Maybe they should just have 2 buttons "Reset settings to: Beginner Mode/Advanced Mode/Custom", and when I click "Beginner Mode", the options that are for advanced users are turned off. Like in BIOS setups there's the 2 options: "Stability/Performance" which set the other options accordingly.
Most importantly, they're going to have labor shortage?!?!? Hell I'm sure a lot of folks in USA and Europe (Western as well) wouldn't mind having jobs. Maybe the Japanese can outsource their jobs.
Forgot to say as well, they really should implement something like DNS to store those keys. Secure DNS, of course, otherwise the spammers could just easily poison them.
Now, how's the public-key server going to survive DDoSing?
Oh well, to think about it, it'll be "domain keys", so it won't be so hard to cache, I'm not sure how many domains with SMTP servers running out there, but say there are a particular server receives most of its email from a thousand particular domains, when each has 1024 bit keys, it would only take 1000 * 1024/8 = 128000 bytes = 125 KB to store the public keys of those domains (not counting overhead).
The real problem would be trying to decode all those encrypted messages. A spammer sends emails with spoofed headers (claiming to be a lot of different domains) and their CPU might overload when having to check every one of them. That would fail if he's doing it from one IP (they'd just block the IP), so he'll have to make a worm first.
I don't think the pseudonym would cover his anonimity either, on the 3rd page, he tells how he missed his connection flight, took another one (that went to a different destination airport) and had to pay $60 for a taxi, that he'd ask the agency to refund. So, the HR folks can just look up which recent interviewee requested a $60 transportation refund and they'll know his name and everything else there is to know about him..
Do you feel like a bit of RegExp work? You can probably use Proxomitron to catch pages that you get from hotmail (it acts as a proxy), and rewrite the JavaScript functions, changing them to output HTML links perhaps.
So I wonder, when is Apple going to teach their sales drones, that "You're still allowed to download MP3s with this" is something that will count as an advantage of their computers. Well, those who market Linux PCs should be doing this as well, but unfortunately there aren't any major distributors with Linux PCs in computer stores (Wal-Mart isn't a computer store)
Actually, you can also change Windows so that the shortcut key ("Keyboard Navigation indicators") is always shown. In Windows 2000 this option can be found in Display Properties, Effects. In WinXP it's Display Properties - Appearance - Effects. Here's a page that shows how to find this menu item in WinXP, see the UI-51 figure.
It's also brought "adaptive menus" in MS Office, IE and Windows; the menu options you use a lot are visible, the rest are hidden until you move your mouse to the bottom of the menu, where a double arrow shows that more options are there. So if you save a document a lot but don't print so often, you see "Save..." there when you choose the File menu, but no "Print...". This works sometimes but most of times, doesn't.
I'm not sure if it jumbles up the menu options as well, putting the most used ones at the top of the menu, and the lesser used ones at the bottom. That would be very fucking un-intuitive.
I turn them off in Office, because when I'm looking for a way to do something, I hunt through the menus, and it's annoying having to click the "show more" button all the time.
But surprisingly, it is turned on for my Start Menu, and it's very practical to quickly locate the programs I use a lot. Go figure. You can also turn it for IE's Favorites menu, where it really helps when you have a disorganized list of favorites -- it shows the frequently visited sites first and hides the rest.
Doesn't Yahoo! do that, they issue a particular key (as a hidden html form element) that gets hashed with the password, I imagine they store this key in the session variables in the server.
Ah, I remember the fun trying to use tcl to create a program that can download and convert emails from the Yahoo web mailbox, the project is still in my ever-full "Pending" list, unfortunately.
Yeah, kinda strange.. they were saying 2.5 is supposed to be the development, but now it seems the devel versions as the ones with -preX affixed to it.
Anyway, the way the Linux kernel works, it's x.y.z. For the stable version, x is currently 2, y is 4 and z is 23 (I guess). If y is an odd number, it's "development", and may be unstable, might not compile and should interest only programmers. If y is an even number, it's production and should work. So 2.5 was there, but the general public probably wasn't really interested in it. Of course, now they have -preX's at the end, so that's another paragraph to the rules, one which I'm not really familiar with.:)
Is it so much work to reset the computer, that you have to leave the car there? Too bad it's not like the standard PC with the reset button sitting just right there.
Wow, what about wild proxies that can log every http transaction you're making? They can also configure to be the https and become the man-in-the-middle. Here come the login names and passwords!
What about the other 50%? When I'm looking for info about my cell-phone (e.g. to learn more about its Symbian programmability), most of the 1st page of result is "Get free ringtones and logos for $PHONEMODEL!" , it pisses me off. Likewise, I sometimes like to find reviews of some camera models (when Imaging Resource or DPReview don't have them), but all I get is "Review" sites where the camera gets glorious marks (or just the salesman intro paragraph) because they're trying to sell you the shit.
Ah, Gallery. I tried it and it punished my P-200 server by telling it to process so many pictures. I guess that's what I get from a budget solution. I use a simple self-made PHP script, IrfanView batch-makes the thumbnails, I copy the pics and thumbs onto the server with Samba (FTP would work as well, and both are better than having to use http upload, IMO), and call a script to put the new pics in MySQL.. Still got a lot to work on (add pics in album, change viewing order, comments), but it's served me well.
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Maybe they should just have 2 buttons "Reset settings to: Beginner Mode/Advanced Mode/Custom", and when I click "Beginner Mode", the options that are for advanced users are turned off. Like in BIOS setups there's the 2 options: "Stability/Performance" which set the other options accordingly.
Oops, 63 results if you put the terms in quotes, which I forgot to do. :(
Wow, 2150 matches for "brand necrophilia" in Google just now (even in German sites).. jwz is soo cool.
My god man, what sort of a person are you, experimenting to see if a link will load goatse.cx or not... :(
*sees gaping ass* -- "Yeehaw my experiment worked!"
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Their product: Yes!!
Our product: No!!
Most importantly, they're going to have labor shortage?!?!? Hell I'm sure a lot of folks in USA and Europe (Western as well) wouldn't mind having jobs. Maybe the Japanese can outsource their jobs.
Forgot to say as well, they really should implement something like DNS to store those keys. Secure DNS, of course, otherwise the spammers could just easily poison them.
Now, how's the public-key server going to survive DDoSing?
:)
Oh well, to think about it, it'll be "domain keys", so it won't be so hard to cache, I'm not sure how many domains with SMTP servers running out there, but say there are a particular server receives most of its email from a thousand particular domains, when each has 1024 bit keys, it would only take
1000 * 1024/8 = 128000 bytes = 125 KB
to store the public keys of those domains (not counting overhead).
The real problem would be trying to decode all those encrypted messages. A spammer sends emails with spoofed headers (claiming to be a lot of different domains) and their CPU might overload when having to check every one of them. That would fail if he's doing it from one IP (they'd just block the IP), so he'll have to make a worm first.
Nonetheless, exciting technology.
I don't think the pseudonym would cover his anonimity either, on the 3rd page, he tells how he missed his connection flight, took another one (that went to a different destination airport) and had to pay $60 for a taxi, that he'd ask the agency to refund. So, the HR folks can just look up which recent interviewee requested a $60 transportation refund and they'll know his name and everything else there is to know about him..
Of course, Proxomitron only runs in Windows. But Privoxy in Linux can also do RegExps, although you have to edit their filter file yourself.
Do you feel like a bit of RegExp work? You can probably use Proxomitron to catch pages that you get from hotmail (it acts as a proxy), and rewrite the JavaScript functions, changing them to output HTML links perhaps.
:)
It also has the added benefits of ad-blocking.
So I wonder, when is Apple going to teach their sales drones, that "You're still allowed to download MP3s with this" is something that will count as an advantage of their computers. Well, those who market Linux PCs should be doing this as well, but unfortunately there aren't any major distributors with Linux PCs in computer stores (Wal-Mart isn't a computer store)
Actually, you can also change Windows so that the shortcut key ("Keyboard Navigation indicators") is always shown. In Windows 2000 this option can be found in Display Properties, Effects. In WinXP it's Display Properties - Appearance - Effects. Here's a page that shows how to find this menu item in WinXP, see the UI-51 figure.
Too bad you're AC, but 2.6.0-preX means it's a pre-release of 2.6.0, not an enhancement of 2.6.0 that will go to be 2.6.1.
It's also brought "adaptive menus" in MS Office, IE and Windows; the menu options you use a lot are visible, the rest are hidden until you move your mouse to the bottom of the menu, where a double arrow shows that more options are there. So if you save a document a lot but don't print so often, you see "Save..." there when you choose the File menu, but no "Print...". This works sometimes but most of times, doesn't.
I'm not sure if it jumbles up the menu options as well, putting the most used ones at the top of the menu, and the lesser used ones at the bottom. That would be very fucking un-intuitive.
I turn them off in Office, because when I'm looking for a way to do something, I hunt through the menus, and it's annoying having to click the "show more" button all the time.
But surprisingly, it is turned on for my Start Menu, and it's very practical to quickly locate the programs I use a lot. Go figure. You can also turn it for IE's Favorites menu, where it really helps when you have a disorganized list of favorites -- it shows the frequently visited sites first and hides the rest.
Doesn't Yahoo! do that, they issue a particular key (as a hidden html form element) that gets hashed with the password, I imagine they store this key in the session variables in the server.
Ah, I remember the fun trying to use tcl to create a program that can download and convert emails from the Yahoo web mailbox, the project is still in my ever-full "Pending" list, unfortunately.
Yeah, kinda strange.. they were saying 2.5 is supposed to be the development, but now it seems the devel versions as the ones with -preX affixed to it.
:)
Anyway, the way the Linux kernel works, it's x.y.z. For the stable version, x is currently 2, y is 4 and z is 23 (I guess). If y is an odd number, it's "development", and may be unstable, might not compile and should interest only programmers. If y is an even number, it's production and should work. So 2.5 was there, but the general public probably wasn't really interested in it. Of course, now they have -preX's at the end, so that's another paragraph to the rules, one which I'm not really familiar with.
Is it so much work to reset the computer, that you have to leave the car there? Too bad it's not like the standard PC with the reset button sitting just right there.
You guys in America must really be gun-crazy..
Of course, but you think the thief was that smart?
Wow, what about wild proxies that can log every http transaction you're making? They can also configure to be the https and become the man-in-the-middle. Here come the login names and passwords!
Come on, she looks pretty hot, and we already know she's got a brain.. I'm in love..
She's swedish as well.
What about the other 50%? When I'm looking for info about my cell-phone (e.g. to learn more about its Symbian programmability), most of the 1st page of result is "Get free ringtones and logos for $PHONEMODEL!" , it pisses me off. Likewise, I sometimes like to find reviews of some camera models (when Imaging Resource or DPReview don't have them), but all I get is "Review" sites where the camera gets glorious marks (or just the salesman intro paragraph) because they're trying to sell you the shit.
Ah, Gallery. I tried it and it punished my P-200 server by telling it to process so many pictures. I guess that's what I get from a budget solution. I use a simple self-made PHP script, IrfanView batch-makes the thumbnails, I copy the pics and thumbs onto the server with Samba (FTP would work as well, and both are better than having to use http upload, IMO), and call a script to put the new pics in MySQL.. Still got a lot to work on (add pics in album, change viewing order, comments), but it's served me well.
Do you happen to be Jackie Chan? (See Rush Hour to see what I mean)