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8月9日 I have always admitted I have road rage issues. I drive a Navigator and it's big and mean. I'm a bully but not aggressive. I just have no patience for idiots and even less patience for slow pokes. I have the same issues grocery shopping. Cart rage kicks in.
Anyway, I went to the grocery store today. Cart rage meets road rage in the parking lot. There were two vehicles parked right in front of the main entrance at the store. Motors running, blocking the main drive through, plenty of open parking spaces. One car had a few college-aged kids. The other had some middle-aged guy who came running out with simply a pack of cigarettes. Lazy bums.
So with my hands full of groceries I gave them my lethal "if I could flip you off right now I would" death glare. One of the kids proceeded to tell me "nice ass" as I had to walk around their parking mess juggling items. Normally I would have unleashed on the little punk but didn't have it in me today. Anyway, this little insignificant event annoyed me to no end. I'm female, we're easily annoyed.
Sorry for my like of updates both here and in my personal space. I've been dealing with some family issues but will get back into a groove soon. I can't wait to see some fresh faces added to this Space though! 8月4日
Originally posted on my personal blog:
First of all, turn off your automatic form-filler!
Updates:
- Q: I read your post, but what does it all mean?
A: Any information you or your browser provide on a website, including information provided by automatic form-filler programs, could potentially be submitted without your knowledge to the website's servers. So, let's say you fill out your e-mail address to sign-up for a newsletter and before clicking the "Subscribe", you decide not to. Using JavaScript (and "AJAX"), a website can monitor the form field to see when you have entered your e-mail address and then automatically submit it without you! This is not normal behavior, but you should be wary, especially when an automatic form-filler program fills out form fields on your behalf containing personal and often private information.
- Q: Dare wrote that this is a false alarm. Surely he knows best. Is it?
A: You visit my test page and then tell me if you voluntarily submitted the information in the textbox, or if it was automatically submitted behind-the-scenes without your approval...
- Q: Is this actually feasible and should we be as concerned as Eric suggets?
A: Absolutely! Once again, check out my test page and see how that translates to your personal and private information. Do you want people to automatically store your information without your knowledge? Sure, you (or your browser) wrote it down, but that doesn't mean you wanted to submit it!
- Q: How come I don't see any additional information on the subject?
A: You WILL! I am attempting to spread the word. Also, an individual on the Open Web Application Security Project and employee of Foundstone, Inc., a Strategic Security company, is already working on publishing a white paper on the issue soon.
I wouldn't be suprised if you've heard the term AJAX recently. If you haven't, many websites are beginning to employ the family of technologies that collectively are called "AJAX" and you should be concerned.
Have you ever visited a website, completed a form, and submitted it only to have that information be redirected to another website? Browsers have warnings for this kind of activity. The newest browsers also have warnings for privacy-related concerns, alerting people to the fact that the website may use information inappropriately. Spybot, Ad-Aware, and other programs that seek out and destroy "spyware" often come with warnings of their own integrated within your internet browser, even blocking threatening activities.
But, who is protecting you from the newest concern, AJAX?
AJAX itself is an exciting "revolution", enabling websites to provide a level of interaction rarely available. However, like anything there is always potential for concern. AJAX allows a website to communicate directly with the "server" (the machine that sends the website information to your internet browser and receives information you submit back to it), but to communicate without the need for your interaction. In other words, you could be reading your favorite article at the top of a page, while AJAX is automatically loading additional, interesting information at the bottom of the page. Google Maps is a suberb use of this technology. MSN Spaces is also a great example.
My Concern With AJAX
Nothing warns you that a website is communicating behind-the-scenes without your knowledge via AJAX! Further, if you provide information (or your internet browser provides it via an automatic form filler program) to a website's form, the website can read that information and submit it without your involvement! This is an obvious concern, because websites could collect your name, e-mail, phone number, and possibly even credit card information (if your auto-form filler completes this information for you).
What can you do?
Be aware. Turn off automatic form filler programs. Be careful about filling out your information online. And, the most important thing you can do is to contact the people responsible (that support internet browsers, personal privacy advocate groups, spyware programs, anti-virus programs, etc.) about how they protect you and mention this vulnerability!
I posted a story (below) to SlashDot.org ("News for Nerds"), but, unfortunately, it was rejected (I don't know why and I don't even care if they publish my story, just so long as the vulnerability gets published). I will continue to attempt to publish this vulnerability, but spread the word.
8月3日 Have humans been cloned? What year will they be cloned? Scientists continue to move further ahead, cloning a new animal every year...
- 1996 : Sheep
- 1997 : Mouse
- 1998 : Cow
- 2000 : Pig
- 2002 : Cat
- 2003 : Horse
- 2005 : Dog
- ???? : Human
While the majority of the population has gone about their daily lives, scientists have been working tirelesly to develop the entire market of cloning. I admit, I was one of those people who put the subject in the back of my mind. After hearing about cloning the first sheep and all of the controversy surrounding cloning humans, I simply blocked it out. But, just like most things in life, just because you ignore them doesn't mean they will go away.
Humans have now cloned man's best friend, the dog. But wait... there's more! You can buy cloned pets in California! Did you know this? That's right, you can have your kitty cloned for the low, low price of $50,000. Cat's not enough? How about a horse, goat, pig, and whatever other animal might be fun?
Animal Testing
Most people try to shy away from anyone that brings up this subject. My sister along with countless others were single-handedly sworn to the vegetarian lifestyle and a life free of products that support animal testing through very even the shortest research project. Take a quick stroll on the web looking up the results for animal testing (warning: some people may find the content of this disturbing and it may not be suitable for children. discretion is advised) and you might be in for a shock.
But, if a disease plagued 1 million people, would it be worth it to sacrifice 100 animals? 1 billion people? 1 animal? If you believe such a sacrifice is necessary, where is the line? Can we sacrifice a person for 1 million people? Now, translate that same debate, but prefix everything with "clone". What if 1 billion people had an incurable disease and scientists thought they could cure it by sacrificing 100 cloned humans for testing and finding a cure?
I don't have the answers. The answer is inside each of us and collectively we must decide what is right and wrong.
Guys vs. Girls - Who has the advantage?
It seems to me most people always want what they don't have; even when it comes to their hair. And, I'm not certain if guys or girls have an advantage over one another. Guys usually have more manageable short hair and most of us can simply step out of the shower throw in a little control and give it a couple of pushes with a brush. Girls have longer hair that takes them an hour (hours?) to do. However, they do have the wig option. I suppose guys have the option to wear a wig too, but... umm.. no, we don't. Looks like guys win.
Growing my hair...
So, I was on my quest to grow my hair out since it's always been short. I was convinced that I'd let the top grow down to my jaw-line and the back grow to shoulder length, tapering in between. Yesterday marked about 2-2.5 months without a full haircut and my bangs came down just past my eyebrows. But, it was curly as hell!
Curly Hair Sucks!
It does! My hair was long and so damned poofy it was rediculous. That and this video about the Emo trend (warning: language and links on uselessjunk.com may offend you and may not be suitable for children) from the 80s coming back to haunt us all scared the $h!t out of me. So, I cut it. Yes, the whole experience kind of made me want straight hair, but I enjoy my curls once in a while.
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Does this post represent something you would expect on Social Spaces? Why?
Well, I am no Kent Brockman, but here goes my attempt at a "SLOG", or "Sound Log". LOL. When someone starts journalism on the internet it seems it always has to end in "LOG"... "Web Log" = BLOG (probably 'cause WLOG isn't as cool), "VLOG" = "Video Log", and now "Sound Log" = SLOG. I'll write up a transcript when I get around to it for those of you without sound capability.
Abbie — I attempted several ways of including a video link directly in this post to no avail. We can continue searching, but we might have to resort to silly off-site links :(
Basically, the sound file is me responding to the comments thus far... 8月2日 Yeah yeah, Eric. Don't lie. He came crawling to me on Spaces! It was e-lust at first keystroke.
Eric's a pretty cool guy. He was accurate in saying he was among one of the first Spaces friends I made when Spaces first launched in the USA this past December. Maybe it was the nerdspeak that often gets to me. But then, let's not forgot when Eric decided to have a lil bit of fun with my Space and sent me thousands of visitors with his little prank. If I was nerd enough I'd get him back somehow.
So anyway, I'm working on a little project for one of my websites. Not sure how many of you have heard of Vlogs yet, but it's something along those lines. Vlogs are video blogs. Rocketboom is a great example of a Vlog. Anyway, we're putting together a Vlog project right now that is to coincide with a top secret large scale project we have going on. I'm pretty jacked about the whole thing.
I do enjoy seeing how the blog world is broken down into different types of blogging. You have "Blawgs" for those in the legal profession. You have the video geek "Vlogs". Podcasting. Moblogs. And more. It's really amazing to see how blogging has become nearly mandatory on the internet.
Anyway, I think this could be a fun little project for us on Spaces. Hopefully I won't cause too much damage while here. I may have to figure out how to do a vlog entry on here...I'm sure the geekly Eric will have some easy little trick to throw in.
I think some MSN gods should join in on here. No better blog to discuss the social networking aspect of MSN.
Everyone join hands, bow your heads and pray, because Abbie has just joined Social Spaces! Abbie has been a long-time friend of many of the bloggers here at MSN Spaces. I can remember making my first post on that cold winter afternoon in December of 2004... Arizona temperatures dropped that day to a chilling 78°F! As I explored each blogger's final frontier, attempting not to fall into the space-time continuum known as the "space between Spaces", I discovered many gems of enlightenment.
Actually, I genuinely wasted and continue to waste my time here on Spaces reading all y'alls random posts. Of course, I recognize you're wasting your time for me as well here...
Anyways, I stumbled across Abbie's humble little space... What number was that Abbie? Space #1 out of like 15? I saw that picture of those horrid... I mean fabulous striped, to-the-knee socks and read random posts about how aweful us men are, her passion for MSN, and the fact that she actually replied to people's comments! So, I left my mark and the rest is history...
Without further ado... I welcome the Queen of Mean, Abbie!!!!
(applause)
What is this?
So, you want to be an author of Social Spaces? Contact all of the Social Spaces authors, providing your name, email, the url of your current blog, and additional information you want to send. We'll review the blog and talk it over with each other and we'll let you know within a week.
Social Spaces is a space with multiple authors! Each author is selected based on their history with MSN Spaces and their proven ability to blog... pure and simple. Originality, great research, new ideas, humor, craziness, etc. It all comes down to blogging popularity really...
Minimum Requirements:
- Already an active blogger with a good deal of content
- You will continue to be an active blogger on "Social Spaces". You may continue to be active on your existing blog of course
- People leave comments and the majority of them genuinely like your space
- Your existing space is interesting
- You can work as a member of a team and respect the team's decisions, including the possibility of getting "fired" from Social Spaces in a worst-case scenario
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