"....I think there's a better way to do it than public shaming."
Ok, such as.... what?
If someone puts up a web site I have to figure that it might be for people to visit. If that site has vulnerabilities, I have to give the owner benefit-of-doubt that they might likely want to know such, as I also have to figure that they wish for it to be safe from attack - to prevent defacement, hi-jacking for attack app insertion, making off with private infos, etc.
Therefore I'd hazard a guess that, since everyone's means are limited, by their own knowledge and skill, time available, to do their own testing, or budget to hire it done, that whatever agency is able to easily and quickly point out a few of the more common vulns (and also the same ones used by many of the crims to make money) - that they'd welcome the info so they might fix their site.
Punkspider seems to fit that bill.
So, unethical. How so? Is it somehow more ethical to not test and have site open to attack, or is it both more moral and more practical to get information that'll help to protect the site?
About mid-Seventies I noticed that needlessly inflating a job's requirements went hand-in-hand with debasing the value and purpose of a degree and it's only gotten worse. While I follow the various arguments viz. HR, time to read resumés, and the old "a degree proves you have the stamina and stomach to handle the BS that goes with a B.S." it still saddens and angers me that we've introduced needless artificiality and complexity into matching up a reasonable set of skills and talents with getting a job done.
When I saw in an ad for a summer job as a dishwasher at a local country club circa '86 "send resume" I figured it was game over.
Unfortunately, given prevailing mindsets, I don't see any effective solution - apart from what each individual chooses to do in a more rational manner - essentially guerrilla action in a corporate tar pit that sucks the thought out of everything.
Sorry; we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Not misleading - it was a freaking rental car; there was no evidence indicating Gonzolez was involved with drugs. Further, the guy's story stood up. Even Judge Lay understood that. This was more about the governments ability to steal money under color of law than the court's avowed purpose of dispensing justice. Seems to me, anyway.
Another argument in favour of recoil-operation. [grin] No probs there, if'n the other stuff works. And yes, load is important for recycling, gas or recoil; it shows up commonly when reloading for subsonics. Years ago and faraway, haven't even been to a range in twenty years.
But one doesn't have to refine the entire asteroid in one go, surely? Just because one's brewed up five gallons of beer doesn't mean it can't be drunk a glass at a time.
Building living quarters into the rock would be handy.
"If the gun is an automatic, and has not been modified, you may need to chamber the rounds manually, because the lack of air resistance may mess up the automatic action."
I think not. In full or semi-auto, bolt and bolt carrier are forced back either by gas or recoil, neither of which require air resistance. Last time I looked, anyway.
Someone with better math and physics will have to deal with the heat question. The other real issue would be with lubricants. That, or a piece with looser tolerances such as the AK-47. Either way, one would not want the lubricants to freeze nor the parts to self-weld.
I get the point readily enough. Auto web search got disabled on upgrade. Dash sending searches in under-handed spyware fashion is indeed despicable, whether it can be disabled or no, without asking or telling.
Except that, for the nonce, I flat out don't care. The only things I've searched via Dash have been some of the configuration utilities that either came with the install or ones I've added that I either didn't make a short-cut for, didn't show up in the menu (classicmenu-indicator was the first extra thing that I installed), or I can't easily find on my own. If Canonical wants to sell that minimal un-useful data to someone doesn't make me no never mind.
The rest of Unity? I don't care. Launch bar/Unity bar, whatever it's called, sits along the left edge of a wide-screen monitor with smaller-than-default icons and is a convenient place to park a few often-used apps. Desktop shortcuts and classicmenu-indicator serve the rest of those needs, and the OS itself basically just works for the little that I use this system for - surfing, email, a bit of writing, a few games, and some media consumption.
I'm just too old and too bothered by other crap to give a rat's patoot about something that doesn't affect me. But damn straight I'm watching them to see what they might pull next. I'm lazy enough not to want to switch distros but will if I think I need to.
The only thing that really bothers me, daily, is the lack of built-in ability to alter the size of the mouse cursor system-wide, something easily done on Windows. None of the work-arounds have.... worked around that. This simplification of interface/configurability for we poor noob users has gone way too far. May the fleas of a thousand camels invest the nether regions of any devs involved in that, unto the tenth generation.
Well, ok. I downed an iso for Ubuntu 7.10 (32-bit), burned it, and installed as a vm under VirtualBox, host being Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit. Fine. Upgraded to 8.04, worked fine. Then it hit me, half the repos I'd normally use - restricted extras, backports, third-party, partners - weren't there for versions that far back.
Whoops. Next upgrade offered by GUI updater was 10.04. Don't know what happened, was off re-packing my wounds (aftermath of blood clot, _not_ fun, it's been three months now....), got back and machine wouldn't wake up. Killed it by closing the window, re-started to a kernel panic: couldn't find fs.
So, ok, that didn't work.
But I have taken several of my Linux machines through the process - as the updates and upgrades were offered - without much hassle. That's a qualified "much", of course. Sure as tootin' all OS's suck, just differently. I've had the same ease, mostly, with my Windows systems, including the gotchas.
Often as not, I've found that when doing an upgrade, it's better to save the docs, software keys, what have you, and do a clean install, then re-install apps. And I do hate the extra time this takes.
I've had about as many driver problems in Windows as in Linux - both have gotten better since, say, '01. (I had _one_ driver problem in Linux since '09, but I haven't had that many systems to play with, not like you, having a store and all, and yeah, I helped out at a store here in town for three years, mostly OS, software, file recovery (testdisk is your friend), dis-infection, re-installs, etc. I know some of the hassles.)
Sum up, my own limited experience says I prefer the ease of use and fewer hassles of doing updates via GUI on Ubuntu to doing updates on Windows (including apps and drivers.)
I figure it's use what works for you - and in your case, for your customers. For me it'd be a toss-up which I'd rather do: handhold people through Linux probs (wouldn't be me, I'm too stupid) or keep fixing those brought by Windows users who refuse to do updates and just "have to click" on every damn thing they see on screen and browser.
Somewhere mid-'01 I started using Deepnet Explorer as my main broswer; it used IE's rendering engine and a few of its libraries. It had tabs, multi-thread downloads, and some other neat stuff I've forgotten; it was fast and generally rendered most pages well.
I also used IE (for Windows update, at least), Opera, and Netscape.
Oh, OK. After I start Steam, I usually left-click on taskbar icon and select game from my default Library tab. While I sometimes leave it running for days, I notice there's a tendency for the connection to drop, so I have to re-start it anyway. Costs me a couple of extra clicks, but the arthritis is not bad yet. [grin]
When I start it via Desktop shortcut, it shows up in taskbar and system monitor process tab. When I right-click and exit it from taskbar, it's gone. Do you mean to say it's hidden or masked as another process?
"/home/myusername/.cxoffice/Steam/desktopdata/cxmenu/Desktop.C^5E3A^5Fusers^5FPublic^5FDesktop/Steam.lnk" is the command for the shortcut. Is there something in there that I should be leery of? [sorry 'bout the control codes, didn't edit or look them up]
I'm getting killed by user agent (1 in 46k), plugins (unique), and system fonts (1 in 82k). Were I to switch to, for example, Win7, the big three browsers, and a small common set of plugins I'm guessing it'd be a lot better. Instead, like a thorough-going idiot, I run 64-bit Linux, Opera, and what I had thought to be a standard set of media plugins. I hadn't intended this to be useful for some un-bidden data miner. I've been totally naive about fonts; so far as I knew I just had the standard package that came with Ubuntu.
Sheesh, this is kinda weirding me out. Ah, well, life on the modern Web, eh?
Could find no mention of ejectee exceeding Mach 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection_seathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier. There were ejections post-Yeager (note that Yeager's was first _official_ breaking of sound barrier) that took place at supersonic speeds. Baumgartner is trying to surpass Mach 1 in freefall, which as things stand would be notable.
Graduated in '65. Closest thing to computer in two different high schools was my slide rule and the CRC maths handbook we used for analytical geometry at the second one.. No mention of computers in any classes.
Yeah, miniaturization of components helps. That 'static support tower' is the erector, fairly common to field-launched theater, IR- and ICBMs for around fifty years now. With the later Saturns there were a lot of connections; tower made them easier to do, and to service during a hold. For the Shuttle, apart from the slew of connections, tower afforded last-minute crew egress.
Congrats to SpaceX et al on nominal launch and insertion.
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Thank you; I learned something. Several somethings, in fact.
"....I think there's a better way to do it than public shaming."
Ok, such as.... what?
If someone puts up a web site I have to figure that it might be for people to visit. If that site has vulnerabilities, I have to give the owner benefit-of-doubt that they might likely want to know such, as I also have to figure that they wish for it to be safe from attack - to prevent defacement, hi-jacking for attack app insertion, making off with private infos, etc.
Therefore I'd hazard a guess that, since everyone's means are limited, by their own knowledge and skill, time available, to do their own testing, or budget to hire it done, that whatever agency is able to easily and quickly point out a few of the more common vulns (and also the same ones used by many of the crims to make money) - that they'd welcome the info so they might fix their site.
Punkspider seems to fit that bill.
So, unethical. How so? Is it somehow more ethical to not test and have site open to attack, or is it both more moral and more practical to get information that'll help to protect the site?
About mid-Seventies I noticed that needlessly inflating a job's requirements went hand-in-hand with debasing the value and purpose of a degree and it's only gotten worse. While I follow the various arguments viz. HR, time to read resumés, and the old "a degree proves you have the stamina and stomach to handle the BS that goes with a B.S." it still saddens and angers me that we've introduced needless artificiality and complexity into matching up a reasonable set of skills and talents with getting a job done.
When I saw in an ad for a summer job as a dishwasher at a local country club circa '86 "send resume" I figured it was game over.
Unfortunately, given prevailing mindsets, I don't see any effective solution - apart from what each individual chooses to do in a more rational manner - essentially guerrilla action in a corporate tar pit that sucks the thought out of everything.
Sorry; we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
True enough, but I don't see this as needfully being either - or. Do you?
Not misleading - it was a freaking rental car; there was no evidence indicating Gonzolez was involved with drugs. Further, the guy's story stood up. Even Judge Lay understood that. This was more about the governments ability to steal money under color of law than the court's avowed purpose of dispensing justice. Seems to me, anyway.
Perhaps Google, like many an adult, dislikes being ordered about by spoiled children.
Make that spoiled, sanctimonious, amoral, dishonest, hypocritical, mentally skewed, ethically bereft children.
"Burglars generally show up when the house is empty...."
If you're home, it's robbery.
Another argument in favour of recoil-operation. [grin] No probs there, if'n the other stuff works. And yes, load is important for recycling, gas or recoil; it shows up commonly when reloading for subsonics. Years ago and faraway, haven't even been to a range in twenty years.
But one doesn't have to refine the entire asteroid in one go, surely? Just because one's brewed up five gallons of beer doesn't mean it can't be drunk a glass at a time.
Building living quarters into the rock would be handy.
"If the gun is an automatic, and has not been modified, you may need to chamber the rounds manually, because the lack of air resistance may mess up the automatic action."
I think not. In full or semi-auto, bolt and bolt carrier are forced back either by gas or recoil, neither of which require air resistance. Last time I looked, anyway.
Someone with better math and physics will have to deal with the heat question. The other real issue would be with lubricants. That, or a piece with looser tolerances such as the AK-47. Either way, one would not want the lubricants to freeze nor the parts to self-weld.
I get the point readily enough. Auto web search got disabled on upgrade. Dash sending searches in under-handed spyware fashion is indeed despicable, whether it can be disabled or no, without asking or telling.
Except that, for the nonce, I flat out don't care. The only things I've searched via Dash have been some of the configuration utilities that either came with the install or ones I've added that I either didn't make a short-cut for, didn't show up in the menu (classicmenu-indicator was the first extra thing that I installed), or I can't easily find on my own. If Canonical wants to sell that minimal un-useful data to someone doesn't make me no never mind.
The rest of Unity? I don't care. Launch bar/Unity bar, whatever it's called, sits along the left edge of a wide-screen monitor with smaller-than-default icons and is a convenient place to park a few often-used apps. Desktop shortcuts and classicmenu-indicator serve the rest of those needs, and the OS itself basically just works for the little that I use this system for - surfing, email, a bit of writing, a few games, and some media consumption.
I'm just too old and too bothered by other crap to give a rat's patoot about something that doesn't affect me. But damn straight I'm watching them to see what they might pull next. I'm lazy enough not to want to switch distros but will if I think I need to.
The only thing that really bothers me, daily, is the lack of built-in ability to alter the size of the mouse cursor system-wide, something easily done on Windows. None of the work-arounds have.... worked around that. This simplification of interface/configurability for we poor noob users has gone way too far. May the fleas of a thousand camels invest the nether regions of any devs involved in that, unto the tenth generation.
Well, ok. I downed an iso for Ubuntu 7.10 (32-bit), burned it, and installed as a vm under VirtualBox, host being Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit. Fine. Upgraded to 8.04, worked fine. Then it hit me, half the repos I'd normally use - restricted extras, backports, third-party, partners - weren't there for versions that far back.
Whoops. Next upgrade offered by GUI updater was 10.04. Don't know what happened, was off re-packing my wounds (aftermath of blood clot, _not_ fun, it's been three months now....), got back and machine wouldn't wake up. Killed it by closing the window, re-started to a kernel panic: couldn't find fs.
So, ok, that didn't work.
But I have taken several of my Linux machines through the process - as the updates and upgrades were offered - without much hassle. That's a qualified "much", of course. Sure as tootin' all OS's suck, just differently. I've had the same ease, mostly, with my Windows systems, including the gotchas.
Often as not, I've found that when doing an upgrade, it's better to save the docs, software keys, what have you, and do a clean install, then re-install apps. And I do hate the extra time this takes.
I've had about as many driver problems in Windows as in Linux - both have gotten better since, say, '01. (I had _one_ driver problem in Linux since '09, but I haven't had that many systems to play with, not like you, having a store and all, and yeah, I helped out at a store here in town for three years, mostly OS, software, file recovery (testdisk is your friend), dis-infection, re-installs, etc. I know some of the hassles.)
Sum up, my own limited experience says I prefer the ease of use and fewer hassles of doing updates via GUI on Ubuntu to doing updates on Windows (including apps and drivers.)
I figure it's use what works for you - and in your case, for your customers. For me it'd be a toss-up which I'd rather do: handhold people through Linux probs (wouldn't be me, I'm too stupid) or keep fixing those brought by Windows users who refuse to do updates and just "have to click" on every damn thing they see on screen and browser.
Somewhere mid-'01 I started using Deepnet Explorer as my main broswer; it used IE's rendering engine and a few of its libraries. It had tabs, multi-thread downloads, and some other neat stuff I've forgotten; it was fast and generally rendered most pages well.
I also used IE (for Windows update, at least), Opera, and Netscape.
Oh, OK. After I start Steam, I usually left-click on taskbar icon and select game from my default Library tab. While I sometimes leave it running for days, I notice there's a tendency for the connection to drop, so I have to re-start it anyway. Costs me a couple of extra clicks, but the arthritis is not bad yet. [grin]
"Steam's always running...."
Huh? How does it hide from top?
When I start it via Desktop shortcut, it shows up in taskbar and system monitor process tab. When I right-click and exit it from taskbar, it's gone. Do you mean to say it's hidden or masked as another process?
"/home/myusername/.cxoffice/Steam/desktopdata/cxmenu/Desktop.C^5E3A^5Fusers^5FPublic^5FDesktop/Steam.lnk" is the command for the shortcut. Is there something in there that I should be leery of? [sorry 'bout the control codes, didn't edit or look them up]
Thanks, guys.
I'm getting killed by user agent (1 in 46k), plugins (unique), and system fonts (1 in 82k). Were I to switch to, for example, Win7, the big three browsers, and a small common set of plugins I'm guessing it'd be a lot better. Instead, like a thorough-going idiot, I run 64-bit Linux, Opera, and what I had thought to be a standard set of media plugins. I hadn't intended this to be useful for some un-bidden data miner. I've been totally naive about fonts; so far as I knew I just had the standard package that came with Ubuntu.
Sheesh, this is kinda weirding me out. Ah, well, life on the modern Web, eh?
The recipe for chocolate-chip cookies isn't so bad either. While I agree with you, my biggest takeaway was that I liked the way his mind worked.
Links?
Morality and the like are used as PR to sell a war to populace; this doesn't negate the reasons korgitser gave.
Thanks for the link - I'd forgotten about this. Took the test:
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,452,354 tested so far."
Short conclusion: I'm screwed.
Could find no mention of ejectee exceeding Mach 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection_seat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier. There were ejections post-Yeager (note that Yeager's was first _official_ breaking of sound barrier) that took place at supersonic speeds. Baumgartner is trying to surpass Mach 1 in freefall, which as things stand would be notable.
Damme, a real geezer! Congrats.
Graduated in '65. Closest thing to computer in two different high schools was my slide rule and the CRC maths handbook we used for analytical geometry at the second one.. No mention of computers in any classes.
Yeah, miniaturization of components helps. That 'static support tower' is the erector, fairly common to field-launched theater, IR- and ICBMs for around fifty years now. With the later Saturns there were a lot of connections; tower made them easier to do, and to service during a hold. For the Shuttle, apart from the slew of connections, tower afforded last-minute crew egress.
Congrats to SpaceX et al on nominal launch and insertion.
And then there's Milorganite.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite