Firefox also runs on Linux. Now that the argument has come full circle, I suggest you reread Tim C's comment and think a little harder about what he's saying: your OS doesn't matter.
Right - is any of that a browser bug or is that merely people failing at phishing detection?
Those are just a few examples of what URL obfuscation looks like, which was the question I was answering. You could stick the two middle examples into an iframe if you wanted though.
You can update the status bar to indicate something else, you can use the legitimate site as a username for a non-legitimate site (i.e. www.google.com@www.malwaresite.com), or you can just make the URL look as official as possible (i.e. ebay-secure.com) and hope people believe it's authentic.
You can also access the site numerically (e.g. http://1208929379/ is Google) but that's more for fun than evil.
It wouldn't matter if our government decided to play along... if the US markets mandated it, then we wouldn't have a choice up here, since all of our cellular hardware is stuff that also gets sold in the states.
Or do you honestly think that a hardware company like HTC is going to have two production lines: one with an FM tuner, one without, for a 3.5G HSDPA+ GSM phone running at 850/1700 for data? (that would be AT&T in the US, and Bell/Telus and Rogers in Canada)
Good point, I hadn't considered the source of the hardware. Though I swear I found a GPS receiver whose power output was limited in the Canadian version despite using exactly the same hardware as the US version once. I think the possibility exists that the radio feature gets disabled in firmware by the vendor for whatever reason.
And she. There are some women who read slashdot....
Sorry about that, no offense intended. I had no doubt there were women on Slashdot, it just appears that the population is largely male so I use male pronouns when I'm not certain (i.e. gender-neutral names). When I reply to or quote one of your comments in the future I'll address you correctly.
My android-based smart phone has an FM tuner (HTC Incredible) but why on earth would I use it when I can use pandora?
From the US-based perspective I can see your point, but in Realityimpaired's case, being Canadian means he doesn't have the option to listen to Pandora without a VPN.
Being Canadian myself, I worry our government will decide to play along if yours passes this. I agree that it would be nice to have the option but I'm of the mind that my phone should just be a phone.
Then again, I don't know too many assholes who weave in and out of traffic back and forth in large cars.
One time on my morning drive a half-ton came out of nowhere behind me. He swerved around and sped off not two seconds later. I remember thinking this guy was going to get himself killed. About two minutes down the highway I watched the truck careen through the air and land upside down in the ditch. He hit an ammonia trailer being pulled by a half-ton that had just turned onto the highway. I did my due diligence and called 911 but he was already dead by the time he landed.
Another time I was behind two semis, one passing the other. A van pulling a trailer came rushing by in the left lane, decided the first semi wasn't passing the first one fast enough and swerved from the left lane into the right shoulder to pass both of them. He must have forgotten he was pulling a trailer because he clipped the front end of the semi when he swerved back into the right lane. No one was hurt, but I couldn't believe what I'd seen.
The more time you spend on the highway the more assholes you'll see.
I see guys on crotch-rockets take incredibly insane risks at 100+ mph weaving in and out of traffic or sliding up and down on/off ramps or wheeling through the breakdown lanes all the fucking time.
If you look closely you'll notice you rarely see the same ones do it twice.
Submit a GPS trace as evidence. "As you can see I was on the highway and there was no safe place for me to pull over. However, once I was able to park in the shoulder on a lower-traffic road I immediately complied."
Ironically, I'm quite drunk at the moment of this posting so this idea might seem less clever to the rest of the population. Though the closest I am to operating a motor vehicle is turning on my Xbox 360, which sounds like a fucking lawnmower.
Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.
Porn is a sex toy. You can enjoy it with a partner or on your own. As for soft porn, consider this scenario: have you ever been out, seen an attractive woman and used her as wank fodder later? She wasn't going down on some guy in the subway or dancing naked but it was still enough to arouse you. That's basically how soft porn works.
Mod parent down. I know this family, and it is highly insensitive of you to put it this way.
I think he actually made a good point. People may think this game is shit but it's just as much their right to complain about it as it is someone else's to make it or play it. That's freedom, isn't it?
You haven't talked to any religious people as an atheist, have you?
I'm agnostic, so not really. One of my good friends is a priest though, and we get into some good discussions. One thing we agree on is that anyone who tries to force or shame others into following their religion rather than leading by example is either very insecure in the veracity of their claims or simply a fool.
Most Americans I've met are actually very rational people who are willing to consider others' viewpoints. It's not until you get into the court and political systems that things start to fall apart.
If you're looking for that length wouldn't it just be easier to use a certificate instead of a long, but known value? I know very few sites use certificate-based authentication, but if you ever could use pi to the 100th digit as a password a certificate-based system would probably be easier to implement.
"Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose a password too complicated to remember and then write it down. We're all good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet."
So... being gay is both offensive and embarrassing?
The AC's comment just reminded me of that policy. If my comment came across as me thinking that being gay is offensive and/or embarrassing, I sincerely apologize as that was not my intention.
I'm not sure if this will help you then, but it's possible to run it portable as well. Of course, that's only if your workplace lets you run software off a stick.
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
What if they are gay?;)
Your comment reminds me of the best password policy I've ever heard: offensive gibberish. If someone's password is suitably embarrassing odds are quite good that they won't share it with anyone.
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http://www.winehq.org -- why dual boot?
Because for all the games that do work with Wine just as many don't.
Firefox runs on windows.
Firefox also runs on Linux. Now that the argument has come full circle, I suggest you reread Tim C's comment and think a little harder about what he's saying: your OS doesn't matter.
Cool! What do I win?!?
You used to win a trip to the tropics but due to cutbacks they just skip straight to giving you a virus.
Right - is any of that a browser bug or is that merely people failing at phishing detection?
Those are just a few examples of what URL obfuscation looks like, which was the question I was answering. You could stick the two middle examples into an iframe if you wanted though.
You can update the status bar to indicate something else, you can use the legitimate site as a username for a non-legitimate site (i.e. www.google.com@www.malwaresite.com), or you can just make the URL look as official as possible (i.e. ebay-secure.com) and hope people believe it's authentic.
You can also access the site numerically (e.g. http://1208929379/ is Google) but that's more for fun than evil.
It wouldn't matter if our government decided to play along... if the US markets mandated it, then we wouldn't have a choice up here, since all of our cellular hardware is stuff that also gets sold in the states.
Or do you honestly think that a hardware company like HTC is going to have two production lines: one with an FM tuner, one without, for a 3.5G HSDPA+ GSM phone running at 850/1700 for data? (that would be AT&T in the US, and Bell/Telus and Rogers in Canada)
Good point, I hadn't considered the source of the hardware. Though I swear I found a GPS receiver whose power output was limited in the Canadian version despite using exactly the same hardware as the US version once. I think the possibility exists that the radio feature gets disabled in firmware by the vendor for whatever reason.
And she. There are some women who read slashdot....
Sorry about that, no offense intended. I had no doubt there were women on Slashdot, it just appears that the population is largely male so I use male pronouns when I'm not certain (i.e. gender-neutral names). When I reply to or quote one of your comments in the future I'll address you correctly.
My android-based smart phone has an FM tuner (HTC Incredible) but why on earth would I use it when I can use pandora?
From the US-based perspective I can see your point, but in Realityimpaired's case, being Canadian means he doesn't have the option to listen to Pandora without a VPN.
Being Canadian myself, I worry our government will decide to play along if yours passes this. I agree that it would be nice to have the option but I'm of the mind that my phone should just be a phone.
Then again, I don't know too many assholes who weave in and out of traffic back and forth in large cars.
One time on my morning drive a half-ton came out of nowhere behind me. He swerved around and sped off not two seconds later. I remember thinking this guy was going to get himself killed. About two minutes down the highway I watched the truck careen through the air and land upside down in the ditch. He hit an ammonia trailer being pulled by a half-ton that had just turned onto the highway. I did my due diligence and called 911 but he was already dead by the time he landed.
Another time I was behind two semis, one passing the other. A van pulling a trailer came rushing by in the left lane, decided the first semi wasn't passing the first one fast enough and swerved from the left lane into the right shoulder to pass both of them. He must have forgotten he was pulling a trailer because he clipped the front end of the semi when he swerved back into the right lane. No one was hurt, but I couldn't believe what I'd seen.
The more time you spend on the highway the more assholes you'll see.
I see guys on crotch-rockets take incredibly insane risks at 100+ mph weaving in and out of traffic or sliding up and down on/off ramps or wheeling through the breakdown lanes all the fucking time.
If you look closely you'll notice you rarely see the same ones do it twice.
Submit a GPS trace as evidence. "As you can see I was on the highway and there was no safe place for me to pull over. However, once I was able to park in the shoulder on a lower-traffic road I immediately complied."
Ironically, I'm quite drunk at the moment of this posting so this idea might seem less clever to the rest of the population. Though the closest I am to operating a motor vehicle is turning on my Xbox 360, which sounds like a fucking lawnmower.
Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.
Porn is a sex toy. You can enjoy it with a partner or on your own. As for soft porn, consider this scenario: have you ever been out, seen an attractive woman and used her as wank fodder later? She wasn't going down on some guy in the subway or dancing naked but it was still enough to arouse you. That's basically how soft porn works.
"The researchers who uncovered this issue alerted Network Solutions, and the widget was taken down a few hours later."
Sucks that it happened, but at least they did something about it as soon as they found out.
76 comments in and not one Bangkok joke.
All the people who were going to post one are lined up at the theater and well, their hands are otherwise occupied.
Mod parent down. I know this family, and it is highly insensitive of you to put it this way.
I think he actually made a good point. People may think this game is shit but it's just as much their right to complain about it as it is someone else's to make it or play it. That's freedom, isn't it?
You haven't talked to any religious people as an atheist, have you?
I'm agnostic, so not really. One of my good friends is a priest though, and we get into some good discussions. One thing we agree on is that anyone who tries to force or shame others into following their religion rather than leading by example is either very insecure in the veracity of their claims or simply a fool.
I was wondering why my skin felt so soft...
Most Americans I've met are actually very rational people who are willing to consider others' viewpoints. It's not until you get into the court and political systems that things start to fall apart.
You don't like soup very much, do you?
Only someone who can embrace being gay and not gay at once may pass.
Ah, a metrosexual then!
But on a serious note, why do we need to create a whole new subclass of male based on the fact that they can dress themselves without help?
If you're looking for that length wouldn't it just be easier to use a certificate instead of a long, but known value? I know very few sites use certificate-based authentication, but if you ever could use pi to the 100th digit as a password a certificate-based system would probably be easier to implement.
Keepass [keepass.info]
Don't worry, it's not a goatse link.
Thanks for that. Even I wasn't sure!
"Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose a password too complicated to remember and then write it down. We're all good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet."
So... being gay is both offensive and embarrassing?
The AC's comment just reminded me of that policy. If my comment came across as me thinking that being gay is offensive and/or embarrassing, I sincerely apologize as that was not my intention.
I'm not sure if this will help you then, but it's possible to run it portable as well. Of course, that's only if your workplace lets you run software off a stick.
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
What if they are gay? ;)
Your comment reminds me of the best password policy I've ever heard: offensive gibberish. If someone's password is suitably embarrassing odds are quite good that they won't share it with anyone.
Apparently 75% of the passwords tested were hunter2.