True. While I won't go so far as to say this is a non-issue, it's an annoyance rather than a security problem. The worst case scenario is that you have to log in using a different password, one that's sitting in your mailbox, and then change it back. No passwords are disclosed and no access is granted to the "attacker".
Granted, if your email account is also compromised, this will give the attacker access to your Wordpress site, but if they have access to your mailbox, they could already reset the password using the normal means.
So yeah, get the update when you have a chance but it's nothing to lose sleep over in the meantime.
If you do something stupid then piercing the S-Corp layer isn't that hard.
I'm not worried about doing something stupid, I'm worried about things I have no control over. Like one of the parent posters said, this is a litigious society and the added protection is important, even if it isn't 100% bullet-proof.
Consider this hypothetical situation: I've got a maintenance contract for someone's server, keeping it running, installing updates, etc (this much is true, I have a number of these). Now imagine the server is compromised via insecure web software the client has developed or installed. I may be the one take the heat for that even though it had exactly zero to do with my work.
This is a more likely scenario than my "doing something stupid" and an S-Corp (or in my case, an LLC) will offer protection for my personal assets here. It's basically insurance, and cheap insurance at that.
Capable, sure, but why should I if I have other options? Sometimes you have little choice but to suck it up and do what you need to do, but actually enjoying your work does wonders for your quality of life.
"Prodigy Classic", the walled-garden part of the service (as opposed to "Prodigy Internet", their direct ISP service), shut down in 1999 due to insurmountable Y2K issues in the software.
While I'm not aware of any font differences, I can say with certainty that WinXP/IE7 under VMware can behave differently than the same software running on real hardware, at least where JavaScript is concerned. Just a couple weeks ago we did a dozen rounds of "can't reproduce" when someone with a real Windows machine was seeing a problem that I and two other Mac-based developers couldn't reproduce under VMware. We finally checked it on a real Windows machine and lo and behold -- we could reproduce the problem. Still haven't been able to do it in a VM.
I have no idea what the problem was, but luckily the main JS dev on the project also has a lot of experience with IE, despite being a Mac user, so he's working on it. Whatever it is, I'm sure it was an edge case, but it shows that it is possible and while VMware is good enough for most things, it pays to do a QA round on a real Windows box as well.
There's a lot more to nutrition than calories and fat. How much HFCS is in the Big Mac vs. the sandwich? How many chemicals and pesticides?
As well, is the Big Mac really all "most males" would eat for lunch or would there be some fries in there too? Last time I saw a fast food hamburger it wasn't much, if any, bigger than the average sandwich from a bakery or cafe.
The very fact that his music has been heavily featured on commercial radio pretty much makes him part of popular culture. "Alternative" popular culture, sure, but pop culture nonetheless.
More and more these days lots of hosting companies don't explicitly set up SSI because of some rare security issues and the overhead that heavy ssi usage can cause.
Actually, I think the exact opposite is true. I can't speak to SSI specifically because I didn't even realize anyone used it anymore but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a web hosting company that doesn't allow any sort of server-side processing. PHP is ubiquitous, as is standard CGI. Even the low-end $5/month hosts offer them.
Another great book is The Art of Project Management, written by Scott Berkun and published by O'Reilly. The author was a PM at Microsoft on IE and Windows teams but don't let that deter you. The book is full of great information, especially for someone new to managing development projects.
While search engine optimization is a nice side-effect, the real benefit to human-readable URLs -- that is,/articles/article-title as opposed to/articles?id=ke4h5w45rf5994 -- is that it's semantically meaningful. The former describes the content you'll find at that page while the query string version is a) meaningless to anyone but the site developer, and b) relies on the site architecture in ways that may break if the backend changes.
Except that Slashdot includes so much extra crap in their query strings that it just might not be recognized as visited. It all depends on the parameters present and the order they're in. And this is one of the points of shorter, human-readable URLs.
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Basecamp looks interesting, and I'll admit I hadn't come across it before, so I don't really know enough about it to comment.
As an aside, Basecamp is where Ruby on Rails originated. Rather than being created from scratch, the Rails framework was extracted from a application that was already in use.
I fail to understand why people continue to buy a cell phone, only to use it for data, which its not nearly as good at, in order to run software that lets it act like a phone
International calls and usage. With a Skype client I can call overseas without paying high AT&T fees, and I can make calls while traveling without paying international roaming charges.
That the vegan exclusion of insects from their definition of animals was an arbitrary definition to allow them to enjoy things like honey and cupcakes with cochineal-coloured icing?
Where this argument really falls down is the point when you realize that vegans don't actually eat honey (example reference chosen at random, there are lots more out there).
A "vegan" who eats honey is exactly like a "vegetarian" who eats fish. That is, they aren't, despite what they may call themselves.
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True. While I won't go so far as to say this is a non-issue, it's an annoyance rather than a security problem. The worst case scenario is that you have to log in using a different password, one that's sitting in your mailbox, and then change it back. No passwords are disclosed and no access is granted to the "attacker".
Granted, if your email account is also compromised, this will give the attacker access to your Wordpress site, but if they have access to your mailbox, they could already reset the password using the normal means.
So yeah, get the update when you have a chance but it's nothing to lose sleep over in the meantime.
I'm not worried about doing something stupid, I'm worried about things I have no control over. Like one of the parent posters said, this is a litigious society and the added protection is important, even if it isn't 100% bullet-proof.
Consider this hypothetical situation: I've got a maintenance contract for someone's server, keeping it running, installing updates, etc (this much is true, I have a number of these). Now imagine the server is compromised via insecure web software the client has developed or installed. I may be the one take the heat for that even though it had exactly zero to do with my work.
This is a more likely scenario than my "doing something stupid" and an S-Corp (or in my case, an LLC) will offer protection for my personal assets here. It's basically insurance, and cheap insurance at that.
Capable, sure, but why should I if I have other options? Sometimes you have little choice but to suck it up and do what you need to do, but actually enjoying your work does wonders for your quality of life.
"Prodigy Classic", the walled-garden part of the service (as opposed to "Prodigy Internet", their direct ISP service), shut down in 1999 due to insurmountable Y2K issues in the software.
While I'm not aware of any font differences, I can say with certainty that WinXP/IE7 under VMware can behave differently than the same software running on real hardware, at least where JavaScript is concerned. Just a couple weeks ago we did a dozen rounds of "can't reproduce" when someone with a real Windows machine was seeing a problem that I and two other Mac-based developers couldn't reproduce under VMware. We finally checked it on a real Windows machine and lo and behold -- we could reproduce the problem. Still haven't been able to do it in a VM.
I have no idea what the problem was, but luckily the main JS dev on the project also has a lot of experience with IE, despite being a Mac user, so he's working on it. Whatever it is, I'm sure it was an edge case, but it shows that it is possible and while VMware is good enough for most things, it pays to do a QA round on a real Windows box as well.
Congratulations, you're a bigot.
Why would it bother you to see it? Do you feel the same way about straight couples holding hands?
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There's a lot more to nutrition than calories and fat. How much HFCS is in the Big Mac vs. the sandwich? How many chemicals and pesticides?
As well, is the Big Mac really all "most males" would eat for lunch or would there be some fries in there too? Last time I saw a fast food hamburger it wasn't much, if any, bigger than the average sandwich from a bakery or cafe.
The very fact that his music has been heavily featured on commercial radio pretty much makes him part of popular culture. "Alternative" popular culture, sure, but pop culture nonetheless.
Actually, I think the exact opposite is true. I can't speak to SSI specifically because I didn't even realize anyone used it anymore but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a web hosting company that doesn't allow any sort of server-side processing. PHP is ubiquitous, as is standard CGI. Even the low-end $5/month hosts offer them.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I completely missed Scott Berkun's name in your comment. Thanks for clarifying.
Another great book is The Art of Project Management, written by Scott Berkun and published by O'Reilly. The author was a PM at Microsoft on IE and Windows teams but don't let that deter you. The book is full of great information, especially for someone new to managing development projects.
An excerpt from the book was posted here on Slashdot back in 2005.
That's what's known as an "opinion", genius. No objective evidence required.
While search engine optimization is a nice side-effect, the real benefit to human-readable URLs -- that is, /articles/article-title as opposed to /articles?id=ke4h5w45rf5994 -- is that it's semantically meaningful. The former describes the content you'll find at that page while the query string version is a) meaningless to anyone but the site developer, and b) relies on the site architecture in ways that may break if the backend changes.
If your mail client is wrapping URLs and thus breaking them, I think it's clear where the problem lies.
Except that Slashdot includes so much extra crap in their query strings that it just might not be recognized as visited. It all depends on the parameters present and the order they're in. And this is one of the points of shorter, human-readable URLs.
As an aside, Basecamp is where Ruby on Rails originated. Rather than being created from scratch, the Rails framework was extracted from a application that was already in use.
International calls and usage. With a Skype client I can call overseas without paying high AT&T fees, and I can make calls while traveling without paying international roaming charges.
Where this argument really falls down is the point when you realize that vegans don't actually eat honey (example reference chosen at random, there are lots more out there).
A "vegan" who eats honey is exactly like a "vegetarian" who eats fish. That is, they aren't, despite what they may call themselves.
The best thing about San Francisco is that you can see Oakland from there.
Wait a minute... There's a new Mexico?
I'm glad you put illegal product tie-in in quotes because there isn't actually anything even approaching illegal about this.
Jewish day care center?
In what way is setting up and maintaining an NNTP daemon and teaching people to use a newsreader more simple than installing a web-based forum?