I must have missed that phase. When I came in, it was like $19.95 a month for unlimited usage, whatever unlimited really meant. I was 12 at the time. (I'm much younger than my 5-digit ID would let on)
I've been a system admin at a fairly popular web hosting company before. Most of the attacks of this nature where not system-related at all, but were attacks against software such as WordPress, Joomla, etc: vulnerabilities in third party, cross-platform software that would have worked on Windows or Linux (We were using CentOS + cPanel). The issues weren't necessarily SQL injections, just software bugs. If this problem actually had anything to do with IIS, then perhaps mentioning it would be valid, but as the articles state, the issues are with non-sanitized input in the web apps, and they just happen to be running on an IIS server. If 12 drunk drives die in car accidents over a weekend and they're all driving Mustangs, do we blame Ford for that? No.
'cause, you know... no SQL injection has ever occurred in a LAMP environment before. If the problem is SQL-related, then the web server being used is pretty much irrelevant.
I always assumed it to mean that the day the software is released, an exploit is found -- kind of like a zero-day crack to pirate software. Apparently I was wrong, and it means whatever the article author needs it to mean in order to sound as bad and scary as possible like "z0mg! we have zero days before the end of the world!"
I used to hate on twitter pretty hard-core until I realized that it was basically a party-line SMS service and was actually kind of neat. I've used the API via Perl, Ruby and PHP just to mess around, but nothing particularly serious. I actually haven't even bothered to tweet in a couple of weeks.
None of that is particularly relevant, I suppose. I don't think I'll be progressing any further in twitter scripting, not really because of this, but its just sort of lost its appeal. Frankly, I shouldn't really be surprised at this move, though it is kind of annoying from a user perspective, knowing this is how they want to play the game. Of course, their game is kind of like the Baseketball of social networking, and if I just never logged in again, my life wouldn't be any different. Maybe I'll delete my new account I created after I had a change of heart following the last time I deleted a twitter account. I'm pretty sure that I could hold steady in my resolve this time.
Maybe I just haven't worked in large enough companies, or in desktop support, to have encountered this sort of thing personally. It just always seemed to be kind of ridiculous that there would be "training costs" associated with moving between two versions of the same product from the same company, especially when nothing really substantial has changed from a user perspective, as far as I can tell. The buttons are in the same place and do the same tasks. What, really, is the big deal?
The only way that OS X would catch up to Windows in terms of market share, is if either A) they dramatically dropped the price point for Macs, or B) they licensed the software for white-box PCs. In either case, their brand would be diluted. They sort of thrive on a high-margin, low-volume model, and I'm not sure they were ever really competing with Microsoft in the way people imagine, especially being primarily a hardware company from the start.
When kids went off to war in Europe in the 40s, a good portion of their parents or grandparents were from the countries we were fighting in, they grew up in German or Italian neighborhoods, and were basically fighting family. Fighting in Vietnam is a more like fighting the Japanese (pro tip: they used Japanese-looking dolls to train bayonet tactics, even for the kids going off to Europe). Not saying its right, just saying its easier to rationalize killing people you have less of a connection to, and it always has been for all of human history.
Communism and Capitalism are two sides of the same Materialist historical-dialectic coin. They are the same god damned thing in spirit, basing all measure of the value of human endeavor on material wealth production. That's why they both kind of suck.
Re: airlines -- there are legitimate changes in logistics due to mechanical failure, weather pattern changes, volcanoes, whatever else have you, that can affect what planes or crew are available, or whether or not the flight can safely take off.
I'm sure there are examples in other industries of this sort of thing happening from time-to-time, but it just seems to me to be endemic in tech and telecom. Look at software for instance -- "pay s $300 for the right to use what's on this plastic disk, but not ownership, and btw -- we're not going to promise that what's on the plastic disk does anything, anyway." That's just dicked up.
I've never had to deal with it outside of tech and telecom. I've been royally, and probably illegally screwed before by ISPs, including one which changed the terms of my contract, including removing the part that said terms couldn't be changed except with 30-day notice, then tried to charge me with "hacking" for accessing a shell account my contract gave me the right to access.
Sure, credit card companies adjust rates, but that is known (or should be) going into the deal... and now there is a law against doing it without notice. Tech and telecom carriers seem to do it all the damned time and get away with it.
Outside of tech and telecom, are there any industries that can get away with "reserving the right" to "change the terms of this agreement without notice" or to sell products without "any implied fitness for merchantability or usefulness for any purpose"? Car companies and real estate deals could never operate with this kind of crap -- people just wouldn't stand for it.
To be fair, this may be one of the few times people actually try to read the article, so I'm sure that's at least contributing to the problem (reduced speed of downloading the JS script before it can be executed)
most people or most nerds? I don't think most people even get ABP, even if they run Firefox, let alone actually know what Javascript is or that its something that can be disabled. Turn off JS these days, and practically nothing works. better would be a plug-in which just prevents Smokescreen from being loaded in particular.
You can run Office on a Mac. You can run iWork on a Mac. You can run NeoOffice on a Mac. You can run OpenOffice on Linux. Gmail or Zimbra can probably do nearly everything that they'd maybe need Exchange for, but I doubt Google used Exchange in the first place. Most of their engineers will probably pick Linux, and most of their "office droids" will probably get a Mac by default. A modern Linux or MacOS X desktop is hardly an Ultra5 with Solaris 8 with nasty purple CDE pretending XEmacs is a word processor.
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Last I checked, buying the laptop is cheaper than a couple hours of any given lawyer's time, let alone fighting the county government in court.
I must have missed that phase. When I came in, it was like $19.95 a month for unlimited usage, whatever unlimited really meant. I was 12 at the time. (I'm much younger than my 5-digit ID would let on)
But if an Indian pays taxes, then he counts as a whole free person?
I've been a system admin at a fairly popular web hosting company before. Most of the attacks of this nature where not system-related at all, but were attacks against software such as WordPress, Joomla, etc: vulnerabilities in third party, cross-platform software that would have worked on Windows or Linux (We were using CentOS + cPanel). The issues weren't necessarily SQL injections, just software bugs. If this problem actually had anything to do with IIS, then perhaps mentioning it would be valid, but as the articles state, the issues are with non-sanitized input in the web apps, and they just happen to be running on an IIS server. If 12 drunk drives die in car accidents over a weekend and they're all driving Mustangs, do we blame Ford for that? No.
'cause, you know... no SQL injection has ever occurred in a LAMP environment before. If the problem is SQL-related, then the web server being used is pretty much irrelevant.
Time is pretty much the only thing in life which has no possibility of being unlimited.
GNOME is official GNU software, so its not "another prime example"
In fact, they're much worse 'cause they don't even pay dividends. They just suck up ticker space.
I always assumed it to mean that the day the software is released, an exploit is found -- kind of like a zero-day crack to pirate software. Apparently I was wrong, and it means whatever the article author needs it to mean in order to sound as bad and scary as possible like "z0mg! we have zero days before the end of the world!"
just get a good look on the way out when you're being born, then, i guess...
I used to hate on twitter pretty hard-core until I realized that it was basically a party-line SMS service and was actually kind of neat. I've used the API via Perl, Ruby and PHP just to mess around, but nothing particularly serious. I actually haven't even bothered to tweet in a couple of weeks.
None of that is particularly relevant, I suppose. I don't think I'll be progressing any further in twitter scripting, not really because of this, but its just sort of lost its appeal. Frankly, I shouldn't really be surprised at this move, though it is kind of annoying from a user perspective, knowing this is how they want to play the game. Of course, their game is kind of like the Baseketball of social networking, and if I just never logged in again, my life wouldn't be any different. Maybe I'll delete my new account I created after I had a change of heart following the last time I deleted a twitter account. I'm pretty sure that I could hold steady in my resolve this time.
This might be the first and last time I ever see "get girls" be directly the next step after writing code. Seems to be a bit of a non-sequitor.
Maybe I just haven't worked in large enough companies, or in desktop support, to have encountered this sort of thing personally. It just always seemed to be kind of ridiculous that there would be "training costs" associated with moving between two versions of the same product from the same company, especially when nothing really substantial has changed from a user perspective, as far as I can tell. The buttons are in the same place and do the same tasks. What, really, is the big deal?
The only way that OS X would catch up to Windows in terms of market share, is if either A) they dramatically dropped the price point for Macs, or B) they licensed the software for white-box PCs. In either case, their brand would be diluted. They sort of thrive on a high-margin, low-volume model, and I'm not sure they were ever really competing with Microsoft in the way people imagine, especially being primarily a hardware company from the start.
because the results will now be fairly half-assed and kind of jittery? On a related note, what's with Apple pimping Bing all of a sudden?
When kids went off to war in Europe in the 40s, a good portion of their parents or grandparents were from the countries we were fighting in, they grew up in German or Italian neighborhoods, and were basically fighting family. Fighting in Vietnam is a more like fighting the Japanese (pro tip: they used Japanese-looking dolls to train bayonet tactics, even for the kids going off to Europe). Not saying its right, just saying its easier to rationalize killing people you have less of a connection to, and it always has been for all of human history.
yes, but on whose side?
Communism and Capitalism are two sides of the same Materialist historical-dialectic coin. They are the same god damned thing in spirit, basing all measure of the value of human endeavor on material wealth production. That's why they both kind of suck.
hey, dude... BP is trying as hard as they can to get the rest of them, too. It's just taking a little longer than first thought. Cut them some slack.
Re: airlines -- there are legitimate changes in logistics due to mechanical failure, weather pattern changes, volcanoes, whatever else have you, that can affect what planes or crew are available, or whether or not the flight can safely take off.
I'm sure there are examples in other industries of this sort of thing happening from time-to-time, but it just seems to me to be endemic in tech and telecom. Look at software for instance -- "pay s $300 for the right to use what's on this plastic disk, but not ownership, and btw -- we're not going to promise that what's on the plastic disk does anything, anyway." That's just dicked up.
I've never had to deal with it outside of tech and telecom. I've been royally, and probably illegally screwed before by ISPs, including one which changed the terms of my contract, including removing the part that said terms couldn't be changed except with 30-day notice, then tried to charge me with "hacking" for accessing a shell account my contract gave me the right to access.
Sure, credit card companies adjust rates, but that is known (or should be) going into the deal... and now there is a law against doing it without notice. Tech and telecom carriers seem to do it all the damned time and get away with it.
Outside of tech and telecom, are there any industries that can get away with "reserving the right" to "change the terms of this agreement without notice" or to sell products without "any implied fitness for merchantability or usefulness for any purpose"? Car companies and real estate deals could never operate with this kind of crap -- people just wouldn't stand for it.
To be fair, this may be one of the few times people actually try to read the article, so I'm sure that's at least contributing to the problem (reduced speed of downloading the JS script before it can be executed)
most people or most nerds? I don't think most people even get ABP, even if they run Firefox, let alone actually know what Javascript is or that its something that can be disabled. Turn off JS these days, and practically nothing works. better would be a plug-in which just prevents Smokescreen from being loaded in particular.
You can run Office on a Mac. You can run iWork on a Mac. You can run NeoOffice on a Mac. You can run OpenOffice on Linux. Gmail or Zimbra can probably do nearly everything that they'd maybe need Exchange for, but I doubt Google used Exchange in the first place. Most of their engineers will probably pick Linux, and most of their "office droids" will probably get a Mac by default. A modern Linux or MacOS X desktop is hardly an Ultra5 with Solaris 8 with nasty purple CDE pretending XEmacs is a word processor.