My thought would be to set the index page up to read that history stack cookie and redirect the browser to a live page. That way, if the user hit's the back button, they get kicked back to the index page. The index page slices the top item off the stack and redirects the user to the live page with the top item on the history stack as the target.
Not a FF plug in, but it would be a seamless solution to the back button issue for a website.
Change 'Snow' to 'Cure' Change crack addicts into suffering diseased community members Change drug king-ping to entrepreneurial pharmacist aiding humanity's fight against the sickness.
I'm not trying to make excuses for the VA or any other organization. I'm saying that the problems brought to light by the incident with the VA are in no way limited to the VA. If your specific branch/unit of the DOD is secure, that's great, but it is not the norm. True, classified areas are locked down rather well. It's not like you can walk into or out of a COM vault with a laptop. But in this case we are looking at data that is classified as 'sensitive' information, not secret (or above). That means dumpster diving at pretty much any military post can get you lists of military members and SSNs.
I pick on the military because they use SSNs almost exclusively for identification. So your SSN is used in a huge number of digital services ranging from the main frame and distributed databases (all nicely secured), down to an excel spread sheet that some worker bee in the retirement department uses. The fact that so many people have access to lists of sensitive data makes it virtually impossible to secure. The appropriate action would be to get the credit system off of the SSN system, or to get the military off of it. One way or another, getting systems decoupled from the primary key of the credit industry would go a long way towards securing sensitive data.
I call shenanigans on your BS. You can't pin this down on just the VA. As a former member of the military who worked in HQ MC and the Pentagon, I can assure you that given the proper motivation of any worker, this information could be leaked/stolen/sold.
In this case the fault was negligence. The laptop should have had an encrypted hard drive. The consultant should not have taken the data home. But if the consultant shouldn't have taken the data home, why was he given a laptop? There were many mistakes made in this process, and those same mistakes are made throughout the government and private sector. The VA has no special claim on incompetence.
Basically a bunch of artillery shells wired to a trigger or remote. When a US convoy drives past the IED hiding spot, a watcher triggers the explosive and the huge crater is formed right where the convoy used to be.
In that case you could take a person from modern day Ethiopia, or Congo, or any number of other developing countries with huge numbers of destitute and poor, stick them in the US and see them be amazed by technology.
Launchcast is a great system. I used to run it almost constantly at my old job. Always heard music I liked, or new music that fit my preferences, after a few months I rarely had to rate a song/albumn/artist to 0.
But on the same note, 56 people don't live on 16 acre of farm land. They live in houses and apartments (ie: infrastructures) that are designed to handle that population load.
My assumption is that the 3 people per 16-acres (1 server) is an average. And that in highly populated areas, more powerful servers or arrays (ie: infrastructures) are dedicated to the 16-acre block. On the fringes of the virtual world where population is vastly lower, a bottom end server may host a single person in the 16-acre block.
Not that I am affiliated with the game or it's developers or publishers, nor have I ever played the game. So anything I say is purely speculative.
No joke, this guy is one of the most worthless internet contributors with a solid distribution channel. Why the hell does he rate/.ing for an article any articulate 8th grader could have put together?
HL2/Doom3 are better on newer consoles than their pretecesors were on earlier consoles. They are still weak compared to their PC based rivals.;)
As great as consoles are, they are still specialized machines which limits their adoption. My PC can do everything consoles can do and much more that consoles can not. And as long as PCs have that advantage and a wide spread adoption rate, there will continue to be a market for PC based video games.
I built my newest PC about a year and a half ago for under $800. It replaced my previous PC which I had used for about 3-4 years. My year and a half old PC is still doing fine with most newer games, I've play HL2 based games with most options turned on with no problem. I've been playing a lot of NFS:MW lately, with the graphics cranked up and it runs smooth as silk.
As for a baseball sim... you've gotta be kidding. I mean, I can understand going out to a game, the atmosphere, the pop-corn and hot dogs, the crowd... But of all the boring games to turn into a video game... I put virtual-baseball right up there with virtual fishing. What a complete waste of time, unless you are looking for a 'hip' way of having a talk about sex, drugs, or alcohol with your child. Even then, it doesn't have the no escape mentality of being stuck on a boat miles from shore or in a stadium with no ride home.
Danny Elfman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000384/ the former front man for Oingo-Boingo, singing voice of Jack and soundtrack from Nightmare Before Christmas, has done ton's of movies and game sound tracks including parts of: Kingdom Hearts, Fable, and the Simpsons games. He's been on many more game sound tracks that aren't apparently listed on IMDB. The man is a musical genius.
"(ever tried to get friends and family to do PGP handshakes?)"
I've got one of those! It ends in a chest-thump then a simulated pistol shot in the air! We can always ensure that our friends are definately our friends with that hand shake.
Why does everyone think I'm implying that the Dems are better then the Republicans? I'm implying that given the current political situation the lobbyist can buy off Democrats and the democrats can use those promised votes on a re-election campaign message of protecting rights. IOW, the Dems are every bit as corrupt and dishonest as the Republicans, but in this case they may be so in a way that is more advantageous to our point of view.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Democrats ARE any better. But since the Republicans' have had control of the house and senate the lobbyist have been investing heavily on their side. If the ISP's ho-hum along now while funding Democrats' elections, come November we may have a different stance on the likelihood of the law that Gonzo threatened.
"Maybe even a few of them end up in jail until they can exonerate themselves"
Only by that time you've been deemed an 'enemy combatant,' stripped of your rights and shipped out of the country. Maybe after 6 months of separation and torture they'll let you go, but then again, dealing with the publicity of a US citizen getting nabbed... It may just be easier to put a round in your head and drop you in the Mediterranean.
"Translation: Will we have to ram another law through Congress to make this happen, or can we achieve the same results through good old-fashioned coercion and intimidation? After all, if we have to pass a law, then we'll be constrained by the law's wording...but if we 'persuade' the Internet companies to retin this data for us 'voluntarily', then we can act without restraint or oversight...after all, it is 'voluntary'..."
An interesting thought. What happens if the ISPs play along for the next few months and in November the Republicans lose control of the house and senate? Can the ISP lobiests motivate the democratic party to put an end to this big brother like behavior?
According to http://www.chippc.com/resources/JackPC_Booklet.pdf it does run off of POE. It also looks like the box size is a standard double wide electric box. But they have a proprietary box that has some sort of modular release system so you don't have to screw with wires when you install it.
"I've been tracking Dapper since flight 3, its as easy as: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade"
Call me a lazy windows user (but I do dual boot Ubuntu), but is there a quick and easy GUI based way to do this? I mean with windows I can set it up to update automatically (download then prompt for install schedule) or I can run the update from the start menu.
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There are ways of redirecting a page and retaining the history.
-Rick
My thought would be to set the index page up to read that history stack cookie and redirect the browser to a live page. That way, if the user hit's the back button, they get kicked back to the index page. The index page slices the top item off the stack and redirects the user to the live page with the top item on the history stack as the target.
Not a FF plug in, but it would be a seamless solution to the back button issue for a website.
-Rick
Change 'Snow' to 'Cure'
Change crack addicts into suffering diseased community members
Change drug king-ping to entrepreneurial pharmacist aiding humanity's fight against the sickness.
Viola! Drop from an AO to G rating!
-Rick
Hey, it worked for the insurance industry! And drivers licenses!
-Rick
I'm not trying to make excuses for the VA or any other organization. I'm saying that the problems brought to light by the incident with the VA are in no way limited to the VA. If your specific branch/unit of the DOD is secure, that's great, but it is not the norm. True, classified areas are locked down rather well. It's not like you can walk into or out of a COM vault with a laptop. But in this case we are looking at data that is classified as 'sensitive' information, not secret (or above). That means dumpster diving at pretty much any military post can get you lists of military members and SSNs.
I pick on the military because they use SSNs almost exclusively for identification. So your SSN is used in a huge number of digital services ranging from the main frame and distributed databases (all nicely secured), down to an excel spread sheet that some worker bee in the retirement department uses. The fact that so many people have access to lists of sensitive data makes it virtually impossible to secure. The appropriate action would be to get the credit system off of the SSN system, or to get the military off of it. One way or another, getting systems decoupled from the primary key of the credit industry would go a long way towards securing sensitive data.
-Rick
I call shenanigans on your BS. You can't pin this down on just the VA. As a former member of the military who worked in HQ MC and the Pentagon, I can assure you that given the proper motivation of any worker, this information could be leaked/stolen/sold.
In this case the fault was negligence. The laptop should have had an encrypted hard drive. The consultant should not have taken the data home. But if the consultant shouldn't have taken the data home, why was he given a laptop? There were many mistakes made in this process, and those same mistakes are made throughout the government and private sector. The VA has no special claim on incompetence.
-Rick
Improvised Explosive Devise.
Basically a bunch of artillery shells wired to a trigger or remote. When a US convoy drives past the IED hiding spot, a watcher triggers the explosive and the huge crater is formed right where the convoy used to be.
-Rick
In that case you could take a person from modern day Ethiopia, or Congo, or any number of other developing countries with huge numbers of destitute and poor, stick them in the US and see them be amazed by technology.
-Rick
Launchcast is a great system. I used to run it almost constantly at my old job. Always heard music I liked, or new music that fit my preferences, after a few months I rarely had to rate a song/albumn/artist to 0.
-Rick
But on the same note, 56 people don't live on 16 acre of farm land. They live in houses and apartments (ie: infrastructures) that are designed to handle that population load.
My assumption is that the 3 people per 16-acres (1 server) is an average. And that in highly populated areas, more powerful servers or arrays (ie: infrastructures) are dedicated to the 16-acre block. On the fringes of the virtual world where population is vastly lower, a bottom end server may host a single person in the 16-acre block.
Not that I am affiliated with the game or it's developers or publishers, nor have I ever played the game. So anything I say is purely speculative.
-Rick
No joke, this guy is one of the most worthless internet contributors with a solid distribution channel. Why the hell does he rate /.ing for an article any articulate 8th grader could have put together?
-Rick
HL2/Doom3 are better on newer consoles than their pretecesors were on earlier consoles. They are still weak compared to their PC based rivals. ;)
As great as consoles are, they are still specialized machines which limits their adoption. My PC can do everything consoles can do and much more that consoles can not. And as long as PCs have that advantage and a wide spread adoption rate, there will continue to be a market for PC based video games.
-Rick
I built my newest PC about a year and a half ago for under $800. It replaced my previous PC which I had used for about 3-4 years. My year and a half old PC is still doing fine with most newer games, I've play HL2 based games with most options turned on with no problem. I've been playing a lot of NFS:MW lately, with the graphics cranked up and it runs smooth as silk.
As for a baseball sim... you've gotta be kidding. I mean, I can understand going out to a game, the atmosphere, the pop-corn and hot dogs, the crowd... But of all the boring games to turn into a video game... I put virtual-baseball right up there with virtual fishing. What a complete waste of time, unless you are looking for a 'hip' way of having a talk about sex, drugs, or alcohol with your child. Even then, it doesn't have the no escape mentality of being stuck on a boat miles from shore or in a stadium with no ride home.
-Rick
And Wisconsin fought long and hard on the drinking age too! :P (Well, atleast 2 years...)
-Rick
Danny Elfman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000384/ the former front man for Oingo-Boingo, singing voice of Jack and soundtrack from Nightmare Before Christmas, has done ton's of movies and game sound tracks including parts of: Kingdom Hearts, Fable, and the Simpsons games. He's been on many more game sound tracks that aren't apparently listed on IMDB. The man is a musical genius.
-Rick
I voted for Feingold. That seems to be working out pretty well.
-Rick
Gov Jim Doyle just signed a bill into law making it ILLEGAL in the state of Wisconsin to have legislation which makes RFID implants mandatory.
-Rick
"(ever tried to get friends and family to do PGP handshakes?)"
I've got one of those! It ends in a chest-thump then a simulated pistol shot in the air! We can always ensure that our friends are definately our friends with that hand shake.
-Rick
Why does everyone think I'm implying that the Dems are better then the Republicans? I'm implying that given the current political situation the lobbyist can buy off Democrats and the democrats can use those promised votes on a re-election campaign message of protecting rights. IOW, the Dems are every bit as corrupt and dishonest as the Republicans, but in this case they may be so in a way that is more advantageous to our point of view.
-Rick
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Democrats ARE any better. But since the Republicans' have had control of the house and senate the lobbyist have been investing heavily on their side. If the ISP's ho-hum along now while funding Democrats' elections, come November we may have a different stance on the likelihood of the law that Gonzo threatened.
-Rick
"Maybe even a few of them end up in jail until they can exonerate themselves"
Only by that time you've been deemed an 'enemy combatant,' stripped of your rights and shipped out of the country. Maybe after 6 months of separation and torture they'll let you go, but then again, dealing with the publicity of a US citizen getting nabbed... It may just be easier to put a round in your head and drop you in the Mediterranean.
-Rick
No, but they have a great campaign to run on this year. "We're not republicans!"
We can hope, and we can vote. Do the research and make sure you are not putting someone in office who would rather abuse power then preserve rights.
-Rick
"Translation: Will we have to ram another law through Congress to make this happen, or can we achieve the same results through good old-fashioned coercion and intimidation? After all, if we have to pass a law, then we'll be constrained by the law's wording...but if we 'persuade' the Internet companies to retin this data for us 'voluntarily', then we can act without restraint or oversight...after all, it is 'voluntary'..."
An interesting thought. What happens if the ISPs play along for the next few months and in November the Republicans lose control of the house and senate? Can the ISP lobiests motivate the democratic party to put an end to this big brother like behavior?
-Rick
According to http://www.chippc.com/resources/JackPC_Booklet.pdf it does run off of POE. It also looks like the box size is a standard double wide electric box. But they have a proprietary box that has some sort of modular release system so you don't have to screw with wires when you install it.
-Rick
"I've been tracking Dapper since flight 3, its as easy as:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade"
Call me a lazy windows user (but I do dual boot Ubuntu), but is there a quick and easy GUI based way to do this? I mean with windows I can set it up to update automatically (download then prompt for install schedule) or I can run the update from the start menu.
-Rick