Sorry but I tend to not agree, considering that the browser of my n900 copes very well with the issue, having a "mouse emulation" mode that you can enter or leave.
I fully agree with the above, same experience here.
Partition Magic code is also seen in Parted (and it's Gnome companion GParted that uses it), so we have a (free as free speech) alternative. However I'm not sure there's a windows equivalent, who cares when you can boot on the standalone GParted live CD.
The pain with ATGuard was more painful. It was a really good small piece of software, easy to use but with all what a decent firewall should contain (that is: a real table with rules order like in Linux, and not just a random rule list like in the stupid new product Symantec did).
As for PGP, who will care, since there's a very good free core library alternative (gnupg) and so many graphical interface in both Linux and windows? What we really need to care about now, is a free implementation of libzrtp available in all distros and windows (and to mobile phones too), so we can encrypt our phone calls. THAT is the important feature that is currently missing from the Desktop, especially if you consider that wire-tapping from governments is a fact almost everywhere in this big brother world.
Considering:
- the number of accredited registrar
- the price of domains
- the fact that there's a lot of competition and
- the economy of large scale
I am convince that such added charge would be insignificant. I shall now spell the current situation where SSL certs are overpriced, when they should cost nothing (eg: there's no server to maintain once the cert has been issued, just a trivial function to implement on a web site) while there are root servers to keep online and the registry database itself to maintain).
I also find totally stupid that SSL providers are sending certs to email addresses when a web interface would be so much more convenient (click to revoke a cert, click to download a new one as a file...).
Once again, this goes into my direction of saying that your registrar is the only party that can really certify that you are the owner of the TLD you registered with them. Let's change ICANN's rules and enforce that it's the duty of each accredited registrar to provide certs (and how about requesting that it should be a free service, already paid with the domain, and for how many subdomains as needed?).
Governments only care about so-called terrorists and pedophile to block your Internet for bad reasons, or restrict you from downloading. They don't care about the real issues that merchant are facing, and that the visa system has been totally broken for YEARS with nobody doing anything about this situation. So yes, I do wish them to stop silly laws like DMCA and the like, and start doing real police work to catch the fraudsters, and I can't see how it could be worse than today.
I don't think a legitimate PBX will have the same kind of traffic as a SIP host scanner or PBX attacker. Legitimate SIP hosts tend to have a rather smooth bandwidth graph as conversations are on long periods of time. Don't you think it's easy to see and make the difference using nmap or just see the traffic graph? I do...
As a web host, like every other company of this type, we had our bunch of hackers getting-in (credit card and paypal account fraudsters/scammer mostly). As we record each IP used to register and systematically check what has been written in the registration form, many times, we have seen hackers registering with a proxy on another host. Each time we see this behavior, we get in touch with our peer, to let them know that we believe they've been hacked, and which IP (together with a timestamp) to investigate.
Very few times, we received such report. Very few times, we received an answer from these host we warned. I believe that we also sent such email at least once to Amazon and didn't get an answer.
I've come to the conclusion that, unfortunately, it is useless to do reporting (even though we will still continue to do so as this is a mater of ethic as well). It has been YEARS like this, and governments don't seem to care anyway.
I would agree with that... if it was the case for all content provider. Why would google have this for free, when we (web hosting companies) all pay for hosting content and bandwidth? Is it that because it's Google and you like Youtube, it should be free? I highly do not agree.
Let's say I want to make a youtube-like. Will all ISP in the world give me bandwidth for free? I don't think so. That makes it very hard, if not totally impossible, for anyone to build a site comparable to youtube. This is really unfair business, and should not continue. I would go up to say that both FT and Google could be sued for this kind of agreement if others can't have the same one.
Seems they can't even read the "country" field of a whois: they report all of our class C in Singapore, when some are in Australia, Malaysia, Seattle, etc. I wouldn't trust them.
But that's not all. They also have let the underwear bomber pass the security checks without even having a passport, skipping totally the checks thanks to a guy that was accompanying him.
Also, did you hear about the story of the guy in Orange, that was on the same plane, and that was later pulled away from the other passengers while they were waiting in the all? Officials have changed 6 times their story about this guy, moving from denying his existence to "he was not in the plane" and others, which many witness from this flight said was wrong.
All of what I'm saying can be CHECKED, but it was not, and main stream news totally skipped the story which in a normal world would have start an internal investigation.
Knowing all this, I am thinking twice before planing a trip to the US. I wanted to go to Debconf next summer, but I'm not sure anymore. I don't really want to take a seat as a ginny-pig on a staged event, or being scanned, filed, and profiled from head to feet.
According to this example, the system would screen every single young male traveling from India via Dubai. But that's what the system is all about: explain to you that everyone is a threat.
Well, for the moment (as in, at this right minute) typing "tian an men" on google in China actually links to the Wikipedia article about the massacre (first link). !:)
2010-03-24 11am gmt+8 (beijing time), google.cn continues to redirect to google.com.hk. From Shanghai ADSL, a request for "tian an men" on google.com.hk is not blocked (in chinese or english), doing the same request on images.google.com.hk shows that famous photo of the student blocking the tank. I wonder what request exactly is blocked here!
Do you think 220 km is a "high speed train"? We don't have the same definition then! In France, a normal train would go up to 180 / 200km. A fast train like the one they are building between Shanghai and Beijing goes up to 350 km/h. Our world record is about 580km/h.
I'm a French guy living in China. Reading that China has the "most advanced [...] high-speed rail lines in the world" makes me jump on my chair. The HSR trains are rarely going to the announced 240 km/h top speed, most of the time, they aren't even reaching 200. China is just building it's first Shanghai to Beijing in 3:30 thanks to the French technology (to be ready later this year). It still takes 40 hours to travel from Shanghai to Wulumuqi. Exactly where is the advance here? The most advanced country in the world for train is France, with over 6 lines at 320+ km/h all over the (small) country and extending to the rest of Europe (Spain, London, Amsterdam)!
What do you think about that exploit Google is complaining about?
Last time I checked, there's someone on the blackhat conference that showed an exploit on how any site could turn your Windows computer into a public file server.
If Linux got busted by a big corp. like Google as you say, I'll switch to something else. Thanks, but not thanks. I do care about my freedom.
Oh, and thanks for the 90s, but I had my first "desktop env." back in the middle of the 80s on my Atari 520...:)
I have the total opposite experience. A friend of mine asked if she could try Linux. So I installed it together with her. Once it was loaded, I installed OpenOffice, few video players, etc. She didn't ask A SINGLE QUESTION, which really surprised me. And she LOVES Ubuntu, and now dislike her old XP OS that she sometimes still has to boot into (like this time when she didn't have the driver for this specific ADSL connection in the Henan province). I was really surprised like I never was.
Now, how come your silly guy asked where the start menu and the calculator are? They come by default with Gnome, and all what you told about IS there! So I don't get it. I think that person really WAS dumb.
Aren't you guys tired of reading all the time the same big-brother phone-add "news" on slashdot? Since when this site started covering a 4 months old price as a news? What exactly do we learn here? Are moderators sold to google? Aren't the adds on google itself enough? If this was mobile phone dot com why not, but I (and I believe, the vast majority of readers here) are reading to learn about new stuffs in the IT world.
I'm getting sick of so much promotion for a device that doesn't deserves it and that is taking so much space and time on the web.
Slashdot Mirror
There's no internet in your village? Or maybe, you can reach slashdot, but not nokia.com?
Sorry but I tend to not agree, considering that the browser of my n900 copes very well with the issue, having a "mouse emulation" mode that you can enter or leave.
I fully agree with the above, same experience here.
Partition Magic code is also seen in Parted (and it's Gnome companion GParted that uses it), so we have a (free as free speech) alternative. However I'm not sure there's a windows equivalent, who cares when you can boot on the standalone GParted live CD.
The pain with ATGuard was more painful. It was a really good small piece of software, easy to use but with all what a decent firewall should contain (that is: a real table with rules order like in Linux, and not just a random rule list like in the stupid new product Symantec did).
As for PGP, who will care, since there's a very good free core library alternative (gnupg) and so many graphical interface in both Linux and windows? What we really need to care about now, is a free implementation of libzrtp available in all distros and windows (and to mobile phones too), so we can encrypt our phone calls. THAT is the important feature that is currently missing from the Desktop, especially if you consider that wire-tapping from governments is a fact almost everywhere in this big brother world.
right now, at this very minute.
Are you talking about issues like these? http://nodaddy.com/
Considering:
- the number of accredited registrar
- the price of domains
- the fact that there's a lot of competition and
- the economy of large scale
I am convince that such added charge would be insignificant. I shall now spell the current situation where SSL certs are overpriced, when they should cost nothing (eg: there's no server to maintain once the cert has been issued, just a trivial function to implement on a web site) while there are root servers to keep online and the registry database itself to maintain).
I also find totally stupid that SSL providers are sending certs to email addresses when a web interface would be so much more convenient (click to revoke a cert, click to download a new one as a file...).
Once again, this goes into my direction of saying that your registrar is the only party that can really certify that you are the owner of the TLD you registered with them. Let's change ICANN's rules and enforce that it's the duty of each accredited registrar to provide certs (and how about requesting that it should be a free service, already paid with the domain, and for how many subdomains as needed?).
Exactly. You got the point. It's not even running on the same ports, it's so easy that we could teach a kid how to track it down with nmap.
Governments only care about so-called terrorists and pedophile to block your Internet for bad reasons, or restrict you from downloading. They don't care about the real issues that merchant are facing, and that the visa system has been totally broken for YEARS with nobody doing anything about this situation. So yes, I do wish them to stop silly laws like DMCA and the like, and start doing real police work to catch the fraudsters, and I can't see how it could be worse than today.
I don't think a legitimate PBX will have the same kind of traffic as a SIP host scanner or PBX attacker. Legitimate SIP hosts tend to have a rather smooth bandwidth graph as conversations are on long periods of time. Don't you think it's easy to see and make the difference using nmap or just see the traffic graph? I do...
As a web host, like every other company of this type, we had our bunch of hackers getting-in (credit card and paypal account fraudsters/scammer mostly). As we record each IP used to register and systematically check what has been written in the registration form, many times, we have seen hackers registering with a proxy on another host. Each time we see this behavior, we get in touch with our peer, to let them know that we believe they've been hacked, and which IP (together with a timestamp) to investigate.
Very few times, we received such report. Very few times, we received an answer from these host we warned. I believe that we also sent such email at least once to Amazon and didn't get an answer.
I've come to the conclusion that, unfortunately, it is useless to do reporting (even though we will still continue to do so as this is a mater of ethic as well). It has been YEARS like this, and governments don't seem to care anyway.
I would agree with that ... if it was the case for all content provider. Why would google have this for free, when we (web hosting companies) all pay for hosting content and bandwidth? Is it that because it's Google and you like Youtube, it should be free? I highly do not agree.
Let's say I want to make a youtube-like. Will all ISP in the world give me bandwidth for free? I don't think so. That makes it very hard, if not totally impossible, for anyone to build a site comparable to youtube. This is really unfair business, and should not continue. I would go up to say that both FT and Google could be sued for this kind of agreement if others can't have the same one.
Seems they can't even read the "country" field of a whois: they report all of our class C in Singapore, when some are in Australia, Malaysia, Seattle, etc. I wouldn't trust them.
It would have been very easy to release the video tape, but it was not... WHY ?
But that's not all. They also have let the underwear bomber pass the security checks without even having a passport, skipping totally the checks thanks to a guy that was accompanying him.
Also, did you hear about the story of the guy in Orange, that was on the same plane, and that was later pulled away from the other passengers while they were waiting in the all? Officials have changed 6 times their story about this guy, moving from denying his existence to "he was not in the plane" and others, which many witness from this flight said was wrong.
All of what I'm saying can be CHECKED, but it was not, and main stream news totally skipped the story which in a normal world would have start an internal investigation.
Knowing all this, I am thinking twice before planing a trip to the US. I wanted to go to Debconf next summer, but I'm not sure anymore. I don't really want to take a seat as a ginny-pig on a staged event, or being scanned, filed, and profiled from head to feet.
According to this example, the system would screen every single young male traveling from India via Dubai. But that's what the system is all about: explain to you that everyone is a threat.
Well, for the moment (as in, at this right minute) typing "tian an men" on google in China actually links to the Wikipedia article about the massacre (first link). ! :)
2010-03-24 11am gmt+8 (beijing time), google.cn continues to redirect to google.com.hk. From Shanghai ADSL, a request for "tian an men" on google.com.hk is not blocked (in chinese or english), doing the same request on images.google.com.hk shows that famous photo of the student blocking the tank. I wonder what request exactly is blocked here!
Do you think 220 km is a "high speed train"? We don't have the same definition then! In France, a normal train would go up to 180 / 200km. A fast train like the one they are building between Shanghai and Beijing goes up to 350 km/h. Our world record is about 580km/h.
Yes, right, and then start to slow down for the rest of 6:30 hours to Zhengzhou (only 1000km).
I'm a French guy living in China. Reading that China has the "most advanced [...] high-speed rail lines in the world" makes me jump on my chair. The HSR trains are rarely going to the announced 240 km/h top speed, most of the time, they aren't even reaching 200. China is just building it's first Shanghai to Beijing in 3:30 thanks to the French technology (to be ready later this year). It still takes 40 hours to travel from Shanghai to Wulumuqi. Exactly where is the advance here? The most advanced country in the world for train is France, with over 6 lines at 320+ km/h all over the (small) country and extending to the rest of Europe (Spain, London, Amsterdam)!
I suppose that you are talking about MiNT Is Not TOS, the Unix for Atari computers?
Yes, right. Stability, let's talk about it.
:)
What do you think about that exploit Google is complaining about?
Last time I checked, there's someone on the blackhat conference that showed an exploit on how any site could turn your Windows computer into a public file server.
If Linux got busted by a big corp. like Google as you say, I'll switch to something else. Thanks, but not thanks. I do care about my freedom.
Oh, and thanks for the 90s, but I had my first "desktop env." back in the middle of the 80s on my Atari 520...
I have the total opposite experience. A friend of mine asked if she could try Linux. So I installed it together with her. Once it was loaded, I installed OpenOffice, few video players, etc. She didn't ask A SINGLE QUESTION, which really surprised me. And she LOVES Ubuntu, and now dislike her old XP OS that she sometimes still has to boot into (like this time when she didn't have the driver for this specific ADSL connection in the Henan province). I was really surprised like I never was.
Now, how come your silly guy asked where the start menu and the calculator are? They come by default with Gnome, and all what you told about IS there! So I don't get it. I think that person really WAS dumb.
Aren't you guys tired of reading all the time the same big-brother phone-add "news" on slashdot? Since when this site started covering a 4 months old price as a news? What exactly do we learn here? Are moderators sold to google? Aren't the adds on google itself enough? If this was mobile phone dot com why not, but I (and I believe, the vast majority of readers here) are reading to learn about new stuffs in the IT world.
I'm getting sick of so much promotion for a device that doesn't deserves it and that is taking so much space and time on the web.