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Comment Re:welfare fraud rates (Score 1) 170

No, that's not really how that works. Polls and scientific observations are generally based on collecting data under specified conditions that meet certain standards (with respect to polls, that includes efforts to randomly select participants, systematically asking exactly the same questions to different people, etc.). Anecdotes are subject to massive amounts of bias due to the fact that such controls are not in place, which is why collecting a bunch of anecdotes isn't the same as running a poll or survey or a set of structured interviews.

Comment Re:Yes: Thunderbird archive (Score 1) 177

by literaldeluxe (#51129019) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email?
For me, problem #1 causes issues when downloading mailboxes/folders outside of Thunderbird in mbox format and then copying them into Thunderbird. The only solution I've found is going through imported folders to figure out which messages had problems (which requires checking against the original, uncorrupted messages), then downloading those individually and importing them (Thunderbird figures out what to do if you copy a single message in).

Problem #2 can be solved by unchecking all of the server-checking options, and then setting the mail server to 127.0.0.1.
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Hackers' Flying Drone Now Eavesdrops On GSM Phones 90

Posted by Soulskill from the it-slices-it-dices-it-makes-juilenne-fries dept.
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "At the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas next week, Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins plan to show the crowd of hackers a year's worth of progress on their Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, or WASP, the second year Tassey and Perkins have displayed the 14-pound, six-foot-long, six-foot wingspan unmanned aerial vehicle. The WASP, built from a retired Army target drone converted from a gasoline engine to electric batteries, is equipped with an HD camera, a cigarette-pack-sized on-board Linux computer packed with network-hacking tools, including the BackTrack testing toolset and a custom-built 340 million word dictionary for brute-force guessing of passwords, and eleven antennae. On top of cracking Wi-Fi networks, the upgraded WASP now also performs a new trick: impersonating the GSM cell phone towers used by AT&T and T-Mobile to trick phones into connecting to the plane's antenna rather than their carrier, allowing the drone to record conversations and text messages on 32 gigs of storage."

Comment Re:Fine with me (Score 2, Interesting) 420

by literaldeluxe (#34238016) Attached to: Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use

...and AA compliance is really not difficult, unless you ignore accessibility until after you've finished designing a site.

So what you're saying is that compliance will be difficult for any site that was designed before the new rules (which will come out in a year or two) go into effect.

You can't ignore what doesn't currently exist, you can only ignore it after it exists.

If any of the sites I run falls under these requirements, they will probably have to come down, since I don't have time to go back and redo everything that has already been done. That means that people who can't currently get to my content still won't be able to, and those who can will lose it. That sounds like a lose-lose situation to me.

WCAG 2.0 has been out for two years. The revision to Section 508 will be based on it. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

Comment Re:JAWS (Score 1) 420

by literaldeluxe (#34237902) Attached to: Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use

The problem it the programes the read websites AKA JAWS plane out suck. The amount of extra code needed is a pain. Get Jaws to work and we are fine

Very little extra code is needed, unless you're referring to ARIA, which is necessary because rich content is extremely nonstandard. As a result, there's no way for assistive technologies to know what does what without a bit of extra code to make it clear.

Comment Re:Some businesses will buck any change... (Score 3, Informative) 420

by literaldeluxe (#34237854) Attached to: Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use

...but I don't think most businesses (or most people, generally) have anything to object to here. What's likely to make people anxious about changes to the ADA is uncertainty over what those changes will involve.

As a web developer, my main concern is just knowing what I'll have to do or do differently. It would be helpful if articles like this -- or their summaries -- provided links to the proposed guidelines. Personally, I'd prefer to get a head start on this so that my clients and I don't end up rushing to implement changes as the last moment.

Here you go: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ WCAG 2.0 is what the upcoming revision to Section 508 is being based on.

Comment Re:Fine with me (Score 1) 420

by literaldeluxe (#34237838) Attached to: Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use

That it takes a LOOOOOOOOOT more than a few alt tags, standard compliant markup and Flash that can be screen scraped to be ADA compliant. Its a freagin nightmare, and a lot of people who think they are compliant, are not, unless their web site is EXTREMELY simple.

For all practical purpose, its impossible to ACTUALLY be compliant. They're just a bit soft over it...

No, it isn't. We're effectively talking about WCAG 2.0 here (the revision to Section 508 that should come out in a year or two is being based on it), and AA compliance is really not difficult, unless you ignore accessibility until after you've finished designing a site. A little forethought and it's easy as pie.

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