Humble opinions aside, I can't see describing this as secure, at least compared to an "unpickable" modern lock (i.e., a lock that's tough enough to pick that you'll just go through a window instead).
To get into my house, you need to have my key, or a copy of my key. If I let you look at my key, you won't be able to copy it; you have to have my key in your possession to make a copy.
To get into this guy's house -- and please note that the pictures wouldn't load, so I'm going by the captions -- you need to have his barcode, or a copy of his barcode. If I look at his barcode, I can remember the information I need to copy it, even if I don't have his key when I make the copy!
It's a neat hack, and *maybe* it's more convenient than putting a key in a lock (but it's also more complex -- I picture him standing at the door in the rain during a power failure), but it's not secure. Even a PIN pad would be more secure, becaues you can memorize the PIN -- you *have* to write down the barcode.
Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership?:)
No, it's dumb. It's data on a CD. Surely we know how to put data on a CD ourselves by now.
No coveting necessary.
Just buy some business-card CD blanks at Best Buy, download the image from the website linked in the story, and burn it to the CD. Or burn it to a normal CD if you don't need/want the business-card size.
The lead-in on the article makes it look like it's an FSF-only thing, but it isn't. The Bootable Business Card isn't an FSF project; the FSF is just using it to make its membership cards niftier.
The whole point of them asking you to test it is that they want you to burn your own. If you wait until you get one with your FSF membership, you're not "testing", you're "using".
It sounds like you're compiling a gift basket of things you'd like, not her. It's good to
see that the comments (reading at +2) lean towards
real useful things that someone going off to
college would find useful. Take their advice.
They were saying that certification agencies
ensure that encoded names are not misleading and that the registration corresponds with the correct
real-world entity. (Oh, wait, that's what they
wrote, too. Whaddyaknow.)
The students registered the domain name,
they didn't get an SSL certificate containing
data suggesting that they were Microsoft.
We are not lawyers. What on earth goes through someone's mind when they go "Hm, my company has a legal problem, I should go ask slashdot!"?
Paying for legal counsel is part of the costs of running a company, and you get what you pay for.
You missed the boat in not having a lawyer draw up a contract for beta testers. Don't screw up again by not having a lawyer deal with someone trying to claim rights to your property.
It's not about selectively upholding a trademark. The Canadian flag isn't a trademark of the Government by the law -- it's a symbol which *other businesses* aren't allowed to incorporate into their trademarks.
It's easy to uphold, because it's not about "Trademark Law", it's about "The specific statute about using Government symbols in private businesses' trademarks".
That quote meshes with my prior understanding of the law, which has nothing to do with whether or not you can personally use the flag, and everything to do with whether or not you can use the flag as part of your own trademark.
(ObGreatWhiteNorth, eh: This particular instance aside, does it really seem odd to Americans that a government has control over how you can use its flag? I know there's this whole life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-happiness vs peace-order-and-good-government difference between the US and Canada, but I'm surprised that it seems shocking that a government controls use of its flag.)
In my experience, PostgreSQL solved the performance problems with version 7 -- the "Postgres is slow" meme sticks around from PostgreSQL 6, which was slow.
(Which is interesting, because then, MySQL had a feature disadvantage and PostgreSQL a speed disadvantage, and it seems likely that the speed disadvantage was the easy one to remedy.)
Remember, this thing would be entirely out of your hands once it started propagating. Keeping in mind that programmers are human, consider what would happen if something went wrong along the way. I mean, even RTM found that his worm didn't do what he expected.
Also, imagine what would happen if someone used your worm with a malevolent payload. We're talking seriously bad publicity.
When you install Kazaa, a Napsterish or Gnutellaish piece of software for trading files, you may also inadvertently let the installer install software that alters links on Web pages as you browse.
Or, if you prefer, when you install this software which lets you sidestep content-producers' intellectual-property rights, you may also inadvertently install software that sidesteps content-producers' intellectual-property rights.
But the first one's a feature and the second one is INSIDUOUS AND EVIL.
"Uh, excuse me, sir, but i think you've got a LOG in your EYE, there."
Or maybe they read the part in the original advisory where the eeye folks mention that they took the name from the bottle o' Dew in the room:
Greetings:
The guy at Del Taco that sold us food at 3am to allow us to perform this research. The guy who left the warm "Code Red" Mountain Dew in the eEye lab.
Re:Will be accepted like how IPv6 is everywhere no
on
New Mail RFCs Released
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· Score: 1
You'd be surprised (but you'd have to read the new RFCs first) -- much of what's in them is stuff that's already used everywhere but didn't appear in a standard. It's as much a case of catching the standards up to practice as it is forging new directions.
In other news, it has been reported Apple is taking up a suit against the entire apple
industry, including apple orchards.
You've got it backwards. A short time before the introduction of the Macintosh, Apple was
sued by the association of American MacIntosh apple growers (whose name I can't recall); that's why "Macintosh" has a lowercase "i".
In fact, eBay had more than a drive die. They
had a whole mess of problems lately; see the message at that link beginning with "Letter from Meg". Entire systems and their spares all going crunch.
I've got those options all off at eBay as well, and I've just gone and checked and they're still all off, and I've received no mail. Hey, maybe they were telling the truth! But that doesn't make a very good story.
My favorite part is the bit about eBay not having a right to do that. IDT"right"MWYTIM.
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Humble opinions aside, I can't see describing this as secure, at least compared to an "unpickable" modern lock (i.e., a lock that's tough enough to pick that you'll just go through a window instead).
To get into my house, you need to have my key, or a copy of my key. If I let you look at my key, you won't be able to copy it; you have to have my key in your possession to make a copy.
To get into this guy's house -- and please note that the pictures wouldn't load, so I'm going by the captions -- you need to have his barcode, or a copy of his barcode. If I look at his barcode, I can remember the information I need to copy it, even if I don't have his key when I make the copy!
It's a neat hack, and *maybe* it's more convenient than putting a key in a lock (but it's also more complex -- I picture him standing at the door in the rain during a power failure), but it's not secure. Even a PIN pad would be more secure, becaues you can memorize the PIN -- you *have* to write down the barcode.
No, it's dumb. It's data on a CD. Surely we know how to put data on a CD ourselves by now. No coveting necessary.
Just buy some business-card CD blanks at Best Buy, download the image from the website linked in the story, and burn it to the CD. Or burn it to a normal CD if you don't need/want the business-card size.
The lead-in on the article makes it look like it's an FSF-only thing, but it isn't. The Bootable Business Card isn't an FSF project; the FSF is just using it to make its membership cards niftier.
The whole point of them asking you to test it is that they want you to burn your own. If you wait until you get one with your FSF membership, you're not "testing", you're "using".
It sounds like you're compiling a gift basket of things you'd like, not her. It's good to see that the comments (reading at +2) lean towards real useful things that someone going off to college would find useful. Take their advice.
The students registered the domain name, they didn't get an SSL certificate containing data suggesting that they were Microsoft.
He's right, he's not. :-)
We are not lawyers. What on earth goes through someone's mind when they go "Hm, my company has a legal problem, I should go ask slashdot!"?
Paying for legal counsel is part of the costs of running a company, and you get what you pay for.
You missed the boat in not having a lawyer draw up a contract for beta testers. Don't screw up again by not having a lawyer deal with someone trying to claim rights to your property.
It's not about selectively upholding a trademark. The Canadian flag isn't a trademark of the Government by the law -- it's a symbol which *other businesses* aren't allowed to incorporate into their trademarks.
It's easy to uphold, because it's not about "Trademark Law", it's about "The specific statute about using Government symbols in private businesses' trademarks".
(IANAL, eh?)
That quote meshes with my prior understanding of the law, which has nothing to do with whether or not you can personally use the flag, and everything to do with whether or not you can use the flag as part of your own trademark.
(ObGreatWhiteNorth, eh: This particular instance aside, does it really seem odd to Americans that a government has control over how you can use its flag? I know there's this whole life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-happiness vs peace-order-and-good-government difference between the US and Canada, but I'm surprised that it seems shocking that a government controls use of its flag.)
In my experience, PostgreSQL solved the performance problems with version 7 -- the "Postgres is slow" meme sticks around from PostgreSQL 6, which was slow.
(Which is interesting, because then, MySQL had a feature disadvantage and PostgreSQL a speed disadvantage, and it seems likely that the speed disadvantage was the easy one to remedy.)
Viruses.
How could it be a problem? It could have a bug.
Remember, this thing would be entirely out of your hands once it started propagating. Keeping in mind that programmers are human, consider what would happen if something went wrong along the way. I mean, even RTM found that his worm didn't do what he expected.
Also, imagine what would happen if someone used your worm with a malevolent payload. We're talking seriously bad publicity.
To view the file:
strings filename | less +"/MIMEmess"
To recover the file:
dd ibs=1 obs=1 skip=137216 if="filename" of="output-filename"
So, let's summarize.
When you install Kazaa, a Napsterish or Gnutellaish piece of software for trading files, you may also inadvertently let the installer install software that alters links on Web pages as you browse.
Or, if you prefer, when you install this software which lets you sidestep content-producers' intellectual-property rights, you may also inadvertently install software that sidesteps content-producers' intellectual-property rights.
But the first one's a feature and the second one is INSIDUOUS AND EVIL.
"Uh, excuse me, sir, but i think you've got a LOG in your EYE, there."
Or maybe they read the part in the original advisory where the eeye folks mention that they took the name from the bottle o' Dew in the room:
You'd be surprised (but you'd have to read the new RFCs first) -- much of what's in them is stuff that's already used everywhere but didn't appear in a standard. It's as much a case of catching the standards up to practice as it is forging new directions.
For example, EHLO is now the standard greeting.
You've got it backwards. A short time before the introduction of the Macintosh, Apple was sued by the association of American MacIntosh apple growers (whose name I can't recall); that's why "Macintosh" has a lowercase "i".
In fact, eBay had more than a drive die. They had a whole mess of problems lately; see the message at that link beginning with "Letter from Meg". Entire systems and their spares all going crunch.
I've got those options all off at eBay as well, and I've just gone and checked and they're still all off, and I've received no mail. Hey, maybe they were telling the truth! But that doesn't make a very good story.
My favorite part is the bit about eBay not having a right to do that. IDT"right"MWYTIM.