I work at a mobile technology company. While our focus is more on WAP and shortcode stuff, we do a number of applications for iPhone, android, windows mobile, and blackberry. You know why it's not a headache? Because everyone involved knows to treat each version for each OS as a whole new piece of software. You rewrite the UI from scratch according to what works best with the phone, recycle the web services, and charge the customer for each app on each platform.
No, you want a nightmare? Imagine you had to write one app that compiled and worked on an Android, iPhone, windows phone, and blackberry. Then you're dealing with the headaches of a web developer.
My place got robbed in June 2009. I've taken several measures to prevent it from happening again. The robbery was pulled off by breaking a hole through a lexane window, climbing in, and unlocking the back door. I think they put a little kid through the hole in the back window because it was a tiny hole to queeze through and they stole a few toys I had lying around along with my electronics.
Low-tech security:
Renter's insurance. I wish I had that before the first robbery.
I chained my computer and my TV to the radiator. The chain is actually very well hidden, so it doesn't look too awful. The chain on my computer goes in through a PCI slot to a giant padlock, so if they wanted my computer they'd have to either tear apart the case, cut the lock, or take apart my computer piece by piece. The chain is pretty darn thick... I couldn't cut it with bolt cutters and it took about 5 minutes to get through with a grinder.
I put a protector over my door lock, and bars over my back windows where the break-in happened. Lexane is nice, but it looked like glass. It doesn't deter people from trying to break in, it just stops them once they try. And when it's fastened to a crappy wooden windowframe, the frame just gets torn out. The bars are attached directly to the brick
Oh, and I got a dog.
I also tell my neighbors when I'm leaving because they noticed my back door was open and my window was smashed for 36 hours before telling my landlord about it.
High-tech security:
I wrote a home security system using VB.net and PHP. The VB application runs on my home computer, and has a camera that looks down my hall. If it detects motion, it takes a picture, posts it online to my PHP script, which sends a text message to my phone with a link to the image. Then, the VB application plays a really loud alarm sound.
If you're interested in using my system for yourself, send my username a gmail and I'll hook you up with a download. I warn you, though, it's fairly customized for me and might not work on your computer.
I set my password to "********". Eight asterisks. That way, if anyone ever cracks it or uses a keylogger or something, they'll say "What the hell? I still can't see it."
If I need my password to be extra secure, I throw a few more asterisks in there.
I am the lead engineer for one of the largest providers for mobile coupon systems in the country. My company is known for havng the most robust and flexible couponing system out there.
This story is sensationalist as heck.
Of COURSE there's a lot of information in those coupons. Each one is unique. Therefore, each one can be tracked back to the user who received it. We have access to any information they've sent in (most common is name, age, and zip code, in addition to their phone and carrier, and their phone model if they went through a mobile website). What we don't do is sell data or phone numbers. Nor do we do reverse lookups or spamming. Stores can save any information they want about their users, such as what they've bought, or their number of 'loyalty points' and stuff like that. A SOAP request can pull down that information to their cash registers, and the cashier can update and add new information.
It's very similar to when the cashiers ask you for your phone number. The difference is that with coupons or rewards systems, people have an incentive to actually provide the info.
Do other lefties feel a bit left out? Only two of the mice listed were symmetrical. As a left-handed PC gamer, it seems impossible for me to find a high-quality mouse that comfortably fits my hand. Especially mice with 5+ buttons.
This problem is often exacerbated by games like Fallout 3, in which bethesda felt the need to perma-bind numpad 7 (strafe left for us southpaws) to the 'Stop the game and open windows live' command. Is there no money in making a mirror version for those of us with a recessive gene or two?
BSG is a fantastic show. The best on TV IMHO. However, the story is starting to get old. End it fast, before they start introducing humanoid aliens or other such jumping of the shark, and it will be looked back on as a good show. Drag it on for 10 seasons, with 20% of the original cast, lame plotlines and whatever else, and it won't get half as much respect.
The problem with the entertainment industry is that they squeeze every last penny out of everything they can. It's a breath of fresh air to see a story go from prologue to epilogue without losing its quality. When you've got something good, you should be able to let it be.
I really don't want to be part of a flame war (I like my karma where it is right now), but it really seems to me that republicans pull this crap off a lot more than democrats. Thinks like the "democrats vote on wednesdays" campaigns, or "[legal] immigrants will be arrested if they come to the polls", or men dressed as leather lingerie-clad homosexuals with signs saying "Vote Democrat so I can adopt" seem to be everywhere. Does anyone have any examples of this happening against republicans? I'll gladly retract my statement if I can see a couple Democrat-sanctioned examples somewhere. I'm aware that I'm a democrat and therefore have selective exposure, but I'm trying to keep an open mind.
It's so morally corrupt that I find it hard to believe that half the country is in the same party as these people. I know that half the country isn't morally corrupt, yet they allow (and often support) this sort of thing.
One thing I've noticed about my family's computer use (they all use XP) is the way that they launch their browser. My mom clicks the destop icon. I like the quicklaunch button. My sister uses the recent items menu, and my dad likes to open a folder and type an address in the address bar (despite my attempts to get him to use Firefox).
One possible way to make clickprinting much more effective would perhaps be to monitor the methods people use to get form one page to another.
Some people like to click a button to submit a form. Others prefer the enter key. Stuff like that could probably be far more effective in telling if a differnet person is using something they shouldn't.
So in short, if someone has multiple ways to launch a program or go somewhere on the web, the path they take could be more telling than the speed at which they navigate.
One potential application for this that I think could be exciting would be having providing different input to each eye (using a screen that displayed only two images).
This would allow people to see 3-d images without having to train their eyes to stare straight ahead into different screens, which is difficult for lazy-eyed people like me.
As a content manager for the U of Rochester when I was a student there, I witnessed thousands of attempts at XSS every month. All of this thanks to one idiot who decided he wanted to put a mambo website up on the student activities server, we had our main server breached and multiple websites defaced. once you're breached, everyone wants to try to hack you again.
One interesting thing I noticed is that the majority of XSS attempts will try to call a script in a file with a.gif or.jpg name. This way, if a curious person sees the attempt and tries to visit the linked script, all they get is a broken image. However, the file_get_contents php function, or other such functions, will read those as PHP. I've seen these scripts uploaded to government websites, university servers and many other places. The one that was put on the U of Rochester server attempted to delete all of the files on the server and put in code for what looked like a perl proxy server (i dunno, it was kinda obfuscated, and I'm not too good at perl yet).
The XSS scripts are quite complex, too. Some of them create HTML/javascript console interfaces for people to interact with the server as if they had an SSH connection.
And they're all over the place. I've got a website that's had less than 1000 hits, and I've seen three separate attempts to use XSS on it.
Look at box office sales and budget on IMDB (click box office and business on the left hand side ofr any movie). Many movies don't break even. That represents a bad investment by a producer and the possibility that they won't invest in another movie.
Granted, some people who download the movie never would've bought the DVD, and some people will download the movie, like it, and buy the DVD, but there's still that percentage that doesn't go see movies anymore because they're free on the internet.
Big budget requires big returns. It's not a great big leap of logic I'm making here.
I view the RIAA and MPAA very differently. To make good music, you don't need a multi-million dollar budget or massive amounts of bling. The RIAA could disappear from the face of the planet and music would, if anything, improve as we are exposed to a more diverse selection.
Movies, on the other hand, often need a high budget. You can't make the Matrix or LotR or Star Wars or 90% of the other movies that slashdotters love without HUGE budgets. The MPAA needs movie tickets and DVD sales to survive. Granted, they do live very comfy lifestyles for the most part, and could lose some profits and still be fine, but filetrading definitely hurts the movie industry more.
Yes, HTML and browsers already use a standardized language, but there needs to be one further step. UI and behind the scenes computation are much more closely linked on computers than in Web interfaces. As a result, HTML is a standard language in browsers, but rarely anywhere else. That's why we see something like XAP popping up, an XML protocol that ties in UI, basic programming with macros, events, and server queries into one, allowing web applications to bridge that gap with as much ease as writing HTML. Additionally, XAP can be used with a client (check out demos at Nexaweb (Nexaweb is Coach Wei's company), meaning we can get real applications running on multiple platforms and operating systems, including AJAX.
You don't suppose they'd put more cookie-cutter crap on every DVD, or higher quality sound would they?
Most likely, after the novelty wears off, they'll go back to releasing 35 and 40 minute DVDs that cost $30 each, with one good song and the rest just filler.
My department was repsponsible for a maintaining major portion of content on my university's server. Some idiot decided to put phpBB up on his personal site, and our whole data root was deleted and replaced with an "I 0wn j00" message. Hack attempts, which we had been monitoring, went from 2-3 attempts per day up into the thousands.
If any attempts on their servers were successful, attacks would increase a thousandfold. Thus, the number of hackers could be staying the same, but their earlier successes could be focusing their work.
So, anyone know if any of these credit unions have been breached?
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I work at a mobile technology company. While our focus is more on WAP and shortcode stuff, we do a number of applications for iPhone, android, windows mobile, and blackberry. You know why it's not a headache? Because everyone involved knows to treat each version for each OS as a whole new piece of software. You rewrite the UI from scratch according to what works best with the phone, recycle the web services, and charge the customer for each app on each platform.
No, you want a nightmare? Imagine you had to write one app that compiled and worked on an Android, iPhone, windows phone, and blackberry. Then you're dealing with the headaches of a web developer.
Hell, if she could change someone's passwords without a computer, I'd hire her.
My place got robbed in June 2009. I've taken several measures to prevent it from happening again. The robbery was pulled off by breaking a hole through a lexane window, climbing in, and unlocking the back door. I think they put a little kid through the hole in the back window because it was a tiny hole to queeze through and they stole a few toys I had lying around along with my electronics.
Low-tech security:
Renter's insurance. I wish I had that before the first robbery.
I chained my computer and my TV to the radiator. The chain is actually very well hidden, so it doesn't look too awful. The chain on my computer goes in through a PCI slot to a giant padlock, so if they wanted my computer they'd have to either tear apart the case, cut the lock, or take apart my computer piece by piece. The chain is pretty darn thick... I couldn't cut it with bolt cutters and it took about 5 minutes to get through with a grinder.
I put a protector over my door lock, and bars over my back windows where the break-in happened. Lexane is nice, but it looked like glass. It doesn't deter people from trying to break in, it just stops them once they try. And when it's fastened to a crappy wooden windowframe, the frame just gets torn out. The bars are attached directly to the brick
Oh, and I got a dog.
I also tell my neighbors when I'm leaving because they noticed my back door was open and my window was smashed for 36 hours before telling my landlord about it.
High-tech security:
I wrote a home security system using VB.net and PHP. The VB application runs on my home computer, and has a camera that looks down my hall. If it detects motion, it takes a picture, posts it online to my PHP script, which sends a text message to my phone with a link to the image. Then, the VB application plays a really loud alarm sound.
If you're interested in using my system for yourself, send my username a gmail and I'll hook you up with a download. I warn you, though, it's fairly customized for me and might not work on your computer.
I set my password to "********". Eight asterisks. That way, if anyone ever cracks it or uses a keylogger or something, they'll say "What the hell? I still can't see it." If I need my password to be extra secure, I throw a few more asterisks in there.
I am the lead engineer for one of the largest providers for mobile coupon systems in the country. My company is known for havng the most robust and flexible couponing system out there.
This story is sensationalist as heck.
Of COURSE there's a lot of information in those coupons. Each one is unique. Therefore, each one can be tracked back to the user who received it. We have access to any information they've sent in (most common is name, age, and zip code, in addition to their phone and carrier, and their phone model if they went through a mobile website). What we don't do is sell data or phone numbers. Nor do we do reverse lookups or spamming. Stores can save any information they want about their users, such as what they've bought, or their number of 'loyalty points' and stuff like that. A SOAP request can pull down that information to their cash registers, and the cashier can update and add new information.
It's very similar to when the cashiers ask you for your phone number. The difference is that with coupons or rewards systems, people have an incentive to actually provide the info.
Regardless, there should've been a prompt to ask if you wanted to install it, and there damn well should be a working uninstall button.
Has anyone considered that she might just be moving very close to the speed of light?
I think that someone coulda made a hell of a great comeback ad with lingerie-clad women rubbing steaks and bacon all over their bodies.
Yep, that's what I use too
Do other lefties feel a bit left out? Only two of the mice listed were symmetrical. As a left-handed PC gamer, it seems impossible for me to find a high-quality mouse that comfortably fits my hand. Especially mice with 5+ buttons.
This problem is often exacerbated by games like Fallout 3, in which bethesda felt the need to perma-bind numpad 7 (strafe left for us southpaws) to the 'Stop the game and open windows live' command. Is there no money in making a mirror version for those of us with a recessive gene or two?
I'd like to see them run linux.
The trick with these problems is to ask the right questions. I think they'd have a lot more right answers if they made the problems multiple choice.
... and yet John Cage probably used it in at least a few of his works.
Software? Only if she's ugly. Hardware if she's cute.
I disagree 100%. Great decision on their part.
BSG is a fantastic show. The best on TV IMHO. However, the story is starting to get old. End it fast, before they start introducing humanoid aliens or other such jumping of the shark, and it will be looked back on as a good show. Drag it on for 10 seasons, with 20% of the original cast, lame plotlines and whatever else, and it won't get half as much respect.
The problem with the entertainment industry is that they squeeze every last penny out of everything they can. It's a breath of fresh air to see a story go from prologue to epilogue without losing its quality. When you've got something good, you should be able to let it be.
I really don't want to be part of a flame war (I like my karma where it is right now), but it really seems to me that republicans pull this crap off a lot more than democrats. Thinks like the "democrats vote on wednesdays" campaigns, or "[legal] immigrants will be arrested if they come to the polls", or men dressed as leather lingerie-clad homosexuals with signs saying "Vote Democrat so I can adopt" seem to be everywhere. Does anyone have any examples of this happening against republicans? I'll gladly retract my statement if I can see a couple Democrat-sanctioned examples somewhere. I'm aware that I'm a democrat and therefore have selective exposure, but I'm trying to keep an open mind.
It's so morally corrupt that I find it hard to believe that half the country is in the same party as these people. I know that half the country isn't morally corrupt, yet they allow (and often support) this sort of thing.
One thing I've noticed about my family's computer use (they all use XP) is the way that they launch their browser. My mom clicks the destop icon. I like the quicklaunch button. My sister uses the recent items menu, and my dad likes to open a folder and type an address in the address bar (despite my attempts to get him to use Firefox). One possible way to make clickprinting much more effective would perhaps be to monitor the methods people use to get form one page to another. Some people like to click a button to submit a form. Others prefer the enter key. Stuff like that could probably be far more effective in telling if a differnet person is using something they shouldn't. So in short, if someone has multiple ways to launch a program or go somewhere on the web, the path they take could be more telling than the speed at which they navigate.
One potential application for this that I think could be exciting would be having providing different input to each eye (using a screen that displayed only two images). This would allow people to see 3-d images without having to train their eyes to stare straight ahead into different screens, which is difficult for lazy-eyed people like me.
As a content manager for the U of Rochester when I was a student there, I witnessed thousands of attempts at XSS every month. All of this thanks to one idiot who decided he wanted to put a mambo website up on the student activities server, we had our main server breached and multiple websites defaced. once you're breached, everyone wants to try to hack you again. One interesting thing I noticed is that the majority of XSS attempts will try to call a script in a file with a .gif or .jpg name. This way, if a curious person sees the attempt and tries to visit the linked script, all they get is a broken image. However, the file_get_contents php function, or other such functions, will read those as PHP. I've seen these scripts uploaded to government websites, university servers and many other places. The one that was put on the U of Rochester server attempted to delete all of the files on the server and put in code for what looked like a perl proxy server (i dunno, it was kinda obfuscated, and I'm not too good at perl yet).
The XSS scripts are quite complex, too. Some of them create HTML/javascript console interfaces for people to interact with the server as if they had an SSH connection.
And they're all over the place. I've got a website that's had less than 1000 hits, and I've seen three separate attempts to use XSS on it.
Look at box office sales and budget on IMDB (click box office and business on the left hand side ofr any movie). Many movies don't break even. That represents a bad investment by a producer and the possibility that they won't invest in another movie. Granted, some people who download the movie never would've bought the DVD, and some people will download the movie, like it, and buy the DVD, but there's still that percentage that doesn't go see movies anymore because they're free on the internet. Big budget requires big returns. It's not a great big leap of logic I'm making here.
I view the RIAA and MPAA very differently.
To make good music, you don't need a multi-million dollar budget or massive amounts of bling. The RIAA could disappear from the face of the planet and music would, if anything, improve as we are exposed to a more diverse selection.
Movies, on the other hand, often need a high budget. You can't make the Matrix or LotR or Star Wars or 90% of the other movies that slashdotters love without HUGE budgets. The MPAA needs movie tickets and DVD sales to survive. Granted, they do live very comfy lifestyles for the most part, and could lose some profits and still be fine, but filetrading definitely hurts the movie industry more.
Whoever thinks that violent pornography has an effect on people has been a naughty boy and needs a spanking.
Yes, HTML and browsers already use a standardized language, but there needs to be one further step. UI and behind the scenes computation are much more closely linked on computers than in Web interfaces. As a result, HTML is a standard language in browsers, but rarely anywhere else. That's why we see something like XAP popping up, an XML protocol that ties in UI, basic programming with macros, events, and server queries into one, allowing web applications to bridge that gap with as much ease as writing HTML. Additionally, XAP can be used with a client (check out demos at Nexaweb (Nexaweb is Coach Wei's company), meaning we can get real applications running on multiple platforms and operating systems, including AJAX.
You don't suppose they'd put more cookie-cutter crap on every DVD, or higher quality sound would they?
Most likely, after the novelty wears off, they'll go back to releasing 35 and 40 minute DVDs that cost $30 each, with one good song and the rest just filler.
My department was repsponsible for a maintaining major portion of content on my university's server. Some idiot decided to put phpBB up on his personal site, and our whole data root was deleted and replaced with an "I 0wn j00" message. Hack attempts, which we had been monitoring, went from 2-3 attempts per day up into the thousands.
If any attempts on their servers were successful, attacks would increase a thousandfold. Thus, the number of hackers could be staying the same, but their earlier successes could be focusing their work.
So, anyone know if any of these credit unions have been breached?