They will no doubt deal with it the same way UPS does: trial and error.
UPS pretty much defaults to driver releasing packages for residences EXCEPT in areas where excessive theft occurs. In those areas, all deliveries are signed for.
I am sure Amazon will do the same thing. "Sorry, your area is not eligible for drone delivery"
I used to deliver for UPS. The policy was to "driver release" (drop off a package without signature) any package as long as it is a residence and that the package could be left somewhere out of view from the street.
So you think that if automobiles weren't invented, we would have gone strait for the multi-passenger mass transit vehicle and nobody would have thought to make these vehicles smaller?
Perhaps you meant trains.... well, we had those long before cars and even used them in cities... but the cities weren't better off for it.
As a matter of fact, the green areas in cities we have today is mostly from rail properties being converted back to natural spaces again.
I am just waiting for the drone that comes, lets you harness yourself into some hanging restraints and transports me to work.... bonus if it can deliver me right to the 12th floor window....
I thought it was good enough to pick up his sequel to the series.
He is an imaginative guy but more than a little sexist and a huge meat eater apparently... Also, all of his domestic scenes are about as sappy as an episode of the Brady Bunch.
This is why any good password manager has a mouse click keyboard option when entering the master password.
In addition to this, the PW manager I use, RoboForm, uses a different password (not my master password) to sync to the cloud. Although, by default, the RF settings allow either password to be used for syncing, you can disable this option for added security.
This means that, worst case scenario, I lose control of my master password, the attacker still cannot pull down my encrypted password files from the cloud.
I have also enabled 2FA on my RF account which means that even if the attacker had both passwords, they still could not pull down my encrypted passwords from the cloud because each new endpoint needs to be authenticated via the second factor.
All-in-all, I think that RoboForm is probably the most mature PW manager out there.. but it is paid software ($20/year).
The TFA explains that the problem is actually 2 fold:
1. All authentication dialogs are done (in Chrome) by injecting content into the HTTP stream 2. There is a mechanism by which an arbitrary web site can log you out of your LP session
So, these two problems combine to make a situation where an attacker can easily replicate a pixel-perfect duplicate of a LP authentication window AND this is something that apparently LP users expect from time-to-time.
Google apparently hates making Chrome extensible. Every Chrome add-on seems crippled compared to its FF "equivalent". Maybe this is due to security... but I highly doubt it. I think that Google are just control freaks about their browser.
I don't think of Apple today as the same company they once were.
My first computer was an Apple II+ on which I spent countless hours wring BASIC programs. I monopolized its use so much that it eventually just ended up in my room. I would write basic by hand during boring church and couldn't wait to get home and type it in.
I loved that computer....
But Apple has always been expensive and it was much easier for me to buy PC components over time and slowly assemble a computer with my lawn mowing money. I have never really looked back.
Over the years I have looked at Apple products with envy at times. I think Mac has always been a good computer. It was just that by the time I could afford one, I was already well down the PC path. In addition to that, at the time, not much software worked with Mac and so it felt like it would be a step backwards.
That said, whenever I have the opportunity, I will use a Mac in order to be able to provide basic support.
I have a work issued iPad which I use for testing and playing some games. I like it ok, but it almost seems quaint compared to an Android table or a Microsoft Surface.
There are easier ways to make money from single targets that don't require security holes, and there are fatter targets that are more worthwhile to attack if you do find a security hole like that.
One thing that is missing from this equation is bot nets.
It certainly does benefit hackers to take over grandma's system if for no other purpose than to recruit it into the ranks of bitcoin mining, spam sending, ddos attacking, malware distributing, etc.
I guarantee you that if Apple was the dominant computing platform, it would have just as many issues as other platforms.
News flash, progress cannot be halted indefinitely.
History is filled with the wailing of the disenfranchised due to new technology.
Trying to protect the jobs of an obsolete work force is an effort in futility.
You may be able to hang on for a little while through lobbying and money, but eventually you will lose. The economic interest on the other side is too massive. This is our chosen system, all hail capitalism.
At this point the writing is pretty clearly on the wall. If you don't adapt, you can't expect anyone to have any sympathy for you and you certainly should not be entitled to special protections because you don't want to learn something new.
Yeah, I almost always change variable names to match my conventions and will add some extra validation usually.
I am not sure why SO needs to specify this at all though. I mean, people are putting code out into public space with the intention that others will copy it... that's the whole point...
That said, I usually do keep any comments that were in the code snippet to begin with.
Yeah, well disgusting is more than just a "will it harm me?" calculation....
When I did desktop support I saw some ghastly keyboards and mice.
This was before laser mice and the first thing I would typically do when sitting down at a computer is pop the ball out of the mouse and scrape all the cruft off the rollers. I would then arrange the debris in a not-so-little pile next to the mouse pad and show the owner what came out of their mouse.
It amazed me what people were willing to live with... I mean, sometimes the mouse would barely register in one direction or another because the rollers were so caked up, forcing you to use several mouse pad lengths to move the pointer across the screen.... and they used it like that!
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I don't see why they couldn't deliver to your balcony...
Or just hovers outside your window.... how long before the peeping toms just attach packages to the drone with the camera to make it look legit?
They will no doubt deal with it the same way UPS does: trial and error.
UPS pretty much defaults to driver releasing packages for residences EXCEPT in areas where excessive theft occurs. In those areas, all deliveries are signed for.
I am sure Amazon will do the same thing. "Sorry, your area is not eligible for drone delivery"
This is no different than current.
I used to deliver for UPS. The policy was to "driver release" (drop off a package without signature) any package as long as it is a residence and that the package could be left somewhere out of view from the street.
I am sure that you are wrong.
There is a big market for inexpensive, fast curb-side delivery.
I suppose you also think that self driving cars will not ever (within 25 years) come to fruition either...
really?
So you think that if automobiles weren't invented, we would have gone strait for the multi-passenger mass transit vehicle and nobody would have thought to make these vehicles smaller?
Perhaps you meant trains.... well, we had those long before cars and even used them in cities... but the cities weren't better off for it.
As a matter of fact, the green areas in cities we have today is mostly from rail properties being converted back to natural spaces again.
It reminds me of an adult complaining that they have to take twice as much of the kids gummy vitamins.
Since when has anyone ever complained about taking gummy vitamins?
I have to force myself not to eat those things by the handful...
I am just waiting for the drone that comes, lets you harness yourself into some hanging restraints and transports me to work.... bonus if it can deliver me right to the 12th floor window....
I am sure they could have hired someone for much less than $200/hour to do the reviewing...
Yeah, I did like the Great North Road too.
Overall, I like him. He is Greg Bear caliber when it comes to wildly imaginative sci-fi and his tech is well researched and believable.
I thought it was good enough to pick up his sequel to the series.
He is an imaginative guy but more than a little sexist and a huge meat eater apparently... Also, all of his domestic scenes are about as sappy as an episode of the Brady Bunch.
Julian! My chicken fingers! Those were the good kind! 7 bucks!
This is why any good password manager has a mouse click keyboard option when entering the master password.
In addition to this, the PW manager I use, RoboForm, uses a different password (not my master password) to sync to the cloud. Although, by default, the RF settings allow either password to be used for syncing, you can disable this option for added security.
This means that, worst case scenario, I lose control of my master password, the attacker still cannot pull down my encrypted password files from the cloud.
I have also enabled 2FA on my RF account which means that even if the attacker had both passwords, they still could not pull down my encrypted passwords from the cloud because each new endpoint needs to be authenticated via the second factor.
All-in-all, I think that RoboForm is probably the most mature PW manager out there.. but it is paid software ($20/year).
The TFA explains that the problem is actually 2 fold:
1. All authentication dialogs are done (in Chrome) by injecting content into the HTTP stream
2. There is a mechanism by which an arbitrary web site can log you out of your LP session
So, these two problems combine to make a situation where an attacker can easily replicate a pixel-perfect duplicate of a LP authentication window AND this is something that apparently LP users expect from time-to-time.
I have used RoboForm for almost 10 years and I recommend it to everyone.
I think it is great. The iOS and Windows Phone OS clients are a little lacking but present, Windows, Mac, Linux and Android support are awesome.
Google apparently hates making Chrome extensible. Every Chrome add-on seems crippled compared to its FF "equivalent". Maybe this is due to security... but I highly doubt it. I think that Google are just control freaks about their browser.
Well said.
I don't think of Apple today as the same company they once were.
My first computer was an Apple II+ on which I spent countless hours wring BASIC programs. I monopolized its use so much that it eventually just ended up in my room. I would write basic by hand during boring church and couldn't wait to get home and type it in.
I loved that computer....
But Apple has always been expensive and it was much easier for me to buy PC components over time and slowly assemble a computer with my lawn mowing money. I have never really looked back.
Over the years I have looked at Apple products with envy at times. I think Mac has always been a good computer. It was just that by the time I could afford one, I was already well down the PC path. In addition to that, at the time, not much software worked with Mac and so it felt like it would be a step backwards.
That said, whenever I have the opportunity, I will use a Mac in order to be able to provide basic support.
I have a work issued iPad which I use for testing and playing some games. I like it ok, but it almost seems quaint compared to an Android table or a Microsoft Surface.
You can do whatever the hell you want with my corpse once I am dead... I am pretty sure that I won't care.
There are easier ways to make money from single targets that don't require security holes, and there are fatter targets that are more worthwhile to attack if you do find a security hole like that.
One thing that is missing from this equation is bot nets.
It certainly does benefit hackers to take over grandma's system if for no other purpose than to recruit it into the ranks of bitcoin mining, spam sending, ddos attacking, malware distributing, etc.
I guarantee you that if Apple was the dominant computing platform, it would have just as many issues as other platforms.
Perhaps it is just phase 1 human trials.
They might have already gone through all the phases of animal trials.
Quick Bing search: http://www.druglibrary.org/sch...
That article asserts that the first recorded use of cannabis is in ancient China 10,000 years ago.
Yeah no kidding.
I don't personally like Apple the company. I just think they are too much about marketing hype. I was also not a fan of Steve Jobs personally.
But I still will recommend a Mac to someone when appropriate.
Computers and operating systems are tools not ideologies. Use the best tool for the job.
I won't be buying Apple products any time soon, but that is because there are tools out there that work better for me.
News flash, progress cannot be halted indefinitely.
History is filled with the wailing of the disenfranchised due to new technology.
Trying to protect the jobs of an obsolete work force is an effort in futility.
You may be able to hang on for a little while through lobbying and money, but eventually you will lose. The economic interest on the other side is too massive. This is our chosen system, all hail capitalism.
At this point the writing is pretty clearly on the wall. If you don't adapt, you can't expect anyone to have any sympathy for you and you certainly should not be entitled to special protections because you don't want to learn something new.
Yeah, I almost always change variable names to match my conventions and will add some extra validation usually.
I am not sure why SO needs to specify this at all though. I mean, people are putting code out into public space with the intention that others will copy it... that's the whole point...
That said, I usually do keep any comments that were in the code snippet to begin with.
Yeah, well disgusting is more than just a "will it harm me?" calculation....
When I did desktop support I saw some ghastly keyboards and mice.
This was before laser mice and the first thing I would typically do when sitting down at a computer is pop the ball out of the mouse and scrape all the cruft off the rollers. I would then arrange the debris in a not-so-little pile next to the mouse pad and show the owner what came out of their mouse.
It amazed me what people were willing to live with... I mean, sometimes the mouse would barely register in one direction or another because the rollers were so caked up, forcing you to use several mouse pad lengths to move the pointer across the screen.... and they used it like that!