I know we don't get paid enough to take early retirement.
WI disagree. What do you do with your money? I make 70k out of college, and have been around 100k since. That's not uncommon for 10 years of IT experience and a few social skills. I save money and live beneath my means. I'm 32 now and will be well into semi-retirement before I hit 40, and will have substancial savings. (Unless all of modern society colapses). Then I plan to move to a new career thats more fun that anything. If you are serious about IT and not making a good coin, then whats the deal?
What I mean is, the debate is still on for this vote - but the pro-patriot act senators were not able to "invoke cloture" and force an immediate vote that would have renewed the patriot act with a simple majority. Cloture was blocked by only 8 senate votes. The "showdown" over renewing the patriot act has really just begun.
My understanding is that the lay of hard drives is:
1) They prefer to be turned on at all times
2) They prefer to be spinning at all times? (not sure about this one)
3) They tend to fill up over time and you always need more space in the long run
I'm very eager to get your thoughts on this one, wrong as I may be.....
How about high tech torture equipment? So be it, its "soul" is not evil - since its an inanimate object. But still, such a device would be made for pretty much evil uses only, hence I would call it an evil machine.
are organizations like Google redefining the law of demand and answer?
You mean supply and demand, the cornerstone of capitalism? More like - Google is redefining the rules of advertising and IT for the entire world.
To what extent does this imply a competitive advantage for larger companies?
Well, just like the superbowl, only companies with big bucks can get prime time advertising real estate.
Do we need an ethical framework to direct companies to make such algorithms open source?"
Keep your ethics and morality out of my consumer choices. If I dont like how google does business, I will stop buying from them. I live on Kauai, and I turned my girlfriends dying massage business into a thriving business (www.kauaioutcallmassage.com) spending only 20$/month over the last 2 years. Google has been incredible for my family, please don't rain on or change my parade with Google!
you rolled a 23, so now you are a waiter barely making the poverty line, growing older and sadder every day..."
But if they roll a 20 do they get a critical hit and get to be a star? Thats a 5% chance on a d20, not bad odds!
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There are simply not enough **qualified** Java programmers out there in the market. You need serious Object Oriented Design skills to play with Java, and that is not easy for many programmers. Microsoft is flooding India and US universities with funding - teach programmers.NET and not Java. That's right, any hack can make a.net or php app run, you need to be a seriously skilled developer (and not some meglomaniac admin with a "P" language thinking they are suddenly a coder).
In a few years we are going to see this "rush from PHP back to Java" due to all the buggy and problematic business logic embedded in crappy php code. It's easy to cheer when a language speeds up the development process, but what about the maintainence? Anyone here want ot maintain a few thousand crappy php programs written by hacks? What a nightmare!
Ah, I only see those performance problems when I try to parse LARGE xml objects. I only get very small XML objects from the server - the minimal data that I need, so I never see those performance problems in the real world. Now, if I never need to parse very large and complex XML, I will move to a JSON architecture instead for that app.
JSON is just string manipulation and Yet Another Protocol. I'd rather use something that my fellow programmers understand from the XML world - and my entire team already knows XPATH. All the folks who hit our aps are graphics folks with decent machines, only old pentiums or worse have performance problems with XPATH. I'm really happy with my architectural choices - XPATH is proven tech that my team already understands. I think JSON is cool for med sized apps; but I have a very large number of apps to maintainability, I'm all about XPATH and Googles XPATH library for .:)
No, it's not just you. This is the third article I've seen from ScuttleMonkey FOR **Beatles-Beatles - the worst part is all the ad spam. How much money are you 2 making at your expense, you silicon-sucking pointy haired bastards?
Sorry not to explain more - but that was my point for "Listing 6. Handle the server's response" -> I tend to normally get XML back from the server and address said XML via XPATH. For Javascript XPATH libaries, I saw only 2 real choices: (1) Sarissa : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa - which worked great, except on Safari. Then I tried googles lib at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-ajaxslt/ - which is far superior in terms of browser support.
XPATH is a standardizied way to address (or query into, or parse) XML. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath - The only real calls I do for web apps look like: "/xml_response/manager/first_name/text()" which is rather straight forward and works in any language.
This article only begins to scratch the surface with AJAX. Beginners, only. One thing I'd like to add to the article - is the best way to parse XML documents. The article suggests:
function updatePage() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
var response = xmlHttp.responseText;
document.getElementById("zipCode").value = response;
}
}
Which is really the absolute WORST way to parse XML. It's a bear to support cross-platform. I have had the best luck for client-side-Javascript-xml-parsing using Google's XPATH library at http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-ajaxslt/ - Sarissa is a close XPATH second, but she has trouble supporting Safari and other browsers.
Also, the article does not mention how brutal it is to work in JS at this level since there are very few savy development tools. Be careful before you invest a lot in AJAX or you will get CREAMED tring to support this code down the road.
Go to Tools -> Options.
Select the Privacy Icon, and then the History tab. Set the number of days to save pages at 0. This will disable writing anything to history.dat as far as I can tell, and should nullify the exploit. Readers have confirmed that this workaround does prevent the buffer overflow. You can also change your privacy settings to delete personal info when you close Firefox.
Another workaround is to modify prefs.js while Firefox has not been started and put in the line:
Lastly, you can also run the NoScript extension, found here. (Which I have not looked at in depth.) However, there are other ways of exploiting this where NoScript might not work.
Some users have reported being unable to reproduce this error. I will test more to try to establish what makes this work and not. So far it appears Mac users are not affected by this.
Hey, for free anti-virus solutions - I've moved to "AVG Anti Virus" and have been thrilled with. It's not as protective as McAfee - (McAfee stops some virus' pre-signature cause they detect buffer overflows and the like), but combined with a solid software (and hardware) firewall, I feel a little safe. Is AVG (and other freebies) powerful in your opinion?
I first of all, backup all my personal data off my work machines, not use work machines for personal data at all! I then backup all my work data for my employer, nuke my machine, reinstall everything perfect and have a dev machine all ready for the next guy. (This effectively wipes all trace of my from the machine, yet leaves my employeer with a "dialed in" machine so everyone is happy:) I then give one month notice since my jobs are usually tangled webs, and work HARD ASSED the next 2 weeks and ask to be let go of early if I catch up on all my work. I continue to try to nail relationships or helper code to old employeers, and keep good relations with em all. It's a small work in the tech community, it's good to treat all companies like family (which means forgiving the times when everyone acts like a$holes):)
I have had a great deal of success with Ajax in the last few months where the same code base works on IE XP, FireFox XP, and Safari - my three big targets. I'm using AJFORM and Googles XPATH library for XML parsing. Viva Open Source! Limitations be damned, I'm making my clients *very* happy.
Womderful - there has been a breakthrough in dye technology recently that is very similar to this new paint tech. http://www.zubbles.com/ - Check out the popular science on the decade long search to make colored bubbles and the depth they had to go to find the dye tech breakthrough to do this! Fastinating!
There are times (driving a ill or injured person to the hospital, for instance) that you need to speed. Those are not legitimate reasons to drive at excessive speeds.
YEA RIGHT. When I was driving my wife to the hospital in labor with our child, I decided to stop at a stop sign. She politely grabbed me by the bells and said, "Would you mind ignoring the stop sign and speed to the hospital, please?" This was a life-and-death situation, so I sped like I was a indy driver!
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I know we don't get paid enough to take early retirement.
WI disagree. What do you do with your money? I make 70k out of college, and have been around 100k since. That's not uncommon for 10 years of IT experience and a few social skills. I save money and live beneath my means. I'm 32 now and will be well into semi-retirement before I hit 40, and will have substancial savings. (Unless all of modern society colapses). Then I plan to move to a new career thats more fun that anything. If you are serious about IT and not making a good coin, then whats the deal?
... won the battle but not the war.
What I mean is, the debate is still on for this vote - but the pro-patriot act senators were not able to "invoke cloture" and force an immediate vote that would have renewed the patriot act with a simple majority. Cloture was blocked by only 8 senate votes. The "showdown" over renewing the patriot act has really just begun.
Nice Typo Heembo -
:)
- but you gotta admit, a typo that goes from "law" to "lay" can't be THAT bad!
My understanding is that the lay of hard drives is:
1) They prefer to be turned on at all times
2) They prefer to be spinning at all times? (not sure about this one)
3) They tend to fill up over time and you always need more space in the long run
I'm very eager to get your thoughts on this one, wrong as I may be.....
Oh come-ON now! That submission itself should have been rated "0, Flamebait".
How about high tech torture equipment? So be it, its "soul" is not evil - since its an inanimate object. But still, such a device would be made for pretty much evil uses only, hence I would call it an evil machine.
are organizations like Google redefining the law of demand and answer?
You mean supply and demand, the cornerstone of capitalism? More like - Google is redefining the rules of advertising and IT for the entire world.
To what extent does this imply a competitive advantage for larger companies?
Well, just like the superbowl, only companies with big bucks can get prime time advertising real estate.
Do we need an ethical framework to direct companies to make such algorithms open source?"
Keep your ethics and morality out of my consumer choices. If I dont like how google does business, I will stop buying from them. I live on Kauai, and I turned my girlfriends dying massage business into a thriving business (www.kauaioutcallmassage.com) spending only 20$/month over the last 2 years. Google has been incredible for my family, please don't rain on or change my parade with Google!
you rolled a 23, so now you are a waiter barely making the poverty line, growing older and sadder every day..."
But if they roll a 20 do they get a critical hit and get to be a star? Thats a 5% chance on a d20, not bad odds!
There are simply not enough **qualified** Java programmers out there in the market. You need serious Object Oriented Design skills to play with Java, and that is not easy for many programmers. Microsoft is flooding India and US universities with funding - teach programmers .NET and not Java. That's right, any hack can make a .net or php app run, you need to be a seriously skilled developer (and not some meglomaniac admin with a "P" language thinking they are suddenly a coder).
In a few years we are going to see this "rush from PHP back to Java" due to all the buggy and problematic business logic embedded in crappy php code. It's easy to cheer when a language speeds up the development process, but what about the maintainence? Anyone here want ot maintain a few thousand crappy php programs written by hacks? What a nightmare!
In a bubble? The valley is just now starting to really heat up. We are definately just about to enter dot.com 2 from what I see.
Ah, I only see those performance problems when I try to parse LARGE xml objects. I only get very small XML objects from the server - the minimal data that I need, so I never see those performance problems in the real world. Now, if I never need to parse very large and complex XML, I will move to a JSON architecture instead for that app.
JSON is just string manipulation and Yet Another Protocol. I'd rather use something that my fellow programmers understand from the XML world - and my entire team already knows XPATH. All the folks who hit our aps are graphics folks with decent machines, only old pentiums or worse have performance problems with XPATH. I'm really happy with my architectural choices - XPATH is proven tech that my team already understands. I think JSON is cool for med sized apps; but I have a very large number of apps to maintainability, I'm all about XPATH and Googles XPATH library for . :)
No, it's not just you. This is the third article I've seen from ScuttleMonkey FOR **Beatles-Beatles - the worst part is all the ad spam. How much money are you 2 making at your expense, you silicon-sucking pointy haired bastards?
Sorry not to explain more - but that was my point for "Listing 6. Handle the server's response" -> I tend to normally get XML back from the server and address said XML via XPATH. For Javascript XPATH libaries, I saw only 2 real choices: (1) Sarissa : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa - which worked great, except on Safari. Then I tried googles lib at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-ajaxslt/ - which is far superior in terms of browser support.
XPATH is a standardizied way to address (or query into, or parse) XML. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath - The only real calls I do for web apps look like: "/xml_response/manager/first_name/text()" which is rather straight forward and works in any language.
This article only begins to scratch the surface with AJAX. Beginners, only. One thing I'd like to add to the article - is the best way to parse XML documents. The article suggests:
function updatePage() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
var response = xmlHttp.responseText;
document.getElementById("zipCode").value = response;
}
}
Which is really the absolute WORST way to parse XML. It's a bear to support cross-platform. I have had the best luck for client-side-Javascript-xml-parsing using Google's XPATH library at http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-ajaxslt/ - Sarissa is a close XPATH second, but she has trouble supporting Safari and other browsers.
Also, the article does not mention how brutal it is to work in JS at this level since there are very few savy development tools. Be careful before you invest a lot in AJAX or you will get CREAMED tring to support this code down the road.
nah, all we need is the BOLD and BLINK tag!
There are some simple work-arounds to project yourself from this exploit.
. title.set","noAccess");
From http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=920
Go to Tools -> Options. Select the Privacy Icon, and then the History tab. Set the number of days to save pages at 0. This will disable writing anything to history.dat as far as I can tell, and should nullify the exploit. Readers have confirmed that this workaround does prevent the buffer overflow. You can also change your privacy settings to delete personal info when you close Firefox.
Another workaround is to modify prefs.js while Firefox has not been started and put in the line:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.HTMLDocument
Lastly, you can also run the NoScript extension, found here. (Which I have not looked at in depth.) However, there are other ways of exploiting this where NoScript might not work.
Some users have reported being unable to reproduce this error. I will test more to try to establish what makes this work and not. So far it appears Mac users are not affected by this.
Hey, for free anti-virus solutions - I've moved to "AVG Anti Virus" and have been thrilled with. It's not as protective as McAfee - (McAfee stops some virus' pre-signature cause they detect buffer overflows and the like), but combined with a solid software (and hardware) firewall, I feel a little safe. Is AVG (and other freebies) powerful in your opinion?
I first of all, backup all my personal data off my work machines, not use work machines for personal data at all! I then backup all my work data for my employer, nuke my machine, reinstall everything perfect and have a dev machine all ready for the next guy. (This effectively wipes all trace of my from the machine, yet leaves my employeer with a "dialed in" machine so everyone is happy :) I then give one month notice since my jobs are usually tangled webs, and work HARD ASSED the next 2 weeks and ask to be let go of early if I catch up on all my work. I continue to try to nail relationships or helper code to old employeers, and keep good relations with em all. It's a small work in the tech community, it's good to treat all companies like family (which means forgiving the times when everyone acts like a$holes) :)
I have had a great deal of success with Ajax in the last few months where the same code base works on IE XP, FireFox XP, and Safari - my three big targets. I'm using AJFORM and Googles XPATH library for XML parsing. Viva Open Source! Limitations be damned, I'm making my clients *very* happy.
some beg to differ: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0628accounting.ht ml
When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs.
German Proverb
PS: w00f!!
I use a mixture of both - sometimes I want
function
{
}
for clarity, sometimes I want
function {
}
for brevity. Why must I choose one?
Womderful - there has been a breakthrough in dye technology recently that is very similar to this new paint tech. http://www.zubbles.com/ - Check out the popular science on the decade long search to make colored bubbles and the depth they had to go to find the dye tech breakthrough to do this! Fastinating!
There are times (driving a ill or injured person to the hospital, for instance) that you need to speed. Those are not legitimate reasons to drive at excessive speeds.
YEA RIGHT. When I was driving my wife to the hospital in labor with our child, I decided to stop at a stop sign. She politely grabbed me by the bells and said, "Would you mind ignoring the stop sign and speed to the hospital, please?" This was a life-and-death situation, so I sped like I was a indy driver!