Workaround
This attack only works if the user is using another internet-connected application with Firefox not running. Using Firefox, or making sure it is at least running, prevents this attack.
I had to giggle at the workaround. To prevent a firefox flaw from biting you, you need to have firefox open. Phew, I'm so glad I'm safe.
The trick is to trip the guy first. Once he's on the ground you can say you thought he had a hard attack and there weren't any defibrillators handy so you used your ingenuity and made your own. The plus side is once the guy gets up you obviously saved him. Toys R' Us should give you some sort of wiiward for your heroism.
If this was done right it could be used to teach tolerance to the approx 270 large religious groups out there. It could be tied in with history or social studies. I think it is much harder to hate or fear a religion that you've learned about and even better met someone face to face who practices it. Often it's exciting to see how close your religion is to another persons. For example "Wow you had a giant flood too?"
I wonder though if this is going to cause a flood of charter and private schools based on "hard" science to open and the parochial school kids to return to public schools.
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Great there goes my plans of printing tesseracts.
I had to giggle at the workaround. To prevent a firefox flaw from biting you, you need to have firefox open. Phew, I'm so glad I'm safe.
The trick is to trip the guy first. Once he's on the ground you can say you thought he had a hard attack and there weren't any defibrillators handy so you used your ingenuity and made your own. The plus side is once the guy gets up you obviously saved him. Toys R' Us should give you some sort of wiiward for your heroism.
If this was done right it could be used to teach tolerance to the approx 270 large religious groups out there. It could be tied in with history or social studies. I think it is much harder to hate or fear a religion that you've learned about and even better met someone face to face who practices it. Often it's exciting to see how close your religion is to another persons. For example "Wow you had a giant flood too?"
I wonder though if this is going to cause a flood of charter and private schools based on "hard" science to open and the parochial school kids to return to public schools.