Did you actually demand your money back from PayPal? I think people should do exactly that now... because of the money being blocked. Then donate it by another means.
They should have designed OpenID so that people can run their own identity servers. They sorta did, but it still requires going through a big provider that can track you. That was stupid.
An alternative idea still requires a big provider, but at least logins do not need to go through them so there is no point of tracking you. That idea is to use signed certificate identities. The service you login into only needs to trust the CA that signed your identity.
Or just don't worry about having a like identity, and just have web sites do a standard registration process that a browser module/plugin uses with your secure key ring that you put these identities (can be different at different sites) into. This can work better by having identities that work like those on StackExchange.
I've been using IPsec for years. I bet the reason they are not using IPsec is because they can't patent troll it. That and I compress files BEFORE the encryption step since that uses less CPU for encryption step.
Making direct connection between nodes is so fucking obvious. Any kind of service that would benefit from it, the designers would just do it. A patent that covers that in general adds nothing. A patent with some kind of innovative idea in this area might be possible for ways to improve direct communications. But such an innovative patent would not cover the obvious aspect of direct communication.
The problem is not the patent trolls that exploit bugs in the patent system to their own unjustified financial gain. Instead, the problem is the USPTO that issues patents for obvious ideas just because they were able to find someone in their office that could not think up the idea, which appears to be more than 99% of patent applications. This is where the fix needs to happen. Patents must pass the innovation test and USPTO is not even aware how to do this test.
Eventually, almost everything will be done by technology. Even maintaining the technology will be done by technology. While it does mean more will be done, and more will be produced, this will collapse if there is not more of a market to consume it. Otherwise we will eventually get to a point that the 0.001 percenters will own all the production, and no one else will have anything to buy it with. So even the 0.001 percenters will end up losing. But how will that even be solved if there is nothing left for humans to do? Either we will have a world where no one has anything unless they have machines (and all they can produce for is themselves), or we will have socialism where the government provides everything... so the 0.001 percenters will have a market to sell to.
I though text-exempt status also meant you didn't have to file all that paperwork once you had it. Lot of good it does to have tax-exempt status for a non-profit that makes no money, anyway.
Configure the warm resources in the other region to constantly monitor the primary. If the primary goes down, they automatically activate the secondary.
My browser passed because of the way I start it. A whole new user/home environment is dynamically created every time I start a browser. I originally did this so that as I browse hundreds of sites, I don't end up with extreme memory waste. This was done back in an older version that was quite memory leaky. It would build up too much in-process memory as I visited sites, and eventually crash. So I ended up with multiple browsers running (separate processes). At first that might seem to have used even more memory. But that was at the OS level where I did have more, including swap space. But it was at least finite since when I left some website, its browser actually exited, rather than just unlink fragmented virtual pages. Today I just haven't changed it now more because of the tracking breakage it creates. I can still be tracked within a site like Slashdot. Slashdot know what articles I read and what articles I ignore. Slashdot know what I post. But I am logged in, so "duh". No, it's not perfect at all, as the Slashdot advertisers can see my repeat appearances, too. But at least they can't so easily figure out what other sites I visit, besides the IP address (which I plan to work on some day).
The next city or government utility provider doing this, it will be referred to as "doing a Joburg" or "did a Joburg" (that is, thinking that merely having a login makes a site secure).
USB as a whole is already a silly design, having all these silly details and ambiguities. For example, where it has a minimum time (10ms in this case), it should also have a maximum time (for example 50ms). Devices should be able to communicate after that maximum time or they are broken. Actually, there should be a maximum time when powered up... how is a minimum even useful for anything.
This only needs to specify controller communication, not device function. For example a hard drive might take several seconds to spin up and get in sync. But the controller should be able to do basic communication in 50ms, even if all it can say about the actual hard drive is "spinning up but not ready". USB has a lot of other stuff that is far from the KISS principle.
The advantage of Open Source is that you or anyone else can fix the software if/when security problems are found, whether in the OS, core libraries, network stack, or any Open Source applications. We are not dependent on the original developers to make any such fixes. I have done this a couple times in the past by fixing security issues in open source code before the developer fixes were available (I could have waited a day and got the developer fixes).
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The government should have shut them down years ago.
Did you actually demand your money back from PayPal? I think people should do exactly that now ... because of the money being blocked. Then donate it by another means.
Looks like I don't buy things from you.
What if the donors start demanding their donations be returned to them ... because it is being blocked?
It was bad and unethical back then. It's worse now.
They should have designed OpenID so that people can run their own identity servers. They sorta did, but it still requires going through a big provider that can track you. That was stupid.
An alternative idea still requires a big provider, but at least logins do not need to go through them so there is no point of tracking you. That idea is to use signed certificate identities. The service you login into only needs to trust the CA that signed your identity.
Or just don't worry about having a like identity, and just have web sites do a standard registration process that a browser module/plugin uses with your secure key ring that you put these identities (can be different at different sites) into. This can work better by having identities that work like those on StackExchange.
... with evil leaders of Vietnam who are not representing the Vietnamese people at all.
I've been using IPsec for years. I bet the reason they are not using IPsec is because they can't patent troll it. That and I compress files BEFORE the encryption step since that uses less CPU for encryption step.
Making direct connection between nodes is so fucking obvious. Any kind of service that would benefit from it, the designers would just do it. A patent that covers that in general adds nothing. A patent with some kind of innovative idea in this area might be possible for ways to improve direct communications. But such an innovative patent would not cover the obvious aspect of direct communication.
The problem is not the patent trolls that exploit bugs in the patent system to their own unjustified financial gain. Instead, the problem is the USPTO that issues patents for obvious ideas just because they were able to find someone in their office that could not think up the idea, which appears to be more than 99% of patent applications. This is where the fix needs to happen. Patents must pass the innovation test and USPTO is not even aware how to do this test.
... I just gave up on email. Even w/o spam it's more hassle than I like.
The latter will do better to benefit the one percenters.
... we have not been visited by space aliens.
Eventually, almost everything will be done by technology. Even maintaining the technology will be done by technology. While it does mean more will be done, and more will be produced, this will collapse if there is not more of a market to consume it. Otherwise we will eventually get to a point that the 0.001 percenters will own all the production, and no one else will have anything to buy it with. So even the 0.001 percenters will end up losing. But how will that even be solved if there is nothing left for humans to do? Either we will have a world where no one has anything unless they have machines (and all they can produce for is themselves), or we will have socialism where the government provides everything ... so the 0.001 percenters will have a market to sell to.
Amazing that in 2013, HTML still cannot perform even half the functions a PDF can do. This includes, for example, non-flow oriented precise layout.
And so should everything else, like home burglary.
Not.
... well, they sure do now.
I though text-exempt status also meant you didn't have to file all that paperwork once you had it. Lot of good it does to have tax-exempt status for a non-profit that makes no money, anyway.
Configure the warm resources in the other region to constantly monitor the primary. If the primary goes down, they automatically activate the secondary.
My browser passed because of the way I start it. A whole new user/home environment is dynamically created every time I start a browser. I originally did this so that as I browse hundreds of sites, I don't end up with extreme memory waste. This was done back in an older version that was quite memory leaky. It would build up too much in-process memory as I visited sites, and eventually crash. So I ended up with multiple browsers running (separate processes). At first that might seem to have used even more memory. But that was at the OS level where I did have more, including swap space. But it was at least finite since when I left some website, its browser actually exited, rather than just unlink fragmented virtual pages. Today I just haven't changed it now more because of the tracking breakage it creates. I can still be tracked within a site like Slashdot. Slashdot know what articles I read and what articles I ignore. Slashdot know what I post. But I am logged in, so "duh". No, it's not perfect at all, as the Slashdot advertisers can see my repeat appearances, too. But at least they can't so easily figure out what other sites I visit, besides the IP address (which I plan to work on some day).
The next city or government utility provider doing this, it will be referred to as "doing a Joburg" or "did a Joburg" (that is, thinking that merely having a login makes a site secure).
USB as a whole is already a silly design, having all these silly details and ambiguities. For example, where it has a minimum time (10ms in this case), it should also have a maximum time (for example 50ms). Devices should be able to communicate after that maximum time or they are broken. Actually, there should be a maximum time when powered up ... how is a minimum even useful for anything.
This only needs to specify controller communication, not device function. For example a hard drive might take several seconds to spin up and get in sync. But the controller should be able to do basic communication in 50ms, even if all it can say about the actual hard drive is "spinning up but not ready". USB has a lot of other stuff that is far from the KISS principle.
So I can write and erase anything I want to in the TPM?
The advantage of Open Source is that you or anyone else can fix the software if/when security problems are found, whether in the OS, core libraries, network stack, or any Open Source applications. We are not dependent on the original developers to make any such fixes. I have done this a couple times in the past by fixing security issues in open source code before the developer fixes were available (I could have waited a day and got the developer fixes).
Oh, of course, it is surely more secure for everyone to have a different password for each site they visit.
It will be cracked 5 months after they start using it. We'll hear that they are sitting on that news about 3 months after that.