The same thing that happens when you forget your PasswordSafe password.
It isn't some golden magic fairy dust, but there are some nice applications, like for instance, if Slashdot became a provider, you would be able to push your CastTroy reputation to some other discussion site that was interested in accepting it...the risk is low and it is actually something that would be nice to be able to do (but maybe not something that would happen, Slashdot isn't automatically going to be interested in pushing discussion to other sites...).
It would be a disaster if important services began accepting only OpenID though.
You never have to pass your authorization information to a poorly written site. Say you use Yahoo! as your OpenID and authenticator and you want to login into example.com. You give example.com a url, something like yahoo.com, and then example.com talks to yahoo.com and asks it if it knows you. If you provide the correct password, yahoo.com tells example.com, yes, this person is so-and-so. So the authentication information is never given to example.com, just confirmation that you were able to authenticate.
If you are paranoid about snooping, just make sure to use an OpenID provider that makes you authenticate every single request, regardless of whether you are already logged in or whatever.
You are free to be your own OpenID provider (there is no guarantee that all consumers will accept your ID, but you could probably proxy an acceptable provider to your own endpoint).
For the vast majority of people, their email provider already has access to many of their logins, so it isn't necessarily a new issue.
There is a 26 megawatt coal burning power station about 2.5 miles from the house I grew up in. It is *unnoticeable*. There are big piles of coal near it much of the time, but I don't feel the need to drive to where I can see them and then stare at them.
Yes, because they created it before XMLHttpRequest ever existed as a standard. They took a shot at implementing XMLHttpRequest for IE7 but apparently botched it a bit.
The point is, Microsoft created the technology and then it ended up in other browsers.
Grid tie equipment is required to have automatic disconnection systems. Also, the linemen can pretty much wave a wand at the lines to see if they are live or not...
You are characterizing it in a very strange way. Imagine going back 100 years and talking about how digging coal up out of the ground would provide abundant, cheap energy that didn't require spending weeks and weeks logging firewood.
You aren't talking about 'democratization' of energy, you are talking about cheap energy with low capital costs (which does happen to be hard to centralize and exploit). The important factor is the price, not where the energy is coming from (and it doesn't look like it is going to get cut in half in 5 years from here).
The power company won't do it because they are really good at capital investment and amortization (because they are highly regulated they make profit primarily by investing efficiently, not by innovating).
I'll bet you a nickel that 11% is an aggressive estimate for forward annual return. I agree pretty much everything you are saying though (except I think there might actually be ways to justify the subsidy).
Slashdot Mirror
As much as anything, the point is that "100% secure" isn't a useful measure.
As far as I can tell, the risks I take by using online financial systems are rather small, so the convenience is worth it.
The physical bank location isn't 100% secure either.
Unless Opera, Firefox and Safari somehow share implementation code, you are just wackety wackety hair splitting.
The same thing that happens when you forget your PasswordSafe password.
It isn't some golden magic fairy dust, but there are some nice applications, like for instance, if Slashdot became a provider, you would be able to push your CastTroy reputation to some other discussion site that was interested in accepting it...the risk is low and it is actually something that would be nice to be able to do (but maybe not something that would happen, Slashdot isn't automatically going to be interested in pushing discussion to other sites...).
It would be a disaster if important services began accepting only OpenID though.
You never have to pass your authorization information to a poorly written site. Say you use Yahoo! as your OpenID and authenticator and you want to login into example.com. You give example.com a url, something like yahoo.com, and then example.com talks to yahoo.com and asks it if it knows you. If you provide the correct password, yahoo.com tells example.com, yes, this person is so-and-so. So the authentication information is never given to example.com, just confirmation that you were able to authenticate.
If you are paranoid about snooping, just make sure to use an OpenID provider that makes you authenticate every single request, regardless of whether you are already logged in or whatever.
You are free to be your own OpenID provider (there is no guarantee that all consumers will accept your ID, but you could probably proxy an acceptable provider to your own endpoint).
For the vast majority of people, their email provider already has access to many of their logins, so it isn't necessarily a new issue.
That's not how that English guy on House talks.
I thought you were going to implore people to yell "It's my money, and I want it now!"
So you just pull "expected" out of your ass and then have the nerve to accuse someone else of spreading FUD? Awesome.
There is a 26 megawatt coal burning power station about 2.5 miles from the house I grew up in. It is *unnoticeable*. There are big piles of coal near it much of the time, but I don't feel the need to drive to where I can see them and then stare at them.
Yes, because they created it before XMLHttpRequest ever existed as a standard. They took a shot at implementing XMLHttpRequest for IE7 but apparently botched it a bit.
The point is, Microsoft created the technology and then it ended up in other browsers.
The other route is to just buy several 1GB memory cards. $10 takes a lot of pictures at this point.
Except for AJAX...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_support
I mean, they didn't come up with the cute name, but they did package the technology first.
He can go a little over the top, but does it really strike you as 'looked up a word' all over the place? I don't really get that impression.
Try eating less at one time.
Just pencil in "and they all lived happily ever after". Problem solved.
Impossible. The documentation will only apply to a single instance and will forever be incomplete.
Grid tie equipment is required to have automatic disconnection systems. Also, the linemen can pretty much wave a wand at the lines to see if they are live or not...
You are characterizing it in a very strange way. Imagine going back 100 years and talking about how digging coal up out of the ground would provide abundant, cheap energy that didn't require spending weeks and weeks logging firewood.
You aren't talking about 'democratization' of energy, you are talking about cheap energy with low capital costs (which does happen to be hard to centralize and exploit). The important factor is the price, not where the energy is coming from (and it doesn't look like it is going to get cut in half in 5 years from here).
The power company won't do it because they are really good at capital investment and amortization (because they are highly regulated they make profit primarily by investing efficiently, not by innovating).
I'll bet you a nickel that 11% is an aggressive estimate for forward annual return. I agree pretty much everything you are saying though (except I think there might actually be ways to justify the subsidy).
I think he means that the A/C was installed _in_ the truck, not hooked up to run off of power from the truck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_to_DC_converter
Yeah, but how big? I'd be happy to install 10 Watts for you. Hell, I'll even do it for $2,500.
Stealing their apostrophes isn't going to help any!