Ah true. So we're back to my original suggestion (elsewhere in these comments) that the vendor should email a password protected PDF and solve all of this in the easiest way.
If that's your concern, let me terrify you. It's easy to set up a website that has a similar URL to your bank but every page is a simple script that loads the corresponding page from the real bank and forwards it on to you. The millisecond I get your login info it transfers all your funds to my offshore account.
Whether you start at the home page or at the download page doesn't matter at all from a security perspective. You have to look at the URL.
A thousands times THIS. Paperless statements should not mean I get an email once a month from all 20 vendors I use reminding me to go to their website, find my credentials and log on, poke around until I find their statement download page, then download a PDF and save it to my local hard drive. 20 vendors x 15 minutes each = 5 hours per month just to receive my statements.
Paperless statements should mean every month every vendor emails me a password protected PDF statement. Done. Or hell, if they can't be bothered to take that simple step, at least email me a link to a download so that I click the link, enter a username and password and the download starts immediately.
Using NoScript is pretty easy if you don't try and micro-manage it. Allow (whitelist) your most trusted and frequently visited sites just once. "Temporarily allow all on this page" for trusted sites you don't frequently visit. Don't allow anything you don't completely trust to run JS.
> The not-so-private browsing featured by Edge makes its very purpose seem to fail, and you can't help but ask how such a fundamental aspect of private browsing could be so fantastically borked. It beggars belief
Yes, C and C++ allow you to directly access hardware if that hardware uses memory mapped registers. Any language that allows direct memory access does.
*(volatile unsigned short *)(0x0c030) = 1;// toggle the speaker
"Effective C++, regarded by many as one of the top two books"
Ah Slashdot. How can you write THE TWO BEST THINGS ARE 'A' and not follow that up? And not one comment mentions it either. Is this something everybody knows? Or will this start an argument?
> So what did he do? Joined the Hitler Youth. Once he did their life was in his control and 70 years later he proclaimed it as the best decision he ever made,
LOL! So, your *PRO-ZUCKERBERG* statement is that using Facebook services is like joining the Hitler Youth? Marketing genius!
Yes 'leave aura corrugated' is so easy and natural for a person to remember. Be careful though because 'leave aura corrugated' is in Alaska but 'leaves aura corrugated' is in Virgina. Damn where is that package of insulin shots I ordered? It should've been here days ago!
No, it's not a vast improvement. It's yet another incompatible system with its own problems. chew.bump.fantastic and chews.bumps.fantastic are in different states. Can you see the problems yet? You say this is easy for computers to manipulate. How about determining which addresses refer to the same "postal addresses" when my front door and the mailbox at the end of my driveway have completely different words?
Yeah WTH? Why didn't they make a three number triad, with each number from 0-40,000. It would look similar to IP addresses, eg: 185.38921.7823 Works everywhere the same without looking up words in a thousand different dictionaries.
As a matter of fact, I think I'll put together a service to translate What3Numbers to What3Words and Long/Lat.
There is another protocol that may work as well as Twitter DMs for your IoT devices, and it doesn't have the 140 character limit. It's called "TCP" and works pretty well.
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No, that's why the PDF is password protected. Using a password the user sets up once in his or her preferences on the vendor's website.
Ah true. So we're back to my original suggestion (elsewhere in these comments) that the vendor should email a password protected PDF and solve all of this in the easiest way.
If that's your concern, let me terrify you. It's easy to set up a website that has a similar URL to your bank but every page is a simple script that loads the corresponding page from the real bank and forwards it on to you. The millisecond I get your login info it transfers all your funds to my offshore account.
Whether you start at the home page or at the download page doesn't matter at all from a security perspective. You have to look at the URL.
Oh for god's sake all they have to do is email a password protected PDF. Done. It would take one programmer an hour or two to implement.
Replying to myself...
I will even write the code for any company that wants to implement this!
A thousands times THIS.
Paperless statements should not mean I get an email once a month from all 20 vendors I use reminding me to go to their website, find my credentials and log on, poke around until I find their statement download page, then download a PDF and save it to my local hard drive. 20 vendors x 15 minutes each = 5 hours per month just to receive my statements.
Paperless statements should mean every month every vendor emails me a password protected PDF statement. Done. Or hell, if they can't be bothered to take that simple step, at least email me a link to a download so that I click the link, enter a username and password and the download starts immediately.
> Microsoft would now seem to be altering that relationship.
Pray they do not alter it further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Note to team: Add ability to sniff the LAN for good MAC addresses and spoof them when sending photos back to the mother country
Thanks.
> Picasa has been loosing support for over a year
Let's just change the definition of 'loose' in the dictionary once and for all so I can stop letting this illiteracy bother me
Using NoScript is pretty easy if you don't try and micro-manage it. Allow (whitelist) your most trusted and frequently visited sites just once. "Temporarily allow all on this page" for trusted sites you don't frequently visit. Don't allow anything you don't completely trust to run JS.
This is why I haven't switched to Chrome.
> The not-so-private browsing featured by Edge makes its very purpose seem to fail, and you can't help but ask how such a fundamental aspect of private browsing could be so fantastically borked. It beggars belief
> Microsoft
I think I found the problem.
In related news Facebook will prominently feature a 'Whats your favorite color?' field and use it to help you find potential new friends.
Yes, C and C++ allow you to directly access hardware if that hardware uses memory mapped registers. Any language that allows direct memory access does.
*(volatile unsigned short *)(0x0c030) = 1; // toggle the speaker
"Effective C++, regarded by many as one of the top two books"
Ah Slashdot. How can you write THE TWO BEST THINGS ARE 'A' and not follow that up? And not one comment mentions it either.
Is this something everybody knows? Or will this start an argument?
What is the other top book on C++?
> So what did he do? Joined the Hitler Youth. Once he did their life was in his control and 70 years later he proclaimed it as the best decision he ever made,
LOL! So, your *PRO-ZUCKERBERG* statement is that using Facebook services is like joining the Hitler Youth?
Marketing genius!
> Maybe he's in D.C. There are some seriously aggressive panhandlers in that town
That's not a very respectful way to speak about your elected officials.
> We have free basic healthcare
Communist. We don't want things like health and security here in the U.S..
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Wont work. Civilians can't be told to unsee things as well.
Yes 'leave aura corrugated' is so easy and natural for a person to remember. Be careful though because 'leave aura corrugated' is in Alaska but 'leaves aura corrugated' is in Virgina. Damn where is that package of insulin shots I ordered? It should've been here days ago!
No, it's not a vast improvement. It's yet another incompatible system with its own problems.
chew.bump.fantastic and chews.bumps.fantastic are in different states. Can you see the problems yet?
You say this is easy for computers to manipulate. How about determining which addresses refer to the same "postal addresses" when my front door and the mailbox at the end of my driveway have completely different words?
Yeah WTH? Why didn't they make a three number triad, with each number from 0-40,000. It would look similar to IP addresses, eg: 185.38921.7823
Works everywhere the same without looking up words in a thousand different dictionaries.
As a matter of fact, I think I'll put together a service to translate What3Numbers to What3Words and Long/Lat.
Is it true that Duke Nukem Forever was the first commercial software written entirely in Perl 6?
I think this video is clearer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Was this monstrosity designed by the people who brought us poop emoji?!
There is another protocol that may work as well as Twitter DMs for your IoT devices, and it doesn't have the 140 character limit. It's called "TCP" and works pretty well.