The latest ones I encountered no longer do popups, but instead use Javascript to redirect the page to some third party website (or even a data:// url.)
Not technically popups, but still something just as trivial.
Seriously? Why is this allowed in modern web browsers?
Perhaps some Netscape 2.0-4.x developer thought it was a good idea to automatically execute anything on an HTML page - despite the well known examples of viruses that try infecting every Dos program, or every boot sector.
There's already an accessibility feature known as StickyKeys. Activated by pressing left shift five times, especially during video games. When active, you can press alt once, then press the left arrow.
If a user finds pressing backspace more convenient, then said user should be able to enter preferences and define the hotkey manually - something that should have been a core feature of browsers by now.
We already have enough illegals and freeloaders as it is. Paying half the country to do nothing will only make more of them.
Illegals in the country can trivially be disqualified from it, and it can be as simple as linking the UBI to the tax system. Since illegals probably won't file tax reports anyway, they won't get UBI. If they do file tax returns, then that creates a paper trail that allows them to be tracked down and returned to the home country.
Freeloaders... well, you can make some of them non-freeloaders if you have jobs available for them.
Flash, Javascript, ActiveX... have we learned now?
Boot sector viruses... it's a very old lesson that BIOS manufacturers plugged by the F8 key (allows booting from floppy on request rather than automatically).
For the very few valid use cases, it can be whitelisted.
Or simply set as (right-)click to start them. This has the advantage of not requiring a whitelist, while stopping all drive-by attacks. Most attacks are from third-party advertisers rather than being uploaded to Newgrounds/Kongregate.
Anyone who doesn't want Windows 10 could simply disable the "Windows Update" service, and simply wait for the Windows 10 free update period to expire. This tactic is well known for anyone who was bothered by the dialog boxes asking you to restart your computer every 10 minutes, or for power users that don't want 30+ documents to close overnight.
Meanwhile, still waiting for the Windows 10 update to appear on Windows Vista.
I guarantee you that it will quickly spiral into a bunch of dingbats talking to themselves, as everyone else will be blocked.
That's already happened.
If you post in a few certain subreddits, you get blocked from OffMyChest, me_irl, and others that subscribe to the same style of automatic blocking - well before the "block user" feature was added.
Also, abusive moderators are a greater threat to reddit than abusive users, as just one moderator can cripple a community by the simplest of changes (whether performing a hostile takeover, or slowly boiling the frog by making subtle changes over time.) The abusive users can be handled by standard whack-a-mole practices, along with ways to make it harder for non or new users to get a list of what a given user posts.
But he is correct? There _are_ costs, potentially involving people being killed.
Eliminating encryption won't handle:
A lone wolf.
Communications that aren't across phone lines or the internet (e.g. Sneaker net).
Communications from burner phones that appear innocous (e.g. asking friends to meet up at certain galleries/malls/etc), but are actually targetting data.
Letters, especially if they aren't immediatly suspicious.
Open broadcasts, calls to action.
There's no real cost to allowing encryption, as criminals can easily find alternate methods that don't require encryption.
if you are honestly suggesting people go on the internet, with any browser, without blocking scripts and ads via an extension,
Which is exactly what should be done. Blocking scripts and ads should be built-in to the browser and not require a third-party extension. If Netscape 2.0 can pause loading images until you press a button, then modern browsers can likewise pause Javascript, Flash, and other content until you also press a button.
It's almost like browser programmers never heard of the Microsoft Outlook worms spreading through HTML e-mails in 1996, nor about boot sector viruses that automatically execute when you leave a floppy in the drive.
A better Slashdot 4/1 was an article about a DVD movie containing subliminal messages. Movie title "The March is Over".
There were three messages, "Don't Drink And Drive" in an restaeurant (sic) scene, "Respect your parents" in a father/son fight and "No Firearms In School" in a school room scene. Quite manipulative, and a good reason to simply toss DVD encryption to make it easier for casual users to remove/mask offending frames.
Also, the problem isn't whether a given ISP in the local area gives discounts based on certain pacakages - it's that the various internet companies have to bid to the ISP in order to get the "zero factor" discount, in the same way they would need to bid in order to have normal traffic service.
So, a startup known as Hulu has a much higher barrier to entry than Youtube, simply because they aren't "zero factored".
Zero rating causes some websites to not count towards the data cap.
Seems minor, but consider users worrying about a data cap limit and not playing Netflix streams, when another competitor isn't subject to that restriction.
Hyphenated names are a good way to merge families rather than demanding that the family lineage must go through the father and/or mother. If anything, it's progressive.
For example, Mr. Johnson marries Miss Johnson, and decide to go for the classic hypenated name of Johnson-Johnson.
Later, Mr. Johnson-Johnson meets Miss Johnson-Johnson, creating the new Johnson-Johnson-Johnson-Johnson family.
Tamar Barbi, a 10th grade student living in Hod Hasharon, Israel, discovered that the theorem she was using to solve one of the problems on her geometry homework didn't actually exist.
Okay, the article says:
According to the new "Three Radii Theorem," if three or more lines extend from a single point to the edge of a circle, then the point is the center of the circle and the straight lines are the radii.
That's a definition, not a theorem. Even if you're generous enough to fix the wording, it's been proven centuries ago. If a point is taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, then the point taken is the center of the circle.
Not to mention that the article doesn't actually give the proof, and is simply a "yay, new invention by youngster" fluff.
Posters at Hacker News have some skeptical words about the theorem's novelty
And if you need to include that in the blurb, it's perhaps a good reason the article itself is garbage, especially when the topmost comment shows exactly why it's wrong.
1-There are documented examples of the government doing things on time and under budget.
Or via crown corporation. Canada has used crown corporations which are owned by the government yet are fully autonomous, and if they were inefficient, would have been dominated by the public sector several times over.
I think we should start with the Microsoft Doc format.
Microsoft has already depreciated that in 2007, and shift over to.docx (zipped XML files), a close-enough variation of the ECMA-376 specification.
If they're going to be that aggressive with updating, then they should provide the same type of upgrades for those running older operating systems. Especially those that shelled out a premium for WIndows Vista Ultimate and turned out to get surprisingly little.
Teachers are a part of the union and teachers *do* want the best for the children.
http://notalwayslearning.com/ - As of now, there's an opposite behavior teacher on the second page, where she power trips and behaves as a tyrant and needed to be warned by the administration.
This is what happens when you hire people who are in it for their own reasons rather than those who want to help others.
hosts are more useful by far doing more for less for more speed, security, reliability, and anonymity
Technically true, but from the screenshot, I notice a lack of wildcards. This is extremely easy to defeat.
And speaking of the hosts file, why not make it a separate download so that one doesn't need to download an executable? The only thing visible from APK is a download link for a closed-source executable as opposed to the hosts file itself. Meanwhile, two other host file databases provide a download that doesn't require a separate installer.
If you going to download a "scary executable", then might as well go whole hog and pick a useful executable file - such as one which can detect new ad networks that popup, and where you can block them on the fly as needed.
You'd be better served being actually useful producing tools of the nature apk
Yes, I have produced a useful tool. It's fully customized for my personal need (which is now complete), and can be trivially adjusted. This would be an intercepting proxy server - even if it slows things down, it has the benefit of caching stuff to either mirror external websites or otherwise allow them to load quicker.
If you want my services (i.e. have that tool converted from specialized to general use), I'm available for 45 USD per hour.
(assuming you can program that is and somehow I doubt you can be that useful).
In that case, I'm available for 60 USD per hour. If you feel that programmers aren't that useful, then you can attempt a better solution yourself, then come to the expert programmers once you mess things up.
By definition, any code that allows an exploit is a bug, even when that code works as designed.
A major security flaw with older computers is that they automatically execute a boot sector virus from a floppy drive. The automatic execution bug has since been fixed in modern BIOS, complete with a keypress that allows you to manually boot from floppies if necessary.
Outlook automatically executing code is no different, with the exception that it should never automatically execute in the first place. Note that Outlook was the first to implement the Goodtimes virus, while all other email clients were practically immune.
I'm not sure how many digits it would take to get GPS down to the specificity of 3x3 foot squares
Four digits gives 11m squares, which is close enough for anyone making deliveries to figure out the exact location within that square. If you want a 5th digit, you now have precision that can tell the difference between trees.
Twin four-digits aren't hard to memorize, and there's not as much of a benefit for bringing it down to 3x3 squares.
I'll give you 60 seconds to memorize the GPS coordinates of a housing block versus 60 seconds to memorize 3 English words
Memorization is from use, not by picking a random block and asking people to memorize it in 60 seconds. Also, if one can't memorize their own postal code through normal use, then they probably can't function normally in society.
As with all systems that blindly pick words and string them together, you're bound to encounter some that are less than flattering. "danger" and "skunks" appear in one pair of three, etc. Thankfully, this is only a parking lot, but imagine a person's place of residence with something like that.
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The latest ones I encountered no longer do popups, but instead use Javascript to redirect the page to some third party website (or even a data:// url.)
Not technically popups, but still something just as trivial.
Perhaps some Netscape 2.0-4.x developer thought it was a good idea to automatically execute anything on an HTML page - despite the well known examples of viruses that try infecting every Dos program, or every boot sector.
There's already an accessibility feature known as StickyKeys. Activated by pressing left shift five times, especially during video games. When active, you can press alt once, then press the left arrow.
If a user finds pressing backspace more convenient, then said user should be able to enter preferences and define the hotkey manually - something that should have been a core feature of browsers by now.
Illegals in the country can trivially be disqualified from it, and it can be as simple as linking the UBI to the tax system. Since illegals probably won't file tax reports anyway, they won't get UBI. If they do file tax returns, then that creates a paper trail that allows them to be tracked down and returned to the home country.
Freeloaders... well, you can make some of them non-freeloaders if you have jobs available for them.
Automatic elevators, which permanently destroyed the job where a person is inside the elevator and pushing a lever to make it go up or down.
No replacement job here, since any new repair work necessary for an elevator would now be rolled into the existing elevator technician job.
That's $8 per meal, which generally means you're taking stuff from fast food or restaurants.
From the Official USDA Food Plans, the expected cost should be half of that, and even less if you're going for a lower-cost options.
Boot sector viruses... it's a very old lesson that BIOS manufacturers plugged by the F8 key (allows booting from floppy on request rather than automatically).
Or simply set as (right-)click to start them. This has the advantage of not requiring a whitelist, while stopping all drive-by attacks. Most attacks are from third-party advertisers rather than being uploaded to Newgrounds/Kongregate.
Anyone who doesn't want Windows 10 could simply disable the "Windows Update" service, and simply wait for the Windows 10 free update period to expire. This tactic is well known for anyone who was bothered by the dialog boxes asking you to restart your computer every 10 minutes, or for power users that don't want 30+ documents to close overnight.
Meanwhile, still waiting for the Windows 10 update to appear on Windows Vista.
I should not have to download an extension for something that should be a core feature of the browser.
Disabling Javascript was a core feature of Netscape 4.0, and had the added benefit of plugging practically any drive-by-exploit from an ad network.
That's already happened.
If you post in a few certain subreddits, you get blocked from OffMyChest, me_irl, and others that subscribe to the same style of automatic blocking - well before the "block user" feature was added.
Also, abusive moderators are a greater threat to reddit than abusive users, as just one moderator can cripple a community by the simplest of changes (whether performing a hostile takeover, or slowly boiling the frog by making subtle changes over time.) The abusive users can be handled by standard whack-a-mole practices, along with ways to make it harder for non or new users to get a list of what a given user posts.
Eliminating encryption won't handle:
There's no real cost to allowing encryption, as criminals can easily find alternate methods that don't require encryption.
Which is exactly what should be done. Blocking scripts and ads should be built-in to the browser and not require a third-party extension. If Netscape 2.0 can pause loading images until you press a button, then modern browsers can likewise pause Javascript, Flash, and other content until you also press a button.
It's almost like browser programmers never heard of the Microsoft Outlook worms spreading through HTML e-mails in 1996, nor about boot sector viruses that automatically execute when you leave a floppy in the drive.
A better Slashdot 4/1 was an article about a DVD movie containing subliminal messages. Movie title "The March is Over".
There were three messages, "Don't Drink And Drive" in an restaeurant (sic) scene, "Respect your parents" in a father/son fight and "No Firearms In School" in a school room scene. Quite manipulative, and a good reason to simply toss DVD encryption to make it easier for casual users to remove/mask offending frames.
Which is why it can be a problem
Also, the problem isn't whether a given ISP in the local area gives discounts based on certain pacakages - it's that the various internet companies have to bid to the ISP in order to get the "zero factor" discount, in the same way they would need to bid in order to have normal traffic service.
So, a startup known as Hulu has a much higher barrier to entry than Youtube, simply because they aren't "zero factored".
Zero rating causes some websites to not count towards the data cap.
Seems minor, but consider users worrying about a data cap limit and not playing Netflix streams, when another competitor isn't subject to that restriction.
Hyphenated names are a good way to merge families rather than demanding that the family lineage must go through the father and/or mother. If anything, it's progressive.
For example, Mr. Johnson marries Miss Johnson, and decide to go for the classic hypenated name of Johnson-Johnson.
Later, Mr. Johnson-Johnson meets Miss Johnson-Johnson, creating the new Johnson-Johnson-Johnson-Johnson family.
Okay, the article says:
That's a definition, not a theorem. Even if you're generous enough to fix the wording, it's been proven centuries ago. If a point is taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, then the point taken is the center of the circle.
Not to mention that the article doesn't actually give the proof, and is simply a "yay, new invention by youngster" fluff.
And if you need to include that in the blurb, it's perhaps a good reason the article itself is garbage, especially when the topmost comment shows exactly why it's wrong.
Or via crown corporation. Canada has used crown corporations which are owned by the government yet are fully autonomous, and if they were inefficient, would have been dominated by the public sector several times over.
Microsoft has already depreciated that in 2007, and shift over to .docx (zipped XML files), a close-enough variation of the ECMA-376 specification.
If they're going to be that aggressive with updating, then they should provide the same type of upgrades for those running older operating systems. Especially those that shelled out a premium for WIndows Vista Ultimate and turned out to get surprisingly little.
http://notalwayslearning.com/ - As of now, there's an opposite behavior teacher on the second page, where she power trips and behaves as a tyrant and needed to be warned by the administration.
This is what happens when you hire people who are in it for their own reasons rather than those who want to help others.
Technically true, but from the screenshot, I notice a lack of wildcards. This is extremely easy to defeat.
And speaking of the hosts file, why not make it a separate download so that one doesn't need to download an executable? The only thing visible from APK is a download link for a closed-source executable as opposed to the hosts file itself. Meanwhile, two other host file databases provide a download that doesn't require a separate installer.
If you going to download a "scary executable", then might as well go whole hog and pick a useful executable file - such as one which can detect new ad networks that popup, and where you can block them on the fly as needed.
Yes, I have produced a useful tool. It's fully customized for my personal need (which is now complete), and can be trivially adjusted. This would be an intercepting proxy server - even if it slows things down, it has the benefit of caching stuff to either mirror external websites or otherwise allow them to load quicker.
If you want my services (i.e. have that tool converted from specialized to general use), I'm available for 45 USD per hour.
In that case, I'm available for 60 USD per hour. If you feel that programmers aren't that useful, then you can attempt a better solution yourself, then come to the expert programmers once you mess things up.
Cause it's apk hosts file spam, and he wants to advertise his own hosts file rather than being useful.
A major security flaw with older computers is that they automatically execute a boot sector virus from a floppy drive. The automatic execution bug has since been fixed in modern BIOS, complete with a keypress that allows you to manually boot from floppies if necessary.
Outlook automatically executing code is no different, with the exception that it should never automatically execute in the first place. Note that Outlook was the first to implement the Goodtimes virus, while all other email clients were practically immune.
It doesn't. Rather, it's the improper QA that either introduces bugs or causes them to remain undetected.
Proper QA prevent stories like those found on The Daily WTF.
Four digits gives 11m squares, which is close enough for anyone making deliveries to figure out the exact location within that square. If you want a 5th digit, you now have precision that can tell the difference between trees.
Twin four-digits aren't hard to memorize, and there's not as much of a benefit for bringing it down to 3x3 squares.
Memorization is from use, not by picking a random block and asking people to memorize it in 60 seconds. Also, if one can't memorize their own postal code through normal use, then they probably can't function normally in society.
As with all systems that blindly pick words and string them together, you're bound to encounter some that are less than flattering. "danger" and "skunks" appear in one pair of three, etc. Thankfully, this is only a parking lot, but imagine a person's place of residence with something like that.