In fact, someone should create, say, a Greasemonkey script that will look for such postings of "encrypted" images and automatically post the key as a comment (and to your wall as well, so they can't just delete the comment).
Yeah, I have (all the way through) and I do have to agree with you there. They just don't seem interested in the same sort of quality as their SNES-era productions. Sad.
I can do Javascript debugging in the Chrome Inspector. It allows for breakpoints, watch variables, shows local scope variables... just about everything I've used Firebug for in the past. What's lacking?
As a user, I've grown accustomed to clicking once on the address bar to select the whole line. Furthermore, it saves me time only having to click it once. Google's stubborn refusal to add even an option to enable clickSelectsAll functionality is the main detriment to Chrome as I see it now, and I'm certainly not alone. It wouldn't even take much effort, considering that on other platforms such as Windows, they do implement clickSelectsAll as the only way. Just make it configurable!
Firefox, too, tries to adopt Linux desktop UI standards, and ships with clickSelectsAll off by default. But the option is there, in about:config. I don't care that it's hidden, I just care that the option is there at all.
I get the 37signals mentality that less is more, but there's a limit.
I've been using Chrome for the last two weeks and it's been great. Adblock Plus and Mouse Gestures were really the only two extensions I needed, and they're in there. Oh, and Firebug, but the built-in Inspector thing almost outdoes it. (Ctrl-Shift-I)
I don't like that they refuse to implement clickSelectsAll as an option for the address bar (instead relying on the user pressing Ctrl-L), but it's not enough to cause me to switch back.
To imply that people using tools written by others aren't "hackers" but are instead "kiddies" is absurd because it implies that no hackers exist.
Script kiddies are not hackers. Usually they're people with just enough knowledge to be dangerous who think that attacking someone or some entity would be fun. Alternatively, they could be doing it for the money. Nonetheless, in my experience such people don't really understand what they're doing and are forced to use full software packages from others, exclusively.
If you can't understand the difference between that and using a library or open source application, then I really don't know how to explain it to you.
If A exclusively uses other software, and A is a subset of C, it doesn't mean that C exclusively uses other software. (Though like I said, I hesitate to even call them a subset.)
Script kiddies aren't smart enough to code their own exploits. They rely on other people to release their code and then use / abuse it.
It's like PHP; the fact that it's very easy to use leads to a lot of crappy code, even though there are real programmers using it who know what they're doing.
Don't believe that turning off Javascript will make you secure. Tunisia just did the easiest thing they could; it would be trivial to log these details at the server or transport level if you controlled the infrastructure.
I'd wait and get the real Fender Squier Stratocaster for Rock Band 3 when it comes out, as the Fender is a real guitar you can hook up to an amp while the Mustang is just an approximation.
I think I remember hearing during my CS university days that solving Sudoku was relatively easy compared to actually coming up with puzzles that satisfied the rules of Sudoku.
If Wikipedia had to pay whatever tithe each ISP decided they were entitled to in order to reach their subjects, that could explode their costs pretty quickly and require them to seek other sources of funding.
What I'm really afraid of is an ISP detecting Wikipedia pages being loaded over the network and injecting their own ads.
There are so many creative ways in which a lack of net neutrality can screw the end user.
They haven't started any limiting actions like tying a disc serial number to a console serial number on their servers.
Next generation, guaranteed.
They've been doing experiments with this on the smaller games that are distributed by download (i.e. WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, etc.) and DS online games, and it's only a small step to expand this to disc games (which would send an activation packet to the company's server, and thereafter would only operate on that one console).
Theoretically, signing should prevent people from modifying the executable as well as allowing the game to verify communications are indeed coming from the company, so if they can prevent people from cracking their signing infrastructure (like they did with the Wii), it would be a pretty good enforcement mechanism.
Yes, it would be very easy. Simply have all national ISPs insert a CNAME redirect on Google's domains to Burlusconi's equivalents that look exactly the same. Nobody would know the difference.
Not happening until ethics laws make their way into Congress. Until then, you're never going to see a third party candidate win. Never.
I'd still vote for the candidate I agree with most, even if it is a third party, but they'll never win until winning an election isn't 100% about the money.
Can someone shed some light on why it is that the same game on different consoles don't interoperate for multiplayer? I suspect it's a requirement of the respective console companies' network policies, but I don't know for sure.
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In fact, someone should create, say, a Greasemonkey script that will look for such postings of "encrypted" images and automatically post the key as a comment (and to your wall as well, so they can't just delete the comment).
This is just stupid in so, so many ways.
*facepalm*
This whole concept should be on The Daily WTF.
Yeah, I have (all the way through) and I do have to agree with you there. They just don't seem interested in the same sort of quality as their SNES-era productions. Sad.
I can do Javascript debugging in the Chrome Inspector. It allows for breakpoints, watch variables, shows local scope variables... just about everything I've used Firebug for in the past. What's lacking?
I don't care.
As a user, I've grown accustomed to clicking once on the address bar to select the whole line. Furthermore, it saves me time only having to click it once. Google's stubborn refusal to add even an option to enable clickSelectsAll functionality is the main detriment to Chrome as I see it now, and I'm certainly not alone. It wouldn't even take much effort, considering that on other platforms such as Windows, they do implement clickSelectsAll as the only way. Just make it configurable!
Firefox, too, tries to adopt Linux desktop UI standards, and ships with clickSelectsAll off by default. But the option is there, in about:config. I don't care that it's hidden, I just care that the option is there at all.
I get the 37signals mentality that less is more, but there's a limit.
In which ways?
And why would I want to have to click three times?
I've been using Chrome for the last two weeks and it's been great. Adblock Plus and Mouse Gestures were really the only two extensions I needed, and they're in there. Oh, and Firebug, but the built-in Inspector thing almost outdoes it. (Ctrl-Shift-I)
I don't like that they refuse to implement clickSelectsAll as an option for the address bar (instead relying on the user pressing Ctrl-L), but it's not enough to cause me to switch back.
To imply that people using tools written by others aren't "hackers" but are instead "kiddies" is absurd because it implies that no hackers exist.
Script kiddies are not hackers. Usually they're people with just enough knowledge to be dangerous who think that attacking someone or some entity would be fun. Alternatively, they could be doing it for the money. Nonetheless, in my experience such people don't really understand what they're doing and are forced to use full software packages from others, exclusively.
If you can't understand the difference between that and using a library or open source application, then I really don't know how to explain it to you.
If A exclusively uses other software, and A is a subset of C, it doesn't mean that C exclusively uses other software. (Though like I said, I hesitate to even call them a subset.)
Or for that matter, anything at all to do with Chrono Trigger.
Script kiddies aren't smart enough to code their own exploits. They rely on other people to release their code and then use / abuse it.
It's like PHP; the fact that it's very easy to use leads to a lot of crappy code, even though there are real programmers using it who know what they're doing.
Except that Windows is more vulnerable to malware than other OSes by orders of magnitude.
Note to Congress: Don't think you're smarter than NASA engineers. You're not.
Don't believe that turning off Javascript will make you secure. Tunisia just did the easiest thing they could; it would be trivial to log these details at the server or transport level if you controlled the infrastructure.
I'd wait and get the real Fender Squier Stratocaster for Rock Band 3 when it comes out, as the Fender is a real guitar you can hook up to an amp while the Mustang is just an approximation.
Its things like that, those upper-level or mid-level management decisions that force logic-driven people to act illogically.
And the reason that things like that are allowed to happen is that managers do not take advice and suggestions from their employees. It's arrogance.
I think I remember hearing during my CS university days that solving Sudoku was relatively easy compared to actually coming up with puzzles that satisfied the rules of Sudoku.
I was looking into getting a smartphone. T-Mobile have now excluded themselves from my options.
If Wikipedia had to pay whatever tithe each ISP decided they were entitled to in order to reach their subjects, that could explode their costs pretty quickly and require them to seek other sources of funding.
What I'm really afraid of is an ISP detecting Wikipedia pages being loaded over the network and injecting their own ads.
There are so many creative ways in which a lack of net neutrality can screw the end user.
They haven't started any limiting actions like tying a disc serial number to a console serial number on their servers.
Next generation, guaranteed.
They've been doing experiments with this on the smaller games that are distributed by download (i.e. WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, etc.) and DS online games, and it's only a small step to expand this to disc games (which would send an activation packet to the company's server, and thereafter would only operate on that one console).
Theoretically, signing should prevent people from modifying the executable as well as allowing the game to verify communications are indeed coming from the company, so if they can prevent people from cracking their signing infrastructure (like they did with the Wii), it would be a pretty good enforcement mechanism.
Yes, it would be very easy. Simply have all national ISPs insert a CNAME redirect on Google's domains to Burlusconi's equivalents that look exactly the same. Nobody would know the difference.
But a reasonable person would assume that the officer meant to say the alphabet in forward direction, so saying "T, S" clearly means they're drunk.
Wheee, subjective!
But he's not Republican, and Republicans are smart enough to know that and prevent him from winning their primary.
Not happening until ethics laws make their way into Congress. Until then, you're never going to see a third party candidate win. Never.
I'd still vote for the candidate I agree with most, even if it is a third party, but they'll never win until winning an election isn't 100% about the money.
Can someone shed some light on why it is that the same game on different consoles don't interoperate for multiplayer? I suspect it's a requirement of the respective console companies' network policies, but I don't know for sure.