Heck I've read several slashdot stories and still don't get the *point*. It seems to be an entirely slashdot-wide phenomena. Never heard the term outside that..
There are two types:
1. The type that requires hardware, and broadcasts your ipod within a short range using a little transmitter. Illegal outside the US. That's the one I heard of first and thought for a long time that's what the slashdot articles were about. 2. The practice of putting downloadable links for various shows/songs on a website. That's what slashdot is on about.
This is true. Encryption is designed around the idea that the blackhat can see the entire transaction... ssl, pgp, etc. all make that assumption.
It doesn't matter if you plug it into a 1000W transmitter and broadcast the transaction to half a state - the encryption is designed not to be broken, and unless someone has some seriously good hardware attacking it, won't be.
Chip&Pin is just a way of transferring legal responsibility onto the consumer - if someone steals your pin you are liable even if your card was stolen, because they assume you must have told them the pin.
If it was about 'security' they'd still require a signature+pin (+photo ID would be nice). As it is, all a theif has to do is to say 'I don't know my pin' or (my favourite) 'Don't bother.. this card doesn't work with pins' and they'll immediately put it through as a signature only transaction and *still* never check the signature.
When C&P first started none of my cards worked with it. Now they do, but I still use the excuses above... I have *never* been refused or asked to actually enter a pin.
Yes but Microsoft do not themselves fund development of GPLed code
Wix is pretty darned close (CPL rather than GPL, but it's still an OSS license).
Microsft like to tell the PHBs that they hate OSS and all it stands for, but really I doubt they're that dogmatic - they'll do whatever it takes to make money. If they could make more money by ditching the Win32 codebase and embracing the GPL they'd do exactly that... (not going to happen of course, because they couldn't).
Potassium is *very* easy to come by. In fact it's difficult to avoid, short of drinking water all day. I had to avoid it for nearly 6 months - living on boiled rice and chicken for 6 months is not fun.
Having too *much* potassium in your body is a fast route to a heart attack.. never heard of anyone with too little. Luckily that's hard to do unless you have malfunctioning kidneys (indeed high potassium levels is one of the signs of renal failure).
Damn. I've been trying to install this shop on my mac for days, and *now* you tell me I should have been buying a product sold at a store not the store itself.
You get a 'we have updates, click here' at (apparently) random intervals, popping up over the task bar.
Unfortunately it pops up for only a little over a second, so before you've decided whether to 'click here' it's already gone. It also has no identifier telling you it *is* firefox... when it happened to me first time I went through the whole AVG/Sbybot/Adaware cycle twice thinking I'd picked up some scumware.
Nowadays it's just frikkin' annoying, especially if you're not ready to upgrade - I only just went to 1.0.3 from 1.0.1 and that cause me to lose all my bookmarks as the upgrade trashed the profile (FF just hung on startup, only deleting the profile restored it). Not planning to go to 1.0.4 this fast....
Yes, right, that's good selling point for Linux - more games are available on Linux than windows.
Out of the box, there are. For Windows you get Minesweeper... for Linux you get about a hundred different ones.
Remember the students will *not* be able to install anything on these machines - they're completely locked down (if the school has any sense and doesn't want to become virus central).
I learnt on BBC Micros mostly, and had a Sinclair Spectrum at home. The Archimedes was just coming in and the school also had a big black Research Machines box that ran CP/M. At college they had Research Machines 'pseudo' PCs that ran a custom MS-DOS and didn't run any standard software.
In my first job I suddenly had to use my first PC. 6 months later Windows 3.0 came out and I was given less than a week to work out how to port our software to it. I didn't feel disadvantaged - I'd learnt how to program, not how to use a particular piece of software.
These days I jump between half a dozen Unix OSs, OSx, AS400 and different versions of Windows.. I didn't have to do a course in any of them, because I learned properly (admittedly AS400 is a bit of a git but I don't use that much).
Linux has had it for a while (via samba & winbind).
Panther had it, but it was a bit busted (didn't give you a proper kerberos key for example, and didn't really integrate with the samba filesystem). Panther also had the issue that you had to practically destroy your network security to get it to work as it didn't support encrypted connections or NTLMv2.
Tiger fixes most of this (connected to my Win2003 ADC without having to tweak anything, and smbclient -k works now) - it's just that you can't actually browse then network with finder as the links it creates don't work... it can find the server names but not any of the network shares.
One thing they haven't fixed is that AD users can't share folders on the OSX machine - you have to create a physical user and give them a global shared folder (I just created one called 'public' and paste all the files to that). It's more a workaround than a fix & I hope they address that someday.
There's also the new 'mobile' account settings. Not really sure what they are - I tried enabling it and it just gave errors about home directories when I tried to log in... didn't appear to actually change anything. I'll come back to that sometime when someone explains what it's supposed to actually do.
How do you point to the share directly... genuine question... I don't know OSX well.
There's no location bar in Finder so you have to rely on the links in 'Network', but they don't work (actually it's wierd.. they work for the ADC and one other machine but none of the others).
There's also a wierd file called 'Library' sat in my networks folder that's undeletable. Doesn't appear to do anything (another bad link, which OSX offers to 'fix' but the 'fix' brings up a file selector and I'm kinda lost at that point).
That was my thought... you're paying *rent*? Hell, I'd expect a minimum of a rent reduction and if the network is as much as a 'mare as it sounds free rent.
They've given you all the responsibility and none of the power. Plus no budget.
I read the rebuttal on the same day as the article.. The subtext seems to be that PJ knew about it before publication (hence her retraction of certain parts of evidence, before the article was published).
That concerned me too... PJ seemed to completely miss the point, which was that Linux and Project Monterray were different and it's incorrect to link them in that manner.
She instead started going on about Power architecture???
they don't realize that what they're looking at isn't just an image with the stuff painted over but black strips overlaid on top of the complete document
In a secure environment it shouldn't be *possible* to make that mistake. You don't just 'load an electronic version to send it off to people' when you're talking about classified documents.
Someone is going to get seriously busted for this.
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Heck I've read several slashdot stories and still don't get the *point*. It seems to be an entirely slashdot-wide phenomena. Never heard the term outside that..
There are two types:
1. The type that requires hardware, and broadcasts your ipod within a short range using a little transmitter. Illegal outside the US. That's the one I heard of first and thought for a long time that's what the slashdot articles were about.
2. The practice of putting downloadable links for various shows/songs on a website. That's what slashdot is on about.
I don't get all the hype either...
Please give an example of something that is absolutely without use.
A slashdot editor.
Do I get my cookie now?
Score -1: *WAY* too late with the terminator jokes/
I'm guessing velveeta is a kind of cheese. Not one I've heard of though (google says it's made by kraft, but not what it actually is).
Mod up!
This is true. Encryption is designed around the idea that the blackhat can see the entire transaction... ssl, pgp, etc. all make that assumption.
It doesn't matter if you plug it into a 1000W transmitter and broadcast the transaction to half a state - the encryption is designed not to be broken, and unless someone has some seriously good hardware attacking it, won't be.
Chip&Pin is just a way of transferring legal responsibility onto the consumer - if someone steals your pin you are liable even if your card was stolen, because they assume you must have told them the pin.
If it was about 'security' they'd still require a signature+pin (+photo ID would be nice). As it is, all a theif has to do is to say 'I don't know my pin' or (my favourite) 'Don't bother.. this card doesn't work with pins' and they'll immediately put it through as a signature only transaction and *still* never check the signature.
When C&P first started none of my cards worked with it. Now they do, but I still use the excuses above... I have *never* been refused or asked to actually enter a pin.
They don't need to do anything... who's going to sue the chinese government??? GPL doesn't mean squat to them.
Yes but Microsoft do not themselves fund development of GPLed code
Wix is pretty darned close (CPL rather than GPL, but it's still an OSS license).
Microsft like to tell the PHBs that they hate OSS and all it stands for, but really I doubt they're that dogmatic - they'll do whatever it takes to make money. If they could make more money by ditching the Win32 codebase and embracing the GPL they'd do exactly that... (not going to happen of course, because they couldn't).
Depends... removing stitches is fairly safe as as long as you sterilize the area properly.
I wouldn't want do do my own appendectomy though.
Or drink beer, have a pizza..
Potassium is *very* easy to come by. In fact it's difficult to avoid, short of drinking water all day. I had to avoid it for nearly 6 months - living on boiled rice and chicken for 6 months is not fun.
Having too *much* potassium in your body is a fast route to a heart attack.. never heard of anyone with too little. Luckily that's hard to do unless you have malfunctioning kidneys (indeed high potassium levels is one of the signs of renal failure).
Damn. I've been trying to install this shop on my mac for days, and *now* you tell me I should have been buying a product sold at a store not the store itself.
It does nag, albeit poorly.
You get a 'we have updates, click here' at (apparently) random intervals, popping up over the task bar.
Unfortunately it pops up for only a little over a second, so before you've decided whether to 'click here' it's already gone. It also has no identifier telling you it *is* firefox... when it happened to me first time I went through the whole AVG/Sbybot/Adaware cycle twice thinking I'd picked up some scumware.
Nowadays it's just frikkin' annoying, especially if you're not ready to upgrade - I only just went to 1.0.3 from 1.0.1 and that cause me to lose all my bookmarks as the upgrade trashed the profile (FF just hung on startup, only deleting the profile restored it). Not planning to go to 1.0.4 this fast....
Yes, right, that's good selling point for Linux - more games are available on Linux than windows.
Out of the box, there are. For Windows you get Minesweeper... for Linux you get about a hundred different ones.
Remember the students will *not* be able to install anything on these machines - they're completely locked down (if the school has any sense and doesn't want to become virus central).
The disadvantage is largely theoretical.
I learnt on BBC Micros mostly, and had a Sinclair Spectrum at home. The Archimedes was just coming in and the school also had a big black Research Machines box that ran CP/M. At college they had Research Machines 'pseudo' PCs that ran a custom MS-DOS and didn't run any standard software.
In my first job I suddenly had to use my first PC. 6 months later Windows 3.0 came out and I was given less than a week to work out how to port our software to it. I didn't feel disadvantaged - I'd learnt how to program, not how to use a particular piece of software.
These days I jump between half a dozen Unix OSs, OSx, AS400 and different versions of Windows.. I didn't have to do a course in any of them, because I learned properly (admittedly AS400 is a bit of a git but I don't use that much).
Yeah the samba command line works (smbclient -k) but it's not as nice as browsing.
I guess I'll have to do it manually until they fix it.
Hmm... It's a kinda major design flaw when a solar sail gets degraded by sunlight.
Now *why* isn't that somewhere more obvious.. I spend nearly an hour looking for something like that before giving up.
There's a lot to be said for having a location bar.
Linux has had it for a while (via samba & winbind).
Panther had it, but it was a bit busted (didn't give you a proper kerberos key for example, and didn't really integrate with the samba filesystem). Panther also had the issue that you had to practically destroy your network security to get it to work as it didn't support encrypted connections or NTLMv2.
Tiger fixes most of this (connected to my Win2003 ADC without having to tweak anything, and smbclient -k works now) - it's just that you can't actually browse then network with finder as the links it creates don't work... it can find the server names but not any of the network shares.
One thing they haven't fixed is that AD users can't share folders on the OSX machine - you have to create a physical user and give them a global shared folder (I just created one called 'public' and paste all the files to that). It's more a workaround than a fix & I hope they address that someday.
There's also the new 'mobile' account settings. Not really sure what they are - I tried enabling it and it just gave errors about home directories when I tried to log in... didn't appear to actually change anything. I'll come back to that sometime when someone explains what it's supposed to actually do.
How do you point to the share directly... genuine question... I don't know OSX well.
There's no location bar in Finder so you have to rely on the links in 'Network', but they don't work (actually it's wierd.. they work for the ADC and one other machine but none of the others).
There's also a wierd file called 'Library' sat in my networks folder that's undeletable. Doesn't appear to do anything (another bad link, which OSX offers to 'fix' but the 'fix' brings up a file selector and I'm kinda lost at that point).
Make it automatic - the executable can automatically ban them.
No effort involved!
That was my thought... you're paying *rent*? Hell, I'd expect a minimum of a rent reduction and if the network is as much as a 'mare as it sounds free rent.
They've given you all the responsibility and none of the power. Plus no budget.
Give it up... you're being used.
I read the rebuttal on the same day as the article.. The subtext seems to be that PJ knew about it before publication (hence her retraction of certain parts of evidence, before the article was published).
That concerned me too... PJ seemed to completely miss the point, which was that Linux and Project Monterray were different and it's incorrect to link them in that manner.
She instead started going on about Power architecture???
they don't realize that what they're looking at isn't just an image with the stuff painted over but black strips overlaid on top of the complete document
In a secure environment it shouldn't be *possible* to make that mistake. You don't just 'load an electronic version to send it off to people' when you're talking about classified documents.
Someone is going to get seriously busted for this.
Slashdot: 'News for mac addicts'
Every time Apple releases a product (or is even rumoured to do so) it gets a slashdot headline...
(2.7Ghz high end??? Maybe 5 years ago...)