I agree, I drew the same conclusion when reading the article. The JS code is entered in the database, of course, but not via an SQL injection. XSS vulnerability is much more prevalent than SQL injection vulnerability. Funny how just a few Slashdotters have picked up on this.
I'd love to think that too (how the thinkpads are indestructable), but a neighbor of mine is the only one I know who has one and it has a tear in the plastic near the hinge. I have two Dell's (latitudes) and they are pretty indestructable (not that nothing ever breaks but that's what 4 years of NBD support is for). I'm inclined to go for the (business oriented) Latitudes though, Dell makes different qualities for different markets, and my experience with the consumer stuff isn't so great.
Pity you can't get anything but widescreens these days. I watch movies on my laptops, but not so often that I want a screen that's specialized for them.
I see you don't even attempt to describe a solution to my silly little viewer problems. That's not surprising, because there is none. That makes the iPad/iPhone about the only 'advanced' computerplatform that makes it impossible to find solutions for simple problems. If you think that's a good thing you never deserved that geek card in the first place.
Yeah, the operator above is obviously blinded by Apple love. Try this. Take a few hundred shots on your camera (set the file format to raw+jpeg for real fun) and transfer them to your iPad. You'll notice that the iPad will transfer both the ~5MB jpegs and the ~25MB RAW files even though it doesn't do anything with the latter. The transfer will last 6 times as long and the pix will take up 6 times as much space. No way to change this behavior (no settings anywhere). Now after looking at your hundreds of pix you want to remove them from your iPad. You have to tap on each and every pic and then press delete, great for your RSI. How braindead is that? Very...
Now, on an Android device this would not be a problem. A programmer would just write an app to fix this. On the iPad, third party apps are not allowed to delete images from the storage. Of course, this is all 'to make it easier for the user'.
This is 'news for nerds', no self-respecting nerd would defend such 'design'. You do. So, my conclusion is that you don't belong here. Try some Apple fanboy forum;)
There's an easy way around that. The SD card could be restricted to copying files on or off. Or even restricted to copying only images from camera's (the ipad is a great image viewer).
It may come as a surprise to you, but most of us are amateur photographers. We have amateur cameras and not 6000 EUR monsters like yours. The overwhelming majority of these cameras have SD slots.
If have the camera connection kit and I think it sucks. Manipulating larger sets of images is a disaster on the ipad, you have to click on each one individually to delete them for crying out loud!
And thanks to Apple's policies, no-one is allowed to write an app to make it easier. Only the built in app may delete images!
That's ridiculous. An SD slot is tiny and you could easily fit 10 of them in an ipad. And then you claim that optional external storage makes the thing too hard to use. What the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
It's iTunes and the lack of decent external storage that make my ipad hard to use. A great app like Goodreader needs to have its own ftp client built in to be able to retrieve PDF's from a server. It's not alone in that. Lots of apps are jumping through hoops to transfer files to or from the device. They all scream: broken by design.
Not really. There are clear technical reasons (size, power use) why netbooks don't have optical drives. There are no technical reasons why the huge iPad couldn't include a tiny cheap SDHC slot. The only reason it's not there is because it's incompatible. Incompatible with Apple's policy of squeezing out their customers.
Not to worry though, I have an iPad and the camera connection kit and the iPad still sucks at doing anything with photo's...
First of all, you should specify what bitrate the mp3 files were compressed at before boasting about how you can hear the difference with your Flacs. I can hear the difference with 112 kbit mp3's easily, with 256 kbit, not so easily...
Hmmm, that's interesting. A lot of people here in Europe say we're attracting the wrong kind of immigrants (low on education, high on religion) because of our welfare states. If you like government subsidies and aren't able to make a lot yourself you go to high tax Europe. If you're a well educated enterpreneur you go to low tax US.
A good and passionate read, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. The human mind is a flexible device (I'm trying to use engineering terms so you'll understand) and it takes a lot of programming in the early youth. If I see my young son playing around with his lego's (and I remember how I did the same when I was his age) I wonder if it isn't experiences like that that make you an engineer. The brain programs itself with rewards (hormone shots) and I wonder if the reward felt when playing with you construction toys in early life isn't what motivates you later on.
OTOH, I'm an engineer myself, so it's at least part genetics. We'll probably never know, but I'm still convinced it's not als B/W as you paint it.
My point: It's probably learned for a big part, but earlier than in formal education.
That was a rainbow table attack. A way of cracking password hashes by having all possible character combinations and their corresponding hashes in a huge precomputed table. You need access to the password hashes for that and the security system needs to be badly designed. Rainbow tables are easily defeated by using large salt values that would require the rainbow tables to be not simply huge but impossibly huge.
Exactly right. With the general public discovering smartphones, hopefully that's about to change. The providers are already starting to advertise cheap calls while abroad. Maybe data will follow.
There aren't enough parties for a true free market (oligoply). The data roaming charges are ridiculous. I pay 10 EUR a month for max 1GB traffic. When I cross the border to Belgium that goes to 10 EUR per MB. A thousandfold increase! And we all know what it costs to transfer 1MB from one country to another these days: practically nothing!
The result is that everybody disables data whenever they cross the border. So they make practically nothing on it anyway...
OTOH national data and voice rates are very reasonable. The market works well enough there...
For me it's obvious that the iPhone grew out of the success of the iPod. Apple was smart enough to realise that mobile phones were poised to evolve to become music and media players. So if Apple wasn't going to throw away their huge iPod success they needed to make a mobile phone themselves. Don't forget there's an iPhone version without phone functions. It's called the iPod Touch.
Jobs is trying to rewrite history to make the iPad even more enticing. Never trust a marketeer.
I'm not an Apple fan but I got myself an iPad and I like it a lot (though I hate it in many other respects). I'll trade it in for an open competitor as soon as something open appears. Google would be stupid to discourage tablet Android implementations.
In the case of rape, that's the real problem. Rape is notoriously hard to prove or disprove. So if you don'tr want to risk sending an innocent guy to jail you often have to accept the likelyhood that you're releasing a guilty guy.
The interesting thing is that two women are accusing him. That could point to two things, Assange is a sick MF or this is a real *drumroll* conspiracy! It also makes conviction more likely.
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Only if you consider posting on Slashdot SQL injection too... ;)
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I hope someone in charge can fix this for us l33t guys....
I've seen one of those when a colleague asked for my help. It looks deceptively realistic, technically unsophisticated users could easily be fooled.
I agree, I drew the same conclusion when reading the article. The JS code is entered in the database, of course, but not via an SQL injection. XSS vulnerability is much more prevalent than SQL injection vulnerability. Funny how just a few Slashdotters have picked up on this.
The Soviets had so much success with their five-year plans.
We're going to try and better them with our 40-year plans!
That's about the same thing my colleagues said when they first looked at the code and the database. ;)
Hah, I had that great idea sometime when I first started using mysql.
It's secure allright, but a giant pain in the butt to work with.
I'd love to think that too (how the thinkpads are indestructable), but a neighbor of mine is the only one I know who has one and it has a tear in the plastic near the hinge. I have two Dell's (latitudes) and they are pretty indestructable (not that nothing ever breaks but that's what 4 years of NBD support is for). I'm inclined to go for the (business oriented) Latitudes though, Dell makes different qualities for different markets, and my experience with the consumer stuff isn't so great.
Pity you can't get anything but widescreens these days. I watch movies on my laptops, but not so often that I want a screen that's specialized for them.
When I was in China last, six years ago, and went to visit internet cafe's, all the other people ever seemed to be doing was playing games.
I see you don't even attempt to describe a solution to my silly little viewer problems. That's not surprising, because there is none. That makes the iPad/iPhone about the only 'advanced' computerplatform that makes it impossible to find solutions for simple problems. If you think that's a good thing you never deserved that geek card in the first place.
Yeah, the operator above is obviously blinded by Apple love. Try this. Take a few hundred shots on your camera (set the file format to raw+jpeg for real fun) and transfer them to your iPad. You'll notice that the iPad will transfer both the ~5MB jpegs and the ~25MB RAW files even though it doesn't do anything with the latter. The transfer will last 6 times as long and the pix will take up 6 times as much space. No way to change this behavior (no settings anywhere). Now after looking at your hundreds of pix you want to remove them from your iPad. You have to tap on each and every pic and then press delete, great for your RSI. How braindead is that? Very...
Now, on an Android device this would not be a problem. A programmer would just write an app to fix this. On the iPad, third party apps are not allowed to delete images from the storage. Of course, this is all 'to make it easier for the user'.
This is 'news for nerds', no self-respecting nerd would defend such 'design'. You do. So, my conclusion is that you don't belong here. Try some Apple fanboy forum ;)
There's an easy way around that. The SD card could be restricted to copying files on or off. Or even restricted to copying only images from camera's (the ipad is a great image viewer).
It may come as a surprise to you, but most of us are amateur photographers. We have amateur cameras and not 6000 EUR monsters like yours. The overwhelming majority of these cameras have SD slots.
If have the camera connection kit and I think it sucks.
Manipulating larger sets of images is a disaster on the ipad, you have to click on each one individually to delete them for crying out loud!
And thanks to Apple's policies, no-one is allowed to write an app to make it easier. Only the built in app may delete images!
Mm, I noticed some slowdowns when I installed iOS4.2 on my ipad.
Mostly, decreased responsiveness of the on screen keyboard.
That's ridiculous. An SD slot is tiny and you could easily fit 10 of them in an ipad. And then you claim that optional external storage makes the thing too hard to use. What the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
It's iTunes and the lack of decent external storage that make my ipad hard to use. A great app like Goodreader needs to have its own ftp client built in to be able to retrieve PDF's from a server. It's not alone in that. Lots of apps are jumping through hoops to transfer files to or from the device. They all scream: broken by design.
Not really. There are clear technical reasons (size, power use) why netbooks don't have optical drives. There are no technical reasons why the huge iPad couldn't include a tiny cheap SDHC slot. The only reason it's not there is because it's incompatible. Incompatible with Apple's policy of squeezing out their customers.
Not to worry though, I have an iPad and the camera connection kit and the iPad still sucks at doing anything with photo's...
First of all, you should specify what bitrate the mp3 files were compressed at before boasting about how you can hear the difference with your Flacs. I can hear the difference with 112 kbit mp3's easily, with 256 kbit, not so easily...
Hmmm, that's interesting. A lot of people here in Europe say we're attracting the wrong kind of immigrants (low on education, high on religion) because of our welfare states. If you like government subsidies and aren't able to make a lot yourself you go to high tax Europe. If you're a well educated enterpreneur you go to low tax US.
A good and passionate read, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. The human mind is a flexible device (I'm trying to use engineering terms so you'll understand) and it takes a lot of programming in the early youth. If I see my young son playing around with his lego's (and I remember how I did the same when I was his age) I wonder if it isn't experiences like that that make you an engineer. The brain programs itself with rewards (hormone shots) and I wonder if the reward felt when playing with you construction toys in early life isn't what motivates you later on.
OTOH, I'm an engineer myself, so it's at least part genetics.
We'll probably never know, but I'm still convinced it's not als B/W as you paint it.
My point: It's probably learned for a big part, but earlier than in formal education.
X.
That was a rainbow table attack. A way of cracking password hashes by having all possible character combinations and their corresponding hashes in a huge precomputed table. You need access to the password hashes for that and the security system needs to be badly designed. Rainbow tables are easily defeated by using large salt values that would require the rainbow tables to be not simply huge but impossibly huge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
Exactly right. With the general public discovering smartphones, hopefully that's about to change. The providers are already starting to advertise cheap calls while abroad. Maybe data will follow.
There aren't enough parties for a true free market (oligoply). The data roaming charges are ridiculous. I pay 10 EUR a month for max 1GB traffic. When I cross the border to Belgium that goes to 10 EUR per MB. A thousandfold increase! And we all know what it costs to transfer 1MB from one country to another these days: practically nothing!
The result is that everybody disables data whenever they cross the border.
So they make practically nothing on it anyway...
OTOH national data and voice rates are very reasonable. The market works well enough there...
I've read that too and I think Jobs is lying.
For me it's obvious that the iPhone grew out of the success of the iPod. Apple was smart enough to realise that mobile phones were poised to evolve to become music and media players. So if Apple wasn't going to throw away their huge iPod success they needed to make a mobile phone themselves. Don't forget there's an iPhone version without phone functions. It's called the iPod Touch.
Jobs is trying to rewrite history to make the iPad even more enticing. Never trust a marketeer.
I'm not an Apple fan but I got myself an iPad and I like it a lot (though I hate it in many other respects). I'll trade it in for an open competitor as soon as something open appears. Google would be stupid to discourage tablet Android implementations.
Ah, now we don't know *how* he raped them, do we?
In the case of rape, that's the real problem. Rape is notoriously hard to prove or disprove. So if you don'tr want to risk sending an innocent guy to jail you often have to accept the likelyhood that you're releasing a guilty guy.
The interesting thing is that two women are accusing him. That could point to two things, Assange is a sick MF or this is a real *drumroll* conspiracy! It also makes conviction more likely.