Google will probably throw up an info bar a bit before the switchover if your browser is not HTML5 compatible, warning that YouTube is dropping support for said browser and so get a new one if you wish to keep using YouTube... it would have a link leading to a list of HTML5 compatible browsers you can install such as Firefox, Chrome, ChromeFrame, Safari, etc. Or just ChromeFrame, for IE users, though I think even now Wave offers browser suggestions too as well as ChromeFrame.
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Similar checkboxes were on my security clearance application. The way I see it, it's so they can charge you with lying on a gov't form later if it turns out you are a terr'ist.
If you compare a file listing run from inside the machine to one run from a bootable CD OS where the rootkit can't load, different files are a dead giveaway that something is being hidden, and a rootkit can't work around this.
There are also lower level APIs one can use inside of an OS that are much harder for a rootkit to patch so such tools can also locate some rootkits without needing to boot from CD. See: RootkitRevealer
Windows File Protection is supposed to checksum and restore modified files. But if malware gets on your machine, all bets are off and it will likely be bypassed or tricked. In addition, it's a rootkit, so normal checksum scans are supposed to detect nothing, it's supposed to be good at hiding. Wouldn't be a very good rootkit if it was found by a feature not designed to find rootkits specifically.
Video gaming on Linux has come a long way thanks to Wine. I tried TF2 a few versions ago and was surprised how well it ran and how free it was of any graphical glitches. Only thing it was missing was DX9 support. The performance was almost as good as under XP.
The ISO tool isn't by Sysinternals, and Filemon (he said that instead of Diskmon) has been discontinued in favor of the more versatile Process Monitor.
1. Flash and all IE plugins have to use ActiveX (Java uses an alternate method though) to work with IE so ActiveX isn't dead yet, but even Microsoft has moved away from using ActiveX with Windows Update (seriously, letting a website patch critical system files is just bad design).
2. Good point, I guess devs who use IIS are more likely to be developing for IE, Apache more likely for Open Source browsers.
3. I guess this goes with 5... more internet-capable devices that IE simply doesn't run on is going to be bad for IE.:)
4. I guess you're talking about the IE/Netscape war? IE wasn't bundled with Windows back then so they did legitimately win, though I don't remember much about that so correct me if I'm wrong. Then the bundling made sure Microsoft had no real reason to continue improving IE (until Firefox came along).
5. See 3.
6. This was me, circa Phoenix. Well actually it was more about a little thing called TABS.:)
7. Never thought about this one much... but back in dialup MB files were a big deal I suppose. Now it's GB files that are a big deal (well ok > 50MB is a big deal too I suppose).
8. There's hatred of Flash itself out there, maybe HTML5 will rise to the challenge.:)
9. Some apps have it, though some web browsers us it to wrap IE, which is a horrible idea IMO, you just get the security problems that come with IE. You can try to lessen them I guess but at the end of the day you're still running that browser that hackers are exploiting. Steam uses the ActiveX control ok, but they have to use an ugly hack to get new windows to open in your standard browser instead of IE. Enough people complained about the behavior (which, to a dev, is expected since you ARE browsing in IE, but not to users) that they had to change it. They should embed Gecko or Webkit or something.
10. IE8 is for XP, FYI. Delivered via Windows Update, only reason you'd stay with 6 is if a work intranet app or web app needed it or something.
Use 255.255.255.0 instead of 127.0.0.1, then the connection immediately fails as an invalid IP address instead of being rejected by your own computer or timing out or connecting to your locally run webserver.
A bug tracker called "Gemini" hooks and stops Ctrl+V and hooks the context menu too and blocks it. This is very annoying since their paste IS BROKEN. I go to paste and nothing happens.
Gemini appears to be made for IE6 since it doesn't support tabs (it "remembers" your previous page and uses that to figure out what project you're viewing... if you open a new tab and browse into another project, the other tab will navigate to it as soon as you click any link) and the text area editor is simply better for IE. Quite infuriating. If I still used Firefox I could just NoScript it and be done with at least the dumb clipboard stuff.
I can't paste via the Page menu either since Chrome's paste menu option is a hack; it just sends Ctrl+V to the browser window (I've seen the source code). Hope they fix that soon...
PHP has $_GET and $_POST variables, the former of which holds query variables in the url (usually sent with GET but I think you can have them in POST too) and the latter has variables sent with POST.
There is also $_REQUEST, which returns the union of $_GET and $_POST... but also $_COOKIES. It's ok as long as you keep that in mind I guess, and all three are sent by the user, so no security issues can arise that wouldn't be present otherwise.
Of course cookies "stick around" unlike the others so it could lead to some weird bugs if you accidentally collide names...
Anyways I have always explicitly used $_GET or $_POST depending on the way I expect to receive data.
Also, it's not a good idea to accept data that modifies the server state via $_GET because someone will trick people into clicking links to give his stupid thing on your site more votes or whatever, or to automatically post a comment on a blog or something, etc.
Not really the same thing... I think the idea was that Product X is touted as revolutionary, then later Product Y, which for being four decades later is curiously less advanced. Though once you look at the relative prices, it makes sense.
Your example would work if AT&T had demonstrated a hologram phone 40 years ago.
There is a school of thought among programmers who consider themselves hotshots that if you are not a hotshot you have no business touching their code. The problem with this attitude is that it has little to do with the real world, where people change jobs and programmers inherit someone else's code.
That just makes it easy for them to fire you and replace you. Badly written code that only YOU have the ability to maintain ensures your job security!;)
This was my approach to Firefox. I usually only kept a handful of my must-have extensions enabled. It also was my logic to abandon every single one of my extensions and move to Chrome... the startup time was simply unbeatable. I had up to 30 seconds in Firefox... later I would find out 33% of that was a malfunctioning AdBlock Plus, but even with managing to cut it down to 6-10 seconds it was still slower than Chrome.
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It's not nice to reveal peoples' root http directories.
Google will probably throw up an info bar a bit before the switchover if your browser is not HTML5 compatible, warning that YouTube is dropping support for said browser and so get a new one if you wish to keep using YouTube... it would have a link leading to a list of HTML5 compatible browsers you can install such as Firefox, Chrome, ChromeFrame, Safari, etc. Or just ChromeFrame, for IE users, though I think even now Wave offers browser suggestions too as well as ChromeFrame.
Similar checkboxes were on my security clearance application. The way I see it, it's so they can charge you with lying on a gov't form later if it turns out you are a terr'ist.
"...with data transfer that relies on radio communication."
Well that sounds like an eavesdropping invitation if I ever heard one.
If you compare a file listing run from inside the machine to one run from a bootable CD OS where the rootkit can't load, different files are a dead giveaway that something is being hidden, and a rootkit can't work around this.
There are also lower level APIs one can use inside of an OS that are much harder for a rootkit to patch so such tools can also locate some rootkits without needing to boot from CD. See: RootkitRevealer
Windows File Protection is supposed to checksum and restore modified files. But if malware gets on your machine, all bets are off and it will likely be bypassed or tricked. In addition, it's a rootkit, so normal checksum scans are supposed to detect nothing, it's supposed to be good at hiding. Wouldn't be a very good rootkit if it was found by a feature not designed to find rootkits specifically.
Video gaming on Linux has come a long way thanks to Wine. I tried TF2 a few versions ago and was surprised how well it ran and how free it was of any graphical glitches. Only thing it was missing was DX9 support. The performance was almost as good as under XP.
Vista/7 doesn't have Volume License Keys anymore AFAIK, the "thousands of times" keys are only for XP and earlier.
Intentionally misleading and making a mistake are two different things.
Well when you think of "rebooting" you think of WU. It just nagged me like 30 seconds ago to do it.
The ISO tool isn't by Sysinternals, and Filemon (he said that instead of Diskmon) has been discontinued in favor of the more versatile Process Monitor.
Anyone else read the title and think it was about Steam VAC bans? :)
Presumably that is the price it would have been worth if it had been genuine instead of counterfeit.
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PS: Why are ordered lists broken in Slashdot. :(
I'm pretty sure Windows clears it out long before then.
Why not an opt in?
Easy, no-one would. You have to give people incentive to lessen their privacy, unless it's happening by default and they just don't realize it.
Use 255.255.255.0 instead of 127.0.0.1, then the connection immediately fails as an invalid IP address instead of being rejected by your own computer or timing out or connecting to your locally run webserver.
A bug tracker called "Gemini" hooks and stops Ctrl+V and hooks the context menu too and blocks it. This is very annoying since their paste IS BROKEN. I go to paste and nothing happens. Gemini appears to be made for IE6 since it doesn't support tabs (it "remembers" your previous page and uses that to figure out what project you're viewing... if you open a new tab and browse into another project, the other tab will navigate to it as soon as you click any link) and the text area editor is simply better for IE. Quite infuriating. If I still used Firefox I could just NoScript it and be done with at least the dumb clipboard stuff. I can't paste via the Page menu either since Chrome's paste menu option is a hack; it just sends Ctrl+V to the browser window (I've seen the source code). Hope they fix that soon...
PHP has $_GET and $_POST variables, the former of which holds query variables in the url (usually sent with GET but I think you can have them in POST too) and the latter has variables sent with POST.
There is also $_REQUEST, which returns the union of $_GET and $_POST... but also $_COOKIES. It's ok as long as you keep that in mind I guess, and all three are sent by the user, so no security issues can arise that wouldn't be present otherwise.
Of course cookies "stick around" unlike the others so it could lead to some weird bugs if you accidentally collide names...
Anyways I have always explicitly used $_GET or $_POST depending on the way I expect to receive data.
Also, it's not a good idea to accept data that modifies the server state via $_GET because someone will trick people into clicking links to give his stupid thing on your site more votes or whatever, or to automatically post a comment on a blog or something, etc.
Did you try typing "TCP/IP" into the search box?
Not really the same thing... I think the idea was that Product X is touted as revolutionary, then later Product Y, which for being four decades later is curiously less advanced. Though once you look at the relative prices, it makes sense.
Your example would work if AT&T had demonstrated a hologram phone 40 years ago.
There is a school of thought among programmers who consider themselves hotshots that if you are not a hotshot you have no business touching their code. The problem with this attitude is that it has little to do with the real world, where people change jobs and programmers inherit someone else's code.
That just makes it easy for them to fire you and replace you. Badly written code that only YOU have the ability to maintain ensures your job security! ;)
Only one tiny problem: I'm not sure how one would go about doing it a second time...
copyrights are owned by the people who come up with the idea, right? So wouldn't his parents own the copyright? Maybe they should sue him.
This was my approach to Firefox. I usually only kept a handful of my must-have extensions enabled. It also was my logic to abandon every single one of my extensions and move to Chrome... the startup time was simply unbeatable. I had up to 30 seconds in Firefox... later I would find out 33% of that was a malfunctioning AdBlock Plus, but even with managing to cut it down to 6-10 seconds it was still slower than Chrome.