Unfortunately unless you work as a programmer for Microsoft's WP7's customer data stealing department you can never truly get a complete set of facts. There are assumptions and trusting others involved in every step of the way.
Nice. That way, there is no way of ever proving you wrong, is there?
Plus I have better things to do then investigative journalism for every Microsoft is Evil (tm) case I hear about. Making certain assumptions is the sensible thing to do.
It's not the sensible thing to do. It just happens to be what furthers your agenda.
If this is new information, I assume it stems from the recent full release of all documents. This is just further evidence that a third party has no businesses redacting anything. Any leaks group should act only as a conduit, not as a arbitrator who decides what stays secret.
Making an assumption and claiming it as evidence. Really?
But without a complete set of facts one must make an assumption.
No, without a complete set of facts, you go looking for a complete set of facts. Making assumptions is what everybody expects you to do, and it leads to people only feeding you partial information in an attempt to guide you towards a specific assumption.
The punchline being that C# has had "using" clauses (try-with-resources) since 1.0 and its compiler type inference (you know, the one it got in 3.0) wipes the floor with that cute diamond syntax thingie.
Sorry for the trollish language, but you know I have a point...
Aren't the measures you mention (password, permissions,.htaccess) exactly the kind of thing that your precious designers and "html coders" (whatever that's supposed to mean) would screw up?
How can you in one sentence admit that "the US does have some serious long term budget problems" AND claim that getting anything less than the highest possible rating would be "political posturing" ?
Slightly off-topic, but I've always wondered about this. Why is it that when I use a program to fetch data from a digital device (CD) and then encode it, I get a different hash each time? I would understand this if there was an analog component in between, but this is all digital, no?
So how did they get the passwords of those users in the first place? Why are you believing only those three were the only authors who's passwords were exposed?
And why I'm at it, why so butthurt? Do you have any personal stake in this?
Your analogy with a house failed because a regular house is not storing millions of records on people. This is more like getting a bomb on a train, intruding into the cockpit of a plane, in order to prove a point. Both of which have been repeatedly done by TV shows.
You failed to refute his point that parameterized queries fix SQL injection attacks. Indeed it does not protect against XSS attacks, buffer overflows, aids, cancer and greed, but nobody claimed that it would.
I think Google, Mozilla, et al. should adopt the 'no-script' paradigm for this stuff and require the operator to explicitly enable WebGL content case by case.
I agree, the users usually make the right choice. Cue "click here for awesome smileys!"./s
PSN is free, so it's hard to imagine how anyone is entitled to any compensation
So the people who entered their credit card info did so for shits and giggles? Obviously some part of the network required payment.
No proof yet any credit cards have actually been compromised.
"Yet" being the key word here. I've read a few posts from people who have already seen fraudulent charges on their credit card, so I assume the "proof" you're asking for isn't very far away.
There's no way the banks would allow Sony to have access to CC accounts without being regularly audited
Lol, what?
According to latest reports, Sony reported the possibility of account & CC details being compromised a little over a day after they found out.
I heard it took them 6 days, but even a day would be quite alot of time.
hackers and thieves out of revenge for Sony having the audacity to protect their network and customers
Obviously they're doing a shit job at both protecting their network and their customers. First those Anonymous script kiddies cripple PSN, then it gets hacked. Don't fool yourself, all they're interested in is protecting their own asses.
This is good as long as someone points out that you should do it. The default, however, should be to have location services turned off, and give a big fat warning when you turn them on.
Not to sound disrespectful, but unless your grandfather was actually inventing the planes himself, his job was the equivalent of building a Lego castle from a plan. While we definitely need people doing that (and we need lots of 'em), it's exactly what I would call a low-skill job.
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I wish I could mod you up.
Microsoft didn't "force" him as much as Mike Row "agreed" to transfer the domain name in return for an Xbox.
Yes, you should not be able to patent ideas. That is exactly what we're saying.
Unfortunately unless you work as a programmer for Microsoft's WP7's customer data stealing department you can never truly get a complete set of facts. There are assumptions and trusting others involved in every step of the way.
Nice. That way, there is no way of ever proving you wrong, is there?
Plus I have better things to do then investigative journalism for every Microsoft is Evil (tm) case I hear about. Making certain assumptions is the sensible thing to do.
It's not the sensible thing to do. It just happens to be what furthers your agenda.
If this is new information, I assume it stems from the recent full release of all documents.
This is just further evidence that a third party has no businesses redacting anything. Any leaks group should act only as a conduit, not as a arbitrator who decides what stays secret.
Making an assumption and claiming it as evidence. Really?
But without a complete set of facts one must make an assumption.
No, without a complete set of facts, you go looking for a complete set of facts. Making assumptions is what everybody expects you to do, and it leads to people only feeding you partial information in an attempt to guide you towards a specific assumption.
C# had it 10 years ago.
The punchline being that C# has had "using" clauses (try-with-resources) since 1.0 and its compiler type inference (you know, the one it got in 3.0) wipes the floor with that cute diamond syntax thingie. Sorry for the trollish language, but you know I have a point...
Didn't they fix that in Vista? Last time I can remember having a similar problem was in XP...
Aren't the measures you mention (password, permissions, .htaccess) exactly the kind of thing that your precious designers and "html coders" (whatever that's supposed to mean) would screw up?
How can you in one sentence admit that "the US does have some serious long term budget problems" AND claim that getting anything less than the highest possible rating would be "political posturing" ?
Slightly off-topic, but I've always wondered about this. Why is it that when I use a program to fetch data from a digital device (CD) and then encode it, I get a different hash each time? I would understand this if there was an analog component in between, but this is all digital, no?
So how did they get the passwords of those users in the first place? Why are you believing only those three were the only authors who's passwords were exposed?
And why I'm at it, why so butthurt? Do you have any personal stake in this?
Your analogy with a house failed because a regular house is not storing millions of records on people. This is more like getting a bomb on a train, intruding into the cockpit of a plane, in order to prove a point. Both of which have been repeatedly done by TV shows.
Oh hi there, agent Gill!
WP7 sucks so hard? I assume you're not actually using a WP7 phone?
You failed to refute his point that parameterized queries fix SQL injection attacks. Indeed it does not protect against XSS attacks, buffer overflows, aids, cancer and greed, but nobody claimed that it would.
Nobody needs to know. Stop pissing on our Pissing-On-Micro$oft parade.
I think Google, Mozilla, et al. should adopt the 'no-script' paradigm for this stuff and require the operator to explicitly enable WebGL content case by case. /s
I agree, the users usually make the right choice. Cue "click here for awesome smileys!".
It means it's Micro$oft bashing time!
PSN is free, so it's hard to imagine how anyone is entitled to any compensation
So the people who entered their credit card info did so for shits and giggles? Obviously some part of the network required payment.
No proof yet any credit cards have actually been compromised.
"Yet" being the key word here. I've read a few posts from people who have already seen fraudulent charges on their credit card, so I assume the "proof" you're asking for isn't very far away.
There's no way the banks would allow Sony to have access to CC accounts without being regularly audited
Lol, what?
According to latest reports, Sony reported the possibility of account & CC details being compromised a little over a day after they found out.
I heard it took them 6 days, but even a day would be quite alot of time.
hackers and thieves out of revenge for Sony having the audacity to protect their network and customers
Obviously they're doing a shit job at both protecting their network and their customers. First those Anonymous script kiddies cripple PSN, then it gets hacked. Don't fool yourself, all they're interested in is protecting their own asses.
Apologist much?
It never ceases to amaze me how far you fanboys are willing to pull down your pants. But it's alright. It's OK. Steve said so. Relax.
This is good as long as someone points out that you should do it. The default, however, should be to have location services turned off, and give a big fat warning when you turn them on.
Not to sound disrespectful, but unless your grandfather was actually inventing the planes himself, his job was the equivalent of building a Lego castle from a plan. While we definitely need people doing that (and we need lots of 'em), it's exactly what I would call a low-skill job.
There's nothing illegal about it.