It's the whole did I take it, or did they give me it thing. Round about where I live there are quite a few wireless access points that intentionally give you access, supply an IP address and a default route to the Internet. There's a restaurant somewhere between South Bridge and The Meadows in Edinburgh that does this. Without doing a bit of research online before going war driving/walking, I think it would be rather difficult to tell whether someone actually meant to allow people access, or if they were just being ignorant when it came to security.
I agree totally with that law, and I have never "secure[ed] access to any program or data held in any computer" other than my own and those which people have explicitly given me access.
Most access points' default behaviour (at least the one I bought, and others I've read about) is to send an invitation (including MAC address and SSID) out every 100th of a second. A computer replying to that invitation isn't accessing a program or data (so authorisation doesn't even come into it). Being assigned an IP address through DHCP after accepting the invitation still isn't accessing programs or data, it's consuming a service, isn't it?
On the funnier side of this, the wording of that act makes it look like any of the things it says are "bad" are perfectly alright for a woman to do. It looks a bit sexist;-)
If you're invited (i.e. the remote machine initiates the connection) then you're not unauthorised. If someone is standing at their front door and invites you in, you're not breaking any law by walking in. Of course, you'd have to leave if they asked you to, and forcing your way in would be wrong.
Haha;-) If you look closer at the communications between my computer than the other one, you'll see it sent out a signal asking if I wanted to join its network. That was an invitation. Windows XP automatically says "yes" to these. Joining a network which you have been requested to join is not illegal, at least in the UK. I'm not sure about in the US though. Nothing illegal about wardriving here:-)
Never heard of PGP? I don't care if someone can see who I'm sending it to or what my e-mail address is, but if I want to send something securely I'll encrypt is and have nothing against sending it via e-mail.
Haha! - I'm not married:-) But if I wouldn't get married to someone who would get upset about the things I get up to. And I'd be very pissed off if my partner was stealing information from the governement to find out what I get up to rather than trusting what I say.
I don't use the phone much... and when I do, I don't care if anyone can hear what I'm saying. I'd rather talk about personal things face-to-face, and I use jabber or e-mail for the rest of my communication most of the time. Still, I don't feel at all endangered by this announcement.
I'm not too bothered if someone is tracking where I go and where my car goes within a city. I still have the privacy of my own home, which is the only place I really had privacy in the first place, and I have the added benefit of knowing that if my car gets stolen, then someone is tracking it for me. My only worry about this is what happens if the data collected by the government falls into the wrong hands? If someone had enough information about you to know what places you went to on a regular basis, they'd have enough information to know when you're not at home (and therefore the best time to break in and steal things from your house).
I feel the same about the government or my ISP tracking what I do online. If someone know what sites I visit and who I chat to, I'm not really that bothered. If I want to talk PRIVATELY, I'll use an encrypted connection. I don't do anything illegal online (warez, stealing music, etc) so I've nothing to worry about.
I was under the impression that most Java run-time environments have default security settings that won't allow an applet to read files from anywhere other than the domain it came from. That would prevent it reading from the hard disk. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who either don't know how to (or are unwilling to) change those settings.
What's so good about a numeric keypad? What's wrong with the numbers along the top of the keyboard? I'm a programmer, and I use the function keys down the left of my Sun Type 6 keyboard a LOT more than I've ever used the numeric keypad. I'd be quite happy using a keyboard (on my desktop) that had no numeric keypad.
I've not done much HTML writing recently, but decided to play around with some CSS a few days ago. I came up with this which seems to work fine in Konqueror and the Mozilla version I have at home, looks a bit weird in Phoenix on Solaris at work, and looks plain horrible in Internet Explorer 6. IE was originally ignoring the.classname>elementname { } type of styles. It also seems to choose its own values for table margins in my example, rather than going with the zero specified in the stylesheet. I've not done much of this in the past, so I'll probably figure it out later.
Not that I agree with using anything other than 'em's for measurement of font sizes on the web, but don't most browsers (certainly any that I've used recently) have the ability to specify a minimum font size, that way you can be assured that all pages will be legible.
From the article: the plasma reaches a temperature of 15,000 degrees Kelvin (about 50 times greater than room temperature)
"50 times greater than room temperature" doesn't mean anything unless you state what scale you're measuring room temperature on. 80 degrees centigrade is more than double room temperature. If you take room temperature as a measurement on the Kelvin scale, and double it, it'll be MUCH hotter than that.
I live in Edinburgh, and work at the other side of the country. I only get to work from homw two days a week, but it makes a huge difference to the amount of spare time I've got, and the amount of time i spend in the car. SSH is the best thing since sliced bread! I use it ever day to connect to computers in the office, run X applications remotely, check code into CVS, and surf the company Intranet.
Can someone provide a link for this meaning of "deprecate"? I looked at Websters and got this...
Deprecate \Dep"re*cate\ (d[e^]p"r[-e]*k[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprecated (-k[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Deprecating (-k[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. deprecatus, p. p. of deprecari to avert by player, to deprecate; de- + precari to pray. See Pray.]
To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
His purpose was deprecated by all round
him, and he was with difficulty induced to
adandon it. --Sir W. Scott.
You can however get fairly inexpensive Athlon MP chips and Tyan do Socket-A dual processor motherboards for about 120GBP. What does Barton do that's better than the MP chips that came out just over a year ago?
For end users who care about doing things legally, there's nothing wrong with trusted computing or Palladium. Why do you think its not good?
As far as I can see, it's only "not good" for software developers and users of open-source applications. Most computer users don't fall into that category.
I'm talking about flaws that will eventually be discovered. With any product, I'd expect a replacement, free of charge, since it wasn't my fault that I have a faulty product. Unless of course the product was free in the first place - you get what you pay for, with most things.
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It's the whole did I take it, or did they give me it thing. Round about where I live there are quite a few wireless access points that intentionally give you access, supply an IP address and a default route to the Internet. There's a restaurant somewhere between South Bridge and The Meadows in Edinburgh that does this. Without doing a bit of research online before going war driving/walking, I think it would be rather difficult to tell whether someone actually meant to allow people access, or if they were just being ignorant when it came to security.
I agree totally with that law, and I have never "secure[ed] access to any program or data held in any computer" other than my own and those which people have explicitly given me access.
;-)
Most access points' default behaviour (at least the one I bought, and others I've read about) is to send an invitation (including MAC address and SSID) out every 100th of a second. A computer replying to that invitation isn't accessing a program or data (so authorisation doesn't even come into it). Being assigned an IP address through DHCP after accepting the invitation still isn't accessing programs or data, it's consuming a service, isn't it?
On the funnier side of this, the wording of that act makes it look like any of the things it says are "bad" are perfectly alright for a woman to do. It looks a bit sexist
If you're invited (i.e. the remote machine initiates the connection) then you're not unauthorised. If someone is standing at their front door and invites you in, you're not breaking any law by walking in. Of course, you'd have to leave if they asked you to, and forcing your way in would be wrong.
Haha ;-) :-)
If you look closer at the communications between my computer than the other one, you'll see it sent out a signal asking if I wanted to join its network. That was an invitation. Windows XP automatically says "yes" to these. Joining a network which you have been requested to join is not illegal, at least in the UK. I'm not sure about in the US though. Nothing illegal about wardriving here
Never heard of PGP? I don't care if someone can see who I'm sending it to or what my e-mail address is, but if I want to send something securely I'll encrypt is and have nothing against sending it via e-mail.
Haha! - I'm not married :-)
But if I wouldn't get married to someone who would get upset about the things I get up to. And I'd be very pissed off if my partner was stealing information from the governement to find out what I get up to rather than trusting what I say.
I don't use the phone much... and when I do, I don't care if anyone can hear what I'm saying. I'd rather talk about personal things face-to-face, and I use jabber or e-mail for the rest of my communication most of the time. Still, I don't feel at all endangered by this announcement.
I'm not too bothered if someone is tracking where I go and where my car goes within a city. I still have the privacy of my own home, which is the only place I really had privacy in the first place, and I have the added benefit of knowing that if my car gets stolen, then someone is tracking it for me. My only worry about this is what happens if the data collected by the government falls into the wrong hands? If someone had enough information about you to know what places you went to on a regular basis, they'd have enough information to know when you're not at home (and therefore the best time to break in and steal things from your house).
I feel the same about the government or my ISP tracking what I do online. If someone know what sites I visit and who I chat to, I'm not really that bothered. If I want to talk PRIVATELY, I'll use an encrypted connection. I don't do anything illegal online (warez, stealing music, etc) so I've nothing to worry about.
I was under the impression that most Java run-time environments have default security settings that won't allow an applet to read files from anywhere other than the domain it came from. That would prevent it reading from the hard disk. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who either don't know how to (or are unwilling to) change those settings.
What's so good about a numeric keypad? What's wrong with the numbers along the top of the keyboard?
I'm a programmer, and I use the function keys down the left of my Sun Type 6 keyboard a LOT more than I've ever used the numeric keypad. I'd be quite happy using a keyboard (on my desktop) that had no numeric keypad.
Geez, you could just clean your keyboard once in a while ;-)
I've not done much HTML writing recently, but decided to play around with some CSS a few days ago. I came up with this which seems to work fine in Konqueror and the Mozilla version I have at home, looks a bit weird in Phoenix on Solaris at work, and looks plain horrible in Internet Explorer 6. IE was originally ignoring the .classname>elementname { } type of styles. It also seems to choose its own values for table margins in my example, rather than going with the zero specified in the stylesheet. I've not done much of this in the past, so I'll probably figure it out later.
Not that I agree with using anything other than 'em's for measurement of font sizes on the web, but don't most browsers (certainly any that I've used recently) have the ability to specify a minimum font size, that way you can be assured that all pages will be legible.
That'll teach me not to post to slashdot from Opera on a PDA then. I didn't see the end of the sentence at all! Oops.
Not to mention the flames caused by Vi and EMACS.
His 20 Gs was probably referring to the deceleration as it hit the wall, since that's the strongest force it was submitted to.
From the article:
the plasma reaches a temperature of 15,000 degrees Kelvin (about 50 times greater than room temperature)
"50 times greater than room temperature" doesn't mean anything unless you state what scale you're measuring room temperature on. 80 degrees centigrade is more than double room temperature. If you take room temperature as a measurement on the Kelvin scale, and double it, it'll be MUCH hotter than that.
If that happens, why not use something better such as Jabber then?
I live in Edinburgh, and work at the other side of the country. I only get to work from homw two days a week, but it makes a huge difference to the amount of spare time I've got, and the amount of time i spend in the car. SSH is the best thing since sliced bread! I use it ever day to connect to computers in the office, run X applications remotely, check code into CVS, and surf the company Intranet.
Ah, thankyou. I thought it could have been some mix-up, but it's rather unlikely for THAT MANY PEOPLE to get confused in the same way :-)
That plan seems to have worked quite well... congratulations everyone! :-)
You can however get fairly inexpensive Athlon MP chips and Tyan do Socket-A dual processor motherboards for about 120GBP. What does Barton do that's better than the MP chips that came out just over a year ago?
For end users who care about doing things legally, there's nothing wrong with trusted computing or Palladium. Why do you think its not good?
As far as I can see, it's only "not good" for software developers and users of open-source applications. Most computer users don't fall into that category.
I'm talking about flaws that will eventually be discovered. With any product, I'd expect a replacement, free of charge, since it wasn't my fault that I have a faulty product. Unless of course the product was free in the first place - you get what you pay for, with most things.