Having formerly worked for an airline, I can tell you that the reason is because Frankfurt is the first stop in the country of your final destination.
Think about it this way: Suppose you embark from Podunk, Idaho on your way to Frankfurt, with a connection in LaGuardia (New York City) each way. (Assume that Podunk Regional Airport has no customs and immigration facilities, but it wouldn't matter if it did.) On your way back, you'll go through customs and immigration in New York, because after New York, it's all domestic flights.
For example, why does everybody copy the design that the 'window kill' button should be right next to 'maximize'? That's horrible design, put window kill on the left, maximize and minize on the right.
If you choose a different window decoration scheme, you won't necessarily have this problem. For example, I like the "Laptop" window decoration. It puts the close-window button over on the left side, leaving minimize, maximize, stick, and the help button over on the right. (KDE2)
But you're right. It ought to be different by default.
IMO, it's a feature that most mailers, especially Outlook, don't include encryption hooks by default. Because then you'd have to explain to Joe User about keys, passphrases, trust, keyservers, and all the other stuff that goes along with that. Especially considering that while you can revoke a key, it never really goes away, and you have a problem of distribution of the revocation certificate.
Besides, what happens when the next Melissa/I Love You virus comes out -- except this one doesn't simply propagate itself, it uses its VBScript and pops up a little dialog box saying, "I forgot your passphrase, please enter it again." No key cracking required, just a little social engineering hack. (Or it could be JavaScript in Communicator, Hotmail, or Yahoo! mail. The language doesn't matter that much.)
As it stands, the people who use encryption right now have to get past the entry barrier to using it, and therefore have at least some idea of why they're using it. It's a feature.
It will be great to have this technology - sure it will break a lot of the old systems, but then again sometimes when you go forward there are sacrifices to be made.
Maybe I'm just a little dense, but I have no idea why this is "from the another-attempt-to-stifle-competition dept." If you can get the specification, how are they attempting to be incompatible?
What reasoning was behind the move to GPT?
Look here. More than 4 partitions without hacks like extended partitions..... Personally, I'm looking forward to this becoming mainstream.
It's really odd. A couple of weeks ago I purchased an omnibus leatherbound edition containing the five Hitchiker's Guide books (plus _Young Zaphod Plays It Safe_) and finished reading it earlier this week.
So Long, Mr. Adams, and thanks for all the memories.
Hmm... on the front page of SPARC International, it says that it's "Scalable Processor ARChitecture".
It was a bit of a surprise to me when I found out that Sun didn't "own" SPARC. I'd always assumed they had. Do you know if they developed it themselves and turned the architecture over to the organization, or if it was something different?
Really? Okay, so they didn't "switch" outright, but you're still incorrect. The big-name ISPs will be happy to add your servers to their db.root for a sufficiently large sum of money.
Well, you're comparing the claim to the current state of the market. What you fail to bring up is that the current mess was originally created...
That's right, by the Government! It was the government who originally created the telco monopoly, and now they're "saving" us by giving us deregulation. It's been said that "The government is good at one thing... it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'See, if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'"
One would think that the method used here would be considered by the/. community to be a "hack" by merit of its elegance and wit. But I guess since it's "the man", people like you will continue to look for ways to rag on them.
Well, I originally thought, after reading the article, that referring to it as hacking or cracking was going a bit far. But after reading your thoughts, I have to agree with you to a point. I think that it was a clever bit of social hacking (or social engineering, whatever you want to call it).
I still haven't figured out whether I agree with what the agents did, but I have to admit that I admire the way in which they did it.
It was actually a quote from the kernel source, in the TCP/IP stack. OTOH, whilst searching Google for the afore-mentioned quote, I did happen across an old Slashdot story that you might be thinking of. (There are more Slashdot links from the Google results page I linked to.)
AOL bought NaviServ a while ago because it is the web server that they (AOL) use, and they wanted to bring it in-house and have control over the development. Now, instead of stranding all those people that had already bought NaviServer, they decided to make it free (as in beer). (This was version 2.x, if I'm not mistaken.)
Philip Greenspun saw this server, liked it (he really likes Tcl for some reason), and decided to use it for the ArsDigita Community System. He (or someone else) also talked to the people at AOL and convinced them to make it Free (speech). So they started working on taking out the bits that they didn't have the right to distribute, with an eye to making version 3 Open Source. And that's basically what happened.
All in all, I think there are only a handful of users of AOLserver, most notably AOL and ArsDigita. It's been a while since I've read it, but I believe he talks about it in Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. BTW, there are a lot more links, resources, online books, etc, available from the ArsDigita site. (I'm not sure how long they've had it out; probably between two and four years. Less time for the version with source.)
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Although perhaps that should now be <grin />...
Think about it this way: Suppose you embark from Podunk, Idaho on your way to Frankfurt, with a connection in LaGuardia (New York City) each way. (Assume that Podunk Regional Airport has no customs and immigration facilities, but it wouldn't matter if it did.) On your way back, you'll go through customs and immigration in New York, because after New York, it's all domestic flights.
It works the same way going abroad.
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Yes, but also unlike copyrights, trademarks are only valid in one field. For example, take the case of the trademark on Linux (TM) laundry detergent. The different classes for which trademarks are defined are on the USPTO's web site.
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If you choose a different window decoration scheme, you won't necessarily have this problem. For example, I like the "Laptop" window decoration. It puts the close-window button over on the left side, leaving minimize, maximize, stick, and the help button over on the right. (KDE2)
But you're right. It ought to be different by default.
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IMO, it's a feature that most mailers, especially Outlook, don't include encryption hooks by default. Because then you'd have to explain to Joe User about keys, passphrases, trust, keyservers, and all the other stuff that goes along with that. Especially considering that while you can revoke a key, it never really goes away, and you have a problem of distribution of the revocation certificate.
Besides, what happens when the next Melissa/I Love You virus comes out -- except this one doesn't simply propagate itself, it uses its VBScript and pops up a little dialog box saying, "I forgot your passphrase, please enter it again." No key cracking required, just a little social engineering hack. (Or it could be JavaScript in Communicator, Hotmail, or Yahoo! mail. The language doesn't matter that much.)
As it stands, the people who use encryption right now have to get past the entry barrier to using it, and therefore have at least some idea of why they're using it. It's a feature.
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Maybe I'm just a little dense, but I have no idea why this is "from the another-attempt-to-stifle-competition dept." If you can get the specification, how are they attempting to be incompatible?
Look here. More than 4 partitions without hacks like extended partitions..... Personally, I'm looking forward to this becoming mainstream.
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I think that for what the person wants, he should set up an auto-mounting daemon, but have it run abcde instead of mounting the CD. Just a thought.
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So Long, Mr. Adams, and thanks for all the memories.
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It was a bit of a surprise to me when I found out that Sun didn't "own" SPARC. I'd always assumed they had. Do you know if they developed it themselves and turned the architecture over to the organization, or if it was something different?
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If you want bleeding-edge stuff, change "stable" to "unstable" everywhere it occurs in your /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade at will. :)
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Yeah, but get 1-800-ITS-UNIX and AT&T will be all over your ass. :-/
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That's right, by the Government! It was the government who originally created the telco monopoly, and now they're "saving" us by giving us deregulation. It's been said that "The government is good at one thing... it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'See, if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'"
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You can link to an individual post in an old article; the comment number is an anchor in the HTML document. So, you'd want to do it like so:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/19/1820227.shtm l#225
HTH.
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Well, I originally thought, after reading the article, that referring to it as hacking or cracking was going a bit far. But after reading your thoughts, I have to agree with you to a point. I think that it was a clever bit of social hacking (or social engineering, whatever you want to call it).
I still haven't figured out whether I agree with what the agents did, but I have to admit that I admire the way in which they did it.
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Um... a "traditional dot-com"? What's that? :)
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Philip Greenspun saw this server, liked it (he really likes Tcl for some reason), and decided to use it for the ArsDigita Community System. He (or someone else) also talked to the people at AOL and convinced them to make it Free (speech). So they started working on taking out the bits that they didn't have the right to distribute, with an eye to making version 3 Open Source. And that's basically what happened.
All in all, I think there are only a handful of users of AOLserver, most notably AOL and ArsDigita. It's been a while since I've read it, but I believe he talks about it in Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. BTW, there are a lot more links, resources, online books, etc, available from the ArsDigita site. (I'm not sure how long they've had it out; probably between two and four years. Less time for the version with source.)
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