I'm absolutely dumbfounded... That link right there is seriously the best damn thing I've read all year long, and couldn't have come at a better time for my IT organization's management which just went defunct yesterday.
I'm seeing lots of comments telling people to (dont) do daily reports, or similar tasks.
What my team has started doing is using the Trello web site for project management. Each task is added as a card, and then assigned people to work on it. Any notes are then added to the cards. This is by far the quickest system I've ever seen for day-to-day documentation. There is no more spread sheets or paragraphs of text to sort through. The cards themselves represent a summary of events, with more details after opening the cards.
How about we just do IP geolocation of the top two IP addresses each user logs into ANY given service on the web with. Odds are one is "home" and the other is "work"... 50km is pretty damn large for Foursquare, there has been geolocation research which has gotten it down to within a city block or so.
And odds are it doesn't do IPv6 either. So you'd already have to upgrade your device to have IPv6 support, which in turn you could opt to get one with proper DHCP local DNS support.
Some ISPs have been quite clever with their numerical schemes to help make this easier... Lets see if you can figure this one out - 2a03:2880:10:cf01:face:b00c::
Are the ads THAT big of a problem on Google's search results?
Searching for "Insurance" on my system with customized results gives me 3 ads. Two of those ads are already the top-2 ranked results, so it is just a redundant result. The Wikipedia article still shows up in the top-ten results. The top-ten results contained both local and national results, all of which have coverage in my area. Beside the results is a map of local insurance companies.
I'd say these are pretty damn quality results. I now know EXACTLY where in town I can go. Addresses and phone numbers are right on the results page, so I don't need to fight through each company's possibly horrible web interface to find their contact information. The Wikipedia article is on there too, so I can get information about what "Insurance" even is.
There is a ton of stupid SHIT being posted here on the slashdot comments. I don't blame the commenters one bit, thought. Why? Because the article was a regurgitated rehashed pile of shit in comparison to the actual Blizzard press release... which was really hard to find, ya'know, being the top post on Blizzard.com after all... A very key detail, the usage of SRP, is completely missed by the article, which is leading to the majority of the confusion here and elsewhere.
Vonage has a "startup cost" calculator right on their web site which lists all taxes for your particular zip code. Is there any reason why every other phone company here in the states cannot do the exact same?
I'm not a Mac user myself, but my very first thought of this whole thing was of my friends who DO use Mac systems... and that if Microsoft + Adobe happens, then what will happen to Photoshop and other Adobe based products on the Mac platforms?
I cannot count the number of ISPs that I've had to deal with where if you do a reverse-dns lookup of a user's IP address, their MAC address shows up in the DNS name given by the ISP's DNS server. Moreso from this, virtually every wireless router I've worked on to date has the WAN, LAN, and Wifi MAC address in sequential order.
So, who needs XSS for this? Simply pull a reverse-dns of the IP address, and odds are that the MAC address will be +- 1 or 2 away from the WAN MAC that the ISP just handed over to you.
On a side note, I looked up my MAC address using that tool, and they have me pegged down EXACTLY to my house. That almost makes me want to switch my MAC address on my wireless now (which thankfully is quite easy on Tomato firmware)
Selectively quoting text was a big mistake on the person summarizing the article. Here is the full block of text (which makes much more sense)
ii) Because of the way in which the device is constructed, the lawful uses must be uses of the accused devices in conjunction with the DS console. One such suggested lawful use is for home-made games. However, such use will still circumvent the ETM, or otherwise the game will not play. The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence, provided one of the conditions in section 296ZD(1)(b) (considered below) is satisfied.
I'll second this. Look around and found some decent F/OSS PHP libraries to generate PDF documents. They do exist, and works well enough. This is what I had to do for an inventory management system that I develop for a client.
Cars switched to Unleaded gas. All previous cars needed an addative to use modern gasoline. While this change was many years, ago, it still did occure.
Old televisions dont "work" properly with modern broadcast, this is why we have an intermediate box (such as a Digital Converter Box, Cable box, Satalite box, etc). The old "standard" television broadcast no longer exists.
Classic telephones are the next to go out the door. Classic analog lines are on their way out the doos in favour of VOIP style services.
While I do absolutely agree with your argument, I think the examlpes could have been better.
alternate public DNS servers that have worked great over the years:
4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4
Out in Montana, both Qwest (DLS) and Bresnan (Cable, just about as crap as Comcast) both use wildcard DNS for their own search pages, so I've had to switch countless customers over to this alternate DNS server.
From a speed point, these particular servers also resolve names faster than either of the ISP's provided servers, speeding up the user experience at the same time.
No need for an OS reinstall yet. Actually, it isn't too bad...
I used a clean machine to export the registry keys for the EXE file association to a.REG file. Reboot the infected machine into safe mode, import the.REG file, and then use a program such as System Explorer or Security Task Manager to help clean up any bad processes.
Next, locate the exact filename of the virus (av.exe as one example). Rename/Remove the virus EVE file. Then create a DIRECTORY with same name in the same path (so a directory named "av.exe") - While the virus creators have been finding craftier and craftier ways to get it to execute itself on systems, this is an absolute stupid simple way to prevent it from even being writable (until they change the filename or path for where it saves itself).
Oh, and there is always PeerBlock with a daily updated list, which is great at blocking 3rd party malware servers entirely (this has worked much MUCH better at being up-to-date with Malware lists than any AV application as of recent) - http://www.peerblock.com/
I gotta say, after working with Visual Studio for so damn long in C++ and Visual Basic (starting all the way back with VB3), it was only natural for me to use the IDE I'm most familiar with for PHP. Nowadays, there are some pretty damn good add-ons for Visual Studio to help out with the workflow of PHP development. Having SVN integration is another major plus for VS.
I will honestly admit I've tried to tinker with other IDE sollutions, but its just a mental pain in the ass to convert yourself over after 13+ years of working with the specific intricies of one particular product, such as menu placement and keyboard shortcuts.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/jnetlib/
From the guy who initially made Winamp, he also made a lib called JNetLib which is a piss easy to use cross-platform C++ socket library. It also has pre-made classes for things like HTTP/HTTPS, to help speed things up, or to simply give you an idea of how to use the library. It is licensed under the BSD license, so you are basically free to use it for whatever you would like, commercial or otherwise.
I would argue that Spore is indeed new, in that it is a "god" game, yet an enitrely new way of looking at it and working with the concept... Much like how Wii Sports (although quite simple of a game), feels NOTHING like a rehash of older sports games available on the market, due to game play mechanics.
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I'm absolutely dumbfounded... That link right there is seriously the best damn thing I've read all year long, and couldn't have come at a better time for my IT organization's management which just went defunct yesterday.
Seriously... THANK... YOU!!
I'm seeing lots of comments telling people to (dont) do daily reports, or similar tasks.
What my team has started doing is using the Trello web site for project management. Each task is added as a card, and then assigned people to work on it. Any notes are then added to the cards. This is by far the quickest system I've ever seen for day-to-day documentation. There is no more spread sheets or paragraphs of text to sort through. The cards themselves represent a summary of events, with more details after opening the cards.
https://trello.com/
How about we just do IP geolocation of the top two IP addresses each user logs into ANY given service on the web with. Odds are one is "home" and the other is "work"... 50km is pretty damn large for Foursquare, there has been geolocation research which has gotten it down to within a city block or so.
"Write witty paper about it" ...
#PROFIT!
And odds are it doesn't do IPv6 either. So you'd already have to upgrade your device to have IPv6 support, which in turn you could opt to get one with proper DHCP local DNS support.
Some ISPs have been quite clever with their numerical schemes to help make this easier... Lets see if you can figure this one out - 2a03:2880:10:cf01:face:b00c::
Are the ads THAT big of a problem on Google's search results?
Searching for "Insurance" on my system with customized results gives me 3 ads. Two of those ads are already the top-2 ranked results, so it is just a redundant result. The Wikipedia article still shows up in the top-ten results. The top-ten results contained both local and national results, all of which have coverage in my area. Beside the results is a map of local insurance companies.
I'd say these are pretty damn quality results. I now know EXACTLY where in town I can go. Addresses and phone numbers are right on the results page, so I don't need to fight through each company's possibly horrible web interface to find their contact information. The Wikipedia article is on there too, so I can get information about what "Insurance" even is.
What more would you like from these results?
There is a ton of stupid SHIT being posted here on the slashdot comments. I don't blame the commenters one bit, thought. Why? Because the article was a regurgitated rehashed pile of shit in comparison to the actual Blizzard press release... which was really hard to find, ya'know, being the top post on Blizzard.com after all... A very key detail, the usage of SRP, is completely missed by the article, which is leading to the majority of the confusion here and elsewhere.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html
"they [facebook] contribute little back"
http://opencompute.org/
https://github.com/facebook/
Facebook is giving back some rather large projects to the global open source community.
Why would they? Newer power strips have "USB Charging Ports" for cell phones and other gadgets, so you don't need to waste a normal outlet on them.
So, um, yeah. Apparently we, erm, I mean I am a psychopath because of a few fucking words I like to say? blah. I hate articles like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Until companies like McAfee start running around with shot guns, I think this is a fairly acceptable alternative.
Curious, which state has a 20% sales tax?
Vonage has a "startup cost" calculator right on their web site which lists all taxes for your particular zip code. Is there any reason why every other phone company here in the states cannot do the exact same?
I'm not a Mac user myself, but my very first thought of this whole thing was of my friends who DO use Mac systems... and that if Microsoft + Adobe happens, then what will happen to Photoshop and other Adobe based products on the Mac platforms?
I cannot count the number of ISPs that I've had to deal with where if you do a reverse-dns lookup of a user's IP address, their MAC address shows up in the DNS name given by the ISP's DNS server. Moreso from this, virtually every wireless router I've worked on to date has the WAN, LAN, and Wifi MAC address in sequential order.
So, who needs XSS for this? Simply pull a reverse-dns of the IP address, and odds are that the MAC address will be +- 1 or 2 away from the WAN MAC that the ISP just handed over to you.
On a side note, I looked up my MAC address using that tool, and they have me pegged down EXACTLY to my house. That almost makes me want to switch my MAC address on my wireless now (which thankfully is quite easy on Tomato firmware)
Selectively quoting text was a big mistake on the person summarizing the article. Here is the full block of text (which makes much more sense)
ii) Because of the way in which the device is constructed, the lawful uses must be uses of the accused devices in conjunction with the DS console. One such suggested lawful use is for home-made games. However, such use will still circumvent the ETM, or otherwise the game will not play. The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence, provided one of the conditions in section 296ZD(1)(b) (considered below) is satisfied.
http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/tools/rescue-cd/
I've also had random luck getting this to work from a bootable USB drive that mounts the ISO as well.
I'll second this. Look around and found some decent F/OSS PHP libraries to generate PDF documents. They do exist, and works well enough. This is what I had to do for an inventory management system that I develop for a client.
You're examples really are not the best.
Cars switched to Unleaded gas. All previous cars needed an addative to use modern gasoline. While this change was many years, ago, it still did occure.
Old televisions dont "work" properly with modern broadcast, this is why we have an intermediate box (such as a Digital Converter Box, Cable box, Satalite box, etc). The old "standard" television broadcast no longer exists.
Classic telephones are the next to go out the door. Classic analog lines are on their way out the doos in favour of VOIP style services.
While I do absolutely agree with your argument, I think the examlpes could have been better.
alternate public DNS servers that have worked great over the years:
4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
Out in Montana, both Qwest (DLS) and Bresnan (Cable, just about as crap as Comcast) both use wildcard DNS for their own search pages, so I've had to switch countless customers over to this alternate DNS server.
From a speed point, these particular servers also resolve names faster than either of the ISP's provided servers, speeding up the user experience at the same time.
No need for an OS reinstall yet. Actually, it isn't too bad...
.REG file. Reboot the infected machine into safe mode, import the .REG file, and then use a program such as System Explorer or Security Task Manager to help clean up any bad processes.
I used a clean machine to export the registry keys for the EXE file association to a
Next, locate the exact filename of the virus (av.exe as one example). Rename/Remove the virus EVE file. Then create a DIRECTORY with same name in the same path (so a directory named "av.exe") - While the virus creators have been finding craftier and craftier ways to get it to execute itself on systems, this is an absolute stupid simple way to prevent it from even being writable (until they change the filename or path for where it saves itself).
Oh, and there is always PeerBlock with a daily updated list, which is great at blocking 3rd party malware servers entirely (this has worked much MUCH better at being up-to-date with Malware lists than any AV application as of recent) - http://www.peerblock.com/
I gotta say, after working with Visual Studio for so damn long in C++ and Visual Basic (starting all the way back with VB3), it was only natural for me to use the IDE I'm most familiar with for PHP. Nowadays, there are some pretty damn good add-ons for Visual Studio to help out with the workflow of PHP development. Having SVN integration is another major plus for VS. I will honestly admit I've tried to tinker with other IDE sollutions, but its just a mental pain in the ass to convert yourself over after 13+ years of working with the specific intricies of one particular product, such as menu placement and keyboard shortcuts.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/jnetlib/ From the guy who initially made Winamp, he also made a lib called JNetLib which is a piss easy to use cross-platform C++ socket library. It also has pre-made classes for things like HTTP/HTTPS, to help speed things up, or to simply give you an idea of how to use the library. It is licensed under the BSD license, so you are basically free to use it for whatever you would like, commercial or otherwise.
I would argue that Spore is indeed new, in that it is a "god" game, yet an enitrely new way of looking at it and working with the concept... Much like how Wii Sports (although quite simple of a game), feels NOTHING like a rehash of older sports games available on the market, due to game play mechanics.
... PROFIT!!