WMD? Nope. Al Quaida? Nope, Saddam hated them too. Anyone?
With great power comes great responsibility. Or are you saying that the powerful should be able to do exactly what they want with no repurcussions? We reap what we sow. It's not just the US. UK and Spain too, amongst others.
"Since no one has blown up anything Canadian recently, you don't have to worry about that".
Perhaps what might be more instructive would be to examine why no one is blowing anything up in Canada.
"...fewer people seem to think seriously about the way lack of privacy is just a natural consequence of civilized life."
Errr, no. Fewer people seem to think seriously that a less safe environment is just a natural consequence of a fucked up foreign policy that pisses over other countries and expects zero consequences.
Your argument could just as easily have been, "Honestly, there's no good excuse for anyone not using 4 digits to represent years these days, yes even on MS DOS", 10 years ago.
You're making the same assumption that people made in the seventies. The "Nothing that runs today will still be in use in 2000" brigade. They were proved so right, weren't they? All those expensive mainframes? Phht, they'll be dead in 30 years.
...customize it and not distribute it. This is what companies like Google and Amazon do...
And under GPL v3, they would have to release their changes. So there goes that loophole. A key reason why we're looking at dumping GPL code - if that kicks in, we have a lot of rewriting to do.
I'm arguing from the POV that the machine has yet to be compromised. If you can run that JS on your Bank's login page, you've got bigger problems than them stealing your site key.
Back in the day you *could* run JS in one iframe that interacts with the contents of another on another domain, but not now - nor for last 6 or 7 years. Unless you have some astoundingly clever code you wish to share? No, thought not. Damn script kids...
your journal post (linked from your sig) is wrong:
"Bot sends spam directing people to a properly-registered similar-spelling secure web site run by the bad guys. The bad guys get your userid, and pass it on to one of a thousand other zombie-bots who give it to your bank and gets the picture."
The bank only serves the picture after you answer a security question. You would have to steal the cookie *and* probably access it from a geographically similar IP.
"My parents told me never to go through the cellar door because horrible things lay on the other side. But one day, curiosity got the better of me, and I went through the cellar door. On the other side, I saw strange and wonderful things, things I'd never seen before, like trees... and clouds..."
I would suggest you do a little research on this, look at the evidence and then decide. Unless you have proof he is alive that you'd love to share?
He was sick in 2001 - very sick. And on dialisis. The last video claiming to be Osama (2004) was a fake - compare it to previous ones. Oh, and his funeral was announced in an Egyptian newspaper.
Nope, we host urchin (we bought it a while back - version 4, I believe). It's all local, the js, cookies etc. Unless you want to start selectively deleting individual cookies after each page visit, there's not much you can right now.
I don't think it will be long until there's a cookie wildcard blocker available - like adblock, but for cookies. But, I'm sure that when that arrives, the analytics firms will just start creating randomly named cookies that would pass such filters - not an enormous task. Or just use query string session tracking and an Apache module.
I haven't looked at what Google's done with Urchin, but for anything over the basic level, you're going to be running these analytics in house. I'm assuming that the google-analytics.com is their hosted solution. Doesn't apply to us;-)
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I can't believe they omitted that. The original scared the shit out of me first time through.
Why are we in Iraq?
WMD? Nope. Al Quaida? Nope, Saddam hated them too. Anyone?
With great power comes great responsibility. Or are you saying that the powerful should be able to do exactly what they want with no repurcussions? We reap what we sow. It's not just the US. UK and Spain too, amongst others.
"Since no one has blown up anything Canadian recently, you don't have to worry about that".
Perhaps what might be more instructive would be to examine why no one is blowing anything up in Canada.
"...fewer people seem to think seriously about the way lack of privacy is just a natural consequence of civilized life."
Errr, no. Fewer people seem to think seriously that a less safe environment is just a natural consequence of a fucked up foreign policy that pisses over other countries and expects zero consequences.
Legacy Code.
Your argument could just as easily have been, "Honestly, there's no good excuse for anyone not using 4 digits to represent years these days, yes even on MS DOS", 10 years ago.
You're making the same assumption that people made in the seventies. The "Nothing that runs today will still be in use in 2000" brigade. They were proved so right, weren't they? All those expensive mainframes? Phht, they'll be dead in 30 years.
Well, I just sent you a nickel through PayPal, and you now owe them 20c, so that's perfectly understandable ;-)
Any product whose logo is a subliminal picture of two men staring at a pair of breasts is bound to win overall.
And under GPL v3, they would have to release their changes. So there goes that loophole. A key reason why we're looking at dumping GPL code - if that kicks in, we have a lot of rewriting to do.
Ipowerweb* ended up buying iPower.com from an engineering company because they were sick of getting calls from iPowerweb's clients.
cLive ;-)
*my employer
I hope it's easier to clean up than beer! fnah
I need a mod point - did I mod this thread?
well, i told you... (testing)
As always, we must look to the porn industry to find a way to make money from this new technology before it trickles down (sic) to the average user.
And you are going to run this how?
I'm arguing from the POV that the machine has yet to be compromised. If you can run that JS on your Bank's login page, you've got bigger problems than them stealing your site key.
Back in the day you *could* run JS in one iframe that interacts with the contents of another on another domain, but not now - nor for last 6 or 7 years. Unless you have some astoundingly clever code you wish to share? No, thought not. Damn script kids...
your journal post (linked from your sig) is wrong:
"Bot sends spam directing people to a properly-registered similar-spelling secure web site run by the bad guys. The bad guys get your userid, and pass it on to one of a thousand other zombie-bots who give it to your bank and gets the picture."
The bank only serves the picture after you answer a security question. You would have to steal the cookie *and* probably access it from a geographically similar IP.
...non-Americans get these diseases too? The article doesn't make it clear *cough*
Emo Phillips.
"My parents told me never to go through the cellar door because horrible things lay on the other side. But one day, curiosity got the better of me, and I went through the cellar door. On the other side, I saw strange and wonderful things, things I'd never seen before, like trees... and clouds..."
You sir, are a trolling dick. But, I'm sure you knew that when you posted, so I guess this is a moot point.
I don't think they'll be licensing this :)
"My main problem with AJAX: submitting a form without reloading the page! Any easy way to do that?"
Process form. Send the following header back to the browser:
I would suggest you do a little research on this, look at the evidence and then decide. Unless you have proof he is alive that you'd love to share?
He was sick in 2001 - very sick. And on dialisis. The last video claiming to be Osama (2004) was a fake - compare it to previous ones. Oh, and his funeral was announced in an Egyptian newspaper.
Don't you think if he was alive that they would have not disbanded the CIA's Osama task force?
It does not make sense that this would happen when the guy has a $25M bounty on his head. You do not need a conspiracy to see that.
Of course, the trouble with that is that Osama died in 2001. Why do you think he's no longer public enemy No. 1?
Well, it worked for me, anyway...
All that work - and all they had to do was read Slashdot headlines for a few weeks.
*rimshot*
14,000 results for "do not distribute".
Now all they have to do is learn what not to index :)
Nope, we host urchin (we bought it a while back - version 4, I believe). It's all local, the js, cookies etc. Unless you want to start selectively deleting individual cookies after each page visit, there's not much you can right now.
;-)
I don't think it will be long until there's a cookie wildcard blocker available - like adblock, but for cookies. But, I'm sure that when that arrives, the analytics firms will just start creating randomly named cookies that would pass such filters - not an enormous task. Or just use query string session tracking and an Apache module.
I haven't looked at what Google's done with Urchin, but for anything over the basic level, you're going to be running these analytics in house. I'm assuming that the google-analytics.com is their hosted solution. Doesn't apply to us