I have big headphones that I wear without music on. No distractions from music, and no distractions from co-workers (who think I'm listening to music). This also works if I don't want to be bothered on the subway.
Only problem is when you are caught not plugging the headphones in.
In any web system I've written, I've given myself a login to get in and troubleshoot early problems the client might have. Once the system is stable, I tell the client that they are now the administrator, and they should remove my login and change the administrator password.
Every so often I log into those old systems, to check. Not one client has ever done what I told them.
I think most computer users just care whether a system works, and don't really care about security.
Also, when you get a nice fresh stack of money, the 20s stick together. I tipped the pizza guy $24 instead of $4, but didn't notice it until the next day.
I think you can have both; it just requires more thought and more design. You can't just add every feature at the highest level of a user interface. You need to organize the features well, and possibly hide some more advanced features further down in a hierarchy.
I think Google does a great job of combining power and ease.
The fact that everyone's doing it doesn't mean that it's not 'wrong', of course. But can anyone really endorse having _two years_ of someone's life being taken from them for the sake of something which almost everyone is doing?
That's true. *Everybody* speeds on the interstate, but we wouldn't expect to go to jail for it.
Everyone who is speeding on the highway is aware (or should be aware) of the risk that they are taking.
I think the biggest problem is that the sentence seems too strict for the crime. Maybe this is because businesses project a greater than actual financial loss due to piracy. And then the courts are led to believe that the crime is greater.
Aside from this, I believe that Chris does not fit in the category of 'everyone does this'. I think he would be more like somebody who manufactures a radar detecter -- he facilitates others getting away with the crime. He might not actually commit the crime himself (use pirated software instead of purchasing, thereby costing X company money), but he helps others commit the crime. I guess radar detector manufacturers must have some kind of argument to maintain that they are legal, but obviously they have only one purpose.
Aside from the aside, I also think his lawyer wrote this.
I realize that this was mostly talking about search engines, but that isn't the only use for meta-tags.
At the last company I worked for, we implemented a search within our website function, and meta tags helped out a lot.
The only problem we had was when somebody tagged a document wrong. But, on a closed system like our website, we could fix the documents with incorrect tags, and we didn't have to worry about malicious abuse of tags.
But I do agree that tagged data on Internet searches is junk. Google's system is definitely the way to do Internet ranking.
Actually, this is a very common problem. There might not be many unknowns if a SQL execution error gets displayed in the middle of a page response.
IIS by default will throw the SQL error into the response (making it easier for developers to debug). If a developer doesn't trap/handle this and a user sees the error come up, they can find out a lot about the system. Then the user adds some quotation marks in with there inputs, and they could pass SQL instructions direct to the database.
This is a very real problem that occurs. Of course, the user would probably not be able to do meaningful damage without knowing the backend of the system, but they could still screw up your data tables.
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Every time I give my Email online I give a diff name, for instance if I buy at yahoo I give "yahoo-shopping@mydomain.com".
This is a great method to use. Yahoo Mail is supposed to start using this soon, but they might make users pay for the feature.
Admitting something is too hard is too hard for programmers.
Now I'll go read the article.
I have big headphones that I wear without music on. No distractions from music, and no distractions from co-workers (who think I'm listening to music). This also works if I don't want to be bothered on the subway.
Only problem is when you are caught not plugging the headphones in.
In any web system I've written, I've given myself a login to get in and troubleshoot early problems the client might have. Once the system is stable, I tell the client that they are now the administrator, and they should remove my login and change the administrator password.
Every so often I log into those old systems, to check. Not one client has ever done what I told them.
I think most computer users just care whether a system works, and don't really care about security.
Yeah, 80 boxes of Mac&Cheese or about 4 Gumby Dammits.
Also, when you get a nice fresh stack of money, the 20s stick together. I tipped the pizza guy $24 instead of $4, but didn't notice it until the next day.
Dammit.
Just thought I'd add that my Sony DVD player plays all my mp3 cds (also regular ISO9660 disc) perfectly.
I think you can have both; it just requires more thought and more design. You can't just add every feature at the highest level of a user interface. You need to organize the features well, and possibly hide some more advanced features further down in a hierarchy.
I think Google does a great job of combining power and ease.
I asked my parents to get me Dragon Warrior 2, and they got me Hydlide! (it had a dragon on the cover)
:)
Definitely, the worst game for Nintendo.
Of course my brothers and I still wrote down all the save codes and finished the game.
Maybe if blind people walked around with a magnifying glass, they wouldn't have to use those silly red and white sticks.
Or, maybe the trouble is that the blind people can't find the option to make the text bigger... that's gotta be it.
The fact that everyone's doing it doesn't mean that it's not 'wrong', of course. But can anyone really endorse having _two years_ of someone's life being taken from them for the sake of something which almost everyone is doing?
That's true. *Everybody* speeds on the interstate, but we wouldn't expect to go to jail for it.
Everyone who is speeding on the highway is aware (or should be aware) of the risk that they are taking.
I think the biggest problem is that the sentence seems too strict for the crime. Maybe this is because businesses project a greater than actual financial loss due to piracy. And then the courts are led to believe that the crime is greater.
Aside from this, I believe that Chris does not fit in the category of 'everyone does this'. I think he would be more like somebody who manufactures a radar detecter -- he facilitates others getting away with the crime. He might not actually commit the crime himself (use pirated software instead of purchasing, thereby costing X company money), but he helps others commit the crime. I guess radar detector manufacturers must have some kind of argument to maintain that they are legal, but obviously they have only one purpose.
Aside from the aside, I also think his lawyer wrote this.
espn scores pages use it as a low-tech solution for refreshing scores.
I realize that this was mostly talking about search engines, but that isn't the only use for meta-tags.
At the last company I worked for, we implemented a search within our website function, and meta tags helped out a lot.
The only problem we had was when somebody tagged a document wrong. But, on a closed system like our website, we could fix the documents with incorrect tags, and we didn't have to worry about malicious abuse of tags.
But I do agree that tagged data on Internet searches is junk. Google's system is definitely the way to do Internet ranking.
Actually, this is a very common problem. There might not be many unknowns if a SQL execution error gets displayed in the middle of a page response.
IIS by default will throw the SQL error into the response (making it easier for developers to debug). If a developer doesn't trap/handle this and a user sees the error come up, they can find out a lot about the system. Then the user adds some quotation marks in with there inputs, and they could pass SQL instructions direct to the database.
This is a very real problem that occurs. Of course, the user would probably not be able to do meaningful damage without knowing the backend of the system, but they could still screw up your data tables.
But, if it's older than 30 days, is it still news?
Yeah, now it's Net9.95