I'm reminded of of all the posts I see on antispam mailing lists about how email should only allow plain text, and should block HTML mail and attachments because they make it too easy for exploits/social engineering/bypassing filters/etc.
Seriously, get in the car, roll down the windows, drive out of the parking lot or down the street until cold air starts coming out of the AC (or until you start moving fast enough that air through the windows causes too much drag) and then close them for the rest of the drive.
I used to have a set of CDs to listen to when doing homework, coding, or writing. I made a point to listen to music with lyrics when I was doing something that was mostly math, and instrumental music when I was working with words.
Seconded. I've on several occasions jumped over to TV Tropes just to look up a single term, then middle-clicked my way through a page, middle-clicked my way through another page, and 3 hours later found myself with 20 tabs open just on that site. And of course I can't bring myself to close them without reading them...
I've got a 12" PowerBook, which at the time was the bottom of the high-end range. One of the things that bothered me about the Intel switch is that Apple shifted the line between low-end (MacBook) and high-end (PowerBook/MacBook Pro) upward, so you can't get a MacBook Pro any smaller than 15" or cheaper than $2000. I want something that will fit in a backpack and cost less than two grand, but I hate, hate the plastic keyboards on the current MacBook line.
So if they've redesigned the MacBooks with a new keyboard, I'm all for it. I'll just have to get down to a store once these are in stock and see how I like typing on them.
Long-time opera user here, and I feel it's falling behind rapidly. No ACID3, relatively slow javascript, other browsers catching up.
It's an incremental release over 9.5. All the ACID3 stuff went on in the internal development builds (though you can download that one with the first ACID3 100/100 pass), which will most likely be Opera 10 -- and that's what should be compared to still-in-the-future releases like Firefox 3.1, Chrome 1.0, etc.
Consider a search for the nearest coffee shop, video store, etc. within walking distance. You can look for a street address on the nearby buildings (good luck with that in some areas) and type it in, or you can allow you mapping app of choice to figure out where you are and look it up automatically.
Displaying something only the OS should know is an interesting idea... like let the users customize a window border by splattering paint and then it might be blatantly obvious which windows were their personal design, and which were fakes (different splatter pattern and different colors.) Has anybody seen anything like that implemented?
Not with window dialogs, but I've seen several browser & email plugins that use user-defined images to guard against phishing. The idea is that you assign your image to www.yourbanksite.example, then the browser will show that image whenever you visit that page... but if you end up visiting www.yourbankslte.com instead, it won't show the image, and you'll be able to notice that more clearly than the fact that the spelling is off.
It's also kind of similar to the icon that Yahoo lets you set on your login form.
Using the app to DDOS someone is simply the payload. The point is that:
(a) A trojan was introduced into the ecosystem. (b) Users installed it.
It's not clear whether the users simply saw it in the directory and installed it, or whether they looked at their friends' apps and said, "Hey, that looks interesting." (Or whether users were promoting it to their friends, like a chain letter.)
The lesson is that social network apps need to be treated with the same caution as apps that you would install on your computer.
I thought it might have something to do with data retention and backups. i.e. preventing someone from suing them because they still have a copy of a deleted video on one of their 2-month-old backup tapes.
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Oh, right. The, what, 5-6 years it pretended to be IE just don't count at all? And Opera was even werse, it didn't say "IE Compatible", it flat-out said, "hey I'm IE!"
Actually, it was more like, "Hey, I'm IE! (Just kidding, I'm Opera.)" I like to compare it to a brunette wearing a badge that says, "Hi, I'm blonde."
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That might make an incentive for folks to stop using so much.
Yeah, it might prompt people to do something like try to cut down on how much water their data center uses.
honestly who cares how much water flows through a data center?
I take it you don't live in an area facing a water shortage?
And then post links to that on FaceBook, mySpace, myBook, FaceSpace and BookFace, or whatever the hell they're called.
Nah, those are soooo last month. Everyone's on Twitbookspacer now.
The good news is, once the next big thing comes along and people move on to that, there won't be so many twits online anymore!
And it's the first strip too: Give Her More Meat.
Except that web pages are not programs.
The line's blurring. Ever use Google Documents?
I think the obvious solution here is to equip Google cars with sharks. I don't care how angry your mob is, lets see it mess with a shark.
Especially if those sharks have frickin' laser beams!
I'm reminded of of all the posts I see on antispam mailing lists about how email should only allow plain text, and should block HTML mail and attachments because they make it too easy for exploits/social engineering/bypassing filters/etc.
Seriously, get in the car, roll down the windows, drive out of the parking lot or down the street until cold air starts coming out of the AC (or until you start moving fast enough that air through the windows causes too much drag) and then close them for the rest of the drive.
So what do you use for coding?
Ambient stuff, mainly. Singing with words in a foreign language I don't know, or sung in such a way that they're mostly unintelligible.
I used to have a set of CDs to listen to when doing homework, coding, or writing. I made a point to listen to music with lyrics when I was doing something that was mostly math, and instrumental music when I was working with words.
Seconded. I've on several occasions jumped over to TV Tropes just to look up a single term, then middle-clicked my way through a page, middle-clicked my way through another page, and 3 hours later found myself with 20 tabs open just on that site. And of course I can't bring myself to close them without reading them...
This might be my next notebook.
I've got a 12" PowerBook, which at the time was the bottom of the high-end range. One of the things that bothered me about the Intel switch is that Apple shifted the line between low-end (MacBook) and high-end (PowerBook/MacBook Pro) upward, so you can't get a MacBook Pro any smaller than 15" or cheaper than $2000. I want something that will fit in a backpack and cost less than two grand, but I hate, hate the plastic keyboards on the current MacBook line.
So if they've redesigned the MacBooks with a new keyboard, I'm all for it. I'll just have to get down to a store once these are in stock and see how I like typing on them.
As a KDE user, I prefer Opera over Firefox, simply use to better resource useage, that being said, has Opera 9.6 started using Qt4 yet?
Yes. The main download page, as far as I can tell, only offers the QT3 version, but you can download QT4 builds from the FTP server.
Long-time opera user here, and I feel it's falling behind rapidly. No ACID3, relatively slow javascript, other browsers catching up.
It's an incremental release over 9.5. All the ACID3 stuff went on in the internal development builds (though you can download that one with the first ACID3 100/100 pass), which will most likely be Opera 10 -- and that's what should be compared to still-in-the-future releases like Firefox 3.1, Chrome 1.0, etc.
I might consider using it when they remove the ads.
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Think mobile computing.
Consider a search for the nearest coffee shop, video store, etc. within walking distance. You can look for a street address on the nearby buildings (good luck with that in some areas) and type it in, or you can allow you mapping app of choice to figure out where you are and look it up automatically.
This surprises me, considering how heavily they were promoting the game at San Diego Comic-Con this past July.
You think they're cuddly, but I think they're sinister.
That's still my favorite for sheer quirkiness of wording.
Displaying something only the OS should know is an interesting idea... like let the users customize a window border by splattering paint and then it might be blatantly obvious which windows were their personal design, and which were fakes (different splatter pattern and different colors.) Has anybody seen anything like that implemented?
Not with window dialogs, but I've seen several browser & email plugins that use user-defined images to guard against phishing. The idea is that you assign your image to www.yourbanksite.example, then the browser will show that image whenever you visit that page... but if you end up visiting www.yourbankslte.com instead, it won't show the image, and you'll be able to notice that more clearly than the fact that the spelling is off.
It's also kind of similar to the icon that Yahoo lets you set on your login form.
It's not clear from the article whether it's actually on the web, or whether it's on a private network. I'd hope the latter.
On another note, I can imagine some of the standard social networking tropes: "Current Music: Mission Impossible Theme."
Using the app to DDOS someone is simply the payload. The point is that:
(a) A trojan was introduced into the ecosystem.
(b) Users installed it.
It's not clear whether the users simply saw it in the directory and installed it, or whether they looked at their friends' apps and said, "Hey, that looks interesting." (Or whether users were promoting it to their friends, like a chain letter.)
The lesson is that social network apps need to be treated with the same caution as apps that you would install on your computer.
I could swear I recently read something where Toyota stated that the plural of Prius was Prius (like fish).
I thought it might have something to do with data retention and backups. i.e. preventing someone from suing them because they still have a copy of a deleted video on one of their 2-month-old backup tapes.
Oh, right. The, what, 5-6 years it pretended to be IE just don't count at all? And Opera was even werse, it didn't say "IE Compatible", it flat-out said, "hey I'm IE!"
Actually, it was more like, "Hey, I'm IE! (Just kidding, I'm Opera.)" I like to compare it to a brunette wearing a badge that says, "Hi, I'm blonde."