You sound EXACTLY like my network admin, it's pretty damned creepy.
I'm a web developer, he's the network admin, it's like the Odd Couple. He gives me funny looks when he walks by and briefly looks at my code - "Is that n-tier??".
AMEN - what a beautiful idea. I just don't know that you would want to make it too easy for end users (my mother) to get a hold of the source and be able to modify it!
Personally, I would LOVE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. I can't emphasize that enough. I've always wanted to get into the backend of things like browsers, but haven't had the time or drive to go get the source.
I'm a web developer, and have been forced to use certain Microsoft technologies simply because of our 100% Windows shop.
ALL of the stuff I code I attempt to standardize to HTML 4.0, XSLT 1.1, XML 1.0, etc. The nice part about it is that I don't have to do much to make it cross-platform, just mess about with the client-side JS that gets sent over, as all the transformation and real crunching happen server side.
It sucks having to deal with IE sometimes though, as some pretty standard JS stuff breaks in IE. As I use Firefox as my development broswer, I'm always sure it works well there.
From my experience, it is overall easier to code for FireFox compatibility, as you really don't have to do anything to make it work, as long as you KISS.
There are a number of things you could do with access to so many open APs.
The thing is that even if they managed to track down theft of property (pirating) to that particular AP, they would possibly have some trouble getting to your particular machine, especially if they can't actually track down who in particular was connecting and doing the downloading. They can't just issue a blanket warrant for everyone in a 500 foot vicinity to see whose computer was actually connected and performing the theft!
I got so excited about this, until the last line about it only being available for IE. They better get cracking on the FireFox extension, as it would really boost FireFox as well.
Personally, I am just glad that they decided to do this out of the goodness of their hearts, and it's a great day for anti phishing folks out there.
For a while I had wondered if I might possibly have Asperger's myself, but after carefully monitoring myself, I discovered I'm just a geek.
However, my 6 year old son is either Autistic, has Asperger's and/or also is schizophrenic.
He's currently taking medication that helps to keep his emotional state near normal. Without it, he turns into a raging maniac, and I mean it. The poor little guy will just scream at everyone for almost no reason, retreat into his own little world and generally just lose it entirely.
What was really disturbing was one night when I was basically completely unable to reach him. It was about 1 in the morning, and I was watching TV. He comes out of his room, screaming at his sister as he chases her down the hall. However, she was still asleep in her bed!
Then he saw all the spiders descending from the ceiling, crawling out of the walls, climbing up his legs into his hair, etc. He ran screaming out of the house into a driving snowstorm, in just his underwear, yelling to get them off. Then they started crawling into his skin.
Immediately after they crawled inside him, he started acting like a spider, and telling me that he was a spider.
I will never forget that incident for the rest of my life. It scared the FUCK out of me.
Thank God for this new medication (Abilify). He has not had any hallucinations again at all since he started taking it. He can actually be in the presence of a spider now without freaking out too.
At my work, our boss continually encourages us to go to a bookstore or a library and spend a couple hours reading books, or whatever. He sees no problem with us basically telling people to fsck off if we're in the middle of something.
It's really nice to be able to say to anyone, even the CEO, when they are standing at my desk, that it won't get done until they get me a helpdesk. Sure, I'll talk to them about it, but doing anything? No way man.
Please don't misunderstand the situation, because of this policy, we are actually more valuable and liked in the organization than before when we would jump out of whatever we were doing to help someone with a little itty bitty issue because they're standing at our desk, or calling us on the phone.
By taking back the control of our departmental priorities, we've taken back the quality of our work as well as the stress and peace of mind as programmers we so sorely lack sometimes.
After all, being part of the glue that holds our organization together, we get placed under a huge amount of stress whenever anything stops working correctly. That's enough stress, so being able to reduce daily stress greatly is very helpful.
We will also often just kick back, screw around, chat, and basically do nothing for an hour every other day or so. And it's no problem, because EVERYONE knows that if something needs to be done, it will be done.
Sorry for being longwinded, but I wanted to try to eloquently express how it is in my work. Even with the policies in place, we still fall prey to the short attention span mentality all the time.
I can just see Crichton and O'Neil go at it... the two of them in a single room, I don't know how long it would be before Crichton pulls out Wanonna and points it at O'Neil...
And then you'd have Scorpy horning in on the vamp's business of course and starting wars with them, etc....
Admit it, you bawled your ass off at the end of season 4 (FS)!
I bawled at that, then I bawled when they brought them back in the miniseries, then cried that at the end, just because it was so poetic and beautiful.
I really hope that you do not get flamed out of existence for taking this stance for this law.
As a parent myself, I agree that it is not possible for me to be everywhere at all times where my kids are. Sure, as a parent, there is NO WAY I will let my kids play games like this.
However, also making it difficult for kids to buy these games on their own is a good thing, because it helps put the power back in parent's hands, where it belongs. This proposed law is not saying that as a parent you cannot allow your children to play these games if you so choose, it only prevents the child from buying it themselves.
I have a couple quick questions that hopefully someone with more knowledge and more info on this vulnerability could answer:
1) How, if combined with Phishing, could this be used to your advantage? 2) Would this give you ways to get around an SSL connection, i.e. having the hijacked window still connect the bank over SSL, but you can sniff the data passing back and forth through scripts? 3) Could the hijacked window be used in any way to impersonate the trusted site to do things like install malicious software?
Come on guys, you might disagree with the parent's comment, but it is not a troll! Someone please mod it up so it's not at a negative score.
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Yeah, I have thanked all of those people many times over, effusively!
And I would certainly thank God if I believed in Him, which regrettably I don't. It would have certainly made it easier for me if I believed that when I die, I would go to Heaven.
I really don't know where to sit in the debate about Linux/Linus and Slashdot. This site really seems to worship Linus Torvalds as a God of Computing, and any mention of him in a positive light always seems to turn up here.
Myself, I am a very happy Linux user, and I really admire Linus for what he's done. But it seems ridiculous the number of times that Linus is noted on this website. Sure, this is news for nerds, but come on, there are many other subjects of interest that are being ignored for the sake of bowing and scraping at the feet of the mighty Linus.
This is just a personal opinion of the editors choices in greenlighting certain posts vs. others, not of Linus himself. (flame on!)
This tool really points to the fact that Linux distributions in general are all over the map regarding the installation of packages.
I believe that this tool could be VERY useful to an average user, if they can manage to get it installed and configured. From what I've seen, there are many steps to getting this to work.
Linux distributions have a big problem with package installation and management from an end user point of view. They are a MAJOR pain in the ass, even for experienced users like myself.
Hopefully this develops further and provides us with something to aid in distributing Linux over more desktops.
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Thank you Jaysyn, that was very nice of you to say. I am in recovery now, and as far as we are aware, I am in complete remission.
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"incestuous link-farm" - damn...
And I thought kiddie porn was bad!
Oh man, you brought a tear to my eye.
You sound EXACTLY like my network admin, it's pretty damned creepy.
I'm a web developer, he's the network admin, it's like the Odd Couple. He gives me funny looks when he walks by and briefly looks at my code - "Is that n-tier??".
He's sure I'm out to blow up his servers.
Have you used MSXML 2? :)
Personally I have to use MSXML 4, and it's ok, it does what I need, the rest I make up in JS.
You put a closing "retentive" element in an HTML comment section, with no opening tag! Your parser is going to curse you and asplode your hard drive.
AMEN - what a beautiful idea. I just don't know that you would want to make it too easy for end users (my mother) to get a hold of the source and be able to modify it!
Personally, I would LOVE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS. I can't emphasize that enough. I've always wanted to get into the backend of things like browsers, but haven't had the time or drive to go get the source.
I'm a web developer, and have been forced to use certain Microsoft technologies simply because of our 100% Windows shop.
ALL of the stuff I code I attempt to standardize to HTML 4.0, XSLT 1.1, XML 1.0, etc. The nice part about it is that I don't have to do much to make it cross-platform, just mess about with the client-side JS that gets sent over, as all the transformation and real crunching happen server side.
It sucks having to deal with IE sometimes though, as some pretty standard JS stuff breaks in IE. As I use Firefox as my development broswer, I'm always sure it works well there.
From my experience, it is overall easier to code for FireFox compatibility, as you really don't have to do anything to make it work, as long as you KISS.
There are a number of things you could do with access to so many open APs.
The thing is that even if they managed to track down theft of property (pirating) to that particular AP, they would possibly have some trouble getting to your particular machine, especially if they can't actually track down who in particular was connecting and doing the downloading. They can't just issue a blanket warrant for everyone in a 500 foot vicinity to see whose computer was actually connected and performing the theft!
Regrettably, I am serious.
I just pray he doesn't grow up to be a sociopath, or worse, a psychopath.
He still isn't showing any compassion, and it's starting to worry me.
Sweet - Godwin'd already, and it's only like 15 comments down! Or is it Goodwin'd? Crap, I don't know.
I got so excited about this, until the last line about it only being available for IE. They better get cracking on the FireFox extension, as it would really boost FireFox as well.
Personally, I am just glad that they decided to do this out of the goodness of their hearts, and it's a great day for anti phishing folks out there.
For a while I had wondered if I might possibly have Asperger's myself, but after carefully monitoring myself, I discovered I'm just a geek.
However, my 6 year old son is either Autistic, has Asperger's and/or also is schizophrenic.
He's currently taking medication that helps to keep his emotional state near normal. Without it, he turns into a raging maniac, and I mean it. The poor little guy will just scream at everyone for almost no reason, retreat into his own little world and generally just lose it entirely.
What was really disturbing was one night when I was basically completely unable to reach him. It was about 1 in the morning, and I was watching TV. He comes out of his room, screaming at his sister as he chases her down the hall. However, she was still asleep in her bed!
Then he saw all the spiders descending from the ceiling, crawling out of the walls, climbing up his legs into his hair, etc. He ran screaming out of the house into a driving snowstorm, in just his underwear, yelling to get them off. Then they started crawling into his skin.
Immediately after they crawled inside him, he started acting like a spider, and telling me that he was a spider.
I will never forget that incident for the rest of my life. It scared the FUCK out of me.
Thank God for this new medication (Abilify). He has not had any hallucinations again at all since he started taking it. He can actually be in the presence of a spider now without freaking out too.
I'd like to throw my hat in the ring.
At my work, our boss continually encourages us to go to a bookstore or a library and spend a couple hours reading books, or whatever. He sees no problem with us basically telling people to fsck off if we're in the middle of something.
It's really nice to be able to say to anyone, even the CEO, when they are standing at my desk, that it won't get done until they get me a helpdesk. Sure, I'll talk to them about it, but doing anything? No way man.
Please don't misunderstand the situation, because of this policy, we are actually more valuable and liked in the organization than before when we would jump out of whatever we were doing to help someone with a little itty bitty issue because they're standing at our desk, or calling us on the phone.
By taking back the control of our departmental priorities, we've taken back the quality of our work as well as the stress and peace of mind as programmers we so sorely lack sometimes.
After all, being part of the glue that holds our organization together, we get placed under a huge amount of stress whenever anything stops working correctly. That's enough stress, so being able to reduce daily stress greatly is very helpful.
We will also often just kick back, screw around, chat, and basically do nothing for an hour every other day or so. And it's no problem, because EVERYONE knows that if something needs to be done, it will be done.
Sorry for being longwinded, but I wanted to try to eloquently express how it is in my work. Even with the policies in place, we still fall prey to the short attention span mentality all the time.
Thanks for that Sj0 - thank God all my co-workers are gone for the day.
I used to try crap like that all the time with Zork.
Thanks Morimoto - that was a good laugh!
I can just see Crichton and O'Neil go at it... the two of them in a single room, I don't know how long it would be before Crichton pulls out Wanonna and points it at O'Neil...
And then you'd have Scorpy horning in on the vamp's business of course and starting wars with them, etc....
Alright...
Admit it, you bawled your ass off at the end of season 4 (FS)!
I bawled at that, then I bawled when they brought them back in the miniseries, then cried that at the end, just because it was so poetic and beautiful.
Sorry, myself, I do not see much of a resemblance, other than the baby face.
I mean, if you actually look at a picture of both of them side by side, I don't think they really look that much alike.
Sorry for all the Exc. points, but I LOVE this man!
I can only imagine he will bring some new life to that series. I am so excited, I will actually start watching it again!
Damn you - everyone is looking at me now that I've burst out laughing in the office for no apparent reason.
That was DAMNED FUNNY.
I really hope that you do not get flamed out of existence for taking this stance for this law.
As a parent myself, I agree that it is not possible for me to be everywhere at all times where my kids are. Sure, as a parent, there is NO WAY I will let my kids play games like this.
However, also making it difficult for kids to buy these games on their own is a good thing, because it helps put the power back in parent's hands, where it belongs. This proposed law is not saying that as a parent you cannot allow your children to play these games if you so choose, it only prevents the child from buying it themselves.
I have a couple quick questions that hopefully someone with more knowledge and more info on this vulnerability could answer:
1) How, if combined with Phishing, could this be used to your advantage?
2) Would this give you ways to get around an SSL connection, i.e. having the hijacked window still connect the bank over SSL, but you can sniff the data passing back and forth through scripts?
3) Could the hijacked window be used in any way to impersonate the trusted site to do things like install malicious software?
Thanks in advance for any replies!
Come on guys, you might disagree with the parent's comment, but it is not a troll! Someone please mod it up so it's not at a negative score.
Yeah, I have thanked all of those people many times over, effusively!
And I would certainly thank God if I believed in Him, which regrettably I don't. It would have certainly made it easier for me if I believed that when I die, I would go to Heaven.
I really don't know where to sit in the debate about Linux/Linus and Slashdot. This site really seems to worship Linus Torvalds as a God of Computing, and any mention of him in a positive light always seems to turn up here.
Myself, I am a very happy Linux user, and I really admire Linus for what he's done. But it seems ridiculous the number of times that Linus is noted on this website. Sure, this is news for nerds, but come on, there are many other subjects of interest that are being ignored for the sake of bowing and scraping at the feet of the mighty Linus.
This is just a personal opinion of the editors choices in greenlighting certain posts vs. others, not of Linus himself. (flame on!)
This tool really points to the fact that Linux distributions in general are all over the map regarding the installation of packages.
I believe that this tool could be VERY useful to an average user, if they can manage to get it installed and configured. From what I've seen, there are many steps to getting this to work.
Linux distributions have a big problem with package installation and management from an end user point of view. They are a MAJOR pain in the ass, even for experienced users like myself.
Hopefully this develops further and provides us with something to aid in distributing Linux over more desktops.
Thank you Jaysyn, that was very nice of you to say. I am in recovery now, and as far as we are aware, I am in complete remission.
Thank God for small favors!