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Inspector Gadget hits Gizmoville
Inspector Gadget hits Gizmoville
03/23/2005 07:33 AMTech Digest Fab bloggers invade
The RegL.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
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.
Can't stop the pop-ups
Can't stop the pop-ups
06/04/2004 07:10 AMZDNet Jun 4 2004 11:47AM GMT
I can stop if I want to!
I can stop if I want to!
06/04/2004 08:24 PM
National
Review, Pro-Drug? I was searching for information of drug use in
Vietnam and during wars in general, when I found this gem. Scroll
halfway down to a very interesting pro-drug discussion between the
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Mr.
William Buckley. A little dated (1990), but I never thought I'd come
out of an article thinking to myself, "Maybe all drugs should be
legal."
The Ads Don't Stop
The Ads Don't Stop
05/06/2004 07:17 AMOn Monday I stopped into the post office. The United States Postal
Service office. Federally-run. You know. The red-white-and-blue
shipping company. I was stunned to see Shrek 2 cross-marketing
everywhere. A huge orange poster describing April as national
"write-a-letter" month featured Princess Fiona swooning over a love
letter from Shrek. The jive-talking donkey winked at me from the
shipping rates/times table above the counter, which featured the quip:
'we haul it fast.' [hoho!] I guess it's an inevitable consequence
of the Postal Service being spun off as an independent business unit
that sooner or later, the spaces inside it would be sold off for
marketing dollar. It's just the last place I expect to be inundated
with 'see-our-movie' marketing but as time goes by, no space is kept
sacred from advertising. It will likely get worse. Can you see it now:
the golden-arches postage stamp?
Don't stop now, there are nine more!
Don't stop now, there are nine more!
12/30/2003 07:26 AMThe 10 Dumbest Quotes of 2003 .. all of
them
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Never stop
Never stop
12/22/2003 11:17 PMAs you'd expect, it's shaping up to be a somewhat slow week, which
oddly enough I'm finding to be tough to handle since I'm so...
Can't stop the pop-ups
Can't stop the pop-ups
06/04/2004 06:52 PMTech Republic (subscription),KY-9 hours ago ... It initiates a
JavaScript command, and it gets around pop-up blockers that don't
block user initiated commands like Google and Yahoo," said Adam Tuttle
...
Stop that some more
Stop that some more
07/10/2004 12:59 AMUsatoday.com - Fri Jul 9, 08:48 am GMT
Stop him before he clicks again!
Stop him before he clicks again!
04/15/2004 07:43 AMInternet filters were supposed to keep kids away from X-rated sites.
Now some grown-ups, unable to stop porn-surfing on their own, are
submitting to the filters themselves.
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
07/07/2004 07:23 PMPeople are just beginning, it seems, to wake up to the fact that most
digital music today doesn't sound as good as it could. That's because
the most popular compression formats -- including both the lingua
franca MP3 standard and the standard Apple uses for its ITunes store
-- are "lossy": To make the file size smaller, they trade off some
loss of information (and therefore sound quality).
This latest round in the discussion seems to have kicked off with a
Randall Stross column
in the Sunday New York Times, but it dates back at least as far
as Andrew Leonard's early, groundbreaking coverage of the MP3 phenomenon in Salon. Stross points out that
Apple's choice of a good but still "lossy" compression standard for
its music store means that -- surprise! -- you're really not
getting CD quality audio when you pay for your $9.99 album.
Continuing the thread, Tim Bray
writes: "I used to think that if you were listening to music on
headphones on a bus or train or plane or in a crowd, the MP3 lossage
really didn’t matter much. But recently I’ve been listening
to the Shure 3C phones, and it’s obvious that we really
shouldn’t be ignoring these compression issues; in particular
since lossless compression is available right here, right now."
Well, yes. We have the technology! The problem here is not
technical, it's political, legal, financial.
The odd thing to me is that Stross's column -- which appeared in
the Business section, after all -- failed to mention the
obvious: that the record labels are selling lossy versions of songs
online because they still distrust the new medium, even when it is
being used legally and when people are paying for their product.
They're more interested in propping up their sagging CD business than
in quickly exploiting a new marketplace. So after years of dithering
they figure, OK, we'll sell our wares on the Net -- but let's only
provide crippled versions. The crippling applies not only to Apple's
DRM schemes (lord knows whether you'll still have access to that
music, 10 years and three computers from now) but to the 128 kbps bit
rate of the songs you buy. It was one thing to accept that tradeoff in
1998 when MP3s were underground, hard disks were smaller and most of
the world was on dialup connections. Today, it makes no sense.
I don't doubt that the DRM and bit-rate compromises were part of
the horsetrading Steve Jobs had to engage in to get the record labels
in the door in the first place. But it doesn't make me want to sink my
cash into purchases on iTunes. (At EMusic, by contrast -- which I still
subscribe to despite my hissy fit when they stopped offering unlimited
downloads -- I pay for music and receive it uncrippled by DRM and in a
higher quality, though still not perfect, format.)
The prevalence of cruddy 128 kbps music in the online marketplace
demonstrates that the music industry still don't believe in online
distribution: It still don't trust us, even when we're paying for
the music.
The real issue for the recording industry has never been loss of
profits due to piracy, because no one has ever proven that there is a
direct connection between piracy and declining CD sales (in fact, quite
the contrary). What the industry fears is loss of control.
Individual consumers -- like Andrew, who wrote a
column about this last week -- want to buy their music and then do
whatever they want with it: Put it on an iPod, put it in the car, burn
new CD mixes, share with friends. It's what we've always done with our
music, after all; we just have better tools today.
There are audiophiles out there, of course, who turn up their noses
at "CD quality" -- which is itself "lossy" compared with
higher-quality audio formats. But meanwhile, the vast majority of
music lovers who are reasonably content with their CDs aren't getting
their money's worth when they buy online.
So remember: when you rip your own CDs to MP3, use at least a 160
kbps rate, or higher if you've got a big disk, or a "Variable Bit
Rate" if your ripper supports that. The added file size is negligible
given how cheap storage is today, but your ears will thank you. And
the next time you think of buying music from an online store, tell
them you won't settle for anything less.
Stop yanking us around
Stop yanking us around
04/15/2004 03:47 AMI've now been told on good authority that just because next winter's
operating system shipment will be called "Open Enterprise Server"
doesn't mean the name NetWare will no longer be attached to a product.
Why You Should Stop Before You Click
Why You Should Stop Before You Click
03/14/2005 04:00 PMFrom Ed Foster’s Gripelog: “This week the Americans For
Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (AFFECT) coalition announced its
“Stop Before You Click” campaign promoting its 12
Principles for Fair Commerce in Software and Other Digital Products.
But what does AFFECT mean by all that? After we stop before we click,
what do we do next? My long-time readers know AFFECT as the
organization that succeeded in stopping the spread of UCITA, the
Uniform Computer Information Transactions…
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Where Would You Like To Stop Today?
Where Would You Like To Stop Today?
04/21/2004 02:25 PMWhile Microsoft's Connected Car technology is already being used in a
variety of car platforms, these pictures illustrate some of the
dangers in using a system that isn't thoroughly tested. It's probably
reasonable to suppose Windows wouldn't be controlling anything
safety-related in a production vehicle (and I have no idea...
Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
07/24/2004 01:10 PMMr. O'Reilly,
You have declared a "war" on the New York Times. That's good for you,
good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions deserve
strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about matters
important to the Republic.
But in waging this "war," you are continuing to abuse a man whom you
have wronged, and to whom you owe an apology.
On February 4, 2003, Jeremy Glick was your guest on THE FACTOR. Glick
had lost his father in the attack of 9/11. He had also signed an ad
criticizing the war in Iraq. You were "surprised" that one who had
lost his father could oppose that war. And so you had him on your
show, presumably to ask him why. (Here's a
clip
from
Outfoxed putting this story
together.)
You might not remember precisely what you said on that interview, or
more importantly, what Jeremy Glick said. So here's a
copy that you can watch. Nor may you remember precisely what the ad that
Jeremy Glick signed said. Here's a
copy
that you can read. And when you've watched what was actually said, and
read what was actually written, I'm sure you will see that the
statements you continue to make about Jeremy Glick are just plain
false. Not Bill Clinton "depends upon what is is" false, but false the
way most Americans learned growing up: just not true.
For example:
- in the February 4th interview, you
said the ad "accused the USA itself of terrorism." Read the ad,
Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
- in the February 4th interview, you said the ad "equates the United
States with the terrorists." Read the ad,
Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
- in the February 4th interview, you said the ad "absolutely says"
that the United States is to be "equated" with the terrorists. Read
the ad,
Mr. O'Reilly. It says no such thing.
- on February 5th, you told your viewers that "Glick was out of
control." He may have been out of your control. But you and our
government have got to learn that just because someone disagrees with
you, he doesn't become a security threat. Again, watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He was not "out of control."
- on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing
hatred for this program." Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He criticized you, not the program,
for unethically using sympathy for the 9/11 victims for your own
political ends. He was calling your behavior improper. You had not
earned his hatred.
- on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing
hatred for ... his country." Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He said no such thing. He specifically
distinguished the people he was criticizing from "the people of
America." He, like the rest of us, loves our country, even if we
disagree with its political leaders, or your political views.
- on February 5th, you accused him of using "vile propaganda." What
does "propaganda" mean to you, Mr. O'Reilly? He was disagreeing with
your views. Why is that "propaganda"?
- six months later, you said that Glick said that the Bushes "were
directly responsible for 9/11." Again, watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. He said no such thing. Indeed, he
twice denied it.
- eleven months later, you said Glick "came on this show and accused
President Bush of knowing about 9/11 and murdering his own father."
This, Mr. O'Reilly, is a total, if not pathological, fabrication.
Glick said nothing about Bush "knowing" about 9/11. He said nothing
about Bush "murdering" his own father. Watch the interview, Mr. O'Reilly. Your statements characterizing what
Glick said are absolutely false.
- just last week, you again repeated the claim that Glick said that President Bush was
"responsible for his father's death." He said nothing of the
sort.
- just last week, you repeated the claim that Glick "implied that the United States
itself was a terrorist nation." Glick said nothing of the sort.
- just last week, you said Glick said "America itself was responsible for the 9/11
attack." Glick said nothing of the sort.
- And finally, and most extraordinarily, just last week you repeated the claim that "security actually had to take the guy
out of the building, he was that out of control." This, Mr. O'Reilly,
you know to be absolutely false. Indeed, it was you who
threatened physical violence against Mr. Glick after his interview,
and your own staff that apologetically begged Mr. Glick to leave as
quickly as he could, fearing that if you saw Glick again, as they
said, you would "end up in jail."
I understand how someone
loses his temper, Mr. O'Reilly. I have done the same myself. But a
decent man apologizes for his lack of control, and he certainly
doesn't continue to abuse someone he has wronged.
Mr. Glick is not the New York Times. He will not earn more money from
higher ratings because you attack him so viciously. Neither he nor his
widowed mother get any benefit at all from seeing Glick slandered by
your on a regular basis.
You are wrong about the facts, Mr. O'Reilly. And you are wrong to
continue to do such harm. Have the courage to admit your error.
Apologize to Mr. Glick, and let him go back to a life that has been
made difficult enough by, as you said, the "barbarians" who killed his
father. This family has suffered enough from barbaric behavior.
Stop The Presses
Stop The Presses
12/29/2003 11:50 PMI just got a phone call from KFI in Los Angeles. They want me to take
over the Jeff Levy show starting... this weekend! Jeff is moving to
another station - I think he's even going to be on at...
Putting a Stop to Fly and Tell
Putting a Stop to Fly and Tell
01/28/2004 09:14 AMBusiness Week Jan 28 2004 12:38PM GMT
Stop WSDM
Stop WSDM
03/14/2005 05:56 PMOver at OASIS, they’re working on YAWSS (Yet Another Web-Services
Spec) called WSDM. The committee decided they were done and asked for
an OASIS-wide vote;
the result was 67 yes, 7 no. Interestingly, the 7 “No” votes
weren’t about the substance of WSDM, they were about the fact that
it has dependencies on all sorts of other WS-bric-a-brac that isn’t
finalized yet, including a W3C Submission and a bunch of other
committee drafts. The committee pondered this and
decided to go ahead and make it a standard anyhow. I tried to go
and read WSDM and it made my head hurt, severely; it’s gnarly and
huge and complicated and seems to depend on lots of other gnarly and
huge and complicated things. So, anyone who wants to implement this is
going to have to make a major investment, and since a lot of the
relevant specs are unstable, you just know some part of that
investment is going to get thrown on the trash-heap. Interoperability?
Ha. Ha. Ha. This sucks. I don’t want to be an absolutist here; some
organizations, like IETF, totally forbid this kind of thing while
others, like ISO, allow them in a kind of controlled way. But in this
particular case, what they’re trying to do is deeply wrong and the
OASIS management needs to find a way to stomp on it if they want to
retain any credibility. For other commentary, start
here.
[Disclosure: I don’t understand
WSDM and I don’t even understand the problem it’s trying to solve
and while Sun was one of the “No” voters, it was strictly on the
dependencies issue, and I don’t know whether we, corporately, are as
irritated as I am individually and I don’t know whether we,
corporately, actually care about this technology and if we do, whether
we like it or not.]Next Stop, OracleSoft?
Next Stop, OracleSoft?
09/10/2004 02:50 PMNope -- it ain't over till Larry Ellison sings.
Stop the INDUCE Act
Stop the INDUCE Act
09/12/2004 03:26 AMSave Betamax .. Sign up
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The phones don't stop
The phones don't stop
01/09/2004 10:11 PMTrapped in a dead-end job at a customer-service call center, a man in
his mid-30s hears the ringing and just doesn't care.
Stop. What's That Sound?
Stop. What's That Sound?
08/03/2004 02:21 PM"When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four
years in a war ... with no end in sight, when the richest nation in
the world cannot manage its economy ... when the President of the
United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home, then
it's time for new leadership for the United States." The ellipses
are to keep you from guessing too soon. Give up? That was Dick Nixon
in 1968. Nowadays Kennedy and Johnson are heroes who made a "mistake"
in Vietnam while Nixon twirls a handlebar mustache in Hell. But to
look back at what we thought at the time is to see parallels to today.
Stop the MADNESS!
Stop the MADNESS!
03/08/2004 11:26 PM
David Crosby Arrested on Gun, Drug Charges in
NY
23 minutes ago
How long do we have to put up with this?
I don't necessarily believe in guns, but shouldn't we have a
Constitutional Amendment allowing for the smoking of weeds?
It's God's gift to us.
Stop the music
Stop the music
04/09/2004 04:02 PMI’ve been viewing a lot of sites while reviewing for BlogSnob and I’m a bit
annoyed. What’s with all the music on people’s sites? Is
this 1998 again?
In case you were thinking about having your favorite tune load up
when people visit your site—don’t. It takes a long time to
load. The sound quality generally stinks. It crashes some browsers.
And most of all, your musical tastes are not likely the same as all of
your visitors. I have my own musical selections, thank you. I
don’t need to hear yours.
One-Stop Returning
One-Stop Returning
12/31/2004 08:21 AMA group of manufacturers is quietly pushing a fully automated
anonymous return system that can print out receipts for rival
retailers. The largest retailers are buying in.
Stop Censoring Us!
Stop Censoring Us!
12/10/2003 08:01 AMstop.censoring.us
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Stop Selling
Stop Selling
06/17/2005 03:20 PMCIO Jun 15 2005 10:36PM GMT
Stop the madness...
Stop the madness...
03/14/2003 01:03 PMFell asleep at 8:30. Woke up around 12:30 Went back to bed 10 minutes
later. Woke up at 5am. Finished...
How do you stop the threat from within?
How do you stop the threat from within?
12/30/2003 01:39 AMHanafuda and Go-Stop
Hanafuda and Go-Stop
05/02/2004 11:28 AM
Hanafuda, also
known as
Go-Stop
.
[more] [stop] design
[stop] design
05/10/2004 07:27 AMDoug Bowman has posted a tutorial showcasing a cle .. stopdesign's
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Stop Being a Victim
Stop Being a Victim
04/29/2004 09:48 PMSTOP the madness
STOP the madness
05/23/2004 03:19 PMWill somebody give this guy a break!
Off
to Helsinki.
Last minute change in plans and I'm off to Helsinki for two days...
too much travel...
[Joi Ito's Web]
I remember when Joi was running around teh world with high-level
Sony execs. Now it seems Nokia has his attention.
I sure as hell hope something comes of all his work and
schleping. Does that mean that you DO have something to do
between June 4 and 10th now? No Trieste?
Stop Us Before We're Briefed Again
Stop Us Before We're Briefed Again
06/05/2005 11:17 PMThe headline at Romenesko caught my eye. "D.C. bureau chiefs: No more
background-only WH briefings." Wow, I thought, they finally did it.
They quit the racket. But no. They had not. They had sent an e-mail
around, and asked Scott McClellan to change
his ways...
GameStop Can't Stop
GameStop Can't Stop
05/19/2004 10:22 AMInvestors who believe in the company's growth strategy should watch
for further dips.
Next Stop: Saturn
Next Stop: Saturn
06/12/2004 05:11 PMCBS News Jun 12 2004 9:05PM GMT
iPOD: where will it stop ?
iPOD: where will it stop ?
03/30/2005 09:51 AMiPOD ... I dont think a single day goes by without an article about
the innocent player from Apple to be published. In 2001, iPOD
revolutionized the music industry, hard-disks and took Mac sales with
5% higher on the desktop market. But how much of this success is
because of the players technical characteristics and how much is
because of marketing? iPOD has undisputable advantages: its easy to
use, has a high capacity (it was the first player with a hard-disk),
has an innovative design and the list could go on.
Critics say that is heavy, fragile compared to other flash players,
with a limited number of functions compared to the capacity of the
hard-disk, lacks a FM tuner and again the list could go on. The
controversy can go on for days, but after all the technical issues are
exhausted, iPOD supporters will bring the final argument: good or bad,
iPod has 85% of the MP3 player market and whats more, since 2001 no
company succeeded in dethroning it.
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iPOD: where will it stop ?
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