usually people are just willing to give it out... especially to any IT staff, just walk up and ask "whats your password?"... they just assume its for a good reason and hand it over... after countless meetings, memos and shit-cannings...
It's worse than that. You'll come to their cubicle and before you can ask them to show you what's wrong, they'll announce their password loud enough that everyone in earshot can hear. That's when I announce that they need to change their passphrase immediately. This is the only time you really need to change a passphrase; when you think it may be compromised. If you change every 3 months, you've given someone access for 3 months. Either change every microsecond or only when necessary.
Yes, not everyone can figure out when you speak in a sarcastic tone,
But the rest are neuro-typical. Let's play a game: I'll write something ridiculous, and you get to choose whether I'm stupid, insane, or joking with you. "I ate your lunch today." now, why did I choose a ridiculous statement? Because the stoning statement is ridiculous. I know England doesn't have guns, but they do have better weapons than stones. If he really meant her harm, he'd have said " can someone just go play jack the ripper with her" or something.
The UK government have already instilled this fear. If an islamic man had posted that about a white woman, you can guarantee he would be arrested, charged and convicted for it.
Because stoning is still a viable punishment according to Sharia Law, which some devout Muslims attempt to follow even in adopted countries. If the councilor instead said something that made sense from his perspective ("can someone please tell MI5 to remove her?", "can someone please fine her egregiously for not paying her BBC tax?"), then it would be easy to see that it's not a joke. As it stands, his tweet is the tweet of a bigoted douchenozzle, but not a murderous bigoted douchenozzle.
He posted a public request for the woman to be murdered. He even suggested a specific weapon. How could he follow through any more than that -- start suggesting exact times and places?
Suggesting a weapon that is not a cultural norm, in fact, is culturally ridiculous, should make one think that there is another reason for the choice of weapon. For example, if he had asked why someone doesn't drive a stake through Robert Pattinson's heart, further investigation shows Mr. Pattinson to be the actor portraying a vampire in tween/cougar fantasy movies. My guess is that either Yasmin is a staunch defender of Sharia Law and he's making an observation, or he's just being bigoted and making a joke in poor taste.
I live in the UK, and I can confirm we are much more terrified of our government than of Al Quaida.
Our own police kill a lot more people than Al Quaida, and are a lot less incompetent in other ways as well. Further more, we are terrorised on a daily basis by over sealous enforement of traffic regulations, and excessive fines.
I thought most of the UK police didn't carry weapons, just whistles. And citizens don't carry weapons, so why would UK police need to use deadly force?
The whole RHEL renumbering makes me feel the same way I felt when I heard a kid say he was glad to be seeing the first Star Wars movie in a theater. This wasn't the CGI-rereleases. It was Phantom Menace.
An Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why?
Because the path of the optical signal got bent by Ubuntu's enormous gravitational field, and veered off course
This used to be known as brown shift, but modernists prefer purple.
How about something like a symlink?
Ah... yes... windows.
dir c:\users\username
Looky there, a junction and a symlink in the default home directory setup. NTFS is a lot better than you've been told. Of course, learning about junctions, et al, is not as easy as "man ln"
If I got a prompt from safari telling that a website wanted to open skype, I'd say "WTF?! Hell no!", then thank appl for protecting me from random stupid website. As it stand now, I have no idea which of my apps might have "backdoor" URL handlers. Will the NPR app open if I visit npr's website? Will Super amazing fart soundboard open and make fart noises when safari sees a google ad? The dual prompt may not be the apple way, but it is the right way. If I'm reading a webpage, I'd like some notification that safari is closing before it opens other apps.
knowing that skype could call from visiting webpages in safari? It's not called "skype mobile safari plugin app"
This is a stupid issue, since Apple doesn't know how to validate the data passed via the handler... it's up to the app launched from a (possibly untrusted) source to check it all.
I agree, but only about the stupid issue part. It should be up to the human, the owner of the phone, to check it. But apple wants to remove thinking from their users (spelling correction, not spelling checking).
But wouldn't apple have a built-in warning around that generally no matter what app was called? Shouldn't it? That's why protection of something that can do generic stuff would seem to be in the domain of the initiating application to protect, because Apple cannot know all the possible input paths that trigger damage, so they should defer to the end user (thinking human), not Steve Jobs' Perfect Algorithm.
Then you both completely misunderstood the problem and have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...What should iOS ask? You installed an app that registers a URL handler, it is in fact up to that app to umm you know properly handle the url. The browser has no idea what that URL actually does, the app handling it does and is responsible for ensuring the user is informed before doing something expensive/dangerous...
This is simply the second story in a week desperately trying to find security flaws in iOS and failing miserably.
Apple shill. End user installed an app for wifi based "phone" calls. How do they know if there is a URL handler involved at all? If there are 10,000 apps that need cleaned up, does the onus still fall on the 10,000 3rd parties when apple could easily solve the problem since Apple's app is the one gateway that is causing the issue to begin with?
Actually a lot of computer science students want to be lots of things besides programmers, and in fact many of them want to be anything BUT programmers.
Some of us become sysadmins. Some of us become hardware developers. Some of us become fry jockeys.
They are a good aid in me repeatedly hitting it both before and after someone boards the elevator, and a visual aid to my sighing in exasperation when they make it on the elevator. They convey exactly the message I intended.
Bonus: you can now pass gas with impunity. It was their fault for rushing into the elevator while you hit the "close door" button.
And when I press the buttons, nothing happens, ever. I still have to wait, thus I do not feel better. In fact the lack of a decreased waiting time is the opposite of an improvement. After enough of these annoyances I begin to get frustrated, complain about it, and distrust the systems.
How is that a placebo effect?
Exactly, I've broken a lot of "close door" buttons pressing them too hard, repeatedly while the doors take forever to close after a kid hits _every_button_. I've also broken fake thermostats, taking them apart trying to get them to work. I've only bothered hitting the buttons on crosswalks where it's obvious they aren't automated.
That's hilarious since the Ohio Dem's were using one of the republicans support of the Fair Tax (or flat tax, not sure which he supported) as an evil plot to decrease taxes for the rich while taxing poor peoples food and medicine. I'm fairly sure neither major party wants the Fair Tax to pass as it makes it too hard for them to trade campaign contributions for tax loopholes.
We had the same commercials in my state; the removal of income and SS taxes weren't mentioned, just that evil Mr. Tea Party wanted to tax senior's cat food 26% more.
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usually people are just willing to give it out... especially to any IT staff, just walk up and ask "whats your password?"... they just assume its for a good reason and hand it over... after countless meetings, memos and shit-cannings...
It's worse than that. You'll come to their cubicle and before you can ask them to show you what's wrong, they'll announce their password loud enough that everyone in earshot can hear. That's when I announce that they need to change their passphrase immediately. This is the only time you really need to change a passphrase; when you think it may be compromised. If you change every 3 months, you've given someone access for 3 months. Either change every microsecond or only when necessary.
"Raytheon is seeking to develop the suits to help the US military carry supplies" Cue: Power Armour in 3...2...1.
With what power? Supply tossing makes sense since the suit can be tied to a supply truck via power cable.
Yes, not everyone can figure out when you speak in a sarcastic tone,
But the rest are neuro-typical. Let's play a game: I'll write something ridiculous, and you get to choose whether I'm stupid, insane, or joking with you. "I ate your lunch today." now, why did I choose a ridiculous statement? Because the stoning statement is ridiculous. I know England doesn't have guns, but they do have better weapons than stones. If he really meant her harm, he'd have said " can someone just go play jack the ripper with her" or something.
generally they do not over-react or shoot dead citizens without cause.
I should hope not, else they would be brought up on charges of abusing a corpse!
The UK government have already instilled this fear. If an islamic man had posted that about a white woman, you can guarantee he would be arrested, charged and convicted for it.
Because stoning is still a viable punishment according to Sharia Law, which some devout Muslims attempt to follow even in adopted countries. If the councilor instead said something that made sense from his perspective ("can someone please tell MI5 to remove her?", "can someone please fine her egregiously for not paying her BBC tax?"), then it would be easy to see that it's not a joke. As it stands, his tweet is the tweet of a bigoted douchenozzle, but not a murderous bigoted douchenozzle.
He posted a public request for the woman to be murdered. He even suggested a specific weapon. How could he follow through any more than that -- start suggesting exact times and places?
Suggesting a weapon that is not a cultural norm, in fact, is culturally ridiculous, should make one think that there is another reason for the choice of weapon. For example, if he had asked why someone doesn't drive a stake through Robert Pattinson's heart, further investigation shows Mr. Pattinson to be the actor portraying a vampire in tween/cougar fantasy movies. My guess is that either Yasmin is a staunch defender of Sharia Law and he's making an observation, or he's just being bigoted and making a joke in poor taste.
asked if she could be stoned - NOT shot; not beaten to death with a cricket bat; but stoned, as in an old fashioned fantasy sort of way.
s/n old fashioned fantasy/ current, 3000 mile to the southeast/
Yes, I do know someone who got the phone, he loves it and has been raving on facebook about it...
Also, it's "me neither"...
Yeah, I have a friend that works in Redmond too.
FYI: he's a she.
Look at that photo. Care to try again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Neville-Jones,_Baroness_Neville-Jones
I live in the UK, and I can confirm we are much more terrified of our government than of Al Quaida.
Our own police kill a lot more people than Al Quaida, and are a lot less incompetent in other ways as well. Further more, we are terrorised on a daily basis by over sealous enforement of traffic regulations, and excessive fines.
I thought most of the UK police didn't carry weapons, just whistles. And citizens don't carry weapons, so why would UK police need to use deadly force?
high up gov people can do DO YOU KNOW WHO I'M line and get away with it.
Odd grammar... I'm so sorry, Master Yoda, I should have realized who you're immediately.
The whole RHEL renumbering makes me feel the same way I felt when I heard a kid say he was glad to be seeing the first Star Wars movie in a theater. This wasn't the CGI-rereleases. It was Phantom Menace.
An Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because the path of the optical signal got bent by Ubuntu's enormous gravitational field, and veered off course
This used to be known as brown shift, but modernists prefer purple.
How about something like a symlink? Ah... yes... windows.
dir c:\users\username
Looky there, a junction and a symlink in the default home directory setup. NTFS is a lot better than you've been told. Of course, learning about junctions, et al, is not as easy as "man ln"
If I got a prompt from safari telling that a website wanted to open skype, I'd say "WTF?! Hell no!", then thank appl for protecting me from random stupid website. As it stand now, I have no idea which of my apps might have "backdoor" URL handlers. Will the NPR app open if I visit npr's website? Will Super amazing fart soundboard open and make fart noises when safari sees a google ad? The dual prompt may not be the apple way, but it is the right way. If I'm reading a webpage, I'd like some notification that safari is closing before it opens other apps.
But you installed Skype.
knowing that skype could call from visiting webpages in safari? It's not called "skype mobile safari plugin app"
This is a stupid issue, since Apple doesn't know how to validate the data passed via the handler... it's up to the app launched from a (possibly untrusted) source to check it all.
I agree, but only about the stupid issue part. It should be up to the human, the owner of the phone, to check it. But apple wants to remove thinking from their users (spelling correction, not spelling checking).
But wouldn't apple have a built-in warning around that generally no matter what app was called? Shouldn't it? That's why protection of something that can do generic stuff would seem to be in the domain of the initiating application to protect, because Apple cannot know all the possible input paths that trigger damage, so they should defer to the end user (thinking human), not Steve Jobs' Perfect Algorithm.
FTFY
Then you both completely misunderstood the problem and have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...What should iOS ask? You installed an app that registers a URL handler, it is in fact up to that app to umm you know properly handle the url. The browser has no idea what that URL actually does, the app handling it does and is responsible for ensuring the user is informed before doing something expensive/dangerous...
This is simply the second story in a week desperately trying to find security flaws in iOS and failing miserably.
Apple shill. End user installed an app for wifi based "phone" calls. How do they know if there is a URL handler involved at all? If there are 10,000 apps that need cleaned up, does the onus still fall on the 10,000 3rd parties when apple could easily solve the problem since Apple's app is the one gateway that is causing the issue to begin with?
Yeah, the fix should be simple. Add this to the list of requirements for apps and don't approve any that don't implement it.
The fix _IS_ simple. "This website is attempting to open XYZ.app. [ ]Allow? [X]Deny?"
Actually a lot of computer science students want to be lots of things besides programmers, and in fact many of them want to be anything BUT programmers.
Some of us become sysadmins. Some of us become hardware developers. Some of us become fry jockeys.
Wait until you get a job and see what level your coworkers are at.
Not unless he lives in India.
They are a good aid in me repeatedly hitting it both before and after someone boards the elevator, and a visual aid to my sighing in exasperation when they make it on the elevator. They convey exactly the message I intended.
Bonus: you can now pass gas with impunity. It was their fault for rushing into the elevator while you hit the "close door" button.
And when I press the buttons, nothing happens, ever. I still have to wait, thus I do not feel better. In fact the lack of a decreased waiting time is the opposite of an improvement. After enough of these annoyances I begin to get frustrated, complain about it, and distrust the systems.
How is that a placebo effect?
Exactly, I've broken a lot of "close door" buttons pressing them too hard, repeatedly while the doors take forever to close after a kid hits _every_button_. I've also broken fake thermostats, taking them apart trying to get them to work. I've only bothered hitting the buttons on crosswalks where it's obvious they aren't automated.
That's hilarious since the Ohio Dem's were using one of the republicans support of the Fair Tax (or flat tax, not sure which he supported) as an evil plot to decrease taxes for the rich while taxing poor peoples food and medicine. I'm fairly sure neither major party wants the Fair Tax to pass as it makes it too hard for them to trade campaign contributions for tax loopholes.
We had the same commercials in my state; the removal of income and SS taxes weren't mentioned, just that evil Mr. Tea Party wanted to tax senior's cat food 26% more.
Please come eight hours early to lounge in the evacuation suite while served ex-lax brownies. Failure to evacuate is grounds for being barred from the flight.