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- FunkOnCrack, on 10/12/2007, -41/+143Because this is a final, not a Beta maybe?
Some people don't like using Beta versions of software. - TROGDOR42, on 10/12/2007, -52/+147Won't be released until tomorrow.
"Release Date: July 27, 2006"
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5.html
Oh, and you anti-Firefox ***** modding down comments can go ***** yourselves. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -44/+102There are some idiotic morons with no lifes who go around and strategically give a thumbs down to every comment, without reading it.
To those people who do that, go back to your worthless, pathetic life and leave the people who actually care about digg alone.
***** *****. - dss311, on 10/12/2007, -20/+59Just press the thumbs up multiple times. It is a bug, but it will let you vote "thumbs up" several times. You must rapidly push the green thumbs up for this exploit to work!
- ylikone, on 10/12/2007, -27/+55You are probably witnessing a new DIGG fad.... mod down all comments on articles relating to Firefox. I know, I don't get the appeal either.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -35/+62The beauty of Democracy. Every idiot has a voice.
- Eldoo77, on 10/12/2007, -42/+68Doesn't look like this version has made it to release yet. It isn't up on the web yet...
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ - metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -19/+41That doesn't work.. its all on the client side. Refresh and will have only went up one.
- Atlantics, on 10/12/2007, -18/+39It Worked! :P
- iSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -51/+72I use beta software a lot, but for Firefox I use final releases just because it's something that I use CONSTANTLY and don't want to deal with any possible problems.
- Misunderstood, on 10/12/2007, -40/+61Yea, but Google's betas are way different than a normal beta. :)
- bram, on 10/12/2007, -35/+56I'm guessing that someone found out how to exploit a hole in Digg. This has to be a script, there is no way a person could have the patients to bury every comment. That would get old after a few minutes! I wonder how long before this gets real bad and Digg cracks?
I foresee this getting buried. - steger, on 10/12/2007, -41/+60It's going to be officially released tomorrow.
- leo2791, on 10/12/2007, -31/+47what the hell is going on, i never seen something like it!
why the hell are all these comments going down?
answers anyone?(besides the idiots factor) - Eric4, on 10/12/2007, -26/+41For people that don't watch Diggnation, it was a joke about Alex Albrecht's personal web browser based off FireFox.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -31/+44If everyone else mods-up it would negate these jackass's mods.
- gishnob, on 10/12/2007, -15/+26"FireFox hasn't hurt anybody."
except ie ;P - linuxwarz, on 10/12/2007, -41/+49not in the check for updates menu either.....
- bitwarrior1, on 10/12/2007, -28/+361.5.0.5 is available from the mozilla public FTP servers at
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5/win32/en-US - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+24Which means you can count on seeing this posted again tomorrow. The day after that there will be a post saying "Firefox 1.5.0.5 released yesterday" and so on.
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11I just downloaded 1.5.0.5 through automatic updates.
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19@dss311
It's client-side, like he said. - SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -21/+20Looks like some "133t h4x0rz" wrote a script to mass-mod-down comments and distributed it (or even is using more than one account) and think this is very funny. People who don't get laid usually compensate by screwing a system.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -27/+26It's no exploit, it's simple reading javascript, and using a bit of scripting (Perl, say) and Curl..
After seeing the story about all the modding down of comments, I went though the source (Knowing very little about javascript, and even less about using it for AJAX), and within 5 minutes I had a little script that I could put the ID of a command in (hover over the digg-comment button, and it shows you it)
Combine that, with grabbing the the HTML, and regex-ing out the comment numbers and it's extremely simple to go though a bunch of accounts cookie-data, modding down (or up) comments..
The only way to prevent such a thing is either devoting the same ammount of analyzing that goes into checking for automated digging bots, which is unpractical, given how realtivly unimportant the comments are, or as someone suggested lower down, limiting the number of diggs down, so maybe 5-10 every hour (That'd make it a lot more difficult, but by no means impossible to do), capcha's for digging stuff wouldn't work, yeh it's stop bots, but I bet it'd stop a lot of people digging stuff, which'd break the whole idea of Digg..
Hm *considers fixing up that script and using it to mod up the threads people have modded down* Nah
- Ben - NiroZ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Actually, i am using it right now. They must have started the auto update early
- nonsequitor, on 10/12/2007, -27/+26Is there a waiting period after creating a new account before you can moderate? Otherwise if the captcha has been cracked, this could get really bad.
EDIT: Dugg down before the editing window closed... - subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -33/+32In related news, AleFox is scheduled for release by the end of the month.
- kevinarth, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6I can't access either. mozilla.org is OK, but whenever I'm directed to Mozilla.com, the link fails. I emailed the webmaster, but I don't know what the problem is.
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7I can't access mozilla.com, any knowledge of this issue present?
- NiroZ, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I think the strongest evidence of this having somthing to do with IE is that there have been no jerks going "firefox is great, but ie7 will kick butt" but a heap of down mods instead.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+16"The beauty of Democracy. Every idiot has a voice."
Only in a direct democracy. If we lived in a country (U.S.) that had a direct democracy, then we prolly would elect some idio......wait I spoke to soon - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1wow really is alot more stable
- Ryosen, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Shouldn't take too long to figure out who's doing it. After all, every digg/mod is associated with an account.
- zachws, on 10/12/2007, -24/+19This should have originally put up:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5
Firefox 1.5.0.5. (Final) is there. The website hasn't been updated yet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2me 2
- geeke, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1yeap this a great piece of software.
- thefinger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2to the guy that posted just below this one,
I don't believe in democracy, not anymore
only the washed and the educated should have the right to vote on anything
the rest (e.g. the vast majority of digg commenters) can go on with their little peasant lives, but otherwise, speak only when spoken to - ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5It's up on the homepage now:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
MD5: E0AEA904B0978B3A0CA3AF8095C7464F - Langford, on 10/12/2007, -19/+14All this could be one person, or many? If they ban them, will it reverse the damage, or is it too late?
- MASH007, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2You can save your time, the update has been made automatic :-)
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -19/+14http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.5.html
The release date is in the future. O.o - Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5@TROGDOR
"Won't be released until tomorrow."
Mine was automagially updated two days ago. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -37/+32More like the "multiple mod-down Firefox" extension.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -24/+18The new "multiple mod-down" Firefox extension strike again!
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Have you guys ever checked out the pool on the roof of the building? It's great. It's where all the hot babes go. I'll sell you a pass if you want. Seriously.
- RipperMortis, on 10/12/2007, -18/+12yes, but psilanthropist is winning so far with -30 diggs.
- DarkLaughingMan, on 10/12/2007, -17/+11You know you could do the exact opposite too. Create a ton of accounts with a written script/program that will automatically digg you up. Doesn't really bother me, mine's set to show by date so I see everyone's comment regardless.
- dveditz, on 10/12/2007, -21/+15Mozilla hopes never to releases a 1.5.1.x -- that would only be used if a necessary security fix would break a lot of extensions (as happened in the 1.0.3 release). Extension compatibility is set to 1.5.0.* so for most security releases extensions continue to work, but if we ever released a 1.5.1.x they would all be cleanly disabled rather than limping along in a half-broken state (which could cause dataloss, depending on the extension).
Then extension authors could simply update an entry on addons.mozilla.org to re-enable extensions that turn out to be still compatible, or issue a minor update if necessary. - Langford, on 10/12/2007, -16/+10It's creepy. They aren't even reading them, they are just attacking indiscriminately. Why would anyone want to do that?
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -26/+20If you try and update firefox it says there are no updates available so this isn't supposed to be public yet.
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