I read all three pages of the article and I couldn't tell you what a single ad was for, right now. Don't even see them. I'm not blocking them.. they're there... just read right through them and pay no attention, though.
Maybe you should get off the tubes, though, and make some room for the rest of us...
Most vulnerabilities with simple contact forms are email header injections. A malicious user will inject newlines into something like the "Subject" and then rewrite the headers and the email message itself. The headers/message the programmer intended to be inserted into the email will still be added on at the end of the message, but it's usually in the body by that time and can be hidden. Google has more info, but I can't get much to pull up right now.
So are you saying that beta testing is not a part of the devlopment process? I'd argue that it is. He had government employees, on overnment payroll and on government time, beta testing a program for him that he further developed based upon that feedback or bug reports. I'd say that's a part of the development and it was done on government time, hence the government owns a non-copyrighted version of the code. (The government can not hold copyright.) The sergeant is free to do whatever with his version, as is the USAF.
No, not really. Other than you have less of it, maybe. People like to say "you're a Soldier 24/7" but that's not really true. It just sounds good. Bottom line, you have the same personal time at home as any other employee. If you keep your development there, and there only, it's yours (not the governments).
Except that he beta tested it at work, on government time and resources. I think that would entitle the government to a copy of the software if this case had any further.
However, since the government can't hold copyright, the Sergeant would still have owned his copy of the software and could have sold it to whomever (back to the USAF or the other company). The USAF, on the other hand, has an non-copyrighted version of the software that they can do anything with. You can't violate the copyright of a program that doesn't have one.
The "immunity" defense was likely just easier to argue and win.
Wrong, you have your own time in the military. Anything you develop on your own time is yours. The military has no right to it. Use government resources just once for the development and the government owns it, though.
Even then you're not limited. I've been through this already. I wrote a program on government time. I then filed a Freedom of Information Act for the source code. I found out that wasn't necessary as the government cannot hold a copyright, so the code was essentially in the public domain. So I walked away with an unrestricted version of the code that I could further develop, on my own time, and then sell, give away, etc. Anyone is entitled to a copy of version 1.04 of the code, though, because that's the last version I developed on government time & resources. Versions after that are under my own copyright, although I still distribute it for free under an open license.
I think you misunderstood his/her comment. The superior office suite (MS Office) with the superior file format (ODF), is how I read it. Getting your cake and eating it to, if you will.:)
bring over 12 cheap projectors and somehow align them all, calibrate...
I remember reading some articles where a camera attached to the PCs did the alignment for you. You get a general alignment and overlap and the software takes over from there. That'd make things easier, especially with a four screen setup using 800x600 monitors where you can end up with a 1600x1200 resolution. Assuming it works.
The gyrations that guys hand has to make to control the mouse, and the speed of the cursor (I know, you can set that, but there's a limit to maintain precision) makes the propsect of using something like that for an extended period of time seem like a CIA torture technique.
Watch it from 4:40 - 4:20 (the timer counts down). You don't have to rotate and fondle the thing all the time. You can hold it however's comfortable and just move your thumb on the surface, dragging the fabric along under your thumb. So your whole hand and wrist can stay stationary and resting and really, only your thumb moves. Button pressing is another issue, it looks like, but the idea is interesting.
Still not the same. The mouse described in the article only has you moving your thumb. You're not holding your arm up and you're not rotating your wrist. It didn't detail how you press buttons, but it is a neat idea. It's kind of like a hand-held trackpoint, like the IBM/Lenovo laptops. I think the one described can be made more comfortable, though. Yeah, not really revolutionary, but it's interesting.
A: The multiple projector thing is neat, but who is going to buy 12 projecters to have a higher resolution image? The image quality that can be gotten from a single projector basically maxes out the display quality of the average white wall.
Someone with $12,000 to waste. There are plenty, I'm sure. So long as this is idiot-proof and projector prices drop, I can see this one really taking off. I've seen many a screen where the projected image is made too large and comes out all pixilated. They'd be better suited by four smaller resolution projectors melded into a single screen of 2x2 images. We'll see.
B: Mid-air mice have been around for years as presentation tools and novelties. My company has one that you can use on a tabletop or in the air, as you see fit. The main failing is the nature of the device itself: nobody wants to hold their mouse up in the air for any length of time. It's just not comfortable.
I think this is a little different, though. It's not something you hold up and wave your hand around with. Imagine holding one of those stretchy, squishy balls in your hand. You basically drag that fabric with your thumb over the optical sensor. It'd almost be like holding a little trackball or trackpoint, I guess. I think this would be more comfortable, though. Revolutionary? No really, imo... but a neat idea nontheless.
If you collapsed the whole of human history down to a single day, we were wandering hunter-gatherers for 11 hours and 56 minutes.
The comparison is if you compress the length of time Earth has been around into a single day. Humans, or our closest ancestors, came around at about 4 seconds or 4 minutes ago. Can't remember which and I can't find a good link to include...
Wow, what a great argument. How many decades of experience were there that the earth was flat and the sun rotated around the earth? I'm not saying you have to believe these guys, but... I'd like to see more experimentation to test if what they say is true or at least plays along with or supports current theory, but since it goes against the accepted theories, who's going to fund that?
Yeah, must better to stick with the "extraordinary evidence" of black holes, dark matter and dark energy (which we can't see or measure) that have to be introduced to make the current theories work...
Although vanilla access to OWA is being blocked, there are still ways to get to your email from outside of the network (mainly what OWA was used for, anyhow). You can VPN into the network, log on to OWA using your CAC (common access card, smart card, etc), use your Blackberry (assuming your rank is high enough to get one;)).
So instead of just plain old OWA sitting out there waiting for anyone to type in a username and password, they've upped the security a little bit. Yes, it's making us jump through hoops a little (for myself, need to stand up an ASA5510 as a VPN concentrator to receive outside connections), but it's not impossible.
Besides... not being able to check your work email from home can only be a good thing, no?? I know, I know, it's for people on travel, leave, etc. too...
As for the "blocking" of HTML email, can't say that I've seen that at all. Maybe it's only for emails that originate from outside of the network since we use HTML email all the time from within Outlook (formatting is useful in this case).
I'm wondering if it's not related to the drive-head parking feature found in these laptops. If I'm moving the laptop around while it's coming out of hibernation (getting settled on the couch or whatnot), then it seems to fail. If I don't touch it, it'll usually work. Haven't really tested that a lot, though, just seems to be that way. Will have to do some tests now, I guess.
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I read all three pages of the article and I couldn't tell you what a single ad was for, right now. Don't even see them. I'm not blocking them.. they're there... just read right through them and pay no attention, though.
Maybe you should get off the tubes, though, and make some room for the rest of us...
Popups? You seriously still see popups? Maybe it's time to move off of Netscape Navigator 4...
Most vulnerabilities with simple contact forms are email header injections. A malicious user will inject newlines into something like the "Subject" and then rewrite the headers and the email message itself. The headers/message the programmer intended to be inserted into the email will still be added on at the end of the message, but it's usually in the body by that time and can be hidden. Google has more info, but I can't get much to pull up right now.
---John Holmes...
Or just get Text Link for Firefox and you can just double click on the URL to load it. :)
So are you saying that beta testing is not a part of the devlopment process? I'd argue that it is. He had government employees, on overnment payroll and on government time, beta testing a program for him that he further developed based upon that feedback or bug reports. I'd say that's a part of the development and it was done on government time, hence the government owns a non-copyrighted version of the code. (The government can not hold copyright.) The sergeant is free to do whatever with his version, as is the USAF.
No, not really. Other than you have less of it, maybe. People like to say "you're a Soldier 24/7" but that's not really true. It just sounds good. Bottom line, you have the same personal time at home as any other employee. If you keep your development there, and there only, it's yours (not the governments).
Except that he beta tested it at work, on government time and resources. I think that would entitle the government to a copy of the software if this case had any further.
However, since the government can't hold copyright, the Sergeant would still have owned his copy of the software and could have sold it to whomever (back to the USAF or the other company). The USAF, on the other hand, has an non-copyrighted version of the software that they can do anything with. You can't violate the copyright of a program that doesn't have one.
The "immunity" defense was likely just easier to argue and win.
Wrong, you have your own time in the military. Anything you develop on your own time is yours. The military has no right to it. Use government resources just once for the development and the government owns it, though.
Even then you're not limited. I've been through this already. I wrote a program on government time. I then filed a Freedom of Information Act for the source code. I found out that wasn't necessary as the government cannot hold a copyright, so the code was essentially in the public domain. So I walked away with an unrestricted version of the code that I could further develop, on my own time, and then sell, give away, etc. Anyone is entitled to a copy of version 1.04 of the code, though, because that's the last version I developed on government time & resources. Versions after that are under my own copyright, although I still distribute it for free under an open license.
---John Holmes...
I don't know what other oversights were made but a new high end phone with a video camera that won't record a video clip in 2008 is a joke.
No, it's called marketing or "version 2.0". You don't think Apple left enough features "in the bank" for generation 2 and 3 of the iPhone?
---John Holmes...
Am I the only person who has actively concealed themselves from prying online eyes?
I just hide behind the more famous people a Google search will pull up. I'm safe for quite some time...
---John Holmes...
I think you misunderstood his/her comment. The superior office suite (MS Office) with the superior file format (ODF), is how I read it. Getting your cake and eating it to, if you will. :)
---John Holmes...
bring over 12 cheap projectors and somehow align them all, calibrate...
I remember reading some articles where a camera attached to the PCs did the alignment for you. You get a general alignment and overlap and the software takes over from there. That'd make things easier, especially with a four screen setup using 800x600 monitors where you can end up with a 1600x1200 resolution. Assuming it works.
---John Holmes...
The gyrations that guys hand has to make to control the mouse, and the speed of the cursor (I know, you can set that, but there's a limit to maintain precision) makes the propsect of using something like that for an extended period of time seem like a CIA torture technique.
Watch it from 4:40 - 4:20 (the timer counts down). You don't have to rotate and fondle the thing all the time. You can hold it however's comfortable and just move your thumb on the surface, dragging the fabric along under your thumb. So your whole hand and wrist can stay stationary and resting and really, only your thumb moves. Button pressing is another issue, it looks like, but the idea is interesting.
---John Holmes...
What about the gyro mouse.
Still not the same. The mouse described in the article only has you moving your thumb. You're not holding your arm up and you're not rotating your wrist. It didn't detail how you press buttons, but it is a neat idea. It's kind of like a hand-held trackpoint, like the IBM/Lenovo laptops. I think the one described can be made more comfortable, though. Yeah, not really revolutionary, but it's interesting.
---John Holmes...
A: The multiple projector thing is neat, but who is going to buy 12 projecters to have a higher resolution image? The image quality that can be gotten from a single projector basically maxes out the display quality of the average white wall.
Someone with $12,000 to waste. There are plenty, I'm sure. So long as this is idiot-proof and projector prices drop, I can see this one really taking off. I've seen many a screen where the projected image is made too large and comes out all pixilated. They'd be better suited by four smaller resolution projectors melded into a single screen of 2x2 images. We'll see.
B: Mid-air mice have been around for years as presentation tools and novelties. My company has one that you can use on a tabletop or in the air, as you see fit. The main failing is the nature of the device itself: nobody wants to hold their mouse up in the air for any length of time. It's just not comfortable.
I think this is a little different, though. It's not something you hold up and wave your hand around with. Imagine holding one of those stretchy, squishy balls in your hand. You basically drag that fabric with your thumb over the optical sensor. It'd almost be like holding a little trackball or trackpoint, I guess. I think this would be more comfortable, though. Revolutionary? No really, imo... but a neat idea nontheless.
---John Holmes...
If you collapsed the whole of human history down to a single day, we were wandering hunter-gatherers for 11 hours and 56 minutes.
The comparison is if you compress the length of time Earth has been around into a single day. Humans, or our closest ancestors, came around at about 4 seconds or 4 minutes ago. Can't remember which and I can't find a good link to include...
---John Holmes...
I'm not dead!
---John Holmes...
Wow, what a great argument. How many decades of experience were there that the earth was flat and the sun rotated around the earth? I'm not saying you have to believe these guys, but... I'd like to see more experimentation to test if what they say is true or at least plays along with or supports current theory, but since it goes against the accepted theories, who's going to fund that?
Yeah, must better to stick with the "extraordinary evidence" of black holes, dark matter and dark energy (which we can't see or measure) that have to be introduced to make the current theories work...
---John Holmes...
I start a CCNP bootcamp this Monday, so we'll see. I hope I get a lot out of it...
Indeed... quick adding all of these hacks onto a broken protocol and just fix it already.
pfft... I'm a mod on some online forum and the admins give us all $25 gift certificates for Amazon. Been doing it for years now.
Corporations should be giving a lot more than that.
---John Holmes...
Although vanilla access to OWA is being blocked, there are still ways to get to your email from outside of the network (mainly what OWA was used for, anyhow). You can VPN into the network, log on to OWA using your CAC (common access card, smart card, etc), use your Blackberry (assuming your rank is high enough to get one ;)).
So instead of just plain old OWA sitting out there waiting for anyone to type in a username and password, they've upped the security a little bit. Yes, it's making us jump through hoops a little (for myself, need to stand up an ASA5510 as a VPN concentrator to receive outside connections), but it's not impossible.
Besides... not being able to check your work email from home can only be a good thing, no?? I know, I know, it's for people on travel, leave, etc. too...
As for the "blocking" of HTML email, can't say that I've seen that at all. Maybe it's only for emails that originate from outside of the network since we use HTML email all the time from within Outlook (formatting is useful in this case).
---John Holmes...
It still makes it through, it's just converted to plain text according to the article.
---John Holmes...
I'm wondering if it's not related to the drive-head parking feature found in these laptops. If I'm moving the laptop around while it's coming out of hibernation (getting settled on the couch or whatnot), then it seems to fail. If I don't touch it, it'll usually work. Haven't really tested that a lot, though, just seems to be that way. Will have to do some tests now, I guess.
---John Holmes...