My bank (well, credit union actually) doesn't have a non-SSL site. Connecting to an http address redirects you to the bank's front page using an https URL.
Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps, in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.
When I research something for my company, and find it has adverse effects, I bury the reports. More specifically, I throw my findings into the project documentation folder, and move on to something else that will work without the problems. Hopefully, nobody will need to look at those reports again. Granted, I'm evaluating software packages, not consumer products, but I'm assuming the concept's the same.
Why waste time and money making a formal report, announcing it to the world, and generally just scaring people when 99% of the time the problems are eventually solved, anyway?
While I can understand doing so, if you cancel your product because of it, wouldn't it be better to tell the shareholders "We canceled the project, here's why."?
When will the RIAA and ASCAP take a few minutes of their time to actually read the licenses from Creative Commons to see that CC actually complements copyright. Without copyright, CC wouldn't even work.
As soon as the RIAA and ASCAP hire people with a high enough intelligence to understand what they're reading.
In other words, about the same time hell freezes over.
This was already mentioned in reply to another post:
Current USPS prices are designed to subsidize delivery to all homes in the US, including the exceedingly rural ones that companies like UPS and FedEx won't deliver to.
Just minor things like... form input validation for your database update forms without having to do a form submit. Auto-complete for common fields. Drop-downs that can be updated based on what you select from another drop-down.
Oh, and fancy UI stuff too, but since you wanted information related to publishing information and updating databases, I limited my response to those activities.
I saw another article over at The Register about the new IE9 preview.
There was one section I found particularly interesting in there:
And speaking of standards, director of IE product management Roger Capriotti told The Reg that although patent-backed H.264 is Microsoft's video codec of choice for IE9, it will also support Google's recent open source gift to the world, WebM/V8, if a user has that codec on their machine. However, Redmond has yet to make a decision, Capriotti said, about how to handle the open source Ogg Theora codec.
So... IE9 will support WebM if it's installed, but not Theora.
While this is not supported out of the box, this could actually be a tipping point for WebM.
Without IE9's WebM support, things looked like this:
H.264 support: IE, Safari, Chrome WebM support: FireFox, Chrome, Opera
In that case, H.264 looked like the winner. But if you add IE9 to the WebM column, you suddenly have support for WebM from everyone but Apple.
Now the trick will be to convince MS to support this out of the box...
All the folks with whom I played PC games had moved 2 time zones away and it was hard to schedule gaming time.
This is why I tend to play online FPS games with people from a specific community rather than limiting it to just people I know in real life.
Specifically, I play Team Fortress 2 with people from the OCReMix community. OCR has two TF2 servers: blu.ocrtf2.com and red.ocrtf2.com, named after the two teams in TF2.
I'm impressed with the clever solution they had to this: replace the red LEDs with green ones. Guaranteed, no more red ring of death. Just don't ask about the green ring of death.
Nah, they just made the existing green LEDs multipurpose. It's much more cost effective to include just four green LEDs than four green and four red, after all! I mean, that might shave $0.04 off the unit cost!
(Disclaimer: I have no idea how much LEDs cost. Googling for it brings back prices on LED screens and full-on LED replacements for incandescent bulbs.)
Paypal has never frozen my account for "suspicious activity" (three purchases from one company, each purchase froze it), frozen my account without notifying me for two weeks, well after I'd figured it out on my own when I couldn't make a purchase and had already resolved it, or frozen my wife's account when mine was the one that got compromised despite their assurances hers would be fine.
I've never had my PayPal account frozen either.
Having said that, Visa and PayPal both freeze accounts for suspicious activity... however PayPal doesn't just freeze one account, but every account that account has interacted with recently.
I can only recall Visa having frozen my account once; that wasn't really an account freeze either, it was just a block of a single merchant for a short time. Why? Because I was ordering the same item repeatedly to gift to friends on Steam. This was back when Orange Box was $10 (or was that $5?). They started blocking the transactions after the third for suspicious activity.
That's great. That's what Visa is supposed to do. My only problem is that they wouldn't unblock it even after I called them.
Oh well, I convinced several of my friends that I didn't gift Orange Box to to buy it on their own anyway.
(P.S. This is more of a failing of the Steam store. You can't gift single items, only an entire transaction.)
If Microsoft hadn't written this crappy code, and everything had been written by an organization that knew had to write secure code, this problem wouldn't exist.
Microsoft's iPad is their worst product yet. I mean, shit, they even managed to fuck up and put a competitor's logo on it!
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My bank (well, credit union actually) doesn't have a non-SSL site. Connecting to an http address redirects you to the bank's front page using an https URL.
Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps, in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.
You are the greatest guy ever and are never wrong. I will do whatever you want.
I'm glad you think that! So, slave, give me $1,000.
While I can understand doing so, if you cancel your product because of it, wouldn't it be better to tell the shareholders "We canceled the project, here's why."?
As soon as the RIAA and ASCAP hire people with a high enough intelligence to understand what they're reading.
In other words, about the same time hell freezes over.
As I understand it, yes.
Really? I'd heard that the USPS has been periodically proposing to cancel Tuesday delivery for years, as it's their slowest day.
This was already mentioned in reply to another post:
Current USPS prices are designed to subsidize delivery to all homes in the US, including the exceedingly rural ones that companies like UPS and FedEx won't deliver to.
I have. Specifically, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows when it came out.
It was interesting looking how Amazon shipped that... they shipped it via UPS, which then delivered it to the USPS for local delivery.
PC wrote the book on More Information Than You Require!
No, no, no...
It's:
Fool me once... shame on... shame on you.
If you fool me, can't get fooled again!
-- George W. Bush
Just minor things like... form input validation for your database update forms without having to do a form submit. Auto-complete for common fields. Drop-downs that can be updated based on what you select from another drop-down.
Oh, and fancy UI stuff too, but since you wanted information related to publishing information and updating databases, I limited my response to those activities.
er... Windows XP is 9 years old... not exactly "new shiny".
Out of curiosity, which Ubuntu version are you using? 6.06?
Maybe they do. I'd think single color ones are cheaper, though.
I saw another article over at The Register about the new IE9 preview.
There was one section I found particularly interesting in there:
So... IE9 will support WebM if it's installed, but not Theora.
While this is not supported out of the box, this could actually be a tipping point for WebM.
Without IE9's WebM support, things looked like this:
H.264 support: IE, Safari, Chrome
WebM support: FireFox, Chrome, Opera
In that case, H.264 looked like the winner. But if you add IE9 to the WebM column, you suddenly have support for WebM from everyone but Apple.
Now the trick will be to convince MS to support this out of the box...
This is why I tend to play online FPS games with people from a specific community rather than limiting it to just people I know in real life.
Specifically, I play Team Fortress 2 with people from the OCReMix community. OCR has two TF2 servers: blu.ocrtf2.com and red.ocrtf2.com, named after the two teams in TF2.
Nah, they just made the existing green LEDs multipurpose. It's much more cost effective to include just four green LEDs than four green and four red, after all! I mean, that might shave $0.04 off the unit cost!
(Disclaimer: I have no idea how much LEDs cost. Googling for it brings back prices on LED screens and full-on LED replacements for incandescent bulbs.)
If by strategy you mean "trying to get tax discounts in the EU and failing," then yes.
Otherwise, the center of PS3 strategy has been primarily that it's a Blu-Ray player in addition to a gaming system.
I've never had my PayPal account frozen either.
Having said that, Visa and PayPal both freeze accounts for suspicious activity... however PayPal doesn't just freeze one account, but every account that account has interacted with recently.
I can only recall Visa having frozen my account once; that wasn't really an account freeze either, it was just a block of a single merchant for a short time. Why? Because I was ordering the same item repeatedly to gift to friends on Steam. This was back when Orange Box was $10 (or was that $5?). They started blocking the transactions after the third for suspicious activity.
That's great. That's what Visa is supposed to do. My only problem is that they wouldn't unblock it even after I called them.
Oh well, I convinced several of my friends that I didn't gift Orange Box to to buy it on their own anyway.
(P.S. This is more of a failing of the Steam store. You can't gift single items, only an entire transaction.)
How long after that would Visa start declining charges made through PayPal?
Unlike Google, Visa can cause problems for eBay.
Wait, U.S. football games have longer breaks between commercials than normal U.S. Television does?
Microsoft's iPad is their worst product yet. I mean, shit, they even managed to fuck up and put a competitor's logo on it!
Yeah... that would be Antigua, not Argentina.
er... what does Windows Mobile have to do with Flash on Android?
*ducks*