The present invention discloses a system for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page during text entry. Such a system can include a validation-enhanced text input element and an input text validator. The validation-enhanced text input element can be configured to contain a validation expression for a text field in a Web page. The validation-enhanced text input element can be contained in the source code document that corresponds to the Web page. The input text validator can be configured to validate a character entered into the text field against the validation expression in real-time. Characters determined as invalid can be visually indicated by the input text validator in the text field.

<script>
  regexs = {};
  regexs['zip']=/\d{5}/;

</script>

<input
   style="background-color:white;"
   type="text"
   id="zip"
   onchange="this.style.backgroundColor = (this.value.match(regexs[this.id])) ? 'white' : 'red';"
>

Go fuck yourself.

USPA 0090132950: Or IBM, go fuck yourself

Creating New Yorker cover art? There's an app for that, too. Yep, that's right. The cover for the current issue of the New Yorker was created with an iPhone app.

The cover sports a night scene around a hot dog stand on 42nd Street in Manhattan. To create the image, artist Jorge Colombo used a $5 iPhone application called Brushes. Colombo told The New York Times he loved creating the scene with the iPhone because he didn't draw attention to himself, the way he would with an easel and paint, as he stood on 42nd street for over an hour tapping away on his iPhone.

I think this for 2 reasons:

1- I'm intrigued you could do something so high quality on a smart phone.

2- I'm amused you can stand on a street corner in New York for hours on end, not dressed like a bum, and no one says anything.

New Yorker Cover Art Created on an iPhone - PC World

Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.

The bans started Friday after a sample test conducted by authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state found 0.4 micrograms per liter in the drink.

Five other states also banned it from shops amid concerns over possible narcotics law violations.

Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment said Monday that the cocaine level was too low to pose a health risk. It planned to produce a more detailed report Wednesday.

Red Bull said its cola is "harmless and marketable in both the U.S. and Europe." It said similar coca leaf extracts are used worldwide as flavoring, and a test it commissioned itself found no cocaine traces.

Germany is freaking out about trace amounts of Cocaine in Red Bull?

They should go to Italy...

The River Po was found to be carrying the equivalent of nearly 4kg (8.8lb) of cocaine daily. The Po Valley is home to about five million people.

of course that might explain some of the "interesting" side effects...

Red Bull + Cocaine? Check Italy

good times

Prajakta vs. the beer

Earlier on IRC today someone mentioned that they had bought some SQL Injection Bumper Stickers. This led me to the the idea for the following. I think I'll have to get some made up and hand out at PN.

My child is an '; update GradeBook set Grade=A where
StudentID=423867;

Idea for a Bumper Sticker

Introducing Sandboxie

Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.

This is pretty cool. Faster/easier than VMware/restore points but ignore the "protects you from malware" nonsense. Fast easy way to install, play, and revert.

Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

Unfortunately, being seduced by those arguments ignores intrusion debt. One day the intrusion debt of poorly-run systems will be claimed by the intruders already inside the enterprise or those who are unleashed like an earthquake. Worse for you and me, the costs of dealing with the disaster are likely to be borne by the security team!

Ultimate, security is an IT problem, not a "security" problem. The faster asset owners realize this and be held responsible for the security of their systems, the less intrusion debt will mount and the greater the chance that enterprise assets will survive digital earthquakes. Cheap IT is ultimately expensive -- more expensive than proper investment in IT in the first place.

Richard, as usual, nails it.

TaoSecurity: Cheap IT Is Ultimately Expensive

This Week's Terrorism Arrests: Four points.

#1: There was little danger of an actual terrorist attack:

#2: They were caught by traditional investigation and intelligence. Not airport security. Not warrantless eavesdropping. But old fashioned investigation and intelligence.

#3: They were idiots:

#4: An "informant" helped this group a lot.

Good read

Schneier on Security: This Week's Terrorism Arrests

The President's speech is a major step against the Bush administration's approach to the rule of law. It is worth a read.

Time and again, our values have been our best national security asset...

It is the reason why enemy soldiers have surrendered to us in battle, knowing they'd receive better treatment from America's armed forces than from their own government.

It is the reason why America has benefited from strong alliances that amplified our power, and drawn a sharp and moral contrast with our adversaries...

From Europe to the Pacific, we have been a nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law. That is who we are. And where terrorists offer only the injustice of disorder and destruction, America must demonstrate that our values and institutions are more resilient than a hateful ideology.

I think this sort of perspective demonstrates a depth of understanding of the purpose of our institutions that conservatives have lost sight of.

Transcript of President Obama's national security address - CNN.com

JANUARY 1995 and before
A dangerous adult only cyberspace contained no resources to protect children.

This is good for a laugh....

History of a Child Safe Internet