Unless I'm sending something absolutely unimportant, like "meet me at the movies at 8", I almost always use encryption when talking about anything personal, like "meet me in front of the bank at 8 with car running".
It's not really that I worry about people intercepting the message while being routed across the net, since I'm not exactly a criminal and anyone who knows me is not smart enough to intercept my email, but I fear that someone will gain access to the recipient's mailbox (boss monitoring email, friend is over playing around on computer..) and reads a message I would rather they not see.
A problem with relying on encryption of email solving this problem is that most mail clients will allow you to save the message in a decrypted form for filing once it has been received and decrypted. It would be much more secure if mail clients didn't allow you to save a message in decrypted form, and required you to identify yourself to the decrypter every time you wanted to go back and read an email.
The biggest problem with email encryption is that so few people have keys. I have tried to encourage friends and family members to use encryption by helping them create PGP/GnuPG keys and encrypting everything I send them. Sometimes they encrypt when they send back. Encryption of email might be more common if all the major mail clients shipped with encryption software bundled and installed/setup keys with the default installation.
More people would probably use encryption if they were aware they can do it, had access to the software to do it, and had it setup/knew how to use it.
Well that just about does away with virtual hosting of any kind, which, with the shortage of IP addresses (ipv4) is currently being promoted as the standard way to serve a new host.
Just because I can't remember what the banners were doesn't mean I ignored them.
The banners on the page were very intrusive and absolutely got in my way of reading the content. Not to say that they were observed to the point that I would click one... I've at least trained myself not to read into the banners, but visually they certainly weren't ignored.
Even had I paid attention and perhaps even clicked one of them, that doesn't mean I'll remember what they were. Happens all the time with TV commercials.
At many schools, if you absolutely declare no major, you're put into a very general program and you'll almost likely fall behind.
Many colleges each have their own set of requirements of classes you have to take. The problem at many schools is that Computer Science and Computer Engineering are in separate colleges. CS is often considered a pure science, where CE is usually in the Engineering Department (and often under the Electrical Engineering major).
Unless the required classes first semester are the same in CS and CE, you should probably decide which you want before you go.
backwards compatibility is a must. it's gotton bad over the years with all these table, java, image crazy webpages.. sure it's sometimes nice to have that smooth curvy border that changes colour and dances around when you move the cursor over it, but I've noticed the amount of real content going down with the increase of all this visual content. there are exceptions but lately the web has become cluttered with this junk people think is pretty. call me old fashioned but I (and I'm sure much of the slashdot community) use lynx for most of my web browsing. It's quick (or at least it used to be in the days before scrolling through 500KB of formatting/positioning pieces was necessary) for getting to the meat of a page, and in general I just prefer reading plain text in my own font and size without the distraction of everything else. now these days I've pretty much had to accept the fact that it's not always easy to do that anymore, especially on some of the big popular sites today, but I can still always count on the few web designers who understand the importance of writing html that anyone can use, and often sacrifice some of the visually pleasing elements for some usefulness.
now comes a campaign to rid the world of this important compatibility factor so a bunch of WYSIWYG web designers can whip up dirty broken code that everyone can see as they wish it to be, while invalidating millions of users with valid standards-following browsers. the web was not designed to be a TV set, but a useful way of linking resources together. anyway I've said enough..
it's convenient but that's not what browsers are for. those separate specialty programs should exist so you can have some easy choice over the matter, as you should with every part of your browser
at the time that apple was still doing newtons they were so horribly mismanaged. If Jobs had anything to do with them I bet Palm would have a lot to compete with, or maybe palmos handhelds wouldn't have even come about.
...when the very fact that he received a bazillion submissions on this shows that they do indeed read this site and that it is important for many of those who submitted the story.   or it may have been a bazillion linux diehards who want to bring shame to microsoft
Anyone with the hardware to do what they were doing can write content delivery software. It seems that in a situation like this, the business links would be the issue, not the software. The thing about Synapse that seemed so threatening was not its software but simply the fact that it existed with the power it had. Unless I misunderstood what they were coding (which is likely I did), it seems that if they just made the protocol open, it would solve the openness part. From what I understood they were mainly working on the backend operations.. is this right, or was I put to sleep that early in the movie?
Sullivan said city employees are now required to get permission from the information technology division before making software purchases.
Wouldn't adding restrictions on purchases encourage employees to pirate software if they can't get it approved, putting them back in the same situation they started in?
"Microsoft, like most software companies, includes contracts with its merchandise explaining that the company reserves the right to ask consumers at any time for proof of purchase and an inventory of what is being used.
But what about those who didn't purchase the software legally? They didn't receive or agree to these contracts, so can Microsoft still enforce it for these users of their software?
It seems that a company that has the resources to effectively sniff out and monitor what employees are using on the internet, shouldn't have to be worried about the efficiency of their employees.
(sorry if this is redundant, I didn't read too thoroughly)
So now that the CueCat sits useless on your desk, try putting it behind one of those unfinished caffeine cocktails.. creates a nice radioactive effect with the lights out.
Slashdot Mirror
if that optical mouse works on the glass table :p
Interesting, this morning I was just thinking up a letter about the same issue to write to the slashdot admins. Heh.
I do think that the cap on moderation of a post should be upped, maybe not all the way to 10 though.
is a PowerMac
I had just finished writing a custom PHP-parsed Slashdot page from the slashdot XML file for use with AvantGo on my Palm..
I switched the file location in the script from a local copy to the real slashdot one and this was the first thing that showed up!
If your cable company carries the NASA Channel (I don't think that is the official name), which many do, it is being broadcasted live on it.
Unless I'm sending something absolutely unimportant, like "meet me at the movies at 8", I almost always use encryption when talking about anything personal, like "meet me in front of the bank at 8 with car running". It's not really that I worry about people intercepting the message while being routed across the net, since I'm not exactly a criminal and anyone who knows me is not smart enough to intercept my email, but I fear that someone will gain access to the recipient's mailbox (boss monitoring email, friend is over playing around on computer..) and reads a message I would rather they not see.
A problem with relying on encryption of email solving this problem is that most mail clients will allow you to save the message in a decrypted form for filing once it has been received and decrypted. It would be much more secure if mail clients didn't allow you to save a message in decrypted form, and required you to identify yourself to the decrypter every time you wanted to go back and read an email.
The biggest problem with email encryption is that so few people have keys. I have tried to encourage friends and family members to use encryption by helping them create PGP/GnuPG keys and encrypting everything I send them. Sometimes they encrypt when they send back. Encryption of email might be more common if all the major mail clients shipped with encryption software bundled and installed/setup keys with the default installation.
More people would probably use encryption if they were aware they can do it, had access to the software to do it, and had it setup/knew how to use it.
just don't park this baby near a pile of mulch
this slashdot article was about a guy with millions of Atari games. :P
 
maybe if you still hurry, you can buy them all out and resell them
Well that just about does away with virtual hosting of any kind, which, with the shortage of IP addresses (ipv4) is currently being promoted as the standard way to serve a new host.
Just because I can't remember what the banners were doesn't mean I ignored them.
The banners on the page were very intrusive and absolutely got in my way of reading the content. Not to say that they were observed to the point that I would click one... I've at least trained myself not to read into the banners, but visually they certainly weren't ignored.
Even had I paid attention and perhaps even clicked one of them, that doesn't mean I'll remember what they were. Happens all the time with TV commercials.
they might also want to consider changing their name from ICANN to ICANN'T at their next meeting
At many schools, if you absolutely declare no major, you're put into a very general program and you'll almost likely fall behind.
Many colleges each have their own set of requirements of classes you have to take. The problem at many schools is that Computer Science and Computer Engineering are in separate colleges. CS is often considered a pure science, where CE is usually in the Engineering Department (and often under the Electrical Engineering major).
Unless the required classes first semester are the same in CS and CE, you should probably decide which you want before you go.
but now that idea seems too slow
something realtime would suit me better, think I'll play Unreal instead
backwards compatibility is a must. it's gotton bad over the years with all these table, java, image crazy webpages.. sure it's sometimes nice to have that smooth curvy border that changes colour and dances around when you move the cursor over it, but I've noticed the amount of real content going down with the increase of all this visual content. there are exceptions but lately the web has become cluttered with this junk people think is pretty. call me old fashioned but I (and I'm sure much of the slashdot community) use lynx for most of my web browsing. It's quick (or at least it used to be in the days before scrolling through 500KB of formatting/positioning pieces was necessary) for getting to the meat of a page, and in general I just prefer reading plain text in my own font and size without the distraction of everything else. now these days I've pretty much had to accept the fact that it's not always easy to do that anymore, especially on some of the big popular sites today, but I can still always count on the few web designers who understand the importance of writing html that anyone can use, and often sacrifice some of the visually pleasing elements for some usefulness.
now comes a campaign to rid the world of this important compatibility factor so a bunch of WYSIWYG web designers can whip up dirty broken code that everyone can see as they wish it to be, while invalidating millions of users with valid standards-following browsers. the web was not designed to be a TV set, but a useful way of linking resources together. anyway I've said enough..
it's convenient but that's not what browsers are for. those separate specialty programs should exist so you can have some easy choice over the matter, as you should with every part of your browser
Those of you waiting to see some changes (as I'm sure most of us are), scoop has a developmental layout version up:
http://dev.topmedia.de/
Let's hope he gets the lounge restored in some form too!
at the time that apple was still doing newtons they were so horribly mismanaged. If Jobs had anything to do with them I bet Palm would have a lot to compete with, or maybe palmos handhelds wouldn't have even come about.
...when the very fact that he received a bazillion submissions on this shows that they do indeed read this site and that it is important for many of those who submitted the story.
 
or it may have been a bazillion linux diehards who want to bring shame to microsoft
Anyone with the hardware to do what they were doing can write content delivery software. It seems that in a situation like this, the business links would be the issue, not the software. The thing about Synapse that seemed so threatening was not its software but simply the fact that it existed with the power it had. Unless I misunderstood what they were coding (which is likely I did), it seems that if they just made the protocol open, it would solve the openness part. From what I understood they were mainly working on the backend operations.. is this right, or was I put to sleep that early in the movie?
we open source programmers just don't make that kind of money :P
Sullivan said city employees are now required to get permission from the information technology division before making software purchases.
Wouldn't adding restrictions on purchases encourage employees to pirate software if they can't get it approved, putting them back in the same situation they started in?
that the court's web page is running IIS
"Microsoft, like most software companies, includes contracts with its merchandise explaining that the company reserves the right to ask consumers at any time for proof of purchase and an inventory of what is being used.
But what about those who didn't purchase the software legally? They didn't receive or agree to these contracts, so can Microsoft still enforce it for these users of their software?
It seems that a company that has the resources to effectively sniff out and monitor what employees are using on the internet, shouldn't have to be worried about the efficiency of their employees.
(sorry if this is redundant, I didn't read too thoroughly)
So now that the CueCat sits useless on your desk, try putting it behind one of those unfinished caffeine cocktails.. creates a nice radioactive effect with the lights out.