I read a great article on the Real Live Preacher blog, that the author unfortunately ended up taking down, due to some really negative feedback he received by people who were offended by it. It’s understandable in a way, seeing as how the subject matter makes so many people feel uncomfortable, including me in some ways; I’m pretty introverted in general.
I’m offering a mirrored copy of the original here, before it was removed, because it’s something I think is worth reading and shouldn’t be censored just because it’s challenging.
Here is an app I made recently that’s now ready to be released. I would appreciate if anyone would take the time to try to break or “hack” it, if you can.
It’s supposed to lock the user out of any other area on the computer once the kiosk browser is launched, until the correct password is entered or a “hard” reboot is performed (which assumes physical access to the PC). Thanks for any help you can provide!
This application is designed for use in a “kiosk” environment, where the user will have restricted access to only the browser itself, and (optionally) only restricted sites within that browser.
While the browser is loaded, the user will not have access to the desktop, any other applications, or any other part of the system whatsoever.
Special keys which could otherwise be used to get around this restriction (such as ALT+TAB, CTRL+ALT+DEL, CRTL+SHIFT+ESC, etc.) are disabled while the browser is loaded.
we were talking at dinner tonight about how the world has, and i write this hopefully without any hyperbole, become an orwellian place.
i guess that we had all assumed that an orwellian world would be one wherein dissent wasn’t tolerated. little did we know that in our orwellian world dissent is tolerated and ignored.
1/12/2005 Radio Factor show: A professor from Boston explains to o’Reilly that some kids don’t have enough money to even eat, much less get a good education, and he responds with denial “I’ve been to Boston and I’ve never seen those people”. I guess that means they don’t exist, eh?
This plugin attempts to prevent comment spam by appending a parameter to the query string of the comment-post URL. This is checked upon posting and rejected if it does not match. This method is similar to adding a custom hidden form field (such as Matt Mullenweg’s ‘Spam Stopgap’ plugin, from which this is derived), but hopefully enough of a variation that it will evade detection by the screen-scrapers for a while.
