Sort of how childless me/ex-wife used to loan a duplicate of a store loyalty card (since it had an extra employee discount) to some friends that were married and had two little girls?
I used to use a ballistic nylon covered one that closed with velcro. Amazingly useful for keeping tracking of screws (and small screwdrivers) during a teardown/rebuild. The nylon covering seemed to move it from weird health/jewelry thing to tool in most coworkers eyes. Well, that and I only wore it while working on things and stuck it to a desk drawer when I wasn't using it.
I doubt it will be phased out any time soon. While this particular care of abuse is getting a lot of attention and ranting that it should be fixed immediately, it is no worse then how stores handled (and continue to handle) checks for decades now. If retailers and banks have not closed the hole that allows check fraud in all that time, I doubt they are going to rush to make this process more secure either. Last time I checked, writing bad checks is as easy as ever.
Just about every decent size merchant I would consider doing business with any more uses third party check verification services. I have seen checks declined before due to said services. Generally they give the customer the service's number and tell the customer "Sorry, it's been declined. You need to talk to these people to find out why."
The last "real" edit I did (other than basic syntactic and grammatical cleanup) was when I noticed a domain belonging to a software company I was researching pointed to a green tea site in China. So, trying to be a dutiful user, I edited the article to point at the last Wayback machine snapshot of the old site.
The result, you ask?
The edit was reverted to the green tea site in less than 24 hours.
I then decided to do nothing more with Wikipedia, but clean up the bad writing that got on my nerves. I swear that half the contributors on en.wikipedia.org are English As A 45th Language types.
Nothing personal, but vaporous unconfirmable zero day reports like this strike me as more of a "My uncle works at Nintendo, and he got a copy of the secret developer nude Mario Brothers cart. No, it's at his house...In Hawaii. No, he won't mail it to me to show you."
I feel the same way you do, Nom du Keyboard. My biggest complaint about Netflix streaming is that they don't have what I want to see. Now I admit that my tastes are not typical, so I get that if I want to see some Japanese sword fighting film from the 1970s, I'm probably going to have to get a DVD. But when I actually want to see a Hollywood movie, I am always finding that I can't stream it from Netflix. If they stopped their disc service, I might as well stop being a customer at that point. Other than 2 TV shows from a few years ago that I missed when they were on, I've found Netflix's streaming offers to be very poor. I would like to know what people watch who love the streaming from Netflix because there sure are plenty of them.
I confess, mainly TV shows that I missed first time around. Things like House M.D., rewatched Chuck, finally saw Breaking Bad and some other stuff. Also, some of my martial art movie fix.
Agreed. I decided I wanted to watch the Matrix movie the other night when I couldn't sleep. Of course, I can get the DVD, but can't stream it (which kind of ruined the whole proposition). Really? Why's that then?
Basic Dropbox is, none of the other options are. And besides, why is that an excuse? If they can encrypt data as they send it, and as they store it on the cloud, why is it impossible to encrypt it on the client, or provide an API to allow a 3rd party to encrypt it?
One of the things I love about Dropbox is that I use it to sync between Windows and Linux machines. As soon as you add this functionality via API, I can pretty much guarantee you the Linux side will end up with no or non-compatible functionality (unless I was WAY lucky). So I still wouldn't end up using it. So there's that....
The problem with this is that Dropbox states they may use already stored copies of a file to provide access to data when possible. The encryption would block this deduplication by making a different version of the file among users. (Just a note - I primarily use Dropbox to make non-secret file duplication among various machines and OS sessions easy. Anything important, I encrypt by hand.)
Well, we all love that Netflix is fighting for net neutrality and know they are getting screwed over by some major ISPs, so where's the money to deal with that to come from?
Or having to illegally buy a bundle to get a channel that is contractually al a carte.
(Found that out a few years ago about Cartoon Network and Insight Cable.)
And the few times I have talked with customer services about the streaming (more questions/suggestions than complaints), their CS people are cheerful, pay attention to what I am actually saying, and get me answers. I even got a call back from one of their engineers when tring to troubleshoot something.
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See I would have been all "Zhao Lei" and "Lexi Boling" because, you know, I could.
Sort of how childless me/ex-wife used to loan a duplicate of a store loyalty card (since it had an extra employee discount) to some friends that were married and had two little girls?
I used to use a ballistic nylon covered one that closed with velcro. Amazingly useful for keeping tracking of screws (and small screwdrivers) during a teardown/rebuild. The nylon covering seemed to move it from weird health/jewelry thing to tool in most coworkers eyes. Well, that and I only wore it while working on things and stuck it to a desk drawer when I wasn't using it.
Not only that, but, unless you obfuscate the original address strongly enough, I am quite sure the sender will run into legal issues also.
And it can't detected trivially encrypted images, I suspect.
Not so much anymore. http://www.computerworld.com/s... http://www.darkreading.com/ris...
Well, the main thing that popped into my mind when I read about this was "How will this impact companies with tax inversions?"
I doubt it will be phased out any time soon. While this particular care of abuse is getting a lot of attention and ranting that it should be fixed immediately, it is no worse then how stores handled (and continue to handle) checks for decades now. If retailers and banks have not closed the hole that allows check fraud in all that time, I doubt they are going to rush to make this process more secure either. Last time I checked, writing bad checks is as easy as ever.
Just about every decent size merchant I would consider doing business with any more uses third party check verification services. I have seen checks declined before due to said services. Generally they give the customer the service's number and tell the customer "Sorry, it's been declined. You need to talk to these people to find out why."
The last "real" edit I did (other than basic syntactic and grammatical cleanup) was when I noticed a domain belonging to a software company I was researching pointed to a green tea site in China. So, trying to be a dutiful user, I edited the article to point at the last Wayback machine snapshot of the old site.
The result, you ask?
The edit was reverted to the green tea site in less than 24 hours.
I then decided to do nothing more with Wikipedia, but clean up the bad writing that got on my nerves. I swear that half the contributors on en.wikipedia.org are English As A 45th Language types.
C'mon now, equal rights for AMD here.
Yet another Slashdot poster sits back with popcorn and watches the fracas.
Wow. Okay. Humor is alien to you. Got it. Not going to argue. Have a great life.
And I was exaggerating a little bit, but any restaurant that serves cold food that should be hot is the sort of place to get you in trouble.
Nothing personal, but vaporous unconfirmable zero day reports like this strike me as more of a "My uncle works at Nintendo, and he got a copy of the secret developer nude Mario Brothers cart. No, it's at his house...In Hawaii. No, he won't mail it to me to show you."
Yeah, sorry. I don't have the cash for a BlueRay rig right now. (My Netflix streaming account was a gift.)
I feel the same way you do, Nom du Keyboard. My biggest complaint about Netflix streaming is that they don't have what I want to see. Now I admit that my tastes are not typical, so I get that if I want to see some Japanese sword fighting film from the 1970s, I'm probably going to have to get a DVD. But when I actually want to see a Hollywood movie, I am always finding that I can't stream it from Netflix. If they stopped their disc service, I might as well stop being a customer at that point. Other than 2 TV shows from a few years ago that I missed when they were on, I've found Netflix's streaming offers to be very poor. I would like to know what people watch who love the streaming from Netflix because there sure are plenty of them.
I confess, mainly TV shows that I missed first time around. Things like House M.D., rewatched Chuck, finally saw Breaking Bad and some other stuff. Also, some of my martial art movie fix.
Agreed. I decided I wanted to watch the Matrix movie the other night when I couldn't sleep. Of course, I can get the DVD, but can't stream it (which kind of ruined the whole proposition). Really? Why's that then?
A little spurious. If you don't get your Netflix delivery in a timely fashion, you don't risk food poisoning. Just a thought.
Basic Dropbox is, none of the other options are. And besides, why is that an excuse? If they can encrypt data as they send it, and as they store it on the cloud, why is it impossible to encrypt it on the client, or provide an API to allow a 3rd party to encrypt it?
One of the things I love about Dropbox is that I use it to sync between Windows and Linux machines. As soon as you add this functionality via API, I can pretty much guarantee you the Linux side will end up with no or non-compatible functionality (unless I was WAY lucky). So I still wouldn't end up using it. So there's that....
The problem with this is that Dropbox states they may use already stored copies of a file to provide access to data when possible. The encryption would block this deduplication by making a different version of the file among users. (Just a note - I primarily use Dropbox to make non-secret file duplication among various machines and OS sessions easy. Anything important, I encrypt by hand.)
Well, we all love that Netflix is fighting for net neutrality and know they are getting screwed over by some major ISPs, so where's the money to deal with that to come from?
Or having to illegally buy a bundle to get a channel that is contractually al a carte. (Found that out a few years ago about Cartoon Network and Insight Cable.)
And the few times I have talked with customer services about the streaming (more questions/suggestions than complaints), their CS people are cheerful, pay attention to what I am actually saying, and get me answers. I even got a call back from one of their engineers when tring to troubleshoot something.
You have no idea how hard it is to find a virgin chicken in my town, much less one for sacrifice....
And that worked out SO well for Pied Piper.