In the comments at the foot of the article, the author says that using both is advantageous. Do your complex transformations in XSL, then hook in CSS for presentation, and you're playing to the strength of both languages.
An AC has helpfully calculated the dollar value of a slashvertistment in this comment. Bottom line, around US$650 per month profit, if you keep a steady stream of submissions coming in.
I'm also a big fan of the Grandia series, and I'm amazed that it's not more popular. As well as being witty and well written, it has the best combat system of any RPG I've played; it's fast paced but very deep indeed.
Anyway, I find that when I play it on the PS2, the original Grandia hangs occasionally in the midst of battle. I've always suspected that this was either a memory leak or a disc streaming problem, which I imagine a PC-based emulator would be less prone to. So, do you get random hangs (e.g. climbing the wall towards the end of disc 1) with the emulator?
disc drives (PS1 CD-Rom, PS2 DVD drive, boombox audio CD)
fans (PS2 again)
control widgets (PS2 controller, component UI)
On the other hand they seem to make / use good:
headphones (MDR, HDR series)
speakers / amps (boomboxes and components)
camcorders
So IMO their stuff is not universally crap across the board, but you should be wary of anything they produce that uses optical media and / or microswitches.
I'd rather they reimbursed me for the hours spent cleaning their browser-hijacking spyware out of people's systems. Yes, I know the latest versions don't do this any more, but Real lost any sympathy from me years ago when they started doing this shit. I hope Apple sends them to the poor house.
Yah, I think you're right upon reflection. I haven't written any JavaScript since the dotcom era so you must pardon my extreme rustiness.
I wonder if window.opener.document or window.top.document of the hijacked window would give you access to the DOM of the victim site? Or do the properties get reset when the attacker sends new content to the named window?
Or use _blank, which always opens in a new window.
Then the must-double-click-everything AOL crowd get two windows instead of one, which might lead to state errors in an online banking site (for example). But you're right, it will stop a site hijacking a stateless informational pop-up as in the demo.
The links to Citibank from the Secunia site are actually handled by JavaScript. The script sets a timer, then opens citibank. Every second or so, Secunia's script then checks whether you've opened Citibank's pop-up. If you have, it opens a window with the same name (i.e. variable name) as Citibank's window, thus overwriting their content.
So the attacker doesn't need you to click on anything, they just need you to have their site open -- with the timer going -- in another window. Also, the attacker needs to know in advance what name the victim site's pop-up is referenced by. A dynamically generated name could possibly defeat this attack, though the attacker could always crawl the DOM for a handle to the pop-up.
I think there's also a substantial number -- perhaps the majority -- who simply don't care, or are in denial about the level of spyware infestation. The way the average punter sees it, it's something that only technical boffins who want to ruin end their toolbar-collecting fun care about. I have a sad anecdote about this in TFJ.
I'm not sure from your post whether you're for or against animal testing, but here's my 0.02 anyway.
Animals and humans have some fundamental differences which mean they react differently to the same things. For example, arsenic is fatal to humans, but is a basic nutrient for goats and rats. (Specifically, a 2kg baby goat requires 70mcg of arsenic daily for normal development, an amount lethal to adult humans). One can imagine a drug containing arsenic being tested on lab rats and found safe.
Something similar actually happened in the case of thalidomide, which was approved by the FDA on the basis of tests on lab rats. As you'll note in the Wiki article, there is some debate over whether the tests were properly conducted. Whether they were or not, the testing was not only sufficient for the FDA, it was also actually used to demonstrate due diligence in court so that the manufacturers did not have to pay compensation to mothers of limbless thalidomide babies. This suggests to me that animal testing is being conducted for legal purposes, and on the honour system at that.
Having said that, I could see the point of testing a CJD vaccine on cows, a bird flu vaccine on birds etc. A clinical trial is still needed at some point if the drug is to be supplied to humans. Otherwise, as with thalidomide, the consumer ends up trialling the drug without their consent, and we get 15000 victims instead of 15.
You're forgetting that FFXI is the ONLY MMO that is available on a console.
There are other active console MMOs. Phantasy Star Online is available on GCN and DC, and Everquest on PS2. There's probably also something for XBox that I'm not familiar with. But point taken, FFXI is the only modern MMO choice for console gamers.
Now I feel foolish and wish I had paid a bit more attention in high school. Ah well, I remembered the bedlam == Bethlehem hospital for the clinically nuts bit at least. I wonder if the game is alluding to the connection or just indulging in wordplay.
playing them from a browser is not a good idea right now unless you've got a local mirror or copied all the files locally or something
Yes, downloading them and playing from the local copy is the probably the best idea. Or you could kill time by writing your own games (the language is called Inform and is pretty straightforward OO).
Slashdot Mirror
I would post a lame Gentoo joke here, but I'm waiting for Firefox to finish compiling.
In the comments at the foot of the article, the author says that using both is advantageous. Do your complex transformations in XSL, then hook in CSS for presentation, and you're playing to the strength of both languages.
The original poster wrote: if it's security infrastructure is sufficiently loose. I say we ask Taco to unban him in light of this new evidence.
"I've got wood for your sheep!"
You've got his number... I bet he won't let himself play Zelda either : )
An AC has helpfully calculated the dollar value of a slashvertistment in this comment. Bottom line, around US$650 per month profit, if you keep a steady stream of submissions coming in.
I'm also a big fan of the Grandia series, and I'm amazed that it's not more popular. As well as being witty and well written, it has the best combat system of any RPG I've played; it's fast paced but very deep indeed.
Anyway, I find that when I play it on the PS2, the original Grandia hangs occasionally in the midst of battle. I've always suspected that this was either a memory leak or a disc streaming problem, which I imagine a PC-based emulator would be less prone to. So, do you get random hangs (e.g. climbing the wall towards the end of disc 1) with the emulator?
- disc drives (PS1 CD-Rom, PS2 DVD drive, boombox audio CD)
- fans (PS2 again)
- control widgets (PS2 controller, component UI)
On the other hand they seem to make / use good:- headphones (MDR, HDR series)
- speakers / amps (boomboxes and components)
- camcorders
So IMO their stuff is not universally crap across the board, but you should be wary of anything they produce that uses optical media and / or microswitches.American kids are already very interested in the metric system. Perhaps some sort of competition to see who can measure out a gram blindfolded?
I'd rather they reimbursed me for the hours spent cleaning their browser-hijacking spyware out of people's systems. Yes, I know the latest versions don't do this any more, but Real lost any sympathy from me years ago when they started doing this shit. I hope Apple sends them to the poor house.
Yah, I think you're right upon reflection. I haven't written any JavaScript since the dotcom era so you must pardon my extreme rustiness.
I wonder if window.opener.document or window.top.document of the hijacked window would give you access to the DOM of the victim site? Or do the properties get reset when the attacker sends new content to the named window?
Or use _blank, which always opens in a new window.
Then the must-double-click-everything AOL crowd get two windows instead of one, which might lead to state errors in an online banking site (for example). But you're right, it will stop a site hijacking a stateless informational pop-up as in the demo.
The links to Citibank from the Secunia site are actually handled by JavaScript. The script sets a timer, then opens citibank. Every second or so, Secunia's script then checks whether you've opened Citibank's pop-up. If you have, it opens a window with the same name (i.e. variable name) as Citibank's window, thus overwriting their content.
So the attacker doesn't need you to click on anything, they just need you to have their site open -- with the timer going -- in another window. Also, the attacker needs to know in advance what name the victim site's pop-up is referenced by. A dynamically generated name could possibly defeat this attack, though the attacker could always crawl the DOM for a handle to the pop-up.
The NukeAnything extension is great at removing floating divs. It collapses whatever element recieves a click event from it.
chirurgical gloves are what chirurgeons wear when they are performing chirugury. DUH!
u rgeon
I know you're joking here, but you are actually correct : )
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=chir
TFJ? What is that?
The Fucking Journal, in the vein of TFM (manual), TFA (article), etc.
I think there's also a substantial number -- perhaps the majority -- who simply don't care, or are in denial about the level of spyware infestation. The way the average punter sees it, it's something that only technical boffins who want to ruin end their toolbar-collecting fun care about. I have a sad anecdote about this in TFJ.
I'm not sure from your post whether you're for or against animal testing, but here's my 0.02 anyway.
Animals and humans have some fundamental differences which mean they react differently to the same things. For example, arsenic is fatal to humans, but is a basic nutrient for goats and rats. (Specifically, a 2kg baby goat requires 70mcg of arsenic daily for normal development, an amount lethal to adult humans). One can imagine a drug containing arsenic being tested on lab rats and found safe.
Something similar actually happened in the case of thalidomide, which was approved by the FDA on the basis of tests on lab rats. As you'll note in the Wiki article, there is some debate over whether the tests were properly conducted. Whether they were or not, the testing was not only sufficient for the FDA, it was also actually used to demonstrate due diligence in court so that the manufacturers did not have to pay compensation to mothers of limbless thalidomide babies. This suggests to me that animal testing is being conducted for legal purposes, and on the honour system at that.
Having said that, I could see the point of testing a CJD vaccine on cows, a bird flu vaccine on birds etc. A clinical trial is still needed at some point if the drug is to be supplied to humans. Otherwise, as with thalidomide, the consumer ends up trialling the drug without their consent, and we get 15000 victims instead of 15.
You're forgetting that FFXI is the ONLY MMO that is available on a console.
There are other active console MMOs. Phantasy Star Online is available on GCN and DC, and Everquest on PS2. There's probably also something for XBox that I'm not familiar with. But point taken, FFXI is the only modern MMO choice for console gamers.
The fuckers in the apartment above me like to play DDR at 2am, preventing me from sleeping. Singstar Karaoke is also a favourite. Gah.
Gamecube has Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda: Four Swords. But you need 4 GBAs (you can sub in GB Player + small TV also).
Now I feel foolish and wish I had paid a bit more attention in high school. Ah well, I remembered the bedlam == Bethlehem hospital for the clinically nuts bit at least. I wonder if the game is alluding to the connection or just indulging in wordplay.
Or you're a really big T.S. Eliot fan.
I just started playing Bedlam today, and it's really great. Very atmospheric steampunk scenario, and some quite clever coding I imagine.
playing them from a browser is not a good idea right now unless you've got a local mirror or copied all the files locally or something
Yes, downloading them and playing from the local copy is the probably the best idea. Or you could kill time by writing your own games (the language is called Inform and is pretty straightforward OO).