At the bottom (South of the river): Similar but not as bad as spaghetti junction At the top (North of the river): The roundabout below has up to 6 lanes in places with 2 mini roundabouts On the right hand side (just south of the river): This one isn't as bad when you're actually drivintg it, as it's a standard roundabout with a few shortcuts if you happen to be taking the first exit for you).
Actually this is due to a UK/EU law/requirement that all sites which require users to explicitly be notified (and agree to) any cookies which are not explicitly required for usage of the site (sites which require logins, shopping carts etc are therefore exempt), the site will just work as normal if you don't click on the "I agree" button (which ironically will set another cookie saying you have agreed).
I guess some sites just enabled it for world users rather than dealing with different countries seperately.
ICO link below for those who want to read up on it.
The problem about this is that many of those types of flaws have been well known about and well publicised for many years now (and many high profile sites have had widely publicised exploits ecause of them).
However, there are now many standard practices which seasoned/experienced programmers/developers/system designers use to mitigate most of those issues (Hell, whilst I may have some issues with Ruby on Rails, with the current release I believe you'd have to explicitly allow unescaped HTML into your pages).
Anyone who has been developing any web applications for any decent length of time should be treating security (XSS, SQL Injection, Request Forgery etc) as a matter of principle, because it's much harder to retrofit security once you're finished. So that their source has so many holes in it does not bode well for any underlying protocol, they are not approaching the project with security in mind at all (and it may seem that they are not experienced enough yet to approach it so). This would be fine if it was just your average open source project, however it's not. They have been donated some $200,000 with which to develop it, and the benefit that could be gained from it is immeasurable. If the code they write is full of flaws, you can probably expect the protocol to have issues as well.
As has been suggested, the very first thing they should have done is come up with the protocol/data schema/api with which the sites would communicate . This would include allowing extensions/non base data as if there isn't a standard way of doing this then many of the various companies who run the servers will attempt to extend them (ala Microsoft) to get their own kind of vendor lock in (The best way would probably be something similar to the RSS v2.0 modules via namespaces, though I haven't spent too much time thinking about it).
Get yourself (if you don't already have) a cheap colo/virtual host. Then just use SSH with the-D option, and set your browsers proxy to a socks proxy on localhost.
Thats what I always do at when there are network issues (firewall, throttling, shaping).
I'll be counting the time until some other programmer in a country Facebook can't touch (or who does it anonymously), scrapes the exact same data and pushes it up on a torrent, purely because of this story.
Although I'm not sure why Facebook are so concerned, the friend data is relatively fluid, whilst there will be long term friendships, people add new friends all the time (and I'd guess, to a lesser extent, remove people who are no longer friends.
Plus the data isn't THAT reliable, I have several friends who, purely as a game have 1000+ friends and counting, purely to see how many they can get.
There's an even easier way of noticing it's an output filter.
The switch when clicking between your current stream and the text stream, is instant. If you switch from low to high def streams it actually reloads the stream. You can click the TEXTp to normal links as many times as you like and it's instant. They probably did effectively convert aalib to flash in some form (at the very least use the conversion tables).
I would suggest that you used the subject as 'zango', and there is a bug in the code trying to use the string as an object or somesuch thing, rather than a nefarious email everything to zango. Try with a completely neutral mail not mentioning zango at all and see if that has the same issue.
My father lives in a village in North Yorkshire, and until the last 6 months or so has been unable to get broadband of any kind, the phonelines just wouldn't take it, at all. To be honest the best modem connection he could get was usually 28800 (yes most of the time it wouldn't even go up to 33.6k, even on a 56k modem).
He is now able to get broadband, but I had a 2Mb connection before he was even able to get broadband.
With regards to the speed of the connection, I have no idea if RemoteAnywhere is anything like VNC, but TightVNC can work perfectly well over a 33.6k modem, yes sure you won't be getting 50fps, but if the software is even remotely intelligent it'll realise that it doesn't need to send the whole screen to transmit that a small 10x10 pixel area has changed (well 2 small 10x10 pixel areas, the old position of the pointer and the new position).
If it was even smarter it could hook into GDI subsystem and send the screen (without the mouse poointer) then simply transmiet the mouse pointer graphic and the coordinates to place the pointer completely seperately, this would give the impression of a very smooth connection (even though if you dragged a window around it would take quite some time to update).
Since it was a question (and remember we are newspaper people, this article actually came from the main paper) about a major british newspaper person, he would have known it would probably be in this years who's who, and since the person also knows his library well, then he would know where that was located (I wasn't there, yes he may have had it in front of him).
It's then a mere matter of locating the section on Piers Morgan.
Yes I'm actually a little slightly sceptical about the 20 seconds too, but then again I work in the development department and I'd have used google anyway.
I got the joke, I just didn't think it was very funny, and considering the time he obviously hadn't read the article either.
I on the other hand had read the article in G2 some couple of hours beforehand, and hence my quick response was justified.
Whenever a slashdot story comes up for google you get the same old jokes, i just tire of them, which is why I generally browse at +3 or +4, but I happened to check the front page quite shortly after the story had appeared, and with only 20 odd comments I didn't bother to change the level.
In fact The Registerr has a story on something very similar to this right here
I seem to remember I was doing something like this with my father when I went to university, we ended up winning 30 pints or something from our Students Union, aaahh memories.
Had you even bothered to read the article (Duh, this is slashdot, what am I thinking).
You'd notice this was the whole test.
We asked various "pub quiz" type questions and then comapres the speed of response of various methods of finding the answers, such as telephone, library and of course google.
Then again I wouldn't have needed to write this post if you'd bothered to read the article.
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There are several places like that which are just as (if not more) confusing. Though spaghetti junction is the most famous.
Swindons Magic Roundabout for example
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...
Then near where I grew up there is the A19 meeting the A66
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...
What you can see if you follow that:
At the bottom (South of the river): Similar but not as bad as spaghetti junction
At the top (North of the river): The roundabout below has up to 6 lanes in places with 2 mini roundabouts
On the right hand side (just south of the river): This one isn't as bad when you're actually drivintg it, as it's a standard roundabout with a few shortcuts if you happen to be taking the first exit for you).
Actually this is due to a UK/EU law/requirement that all sites which require users to explicitly be notified (and agree to) any cookies which are not explicitly required for usage of the site (sites which require logins, shopping carts etc are therefore exempt), the site will just work as normal if you don't click on the "I agree" button (which ironically will set another cookie saying you have agreed).
I guess some sites just enabled it for world users rather than dealing with different countries seperately.
ICO link below for those who want to read up on it.
http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies
Which is what makes me suspect it's a joke site, and that there's a heavy touch of sarcasm.
"...., the brave pilots and operators of the U.S. drone program...."
Damn brave, risking their lives shooting someone down from their heavily fortified bunker located a completely different country to the actual battle.
The problem about this is that many of those types of flaws have been well known about and well publicised for many years now (and many high profile sites have had widely publicised exploits ecause of them).
However, there are now many standard practices which seasoned/experienced programmers/developers/system designers use to mitigate most of those issues (Hell, whilst I may have some issues with Ruby on Rails, with the current release I believe you'd have to explicitly allow unescaped HTML into your pages).
Anyone who has been developing any web applications for any decent length of time should be treating security (XSS, SQL Injection, Request Forgery etc) as a matter of principle, because it's much harder to retrofit security once you're finished. So that their source has so many holes in it does not bode well for any underlying protocol, they are not approaching the project with security in mind at all (and it may seem that they are not experienced enough yet to approach it so). This would be fine if it was just your average open source project, however it's not. They have been donated some $200,000 with which to develop it, and the benefit that could be gained from it is immeasurable. If the code they write is full of flaws, you can probably expect the protocol to have issues as well.
As has been suggested, the very first thing they should have done is come up with the protocol/data schema/api with which the sites would communicate . This would include allowing extensions/non base data as if there isn't a standard way of doing this then many of the various companies who run the servers will attempt to extend them (ala Microsoft) to get their own kind of vendor lock in (The best way would probably be something similar to the RSS v2.0 modules via namespaces, though I haven't spent too much time thinking about it).
For quoting the Simpsons in such style, I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
In fact I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous that you seem to have caused the person who had to look up the words such pericombobulation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526724/quotes
You could resubmit the application with Shit load instead.
Get yourself (if you don't already have) a cheap colo/virtual host. Then just use SSH with the-D option, and set your browsers proxy to a socks proxy on localhost.
Thats what I always do at when there are network issues (firewall, throttling, shaping).
You seem to be a little touchy on the subject!
I'll be counting the time until some other programmer in a country Facebook can't touch (or who does it anonymously), scrapes the exact same data and pushes it up on a torrent, purely because of this story.
Although I'm not sure why Facebook are so concerned, the friend data is relatively fluid, whilst there will be long term friendships, people add new friends all the time (and I'd guess, to a lesser extent, remove people who are no longer friends.
Plus the data isn't THAT reliable, I have several friends who, purely as a game have 1000+ friends and counting, purely to see how many they can get.
There's an even easier way of noticing it's an output filter.
The switch when clicking between your current stream and the text stream, is instant. If you switch from low to high def streams it actually reloads the stream. You can click the TEXTp to normal links as many times as you like and it's instant. They probably did effectively convert aalib to flash in some form (at the very least use the conversion tables).
The official site is here http://ie6funeral.com/
Don't know why it wasn't included in the summary.
Yes, it was the episiode where they were satirising house. Apparently frmo a quick google it's been mentioned on House as well.
http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/My_House
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-house/episode/934864/summary.html
http://www.cucirca.com/2009/01/27/house-season-3-episode-11-words-and-deeds/
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/broken-heart-syndrome-in-andquotmy-houseandquot-and-this-weeks-episode-of-house/topic/2641-628341/msgs.html
Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too
Anything which extends the reach of this classic tune is good in my books, although how they're going to accomplish it with plain old H2O is curious.
I would suggest that you used the subject as 'zango', and there is a bug in the code trying to use the string as an object or somesuch thing, rather than a nefarious email everything to zango. Try with a completely neutral mail not mentioning zango at all and see if that has the same issue.
My father lives in a village in North Yorkshire, and until the last 6 months or so has been unable to get broadband of any kind, the phonelines just wouldn't take it, at all. To be honest the best modem connection he could get was usually 28800 (yes most of the time it wouldn't even go up to 33.6k, even on a 56k modem).
He is now able to get broadband, but I had a 2Mb connection before he was even able to get broadband.
With regards to the speed of the connection, I have no idea if RemoteAnywhere is anything like VNC, but TightVNC can work perfectly well over a 33.6k modem, yes sure you won't be getting 50fps, but if the software is even remotely intelligent it'll realise that it doesn't need to send the whole screen to transmit that a small 10x10 pixel area has changed (well 2 small 10x10 pixel areas, the old position of the pointer and the new position).
If it was even smarter it could hook into GDI subsystem and send the screen (without the mouse poointer) then simply transmiet the mouse pointer graphic and the coordinates to place the pointer completely seperately, this would give the impression of a very smooth connection (even though if you dragged a window around it would take quite some time to update).
Since it was a question (and remember we are newspaper people, this article actually came from the main paper) about a major british newspaper person, he would have known it would probably be in this years who's who, and since the person also knows his library well, then he would know where that was located (I wasn't there, yes he may have had it in front of him).
It's then a mere matter of locating the section on Piers Morgan.
Yes I'm actually a little slightly sceptical about the 20 seconds too, but then again I work in the development department and I'd have used google anyway.
We also didn't include the time it takes to switch on your computer and log into your operating system.
It's a loose test, but yes the assumption was that you were already at the library and knew your way around a card index very well.
I got the joke, I just didn't think it was very funny, and considering the time he obviously hadn't read the article either.
I on the other hand had read the article in G2 some couple of hours beforehand, and hence my quick response was justified.
Whenever a slashdot story comes up for google you get the same old jokes, i just tire of them, which is why I generally browse at +3 or +4, but I happened to check the front page quite shortly after the story had appeared, and with only 20 odd comments I didn't bother to change the level.
In fact The Registerr has a story on something very similar to this right here
I seem to remember I was doing something like this with my father when I went to university, we ended up winning 30 pints or something from our Students Union, aaahh memories.
Had you even bothered to read the article (Duh, this is slashdot, what am I thinking).
You'd notice this was the whole test.
We asked various "pub quiz" type questions and then comapres the speed of response of various methods of finding the answers, such as telephone, library and of course google.
Then again I wouldn't have needed to write this post if you'd bothered to read the article.