You haven't been watching what I have been watching then. There has been extensive non-American coverage, including, each and every single men's Ice Hockey game, regardless of the teams involved, extensive coverage of 'fringe' sports, such as curling, etc. Steer away from NBC and watch USA, CNBC and MSNBC. They have all the hidden gems.
I spent four hours watching coverage yesterday on NBC and there was barely even a reference of anything American. Which considering the target audience, I found shocking. NBC has done the best job I have ever seen an American broadcaster do so far this year.
So let's see if I have this straight. You are agreeing that Britain IS a secular country and that the ties of the PM in this case to whatever church he chooses don't really matter. Of, except that one of the regions of said secular country will "explode" if he does.
I have never understood why the name keeps changing.. it is like JavaScript has such a bad stigma attached to it that programmers that do anything intense with it (ala DHTML, AJAX, etc) want to call it something else so as to feel better about themselves. Weird.
If anybody is interested in a growing site that gives you access to some public domain (Project Gutenberg, Internet Wiretap, etc) works in a nice, user friendly html formatted manor, check out my site:
I didn't mean to imply that there was no service like this out there, just that the dozen or so I have checked are all overpriced with terible service/setup timeframes.
Well, I am currently in the middle of a move from Canada to the US, and have discovered to my dismay that broadband access in the US is kilometers (er.. miles) behind that offered in Canada.
Here in Canada, I have a nice 1Mb DSL for $40/month CAN, while in the US, I have to pay damn near $70-$100/month US to get anything comparable in my area (Silicon Valley), and they are saying it will take anywhere from 3 to 16 weeks to get hooked up. It only takes 5 business days up here!!!
Cable is not an option either, as we will not have cable TV in the home.
While the thought of 'Big Government' scares many, having the government help keep the cable/phone companies in line with regards to broadband seems to be a benefit to the consumer
The Scripting Host will allow you to program your ASP in various languages of choice, including Perl and Python.
Sometimes you are stuck on an NT server, and ASP is simply the best choice for such an environment.
I actually find PerlScript to be one of the more flexible and powerful scripting languages in this setting, as you can access the excellent ADO, various server components, with the added power of Perl's RE and filesystem handling and multiple built in (free) functions.
If the cert is issued by a trusted root CA, then it will work fine, even if the cert was issued by an intermediate issuer, or Registration Authority. I too have setup a number of CA/RA systems, and basically if you want to pay Verisign a large amount of money, their trusted CA will sign the root key of your RA. You can then use the RA to issue certs, which in turn will be trusted. Trust is a good thing.
Negatives:
1) you must pay a large amount to Verisign, in some cases on a per-cert issued basis.
2) if you are trying to become a respected CA, it hardly looks professional using a competitors certificate as your root.
3)All issued certs are what you call 'chain certs'. If you look at a cert, you can see in the authentication path all of the intermediate certs (ie any intermediary RA's) right back to the root CA. In IE (which has an outstanding certificate store), you can actually view the CA's public key, etc, as well as revocation path.
Yes. An open authority would be a good solution. Right now, the only thing that establishes you as a trusted CA in the browser is a truck-load of money. Money SHOULD NOT == TRUST.
I am more likely to trust a cert issued a not-for-profit organization like say W3C than a monopoly like Microsoft.
Of course, they would still have to charge for their cert's, as there is lots of leg-work involved in verifying a company as trustworthy
Root CA's are not just added to the browser's by default. The companies representing the CA must PAY Netscape and Microsoft to have them in there. And trust me, it is ALOT of money. I worked for a company that has a CA, and when we wanted to put it in the browsers, it cost us on the order of $200,000 US$ to get it in both. And if you don't have your CA in the browser's, and you try to setup SSL with the browser using a certificate issued by your unlisted CA, the browser freaks out, basically telling the user the site is NOT TRUSTED. This is a good mechanism in theory, but when the browsers charge this kind of money, it borders on holding a company hostage.
Of course, you can always manually import a root CA, but this is generally beyond the scope of Joe Six-Pack just trying to login to check his stock quotes.
If you want to view an online Gutenberg Etext reader, please visit the site listed in my.sig.
A little bit of a shameless plug, but totally on-topic for the discussion. The Gutenberg Project is something that should get more attention than it does, so spread the word!!!
I for one truly consider code an 'art'. I take personal pride in the code that I write, and crafting elegant routines, or nicely formatted code provide one of the main joys of coding for me. Have you ever looked at spaghetti code, then looked at something with appropriate whitespace, remarks, and proper logic? It is truly a thing of beauty!!
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I spent four hours watching coverage yesterday on NBC and there was barely even a reference of anything American. Which considering the target audience, I found shocking. NBC has done the best job I have ever seen an American broadcaster do so far this year.
Sounds perfectly secular to me.
Looks like the craze has just started...
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I have never understood why the name keeps changing.. it is like JavaScript has such a bad stigma attached to it that programmers that do anything intense with it (ala DHTML, AJAX, etc) want to call it something else so as to feel better about themselves. Weird.
Is a good example I can think of.
Unbreakable
Sorry, but I had to do it...
If anybody is interested in a growing site that gives you access to some public domain (Project Gutenberg, Internet Wiretap, etc) works in a nice, user friendly html formatted manor, check out my site:
The PG Reader
...ok, I feel like a sellout now...
Ballard Power is world renowned. It is widely traded on the TSE and NASDAQ, NOT the infamous Vancouver exchange.
This company has been around for years, and is hardly comparable to some fly-by-night internet dot-bomb.
Well, since we are talking about it, I thought I would throw this out there...
Have a look at a project that I have been working on.
It is very beta, but it is an HTML Etext reader for the standard Project Gutenberg files.
PG Reader
Like I said, it is beta, but it is a non-profit labour of love that will hopefully be making leaps and bounds in the near future.
OK, so what service? I would love to signup.
I didn't mean to imply that there was no service like this out there, just that the dozen or so I have checked are all overpriced with terible service/setup timeframes.
If you have a link, I would really appreciate it.
Well, I am currently in the middle of a move from Canada to the US, and have discovered to my dismay that broadband access in the US is kilometers (er.. miles) behind that offered in Canada.
Here in Canada, I have a nice 1Mb DSL for $40/month CAN, while in the US, I have to pay damn near $70-$100/month US to get anything comparable in my area (Silicon Valley), and they are saying it will take anywhere from 3 to 16 weeks to get hooked up. It only takes 5 business days up here!!!
Cable is not an option either, as we will not have cable TV in the home.
While the thought of 'Big Government' scares many, having the government help keep the cable/phone companies in line with regards to broadband seems to be a benefit to the consumer
The book was called something like robot city I believe.
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The Scripting Host will allow you to program your ASP in various languages of choice, including Perl and Python.
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Sometimes you are stuck on an NT server, and ASP is simply the best choice for such an environment.
I actually find PerlScript to be one of the more flexible and powerful scripting languages in this setting, as you can access the excellent ADO, various server components, with the added power of Perl's RE and filesystem handling and multiple built in (free) functions.
If the cert is issued by a trusted root CA, then it will work fine, even if the cert was issued by an intermediate issuer, or Registration Authority. I too have setup a number of CA/RA systems, and basically if you want to pay Verisign a large amount of money, their trusted CA will sign the root key of your RA. You can then use the RA to issue certs, which in turn will be trusted. Trust is a good thing.
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Negatives:
1) you must pay a large amount to Verisign, in some cases on a per-cert issued basis.
2) if you are trying to become a respected CA, it hardly looks professional using a competitors certificate as your root.
3)All issued certs are what you call 'chain certs'. If you look at a cert, you can see in the authentication path all of the intermediate certs (ie any intermediary RA's) right back to the root CA. In IE (which has an outstanding certificate store), you can actually view the CA's public key, etc, as well as revocation path.
Yes. An open authority would be a good solution. Right now, the only thing that establishes you as a trusted CA in the browser is a truck-load of money. Money SHOULD NOT == TRUST.
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I am more likely to trust a cert issued a not-for-profit organization like say W3C than a monopoly like Microsoft.
Of course, they would still have to charge for their cert's, as there is lots of leg-work involved in verifying a company as trustworthy
This is the crux of the problem EXACTLY
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Root CA's are not just added to the browser's by default. The companies representing the CA must PAY Netscape and Microsoft to have them in there. And trust me, it is ALOT of money. I worked for a company that has a CA, and when we wanted to put it in the browsers, it cost us on the order of $200,000 US$ to get it in both. And if you don't have your CA in the browser's, and you try to setup SSL with the browser using a certificate issued by your unlisted CA, the browser freaks out, basically telling the user the site is NOT TRUSTED. This is a good mechanism in theory, but when the browsers charge this kind of money, it borders on holding a company hostage.
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Of course, you can always manually import a root CA, but this is generally beyond the scope of Joe Six-Pack just trying to login to check his stock quotes.
If you want to view an online Gutenberg Etext reader, please visit the site listed in my .sig.
A little bit of a shameless plug, but totally on-topic for the discussion. The Gutenberg Project is something that should get more attention than it does, so spread the word!!!
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I for one truly consider code an 'art'. I take personal pride in the code that I write, and crafting elegant routines, or nicely formatted code provide one of the main joys of coding for me. Have you ever looked at spaghetti code, then looked at something with appropriate whitespace, remarks, and proper logic? It is truly a thing of beauty!!
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