MySpace is free.. I can understand phishing for credit card numbers or bank logins, But MySpace?
There's actually a great interest in it. Because when you're an average user, unaware of that whole phishing thing, and that bulletins one of your favourite singers or friends say "~New Ring tones Adults can't hear! Download Today*", linking to a website to supposedly download them, you're much more likely to click, thinking it was advised to you by someone real (a "friend" or an artist you like), than when you get the same thing in your mail inbox.
So it should really be called "spam through phishing", and it's much more efficient than traditional spam because it uses a better, more "intimate" way to convince you to do what they want you to do.
Security conscious people use MySpace? Who knew...
There's even a Slashdot group on it actually. And as security concious as I am, I didn't see what was wrong with the two first example screenshots on Tom's blog about phishing, I think that if I went through one of these fake login-page profiles I might have fell for it, just because I don't expect to get phishing from a page on the genuine site itselves. Lots of people in my MySpace friends fell for it, and almost half of the bulletins in my bulletins list is the direct consequence of that.
As I commented on Tom's blog post, they have a big security issue for technically allowing phishing (among others, I suppose) happen on their own site. IMHO they're giving users a too great HTML/CSS freedom.
I haven't even tried 2.0 and stick to 1.5 because of all the new features in 2.0 that interest me, I have them all through extensions. Mainly Tab Mix Plus and SessionSaver. And it works fine.
I smell a communist hippie. Communist hippies always talk shit about everybody, because to them everybody but them is wrong and even bad. Nothing is worse to a communist hippie than someone who's not a communist hippie. And they aren't doing anything but talking shit whenever someone's doing something, and talking about how the system is bad and evil down to the root. They don't like the paint so they want to get rid of the paint AND its frame. They know anything that can be known anyways, and they're always right.
And Slashdot is crowded with communist hippies, and some of them have moderation points, that's why the parent comment is modded Insightful in spite of being some scandalous piece of communist hippie crap, and why this comment will get modded down to Troll of anyone ever notices it.
What strategies did Slashdot readers use to improve their programming skills
Try to think of some project you'd really want to do on your own, make sure it's challenging enough, and then use the ressources you need to succeed.
That's how I went from just knowing some Pascal from college to learning C and DSP (Digital Signal Processing) on my own. I had a precise idea of the project I wanted to do, even tho I had no idea what it would really take to succeed, but with the help of comp.lang.c, comp.dsp and the documentation they all advised me to provide myself, I literally took my programming skills and mathematical skills to the next level.
I thought that when I look at the sun, since I see it with two eyes, I see it in 3D.
Your eyes only allow you to see details on the Sun bigger than 20,000 kilometers. Since the parallax between your two eyes is considerably less than that, your eyes only allow you to see the exact same image of the sun, and thus you see the sun as if it was in 2D.
However, when in USA I feel that I am so far away from everything.
Agreed, when you're used to going to pretty exotic neighbour countries in car (i'm french), and that you suddenly find yourself a few thousand miles away from the closest (real) foreign country, that hardly anyone around speaks a foreign language or has been to another country or even to more than 5 different states, and that when you turn on TV you see 5-minute long commercials of a local brand of cosmetics, you get the feeling of being lost on an island, in a bubble, well isolated from the rest of the world, geographically, geopolitically and culturally.
That's why I want to move to the Bronx, I want to live in NYC because that's probably the place in the USA where you get the less that feeling, but I don't want to live on a friggin island, the USA being already enough of an island to me, couldn't live on an island's island, if we can put it this way, so yeah, the Bronx sounds like the best compromise.
The result is simple: the country is almost ready to accept a dictator as long as the police will continue to focus on non-whites, half of the new laws are written in reaction to the last headlines and can be resumed in "this kind of crime will be more punished when done in xxx situation".
I think that it's a too one-sided analyse of the situation. The people you're talking about match more to the right-wing half of the country than anything else, because if you look at things on the other side, you'll see that people on that side have quite some fear and hate for both Sarkozy and Le Pen, whichever fits the descrption of the dictator you were talking about.
And I think you're pretty much right to compare Nicolas Sarkozy to George Bush, because although Sarkozy is as you said fairly meaner and smarter than George Bush, both get much love from the right-wing voters, both get much hate/fear from the left-wing voters, both are somewhere between classical conservatism and neo-facism, and thus both makes people from all sides wantr to vote either for them or against them.
Funny tho how your post is mainly all about Sarkozy, and you won't even mention his name once. I'm sure I'm not taking much chances by guessing that you're on the side of those who hate/fear him?;-)
In fact being critical of the executive powers is the national sport here.
Best example of this was how a few years ago at the beginning of a soccer match, we whistled at our own national anthem as Jacques Chirac was there (he didn't really appreciate, to tell you the truth). Just imagine americans whistling at their own national anthem at the beginning of an american football game, in presence of George Bush.
Anyways yeah I agree that we too have more and more reasons to flee or own country, these reasons being quite comparable to the reasons why left-wing americans want to flee the USA, the loss of freedoms, a libertarianism only getting wilder and wilder (although americans and others have quite some advance on this), and a smell of new-formula facism in the air.
I think things will change quickly tho, next may comes the presidential election, and things will seem either much better if Ségolène Royal wins, and even much worse if Nicolas Sarkozy wins.
Maybe the moon was larger, yet somehow decayed into what it is today.
WTF??? Are you suggesting that a star could have "decayed" into something like the moon?? Are you even being serious? (if you are not well it sounds just like you are)
Send him a cheque for a dollar. It's probably more than Sony would give him fro a CD sale.
Mod it insightful. He most likely gets between 8% and 14% of the sales, which means that if his CD is sold for about $14 he gets between about $1.10 and $1.95.
I used to think that artists were getting ripped off (my parents are published writters) but I quickly found out that they could estimate themselves happy when they did get any money at all and in time (there easily can be a couple of years between a sale and the time the artist gets his share of the money, at least when it comes to books).
you must spend a full hour reading comments on digg.com, and not allow yourself to post.
No. Fucking. Way. Ever. The remedy sounds worse than the harm. By the way you must be the first person to pay attention to what my account name means;-).
Same goes for Luxembourg where it's apparently not possible to register the sex.lu domain
Oh yeah, and does it have a huge impact on their way of life? Ah! Better live in Rwanda, I don't think that your forbidden from registering sex.rw, lol.
The only thing is that, as you and I (A_SN) have discussed on #gp2xdev, there's hardly any good fully original game being made for the GP2X (yet), all we ever come up with is ports, clones and emulators, as the topic of this article is game innovation.
Surely the GP2X is hot because of the community of developers around it, but surely not because of any game innovation.
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MySpace is free.. I can understand phishing for credit card numbers or bank logins, But MySpace?
There's actually a great interest in it. Because when you're an average user, unaware of that whole phishing thing, and that bulletins one of your favourite singers or friends say "~New Ring tones Adults can't hear! Download Today*", linking to a website to supposedly download them, you're much more likely to click, thinking it was advised to you by someone real (a "friend" or an artist you like), than when you get the same thing in your mail inbox.
So it should really be called "spam through phishing", and it's much more efficient than traditional spam because it uses a better, more "intimate" way to convince you to do what they want you to do.
Security conscious people use MySpace? Who knew...
There's even a Slashdot group on it actually. And as security concious as I am, I didn't see what was wrong with the two first example screenshots on Tom's blog about phishing, I think that if I went through one of these fake login-page profiles I might have fell for it, just because I don't expect to get phishing from a page on the genuine site itselves. Lots of people in my MySpace friends fell for it, and almost half of the bulletins in my bulletins list is the direct consequence of that.
As I commented on Tom's blog post, they have a big security issue for technically allowing phishing (among others, I suppose) happen on their own site. IMHO they're giving users a too great HTML/CSS freedom.
I wouldn't mess with NWA
Don't make them act a muthafuckin fool!
I haven't even tried 2.0 and stick to 1.5 because of all the new features in 2.0 that interest me, I have them all through extensions. Mainly Tab Mix Plus and SessionSaver. And it works fine.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I smell a communist hippie. Communist hippies always talk shit about everybody, because to them everybody but them is wrong and even bad. Nothing is worse to a communist hippie than someone who's not a communist hippie. And they aren't doing anything but talking shit whenever someone's doing something, and talking about how the system is bad and evil down to the root. They don't like the paint so they want to get rid of the paint AND its frame. They know anything that can be known anyways, and they're always right.
And Slashdot is crowded with communist hippies, and some of them have moderation points, that's why the parent comment is modded Insightful in spite of being some scandalous piece of communist hippie crap, and why this comment will get modded down to Troll of anyone ever notices it.
It's new? Oh my god, please don't tell me we're still in 2004!?
What strategies did Slashdot readers use to improve their programming skills
Try to think of some project you'd really want to do on your own, make sure it's challenging enough, and then use the ressources you need to succeed.
That's how I went from just knowing some Pascal from college to learning C and DSP (Digital Signal Processing) on my own. I had a precise idea of the project I wanted to do, even tho I had no idea what it would really take to succeed, but with the help of comp.lang.c, comp.dsp and the documentation they all advised me to provide myself, I literally took my programming skills and mathematical skills to the next level.
I thought that when I look at the sun, since I see it with two eyes, I see it in 3D.
Your eyes only allow you to see details on the Sun bigger than 20,000 kilometers. Since the parallax between your two eyes is considerably less than that, your eyes only allow you to see the exact same image of the sun, and thus you see the sun as if it was in 2D.
However, when in USA I feel that I am so far away from everything.
Agreed, when you're used to going to pretty exotic neighbour countries in car (i'm french), and that you suddenly find yourself a few thousand miles away from the closest (real) foreign country, that hardly anyone around speaks a foreign language or has been to another country or even to more than 5 different states, and that when you turn on TV you see 5-minute long commercials of a local brand of cosmetics, you get the feeling of being lost on an island, in a bubble, well isolated from the rest of the world, geographically, geopolitically and culturally.
That's why I want to move to the Bronx, I want to live in NYC because that's probably the place in the USA where you get the less that feeling, but I don't want to live on a friggin island, the USA being already enough of an island to me, couldn't live on an island's island, if we can put it this way, so yeah, the Bronx sounds like the best compromise.
The result is simple: the country is almost ready to accept a dictator as long as the police will continue to focus on non-whites, half of the new laws are written in reaction to the last headlines and can be resumed in "this kind of crime will be more punished when done in xxx situation".
I think that it's a too one-sided analyse of the situation. The people you're talking about match more to the right-wing half of the country than anything else, because if you look at things on the other side, you'll see that people on that side have quite some fear and hate for both Sarkozy and Le Pen, whichever fits the descrption of the dictator you were talking about.
And I think you're pretty much right to compare Nicolas Sarkozy to George Bush, because although Sarkozy is as you said fairly meaner and smarter than George Bush, both get much love from the right-wing voters, both get much hate/fear from the left-wing voters, both are somewhere between classical conservatism and neo-facism, and thus both makes people from all sides wantr to vote either for them or against them.
Funny tho how your post is mainly all about Sarkozy, and you won't even mention his name once. I'm sure I'm not taking much chances by guessing that you're on the side of those who hate/fear him? ;-)
In fact being critical of the executive powers is the national sport here.
Best example of this was how a few years ago at the beginning of a soccer match, we whistled at our own national anthem as Jacques Chirac was there (he didn't really appreciate, to tell you the truth). Just imagine americans whistling at their own national anthem at the beginning of an american football game, in presence of George Bush.
Anyways yeah I agree that we too have more and more reasons to flee or own country, these reasons being quite comparable to the reasons why left-wing americans want to flee the USA, the loss of freedoms, a libertarianism only getting wilder and wilder (although americans and others have quite some advance on this), and a smell of new-formula facism in the air.
I think things will change quickly tho, next may comes the presidential election, and things will seem either much better if Ségolène Royal wins, and even much worse if Nicolas Sarkozy wins.
We'll soon literally play "double or nothing"
Do you have any source for the emigration numbers? I'd be interested to know, as a Frenchman who left his own country, if that is really true...
I second that, as a Frenchman who's planning on leaving his own country within the next 2-3 years, mostly since I hardly could find any figures.
Uhm... What? The bible doesn't go back that far. In fact, neither does human life.
Duh, that was a joke, a sarcasm, you insensitive clod.
Maybe the moon was larger, yet somehow decayed into what it is today.
WTF??? Are you suggesting that a star could have "decayed" into something like the moon?? Are you even being serious? (if you are not well it sounds just like you are)
Send him a cheque for a dollar. It's probably more than Sony would give him fro a CD sale.
Mod it insightful. He most likely gets between 8% and 14% of the sales, which means that if his CD is sold for about $14 he gets between about $1.10 and $1.95.
I used to think that artists were getting ripped off (my parents are published writters) but I quickly found out that they could estimate themselves happy when they did get any money at all and in time (there easily can be a couple of years between a sale and the time the artist gets his share of the money, at least when it comes to books).
I wish I could somehow meta-moderate Funny the guy who modded this Interesting.
In other news, a new study shows that warp drive travel may not be as safe as other means of transportation such as cars or planes.
Sensor Grid Predicts Imminent Flooding
*accidentaly pushes glass of water off my table*
I predict imminent flooding of the floor accompanied with pieces of broken glass
*SCHPIIIIIIIIILK*
Don't pay attention to me, I'm just trolling.
No real French speaker would make this kind of mistake...
Effectivement. Funny how it sounds hard for non-native french speakers to pull out a sentence, even a very short one, correctly in french.
you must spend a full hour reading comments on digg.com, and not allow yourself to post.
No. Fucking. Way. Ever. The remedy sounds worse than the harm. By the way you must be the first person to pay attention to what my account name means ;-).
and what 1 is naked
I think you mean which, not what. Sorry, sometimes I just can't resist my primal grammar nazi instinct.
Same goes for Luxembourg where it's apparently not possible to register the sex.lu domain
Oh yeah, and does it have a huge impact on their way of life? Ah! Better live in Rwanda, I don't think that your forbidden from registering sex.rw, lol.
The only thing is that, as you and I (A_SN) have discussed on #gp2xdev, there's hardly any good fully original game being made for the GP2X (yet), all we ever come up with is ports, clones and emulators, as the topic of this article is game innovation.
Surely the GP2X is hot because of the community of developers around it, but surely not because of any game innovation.
Yes, this is a difficult question to answer.
Not for me, to me the answer is "No", but that's as subjective as it gets.
Interestingly enough, the reverse is true, and easily demonstrated, as immoral can be a word.
No, it really depends on your grammatical beliefs ;-)
Unfortunately, one out of three is typical, two out of three is pushing it, and three out of three is rare.
Actually, that kind of thing only happens on TV, not in real life ;-).