I forget the name of the actress, but I believe this occurred.... Apparently, she was a porn star, an underage one. She lied about her age, and appeared in several porn productions, while under 18yo.
That would be Traci Lords, and her IMDB bio agrees with pretty much everything you said.
If you're interested in the issues then I recommend reading the appeal court's ruling.
I just wanted to say thanks for being the first person here (that I've seen), when referring to facts not mentioned in TFA, actually gave a link! Several people now have mentioned that he wasn't in school that day, etc., but never bothered to tell WHERE they were getting that information... gah! It's hard to be on the same page as someone if you don't even know where that page is...
So in America... You get to pay for the prank calls you recieve?
In addition to the points already made, as far as I know every cell plan comes with caller ID standard. You only have to "pay" if you actually answer the call. If it's not a number you recognize, you can always let it drop to voicemail.
I also put pay in quotes because generally you never end up paying over and above the cost of your plan, which includes a cache of minutes every month. I share 700 minutes across 2 phones, and have only once went over that allowance.
Actually, it would be just as funny if someone was actually storing XML in MySql or PostgreSQL. Come to think of it, I bet someone does.
Oh yeah... Sun's Identity Manager stores everything in a database (among which MySQL is a choice)... and pretty much all of it is BLOBs full of XML. Very disturbing...
but how is the encoding of the disc to play in a DVD player illegal right now?
It isn't. Here's what you are missing: Nero can (ok, should, I don't know for a fact since I've not used the lastest version) only burn unencrypted (no CSS) data. Most movies are encrypted. So there was no means to burn an encrypted movie without breaking the encryption first. That's the illegal part. With this there will essentially be a means to burn a movie with the encryption intact.
And those credit card machines. ..half the time people insert them the wrong way
I agree with the GP that those machines do seem superior, but I've always wondered why they couldn't find a way to let it read the stripe no matter which way you turn the card...
The department also temporarily disabled a technology known as secure sockets layer
Wait a minute, they actually disabled their security after they got hit with an attack??!?
I suspect that was poorly worded. What it probably meant to say was they disabled transfer of encrypted information over the internet, instead opting to just not transfer the information at all.
Why would you spend time making it more convient for me by printing my check, but at the same time make me scan my own card?
I think it's not so much for credit cards as it is for debit cards. Since they have to enter their PIN, it's (conceivably) more private to have that PIN pad there, and integrating the scanner just seems simpler at that point. (And then from there, having the credit runs use it too...)
Also, most places will still scan your card when you hand it to them, if you like.
Lock your users out (so they have to come to you) after 3 tries.
I agree with this general principle, but you have to be careful: This can easily turn into a Denial of Service situation. Anyone who'd like to lock out your account just has to fake three logins and you're stuck until you get an admin to unlock you. (This can get rather bad if the admins are swamped, or not available at the time you try to access the system.) I tend to prefer time-limited lockouts, or possibly a system where once you are locked out, you have to go elsewhere and enter a really long passphrase to unlock it (and then still enter your normal password to get in).
corporate desktops must *not* be directly addressable. Ever.
You know, I've never understood why people are so adamant about this. Where I work, all of our desktops have direct, public IPs. As far as I've heard that's caused about zero security issues, as we have a firewall.
A few versions ago OpenSSH added a -c "Require confirmation to sign using identities" to ssh-add to take care of this.
I hadn't heard about this feature before, so I looked it up. All it seems to do is ask you for your passphrase every time a key is used. But SSH does this already if it can't find an agent, so I have to ask: Why would you use the agent with -c?
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That would be Traci Lords, and her IMDB bio agrees with pretty much everything you said.
Nah, it depends. I just got a D620 at work with a dock, and both power supplies are 2 prong.
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That's because the door is on the back...
(Groan...)
Are you sure that qualifies as a false positive? :)
OK, honest question: Are the RTM versions of Vista (going to be) downloadable from Microsoft? Otherwise this is pretty irrelevant...
I just wanted to say thanks for being the first person here (that I've seen), when referring to facts not mentioned in TFA, actually gave a link! Several people now have mentioned that he wasn't in school that day, etc., but never bothered to tell WHERE they were getting that information... gah! It's hard to be on the same page as someone if you don't even know where that page is...
No, you just aren't thinking like Microsoft. Those OSes are no longer supported, so in their eyes, they don't exist.
In addition to the points already made, as far as I know every cell plan comes with caller ID standard. You only have to "pay" if you actually answer the call. If it's not a number you recognize, you can always let it drop to voicemail.
I also put pay in quotes because generally you never end up paying over and above the cost of your plan, which includes a cache of minutes every month. I share 700 minutes across 2 phones, and have only once went over that allowance.
Keyconfig might be able to fix that.
Oh yeah... Sun's Identity Manager stores everything in a database (among which MySQL is a choice)... and pretty much all of it is BLOBs full of XML. Very disturbing...
It isn't. Here's what you are missing: Nero can (ok, should, I don't know for a fact since I've not used the lastest version) only burn unencrypted (no CSS) data. Most movies are encrypted. So there was no means to burn an encrypted movie without breaking the encryption first. That's the illegal part. With this there will essentially be a means to burn a movie with the encryption intact.
Oh, you can. It's just very likely to be thrown out "in the interest of national security."
Pretty much none.
I agree with the GP that those machines do seem superior, but I've always wondered why they couldn't find a way to let it read the stripe no matter which way you turn the card...
I know what you mean... my favorite part of FF8 was the Laguna "backstory." Once Squall met Laguna in the present I lost interest.
I suspect that was poorly worded. What it probably meant to say was they disabled transfer of encrypted information over the internet, instead opting to just not transfer the information at all.
I think it's not so much for credit cards as it is for debit cards. Since they have to enter their PIN, it's (conceivably) more private to have that PIN pad there, and integrating the scanner just seems simpler at that point. (And then from there, having the credit runs use it too...)
Also, most places will still scan your card when you hand it to them, if you like.
I agree with this general principle, but you have to be careful: This can easily turn into a Denial of Service situation. Anyone who'd like to lock out your account just has to fake three logins and you're stuck until you get an admin to unlock you. (This can get rather bad if the admins are swamped, or not available at the time you try to access the system.) I tend to prefer time-limited lockouts, or possibly a system where once you are locked out, you have to go elsewhere and enter a really long passphrase to unlock it (and then still enter your normal password to get in).
You know, I've never understood why people are so adamant about this. Where I work, all of our desktops have direct, public IPs. As far as I've heard that's caused about zero security issues, as we have a firewall.
And a copy of Space Invaders, preferably the arcade version.
I hadn't heard about this feature before, so I looked it up. All it seems to do is ask you for your passphrase every time a key is used. But SSH does this already if it can't find an agent, so I have to ask: Why would you use the agent with -c?
You might even manage to get it up to 0.00MHz, or if you are really, really good, 0.00GHz!
Duba Bubu?
They would if you were running OpenSSH from Cygwin, wouldn't they?