Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
You can enable taint mode explicitly with the
-Tcommand-line switch. You should do this for daemons, servers, and any programs that run on behalf of someone else, such as CGI scripts. Programs that can be run remotely or anoymously by anyone on the Net are executing in the most hostile of environments. You should not be afraid to sayNo!occasionally. Contrary to popular belief, you can exercise a great deal of prudence without dehydrating into a wrinkled prude.On the more security-conscious sites, running all CGI scripts under the
-Tflag isn't just a good idea: it's the law. We're not claiming that running in taint mode is sufficient to make your script secure. It's not, and it would take a whole book just to mention everything that would. But if you aren't executing your CGI scripts under taint mode, you've needlessly abandoned the strongest protection Perl can give you.
Our social mantra is very much 'is Internet, is good', and our logic is often placed around a misguided belief that if the information was found on the 'Net, then it must be good'.
This paper discusses the importance of not only having the skills of computer literacy, that is defined as being able to use computers and software to navigate the Internet, but also the importance of information literacy, defined as the skill of being critically literate.
A collection of baseball games, generally played in October, often viewed by aficionados in a light similar to religious ritual. Term first coined in the 1950s by the inimitable Walt Kelly, cartoonist, humorist, and linguist extraordinaire. ("We have met the enemy and he is us.")
ex. 2001 was the first year the World Serious lasted into November.
"Money, Loot, Chedda."
ex. "whut up ninjaz,I gots the skrilla fo' rilla, I'll take care of the chizeck"
Scottish slang. Narkit = angry. Fair narkit = pretty darn angry.
ex. Your wee laddie made me fair narkit.
Money.
ex. We're gonna have to go soon. I'm running low on fundage.
IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs.
frisson n : an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: {shiver}, {chill}, {quiver}, {shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}] wn
Tyro, KS (city, FIPS 71925) Location: 37.03670 N, 95.82142 W Population (1990): 243 (98 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) gazetteer
Tyro \Ty"ro\, n.; pl. {Tyros}. [L. tiro a newlylevied soldier, a beginner.] A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also {tiro}.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. --Cowper. web1913
tyro n : someone new to a field or activity [syn: {novice}, {beginner}, {tiro}, {initiate}] wn
Potable \Po"ta*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. potabilis, fr. potare to drink; akin to Gr. po`tos a drinking, po`sis a drink, Skr. p[=a] to drink, OIr. ibim I drink. Cf. {Poison}, {Bib}, {Imbibe}.] Fit to be drunk; drinkable. ``Water fresh and potable.'' --Bacon. -- n. A potable liquid; a beverage. ``Useful in potables.'' --J. Philips. web1913
potable adj : of alcoholic beverages that are suitable for drinking; "it's an impudent young wine but I think you will find it quite potable" n : any liquid suitable for drinking: "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: {beverage}, {drink}, {drinkable}] wn
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads. devils
Prompted by all the talk about using Movable Type as an open relay for spammers, I decided to poke at the actual code and see what was going on.
There really isn't anywhere that Movable Type should be disabling taint mode but if I had to list things in order of importance, the mt-send-entry.cgi script would be near the top.
The script is potentially handing off to the sendmail program whose entire existence has been marked by security exploits. There is nothing to suggest that more won't be found in the future. Relying on sendmail to test for Potential Badness being passed by a ne'er do well via the Internet is wishful thinking, at best, and just plain crazy, at worst.
In fairness, the Movable Type mail widget tries to load Mail::Sendmail which does some basic sanity checking and, drumroll, untainting on the stuff you pass it. On the other hand it is not part of the core libraries shipped with Perl, nor is it in Movable Type's extlib directory which is a mystery since two thirds of it's dependencies are part of and the other third has no non-standard requirements itself.
Untainting email addresses can be brain-crushingly difficult and inaccurate and the last thing you want to do when you're selling a computer widget for non-techincal people is start spewing errors where there are none. But not only did the Movable Type kids disable the
-Tflag on the mt-send-entry.cgi script they don't appear to have ever done any kind of untainting on thetoandfromparameters. Hello? Is anyone home?I find this especially discouraging because one of the first things I did when Movable Type was released was send Ben code to at least try and untaint email addresses .