Jamie Wilkinson

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• Chasqui commented on Video compilation of television logo signoffs
  Wow - what i am amazed at is how many of these logos I remember and strike some sort of emotional/nostaligic response. How is it that I remember after so many years? Seems the sort of throw-away info our brains would have dumped long ago! I must have watched a LOT of TV as a kid! Oh, and the WGBH meant NOVA - I could stay up to watch it or go to bed... um... a "no brainer" ;)...
• Brandon West commented on Hacker's garden of Firefox plugins
  @Jamie Wilkinson: You are correct, but web server admins monitor this stuff (if they are worth a damn) and report abuse to the ISP associated with the IP involved with the abuse. It's a weekly occurrence at my office....
• Mike Cantrell commented on Hacker's garden of Firefox plugins
  "I seriously doubt any ISP monitors their customers' POST data for SQL-like text." A lot of firewall products look for suspicious HTTP traffic (such as SQL injection, and XSS attacks). It's actually likely that the server hosting the web application has something like this installed (or at least they should). Upon detection of such activity, emails to abuse@yourisp.com usually go out indicating that the ISP will be blocked if the activity continues. If it's a well known site, you can bet that you'll be hearing from your ISP. At any rate, if you're going to do any "cracking" from your...
• Scott Lenger commented on Hacker's garden of Firefox plugins
  The Aardvark plugin is a handy way to remove page content either for printing or to get rid of annoying ads - like the one's from sitepal. *It's also a quick way to remove the transparent gif's that block the copyright images on Flickr from being copied to your clipboard (assuming you have a Fair Use argument and you don't view deleting a transparent gif as some kind of illegal DMCA circumvention.)...
• Peter K. commented on Hacker's garden of Firefox plugins
  @Scott Lenger: To get around transparent gifs couldn't you just look up the image's location in the page source and type it into your browser directly? I had luck with this technique in at least a couple cases....