Two reasons for SSL: verification and encryption. Sure, if the domains don't match you don't have verification, but the communication is still encrypted, and if you happen to control both ends of the exchange, that's all you need.
Unfortunately, all the browser vendors decided to implement this backwards and instead throw around ridiculously alarming warnings at the user if you dare use SSL for encryption only, and not verification.
What portion of users actually control or can verify both ends of the connection to know that it's not being eavesdropped on? I submit that in almost all cases, this warning comes up when the user is connecting to some site they've merely been given a URL to. But as someone else suggested, the browser should just show the absence of a lock icon for these sites, so that at least you might get encryption, but it makes no guarantees.
I like your idea. Maybe even better, if the last time you visited the site it was an error-free secure connection, but now it's not, give a warning, otherwise be silent. Because you know the user will check for a lock the first time, see it's there, but forget to check when he visits the site again in the future, since he assumes it's still safe. Or maybe just have a more noticeable indication, like a different-colored window border or something.
Since the problem here is arousal of jealousy, rather than impropriety, it perfectly shows why revealing this information of contact is the wrong thing for it to do. If you really were just chatting, then your argument supports that it shouldn't be revealed.
We used to have a single WiFi access point for three duplexes, and I'd have trouble getting a signal when my cordless phone was in use. Switched the WiFi channel around (I believe up to 11) and no more interference.
How does he know any FCC guidelines are being violated? These devices operate in the unlicensed spectrum, I believe, and must handle unwanted interference.
He could probably move it around during that time, and figure out some kind of directionality to the effect, to help track down the direction to look in. Then keep track of what days it doesn't happen, and see if a neighbor is gone during precisely those days. Or look for a light coming on around the time ig begins, and going off around when it ends.
It's just a stupid question from the start. You just know it's some dumb misleading linguistic trick, or something like you said, unspecified, or the fact that the birth rates aren't exactly split, or some weird twins thing, or whatever. I'll take pure mathematical puzzles any way.
Nono, things like Rickroll, lolcats, AYBABTU, STFU are funny, and I love those. You just don't mix those with serious topics. Man, I can get myself laughing just reciting that Yoda STFU one: "Up the shut fuck". Laughing right now.
I agree, it's businesses who are running this. But I solely blame government. They are responsible for passing the laws, not businesses. Any half-intelligent business will try to have the laws changed in their favor. It's the government's job to not do so. And yeah, it's silly to think that they could resist that money, which is why it shouldn't exist in the first place. Scale it all back, dismantle most of it; it's a tumor that's grown bigger than the host, and threatens society.
I figured you'd give me the elitist reply. You apparently never considered that sometimes people are just worn out, or their vision isn't great, and things like capital letters on sentences helps them read more easily. It's easier to just write me off as one of the sheeple who just can't deal with non-conformity, who just blindly believes that capitalized sentences are good and uncapitalized ones are bad.
I'll have you know that for a long while I tried writing in a less-structured manner, shunning capitalized sentences, but at some point I saw the practical value they provided. I am glad I experimented with it, because I came to see the various structures as aiding in comprehension and visual parsing, rather than accepting them as things you just do because they're convention.
I think most of us are adept enough to look up things like this pretty quickly. I found lots of useful links explaining what these things are (wife, girlfriend) and was able to follow along.
Sorry, but this seems sort of like people who get happy over a tax rebate. IP is an unjust usurping of what you can do with your own real, physical property. In this case, the fan team simply gets to do what they should have been able to do in the first place.
No shit. It seems that many of the sites I've been reading have dropped to the level of some unknown blog, with lots of stupid things like this. Attention: your audience isn't a bunch of third-graders who are amused by headlines like that, among other cheap attempts at making something funny.
You didn't make clear what you were trying to secure in the first place. Are you securing against someone doesn't exploit your game in order to get control of the server itself? Are you securing against someone cheating within the game? Securing user data from tampering? Each of these has different costs when breached.
Just wanted to let you know that your lack of capitalized sentences was what made me decide to pass on reading your post. The capital letter helps me keep my place while reading, and more easily parse the high-level structure (letters, words, sentences, paragraphs). I'm curious as to the advantages you get by not capitalizing sentences.
If anything, electric cars have much less breakable parts, they need less maintenance and have a real chance of lasting decades!
Yes, I look forward to this. I hope to never own a gasoline-powered vehicle (well above driving age). You've got the motors right next to the wheels, so damn simple. About all I can think of that would need maintenance is the suspension, and perhaps the body (paint, oiling joints, air conditioner). There just seems so much less to go wrong. Sort of like LCD monitors, especially ones with LED backlights and external power bricks.
Aha, excellent insight. So the lease shifts the incentives for backing claims. The leasor is a single entity that can find the actual lifetime of the battery and price accordingly, rather than each user having to verify the claims and take a gamble.
I stand fully corrected, and retract my initial shallow commentary.
OpenID and many more before it. Apparently people don't want this, especially not from the government. If private industry couldn't do it in a useful way, there's no way government can. Of course, government has the one advantage the others lacked: it can make it illegal to not use it. I look forward to having to use some crappy system which tracks my every action.
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Wow, I have a birthday this year too. What are the odds?!?
What portion of users actually control or can verify both ends of the connection to know that it's not being eavesdropped on? I submit that in almost all cases, this warning comes up when the user is connecting to some site they've merely been given a URL to. But as someone else suggested, the browser should just show the absence of a lock icon for these sites, so that at least you might get encryption, but it makes no guarantees.
I like your idea. Maybe even better, if the last time you visited the site it was an error-free secure connection, but now it's not, give a warning, otherwise be silent. Because you know the user will check for a lock the first time, see it's there, but forget to check when he visits the site again in the future, since he assumes it's still safe. Or maybe just have a more noticeable indication, like a different-colored window border or something.
There's a danger of the battery exploding in any temperature.
Since the problem here is arousal of jealousy, rather than impropriety, it perfectly shows why revealing this information of contact is the wrong thing for it to do. If you really were just chatting, then your argument supports that it shouldn't be revealed.
We used to have a single WiFi access point for three duplexes, and I'd have trouble getting a signal when my cordless phone was in use. Switched the WiFi channel around (I believe up to 11) and no more interference.
He could probably move it around during that time, and figure out some kind of directionality to the effect, to help track down the direction to look in. Then keep track of what days it doesn't happen, and see if a neighbor is gone during precisely those days. Or look for a light coming on around the time ig begins, and going off around when it ends.
It's just a stupid question from the start. You just know it's some dumb misleading linguistic trick, or something like you said, unspecified, or the fact that the birth rates aren't exactly split, or some weird twins thing, or whatever. I'll take pure mathematical puzzles any way.
So if we asked what the probability is that a coin will land on heads, tails, or on its edge, we'd get 1/3, because we don't know which it will be?
Nono, things like Rickroll, lolcats, AYBABTU, STFU are funny, and I love those. You just don't mix those with serious topics. Man, I can get myself laughing just reciting that Yoda STFU one: "Up the shut fuck". Laughing right now.
I agree, it's businesses who are running this. But I solely blame government. They are responsible for passing the laws, not businesses. Any half-intelligent business will try to have the laws changed in their favor. It's the government's job to not do so. And yeah, it's silly to think that they could resist that money, which is why it shouldn't exist in the first place. Scale it all back, dismantle most of it; it's a tumor that's grown bigger than the host, and threatens society.
I figured you'd give me the elitist reply. You apparently never considered that sometimes people are just worn out, or their vision isn't great, and things like capital letters on sentences helps them read more easily. It's easier to just write me off as one of the sheeple who just can't deal with non-conformity, who just blindly believes that capitalized sentences are good and uncapitalized ones are bad. I'll have you know that for a long while I tried writing in a less-structured manner, shunning capitalized sentences, but at some point I saw the practical value they provided. I am glad I experimented with it, because I came to see the various structures as aiding in comprehension and visual parsing, rather than accepting them as things you just do because they're convention.
I think most of us are adept enough to look up things like this pretty quickly. I found lots of useful links explaining what these things are (wife, girlfriend) and was able to follow along.
Sorry, but this seems sort of like people who get happy over a tax rebate. IP is an unjust usurping of what you can do with your own real, physical property. In this case, the fan team simply gets to do what they should have been able to do in the first place.
Because people don't take things seriously enough.
No shit. It seems that many of the sites I've been reading have dropped to the level of some unknown blog, with lots of stupid things like this. Attention: your audience isn't a bunch of third-graders who are amused by headlines like that, among other cheap attempts at making something funny.
Be easy on the guy; he's a native Romulan trying to improve his relations with Kingons, sheesh.
Hmmm, I've never heard of the nineteen fiftyties and nineteen sixtyties. Were those large tie factories with indoor farms?
You didn't make clear what you were trying to secure in the first place. Are you securing against someone doesn't exploit your game in order to get control of the server itself? Are you securing against someone cheating within the game? Securing user data from tampering? Each of these has different costs when breached.
Just wanted to let you know that your lack of capitalized sentences was what made me decide to pass on reading your post. The capital letter helps me keep my place while reading, and more easily parse the high-level structure (letters, words, sentences, paragraphs). I'm curious as to the advantages you get by not capitalizing sentences.
Yes, I look forward to this. I hope to never own a gasoline-powered vehicle (well above driving age). You've got the motors right next to the wheels, so damn simple. About all I can think of that would need maintenance is the suspension, and perhaps the body (paint, oiling joints, air conditioner). There just seems so much less to go wrong. Sort of like LCD monitors, especially ones with LED backlights and external power bricks.
Corrected that for you.
Aha, excellent insight. So the lease shifts the incentives for backing claims. The leasor is a single entity that can find the actual lifetime of the battery and price accordingly, rather than each user having to verify the claims and take a gamble.
I stand fully corrected, and retract my initial shallow commentary.
I can refuse to have any dealings with a private company. The government achieves everything by the use of force. I'd much rather have the former.
OpenID and many more before it. Apparently people don't want this, especially not from the government. If private industry couldn't do it in a useful way, there's no way government can. Of course, government has the one advantage the others lacked: it can make it illegal to not use it. I look forward to having to use some crappy system which tracks my every action.