Posts by ScaredyCat 26 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2010
Never! I don't believe this figure at all.
Going to say that I've been personally responsible for more than 118m Rick Rolls.
To say that RR has only had 118m views just seems very, very wrong.
Give us some credit, most RR videos appear as people learn the URIs
You can't have added them all up, they appear all the time.
Up that number anyway because I've just found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ - look at the number of views.
I've had quite a few issues with my hi-res 2011 MBP. Battery died after upgrading to Lion cost me £99 to replace. - I firmly believe that Lion update was the cause. Then the graphics card started making stuff all blue. Apple replaced the mother^H^H^H^H logic board free of charge, but interestingly when I had to sign for the repair it was listed as a repair under EU law (not fit for purpose). I half expected to have to fight over payment but they didn't charge me. Now, even with the replacement I'm starting to get artifacts appearing on the screen again. :(
I wont be buying another mac, not only becasue of this but generally becasue I don't what a highly reflective screen and matte is no longer an option.
I wish they'd just stop trying to turn Dr Who into an extention of Eastenders. Why do we have to have a drama queen event in every episode. Clara adds nothing to Dr Who, nether did the other one, the ginger one.. time for some stong side-kick. Even Ace was better... God, did I just say that.. it must be bad.
.. in all the world will be worthless when your internet connection dies, the 'service' provider for that product decides to no longer support it, goes bust, gets bored with it. etc
The cloud is not the answer to these problems, the cloud is just a mechanism to tie you into a provider and keep you paying money.
Not a gaping hole? Really? Does everyone use online billing for BT? No, no they don't. Where are BT magically going to send this confirmation email if they don't have an email address for the account holder?
Did you even take the time to think this through at all?
I wonder if I changed the settings on your mother / grandmother's line just for "a bit of a laugh" you'd change your mind. I know mine wouldn't know until the paper bill plopped through the letterbox up to 3 months later.
... is down to the fact that it takes so long to sign up to get they required keys, vendor account auth etc - Developing for Android and IOS really only takes minutes (aside from the software install) to be up and running. It might be Friday, I might be impatient but I expect key generation to be done and available immediately when I submit my info and I expect the vendor validation to be pretty quick too.
I also don't expect to have to sign up 3 times with the same information just to start developing for the playbook - Perhaps getting this sorted out so it's a seamless process would encourage more developers - as it stands I'm already annoyed before I start porting - that can't be good.
If you don't have a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to test your apps with, you can use the BlackBerry Tablet Simulator to test your application. The BlackBerry Tablet Simulator enables you to run and view your applications as you would on a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet; however, some limitations apply.
https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/documentation/install_and_configure_sim_1849511_11.html
is it. This has been going on for years, since at least 2007.
Nice paper (pdf link)
https://www.mulliner.org/collin/academic/publications/mobile_web_privacy_icin10_mulliner.pdf
with a bit more info.
Also a list of headers found to be used
http://mobiforge.com/developing/blog/useful-x-headers
SC
Hang on,
I'l admit I didn't even read the paper, but from your summary it seems like this exploit is done using the Intent system which allows applications to ask other applications to handle a task for them. This is by design and the whole purpose of the Intent interface.
While I see that this, if no permission is required, is a security issue the flexibly you get from a system that can do this, for me, outweighs the risk. If anyone is that concerned it is fairly trivial to decompile applications to see what they are up to,
"One of the things I have learned in life from people that make judgments on people based on a few lines of text is that they are usually the type of person who thinks they are better than most based on inconsequential issues"
Didn't you just do this yourself?
Dazed and confuddled...
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