We've been looking at doing code signing certificates for a little bit now, no firm dates though...
There have always been lots of certificate roots in browsers, but there have been far fewer companies actually issuing them. And fewer still who have their certificate in almost all the browsers (which is the real issue IMHO).
Well until I read your explanation the sentence didn't seem logical to me. I assure you, I am not an automaton.
We have this thing in english called parallelism. It is expected that when you use it you do so in a way that aids the reader's understanding.
Furthermore, a more grammatically correct way (and for more readable) to say that would be "fruit flies like bananas", or better yet, given the ambiguity you point out, "fruit flies enjoy bananas".
I would love for you to provide a better example though - and although they doubtlessly exist, I've no doubt they can be accomodated for.
We issue SSL Certificates with prices a good deal less than hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. Our certificates are issued with a root that already exists in browsers, and we do ID verification (but remain flexible - we will issue certificates to both corporations and natural persons, i.e. people). In terms of keeping the encryption meaningful, using a self-signed certificate doesn't cut it - it makes it trivial for the right person to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
As much as I'd love to say otherwise, the SSL business is actually quite competitive these days -- the days of a 128-bit certificate costing at least $895 are long gone.
Finally! We can get an infinite number of monkeys in an infinitely large room with an infinite number of typewriters and have all the works of Shakespeare produced. [*]
[*] Unfortunately research has shown they tend to fixate on one or two keys.
I think you'd be surprised. There is some competition in the certificate market these days and they can be had significantly more inexpensively than used to be possible.
That said, I agree it would be good if it was more feasible for new CAs to establish themselves. It isn't easy, nor is it cheap.
Trouble is for the cert to be any good you have to get your root in the browsers and/or get your root signed by an existing root. I.e. It can't be done overnight.
I'm not sure you want corporations to be taxed based on gross income as opposed to profit. Taxes are an expense to a company like any other expense, and the more it costs for a company to operate the more it is going to charge for whatever it is it is selling. It would be impossible for the low margins we see in competitive markets to exist (i.e. companies selling things 5% above cost), because of the taxes companies would be paying. This effect would be magnified as the cost for the company to produce things would go up as its suppliers would also have to raise their prices, as would their suppliers and so on.
Consider also that a corporation owning the money is kind of useless... eventually for the money to be of use it is going to have to be paid to a person who is then going to be taxed on it.
They have been heavily involved in the development and early adopters of: online credit card transactions, streaming video/webcams, VHS, multi-angle DVDs, pop-up ads, affiliate programs, pay-per-view, 900 #s, geo-targetting... the list goes on.
And this is a perfect example of why I much prefer DSL. Cable modems are the unholy child of token ring... any one station can affect them all. Oh, packet sniffing anyone?
One more annoyance: If you uncheck SP2 from the list of updates to install, and you tell it not to ask you again if you want to install it, it does anyway.
Get the hint: I am not ready! I will install it on my schedule, not Microsoft's.
"The cost of a tablet PC is $200 (7,000 Taiwan dollars) more than its notebook counterpart. Of this difference, the hardware cost is only between $30 and $60. The majority of the difference comes from the OS license," said Wang. "We have tried to negotiate the fee with Microsoft several times in vain. It's very regrettable."
Actualy my understanding is the biggest reason tablet PCs cost as much as they do (relative to notebooks) is MS's licensing of the tablet edition of XP.
By no means am I suggesting that spammers do not sell their products; I recently spoke to someone new to the "business" - he's doing a couple hundred a day in sales... and its definitely very much part time. There is a reason we continue to get spam, and more of it (part of the reason we get more is to 'make up' for filters, another part is that there are more people seeing $ and deciding to send out spam).
I am not convinced that hashcash is an effective solution. For one, spammers already have control of a larger number of machines... plenty of machine to do hash calculations with. Furthermore, it causes problems for legitimate lists. I am on numerous mailing lists that I choose to be on - everything from my local LUG to someone's customer marketing list.
Consider that $11.9 _billion_ dollars are wasted each year as a result of spam. Consider the fact that a typical office worker spends about a week over the course of a year on spam. While there is no doubt spam generates economic activity, I believe it is a net loss for society as a whole.
I say all this despite the fact that I am involved in a company working to bring a product to market that combats spam. Do I believe our product will be effective? Yes, very. Do I believe that our company should even need to be working on this product/that the product should be in demand? No!
There are already *plenty* of laws under which to prosecute spammers. They simply aren't enforced... The problem is not a lack of laws, it is a lack of resources/motivation/knowledge on the part of law enforcement. I would much rather see a commitment to spend a few million actually *doing* something - and when you consider the drain spammers are on the economy, it would be money well spent.
"Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: ``You are Yin and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money.'' And so the set forth together, thinking to conquer the world.
Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to them: ``The Tao lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still as a pool of water. It does not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, for it is complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time.''
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We've been looking at doing code signing certificates for a little bit now, no firm dates though...
There have always been lots of certificate roots in browsers, but there have been far fewer companies actually issuing them. And fewer still who have their certificate in almost all the browsers (which is the real issue IMHO).
Uh, Jurassic Park?
Well until I read your explanation the sentence didn't seem logical to me. I assure you, I am not an automaton.
We have this thing in english called parallelism. It is expected that when you use it you do so in a way that aids the reader's understanding.
Furthermore, a more grammatically correct way (and for more readable) to say that would be "fruit flies like bananas", or better yet, given the ambiguity you point out, "fruit flies enjoy bananas".
I would love for you to provide a better example though - and although they doubtlessly exist, I've no doubt they can be accomodated for.
Dictionary: Prescriptive and include words that have become generally accepted.
Lexicon: Descriptive.. attempts to include as many words/uses as possible.
By doing it based on existing documents you end up with a lexicon.
We issue SSL Certificates with prices a good deal less than hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. Our certificates are issued with a root that already exists in browsers, and we do ID verification (but remain flexible - we will issue certificates to both corporations and natural persons, i.e. people). In terms of keeping the encryption meaningful, using a self-signed certificate doesn't cut it - it makes it trivial for the right person to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
As much as I'd love to say otherwise, the SSL business is actually quite competitive these days -- the days of a 128-bit certificate costing at least $895 are long gone.
Even with DVI? (I haven't researched this and there may be some issues, but it might be something for you to look at).
I'm just waiting for the worm to go around that adds the wine key to everyone's registry, and changes Windows' serial number to a generic one.i
Finally! We can get an infinite number of monkeys in an infinitely large room with an infinite number of typewriters and have all the works of Shakespeare produced. [*]
[*] Unfortunately research has shown they tend to fixate on one or two keys.
I think you'd be surprised. There is some competition in the certificate market these days and they can be had significantly more inexpensively than used to be possible.
That said, I agree it would be good if it was more feasible for new CAs to establish themselves. It isn't easy, nor is it cheap.
We've had two customers go through *exactly* what you describe. Quite a pain getting their domain loose for them.
Trouble is for the cert to be any good you have to get your root in the browsers and/or get your root signed by an existing root. I.e. It can't be done overnight.
I'm not sure you want corporations to be taxed based on gross income as opposed to profit. Taxes are an expense to a company like any other expense, and the more it costs for a company to operate the more it is going to charge for whatever it is it is selling. It would be impossible for the low margins we see in competitive markets to exist (i.e. companies selling things 5% above cost), because of the taxes companies would be paying. This effect would be magnified as the cost for the company to produce things would go up as its suppliers would also have to raise their prices, as would their suppliers and so on.
Consider also that a corporation owning the money is kind of useless... eventually for the money to be of use it is going to have to be paid to a person who is then going to be taxed on it.
It's not really as simple as it looks...
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Are you sure you want to do that, Dave?
(And, can't resist this one: I can't allow you to do that, Dave.)
They have been heavily involved in the development and early adopters of: online credit card transactions, streaming video/webcams, VHS, multi-angle DVDs, pop-up ads, affiliate programs, pay-per-view, 900 #s, geo-targetting... the list goes on.
What? Interplay is liquidating France??? What is the world coming to?
Hi,
This is your boss, you are fired.
P.S. You liar!
And this is a perfect example of why I much prefer DSL. Cable modems are the unholy child of token ring... any one station can affect them all. Oh, packet sniffing anyone?
One more annoyance: If you uncheck SP2 from the list of updates to install, and you tell it not to ask you again if you want to install it, it does anyway.
Get the hint: I am not ready! I will install it on my schedule, not Microsoft's.
"The cost of a tablet PC is $200 (7,000 Taiwan dollars) more than its notebook counterpart. Of this difference, the hardware cost is only between $30 and $60. The majority of the difference comes from the OS license," said Wang. "We have tried to negotiate the fee with Microsoft several times in vain. It's very regrettable."
(Source: Acer: Tablet PC fees hard to swallow)
Actualy my understanding is the biggest reason tablet PCs cost as much as they do (relative to notebooks) is MS's licensing of the tablet edition of XP.
By no means am I suggesting that spammers do not sell their products; I recently spoke to someone new to the "business" - he's doing a couple hundred a day in sales... and its definitely very much part time. There is a reason we continue to get spam, and more of it (part of the reason we get more is to 'make up' for filters, another part is that there are more people seeing $ and deciding to send out spam).
I am not convinced that hashcash is an effective solution. For one, spammers already have control of a larger number of machines... plenty of machine to do hash calculations with. Furthermore, it causes problems for legitimate lists. I am on numerous mailing lists that I choose to be on - everything from my local LUG to someone's customer marketing list.
Consider that $11.9 _billion_ dollars are wasted each year as a result of spam. Consider the fact that a typical office worker spends about a week over the course of a year on spam. While there is no doubt spam generates economic activity, I believe it is a net loss for society as a whole.
I say all this despite the fact that I am involved in a company working to bring a product to market that combats spam. Do I believe our product will be effective? Yes, very. Do I believe that our company should even need to be working on this product/that the product should be in demand? No!
There are already *plenty* of laws under which to prosecute spammers. They simply aren't enforced... The problem is not a lack of laws, it is a lack of resources/motivation/knowledge on the part of law enforcement. I would much rather see a commitment to spend a few million actually *doing* something - and when you consider the drain spammers are on the economy, it would be money well spent.
Filesystem, meet object orientation. OO, meet FS.
"Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: ``You are Yin and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money.'' And so the set forth together, thinking to conquer the world.
Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to them: ``The Tao lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still as a pool of water. It does not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, for it is complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time.''
Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes.
"
(Credit: Tao of Programming)