Mod parent up. In the 10 to 15 minutes (on average!) it takes someone to pop into Starbucks,
I agree with you. But you deserve a -1 offtopic mod. We're talking about coffee shops, not a Starbucks. Wait... are we talking about Starbucks? Well that would explain a lot of the hate.
Anyone who values their time or their money doesnâ(TM)t stand in line for 20+ minutes waiting to be served dirty water by a hippie.
Anyone who values their taste buds wouldn't consume anything prepared in any other way. Seriously what kind of coffee shops do you go to that describe the result as dirty water?
But I can put a tea bag in a cup and pour boiling water on
At what temperature? You say you're a tea drinker but it sounds like you're comparing your tea with someone pouring instant coffee in with some boiling water and calling it a day.
If you love the taste of tea then you would likely a) not have tea that comes in bags, and b) not pour boiling water on it and use a kettle with an adjustable end temperature setting. Mind you the same applies to coffee. The only reason to stand in line is because the quality of a well trained barista using fresh beans and good quality equipment is much better than the push button receive caffeine machines in a typical office,... assuming you're even that fancy.
The coffee shop explosion is one of the great rip-offs of our age
Oh is it? I don't exactly see coffee shop owners driving Ferraris down the street. Coffee is priced exactly where it should be, with markup to cover the training, equipment, and rent so that *you* can get through your day without resorting to either abstinence or installing your own coffee machine at your work.
Not quite. There were a few problems with Startcom themselves. But they were more along the lines of lack of disclosure and bugs in the certificate issuance process than major policy issues.
Startcom deserved to get slapped on the face even without Wosign but without Wosign they'd probably still be in business.
This has nothing to do with their business model or any other CA's... other than the one who bought them. Mozilla has a very detailed rundown of what the problems were with Startcom and Wosign. Both Startcom and their parent have multiple failings listed against them which breached their trust.
The fact that the OP said the same needs will cost him $1000s means that he quite likely wasn't using DV certificates which is all that Lets Encrypt offers.
Companies throw in these "extras", knowing that consumers don't really consider the fact that sometimes, extra features can actually be "anti-features", in that they might have an actual penalty in terms of security or usability.
FTFY. These are features in the eyes of consumers. The overwhelming majority of people put more braincells to work deciding if they should grab a Mars bar or a Snickers while waiting in line at the checkout of a supermarket.
All the while the company can say: "Look this stuff you used to pay other vendors extra for you now get for free when you buy Intel!" People like free stuff regardless if the have any intention of using it or not.
The funny thing here is that any credibility you had you just lost with a really lame attempt at appeal to authority while at the same time directly attacking the person you responded to rather than their content.
I sincerely hope you're better at "crypto work" than you are at discussing something.
If we discussed something on Slashdot before it is of great value to click through and read the comments rather than posting a direct link and have the same discussions over and over again.
Shady people don't need these muppets, they just use Let's Encrypt nowadays.
Shady people do need these muppets. Let's Encrypt only provides DV certificates which in general do fuck all for proving who the shady person is behind a computer. All they do is identify the computer as being who they claim their are in their domain.
Startcom managed to break even this, issuing DV certificates for domains not proven to be in control of the computer. Not to mention they happily issued known weak certificates and had numerous exploitable bugs in their website that allowed you to automatically get certificates issued for other domains.
So yes, shady people have been dealt a blow. If you're worried about shady people obtaining DV certificates in the first place then my friend you should read up on what these certificates actually do and protect you against, because you wildly over estimated the safety they provide.
They are but... That doesn't mean humans need to put a mark on everything they touch. Now that said, Cape Wind, fantastic location for it. Big wind farms typically are, as are they on farming land, on the side of some highways, in the middle of the oil refineries and other industrial areas.
What I can't stand is hiking through the wilderness, climbing a mountain to it's highest peak all to see like 3 crappy little wind turbines littered on every peak. Go big, or go home:-)
Have a think how that second sentence of yours works in conjunction with the former. Think really hard. Think along the lines of: If there is no benefit then why would it get more people to buy pizzas.
You anti-corporation tinfoil hatters fail to realise that most of these developments rely on something for something. To sell more pizzas you need to provide value. Just like Google actually does care about its customers because if they leave they lose a product they can sell on to third parties.
We're not talking about a corporation abusing a monopoly position to deliver a crappy product to inflated prices
Nope, we're talking about a corporation introducing something to the benefit of the consumer which they were *allegedly* actively lying about to the consumer's detriment.
Only to now realize that he controls exactly fuck all. What changes? Nothing.
Planning, customer satisfaction. Now I don't actually believe that the system is fake, but since I actively plan my order around the pizza tracker (when do I need to leave to meet them at the gate, when do I need to leave to pick up the pizza etc). If you provide information that changes nothing, then don't provide the information. But the reality is they provide the information since people see it as a positive service. Lying about it has an effect despite your assertions otherwise.
I'd rather question what kind of information the app sends to its master.
whiny whiny whiny whiny snowflake whine first world problem whiny whiny snowflake.
Yeah, I too prefer to roll over and take whatever corporate bullshit is shovelled down my throat in the name of the "consumer". When they do something for my benefit and it turns out to not actually happen or be right my first reaction is to scream out "YES MISTRESS I WANT ANOTHER"!/end stupid reply.
the level of seriousness to me is less than that of littering
Well it's not world ending, but cheating in online games to me is more than littering. It's more like letting your dog shit on the path and not cleaning it up. It annoys everyone around you and spoils the environment for all, not to mention directly affects the person who comes in contact with it.
Since Apple's corporate headquarters is in the U.S., we get the money first.
Why would you get the money? Apple isn't the subject of a US court battle about the US not collecting taxes from Apple properly. Apple pays as much taxes in the USA as is required by law, unlike in the EU where it was found their tax agreement with Ireland was illegal.
You have to take a slightly less literal reading of the GP's post. I don't think he actually was implying your diesel engines ran on bunker fuel, but rather implying (correctly I may add) that the USA ADF spec is a distinctly heavier sootier, harder to burn, and with 50% higher sulphur content than EU ADF spec.
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Mod parent up. In the 10 to 15 minutes (on average!) it takes someone to pop into Starbucks,
I agree with you. But you deserve a -1 offtopic mod. We're talking about coffee shops, not a Starbucks. Wait... are we talking about Starbucks? Well that would explain a lot of the hate.
Anyone who values their time or their money doesnâ(TM)t stand in line for 20+ minutes waiting to be served dirty water by a hippie.
Anyone who values their taste buds wouldn't consume anything prepared in any other way. Seriously what kind of coffee shops do you go to that describe the result as dirty water?
But I can put a tea bag in a cup and pour boiling water on
At what temperature? You say you're a tea drinker but it sounds like you're comparing your tea with someone pouring instant coffee in with some boiling water and calling it a day.
If you love the taste of tea then you would likely a) not have tea that comes in bags, and b) not pour boiling water on it and use a kettle with an adjustable end temperature setting. Mind you the same applies to coffee. The only reason to stand in line is because the quality of a well trained barista using fresh beans and good quality equipment is much better than the push button receive caffeine machines in a typical office, ... assuming you're even that fancy.
Not to mention that most of those coffee houses serve absolute crap for coffee
That must be an American thing. Though I have to agree the only truly bad coffee I've had at a coffee shop was at a Starbucks.
The coffee shop explosion is one of the great rip-offs of our age
Oh is it? I don't exactly see coffee shop owners driving Ferraris down the street. Coffee is priced exactly where it should be, with markup to cover the training, equipment, and rent so that *you* can get through your day without resorting to either abstinence or installing your own coffee machine at your work.
They know getting them early is a nice way to get people comfortable (aka hooked). As bad as big tobacco?
Getting people hooked to communicating with other people? Fucking sign my kids up. We have enough anti-social loners in the world as it is.
It's truly a mystery to me that people think communication should only be consumed by adults.
Are you assuming there's a finite amount of things we aim to analyse and understand? I wouldn't worry.
Not quite. There were a few problems with Startcom themselves. But they were more along the lines of lack of disclosure and bugs in the certificate issuance process than major policy issues.
Startcom deserved to get slapped on the face even without Wosign but without Wosign they'd probably still be in business.
This has nothing to do with their business model or any other CA's ... other than the one who bought them.
Mozilla has a very detailed rundown of what the problems were with Startcom and Wosign. Both Startcom and their parent have multiple failings listed against them which breached their trust.
The fact that the OP said the same needs will cost him $1000s means that he quite likely wasn't using DV certificates which is all that Lets Encrypt offers.
Companies throw in these "extras", knowing that consumers don't really consider the fact that sometimes, extra features can actually be "anti-features", in that they might have an actual penalty in terms of security or usability.
FTFY. These are features in the eyes of consumers. The overwhelming majority of people put more braincells to work deciding if they should grab a Mars bar or a Snickers while waiting in line at the checkout of a supermarket.
All the while the company can say: "Look this stuff you used to pay other vendors extra for you now get for free when you buy Intel!" People like free stuff regardless if the have any intention of using it or not.
The funny thing here is that any credibility you had you just lost with a really lame attempt at appeal to authority while at the same time directly attacking the person you responded to rather than their content.
I sincerely hope you're better at "crypto work" than you are at discussing something.
If we discussed something on Slashdot before it is of great value to click through and read the comments rather than posting a direct link and have the same discussions over and over again.
Shady people don't need these muppets, they just use Let's Encrypt nowadays.
Shady people do need these muppets. Let's Encrypt only provides DV certificates which in general do fuck all for proving who the shady person is behind a computer. All they do is identify the computer as being who they claim their are in their domain.
Startcom managed to break even this, issuing DV certificates for domains not proven to be in control of the computer. Not to mention they happily issued known weak certificates and had numerous exploitable bugs in their website that allowed you to automatically get certificates issued for other domains.
So yes, shady people have been dealt a blow. If you're worried about shady people obtaining DV certificates in the first place then my friend you should read up on what these certificates actually do and protect you against, because you wildly over estimated the safety they provide.
That's actually a great and very relevant observation that I glossed over during the submission. Thanks for pointing it out.
They are but ... That doesn't mean humans need to put a mark on everything they touch. Now that said, Cape Wind, fantastic location for it. Big wind farms typically are, as are they on farming land, on the side of some highways, in the middle of the oil refineries and other industrial areas.
What I can't stand is hiking through the wilderness, climbing a mountain to it's highest peak all to see like 3 crappy little wind turbines littered on every peak. Go big, or go home :-)
Have a think how that second sentence of yours works in conjunction with the former. Think really hard. Think along the lines of: If there is no benefit then why would it get more people to buy pizzas.
You anti-corporation tinfoil hatters fail to realise that most of these developments rely on something for something. To sell more pizzas you need to provide value. Just like Google actually does care about its customers because if they leave they lose a product they can sell on to third parties.
We're not talking about a corporation abusing a monopoly position to deliver a crappy product to inflated prices
Nope, we're talking about a corporation introducing something to the benefit of the consumer which they were *allegedly* actively lying about to the consumer's detriment.
Only to now realize that he controls exactly fuck all. What changes? Nothing.
Planning, customer satisfaction. Now I don't actually believe that the system is fake, but since I actively plan my order around the pizza tracker (when do I need to leave to meet them at the gate, when do I need to leave to pick up the pizza etc). If you provide information that changes nothing, then don't provide the information. But the reality is they provide the information since people see it as a positive service. Lying about it has an effect despite your assertions otherwise.
I'd rather question what kind of information the app sends to its master.
Now that IS a worthless first world problem.
whiny whiny whiny whiny snowflake whine first world problem whiny whiny snowflake.
Yeah, I too prefer to roll over and take whatever corporate bullshit is shovelled down my throat in the name of the "consumer". When they do something for my benefit and it turns out to not actually happen or be right my first reaction is to scream out "YES MISTRESS I WANT ANOTHER"! /end stupid reply.
WALK OVER AND GET IT!!!!
Sure in perfect weather on a sunny day and when I'm wearing my going out cloths and have done my makeup I will.
Or ... since the delivery is free in some cases I could just use the service that was offered, which was a pizza at my door.
Blizzards argument was that the cheat modified the game and thus was in breach of the EULA of the copyrighted work.
On the other hand making a video about how to cheat is fair game.
the level of seriousness to me is less than that of littering
Well it's not world ending, but cheating in online games to me is more than littering. It's more like letting your dog shit on the path and not cleaning it up. It annoys everyone around you and spoils the environment for all, not to mention directly affects the person who comes in contact with it.
Since Apple's corporate headquarters is in the U.S., we get the money first.
Why would you get the money? Apple isn't the subject of a US court battle about the US not collecting taxes from Apple properly. Apple pays as much taxes in the USA as is required by law, unlike in the EU where it was found their tax agreement with Ireland was illegal.
You have to take a slightly less literal reading of the GP's post. I don't think he actually was implying your diesel engines ran on bunker fuel, but rather implying (correctly I may add) that the USA ADF spec is a distinctly heavier sootier, harder to burn, and with 50% higher sulphur content than EU ADF spec.