What you do for your personal stuff, I do for work. I mostly use Mozilla, the rest of the team use IE. The result is very compatible. Some Mac users have reported problems with older version of IE, but they have all been quite receptive to installing Mozilla and that works very nicely.
I'm not as worried about IE under Macintosh since Safari came out. Coding for Safari can be a bit of a pain, at times. Luckily, Konqueror running on my Fedora boxen seems to hit Safari oddities with about 75% accuracy. According to what I've been reading, usage of Explorer on OSX has been declining, mostly because 5.2 was a huge step backwards from 5.1 or 5.0 in terms of stability and compatibility with IE under Windows.
Our biggest problem appears to be that some older versions of Squid, installed in places we can't influence, began tripping over our pages when I installed mod_gzip.
Ugh. Explaining to the boss how you have no control over somebody else's proxy can be a nightmare. I had a similar issue a the last place I worked. We were able to work around it by having one of the Apache C gurus tweak mod_gzip to not compress stuff going to anything with one of the X-Proxy headers set, but even that wasn't 100% effective.
I've also noticed some of the malware and Trojans under Windows that do funky things to Winsock seem to have problems with things like compressed documents.
The worst part about being standards compliant is spending time trying to work out ways to fix your output for others who aren't...
Great link! A List Apart gives me some great ideas in implimentation, but the organization is more like a magazine. I've often wished for a tabular list of stuff I can use and stuff to stay away from.
There are a ton of bigs with Internet Explorer and the way it "works" with the standards, particularly CSS Positioning.
A site I frequent for various work-arounds to get things working under both IE and working CSSP browsers is A List Apart. It's amazing the number of funky comment-within-comment hacks that you have to perform to get sites to display properly across two or three "standards compliant" browsers.
This really depends on the type of page I'm working on. If it's a personal page, I make sure it works with Mozilla and IEWin, because those are the two browsers I have available.
If I'm working on a business project, I let the boss spec the work. If it's required to work under Safari and IEMac, then they have to provide a Mac for me to develop with, not just have somebody else test it.
I've run into all sorts of problems with the short and long versions of my name on documents, not the least of which was credit reporting. I always sign the full name, with middle initial, on documents now, and leave the shortened version conversational.
It's weird, but for some reason, the various credit reporting agencies seem to place different names on the reports depending on which "version" of your name you use to request a report. I've invested about 3 years in fixing everything, and I'm about 80% there.
And yet, don't you find it frusterating that blunt honesty is so harshly repaid?
In a word, yes. I've lost many a job because I was completely honest about how screwed up the current systems are, what security holes exist, how bad passwords are, and what to do to fix the various problems.
Unfortunately, 99% of the populace doesn't want to hear that things are messed up, but can be fixed.
I once worked for a cell phone company in Phoenix. I'm not a cellular engineer, so the theory and such is a bit over my head, but I was offered a simplified explaination on how the CDMA system worked, and how it differed from other forms of cellular access. This was several years ago, so hopefully I remembered it correctly.
Analog cellular works much like standard radio. A signal is broadcast on a particular channel and your phone negotiates with the cell towers to broadcast on a that channel; each user has a distinct access path. Analog signals also have to broadcast above the noise floor in order to be heard by the tower. I think the FCC limits the maximum power of analog to 4 watts.
Each analog call has to use a single analog phone line. This is somewhat limiting for the cell companies as they need a single POTS voice channel for each cellular connection. This gets very expensive as the number of calls go up.
TDMA is a multiplex scheme. It stands for Time Division Multiple Access. Each phone under TDMA is given a specific "slice" of a channel to communicate on. This allows multiple phones to operate on the same channel at the same time, allowing the carrier to expand the capacities of the cell towers without adding extra land-lines.
CDMA stands for Code Division Multiple Access. Under the CDMA system, each phone communicates with the cell tower and agrees upon a particular part of the spectrum to use, a particular channel in the spectrum, and a compression method. Depending on the compression used, you can squish more calls per channel. CDMA also operates below the noise floor, so a typical CDMA broadcast is in the milliwatt (or lower) range. The power is adjusted several times per second to keep multiple phone signals on the channel from stepping all over each other.
I've probably got some of the particulars wrong, as about 25% of what the engineer said to me was over my head.
I haven't been able to fidn any documentation on the filtering aspects of it, but this seems to fit the bill. I was looking for something similar about 6 months ago and came up blank. Kudos to Netgear for filling a market need.
Thanks for the pointer; I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it!:)
Firewalls are designed to keep unwanted requests out of your network. There are some hardware firewalls that do packet analysis for content-based filtering, but they're really not consumer-grade items and they're not well suited to this type of thing.
What the article is geared for is setting up a home network that provides a firewalled environment in addition to content- and URL-based filtering.
I had quit watching basketball quite a while before the incident and only heard about it via late night sports news. I thought I remembered catching a glimpse of the incident, but I must be mistaken.
And Magic Johnson was very obviously good at two things.
You are correct that the word is not "racial". The parent poster used it, so I responded directly to his comment; next time, I'll be sure to quote from the parent message as I just noticed that it was posted by an AC, so not everybody will see it.
And, knowing the quote now, I'd say Bird's comment was, in fact, racial in nature.:)
I never meant to imply that they were squeaky clean. Sorry if it sounded that way. I suppose a little explaination is in order.
I couldn't care less what kind of racial comments Bird is making; he's entitled to his opinion, as is everybody else. I haven't heard any of the racial comments he made, so I don't know much about them. In all the time he played, I can't recall a single racially-based incident on the court. It's a non-issue for me.
Likewise with Kareem. Who the hell cares if he hung out with Hugh Heffner? He was also busted for smoking pot after he retired. He played ball very well and kept his personal bullshit off-court.
Same with Jordan. His marital issues are his. How did they affect his playing and conduct on the court? And, if he was a decent baseball player, why shouldn't he play that, as well? Kobe also has marital issues, and has been accused of rape, however unlikely the charges appear to be. Why didn't I use him as an example of the players I miss? According to his teammates, he acted aloof and wasn't really a team player. You never heard that about Jordon.
And Magic is a perfect example, in my opinion. He screwed up, he admitted it, he used his star power to get the message out about how not to make his same mistakes, and he quit the one thing he was good at not because he wanted to, but because he was worried that some of the physical contact in basketball could put his fellow players at risk.
Neither Kareem, Jordon or Magic were seen bragging to the news media about sleeping with multiple-hundreds of women and lamenting about how nice it was. To his credit, Kobe seems very contrite about his missteps.
Look at Rodman's actions on the court. Belligerant and unsportsman-like as a rule, not an exeption. I recall a game where he hauled off an kicked a reporter in the crotch. All Rodman ever appeared to care about was promoting himself, not playing a good game of basketball.
Wasn't it Spreewell that choked his coach on the sidelines on national TV? I think he paid a fine to the NBA for the assault where your or I would have been jailed.
The current professional players have been tainted in my eyes by the constant wrist-slaps that the organization gives them for criminal offenses on the court. I'm sure there are pleanty of good players who don't let their personal lives intrude on the playing of the game, but they get harder to find as the younger players emulate those who get all the screen time because of the on-and-off-the-court bad-boy bullshit.
What the heck, I suppose I'll take a Karma hit for this...
I think the message that kids take away from NBA Ballers is, it's all about money... Women are objects in this game.
I guess I must have missed something. With all of the endorsement deals, players being paid so much that only one team can afford to pay them, tales of sexual conquest (a-la Wilt Chamberlain), and the inconsistent enforcement of the rules, isn't this an accurate representation of the NBA?
I quit being interested in the NBA as players like Dennis Rodman became more and more common. I miss the general good-natured playing of Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Bring back that level of sportsmanship and finess and I might change my opinion.
I'll be honest, I tried riding the half-mile to the store one afternoon without the helmet. I found it really uncomfortable and my eyes were completely teared up once I reached the store. The hot wind blowing around my glasses caused me to squint almost to the point of complete colsure. It was so uncomfortable, I can't imagine how people actually like it. I suppose it might be better with the wrap-around sunglasses. Maybe I'll get a perscription pair and try it with the face shield removed.
As a completely unrelated note, I just have to mention my utter amazement at the people I've run into while riding. As a new rider, I used to look on riders as either total nutjobs or antisocial miscreants. I couldn't have been more wrong.
My first week riding, I was having some problems with controlled stop skills and the tight turn that the DMV wants you to perform in order to get the MC endorsement. While practicing in my apartment parking lot, I heard the roar of 7 or 8 customized Harleys. It turns out that I was visible from the main street as they were riding by.
When I saw them riding up, old leather full of club color, Harley Davidson insignia, and various patches, I was freaked. I thought the Hell's Angles were coming in to hastle the newbie on the Harley-wannabe bike. Turns out, they saw the problems I was having and suggested we move to the local school parking lot. They then proceeded to set up the course exactly like the DMV does, using their helmets and saddle bags as markers, and gave me an hour or two worth of instruction. At the end I was a much better rider, having been told exactly why my wheels were chirping on the quick-stops (I wasn't applying brake pressure evenly), how come I kept running over the second obstacle in the quick obstacle avoidance course (I was using too much body and couldn't get back into position to reverse the "S" in time), and why I was having to put down a foot in a tight 90-degree turn (modulate the clutch, don't completely disengage it).
I was then invited up to the local weekend riding spot to hang out, now that I had better control and understanding of the machine. The ride was great moving up to Cave Creek. I never could have kept up with their machines, so they kept it to a speed I could manage, making suggestions at every stoplight on how to better maintain the staggered formation that's used for increased visibility and safety on the road.
When we reached the destination, and after a large amount of protesting, I was finally able to buy a round for everybody. From what I've heard on subsequent trips and from different riders, at least in Arizona, this type of comraderie is the norm instead of the exception.
It's definately changed my expectation of riding. I started out looking at riding as a mode of transportation; now, it's becoming much, much more.
The tan comment was kind of a joke. I guess I should have added a smiley to the end...
I picked up all of the above, sans the eye protection, when I bought my bike. Personally, I disagree with the full-face, open-face argument. If you're going to spend all that money on stuff to prevent road rash, make sure your chin is covered so it doesn't get ground off when you hit. It's personal preference, though, so to each his own.
The eye protection, I simply can't do. I wear glasses and can't read the speedometer of the bike without them. My helmet has easily replaceable shields, so I keep an extra clear and tinted in my pack.
Chaps also don't work right now. I'm in Phoenix and it's staying above 100 every day. Jeans, however uncomfortable, are workable. It's also a little difficult to take a 300 pound, 236cc bike on the freeway. It can go 70, but it's topped out and not very stable. At 40 MPH (maximum in the city), I'm not as worried about road rash with the jeans. I didn't know about the Draggin' Jeans, and I will look into those. Sounds like a good product.
The ballistic nylon jackets are nice and cool during the summer. I picked one from Joe Rocket that's a three stage: removeable inner lining and outer shell that provide various stages of ventillation depending on the weather.
The really cool part of all the gear was the price. I walked out of the Honda dealership with everything in hand, including an extra full-face helmet for my wife, for a just under $4100 cash.
Besides, the vented ballistic nylon jackets still allow me to tan...:)
I live in Phoenix, so leather is really impractical for town riding. Vented ballistic nylon is my chosen protection. The sport-bike look is kind of odd on a cruiser-style bike, but it works great.
I actually do get a tan, however odd looking, from the vented holes.
I'm riding a Honda Rebel around town now. The car I replaced with the bike was a 1992 Toyota Corolla that pegged in at about 30 MPG on the highway and 21 on the city streets. Since most of my driving was city streets, I'd have to fill up every week or less, depending on the travel schedule. The cost of gasoline now would make my average trip to the station about cost between $25 and $50 per week, again depending on how many times I needed more gas.
I've had the bike for about 2 months now, and I think I reached $50 total in gas this weekend. I haven't figured out the total mileage yet; when the tripmeter reaches 150 miles, I get paranoid that I'll have to cut in the reserve (2.1 gallons in the primary,.6 in the reserve) so I fill up. I always go in and put $5 on the counter, fill up the bike, and go back and get my change. I'm guessing that I'm hovering around 80 MPG.
There is no feature in Firefox that would prevent the writing of the application.
There is, however, a feature that would prevent the installation of the application. From my experiences so far with Mozilla's various incarnations, you can't silently install plugins.
I can puzzle out a way for this to run under Mozila, but it's a lot more complicated than under IE. IE uses the global (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and user (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) registry keys to keep track of plugins. As far as I've been able to find, Mozilla uses a separate registry per profile to keep plugins and customizations working; probably due to an offshoot of cross-platform compatibility.
The tools for installing the IE exploits are already in place: just convince IE to run some code via a buffer overflow or somesuch, have the code run "regsvr32 myfunexploit" and the exploit is installed into HKLM as a browser helper object. With Mozilla, you'd have to do a bit more work: find a buffer overflow exploit to execute remote code, have your code figure out where the profile directory for the user is located, run through that directory looking for a Mozilla installation, parse out the Mozilla registry, install your exploit code and (probably) wait for the user to restart Mozilla before it's loaded.
As the article noted, you need a third party application to easily list and modify BHO plugins. Under Firefox, at least, it's a single click to see what plugins you have running.
This could, in theory, be done with Mozilla-and-friends, but most of the features in the browser, simple plugin viewing and a separate registry, make it, if not unlikely to happen, at least more easily noticed by the end user.
I've used the Windows version and it seems to work really well. We had 15-20 people on a server to help with organizing parties in Star Wars: Galaxies.
Unfortunately, the don't have Mac or Linux clients. Or, at least they're not available. Both are listed as "In Development" on their download page.
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What you do for your personal stuff, I do for work. I mostly use Mozilla, the rest of the team use IE. The result is very compatible. Some Mac users have reported problems with older version of IE, but they have all been quite receptive to installing Mozilla and that works very nicely.
I'm not as worried about IE under Macintosh since Safari came out. Coding for Safari can be a bit of a pain, at times. Luckily, Konqueror running on my Fedora boxen seems to hit Safari oddities with about 75% accuracy. According to what I've been reading, usage of Explorer on OSX has been declining, mostly because 5.2 was a huge step backwards from 5.1 or 5.0 in terms of stability and compatibility with IE under Windows.
Our biggest problem appears to be that some older versions of Squid, installed in places we can't influence, began tripping over our pages when I installed mod_gzip.
Ugh. Explaining to the boss how you have no control over somebody else's proxy can be a nightmare. I had a similar issue a the last place I worked. We were able to work around it by having one of the Apache C gurus tweak mod_gzip to not compress stuff going to anything with one of the X-Proxy headers set, but even that wasn't 100% effective.
I've also noticed some of the malware and Trojans under Windows that do funky things to Winsock seem to have problems with things like compressed documents.
The worst part about being standards compliant is spending time trying to work out ways to fix your output for others who aren't...
Great link! A List Apart gives me some great ideas in implimentation, but the organization is more like a magazine. I've often wished for a tabular list of stuff I can use and stuff to stay away from.
Thanks!
And that's precisely why I put standards-compliant in "quotes". :)
Not really...
There are a ton of bigs with Internet Explorer and the way it "works" with the standards, particularly CSS Positioning.
A site I frequent for various work-arounds to get things working under both IE and working CSSP browsers is A List Apart. It's amazing the number of funky comment-within-comment hacks that you have to perform to get sites to display properly across two or three "standards compliant" browsers.
This really depends on the type of page I'm working on. If it's a personal page, I make sure it works with Mozilla and IEWin, because those are the two browsers I have available.
If I'm working on a business project, I let the boss spec the work. If it's required to work under Safari and IEMac, then they have to provide a Mac for me to develop with, not just have somebody else test it.
I've run into all sorts of problems with the short and long versions of my name on documents, not the least of which was credit reporting. I always sign the full name, with middle initial, on documents now, and leave the shortened version conversational.
It's weird, but for some reason, the various credit reporting agencies seem to place different names on the reports depending on which "version" of your name you use to request a report. I've invested about 3 years in fixing everything, and I'm about 80% there.
Try man printf.
You're casting the integer as a pointer to char in the printf; %s is for strings. Use the correct formatting specifier and everything should work.
And yet, don't you find it frusterating that blunt honesty is so harshly repaid?
In a word, yes. I've lost many a job because I was completely honest about how screwed up the current systems are, what security holes exist, how bad passwords are, and what to do to fix the various problems.
Unfortunately, 99% of the populace doesn't want to hear that things are messed up, but can be fixed.
I once worked for a cell phone company in Phoenix. I'm not a cellular engineer, so the theory and such is a bit over my head, but I was offered a simplified explaination on how the CDMA system worked, and how it differed from other forms of cellular access. This was several years ago, so hopefully I remembered it correctly.
Analog cellular works much like standard radio. A signal is broadcast on a particular channel and your phone negotiates with the cell towers to broadcast on a that channel; each user has a distinct access path. Analog signals also have to broadcast above the noise floor in order to be heard by the tower. I think the FCC limits the maximum power of analog to 4 watts.
Each analog call has to use a single analog phone line. This is somewhat limiting for the cell companies as they need a single POTS voice channel for each cellular connection. This gets very expensive as the number of calls go up.
TDMA is a multiplex scheme. It stands for Time Division Multiple Access. Each phone under TDMA is given a specific "slice" of a channel to communicate on. This allows multiple phones to operate on the same channel at the same time, allowing the carrier to expand the capacities of the cell towers without adding extra land-lines.
CDMA stands for Code Division Multiple Access. Under the CDMA system, each phone communicates with the cell tower and agrees upon a particular part of the spectrum to use, a particular channel in the spectrum, and a compression method. Depending on the compression used, you can squish more calls per channel. CDMA also operates below the noise floor, so a typical CDMA broadcast is in the milliwatt (or lower) range. The power is adjusted several times per second to keep multiple phone signals on the channel from stepping all over each other.
I've probably got some of the particulars wrong, as about 25% of what the engineer said to me was over my head.
I thought that number 10 made the modulus operator unreliable, though...
Too bad, really, because
worked so well...Well I'll be...
I haven't been able to fidn any documentation on the filtering aspects of it, but this seems to fit the bill. I was looking for something similar about 6 months ago and came up blank. Kudos to Netgear for filling a market need.
Thanks for the pointer; I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it! :)
Not really, no.
Firewalls are designed to keep unwanted requests out of your network. There are some hardware firewalls that do packet analysis for content-based filtering, but they're really not consumer-grade items and they're not well suited to this type of thing.
What the article is geared for is setting up a home network that provides a firewalled environment in addition to content- and URL-based filtering.
Thanks for the clairfication.
I had quit watching basketball quite a while before the incident and only heard about it via late night sports news. I thought I remembered catching a glimpse of the incident, but I must be mistaken.
I'm curious what you consider the second to be?
You are correct that the word is not "racial". The parent poster used it, so I responded directly to his comment; next time, I'll be sure to quote from the parent message as I just noticed that it was posted by an AC, so not everybody will see it.
And, knowing the quote now, I'd say Bird's comment was, in fact, racial in nature. :)
I never meant to imply that they were squeaky clean. Sorry if it sounded that way. I suppose a little explaination is in order.
I couldn't care less what kind of racial comments Bird is making; he's entitled to his opinion, as is everybody else. I haven't heard any of the racial comments he made, so I don't know much about them. In all the time he played, I can't recall a single racially-based incident on the court. It's a non-issue for me.
Likewise with Kareem. Who the hell cares if he hung out with Hugh Heffner? He was also busted for smoking pot after he retired. He played ball very well and kept his personal bullshit off-court.
Same with Jordan. His marital issues are his. How did they affect his playing and conduct on the court? And, if he was a decent baseball player, why shouldn't he play that, as well? Kobe also has marital issues, and has been accused of rape, however unlikely the charges appear to be. Why didn't I use him as an example of the players I miss? According to his teammates, he acted aloof and wasn't really a team player. You never heard that about Jordon.
And Magic is a perfect example, in my opinion. He screwed up, he admitted it, he used his star power to get the message out about how not to make his same mistakes, and he quit the one thing he was good at not because he wanted to, but because he was worried that some of the physical contact in basketball could put his fellow players at risk.
Neither Kareem, Jordon or Magic were seen bragging to the news media about sleeping with multiple-hundreds of women and lamenting about how nice it was. To his credit, Kobe seems very contrite about his missteps.
Look at Rodman's actions on the court. Belligerant and unsportsman-like as a rule, not an exeption. I recall a game where he hauled off an kicked a reporter in the crotch. All Rodman ever appeared to care about was promoting himself, not playing a good game of basketball.
Wasn't it Spreewell that choked his coach on the sidelines on national TV? I think he paid a fine to the NBA for the assault where your or I would have been jailed.
The current professional players have been tainted in my eyes by the constant wrist-slaps that the organization gives them for criminal offenses on the court. I'm sure there are pleanty of good players who don't let their personal lives intrude on the playing of the game, but they get harder to find as the younger players emulate those who get all the screen time because of the on-and-off-the-court bad-boy bullshit.
What the heck, I suppose I'll take a Karma hit for this...
I guess I must have missed something. With all of the endorsement deals, players being paid so much that only one team can afford to pay them, tales of sexual conquest (a-la Wilt Chamberlain), and the inconsistent enforcement of the rules, isn't this an accurate representation of the NBA?
I quit being interested in the NBA as players like Dennis Rodman became more and more common. I miss the general good-natured playing of Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Bring back that level of sportsmanship and finess and I might change my opinion.
I'll be honest, I tried riding the half-mile to the store one afternoon without the helmet. I found it really uncomfortable and my eyes were completely teared up once I reached the store. The hot wind blowing around my glasses caused me to squint almost to the point of complete colsure. It was so uncomfortable, I can't imagine how people actually like it. I suppose it might be better with the wrap-around sunglasses. Maybe I'll get a perscription pair and try it with the face shield removed.
As a completely unrelated note, I just have to mention my utter amazement at the people I've run into while riding. As a new rider, I used to look on riders as either total nutjobs or antisocial miscreants. I couldn't have been more wrong.
My first week riding, I was having some problems with controlled stop skills and the tight turn that the DMV wants you to perform in order to get the MC endorsement. While practicing in my apartment parking lot, I heard the roar of 7 or 8 customized Harleys. It turns out that I was visible from the main street as they were riding by.
When I saw them riding up, old leather full of club color, Harley Davidson insignia, and various patches, I was freaked. I thought the Hell's Angles were coming in to hastle the newbie on the Harley-wannabe bike. Turns out, they saw the problems I was having and suggested we move to the local school parking lot. They then proceeded to set up the course exactly like the DMV does, using their helmets and saddle bags as markers, and gave me an hour or two worth of instruction. At the end I was a much better rider, having been told exactly why my wheels were chirping on the quick-stops (I wasn't applying brake pressure evenly), how come I kept running over the second obstacle in the quick obstacle avoidance course (I was using too much body and couldn't get back into position to reverse the "S" in time), and why I was having to put down a foot in a tight 90-degree turn (modulate the clutch, don't completely disengage it).
I was then invited up to the local weekend riding spot to hang out, now that I had better control and understanding of the machine. The ride was great moving up to Cave Creek. I never could have kept up with their machines, so they kept it to a speed I could manage, making suggestions at every stoplight on how to better maintain the staggered formation that's used for increased visibility and safety on the road.
When we reached the destination, and after a large amount of protesting, I was finally able to buy a round for everybody. From what I've heard on subsequent trips and from different riders, at least in Arizona, this type of comraderie is the norm instead of the exception.
It's definately changed my expectation of riding. I started out looking at riding as a mode of transportation; now, it's becoming much, much more.
As a nice side benefit to this, you can probably use the Faraday Effect to read the current of the pair you're wrapping around.
I have an EE friend who's currently doing this kind of monitoring work on generators and such for remote diagnostics. Really interesting work.
The tan comment was kind of a joke. I guess I should have added a smiley to the end...
I picked up all of the above, sans the eye protection, when I bought my bike. Personally, I disagree with the full-face, open-face argument. If you're going to spend all that money on stuff to prevent road rash, make sure your chin is covered so it doesn't get ground off when you hit. It's personal preference, though, so to each his own.
The eye protection, I simply can't do. I wear glasses and can't read the speedometer of the bike without them. My helmet has easily replaceable shields, so I keep an extra clear and tinted in my pack.
Chaps also don't work right now. I'm in Phoenix and it's staying above 100 every day. Jeans, however uncomfortable, are workable. It's also a little difficult to take a 300 pound, 236cc bike on the freeway. It can go 70, but it's topped out and not very stable. At 40 MPH (maximum in the city), I'm not as worried about road rash with the jeans. I didn't know about the Draggin' Jeans, and I will look into those. Sounds like a good product.
The ballistic nylon jackets are nice and cool during the summer. I picked one from Joe Rocket that's a three stage: removeable inner lining and outer shell that provide various stages of ventillation depending on the weather.
The really cool part of all the gear was the price. I walked out of the Honda dealership with everything in hand, including an extra full-face helmet for my wife, for a just under $4100 cash.
Besides, the vented ballistic nylon jackets still allow me to tan... :)
It were a joke, really!
I live in Phoenix, so leather is really impractical for town riding. Vented ballistic nylon is my chosen protection. The sport-bike look is kind of odd on a cruiser-style bike, but it works great.
I actually do get a tan, however odd looking, from the vented holes.
Ack!
Thread.... Broken.... reply under different parent.... Triggering nurosis!
I'm riding a Honda Rebel around town now. The car I replaced with the bike was a 1992 Toyota Corolla that pegged in at about 30 MPG on the highway and 21 on the city streets. Since most of my driving was city streets, I'd have to fill up every week or less, depending on the travel schedule. The cost of gasoline now would make my average trip to the station about cost between $25 and $50 per week, again depending on how many times I needed more gas.
I've had the bike for about 2 months now, and I think I reached $50 total in gas this weekend. I haven't figured out the total mileage yet; when the tripmeter reaches 150 miles, I get paranoid that I'll have to cut in the reserve (2.1 gallons in the primary, .6 in the reserve) so I fill up. I always go in and put $5 on the counter, fill up the bike, and go back and get my change. I'm guessing that I'm hovering around 80 MPG.
And I'm getting a tan while I run errands.
Oooooh, you're evil! This is, quite simply, one of the most devious things I've heard in quite a while.
Now, of course, the question becomes: what's the easiest exploit to install my new accessibility trojan?
There is no feature in Firefox that would prevent the writing of the application.
There is, however, a feature that would prevent the installation of the application. From my experiences so far with Mozilla's various incarnations, you can't silently install plugins.
I can puzzle out a way for this to run under Mozila, but it's a lot more complicated than under IE. IE uses the global (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and user (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) registry keys to keep track of plugins. As far as I've been able to find, Mozilla uses a separate registry per profile to keep plugins and customizations working; probably due to an offshoot of cross-platform compatibility.
The tools for installing the IE exploits are already in place: just convince IE to run some code via a buffer overflow or somesuch, have the code run "regsvr32 myfunexploit" and the exploit is installed into HKLM as a browser helper object. With Mozilla, you'd have to do a bit more work: find a buffer overflow exploit to execute remote code, have your code figure out where the profile directory for the user is located, run through that directory looking for a Mozilla installation, parse out the Mozilla registry, install your exploit code and (probably) wait for the user to restart Mozilla before it's loaded.
As the article noted, you need a third party application to easily list and modify BHO plugins. Under Firefox, at least, it's a single click to see what plugins you have running.
This could, in theory, be done with Mozilla-and-friends, but most of the features in the browser, simple plugin viewing and a separate registry, make it, if not unlikely to happen, at least more easily noticed by the end user.
Unfortunately, the don't have Mac or Linux clients. Or, at least they're not available. Both are listed as "In Development" on their download page.