That's it. No other reason is necessary. Don't you know how a market works? Why are you complaining? It's not as if having seen how high your bill is you're switching to another company. Do that and you'll see the prices come down.
Most of the electricity generated is used to produce or move heat. Frankly there are smarter ways of doing it. The solution is to make energy expensive, we'll then start to see more use of heat pumps, district heating, district cooling systems etc. Efficiency levels will go from thirty something percent up to eighty something percent.
The economy in a downfall, interest rates lower than the inflation, people with money trying hard to find a place for investment. That's what we have today.
The answer to that one is simple. Buy commodities, e.g. gold, silver and oil before the government prints your money into worthlessness.
BTW, when the oil producers switch from demanding dollars to demanding gold or euros, you're going to see some serious inflation. They may well do this fairly soon as the value of their holdings of dollars is decreasing as the dollar falls.
I suppose I should mention that the rest of the oil consuming world has been keeping the dollar artificially strong since the 1970s, we all have to buy oil in US dollars, thereby increasing the demand for the currency and pushing down US inflation. (yes the oil consuming world is helping to pay for the US war in Iraq).
People will pay $100/ml for perfume but they won't pay $0.30/ml for exactly the same thing. The same for clothing, add the right badge and they'll pay 3000% more. Microsoft need to be able to justify the now relatively high price tag for the next version of their software so they're appealing to social desires rather than business ones. It's rather an admission that they're going to have difficulty competing on price/performance.
Um, you don't know what they're measuring... THEY don't know what they're measuring. We have two sets of abitrary applications and one set is faster than the other... Does the other set have a bunch of sleep statements in the code somewhere? We don't know because the applications are different, doing different things.
We have absolutely no idea why one of the sets of applications runs faster doing... ehm, something... than the other set of applications.
The problem with email at the moment is that forging From: fields is trivial, anyone who knows the first thing about SMTP can do it in 5 seconds and this means that an email can appear to come from any source the actual sender wants. I can send an email to anyone and make it appear as if it's from any bank in the world.
With a signed email, if the sender(bank) email address in the From: field doesn't match the certificate then you know it's not from the real sender(bank). It's perfectly possible and indeed simple for the client to automatically check that a signed email is from who it says it's from. That's the whole point of digital signatures. It could then display a nice happy face for valid emails and an unhappy one for invalid or neutral for unsigned ones.
And certificates should be easy to obtain. Everyone should have one. Go get one now, they're free! It isn't whether you have a certificate or not that matters it's that you are who you say you are that matters and that's what certificate authorities do for you. It's then up to users check that the From address shows user@barclays.co.uk rather than user@barlcays.co.uk but at least they'll now be able to check.
You can get free certificates which can be installed in your s/mime compliant email client.
People might just be able to determine if they were valid or phishing attempts.
Almost all email clients support s/mime these days, all you and the banks have to do is sign up to a certificate authority and install a certificate. They can be acquired for free.
The idea that you observe the truth by reading anyone's interpretation of it is absurd. All truth is subjective when it comes from someone else. It's only objective when observed at first hand and not even reliably objective even then.
It's really a development platform, more akin to MS Access on LSD.
Both have since been largely superceeded by web based apps.
Email has already been re-invented several times
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What exactly should be re-invented ? Times and requirements change, one of the reasons tcp/ip (and SMTP) are still around and their many comtemporary protocols aren't is that they don't try to do any more than is absolutely necessary. Do one thing and do it well. tcp/ip it's networking, smtp it's routing email. Everything else can be built on top as required.
If you want to prevent phishing and spam then every email address should be registered with a certificate authority, every email should be digitally signed transparently and automatically and every email should be checked automatically by every client application, again transparently. The default mode for sending and receiving mail should be signed and encrypted. And that is down to the client developers.
Part of the process of setting up an email account should be the provision of a certificate. Setting up an account in a mail client should automatically install the certificate.
But you do know who you can trust. Phishing is exactly the type of thing digital signatures were designed to prevent. You know the mail doesn't come from the bank/whatever because it isn't signed by them, the From address is a fake, the key retrieved from the PKI servers for that address will not match the signature. That's the whole point of digital signatures. They guarantee that X sent an email and that it hasn't been tampered with in transit.
Postbank in Germany btw, is the first bank to introduce digital signatures.
As to who produces the infrastructure. Well, anyone who would like reliable trustworthy email system should be involved, that means getting and using a certificate. It's free:
The engines these ships use simply generate electricity, the actual drive is electric. So why not supplement the drive with electricity produced by onboard wind turbines?
Phishing too btw. The signing and checking needs to be transparent, completely automatic. Mail can then easily be checked at every server and dropped if it's unsigned or from a source of ill repute.
Technically it's not a massive problem to do this. Socially it is extremely difficult because nobody uses digital signing yet. We need to start at the client level, automatic signing and checking of every email.
Then we may get email clients which automatically check the signatures and say yup, this is a real valid email. It's entirely possible, perfectly automatable and I think quite a reasonable expectation of email software.
It's not the engineers that decide features like weight, batteries, screen... that's what the marketing department should be doing. They determine what the customers want and balance market demand and operating budget with the engineer's estimate of what it takes to build these features and how they impact each other.
Can never by definition build something new. They follow the market, they make things bigger, smaller, lighter, faster, slightly easier to use or with a fashionable new case but they never, ever do anything new. That's fine, but the irony being that they're then desperate to find that "innovation" which they lost but have absolutely no idea why.
Oh no, my point is about realism. There is no realism in any games, never mind sports games. Until we get Star Trek holodecks in our homes talking about realism in computer games is bullshit. At best you are exercising a finger or two.
In terms of training in class, the idea there is to make it as realistic as is possible[1] without getting hurt, mainly because it bloody hurts to breathe, never mind laugh, sneeze or train while you wait 6 weeks for your ribs to heal.
[1] Actually this idea was abandoned decades ago by many sport based martial arts, so, don't expect your head height spinning reverse round house to connect with anything but thin air and land you on your arse when you actually get cornered in an unlit parking lot. Movies (and games) are fantasy and have no basis in reality.
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That's it. No other reason is necessary. Don't you know how a market works? Why are you complaining? It's not as if having seen how high your bill is you're switching to another company. Do that and you'll see the prices come down.
Most of the electricity generated is used to produce or move heat. Frankly there are smarter ways of doing it.
The solution is to make energy expensive, we'll then start to see more use of heat pumps, district heating, district cooling systems etc. Efficiency levels will go from thirty something percent up to eighty something percent.
The answer to that one is simple. Buy commodities, e.g. gold, silver and oil before the government prints your money into worthlessness.
BTW, when the oil producers switch from demanding dollars to demanding gold or euros, you're going to see some serious inflation. They may well do this fairly soon as the value of their holdings of dollars is decreasing as the dollar falls.
e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/
I suppose I should mention that the rest of the oil consuming world has been keeping the dollar artificially strong since the 1970s, we all have to buy oil in US dollars, thereby increasing the demand for the currency and pushing down US inflation. (yes the oil consuming world is helping to pay for the US war in Iraq).
What are these strange things you speak of?
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Nope, nothing. Can't be very essential.
And of social status.
People will pay $100/ml for perfume but they won't pay $0.30/ml for exactly the same thing. The same for clothing, add the right badge and they'll pay 3000% more. Microsoft need to be able to justify the now relatively high price tag for the next version of their software so they're appealing to social desires rather than business ones. It's rather an admission that they're going to have difficulty competing on price/performance.
Um, you don't know what they're measuring... THEY don't know what they're measuring. We have two sets of abitrary applications and one set is faster than the other... Does the other set have a bunch of sleep statements in the code somewhere? We don't know because the applications are different, doing different things.
We have absolutely no idea why one of the sets of applications runs faster doing... ehm, something... than the other set of applications.
right... of course... so nothing should be done...
Get a certificate, install it and use it.
Bollocks.
- certificates/s /free-email-certificate.html
The problem with email at the moment is that forging From: fields is trivial, anyone who knows the first thing about SMTP can do it in 5 seconds and this means that an email can appear to come from any source the actual sender wants. I can send an email to anyone and make it appear as if it's from any bank in the world.
With a signed email, if the sender(bank) email address in the From: field doesn't match the certificate then you know it's not from the real sender(bank). It's perfectly possible and indeed simple for the client to automatically check that a signed email is from who it says it's from. That's the whole point of digital signatures. It could then display a nice happy face for valid emails and an unhappy one for invalid or neutral for unsigned ones.
And certificates should be easy to obtain. Everyone should have one. Go get one now, they're free! It isn't whether you have a certificate or not that matters it's that you are who you say you are that matters and that's what certificate authorities do for you. It's then up to users check that the From address shows user@barclays.co.uk rather than user@barlcays.co.uk but at least they'll now be able to check.
You can get free certificates which can be installed in your s/mime compliant email client.
http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email
http://www.cacert.org/
http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-product
More info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME
People might just be able to determine if they were valid or phishing attempts.
Almost all email clients support s/mime these days, all you and the banks have to do is sign up to a certificate authority and install a certificate. They can be acquired for free.
The main difference being deploying a web based app world wide is simply a case of saying look here:
http://www.zope.org/ It comes down to economics.
The idea that you observe the truth by reading anyone's interpretation of it is absurd. All truth is subjective when it comes from someone else. It's only objective when observed at first hand and not even reliably objective even then.
So unless your bank account earns that net of tax, your cash is devaluing. The same goes for your annual wage increase as well.
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http://www.glscube.org/
HTH.
It's really a development platform, more akin to MS Access on LSD.
Both have since been largely superceeded by web based apps.
What exactly should be re-invented ? Times and requirements change, one of the reasons tcp/ip (and SMTP) are still around and their many comtemporary protocols aren't is that they don't try to do any more than is absolutely necessary. Do one thing and do it well. tcp/ip it's networking, smtp it's routing email. Everything else can be built on top as required.
If you want to prevent phishing and spam then every email address should be registered with a certificate authority, every email should be digitally signed transparently and automatically and every email should be checked automatically by every client application, again transparently. The default mode for sending and receiving mail should be signed and encrypted. And that is down to the client developers.
Part of the process of setting up an email account should be the provision of a certificate. Setting up an account in a mail client should automatically install the certificate.
Then you'll be marked as a spammer and certificate revoked as untrustworthy. Hardly pointless.
But you do know who you can trust. Phishing is exactly the type of thing digital signatures were designed to prevent. You know the mail doesn't come from the bank/whatever because it isn't signed by them, the From address is a fake, the key retrieved from the PKI servers for that address will not match the signature. That's the whole point of digital signatures. They guarantee that X sent an email and that it hasn't been tampered with in transit.
Postbank in Germany btw, is the first bank to introduce digital signatures.
As to who produces the infrastructure. Well, anyone who would like reliable trustworthy email system should be involved, that means getting and using a certificate. It's free:
http://www.cacert.org/
The engines these ships use simply generate electricity, the actual drive is electric. So why not supplement the drive with electricity produced by onboard wind turbines?
Phishing too btw. The signing and checking needs to be transparent, completely automatic. Mail can then easily be checked at every server and dropped if it's unsigned or from a source of ill repute.
Technically it's not a massive problem to do this. Socially it is extremely difficult because nobody uses digital signing yet. We need to start at the client level, automatic signing and checking of every email.
Automatic signing of all outgoing email. Automatic checking of signatures on all incoming emails.
If it isn't signed, it's spam or a phishing attempt.
Then we may get email clients which automatically check the signatures and say yup, this is a real valid email. It's entirely possible, perfectly automatable and I think quite a reasonable expectation of email software.
Can never by definition build something new. They follow the market, they make things bigger, smaller, lighter, faster, slightly easier to use or with a fashionable new case but they never, ever do anything new. That's fine, but the irony being that they're then desperate to find that "innovation" which they lost but have absolutely no idea why.
Paypal is just one of many. Do you really need the hassle if they're being targeted?
Perhaps losing customers might encourage companies to start signing official emails.
Oh no, my point is about realism. There is no realism in any games, never mind sports games. Until we get Star Trek holodecks in our homes talking about realism in computer games is bullshit. At best you are exercising a finger or two.
In terms of training in class, the idea there is to make it as realistic as is possible[1] without getting hurt, mainly because it bloody hurts to breathe, never mind laugh, sneeze or train while you wait 6 weeks for your ribs to heal.
[1] Actually this idea was abandoned decades ago by many sport based martial arts, so, don't expect your head height spinning reverse round house to connect with anything but thin air and land you on your arse when you actually get cornered in an unlit parking lot. Movies (and games) are fantasy and have no basis in reality.