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This[^] question seems to be related to hacking. I have voted to remove it and reported the profile too.
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What's unethical about it? The question is perfectly valid for any web-based remote control app.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Drew Stainton wrote: What's unethical about it?
The media player certainly has access to the file system of the client (otherwise it wouldn't be able to play the media files). What if someone controls the media player and gets access to the client's file system. You can even write code to upload files silently to your server in the background without the user knowing about it.
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What you say is true, but one has to keep it all in context. After all, every demo app here on Codeproject has access to the user's file system, when a member downloads and runs it. If what the OP is trying to do has a legitimate purpose, there is really no way to determine if he has a nefarious intent.
I would either pass it by or give it a professional answer.
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Agreed. Several years ago I needed to write an application to send keyboard/mouse data to an embedded box that didn't have USB/PS2 input. Half of the application was identical to a keystroke/mouse use logger. The most dramatic difference between it and the equivalent malware was that instead of doing everything possible to hide itself my app blocked the input from reaching the host PC at all, ran fullscreen, and displayed in a giant font "To return control to local computer enter Magic Keystroke Combination". However there was no way for any of the people who pointed me to the information[^] I needed[^] to know that any more than there was for the article authors to prevent what they wrote from also being used maliciously.
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sure, however the entire home automation and remote monitoring industry is a legitimate use of the same kind of technology. If we avoided all technology that has the potential for unethical use we'd be missing out on a lot of really useful things too.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Someone marked my answer as accepted, and the unmarked it. The points history shows the addition of 25 points, but then shows the deduction of 25 points *twice*.
the question in - umm - question is here:
closing all the window forms[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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It was bad enough when the cursor kept jumping to the bottom, now it's jumping to the middle! 
Whoever is developing/testing the POS needs to test with a longer, more complex message.
Did you off-shore it to the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation? 
(Win 7, IE 8)
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It's a bug, and it's on my watch and I accept that, I apologise for it, and I'll fix it.
However, I think the attitude can be left at the door.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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He has a geunine people personality.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Trolls[ ^]
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I understand the level of frustration he's experiencing. It's damn hard to enter a message if you're cutting pasting, especially if it starts to get even a little complex.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I understand the frustration, and I am myself frustrated that there aren't more hours in the day. I'm not sure how this means being polite is no longer necessary.
Regardless, I spent a few hours Sunday which will hopefully improve the situation.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It was meant as gentle, even respectful, ribbing.
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"Glad to be of service." -- The door
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Agree with the attitude comment from CM, but understand the frustration...
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I voted up a programming forum answer by clicking the 'Good Answer' link and I received 1 point for the voting. However, I found out later that I had already voted up the same answer twice on different occasions and got 2 points already. Now is this really a bug or a recognition of my generosity in voting?
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Your rep events are showing you received multiple points for voting on the same post?
Interesting. I'll look into this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I tried to post a reply in the lounge, with a quote from Bill Gates, and got a refusal:
Items that need attention:
Please do not use Unicode characters in posts. ASCII only
There were problems with your new message
The problem? The code paste had translated quote characters to "& # 3 9 ;"
I.e. You are telling me off, for something you did! 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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It's just a "don't make me do that again" warning really.
And have you tried someone else's quote?
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You think it might be Bill's fault? 
Well I'm using Chrome, so he didn't meddle with that...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I saw that a few weeks ago too. The paster alters the text to something the poster won't accept. Can't we all just get along? 
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A long time ago we had an issue with spammers and non-english speakers posting a lot of messages in chinese. The only way to stop the rash - and it stopped it instantly - was to ban unicode characters.
However, I know that encoding has changed, as have times, so I'll remove that check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Leave the check by all means - just stop the paste from converting to unicode! 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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The check was incorrect - it was merely checking for HTML entities of the form &#N;, whereas it should have been checking to see if N was outside of the ASCII set.
It's served its purpose, and if I need to bring it back I'll fix it properly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This user[^] posts spam-answers in Q&A, he needs three more smacks and he will be history.
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