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PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers
Alternative Details brings news that PayPal is developing a plan to stop users from accessing its financial services if they aren't using browsers with anti-phishing protection. PayPal is recommending the use of blacklists, anti-fraud warning pages, and EV SSL certificates. Browsers without anti-phishing features will be considered "unsafe." It seems likely Safari will be included in this category given PayPal's warning about the Apple browser last month.
"'At PayPal, we are in the process of reimplementing controls which will first warn our customers when logging in to PayPal of those browsers that we consider unsafe. Later, we plan on blocking customers from accessing the site from the most unsafe--usually the oldest--browsers,' he declared. Barrett only mentioned old, out-of-support versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer among this group of 'unsafe browsers,' but it's clear his warning extends to Apple's Safari browser, which offers no anti-phishing protection and does not support the use of EV SSL certificates."
God that is so freaking cool!! I just want to know where you getting the sh*t you smokin... That must be some hardcore sh*t to give you this kind of visions.
God, the thing about the female wife-daughters living on a mongolian monastery created from a gospel sent by aliens, that is fragging coollio sh*t right there...
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Hi there, Mark V. No Quack Ne Never mind.
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Sounds like a scientologist!
The distinctive, gold-trimmed platinum box is the first deviation from the signature Marlboro design. Even the top of the box bears the blue leaf stamp to the right rather than across the middle, as displayed on soft packs. Aside from the black "MARLBORO," the rest of the lettering is burgundy.
The cigarette itself looks like...a cigarette. No fancy changes besides the platinum band at the base of the filter.
I purposely smoked two Virginia Blends before I even read the descriptive marketing phrases on the cigarette box. I wanted no power of suggestion clouding my mental capacity to judge the new addition to the plethora of Marlboro smokes. Unlike most consumer products, the absence of cigarette commercials eliminates their suggestive power over the cigarette smoker. So it was easy to experience the difference this single leaf blend purported.
To my delight, the flavor and inhalation were both smooth and mild. My lungs were not arrested by the typical asperity that normally impedes the smoking experience. As a habitual menthol lover, I am used to an extra amount of crystallizing lung pressure. Even with the brown sugar laced Marlboro 27s, I get that extra hacking the morning after; therefore, I was ready for some harsh ingredient to mar any chance at a deep drag.
Not so.
Upon lighting the third grit, I fancied a glance at the burgundy message on the back of the box: "VIRGINIA LEAF. 400 years ago perfected in Virginia--now grown around the world. Today, hand-selected Virginia tobaccos make our only single leaf blend unique. Enjoy the crisp, mellow taste and easy finish."
There it is, in the last sentence. The power of suggestion exposed: "...crisp, mellow...easy."
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We also knead moar folks upping the Scilon firehose submissions. We had the Scilons-vs-Wikileaks at "Red" for three days before Malda decided to ignore it. We had a journal entry talking about the "red rotting tomato" up to "orange", for Dobbs' sake. Let's not let that happen again. Suggested avenues of attack prone to /. firehose upvoting would include the link between Scilon Sonny Bono, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, and the DMCA. Tie that in to the current campaign, and you've got win. (Yeah, May 10th is is Battletoads.)
But all that shit notwithstanding... whoever came up with that story, we want MOAR!
Just one note, if you define "High Assurance" as "Humans taking multiple steps" then all Verisign certificates are High Assurance, even the non-EV version.
At a previous employer, I was part of the process to get us a Verisign cert (the "cheap" version, not EV) and they required us to fax them a Certificate of Incorporation, look us up in a trusted company directory, call us on a number they got from the phone book (they would not trust our word on the number). Hell, the only thing missing was a DNA sample from the directors.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".