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Industry acting to address Internet
pop-up ads
Industry acting to address Internet
pop-up ads
06/08/2004 05:50 AMTcpalm.com - Tue Jun 8, 05:39 am GMT
Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders
Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders
02/16/2004 01:19 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Feb 16 2004 5:10PM GMT
Costly court cases Tech-industry fights
to stop 'patent trolls' from taking over
Costly court cases Tech-industry fights
to stop 'patent trolls' from taking over
06/02/2004 08:13 PMBBC Jun 3 2004 0:00AM GMT
Costly court cases Tech industry fights
to stop 'patent trolls' from taking over
Costly court cases Tech industry fights
to stop 'patent trolls' from taking over
06/03/2004 05:12 AMBBC Jun 3 2004 9:06AM GMT
Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam
Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam
06/22/2004 09:17 AMThe Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include
Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today
unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by
presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical
recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the
scourge of spam.
Change address formats in Address Book
Change address formats in Address Book
02/05/2005 10:14 PMOK, this is picky of me, but I got fed up having a line for "County"
in my UK-format addresses in AddressBook. It irked me. After a brief
hunt, I found that I can modify the address format for each country's
addresses by modi...
Acting Up
Acting Up
12/27/2004 06:59 AMCasting director Mark Bennett takes you behind the scenes on
auditioning your way to success.
Acting Out A Dream
Acting Out A Dream
05/25/2004 12:50 AMA few years ago, students used simple video recorders to make their
movies. Now they have access to more sophisticated technology
including green screens, sound recording music and various computer
programs -- including Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express and
iLife. By Erin Snelgrove, The News-Review (via MyAppleMenu)
Gamers acting out
Gamers acting out
08/18/2004 06:44 PMUSA Today Aug 18 2004 11:22PM GMT
api.google.com acting up
api.google.com acting up
01/17/2003 12:29 PMI'm having trobule posting blog entries. It seems that api.google.com
has been having troubles for much of the night. So I'll just queue
things up and try later. Grr. I'd take the Google related stuff out of
my templates, but...
L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com)
L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com)
02/19/2004 08:10 AMUSATODAY.com - Traffic bottlenecks across the nation have increased by
40% since 1999, a new report shows. Despite that, delays are being
reduced at some of the nation's most infamous chokepoints such as
Albuquerque's "Big I" and Chicago's "Hillside Strangler."
Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users
Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users
07/30/2004 07:13 PMAVN Online Jul 30 2004 10:51PM GMT
TheStar.com - We're acting like doggone
wussies
TheStar.com - We're acting like doggone
wussies
02/15/2004 09:19 AMdemonstrates that he has the proper perspective on Triumph's visit to
Quebec .. slaps Canadians upside their wool-hatted heads ..
We’re acting like doggone wussies .. Vinay Menon article
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After School Job? Acting As A Mule For
Phishers
After School Job? Acting As A Mule For
Phishers
01/05/2005 10:30 PMApparently a group of organized crime scammers who were running a
spam-trojan horse-keylogger-phishing type racket convinced over a
dozen Australian students to
act as "money mules" for them. The scammers
would send out spam with keylogger trojan horses attached, then would
watch infected computers for online banking login info. At that
point, they would log into the bank accounts and transfer money out to
the student's bank accounts, who would then move the money on to the
scammers -- and get a small cut as thanks. Not your typical after
school job...
Qrio the robot makes acting debut
Qrio the robot makes acting debut
01/16/2004 11:02 AMSony's all-dancing, all-talking, toddler-sized robot makes its TV
acting debut in Japan.
Computer Associates names Cron acting
CEO
Computer Associates names Cron acting
CEO
04/26/2004 11:34 AMAP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Apr 26 2004 3:22PM GMT
Robot pops into studio for acting debut
Robot pops into studio for acting debut
01/16/2004 10:57 AMi agree with u ...my PC ..went
crazy...still acting carzy even after
uninstalling XP SP2 :(
i agree with u ...my PC ..went
crazy...still acting carzy even after
uninstalling XP SP2 :(
08/14/2004 07:55 AMTechTree Aug 14 2004 11:43AM GMT
Fast-Acting Hackers Put Out Trojan
Attacking IE
Fast-Acting Hackers Put Out Trojan
Attacking IE
12/29/2004 01:06 AMTechWeb Dec 29 2004 4:09AM GMT
A Hollywood Iconoclast Who Transformed
the Art of Acting (Los Angeles Times)
A Hollywood Iconoclast Who Transformed
the Art of Acting (Los Angeles Times)
07/03/2004 05:31 AMLos Angeles Times - Marlon Brando, a two-time Academy Award winner who
spent much of his career shunning the Hollywood establishment yet
earned its enduring admiration through muscular, naturalistic
performances that transformed the craft of acting and led peers and
critics alike to hail him as the finest actor of his time, has died.
He was 80.
Acting against anti-File-Swapping
Lawsuits in Israel
Acting against anti-File-Swapping
Lawsuits in Israel
06/05/2005 11:13 PM
A
recent Ynet feature claimed Israel is going to be the third
country
in the world after the U.S. and England to feature its own law-suits
against
file-sharer. Two issues are at stake here:
The Actors Hall of Fame Announces The
Acting Channel
The Actors Hall of Fame Announces The
Acting Channel
04/12/2005 04:50 PMA new integrated media service aimed at the mass market that will
satisfy the increased demand for acting related information,
entertainment and services [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]
Acting C.I.A. Chief Opposes Push for New
Intelligence Post
Acting C.I.A. Chief Opposes Push for New
Intelligence Post
07/18/2004 01:32 PMJohn E. McLaughlin reiterated his concern today that a proposed
cabinet-level intelligence post would needlessly add to bureaucracy.
Acting CIA Head Snubs Intel Czar Idea
Acting CIA Head Snubs Intel Czar Idea
07/18/2004 08:04 PMWashington Post Jul 19 2004 0:00AM GMT
CIA's Acting Chief Says Threat Highest
Since 9/11 (Reuters)
CIA's Acting Chief Says Threat Highest
Since 9/11 (Reuters)
07/13/2004 08:39 PMReuters - The terrorist threat against the
United States in the run-up to the November election is as
serious as at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said on Tuesday.
"Cool MPEG movie of sand acting like
water"
"Cool MPEG movie of sand acting like
water"
07/19/2004 03:10 AMAre You Annoying?
Are You Annoying?
07/24/2004 01:14 PMHow Annoying is This?
How Annoying is This?
01/21/2003 10:56 AMHow Annoying is This? or Always, Always Blame the Data !
I was just debugging code as part of Mark's new online magazine Tekka.
I wrote the login code and the way we wanted it to function was that
if you tried to view something you didn't have access to then it would
display a preview of the content (we originally were going to have it
automatically create the previews based on the source text but we
opted to create them manually to make sure that everything looked as
good as possible; it made sense since the preview is essentially
"marketing" for the article itself).
What started happening over the weekend was that the previews worked
fine for content I created. Of course as soon as the real content and
previews flowed into the "system" (and I use the term "system"
loosely; very loosely) then we started to see errors. In specific we
saw that the previews were getting arbitrarily clipped. Now the
previews I had made were quite short (probably between 1K and 4K of
data) and the real ones were much longer.
Of course the very first thing I thought of was some kind of byte size
limitation. I knew that I was passing a much larger chunk of content
into my templating class and perhaps that was it. So I merrily
plunged into Google looking for information on string size limits in
PHP. Sigh. Since Google seems to treat the extension of a url as a
word (at times; it is bizarre) within the url's content it means that
searching for PHP content can be difficult at times. I did find a
most helpful bit of content on string size limits in BEALogic
application servers though. Nothing to do with PHP of course but
helpful to someone I guess. So then I delved into the source code for
the templating library, FastTemplate. Nothing.
Then I stopped reacting and started thinking. Yes that is the hardest
part of debugging and one that all of us just plain hate to do. What
I did was setup a simpler test case, pulling JUST the display code out
of the logic and then taking my own data and making it larger. No
problem. Worked fine. ###?*($#*# (fill it in). Hrm... Then I
started thinking about the content I was getting from Mark and what I
knew about it. Well I know Mark is an all Mac shop so I started to
wonder about lower order ASCII characters being hidden in the content.
You know -- what about ASCII 17? Or ASCII 3? So I scp'd the content
back to my own server Windows box and used a gui editor. Sure enough
there turned out to be two ASCII 0s embedded in the content EXACTLY
where the content was being truncated. Mark and I hashed it out and
I'm still not sure where these came from but it really doesn't matter.
He made sure to get rid of them and so did I.
What was happening was that the ASCII 0s were acting to truncate the
string of preview content as it was passed to the display method. I
ended up adding this to the routine before passing the content off for
display:
$preview = str_replace("\0","",$preview);
Moral of the Story?
Think before debugging.
Simply your test case as much as possible.
Check the data; even invisible things can screw you up.
A Break From Annoying Ads?
A Break From Annoying Ads?
05/25/2004 05:12 AMA high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is
giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from
outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit
Asaravala.
Free to be annoying
Free to be annoying
06/12/2004 12:00 AMUSA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT
Annoying the sharks
Annoying the sharks
07/03/2004 11:43 AMWhere I'm staying, the kids have had the Discovery Channel all
morning. It's shark show after shark show. The underwater scientists
wrestle them, tag them, measure them, and check their teeth for
unsightly plaque. Fine, but I plan on swimming in the ocean this
summer, so could we please stop annoying the sharks for a while? Thank
you....
Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks
Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks
03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Consolidated
B-24 Liberator nose
art archive.
Signs of the
zodiac,
dirty jokes, self-fulfilling
prophecies, and
stumpers. (Some
questionable content [NSFW-ish] and site design)
Annoying Mousequito
Annoying Mousequito
08/22/2004 10:40 PM
ugh, get away When Tech Gets Really Annoying
When Tech Gets Really Annoying
06/24/2005 07:22 PMIt's almost lunch time, and I'm driving down the street, not too
fast and not too slow. My belly has been reminding me for a while that
it's been several hours since I finished my bowl of Honey Bunches of
Oats, and just then a Burger
King joint comes into view. I'm thinking, "Hmmm. I wonder what
their special is today." Apparently reading my mind, the super spiffy
gee-whiz Daktronic
s Message Center animated sign flashes "SPECIAL" several times in
a very special animated sequence that must've taken hours to program.
Then the display changes to read
TENDERCRISP CHICKEN
in really big letters, and pauses for a few seconds. As I get
closer and closer to the restaurant's driveway, I'm thinking to
myself, "That would taste really good about now," but the cheapskate
in me is also asking, "How much does it cost?" By this time I'm less
than a block away. Next comes
SANDWICH COMBO
(or something like that) in really big letters. Great. So you've
got a SPECIAL on a TENDERCRISP CHICKEN SANDWICH COMBO and it takes you
four blocks to tell me that? By the time it's too late for me to turn,
in the sign still hasn't flashed the SPECIAL's price, so I drive right
on by, looking for another place to buy lunch. Their advertising
efforts just lost them a sale.
I realize that there are few rocket scientists running Burger King
restaurants, but does it take a marketing genius to know that there is
a limited amount of time for them to convey a message to passing
motorists? With the old-fashioned signage, a Burger King would put up
"TNDRCRISP COMBO $3.95" or something like that, which can be read in a
glance and gets the message across in a fraction of a second. The
galling thing is that with the electronic signage they could do the
same thing, but they choose to jazz it up, and end up failing to get
their message across.
Come to think of it, these electronic marquees suffer from some of
the same maladies that make PowerPoint presentations so painful. Deane
has written
several
posts about some of the issues with PowerPoint; if only the people
setting these signs up would bone up on Po
werPoint etiquette they'd have better success with their
streetside advertising. Or at least it wouldn't suck quite so
badly.
There should be a severe penalties for people who set up messages
on electronic marquee boards that span more than two pages.
Acting on Threat, Saudi Militant Group
Kills Captive American
Acting on Threat, Saudi Militant Group
Kills Captive American
06/19/2004 01:17 AMWithin hours the leader of the Saudi group was killed in a firefight
with security forces, local press reports said.
Tigger boning Tickle Me Elmo: Smart toys
acting dumb
Tigger boning Tickle Me Elmo: Smart toys
acting dumb
03/25/2005 06:37 PMCory Doctorow:
Stick a Tickle Me Elmo and an electronic Tigger together and they will
simulate a really dirty sex scene, as captured on this video. Smart
toys from different vendors are really overdue for combinatorial
unintended consequences.
1.9 MB WMV
Link
(
Thanks, Ben!)
Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You
Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You
09/12/2004 11:33 PMArmed with advanced server-side technologies like ASP.NET and powerful
database servers such as Microsoft® SQL Server™, developers are
able to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with incredible ease.
But the power of ASP.NET and SQL can easily be used against you by
hackers mounting an all-too-common class of attack—the SQL injection
attack.
The basic idea behind a SQL injection attack is this: you create a
Web page that allows the user to enter text into a textbox that will
be used to execute a query against a database. A hacker enters a
malformed SQL statement into the textbox that changes the nature of
the query so that it can be used to break into, alter, or damage the
back-end database. How is this possible? Let me illustrate with an
example.
"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"
"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"
04/18/2004 03:21 AMDHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying
DHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying
12/30/2002 10:45 AM"The novelty has worn off and now it's a hate/hate relationship. The
new "pop out" type ads on web sites are the newest plague to sweep
advertising on the internet. They totally block the content on the
page until you locate the little teenie weenie "close" link."
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