That's what I figured you were doing -- nothing there I didn't know. I asked more because I wondered what route you use (DNS info vs looking around the website) rather than genuinely not knowing.
I'm fully aware that all that info is all there. However, you aren't supposed to put fake info in the domain name registration. (Though maybe it's OK to not list your full physical address; I shall have to check.) I'm not sure whether or not it's technically OK for the technical contact to not be listed, though his location is hidden by his request. So far, I haven't gotten in trouble for it!
Perhaps I will change the registration to list my work address instead, which is safer.
I'm probably going to ditch Chase because not only does their site not work in Firefox (it keeps insisting javascript isn't active, those insensitive clods) when it sure as hell IS on, but the site USED to work just fine in Firefox.
I filed a complaint/support request about this fact, and they responded telling me to use unavailable software (Windows IE) or software 5+ years out of date (Netscape Communicator 4.x). Obviously they didn't bother to read my email as the email clearly said that I AM USING A MAC.
I'm going to send them back a response telling them that it used to work just fine and I don't feel safe trusting my financial security to way out of date, unsupported, and generally insecure (IE) software. If they still don't react to that, I will switch, and I don't think it's unreasonable for banks to actually read communications from their customers, not break things that work just fine, and expect customers to use out-of-date stuff.
"Personally I don't care for Firefox as the rest of the web doesn't really support it and pages don't render correctly..."
That's bullshit. Firefox is very standards-compliant and fully supports the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will properly render pages that are written correctly.
Don't put the blame for web designers who don't know how to design correctly on the browser. You put garbage in, of course you're going to get garbage out.
Maybe this is flamebait but I'm sick and tired of this incorrect attitude from so many people and it's not fair to give great software a bad name it doesn't deserve.
There may be more attempts, but with a better security mindset from the beginning, and better attention paid to fixing bugs in a timely fashion, they're not likely to be anywhere near as successful as they are with IE attacks.
There already have been attempts at hijacking Mozilla with rogue XPI install attempts, and they usually don't work. I haven't heard of any takeovers, really, and as a response to those attempts Firefox now has a whitelist system for XPI installations. (though no matter what I do it keeps blocking update.mozilla.org -- is that just me?)
Carmack doesn't work for Valve, unless I'm stuck in a parallel universe.:P Which is entirely possible, I think, some days...
I bought Doom 3. Kind of cool to be able to say I bought something that's making it possible to support research into private human spaceflight (see Armadillo Aerospace) even if it's not a direct donation. The seed money comes from somewhere, after all, and I knew when I bought the game it'd be a remake of the original Doom that just looked better.
It actually didn't go up -- though I'm in the US. That seems to be for the regular edition anyhow, though in the past I've bought a book from Amazon UK when I preferred your edition over ours, and there wasn't a problem. (Don't know if they still allow that to be done.)
I want to get the collector version because it has the game on DVD instead of a zillion CDs (what's taking publishers so long to distribute DVD versions more widely?), my ex-husband got the original when we split up and this version includes a remake of the original (we're both gamers, pretty rare from what I've heard), I can always go for more geeky t-shirts, and who knows, I might find the book useful at some point.
On the way home I stopped at EB Games and put in a preorder there with the very cool desk clerk, who seemed very happy I didn't bitch when the credit card machine couldn't connect to the authorizing service's modem.
I went to amazon.com to see about preordering there. Apparently, it can't be done. Oh well; I'll stop by my local games shop and file a preorder request on my way home tonight instead. If anyone can prove me wrong in the next hour, feel free to post a link!
You can use the root accout but it has to be enabled first (the default install has it disabled and you have to use NetInfo to enable it, which most people don't know how to do) and it does not come up in the list of available users, so you have to specifically type "root" and the root password into the appropriate boxes in the non-default login screen (which most people won't ever see) to login as root.
99% of the time, people are going to use sudo or have to type their password into a box that pops up, and if they don't know why something is asking for root privs, they deserve what they get if it's malware.
That said, I haven't heard of anything nasty that does that - yet.
I live in St. Louis. There is a new Wal-mart that just opened near me today, and the lot is ALREADY jammed full of cars. (That, followed by reading this, has left me in a disgusted mood.) Pathetic. However, you're right -- most of them are not that good. Before this new one opened (I'm assuming it's clean as it's brand-new, but I haven't been in it yet) the only one that I know of that has a reputation as being clean is the one in Fenton, which is way out of the way for most visitors to the area.
"Writing the code is fine. Releasing the code is okay. When your code is used in a DDoS attack, then the FBI will come to your house and take all your toys."
And this isn't right. Products you create are out of your control once someone else has them. Right?
C'mon, I want to see the FBI bust down the doors of Chevy and Ford and Buick etc for making huge-ass SUVs that just killed somebody because someone didn't know how to drive safely! After all, they made it, they're automatically responsible...... right?
Knowing HOAs, they'll try to sue you anyway for putting up a sign. They'll find some obscure way to get around that rule. I'm not under one, and I'm glad, because I've heard horror stories about the crap they pull.
Better tell that to the people who make the commercials for said recorders that show people doing exactly that. If anyone gets slammed for inducing piracy, it's gotta be them!
Are you referring to the "let ebay host your item photo" stuff? cause I haven't been able to get it to work either. No, I will not install IE on my Mac. I thought it was a recent browser update that was causing it since I use recent nightlies but I updated again recently and the damn thing still does not work.
"There was an error in your input..."
Fuck that. It was working FINE last month on the SAME BROWSER! (Firefox).
She actually did take it. When Carnahan won the election, the governor appointed her to the office in his place. I think (but am not sure) that she ran for re-election when her term was up, but I don't know whether she won, believe it or not.
To this day I still see "I'm still with Mel" bumper stickers on cars around here, and I thought it was kind of nice that he still won anyway. I saw it as a "He died, so we'll remember him by letting him posthumously do what he wanted to do" tribute.
I'm curious (and this isn't a snide comment) -- who do you plan to vote for this year? Sounds like you don't plan for either of the major two candidates. Will you not vote at all, or will you choose a third-party candidate? If you do, which and why?
"That, sir, is none of your business. Now, cancel my service. If I get another bill from you, I will file a chargeback with my credit card company and tell them to automatically deny any charges from you in the future and report you for fraud."
That's the trick in things like this -- sure, the browser might be behaving like it might be expected to by some, but then, the users might expect something different. Fortunately, Firefox is very extendable -- I've got extensions to do all sorts of things that aren't in the base browser. Some of the extensions disable 'standard' features, though, and that's fine with me -- nobody makes you install an extension. If you don't want your browser to do something, you should be able to decide that.
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That's what I figured you were doing -- nothing there I didn't know. I asked more because I wondered what route you use (DNS info vs looking around the website) rather than genuinely not knowing.
I'm fully aware that all that info is all there. However, you aren't supposed to put fake info in the domain name registration. (Though maybe it's OK to not list your full physical address; I shall have to check.) I'm not sure whether or not it's technically OK for the technical contact to not be listed, though his location is hidden by his request. So far, I haven't gotten in trouble for it!
Perhaps I will change the registration to list my work address instead, which is safer.
Good job finding out where I am. :) Was it difficult or have I forgotten something blindingly obvious? (Perhaps you looked in my image gallery?)
I'm probably going to ditch Chase because not only does their site not work in Firefox (it keeps insisting javascript isn't active, those insensitive clods) when it sure as hell IS on, but the site USED to work just fine in Firefox.
I filed a complaint/support request about this fact, and they responded telling me to use unavailable software (Windows IE) or software 5+ years out of date (Netscape Communicator 4.x). Obviously they didn't bother to read my email as the email clearly said that I AM USING A MAC.
I'm going to send them back a response telling them that it used to work just fine and I don't feel safe trusting my financial security to way out of date, unsupported, and generally insecure (IE) software. If they still don't react to that, I will switch, and I don't think it's unreasonable for banks to actually read communications from their customers, not break things that work just fine, and expect customers to use out-of-date stuff.
"Personally I don't care for Firefox as the rest of the web doesn't really support it and pages don't render correctly ..."
That's bullshit. Firefox is very standards-compliant and fully supports the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will properly render pages that are written correctly.
Don't put the blame for web designers who don't know how to design correctly on the browser. You put garbage in, of course you're going to get garbage out.
Maybe this is flamebait but I'm sick and tired of this incorrect attitude from so many people and it's not fair to give great software a bad name it doesn't deserve.
*taptaptap* Excuse me?
;)
We fangirls don't like it when you talk like that.
There may be more attempts, but with a better security mindset from the beginning, and better attention paid to fixing bugs in a timely fashion, they're not likely to be anywhere near as successful as they are with IE attacks.
There already have been attempts at hijacking Mozilla with rogue XPI install attempts, and they usually don't work. I haven't heard of any takeovers, really, and as a response to those attempts Firefox now has a whitelist system for XPI installations. (though no matter what I do it keeps blocking update.mozilla.org -- is that just me?)
Carmack doesn't work for Valve, unless I'm stuck in a parallel universe. :P Which is entirely possible, I think, some days ...
I bought Doom 3. Kind of cool to be able to say I bought something that's making it possible to support research into private human spaceflight (see Armadillo Aerospace) even if it's not a direct donation. The seed money comes from somewhere, after all, and I knew when I bought the game it'd be a remake of the original Doom that just looked better.
It actually didn't go up -- though I'm in the US. That seems to be for the regular edition anyhow, though in the past I've bought a book from Amazon UK when I preferred your edition over ours, and there wasn't a problem. (Don't know if they still allow that to be done.)
I want to get the collector version because it has the game on DVD instead of a zillion CDs (what's taking publishers so long to distribute DVD versions more widely?), my ex-husband got the original when we split up and this version includes a remake of the original (we're both gamers, pretty rare from what I've heard), I can always go for more geeky t-shirts, and who knows, I might find the book useful at some point.
On the way home I stopped at EB Games and put in a preorder there with the very cool desk clerk, who seemed very happy I didn't bitch when the credit card machine couldn't connect to the authorizing service's modem.
I went to amazon.com to see about preordering there. Apparently, it can't be done. Oh well; I'll stop by my local games shop and file a preorder request on my way home tonight instead. If anyone can prove me wrong in the next hour, feel free to post a link!
Deckard Cain was a replicant. :)
I don't wanna think about his staff, especially since I had to build the damn thing for him since he lost all the pieces.
You can use the root accout but it has to be enabled first (the default install has it disabled and you have to use NetInfo to enable it, which most people don't know how to do) and it does not come up in the list of available users, so you have to specifically type "root" and the root password into the appropriate boxes in the non-default login screen (which most people won't ever see) to login as root.
99% of the time, people are going to use sudo or have to type their password into a box that pops up, and if they don't know why something is asking for root privs, they deserve what they get if it's malware.
That said, I haven't heard of anything nasty that does that - yet.
I live in St. Louis. There is a new Wal-mart that just opened near me today, and the lot is ALREADY jammed full of cars. (That, followed by reading this, has left me in a disgusted mood.) Pathetic. However, you're right -- most of them are not that good. Before this new one opened (I'm assuming it's clean as it's brand-new, but I haven't been in it yet) the only one that I know of that has a reputation as being clean is the one in Fenton, which is way out of the way for most visitors to the area.
"Writing the code is fine. Releasing the code is okay. When your code is used in a DDoS attack, then the FBI will come to your house and take all your toys."
... ... right?
And this isn't right. Products you create are out of your control once someone else has them. Right?
C'mon, I want to see the FBI bust down the doors of Chevy and Ford and Buick etc for making huge-ass SUVs that just killed somebody because someone didn't know how to drive safely! After all, they made it, they're automatically responsible
Does anyone ever actually use those things?
Knowing HOAs, they'll try to sue you anyway for putting up a sign. They'll find some obscure way to get around that rule. I'm not under one, and I'm glad, because I've heard horror stories about the crap they pull.
And FEATURE is the best license plate I've ever seen on a VW Bug.
I'm well aware of this, but is there a list of these bills anywhere which I can use to fire off feedback to my congresscritters?
Better tell that to the people who make the commercials for said recorders that show people doing exactly that. If anyone gets slammed for inducing piracy, it's gotta be them!
Are you referring to the "let ebay host your item photo" stuff? cause I haven't been able to get it to work either. No, I will not install IE on my Mac. I thought it was a recent browser update that was causing it since I use recent nightlies but I updated again recently and the damn thing still does not work.
"There was an error in your input..."
Fuck that. It was working FINE last month on the SAME BROWSER! (Firefox).
She actually did take it. When Carnahan won the election, the governor appointed her to the office in his place. I think (but am not sure) that she ran for re-election when her term was up, but I don't know whether she won, believe it or not.
To this day I still see "I'm still with Mel" bumper stickers on cars around here, and I thought it was kind of nice that he still won anyway. I saw it as a "He died, so we'll remember him by letting him posthumously do what he wanted to do" tribute.
I'm curious (and this isn't a snide comment) -- who do you plan to vote for this year? Sounds like you don't plan for either of the major two candidates. Will you not vote at all, or will you choose a third-party candidate? If you do, which and why?
Fear leads to Microsoft. ... lead to suffering.
Microsoft leads to BSODs.
BSODs
Wasn't smart enough to put it in the bank where it'd earn some interest, though. But then, where's the fun in that? You can't swim in it!
"That, sir, is none of your business. Now, cancel my service. If I get another bill from you, I will file a chargeback with my credit card company and tell them to automatically deny any charges from you in the future and report you for fraud."
That's the trick in things like this -- sure, the browser might be behaving like it might be expected to by some, but then, the users might expect something different. Fortunately, Firefox is very extendable -- I've got extensions to do all sorts of things that aren't in the base browser. Some of the extensions disable 'standard' features, though, and that's fine with me -- nobody makes you install an extension. If you don't want your browser to do something, you should be able to decide that.