Sorry, but real pros replace ALL of the HTTP status codes at random to prevent the client / browser from detecting a pattern. Similarly, pros override "true" and "false" constants to be functions that return random booleans, just to keep the code guessing. Sure, standards are great, but pros make sites that are secure, not standard.
What's the matter with you people? Back in the day, Slashdotters would have figured this out immediately.
It's the *terrorists* using the bid data as an out-of-band *communication protocol* for transmitting *encrypted messages*! Remember? Like they were doing with steganography in eBay auction photos? The brilliance is they are using our own tools against us!
Bear with me a moment, pour yourself a large frosty mug o' xenophobia, and think about all those *overseas programmers* in the financial industry. Why, if we don't stop them, they'll probably code up some *derivative bots* that will f-up the mortgage industry!
"This takes us to the crotch of the matter" (which, I suppose, might make sense in contexts other than the one in which it was delivered). "Nothing more to talk about -- it's a mute's point" "He was essentially in involuntary certitude" "More changes are coming down the pile" "We'll come to that bridge when we get to it" "You need to think outside the blocks" "There's no 'me' in 'Team'"
I think there's another distinction you're missing. The purchaser of stolen goods published to an international news source a detailed story, gloating about how they purchased the goods. I suspect this influenced the police's decision to get involved. True, it doesn't hurt that the goods were stolen from a multibillion dollar corporation with one of the biggest PR budgets in the country.
The difference in received justice between corporations and individuals is one issue. The investigation following the publication of details of committing a crime is a different issue.
Which is why Nantucket Corporation could/should have owned the world with Clipper, had they just kept moving it forward. But they squandered their 5 year lead...
Now, of course, you'd be insane to use xBase for anything. But at the time, it was pretty cool stuff.
We pedants use it as a shortcut method for figuring out whether or not a person is a blithering idiot. Grammar errors don't trigger an irrevocable condemnation, but they sure provide a good first indicator.
I always like it when at the scene of an accident, the officer is asking "What happened here?" and the driver is saying "I don't know... all of a sudden, this car just appeared..."
Huh? You're piloting a ton or more of steel at 60km/h, and you don't know? Did it ever occur that you might want to know what's going on around you?
yeah, DESQview was awesome. Even DESQview/X was great, except our sluggish little 386s just couldn't keep up with the demands. Or maybe we needed memory. I dunno. It should have beaten out Windows.
Or LDOS?... I can feel myself fading into the sands of time with this stuff. Man, I used to waste vast tracts of time using Kim Watt's Super Utility Plus to copy sectors of failing 180kb/side DSDD 40-track 5.25" floppies to a fresh disk...
OK, I'm going to go drown my nostalgia is some Scotch that's half as old as my TRS-80.
This particular leftist is heavily armed and likes shooting things. I dunno where your leftists would find moral objection to shooting old disk drives, unless you're doing it in a wildlife preserve or something.
In which case, there may or may not be the capability of wasting work time to read Slashdot like I'm doing. From what I hear, most of the programming facilities there are pretty restrictive of web access. I suppose the coders might access Slashdot from home, but...
One of the sites is for commercial vehicles. One is for motorcycle gear. The other is an alternative wedding site.
I see a lot of likely demographic differences. All of this is supposition, with no studies to back it up, so take it with a small mountain of rock salt. There's likely an age difference among those sites. I'd guess that two of the sites skew older than the other. There is also a likely difference in income: one being primarily people with disposable income, one for people with less disposable income, and one being primarily small to medium business owners. There's likely a gender gap among visitors to these sites: one of the sites is probably 75% women, the other two sites probably have 85+% men.
Given those assumptions, I'd argue that young, affluent women are more likely to upgrade their browsers than older small-business owners. In other news, I'm beginning to think water tends to be wet at room temperature, and ice is not very warm relative to fresh waffles.
That should tell you everything you need to know here.
Sure, Preston only wants to do the right thing. After all, even the group that she's involved with only drums up rabid support from anti-pornography people. But don't think that this is simply about pornography.
People who claim to want to control the way you think on one issue rarely limit themselves to that one issue when they actually gain the power to control.
Sure, you can, but be careful. Department of Transportation has pretty strict rules about what kinds of lighting you can legally have on your vehicle.
Having a *ahem* friend who experienced problems with law enforcement over a very similar deployment to the one you're envisioning, I'd simply recommend caution.
Then again, the policies and practices of highway patrol / law enforcement in your state may vary. IANAL. This is not legal advice. Etc.
Isn't Android v. iPhone really the same thing as Linux v. MacOS?
I suspect they'll coexist for a long time.
The old PalmOS and maybe WinMo and maybe even RIM will be the victims -- at least here in the States. Elsewhere, there are so many other choices to content with, so it's harder to play armchair quarterback.
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Sorry, but real pros replace ALL of the HTTP status codes at random to prevent the client / browser from detecting a pattern. Similarly, pros override "true" and "false" constants to be functions that return random booleans, just to keep the code guessing. Sure, standards are great, but pros make sites that are secure, not standard.
Finally, someone devious enough to get it!
I thought I was the only one.
What's the matter with you people? Back in the day, Slashdotters would have figured this out immediately.
It's the *terrorists* using the bid data as an out-of-band *communication protocol* for transmitting *encrypted messages*! Remember? Like they were doing with steganography in eBay auction photos? The brilliance is they are using our own tools against us!
Bear with me a moment, pour yourself a large frosty mug o' xenophobia, and think about all those *overseas programmers* in the financial industry. Why, if we don't stop them, they'll probably code up some *derivative bots* that will f-up the mortgage industry!
I've heard:
"This takes us to the crotch of the matter" (which, I suppose, might make sense in contexts other than the one in which it was delivered).
"Nothing more to talk about -- it's a mute's point"
"He was essentially in involuntary certitude"
"More changes are coming down the pile"
"We'll come to that bridge when we get to it"
"You need to think outside the blocks"
"There's no 'me' in 'Team'"
When the thief fences the goods to someone who blogs about the exploits, I imagine you'll get more attention from the police.
It's true: justice is not applied equally. But that doesn't mean justice shouldn't be pursued.
I think there's another distinction you're missing. The purchaser of stolen goods published to an international news source a detailed story, gloating about how they purchased the goods. I suspect this influenced the police's decision to get involved. True, it doesn't hurt that the goods were stolen from a multibillion dollar corporation with one of the biggest PR budgets in the country.
The difference in received justice between corporations and individuals is one issue. The investigation following the publication of details of committing a crime is a different issue.
wow. echoes of the Palm Treo 600 and 650...
They need a special launcher to run apps of an SD card. And that's 5 or 6-year-old tech.
Which is why Nantucket Corporation could/should have owned the world with Clipper, had they just kept moving it forward. But they squandered their 5 year lead...
Now, of course, you'd be insane to use xBase for anything. But at the time, it was pretty cool stuff.
NewDOS 80 v2! /me ducks
We pedants use it as a shortcut method for figuring out whether or not a person is a blithering idiot. Grammar errors don't trigger an irrevocable condemnation, but they sure provide a good first indicator.
I always like it when at the scene of an accident, the officer is asking "What happened here?" and the driver is saying "I don't know ... all of a sudden, this car just appeared ..."
Huh? You're piloting a ton or more of steel at 60km/h, and you don't know? Did it ever occur that you might want to know what's going on around you?
Based upon my own personal experience (as an ex-child myself), there is very little a parent can do to stop a determined, curious kid.
Statistically, you lose a few. Most of the dangerous things kids get into are treatable after the fact, or will only leave some scarring.
I thought the pill did ban children!
yeah, GEM was fun. More fun than DOS, anyway.
You had assembly language? You lucky, lucky bastard! We had to hand-place electrons on the bus of our S100 system to even boot CP/M.
LD HL, 3C00 ...
LD DE, FA00
LD BC, 0F00
LDIR
yeah, DESQview was awesome. Even DESQview/X was great, except our sluggish little 386s just couldn't keep up with the demands. Or maybe we needed memory. I dunno. It should have beaten out Windows.
What about NEWDOS/80 v2?
Or LDOS? ... I can feel myself fading into the sands of time with this stuff. Man, I used to waste vast tracts of time using Kim Watt's Super Utility Plus to copy sectors of failing 180kb/side DSDD 40-track 5.25" floppies to a fresh disk...
OK, I'm going to go drown my nostalgia is some Scotch that's half as old as my TRS-80.
Shot them, meaning the Leftists or the drives?
This particular leftist is heavily armed and likes shooting things. I dunno where your leftists would find moral objection to shooting old disk drives, unless you're doing it in a wildlife preserve or something.
Didn't Palm outsource all of its coding to India?
In which case, there may or may not be the capability of wasting work time to read Slashdot like I'm doing. From what I hear, most of the programming facilities there are pretty restrictive of web access. I suppose the coders might access Slashdot from home, but ...
Also, I don't know of any GPS-enabled smartphones that have enhancements like WAAS, which can be very helpful where available.
I looked at reports for three sites for which I have analytics access.
Here're the results. IE: 53%, 58%, 71%, Firefox: 29%, 27%, 19%, Safari: 13%, 9%, 4%
One of the sites is for commercial vehicles. One is for motorcycle gear. The other is an alternative wedding site.
I see a lot of likely demographic differences. All of this is supposition, with no studies to back it up, so take it with a small mountain of rock salt.
There's likely an age difference among those sites. I'd guess that two of the sites skew older than the other. There is also a likely difference in income: one being primarily people with disposable income, one for people with less disposable income, and one being primarily small to medium business owners. There's likely a gender gap among visitors to these sites: one of the sites is probably 75% women, the other two sites probably have 85+% men.
Given those assumptions, I'd argue that young, affluent women are more likely to upgrade their browsers than older small-business owners.
In other news, I'm beginning to think water tends to be wet at room temperature, and ice is not very warm relative to fresh waffles.
First off, it's not even rumor-mongering -- it's some hack making shit up to increase his pageviews.
Secondly, it's a stupid idea.
Thirdly, it ain't gonna happen.
Fourthly, everyone expects Apple to buy everything (Sony, Nintendo, Be, Sun, Palm, ...) and they generally don't.
Fifthly, who cares? Twitter's already over. The "cool" people have moved on to hype other new stuff (remember Blogs? remember Podcasts?)
That should tell you everything you need to know here.
Sure, Preston only wants to do the right thing. After all, even the group that she's involved with only drums up rabid support from anti-pornography people. But don't think that this is simply about pornography.
People who claim to want to control the way you think on one issue rarely limit themselves to that one issue when they actually gain the power to control.
Sure, you can, but be careful. Department of Transportation has pretty strict rules about what kinds of lighting you can legally have on your vehicle.
Having a *ahem* friend who experienced problems with law enforcement over a very similar deployment to the one you're envisioning, I'd simply recommend caution.
Then again, the policies and practices of highway patrol / law enforcement in your state may vary. IANAL. This is not legal advice. Etc.
Isn't Android v. iPhone really the same thing as Linux v. MacOS?
I suspect they'll coexist for a long time.
The old PalmOS and maybe WinMo and maybe even RIM will be the victims -- at least here in the States. Elsewhere, there are so many other choices to content with, so it's harder to play armchair quarterback.