Avoid text on a slide?! In otherwords just have graphs with no meaning information? "Big bar good".
All these are human issues. When you design a graph you must LABEL EVERYTHING otherwise the graph is bogus. They do this all the time on the news, show a graph with nothing on it.
Even going to lots of presentation the problem are human users not the presentation software. I see people throw 30 lines of text on a spreadsheet! You either ax some lines or split the information into new pages.
I think it's funny that Slashdot will attack Microsoft just because, no rhyme or reason. Some people write a bad presentation and it's PowerPoints fault!
And plus PowerPoint IS NOT YOUR DOCUMENT. PowerPoint is a SUMMARY of results. You should be producing your data in a Document (Word or whatever) and then copy it over. I actually don't like the copy/paste functinality of pictures in any of Office. I store my pictures as jpegs, gifs or pngs and import them. That way I have the original data. I usually keep a SPSS (statistics program) file to all my graphs.
This failed in Florida miserably. Finding NOBODY (but they wanted a very low false positive rate). What makes them think it will work for them? Either it will give them too many false positives or find NOBODY.
The problem with people is they don't remember more than 15 minutes. Ex. This failed in Florida but I have not seen any comments about it. Another ex: Bush: "Amera Corp is a great program and needs all the funding", two days later Bush removes funding for it AND NOBODY but Ameri Corp complained.
Here is the history:
StarOffice was created by a group in Europe.
Sun Microsystems bought it and released it.
StarOffice 5.2 was free for a scaled down version.
StarOffice 6.0 they split it into two groups, OpenOffice the free version and the paid version. Open Office is like the free version of 5.2 (just version 6.0). It helps people with some confusion.
The only difference is StarOffice has better support and more features. Nobody can say "OO is better than SO" because it's the SAME DAMN THING. Yea OO is open source but in order to get it into program it has to be okayed by the committee.
Everybody Should Avoid Credit Cards All Together
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I always remember the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is talking with Dogbert and a restaurant stating why he doesn't trust ATM machines. He gives his credit card to the waitress and she comes back with a fur coat.
But the truth is, they can bug ATM but a dishonest working at a store can get your credit card. It's really quite easy I would imagine. One time I had a clerk throw away my receipt (since he screwed up). I went and grabbed it because it had my credit card number.
It's sometimes even easy, just by looking through the trash. Just find a store that gives the complete credit card number information on the receipt and find them on the ground or in the garbage.
The chances of them ripping off an ATM is probably less than a waiter/waitress/clerk, etc. can rip you off.
Okay, so let's get rid of all credit cards. We are back to checks. Well, the phone company and electric company can take out money from my checking account, they just a number. So does that mean if somebody finds an old check they can get money from my account?!
My advice only accept cash, put it in a fire/water proof safe, bury it. Buy a shotgut with armor piercing bullets, don't sleep and just sit in front of the money shotting anybody who comes close!
Fewer reboots, what a feature. I got a good laugh out of that. Imagine if GM claimed to sell you a car that would 'start more often'.
Read "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. The VW does just that. If you don't start it every day the computer thinks its dead and won't start. I don't have the book with me or otherwise I would quote it. I'm sure you can use Amazon book search on it for "VW"
The best book to cover XSS is:
Writing Secure Code by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc.
In short you can do a lot of things with XSS. One notably is spoofing people into giving you credit card numbers etc. You can send an e-mail saying you are "Ebay" and have them click an url. The url could be:
Another such attack allows you to have whatever permissions the user who is running the backends permission. Therefore if the user is using a database you can drop tables, create tables, add yourself as an admin, etc.
There are tons of them. So read Writing Secure Code. Yet it is from Microsoft Press but it is a great book. Very well written.
Sorry Bush the Senate and Congress don't care. They are in the pockets of big business. Why do you think Cheney's previous company is rebuilding Iraq, why Enron picked the Energy Secretary and the EPA people. In fact Enron has paid for 3/4 of Congress. No wonder why Keneith Boy Lay got off scott free (Source: Molly Ivans, Public Record, etc.).
It's time we take back our government to work for the people and not big 'bidness'.
Java and C# are the easist languages to convert the byte code to source code. Obfuscators work but are easy to break, you get the problem of variable names being: var001, etc (mentioned before).
In fact there are many companies who write Java code who then compile it to byte code then use the decompilars to produce better looking/quality code! It also includes comments. (Source: A professional debugger).
I have the links to the decompiler for C#, it's free and the source code is freely available online. If you are interested just let me know and I can post the URL (it's at work).
Re:So Why Won't Doctor's Help Short People Grow?
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Actually they do have something to make you grow. It's for people with a genetic disorder called, achondroplasia. This genetic disorder is an inherited disorder that prevents growth. They use a limb-lengthening technique.
How it works:
1. Break your bones in several different places.
2. Attach metal rods so that your bones stay separated a few cm's aparth.
3. Let the bones heal.
4. Repeat until desired height.
However this is a very painful procedure.
Source:
o Genetics Book
o http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/disease/achondroplasia
Apparently nobody pays attention or does any research.
First off Eolas has filed the same patent three times (been rejected) and has been narrowing it down.
Basically the patent states:
Any inlining function that renders on the client that gets information from another server. However javascript is not affected, but activex and other plugins are, but the question is the img tag linking to another webpage affected? I know a few places will not allow their sites to have img tags to point to a different server.
This is a stupid patent and should be thrown out. And in fact if we wanted to get into the nitty/gritty details Microsoft could sit there and attack StarOffice/OpenOffice with some of their patents and copyright information and get them out of business.
Quote: - working on that interesting open-source software project. Good for the resume as well
Apparently you didn't read his resume =). He has the a very impresive resume! Worked at NASA back in the day and has been busy with lots of wonderful jobs and experience.
I think he too over-qualified.
Quote: - get in shape (running is cheap, and so are push-ups)
- eat better; too broke to eat out, so buy lots of veggies; kick the coffee and beer habit (too expensive)
Apparently you didn't read his page. He said he has been doing this.
What is more disturbing is that the RIAA stated that IPs are unique identifies. Apparently they never heard of dial-up. In fact even Comcast states that your IP address is not unique (so does Qwest and MSN DSL server). So their argument that somebody screwed up on Comcast part is wrong. It's that their whole way of doing this is completly flawed to begin with.
If they are going on that fact why not have everybody spoof the RIAA IPs and have them suing themselves. Note: I am not recommending doing this just making a point.
The reason why Sun Microsystems won't offer a release for Apple is because Steve Jobs said that Apple will take care of it. This was on a press release from apple on their site (http://www.apple.com) a few years ago. However, it is no longer there.
This was initially a problem for a project I started that was supposed to use Java 1.3 and there was no Mac support, but we had to support it anyways (not fun to integrate 1.1 & 1.3 Java code).
Umm, so if they lack security because somebody who has authorized and legitimate access to information shouldn't have. Does this statement make sense to anybody? So who has access to the information? Should should we be able to write the information and not read it? This has more to do with trusting employees, not hacking and not security.
We are assuming they have crappy security. I have yet to read a real hacker accessing the information.
Does this mean that when people who say, "Soldiers are protecting your rights, so don't say anything bad about the country or leave" can no longer say that?! If we have no rights, how do you defend them?
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Don't forget the hire illegal immigrants. The DOJ came and arrested them... AFTER their shift. (I wonder if they still got paid...)
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/09/walmart.arres
Avoid text on a slide?! In otherwords just have graphs with no meaning information? "Big bar good".
All these are human issues. When you design a graph you must LABEL EVERYTHING otherwise the graph is bogus. They do this all the time on the news, show a graph with nothing on it.
Even going to lots of presentation the problem are human users not the presentation software. I see people throw 30 lines of text on a spreadsheet! You either ax some lines or split the information into new pages.
I think it's funny that Slashdot will attack Microsoft just because, no rhyme or reason. Some people write a bad presentation and it's PowerPoints fault!
And plus PowerPoint IS NOT YOUR DOCUMENT. PowerPoint is a SUMMARY of results. You should be producing your data in a Document (Word or whatever) and then copy it over. I actually don't like the copy/paste functinality of pictures in any of Office. I store my pictures as jpegs, gifs or pngs and import them. That way I have the original data. I usually keep a SPSS (statistics program) file to all my graphs.
This failed in Florida miserably. Finding NOBODY (but they wanted a very low false positive rate). What makes them think it will work for them? Either it will give them too many false positives or find NOBODY.
The problem with people is they don't remember more than 15 minutes. Ex. This failed in Florida but I have not seen any comments about it. Another ex: Bush: "Amera Corp is a great program and needs all the funding", two days later Bush removes funding for it AND NOBODY but Ameri Corp complained.
It's called use a TI-83 with the physics add on. Does all those wonderful things and more. I remember playing with those in High School.
Physics lab don't need computers they need tools to do physics.
That's brilliant, have a 14-day 'price-protection' policy for an item that they refuse to reduce the price on.
Everybody's been doing this.
Car companies do this all the time. "Come to Joes we are the only ones who are selling this car this low".
In fact, it's the manufacture who actually send out the sales, not the stores.
OpenOffice IS StarOffice and vise versa.
Here is the history:
StarOffice was created by a group in Europe.
Sun Microsystems bought it and released it.
StarOffice 5.2 was free for a scaled down version.
StarOffice 6.0 they split it into two groups, OpenOffice the free version and the paid version. Open Office is like the free version of 5.2 (just version 6.0). It helps people with some confusion.
The only difference is StarOffice has better support and more features. Nobody can say "OO is better than SO" because it's the SAME DAMN THING. Yea OO is open source but in order to get it into program it has to be okayed by the committee.
I always remember the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is talking with Dogbert and a restaurant stating why he doesn't trust ATM machines. He gives his credit card to the waitress and she comes back with a fur coat.
But the truth is, they can bug ATM but a dishonest working at a store can get your credit card. It's really quite easy I would imagine. One time I had a clerk throw away my receipt (since he screwed up). I went and grabbed it because it had my credit card number.
It's sometimes even easy, just by looking through the trash. Just find a store that gives the complete credit card number information on the receipt and find them on the ground or in the garbage.
The chances of them ripping off an ATM is probably less than a waiter/waitress/clerk, etc. can rip you off.
Okay, so let's get rid of all credit cards. We are back to checks. Well, the phone company and electric company can take out money from my checking account, they just a number. So does that mean if somebody finds an old check they can get money from my account?!
My advice only accept cash, put it in a fire/water proof safe, bury it. Buy a shotgut with armor piercing bullets, don't sleep and just sit in front of the money shotting anybody who comes close!
It's actually $50. I should know I just read the release from Microsoft and... =o)
Fewer reboots, what a feature. I got a good laugh out of that. Imagine if GM claimed to sell you a car that would 'start more often'. Read "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. The VW does just that. If you don't start it every day the computer thinks its dead and won't start. I don't have the book with me or otherwise I would quote it. I'm sure you can use Amazon book search on it for "VW"
The best book to cover XSS is:
a ck.com
Writing Secure Code by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc.
In short you can do a lot of things with XSS. One notably is spoofing people into giving you credit card numbers etc. You can send an e-mail saying you are "Ebay" and have them click an url. The url could be:
www.ebay.com[lotsofcrap]@fakls;jas.com:youvebeenh
Another such attack allows you to have whatever permissions the user who is running the backends permission. Therefore if the user is using a database you can drop tables, create tables, add yourself as an admin, etc.
There are tons of them. So read Writing Secure Code. Yet it is from Microsoft Press but it is a great book. Very well written.
Sorry Bush the Senate and Congress don't care. They are in the pockets of big business. Why do you think Cheney's previous company is rebuilding Iraq, why Enron picked the Energy Secretary and the EPA people. In fact Enron has paid for 3/4 of Congress. No wonder why Keneith Boy Lay got off scott free (Source: Molly Ivans, Public Record, etc.).
It's time we take back our government to work for the people and not big 'bidness'.
Java and C# are the easist languages to convert the byte code to source code. Obfuscators work but are easy to break, you get the problem of variable names being: var001, etc (mentioned before).
In fact there are many companies who write Java code who then compile it to byte code then use the decompilars to produce better looking/quality code! It also includes comments. (Source: A professional debugger).
I have the links to the decompiler for C#, it's free and the source code is freely available online. If you are interested just let me know and I can post the URL (it's at work).
Actually they do have something to make you grow. It's for people with a genetic disorder called, achondroplasia. This genetic disorder is an inherited disorder that prevents growth. They use a limb-lengthening technique.
How it works:
1. Break your bones in several different places.
2. Attach metal rods so that your bones stay separated a few cm's aparth.
3. Let the bones heal.
4. Repeat until desired height.
However this is a very painful procedure.
Source:
o Genetics Book
o http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/disease/achondroplasia
I should also probably add that the patent also includes the word "automaticly rendering on client side from a different source"
Sorry, add automatic. So the fix of always asking a user to do that side steps the patent.
Apparently nobody pays attention or does any research.
First off Eolas has filed the same patent three times (been rejected) and has been narrowing it down.
Basically the patent states:
Any inlining function that renders on the client that gets information from another server. However javascript is not affected, but activex and other plugins are, but the question is the img tag linking to another webpage affected? I know a few places will not allow their sites to have img tags to point to a different server.
This is a stupid patent and should be thrown out. And in fact if we wanted to get into the nitty/gritty details Microsoft could sit there and attack StarOffice/OpenOffice with some of their patents and copyright information and get them out of business.
Quote:
- working on that interesting open-source software project. Good for the resume as well
Apparently you didn't read his resume =). He has the a very impresive resume! Worked at NASA back in the day and has been busy with lots of wonderful jobs and experience.
I think he too over-qualified.
Quote:
- get in shape (running is cheap, and so are push-ups)
- eat better; too broke to eat out, so buy lots of veggies; kick the coffee and beer habit (too expensive)
Apparently you didn't read his page. He said he has been doing this.
Sorry, just bitter =)
pball
"My kid reads your honor kids e-mail"
What is more disturbing is that the RIAA stated that IPs are unique identifies. Apparently they never heard of dial-up. In fact even Comcast states that your IP address is not unique (so does Qwest and MSN DSL server). So their argument that somebody screwed up on Comcast part is wrong. It's that their whole way of doing this is completly flawed to begin with.
If they are going on that fact why not have everybody spoof the RIAA IPs and have them suing themselves. Note: I am not recommending doing this just making a point.
I guess the huge numbers of people who have no jobs have nothing better to do!
The reason why Sun Microsystems won't offer a release for Apple is because Steve Jobs said that Apple will take care of it. This was on a press release from apple on their site (http://www.apple.com) a few years ago. However, it is no longer there.
This was initially a problem for a project I started that was supposed to use Java 1.3 and there was no Mac support, but we had to support it anyways (not fun to integrate 1.1 & 1.3 Java code).
Umm, so if they lack security because somebody who has authorized and legitimate access to information shouldn't have. Does this statement make sense to anybody? So who has access to the information? Should should we be able to write the information and not read it? This has more to do with trusting employees, not hacking and not security.
We are assuming they have crappy security. I have yet to read a real hacker accessing the information.
I love it how they never put in the units. "Yes I have blazing 640K speed!" 640K what? 640 bits (or a nibble perhaps) per year?
Of course, bps (bits per second) is extremely misleading too. Why not be honest and saying: "64K" bytes per second.
This is, 8bits/char plus the two extra bits due to parity and other information.
Don't make numbers go naked! Put units on them!
Side note: 2 bits == nibble
Does this mean that when people who say, "Soldiers are protecting your rights, so don't say anything bad about the country or leave" can no longer say that?! If we have no rights, how do you defend them?
So does this mean that Apple can sue Windows for stealing everything from them?!