>> that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car >> similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little >> fear of trouble from the police.
This is news? I had this done to me about 15 years ago! Got a phone call from a police force about 250 miles away asking if my car was still in the driveway as an hour ago a car with my plates had driven away from a petrol station without paying.
Even longer ago a friend saw a duplicate of his car in the town he lives in (no one said the bad guys are smart) and chased it down.
If all you want to do is encrypt data then a self signed cert is fine, the trouble is the general public don't know this so when that pop-up appears in their browser they worry and you lose their trust.
As earlier posters have said, there is absolutely no reason to trust a commercial CA - you've never met them, you don't know who they are or what they are doing. The only reason to buy one of their certificates is because it keeps your customers happy.
An alternative, if it can get enough support? cacert.org
You just know they think up the name first (THEMIS), then think up words to make a vaguely sciencey phrase to fit it ( Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms ) and then have to sit around wondering what a mission with such a name would actually do. Quite clearly one of the people involved wanted a mission involving time travel but they just ended up with investigating solar wind storms.
Get a shell account hosted on a server a long way away (or even rent a cheap server), create the backups on your server and sftp them to your new remote server.
The article implies that concerned citizens can report websites that they consider to be illegal somewhere on the www.china.cn website. Might be worth flooding it with reports of all the spam sites operating in China, I just need to find the page to report it on.
The BBC ran OGG streams for a while as a test...and then bizarrely dropped them in favour of Real Media. I should imagine some back handers were paid....
Anyway, if public pressure in Canada can get the CBC to change their mind can we get a similar thing done in the UK with the BBC? Anyone know of a campaign under way? I've mailed the BBC a couple of times about this and just get polite "thanks for you interest, go look at our real media FAQ" responses.
I was talking about software in general, I didn't think that anyone would actually think there is such a thing as an open source (hardware and software) tape library available!
And yes, I've spent several years programming ES9000s.
Well thats just one more reason to make sure youre using open source systems.
"They" used to lock you into using their maintenance services by using proprietry hardware. Now that consumer grade hardware is so powerful they cant do that, so they lock you in with proprietry software. OK, nothing new there but this seems to be a new twist, using the law to enforce the "proprietryness" of their software in order to get support contracts.
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Wow, you really don't know anything about atheists do you.
Can you please quote the source of your statistics that a religious doctor is more likely to be motivated to help people?
It's easy to be ignorant when you hide behind the label of "Anonymous Coward".
Making judgements on beliefs is fine as they are just "beliefs", backed up with no evidence.
Making judgements on scientific evidence, as were the students who walked out, because it conflicts with a belief is incredibly arrogant.
rob> uname -a
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 10 15:43:12 BST 2005
rob> date
Tue Nov 8 22:26:49 GMT 2011
rob> uptime
10:26PM up 2084 days, 7:27, 1 user, load averages: 0.29, 0.32, 0.26
... but I threw it away after reading it once.
If most phones in Japan have this feature anyway, why is this news?
http://www.yell.com/maps/MapAction.do?mapSearchType=locSearch&zoomFactor=2&viewerMode=3dmap&location=buckingham+palace+london&lat=51.50099222050367&lon=-0.1422509808294058&pitch=39&heading=279&height3d=955
Thats excellent news, what is your source please?
"Scientists in China".
Think I'll be waiting for independent verification of this one then...
Oh, "moral relativism", thats where it's bad for people to commit rape, unless of course they are one of your own priests, and then it's OK.
Thats put those stupid Quacks in their place. Glad it's over, it was distracting me from ridiculing homeopathy. http://www.1023.org.uk/
I've read the article and there's nothing really "tech" about it. Why exactly is this on slashdot?
>> that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car
>> similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little
>> fear of trouble from the police.
This is news? I had this done to me about 15 years ago! Got a phone call from a police force about 250 miles away asking if my car was still in the driveway as an hour ago a car with my plates had driven away from a petrol station without paying.
Even longer ago a friend saw a duplicate of his car in the town he lives in (no one said the bad guys are smart) and chased it down.
If all you want to do is encrypt data then a self signed cert is fine, the trouble is the general public don't know this so when that pop-up appears in their browser they worry and you lose their trust.
As earlier posters have said, there is absolutely no reason to trust a commercial CA - you've never met them, you don't know who they are or what they are doing. The only reason to buy one of their certificates is because it keeps your customers happy.
An alternative, if it can get enough support? cacert.org
You just know they think up the name first (THEMIS), then think up words to make a vaguely sciencey phrase to fit it ( Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms ) and then have to sit around wondering what a mission with such a name would actually do. Quite clearly one of the people involved wanted a mission involving time travel but they just ended up with investigating solar wind storms.
You can't determine whats true or false by voting on it.
Get a shell account hosted on a server a long way away (or even rent a cheap server), create the backups on your server and sftp them to your new remote server.
The article implies that concerned citizens can report websites that they consider to be illegal somewhere on the www.china.cn website. Might be worth flooding it with reports of all the spam sites operating in China, I just need to find the page to report it on.
Just after I heard Kerry had conceded XMMS randomly played R.E.M.s "Its the end of the world as we know it".
The BBC ran OGG streams for a while as a test...and then bizarrely dropped them in favour of Real Media. I should imagine some back handers were paid....
Anyway, if public pressure in Canada can get the CBC to change their mind can we get a similar thing done in the UK with the BBC? Anyone know of a campaign under way? I've mailed the BBC a couple of times about this and just get polite "thanks for you interest, go look at our real media FAQ" responses.
...your current president believes in all this religious stuff!
Lets hope he isnt the current president for much longer.
Mind you, our prime minister seems to dabble in it as well.
Bah, all these cultists running major governments, no wonder theres so many wars.
PSP? The graphics package? On a games platform? Hmmmm.
Does being strapped into a rocket actually make someone an astronaut?
Taking a flight in an airliner doesnt make one a pilot, you are merely self loading cargo.
Why is everything these days "awesome"? A hurricane is awesome, a star exploding is awesome, but a sunglasses/mp3 player combo?
awe n.
A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might.
OK, they are a neat lil gadget, but they dont inspire reverence, respect, dread and wonder in me.
I was talking about software in general, I didn't think that anyone would actually think there is such a thing as an open source (hardware and software) tape library available!
And yes, I've spent several years programming ES9000s.
Well thats just one more reason to make sure youre using open source systems.
"They" used to lock you into using their maintenance services by using proprietry hardware. Now that consumer grade hardware is so powerful they cant do that, so they lock you in with proprietry software. OK, nothing new there but this seems to be a new twist, using the law to enforce the "proprietryness" of their software in order to get support contracts.