Actually, as soon as we were notified of the issue, the plugin was closed and hidden on a temporary basis until we had time to evaluate the problem. Once we had done so, I personally created a new version of the plugin, without the malicious code, and pushed it to the repository in order to get the update out to the affected users. The existing committers were all removed, leaving the plugin entirely in the hands of the plugin team. The latest version is now safe and will not be otherwise until we determine the full details of what happened here.
Full disclosure is great, but some advance notice longer than a day or so helps a lot. We will always protect our users to the best of our ability, but sometimes, we get blind sided. It happens. Nobody posts about the dozens of other times we fix things before they get exploited. Not judging, just saying.
Use an encrypted password storage system like 1Password or LastPass. Yes, it's not perfect, but what is? Passwords that don't look like line noise are vulnerable nowadays.
And I can only assume you despise movies and books too which tend to have no "replay value" either, and which also only deliver a few hours of enjoyment for the cost...
Not necessarily, but in general, yes. If it's only worth watching once, then it's probably a poor film. If it's only worth reading once, then it's probably a poor book.
Think of your favorite movies. Do you watch them again? Do you own them on DVD? Do you buy movies on DVD that you don't want to watch more than once? Why not?
Same basic principle at work here. Replay-value is an important part of a purchase decision. I don't buy DVD's until I've seen the movie already, why would video games be any different?
Assuming it's in enough cars, you could do it with a mesh-network topology. It'd probably require special software on each device to work that way though.
The data from WMAP indicates that we're living in a Big Freeze universe. Although it's still possible that enough dark energy may exist to reverse it, it seems unlikely.
If you guys are comfortable letting Apple or anyone else have this, it's just because your brain hasn't digested what it means yet. Don't worry, wait for the first few scandals. It will take a few years - maybe long enough for every asshole company to start doing this. But it will get easier to understand.
I voluntarily send my location to Google every 2 hours (via Latitude). Why should I care if they know where I am? I mean, what exactly are you, some kind of spy?
Nobody cares where *you* are. You're just not that important. Sorry to bust your ego-bubble.
They only really care where people are in aggregate. That information is far more useful.
And if where you are does actually matter, then *turn it off*. Simple enough to do, really.
it turned out that I was able to eventually unbrick it after hours of trying different things.
You don't even know what "brick" means, do you?
"Bricking" means, basically, turning the device into a functional brick which does nothing whatsoever. It is not possible to restore a bricked device, under ANY circumstances. There is no such thing as "unbricking". The term makes no sense.
If you could restore it to functionality, then it was not "bricked".
You most emphatically could no simply do a software restore.
In point of fact, yes, you could. The iPhone has a special mode you can boot it into that will allow you to do a restore regardless of the software on the device. The fact that you didn't know how to do it does not invalidate my original statements.
iPhones cannot be bricked by jailbreaking. Period. This is a statement of fact. If you disagree, then you're wrong. It's that simple.
I agree that if you bought it you own it. ANd would you agree that if you break it or want service it's okay for apple not to supply it? And if something bricks it, it's not apple's problem?
Jailbreaking cannot "brick" your iPhone. You can restore it to factory settings by simply doing a "Restore" in iTunes. This has nothing to do with the current software on the phone at all, since restoring wipes the phone entirely anyway.
I'd bet that people that jail break and brick make more than their share of service requests and cause more than their share of replacements.
I'm fairly sure that Randi would accept low power 2.4 Ghz wavelengths (aka, Wi-Fi) as being in the "paranormal" arena. Man cannot detect that directly by any known means.
Fair enough, but the problem is that has way too many factors. There's a thousand different ways to tell where cops are, even if you can't see them.
I'm pretty good at "sensing" when there's a cop ahead myself. I don't claim to be able to sense radar, but I do have a pretty good subconscious idea of where they probably are. This comes from the layout of the roads, the behavior of the other drivers, the way people (and cops in particular) think, the time of the week/month, etc.
Not saying your friend was lying intentionally. He probably believed it entirely. Most people who take these sort of tests have total belief in their abilities. It's just that a proper test doesn't depend on other factors, it's testing for the specific claimed ability.
Being able to tell where cops most likely are, even to a great degree of accuracy, is not really a paranormal event. Being able to sense low power radar without any devices or assistance would be. The two are not really the same thing.
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Actually, as soon as we were notified of the issue, the plugin was closed and hidden on a temporary basis until we had time to evaluate the problem. Once we had done so, I personally created a new version of the plugin, without the malicious code, and pushed it to the repository in order to get the update out to the affected users. The existing committers were all removed, leaving the plugin entirely in the hands of the plugin team. The latest version is now safe and will not be otherwise until we determine the full details of what happened here.
Full disclosure is great, but some advance notice longer than a day or so helps a lot. We will always protect our users to the best of our ability, but sometimes, we get blind sided. It happens. Nobody posts about the dozens of other times we fix things before they get exploited. Not judging, just saying.
Use an encrypted password storage system like 1Password or LastPass. Yes, it's not perfect, but what is? Passwords that don't look like line noise are vulnerable nowadays.
WordPress does only store password hashes, using the PHPass hashing library.
Actually, I paid five bucks for it, and afterwards I wanted my money back.
As for the OCD goals, I hit more than half of them on my first (and only) play through. The game was trivially easy, I'm afraid.
It sucks for a lot of reasons, replay-value is only one of them (although it is the main one, IMO).
And I can only assume you despise movies and books too which tend to have no "replay value" either, and which also only deliver a few hours of enjoyment for the cost...
Not necessarily, but in general, yes. If it's only worth watching once, then it's probably a poor film. If it's only worth reading once, then it's probably a poor book.
Think of your favorite movies. Do you watch them again? Do you own them on DVD? Do you buy movies on DVD that you don't want to watch more than once? Why not?
Same basic principle at work here. Replay-value is an important part of a purchase decision. I don't buy DVD's until I've seen the movie already, why would video games be any different?
Assuming it's in enough cars, you could do it with a mesh-network topology. It'd probably require special software on each device to work that way though.
No, he's right. WoG sucked.
If I can play and beat the game in three hours, and it has no replay value, then it sucks.
There is more to this story.
http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/tara-fitzgerald-says-dell-technician-downloaded-her-nude-photos-2645780.html
Correction, I meant dark matter, dark energy. My bad.
The data from WMAP indicates that we're living in a Big Freeze universe. Although it's still possible that enough dark energy may exist to reverse it, it seems unlikely.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_fate.html
If you guys are comfortable letting Apple or anyone else have this, it's just because your brain hasn't digested what it means yet. Don't worry, wait for the first few scandals. It will take a few years - maybe long enough for every asshole company to start doing this. But it will get easier to understand.
I voluntarily send my location to Google every 2 hours (via Latitude). Why should I care if they know where I am? I mean, what exactly are you, some kind of spy?
Nobody cares where *you* are. You're just not that important. Sorry to bust your ego-bubble.
They only really care where people are in aggregate. That information is far more useful.
And if where you are does actually matter, then *turn it off*. Simple enough to do, really.
If the data sent is more than one packet, I'd be shocked.
Not. Eventually the universe will run down too.
It's highly unlikely that they did full sequencing on these samples. Full sequencing is expensive and time consuming.
Generally they only sequence the specific parts of the DNA that the particular research happens to be interested in.
Based on what study?
Based on the fact that it's impossible to brick an iPhone from jailbreaking, like I stated previously.
Wake up and learn to read, dude.
it turned out that I was able to eventually unbrick it after hours of trying different things.
You don't even know what "brick" means, do you?
"Bricking" means, basically, turning the device into a functional brick which does nothing whatsoever. It is not possible to restore a bricked device, under ANY circumstances. There is no such thing as "unbricking". The term makes no sense.
If you could restore it to functionality, then it was not "bricked".
You most emphatically could no simply do a software restore.
In point of fact, yes, you could. The iPhone has a special mode you can boot it into that will allow you to do a restore regardless of the software on the device. The fact that you didn't know how to do it does not invalidate my original statements.
iPhones cannot be bricked by jailbreaking. Period. This is a statement of fact. If you disagree, then you're wrong. It's that simple.
I agree that if you bought it you own it. ANd would you agree that if you break it or want service it's okay for apple not to supply it? And if something bricks it, it's not apple's problem?
Jailbreaking cannot "brick" your iPhone. You can restore it to factory settings by simply doing a "Restore" in iTunes. This has nothing to do with the current software on the phone at all, since restoring wipes the phone entirely anyway.
I'd bet that people that jail break and brick make more than their share of service requests and cause more than their share of replacements.
Nope. Quite the contrary, in fact.
50 mg is a whole frickin' lot of nicotine. A normal cigarette only delivers about 1 mg to the user, maximum.
No, you know two people who have some pretty hardcore permanent brain damage who happened to consume a lot of LSD.
Correlation is not causation.
Funnily enough, Google says you're wrong.
Again, citation needed.
Any jailbroken iPhone and the MyWi app works perfectly for this sort of thing as well.
I'm fairly sure that Randi would accept low power 2.4 Ghz wavelengths (aka, Wi-Fi) as being in the "paranormal" arena. Man cannot detect that directly by any known means.
See my other response: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1600484&cid=31674750
Good for you. If you need to fund some research into the phenomenon or pay for your meds, then I bet that million bucks sure would come in handy:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
Fair enough, but the problem is that has way too many factors. There's a thousand different ways to tell where cops are, even if you can't see them.
I'm pretty good at "sensing" when there's a cop ahead myself. I don't claim to be able to sense radar, but I do have a pretty good subconscious idea of where they probably are. This comes from the layout of the roads, the behavior of the other drivers, the way people (and cops in particular) think, the time of the week/month, etc.
Not saying your friend was lying intentionally. He probably believed it entirely. Most people who take these sort of tests have total belief in their abilities. It's just that a proper test doesn't depend on other factors, it's testing for the specific claimed ability.
Being able to tell where cops most likely are, even to a great degree of accuracy, is not really a paranormal event. Being able to sense low power radar without any devices or assistance would be. The two are not really the same thing.