Uh, and the iPod completely ignores it. I have purchased music on mine from four different computers. I think I even managed to put one on the iPod from a computer that didn't even have auth on the song.. just so that I could play it (copy file to ipod, disconnect ipod, play song).
I use vim, and it has ctags support and reverse tab completion and a bunch of other nifty things.
Perhaps it's the projects I've been placed on at work, but I always find myself fighting Intellisense when I'm doing windows coding. It'll pop up with the wrong things when I don't want to be bothered with it, and it'll NOT pop up when I don't know how to use something and just want to see an interface list.
Other times I just use gvim, for my solaris, mac, vms, linux and several web development projects. I find it easier to just go look at the header file for something I don't know how to use, rather than having a disruptive box popping up and stealing focus.
That being said, I've never used ctags, and maybe gvim would make my life easier if I did. Who knows?
How many slashdotters just friended you because of these comments? I know I was tempted to, you seem like the type of person I'd probably get along with rather well in person.:)
you mean.. just like how their monitors list only Apple computers as 'compatible'? It'll probably work in linux. If not, then it's a driver issue because of the fact that it's not a regular mouse (from what I can tell).
Yes. And, in fact, the Prius (and thus any Toyota/Lexus) was tested with everything thrown at it, and nothing infected it.
Please people, just because something has bluetooth doesn't mean it's fucking retarded/broken.
There was a bug in one vendor's support of bluetooth that allowed it to accept things without proper authentication/confirmation. One still had to RUN the program MANUALLY before it would 'infect' you and begin attempting to infect others.
My car does not offer any way to get to the files stored on it. I don't THINK it accepts anything other than vcards, but I don't know for sure. So, I'm safe there as well.
The fact that it would 1) have to be custom made for the hardware in each individual car system (though since they're standardized by auto manufacturer this doesn't create TOO much of a hassle), 2) exploit an 'auto execute' bug, 3) exploit a 'receive this without being told to' bug, 4) be right next to your car long enough to pair AND transfer, while your car is ON, causes this to be a VERY VERY VERY unlikely method of attack.
And don't even get me started on antivirus shit. I've seen what Norton Antivirus does to my desktop PC (or at least did, back when it still was Norton.. maybe Symantec's cleaned up a bit), I'd rather trust my car to people I don't know rather than cripple it intentionally with something from someone I know can't be trusted with it.
It might almost make emacs useful, if there was any logic to its drilldown mechanism to get to a specific command. So... no, it wouldn't do anything for it. Damn.
At first I was going to try and fix them in the reply.. I couldn't find anything wrong with them the way I'd typed them in to the text box. Perhaps the butchering came from my misuse of the "Plain Old Text" field, which I've never really needed to change before.
of course then I go and screw up #3. I should have said always switch, since you had a 1/3rd chance of being right when you chose your original guess, leaving a 2/3rds chance that you were wrong. Now the problem is reduced to two choices.. so you'd think that you'd have 1/2 chance of being right, but you don't.. the 2/3rds never went away, it just compressed down on to one door, so you should pick that.
1) in one instance this is pointless, it's only if you can all learn from your mistakes that the probability wins out. Better to stay silent, usually. 2) I don't know the answer to this one, I suspect that you attempt to double, but being in this category of 'things that dont make immediate sense', you're probably better off staying. 3) Always stay. you now have a 2/3rds change of being right, as opposed to 1/2 (or is it 1/3rd) if you switch.
What makes me sure that my identity server is mine? I check the URL. If it doesn't say @spectralsdomain.com , then I know it's fake. If it's in bold green text, shows my own personal graphics, and says that, then I can be pretty damned sure it'll be my own.
So, what's the danger here? Idiots will log in to a site they don't need to be in, get their identity and openid password stolen, and then go running around logging in to all these sites and leaving comments as you.. where every single time they login, is logged by your identity server...
the first time I see a login for slutty_porn_chat.com using my ID, I'll know my password has been compromised, change it, and bam.. I'm secure again. Whereas if I need to signup for this evil site, and am stupid enough to give them a password I normally use (since I use the same everywhere), then they have my password to everything.
Keep the password the same on all sites you trust (if you're lazy, like me). keep the OpenID password different (if you're uber paranoid). Now you have two passwords to remember, but very little worries about anything. Right?
That is precisely what OpenID isn't. They mentioned that there's no profile exchange.. OpenID just makes sure that shakrai@slashdot.org is that person. Doesn't say anything ABOUT that person.
They wanted ot keep the protocol simple and easy. Another layer can be added on top of it, later on, for profile exchange.. but they specifically avoided doing it in this version.
The problem with profile exchange is, it's hard to maintain. Once you give them information, they can keep it. If you only give them an OpenID, that's all they know about you, unless you give them more. Which most sites will probably ask for anyway. I'm sure the NYTimes wants you to login for demographics, not because they want to verify that you are who you say you are before you read a story. They have no way of knowing anything about shakrai@slashdot.org, besides what you visit. But if you make an account there, they have your name, address, age, gender, etc. AND what you visit at their site.. OpenID is not meant for this.
There aren't central servers. This is DECENTRALIZED. Run your own OpenID server. Now you control EVERYTHING about validating that you are you. This does NOTHING else. There is no profile exchange, there is no password exchange. All this does is says that someone using OpenID spectral@slashdot.org (if slashdot ran their own, for example) on Livejournal is the same person that is claiming to be spectral@slashdot.org on slashdot, and spectral@slashdot.org on Deadjournal, and spectral@slashdot.org on any Moveable Type journal, and spectral@slashdot.org on (whatever implements this system).
This is a means of identification. You log in to a site. The site passes off a redirect url, of sorts, to the OpenID server (the part after the @), and asks THEM to verify who you are. The OpenID server does this, and either goes to the URL it was directed to, and now you're 'identified' to the original site, or says no.. and you don't go any further.
So, what if they spoofed the OpenID server, made it always say yes? Then now you have anyone @that_openid_server can ident as anyone else. This doesn't compromise me@some_other_server. I'll probably end up running my own OpenID server, and having my account on it. Or maybe get my friend to, and we'll all share. Small and localized, one password to remember, and works anywhere (home, work, laptop, desktop, friend's house..) and the authentication goes away when I close the browser window.
What, exactly, is wrong with this... except now I can Identify myself to websites without needing to worry about whether or not they're going to steal my password and try it on every website that's popular?
Except you can run your own OpenID server, and then *gasp* YOU know what sites you connect to. Or, Livejournal knows what sites you connect to (if you use their server), or whatever. NO ONE knows your password, except the OpenID server. NO ONE knows what sites you visited, except the OpenID server. Combine a browser cookie with the OpenID server itself asking you whether or not you want to allow site "www.imgoingtostealyouridentity.com" to have access to verify that you are, in fact, YOU, makes for a pretty safe/secure setup, in my opinion.
Note, also, that OpenID does NOT exchange profile data. OpenID is for Identification. spectral@slashdot.org (if slashdot ran an OpenID server) is guaranteed to be me. There's no information about the man (or woman?) behind the keyboard. It just says "Yup, this is that person".
You have a slashdot account. Why? Why not post everything anonymously? Why not, instead, have one account.. so now you can comment on slashdot, livejournal, the the nytimes website, any of your friends' blog pages (using Movable Type, Blogger, Whatever..), etc... without needing to make an account on each?
in windows, go to the system menu (the icon in the upper left of the window), click it, go down to 'edit', choose 'mark', highlight what you want, hit enter (or go back to the menu and choose copy), and it's on the clipboard.
I always use 'cmd', but I suspect 'command' windows work just as well..
but yes, I've never had a problem w/ copy & paste between apps in X either.
I know you mentioned computer games, but I'm a huge fan of pulling out a deck of Fluxx or Set whenever I have some free time and a friend or two nearby. Rather addicting games. There are implementations of Set multiplayer online.. some are better than others. It's been a while since I played online though, so I don't even have the URLs to the one I really liked anymore.
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Uh, and the iPod completely ignores it. I have purchased music on mine from four different computers. I think I even managed to put one on the iPod from a computer that didn't even have auth on the song.. just so that I could play it (copy file to ipod, disconnect ipod, play song).
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Hmm, you're right, it IS very lax.
You mean like.. fastcgi? and then you aren't tied to your language?
If you look at the site the comments pick on them for it. I assume the original article was changed.
I use vim, and it has ctags support and reverse tab completion and a bunch of other nifty things.
Perhaps it's the projects I've been placed on at work, but I always find myself fighting Intellisense when I'm doing windows coding. It'll pop up with the wrong things when I don't want to be bothered with it, and it'll NOT pop up when I don't know how to use something and just want to see an interface list.
Other times I just use gvim, for my solaris, mac, vms, linux and several web development projects. I find it easier to just go look at the header file for something I don't know how to use, rather than having a disruptive box popping up and stealing focus.
That being said, I've never used ctags, and maybe gvim would make my life easier if I did. Who knows?
How many slashdotters just friended you because of these comments? I know I was tempted to, you seem like the type of person I'd probably get along with rather well in person. :)
you mean.. just like how their monitors list only Apple computers as 'compatible'? It'll probably work in linux. If not, then it's a driver issue because of the fact that it's not a regular mouse (from what I can tell).
That I didn't know. How annoying.
Yes. And, in fact, the Prius (and thus any Toyota/Lexus) was tested with everything thrown at it, and nothing infected it.
Please people, just because something has bluetooth doesn't mean it's fucking retarded/broken.
There was a bug in one vendor's support of bluetooth that allowed it to accept things without proper authentication/confirmation. One still had to RUN the program MANUALLY before it would 'infect' you and begin attempting to infect others.
My car does not offer any way to get to the files stored on it. I don't THINK it accepts anything other than vcards, but I don't know for sure. So, I'm safe there as well.
The fact that it would 1) have to be custom made for the hardware in each individual car system (though since they're standardized by auto manufacturer this doesn't create TOO much of a hassle), 2) exploit an 'auto execute' bug, 3) exploit a 'receive this without being told to' bug, 4) be right next to your car long enough to pair AND transfer, while your car is ON, causes this to be a VERY VERY VERY unlikely method of attack.
And don't even get me started on antivirus shit. I've seen what Norton Antivirus does to my desktop PC (or at least did, back when it still was Norton.. maybe Symantec's cleaned up a bit), I'd rather trust my car to people I don't know rather than cripple it intentionally with something from someone I know can't be trusted with it.
It might almost make emacs useful, if there was any logic to its drilldown mechanism to get to a specific command. So... no, it wouldn't do anything for it. Damn.
Where you have short periods of time that somehow extend to 2-5x as long as they're 'supposed to', because of all the time stoppage in the middle!
Ah, apparently they have their own layout in addition to their own keyboards, the new layout is togglable with a keypress.
Why not use that keyboard .. in dvorak? best of both worlds then, if there's any benefit to either.
At first I was going to try and fix them in the reply .. I couldn't find anything wrong with them the way I'd typed them in to the text box. Perhaps the butchering came from my misuse of the "Plain Old Text" field, which I've never really needed to change before.
Wow, slashdot butchered those links.
It's a myth that it's a myth that Apache was named that. From their website, the FAQ originally said this:/ web.archive.org/web/19980128114236/http://apache.o rg/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name t p://web.archive.org/web/20000815061003/http://www. apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name h ttp://web.archive.org/web/20021017033945/http://ht tpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name h ttp://web.archive.org/web/20030603200610/http://ht tpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#name
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And then said this:
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Then they changed it to:
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Now they're trying to get rid of something they've perpetuated for years:
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and that seems to be the one that's remained until today. Who knows what it'll be tomorrow.
of course then I go and screw up #3. I should have said always switch, since you had a 1/3rd chance of being right when you chose your original guess, leaving a 2/3rds chance that you were wrong. Now the problem is reduced to two choices.. so you'd think that you'd have 1/2 chance of being right, but you don't.. the 2/3rds never went away, it just compressed down on to one door, so you should pick that.
this site explains it better than I can.
Thank you mr. nash.
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1) in one instance this is pointless, it's only if you can all learn from your mistakes that the probability wins out. Better to stay silent, usually.
2) I don't know the answer to this one, I suspect that you attempt to double, but being in this category of 'things that dont make immediate sense', you're probably better off staying.
3) Always stay. you now have a 2/3rds change of being right, as opposed to 1/2 (or is it 1/3rd) if you switch.
So, did I pass your game?
Hmm. it might do that, I'm not entirely sure. I've not actually used it, I just really like the concept. :)
What makes me sure that my identity server is mine? I check the URL. If it doesn't say @spectralsdomain.com , then I know it's fake. If it's in bold green text, shows my own personal graphics, and says that, then I can be pretty damned sure it'll be my own.
So, what's the danger here? Idiots will log in to a site they don't need to be in, get their identity and openid password stolen, and then go running around logging in to all these sites and leaving comments as you.. where every single time they login, is logged by your identity server...
the first time I see a login for slutty_porn_chat.com using my ID, I'll know my password has been compromised, change it, and bam.. I'm secure again. Whereas if I need to signup for this evil site, and am stupid enough to give them a password I normally use (since I use the same everywhere), then they have my password to everything.
Keep the password the same on all sites you trust (if you're lazy, like me). keep the OpenID password different (if you're uber paranoid). Now you have two passwords to remember, but very little worries about anything. Right?
That is precisely what OpenID isn't. They mentioned that there's no profile exchange.. OpenID just makes sure that shakrai@slashdot.org is that person. Doesn't say anything ABOUT that person.
.. OpenID is not meant for this.
They wanted ot keep the protocol simple and easy. Another layer can be added on top of it, later on, for profile exchange.. but they specifically avoided doing it in this version.
The problem with profile exchange is, it's hard to maintain. Once you give them information, they can keep it. If you only give them an OpenID, that's all they know about you, unless you give them more. Which most sites will probably ask for anyway. I'm sure the NYTimes wants you to login for demographics, not because they want to verify that you are who you say you are before you read a story. They have no way of knowing anything about shakrai@slashdot.org, besides what you visit. But if you make an account there, they have your name, address, age, gender, etc. AND what you visit at their site
There aren't central servers. This is DECENTRALIZED. Run your own OpenID server. Now you control EVERYTHING about validating that you are you. This does NOTHING else. There is no profile exchange, there is no password exchange. All this does is says that someone using OpenID spectral@slashdot.org (if slashdot ran their own, for example) on Livejournal is the same person that is claiming to be spectral@slashdot.org on slashdot, and spectral@slashdot.org on Deadjournal, and spectral@slashdot.org on any Moveable Type journal, and spectral@slashdot.org on (whatever implements this system).
.. and you don't go any further.
... except now I can Identify myself to websites without needing to worry about whether or not they're going to steal my password and try it on every website that's popular?
This is a means of identification. You log in to a site. The site passes off a redirect url, of sorts, to the OpenID server (the part after the @), and asks THEM to verify who you are. The OpenID server does this, and either goes to the URL it was directed to, and now you're 'identified' to the original site, or says no
So, what if they spoofed the OpenID server, made it always say yes? Then now you have anyone @that_openid_server can ident as anyone else. This doesn't compromise me@some_other_server. I'll probably end up running my own OpenID server, and having my account on it. Or maybe get my friend to, and we'll all share. Small and localized, one password to remember, and works anywhere (home, work, laptop, desktop, friend's house..) and the authentication goes away when I close the browser window.
What, exactly, is wrong with this
Except you can run your own OpenID server, and then *gasp* YOU know what sites you connect to. Or, Livejournal knows what sites you connect to (if you use their server), or whatever. NO ONE knows your password, except the OpenID server. NO ONE knows what sites you visited, except the OpenID server. Combine a browser cookie with the OpenID server itself asking you whether or not you want to allow site "www.imgoingtostealyouridentity.com" to have access to verify that you are, in fact, YOU, makes for a pretty safe/secure setup, in my opinion.
Note, also, that OpenID does NOT exchange profile data. OpenID is for Identification. spectral@slashdot.org (if slashdot ran an OpenID server) is guaranteed to be me. There's no information about the man (or woman?) behind the keyboard. It just says "Yup, this is that person".
You have a slashdot account. Why? Why not post everything anonymously? Why not, instead, have one account.. so now you can comment on slashdot, livejournal, the the nytimes website, any of your friends' blog pages (using Movable Type, Blogger, Whatever..), etc... without needing to make an account on each?
This is a GOOD THING.
Impossible. Time is one of the fundamental units. You need an accurate second to be able to measure your meter.
in windows, go to the system menu (the icon in the upper left of the window), click it, go down to 'edit', choose 'mark', highlight what you want, hit enter (or go back to the menu and choose copy), and it's on the clipboard.
I always use 'cmd', but I suspect 'command' windows work just as well..
but yes, I've never had a problem w/ copy & paste between apps in X either.
I know you mentioned computer games, but I'm a huge fan of pulling out a deck of Fluxx or Set whenever I have some free time and a friend or two nearby. Rather addicting games. There are implementations of Set multiplayer online.. some are better than others. It's been a while since I played online though, so I don't even have the URLs to the one I really liked anymore.