All those cookies you listed have already expired. Just look at the timestamps, it's right there.
If someone wanted to track you badly enough to do the things you're suggesting, they would simply ignore the DNT flag.
Something I suspect a lot of the folks on/. struggle with, as I do myself, is accepting the axiom that perfect is the enemy of good. DNT isn't remotely perfect, but that isn't the same as not being a good thing.
Clarkson doesn't just drive aggressively when testing cars on their track, he often thrashes them. The Tesla is a sports car, but it wasn't designed to be constantly power-slid around corners etc.
The hell it isn't. The Tesla is marketed and priced as an exotic sports car and should be held to that standard.
This question goes out to security researchers. When is it a good idea to inform the FBI of a crime? Does it depend on whether or not you are white hat, black hat, grey hat? Does it depend on whether or not you are in the same crew as the person, or know the person? And if you do, does it remain just research or does the function of the security researcher change to investigator?
I keep seeing various different job titles, security researcher, cyber crime investigator, cyber cop, cyber warrior, and I do not understand the different inherent functions of these terms. At the same time you have obvious professional betrayers like Albert Gonzalez being called "agents" and "heroes" by the feds in one sentence and then later on the feds are locking him up and he's a dirty rotten snitch greedy scoundrel.
So which security researcher, hacker, or cyber crime investigator wants to clear up exactly the different functions and roles?
Actions define people, not titles. You obviously already know this, why bother using it as an excuse to get on your soapbox? No one cares what they call themselves, except maybe them.
As has happened in other threads, you can go install "oldbar" to get the gimp autocomplete-only URL bar if you really want it.
The rest of us who enjoy having the ability to pull up a page even if the URL doesn't begin in www or we forget the URL completely will continue to use the Awesomebar.
I suspect the folks who hate the Awesomebar don't adapt well to change of any kind. Still, everyone has their own preferences and that's ultimately the value proposition for Firefox. You can make it work just about any damn way you please.
The rest of us who value our extensions (add-ons, whatever) will continue to hang out here with the most recent 3.x until said extensions become supported in FF4. I'm not saying this is Mozilla's fault by any stretch, either. I just want to make sure I still have gestures, web developer, firebug, and so many more well-tested and confirmed working before I make the jump.
The three you listed have been working since the beta versions. But point taken, not everyone is or should be an early adopter.
There have been systems in place and commercially available that measure the stress level of a callers voice for some time. They are typically used to alert a supervisor if a caller (or agent) is becoming irate, giving them a chance to coach the agent or step in and address the problem.
If you have a problem with this, say "no" when they advise you that the call is recorded for quality purposes. The law varies from state to state but in many cases they cannot record without your consent.
In mature markets the product and pricing differentials are generally smaller. That's not the same thing as price fixing. There are many analogies in the utility industry. Pick your favorite.
PVD sounds like it would meet your needs. It's free and can scrape multiple sources for movie/TV show information and posters. It uses SQlite for the database.
A company practicing what amounts to price fixing pays the government to ignore the fact it will become even more of a monopoly is our top story tonight. This story and more at 11.
Monopoly... I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Where was that $39 billion when it came to putting up and maintaining signal towers? Where was that $39 billion when it came to customer service? Where was that $39 billion when it came to the outlandishly expensive service?
All this money, and what does AT&T do with it? It's like a slap in the face for their own customers.
Even though a lot of people like to pretend they are forced to do business with AT&T, they aren't. I live in a dead spot on their network, so I don't use them. It wasn't difficult.
There are a lot of things I love about the US, and some very horrible things also.
Very true, and I agree wholeheartedly. We've done some great and horrible things, often at the same time. We won't look back on the early 21st century fondly. That being said, the current climate of petulant self-loathing isn't one of my favorite things.
1) Not news for nerds, and definitely not something that matters.
2) Solved simply by not allowing strangers; make a list of allowed people and anyone not on the list stays on the street.
She claims her account was hacked. The article says it may have been done by Anonymous, and 270,000 people you don't know with a 16-year-old girl's home address is a Bad Thing. It has some level of relevance to the/. audience as we all have an opinion about Anonymous, and we all have an opinion about privacy.
We knew all about this last year. It was on the front page of every paper and the lead story on the TV news. Unless the emails in question were written after October 2010, is there anything new?
Yep, and the lesson here is, people really want to win the Mac, so it gets the most attacks to start with... THEN people go after the others.
Its the same thing ever year and well understood. Its also well ignored by most who would rather assume that its bad security.
All of them fall pretty quickly once people target them, as has already been pointed out, people are sitting on exploits waiting for pwn2own in order to win the machines they want. The macs are well sought after, hence they go first.
God forbid, don't let reality obscure your perspective though.
This is a silly argument for several reason:
1) They have to already own a Mac in order to develop the exploit. 2) They could buy a lot of Macs with $15,000 USD. 3) Why would you want to really, really win any particular brand of PC when you had just discovered and written something that lets anyone with a web server pwn it? 4) Even assuming your argument is accurate, that means that all it takes is a little extra effort to crack a Mac, in this case because the browser isn't properly sandboxed. This is because Apple has done a poor job. That isn't a good thing for those of us that use them every day, including me. Discovering vulnerabilities and demonstrating exploits is a Good Thing for users, just a bad thing for fanbois.
That's an excellent point that I had forgotten. Does anyone understand the exploit well enough to know if this is specific to Safari's implementation of Webkit, or can it be easily modified for Chrome as well?
Actually the reason Safari went down first was because it was the first target. Followed by IE8 which also went down. The researcher who was going to go after Chrome never showed up and Firefox is next in line...
This is true, but irrelevant. It doesn't matter which was cracked first, just they they are cracked at all. I even saw a comment on the article saying Safari on Mac is better because it took five seconds and IE on Windows was instant. Also true, also irrelevant.
And since the vulnerability was in WebKit, would that not mean that Safari on Windows, as well as mobile devices, is also vulnerable? They just haven't written an exploit.
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
If you hit the age of 48 and don't have $200K in a tax-deferred investment account, get used to the idea of eating cat food when you retire.
I suppose this is a good reminder that regardless of the brand, most electronics are coming out of the same crappy Chinese factories.
That's totally unfair.
Why single out electronics like that?
40 years ago the common wisdom in the US said the same thing about foreign quality, except back then it was about the Japanese. Those that don't learn their history...
For now I'd say it's a fluke. You're not likely to find any of these problems even in a cheap Dell computer. In all the years I've owned and happened to open a computer or some other bit of electronics I can't say I've seen improperly assembled components. The only exception being toys where it's an absolute disaster how things get put together.
It is possible that in the rush to anticipate demand that factories are forgoing some quality control and maybe even overworking their employees.
It may be a fluke or it may be an assembly plant issue, but either way it's the sort of thing that makes an anal-retentive tyrant like Jobs go ballistic. I'm betting it gets sorted out posthaste, even if he is out on extended medical leave.
"Success" as defined by delivering high-quality and effective combat systems. So yes, it's a success, regardless of origin. More specifically, it's a success that demonstrates that the military, at least in this specific case, chose "effective" over "new and shiny". What would you rather have them do, engineer a new design from scratch at enormous expense that was maybe equally effective?
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All those cookies you listed have already expired. Just look at the timestamps, it's right there.
If someone wanted to track you badly enough to do the things you're suggesting, they would simply ignore the DNT flag.
Something I suspect a lot of the folks on /. struggle with, as I do myself, is accepting the axiom that perfect is the enemy of good. DNT isn't remotely perfect, but that isn't the same as not being a good thing.
__utmb is a session cookie. You do understand what session cookies are and why we need them, right?
Tell that to all the people who decline to buy a Tesla because of what they saw on Top Gear...
As if anyone spending $100K+ on a car would rely on a wacky comedic television car show to make their purchase decision.
That's like voting based on what you hear on Comedy Central. Oh, wait...
Clarkson doesn't just drive aggressively when testing cars on their track, he often thrashes them. The Tesla is a sports car, but it wasn't designed to be constantly power-slid around corners etc.
The hell it isn't. The Tesla is marketed and priced as an exotic sports car and should be held to that standard.
This question goes out to security researchers. When is it a good idea to inform the FBI of a crime? Does it depend on whether or not you are white hat, black hat, grey hat? Does it depend on whether or not you are in the same crew as the person, or know the person? And if you do, does it remain just research or does the function of the security researcher change to investigator?
I keep seeing various different job titles, security researcher, cyber crime investigator, cyber cop, cyber warrior, and I do not understand the different inherent functions of these terms. At the same time you have obvious professional betrayers like Albert Gonzalez being called "agents" and "heroes" by the feds in one sentence and then later on the feds are locking him up and he's a dirty rotten snitch greedy scoundrel.
So which security researcher, hacker, or cyber crime investigator wants to clear up exactly the different functions and roles?
Actions define people, not titles. You obviously already know this, why bother using it as an excuse to get on your soapbox? No one cares what they call themselves, except maybe them.
As has happened in other threads, you can go install "oldbar" to get the gimp autocomplete-only URL bar if you really want it.
The rest of us who enjoy having the ability to pull up a page even if the URL doesn't begin in www or we forget the URL completely will continue to use the Awesomebar.
I suspect the folks who hate the Awesomebar don't adapt well to change of any kind. Still, everyone has their own preferences and that's ultimately the value proposition for Firefox. You can make it work just about any damn way you please.
The rest of us who value our extensions (add-ons, whatever) will continue to hang out here with the most recent 3.x until said extensions become supported in FF4. I'm not saying this is Mozilla's fault by any stretch, either. I just want to make sure I still have gestures, web developer, firebug, and so many more well-tested and confirmed working before I make the jump.
The three you listed have been working since the beta versions. But point taken, not everyone is or should be an early adopter.
At some point you're talking to a live person. Otherwise there's nothing to analyze, right?
There have been systems in place and commercially available that measure the stress level of a callers voice for some time. They are typically used to alert a supervisor if a caller (or agent) is becoming irate, giving them a chance to coach the agent or step in and address the problem.
If you have a problem with this, say "no" when they advise you that the call is recorded for quality purposes. The law varies from state to state but in many cases they cannot record without your consent.
In mature markets the product and pricing differentials are generally smaller. That's not the same thing as price fixing. There are many analogies in the utility industry. Pick your favorite.
PVD sounds like it would meet your needs. It's free and can scrape multiple sources for movie/TV show information and posters. It uses SQlite for the database.
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/
You are claiming that there are no practical difference between the four major carriers, and that they are engaged in illegal price fixing?
A company practicing what amounts to price fixing pays the government to ignore the fact it will become even more of a monopoly is our top story tonight. This story and more at 11.
Monopoly... I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Where was that $39 billion when it came to putting up and maintaining signal towers? Where was that $39 billion when it came to customer service? Where was that $39 billion when it came to the outlandishly expensive service?
All this money, and what does AT&T do with it? It's like a slap in the face for their own customers.
Even though a lot of people like to pretend they are forced to do business with AT&T, they aren't. I live in a dead spot on their network, so I don't use them. It wasn't difficult.
That feeling from when I was a kid that there was anything remotely honorable about my country's conduct.
You know what I miss? Thick, chewy, delicious cynicism with a generous topping of self-loathing.
Next time you feel this way, check out what we do when disaster strikes a foreign nation. We're better at that than we are helping ourselves.
We aren't always good, but we aren't always evil either.
...snip...
There are a lot of things I love about the US, and some very horrible things also.
Very true, and I agree wholeheartedly. We've done some great and horrible things, often at the same time. We won't look back on the early 21st century fondly. That being said, the current climate of petulant self-loathing isn't one of my favorite things.
1) Not news for nerds, and definitely not something that matters.
2) Solved simply by not allowing strangers; make a list of allowed people and anyone not on the list stays on the street.
She claims her account was hacked. The article says it may have been done by Anonymous, and 270,000 people you don't know with a 16-year-old girl's home address is a Bad Thing. It has some level of relevance to the /. audience as we all have an opinion about Anonymous, and we all have an opinion about privacy.
We knew all about this last year. It was on the front page of every paper and the lead story on the TV news. Unless the emails in question were written after October 2010, is there anything new?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39575033/ns/business-real_estate/
Yep, and the lesson here is, people really want to win the Mac, so it gets the most attacks to start with ... THEN people go after the others.
Its the same thing ever year and well understood. Its also well ignored by most who would rather assume that its bad security.
All of them fall pretty quickly once people target them, as has already been pointed out, people are sitting on exploits waiting for pwn2own in order to win the machines they want. The macs are well sought after, hence they go first.
God forbid, don't let reality obscure your perspective though.
This is a silly argument for several reason:
1) They have to already own a Mac in order to develop the exploit.
2) They could buy a lot of Macs with $15,000 USD.
3) Why would you want to really, really win any particular brand of PC when you had just discovered and written something that lets anyone with a web server pwn it?
4) Even assuming your argument is accurate, that means that all it takes is a little extra effort to crack a Mac, in this case because the browser isn't properly sandboxed. This is because Apple has done a poor job. That isn't a good thing for those of us that use them every day, including me. Discovering vulnerabilities and demonstrating exploits is a Good Thing for users, just a bad thing for fanbois.
Chrome uses webkit.
That's an excellent point that I had forgotten. Does anyone understand the exploit well enough to know if this is specific to Safari's implementation of Webkit, or can it be easily modified for Chrome as well?
Actually the reason Safari went down first was because it was the first target. Followed by IE8 which also went down. The researcher who was going to go after Chrome never showed up and Firefox is next in line...
This is true, but irrelevant. It doesn't matter which was cracked first, just they they are cracked at all. I even saw a comment on the article saying Safari on Mac is better because it took five seconds and IE on Windows was instant. Also true, also irrelevant.
And since the vulnerability was in WebKit, would that not mean that Safari on Windows, as well as mobile devices, is also vulnerable? They just haven't written an exploit.
Typed on a Mac (but running Chrome).
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
If you hit the age of 48 and don't have $200K in a tax-deferred investment account, get used to the idea of eating cat food when you retire.
That's totally unfair.
Why single out electronics like that?
40 years ago the common wisdom in the US said the same thing about foreign quality, except back then it was about the Japanese. Those that don't learn their history...
For now I'd say it's a fluke. You're not likely to find any of these problems even in a cheap Dell computer. In all the years I've owned and happened to open a computer or some other bit of electronics I can't say I've seen improperly assembled components. The only exception being toys where it's an absolute disaster how things get put together.
It is possible that in the rush to anticipate demand that factories are forgoing some quality control and maybe even overworking their employees.
It may be a fluke or it may be an assembly plant issue, but either way it's the sort of thing that makes an anal-retentive tyrant like Jobs go ballistic. I'm betting it gets sorted out posthaste, even if he is out on extended medical leave.
"Success" as defined by delivering high-quality and effective combat systems. So yes, it's a success, regardless of origin. More specifically, it's a success that demonstrates that the military, at least in this specific case, chose "effective" over "new and shiny". What would you rather have them do, engineer a new design from scratch at enormous expense that was maybe equally effective?