Heh, sound more like one of those godawful CSI: Miami type things. Does everything take place in a moody halflight with people wearing UV specs?
Really, I have no idea how they solve any crimes on those things. If they dropped their pen they wouldn't be able to find it in the murk that is the office lighting, never mind finding microscopic fibres or flecks of blood/paint.
I'm sure it can be determined by going and reading the source, but what is the pedigree of the USB code in the Linux/*BSD kernels?
I imagine both are written from scratch, but is there any chance there is any (perfectly legitimately copied, _if_ there is any) reference code in either?
Is there likely to be any similar exposure? What about OS X?
The trouble begins when you want to add things to it, add some services and things like that. Because of the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.
"some services", "other things"? There's nothing like a coherent, well reasoned argument - and this certainly isn't one. I could very well say the same about MS or any software. "Well, if you want to change, like, some stuff, then you end up messing up some other stuff, like that."
I would probably be much happier if Visa and Mastercard set up CA agencies and only provided anti-fraud guarantees to sites which used their own root CA. Better browser support for the layman to verify who they are connecting to would help.
Of course, if you want to be paranoid, any machine which is compromised enough to have a keylogger installed on it could also have other malware to steal client certs, implant false root CA certs, etc.
Pretty much this exact thing happened to my uncle almost 20 years ago. Wallet was stolen, got a call form the "Police" to say they had his ATM card handed in, but in order to verify his identity they needed him to give them the PIN number, and he reflexively did so. Realised he had been scammed as he put the phone down, but by the time he called the bank they had help themselves to a few hundred quid - which, needless to say, he was liable for.
Not a stupid man, PhD Biochemist. ATMs were more of a novelty then though, much like the 'Net banking services are now. User education is probably the only thing which will help.
I think other have already pointed out the ways in which this is already done, so I won't go into them again, but, if HTTPS is so good at stopping phishing then we wouldn't need anything like SiteKey crap would we. For your average Joe, they will see a little padlock and think "Hey, I'm safe!". Sure, they are having an encrypted, secure session - with a phisher.
Personally, I think it's all smoke and mirrors. It's banks just doing something to cover their ass. Then when you get ripped off they can say "we gave you secure stuff and you still gave out your details to fraudsters. you're liable now, not us".
Difficult to tell seeing as TFA is is almost completely content free, but if I was a scammer couldn't I just act as MITM with the SiteKey button to get the 'secret' image containing their magic phrase?
Microsoft might not have (blah,blah,blah)ed the guy, but they did employ him, pay him, and most importantly sign a contract with him. Signing a contract is usually a mechanism for giving up some rights in favour of gaining some kind of advantage (financial in the usual case of employment). If he signed away the right to work for a competitor within X months then he can't go work for Joe Google without breaking said contract. Mod parent down. I think the name "John Seminal" says enough about the onanistic character of the poster... And in case my anti-MS props are in doubt, I've never spent any money on any of their software (or even branded hardware). Not even MS-tax - I've always built my own PCs with no software bundles.
Of course, I'm sure that people are already using such techniques to make the opt out/in boxes for receiving marketing mailshots more obscure and convoluted than they already are:(
They have renamed Ticket Collectors at Birmingham New Street to "Revenue Protection Officers".
If only they would consider employing some of those crazily named posts of "Driver" and "Engineer" so the bloody trains don't keep breaking down, and once the train is good to go there's actually someone to get it to its destination they might not need so many "Revenue Protection Officers" because people might feel like they are paying for a decent service and not be so tempted to fare-dodge.
Your context was for "emergent artists" who could not afford studio fees, not megadrome filling prog/cock-rock dinosaurs. Maybe if you want to go and record at Abbey Road it might cost you a fair wedge, granted. If you're just starting out go record at the Cowshed instead.
And, I'm sure, in a Spinal Tap kinda way, I've used the wrong notation there, and you are picturing extremely obese/dense "Action Man"/"Barbie" figures. Doh indeed!
> Next up on the obvious channel, are fat people really heavier than skinny ones?
Only if they weigh more. I know a 6"8 guy who weighs 18 stone, and 5"6 people who weigh over 12 stone. 6"8 guy has (almost clinicially) no fat, being a bodybuilder.
That said, wrt tfa, point taken. I look forward to the dup article so that I can reply in a condescending manner to another poster;)
Given that Norway is extremely wealthy due to the vast reserves of North Sea oil that they own, has one of the highest standards of living in the world and have "one of the most advanced telecommunications networks in Europe" (http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/no. html) among other things,I think they might be a fairly important customer, yeah.
What's an alternative? Serialize the data structure
Well, it kinda works for XML. I can serialise that, pass it through a buch of funky XSLTs and end up with some neat-o HTML, PDF or text happily enough.
I suspect there is very little that needs to be changed about the shell itself. I could see some utils (yeah, maybe even builtins) which would allow you to work with applications along the lines of OLE (or whatever it is them thar windows boxes use) would be quite useful.
"The proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a Free Software implementation, such as the Samba workgroup server software."
This is a long way from (a logical conclusion that) "Microsoft Wants To Ban Publishing of Samba". Well, OK that might _want_ to, but it only precludes free/open projects from using their specifications.
The SAMBA team have not used published standards (because there weren't any) so far, so it should make no difference. Now, admittedly they might try to imply some breach of NDA or whatever after stuff is published, but that is conjecture. Stating this as an a-priori fact in the title is misleading.
Should we not make some kind of effort to at least appear to be balanced and not start name calling before the fact?
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Heh, sound more like one of those godawful CSI: Miami type things. Does everything take place in a moody halflight with people wearing UV specs?
Really, I have no idea how they solve any crimes on those things. If they dropped their pen they wouldn't be able to find it in the murk that is the office lighting, never mind finding microscopic fibres or flecks of blood/paint.
We're looking with eyes, cameras, satellites, lasers, sensors, robotic arms
<slap> You look with your eyes, cameras, satellites and lasers, not your robotic hands! And you can put your sensor away too!
icons that are tiny representations of a document itself.
... bring it on!
Oooh. This must be the mauch vaunted innovation that we hear so much of
I'm sure it can be determined by going and reading the source, but what is the pedigree of the USB code in the Linux/*BSD kernels?
I imagine both are written from scratch, but is there any chance there is any (perfectly legitimately copied, _if_ there is any) reference code in either?
Is there likely to be any similar exposure? What about OS X?
The trouble begins when you want to add things to it, add some services and things like that. Because of the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.
"some services", "other things"? There's nothing like a coherent, well reasoned argument - and this certainly isn't one. I could very well say the same about MS or any software. "Well, if you want to change, like, some stuff, then you end up messing up some other stuff, like that."
I would probably be much happier if Visa and Mastercard set up CA agencies and only provided anti-fraud guarantees to sites which used their own root CA. Better browser support for the layman to verify who they are connecting to would help.
Of course, if you want to be paranoid, any machine which is compromised enough to have a keylogger installed on it could also have other malware to steal client certs, implant false root CA certs, etc.
Pretty much this exact thing happened to my uncle almost 20 years ago. Wallet was stolen, got a call form the "Police" to say they had his ATM card handed in, but in order to verify his identity they needed him to give them the PIN number, and he reflexively did so. Realised he had been scammed as he put the phone down, but by the time he called the bank they had help themselves to a few hundred quid - which, needless to say, he was liable for.
Not a stupid man, PhD Biochemist. ATMs were more of a novelty then though, much like the 'Net banking services are now. User education is probably the only thing which will help.
I think other have already pointed out the ways in which this is already done, so I won't go into them again, but, if HTTPS is so good at stopping phishing then we wouldn't need anything like SiteKey crap would we. For your average Joe, they will see a little padlock and think "Hey, I'm safe!". Sure, they are having an encrypted, secure session - with a phisher.
Personally, I think it's all smoke and mirrors. It's banks just doing something to cover their ass. Then when you get ripped off they can say "we gave you secure stuff and you still gave out your details to fraudsters. you're liable now, not us".
Difficult to tell seeing as TFA is is almost completely content free, but if I was a scammer couldn't I just act as MITM with the SiteKey button to get the 'secret' image containing their magic phrase?
Shame my mod points just expired ...
...
Microsoft might not have (blah,blah,blah)ed the guy, but they did employ him, pay him, and most importantly sign a contract with him. Signing a contract is usually a mechanism for giving up some rights in favour of gaining some kind of advantage (financial in the usual case of employment). If he signed away the right to work for a competitor within X months then he can't go work for Joe Google without breaking said contract. Mod parent down. I think the name "John Seminal" says enough about the onanistic character of the poster
And in case my anti-MS props are in doubt, I've never spent any money on any of their software (or even branded hardware). Not even MS-tax - I've always built my own PCs with no software bundles.
Wholeheartedly agree. Just a shame the music is pants :(
Let's face it, no one other than tickers are going buy any of this.
If the guys who did the Citroen commercial http://www.theembassyvfx.com/ don't get to do this film then there is NO justice.
Er, you can bind to LDAP in multiple ways y'know. Including Kerberos.
Of course, I'm sure that people are already using such techniques to make the opt out/in boxes for receiving marketing mailshots more obscure and convoluted than they already are :(
They have renamed Ticket Collectors at Birmingham New Street to "Revenue Protection Officers".
If only they would consider employing some of those crazily named posts of "Driver" and "Engineer" so the bloody trains don't keep breaking down, and once the train is good to go there's actually someone to get it to its destination they might not need so many "Revenue Protection Officers" because people might feel like they are paying for a decent service and not be so tempted to fare-dodge.
I'm still in touch with some of the guys from Leppard - this is PMSL funny phrase. Many thanks for the laugh and can I use it?
Heh, sure thing.
Your context was for "emergent artists" who could not afford studio fees, not megadrome filling prog/cock-rock dinosaurs. Maybe if you want to go and record at Abbey Road it might cost you a fair wedge, granted. If you're just starting out go record at the Cowshed instead.
upfront studio time fees (well over 5k a day for a cheap studio)
5k a day?!?!? The studio where I work is 300 quid a day. If you're not getting change from 500 quid you're being conned mate.
And, I'm sure, in a Spinal Tap kinda way, I've used the wrong notation there, and you are picturing extremely obese/dense "Action Man"/"Barbie" figures. Doh indeed!
> Next up on the obvious channel, are fat people really heavier than skinny ones?
;)
Only if they weigh more. I know a 6"8 guy who weighs 18 stone, and 5"6 people who weigh over 12 stone. 6"8 guy has (almost clinicially) no fat, being a bodybuilder.
That said, wrt tfa, point taken. I look forward to the dup article so that I can reply in a condescending manner to another poster
Given that Norway is extremely wealthy due to the vast reserves of North Sea oil that they own, has one of the highest standards of living in the world and have "one of the most advanced telecommunications networks in Europe" (http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/no. html) among other things,I think they might be a fairly important customer, yeah.
What's an alternative? Serialize the data structure
Well, it kinda works for XML. I can serialise that, pass it through a buch of funky XSLTs and end up with some neat-o HTML, PDF or text happily enough.
I suspect there is very little that needs to be changed about the shell itself. I could see some utils (yeah, maybe even builtins) which would allow you to work with applications along the lines of OLE (or whatever it is them thar windows boxes use) would be quite useful.
Maybe Brown hat?
Or Ass-hat?
IMHO the title of TFA is misleading.
"The proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a Free Software implementation, such as the Samba workgroup server software."
This is a long way from (a logical conclusion that) "Microsoft Wants To Ban Publishing of Samba". Well, OK that might _want_ to, but it only precludes free/open projects from using their specifications.
The SAMBA team have not used published standards (because there weren't any) so far, so it should make no difference. Now, admittedly they might try to imply some breach of NDA or whatever after stuff is published, but that is conjecture. Stating this as an a-priori fact in the title is misleading.
Should we not make some kind of effort to at least appear to be balanced and not start name calling before the fact?
Huh, thats what they said to the X Windowing System logo designer and look what they got.