At University of Michigan they use kerberos for (almost) everything. Basically only the kerberos server has the passwords. I believe that when you want to log into a machine you actually get a ticket from the kerberos server, and the ticket is what is used for authentication.
As a user I find it pretty convenient. I think it's pretty straightforward from an admin standpoint too, but I wouldn't know from experience.
Maybe a solution would be to have standardized EULA's. The open source community already has this with the GPL, but it would work for closed source software as well.
Then the EULA you see could say:
This software is subject to the Standard Commercial Software EULA, with the following x modifications.
And then any tweaks to the standard could follow. Then people would only have to be familiar with a couple standard ones, and read through the modifications listed.
Seriously, I'm pretty sure they already to this here at University of Michigan. At least the professors SAY they do. I suppose it could be a bluff, but I don't see why they wouldn't do it.
According to the article, the issue only comes up if you are prompted to save/download a file, and choose to open it from it's current location. The file may appear to be a.txt or whatever, but if you open it from its current location you can't know for sure whether it's an executable.
The suggested solution is to never open from the current location. Choose save instead, which will reveal the real file type.
As a student, there's always a bunch of books I want/need but can't afford. Personally, my plan is to make a wish-list on amazon.com to point my family to.
I can verify that. I had a job unloading the trucks for a couple weeks. A lot of times things would be piled too high, and the only way to get things down was to topple a stack. The supervisors turned a blind eye towards this sort of mishandling packages, but wouldn't tolerate people going too slowly.
I wouldn't ship anything fragile through them without insuring it.
Now I may be hopelessly naive or idealistic, but wouldn't the goal of selling HDCP compatible devices permit the disclosure of the system? Or can "they" really, legally, absolutely, limit the entry of independent 3rd-party hardware manufacturers to the game?
As long as they don't deliberately leave backdoors in their display to give end-users access to the raw digital stream (which would make the display itself a circumvention device), they should be in compliance with DMCA, right?
Isn't this how css was broken? One of the (licensed) manufacturers goofed up, and left an encryption key in the clear on a dvd?
I'm not saying that makes it right to restrict other companies from making compatible products, but I can understand the hesitancy.
Netscape?? Surely you jest. Internet Explorer is one of the few really nice apps that Microsoft has. Using Netscape is... painful.
Funny story- I was trying to make a cross-browser javascript pull-down menu system. I basically had to write all the "low-level" functions twice. Once for each broser. I got it working in internet explorer with little trouble.
Under Netscape, not only couldn't I get it working, but the script would COMPLETELY kill Netscape. I think it crashed some shared resource, because under windows Netscape wouldn't work again until I rebooted. Under Linux you had to kill the shared library.
I'm glad I'm not the only person this happens to. The worst is after I've been programming all day, and I dream about programming. It's usually something that makes no sense whatsoever, like trying to write a program that will cook hash browns.
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At University of Michigan they use kerberos for (almost) everything. Basically only the kerberos server has the passwords. I believe that when you want to log into a machine you actually get a ticket from the kerberos server, and the ticket is what is used for authentication.
As a user I find it pretty convenient. I think it's pretty straightforward from an admin standpoint too, but I wouldn't know from experience.
Maybe a solution would be to have standardized EULA's. The open source community already has this with the GPL, but it would work for closed source software as well.
Then the EULA you see could say:
This software is subject to the Standard Commercial Software EULA, with the following x modifications.
And then any tweaks to the standard could follow. Then people would only have to be familiar with a couple standard ones, and read through the modifications listed.
Wow, they learned how to use diff?? :)
Seriously, I'm pretty sure they already to this here at University of Michigan. At least the professors SAY they do. I suppose it could be a bluff, but I don't see why they wouldn't do it.
Does this mean I have to sit through all the football between commercials now, instead of just looking online?
Dammit.
According to the article, the issue only comes up if you are prompted to save/download a file, and choose to open it from it's current location. The file may appear to be a .txt or whatever, but if you open it from its current location you can't know for sure whether it's an executable.
The suggested solution is to never open from the current location. Choose save instead, which will reveal the real file type.
From what I've heard, no x-box games will be ported to PC. Microsoft requires that anyone who develops for x-box agrees not to port it to x-box.
I think the issue is that they don't want developers making 'pc games' for the x-box; They want them to make console games.
Let me clarify- I like to use amazon for browsing, reading reviews, etc. In this case I'm also making use of their wish list feature.
I generally make purchases from a physical bookstore or a different site. Anyone know of a good book site that has a wish-list feature?
As a student, there's always a bunch of books I want/need but can't afford. Personally, my plan is to make a wish-list on amazon.com to point my family to.
I can verify that. I had a job unloading the trucks for a couple weeks. A lot of times things would be piled too high, and the only way to get things down was to topple a stack. The supervisors turned a blind eye towards this sort of mishandling packages, but wouldn't tolerate people going too slowly.
I wouldn't ship anything fragile through them without insuring it.
You'd be slapped silly with Microsoft lawsuits long before any such product got out the door.
Isn't this how css was broken? One of the (licensed) manufacturers goofed up, and left an encryption key in the clear on a dvd?
I'm not saying that makes it right to restrict other companies from making compatible products, but I can understand the hesitancy.
Netscape?? Surely you jest. Internet Explorer is one of the few really nice apps that Microsoft has. Using Netscape is... painful.
Funny story- I was trying to make a cross-browser javascript pull-down menu system. I basically had to write all the "low-level" functions twice. Once for each broser. I got it working in internet explorer with little trouble.
Under Netscape, not only couldn't I get it working, but the script would COMPLETELY kill Netscape. I think it crashed some shared resource, because under windows Netscape wouldn't work again until I rebooted. Under Linux you had to kill the shared library.
No, no, no. "Hail to the king, baby" is a line from the end of Army of Darkness. I hope you brought your asbestos shield...
I'm glad I'm not the only person this happens to. The worst is after I've been programming all day, and I dream about programming. It's usually something that makes no sense whatsoever, like trying to write a program that will cook hash browns.