They weren't "hacked", they saw a tiny anomaly in their network traffic (which honestly, most companies wouldn't even have noticed), and decided to notify you about it and handle it in the most paranoid way possible. It's such a small thing that I wouldn't have expected most companies to even tell anyone it happened.
But somehow them behaving in a very commendable way for a security company has blown up into an absolute PR nightmare for them, with sites like BusinessWeek posting articles with the title "LastPass Loses Passwords for 1.25 Million Customers", which aren't even remotely correct. This is why companies don't disclose security breaches, because people are too dumb to understand the details, it gets sensationalized for no reason, and comes back to bite them hard.
Their implementation of this was pretty poor (trying to force almost everyone to change their password, when their server can't handle password changes at that rate), but their overall intentions were extremely good, and only make me even more confident in their service.
It's been my observation that people that get bored of not working or being on vacation just don't really have any interests or hobbies.
I think the same way as you, I'd be perfectly happy without a job. I'd definitely still do some programming, because I enjoy it, but it would only be on my own projects, and I don't really consider that the same as "work".
I know it's used as a meme around here, but I honestly can't even remember the last time I actually read one of the articles themselves. I always just go straight to the comments, I consider the articles to basically be a "topic suggestion".
Seems like it was a ridiculously mismanaged project, there's a good series of articles on a former employee's blog here: Where Realtime Worlds Went Wrong
I always wonder how someone even ends up attempting an exploit through something like this. How did they figure out in the first place that it might be a possible approach? It just seems so obscure compared to a lot of other exploit methods for other systems/programs (not that I know much about the topic).
I haven't RTFA, but that's unlikely. With a captcha, you receive a response indicating whether you were correct or not. When using OCR, there isn't really any automated way to be sure if you've gotten it right.
I've never really understood the complaints about eBay sniping. Set your maximum bid at the actual maximum that you want to pay. Whether someone snipes or not, if your bid is the highest you will win. If it's not, you won't.
Even if it is an actual problem for some reason though, I'd think that the simplest solution would just be to extend the auction slightly every time there is a new high bid. Add 5 or 10 minutes every time the bid increases, and sniping would be totally ineffective.
So you read the title, but didn't make it to the summary?
They're not adding new kanji for electronics, they're saying that some kanji are becoming more commonly used because using them when writing electronically removes the difficulty of actually writing those characters.
Hmmm. I just went there, and it says that PyGame has now been ported to JavaScript. That probably makes sense, given the major efforts to speed up JavaScript in the new-generation web browsers.
Or you were just really late in falling for an April Fools' joke.
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Well, I'm not sure that I believe that you actually use OpenOffice to edit code, but here's my standard example of something I can do much faster in vim than people can in other editors:
Imagine you have the following line of code:
$welcome_message = "Welcome to my site!";// message displayed at the top of the main page
How would you go about changing the welcome message?
Most people I know would use a combination of Home, End, Backspace, Shift, and the arrow keys to select or delete the string, and then type in a new welcome message. Some would reach over to grab the mouse and select the string, then type over it. In vim, I just need to get my cursor between the quote marks (and there are many ways to do this, personally I'd probably use a quick find and then a couple pushes of w or e). Once anywhere inside the quotes, I just type ci" (a 3-part command, change inside ") and it erases everything inside the quotes and puts me into insert mode. I can easily do this faster than your hand can even get to your mouse.
Yes, vim is hard to learn, and it's frustrating for quite a while. But once you start actually understanding the "language" of its commands and how they fit together, you'll wonder how you ever used anything else.
Judging from The Fonts.com Web Fonts page, they're using some sort of javascript to try to protect their fonts. If I toggle javascript on and off for fonts.com, the look of that page changes as a bunch of fonts turn on/off. Their "three easy steps" on the right also includes "Add a short script to your site".
XBMC has plugins available as well that let you play stuff from Youtube/Hulu/etc without leaving the interface, I'd suggest those, it's easier than loading up Firefox.
I didn't really like using the wireless keyboard, so I use an Xbox 360 controller to control mine, it works very well. I'm still running Windows 7 on my Revo, so I just use Xpadder to bind the controller's buttons/sticks to keys, that lets you set it up to work pretty much however you want. I'm sure a similar thing is easily possible through Linux as well.
Yeah, could be a factor. I've ripped all the DVDs that I own so that they're all available to browse and play without disc-swapping anyway, but I also have a PS3 hooked to the same TV, so I just play a DVD through that if necessary. An external drive could be an option as well.
I use an Acer AspireRevo 3610 nettop running XBMC as my media PC. Has direct HDMI output, it's totally silent, and some of the newer nightly builds of XBMC support GPU video decoding. XBMC has plugins for watching youtube, Hulu, etc through it easily as well.
Not really sure what else to say, highly recommended, it makes a great media PC. You should be able to find the 2GB RAM model for somewhere in the $300 range.
Only samzenpus does that. I guess the quality of the stories he posts is so low anyway that they figure adding a photo can't really make things any worse.
I don't know which theaters you guys are going to, to think that they're dying. Every theater I've been to on a Friday or Saturday evening recently has been absolutely jammed, you can hardly walk through the lobby.
Reminds me of that old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."
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Oh for the love of god, this is way out of hand.
They weren't "hacked", they saw a tiny anomaly in their network traffic (which honestly, most companies wouldn't even have noticed), and decided to notify you about it and handle it in the most paranoid way possible. It's such a small thing that I wouldn't have expected most companies to even tell anyone it happened.
But somehow them behaving in a very commendable way for a security company has blown up into an absolute PR nightmare for them, with sites like BusinessWeek posting articles with the title "LastPass Loses Passwords for 1.25 Million Customers", which aren't even remotely correct. This is why companies don't disclose security breaches, because people are too dumb to understand the details, it gets sensationalized for no reason, and comes back to bite them hard.
Their implementation of this was pretty poor (trying to force almost everyone to change their password, when their server can't handle password changes at that rate), but their overall intentions were extremely good, and only make me even more confident in their service.
Sadly, GonorrheaDB isn't really that much worse of a name than MongoDB.
Access? Really? PostgreSQL would have been a much better suggestion.
Which would accomplish absolutely nothing, since "summery" is a word.
It's been my observation that people that get bored of not working or being on vacation just don't really have any interests or hobbies.
I think the same way as you, I'd be perfectly happy without a job. I'd definitely still do some programming, because I enjoy it, but it would only be on my own projects, and I don't really consider that the same as "work".
I know it's used as a meme around here, but I honestly can't even remember the last time I actually read one of the articles themselves. I always just go straight to the comments, I consider the articles to basically be a "topic suggestion".
Suggested reading: Twin Galaxies' Official Statements about "The King of Kong". They probably shouldn't even be allowed to call that movie a "documentary".
No, their entire marketing plan was to hide as much of the game as possible until release, and then ban everyone from reviewing it until a week after it came out.
Seems like it was a ridiculously mismanaged project, there's a good series of articles on a former employee's blog here: Where Realtime Worlds Went Wrong
I always wonder how someone even ends up attempting an exploit through something like this. How did they figure out in the first place that it might be a possible approach? It just seems so obscure compared to a lot of other exploit methods for other systems/programs (not that I know much about the topic).
You are disturbingly misinformed.
I haven't RTFA, but that's unlikely. With a captcha, you receive a response indicating whether you were correct or not. When using OCR, there isn't really any automated way to be sure if you've gotten it right.
I've never really understood the complaints about eBay sniping. Set your maximum bid at the actual maximum that you want to pay. Whether someone snipes or not, if your bid is the highest you will win. If it's not, you won't.
Even if it is an actual problem for some reason though, I'd think that the simplest solution would just be to extend the auction slightly every time there is a new high bid. Add 5 or 10 minutes every time the bid increases, and sniping would be totally ineffective.
Saw a great post on reddit earlier today where a user goes through a bunch of Apple's own advertising to see how they've shown the phone being held.
So you read the title, but didn't make it to the summary?
They're not adding new kanji for electronics, they're saying that some kanji are becoming more commonly used because using them when writing electronically removes the difficulty of actually writing those characters.
Hmmm. I just went there, and it says that PyGame has now been ported to JavaScript. That probably makes sense, given the major efforts to speed up JavaScript in the new-generation web browsers.
Or you were just really late in falling for an April Fools' joke.
Well, I'm not sure that I believe that you actually use OpenOffice to edit code, but here's my standard example of something I can do much faster in vim than people can in other editors:
// message displayed at the top of the main page
Imagine you have the following line of code:
$welcome_message = "Welcome to my site!";
How would you go about changing the welcome message?
Most people I know would use a combination of Home, End, Backspace, Shift, and the arrow keys to select or delete the string, and then type in a new welcome message. Some would reach over to grab the mouse and select the string, then type over it. In vim, I just need to get my cursor between the quote marks (and there are many ways to do this, personally I'd probably use a quick find and then a couple pushes of w or e). Once anywhere inside the quotes, I just type ci" (a 3-part command, change inside ") and it erases everything inside the quotes and puts me into insert mode. I can easily do this faster than your hand can even get to your mouse.
Yes, vim is hard to learn, and it's frustrating for quite a while. But once you start actually understanding the "language" of its commands and how they fit together, you'll wonder how you ever used anything else.
A NYSE Spokesman disagrees with this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-bad-procter-gamble-trades-at-nyse-spokesman-2010-05-06
Judging from The Fonts.com Web Fonts page, they're using some sort of javascript to try to protect their fonts. If I toggle javascript on and off for fonts.com, the look of that page changes as a bunch of fonts turn on/off. Their "three easy steps" on the right also includes "Add a short script to your site".
Where exactly do you get one of these "perm emails" that aren't tied to any sort of service that might go down or disappear in the future?
XBMC has plugins available as well that let you play stuff from Youtube/Hulu/etc without leaving the interface, I'd suggest those, it's easier than loading up Firefox.
I didn't really like using the wireless keyboard, so I use an Xbox 360 controller to control mine, it works very well. I'm still running Windows 7 on my Revo, so I just use Xpadder to bind the controller's buttons/sticks to keys, that lets you set it up to work pretty much however you want. I'm sure a similar thing is easily possible through Linux as well.
Yeah, could be a factor. I've ripped all the DVDs that I own so that they're all available to browse and play without disc-swapping anyway, but I also have a PS3 hooked to the same TV, so I just play a DVD through that if necessary. An external drive could be an option as well.
I use an Acer AspireRevo 3610 nettop running XBMC as my media PC. Has direct HDMI output, it's totally silent, and some of the newer nightly builds of XBMC support GPU video decoding. XBMC has plugins for watching youtube, Hulu, etc through it easily as well.
Not really sure what else to say, highly recommended, it makes a great media PC. You should be able to find the 2GB RAM model for somewhere in the $300 range.
Only samzenpus does that. I guess the quality of the stories he posts is so low anyway that they figure adding a photo can't really make things any worse.
I don't know which theaters you guys are going to, to think that they're dying. Every theater I've been to on a Friday or Saturday evening recently has been absolutely jammed, you can hardly walk through the lobby.
Reminds me of that old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."