The copy protection of the book content is quite innovative, but really superficial. After doing a View Page Source, I discovered their trick: the page uses CSS to make the book image the background image of a Table cell while stretching a single pixel transparent gif over the entire cell. This has the effect of causing any attempt to save the image by right clicking on it to save the transparent gif and not the book page. To get the book image, simply do a source search for "background-image". The second instance will be followed by the URL to the image.
Right clicking is blocked by attaching a function to the Document object's click handler that returns false whenever the second or third button is pressed.
Not sure how they disabled the menu items yet. Safari didn't exhibit this behavior.
I'm just glad I didn't know back then what I know now about computers. The backlash of a technically adept teenager could be devastating.
Spoof an email from the bully's friend containing a trojan over an open relay.
Take creative liberties with the target's important assignments. Or just delete them at the last minute.
Enjoy using the bully's screen name on various message boards to express your opinion about them. Better yet, make them out to be the very thing they are persecuting in hopes that their peers will turn on them.
Post the bully's personal journal on their brand new "personal" blog. Then link to it from all imaginable sources.
Sign them up for Russian mail-order bride catalogues. You can never get rid of the subscription.
Set up an app to SMS their cell phone every five minutes forever.
Create a yahoo personals account for your favorite bully that emphasizes sadomasochism. Be sure to have fun with photoshop. Then seed links in strategic places.
Publish their cell phone number on a homosexual phone sex web-list. Emphasize that the call is free.
Create a free email forward account that links to the bully's home and school email. Sign it up for all kinds of junk. Without access to that account, the bully cannot unsubscribe without considerable effort.
Order a singing telegram on your bully's behalf for his or her biggest rival asking for forgiveness and friendship. The sappier the better.
You forgot 'Hercules Against the Moon Men' with its fifteen minute non-sequential sandstorm scene. One of the few movies that came close to breaking the minds of the SOL crew. Deep hurting! Deep hurting!
As a member of the US armed forces, I can honestly say that modern MREs are quite tasty. Typically on par with anything Chief Boyardee puts out. They typically come with an entrée that is best hot but edible cold, a fruit of some kind, a few high carb sources, and either instant coffee, tea, or energy drink. The food is all hydrated, but packaged in vacuum sealed plastic so it won't go bad. The entrée fits into a plastic bag with a chemical pad that boils any water added. After about five minutes, the hot parts of the meal are hot. The MRE even comes with mini bottles of tobasco sauce and a pack of chicklets. More info
My grandmother fell into that 1%. She is pushing 70 and went in for laser correction. The first eye went great and healed fine. The second eye had the retina separate and she is now permanently blinded in one eye. The chance for damage is small, but it is still there.
Next-gen: Random sentence inclusion into all word docs, change #'s in excel sheets, alter contents of address books, random data into access/sql databases.
The implications of this are truly horrific. Imagine a virus that quietly intercepted and altered data being read and written to a database. Not big changes, just +/- 10%. In a large corporate database with millions of records, this could go undetected for weeks. How long is the average tape rotation on a large database? What, maybe 7-10 backups? After that, all the backups are contaminated and nothing can be trusted. If you can't trust some of your data, you can't trust any of it.
I used to attend a high school in North Carolina that tried the whole "Technology-centric School" thing and here is what I saw. Everything started out fine, we had a school wide network, a PC for every two students, web access and email for all, and enough server space to cover our collective file storage needs.
After the school opened, things went down hill. Our net admin was a complete dolt. He managed to melt our main authentication server, causing a school wide network outage for almost two weeks. Our network was plagued with macro viruses, hackers, and faulty hardware. Ninety percent of the staff was completely incompetent when dealing with all the glitzy technology thrown in their face, and the turnover rate was horrendous due to technology frustrations. It seems public school teachers don't get paid enough to deal with technology inept PHBs. By my senior year the school computers, which were more often than not the same computers that were there when the school first opened five years prior, had become so overloaded that they were practically unusable. To add insult to injury, the entire school shared a single T1 line. During peak hours, internet access screeched to a halt.
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The copy protection of the book content is quite innovative, but really superficial. After doing a View Page Source, I discovered their trick: the page uses CSS to make the book image the background image of a Table cell while stretching a single pixel transparent gif over the entire cell. This has the effect of causing any attempt to save the image by right clicking on it to save the transparent gif and not the book page. To get the book image, simply do a source search for "background-image". The second instance will be followed by the URL to the image.
Right clicking is blocked by attaching a function to the Document object's click handler that returns false whenever the second or third button is pressed. Not sure how they disabled the menu items yet. Safari didn't exhibit this behavior.
I don't know if I can trust this report. Netcraft has yet to confirm it.
You forgot 'Hercules Against the Moon Men' with its fifteen minute non-sequential sandstorm scene. One of the few movies that came close to breaking the minds of the SOL crew. Deep hurting! Deep hurting!
As a member of the US armed forces, I can honestly say that modern MREs are quite tasty. Typically on par with anything Chief Boyardee puts out. They typically come with an entrée that is best hot but edible cold, a fruit of some kind, a few high carb sources, and either instant coffee, tea, or energy drink. The food is all hydrated, but packaged in vacuum sealed plastic so it won't go bad. The entrée fits into a plastic bag with a chemical pad that boils any water added. After about five minutes, the hot parts of the meal are hot. The MRE even comes with mini bottles of tobasco sauce and a pack of chicklets. More info
My grandmother fell into that 1%. She is pushing 70 and went in for laser correction. The first eye went great and healed fine. The second eye had the retina separate and she is now permanently blinded in one eye. The chance for damage is small, but it is still there.
Next-gen: Random sentence inclusion into all word docs, change #'s in excel sheets, alter contents of address books, random data into access/sql databases.
The implications of this are truly horrific. Imagine a virus that quietly intercepted and altered data being read and written to a database. Not big changes, just +/- 10%. In a large corporate database with millions of records, this could go undetected for weeks. How long is the average tape rotation on a large database? What, maybe 7-10 backups? After that, all the backups are contaminated and nothing can be trusted. If you can't trust some of your data, you can't trust any of it.
I used to attend a high school in North Carolina that tried the whole "Technology-centric School" thing and here is what I saw. Everything started out fine, we had a school wide network, a PC for every two students, web access and email for all, and enough server space to cover our collective file storage needs. After the school opened, things went down hill. Our net admin was a complete dolt. He managed to melt our main authentication server, causing a school wide network outage for almost two weeks. Our network was plagued with macro viruses, hackers, and faulty hardware. Ninety percent of the staff was completely incompetent when dealing with all the glitzy technology thrown in their face, and the turnover rate was horrendous due to technology frustrations. It seems public school teachers don't get paid enough to deal with technology inept PHBs. By my senior year the school computers, which were more often than not the same computers that were there when the school first opened five years prior, had become so overloaded that they were practically unusable. To add insult to injury, the entire school shared a single T1 line. During peak hours, internet access screeched to a halt.
And what your proof against evolution?