"The system relies, rather stupidly, on making it difficult to get in in the first place, by forcing you to get a client certificate for your browser," a mechanism for establishing the user's identity, said Mark Seiden, a security consultant who perform tests for corporations. "Well, the 9/11 hijackers also had authentic drivers' licenses..."
is this as moronic a statement as it appears?
why i still use opera
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there are two features of opera that i haven't found in firefox that keep me on opera. if someone knows how they can be done in firefox, i'd be grateful to hear about it
1) opera by default opens all new windows in new tabs. firefox still responds to hyperlinks etc that want to bring up new windows with, er, a new window. i want tabs to be the default
2) if pc/windows/opera crashes, i can come back into it pretty much exactly where i left off - all my tabs are there with their histories intact
interestingly, the report ends by recommending that online purchasers look at using an escrow service, without pointing out that bogus online escrow services are just another tool of these scammers.
Included in the shipment: 84 copies of an album by rhythm-and-blues artist Samantha Mumba, 69 by Lenny Kravitz and 48 copies of "Scary Sounds for Halloween" from Martha Stewart.
from Martha Stewart's "Scary Sounds for Halloween" CD, track 1:
i have a similar question - why is throwing a game illegal? if i am a pro ballplayer and i screw up on purpose (because, of course, someone paid me to), well i can see my boss firing me and my finding employment on other teams to be probably impossible, but, assuming gambling is illegal, i haven't harmed anyone else beyond the fact that folks watching the game didn't see what they expected to (sort of like watching wrestling)
aspect-oriented programming allows objects to exist in a more 'pure' state. for instance, rather than filling up your object with persistence code, you can write an aspect that handles the persistence, same as you can use cmp in j2ee to handle persistence. same idea applies for security, debugging, scarce-resource management...
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Aw man when did grep get fixed up like this? I've still been typing:
find/usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -i "a.*l.*q.*a.*e.*d.*a" {}/dev/null \;
I had the same experience installing Netscape 6.1 last week. I ended up with "Sign up for AOL" icons everywhere - desktop, system tray, even IE favorites. It also installed RealPlayer and something else (I forget) and sprinkled their detritus everywhere as well. And, of course, uninstalling the damned thing doesn't get rid of all the rabbit poops it has sprinkled on my desktop.
Speaking (loosely) of O'Reilly XML books, my local library messed up recently and actually got some current, useful, tech books. One I picked up there was "Learning XML", and I am finding it a very good read. And I am not a neophyte, XML-wise (no expert either, mind you).
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"The system relies, rather stupidly, on making it difficult to get in in the first place, by forcing you to get a client certificate for your browser," a mechanism for establishing the user's identity, said Mark Seiden, a security consultant who perform tests for corporations. "Well, the 9/11 hijackers also had authentic drivers' licenses..."
is this as moronic a statement as it appears?
there are two features of opera that i haven't found in firefox that keep me on opera. if someone knows how they can be done in firefox, i'd be grateful to hear about it
1) opera by default opens all new windows in new tabs. firefox still responds to hyperlinks etc that want to bring up new windows with, er, a new window. i want tabs to be the default
2) if pc/windows/opera crashes, i can come back into it pretty much exactly where i left off - all my tabs are there with their histories intact
so he wins the bet. pay up...
interestingly, the report ends by recommending that online purchasers look at using an escrow service, without pointing out that bogus online escrow services are just another tool of these scammers.
from the article:
Included in the shipment: 84 copies of an album by rhythm-and-blues artist Samantha Mumba, 69 by Lenny Kravitz and 48 copies of "Scary Sounds for Halloween" from Martha Stewart.
from Martha Stewart's "Scary Sounds for Halloween" CD, track 1:
"Ms. Stewart, SEC on line 1..."
i think the headline is using "dog years"
yeah, it's more like standing in front of a high school handing out information on how to xerox pages from a textbook.
here's an HVAC project, on my list of things to do some day...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/diy-zoning/
i have a similar question - why is throwing a game illegal? if i am a pro ballplayer and i screw up on purpose (because, of course, someone paid me to), well i can see my boss firing me and my finding employment on other teams to be probably impossible, but, assuming gambling is illegal, i haven't harmed anyone else beyond the fact that folks watching the game didn't see what they expected to (sort of like watching wrestling)
so can the terrorists win even if they're not playing?
the comparison to j2ee containers is apt.
aspect-oriented programming allows objects to exist in a more 'pure' state. for instance, rather than filling up your object with persistence code, you can write an aspect that handles the persistence, same as you can use cmp in j2ee to handle persistence. same idea applies for security, debugging, scarce-resource management...
Aw man when did grep get fixed up like this? I've still been typing:
/usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -i "a.*l.*q.*a.*e.*d.*a" {} /dev/null \;
find
You can also run ad-filter stuff. WebWasher removes at least half of the ads that (try to) show up
I had the same experience installing Netscape 6.1 last week. I ended up with "Sign up for AOL" icons everywhere - desktop, system tray, even IE favorites. It also installed RealPlayer and something else (I forget) and sprinkled their detritus everywhere as well. And, of course, uninstalling the damned thing doesn't get rid of all the rabbit poops it has sprinkled on my desktop.
Why just women and children? Don't dead guys rate a mention too?
Speaking (loosely) of O'Reilly XML books, my local library messed up recently and actually got some current, useful, tech books. One I picked up there was "Learning XML", and I am finding it a very good read. And I am not a neophyte, XML-wise (no expert either, mind you).
Washington City Paper had a good article about satellite radio. See: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/ 2001/cover0216.html