Just thought I'd share my ultimate brownie recipe with you. Take a saucepan and start melting real butter (125g) and chocolate (185g) and melt on a low heat. Then add 50g flour, 40g Cocoa and 275g sugar. Stir into mixture and then add three eggs. Pour into a greased or papred tin and place in oven for about 25 minutes and they're delicious. They're not to dense or light and they are rich but not overpowering.
You can also mix in chocolate chunks or nuts to make it even nicer.
Can anyone think of anything equivalent to this in history? Where people were under extensive surveillance? What happened?
There has to be a crunching point for things like this, society is meant to limp forward gradually. Hopefully it will get better after it gets worse...
This is why websites need to publish policy files a bit like ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer). This would mean that a website would publish what resources that site can request and destinations that are not in that policy are not loaded. Unfortunately if they can intercept anything that you are served then the injector can just modify the policy file too. Perhaps signed policy file could solve this?
Does anyone know if SSL solves the problem? Can a malicious endpoint act as a proxy so the SSL connection is between the endpoint and the real site and then serve you a different SSL certificate with the adverts included. (Although I doubt they can make a certificate look like the legitimate website.) Alternatively they could just drop everything down to HTTP...
(Although the guy who wrote ABE/NoScript should be considered in caution because of what he did to NoScript users in the past. He deliberately removed NoScript blocks for his own website so he could raise money on his plugin update page that opens after updates.)
The problem I think is that geeks no longer run Slashdot, they no longer choose the stories to post. Instead it's by social media/blogger types which is not what Slashdot's target audience is interested in...
Your website's profitability depends on the comments posted below. You depend on User Generated Content (UGC). This is where most users extract value from your site and the reason why people actually still visit Slashdot.
It's not the articles themselves, people only rarely read those.
If you allow your user base to be diluted by commercial interests, your profits will dwindle as less users come here to socialize and learn. That is why you need to keep the comments off limits for gaming by media and PR companies. If you post a Slashvertisement, not that I like them at least it is separate from the comment section so you're not pretending to be anything but a shill for another company. However, the comment section should represent real users and trolls -- not shills.
You are right, this will be just as abused just like the current moderation system by shills.
I really would like a user preference that lets me block users greater than a certain UID. This is because there are very few genuine users over a certain ID.
It doesn't have to. It contacts the C&C server where someone presumably decides whether to install further bots or more resident exploits.
The exploit seems to be more about stealth distribution and about dropping other malware. This makes sense because if a dropper is detected as malicious, it becomes useless due to its detection. (You can safely assume anything using a dropper is malicious)
This means that anti virus software should in theory only be able to detect the actual dropped malware. Any new malware could have had a field day with this exploit because both the dropper and malware would not have been detected.
From my understanding of the article it actually dropped the Lurk trojan but I get the feeling it could drop anything the C&C wants it to.
I come from the UK and personally find mathematics pretty difficult. I can work through problems on paper but my mental arithmetic is atrocious. By the time I two operands and an operator in my head and have broken up the problem into a simpler problem, I have forgotten the original two numbers...
That said, mathematics should come the more you practice. I like to blame the school curriculum -- it is shit. The only reason why I am valuable is because I acquired computing skills playing on computers as a child.
I'd like to blame mathematics textbooks but I cannot. My generation and a few before me have lost the willpower and motivation to actually study and learn things properly. Our education system does not really promote mathematics that well. My school staff was rife with young twenty somethings fresh out of university with no real ability to teach...
Teaching has lost its respect and professionalism in the UK too. Add to the fact it became okay and even cool to be ignorant in modern culture.
It's not conducive to discussion to call people trolls who you do not agree with.
If you're telling me with a straight face that Apple devices are not engineered to fail in time for the next Apple device, I just can't believe you. Apple devices are consumer electronics, they're designed to be replaced every year. You're supposed to go out and buy another iPhone or iDevice at the next keynote speech. That's what you're supposed to do. I prefer to have a device that is rugged and the vendor is not just trying to milk me into buying the next one.
They said they dropped CarrierIQ but as some other commentator said, the tracking is now baked into iOS.
Imaginary problem? I'm sorry but being able to install what you want is a problem and security is no excuse. It is a trap and guarantee revenues, the security is a side benefit. I should not have to pay a fee to develop for my own device.
I highly doubt any of my concerns and my priorities are in tune with you as you already own Apple devices, you like the advantages they provide. A buyer who is mostly satisfied will never admit any flaws of a product he likes. (Post purchase rationalization) Let's just accept that you like what iDevices provide you and that I want nothing to do with them.
My phone says it was made in Hungary but I imagine it was only assembled there and the components were made in China. The battery was made in China. Unfortunate but an improvement over a completely Chinese manufactured device.
To those who have been watching Apple for years, this is just a long list of transgressions that make it obvious to avoid Apple.
- Walled gardens, vendor lock in - Taking down applications from the App Store and including versions in iOS - Spurious litigation and anti-competitive lawsuits in Germany and Australia - CarrierIQ, GPS tracking privacy gaffes - Planned failure just after warranty period (ever since the original pod)
When you think of products that are so anti consumer (not necessarily anti-usability), Apple comes to mind. As for many here, it's just business as usual as I will never buy an Apple product (especially after the first pod) anyway.
I think BrowserID and OpenID solve slightly different problems. BrowserID standardized the process of you logging in through your web browser while OpenID is about authenticating yourself through some authority (be it a server controlled by you or some third party). So that's a user-website interaction for BrowserID or website-website for OpenID.
They could actually be used together, any service that accepts OpenID logins could expose a BrowserID interface too.
BrowserID is pretty simple. It's basically a single Javascript function that a website can call in the browser. This example on github shows the function that is called. The clientside code is then free to make requests to the server for a specific authentication mechanism, making it very flexible. The Server code just validates the username/password.
Personally, I think it's simpler to understand than things like OpenID which are convoluted and not standardized from the user point of view. Where is the standard account management protocol for OpenID?
You are conducting various logical fallacies including slippery slopes and ad-hominem attacks and putting words into my mouth that I did not say. I never mentioned anything to do with autism and vaccines. You are way too angry to be considered healthy. You're coming down hard on someone who actually shares your thoughts...
Look outside, pretty much everything can kill you if you are unlucky. If you did not know people who react badly to certain things (or strange allergies) you would think it is crackpot. Do not be quick to judge, especially online.
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I forgot to clarify that when you start adding the dry ingredients (cocoa, sugar and flour) you should take the saucepan off the heat.
I agree with you.
Just thought I'd share my ultimate brownie recipe with you. Take a saucepan and start melting real butter (125g) and chocolate (185g) and melt on a low heat. Then add 50g flour, 40g Cocoa and 275g sugar. Stir into mixture and then add three eggs. Pour into a greased or papred tin and place in oven for about 25 minutes and they're delicious. They're not to dense or light and they are rich but not overpowering.
You can also mix in chocolate chunks or nuts to make it even nicer.
Can anyone think of anything equivalent to this in history? Where people were under extensive surveillance? What happened?
There has to be a crunching point for things like this, society is meant to limp forward gradually. Hopefully it will get better after it gets worse...
This is why websites need to publish policy files a bit like ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer). This would mean that a website would publish what resources that site can request and destinations that are not in that policy are not loaded. Unfortunately if they can intercept anything that you are served then the injector can just modify the policy file too. Perhaps signed policy file could solve this?
Does anyone know if SSL solves the problem? Can a malicious endpoint act as a proxy so the SSL connection is between the endpoint and the real site and then serve you a different SSL certificate with the adverts included. (Although I doubt they can make a certificate look like the legitimate website.) Alternatively they could just drop everything down to HTTP...
(Although the guy who wrote ABE/NoScript should be considered in caution because of what he did to NoScript users in the past. He deliberately removed NoScript blocks for his own website so he could raise money on his plugin update page that opens after updates.)
Agree with everything.
Always look forward to reading your posts because I know they will be good.
The problem I think is that geeks no longer run Slashdot, they no longer choose the stories to post. Instead it's by social media/blogger types which is not what Slashdot's target audience is interested in...
Your website's profitability depends on the comments posted below. You depend on User Generated Content (UGC). This is where most users extract value from your site and the reason why people actually still visit Slashdot.
It's not the articles themselves, people only rarely read those.
If you allow your user base to be diluted by commercial interests, your profits will dwindle as less users come here to socialize and learn. That is why you need to keep the comments off limits for gaming by media and PR companies. If you post a Slashvertisement, not that I like them at least it is separate from the comment section so you're not pretending to be anything but a shill for another company. However, the comment section should represent real users and trolls -- not shills.
You are right, this will be just as abused just like the current moderation system by shills.
I really would like a user preference that lets me block users greater than a certain UID. This is because there are very few genuine users over a certain ID.
Anyone with me? How do we slow down the shills?
You sir are paid for your opinions.
I respect your right to be paid but I want others to be aware of this before they mod you up.
You write like a paid poster :-(
It doesn't have to. It contacts the C&C server where someone presumably decides whether to install further bots or more resident exploits.
The exploit seems to be more about stealth distribution and about dropping other malware. This makes sense because if a dropper is detected as malicious, it becomes useless due to its detection. (You can safely assume anything using a dropper is malicious)
This means that anti virus software should in theory only be able to detect the actual dropped malware. Any new malware could have had a field day with this exploit because both the dropper and malware would not have been detected.
From my understanding of the article it actually dropped the Lurk trojan but I get the feeling it could drop anything the C&C wants it to.
You have that position because you are paid to have it.
I come from the UK and personally find mathematics pretty difficult. I can work through problems on paper but my mental arithmetic is atrocious. By the time I two operands and an operator in my head and have broken up the problem into a simpler problem, I have forgotten the original two numbers...
That said, mathematics should come the more you practice. I like to blame the school curriculum -- it is shit. The only reason why I am valuable is because I acquired computing skills playing on computers as a child.
I'd like to blame mathematics textbooks but I cannot. My generation and a few before me have lost the willpower and motivation to actually study and learn things properly. Our education system does not really promote mathematics that well. My school staff was rife with young twenty somethings fresh out of university with no real ability to teach...
Teaching has lost its respect and professionalism in the UK too. Add to the fact it became okay and even cool to be ignorant in modern culture.
I think you're missing the point.
It would have taken you a second to find out yourself:
http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=apple+engineered+to+fail&btnG=Search&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=apple+planned+obsolescence&psj=1&oq=apple+planned+obsolescence&aq=f&aqi=g1g-v1g-b2&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4277l7438l0l7568l26l22l0l0l0l1l354l3426l6.10.3.2l21l0&fp=1&biw=1079&bih=850&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&cad=b
Apple mobile devices are sealed shut, you're not supposed to replace the batteries yourself. They're not supposed to last.
It's not conducive to discussion to call people trolls who you do not agree with.
If you're telling me with a straight face that Apple devices are not engineered to fail in time for the next Apple device, I just can't believe you. Apple devices are consumer electronics, they're designed to be replaced every year. You're supposed to go out and buy another iPhone or iDevice at the next keynote speech. That's what you're supposed to do. I prefer to have a device that is rugged and the vendor is not just trying to milk me into buying the next one.
They said they dropped CarrierIQ but as some other commentator said, the tracking is now baked into iOS.
Imaginary problem? I'm sorry but being able to install what you want is a problem and security is no excuse. It is a trap and guarantee revenues, the security is a side benefit. I should not have to pay a fee to develop for my own device.
I highly doubt any of my concerns and my priorities are in tune with you as you already own Apple devices, you like the advantages they provide. A buyer who is mostly satisfied will never admit any flaws of a product he likes. (Post purchase rationalization) Let's just accept that you like what iDevices provide you and that I want nothing to do with them.
My phone says it was made in Hungary but I imagine it was only assembled there and the components were made in China. The battery was made in China. Unfortunate but an improvement over a completely Chinese manufactured device.
To those who have been watching Apple for years, this is just a long list of transgressions that make it obvious to avoid Apple.
- Walled gardens, vendor lock in
- Taking down applications from the App Store and including versions in iOS
- Spurious litigation and anti-competitive lawsuits in Germany and Australia
- CarrierIQ, GPS tracking privacy gaffes
- Planned failure just after warranty period (ever since the original pod)
When you think of products that are so anti consumer (not necessarily anti-usability), Apple comes to mind. As for many here, it's just business as usual as I will never buy an Apple product (especially after the first pod) anyway.
Hello DCTech, DavidSell, InsightIn140Bytes etc.
I think BrowserID and OpenID solve slightly different problems. BrowserID standardized the process of you logging in through your web browser while OpenID is about authenticating yourself through some authority (be it a server controlled by you or some third party). So that's a user-website interaction for BrowserID or website-website for OpenID.
They could actually be used together, any service that accepts OpenID logins could expose a BrowserID interface too.
BrowserID is pretty simple. It's basically a single Javascript function that a website can call in the browser. This example on github shows the function that is called. The clientside code is then free to make requests to the server for a specific authentication mechanism, making it very flexible. The Server code just validates the username/password.
Personally, I think it's simpler to understand than things like OpenID which are convoluted and not standardized from the user point of view. Where is the standard account management protocol for OpenID?
An older Slashdot article on BrowserID for reference: http://www.yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/15/1216222/Mozilla-BrowserID-Decentralized-Federated-Login
Not heard of Enigform but will look into it!
I didn't realise it was a hoax email. I've seen it in a number of publications (even print) ones which is surprising.
You are very much correct. I did not think about other sweetener manufacturers.
Who peed in your cornflakes?
You are conducting various logical fallacies including slippery slopes and ad-hominem attacks and putting words into my mouth that I did not say. I never mentioned anything to do with autism and vaccines. You are way too angry to be considered healthy. You're coming down hard on someone who actually shares your thoughts...
Look outside, pretty much everything can kill you if you are unlucky. If you did not know people who react badly to certain things (or strange allergies) you would think it is crackpot. Do not be quick to judge, especially online.
I may have been wrong about singling out aspartame, it could be another chemical that is in diet colas.