How about building in a simple self-test. At a certain time, a hi-bright LED (red or whatever) should shine into the camera. On whatever is monitoring the camera, it should be able to tell that things work so long as it gets a "Red" every Tuesday at 02:00, etc.
It won't get over the issue of fuzzy pictures, etc, but should work OK as a basic test.
Or maybe because the bans are often ignored or not often enforced. In the last two years, I only recently (this month) see somebody get pulled over for driving will a cellphone up to the ear. I've seen plenty of times where people drove right past a cop while chatting on the phone, and been cut off but idiot cellphone users more than that.
A law is only a deterrent if it's enforced enough that people pay attention to it.
Actually, a smoking ban doesn't seem like a bad idea. The number of times I've run across a bad driver who was too involved with his/her cigarette isn't quite up to the level of run-ins with cellphone users, but it's definitely up there.
Lighting your cig, tapping it, etc do take concentration off the road, and a hand off the wheel. Hot ash on the pants/etc also tends to be a distraction.
CC's may not be the cheapest way of borrowing money, but they are one of the most convenient. They're just as cheap as anything else (sometimes more) if you make sure to keep the card paid off in time.
Mine checked my score, got a copy of some of my last few credit stubs, and my letter of employment from when I took my position permanently. No calling my boss or anything like that.
It seems your bank is a bit more hardcore than mine (not that it's necessarily a bad thing considering all the issues with bad mortgage debt).
I wonder how much of that can be modularized a little better. Yes, almost every does use JavaScript, but couldn't components such as JS be included as a module from the main engine?
Happens all the time. But in this case, it wouldn't be a case of Google sneaking around back-doors bribing (erm, I mean lobbying) senators with expensive dinners, it would be a case of Google telling the people "wake up and pay attention to X, because Y will happen" and the *people* writing their representatives.
Often enough hitting the volume down works to silence the ring (though often button placement makes it easy enough to do so by accident as well), but actually answering the call requires poking/swiping a touchscreen, which is rather irritating.
While I generally don't prefer getting middle-of-the-night calls, on the odd occasion when I've gotten an important call that woke me up, pulling the phone off the charger and trying to fumble with the touchscreen sucks. Also, since winters around here are pretty much gloves-wearing weather, touchscreens are a PITA in general.
It's one thing I truly still love about my blackberry. Answering an important call still has a nice physical button within easy reach.
Also, the internet allows everybody to share their crap code with the world. I've seen people using online code references that showed some pretty dangerous or stupid ways of doing things.
Many times I've had to produce a nice report-like output and missed COBOL. It was *great* for that. In the same mind, other languages are great for other things. I'm sure people back in the day wrote crappy COBOL code, but nowadays with fast CPU's and *huge* libraries (not to mention probably a lot more devs), it's easier to write a massive POS with major vulnerabilities.
Sometimes the brilliance of a post is in the underlying meaning of the text. In this case, it seems that the moderator was somebody who understands irony and that a particular slant can be applied to almost anything, video-game or otherwise. This is similar to the old gags in trying to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
As described, chess does seem to fit the description nicely. White VS black. Whites start first. Pawns are sacrificed to protect a queen/king. etc
If you're really worried, put firefox/links/curl/wget/etc to a particular group, set the permissions to 550, and remove any test takers from that group.
If your java app requires a browser, setup some iptables rules that only allow the bare minimum outgoing connections (dns, central test server if it exists, etc), or just block them at the firewall. Most schools I know have a proxy, so you could simply have them blocked at the proxy when doing tests.
Hmmm, how about a) Have a secondary instance running with dummy/fake data b) Have a wrapper around queries that checks for attempted injections (perhaps a pre/post sanitization check), if the query is an injection attempt, grab data from the fake DB c) Watch for people using data from the fake DB, attempt to use a fake (but realistic enough to pass a smell test) CC# are fraud attempts flagged to visa...
Is the issue with the lack of tactile keyboard, or the use of real-estate (screen space), or both?
I've seen tablets/phones that come with a folding carry-case that also has a slim keyboard in it. In some cases it's a bluetooth keyboard, in others it uses the USB connector.
It seems a better solution that having to slap a keyboard on your screen.
How about some ideas that may reduce iphone'ish look while increasing the appear/functionality of a phone
* A bit more of a raised "lip" on the phone. Possibly some pinstriping, or even a physical pinstripe around the edge. Something similar to a built-in bumper, which actually helps protect against screen damage. How about slightly raised outer edges (not the screen part, just the bezel) * Bring back more slide/spring-out keyboards. On-screen keyboards SUCK! * Bring back physical call/disconnect/vibrate/unlock. They don't have to be large but pocket/holder-fumbling a phone while trying to hit "answer" or unlock is a PITA * A patterned front/back-surface, similar to how many laptops like HP's have. Tons of people by patterned cases anyhow, so it's not as if it's not popular already * * Woodgrain (or even a real wood case). Again some laptops have a "bamboo" style etc now which actually looks pretty decent
I don't agree that iPhone's patents should be able to block Samsung's sales, but I also believe that phone companies should grow some b*lls when it comes to original elegant design. Certainly the suggestions about speakers and rounded corners are pretty much retarded.
Actually, I'd tend to be more annoyed about the decision to *not* support a removable storage card (or battery) at all.
The price between 32GB and 64GB in terms of an SDHC card is actually >$100. For a high-speed SDHC card, even more-so an microSDHC card, it's huge.
My big gripe is that when those become more affordable, iDevices don't have any upgrade option storage-wise except to replace the whole unit, which IMHO is incredibly wasteful (not to mention expensive, but I'm sure Apple is more than happy for the revenue)
A friend of mine makes music. He's been on the local radio station, and more recently some other stations across the country. AFAIK, without any major label backing.
Beyond that, the relationships between radio and studios changed. Online radio, for example, is something the studios want to *CHARGE* for, as opposed to using them for promotional purposes. Add to that, in many places playing music from the radio in a coffee shop or whatever still requires a special license, even though anyone could tune it in for free individually.
Music execs wonder why their house of cards is falling... some of the above are just a few examples.
If a company you were using for services had crap security, and some cracker abused it to plaster *YOUR* CC number all over the internet, how would you feel? Add to that, how would law-enforcement feel. Add to that, how do you like prison, because the above two are not likely to have *ANY* sympathy towards you when your trial-date comes.
Seriously, "this hack is too easy to be respectable" makes you sound like the candidate for a news article, but it won't be able some great hacker who revealed a terrible breach, it will be about some jerk who caused a breach which caused a lot of people grief.
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My firefox is actually quite slow to startup, especially on older machines, so I'm not sure where the improvement is suppose to lie there.
How about building in a simple self-test. At a certain time, a hi-bright LED (red or whatever) should shine into the camera. On whatever is monitoring the camera, it should be able to tell that things work so long as it gets a "Red" every Tuesday at 02:00, etc.
It won't get over the issue of fuzzy pictures, etc, but should work OK as a basic test.
Or maybe because the bans are often ignored or not often enforced. In the last two years, I only recently (this month) see somebody get pulled over for driving will a cellphone up to the ear. I've seen plenty of times where people drove right past a cop while chatting on the phone, and been cut off but idiot cellphone users more than that.
A law is only a deterrent if it's enforced enough that people pay attention to it.
Actually, a smoking ban doesn't seem like a bad idea. The number of times I've run across a bad driver who was too involved with his/her cigarette isn't quite up to the level of run-ins with cellphone users, but it's definitely up there.
Lighting your cig, tapping it, etc do take concentration off the road, and a hand off the wheel. Hot ash on the pants/etc also tends to be a distraction.
CC's may not be the cheapest way of borrowing money, but they are one of the most convenient. They're just as cheap as anything else (sometimes more) if you make sure to keep the card paid off in time.
Mine checked my score, got a copy of some of my last few credit stubs, and my letter of employment from when I took my position permanently. No calling my boss or anything like that.
It seems your bank is a bit more hardcore than mine (not that it's necessarily a bad thing considering all the issues with bad mortgage debt).
I wonder how much of that can be modularized a little better.
Yes, almost every does use JavaScript, but couldn't components such as JS be included as a module from the main engine?
How big are the single files?
Happens all the time. But in this case, it wouldn't be a case of Google sneaking around back-doors bribing (erm, I mean lobbying) senators with expensive dinners, it would be a case of Google telling the people "wake up and pay attention to X, because Y will happen" and the *people* writing their representatives.
Often enough hitting the volume down works to silence the ring (though often button placement makes it easy enough to do so by accident as well), but actually answering the call requires poking/swiping a touchscreen, which is rather irritating.
While I generally don't prefer getting middle-of-the-night calls, on the odd occasion when I've gotten an important call that woke me up, pulling the phone off the charger and trying to fumble with the touchscreen sucks. Also, since winters around here are pretty much gloves-wearing weather, touchscreens are a PITA in general.
It's one thing I truly still love about my blackberry. Answering an important call still has a nice physical button within easy reach.
Seems that happens in other markets already. See the issues with the iPhone 4 release and the Siri app...
Also, the internet allows everybody to share their crap code with the world. I've seen people using online code references that showed some pretty dangerous or stupid ways of doing things.
Many times I've had to produce a nice report-like output and missed COBOL. It was *great* for that. In the same mind, other languages are great for other things.
I'm sure people back in the day wrote crappy COBOL code, but nowadays with fast CPU's and *huge* libraries (not to mention probably a lot more devs), it's easier to write a massive POS with major vulnerabilities.
Sometimes the brilliance of a post is in the underlying meaning of the text. In this case, it seems that the moderator was somebody who understands irony and that a particular slant can be applied to almost anything, video-game or otherwise. This is similar to the old gags in trying to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
As described, chess does seem to fit the description nicely. White VS black. Whites start first. Pawns are sacrificed to protect a queen/king. etc
If you're really worried, put firefox/links/curl/wget/etc to a particular group, set the permissions to 550, and remove any test takers from that group.
If your java app requires a browser, setup some iptables rules that only allow the bare minimum outgoing connections (dns, central test server if it exists, etc), or just block them at the firewall. Most schools I know have a proxy, so you could simply have them blocked at the proxy when doing tests.
Hmmm, how about
a) Have a secondary instance running with dummy/fake data
b) Have a wrapper around queries that checks for attempted injections (perhaps a pre/post sanitization check), if the query is an injection attempt, grab data from the fake DB
c) Watch for people using data from the fake DB, attempt to use a fake (but realistic enough to pass a smell test) CC# are fraud attempts flagged to visa...
Is the issue with the lack of tactile keyboard, or the use of real-estate (screen space), or both?
I've seen tablets/phones that come with a folding carry-case that also has a slim keyboard in it. In some cases it's a bluetooth keyboard, in others it uses the USB connector.
It seems a better solution that having to slap a keyboard on your screen.
Or that they didn't download it from his site and re-post?
"Must be" != "is"
Laziness, bribery, budget cuts, and time are all contributing factors to the above.
How about some ideas that may reduce iphone'ish look while increasing the appear/functionality of a phone
* A bit more of a raised "lip" on the phone. Possibly some pinstriping, or even a physical pinstripe around the edge. Something similar to a built-in bumper, which actually helps protect against screen damage. How about slightly raised outer edges (not the screen part, just the bezel)
* Bring back more slide/spring-out keyboards. On-screen keyboards SUCK!
* Bring back physical call/disconnect/vibrate/unlock. They don't have to be large but pocket/holder-fumbling a phone while trying to hit "answer" or unlock is a PITA
* A patterned front/back-surface, similar to how many laptops like HP's have. Tons of people by patterned cases anyhow, so it's not as if it's not popular already
* * Woodgrain (or even a real wood case). Again some laptops have a "bamboo" style etc now which actually looks pretty decent
I don't agree that iPhone's patents should be able to block Samsung's sales, but I also believe that phone companies should grow some b*lls when it comes to original elegant design. Certainly the suggestions about speakers and rounded corners are pretty much retarded.
Actually, I'd tend to be more annoyed about the decision to *not* support a removable storage card (or battery) at all.
The price between 32GB and 64GB in terms of an SDHC card is actually >$100. For a high-speed SDHC card, even more-so an microSDHC card, it's huge.
My big gripe is that when those become more affordable, iDevices don't have any upgrade option storage-wise except to replace the whole unit, which IMHO is incredibly wasteful (not to mention expensive, but I'm sure Apple is more than happy for the revenue)
Do you mean he (or seriously) blew cover to arrest you for a donut joke?
Around here blowing your cover for a non-serious issue can actually get an officer in trouble (according to what I've heard from other police).
A friend of mine makes music. He's been on the local radio station, and more recently some other stations across the country. AFAIK, without any major label backing.
Beyond that, the relationships between radio and studios changed. Online radio, for example, is something the studios want to *CHARGE* for, as opposed to using them for promotional purposes.
Add to that, in many places playing music from the radio in a coffee shop or whatever still requires a special license, even though anyone could tune it in for free individually.
Music execs wonder why their house of cards is falling... some of the above are just a few examples.
However, if it's proven that Apple's patents were invalid and their claim was frivolous, won't they be on the hook for $$big damages$$ to Samsung?
If a company you were using for services had crap security, and some cracker abused it to plaster *YOUR* CC number all over the internet, how would you feel?
Add to that, how would law-enforcement feel.
Add to that, how do you like prison, because the above two are not likely to have *ANY* sympathy towards you when your trial-date comes.
Seriously, "this hack is too easy to be respectable" makes you sound like the candidate for a news article, but it won't be able some great hacker who revealed a terrible breach, it will be about some jerk who caused a breach which caused a lot of people grief.