If only it was that easy and openid had used email addresses to setup their system.
Instead you have to remember a URL which is often quite long.
Worse, some sites (blogger) then publish that URL along with any blog posts you make so you have two problems: (a) instead of a nice friendly name the blog appears to have come from a random URL. (b) the entire world knows your openid.. instead of a username that you can keep reasonably secred.
Get real. Most people are not going to run openid providers. The first they'll know they've been compromised is when their bank account is empty.
Then they won't know what to do because it'll be up to the bank etc. to 'fix it'. People do not know how to keep the accounts they have now secure (just look at the wow technical support forum if you don't believe me) - but at least they're separate accounts.. having one central account is just asking for trouble.
There is no way in hell anyone is going to trust $random_myspace_account as being a valid account simply because it's presented as a URL. There are already anonymising openid providers that don't require passwords.. it totally defeat the point of registering on a site in the first place - you'd be bombarded by spam in minutes.
The thing that puts me off is the way you have gone from remembering a common username to having to remember a complex URL and *still* have to register separately with all the sites anyway - you've actually lost something rather than gained it.
Also, if you login to eg. google with your openid all your blog posts come from your username, not your real name, with a link to your openid!! So you've lost a layer of security.. a weak one, but it's not good to lose any security at all. Plus if as in my case the username is a random string nobody knows who the posts are from any more.
Catholics don't just use the Bible, they also follow Papal Tradition. Protestants only use the Bible.
The problem of course is extremists - when taken as a base of how to make sense of the world it's fine (that's its purpose - there are several exortations to reason within the text).. in fact I know quite a few of both traditions and they are perfectly reasonable people.
So you get the phenomenon of American Christianity, where they demand unthinking obedience - one of your leaders even publicly called for the assassination of a head of state, you have them saying the world is 6000 years old, other extremist nutty things like that, whilst the rest of the world stares and wishes they'd shut the hell up.
Meanwhile, in the real world the study of the missing books both a popular and widespread... it's well known that the bible is what was considered 'best' at the time and that a lot was lost (they meant well but utterly destroying some of the books was a pity, looking back). You can't understand the present without understanding the past, after all.
Which means it'll possibly be very different.. what we have reflects the collection decided to be correct at the time of the council of nicea. Other books existed and there was some debate about which ones went into the final collection. We have some of the others in the apocrypha, and others were simply lost to history.
Love the inflamatory summary... I mean so what? It's not a complete text anyway, and if you're talking about something written around ad330 it's a time when there were still multiple different versions in common use.
No way a panel will last 16-18 years.. Try 2-3. You've got to factor in the price of complete replacecement. Hell, lets say he gets really lucky and they last 10 years.. he's still making a net loss.
You don't need the address for the NS server as you're getting a result already. If you didn't ask for the information then it shouldn't be in the reply - if it is just discard the entire packet as bogus and keep listening for the real one.
Doesn't sound that complex to fix - just make the checking for additional records a lot more stringent so you can't poison WWW.DOMAIN.COM within a reply to AAAAA.DOMAIN.COM
Maintainability. If you return from multiple points then you can make a simple 'make the function do foo before it returns' to 'edit two dozen return statements to do foo before it returns, oops missed one.. difficult to find bug alert!'.
That said, if the function is small there's not a major problem with it. I'd LART that function based on the 100s of lines of code not the return - if you have 100s of lines of code inside a code block break it out into a function, so you actually have a hope in hell of reading the program flow.
Not even then. It only really matters when someone else has to read it.
As long as any reasonably competent programer can read it who gives a flying fig where the braces are? My one rule would be don't mix styles in the same source file (that gets ugly).
Nah me neither... maybe it's a US thing? It's generally assumed that if you're a half decent programmer you'll follow what is already there and write clear concise code as much as possible.
One place I was in did try to come up with a coding standard, but it was abandoned as nobody could actually agree on much other than 'don't fuck it up'.
The article states that it doesn't work for the *iphone* on PayG. O2 have never sold full internet access over PayG for other phones and have never claimed to - only web access.
This article totally and utterly false, and is *provably* false simply by registering a PayG SIM in an iphone.
It'd be your fault for posting the URL on a public forum.
Google can *only* index what it sees. Every single one of those images has been posted somewhere that google can index them.. ie. publically - that's the only way they can be in the search results.
When you register as an iphone user on your payg sim they unblock everything, as well as activating edge. It's also a good idea to get the £10/mo unlimited data/wifi package. This puts you on the same level as a contract iphone customer.
Even so, eMail doesn't work on Pay as you Go on O2.
Total BS. That site is making shit up to get advertising hits. It's not even believable shit this time around, as anyone with an iphone on PayG will tell you.
You can stick in a PayG SIM in a 2G iphone and it'll work fine.. it's one of the things O2 recommend you do with your old iphone when you upgrade to the 3G.
The story is *total* BS though. Email works just fine on the iphone over PayG, as does everything else. They even allow you to get unlimited internet and wifi as a package for £10/mo if you want.
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If only it was that easy and openid had used email addresses to setup their system.
Instead you have to remember a URL which is often quite long.
Worse, some sites (blogger) then publish that URL along with any blog posts you make so you have two problems:
(a) instead of a nice friendly name the blog appears to have come from a random URL.
(b) the entire world knows your openid.. instead of a username that you can keep reasonably secred.
Get real. Most people are not going to run openid providers. The first they'll know they've been compromised is when their bank account is empty.
Then they won't know what to do because it'll be up to the bank etc. to 'fix it'. People do not know how to keep the accounts they have now secure (just look at the wow technical support forum if you don't believe me) - but at least they're separate accounts.. having one central account is just asking for trouble.
Oh great so instead of posts from anonymous cowards you now get posts from http://id.randomsite.com/openid/ewTRB345ew
Not true.
There is no way in hell anyone is going to trust $random_myspace_account as being a valid account simply because it's presented as a URL. There are already anonymising openid providers that don't require passwords.. it totally defeat the point of registering on a site in the first place - you'd be bombarded by spam in minutes.
The thing that puts me off is the way you have gone from remembering a common username to having to remember a complex URL and *still* have to register separately with all the sites anyway - you've actually lost something rather than gained it.
Also, if you login to eg. google with your openid all your blog posts come from your username, not your real name, with a link to your openid!! So you've lost a layer of security.. a weak one, but it's not good to lose any security at all. Plus if as in my case the username is a random string nobody knows who the posts are from any more.
Simple summary:
Catholics don't just use the Bible, they also follow Papal Tradition.
Protestants only use the Bible.
The problem of course is extremists - when taken as a base of how to make sense of the world it's fine (that's its purpose - there are several exortations to reason within the text).. in fact I know quite a few of both traditions and they are perfectly reasonable people.
So you get the phenomenon of American Christianity, where they demand unthinking obedience - one of your leaders even publicly called for the assassination of a head of state, you have them saying the world is 6000 years old, other extremist nutty things like that, whilst the rest of the world stares and wishes they'd shut the hell up.
Meanwhile, in the real world the study of the missing books both a popular and widespread... it's well known that the bible is what was considered 'best' at the time and that a lot was lost (they meant well but utterly destroying some of the books was a pity, looking back). You can't understand the present without understanding the past, after all.
Which means it'll possibly be very different.. what we have reflects the collection decided to be correct at the time of the council of nicea. Other books existed and there was some debate about which ones went into the final collection. We have some of the others in the apocrypha, and others were simply lost to history.
Love the inflamatory summary... I mean so what? It's not a complete text anyway, and if you're talking about something written around ad330 it's a time when there were still multiple different versions in common use.
No way a panel will last 16-18 years.. Try 2-3. You've got to factor in the price of complete replacecement. Hell, lets say he gets really lucky and they last 10 years.. he's still making a net loss.
You don't need the address for the NS server as you're getting a result already. If you didn't ask for the information then it shouldn't be in the reply - if it is just discard the entire packet as bogus and keep listening for the real one.
Doesn't sound that complex to fix - just make the checking for additional records a lot more stringent so you can't poison WWW.DOMAIN.COM within a reply to AAAAA.DOMAIN.COM
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There, terminated your comment for you.
..because it's not either/or
59.1% most up to date browser ..would not make such a great headline.
40% fully patched older browser
0.9% not fully patched
(40% figure pulled out of my ass, btw.)
Maintainability. If you return from multiple points then you can make a simple 'make the function do foo before it returns' to 'edit two dozen return statements to do foo before it returns, oops missed one.. difficult to find bug alert!'.
That said, if the function is small there's not a major problem with it. I'd LART that function based on the 100s of lines of code not the return - if you have 100s of lines of code inside a code block break it out into a function, so you actually have a hope in hell of reading the program flow.
Not even then. It only really matters when someone else has to read it.
As long as any reasonably competent programer can read it who gives a flying fig where the braces are? My one rule would be don't mix styles in the same source file (that gets ugly).
Gross. That's an awful mixture of styles, and severely reduces readablilty (because your eye has to stop as your brain goes 'WTF?').
Either use braces on the same line or give them their own lines. Don't mix styles.
Nah me neither... maybe it's a US thing? It's generally assumed that if you're a half decent programmer you'll follow what is already there and write clear concise code as much as possible.
One place I was in did try to come up with a coding standard, but it was abandoned as nobody could actually agree on much other than 'don't fuck it up'.
The article states that it doesn't work for the *iphone* on PayG. O2 have never sold full internet access over PayG for other phones and have never claimed to - only web access.
This article totally and utterly false, and is *provably* false simply by registering a PayG SIM in an iphone.
O2's site is giving 503 errors now.. either slashdotted or someone at O2 pulled the plug.
It'd be your fault for posting the URL on a public forum.
Google can *only* index what it sees. Every single one of those images has been posted somewhere that google can index them.. ie. publically - that's the only way they can be in the search results.
When you register as an iphone user on your payg sim they unblock everything, as well as activating edge. It's also a good idea to get the £10/mo unlimited data/wifi package. This puts you on the same level as a contract iphone customer.
Shut up with the BS.
Even my own home email server works.
The information commissioner has the power to levy punitive fines for something like this. As does ofcom, in fact. No need for a lawsuit.
Of course they'll probably only act if this hits the newspapers.. such is the way politics works, sigh.
For my next trick, I'd like everyone to also know that EMAIL DOES NOT WORK ON PAY AS YOU GO on O2! They've blocked port access.
So it's you making this BS up? You've already been called on it on the O2 forums and it's not surprising they deleted your account.
Email works *perfectly* on pay as you go. As you damned well know. Troll.
Even so, eMail doesn't work on Pay as you Go on O2.
Total BS. That site is making shit up to get advertising hits. It's not even believable shit this time around, as anyone with an iphone on PayG will tell you.
You can stick in a PayG SIM in a 2G iphone and it'll work fine.. it's one of the things O2 recommend you do with your old iphone when you upgrade to the 3G.
The story is *total* BS though. Email works just fine on the iphone over PayG, as does everything else. They even allow you to get unlimited internet and wifi as a package for £10/mo if you want.