[Coco] Is Mocha DEAD?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 09:44:47 AM Sean did opine
And Gene did reply:
> What is doing the scanning on your work PC?  Like a corporate
> firewall/web gateway? Norton Safeweb seems to think it's fine.
> 
I went there with iceweazal, was greeted by a front page that demands I 
use only Oracle registered Java to access it. Since I am a member of the 
FSF, that is bloody well not going to happen.  Any site that demands I 
install something just to look at the site, is an attempt at lockin just 
as bad as M$ treats its users.

We fix vulnerabilities found in free software within 24-48 hours. Neither 
of the behemoths deign to do so within 3-6 months as a general rule, and 
in one case fixed recently, 14 years!

To me it is up to the site owner to fix the site if he want to sell the 
clicks.  Make all access use https if you feel you must.  Its a bit 
slower, but it doesn't insult the users intelligence by asking him to 
install proprietary software that has not been audited by the many 
eyeballs theory. It probably has more bugs than a 10 day old road kill 
carcass, they just haven't been found yet, by anyone but the NSA.  But we 
can't LOOK, we have to take Oracles word for it. I haven't taken Larry's 
word for anything in 20 years.  My experience with how he did support 
that was bought and paid for by the year was enough to sour me forever.

This is comparable to my having to even remove my belt and shoes because 
the buckle was metal and so was the arch support in my $180 shoes, just 
to go and talk to someone at the local SS office about 5 years ago.

I had sense enough to leave my carry piece in the truck and didn't mind 
dumping the pair of small pocket knives in the tray, but my coin purse 
and its contents, the two keyrings with the house and car keys, a pocket 
flashlight, my anti rf card case with everything in it that made whoever 
possesed it, me for the rest of their lives, and a timex wrist watch with 
its metal back were in there already when they made me take off my belt 
and shoes just to talk to someone that was too damned protected by a 
phone system designed to make it difficult and was unable to be directed 
to THAT person as a result. That won't happen again, I'll send a lawyer & 
let him deal with all that BS just because 1 in 200k people has a plugged 
rectum.

Fix the site.

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> 
wrote:
> > It's blocked with a huge warning from my work PC as a dangerous
> > site.
> > 
> > > On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:56 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Nope, not dead. Depending on the browser and OS you will have to
> > > go
> > 
> > through
> > 
> > > some prompts to clear out the haplessgenius web page as allowed to
> > > engage Java. The noted URL is good. I just tested on Win7 and
> > > Firefox - had to "re-do" the plugin setup, had not run Mocha in a
> > > while in my desktop. It works.
> > > 
> > > The Tandycoco Forum link? could be an issue with that particular
> > > website, not the Mocha site.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- RP
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Stephen H. Fischer <
> > > 
> > > SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >> The www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/ link for the "mocha" emulator
> > >> appears
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > >> be dangerous.
> > >> 
> > >> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Emulators is one place
> > >> that offers that URL.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> The http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=64 link for
> > >> "mocha" hangs.
> > >> 
> > >> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=78
> > >> 
> > >> So,  Is Mocha DEAD?
> > >> 
> > >> SHF
> > >> 
> > >> 
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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