Evolution is a theory because it has been verified multiple times. (Selective breeding is a rather nice example.) 'Intelligent Design' is an unfalsifiable hypothesis that says all living beings were created by a being we can never hope to observe. I suppose we'll be teaching Flat Earth Theory in geology classes next?
And some government agency in Sweden can run a TOR node and harvest passwords. TOR only encrypts before and between nodes. They may not know your IP, but they can learn a lot about you by reading emails and forum posts. The resources would be better spent on encrypting absolutely everything. Rather than setting up open proxies, we should convince server owners to use SSL/TLS anywhere that it would help. If you have bandwidth to spare (most browsers don't cache HTTPS by default), have control over the server, and have a form anywhere, there is no reason not to encrypt.
I realize you're just trolling, but Opera really did 1-up FF on a few things. Most notably being the navbar. Unlike the 'AwesomeBar' in FF3, it orders URLs first while also searching titles, like the AB, and page content. My favorite part about this is that I don't have to 'train' the thing just to get the behavior I expect. It's a nice bridge between the AB and a normal navbar.
I was reluctant to use Opera at first, since I was used to having a plugin for everything, but almost everything I want is already there. Per-site whitelisting of everything down to animated GIFs (if I want it that way), cached pages load literally instantly, the about:config page is laid out brilliantly, and then there's the 'speed dial' page - a list of nine bookmarks with thumbnails and a search bar that appears in new tabs, and the UI has a minimalist feel to it while still being pretty. If all this sounds like feature bloat, it's actually quite light on resources. After a few days, FF2 would have taken at least 200MB of RAM hostage, even with only NoScript. Opera has yet to hit 70MB so far.
Open? No. Extensible? Not very. But damnit, it is shiny and I like it.
Because page titles are HUGE, for one. The bookmark icon and favicon are an eyesore, too. Also, matching by title is silly. I'm far more likely to remember something I typed than text on a bar I rarely even look at (which could just be up there for the sake of having a title). If I want titles, I can easily open the history bar.
There's no risk, so why would I want to go around an oval hundreds of times with people who can't see me (and probably won't even 'hit' me because of that). Unlike the people I'd be going against, I have no reason to worry about snapping my neck or being in a burning aluminum cage if I screw up, so I'm going as fast as I can, perhaps saying 'oops' if I hit a wall. Besides that, real tracks are boring as hell.
Especially since this kind of thing isn't just for Fatty McPimpleface down the road anymore. It's a lucrative business, akin to busting up stores and homes for 'protection money' (but with fewer guns). Yes, kill the bastards. Kill them, arrest them, just get them the hell away from anything with blinking LEDs. Alternatively, a lot of effort could be saved by keeping weekly backups on another machine. It probably wouldn't even take up much space, so long as you only saved files you made. What good are any of those viruses/worms/email scams, so long as people understand best practices?
Doubtful. Anyone looking to hold onto a botnet wouldn't make every machine capable of being a head node. Hell, that probably wouldn't do any good anyway, so long as you don't know the key. A somewhat inelegant solution would be to purposely get infected, record all network traffic, get infected again, then try the previous key. If it works, you can reasonably assume that enough machines have the same key to make it useful...for a bit. Sadly, antivirus companies don't make money off of people who learn from their mistakes, so even if it helped everyone, a one-time fix won't cut it.
Either way, wouldn't you be a bit suspicious if you were suddenly in Antarctica?
Why not just calculate based on the reported velocity of the vehicle, 'pinging' satellites every minute or so and simply dropping anything that puts you in Antarctica? Trains? Anything that puts a train a certain distance off the track could be dropped. The acceptable values would have to be manually defined, however. Results could also be checked against reports from evenly-spaced receiver towers, with each train constantly broadcasting its ID. People? A lot of us use phones for GPS, rather than dedicated receivers. It doesn't seem at all unreasonable to fall back on cell towers.
Don't forget fake MX records, greylists, adaptive filters, RTBLs, checksum lists, magic fairies, and leprechauns, at least if you want to maintain a public address. (Can we please drop SMTP already? Just looking at my inbox is vomit-inducing.)
The whole point of Wikileaks is to make things public, so driving leaked documents repositories underground would make them indistinguishable from conspiracy theorists and the lunatic fringe. A lot will look just the same unless the one being snitched on reacts in some way. Granted, being well-known makes that a lot more likely.
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Evolution is a theory because it has been verified multiple times. (Selective breeding is a rather nice example.) 'Intelligent Design' is an unfalsifiable hypothesis that says all living beings were created by a being we can never hope to observe.
I suppose we'll be teaching Flat Earth Theory in geology classes next?
Well one of those exceptions just stabbed the Internet in the face. At the very least, there are plenty of live audio streams to take advantage of it.
And some government agency in Sweden can run a TOR node and harvest passwords. TOR only encrypts before and between nodes. They may not know your IP, but they can learn a lot about you by reading emails and forum posts.
The resources would be better spent on encrypting absolutely everything. Rather than setting up open proxies, we should convince server owners to use SSL/TLS anywhere that it would help. If you have bandwidth to spare (most browsers don't cache HTTPS by default), have control over the server, and have a form anywhere, there is no reason not to encrypt.
Yes. Half an hour of dealing with Dell support just isn't worth the money.
Linking to a Geocities page on /.? Cruel, man. Cruel.
I realize you're just trolling, but Opera really did 1-up FF on a few things. Most notably being the navbar. Unlike the 'AwesomeBar' in FF3, it orders URLs first while also searching titles, like the AB, and page content. My favorite part about this is that I don't have to 'train' the thing just to get the behavior I expect. It's a nice bridge between the AB and a normal navbar.
I was reluctant to use Opera at first, since I was used to having a plugin for everything, but almost everything I want is already there. Per-site whitelisting of everything down to animated GIFs (if I want it that way), cached pages load literally instantly, the about:config page is laid out brilliantly, and then there's the 'speed dial' page - a list of nine bookmarks with thumbnails and a search bar that appears in new tabs, and the UI has a minimalist feel to it while still being pretty. If all this sounds like feature bloat, it's actually quite light on resources. After a few days, FF2 would have taken at least 200MB of RAM hostage, even with only NoScript. Opera has yet to hit 70MB so far.
Open? No. Extensible? Not very. But damnit, it is shiny and I like it.
But how would that work? Patents can be held by individuals and licensed to corporations (which are in no shortage of individuals).
...email.
Copy, start a new message, paste, send. Oh, look. I just defeated your DRM scheme.
It is a pretty shade of blue. :o
Would those be Monster cables, by any chance?
I wish I could be an operating system, too. :o
Want it so badly? Just fork the thing under a new name and they can keep whatever glitter they adorn it with later.
You mean those USB tape drives we've all been hearing so much about? I know this is RTFA, but at least RTFA before you try to correct someone on TFA.
Because page titles are HUGE , for one. The bookmark icon and favicon are an eyesore, too. Also, matching by title is silly. I'm far more likely to remember something I typed than text on a bar I rarely even look at (which could just be up there for the sake of having a title). If I want titles, I can easily open the history bar.
Still, would it really be too hard to stick 'old navbar behavior' in the options? Such radical changes shouldn't be foisted on users like that.
There's no risk, so why would I want to go around an oval hundreds of times with people who can't see me (and probably won't even 'hit' me because of that). Unlike the people I'd be going against, I have no reason to worry about snapping my neck or being in a burning aluminum cage if I screw up, so I'm going as fast as I can, perhaps saying 'oops' if I hit a wall. Besides that, real tracks are boring as hell.
Especially since this kind of thing isn't just for Fatty McPimpleface down the road anymore. It's a lucrative business, akin to busting up stores and homes for 'protection money' (but with fewer guns). Yes, kill the bastards. Kill them, arrest them, just get them the hell away from anything with blinking LEDs.
Alternatively, a lot of effort could be saved by keeping weekly backups on another machine. It probably wouldn't even take up much space, so long as you only saved files you made. What good are any of those viruses/worms/email scams, so long as people understand best practices?
Doubtful. Anyone looking to hold onto a botnet wouldn't make every machine capable of being a head node. Hell, that probably wouldn't do any good anyway, so long as you don't know the key. A somewhat inelegant solution would be to purposely get infected, record all network traffic, get infected again, then try the previous key. If it works, you can reasonably assume that enough machines have the same key to make it useful...for a bit.
Sadly, antivirus companies don't make money off of people who learn from their mistakes, so even if it helped everyone, a one-time fix won't cut it.
Nuclear force? After all, I heard those Nazis were really into encryption.
Either way, wouldn't you be a bit suspicious if you were suddenly in Antarctica?
Why not just calculate based on the reported velocity of the vehicle, 'pinging' satellites every minute or so and simply dropping anything that puts you in Antarctica?
Trains? Anything that puts a train a certain distance off the track could be dropped. The acceptable values would have to be manually defined, however. Results could also be checked against reports from evenly-spaced receiver towers, with each train constantly broadcasting its ID.
People? A lot of us use phones for GPS, rather than dedicated receivers. It doesn't seem at all unreasonable to fall back on cell towers.
Actually, I think #1/3 are being done.
Look on the bright side: Roland's blog-spam gets the editors to edit submissions somewhat.
Don't forget fake MX records, greylists, adaptive filters, RTBLs, checksum lists, magic fairies, and leprechauns, at least if you want to maintain a public address. (Can we please drop SMTP already? Just looking at my inbox is vomit-inducing.)