After reading the summary, I went ahead and downloaded the extension to see if I could figure out a way to bypass it. I tried a few more obvious methods first, all of which were detected by the extension.
My 4th attempt at bypassing the extension seems to work just fine though. It works by binding the window.onkeyup and window.onkeydown methods, determining which character corresponds to the key being pressed, then appending that character to the username or password fields if one of them has focus. Once the value has been added to the appropriate field, the event is cancelled using e.preventDefault(). I put a proof-of-concept up on my site in case anyone is interested. Here's the raw code for that page if you don't want to go to some random SlashDot poster's website.
This method only took a few minutes for me to come up with, so I'm probably not the first one to figure this out, but I thought I'd share anyways.
Valve has done an awesome job of making Linux a viable gaming platform. I have over 200 games in my Steam collection, about half of which run on Linux now.
The only thing keeping me booted into Windows most of the time is that my primary game is World of Warcraft, taking up about 70% of my total gaming time. If Blizzard would step up and embrace Linux* I'd gladly get rid of my Windows partition.
* Yes I know WoW can run in a limited capacity under Linux, that's not good enough for real raiding/PvPing
I agree that jQuery has it's flaws, but it is also a godsend in many other ways. The company I'm currently working for writes web applications for K-12. Some of our customers are running XP with IE7, others are using iPads, Chromebooks, and everything in-between. While the majority of the client-side code is just in plain JavaScript, we've started incorporating some HTML5 functionality into our products recently, unfortunately some of the older browsers are a bit lacking in support. Often times jQuery will have a wrapper that will implement that same functionality if the browser doesn't natively support it, but if it does then it will just act as a wrapper to call the native implementation with a minimal performance impact.
Hopefully a few years from now when XP has finally disappeared entirely and everyone is running a standards-compliant browser (as if there is such a thing) there will no longer be a need for a jQuery-like project, but until then I'm very glad that it exists.
When you make excuses for people harassing people and making death threats, you are part of the problem. No amount of hand-waving can possibly change that. You're helping to enable bad behavior. Why would you want to associate yourself with that?
I don't like it when people do what you're doing right now and throw all gamers into one category and put a label on us. Gamers did not send this woman death threats, a handful of immature, probably mentally ill Internet trolls did. It would be great if those who are responsible were found and charged in accordance with the law.
With that being said, those threats do not invalidate the original purpose of GamerGate, and they damn sure don't give anyone the right to make blanket statements about gamers being psychotic and misogynistic.
1) The author has managed to uncover a conspiracy by Comcast to hold the good people at http://021yy.org/ down by denying the no doubt millions of potential customers that would be flocking to the domain otherwise. After all, that domain name rolls right off the tongue.
or
2) Comcast doesn't have an entry in it's DNS servers for the site because it is a Chinese domain that looks like spam that no customer of theirs has tried to access before now.
But what can they bring to the table that old winamp and mp3s can't do better?
Here's a few thoughts:
1) Manage/Control music without leaving Big Picture mode, not useful for keyboard & mouse really, but if you're playing with a controller on a television I think this would be very useful.
2) Add a way to mix your music library with the in-game sounds. You could set the music volume to lower than the sound effects and dialogue volume, so that you could hear the music just fine, but without drowning out the noises from the game that might be useful to the player to hear (gunshots, mission directions, etc).
3) Integration with games to allow the music to pause automatically when a player enters a cinematic or cut-scene.
4) Use your own music library as background music for subtle immersion. Maybe you're playing GTA and walking down the street, as NPCs drive passed you might hear some of them listening to songs from your own collection. Not sure that this would be done, but it's possible.
5) The ability to maintain playlists that will trigger per game. To take it a step further even, perhaps you'd want to listen to different music when questing in World of Warcraft as opposed to when you're PVPing (I know I do).
I'm sure there's more creative uses for a feature like this, but these are just what came to me off the top of my head.
Tell me about it, I just uninstalled the NFL Mobile app yesterday when I saw they added the new required permission "Your personal information: Add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge, read calendar events, plus confidential information"
It also doesn't help that he's clearly trying to exaggerate how complex this simple logic would be in other programming languages. The "500 lines of Java code" is mostly whitespace, curly braces, and comments. When you remove the comments from the code he provides while keeping the generous line-spacing, it's only 275 lines of code.
#5715314 - The second most long-winded description of every online store ever. #5909492 - The most long-winded description of every online store ever, much of it seems to be copied & pasted straight from the top link. #7272639 - Describes what a session is.
Soverain Software is just another patent troll that never should have had them assigned in the first place.
I was under the impression that much of the data is actually transmitted via OnStar which is built into most new cars. My 2012 Chevy Sonic doesn't have an active OnStar subscription, but at any point I can double-press the button on the mirror and get connected to them. I don't know if the network connection is persistent or not, but I've always just assumed that it is.
As someone that purposely went from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (got it for $40 from Newegg on sale), I have to say it was money well spent. The whole Metro setup is terrible, but with Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell, I never see that screen at all. My setup is almost identical to Windows 7, but it runs much better. My gaming rig runs on average 10-20 FPS higher on the same games in Win8 compared to Win7 and there is noticeably less input lag as well.
With all of that being said, if you're not a gamer, there is no reason to upgrade. On my non-gaming systems I run Mint because it is a superior desktop environment in just about every way.
I'm surprised to see so many people had issues with their OCZ SSDs. I've been running my 256GB OCZ Agility III for over a year with zero issues. I use the drive strictly for the OS partitions though, all my games and media are on my 1TB & 2TB drives. For what I paid for it, I feel like I've already gotten my use out of it. If it does fail on me, that's what backups are for.
Don't know why I'm bothering to respond to an AC but what the hell, I'll bite.
When was the last time you actually used a good install of Windows, that is one that isn't full of malware/crapware that comes pre-installed from OEMs? Windows has been pretty rock-solid since XP SP 2 (skipping Vista of course). I'm currently running my gaming desktop dual-boot with Windows 8.1 (with Classic Shell of course) & Linux Mint no problem.
I admit that Windows lacks a lot of the things that make Linux great for power users, but at the same time I virtually never have issues with Windows. I've never once had issues with multi-monitor support and I run a dual, sometimes triple monitor configuration.
But go ahead and spread your FUD AC, what do I know?
As far as ways to communicate online goes, I'm not sure how useful of a tool this would be. I can definitely see how this could easily become the best way to learn sign language though if paired with Rosetta Stone-like tutoring software. My wife has been planning to learn sign language soon, I'm sure she'd love to have something like this as a learning aide.
I'd gladly have spent an extra $20 on this if they'd stuck with a sane form factor. The pictures of this device look horrible, this is possibly the least convenient design I've seen for a device that claims to be portable.
If a user has a website remember their login via a cookie, and I make a copy of that cookie and put it into my browser, I will be logged in as that user? I am shocked...
It doesn't take much to be considered an "hacking professor" now days, does it?
I see a lot of people here saying how Americans don't care that their rights are being violated and that we're too stupid to realize it, this is true in most cases, I agree. Let me be clear, it's not that I am not aware, and it's certainly that I don't care, it's that I am a realist. My opinion isn't going to amount to anything to the powers that be that are able to get a project like this underway, so I don't generally vocalize my opposition to horrible abominations such as this when I see them.
I have enough going on in my life right now that affects me everyday as it is. I don't have the time to protest this, and if I did have the time, quite honestly I'd rather spend it doing something that I enjoy with the people that I love. I am completely opposed to the Big Brother direction that the US government has taken. If I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of having an impact on whether or not this project would take place then I would gladly try to do my part to protest it. In my logical mind though, I know that in all likeliness, this data-mining operation won't end up having a direct impact on my life and I have no say in whether or not it takes place anyways.
It's getting to the consoles now as well. I was fully intent on purchasing Battlefield 3 for PC, but I'd already gone well over my gaming budget due to good Steam deals. Some friends and I went out and rented a copy of BF3 on Xbox 360 instead just to find out that you need to enter a one-time use code that comes with the game to access the multiplayer. I fully understand the used game market hurts the developers; however, would it really have been unreasonable to include a 3-7 day trial for renters like myself.
I'm glad this happened though, after playing the single-player campaign instead I deemed the game not worthy of a purchase. EA had a definite sale with me and managed to mess it up, my how these DRM schemes save them so much money.
Anyone who thought the idiotic DRM schemes from Ubisoft were really going to stop was delusional. I've been boycotting Ubisoft ever since their "always on Internet connection" DRM for Assassin's Creed 2 was introduced. Once they pulled that move I trashed all my Ubisoft products (of which I had many) and haven't so much as touched a demo from them ever since.
I suggest any of you who like to play your legally purchased games how/when you want to should do the same. And to those of you who say to just go pirate the game, you're simply treating the symptom & not the problem. Let them know that they can't pull these sorts of things or it'll catch on to other developers soon enough (I'm looking at you EA).
A few friends I know on AT&T used to do that, then they started getting letters from the carrier to cease using the unauthorized thethering application or they'd start getting billed for an upgraded data plan that included tethering in it's cost. It's not exactly difficult to tell PC traffic from smartphone traffic & they're not afraid to do so if it means extra cash for them.
Grats on your success jd. I'm not quite to marriage point yet, but I met my girlfriend on OkCupid in May of 2009 and we've been great ever since.
The best way to attract girls on these dating sites (other than having a ton of money or looking like a model) is to stand-out from the crowd, hopefully making them laugh in the process. As the article says, most guys on these websites initiate conversations with "hey sexy" or something equally as dull. If you find a girl on the site who's profile catches your eye, open with something referencing something on her profile about something that she likes, and make a joke about it. Don't be overly desperate, don't be too cocky (unless jokingly), and most of all don't be too flattering.
While the above method doesn't work 100% of the time, it's what worked for me. At the time I met my girlfriend, I was talking to several women who were interested in meeting up and I had engaged in some good conversation with. At that point in time I was a chain-smoking, 250lb, unemployed college student without a dollar to his name, so it should be possible for this to work for almost anyone. YMMV
The author makes the flawed assumption that sending someone an e-mail == being able to install a keylogger on their machine. In reality in order to get a keylogger on the machine it requires the recipient being gullible enough to download an attachment being sent to them by a complete stranger (unlikely, but not out of the question). Or alternatively it requires that the hacker crafts some attack that exploits a vulnerability in the e-mail reader of the recipient's choice which now days can be any number of web-clients, Outlook, Thunderbird, or a smartphone e-mail client even.
The suggestion that simply having an e-mail address of somebody will allow an attacker to install a keylogger on the targets machine is idiotic at best.
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After reading the summary, I went ahead and downloaded the extension to see if I could figure out a way to bypass it. I tried a few more obvious methods first, all of which were detected by the extension.
My 4th attempt at bypassing the extension seems to work just fine though. It works by binding the window.onkeyup and window.onkeydown methods, determining which character corresponds to the key being pressed, then appending that character to the username or password fields if one of them has focus. Once the value has been added to the appropriate field, the event is cancelled using e.preventDefault(). I put a proof-of-concept up on my site in case anyone is interested. Here's the raw code for that page if you don't want to go to some random SlashDot poster's website.
This method only took a few minutes for me to come up with, so I'm probably not the first one to figure this out, but I thought I'd share anyways.
Valve has done an awesome job of making Linux a viable gaming platform. I have over 200 games in my Steam collection, about half of which run on Linux now.
The only thing keeping me booted into Windows most of the time is that my primary game is World of Warcraft, taking up about 70% of my total gaming time. If Blizzard would step up and embrace Linux* I'd gladly get rid of my Windows partition.
* Yes I know WoW can run in a limited capacity under Linux, that's not good enough for real raiding/PvPing
I agree that jQuery has it's flaws, but it is also a godsend in many other ways. The company I'm currently working for writes web applications for K-12. Some of our customers are running XP with IE7, others are using iPads, Chromebooks, and everything in-between. While the majority of the client-side code is just in plain JavaScript, we've started incorporating some HTML5 functionality into our products recently, unfortunately some of the older browsers are a bit lacking in support. Often times jQuery will have a wrapper that will implement that same functionality if the browser doesn't natively support it, but if it does then it will just act as a wrapper to call the native implementation with a minimal performance impact.
Hopefully a few years from now when XP has finally disappeared entirely and everyone is running a standards-compliant browser (as if there is such a thing) there will no longer be a need for a jQuery-like project, but until then I'm very glad that it exists.
When you make excuses for people harassing people and making death threats, you are part of the problem. No amount of hand-waving can possibly change that. You're helping to enable bad behavior. Why would you want to associate yourself with that?
I don't like it when people do what you're doing right now and throw all gamers into one category and put a label on us. Gamers did not send this woman death threats, a handful of immature, probably mentally ill Internet trolls did. It would be great if those who are responsible were found and charged in accordance with the law.
With that being said, those threats do not invalidate the original purpose of GamerGate, and they damn sure don't give anyone the right to make blanket statements about gamers being psychotic and misogynistic.
1) The author has managed to uncover a conspiracy by Comcast to hold the good people at http://021yy.org/ down by denying the no doubt millions of potential customers that would be flocking to the domain otherwise. After all, that domain name rolls right off the tongue.
or
2) Comcast doesn't have an entry in it's DNS servers for the site because it is a Chinese domain that looks like spam that no customer of theirs has tried to access before now.
But what can they bring to the table that old winamp and mp3s can't do better?
Here's a few thoughts:
I'm sure there's more creative uses for a feature like this, but these are just what came to me off the top of my head.
Tell me about it, I just uninstalled the NFL Mobile app yesterday when I saw they added the new required permission "Your personal information: Add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge, read calendar events, plus confidential information"
It also doesn't help that he's clearly trying to exaggerate how complex this simple logic would be in other programming languages. The "500 lines of Java code" is mostly whitespace, curly braces, and comments. When you remove the comments from the code he provides while keeping the generous line-spacing, it's only 275 lines of code.
#5715314 - The second most long-winded description of every online store ever.
#5909492 - The most long-winded description of every online store ever, much of it seems to be copied & pasted straight from the top link.
#7272639 - Describes what a session is.
Soverain Software is just another patent troll that never should have had them assigned in the first place.
I was under the impression that much of the data is actually transmitted via OnStar which is built into most new cars. My 2012 Chevy Sonic doesn't have an active OnStar subscription, but at any point I can double-press the button on the mirror and get connected to them. I don't know if the network connection is persistent or not, but I've always just assumed that it is.
As someone that purposely went from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (got it for $40 from Newegg on sale), I have to say it was money well spent. The whole Metro setup is terrible, but with Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell, I never see that screen at all. My setup is almost identical to Windows 7, but it runs much better. My gaming rig runs on average 10-20 FPS higher on the same games in Win8 compared to Win7 and there is noticeably less input lag as well.
With all of that being said, if you're not a gamer, there is no reason to upgrade. On my non-gaming systems I run Mint because it is a superior desktop environment in just about every way.
I'm surprised to see so many people had issues with their OCZ SSDs. I've been running my 256GB OCZ Agility III for over a year with zero issues. I use the drive strictly for the OS partitions though, all my games and media are on my 1TB & 2TB drives. For what I paid for it, I feel like I've already gotten my use out of it. If it does fail on me, that's what backups are for.
Don't know why I'm bothering to respond to an AC but what the hell, I'll bite.
When was the last time you actually used a good install of Windows, that is one that isn't full of malware/crapware that comes pre-installed from OEMs? Windows has been pretty rock-solid since XP SP 2 (skipping Vista of course). I'm currently running my gaming desktop dual-boot with Windows 8.1 (with Classic Shell of course) & Linux Mint no problem.
I admit that Windows lacks a lot of the things that make Linux great for power users, but at the same time I virtually never have issues with Windows. I've never once had issues with multi-monitor support and I run a dual, sometimes triple monitor configuration.
But go ahead and spread your FUD AC, what do I know?
As far as ways to communicate online goes, I'm not sure how useful of a tool this would be. I can definitely see how this could easily become the best way to learn sign language though if paired with Rosetta Stone-like tutoring software. My wife has been planning to learn sign language soon, I'm sure she'd love to have something like this as a learning aide.
I'd gladly have spent an extra $20 on this if they'd stuck with a sane form factor. The pictures of this device look horrible, this is possibly the least convenient design I've seen for a device that claims to be portable.
If a user has a website remember their login via a cookie, and I make a copy of that cookie and put it into my browser, I will be logged in as that user? I am shocked...
It doesn't take much to be considered an "hacking professor" now days, does it?
I see a lot of people here saying how Americans don't care that their rights are being violated and that we're too stupid to realize it, this is true in most cases, I agree. Let me be clear, it's not that I am not aware, and it's certainly that I don't care, it's that I am a realist. My opinion isn't going to amount to anything to the powers that be that are able to get a project like this underway, so I don't generally vocalize my opposition to horrible abominations such as this when I see them.
I have enough going on in my life right now that affects me everyday as it is. I don't have the time to protest this, and if I did have the time, quite honestly I'd rather spend it doing something that I enjoy with the people that I love. I am completely opposed to the Big Brother direction that the US government has taken. If I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of having an impact on whether or not this project would take place then I would gladly try to do my part to protest it. In my logical mind though, I know that in all likeliness, this data-mining operation won't end up having a direct impact on my life and I have no say in whether or not it takes place anyways.
It's getting to the consoles now as well. I was fully intent on purchasing Battlefield 3 for PC, but I'd already gone well over my gaming budget due to good Steam deals. Some friends and I went out and rented a copy of BF3 on Xbox 360 instead just to find out that you need to enter a one-time use code that comes with the game to access the multiplayer. I fully understand the used game market hurts the developers; however, would it really have been unreasonable to include a 3-7 day trial for renters like myself.
I'm glad this happened though, after playing the single-player campaign instead I deemed the game not worthy of a purchase. EA had a definite sale with me and managed to mess it up, my how these DRM schemes save them so much money.
Anyone who thought the idiotic DRM schemes from Ubisoft were really going to stop was delusional. I've been boycotting Ubisoft ever since their "always on Internet connection" DRM for Assassin's Creed 2 was introduced. Once they pulled that move I trashed all my Ubisoft products (of which I had many) and haven't so much as touched a demo from them ever since.
I suggest any of you who like to play your legally purchased games how/when you want to should do the same. And to those of you who say to just go pirate the game, you're simply treating the symptom & not the problem. Let them know that they can't pull these sorts of things or it'll catch on to other developers soon enough (I'm looking at you EA).
Does this have something to do with the stupid EA Origins tie-in that caused Valve to pull the stupid game from Steam? http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/16/crysis-2-steam-removal-not-an-ea-decision/
A few friends I know on AT&T used to do that, then they started getting letters from the carrier to cease using the unauthorized thethering application or they'd start getting billed for an upgraded data plan that included tethering in it's cost. It's not exactly difficult to tell PC traffic from smartphone traffic & they're not afraid to do so if it means extra cash for them.
No need to launch CloneZilla, all the bash script would have to do is:
Grats on your success jd. I'm not quite to marriage point yet, but I met my girlfriend on OkCupid in May of 2009 and we've been great ever since.
The best way to attract girls on these dating sites (other than having a ton of money or looking like a model) is to stand-out from the crowd, hopefully making them laugh in the process. As the article says, most guys on these websites initiate conversations with "hey sexy" or something equally as dull. If you find a girl on the site who's profile catches your eye, open with something referencing something on her profile about something that she likes, and make a joke about it. Don't be overly desperate, don't be too cocky (unless jokingly), and most of all don't be too flattering.
While the above method doesn't work 100% of the time, it's what worked for me. At the time I met my girlfriend, I was talking to several women who were interested in meeting up and I had engaged in some good conversation with. At that point in time I was a chain-smoking, 250lb, unemployed college student without a dollar to his name, so it should be possible for this to work for almost anyone. YMMV
Here's how the Senate voted: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/senate/1/84 Still looking for the House votes.
The author makes the flawed assumption that sending someone an e-mail == being able to install a keylogger on their machine. In reality in order to get a keylogger on the machine it requires the recipient being gullible enough to download an attachment being sent to them by a complete stranger (unlikely, but not out of the question). Or alternatively it requires that the hacker crafts some attack that exploits a vulnerability in the e-mail reader of the recipient's choice which now days can be any number of web-clients, Outlook, Thunderbird, or a smartphone e-mail client even. The suggestion that simply having an e-mail address of somebody will allow an attacker to install a keylogger on the targets machine is idiotic at best.