Banks in brasil are using virtual keyboards, they are a numeric pad that apear in the screen with the numbers in a random order and/or in a random position. You must then click the password with a mouse. Of course if you own the machine you can save the HTML and mouse clicks to analise it latter, but it makes the life of keyloggers harder.
But that doesn't mean that people can do Internet banking or any other sensitive activity on public kiosks.
And, as you know (if not please read www.infoguerra.com.br), all those security measures doesn't stop people from trying to steal passwords, esp if the victim is using LookOut Express or something.
<Portuguese> Neguinho é tapado mesmo! Não se dá nem ao trabalho de ver se a mensagem é REALMENTE do banco, se o banco manda mensagem etc. Aí não há teclado virtual que salve. </Portuguese>
The real point about the US legal system is that it was being reformed in a moment where 15% of the Americans elect a president. American citizens decided to alienate themselves of the policy making. And here comes a transformation of a great democracy into a Corporate Tyranny.
And all this alienation happening all over the world. Italy, for instance, became an official Media Tyranny and now Silvio "Citizen Kane" Berlusconi can do whatever he wants.
I'm still trying to figure why people chime so much against forks. Forks make Open Source go round, let people explore new directions, and avoid ultimate fighting-style fights:-)
Anyway, good luck to Dilon, especially on his ports/packages rewrite work.
However the only reason they go so low in pricing is because they have managed to trick the public into almost exclusively buying HP-ink. Ink is a substance that's *pretty* generic. And still people still buy HP cartridges even if they could get ink elsewhere at 1/3 of the HP price-tag. That's beyond me.
They tell people, "buy original or your printer'll blow or something".
It's the same BS they tell about pirated CDs, at least here in Brazil.
Consider: I used to wirk for a computer store eight years ago. A regular six-connector 50-pin SCSI1 internal ribbon cable was priced at $60.00. You know how much it cost the store to buy it? $5.00. Yep. $55.00 markup. Why? People beleived that SCSI was more expensive.
Isn't ALL price economics made of this? You believe, or somebody make you believe, that A is more expensive than B, and you ACTUALLY pay more for A than B, even if A is cheaper to produce than B!
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as "$2999". In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous. This demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing to mislead people when stating their prices.
What? You mean Gates and Ballmer racked up all those frequent flyer miles for nothing? Oh wait a minute.....I guess they could turn some of them in and get this really neat dual-proc 64 bit Apple machine.......
Hm... maybe their frequent flyer miles allow them to get a cluster of PPC 970 Macs:-)
...but outside the Empire, Linux desktop usage is gaining an incredible momentum. Not only in Germany, France and all over Europe, but - and that's really interesting - in Asia and Latin America. No wonder the article tells about a next year turn; all those Linux deployments in India, China, Germany and Brazil will start to appear in 2004-5.
One of the great things of my beloved Jornada 680 (apart from having a keyboard) is that I can plug in my Ethernet card, type \\machine\share on the Explorer window, type my password and - voilà - access the share.
(Yes, it's the only Microsoft thing I use)
I wonder how the Microsoft genius decided that only Handheld PC Pro, and not all Windows CE/PocketPC owners, need to have this - you need to get a 3rd-party program to do this basic thing, especially on the corporate environment - isn't the corporate a Microsoft target?
Will the Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003 (what a sucky name!) have to download a 3rd-party program to access their pr0n/h4cx0r on their Windows/Samba corporate server?:-)
If you want to build a dirt cheap router from a PC that can do all of the whizz-bang extras (DHCP, DNS serving/forwarding, QOS, IPSec authentication, etc. etc.) then the LRP isn't the easiest or most effective way to build it.
Probably if you want a router-plus-extras PC, you already haven't used LRP or any floppy-based router distro, mainly because of the sucky space limitations of floppy.
pedro, there are places where LRP or, for that matter, any floppy-based router distro pays off. Starved schools, starved hospitals, SOHO/Small Business sites etc are great candidates for this. In the Third World, it pays off even more.
Some good soul has made a transcription of the interview here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News &file=comments&sid=5005&tid=29327&mode=&order=0&th old=0
Here in Brazil, I got 256/128 DSL from my telco (Telemar) for $33.86 (DSL cost from telco, modem loan and ISP's fee - yes, we have to pay a ISP here in Brazil only to authenticate us, damn Anatel); the price I have is here from Rio, but can be easily used in all Brazilian regions with DSL. (All those prices were calculated using US$1=R$3.2)
Cheap for the US standards, maybe, I really don't know is anybody in the US is still offering 256/128. SO expensive for Brazilian ones! Brazilians earn roughly 10% or less of the American paycheck.
Yes, the DIAS is expensive. It can be cool and such, but it's expensive - especially in a country where people earn even less than Brazil.
Most big providers here (and some companies, including the company I work!) are blocking mail directly from DSL lines. Already those who use some kind of RBLs are blocking mail from Brazilian DSLs - namely *.dsl.telesp.net.br, the DSL lines provided by Sao Paulo's Telefonica, and *.user.veloxzone.com.br, provided by Telemar.
This sucks, I know, but it's necessary. DSLs became an easy and cheap way to spammers do their dirty job - a DSL, a Windows box, a mass mailing software and some "goodwill" MX boxes. As we haven't any legislation against spammers (and against script kiddies, and against...), this became a big problem here, so people started to simply block it.
So what's the deal? AOL opened the eyes of those still-believers that spam is effectively killing email. Yes, it sucks to configure sendmail to use my provider as a smart relay (and sucks even more because it needs authentication), but I think it's a minor annoyance.
>>Clones will kill that ability. And, make no mistake, it IS that ability that is keeping Apple in business after all these years. Those who don't understand this don't understand Apple's business.
Aha, but clones will also introduce the possibility of some of us running Linux on a PowerPC affordably. I don't want to pay Apple's prices, but I'd like to run a PPC.
Terra Soft Solutions (the YDL guys) does this already. If you go to their online store, you can see that they sell Apple computers with Linux/PPC preinstalled.
Remember: it's not illegal to get an Apple hardware and sell with non-Apple OSes, but getting a non-Apple hardware and sell with an Apple OS is.
Slashdot Mirror
...antitrust lawsuits in the US? :-)
Banks in brasil are using virtual keyboards, they are a numeric pad that apear in the screen with the numbers in a random order and/or in a random position. You must then click the password with a mouse. Of course if you own the machine you can save the HTML and mouse clicks to analise it latter, but it makes the life of keyloggers harder.
But that doesn't mean that people can do Internet banking or any other sensitive activity on public kiosks.
And, as you know (if not please read www.infoguerra.com.br), all those security measures doesn't stop people from trying to steal passwords, esp if the victim is using LookOut Express or something.
<Portuguese>
Neguinho é tapado mesmo! Não se dá nem ao trabalho de ver se a mensagem é REALMENTE do banco, se o banco manda mensagem etc. Aí não há teclado virtual que salve.
</Portuguese>
T2 - 320*320
Treo 600 - 160*160
That alones makes a big difference in who wants which one.
Hey! Treo 600 is still on 160x160? Hm. Bad.
I'm not sure how many people will buy this product [the Tungsten T2] instead of waiting for its newly acquired Handspring Treo 600.
They're very different beasts, appealing to very different people. I can't imagine people in doubt between the T2 and the Tréo 600.
The system in Germany worked, why not the USA?
The real point about the US legal system is that it was being reformed in a moment where 15% of the Americans elect a president. American citizens decided to alienate themselves of the policy making.
And here comes a transformation of a great democracy into a Corporate Tyranny.
And all this alienation happening all over the world. Italy, for instance, became an official Media Tyranny and now Silvio "Citizen Kane" Berlusconi can do whatever he wants.
I'm still trying to figure why people chime so much against forks. Forks make Open Source go round, let people explore new directions, and avoid ultimate fighting-style fights :-)
Anyway, good luck to Dilon, especially on his ports/packages rewrite work.
(About low printer prices)
However the only reason they go so low in pricing is because they have managed to trick the public into almost exclusively buying HP-ink. Ink is a substance that's *pretty* generic. And still people still buy HP cartridges even if they could get ink elsewhere at 1/3 of the HP price-tag. That's beyond me.
They tell people, "buy original or your printer'll blow or something".
It's the same BS they tell about pirated CDs, at least here in Brazil.
Consider: I used to wirk for a computer store eight years ago. A regular six-connector 50-pin SCSI1 internal ribbon cable was priced at $60.00. You know how much it cost the store to buy it? $5.00. Yep. $55.00 markup. Why? People beleived that SCSI was more expensive.
Isn't ALL price economics made of this? You believe, or somebody make you believe, that A is more expensive than B, and you ACTUALLY pay more for A than B, even if A is cheaper to produce than B!
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as "$2999". In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous. This demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing to mislead people when stating their prices.
Incredibly true!
What? You mean Gates and Ballmer racked up all those frequent flyer miles for nothing? Oh wait a minute.....I guess they could turn some of them in and get this really neat dual-proc 64 bit Apple machine.......
:-)
Hm... maybe their frequent flyer miles allow them to get a cluster of PPC 970 Macs
...but outside the Empire, Linux desktop usage is gaining an incredible momentum. Not only in Germany, France and all over Europe, but - and that's really interesting - in Asia and Latin America. No wonder the article tells about a next year turn; all those Linux deployments in India, China, Germany and Brazil will start to appear in 2004-5.
One of the great things of my beloved Jornada 680 (apart from having a keyboard) is that I can plug in my Ethernet card, type \\machine\share on the Explorer window, type my password and - voilà - access the share.
:-)
(Yes, it's the only Microsoft thing I use)
I wonder how the Microsoft genius decided that only Handheld PC Pro, and not all Windows CE/PocketPC owners, need to have this - you need to get a 3rd-party program to do this basic thing, especially on the corporate environment - isn't the corporate a Microsoft target?
Will the Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003 (what a sucky name!) have to download a 3rd-party program to access their pr0n/h4cx0r on their Windows/Samba corporate server?
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) sues Bill Wyman (writer) -i t_d etail.asp?stupid_ID=148
http://www.power-of-attorneys.com/stupid_lawsu
What I can say? Damn lawyers!
If you want to build a dirt cheap router from a PC that can do all of the whizz-bang extras (DHCP, DNS serving/forwarding, QOS, IPSec authentication, etc. etc.) then the LRP isn't the easiest or most effective way to build it.
Probably if you want a router-plus-extras PC, you already haven't used LRP or any floppy-based router distro, mainly because of the sucky space limitations of floppy.
pedro, there are places where LRP or, for that matter, any floppy-based router distro pays off. Starved schools, starved hospitals, SOHO/Small Business sites etc are great candidates for this. In the Third World, it pays off even more.
Can I register my name and sue everyone else called Cesar Cardoso? :-)
: Will it get funding from the DoD? :-D
Maybe if it was called WarOnTerror BSD? Or WarOnIraq/Syria/NorthKorea/etc BSD? 8-D
...the IT can rule the world?
Some good soul has made a transcription of the interview here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News &file=comments&sid=5005&tid=29327&mode=&order=0&th old=0
Wow, this sounds even more awful...
I simply can't load the CRN page! Can someone show a mirror of the news?
I've seen on BrasilTelecom's site that the price now hiked to 69,90. All hail inflation! :-)
Damn f*ing Telemar, I'm paying too much for DSL!
:(
Anyway, Karpe, is your DSL new or old? Telcos hiked their prices recently, at least Telefonica and Telemar did
Here in Brazil, I got 256/128 DSL from my telco (Telemar) for $33.86 (DSL cost from telco, modem loan and ISP's fee - yes, we have to pay a ISP here in Brazil only to authenticate us, damn Anatel); the price I have is here from Rio, but can be easily used in all Brazilian regions with DSL.
(All those prices were calculated using US$1=R$3.2)
Cheap for the US standards, maybe, I really don't know is anybody in the US is still offering 256/128. SO expensive for Brazilian ones! Brazilians earn roughly 10% or less of the American paycheck.
Yes, the DIAS is expensive. It can be cool and such, but it's expensive - especially in a country where people earn even less than Brazil.
Most big providers here (and some companies, including the company I work!) are blocking mail directly from DSL lines. Already those who use some kind of RBLs are blocking mail from Brazilian DSLs - namely *.dsl.telesp.net.br, the DSL lines provided by Sao Paulo's Telefonica, and *.user.veloxzone.com.br, provided by Telemar.
This sucks, I know, but it's necessary. DSLs became an easy and cheap way to spammers do their dirty job - a DSL, a Windows box, a mass mailing software and some "goodwill" MX boxes. As we haven't any legislation against spammers (and against script kiddies, and against...), this became a big problem here, so people started to simply block it.
So what's the deal? AOL opened the eyes of those still-believers that spam is effectively killing email. Yes, it sucks to configure sendmail to use my provider as a smart relay (and sucks even more because it needs authentication), but I think it's a minor annoyance.
>>Clones will kill that ability. And, make no mistake, it IS that ability that is keeping Apple in business after all these years. Those who don't understand this don't understand Apple's business.
Aha, but clones will also introduce the possibility of some of us running Linux on a PowerPC affordably. I don't want to pay Apple's prices, but I'd like to run a PPC.
Terra Soft Solutions (the YDL guys) does this already. If you go to their online store, you can see that they sell Apple computers with Linux/PPC preinstalled.
Remember: it's not illegal to get an Apple hardware and sell with non-Apple OSes, but getting a non-Apple hardware and sell with an Apple OS is.