The worst security question setup I've ever seen by far has to be my College's Oracle PeopleSoft (eServices, Blackboard, etc). The security question is: "Excluding the state you currently live in, what other state would you most like to live in?" And you have to answer with a fucking dropdown list of the other 49 states!
bullshit! It's entirely possible to store password hashes that cannot be reversed... say I make a hash of both username and password, then combine the 2 hashes based on a formula dependent on the respective string lengths of the username and password, and then hash that combination and store the result. It's motherfuckin hashception!
Even if someone stole my whole accounts table it would be worthless, since the stored hash's portion of the hash is based on the (unknown) password string length. Hell even if they had the whole table AND my login script it would still probably an eternity if you ever could get a password back out seeing as how the stored value is a hash of a combination of hashes and even with the known username hash, its unknown what parts of that hash were used since that is affected by password string length:P
Maybe its a charlie and the chocolate factory situation.. one of the lucky end users will be selected at random to br his new VP, you know in order to connect with the common man... Think Mr Joe the plumber goes to Washington
uranium comes from ore dug out of the ground, at something like 0.1%-1.0% uranium oxide concentrations, so why not just take the radioactive waste and mix it with filler to dilute it down to ore concentrations (suspended in concrete, glass, whatever, something cheap and relatively durable) and drill some really deep holes, deep enough it won't affect any ground water tables, and away from oil fields - ideally near a subduction zone trench where over time the waste would get carried down further into the crust as the waste impregnated plate dives downward.
Far out of reach from civilization and in concentrations no more dangerous than already exist in nature. Surely that has to be more cost effective in the long run than maintaining highly guarded secret storage bunkers indefinitely....
Hosting is cheap, but so is a commercial account on many ISPs. My cox business account is only $20 more (40 vs 60) than residential. Plus, even though the advertised speeds are the same my business account speed is faster, and when i complain about any service disruptions they respond alot faster since its affecting my "business". You cam certainly get hosting cheaper than $20 a month, but not with 100% control over the host server...
My Organic Chemistry professor "published" his lab manual. For ~$125, you got a shitty spiral type clip bound stack of photocopies. The Lab Manual was not only required for the course, but required to be out at all times during lab procedures, and in several places we were required to write in notes & answers to questions (in addition to our own hand written lab books), then rip out those pages and turn them in... so there was no reselling the book back at the end of the semester. Basically he charged us double the (then) cost of the course tuition to buy his xerox handouts from him. Talk about a fucking ripoff!
OK so maybe no external trigger.. but what if after 60 days instead of throwing a "license expired" error, instead it deleted itself and left a (read|pay)me.txt file in its place?
A web design could easily be considered a work of art, thus covered by copyright. Normally a designer has no claim to copyright on works created on behalf of an employer/client, but if they fail to pay up, then how could they legally claim to own said copyrighted works? DCMA their asses!
Or, if their is any server side coding involved, build in a kill switch which you will only be removed after final payment is received.
are the dots always in the same locations? If so just take an empty document, print it out on the same pieces of paper through 4-5 different devices until its just a meaningless clusterfuck of yellow dots, then print your document. Even if they could somehow decode individual serial numbers it seems like that would give a decent defense... not that any government agency tracking these dots would give a flying fuck about your rights.
The thing that annoys me about this is it seems to imply these printers were designed to print their serial numbers with a finer precision than the document printing capabilities you paid for!
The only "fake" I can recall getting from TPB was one time I downloaded Spiderman 3, and towards the end where there's the fight scene with Venom in the skyscraper frame, someone from an animal rights group had edited over the "breaking news" portion with a really bizarre "meat is murder" clip that went on for about 1 minute, showing cows and pigs being tortured and slaughtered. I wasn't even mad thought, it was so trippy, the whole "wtf just happened??" moment was more entertaining than what was happening in the movie
hopefully that shouldn't be a problem anymore: "As of December 18th, 2010 experts exchange stopped displaying solutions to search engines"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts-Exchange
Google used to (2008-2009) have a "dont show again" little x button next to search results if you were signed into your Google account. It only worked for specific pages, but I did notice after a while the domains I kept x'ing out came up less frequently in other results where I had yet to block any returns. Not sure why but it just disappeared one day, although I still see the "You have removed results from this search, (click here to) show them" for terms I'd blocked some results on.
what about the deaf and blind? If Helen Keller were alive today, she would surely be struck down by these silent invisible menaces. I propose we add omni-directional microwave emitters to these vehicles, so that pedestrians can be made aware of their unsafe proximity to oncoming traffic by the severity of the burning sensation in their skin!
I've found the way around this is to explain to the boss that the googlebot crawls your site like a screen reader would, so taking the time to add image alts, link titles, table summaries, etc... is a legitimate way to sneak in keywords and make your content see more relevant.
I've already taken accessibility courses and incorporate most of the techniques into my pages, so I kinda hope they will pass it because then I can charge more money - and who knows, maybe they will outlaw table based layouts = D
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The worst security question setup I've ever seen by far has to be my College's Oracle PeopleSoft (eServices, Blackboard, etc). The security question is: "Excluding the state you currently live in, what other state would you most like to live in?" And you have to answer with a fucking dropdown list of the other 49 states!
bullshit! It's entirely possible to store password hashes that cannot be reversed... say I make a hash of both username and password, then combine the 2 hashes based on a formula dependent on the respective string lengths of the username and password, and then hash that combination and store the result. It's motherfuckin hashception! Even if someone stole my whole accounts table it would be worthless, since the stored hash's portion of the hash is based on the (unknown) password string length. Hell even if they had the whole table AND my login script it would still probably an eternity if you ever could get a password back out seeing as how the stored value is a hash of a combination of hashes and even with the known username hash, its unknown what parts of that hash were used since that is affected by password string length :P
Maybe its a charlie and the chocolate factory situation.. one of the lucky end users will be selected at random to br his new VP, you know in order to connect with the common man... Think Mr Joe the plumber goes to Washington
Organism Oriented Programming?
They have their own line of overpriced dental jewelry,aka "grillz"? http://www.grillsbypaulwall.com/
uranium comes from ore dug out of the ground, at something like 0.1%-1.0% uranium oxide concentrations, so why not just take the radioactive waste and mix it with filler to dilute it down to ore concentrations (suspended in concrete, glass, whatever, something cheap and relatively durable) and drill some really deep holes, deep enough it won't affect any ground water tables, and away from oil fields - ideally near a subduction zone trench where over time the waste would get carried down further into the crust as the waste impregnated plate dives downward. Far out of reach from civilization and in concentrations no more dangerous than already exist in nature. Surely that has to be more cost effective in the long run than maintaining highly guarded secret storage bunkers indefinitely....
Which came first? Crazy cat lady got 20 cats because she is crazy, or cat lady went crazy because she has 20 cats?
97 million documents for a law suit over 9 lines of code? Seems legit
I like my coffee like I like my women: ground up & in the freezer
Hosting is cheap, but so is a commercial account on many ISPs. My cox business account is only $20 more (40 vs 60) than residential. Plus, even though the advertised speeds are the same my business account speed is faster, and when i complain about any service disruptions they respond alot faster since its affecting my "business". You cam certainly get hosting cheaper than $20 a month, but not with 100% control over the host server...
My Organic Chemistry professor "published" his lab manual. For ~$125, you got a shitty spiral type clip bound stack of photocopies. The Lab Manual was not only required for the course, but required to be out at all times during lab procedures, and in several places we were required to write in notes & answers to questions (in addition to our own hand written lab books), then rip out those pages and turn them in... so there was no reselling the book back at the end of the semester. Basically he charged us double the (then) cost of the course tuition to buy his xerox handouts from him. Talk about a fucking ripoff!
that is until they introduce Picture in Picture 24/7 non-stop commercials DURING the show
and recognize that you aren't watching the commercials and pause the show until you do? No thanks!
"by the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising... kill yourself"
Bill Hicks on Marketing
is special screens to display different targeted ads to different viewers of the same screen depending on where they sit in the room...
OK so maybe no external trigger.. but what if after 60 days instead of throwing a "license expired" error, instead it deleted itself and left a (read|pay)me.txt file in its place?
A web design could easily be considered a work of art, thus covered by copyright. Normally a designer has no claim to copyright on works created on behalf of an employer/client, but if they fail to pay up, then how could they legally claim to own said copyrighted works? DCMA their asses! Or, if their is any server side coding involved, build in a kill switch which you will only be removed after final payment is received.
are the dots always in the same locations? If so just take an empty document, print it out on the same pieces of paper through 4-5 different devices until its just a meaningless clusterfuck of yellow dots, then print your document. Even if they could somehow decode individual serial numbers it seems like that would give a decent defense... not that any government agency tracking these dots would give a flying fuck about your rights. The thing that annoys me about this is it seems to imply these printers were designed to print their serial numbers with a finer precision than the document printing capabilities you paid for!
The only "fake" I can recall getting from TPB was one time I downloaded Spiderman 3, and towards the end where there's the fight scene with Venom in the skyscraper frame, someone from an animal rights group had edited over the "breaking news" portion with a really bizarre "meat is murder" clip that went on for about 1 minute, showing cows and pigs being tortured and slaughtered. I wasn't even mad thought, it was so trippy, the whole "wtf just happened??" moment was more entertaining than what was happening in the movie
hopefully that shouldn't be a problem anymore: "As of December 18th, 2010 experts exchange stopped displaying solutions to search engines" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts-Exchange
Google used to (2008-2009) have a "dont show again" little x button next to search results if you were signed into your Google account. It only worked for specific pages, but I did notice after a while the domains I kept x'ing out came up less frequently in other results where I had yet to block any returns. Not sure why but it just disappeared one day, although I still see the "You have removed results from this search, (click here to) show them" for terms I'd blocked some results on.
what about the deaf and blind? If Helen Keller were alive today, she would surely be struck down by these silent invisible menaces. I propose we add omni-directional microwave emitters to these vehicles, so that pedestrians can be made aware of their unsafe proximity to oncoming traffic by the severity of the burning sensation in their skin!
I've found the way around this is to explain to the boss that the googlebot crawls your site like a screen reader would, so taking the time to add image alts, link titles, table summaries, etc... is a legitimate way to sneak in keywords and make your content see more relevant. I've already taken accessibility courses and incorporate most of the techniques into my pages, so I kinda hope they will pass it because then I can charge more money - and who knows, maybe they will outlaw table based layouts = D
thinner than air.... Introducing the MacBook Vacuum
Seriously imagine how much thinner the Macbook Air could be without a screen!