"For authenticated file transfers, is there any reason to use ftp instead of the ssh file transfer protocol (sftp)?"
Unfortunately there's a lot of software that simply does not support ssh/scp/sftp and will only work with FTP. Joomla is an example of a CMS that uses FTP to update template files and such that the web server can not write to. In this case you create an FTP server that listens on 127.0.0.1:21 and the PHP script, run under the web server user, FTPs to the host and logs in under a different user to upload the changes.
I've also got some business software that I run on my local machine that FTPs to my web server to upload new files. I really wish it would support ssh but it doesn't.
Maybe ssh tunnels are the way to go for such situations ? Either way FTP is still used for such circumstances. These programmers really need to get with the times.
"because if any of those stresses caused a hardware glitch that overwrites or erases the log, you get to tell the FAA that you really don't know why that plane crashed. Oops."
No problem. We'll just tell them that CowboyNeil shot it down.
Because the next thing you know they'll strip naked and trick you into kissing them on the lips. Soon after you'll be escorted away by two police officers who will charge you with sexual assault on a minor while everyone else in the high school points and laughs at you.
If card counting is done right the Casino has no way of knowing except for your unusually high winnings. It's also not considered cheating since you're just using your brain. Though they can, and will, ask you to leave at any time for any reason, of course.
Anyway these days most casinos use several decks together and discard / replace them before all the cards are played in order to make card counting useless. So you're right, the Casinos will enjoy nothing but extra earnings as a result of the movies.
"As much as the privacy advocates are going to hate this (and please, somebody tell me WHY without using a slippery slope argument),"
Agreed. That slippery slope argument really pisses me off. A few months back I was hiking in the woods and, thanks to my GPS device, I was alerted moments before stepping onto a slippery slope and sliding to my doom.
The more people we can save from slippery slopes the better. Surely any privacy advocates who say that such technology is a slippery slope simply have never had a near-death-from-slippery-slope experience themselves. They really need to STFU.
Or they could just get an AdSense account and put a tiny little "Paid advertisement" section at the very bottom of pages etc. and completely forget about it. No politics. No making deals with other advertisers. No pandering to the demands of advertisers etc. Plus, the ads would end up being extremely targeted and on-topic, plain-text only and non obtrusive.
It wouldn't make as much as selling banner spots to the highest bidder etc. that's for sure. But it would probably generate enough to pay the bills which is what really matters.
I would give Astrology some merit if it weren't for the countless scientific studies that consistently found it to be without merit. Astrology, like Psychics, employs simple psychological tricks in order to get the believer to believe that the horoscope applies to them, when in fact what it says could really be applied to anyone.
Astrology isn't "spiritualism". We're not talking about religion or believing in a higher power. We're talking about parlor tricks. Even if the alignment of the stars and the planets did have an effect on the world (and it would be ignorant not to investigate the possibility, I'm certainly not saying that science has proven otherwise), astrology certainly has not demonstrated any such phenomenon.
"I have all my different cards in my wallet, which is a single point of failure. I'm more likely to lose my wallet than only one card from it. I'm completely fscked if I lose my wallet."
See I don't.
I carry my public health card in case there is an emergency. And these are very easy to replace as we have to renew them every 2 years anyway. My bank card if I intend on purchasing things (which usually I am) and that's it. I don't drive but if I did I'd also have a driver's license if I needed it. I NEVER carry my social insurance card (similar to social security in the US). And *IF* I need one of my credit cards while I'm out I will bring ONE with me, but otherwise it's kept at home. But I think carrying all of your credit cards, bank card, social security/insurance etc. in your wallet is a bad idea.
You can call me paranoid, but it's not really an inconvenience to take 2 seconds think "what do I need while I'm out ?" and only bring the necessary items. People who keep absolutely everything in their wallet do so purely out of convenience.
My problem is that it's a single point of failure.
It's my understanding that they want to tie bank accounts, driver's license, social insurance / security (I'm Canadian), passport etc. to one single card.
If you lose this card you are completely fsck'd. And if someone wants to steal your identity all they have to do is either steal or forge your card. And before people say that forging cards is theoretically as difficult as forging a credit card I'll just point out that that's extremely little comfort. Forging credit cards is one of the most common credit card scams. All you need is an account number and the PIN and you can make a card to use in any ATM. It won't fool a person but it's not meant to. Since ATM machines can read credit cards all it needs is the magnetic stripe with the account # + PIN encoded on it. With systems designed in such a brain-dead way with a complete lack of thought put into security the idea of a real ID scares the crap out of me because idiots will be designing them and more idiots will be assuring the population that they're hack-proof.
and it wasn't too long ago that things like your shopping habits couldn't be private because the people who sold to you all knew you personally.
True. But there's a big difference between your neighbourhood grocer / friend knowing what kind of food you eat and having a database filled with 5 years worth of indexed / searcheable shopping history that can be handed over to any interested party that you don't even know about.
If they work for me then I wish they would give me back my tax dollars and fire a cop. The CCRA* just laughed and hung up on me when I asked them about that.
I'm also not all that interested in knowing what the local police do. I imagine that watching fully grown men in uniform chug bottles of maple syrup and eat donuts loses it's appeal rather quickly.
Of course 30 years ago I wouldn't have minded having a bit of transparency on Margaret Trudeau...
* Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency - similar to the IRS
Actually this could be a very sweet deal for developers.
Now, I didn't read the details so maybe apple will prevent developers from selling their apps direct AND going through the App store... but it seems to me that even with Apple taking a 30% cut, the exposure that the App store gives could provide the developers with WAY more sales than they could manage to get going solo.
It's kind of like the Record Labels and Recording Artists. The only difference being that recording artists don't get to keep 70% of their sales and they usually take huge cash advances to record their albums that they have to pay back with absolutely no guarantee that they'll sell enough records to pay it back plus they're in a contract that promises the label X number of further records.
No I don't have a problem with Apple's App store as long as they're providing a valuable service for the developers and on the surface it appears that they are. When they take the majority of the sales and lock the developers into contracts promising exclusive deals with the App store for years to come THEN I'll say the developers are better going solo. To me this seems like the high-exposure radio station of indie software marketing.
We seem to be screwed for broadband no matter what.
Here in Windsor, Ontario we have Cogeco for Cable and then Sympatico (Bell) for DSL. You CAN go with smaller ISPs for DSL but the lines are still owned by Bell. I was doing that for a while and the service was extremely crummy. MNSI told me that the phone lines in my area were old and problematic and that they had notified Bell to come check them out. Bell never did. I ended up switching back to Cable but there's only one choice: Cogeco. Which I believe is owned by Rogers.
It seems like telecommunication is extremely susceptible to monopolies due to the difficult and expensive nature of laying infrastructure. I loathe big government and I'm a capitalist, but it's so hard to introduce free market competition into the telecommunications industry due to the fact that the infrastructure is owned by a very limited number of huge corporations. I wish there was an answer to this that doesn't involve government regulation but I'm not sure one exists.
'07 was the first year in a very long time that I actually went to theater. I can't stand the theaters and usually I prefer to sit at home in my comfortable living room free of people talking and able to skip the previews if I want to etc.
But 2007 had so many movies that were actually worth seeing. The Simpsons Movie, Transformers, The Order of the Phoenix, The Bourne Ultimatum etc. I am not surprised at all that ticket sales were up. It was a very unusual year in terms of quality of "blockbusters".
Of course every one of the movies that I listed come from a successful "franchise". And we often complain here on/. about rehashing and sequels etc. It's admittedly much more difficult to capitalize on something entirely novel. But I am of the opinion that if you give your customers what you want you can't fail. Last year definitely managed to get me out to the theater and in '06 I would have laughed my ass off if you told me I'd not only go out to the theater but would do so several times in the upcoming year.
No, Godwin's point was that as a discussion grows larger the possibility of Nazi or Hitler being mentioned increases.
My post was not intended as flaimbait or a personal attack. I was pointed out an observation and attempted to do it with a humorous tone but obviously it failed.
When Godwin's law is invoked it generally provokes a strong discussion about the fact that it was invoked and whether or not it was necessary. Did I feed it: absolutely. Shame on me. Was it inevitable anyway ? I feel that yes, it was.
Good god, if this is corruption then about 95% of the people in middle and upper management should be in jail.
Hello... this is slashdot! You should change that number to 100%.
Haven't you ever seen Office Space ? ALL middle and upper management are just like Bill Lumbergh, and if they're not we will not rest one second until we can find a way to make it somehow so.
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"For authenticated file transfers, is there any reason to use ftp instead of the ssh file transfer protocol (sftp)?"
Unfortunately there's a lot of software that simply does not support ssh/scp/sftp and will only work with FTP. Joomla is an example of a CMS that uses FTP to update template files and such that the web server can not write to. In this case you create an FTP server that listens on 127.0.0.1:21 and the PHP script, run under the web server user, FTPs to the host and logs in under a different user to upload the changes.
I've also got some business software that I run on my local machine that FTPs to my web server to upload new files. I really wish it would support ssh but it doesn't.
Maybe ssh tunnels are the way to go for such situations ? Either way FTP is still used for such circumstances. These programmers really need to get with the times.
"because if any of those stresses caused a hardware glitch that overwrites or erases the log, you get to tell the FAA that you really don't know why that plane crashed. Oops."
No problem. We'll just tell them that CowboyNeil shot it down.
Because the next thing you know they'll strip naked and trick you into kissing them on the lips. Soon after you'll be escorted away by two police officers who will charge you with sexual assault on a minor while everyone else in the high school points and laughs at you.
Trust me.
They're not Leprechauns, idiot.
They're trolls.
Duh.
If card counting is done right the Casino has no way of knowing except for your unusually high winnings. It's also not considered cheating since you're just using your brain. Though they can, and will, ask you to leave at any time for any reason, of course.
Anyway these days most casinos use several decks together and discard / replace them before all the cards are played in order to make card counting useless. So you're right, the Casinos will enjoy nothing but extra earnings as a result of the movies.
"If I ever start an online mag, I'm going present one sentence per page just for fun."
May I please have your address ? It's for informational purposes-only. I *promise*.
"How long before they start building man-made islands in cute shapes?"
Soon, I hope. I've always wanted my own Tux-shaped island.
"As much as the privacy advocates are going to hate this (and please, somebody tell me WHY without using a slippery slope argument),"
Agreed. That slippery slope argument really pisses me off. A few months back I was hiking in the woods and, thanks to my GPS device, I was alerted moments before stepping onto a slippery slope and sliding to my doom.
The more people we can save from slippery slopes the better. Surely any privacy advocates who say that such technology is a slippery slope simply have never had a near-death-from-slippery-slope experience themselves. They really need to STFU.
Or they could just get an AdSense account and put a tiny little "Paid advertisement" section at the very bottom of pages etc. and completely forget about it. No politics. No making deals with other advertisers. No pandering to the demands of advertisers etc. Plus, the ads would end up being extremely targeted and on-topic, plain-text only and non obtrusive.
It wouldn't make as much as selling banner spots to the highest bidder etc. that's for sure. But it would probably generate enough to pay the bills which is what really matters.
I would give Astrology some merit if it weren't for the countless scientific studies that consistently found it to be without merit. Astrology, like Psychics, employs simple psychological tricks in order to get the believer to believe that the horoscope applies to them, when in fact what it says could really be applied to anyone.
Astrology isn't "spiritualism". We're not talking about religion or believing in a higher power. We're talking about parlor tricks. Even if the alignment of the stars and the planets did have an effect on the world (and it would be ignorant not to investigate the possibility, I'm certainly not saying that science has proven otherwise), astrology certainly has not demonstrated any such phenomenon.
"I have all my different cards in my wallet, which is a single point of failure. I'm more likely to lose my wallet than only one card from it. I'm completely fscked if I lose my wallet."
See I don't.
I carry my public health card in case there is an emergency. And these are very easy to replace as we have to renew them every 2 years anyway. My bank card if I intend on purchasing things (which usually I am) and that's it. I don't drive but if I did I'd also have a driver's license if I needed it. I NEVER carry my social insurance card (similar to social security in the US). And *IF* I need one of my credit cards while I'm out I will bring ONE with me, but otherwise it's kept at home. But I think carrying all of your credit cards, bank card, social security/insurance etc. in your wallet is a bad idea.
You can call me paranoid, but it's not really an inconvenience to take 2 seconds think "what do I need while I'm out ?" and only bring the necessary items. People who keep absolutely everything in their wallet do so purely out of convenience.
My problem is that it's a single point of failure.
It's my understanding that they want to tie bank accounts, driver's license, social insurance / security (I'm Canadian), passport etc. to one single card.
If you lose this card you are completely fsck'd. And if someone wants to steal your identity all they have to do is either steal or forge your card. And before people say that forging cards is theoretically as difficult as forging a credit card I'll just point out that that's extremely little comfort. Forging credit cards is one of the most common credit card scams. All you need is an account number and the PIN and you can make a card to use in any ATM. It won't fool a person but it's not meant to. Since ATM machines can read credit cards all it needs is the magnetic stripe with the account # + PIN encoded on it. With systems designed in such a brain-dead way with a complete lack of thought put into security the idea of a real ID scares the crap out of me because idiots will be designing them and more idiots will be assuring the population that they're hack-proof.
and it wasn't too long ago that things like your shopping habits couldn't be private because the people who sold to you all knew you personally.
True. But there's a big difference between your neighbourhood grocer / friend knowing what kind of food you eat and having a database filled with 5 years worth of indexed / searcheable shopping history that can be handed over to any interested party that you don't even know about.
If they work for me then I wish they would give me back my tax dollars and fire a cop. The CCRA* just laughed and hung up on me when I asked them about that.
...
I'm also not all that interested in knowing what the local police do. I imagine that watching fully grown men in uniform chug bottles of maple syrup and eat donuts loses it's appeal rather quickly.
Of course 30 years ago I wouldn't have minded having a bit of transparency on Margaret Trudeau
* Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency - similar to the IRS
Why bother? There's javascript and flash already.
Yeah but those technologies don't help Microsoft improve their position in the market place.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of Microsoft !
Actually this could be a very sweet deal for developers.
... but it seems to me that even with Apple taking a 30% cut, the exposure that the App store gives could provide the developers with WAY more sales than they could manage to get going solo.
Now, I didn't read the details so maybe apple will prevent developers from selling their apps direct AND going through the App store
It's kind of like the Record Labels and Recording Artists. The only difference being that recording artists don't get to keep 70% of their sales and they usually take huge cash advances to record their albums that they have to pay back with absolutely no guarantee that they'll sell enough records to pay it back plus they're in a contract that promises the label X number of further records.
No I don't have a problem with Apple's App store as long as they're providing a valuable service for the developers and on the surface it appears that they are. When they take the majority of the sales and lock the developers into contracts promising exclusive deals with the App store for years to come THEN I'll say the developers are better going solo. To me this seems like the high-exposure radio station of indie software marketing.
We seem to be screwed for broadband no matter what.
Here in Windsor, Ontario we have Cogeco for Cable and then Sympatico (Bell) for DSL. You CAN go with smaller ISPs for DSL but the lines are still owned by Bell. I was doing that for a while and the service was extremely crummy. MNSI told me that the phone lines in my area were old and problematic and that they had notified Bell to come check them out. Bell never did. I ended up switching back to Cable but there's only one choice: Cogeco. Which I believe is owned by Rogers.
It seems like telecommunication is extremely susceptible to monopolies due to the difficult and expensive nature of laying infrastructure. I loathe big government and I'm a capitalist, but it's so hard to introduce free market competition into the telecommunications industry due to the fact that the infrastructure is owned by a very limited number of huge corporations. I wish there was an answer to this that doesn't involve government regulation but I'm not sure one exists.
pfft... speak for yourself. I do it to get laid.
"If she's your wife and she hasn't introduced you to her "toys" yet, you're missing out on half the fun :P"
... but I'm not really into the whole "pain" thing. Nothing against anyone who is.
She tried to
Only on /. can a racy joke about robotic development and what women do alone in their bedrooms get modded "Interesting".
I ordered one of these for my wife as a gift a little while ago. She gave me the weirdest "freaked out" look.
...
Yeah kind of like your expression right now
Screw you!
... you use BSD or Linux ?
Wait, you forgot to mention
'07 was the first year in a very long time that I actually went to theater. I can't stand the theaters and usually I prefer to sit at home in my comfortable living room free of people talking and able to skip the previews if I want to etc.
/. about rehashing and sequels etc. It's admittedly much more difficult to capitalize on something entirely novel. But I am of the opinion that if you give your customers what you want you can't fail. Last year definitely managed to get me out to the theater and in '06 I would have laughed my ass off if you told me I'd not only go out to the theater but would do so several times in the upcoming year.
But 2007 had so many movies that were actually worth seeing. The Simpsons Movie, Transformers, The Order of the Phoenix, The Bourne Ultimatum etc. I am not surprised at all that ticket sales were up. It was a very unusual year in terms of quality of "blockbusters".
Of course every one of the movies that I listed come from a successful "franchise". And we often complain here on
No, Godwin's point was that as a discussion grows larger the possibility of Nazi or Hitler being mentioned increases.
My post was not intended as flaimbait or a personal attack. I was pointed out an observation and attempted to do it with a humorous tone but obviously it failed.
When Godwin's law is invoked it generally provokes a strong discussion about the fact that it was invoked and whether or not it was necessary. Did I feed it: absolutely. Shame on me. Was it inevitable anyway ? I feel that yes, it was.
Good god, if this is corruption then about 95% of the people in middle and upper management should be in jail.
... this is slashdot! You should change that number to 100%.
Hello
Haven't you ever seen Office Space ? ALL middle and upper management are just like Bill Lumbergh, and if they're not we will not rest one second until we can find a way to make it somehow so.
Sheesh!