, so I need to use the onKeyDown or onKeyPress events to set a flag when the user hits escape, which will tell the functions that the onChange and onBlur events call to do nothing for that case. Then I need to reset the flag back. It's that setting the flag back part that bugs me - I can't think of a non-kludgey way to do it. And it needs to be set back after all the events are done firing.