tolos's comments

tolos | 13 years ago | on: 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (2011)

> Thus, 230 / 216391 = 0.11% of all websites are vulnerable.

> Latest stats say that about 13.8% of the top 10,000 websites run CMSs. If we just focus on CMS-powered websites, then the percentage of vulnerable sites is much higher:

> Thus, 230 / (216391 * 0.138) = 0.77% of websites running a CMS are vulnerable.

I don't think those numbers mean what you think they mean.

13.8% out of 10,000 doesn't say much about the top 216,391. And perhaps 0 out of 230 of the vulnerable websites use CMS, however unlikely that is.

tolos | 13 years ago | on: The true power of regular expressions

I was really expecting an article about parsing HTML when he said right at the beginning:

>> You cannot parse HTML with regular expressions, because HTML isn’t regular. Use an XML parser instead.

> This statement - in the context of the question - is somewhere between very misleading and outright wrong.

But nope, after disappointment and going back to the beginning, he says he's not talking about HTML:

> What I’ll try to demonstrate in this article is how powerful modern regular expressions really are.

And not even a warning about how easy it is to make really terrible regex.

tolos | 13 years ago | on: One Billion Heartbeats

It took about 10 seconds for me to stop searching for the X button to close the popup and realize this is how the site is laid out.

tolos | 13 years ago | on: Online 'Shaming' A New Level Of Cyberbullying For Girls

hmm, I suppose the people that think I have no value to add to this discussion are focusing on that jab at religion.

But to clarify, I'm not looking for "the answer" and my question still stands unanswered: what is the socially accepted view of women's sexuality in other cultures?

My only experience is with the US where there is a huge demarcation, generally based on the gender of the belief holder, and generally advertisements etc are weighted towards a masculine point of view for women's role.

Perhaps it would help to explain I've never taken any "gender studies" classes or similar, so this is a question of mere curiosity.

tolos | 13 years ago | on: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

argh

> The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them.

Twice this mystery company is referenced, but never a name is mentioned.

tolos | 13 years ago | on: Most lives are lived by default

The question I don't know how to answer:

Am I happy because I enjoy my current my current life, or am I convincing myself that I am happy because I don't want to take chances?

tolos | 13 years ago | on: Bit Traffic: Who Pays for Internet Traffic and Why?

So I've never really understood why landlines should charge per data transferred. I mean, after all the communication lines have been run and hardware has been setup, the only additional fees are for power, right?

tolos | 13 years ago | on: Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? [pdf]

Maybe I just have limited experience, but this doesn't make sense to me:

1) Woman asks for higher salary; 2) she must be a bitch. 3) Therefore, she is taken less seriously.

What does that even mean?

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