The US banks lag behind other countries wrt security. As an example, almost all banks in Poland with online access have implemented TFA. Either MD5 tokens or pre-printed one-time passwords.
You use the additional authentication for "dangerous" operations such as transfers to anyone or pre-defining transfers. You can execute the "reasonably safe" operations (transfers to pre-defined accounts) with just a login and a password.
Overall, a very good compromise between security and inconvenience. What I find strange is that banks in the US are so much behind -- most banks here have had TFA for more than three years now.
If you're serious about RSI, there are two serious moves you can make:
1. Get a FingerWorks TouchStream keyboard. Dvorak layout, if you like, but it really doesn't matter. What matters is the wrist position and the stress placed on your joints. You can't touch type on a TouchStream if your hands are not in the perfectly optimal position -- you end up making too many errors. So it forces you to maintain proper position.
2. Get Dragon NaturallySpeaking (under VMware or Crossover) and start dictating.
If you don't want to spend on a TouchStream, get the Microsoft Natural keyboard. It's the cheapest way to straighten your wrists while typing.
All the other moves are just substitutes and won't help in the long run. Take it from someone who knows.
Is that question being asked by a citizen of a country, which prohibits its citizens from going to certain places (Cuba), or buying items from these places? Same country that imprisons people indefinitely in these same places (Cuba: Guantanamo) without trial, pretending that somehow this place is out of its jurisdiction?
I think it's also the same country that spreads democracy by using it's military force, while being unable to count votes in its own presidential elections...
Careful: propaganda goes hand in hand with restrictions of freedom. Both exist in the US and it is naive to think otherwise. Don't think you're free just because you live in the US.
I don't get it. Why do people care about Wi-Fi so much? Do you really want your phone to consume more power and require configuration, a running DHCP server, etc?
Bluetooth was designed for a reason, wi-fi is different. They serve different purposes.
Obviously you have never had RSI-related problems and you have a very limited view of the world. For those who cannot type or can only type a limited amount of time, technology like this is really important.
Next time, I'd suggest you use a little more imagination.
How do you know why FSF requires it and what it promises to do (or not do) with the code signed over?
I have tried to find out a number of times and failed. I haven't seen the charter of the FSF, either. For all I know, the FSF might be out there to just get lots of code signed over and then change the GPL into something evil. Or sell proprietary versions.
I think the FSF seriously underestimates the importance of being transparent.
It's not the sites that have to deal with it, it's Americans. Seriously. Some of us have grown up knowing we'd have to know _at least one_ foreign language in order to communicate with pretty much anyone and in order to do anything significant. Others (most Americans, I'd guess) still believe they can get around knowing ZERO foreign languages.
Which, most of the time, they actually can. But at times like these when sudden realization strikes them -- the world is not unilingual, you know, and it's only on Star Trek that they all speak English -- major whining erupts.
USB must be the crappiest kernel subsystem in existence: I can crash 2.4 in a number of ways just by plugging in and removing USB devices. Bug reports are being ignored, sometimes people sugggest moving to 2.6.
Well, 2.6 freezes dead hard when I plug in my USB audio device.
USB is the primary reason for the short (several days) uptime on my laptop.
It's just a US thing. Banks in the USA are for some reason stuck in the 80's.
All the banks I use in Poland provide one-time passwords for anything important. There are no checks in use, but you can use electronic money transfers to pay for just about anything (this is being introduced as "BillPay" in the US and advertised as big news).
I guess the US was first to develop a mature banking industry with credit cards and checks. This has worked so well (back in the 70's) that banks were not under pressure to innovate.
The article said "end of 2004". Great! Let's all cheer now! This means that we get proprietary drivers TWO YEARS after the technology has been introduced.
There is a very notable difference between a laptop (any size) and a Zaurus. You can take the Zaurus out of your pocket and be taking notes in about two seconds. Plus, you don't have to sit down. Try that with a laptop.
I have the SL-760 and I am very happy with it. I use it mostly for running XEmacs in a terminal window, though -- and taking notes. But it is unbelievably practical for this purpose. The built-in keyboard is surprisingly useful and you can take reasonable notes with it. And it is usable while you are standing (you type with your thumbs anyway).
BTW, I don't know where the $850 price tag comes from -- I bought mine in Japan for less than $600.
As to the other posts -- yes, it is true that the Zaurus software is lacking. The usability is simply not there, compared to Palm. There is the OPIE project, but it suffers from lack of developers (it is extremely difficult to set up an environment to program for OPIE) and the applications are really of the KDE-let's-copy-Windows-now-with-all-the-icons kind, not of the nice and simple Palm kind.
Still, even with the software not really being up to the hardware, the Zaurus is a beautiful machine.
That's funny -- it seems that in another 4-6 years the language features of Java will approach those of Common Lisp.
The main difference being that CL is standardised and thus isn't a moving target -- you don't have to worry about the language changing from under you every once in a while. You can concentrate on your libraries and applications.
I keep wondering why no one has sued Intel yet for unfair business practices. Obviously even under US laws withholding information on hardware while providing it to select OS vendors can't be legal?
Why do I read about this on Slashdot, instead of an article about Intel declining to provide drivers or specifications for their wireless part of Centrino?
Or better, contact Intel and ask them, why in spite of all the hype and marketing announcements about them supporting Linux, they have silently failed to deliver either Centrino drivers or Centrino documentation.
Frankly, I'm rather surprised that no Linux company has sued them yet, for unfair competition. Disclosing drivers and documentation to one OS maker and hiding it from the others IS unfair competition.
I'd suggest that people buy the Zaurus handhelds instead of iPaqs if they want to support Linux. I still don't get it why people buy iPaqs and then whine about WindowsCE on it and painfully install OPIE.
Why not just go with the company that has chosen Linux, support them, make their sales numbers increase? Buy Linux directly!
I've recently purchased a De-Phazz CD with the Cactus Data Shield "copy-protection". It wouldn't play in most of my players and I couldn't convert it to MP3 for my portable player.
I have written to the producer -- they were sorry for the problems and said they are helpless: basically it's Universal that dictates this copy protection.
I have made a vow not to buy a copy-protected CD ever again. I feel sorry for the band, but unless we stick to this policy, the problem will not go away. If enough people stop buying and let the bands know (this is important), they will stop doing this.
For what it's worth, I have gotten myself a Plextor CDRW drive. Plextors are known for reading damaged CDs very well, and indeed my new drive didn't have any problems reading the defective CD that I bought.
I guess the upshot is: 1) don't buy copy-protected crippled CDs, ever, no matter what, and 2) write to the authors of the music and let them know what you think, also write on public forums, write a review at amazon -- let people know!
The one with a crosshair isn't a mouse, it's a digitizer. It's usable on a special surface only, usually to digitize maps and drawings. These things can be *very* precise.
Slashdot Mirror
The US banks lag behind other countries wrt security. As an example, almost all banks in Poland with online access have implemented TFA. Either MD5 tokens or pre-printed one-time passwords.
You use the additional authentication for "dangerous" operations such as transfers to anyone or pre-defining transfers. You can execute the "reasonably safe" operations (transfers to pre-defined accounts) with just a login and a password.
Overall, a very good compromise between security and inconvenience. What I find strange is that banks in the US are so much behind -- most banks here have had TFA for more than three years now.
Sadly, AuthenTec still lags behind and I still can't use the built-in fingerprint sensor in my laptop.
When will hardware companies realize that providing documentation and software increases sales?
If you're serious about RSI, there are two serious moves you can make:
1. Get a FingerWorks TouchStream keyboard. Dvorak layout, if you like, but it really doesn't matter. What matters is the wrist position and the stress placed on your joints. You can't touch type on a TouchStream if your hands are not in the perfectly optimal position -- you end up making too many errors. So it forces you to maintain proper position.
2. Get Dragon NaturallySpeaking (under VMware or Crossover) and start dictating.
If you don't want to spend on a TouchStream, get the Microsoft Natural keyboard. It's the cheapest way to straighten your wrists while typing.
All the other moves are just substitutes and won't
help in the long run. Take it from someone who knows.
Would someone care to explain how Gentoos portage doesn't come close to FreeBSD ports?
This is a serious question -- I'd really like to know what's better about the ports system.
Is that question being asked by a citizen of a country, which prohibits its citizens from going to certain places (Cuba), or buying items from these places? Same country that imprisons people indefinitely in these same places (Cuba: Guantanamo) without trial, pretending that somehow this place is out of its jurisdiction?
I think it's also the same country that spreads democracy by using it's military force, while being unable to count votes in its own presidential elections...
Careful: propaganda goes hand in hand with restrictions of freedom. Both exist in the US and it is naive to think otherwise. Don't think you're free just because you live in the US.
I don't get it. Why do people care about Wi-Fi so much? Do you really want your phone to consume more power and require configuration, a running DHCP server, etc?
Bluetooth was designed for a reason, wi-fi is different. They serve different purposes.
You want the T5. That one has an internal drive that is accessible from your pc. I think it would solve most of your problems.
This is a joke, right? Linux-certified laptop, no ACPI support?
ACPI support is absolutely essential on a laptop.
It doesn't follow. I don't see why the drivers need to be secret if really most (if not all) of the alleged intellectual property is in the hardware.
IMHO this is a misconception taken for granted, because everyone is repeating it.
Obviously you have never had RSI-related problems and you have a very limited view of the world. For those who cannot type or can only type a limited amount of time, technology like this is really important.
Next time, I'd suggest you use a little more imagination.
How do you know why FSF requires it and what it promises to do (or not do) with the code signed over?
I have tried to find out a number of times and failed. I haven't seen the charter of the FSF, either. For all I know, the FSF might be out there to just get lots of code signed over and then change the GPL into something evil. Or sell proprietary versions.
I think the FSF seriously underestimates the importance of being transparent.
It's not the sites that have to deal with it, it's Americans. Seriously. Some of us have grown up knowing we'd have to know _at least one_ foreign language in order to communicate with pretty much anyone and in order to do anything significant. Others (most Americans, I'd guess) still believe they can get around knowing ZERO foreign languages.
Which, most of the time, they actually can. But at times like these when sudden realization strikes them -- the world is not unilingual, you know, and
it's only on Star Trek that they all speak English -- major whining erupts.
How about fixing USB 1.1 support in Linux first?
USB must be the crappiest kernel subsystem in existence: I can crash 2.4 in a number of ways just by plugging in and removing USB devices. Bug reports are being ignored, sometimes people sugggest moving to 2.6.
Well, 2.6 freezes dead hard when I plug in my USB audio device.
USB is the primary reason for the short (several days) uptime on my laptop.
It's just a US thing. Banks in the USA are for some reason stuck in the 80's.
All the banks I use in Poland provide one-time passwords for anything important. There are no checks in use, but you can use electronic money transfers to pay for just about anything (this is being introduced as "BillPay" in the US and advertised as big news).
I guess the US was first to develop a mature banking industry with credit cards and checks. This has worked so well (back in the 70's) that banks were not under pressure to innovate.
Kudos to Intel?
The article said "end of 2004". Great! Let's all cheer now! This means that we get proprietary drivers TWO YEARS after the technology has been introduced.
I see no reason to get happy about that.
There is a very notable difference between a laptop (any size) and a Zaurus. You can take the Zaurus out of your pocket and be taking notes in about two seconds. Plus, you don't have to sit down. Try that with a laptop.
I have the SL-760 and I am very happy with it. I use it mostly for running XEmacs in a terminal window, though -- and taking notes. But it is unbelievably practical for this purpose. The built-in keyboard is surprisingly useful and you can take reasonable notes with it. And it is usable while you are standing (you type with your thumbs anyway).
BTW, I don't know where the $850 price tag comes from -- I bought mine in Japan for less than $600.
As to the other posts -- yes, it is true that the Zaurus software is lacking. The usability is simply not there, compared to Palm. There is the OPIE project, but it suffers from lack of developers (it is extremely difficult to set up an environment to program for OPIE) and the applications are really of the KDE-let's-copy-Windows-now-with-all-the-icons kind, not of the nice and simple Palm kind.
Still, even with the software not really being up to the hardware, the Zaurus is a beautiful machine.
That's funny -- it seems that in another 4-6 years the language features of Java will approach those of Common Lisp.
The main difference being that CL is standardised and thus isn't a moving target -- you don't have to worry about the language changing from under you every once in a while. You can concentrate on your libraries and applications.
I keep wondering why no one has sued Intel yet for
unfair business practices. Obviously even under US laws withholding information on hardware while providing it to select OS vendors can't be legal?
Well, that's all good and great, but where's my xft-enabled build? I'm amazed people still use Mozilla without antialiased fonts...
Having just installed Mozilla-1.6 without xft, it just looks plain ugly.
Why do I read about this on Slashdot, instead of an article about Intel declining to provide drivers or specifications for their wireless part of Centrino?
I guess not all websites, then, are built to be accessible to Americans...
I suggest sueing for discrimination.
Or better, contact Intel and ask them, why in spite of all the hype and marketing announcements about them supporting Linux, they have silently failed to deliver either Centrino drivers or Centrino documentation.
Frankly, I'm rather surprised that no Linux company has sued them yet, for unfair competition. Disclosing drivers and documentation to one OS maker and hiding it from the others IS unfair competition.
I'd suggest that people buy the Zaurus handhelds instead of iPaqs if they want to support Linux. I still don't get it why people buy iPaqs and then whine about WindowsCE on it and painfully install OPIE.
Why not just go with the company that has chosen Linux, support them, make their sales numbers increase? Buy Linux directly!
I've recently purchased a De-Phazz CD with the Cactus Data Shield "copy-protection". It wouldn't play in most of my players and I couldn't convert it to MP3 for my portable player.
I have written to the producer -- they were sorry for the problems and said they are helpless: basically it's Universal that dictates this copy protection.
I have made a vow not to buy a copy-protected CD ever again. I feel sorry for the band, but unless we stick to this policy, the problem will not go away. If enough people stop buying and let the bands know (this is important), they will stop doing this.
For what it's worth, I have gotten myself a Plextor CDRW drive. Plextors are known for reading damaged CDs very well, and indeed my new drive didn't have any problems reading the defective CD that I bought.
I guess the upshot is: 1) don't buy copy-protected crippled CDs, ever, no matter what, and 2) write to the authors of the music and let them know what you think, also write on public forums, write a review at amazon -- let people know!
The one with a crosshair isn't a mouse, it's a digitizer. It's usable on a special surface only, usually to digitize maps and drawings. These things can be *very* precise.