For such an attack to be successful, the victim just needs to visit a malicious website while logged in Google, e.g. by following a link from an incoming message
... but I already use a separate SeaMonkey browser profile for my GMail account (don't want it being associated with my normal Google searches), and access untrusted URLs using another browser running under a different user. As a matter of habit (I do web-based stuff and I'm used to having several different browsers open). Probably not 100% foolproof, but helps me sleep easier at night.
But seriously, maybe some people do stuff like that because they want to give back; they want to see Google's ideas succeed. If spending one minute a day translating a sentence helps out, who are we to give them a hard time about it?
Yup? Myself, I spend up to 15 minutes a day proofreading Microsoft documentation for free, and I'm always available for any other multibillion dollar corporations who's ideas I can help succeed at no cost to them.
The OP's question was about spell-checking the source code itself (for consistency in variable names), not any UI messages that might or might not be contained in it.
while physics is beautiful, at some point it requires you to sit down in a empty room with a pad of paper and a pencil.
I'd describe myself as an averagely intelligent person, albeit with very little formal training in physics. Until a few years ago, I'd always thought "gravity" basically disappears a couple of hundred km up. After all, you always see TV pictures of people on the Shuttle, ISS etc. floating about in "zero-gravity" - so once you get out of the atmosphere, you're weightless.
At some point I got thinking about tides, and that if the moon had enough gravity to move water on the Earth, and was also bound to the Earth by gravity, how come astronauts in LEO were somehow excused from it... Despite reading various explanations, it took me a while - and a bit of imagination - to understand the physics in play here, such as orbital / escape velocity. It's the kind of thing completely outside most people's experience, and not easy to explain with a few words.
FTFA: "If a reader could be compromised using Grunwald's technique, it might be reprogrammed to misreport an expired passport as a valid one, or even -- theoretically -- to attempt a compromise of the Windows-based border-screening computer to which it is connected."
That does it. From now on I'm only travelling to countries which use OpenBSD to operate their border gateway protocols.
And: "Additionally, the International Civil Aviation Organization recommends that issuing countries protect biometric data on the e-passport with an optional feature known as Extended Access Control, which protects the biometric data on the chip by making readers obtain a digital certificate from the country that issued the passport before the equipment can access the information."
Sounds like in the future, the only people who'll be able to traveler with any degree of success will be those who can forge their passports...
My take: while MySQL has improved technically in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, stuff like this (or having its transactional backends bought out from under it by Oracle) makes it increasingly difficult for me to recommend it as a business proposition to my clients.
Meanwhile PostgreSQL continues to get the job done for the majority of my projects; I have a network of professionals who support it competently; and having followed the project since 2001 or so, I'm confident it's not going anywhere but forwards.
Japan has a telephone monopoly (NTT), as do many European nations
Correction: Japan had a telephone monopoly. While NTT (which has been split into two regional carrier) is still dominant in the POTS, there
are now competing companys; and the
mobile market has been split up between three or four players.
The same goes for Europe - the former state-operated providers are still large in most countries, but
are being attacked on all sides; and the respective mobile markets are generally split up between
several major players. As far as regulation goes, I don't see that much, although recently the EU has, bless its little cotton socks, been cracking down on some of the more obnoxious stuff that goes on such as
extremely high roaming prices in other EU countries.
... it was down a few months back, and as every blog owner and their dog include a little technorati script or graphic
on their sites, they were loading very slowly, if at all.
So I edited my hosts.conf so technorati points at my localhost.
Can't say that's degraded my blog-reading experience in the least.
Err, I don't know about myspace, but any half-decently programmed website (hopefully the majority) won't be storing anything in your cookies other than trivial configurations preferences and a session key. Certainly not your password. While it's possible to hijack the session by reading the session key (and there are ways of preventing that on the server side too), that won't get you the user's password. Unless the site in question is incredibly badly programmed, in which cae you're probably lost anyway.
Or what about people with more than ten fingers? Yes, it does happen (something genetic) - when I was at school there was a kid with 6 digits on both one hand and one foot, and I've heard of other cases occasionally. (I suppose they'd probably be tagged as "aliens" and be shipped down to Area 51 with no further ado).
I was browsing through some frequent flyer forums to get the lowdown on the latest regulations regarding the carriage of dihydrogen monoxide on planes when I came across a link to this beautiful nugget:
"Transportation Security Operations Center Re-Named Freedom Center"
On June 21, TSA's primary operational hub was re-named the Freedom Center, symbolizing the agency's commitment to protecting the nation's transportation systems against terrorist threats...
... but the way things are going, in a few years time the only foreigners visiting the US will
be crawling up over the southern border, or brought in on CIA charter flights.
Me, last year I had an invite to go to the US - I've never been but would truly like to go - but
was in two minds because it overlapped with something else - and after taking a look at what it
might involve in terms of proving I'm not a terrorist (I have an old-fashioned paper passport)
I gave it a miss.
And purleease, when I fly long-haul I like to take a big bottle of water to stop me dehydrating.
A effing bottle of HO for chrissake. Whaddy think I'm gonna do with it, split out the hydrogen
and ignite it? Yet I can buy a bottle of whisky at the duty free.
(sorry about the rant, feel free to mod me down, but I have to get it out of my system before
I go on a rampage on my next flight).
Slashdot Mirror
FTFA:
... but I already use a separate SeaMonkey browser profile for my GMail account (don't want it being associated with my normal Google searches), and access untrusted URLs using another browser running under a different user. As a matter of habit (I do web-based stuff and I'm used to having several different browsers open). Probably not 100% foolproof, but helps me sleep easier at night.
Will this robotic rover obey the moon's robots.txt? (It's available by querying the Tycho crater).
FYI the robots.txt for Jupiter's Galilean moons looks like this:
www.how-to-make-a-bomb.eu
(The domain's freshly registered so DNS might not be working everywhere yet).
The OP's question was about spell-checking the source code itself (for consistency in variable names), not any UI messages that might or might not be contained in it.
Found on Google here
(And yes, it is surprisingly SFW, at least the frames I've seen so far are)
I have one in my closet they can have. I'll even throw an extra 128MB of SDRAM!
while physics is beautiful, at some point it requires you to sit down in a empty room with a pad of paper and a pencil.
I'd describe myself as an averagely intelligent person, albeit with very little formal training in physics. Until a few years ago, I'd always thought "gravity" basically disappears a couple of hundred km up. After all, you always see TV pictures of people on the Shuttle, ISS etc. floating about in "zero-gravity" - so once you get out of the atmosphere, you're weightless.
At some point I got thinking about tides, and that if the moon had enough gravity to move water on the Earth, and was also bound to the Earth by gravity, how come astronauts in LEO were somehow excused from it... Despite reading various explanations, it took me a while - and a bit of imagination - to understand the physics in play here, such as orbital / escape velocity. It's the kind of thing completely outside most people's experience, and not easy to explain with a few words.
Wait for a cloudy day before you do your Bad Stuff.
And I've just run an nmap scan of bundestag.de .
I await the knock on my door with interest.
'k, I'm staying at home from now on...
FTFA: "If a reader could be compromised using Grunwald's technique, it might be reprogrammed to misreport an expired passport as a valid one, or even -- theoretically -- to attempt a compromise of the Windows-based border-screening computer to which it is connected."
That does it. From now on I'm only travelling to countries which use OpenBSD to operate their border gateway protocols.
And: "Additionally, the International Civil Aviation Organization recommends that issuing countries protect biometric data on the e-passport with an optional feature known as Extended Access Control, which protects the biometric data on the chip by making readers obtain a digital certificate from the country that issued the passport before the equipment can access the information."
Sounds like in the future, the only people who'll be able to traveler with any degree of success will be those who can forge their passports...
My take: while MySQL has improved technically in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, stuff like this (or having its transactional backends bought out from under it by Oracle) makes it increasingly difficult for me to recommend it as a business proposition to my clients. Meanwhile PostgreSQL continues to get the job done for the majority of my projects; I have a network of professionals who support it competently; and having followed the project since 2001 or so, I'm confident it's not going anywhere but forwards.
Japan has a telephone monopoly (NTT), as do many European nations
Correction: Japan had a telephone monopoly. While NTT (which has been split into two regional carrier) is still dominant in the POTS, there are now competing companys; and the mobile market has been split up between three or four players.
The same goes for Europe - the former state-operated providers are still large in most countries, but are being attacked on all sides; and the respective mobile markets are generally split up between several major players. As far as regulation goes, I don't see that much, although recently the EU has, bless its little cotton socks, been cracking down on some of the more obnoxious stuff that goes on such as extremely high roaming prices in other EU countries.
So I edited my hosts.conf so technorati points at my localhost.
Can't say that's degraded my blog-reading experience in the least.
Err, I don't know about myspace, but any half-decently programmed website (hopefully the majority) won't be storing anything in your cookies other than trivial configurations preferences and a session key. Certainly not your password. While it's possible to hijack the session by reading the session key (and there are ways of preventing that on the server side too), that won't get you the user's password. Unless the site in question is incredibly badly programmed, in which cae you're probably lost anyway.
Or what about people with more than ten fingers? Yes, it does happen (something genetic) - when I was at school there was a kid with 6 digits on both one hand and one foot, and I've heard of other cases occasionally. (I suppose they'd probably be tagged as "aliens" and be shipped down to Area 51 with no further ado).
(erk, push submit instead of preview)
The TSA being the Transportation Security Administration, the people in charge of your airport security. The quote is from here.
So I guess that'll be Freedom Fingerprints they'll be collecting then.../p
I was browsing through some frequent flyer forums to get the lowdown on the latest regulations regarding the carriage of dihydrogen monoxide on planes when I came across a link to this beautiful nugget:
"Transportation Security Operations Center Re-Named Freedom Center"
On June 21, TSA's primary operational hub was re-named the Freedom Center, symbolizing the agency's commitment to protecting the nation's transportation systems against terrorist threats...
I have takes a HO on a plane w no problem
Penetrate her airspace, did you? Never mind, stupid Slashdot software swallowed my raised "2" (as in "H2O").
Me, last year I had an invite to go to the US - I've never been but would truly like to go - but was in two minds because it overlapped with something else - and after taking a look at what it might involve in terms of proving I'm not a terrorist (I have an old-fashioned paper passport) I gave it a miss.
And purleease, when I fly long-haul I like to take a big bottle of water to stop me dehydrating. A effing bottle of HO for chrissake. Whaddy think I'm gonna do with it, split out the hydrogen and ignite it? Yet I can buy a bottle of whisky at the duty free.
(sorry about the rant, feel free to mod me down, but I have to get it out of my system before I go on a rampage on my next flight).
The case of the AT box under my table which I use as a router-cum-fileserver has a "TURBO" button on the front display.
The box usually runs OpenBSD, so I tried starting a Vista installation to see what all the fuss was about.
Unfortunately, it appears 64MB of "tradtional" RAM is not enough for Vista.
As the post is crying out for it:
In Soviet Russia, strategic weapons target you!
(The best contribution wins a 10 year all-inclusive activity holiday to Siberia.)
Unless of course someone else posted the photo without your permission.
Is that what we have to call them now?
And in case you didn't know, the French for "spam" is pourriel - at least that's what http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam redirects to.