Though entirely offtopic - I found your post more insightful when I replaced the following words. data=life, cellphone=activities, space=twitter, orbit=someone's face.
I'd like to see a reciept that says that millions are actually being dumped into preventing these guys.
It would not be as difficult as they claim. If someone gets found using Glide, delete their account, ban their credit card from subscribing, don't let them use that email address to register for a new account.
Make it entirely unprofitable to run an operation like this and you'll cut out a lot of riff-raff. Thing is they are afraid to get a false positive and the bad rap that comes with it. I should be allowed to download and run any software I want on my computer. I should be allowed to develop any software I want. If they want bots to be illegal, they should lobby to make it a law, not tack it onto the DMCA.
Going after the developers of Glide is like going after the owners of BitTorrent, not the actual people distributing content.
I just don't like it. It's abusing the system to meet their goals. No matter moral or just the goal is, the end does not justify the means. They shouldn't be using DMCA to achieve this.
I feel like I'm taking the wrong side of the arguement - I mean I am generally okay with Blizzards business model though I haven't played any of their games in a while. Wavering back and forth on whether D3 will be worth the DRM, SC2 in my humble opinion wasn't worth the hassle. So any negative feelings towards Blizzard aren't based on any moral grounds or principles or anything like that, I am fine with them having their tight restrictive measures - it helps them crack down on things like bots, and if they want to do that all the more power to them.
But I'm a little wary of claiming bot software is a DMCA violation. That is stretching it a little bit - because the DMCA is mainly meant for Copyright infringement, and also those who wish to get around DRM.
The bot doesn't go against any laws besides those set forth by the Terms and Conditions you agree to when playing WoW. And it shouldn't be against the law, I am REALLY afraid of this being the first step towards bringing the lawyers and judicial system into the gaming realm where publishers will no doubt use it to strong-arm their ideas of whats best. Suppose Some 14 year old hacks in TF2 - Valve catches them, wants to make an example, sues them for damaging the content of other people's games, goes for some ridiculous statuatory amount in the multiple thousands, and/. covers the story!
I dunno, it just doesn't seem like a good road to go down. Blizzard should be entirely responsible for keeping their house in order - if they can't do it, that should reflect on their product, or they should alter their product to handle it. Don't go to the police.
Operator: Have you tried turning it off then turning it on again? CONTINUED
Operator: I don't believe you. Skype: What? Operator: Nothing. Skype: What do you mean - Operator: Does the power cable have an end with only 2 prongs? Skype: Yes it does. Operator: Older Model. Sometimes the current gets all mixed up inside, can you go to the wall socket where you have it plugged in, and try unplugging it, turning it 180 degrees, and plugging it back in? Skype: Isn't it alternating current? Operator: Yes, you'll be using the alternate setting now, but it should work just fine.
Honestly, if people can't start up "xSucks.com" they'll go and register something like "truthX" and spew their hate there.
By trying to keep from them from abusive and probably discreditable domain names, you're probably just going to push them into ones that will cause wider contraversy.
Let's start a nice slow golf clap for the Bank of America.
Are you saying that having a file under C:\Windows\ called "mytotallycoolapplicationlog.txt" - and writing "It worked:)" everytime the process is successful and having "It failed:(" Everytime it doesn't constitute a good logging procedure?
He said he didn't bother putting try/catches around certain standard things (Like Database connection opening, closing, transactions, etc) - because if anything ever went wrong it was easier for the user to take a screenshot of the Stack Trace if and when it went wrong from the Webapp. Said it took too much time to build in proper exception handling and error messages.
He said that the user experience basically means nothing if your application doesn't work, so when something doesn't work, don't bother making it pretty.
He no longer works here, though I can't imagine why.
7. DO tell us about security issues. Announce them publicly. Put them in an RSS feed. Tell us even if you don't have a fix yet; we need to manage risk. Your PR department doesn't understand this, and that's OK. It is your job to tell them to go away.
My CEO asks me to whip up a web page that users can use to submit who their phone provider is (we were all given options and not tied to 1 vendor. That has its pluses and minuses) and how long they have left on their contract so that he can get an assessment of where the phone situation is at for upgrading people's company phones. He wants this about 5 minutes ago.
I spent the trivial 1 minute it took to make sure my text boxes were SQL injection proof - but I haven't bothered doing any real data validation on each of them.
I've got a Try Catch around the data insert - if a user doesn't enter things in right it'll tell them to contact me... We'll see how well that goes.
I think I've made the trade-off of time/security plenty of times at this job. It's never really my decision though. I go for the Security through obscurity method here... If I'm the only one who knows how insecure this website is, no one in the company would try and break it, or so I hope.
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And this is noteworthy why?
Because a significant number of people on Slashdot are security geeks and enjoy learning about exploits, or are sysadmins that manage at least some machines where the users can get to IE.
Or you work as a lowly developer or IT Grunt Technician a company where you are pretty strictly IE only - based on policies set forth by Vice Presidents who don't know how technology works.
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The only requirement is that you know how to be nice to all kinds of people (and butterflies)
Reading the Perl 6 page - either they are REAL programmers, or they use emacs.
But isn't heat dissipation a much larger problem in space?
Seems to make it's way here.
You must be the guy who draws out long 'so's at parties.
Dan Brown led me to believe the Gov't used their supercomputers to break encryption on emails and other net traffic to catch various criminals.
But then again, thats probably too smart an Idea to have actually been implemented.
Though entirely offtopic - I found your post more insightful when I replaced the following words. data=life, cellphone=activities, space=twitter, orbit=someone's face.
I'd like to see a reciept that says that millions are actually being dumped into preventing these guys.
It would not be as difficult as they claim. If someone gets found using Glide, delete their account, ban their credit card from subscribing, don't let them use that email address to register for a new account.
Make it entirely unprofitable to run an operation like this and you'll cut out a lot of riff-raff. Thing is they are afraid to get a false positive and the bad rap that comes with it. I should be allowed to download and run any software I want on my computer. I should be allowed to develop any software I want. If they want bots to be illegal, they should lobby to make it a law, not tack it onto the DMCA.
Going after the developers of Glide is like going after the owners of BitTorrent, not the actual people distributing content.
I just don't like it. It's abusing the system to meet their goals. No matter moral or just the goal is, the end does not justify the means. They shouldn't be using DMCA to achieve this.
it's not even a very good troll. The only reason I even responded was because some morons actually modded you insightful.
A troll who gets modded insightful is the best kind of troll.
And that's just the bad things we THINK they would try to get away with.
That doesn't include the bad things they will do very underhandedly, things we probably didn't consider.
I feel like I'm taking the wrong side of the arguement - I mean I am generally okay with Blizzards business model though I haven't played any of their games in a while. Wavering back and forth on whether D3 will be worth the DRM, SC2 in my humble opinion wasn't worth the hassle. So any negative feelings towards Blizzard aren't based on any moral grounds or principles or anything like that, I am fine with them having their tight restrictive measures - it helps them crack down on things like bots, and if they want to do that all the more power to them.
But I'm a little wary of claiming bot software is a DMCA violation. That is stretching it a little bit - because the DMCA is mainly meant for Copyright infringement, and also those who wish to get around DRM.
The bot doesn't go against any laws besides those set forth by the Terms and Conditions you agree to when playing WoW. And it shouldn't be against the law, I am REALLY afraid of this being the first step towards bringing the lawyers and judicial system into the gaming realm where publishers will no doubt use it to strong-arm their ideas of whats best. Suppose Some 14 year old hacks in TF2 - Valve catches them, wants to make an example, sues them for damaging the content of other people's games, goes for some ridiculous statuatory amount in the multiple thousands, and /. covers the story!
I dunno, it just doesn't seem like a good road to go down. Blizzard should be entirely responsible for keeping their house in order - if they can't do it, that should reflect on their product, or they should alter their product to handle it. Don't go to the police.
Operator: Have you tried turning it off then turning it on again?
CONTINUED
Operator: I don't believe you.
Skype: What?
Operator: Nothing.
Skype: What do you mean -
Operator: Does the power cable have an end with only 2 prongs?
Skype: Yes it does.
Operator: Older Model. Sometimes the current gets all mixed up inside, can you go to the wall socket where you have it plugged in, and try unplugging it, turning it 180 degrees, and plugging it back in?
Skype: Isn't it alternating current?
Operator: Yes, you'll be using the alternate setting now, but it should work just fine.
I am not a Lawyer, but I think Libel suits don't take the sites down until a verdict is reached.
I don't even think it matters.
Honestly, if people can't start up "xSucks.com" they'll go and register something like "truthX" and spew their hate there.
By trying to keep from them from abusive and probably discreditable domain names, you're probably just going to push them into ones that will cause wider contraversy.
Let's start a nice slow golf clap for the Bank of America.
If you can't tell the difference between the entire realm of mathematics and a scripting language
If you can't humbly admit that learning a language is far more than just the syntax - you should stay away from software development.
Knowing how to make a program run in Perl IS trivial, you can learn it in a day with 1 book, for sure.
But learning the neat tricks to actually leverage the power each language has is something of a lost art.
I thought you would've picked that up by Happy's post.
99999999999.999%?
How is that even possible?
Are you saying that having a file under C:\Windows\ called "mytotallycoolapplicationlog.txt" - and writing "It worked :)" everytime the process is successful and having "It failed :(" Everytime it doesn't constitute a good logging procedure?
You describe what it isn't, based on the other exceptions you were designed to handle.
Narrows down the search/troubleshooting.
That reminds me of a Web Developer I once knew.
He said he didn't bother putting try/catches around certain standard things (Like Database connection opening, closing, transactions, etc) - because if anything ever went wrong it was easier for the user to take a screenshot of the Stack Trace if and when it went wrong from the Webapp. Said it took too much time to build in proper exception handling and error messages.
He said that the user experience basically means nothing if your application doesn't work, so when something doesn't work, don't bother making it pretty.
He no longer works here, though I can't imagine why.
When you're already in double quotes you use single quotes for any quotes they used.
"Then Jim said, 'Hi', and that made Sally smile".
The more you know!
*didlidlido duuum!*
This one made my chuckle:
7. DO tell us about security issues. Announce them publicly. Put them in an RSS feed. Tell us even if you don't have a fix yet; we need to manage risk. Your PR department doesn't understand this, and that's OK. It is your job to tell them to go away.
My CEO asks me to whip up a web page that users can use to submit who their phone provider is (we were all given options and not tied to 1 vendor. That has its pluses and minuses) and how long they have left on their contract so that he can get an assessment of where the phone situation is at for upgrading people's company phones. He wants this about 5 minutes ago.
I spent the trivial 1 minute it took to make sure my text boxes were SQL injection proof - but I haven't bothered doing any real data validation on each of them.
I've got a Try Catch around the data insert - if a user doesn't enter things in right it'll tell them to contact me... We'll see how well that goes.
I think I've made the trade-off of time/security plenty of times at this job. It's never really my decision though. I go for the Security through obscurity method here... If I'm the only one who knows how insecure this website is, no one in the company would try and break it, or so I hope.
And this is noteworthy why?
Because a significant number of people on Slashdot are security geeks and enjoy learning about exploits, or are sysadmins that manage at least some machines where the users can get to IE.
Or you work as a lowly developer or IT Grunt Technician a company where you are pretty strictly IE only - based on policies set forth by Vice Presidents who don't know how technology works.
What, you think saying "Frist psot!" would have been better?
Maybe a little bit more?
The only problem is that you can't always use a debit card for online purchases.
That is the only reason I have a Credit Card.
A die (plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum "something given or played")
Fail Grammar Nazi is Fail.
"administered without deception" could mean that the doctors were deceived
That sounds like even more deception than the Doctors being deceptive.