So you're trying to get a job at a company and instead of reporting to them a security flaw, you create a Chrome extension to let anybody abuse it If you're expecting to NOT get fired, you're an idiot.
Better still is this bit of idiocy from the poster:
Surely Khanna won't be jobless or internship-less for long.
The geek lives in this fantasy world where you can be fired for cause for a security breach at a Fortune 500 company and still remain employable.
Really, Google is the only company that matters. And maybe Netflix.
H.264 blew past Google and YouTube to become the dominant codec for HD distribution.
The geek is still fixed on web distribution through the browser and viewing video on his monitor.
But the action in HD is shifting to the app and the HDTV set.
That is where cable-cutting comes in, the smart tv, the set top box and dongles like the Amazon Fire Stick and Chromecast which bypass the browser and increasingly the computer itself.
The propriety codecs like H.264 and HEVC are developed by the same companies which manufacture almost all the world's video hardware ---
Studio production. Theatrical distribution. Home video. Industrial applications and so on. In this pond, even Cisco is a very small fish,
If Mitsubishi is not on board, if Philips, Samsung, and a half dozen or so other global giants in manufacturing are not on board, your brightly polished license-free codec is going nowhere.
The very notion of anti-virus drives hobbyists away from Windows, because the hobbyist thinks he is in charge of the toys, and not some uncaring 800lb gorilla.
Until an exploit takes control of his toys away from him.
Professionals make mistakes that aren't always easy to see and some that are mighty hard to excuse. It happens whatever the language, programming tools or environment.
I think you can make a very good case for providing the amateur with a little hand-holding and protection.
Translation: We tried to hide more buttons and functionality from users with Firefox 40
Monday, the geek will post about wanting a no-frills browser that "just works."
Tuesday, he'll post about wanting more menus, options and functionality. Which most users won't have a clue how to configure and won't want to deal with.
Will Bitcoin be used by Cubans and Americans to sell goods and services without the knowledge of their governments? Cuban offshore developers might be the first to use Bitcoin.
Three guesses and the second two don't count.
"Which foreign currency is in common use throughout the Caribbean and frequently adopted or accepted as legal tender? "
I'm going to migrate my wife to it, probably this week.
I can't remember a Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot in the last fifteen years that didn't begin with the geek providing a family member with free in-home technical support.
The geek is reluctant to talk about his failures. Those who refused to follow his lead. Those who reverted to Windows out of confusion, anger or disappointment.
Geek talks to geek here. There is almost no chance for the ordinary Windows user to speak for himself --- much less tell the geek where to go when he claims to speak for him.
Tesla took a huge risk by taking a completely new technology (battery-powered cars) and applying it in a completely new and untested way (performance car).
Battery-powered cars and utility vehicles have been around since 1896. Their advantages and limitations have been known from the beginning.
Henry Ford took the opposite direction from Tesla, beginning with a simply conceived but rugged and reliable internal combustion engine as the basis for a mass-market priced family car, light truck and tractor.
After-market conversions transformed the T into RVs, snow-cats, railcars, bookmobiles, hot rods and pretty anything else you could imagine. Used engines were pulled for use in boats and stationary applications.
In its prime. the Model T owned 50% of the global market for automobiles. That generated enormous sums for R&D and manufacturing. Ford Model T
Lawsuits would have quickly ended the operations of the offending company, and gone further, severely punishing its shareholders, who would not have been protected by the corporate veil.
The social and political environment that makes federal regulation possible is the same environment that makes successful civil litigation possible.
That, and focus on not requiring third-party programs for Web content.
But will web content ever remain static long enough for browser standards to keep pace? Mozilla tied itself up in knots over H.264 long after it had eclipsed all other contenders for HD video support.
People are being racist and horrible on your internet site. Get over it.
I am not obliged to build out and pay for a platform for the Aryan Nations. I am not obliged to accept the disruption of my site or the abuse of its readers to please the geek's perverted sense of free speech.
The IDSDA's origins can be traced back to the legendary industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss. The geek is only kidding himself if he thinks these awards are not to be taken seriously.
The good news is that autonomous cars don't need to park-- they just go give someone else a ride. They could change city life forever.
Of all people who commute to work in New York City, 41% use the subway, 24% drive alone, 12% take the bus, 10% walk to work, 2% travel by commuter rail, 5% carpool, 1% use a taxi, 0.6% ride their bicycle to work, and 0.2% travel by ferry.
There are 13,237 taxis operating in New York City, not including over 40,000 other for-hire vehicles.
If you need over 50,000 vehicles on the road daily to meet existing for-hire demands, how many robo-cabs would you need to provide 25% of the city's commuter services?
The commuter car is by definition mostly idle between 9 in the morning and five in the afternoon and between six in the evening and seven in the morning.
All-in-all, a good day for free software, and a bad day for Microsoft.
Not to rain on your parade.
But LibreOffice remains nothing more than the generic stand-alone office suite of the nineties --- and conspicuously absent is a credible, full-featured, open source alternative to Outlook.
Microsoft positions MS Office ---- very successfully ---- as simply one component of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size.
Just like most really rich guys. Trying like hell to clean his dark soul from what he did to get that rich.
The entrepreneur --- the empire builder --- has more fun than almost anyone and accomplishes more than most. He tends to exit the stage as exuberant and self-confident as when he entered it.
The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them.
I enjoy doing laundry about as much as doing dishes. I get my clothing custom made in China for prices you would not believe and have new ones regularly shipped to me. Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them, and I donate my used garments.
"I'm an idiot who doesn't understand the energy footprint of Soylent Green and shipping cotton to china for cheap underwear, then shipping those underwear to my house on a weekly basis. I am so far up the ass of my OCD neurosis that I am living a contrafactual life and pretending it's not destroying the world."
[Remember] when USENET, IRC, and other mediums that were hard to censor were the rule rather than the exception?
I remember hating the geek's frustrating, jargon-ridden, clients for these services with the passion of a thousand suns. I used them only because they were serviceable over very low bandwidth connections.
If the Internet looks different now, the geek has only himself to blame.
This would be an excellent example of Mozilla not being willing to compromise their principles to satisfy the media conglomerates obsession with DRM.
I know this always come as a shock to the geek, but without access to subscription services, protected media content, HD video and theatrical quality sound, you do not have a commercially viable product.
Best Buy has the Amazon Fire Stick on sale for $25.
Until ISIS decides to set off a truck bomb on the street where these women live.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. The Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people.
The Microsoft Software Collection is full screen with themes, sound and animation. You won't see the adds if you are playing old-school Klondike without the daily challenges, leaderboards, and so on.
SolSuite is the gold standard for Windows solitaire, with about 600 variations, 80 card sets, 300 card backs and 100 backgrounds. Frequently discounted to $10 and bundled with MahJong or Sudoku,
As in exposure to a hostile legal, political and social environment.
I don't see many public libraries having the resources to implement your plan.
=BEGIN ABUSE RESPONSE= We are still pondering our options. Please accept our apologies in the mean time. =END ABUSE RESPONSE=
When the shit hits the fan, "thinking it over" and "hoping for the best" is no longer an option. In the end, you have to make a decision or one will be made for you.
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So you're trying to get a job at a company and instead of reporting to them a security flaw, you create a Chrome extension to let anybody abuse it
If you're expecting to NOT get fired, you're an idiot.
Better still is this bit of idiocy from the poster:
Surely Khanna won't be jobless or internship-less for long.
The geek lives in this fantasy world where you can be fired for cause for a security breach at a Fortune 500 company and still remain employable.
Really, Google is the only company that matters. And maybe Netflix.
H.264 blew past Google and YouTube to become the dominant codec for HD distribution.
The geek is still fixed on web distribution through the browser and viewing video on his monitor.
But the action in HD is shifting to the app and the HDTV set.
That is where cable-cutting comes in, the smart tv, the set top box and dongles like the Amazon Fire Stick and Chromecast which bypass the browser and increasingly the computer itself.
The propriety codecs like H.264 and HEVC are developed by the same companies which manufacture almost all the world's video hardware ---
Studio production. Theatrical distribution. Home video. Industrial applications and so on. In this pond, even Cisco is a very small fish,
If Mitsubishi is not on board, if Philips, Samsung, and a half dozen or so other global giants in manufacturing are not on board, your brightly polished license-free codec is going nowhere.
The very notion of anti-virus drives hobbyists away from Windows, because the hobbyist thinks he is in charge of the toys, and not some uncaring 800lb gorilla.
Until an exploit takes control of his toys away from him.
Professionals make mistakes that aren't always easy to see and some that are mighty hard to excuse. It happens whatever the language, programming tools or environment.
I think you can make a very good case for providing the amateur with a little hand-holding and protection.
Translation: We tried to hide more buttons and functionality from users with Firefox 40
Monday, the geek will post about wanting a no-frills browser that "just works."
Tuesday, he'll post about wanting more menus, options and functionality. Which most users won't have a clue how to configure and won't want to deal with.
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For those unaware of Pocket:
Save web pages for later with Pocket for Firefox
Will Bitcoin be used by Cubans and Americans to sell goods and services without the knowledge of their governments? Cuban offshore developers might be the first to use Bitcoin.
Three guesses and the second two don't count.
"Which foreign currency is in common use throughout the Caribbean and frequently adopted or accepted as legal tender? "
Currency substitution: Anchor currencies: US Dollar
Now a harder one:
"If prosecuted for an economic crime with $100 million in assets at stake, would you prefer to be tried and sentenced in Cuba or the United States?"
Cuba sentences Canadian CEO to fifteen years on financial charges
I'm going to migrate my wife to it, probably this week.
I can't remember a Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot in the last fifteen years that didn't begin with the geek providing a family member with free in-home technical support.
The geek is reluctant to talk about his failures. Those who refused to follow his lead. Those who reverted to Windows out of confusion, anger or disappointment.
Geek talks to geek here. There is almost no chance for the ordinary Windows user to speak for himself --- much less tell the geek where to go when he claims to speak for him.
I'm glad Finland has no other problems for the police to worry about.
Law enforcement multi-tasks --- a concept the geek seems to find unusually hard to grasp.
Tesla took a huge risk by taking a completely new technology (battery-powered cars) and applying it in a completely new and untested way (performance car).
Battery-powered cars and utility vehicles have been around since 1896. Their advantages and limitations have been known from the beginning.
Henry Ford took the opposite direction from Tesla, beginning with a simply conceived but rugged and reliable internal combustion engine as the basis for a mass-market priced family car, light truck and tractor.
After-market conversions transformed the T into RVs, snow-cats, railcars, bookmobiles, hot rods and pretty anything else you could imagine. Used engines were pulled for use in boats and stationary applications.
In its prime. the Model T owned 50% of the global market for automobiles. That generated enormous sums for R&D and manufacturing. Ford Model T
Some people with medical issues like arthritis can find if much less stressful on their joints to just 'stand' rather than actually walk...
But you still need to maintain your balance on this thing
If you have mobility issues, how do you make turns, speed up or slow down, how do you start and stop it, how do you get on and off safely?
Lawsuits would have quickly ended the operations of the offending company, and gone further, severely punishing its shareholders, who would not have been protected by the corporate veil.
The social and political environment that makes federal regulation possible is the same environment that makes successful civil litigation possible.
It is a double-barreled shotgun blast.
When a Switch in Time Saved Nine
That, and focus on not requiring third-party programs for Web content.
But will web content ever remain static long enough for browser standards to keep pace? Mozilla tied itself up in knots over H.264 long after it had eclipsed all other contenders for HD video support.
People are being racist and horrible on your internet site. Get over it.
I am not obliged to build out and pay for a platform for the Aryan Nations. I am not obliged to accept the disruption of my site or the abuse of its readers to please the geek's perverted sense of free speech.
The IDSDA's origins can be traced back to the legendary industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss. The geek is only kidding himself if he thinks these awards are not to be taken seriously.
The best designed products of 2015
The good news is that autonomous cars don't need to park-- they just go give someone else a ride. They could change city life forever.
Of all people who commute to work in New York City, 41% use the subway, 24% drive alone, 12% take the bus, 10% walk to work, 2% travel by commuter rail, 5% carpool, 1% use a taxi, 0.6% ride their bicycle to work, and 0.2% travel by ferry.
There are 13,237 taxis operating in New York City, not including over 40,000 other for-hire vehicles.
Transportation in New York City
If you need over 50,000 vehicles on the road daily to meet existing for-hire demands, how many robo-cabs would you need to provide 25% of the city's commuter services?
The commuter car is by definition mostly idle between 9 in the morning and five in the afternoon and between six in the evening and seven in the morning.
Parked.
All-in-all, a good day for free software, and a bad day for Microsoft.
Not to rain on your parade.
But LibreOffice remains nothing more than the generic stand-alone office suite of the nineties --- and conspicuously absent is a credible, full-featured, open source alternative to Outlook.
Microsoft positions MS Office ---- very successfully ---- as simply one component of an integrated office system that scales to an enterprise of any size.
Office 365 for Healthcare
Just like most really rich guys. Trying like hell to clean his dark soul from what he did to get that rich.
The entrepreneur --- the empire builder --- has more fun than almost anyone and accomplishes more than most. He tends to exit the stage as exuberant and self-confident as when he entered it.
New York Architecture Images - The Chrysler Building
The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them.
I enjoy doing laundry about as much as doing dishes. I get my clothing custom made in China for prices you would not believe and have new ones regularly shipped to me. Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them, and I donate my used garments.
How I Gave Up Alternating Current
555 posters at Ars Technica spent a glorious summer's day ripping Rhinehart to shreds. Op-ed: How I gave up alternating current
"I'm an idiot who doesn't understand the energy footprint of Soylent Green and shipping cotton to china for cheap underwear, then shipping those underwear to my house on a weekly basis. I am so far up the ass of my OCD neurosis that I am living a contrafactual life and pretending it's not destroying the world."
[Remember] when USENET, IRC, and other mediums that were hard to censor were the rule rather than the exception?
I remember hating the geek's frustrating, jargon-ridden, clients for these services with the passion of a thousand suns. I used them only because they were serviceable over very low bandwidth connections.
If the Internet looks different now, the geek has only himself to blame.
If DRM was actually needed to create a commercially viable product as you claim, then you are implying that the Kickstarter was fraudulent.
Fraudulent, no. Delusional, yes.
This would be an excellent example of Mozilla not being willing to compromise their principles to satisfy the media conglomerates obsession with DRM.
I know this always come as a shock to the geek, but without access to subscription services, protected media content, HD video and theatrical quality sound, you do not have a commercially viable product.
Best Buy has the Amazon Fire Stick on sale for $25.
This looks like it is all in fun.
Until ISIS decides to set off a truck bomb on the street where these women live.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. The Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people.
What ISIS Really Wants
The Microsoft Software Collection is full screen with themes, sound and animation. You won't see the adds if you are playing old-school Klondike without the daily challenges, leaderboards, and so on.
SolSuite is the gold standard for Windows solitaire, with about 600 variations, 80 card sets, 300 card backs and 100 backgrounds. Frequently discounted to $10 and bundled with MahJong or Sudoku,
Our cost mitigation strategy had several parts
I would replace the work "cost" with "risk."
As in exposure to a hostile legal, political and social environment.
I don't see many public libraries having the resources to implement your plan.
=BEGIN ABUSE RESPONSE=
We are still pondering our options.
Please accept our apologies in the mean time.
=END ABUSE RESPONSE=
When the shit hits the fan, "thinking it over" and "hoping for the best" is no longer an option. In the end, you have to make a decision or one will be made for you.
MOOOOOO! Is the sound of the universe telling you to stop browsing comments at -1.
You need to browsing at +3 or higher to escape this nonsense. The sound your hear may be Slashdot circling around the drain.