I wonder if OFT is also looking at Dells practice of advertising incredibly cheap computers then trying to convince people who call up to order that they need to pay an extra £100 to upgrade the RAM from 256Mb to 512Mb if they want to use broadband, because this PC they advertised "will only work with dialup". Or trying to upsell to the next model up, because this PC is end of line stock, and will "not work anymore in six months time".
Usually you don't buy NAV with new computer. You get free time limited version.
I suspect it is even a negative cost. Norton pays Dell to preinstall the trial version of NAV on all the PCs they ship. This is not the case for Windows, Office and any other MS software that comes bundled with business PCs.
You will be on nobody's list if you give them realistic schedules.
On the contrary, in my experience companies tend to come back to you to ask you to clean up the mess made by the low bidding cowboys when they realise that you were just being honest with them. At this stage you can often get away with jacking up the rates too, as they have made that realisation that you get what you are willing to pay for.
I wonder why eBay believes Google Checkout is unsafe, unreliable and/or inconvenient?
Admittedly Google do lack a track record as a financial services provider, which is one of their listed criteria. I'm more interested in why nochex is on that banned list, as they have been around as long as PayPal and are regulated as a financial service by the UK Government. Their fees are reportedly better than Paypal's, maybe that's how they ended up on the list.
As far as the article goes, I do think that filtering based on either first or last name is a bad idea but using both together from a list of known terrorists to do a little more checking doesn't seem bad to me.
fyi, israel kills *MANY* more palestinians than palestinians kill israelites.
i think it is on the order of 2-1 or 3-1.
It's more like 4-1. But if you think that's bad, the US:Iraq ratio is of the order of 1000-1. Didn't we go there to protect the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein?
If you can guarantee 500 people buying things, then this is a definite increase in volume.
Short term, but what happens to sale volume over the following weeks when those 500 people already have what they want, and on other occassions when they mob your competition?
how does using spaces resolve the technical issues?
It solves the technical issues because a space is always one character wide. Having different tab-width settings than other people on the same project causes problems when statements are split over multiple lines.
Forget about sueing for slander. Such cases are drawn out and expensive, and Microsoft can certainly afford better lawyers than you can.
A safer approach would be to bill them for your time sorting out the problems they have created for your clients, then when they don't pay, file a claim against them (does the US have something like the small claims process here in the UK? - it is cheap, no lawyer required, and often large companies don't bother turning up for the hearing and lose by default).
Seeing as the Kyoto protocol excludes China and India, signing it would just make us export more pollution-causing industry over there. (Not In My Backyard) I'm sure those countries will care deeply about the environment... yeah right.
China and India have both demonstrated that they do care deeply about the environment, by reducing their carbon emissions despite not yet being bound by the Kyoto Protocol. What has the US done?
Yes, but were they idiots for using a movie quote for the key as the summary suggests, or were they idiots for assuming that Flash is secure? I've seen a lot of "password protected" Flash apps out there, so there should be a lesson in this article, but the Slashdot summary doesn't exactly highlight the real problem. It is trivial to decompile Flash, folks. Your encryption keys are right there in plain text for all to see.
I don't know what information WGA is sending back to Microsoft, but it would be trivial to redirect that to a third party website and collect the data yourself. From what I can guess after looking at a hex dump, the information potentially includes user names, a list of processes running on the machine, details about the BIOS and other information that could be useful to crackers.
Interestingly, very little of the information WGATray.exe reads from your system seems particularly relevant for checking for valid licenses. A lot of it does seem to be valuable information for a company to get hold of for planning future marketing and development efforts though, especially when their competitiors do not have the same opportunity to quietly collect this information.
Checking the amount of Physical Memory and getting the make and model of your PC are some of the things I've noticed WGATray.exe seems to do (looking at the system calls it makes and registry entries it read in a hex dump). It also reads the Performance Counters, which hardly seems neccesary for its stated purpose, unless the real reason for this tool is to allow Microsoft to build a database of installed systems to give them a competitive advantage when deciding how processor intensive their new products can afford to be without losing too many customers. For a convicted monopolist, this seems like a dodgy thing to be caught doing.
It also calls GetComputerName and GetTokenInformation (which is a method of getting the userid of the currently logged in user). This certainly raises some privacy concerns, I can only assume that these are among the information they send to Microsoft.
So, like SCO, Microsoft is going after its own customers with this one. The pirates never installed WGA in the first place, its only people who, like myself, disabled update KB905474 after I got sick of having to reboot my PC again a few minutes after I switched it on every Tuesday morning, because Microsoft had issued yet another "critical update" to WGA that requires a reboot after installing.
The real issue is that we need some reforms in the GJ system.
Reforms, as in dropping them in favour of pre-trial hearings in front of a judge, like the rest of the world and half of the states have already done?
The real issue is that deciding whether the prosecution has a prima facie case requires knowledge of the law, which a grand jury does not have. So in most cases, the grand jury just ends up allowing cases to go to trial, because that is the correct thing to do when there is uncertainty.
So what you are saying is that Libertarianism really is a marginal political viewpoint. Why then, are you trying to impose your marginal viewpoint on the state of New Hampshire by all moving there en mass in the hope of subverting the electoral process?
they seek to stop the threat of DNS poisoning and passive-snooping man-in-the-middle impersonation of a users' session by tagging cookies in the client's browser with an IP address rather than a domain name, then redirecting users from the DNS-resolved websites to that same IP (only to send their cookies), and ensuring (on the machine pointed to by that IP) that the IP address of the connection which was sent the redirection and the IP address that is now sending back the cookie to match up.
OK, so as I expected, it does not, as the Newwork World article claims, prevent an attack where someone hijacks your wifi connection to direct you through their own network where they can spoof addresses.
Either I launch console emacs, or I launch the X version of emacs
They're the same binary.
even the GUI version of emacs is still pretty heavily a console application.
How do you figure that? It uses an X window, it has menu bars, a toolbar, tooltips, it displays images. What is it in your mind that differentiates a GUI app from a console app?
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Nor indeed does "real musical value" have anything to do with genre, or whether music is "non-manufactured".
Via going into a branch of the bank and presenting the same level of ID that they required when you opened your account.
The trust problem you describe goes away if bank issues its own client certificates to customers. The bank does trust itself doesn't it?
I wonder if OFT is also looking at Dells practice of advertising incredibly cheap computers then trying to convince people who call up to order that they need to pay an extra £100 to upgrade the RAM from 256Mb to 512Mb if they want to use broadband, because this PC they advertised "will only work with dialup". Or trying to upsell to the next model up, because this PC is end of line stock, and will "not work anymore in six months time".
Usually you don't buy NAV with new computer. You get free time limited version.
I suspect it is even a negative cost. Norton pays Dell to preinstall the trial version of NAV on all the PCs they ship. This is not the case for Windows, Office and any other MS software that comes bundled with business PCs.
You will be on nobody's list if you give them realistic schedules.
On the contrary, in my experience companies tend to come back to you to ask you to clean up the mess made by the low bidding cowboys when they realise that you were just being honest with them. At this stage you can often get away with jacking up the rates too, as they have made that realisation that you get what you are willing to pay for.
I wonder why eBay believes Google Checkout is unsafe, unreliable and/or inconvenient?
Admittedly Google do lack a track record as a financial services provider, which is one of their listed criteria. I'm more interested in why nochex is on that banned list, as they have been around as long as PayPal and are regulated as a financial service by the UK Government. Their fees are reportedly better than Paypal's, maybe that's how they ended up on the list.
As far as the article goes, I do think that filtering based on either first or last name is a bad idea but using both together from a list of known terrorists to do a little more checking doesn't seem bad to me.
Scottish gentlemen called Timothy might disagree with you there.
fyi, israel kills *MANY* more palestinians than palestinians kill israelites.
i think it is on the order of 2-1 or 3-1.
It's more like 4-1. But if you think that's bad, the US:Iraq ratio is of the order of 1000-1. Didn't we go there to protect the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein?
How about telling me which other group as a whole has suffered more because of the US?
Latin Americans. Same deal with the dictators, CIA managed coups etc.
Actually, what we might see is shops specializing in mob-selling.
Someone once tried to sell me Amway (or whatever name they're using this week) on this basis.
If you can guarantee 500 people buying things, then this is a definite increase in volume.
Short term, but what happens to sale volume over the following weeks when those 500 people already have what they want, and on other occassions when they mob your competition?
If you got a couple hundred people to go down to your local Best Buy, they'd probably call the cops.
Why the future tense?
how does using spaces resolve the technical issues?
It solves the technical issues because a space is always one character wide. Having different tab-width settings than other people on the same project causes problems when statements are split over multiple lines.
Forget about sueing for slander. Such cases are drawn out and expensive, and Microsoft can certainly afford better lawyers than you can.
A safer approach would be to bill them for your time sorting out the problems they have created for your clients, then when they don't pay, file a claim against them (does the US have something like the small claims process here in the UK? - it is cheap, no lawyer required, and often large companies don't bother turning up for the hearing and lose by default).
Seeing as the Kyoto protocol excludes China and India, signing it would just make us export more pollution-causing industry over there. (Not In My Backyard) I'm sure those countries will care deeply about the environment... yeah right.
China and India have both demonstrated that they do care deeply about the environment, by reducing their carbon emissions despite not yet being bound by the Kyoto Protocol. What has the US done?
Yes, but were they idiots for using a movie quote for the key as the summary suggests, or were they idiots for assuming that Flash is secure? I've seen a lot of "password protected" Flash apps out there, so there should be a lesson in this article, but the Slashdot summary doesn't exactly highlight the real problem. It is trivial to decompile Flash, folks. Your encryption keys are right there in plain text for all to see.
I don't know what information WGA is sending back to Microsoft, but it would be trivial to redirect that to a third party website and collect the data yourself. From what I can guess after looking at a hex dump, the information potentially includes user names, a list of processes running on the machine, details about the BIOS and other information that could be useful to crackers.
Interestingly, very little of the information WGATray.exe reads from your system seems particularly relevant for checking for valid licenses. A lot of it does seem to be valuable information for a company to get hold of for planning future marketing and development efforts though, especially when their competitiors do not have the same opportunity to quietly collect this information.
Checking the amount of Physical Memory and getting the make and model of your PC are some of the things I've noticed WGATray.exe seems to do (looking at the system calls it makes and registry entries it read in a hex dump). It also reads the Performance Counters, which hardly seems neccesary for its stated purpose, unless the real reason for this tool is to allow Microsoft to build a database of installed systems to give them a competitive advantage when deciding how processor intensive their new products can afford to be without losing too many customers. For a convicted monopolist, this seems like a dodgy thing to be caught doing.
It also calls GetComputerName and GetTokenInformation (which is a method of getting the userid of the currently logged in user). This certainly raises some privacy concerns, I can only assume that these are among the information they send to Microsoft.
Here's a screenshot of your console application augmented for GUI interaction. You might be surprised.
So, like SCO, Microsoft is going after its own customers with this one. The pirates never installed WGA in the first place, its only people who, like myself, disabled update KB905474 after I got sick of having to reboot my PC again a few minutes after I switched it on every Tuesday morning, because Microsoft had issued yet another "critical update" to WGA that requires a reboot after installing.
The real issue is that we need some reforms in the GJ system.
Reforms, as in dropping them in favour of pre-trial hearings in front of a judge, like the rest of the world and half of the states have already done?
The real issue is that deciding whether the prosecution has a prima facie case requires knowledge of the law, which a grand jury does not have. So in most cases, the grand jury just ends up allowing cases to go to trial, because that is the correct thing to do when there is uncertainty.
So what you are saying is that Libertarianism really is a marginal political viewpoint. Why then, are you trying to impose your marginal viewpoint on the state of New Hampshire by all moving there en mass in the hope of subverting the electoral process?
they seek to stop the threat of DNS poisoning and passive-snooping man-in-the-middle impersonation of a users' session by tagging cookies in the client's browser with an IP address rather than a domain name, then redirecting users from the DNS-resolved websites to that same IP (only to send their cookies), and ensuring (on the machine pointed to by that IP) that the IP address of the connection which was sent the redirection and the IP address that is now sending back the cookie to match up.
OK, so as I expected, it does not, as the Newwork World article claims, prevent an attack where someone hijacks your wifi connection to direct you through their own network where they can spoof addresses.
Either I launch console emacs, or I launch the X version of emacs
They're the same binary.
even the GUI version of emacs is still pretty heavily a console application.
How do you figure that? It uses an X window, it has menu bars, a toolbar, tooltips, it displays images. What is it in your mind that differentiates a GUI app from a console app?