I'm not a programmer nor a webmaster so this stuff is a bit opaque for me.
However, now that I know your computer is vulnerable (by using this method to access my own cookie) what would prevent me from going on a fishing trip for other cookies? Say...ones from your bank, or Amazon, or other high value websites?
Package that up into a script and you could probably scan for 1,000 different cookies in the time it took you to read my post.
I see what you're saying but have you ever bought flooring?
Walk into the showroom and tell them "I want 144 feet square of carpet." The first thing you're going to get is a very odd look.
It's far more probable that you'll walk in and say "I want 144 square feet of carpet." and then you'll give them the precise x & y dimensions.
Would you say that your house is "2,200 feet square" or "2,200 square feet"?
Again, I'm guessing the latter.
I cannot think of a single instance where I've seen "sq" used behind the unit identifier when discussing AREA.
What I believe YOU are missing is that this isn't an equation. Squared in this instance is not an operand but a statement of measurement, area in this case.
Another mistake I believe you making is the assumption of a rectangular shape with four equidistant sides!
After all, I can reach an "area" of 240mm quite a few different ways, even confined to a rectangular shape. You ASSUME that it's a square with four equi-distance sides but it could also be a rectangle with only two equi-distant sides!
No, I am pretty sure I have it right. This is a statement of area and not an equation. Therefore order of operand does not apply. Additionally you should not assume a shape based on a statement of area.
Zynga does this with it's web games through Facebook and Myspace and while it works okay it can be terrifically frustrating. For instance it's entirely likely that your level 500 Mafioso, that you spent 8 months building up, is unable to compete with a level 100 Mafioso because the other guy has a higher discretionary spending budget. In other words as long as they have the cash, or credit, Zynga is happy to sell them upgrades that are completely at odds with their level and their time in game.
IMHO being able to BUY your way into greatness is distressing and should be limited somehow.
I'm guessing that they don't care about dirt or graffit but are testing to see if it lowers the trains co-efficient of friction with the air that it's passing through.
Looks to me like total social spending was on the order of 1.6 Trillion while all other categories, including the entire DOD budget was 1.2 Trillion. The actual DOD line item was 515B with an additional 145B line item for GWoT. 515 + 145 = 660B.
So we end up with 2.4T + (660*B x 10) or 9B vs (1.6T x 10) or 16T.
Even using the HIGHEST estimates for Iraq and Afghanistan costs results in Social Spending outpacing military spending by almost a factor of 2.
Since you were an offensive jackass I'm going to be one too. Get a clue moron, defense spending is nowhere close to the largest part of the U.S. expenditures. Social spending is an entitlement program and it acts like one.
From a poster above you: "Note, in NTSB reports - many of these cars have had the brake pads TOTALLY burned through, indicating that once these cars took off on people, they COULD NOT stop"
If the brake pads were burned through then there is an accelerator problem.
Not only that but there's a brake problem too. Properly functioning brakes should be able to hold a car still even when the car is at W.O.T.
Yes, on spec HSDPA is faster but out in the real world with real deployments the differences between HSDPA and EVDO-REVA seem to be reasonably close.
" I don't think Verizon has anything that even comes close to that."
Except their 4G service that's rolling out to 40 markets in 2010. It's already active in some areas, like Boston, so it's not vaporware either. For all the information you can eat please see www.google.com...unless you're using the ATT, blazing fast but you can only connect from the third floor and be sure to stand on the 2nd window from the left, network.
I have a Motorola Droid with Verizon and I've been able to install any application I wanted to. What are you referring to when you say that you can't install software on an Android phone?
GM acquired only half of SAAB...in late 1989. There's no way that GM is responsible for "holding them in suspended animation circa mid-1980s".
FURTHER, SAAB was losing shedloads of money starting in 1987, which was a full 2 and 1/2 years before GM bought in. Additionally, the OTHER half of SAAB was owned by by a Swedish investment group.
All of this revisionist history that pins the blame on GM really grinds my gears, so to speak, because it completely ignores the terrible woes that SAAB had before GM came onto the scene. It also completely ignores the terrible mismanagement by the other 50% owner.
All of this information is available from the official SAAB histories. Go look it up.
My county library also dumps the logs from it's card catalog lookups AND it's public access Internet system every night at midnight. I know because I set it up.
(I wonder why this is? Are they such Luddites? Or are they just ignorant of the technology? Or perhaps they don't see a way to collect overdue fines.;-)
My county library is very technologically progressive and as I work closely with its administration I asked them about this. The answer I got was, and I quote, "Not enough people are asking for it.". They went on to say that even if they wanted to do it that the options for making it work are very limited.
So there you have it. It's partly a chicken and egg problem and partly a technological problem.
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You should be modded higher for this post.
I was serious. :-D
I'm not a programmer nor a webmaster so this stuff is a bit opaque for me.
However, now that I know your computer is vulnerable (by using this method to access my own cookie) what would prevent me from going on a fishing trip for other cookies? Say...ones from your bank, or Amazon, or other high value websites?
Package that up into a script and you could probably scan for 1,000 different cookies in the time it took you to read my post.
When you go to my website I know what the cookie name is and I know the default file system location for that cookie. This one seems pretty bad.
I see what you're saying but have you ever bought flooring?
Walk into the showroom and tell them "I want 144 feet square of carpet." The first thing you're going to get is a very odd look.
It's far more probable that you'll walk in and say "I want 144 square feet of carpet." and then you'll give them the precise x & y dimensions.
Would you say that your house is "2,200 feet square" or "2,200 square feet"?
Again, I'm guessing the latter.
I cannot think of a single instance where I've seen "sq" used behind the unit identifier when discussing AREA.
What I believe YOU are missing is that this isn't an equation. Squared in this instance is not an operand but a statement of measurement, area in this case.
Another mistake I believe you making is the assumption of a rectangular shape with four equidistant sides!
After all, I can reach an "area" of 240mm quite a few different ways, even confined to a rectangular shape. You ASSUME that it's a square with four equi-distance sides but it could also be a rectangle with only two equi-distant sides!
No, I am pretty sure I have it right. This is a statement of area and not an equation. Therefore order of operand does not apply. Additionally you should not assume a shape based on a statement of area.
What? Why?
In every other case I can think of where you need to denote area it's opposite.
240 mm sq is 240 millimeters each side for a total area of 240mm x 2, or 57,600 square millimeters.
If you want to refer directly to the area then the unit descriptor comes AFTER the square designator, like this: 240 square millimeters.
You wouldn't write " 42 feet square" when you meant "42 square feet" would you?
Did I miss something somewhere?
Your naivete is cute!
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/ea-shuts-down-25-game-servers-including-madden-09.ars
Zynga does this with it's web games through Facebook and Myspace and while it works okay it can be terrifically frustrating. For instance it's entirely likely that your level 500 Mafioso, that you spent 8 months building up, is unable to compete with a level 100 Mafioso because the other guy has a higher discretionary spending budget. In other words as long as they have the cash, or credit, Zynga is happy to sell them upgrades that are completely at odds with their level and their time in game.
IMHO being able to BUY your way into greatness is distressing and should be limited somehow.
Thank you for taking my mildly snarky post politely. I shouldn't post under the influence of a bad day at work.
I'm guessing that they don't care about dirt or graffit but are testing to see if it lowers the trains co-efficient of friction with the air that it's passing through.
Is the 10B a month in Iraq on top of regular expenditure or is some part of that already part of the 685B?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget
Looks to me like total social spending was on the order of 1.6 Trillion while all other categories, including the entire DOD budget was 1.2 Trillion. The actual DOD line item was 515B with an additional 145B line item for GWoT. 515 + 145 = 660B.
Now factor in the appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War (2.4T by 2017 including interest)
So we end up with 2.4T + (660*B x 10) or 9B vs (1.6T x 10) or 16T.
Even using the HIGHEST estimates for Iraq and Afghanistan costs results in Social Spending outpacing military spending by almost a factor of 2.
Since you were an offensive jackass I'm going to be one too. Get a clue moron, defense spending is nowhere close to the largest part of the U.S. expenditures. Social spending is an entitlement program and it acts like one.
* = Combined DOD and GWOT budget.
From a poster above you: "Note, in NTSB reports - many of these cars have had the brake pads TOTALLY burned through, indicating that once these cars took off on people, they COULD NOT stop"
If the brake pads were burned through then there is an accelerator problem.
Not only that but there's a brake problem too. Properly functioning brakes should be able to hold a car still even when the car is at W.O.T.
You mean like THIS "reproducible test case"...that he posted on /. on Tuesday NOVEMBER 3, 2009?!?!
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1430048&cid=29973870
That's three months ago, just like the article says.
World of WarCraft has an Xbox port?
Alpha Centauri is available on the PS3?
PCs are for more than FPS.
Verizon is lying? Wired seems to disagree with you: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/3g-speed-test/
If you don't like the Wired guys for some reason then you can look to PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167391/a_day_in_the_life_of_3g.html
Yes, on spec HSDPA is faster but out in the real world with real deployments the differences between HSDPA and EVDO-REVA seem to be reasonably close.
" I don't think Verizon has anything that even comes close to that."
Except their 4G service that's rolling out to 40 markets in 2010. It's already active in some areas, like Boston, so it's not vaporware either. For all the information you can eat please see www.google.com...unless you're using the ATT, blazing fast but you can only connect from the third floor and be sure to stand on the 2nd window from the left, network.
What now ATT? What now?
Please, sir, may I ask a question? I promise to get off your lawn when I'm done.
If the iPad won't allow multitasking how can you download a movie from iTunes onto it while you surf the web?
Will your iPad become an iCantDoAnythingWhileDownloadingThisEpisodeOfNCIS?
Don't give Ballmer any ideas!
I have a Motorola Droid with Verizon and I've been able to install any application I wanted to. What are you referring to when you say that you can't install software on an Android phone?
NO, SAAB was NOT profitable when GM bought them. They were losing HUNDREDS of millions a year.
WTF is wrong with people? Don't you do ANY research?
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/11/business/saab-venture-reports-loss.html
Revisionist history much?
GM acquired only half of SAAB...in late 1989. There's no way that GM is responsible for "holding them in suspended animation circa mid-1980s".
FURTHER, SAAB was losing shedloads of money starting in 1987, which was a full 2 and 1/2 years before GM bought in. Additionally, the OTHER half of SAAB was owned by by a Swedish investment group.
All of this revisionist history that pins the blame on GM really grinds my gears, so to speak, because it completely ignores the terrible woes that SAAB had before GM came onto the scene. It also completely ignores the terrible mismanagement by the other 50% owner.
All of this information is available from the official SAAB histories. Go look it up.
I'm confused. How is SAABs terrible financials GMs fault when SAAB was losing money before GM bought them?
tl;dr: SAAB was a moneypit before GM bought into them in 1989.
Done!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1147783/Worlds-wrist-watch-video-phone-available-Christmas.html
I wonder how cocky he will be when one of his riding group ends up being flattened by a motor vehicle while running that stop sign?
My county library also dumps the logs from it's card catalog lookups AND it's public access Internet system every night at midnight. I know because I set it up.
(I wonder why this is? Are they such Luddites? Or are they just ignorant of the technology? Or perhaps they don't see a way to collect overdue fines. ;-)
My county library is very technologically progressive and as I work closely with its administration I asked them about this. The answer I got was, and I quote, "Not enough people are asking for it.". They went on to say that even if they wanted to do it that the options for making it work are very limited.
So there you have it. It's partly a chicken and egg problem and partly a technological problem.
I'm replying to an AC, oh well.
Yes, there IS a reason you imagination-less troll. A shared computer and logon. Alternatively a kiosk machine.
Now, let's talk about exactly whose ass that curling iron is going into.