What's the alternative, roll-your-own CMS's? I've done those, and you are always re-inventing features that come standard or are pluggins in established CMS's as management/customers keep asking for new features.
I've found security mistakes in my own code because of typical human error that inherently pops up when dealing with complexity. There may indeed be some security-thru-obscurity from DIY, but it just seems another form of gambling.
I believe the best way to go is to outsource the basic CMS hosting and patching to an experienced vendor who is contractually obligated to patch timely, and verify that they do it via random spot checking.
Because they run lots CMS instances, they should have the scripts and expertise to patch with some degree of economies-of-scale such that the expenses of timely patching shouldn't be too costly for them.
Plus, they are likely to have somebody there Sunday at 3am to patch so that you don't have come in at 3am to patch yourself in order to keep the system up during normal hours.
But, I don't have enough experience with that approach to render a final judgment. If anyone can recommend vendors who fit that bill based on experience, that would be great.
The user should be able to choose their default. Most people have one "regular" account anyhow: it's regular-joe bill-paying.
The "account type" is mostly so they can stuff their gimmick "account" into it. They didn't even used to have that field, and if one only uses one account, it arguably shouldn't even show up on that user's form.
Logically a data drive should have data and only data from the computer's perspective, and not run any executables or scripts on it without first explicitly asking. It should be designed that way from the start. That's how Vulcans would design it.
The fact that it's so easy for hackers to bypass what SHOULD be normal and expected is a failure of the technology and/or standards, NOT of consumers.
I could implement these simple standards in less than a day...It sucks there are so many retarded niggers in the united states government, including yourself
But maybe they pay a premium to not have to put up with Asperger-like social deficiencies and racism.
What "reasonable" means should not be written into a law, but instead common sense should be used when interpreting it.
For consumer products that often backfires in practice because too many will test the limit and the legal system tends to favor consumers under vagueness (at least outside of Texas). It's better to spell it out, and not call it "unlimited" unless it really is.
with all the alleged "mistakes" that you think he made, he's on the History books now
His life ended not so well, between prison, poverty, and illness. He wasn't given credit during his own lifetime, in part because his lousy people skills ticked off too many.
I wonder if he'd trade a better living ending for the future notoriety.
If so, it's not working very well, the rich are still getting richer. It looks like the 1% are winning the convincing contest, if you go by the numbers.
Well, most want it to have some degree of "efficiency or fairness", otherwise it's too broken to be useful. It needs a degree of taming to better achieve those at times.
And obfuscation by players within the market is essentially fair game. Caveat emptor.
Fair by whose standards? If obfuscation makes it less efficient, then our economy is wasting resources from a consumer's perspective.
I'd rather have co's far more focused on making better mousetraps than on tricking mousetrap customers. I'm not a social-Darwinist, at least not a pure one.
New technology usually are toys. They are immature and not road-tested. Hobbyists fortunately don't mind taking the proverbial arrows in the back to find the kinks and build/find uses for them.
The first photographs required sitting perfectly still for 5 minutes; the first phonographs had the quality of rusted tin cans with a nose plug; the first cars broke down often and required lots of fiddling to keep going, their starter mechanisms often braking arms; the first electronic computers took more time replacing vacuum tubes than computing; the first satellites kept blowing up on the launch pad; the first PC's had crappy software, unreliable storage, and crashed often for no reason; the Newton was bulky and slow; the Lisa & Mac were too expensive for most home/biz users and lacked useful software until desktop publishing matured years after release; the first online services made molasses look fast; both Java and JavaScript were buggy and inconsistent upon release; and HTML 5 is still buggy and inconsistent. And node.JS? I still don't know what the fock that's all about, I hope to finally "get it" before I die, or maybe dying is preferable?
They laughed at Columbus - but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
They were both stupid, silly, and lucky.
Columbus made several mistakes; such as miscalculating the size of the Earth without checking with existing sources; not finishing his trek across across Panama, which would have revealed the Atlantic (disproving his India theory); and being a crappy island governor, lacking people skills and sliding into wacky religious rants.
The boundary between "stupid" and "brave" is perhaps a blurry one.
Capitalism starts to fail when companies spend most of their resources on trying to dupe customers rather than building a better mousetrap.
For example, my online banking requires me to select a "payment type" for each and every transaction I submit, which is typically each monthly bill.
I called customer support and asked to have it default to the payment type I use 99.9% of the time, but they said they'd put it in the wish-list and left me hanging.
The reason they do that is that the actual default is a goofy gimmick account that requires registering online and receiving spam (if you read the fine-print). They force you to see it.
They KNOW it's a time-waster to have the default payment type be the gimmicky one, but do it because they want their damned Spam-A-Tron promoted.
And there are other time-wasting gimmicks that I won't go into. It adds up. I'm not saying we should switch to socialized banking, but these capitalists sure are giving capitalism a bad name and make people more likely to agree to big-co regulations during elections.
Marketers have a dilemma. Advertising "unlimited data" is simple and enticing as a sales pitch. However, a small percentage of customers WILL take full advantage of it.
If the marketers counter that by stating limits and disclaimers, which they have to do if they don't want to be sued, then they get less sales because the conditions and disclaimers scare away a fair amount of customers.
They are trying to decide if having more customers is worth living with a few bad apples (from their perspective) who run up the data.
The best pricing in my opinion would be priced increments, such as N bytes included in the base plan, and $X more for every Y bytes over N, with a PROMPT confirming you wish to pay for the next increment of Y.
However, don't outright cut it off if payment is not approved, but rather gradually throttle it heavier and heavier, but don't charge for the overages. The throttle-time would be allowed to consume say up to 25% of Y without the extra payment (although that's a minor issue), until the data flow is zero. That way if you are in the middle of something and can't stop to answer a prompt, it doesn't outright stop.
It's a "soft and friendly wall". And it can bring in nice revenue for the service provider as people readily approve increments. It's convenient for BOTH SIDES once they buy into it.
But this approach is hard to word in a contract that makes sense to most customers. It's the "logical" way to do it, in my opinion, but hard to describe to typical customers, and that's why marketers don't do it that way.
I don't fully blame the service providers, they are just trying to compete with other service providers in the same boat. And you could blame the consumers for not being patient enough to research the details (if presented with such a plan), but humans are humans.
Maybe we need a little socialism to force a common set of plan options, with the above being one of them. People will get used to it. They sometimes don't know what's good for them until they see it in action for a while.
Indeed. America has a growing skills gap and a cuteness gap. It's time for the Sputnik of Cuteness to wake us up and re-familiarize America with its cute side. After all, we invented the Teddy Bear, dammit! It's our patriotic duty to help with the Great Recutification of the US of A.
Now adults have to learn something new, even after their twenties! Thanks, Obama! Thanks, GOP Congress!
The world is changing faster, that's for sure. After the dot-com crash, and the glut of IT workers in the west, along with H1B's everywhere, I looked at getting out of IT altogether. But, it looked like nothing was safe as I looked for other careers. It's going to be a bumpy ride for our children.
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What's the alternative, roll-your-own CMS's? I've done those, and you are always re-inventing features that come standard or are pluggins in established CMS's as management/customers keep asking for new features.
I've found security mistakes in my own code because of typical human error that inherently pops up when dealing with complexity. There may indeed be some security-thru-obscurity from DIY, but it just seems another form of gambling.
I believe the best way to go is to outsource the basic CMS hosting and patching to an experienced vendor who is contractually obligated to patch timely, and verify that they do it via random spot checking.
Because they run lots CMS instances, they should have the scripts and expertise to patch with some degree of economies-of-scale such that the expenses of timely patching shouldn't be too costly for them.
Plus, they are likely to have somebody there Sunday at 3am to patch so that you don't have come in at 3am to patch yourself in order to keep the system up during normal hours.
But, I don't have enough experience with that approach to render a final judgment. If anyone can recommend vendors who fit that bill based on experience, that would be great.
OS should prompt to verify. "A new peripheral has been detected. It claims to be a keyboard. Is this correct?"
True, if you don't have a keyboard (and no mouse yet) you cannot tell the computer if you approve or disapprove.
A partial solution would be to display a message and give the user 90 seconds to respond.
"A new device that claims to be a keyboard has been detected (plugged in). If you don't reply within 90 seconds, the keyboard will be accepted."
The user should be able to choose their default. Most people have one "regular" account anyhow: it's regular-joe bill-paying.
The "account type" is mostly so they can stuff their gimmick "account" into it. They didn't even used to have that field, and if one only uses one account, it arguably shouldn't even show up on that user's form.
No, the people are NOT stupid.
Logically a data drive should have data and only data from the computer's perspective, and not run any executables or scripts on it without first explicitly asking. It should be designed that way from the start. That's how Vulcans would design it.
The fact that it's so easy for hackers to bypass what SHOULD be normal and expected is a failure of the technology and/or standards, NOT of consumers.
Which eventually leads to a long psychedelic trip through e-goatse...
If it's found tax-payer money was spent for this research, all h8ll's gonna break loose.
"Those wasteful [liberals/conservatives] are spending YOUR hard-earned tax dollars paying people to get jiggy with robots!"
"Randomtologist" is the Next Big Career
They stole it from Microsoft who stole it from Apple who stole it from Xerox who invented great gizmos but were priced at 15 grand.
Fine, we BOTH have it, now fuck off!
I do rant online about certain practices, but I cannot cover every topic or person by far.
But maybe they pay a premium to not have to put up with Asperger-like social deficiencies and racism.
Whaddya got against Cardassians?
Well, I asked some conservatives, and they were bothered by that usage. Whether that's "logic" or not is a long and winding philosophical battle.
For consumer products that often backfires in practice because too many will test the limit and the legal system tends to favor consumers under vagueness (at least outside of Texas). It's better to spell it out, and not call it "unlimited" unless it really is.
His life ended not so well, between prison, poverty, and illness. He wasn't given credit during his own lifetime, in part because his lousy people skills ticked off too many.
I wonder if he'd trade a better living ending for the future notoriety.
If so, it's not working very well, the rich are still getting richer. It looks like the 1% are winning the convincing contest, if you go by the numbers.
Well, most want it to have some degree of "efficiency or fairness", otherwise it's too broken to be useful. It needs a degree of taming to better achieve those at times.
Fair by whose standards? If obfuscation makes it less efficient, then our economy is wasting resources from a consumer's perspective.
I'd rather have co's far more focused on making better mousetraps than on tricking mousetrap customers. I'm not a social-Darwinist, at least not a pure one.
They did; that's why they were not smart enough to avoid ITT.
I wonder if there is a Trump IT Institute, by the way.
New technology usually are toys. They are immature and not road-tested. Hobbyists fortunately don't mind taking the proverbial arrows in the back to find the kinks and build/find uses for them.
The first photographs required sitting perfectly still for 5 minutes; the first phonographs had the quality of rusted tin cans with a nose plug; the first cars broke down often and required lots of fiddling to keep going, their starter mechanisms often braking arms; the first electronic computers took more time replacing vacuum tubes than computing; the first satellites kept blowing up on the launch pad; the first PC's had crappy software, unreliable storage, and crashed often for no reason; the Newton was bulky and slow; the Lisa & Mac were too expensive for most home/biz users and lacked useful software until desktop publishing matured years after release; the first online services made molasses look fast; both Java and JavaScript were buggy and inconsistent upon release; and HTML 5 is still buggy and inconsistent. And node.JS? I still don't know what the fock that's all about, I hope to finally "get it" before I die, or maybe dying is preferable?
They were both stupid, silly, and lucky.
Columbus made several mistakes; such as miscalculating the size of the Earth without checking with existing sources; not finishing his trek across across Panama, which would have revealed the Atlantic (disproving his India theory); and being a crappy island governor, lacking people skills and sliding into wacky religious rants.
The boundary between "stupid" and "brave" is perhaps a blurry one.
Capitalism starts to fail when companies spend most of their resources on trying to dupe customers rather than building a better mousetrap.
For example, my online banking requires me to select a "payment type" for each and every transaction I submit, which is typically each monthly bill.
I called customer support and asked to have it default to the payment type I use 99.9% of the time, but they said they'd put it in the wish-list and left me hanging.
The reason they do that is that the actual default is a goofy gimmick account that requires registering online and receiving spam (if you read the fine-print). They force you to see it.
They KNOW it's a time-waster to have the default payment type be the gimmicky one, but do it because they want their damned Spam-A-Tron promoted.
And there are other time-wasting gimmicks that I won't go into. It adds up. I'm not saying we should switch to socialized banking, but these capitalists sure are giving capitalism a bad name and make people more likely to agree to big-co regulations during elections.
Marketers have a dilemma. Advertising "unlimited data" is simple and enticing as a sales pitch. However, a small percentage of customers WILL take full advantage of it.
If the marketers counter that by stating limits and disclaimers, which they have to do if they don't want to be sued, then they get less sales because the conditions and disclaimers scare away a fair amount of customers.
They are trying to decide if having more customers is worth living with a few bad apples (from their perspective) who run up the data.
The best pricing in my opinion would be priced increments, such as N bytes included in the base plan, and $X more for every Y bytes over N, with a PROMPT confirming you wish to pay for the next increment of Y.
However, don't outright cut it off if payment is not approved, but rather gradually throttle it heavier and heavier, but don't charge for the overages. The throttle-time would be allowed to consume say up to 25% of Y without the extra payment (although that's a minor issue), until the data flow is zero. That way if you are in the middle of something and can't stop to answer a prompt, it doesn't outright stop.
It's a "soft and friendly wall". And it can bring in nice revenue for the service provider as people readily approve increments. It's convenient for BOTH SIDES once they buy into it.
But this approach is hard to word in a contract that makes sense to most customers. It's the "logical" way to do it, in my opinion, but hard to describe to typical customers, and that's why marketers don't do it that way.
I don't fully blame the service providers, they are just trying to compete with other service providers in the same boat. And you could blame the consumers for not being patient enough to research the details (if presented with such a plan), but humans are humans.
Maybe we need a little socialism to force a common set of plan options, with the above being one of them. People will get used to it. They sometimes don't know what's good for them until they see it in action for a while.
Indeed. America has a growing skills gap and a cuteness gap. It's time for the Sputnik of Cuteness to wake us up and re-familiarize America with its cute side. After all, we invented the Teddy Bear, dammit! It's our patriotic duty to help with the Great Recutification of the US of A.
The world is changing faster, that's for sure. After the dot-com crash, and the glut of IT workers in the west, along with H1B's everywhere, I looked at getting out of IT altogether. But, it looked like nothing was safe as I looked for other careers. It's going to be a bumpy ride for our children.