It's harder to get around OS X with just the mouse. The best thing to do is make friends with F3 (10.3 on), Cmd-W, and Cmd-Q.
You have probably heard it said before, but the Mac desktop is application-oriented, not window-oriented, and anyone who has spent a lot of time in Windows is going to fight with the lack of a taskbar for a while. It can be good and bad. One good part is that you can leave leave slow-to-load apps open (if you've got the RAM for it) while closing all of their windows. If your users include users of Adobe software, then they probably are grateful for this feature.
I feel your pain though. I have used Apple machines on and off over the years, but I recently started using a Mac full-time and it does take a fair amount of "letting go" before you can work really efficiently.
As far as iTunes goes: not that it excuses anything, but do you need it on the server? I don't see why you can't just drop it in the trash. There are other, lighter options if you need an MP3 player on the server. Apple solutions definitely come with their own slew of "issues" as you say, and Apple gets away with a lot more secrecy and waiting around than other vendors. Perhaps because of the RDF.
My personal pet-peeve: really hate the fact that there's no easy way to turn off the dumping of resource forks into extra files when working with attached FAT storage. If I was only ever going to go Mac-to-Mac with it, why would I be using FAT?
Somehow, my theory is, that both sides, the one hurting the developer, and the one hurting the consumer, are two sides of the same character.
My thoughts exactly. Big publishers need to see DRM on software because they are they type of people that would not think twice about pirating software. The honor system (that is, honor) just does not compute.
(Not talking about your brother, in case there was even the tiniest ambiguity there. I don't know the guy. Or at least I don't know that I know him...)
Hey, don't bring reasoned thought into this, "sheeple"! ("sherson"?)
Another thing I think is worth mentioning: there does come a point where you try so hard to avoid advertising that you end up paying way more attention to it than someone who doesn't care. And you still get exposed to / gain familiarity with the brand, which was the point of the ad anyway.
I should have been clearer. I was talking about divine inspiration, not dictation. But note that some people do believe in verbal inspiration, which is pretty close, as well as divine "preservation" of earlier oral tradition.
There are large differences between Christianity (most versions of it, anyway:P) and Scientology. But I still thought the "man in the clouds" bit was warranted. Christianity is not Deism; it features a personal savior, a God who had a son, a rather large flood, a virgin birth, etc, etc.
For a lot of people belief in God includes an essentially anthropomorphic deity. One that you can talk to, one that watches over you. Not everyone believes that, but Christians are at least supposed to. The idea is that you have a *personal* savior. It does not say anywhere that once Jesus ascended that he became some abstract prime mover. He is supposed to be someone that loves you personally and hears your prayers.
And the Bible at least is full of examples of God communicating with folks. The Gospels themselves are meant to have been written by God.
I almost bit though. It was pretty good. I would have liked to have seen you go the extra mile and call James Maxwell the first beast of Revelation 13, but the "Darwin's prayerbook" stuff was almost as good.
One criticism: mentioning the Pope's a little odd...I know a lot of Catholics and not one of them could give a crap about teaching ID in schools. We're a very practical people:D
You'd think so, wouldn't you? It makes sense that such a widespread problem would have to have some sort of complicated solution.
Unfortunately, the reality is that the solution is in fact simple, but yes everyone *really is that stupid*.
Or the company is cheap, so they hire a crap programmer. This is the same as deciding you'd rather get hit than have any sort of minimum standard when it comes to your code. So they get hit. Not a huge suprise to anyone, except the security researchers, who get publicity by playing it like "good vs. evil" rather than "stupid companies deserve what they get".
My understanding was that people are passing input as a big string and then turning that into queries instead of doing it the right way, which is passing parameters.
Here's what I saw: maybe the crackers in general will be a little bit more careful now that this news came out. Maybe that will make SW's attempts at getting a copy of the tool harder.
The screwed up thing here is that no one needs to be trying to get it in the first place. Just prevent the damn SQL injection attack in the first place. Instead of looking at every single coding problem and saying "omg! i can parse this string by hand! yay!"
The fact that this a particularly nasty automated exploit does not mean that these people don't deserve to get it. If the exploits could somehow destroy the app's code instead of the database, maybe people would learn the first time, and not simply "remove the malicious code from their sites" and hope that (apparently through magic) they won't get hit again.
Perhaps SW knows this, but they just want some publicity. In which case, it doesn't matter if they even track down a copy. What could they hope to learn from it anyway? Probably not much beyond "don't assign shitty coders to a project involving an internet-facing database".
Whoever modded this informative either doesn't know the difference between matter and energy (like the poster), or is screwing around.
The only real reason that I'm posting this is so that if in a thousand years this page is still in a cache somewhere, and someone sees that mod, I can rest knowing that they won't assume I had anything to do with it. I was not willing to take the fucking chance.
I can say hearing it's Java has dissuaded me from participating. There's no way I'm going to install that, along with Sun's other crapware, on my nice clean computer.
You must be a fun person to shop for cell phones with.
If the validation is done on the client side, then you have the algorithm already. If the validation is done on the server, then all you're doing is taking a code from one text box and pasting it into another. What's stopping the bot from doing that?
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It's harder to get around OS X with just the mouse. The best thing to do is make friends with F3 (10.3 on), Cmd-W, and Cmd-Q.
You have probably heard it said before, but the Mac desktop is application-oriented, not window-oriented, and anyone who has spent a lot of time in Windows is going to fight with the lack of a taskbar for a while. It can be good and bad. One good part is that you can leave leave slow-to-load apps open (if you've got the RAM for it) while closing all of their windows. If your users include users of Adobe software, then they probably are grateful for this feature.
I feel your pain though. I have used Apple machines on and off over the years, but I recently started using a Mac full-time and it does take a fair amount of "letting go" before you can work really efficiently.
As far as iTunes goes: not that it excuses anything, but do you need it on the server? I don't see why you can't just drop it in the trash. There are other, lighter options if you need an MP3 player on the server. Apple solutions definitely come with their own slew of "issues" as you say, and Apple gets away with a lot more secrecy and waiting around than other vendors. Perhaps because of the RDF.
My personal pet-peeve: really hate the fact that there's no easy way to turn off the dumping of resource forks into extra files when working with attached FAT storage. If I was only ever going to go Mac-to-Mac with it, why would I be using FAT?
Somehow, my theory is, that both sides, the one hurting the developer, and the one hurting the consumer, are two sides of the same character.
My thoughts exactly. Big publishers need to see DRM on software because they are they type of people that would not think twice about pirating software. The honor system (that is, honor) just does not compute.
(Not talking about your brother, in case there was even the tiniest ambiguity there. I don't know the guy. Or at least I don't know that I know him...)
If there's no truth, how can you be right?
Hey, don't bring reasoned thought into this, "sheeple"! ("sherson"?)
Another thing I think is worth mentioning: there does come a point where you try so hard to avoid advertising that you end up paying way more attention to it than someone who doesn't care. And you still get exposed to / gain familiarity with the brand, which was the point of the ad anyway.
They're called bugs, at least in the US. I have to assume this is because they bug the crap out of everyone.
What I'm wondering is why Tyson would put that in their advertising.
Buy our chicken! We're not up to fire code!
CSI has magic space computers though.
I should have been clearer. I was talking about divine inspiration, not dictation. But note that some people do believe in verbal inspiration, which is pretty close, as well as divine "preservation" of earlier oral tradition.
There are large differences between Christianity (most versions of it, anyway :P) and Scientology. But I still thought the "man in the clouds" bit was warranted. Christianity is not Deism; it features a personal savior, a God who had a son, a rather large flood, a virgin birth, etc, etc.
Unless she's trying to make some of that money back with a book deal or a spot on a VH1 reality show.
For a lot of people belief in God includes an essentially anthropomorphic deity. One that you can talk to, one that watches over you. Not everyone believes that, but Christians are at least supposed to. The idea is that you have a *personal* savior. It does not say anywhere that once Jesus ascended that he became some abstract prime mover. He is supposed to be someone that loves you personally and hears your prayers.
And the Bible at least is full of examples of God communicating with folks. The Gospels themselves are meant to have been written by God.
He really believes it.
Your post history belies you :)
I almost bit though. It was pretty good. I would have liked to have seen you go the extra mile and call James Maxwell the first beast of Revelation 13, but the "Darwin's prayerbook" stuff was almost as good.
One criticism: mentioning the Pope's a little odd...I know a lot of Catholics and not one of them could give a crap about teaching ID in schools. We're a very practical people :D
He was planning on using ostrich eggs. They're good enough for dinosaurs!
You'd think so, wouldn't you? It makes sense that such a widespread problem would have to have some sort of complicated solution.
Unfortunately, the reality is that the solution is in fact simple, but yes everyone *really is that stupid*.
Or the company is cheap, so they hire a crap programmer. This is the same as deciding you'd rather get hit than have any sort of minimum standard when it comes to your code. So they get hit. Not a huge suprise to anyone, except the security researchers, who get publicity by playing it like "good vs. evil" rather than "stupid companies deserve what they get".
Until your database gets dropped, then there's plenty of time, since you won't have those pesky customer orders to deal with :)
My understanding was that people are passing input as a big string and then turning that into queries instead of doing it the right way, which is passing parameters.
Here's what I saw: maybe the crackers in general will be a little bit more careful now that this news came out. Maybe that will make SW's attempts at getting a copy of the tool harder.
The screwed up thing here is that no one needs to be trying to get it in the first place. Just prevent the damn SQL injection attack in the first place. Instead of looking at every single coding problem and saying "omg! i can parse this string by hand! yay!"
The fact that this a particularly nasty automated exploit does not mean that these people don't deserve to get it. If the exploits could somehow destroy the app's code instead of the database, maybe people would learn the first time, and not simply "remove the malicious code from their sites" and hope that (apparently through magic) they won't get hit again.
Perhaps SW knows this, but they just want some publicity. In which case, it doesn't matter if they even track down a copy. What could they hope to learn from it anyway? Probably not much beyond "don't assign shitty coders to a project involving an internet-facing database".
He said:
clams that he has molested his daughter
Whoever modded this informative either doesn't know the difference between matter and energy (like the poster), or is screwing around.
The only real reason that I'm posting this is so that if in a thousand years this page is still in a cache somewhere, and someone sees that mod, I can rest knowing that they won't assume I had anything to do with it. I was not willing to take the fucking chance.
Matter.
Energy.
Get off the internet, go to school.
I can say hearing it's Java has dissuaded me from participating. There's no way I'm going to install that, along with Sun's other crapware, on my nice clean computer.
You must be a fun person to shop for cell phones with.
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Sorry, for some reason I misread and thought you were talking about doing this all in the browser without a SecurID or similar.
If the validation is done on the client side, then you have the algorithm already. If the validation is done on the server, then all you're doing is taking a code from one text box and pasting it into another. What's stopping the bot from doing that?
As usual you atheists get it wrong.
It's Protestants that get to do whatever we want. We're going to heaven for believing! Sola fide == free ride my man.
Now let's PARTY!
The beauty of this comment is: for someone to prove him wrong, they'd have to give him a free BJ!