Judging from the table names in the article, it looks like they are maintaining virtually all of their data in a single database hosted on a machine that is connected to the Internet and accessible by anyone. This is a grave mistake in my opinion, regardless of whether they are using 3rd party software or not.
I forgot to say that blocking the same URL with Adblock achieves the same results. The feature works by letting websites post updates to the URL http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php. So if you block this URL with Adblock (or another extension), websites won't be able to update your profile.
Adblock only blocks the ads that you see. This new Facebook feature works by letting other websites post information about you to your profile so your friends can see it. Therefore, blocking the ads with Adblock does not help here.
To prevent websites from being able to update your Facebook profile, install the BlockSite extension, and block this URL: http://*facebook.com/beacon/*
1. Creationism, born of the denial of the evolution of species through natural selection, was for a long time an almost exclusively American phenomenon. Today creationist ideas are tending to find their way into Europe and their spread is affecting quite a few Council of Europe member states. [...] 19. The Parliamentary Assembly therefore urges the member states, and especially their education authorities: 19.1. to defend and promote scientific knowledge; 19.2. strengthen the teaching of the foundations of science, its history, its epistemology and its methods alongside the teaching of objective scientific knowledge; 19.3. to make science more comprehensible, more attractive and closer to the realities of the contemporary world; 19.4. to firmly oppose the teaching of creationism as a scientific discipline on an equal footing with the theory of evolution and in general resist presentation of creationist ideas in any discipline other than religion; 19.5. to promote the teaching of evolution as a fundamental scientific theory in the school curriculum.
So yeah, Europe is doing something to stop pseudoscience from finding its way into schools.
I'm 99% sure that Ubuntu or Debian people can do similar things with DEBs. Of course, the downside with the package approach is you have to have one package per distro (take a look at Skype; skype isn't in any linux repositories, but it supplies 4-5 RPMs and a binary tarball).
Essential PHP Security is what you are looking for. The book covers a wide range of attacks and how to deal with them. In addition, the website has a couple of sample chapters so you can take a look and see if you like it.
We had an AskSlashdot about this recently. Personally, I use and recommend NameCheap which is another eNom reseller. This is mainly because of their clean control panel and low prices.
I used this script to install Firefox 2 on Dapper. It automatically downloads the latest version, installs it, integrates it with plugins installed through apt-get, and updates symbolic links. Works like a charm.
You are right, and this is why I said "demonstrate", not "prove". They still could have been faked; scans alone do not prove anything. However, they do support the fact that the documents are genuine when accompanied with other factors. When you claim that you have confidential emails from Microsoft, which format would you rather publish the emails in: plain text that anyone could fake in minutes, or scans which look exactly like what you have, and require extra effort to fake?
This is my opinion of course. They may have used PDF for entirely different reasons.
From what I've seen, the PDF files are low-quality scanned images of printed emails. Posting them as PDFs in their original form demonstrates their authenticity.
I'm another happy NameCheap customer; I have been using their services for around 3 years. Their prices are cheap, and they offer a clean and very usable control panel. In addition, customer support was quick and helpful in the few times I needed it.
Not only does Firebug provide excellent tools for debugging web applications, but it also has facilities for modifying web pages on the fly. Sometimes there is an annoying div on a webpage that I want to get rid of while reading, so I open the Firebug console and set its display property to none. There may be other extensions that provide similar features (Adblock Plus, Nuke This); however, the JavaScript console in Firebug is the ultimate tool for running your own code on 3rd party web pages, for those who know Javascrpt, that is.
Furthermore, the JavaScript console can be very helpful for those starting to learn JavaScript, like how the Python console is for Python beginners.
I wrote that as a journal entry back in August and submitted it to the frontpage, but it was rejected. Now I see it in the developers section. However, I'm not credited.
I wonder if it's a bug in Slash, or someone copied my journal entry and resubmitted it. Either way, not that I care, it only took me a couple of minutes to write and submit the entry.
I find "Client-side session and persistent storage" to be quite interesting, and wonder if any major web apps will make use of it in the near future. There are also JavaScript 1.7 which makes JavaScript more Pythonic, SVG support, and several other features.
The default bookmarks.html for Firefox 1.5 contains a keyword search for Wikipedia, but if your profile is from the 0.x/1.x days, it won't contain this keyword search. The default list of keyword searches has been removed from Firefox 2.0 by the way, so a keyword search needs to be manually added to a fresh 2.0 profile.
Create a keyword search for Wikipedia and you will be able to search it by directly typing your search terms in the location bar. Here is how to do it:
Right-click in the search field, and select "Add a keyword for this search...".
Enter a keyword for your search. Personally, I use "wp".
That's it, now try it by typing "wp starcraft" into your location bar for example.
This feature isn't limited to Wikipedia by the way, and I believe a previous version of Firefox used to ship with several keyword searches by default, including Wikipedia.
Well, I needed a program because I wasn't connected to the internet at the time. I just transported those packets through sheer strength of will.:-)
Hehe. By the way this series of jokes never gets old. It's bound to appear as soon as someone mentions Lynx or telnet.
How you doin', Ayman? You need to put up a JE whenever you post to your blog 'cause I always forget to read it. Or, I suppose I could just get the RSS feed.:-D
I'm doing fine. Good call about the JE thing. Will do whenever I have something worthy of sharing here:)
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Judging from the table names in the article, it looks like they are maintaining virtually all of their data in a single database hosted on a machine that is connected to the Internet and accessible by anyone. This is a grave mistake in my opinion, regardless of whether they are using 3rd party software or not.
I forgot to say that blocking the same URL with Adblock achieves the same results. The feature works by letting websites post updates to the URL http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php. So if you block this URL with Adblock (or another extension), websites won't be able to update your profile.
Adblock only blocks the ads that you see. This new Facebook feature works by letting other websites post information about you to your profile so your friends can see it. Therefore, blocking the ads with Adblock does not help here.
To prevent websites from being able to update your Facebook profile, install the BlockSite extension, and block this URL: http://*facebook.com/beacon/*
Credit for the above information goes to this blog.
Indeed, and the first version of the module that encapsulates this functionality dates back to 2003, way before the time when the patent was filed.
So yeah, Europe is doing something to stop pseudoscience from finding its way into schools.
Skype offers an APT repository for Debian and Ubuntu users:
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html
And so do many other companies. For example, Google also provides an APT repository:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html
Thanks to Synaptic, adding a new repository to Ubuntu is pretty easy, even for your average user.
You remind me of this Dilbert strip.
Whatever happened to the <noscript> element?
Essential PHP Security is what you are looking for. The book covers a wide range of attacks and how to deal with them. In addition, the website has a couple of sample chapters so you can take a look and see if you like it.
We had an AskSlashdot about this recently. Personally, I use and recommend NameCheap which is another eNom reseller. This is mainly because of their clean control panel and low prices.
Not anymore, netcat is a better replacement for creating sockets. One of its advantages is the ability to listen to ports.
I used this script to install Firefox 2 on Dapper. It automatically downloads the latest version, installs it, integrates it with plugins installed through apt-get, and updates symbolic links. Works like a charm.
You are right, and this is why I said "demonstrate", not "prove". They still could have been faked; scans alone do not prove anything. However, they do support the fact that the documents are genuine when accompanied with other factors. When you claim that you have confidential emails from Microsoft, which format would you rather publish the emails in: plain text that anyone could fake in minutes, or scans which look exactly like what you have, and require extra effort to fake?
This is my opinion of course. They may have used PDF for entirely different reasons.
From what I've seen, the PDF files are low-quality scanned images of printed emails. Posting them as PDFs in their original form demonstrates their authenticity.
I'm another happy NameCheap customer; I have been using their services for around 3 years. Their prices are cheap, and they offer a clean and very usable control panel. In addition, customer support was quick and helpful in the few times I needed it.
Not only does Firebug provide excellent tools for debugging web applications, but it also has facilities for modifying web pages on the fly. Sometimes there is an annoying div on a webpage that I want to get rid of while reading, so I open the Firebug console and set its display property to none. There may be other extensions that provide similar features (Adblock Plus, Nuke This); however, the JavaScript console in Firebug is the ultimate tool for running your own code on 3rd party web pages, for those who know Javascrpt, that is.
Furthermore, the JavaScript console can be very helpful for those starting to learn JavaScript, like how the Python console is for Python beginners.
I wrote that as a journal entry back in August and submitted it to the frontpage, but it was rejected. Now I see it in the developers section. However, I'm not credited.
I wonder if it's a bug in Slash, or someone copied my journal entry and resubmitted it. Either way, not that I care, it only took me a couple of minutes to write and submit the entry.
Not at Google, there you can simply use a real-time computer-based translator to communicate efficiently ;)
The changes are nicely summarized in this page.
I find "Client-side session and persistent storage" to be quite interesting, and wonder if any major web apps will make use of it in the near future. There are also JavaScript 1.7 which makes JavaScript more Pythonic, SVG support, and several other features.
Yeah I'm aware of it, but it's still beta. How often does it crash and take the browser with it (If at all)?
Add to this the fact that sound goes out of sync with the Linux Flash plugin, and you are gold :)
The default bookmarks.html for Firefox 1.5 contains a keyword search for Wikipedia, but if your profile is from the 0.x/1.x days, it won't contain this keyword search. The default list of keyword searches has been removed from Firefox 2.0 by the way, so a keyword search needs to be manually added to a fresh 2.0 profile.
- Go to Wikipedia.org.
- Right-click in the search field, and select "Add a keyword for this search...".
- Enter a keyword for your search. Personally, I use "wp".
- That's it, now try it by typing "wp starcraft" into your location bar for example.
This feature isn't limited to Wikipedia by the way, and I believe a previous version of Firefox used to ship with several keyword searches by default, including Wikipedia.I'm doing fine. Good call about the JE thing. Will do whenever I have something worthy of sharing here
You need a computer program to post? How amateurish! I'm posting this by waving a magnet next to a phone cable ;)