I agree what the question is retarded and they should be acting professionally to begin with. What scares me (I'm asking because you said you're a lawyer and no what ever you say isn't legal advice, but you're competent enough to at least have a clue to the answer) is the "leering" or "brushing up against". Has it ever happened where someone has actually sued someone for looking at them or brushing up against them? Those two provisions seem kind of insane to me. Then again I could be misunderstanding them. I've never actually had a sexual harassment class not really sure why I've never been to one now that I think about it (not saying I sexually harass people, because I don't maybe thats why I haven't been to one).
Heaven forbid you look at someone or accidentally bump into them. I get the don't tell off color jokes, no touching, etc but if you just look at someone in a way they don't like you can get charged with sexual harassment? Some of the stand up meetings I've been in could be considered sexual harassment just based on how close we were force to stand next to each other.
If you're constantly tiptoeing around then you're with the wrong person. I've been married for many years and am quite happy. Am I happy 100% of the time? No, but that's unreasonable to expect. I would say I'm happy 90% of the time though and I do no tiptoeing. My wife and I enjoy playing the same video games (WoW, galaga, mario bros, etc), eating mostly the same food, and find the same type of humor funny. We have a few different interests as well (she likes playing music and I enjoy programming for example) and when we want to do something the other doesn't we go do what we want. When we have an issue with each other we address it and move on. I think a big problem with a lot of couples is lack of communication and being honest about their feelings with each other. If more couples would actually address their issues like adults instead of keeping them inside more relationships would work out. If you can't openly talk to your partner about how you feel then the relationship was doomed from the start.
I never said "life in a small town is all hard labor" and never eluded to it. Nice try at trying to make me look like someone who looks down on small town people though.
I did live 30 miles from the nearest town and guess what. I got a newspaper. Was it on my step every morning? No, but it was in my mailbox by the time I got done working. I could have gotten satellite Internet, but I didn't really see the point. I was hardly ever inside anyway. When I did get on the Internet it was via a dialup account and the phone lines were so horrid I'd be lucky to get a 9600 connection. If it was raining or had rained in the last week forget about even trying. A good percentage of the rural population in that area doesn't have Internet at all for the exact same reasons.
Can someone setup a blog / website that lives in a small town? Sure, why not? I've lived in a lot of small towns and have yet to see someone make a blog or website that could compete with the newspaper. What you're talking about is the exception and not the rule. If you really want to try and refute my point supply some successful examples of an individual running a website that is out performing the towns newspaper.
Chances are he knows what he's doing. If I was investing in news papers I would do the same thing he's doing. Newspapers in small towns have a better chance of turning a profit, because that's generally where people get their small town news. No website is going to report on stuff that matters to them, because those 1k or 30k people towns don't generally matter to them. There's also generally one paper in town which is a plus.
I wasn't talking about javascript. He was talking directly about this attack. Disabling Java not Javascript is what would stop it. I just double checked BofA as well. It worked fine with Java and Flash disabled. It is pretty stupid it won't without javascript though. The only thing I can think of is maybe to try and stop bots, but even that is dumb. It's trivial to embed webkit, use the webbrowser object, etc to parse js.
1) Disable Java by default. I have yet to have a website that I use regularly not work, because Java doesn't run. Whitelist the sites you want to Java on.
2) Don't blindly click and enter your password at every prompt
Those two things alone would make you immune to this.
I had a friend that did a demonstration of just that. He built an exploit while he was up there doing the talk. It took a couple hours, but when he was done he had a functional 0day. Believe it or not people actually do what he's describing. If the good guys are doing it for pentesting I'd guess the bad guys are doing it as well.
I have no problem with viewing the occasional ad. They help fund websites I enjoy including slashdot. I have the option to turn off ads here, but I don't. Saying your web experience is better than someone who doesn't subscribe to your philosophy of "all ads are bad and completely ruin the entire web" is silly. The phrase "a good web experience" is subjective. What I find good you might find bad and vice versa. If a website has annoying video and/or audio ads I just won't go to the site. If it weren't for marketing I would have missed out on some interesting things. I do absolutely need those things? No, but that doesn't change the fact I like them.
Ajax is more rugged than PHP? I hope you're kidding.
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I've been programming in PHP for over a decade now. Back when I started I was a C programmer and PHP fit what I needed "better" than C did. I absolutely hated writing a web page with C/CGI. My original code looked a lot like C and the learning curve was almost non-existent. As time went on other languages popped up and matured into proper web languages. By this time I had so much code and time invested into PHP I didn't feel like learning python or ruby. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who felt like that. For all it's faults it's made me a lot of money and provided a nice income for many years. I have C for *NIX development, C# for Windows development, PHP for web stuff, and perl for other random things. Having said that I'm in the process of learning Python now that I have more time and it's quite a fun language. I wish I would have done this earlier.
You can have a great teacher and still have a majority of the kids fail if they all have shit heads for parents that refuse to work with them. That's another big issue we have in this country. A lot of parents have the belief that it's 100% the schools responsibility to teach the kids and they shouldn't have to do anything. This especially true in low income areas. The truth is a good portion of eduction happens at home and without that the kids education is handicapped.
It's one thing to use a bot / external program to cheat. I agree ban those people, but Blizzard does ban people for stuff that isn't really a cheat IMO. Like the other poster mentioned buying item for Y from a NPC then selling it for Z (that's higher than Y). A recent example is when they added LFR. There was a "hack" were you could run it more than once and still get loot. If I remember correctly what you'd do is run it once roll on everything you can normally. Then you'd run it with a friend and they'd roll on what dropped. If they won it they weren't suppose to be able to trade it to you, because you weren't eligible. It didn't work that way though, because it did let you trade it. When they did patch it they banned a bunch of people for doing that even though they were playing within the parameters of the game. It's not their fault the developers overlooked such a simple thing to check.
I agree and I have the same experiences with slackware. I've been using it since the early 90s and learned on it as well. Even to this day I recommend it to people wanting to learn Linux, but there's always that idiot that goes on about Ubuntu is better for learning. Sadly a lot of people will listen to that person.
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I agree what the question is retarded and they should be acting professionally to begin with. What scares me (I'm asking because you said you're a lawyer and no what ever you say isn't legal advice, but you're competent enough to at least have a clue to the answer) is the "leering" or "brushing up against". Has it ever happened where someone has actually sued someone for looking at them or brushing up against them? Those two provisions seem kind of insane to me. Then again I could be misunderstanding them. I've never actually had a sexual harassment class not really sure why I've never been to one now that I think about it (not saying I sexually harass people, because I don't maybe thats why I haven't been to one).
Heaven forbid you look at someone or accidentally bump into them. I get the don't tell off color jokes, no touching, etc but if you just look at someone in a way they don't like you can get charged with sexual harassment? Some of the stand up meetings I've been in could be considered sexual harassment just based on how close we were force to stand next to each other.
To bad it's the guy who wrote the mission critical perl stuff all on one line :( /badjoke
I was wondering the same thing. She sounds half crazy.
Really, how many of you have been stopped at government checkpoints and asked to show your papers (except when leaving the country)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiMW0AWIvwU
Happens a lot in Arizona.
If you're constantly tiptoeing around then you're with the wrong person. I've been married for many years and am quite happy. Am I happy 100% of the time? No, but that's unreasonable to expect. I would say I'm happy 90% of the time though and I do no tiptoeing. My wife and I enjoy playing the same video games (WoW, galaga, mario bros, etc), eating mostly the same food, and find the same type of humor funny. We have a few different interests as well (she likes playing music and I enjoy programming for example) and when we want to do something the other doesn't we go do what we want. When we have an issue with each other we address it and move on. I think a big problem with a lot of couples is lack of communication and being honest about their feelings with each other. If more couples would actually address their issues like adults instead of keeping them inside more relationships would work out. If you can't openly talk to your partner about how you feel then the relationship was doomed from the start.
I never said "life in a small town is all hard labor" and never eluded to it. Nice try at trying to make me look like someone who looks down on small town people though.
I did live 30 miles from the nearest town and guess what. I got a newspaper. Was it on my step every morning? No, but it was in my mailbox by the time I got done working. I could have gotten satellite Internet, but I didn't really see the point. I was hardly ever inside anyway. When I did get on the Internet it was via a dialup account and the phone lines were so horrid I'd be lucky to get a 9600 connection. If it was raining or had rained in the last week forget about even trying. A good percentage of the rural population in that area doesn't have Internet at all for the exact same reasons.
Can someone setup a blog / website that lives in a small town? Sure, why not? I've lived in a lot of small towns and have yet to see someone make a blog or website that could compete with the newspaper. What you're talking about is the exception and not the rule. If you really want to try and refute my point supply some successful examples of an individual running a website that is out performing the towns newspaper.
Chances are he knows what he's doing. If I was investing in news papers I would do the same thing he's doing. Newspapers in small towns have a better chance of turning a profit, because that's generally where people get their small town news. No website is going to report on stuff that matters to them, because those 1k or 30k people towns don't generally matter to them. There's also generally one paper in town which is a plus.
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I wasn't talking about javascript. He was talking directly about this attack. Disabling Java not Javascript is what would stop it. I just double checked BofA as well. It worked fine with Java and Flash disabled. It is pretty stupid it won't without javascript though. The only thing I can think of is maybe to try and stop bots, but even that is dumb. It's trivial to embed webkit, use the webbrowser object, etc to parse js.
I used it for legal files. Several people I know did the same. I'm pretty sure my small group of people weren't the only ones either.
I was on one of their hubs in my local scene before it was shutdown. It was a really nice BBS. I miss those days.
1) Disable Java by default. I have yet to have a website that I use regularly not work, because Java doesn't run. Whitelist the sites you want to Java on.
2) Don't blindly click and enter your password at every prompt
Those two things alone would make you immune to this.
They use fake names when getting it signed.
I had a friend that did a demonstration of just that. He built an exploit while he was up there doing the talk. It took a couple hours, but when he was done he had a functional 0day. Believe it or not people actually do what he's describing. If the good guys are doing it for pentesting I'd guess the bad guys are doing it as well.
I have no problem with viewing the occasional ad. They help fund websites I enjoy including slashdot. I have the option to turn off ads here, but I don't. Saying your web experience is better than someone who doesn't subscribe to your philosophy of "all ads are bad and completely ruin the entire web" is silly. The phrase "a good web experience" is subjective. What I find good you might find bad and vice versa. If a website has annoying video and/or audio ads I just won't go to the site. If it weren't for marketing I would have missed out on some interesting things. I do absolutely need those things? No, but that doesn't change the fact I like them.
Because there isn't a -1 I disagree with you.
Ajax is more rugged than PHP? I hope you're kidding.
I've been programming in PHP for over a decade now. Back when I started I was a C programmer and PHP fit what I needed "better" than C did. I absolutely hated writing a web page with C/CGI. My original code looked a lot like C and the learning curve was almost non-existent. As time went on other languages popped up and matured into proper web languages. By this time I had so much code and time invested into PHP I didn't feel like learning python or ruby. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who felt like that. For all it's faults it's made me a lot of money and provided a nice income for many years. I have C for *NIX development, C# for Windows development, PHP for web stuff, and perl for other random things. Having said that I'm in the process of learning Python now that I have more time and it's quite a fun language. I wish I would have done this earlier.
You can have a great teacher and still have a majority of the kids fail if they all have shit heads for parents that refuse to work with them. That's another big issue we have in this country. A lot of parents have the belief that it's 100% the schools responsibility to teach the kids and they shouldn't have to do anything. This especially true in low income areas. The truth is a good portion of eduction happens at home and without that the kids education is handicapped.
You're right. They aren't doing it, because it's the right thing to do, but I'm still happy they're doing it.
For a second I thought I was pulled into an episode of the The Twilight Zone. Comcast is the last company I expect this from. Go Comcast?
It's one thing to use a bot / external program to cheat. I agree ban those people, but Blizzard does ban people for stuff that isn't really a cheat IMO. Like the other poster mentioned buying item for Y from a NPC then selling it for Z (that's higher than Y). A recent example is when they added LFR. There was a "hack" were you could run it more than once and still get loot. If I remember correctly what you'd do is run it once roll on everything you can normally. Then you'd run it with a friend and they'd roll on what dropped. If they won it they weren't suppose to be able to trade it to you, because you weren't eligible. It didn't work that way though, because it did let you trade it. When they did patch it they banned a bunch of people for doing that even though they were playing within the parameters of the game. It's not their fault the developers overlooked such a simple thing to check.
Who's saying it already hasn't?
I agree and I have the same experiences with slackware. I've been using it since the early 90s and learned on it as well. Even to this day I recommend it to people wanting to learn Linux, but there's always that idiot that goes on about Ubuntu is better for learning. Sadly a lot of people will listen to that person.