> I'd downgrade, but I really don't feel like re-rating all 25,000 songs on iTunes again:)
You don't have a backup of your music library?
BTW, here's an untold secret of Mac OS X. Upgrade is buggy -- always do a clean install. I did a 10.3 -> 10.4 upgrade and it was filled with weirdness. I wiped the disk, installed 10.4 and my apps, restored my data and everything was great. 10.4 is quite fast, but Automator, Dashboard, and Spotlight could use some work. Fortunately, my computer using experience mostly consists of Safari, iTunes, iChat, and emacs, so 10.4 is perfect for me.
However, nothing is stopping me from writing my own client libraries under whatever-the-fuck-i-want license and using those instead of MySQL's license. Unless MySQL completely sucks, it does the "hard" stuff in the server... the client libraries just send commands to a socket or named pipe.
This means I can write a completely commercial MySQL app, and not GPL any of it. (If you disagree, remember that connecting to a GPL'd webserver from IE doesn't require MS to open IE's source code.)
Me: Here's five bucks, your hourly wage. Clerk: (clicks "yes") Thank you, come again.
Personally, I just have my cat click the Agree button. (Or rather, I leave for a while and when I come back, the software installed itself without me seeing the EULA. Prove that that didn't happen.)
What if a virus creates a file on the filesystem called ``Get an update''? If that's passed directly into an HTML viewer, then the user will see that he needs to get an update -- only to be infected with a virus.
Not that that's MSHTML's fault -- it would be Symantec (or whoever) for not writing good code. However, you should make it easy for yourself to write secure code, not hard. If it's easy, you have a better chance of getting it right.
Incorrect. Unlike storing crypto keys on a USB drive (as some other posters suggested), the correct way to carry your crypto keys is on a smartcard. When you connect the smartcard to the computer, the computer sends the data to be encrypted to your smartcard which does the actual encryption. The computer never sees your keys, in fact... someone in physical possession of your smartcard can't get your keys either! Some smartcards have built in PIN pads, so you don't even have to worry about the owner of the terminal rigging their PIN entry device.
If there were webmail clients that worked with smartcard readers (which actually is standard in Windows), then the GP's plan would work fine.
However, I think you're wrong to so easily dismiss AJAX/JavaScript et. all - They're useful tools that can greatly enhance the user experience. However, use them for just that; don't rely on them for your underlying structure. See GMail as a perfect example of what I'm talking about...
I agree with you. AJAX (etc.) is a tool, just like anything else. There are cases when it's good to use, and there are cases when it's bad to use.
I personally am waiting for the standards agencies to standardize AJAX-like functionality, so I can code something and have it work everywhere. Right now, browsers like w3m and lynx just can't visit AJAX-using sites, and that bothers me a little. I am hoping that the standards agencies will be thorough in their specifications and include functionality that allows screen readers and braile TTYs easy access to AJAX-enabled content. Right now, though, there are just too many sub-implementations of AJAX and it is really hit-or-miss on whether it will work on browser x.y.z -- which defeats the whole purpose of the web.
People do use it. I get complaints about websites I administer not working in Mac IE all the time (CSS doesn't work properly). Fortunately, we don't support IE at all, so we tell them to delete it and use something else. I'm glad MS is adopting our stance here.
> We have an application that schedules people, and if you can't take an action on the schedule then it's pretty worthless.
Ever hear of "links"? They let you take action by clicking on them. I wrote a scheduling application that is 100% valid XHTML and CSS and works perfectly in every browser, including ones like lynx and w3m. When you want to schedule something, you click the link and the reservation is committed to the database. Using AJAX / javascript / java / flash is pointless when you can get done what needs to be done with traditional web standards.
I assume there's a cryptographic signature going on. Your phone creates a packet, sends it to the SIM card to be signed, and then it's transmitted to the tower. If the SIM card is designed properly, you have to physically have access to the SIM card to be able to sign packets (and therefore have the identity that you have).
Not sure if this is how it works, but it should be. Replay attacks should not affect modern communication infrastructure!
Haha, mitsuwa is not at all like Japan. The things come from Japan, but it's not a cross-section of what you can buy there -- it's what happens to be imported, not what's most popular in Tokyo.
I actually like Taco's posts best because he adds commentary to the end of the submitter's blurb that makes it look like he actually reads slashdot. When I read Taco's journal I get the feeling that he is a slashdotter... where the other editors just seem like slashdot is their day job. (Actually michael used to know what's going on but I haven't seen him around lately.)
Yes, I know Taco started the site and is user #1. It's nice to know that he still cares after such a long time.
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When I'm using emacs, my hands never go near the mouse. You obviously don't know how to use emacs, and are giving yourself RSI to spite RMS, or something... (What I mean is, you're using the mouse to avoid learning emacs. That's fine, it's good that the software can work for you and me... but I don't think it's optimal. Read the docs, bind some keys, write some macros...)
Basically, I use C-s and C-r to move around a lot. I think of where I need to go in the code, then I hit C-s, then I start typing some of the code I know is there. Or, I use C-p and C-n to move around without having to move my hands. (C-j and C-h are helpful too... with emacs you never need to move your hands off of the letter area of your keyboard. And that saves you a lot of effort, if you think about it.)
I think a lot of the problems people have with emacs is that they just aren't in the mindset of using a powerful editor like emacs or vi. They "grew up" on editors like gedit or notepad or netbeans, or something, and are used to having a bunch of tools laid out where they're easy to see. With emacs, you need to know what you want it to do before it will do it. Once you understand this, though, I think you'll be much happier. I've been programming in emacs for most of my programming life (before emacs I used MS edit in DOS...) At this point, emacs is like an extension of my hands... I move my hands and code comes up on the screen... my thoughts are relayed to the computer. This didn't happen overnight, it happened through years of learning. Like changing keyboards layouts, the inital loss of speed (etc.) will put people off... but after you invest some time in it you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. (Incidentally, C-a, C-e, etc. are so engrained in my muscle memory that I can't switch away from QWERTY... I can type OK with dvorak, but I can't use emacs at all. And for some reason rebinding all the keys just doesn't seem right to me. So I'm stuck on QWERTY. I figure it's OK, since I can type pretty fase [thanks Model M], and I don't have carpal tunnel. I imagine that the same sort of thing is keeping vi users on QWERTY as well... any comments from the vi crowd?)
Yeah, so kind of a rant -- but I see a lot of comments saying how "emacs is hard to use" or "emacs sucks", and that's just not the case. With great power comes a great learning curve. But the time spent learning now will translate to less hassle later. (I'll also mention that learning UNIX utils is good too... those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it.)
Excuse me? Are you really saying it's easier to type ^ and $ as opposed to C-a and C-e? (These are probably the most frequent commands I use, and I have to look at the keyboard every damn time with vi. With emacs, the text practically edits itself.)
A year... it doesn't matter because if you charge a capacitor with a 1.5V battery, you're only ever going to get 1.5V out of it.
If you charge it with 10,000V (at low current), then you get 10,000V at HIGH CURRENT out... which is why a flyback won't kill you, but caps charged with one will. FYI.
Ah, no... that's bottled Japanese coffee. I always added milk, and it was pretty tasty. Come to think of it, I think we bought a box of that stuff (like 10 liters!) for like 1000 yen, and lived off of it. Good times.
But, uh, andreyw... I don't think you've ever been to Japan. If you had, you'd know that they sell hot, sweetened, milky coffee, in cans, at your local neighborhood vending machine. As well as tea, iced tea, etc. It's great...
You're an idiot. I've been invited to a few of these ratio-based tracker sites... they're all about trading 0day movies and warez. Nothing legal at all going on. The GP is exactly right -- this is exactly like the pot calling the kettle black.
Personally, I think it's hilarious. "You're only allowed to steal this content if you're a member, dammit!"
(Cue debate on sharing vs. stealing, etc. I know it's not really stealing, blah blah blah. I do it myself, so don't accuse me of being anti-P2P. However, I'm not going to be naive and say that 100% (or even 10%) of P2P is legit. That's just not the case... not in this Universe, anyway.)
> VNC over SSH? Plus, the performance would suck ass.
Maybe if you're using a 386... the cryptography done by SSH is actually very fast. The thing that makes VNC slow is that it sucks. (X11 and Apple Remote Desktop and whatever M$ has are much much much better and more efficient.)
If the server is in North Korea or China, how is anyone here in the US going to find out about what you're doing? I doubt the phishers are going to call your local police department and send them over to stop you.
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> I'd downgrade, but I really don't feel like re-rating all 25,000 songs on iTunes again :)
You don't have a backup of your music library?
BTW, here's an untold secret of Mac OS X. Upgrade is buggy -- always do a clean install. I did a 10.3 -> 10.4 upgrade and it was filled with weirdness. I wiped the disk, installed 10.4 and my apps, restored my data and everything was great. 10.4 is quite fast, but Automator, Dashboard, and Spotlight could use some work. Fortunately, my computer using experience mostly consists of Safari, iTunes, iChat, and emacs, so 10.4 is perfect for me.
However, nothing is stopping me from writing my own client libraries under whatever-the-fuck-i-want license and using those instead of MySQL's license. Unless MySQL completely sucks, it does the "hard" stuff in the server... the client libraries just send commands to a socket or named pipe.
This means I can write a completely commercial MySQL app, and not GPL any of it. (If you disagree, remember that connecting to a GPL'd webserver from IE doesn't require MS to open IE's source code.)
<sarcasm> Damn the client-server model!</sarcasm>
Me: Here's five bucks, your hourly wage.
Clerk: (clicks "yes") Thank you, come again.
Personally, I just have my cat click the Agree button. (Or rather, I leave for a while and when I come back, the software installed itself without me seeing the EULA. Prove that that didn't happen.)
What if a virus creates a file on the filesystem called ``Get an update''? If that's passed directly into an HTML viewer, then the user will see that he needs to get an update -- only to be infected with a virus.
Not that that's MSHTML's fault -- it would be Symantec (or whoever) for not writing good code. However, you should make it easy for yourself to write secure code, not hard. If it's easy, you have a better chance of getting it right.
That's why I use nc to connect to phishing sites. Exploit that.
Incorrect. Unlike storing crypto keys on a USB drive (as some other posters suggested), the correct way to carry your crypto keys is on a smartcard. When you connect the smartcard to the computer, the computer sends the data to be encrypted to your smartcard which does the actual encryption. The computer never sees your keys, in fact... someone in physical possession of your smartcard can't get your keys either! Some smartcards have built in PIN pads, so you don't even have to worry about the owner of the terminal rigging their PIN entry device.
If there were webmail clients that worked with smartcard readers (which actually is standard in Windows), then the GP's plan would work fine.
I agree with you. AJAX (etc.) is a tool, just like anything else. There are cases when it's good to use, and there are cases when it's bad to use.
I personally am waiting for the standards agencies to standardize AJAX-like functionality, so I can code something and have it work everywhere. Right now, browsers like w3m and lynx just can't visit AJAX-using sites, and that bothers me a little. I am hoping that the standards agencies will be thorough in their specifications and include functionality that allows screen readers and braile TTYs easy access to AJAX-enabled content. Right now, though, there are just too many sub-implementations of AJAX and it is really hit-or-miss on whether it will work on browser x.y.z -- which defeats the whole purpose of the web.
People do use it. I get complaints about websites I administer not working in Mac IE all the time (CSS doesn't work properly). Fortunately, we don't support IE at all, so we tell them to delete it and use something else. I'm glad MS is adopting our stance here.
> We have an application that schedules people, and if you can't take an action on the schedule then it's pretty worthless.
Ever hear of "links"? They let you take action by clicking on them. I wrote a scheduling application that is 100% valid XHTML and CSS and works perfectly in every browser, including ones like lynx and w3m. When you want to schedule something, you click the link and the reservation is committed to the database. Using AJAX / javascript / java / flash is pointless when you can get done what needs to be done with traditional web standards.
> It's like if you pull the trigger on a gun, and kill someone. You can't reasonably claim that the gun made you pull the trigger.
:)
True, but you can make the claim that video games made you pull the trigger. Amazing how this is all connected, isn't it.
I assume there's a cryptographic signature going on. Your phone creates a packet, sends it to the SIM card to be signed, and then it's transmitted to the tower. If the SIM card is designed properly, you have to physically have access to the SIM card to be able to sign packets (and therefore have the identity that you have).
Not sure if this is how it works, but it should be. Replay attacks should not affect modern communication infrastructure!
Actually, I think the phone was cloned -- so she had no idea anything weird was going on until after she got her bill.
Haha, mitsuwa is not at all like Japan. The things come from Japan, but it's not a cross-section of what you can buy there -- it's what happens to be imported, not what's most popular in Tokyo.
You can disagree with me, but you'd be wrong.
I actually like Taco's posts best because he adds commentary to the end of the submitter's blurb that makes it look like he actually reads slashdot. When I read Taco's journal I get the feeling that he is a slashdotter... where the other editors just seem like slashdot is their day job. (Actually michael used to know what's going on but I haven't seen him around lately.)
Yes, I know Taco started the site and is user #1. It's nice to know that he still cares after such a long time.
When I'm using emacs, my hands never go near the mouse. You obviously don't know how to use emacs, and are giving yourself RSI to spite RMS, or something... (What I mean is, you're using the mouse to avoid learning emacs. That's fine, it's good that the software can work for you and me... but I don't think it's optimal. Read the docs, bind some keys, write some macros...)
Basically, I use C-s and C-r to move around a lot. I think of where I need to go in the code, then I hit C-s, then I start typing some of the code I know is there. Or, I use C-p and C-n to move around without having to move my hands. (C-j and C-h are helpful too... with emacs you never need to move your hands off of the letter area of your keyboard. And that saves you a lot of effort, if you think about it.)
I think a lot of the problems people have with emacs is that they just aren't in the mindset of using a powerful editor like emacs or vi. They "grew up" on editors like gedit or notepad or netbeans, or something, and are used to having a bunch of tools laid out where they're easy to see. With emacs, you need to know what you want it to do before it will do it. Once you understand this, though, I think you'll be much happier. I've been programming in emacs for most of my programming life (before emacs I used MS edit in DOS...) At this point, emacs is like an extension of my hands... I move my hands and code comes up on the screen... my thoughts are relayed to the computer. This didn't happen overnight, it happened through years of learning. Like changing keyboards layouts, the inital loss of speed (etc.) will put people off... but after you invest some time in it you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. (Incidentally, C-a, C-e, etc. are so engrained in my muscle memory that I can't switch away from QWERTY... I can type OK with dvorak, but I can't use emacs at all. And for some reason rebinding all the keys just doesn't seem right to me. So I'm stuck on QWERTY. I figure it's OK, since I can type pretty fase [thanks Model M], and I don't have carpal tunnel. I imagine that the same sort of thing is keeping vi users on QWERTY as well... any comments from the vi crowd?)
Yeah, so kind of a rant -- but I see a lot of comments saying how "emacs is hard to use" or "emacs sucks", and that's just not the case. With great power comes a great learning curve. But the time spent learning now will translate to less hassle later. (I'll also mention that learning UNIX utils is good too... those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it.)
Excuse me? Are you really saying it's easier to type ^ and $ as opposed to C-a and C-e? (These are probably the most frequent commands I use, and I have to look at the keyboard every damn time with vi. With emacs, the text practically edits itself.)
Ahh, your time is less expensive than that of a computer's. Interesting.
BTW, you might want to take a look at mod_perl. It's speedy.
> how long was the battery attached
A year... it doesn't matter because if you charge a capacitor with a 1.5V battery, you're only ever going to get 1.5V out of it.
If you charge it with 10,000V (at low current), then you get 10,000V at HIGH CURRENT out... which is why a flyback won't kill you, but caps charged with one will. FYI.
Ah, no... that's bottled Japanese coffee. I always added milk, and it was pretty tasty. Come to think of it, I think we bought a box of that stuff (like 10 liters!) for like 1000 yen, and lived off of it. Good times.
But, uh, andreyw... I don't think you've ever been to Japan. If you had, you'd know that they sell hot, sweetened, milky coffee, in cans, at your local neighborhood vending machine. As well as tea, iced tea, etc. It's great...
Paypal's ToS says they have the right to drain your bank account if you mention "mature content" on your website... so I doubt FAPP will catch on.
> Mind you I know plenty of people who should be banned from owning any sort of tool
:)
Especially "that one", if you know what I mean
You're an idiot. I've been invited to a few of these ratio-based tracker sites... they're all about trading 0day movies and warez. Nothing legal at all going on. The GP is exactly right -- this is exactly like the pot calling the kettle black.
Personally, I think it's hilarious. "You're only allowed to steal this content if you're a member, dammit!"
(Cue debate on sharing vs. stealing, etc. I know it's not really stealing, blah blah blah. I do it myself, so don't accuse me of being anti-P2P. However, I'm not going to be naive and say that 100% (or even 10%) of P2P is legit. That's just not the case... not in this Universe, anyway.)
> VNC over SSH? Plus, the performance would suck ass.
Maybe if you're using a 386... the cryptography done by SSH is actually very fast. The thing that makes VNC slow is that it sucks. (X11 and Apple Remote Desktop and whatever M$ has are much much much better and more efficient.)
If the server is in North Korea or China, how is anyone here in the US going to find out about what you're doing? I doubt the phishers are going to call your local police department and send them over to stop you.
Or even better, how do they make the canned/bottled coffee (in Japan) that CmdrTaco loves so much?