AOL is just teasing IMunified by opening up something (rather than nothing from IMunified for almost half a year), albeit something that's practically useless.
In Hong Kong, that's what the Post Office is doing.
We also have an Electronic Transactions Ordinance to back it up legally. The Ordinance gives the Post Office CA official recognition by the government.
This gives the CA much better legal authority than simple inclusion in major browsers.
Perhaps it's not encryption. But DMCA isn't about encryption and decryption, it's about copy protection mechanisms.
So in theory if they ROT13 a movie and call it their "copy protection", you can't reverse that. Plain silly, but true.
Most companies stick to the "security by obscurity" mentality because, frankly, that's what most people think works. We won't see companies coming clean about their security measures, until enough customers are technologically competent enough to evaluate those measures, and actually tell their stores they will decide where to buy their stuff based on how good the security is.
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I can only offer this without proof: All science is, rather, mathematics. Even computer science.
Doesn't the US already have a voluntary game rating board?
AOL is just teasing IMunified by opening up something (rather than nothing from IMunified for almost half a year), albeit something that's practically useless.
In Hong Kong, that's what the Post Office is doing. We also have an Electronic Transactions Ordinance to back it up legally. The Ordinance gives the Post Office CA official recognition by the government. This gives the CA much better legal authority than simple inclusion in major browsers.
See this article in USA Today, dated last November. Contains a nice photo of the robot that will be actually doing the job.
Perhaps it's not encryption. But DMCA isn't about encryption and decryption, it's about copy protection mechanisms. So in theory if they ROT13 a movie and call it their "copy protection", you can't reverse that. Plain silly, but true.
...I'll have to take down my website's link to Slashdot again, for fear of per^H^H^Hprosecution under DMCA.
... is the BOFH!!!
Most companies stick to the "security by obscurity" mentality because, frankly, that's what most people think works. We won't see companies coming clean about their security measures, until enough customers are technologically competent enough to evaluate those measures, and actually tell their stores they will decide where to buy their stuff based on how good the security is.
Microsoft has been rattling about the impending death of Linux for some time. Example: This interview with Joachim Kempin, senior VP of Microsoft.
... it looks like a glorified version of yet another client-side scripting tool like JavaScript. Do we really need this?
To get management to listen, interpret everything in terms of cost.
Make some man-hour estimates. Compare sifting through spagetti code and applying endless patches vs a clean rewrite.
Project the cost that would eventually go wasted when existing technology becomes obsolete.
Be creative; don't limit yourself to cost CONTAINMENT. Paint a doomsday scenario on maintaining spagetti code and give estimates on cost PREVENTION.
Doubleclick, the source of evil.
They're the reason I turn off cookies on my browser.
They're the reason I'm forced to use Internet Exploder, because Nutscrap sucks when it comes to selective cookie acceptance.
They're the reason I have to rewrite many a script when I discover MY site doesn't work without cookies, after I've turned cookies off on my browser.
Doubleclick gives cookies and sessions and URLs and the ad industry a bad name.
The rejectNS.html file has the following code:
t .org")>-1)
e /";
...
<Script Language=JavaScript>
if (document.referrer.toLowerCase().indexOf("slashdo
location.href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/i
else
...
I'd say this guy's pro-IE, anti-NS and anti-/. too.
Here's a tip for the fibbies: It might be worthy to check out whether they're stockpiling flight-sim joypads for the PS2 at the same time.
Ah, 2 or 3 years from now, the "web" as we know it will have become archaic. It would be like banning software swapping on BBS.
The "nashaq" thing in the link to the CNN story... is it meant as a secret joke? :P