i was under the impression that the crime in that case was about the intent to have actual sex, not talking about it online. if it was a crime to talk about it online, would they have to meet in person? couldnt they just drive to his house and arrest him?
i dont know. i think the real problem here is that the "victim" is taking the virtual world too seriously. the last thing we need is something to make the virtual world even more realistic.
if they're only using the laptop for something similar to what you'd do with a turntable, then i'd agree. but it is possible to have a simulated instrument on the laptop. a MIDI keyboard for example. i'm pretty sure there's some software that emulates a keyboard on the laptop. that i would consider an instrument, because you're still playing a keyboard, just not using the standard interface.
in the late nineties, my high school had a battle of the bands sorta thing. one guy hooked up his laptop to the speakers and just hit play on a techno song he wrote. that i had a problem with. it's not live, like all the bands where, it's just playing a recording.
but the more the person has to do in real-time that will affect the sound (changing notes, putting in beats, etc), the more it blurs the line between a recording and a live performance. at some point there's not going to be any logical distinction between someone playing a keyboard live and someone playing a laptop live.
i still say, if you just want just one song, download* the damn thing. your money isnt going to the band anyway, it's going to apple and the record label. and there's no point supporting a one-hit wonder anyway, they're a dime a dozen.
i usually go by the price. they're going to be significantly more than an incandescent, and usually not available in bulk. i paid about $7 (maybe more) for a single bulb the equivalent of 100watts (but actually uses only about 30watts, i believe). that was years ago and they're still going strong.
and i also bought a bunch of $2 dollar bulbs at a flee market that are total crap. about as bright as a firefly.
pretty much every web-app has uploadable content. any time you fill out a form you're uploading content. every just by modifying the GET params, you could be uploading content that will display on the web page.
the XSS attacks you have to worry about... are the ones that use your browser
but that's not XSS, that's just a browser vulnerability. they do exist but i cant think of any cases i've heard of in the past that have had a chance at affecting me. XSS, on the other hand, is all over the place, though, granted not so much on a banking website since content you upload is unlikely to be seen by anyone but yourself.
Yes, that's the case you need to be concerned about.
i disagree. i'm fairly confident my browser is secure, and if it isnt and there's an exploit in the wild, i'll probably hear about it in less than a day and there's a good chance a patch will be released by then.
what i'm not confident about is the competency of the developers that put together the site i'm browsing.
scripts, i believe, dont have access to pages from another domain, so that's not necessary. any web developer worth his weight should not have any sql-injection or XSS vulnerabilities, lest he wish to be stoned, and that only really leaves XSRF, which is much more difficult.
the only way to really prevent XSRF, that i can see, is having browsers disallow inter-domain POST requests, and making sure all important transactions must be initiated via a POST and not GET request.
that will only help if it's the client's browser that's vulnerable, not the site itself. it wont help with XSS (since, as i just now learned, XSS is just another word for javascript-injection. it's a vulnerability in the server, not the client.)
i think you missed the on my own time or at the company part. that means no personal websites, no free software, no art... nothing. everything you make belongs to your employer.
in the case where you'd have to run lsof, i think linux beats out windows. if there's an open file on the disc, in both OSs you're not going to get the disc by hitting eject. at least in linux you can, theoretically, fine the process that has it open and kill it. i have yet to find anything that comes with windows that will let me do the same.
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i was under the impression that the crime in that case was about the intent to have actual sex, not talking about it online. if it was a crime to talk about it online, would they have to meet in person? couldnt they just drive to his house and arrest him?
i dont know. i think the real problem here is that the "victim" is taking the virtual world too seriously. the last thing we need is something to make the virtual world even more realistic.
i agree. if someone is honestly traumatized by this, then the real problem here is that they are too emotionally attached to the virtual world.
me. toilet, subway.
certainly not PC World though. maybe in a waiting room and there's nothing better.
just started reading Linux Format and PC Format (both from UK), and i love them both. pretty damn expensive (imported) but well worth it.
i know boston has a red line, i take it every day. i believe new york also uses colors. which red line is it? (TFA doesnt specify)
if they're only using the laptop for something similar to what you'd do with a turntable, then i'd agree. but it is possible to have a simulated instrument on the laptop. a MIDI keyboard for example. i'm pretty sure there's some software that emulates a keyboard on the laptop. that i would consider an instrument, because you're still playing a keyboard, just not using the standard interface.
i somewhat agree.
in the late nineties, my high school had a battle of the bands sorta thing. one guy hooked up his laptop to the speakers and just hit play on a techno song he wrote. that i had a problem with. it's not live, like all the bands where, it's just playing a recording.
but the more the person has to do in real-time that will affect the sound (changing notes, putting in beats, etc), the more it blurs the line between a recording and a live performance. at some point there's not going to be any logical distinction between someone playing a keyboard live and someone playing a laptop live.
nearly all OSes already have something similar, but superior, to UAC.
fine.
i still say, if you just want just one song, download* the damn thing. your money isnt going to the band anyway, it's going to apple and the record label. and there's no point supporting a one-hit wonder anyway, they're a dime a dozen.
now, if you want the full CD, buy the damn CD.
*by download, i'm not talking about itunes
and quite bit more than... THE FUCKING CD.
make this crap end, plz.
my fucktard physics professor used to zap students he didnt like with a tesla coil. yes i'm serious.
i remember this. good to see it's making its way to the market.
i usually go by the price. they're going to be significantly more than an incandescent, and usually not available in bulk. i paid about $7 (maybe more) for a single bulb the equivalent of 100watts (but actually uses only about 30watts, i believe). that was years ago and they're still going strong.
and i also bought a bunch of $2 dollar bulbs at a flee market that are total crap. about as bright as a firefly.
am i the only one that prefers the white of CFLs to the yellow of incandescents?
what i'm not confident about is the competency of the developers that put together the site i'm browsing.
scripts, i believe, dont have access to pages from another domain, so that's not necessary. any web developer worth his weight should not have any sql-injection or XSS vulnerabilities, lest he wish to be stoned, and that only really leaves XSRF, which is much more difficult.
the only way to really prevent XSRF, that i can see, is having browsers disallow inter-domain POST requests, and making sure all important transactions must be initiated via a POST and not GET request.
that will only help if it's the client's browser that's vulnerable, not the site itself. it wont help with XSS (since, as i just now learned, XSS is just another word for javascript-injection. it's a vulnerability in the server, not the client.)
yes that's what we need. people walking around in pitch black movie theatres.
i think you missed the on my own time or at the company part. that means no personal websites, no free software, no art... nothing. everything you make belongs to your employer.
in the case where you'd have to run lsof, i think linux beats out windows. if there's an open file on the disc, in both OSs you're not going to get the disc by hitting eject. at least in linux you can, theoretically, fine the process that has it open and kill it. i have yet to find anything that comes with windows that will let me do the same.
and the nature article is from may 2006.