Dude. Pay attention. The guy published a way to produce false boarding passes and made a deliberate attempt to call attention to himself for doing it. He described the way in which it could be used, and even suggested that people use the web page to create fake boarding passes to go meet the grandparents down at gate 20. I think he needs a little reminder regarding what happens to people who do that sort of thing. (And is he really on the no-fly list? All I can see is blogger's opinions that he "may one day find himself on the no-fly list." It's not the same thing, is it? Don't presume facts not in evidence.)
One more thing--I'm not going to accept commentary from someone who can't punctuate, spell "bureaucrat," or know the difference between "whoever" and "whomever." I've had the SWAT team called out on me twice in my life--you'll have to do better than that before you have anything to show me, punk.
No, you're not. Wouldn't work. Try as you might, you can't take the HTML output of the boarding pass and modify it to get on a different flight, change your class of service, or anything else your criminal little mind might conceive. You'd be caught at the gate trying to board, and then you'd have some explaining to do.
That you think you can just means you don't know enough about the process to comment intelligently on it. Chris S. said it was possible, and he was wrong, too.
The system was designed pre-9/11 to keep unticketed passengers from getting onto planes, NOT to keep people from cheating past the (at the time non-existent) TSA checkpoints. Right now the coders you so glibly classify as criminals are working to modify the system to allow web-based boarding document printing that isn't as vulnerable to the kind of hacking Chris S. came up with (and likewise, the Photoshopping of image-based documents, etc.).
Meanwhile, let me remind you to be careful what labels you apply to people in your posts. You never know who might be reading what you write. Saavy?
To demonstrate that its possible doesn't make him guilty. Even making it possible for others to do so doesn't make him guilty of anything except making the TSA look stupid.
Apparently you've never heard of "conspiracy to commit" and "aiding and abetting."
First of all, it's not "persecution." If he broke the law, then he needs to pay the penalty for that transgression. According to your semantics, we persecute murderers for murdering and thieves for stealing. I just don't think so.
What Chris S. did was just plain stupid. Yes, the web-based boarding document system was originally designed to keep unticketed passengers from getting onto planes, not from getting past the (at the time non-existent) TSA security points. Giving non-technical nogoodniks an easy way to exploit the system was wrong, unwise, and dangerous.
People relevant to the technology are trying to resolve the security issues involved with web-based boarding documents right now, so don't think nothing is being done just because you don't hear anything about it.
Yes, the people involved in that are smarter than the TSA. You'll just have to trust me on that. Don't ask how I know.
In fact, aircraft flight computers routinely divide by zero--for example, when calculating vectors to waypoints. They just reboot on the exception. The storage for the flight profile is in non-volatile memory, so after the reboot the hardware just determines the current location and then resumes at the appropriate point in the flight profile.
No falling out of the sky, at least for that.
Another routine divide-by-zero occurs when you attempt to calculate the amount of flavor in the crap sandwich they serve as a snack--but I digress.
"Only at that very short distance did I find the peak signal of this very-low-mass, short-lived particle [the axion] with a neutral charge," he said.
There's no such thing as "a neutral charge." (You must be thinking along the lines of the tri-state boolean variables in Java.) There are only two charge states: positive, and negative. Combine +1 and -1 and you get 0--that's not "neutral," that's by-God-friggin'-zero. As in none. Nada. Zip. Nothing. Goooooose-flappin'-egg.
You know, I always have problems with people that begin their argument with "the fact that." Most of the time these "facts" turn out to be opinions.
That aside, why is it that everyone makes such a big freakin' deal about what browser Joe Customer uses? The argument I see most posted goes something like this:
Microsoft has forced too many users to IE! They're anti-competitive--leaving no room for alternatives! Too many people use IE! Don't they know that everyone should be using Firefox?
Maybe I'm a little on the thick side today, but how is everybody using Firefox better than everybody using IE? Isn't that just as anti-competitive?
And, before you web designers and developers start chiming in about CSS compliance, think about this: in a hypothetical world where all extant browsers were CSSx compliant, would it really matter which browser anyone used?
What I've found over the years is that it's an extremely teenage attitude to assert that just because one prefers iPod over Zune, or Firefox over IE, or Skecher over Nike, that everyone else should as well. I believe it's called...egocentrism?
I'm with you. As a conservative and a Republican (because I don't get to vote in primaries otherwise), I'm stunned by the stupidity of the entire concept. How the Hell can you have freedom by banning books, eliminating campaign commentary before elections, and re-examining the Constitutional right to freedom of political speech? (All of these moronic concepts have been advanced by so-called "Conservatives" over the years.)
I used to think he was smart.
Now I think he might just be like Jimmy Carter; smarter when he was younger, but now as daffy as a Warner Bros. cartoon duck.
It's not that good. I played it. Too much "been there, done that" in it for me. Played Asheron's Call for 4.5 years before looking into WoW. It was simply too darned shallow. I have no use for PVP (what, exactly, is the point of PVP, in anything but an FPS?), so that aspect didn't grab me, but PVP aside, there simply isn't enough to do beyond whack 'n slash. True, there are grand enough vistas to be viewed, and clever bits like the undersea train, but once you get past that, the next thing is the same thing as the current thing--just painted a different color.
Disagree all you like. I tried it. I found it lacking in areas I found critical. That's enough to make me move on--end of story.
Horizons has gone through some owners, as well, and even got Peter S. Beagle to take over some of the story writing. I'm not surprised that Ryzom is hitting the skids, though, as WoW pretty much has every moron in the world ponying up for the pleasure.
Can't stand WoW myself. Not too fond of Ryzom, either, come to think of it.
What's fascinating to me is that City of Heroes and City of Villains continue to do well in spite of the WoW-ed world. I guess it's just the fantasy genre that's too crowded.
All you fantasy MMORPG developers that haven't made it to market yet, take heed, sez I.
Begging the question isn't going to get you anywhere. If we haven't done anything to cause it, we don't need to undo what we've done. There's nothing to undo.
If the sun is warming (evidence on Mars, Titan, and Pluto, for example, of higher temperatures, implying higher rates of insolation, ergo, warmer star), we certainly can't stop it at the source. Might very little we can do to deal with the higher temperatures other than just try to ride out the storm.
If we can't ride out the storm, well, them's the breaks. We're really not important to the long-term life of the universe as a whole. None have noticed our naissance, none will note our passing. Two million years at the same address looks impressive, until you realize how long the address has been there--and then for how long the address wasn't there.
Yes, maybe, but wouldn't the script have to know where you were logged in to do anything? How could the script reach across tabs or instances in order to figure out what to log into in the first place? The security rules prohibit that sort of thing. This test shows that there's still an issue with the mhtml thing, but there aren't any practical examples of actually getting to some site to which I am logged in a different tab or instance. Anybody can get to Google News.
I call shenanigans on this because of how contrived it is.
If they had somehow actually gotten content from a site I had running in another tab--but no. They didn't.
...by virtue of one web browser or another being on practically every home computer. Sure, it's not exactly the easiest language with which to start (but far easier than many of the choices posited in prior messages), but the C/C++ syntactic similarities get one headed toward C, C++, Java, and C#. All one need do is start up the local non-word-processing text editor (Notepad will do, I suppose vi or emacs if one absolutely must), toss out a few HTML tags, and code away.
I'm not seeing the difficulty here.
Of course, for Perl and Python addicts, this will seem absolutely heretical, but what's the big daggone deal?
Most airlines reservations systems deal only with capitalized data. Some of them are multi-decade-old legacy systems, and that's how it works. No way around it.
Of course, the software we write takes the user-typed input and does the right thing re: casing, but at the end of the trip, only 7-bit characters are supported, and not even all of them.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but the HTML validator at W3 doesn't even work right.
If The Man can't even make his stuff work, why would you expect anyone else to?
Standards can be used as a means to stifle innovation. I shouldn't have to point out examples.
No matter what, slavish adherence to standards created by The Man (and let's face it, W3 is just another instance of The Man) makes you, well, a slave to The Man.
Well, it isn't a question of locality. If the MECO hypothesis turns out to be correct, then black holes simply couldn't form because of the particle production (predicted by the hypothesis) that makes an object of a certain volume and mass into a MECO in the first place.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. The bane of web development has had two significant prongs: first, the inability of the various browsers to conform to a standard, and second, the requirement to support legacy browsers alongside the latest and greatest.
So, as Microsoft attempts to eliminate the second, and make the first less of an issue, you're complaining?
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One more thing--I'm not going to accept commentary from someone who can't punctuate, spell "bureaucrat," or know the difference between "whoever" and "whomever." I've had the SWAT team called out on me twice in my life--you'll have to do better than that before you have anything to show me, punk.
Mods -- do your worst.
No, you're not. Wouldn't work. Try as you might, you can't take the HTML output of the boarding pass and modify it to get on a different flight, change your class of service, or anything else your criminal little mind might conceive. You'd be caught at the gate trying to board, and then you'd have some explaining to do.
That you think you can just means you don't know enough about the process to comment intelligently on it. Chris S. said it was possible, and he was wrong, too.
The system was designed pre-9/11 to keep unticketed passengers from getting onto planes, NOT to keep people from cheating past the (at the time non-existent) TSA checkpoints. Right now the coders you so glibly classify as criminals are working to modify the system to allow web-based boarding document printing that isn't as vulnerable to the kind of hacking Chris S. came up with (and likewise, the Photoshopping of image-based documents, etc.).
Meanwhile, let me remind you to be careful what labels you apply to people in your posts. You never know who might be reading what you write. Saavy?
Apparently you've never heard of "conspiracy to commit" and "aiding and abetting."
What Chris S. did was just plain stupid. Yes, the web-based boarding document system was originally designed to keep unticketed passengers from getting onto planes, not from getting past the (at the time non-existent) TSA security points. Giving non-technical nogoodniks an easy way to exploit the system was wrong, unwise, and dangerous.
People relevant to the technology are trying to resolve the security issues involved with web-based boarding documents right now, so don't think nothing is being done just because you don't hear anything about it.
Yes, the people involved in that are smarter than the TSA. You'll just have to trust me on that. Don't ask how I know.
No falling out of the sky, at least for that.
Another routine divide-by-zero occurs when you attempt to calculate the amount of flavor in the crap sandwich they serve as a snack--but I digress.
What I meant to say, was--nothing. Nothing to see here, move along.
"Only at that very short distance did I find the peak signal of this very-low-mass, short-lived particle [the axion] with a neutral charge," he said.
There's no such thing as "a neutral charge." (You must be thinking along the lines of the tri-state boolean variables in Java.) There are only two charge states: positive, and negative. Combine +1 and -1 and you get 0--that's not "neutral," that's by-God-friggin'-zero. As in none. Nada. Zip. Nothing. Goooooose-flappin'-egg.
You know, I always have problems with people that begin their argument with "the fact that." Most of the time these "facts" turn out to be opinions.
That aside, why is it that everyone makes such a big freakin' deal about what browser Joe Customer uses? The argument I see most posted goes something like this:
Microsoft has forced too many users to IE! They're anti-competitive--leaving no room for alternatives! Too many people use IE! Don't they know that everyone should be using Firefox?
Maybe I'm a little on the thick side today, but how is everybody using Firefox better than everybody using IE? Isn't that just as anti-competitive?
And, before you web designers and developers start chiming in about CSS compliance, think about this: in a hypothetical world where all extant browsers were CSSx compliant, would it really matter which browser anyone used?
What I've found over the years is that it's an extremely teenage attitude to assert that just because one prefers iPod over Zune, or Firefox over IE, or Skecher over Nike, that everyone else should as well. I believe it's called...egocentrism?
I used to think he was smart.
Now I think he might just be like Jimmy Carter; smarter when he was younger, but now as daffy as a Warner Bros. cartoon duck.
Disagree all you like. I tried it. I found it lacking in areas I found critical. That's enough to make me move on--end of story.
Horizons has gone through some owners, as well, and even got Peter S. Beagle to take over some of the story writing. I'm not surprised that Ryzom is hitting the skids, though, as WoW pretty much has every moron in the world ponying up for the pleasure.
Can't stand WoW myself. Not too fond of Ryzom, either, come to think of it.
What's fascinating to me is that City of Heroes and City of Villains continue to do well in spite of the WoW-ed world. I guess it's just the fantasy genre that's too crowded.
All you fantasy MMORPG developers that haven't made it to market yet, take heed, sez I.
If the sun is warming (evidence on Mars, Titan, and Pluto, for example, of higher temperatures, implying higher rates of insolation, ergo, warmer star), we certainly can't stop it at the source. Might very little we can do to deal with the higher temperatures other than just try to ride out the storm.
If we can't ride out the storm, well, them's the breaks. We're really not important to the long-term life of the universe as a whole. None have noticed our naissance, none will note our passing. Two million years at the same address looks impressive, until you realize how long the address has been there--and then for how long the address wasn't there.
I gotta get me one 'a dose.
I call shenanigans on this because of how contrived it is.
If they had somehow actually gotten content from a site I had running in another tab--but no. They didn't.
I'm holding out for "Itaintsodium."
Whomever modded this interesting needs to ask me first before doing it again.
Page was generated in 1159198028.983965 seconds
which, in round numbers, is 36 years, 267 days, 15 hours, and change.
Good thing I started downloading the page just before the Apollo 11 moon landing, otherwise I'd still be waiting.
WAL-MART LEAKS PRUNE JUICE.
No, really, nothing to do with the topic, but I had to let you know in the interest of full disclosure.
...you can just see the tops of the helmets of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse coming into view.
You left out...THEY FIGHT CRIME!
I'm not seeing the difficulty here.
Of course, for Perl and Python addicts, this will seem absolutely heretical, but what's the big daggone deal?
Of course, the software we write takes the user-typed input and does the right thing re: casing, but at the end of the trip, only 7-bit characters are supported, and not even all of them.
If The Man can't even make his stuff work, why would you expect anyone else to?
Standards can be used as a means to stifle innovation. I shouldn't have to point out examples.
No matter what, slavish adherence to standards created by The Man (and let's face it, W3 is just another instance of The Man) makes you, well, a slave to The Man.
Power to the people, brother!
So, as Microsoft attempts to eliminate the second, and make the first less of an issue, you're complaining?
Whatever you're drinking--stop.