I think username/password is secure as long as I don't care about the information. I mean, it's not _my_ problem (I'm the sysadmin) if the person chooses a stupid password, as long as the information can't damage my server. For ex.: if the password is to protect an e-mail, or an FTP account, or even a telnet account (on a secure enviromen). Now, if the information concerns me (as the admin.), then I should at least check if the user is not using a stupid password.
But in most of the cases, it's up to the user. He/she should know the value of the information. (of course it wouldn't hurt to use SSL, and all that)
"Imagine where the automobile business would be today if the entrepreneurs who run Silicon Valley had decided to build cars"
Somebody else would run Sillicon Valley, and the car industry would be the same.. Because a 'very fast and clean car' is useless, and phones, fax machines, and internet are useful for business. So people pay for what is useful. I don't think that "The Internet boom will end", because it's a usefull thing. Just like telefhones. Every body has thelephones, and more new lines are being installed. And the only way that the "telephone boom" will stop is if somebody came up with some altearnative cheaper easier and more effective way to comunicate (like maybe Internet)
Things are not made by 'one special guy'.. Bill Gates doesn't own the world because he _is_ Bill, but because he has an idea (the idea of making computers easy for stupid users). If he hand't had that idea, somebody else would come up with it (and he would be rich).
(so my grammar and spellig are very bad.. english is not my 'first language'.. sorry)
I think tha aliens would know better than the Conquistadors that land in America (they landed in all America). They may find some dangerous viruses for them too..
Maybe in the future, when computers get to have a more complex intelligence, we'll have to analize (as in psycho) the CPU to kill a process.. You'll have a little 3d room with a little 3d couch.
The CPU would talk about it's childhood and everything (to figure out how this process was started)..
I use cobalt servers, and the support they give is pretty poor.. The only thing they have is a mailing list (of users and developers) and a little knowledge base.
The e-mail support is getting better this days, but there is no documentation about the implementation of the server.
What's the difference between this and sending a mail with a.exe attached to a regular POP account? The (stupid) user open the.exe, and it deletes all his HD or something. What's the bir deal?
I think there will also be a huge debate about turning computers off (since they are like alive). Also, we alredy have Viagra, and some sientist are restoring brain cells and decoding brain waves, and cloning stuff, so there will be a debate about when a person has to die. Maybe a suicide-o-matic or something.. (call now)
ICANN exists to create a 'standard' for the domain resolution. They maintain the root DNS servers that every DNS admin download and put on their DNS servers.. I think it would be great to have more TLDs., but all inside ICANN.. If not, anyone could create a little parallel, caotic ('revel') DNS database (like TLDNS). Actually, I'm creating one of those for myself (all I have to do is to come up with the program that configures the computer to use my DNS servers, and convince everyone on the net to download it)..
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Now, if the information concerns me (as the admin.), then I should at least check if the user is not using a stupid password.
But in most of the cases, it's up to the user. He/she should know the value of the information. (of course it wouldn't hurt to use SSL, and all that)
Somebody else would run Sillicon Valley, and the car industry would be the same.. Because a 'very fast and clean car' is useless, and phones, fax machines, and internet are useful for business. So people pay for what is useful. I don't think that "The Internet boom will end", because it's a usefull thing. Just like telefhones. Every body has thelephones, and more new lines are being installed. And the only way that the "telephone boom" will stop is if somebody came up with some altearnative cheaper easier and more effective way to comunicate (like maybe Internet)
Things are not made by 'one special guy'.. Bill Gates doesn't own the world because he _is_ Bill, but because he has an idea (the idea of making computers easy for stupid users). If he hand't had that idea, somebody else would come up with it (and he would be rich).
(so my grammar and spellig are very bad.. english is not my 'first language'.. sorry)
I think tha aliens would know better than the Conquistadors that land in America (they landed in all America). They may find some dangerous viruses for them too..
The CPU would talk about it's childhood and everything (to figure out how this process was started)..
There is software that can actually _create_ art? Where can I get it??
(there is a big difference between creating music and playing music..)
The e-mail support is getting better this days, but there is no documentation about the implementation of the server.
Anyway, those servers are great..
What's the bir deal?
(am I being redundant?)
I think there will also be a huge debate about turning computers off (since they are like alive). Also, we alredy have Viagra, and some sientist are restoring brain cells and decoding brain waves, and cloning stuff, so there will be a debate about when a person has to die. Maybe a suicide-o-matic or something.. (call now)
ICANN exists to create a 'standard' for the domain resolution. They maintain the root DNS servers that every DNS admin download and put on their DNS servers.. I think it would be great to have more TLDs., but all inside ICANN.. If not, anyone could create a little parallel, caotic ('revel') DNS database (like TLDNS). Actually, I'm creating one of those for myself (all I have to do is to come up with the program that configures the computer to use my DNS servers, and convince everyone on the net to download it)..