Paper tape had its uses: it came in a variety of colours. When I was 14 I decorated my bedroom with streamers for Christmas using nothing more than early versions of my programs for matrix multiplication and plotting ASCII graphs on a Teletype:-)
The first computer I used was a PDP 8/e. As a result, I think that if you don't know enough about computers to enter the bootstrap in binary using the toggle switches on the front, set the program counter to the start, and hit the RUN switch to start the computer loading the language interpreter from the high-speed punched tape reader, you probably don't know enough about computers to learn how to code.
What's surprising is that so many people think their secrets are worth protecting. Seriously, folks, you are almost certainly not interesting to anybody but your mother, and possibly not that much to her.
If you knew anything about this story, which has been running since 2006, you'd know that it isn't about the actions of one individual; it's about a culture of using illegal techniques to obtain access to private information that has been rife at the News of the World (NotW) for years.
Rebekah Brooks, editor of the NotW at the time Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked, accidentally admitted to a House of Commons committee a few years ago that the paper bribed police officers for information, though she later claimed that she didn't know the details of specific instances. As knowing the specifics would have left her open to prosecution, we can form an opinion of the merits of her claims of ignorance of what those she employed and directly supervised were doing on a regular basis.
Two people, one a NotW editor and the other a private investigator employed by the NotW, have served prison sentences for hacking the voicemail messages of members of the royal household.
The voicemail messages of senior politicians, including the former Deputy Prime Minister, and of senior military officers have been hacked, and this has been admitted by News International.
So far, News International has paid out more than £2million in out-of-court settlements, and it is believed they may have to pay as much as £40million to deal with all the claims against them by individuals whose privacy has been invaded.
This isn't the actions of one individual: it is a corporate policy of deliberate illegality for the sake of profit.
The chunked transfer encoding referred to in the book is not the same as progressive browser rendering, which is what you are referring to. Nor is either one dependent on the other.
Unfortunately, IE sends an Accept header which doesn't include text/html but does include */*, thereby ruling out content negotiation in the case of text/html versus application/xhtml+xml.
The IE click effect on TFA is a side-effect of the demo, not of the fundamental technique. If the original page markup includes a hidden iframe containing all the links of interest there will be no reloading and no click.
It would look as if the page is taking a long time to finish loading because of the size of the iframe contents for any usefully large set of links, but a lot of sites seem to get that effect just by using Google Analytics, so the average user wouldn't notice any difference;-)
There's more to it than that, as you'll find if you look at RFC 822 (part 6). For example, you need to check for conformance with the following syntax:
domain-literal = "[" *(dtext / quoted-pair) "]" atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs> quoted-pair = "\" CHAR ; may quote any char phrase = 1*word ; Sequence of words word = atom / quoted-string address = mailbox ; one addressee / group ; named list group = phrase ":" [#mailbox] ";" mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address / phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec route-addr = "<" [route] addr-spec ">" route = 1#("@" domain) ":" ; path-relative addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address local-part = word *("." word) ; uninterpreted ; case-preserved domain = sub-domain *("." sub-domain) sub-domain = domain-ref / domain-literal quoted-string = <"> *(qtext/quoted-pair) <">; Regular qtext or ; quoted chars. qtext = <any CHAR excepting <">, ; => may be folded "\" & CR, and including linear-white-space> domain-ref = atom ; symbolic reference
(... and so on in enormous detail - I've definitely missed a few bits.)
Email address validation isn't as simple as people think;-)
(OT: why does/.'s filter mistake a quote from an RFC for ASCII art, forcing me to post in Code mode?)
... it ended up with a 404 page. I thought it was a blip on their server, but now I see they retracted the post.
They fail. If they've removed it with no intention of making it available again it should be 410 Gone, not 404 Not Found.
Am I the only person who reads the HTTP spec? It's not exactly hard to understand...
Nah, that's no good for Bill. Having to re-compile the kernel every time you want an email attachment to turn your machine into a zombie isn't exactly a user-friendly experience, is it? This capability should be built in.
... something he usually told people with whom found himself working: "I think you'll find we'll get along better once you realize that I'm in charge", or words to that effect.
I replied, "That's cool, Bill. You be in charge, and I'll be right. Sorted."
Well, it never happened, but given the opportunity;-)
(OT, but that "This comment will not be saved until you click the Submit button below" message? Isn't that indicative of this being the antithesis of a good user interface, in that it doesn't do what you might expect, but instead has to add explanations of how it works into the flow of the user experience? Sort of like the garbage one expects from a Microsoft product? It's been a while since I've actually posted here, but I hadn't expected them to have cocked things up this badly. It's the kind of UI failure that I advise clients against.)
FFS, RTFA. It's a publicity stunt by an amusement park, promoted with a photo of a child wearing a policeman's helmet. Stop being such a paranoid moron over a nothing story and find something important to think about.
They aren't confiscating anything, if you actually bother to RTFA:
any adult caught using a PDA whilst at the Resort will be asked to report to one of five "PDA Drop Off Zones" where they can safely leave their PDA's for the day
I see by your UID that you're probably an old-timer
243324? He's a young whippersnapper.
He certainly talks rubbish, but that's due to severe intellectual deficiency, not age: note such warning signs as the use of "your" instead of "you're", misuse or non-use of commas, "its" instead of "it's", "desinger" instead of "designer", complete lack of understanding of any technology whatsoever...
I diagnose a low-grade troll, but his gross stupidity isn't due to being an old-timer; he was born with it.
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I remember logins being introduced. It's pure chance that I posted a comment early enough to get in the four digit range. And yes, mine is prime :-)
Happy birthday! God, has it really been that long? No wonder I'm old :-/
And you say this on the site "Slashdot: News for Nerds"?
Paper tape had its uses: it came in a variety of colours. When I was 14 I decorated my bedroom with streamers for Christmas using nothing more than early versions of my programs for matrix multiplication and plotting ASCII graphs on a Teletype :-)
The first computer I used was a PDP 8/e. As a result, I think that if you don't know enough about computers to enter the bootstrap in binary using the toggle switches on the front, set the program counter to the start, and hit the RUN switch to start the computer loading the language interpreter from the high-speed punched tape reader, you probably don't know enough about computers to learn how to code.
What's surprising is that so many people think their secrets are worth protecting. Seriously, folks, you are almost certainly not interesting to anybody but your mother, and possibly not that much to her.
I refer you to my comment in reply to a post expressing similar thoughts further up in the thread. No point repeating myself, not even on /. ;-)
If you knew anything about this story, which has been running since 2006, you'd know that it isn't about the actions of one individual; it's about a culture of using illegal techniques to obtain access to private information that has been rife at the News of the World (NotW) for years.
Rebekah Brooks, editor of the NotW at the time Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked, accidentally admitted to a House of Commons committee a few years ago that the paper bribed police officers for information, though she later claimed that she didn't know the details of specific instances. As knowing the specifics would have left her open to prosecution, we can form an opinion of the merits of her claims of ignorance of what those she employed and directly supervised were doing on a regular basis.
Two people, one a NotW editor and the other a private investigator employed by the NotW, have served prison sentences for hacking the voicemail messages of members of the royal household.
The voicemail messages of senior politicians, including the former Deputy Prime Minister, and of senior military officers have been hacked, and this has been admitted by News International.
So far, News International has paid out more than £2million in out-of-court settlements, and it is believed they may have to pay as much as £40million to deal with all the claims against them by individuals whose privacy has been invaded.
This isn't the actions of one individual: it is a corporate policy of deliberate illegality for the sake of profit.
At least we have the guts to put our names to it when we say: Fuck you, troll.
The chunked transfer encoding referred to in the book is not the same as progressive browser rendering, which is what you are referring to. Nor is either one dependent on the other.
Unfortunately, IE sends an Accept header which doesn't include text/html but does include */*, thereby ruling out content negotiation in the case of text/html versus application/xhtml+xml.
The IE click effect on TFA is a side-effect of the demo, not of the fundamental technique. If the original page markup includes a hidden iframe containing all the links of interest there will be no reloading and no click. It would look as if the page is taking a long time to finish loading because of the size of the iframe contents for any usefully large set of links, but a lot of sites seem to get that effect just by using Google Analytics, so the average user wouldn't notice any difference ;-)
What about archive.org?
Ah, apparently not... :-D
Sorry ;-)
(BTW, 5849 is prime...)
I remember News for Nerds. I also remember book reviews on /. before your user account # was created.
So do I :-)
There's more to it than that, as you'll find if you look at RFC 822 (part 6). For example, you need to check for conformance with the following syntax:
/ group ; named list
/ phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec
; quoted chars.
;-)
/.'s filter mistake a quote from an RFC for ASCII art, forcing me to post in Code mode?)
domain-literal = "[" *(dtext / quoted-pair) "]"
atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
quoted-pair = "\" CHAR ; may quote any char
phrase = 1*word ; Sequence of words
word = atom / quoted-string
address = mailbox ; one addressee
group = phrase ":" [#mailbox] ";"
mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
route-addr = "<" [route] addr-spec ">"
route = 1#("@" domain) ":" ; path-relative
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
local-part = word *("." word) ; uninterpreted
; case-preserved
domain = sub-domain *("." sub-domain)
sub-domain = domain-ref / domain-literal
quoted-string = <"> *(qtext/quoted-pair) <">; Regular qtext or
qtext = <any CHAR excepting <">, ; => may be folded
"\" & CR, and including
linear-white-space>
domain-ref = atom ; symbolic reference
(... and so on in enormous detail - I've definitely missed a few bits.)
Email address validation isn't as simple as people think
(OT: why does
... it ended up with a 404 page. I thought it was a blip on their server, but now I see they retracted the post.
They fail. If they've removed it with no intention of making it available again it should be 410 Gone, not 404 Not Found. Am I the only person who reads the HTTP spec? It's not exactly hard to understand...
No, that's a baboon. And it's only the lowest area of the back that's blue.
72 raisins, actually. Unlike 72 Microsoft developers, who are of course... oh, hang on...
Nah, that's no good for Bill. Having to re-compile the kernel every time you want an email attachment to turn your machine into a zombie isn't exactly a user-friendly experience, is it? This capability should be built in.
I replied, "That's cool, Bill. You be in charge, and I'll be right. Sorted."
Well, it never happened, but given the opportunity ;-)
(OT, but that "This comment will not be saved until you click the Submit button below" message? Isn't that indicative of this being the antithesis of a good user interface, in that it doesn't do what you might expect, but instead has to add explanations of how it works into the flow of the user experience? Sort of like the garbage one expects from a Microsoft product? It's been a while since I've actually posted here, but I hadn't expected them to have cocked things up this badly. It's the kind of UI failure that I advise clients against.)
FFS, RTFA. It's a publicity stunt by an amusement park, promoted with a photo of a child wearing a policeman's helmet. Stop being such a paranoid moron over a nothing story and find something important to think about.
243324? He's a young whippersnapper.
He certainly talks rubbish, but that's due to severe intellectual deficiency, not age: note such warning signs as the use of "your" instead of "you're", misuse or non-use of commas, "its" instead of "it's", "desinger" instead of "designer", complete lack of understanding of any technology whatsoever...
I diagnose a low-grade troll, but his gross stupidity isn't due to being an old-timer; he was born with it.
This is covered by rule 9 (reduce DNS lookups) and rule 1 (make fewer HTTP requests).
You shouldn't confuse what's in a book review with what's in the book itself...