I have no problem with this at all. Many people choose to not "pay" for TV but in exchange they have to watch advertisements.
I would rather put up with ads and still get to use the wikipedia free of charge than to loose it all together (or have to start paying for it.) I do the same thing here at Slashdot.;)
I will probably get yelled at, but the simple answer to me seems to be writing a web app. It was stated that they are willing to write terminal applications, so there is obviously some programming ability present.
So why not write web apps. If you write your HTML well, then you can run it over pretty low bandwidth and all the work can be done by the server. There are still sites that work with 56k modems so it is possible to create low bandwidth sites (although most have stopped bothering).
There isn't a strong definition of what exactly the goal is and some projects don't lend themselves to being web based, but with a little work most things that can be done through the terminal can be done through the web server with far less bandwidth needed.
I used to use a great browser call Phoenix, that was light and fast. Then it changed its name and changed its name again. I still use it because its still the best browser and by far my favorite, however I have trouble calling it light and fast these days.
Okay I'll out myself, I work for a bank. The banks are not the ones acting stupidly its the banks regulators. The use of Cookies/Flash is caused by the FFIEC's (use google to find out what that is) new Multi Factor Authentication requirements for bank's website.
Worst part is, many of the IT regulators already agree that MFA is worthless, however they still required banks to push its inconvenience onto their customers. Its been a pretty large hassle on bank's end as well and it costs us thousands of dollars to implement something that thier own people agree is a waste of time.
To come back to the original post, from what I've seen most banks as stated are only using flash when the cookies are cleared and they are not storing login information in flash, just a key verifying that the computer you are using is your computer. The FFIEC requirement is that the bank has another factor of authentication that will ensure the person is who they say they are. If you don't "enroll" your computer then you'll be asked to answer an annoying security question. Of course every bank if implementing this differently, some are using pictures, other tokens, one time email passwords, but its all to reach the same goal.
Actaully I think the "first letter of the phrase" idea is too complex, why not just use a phrase. Most sane passwords allow up to 128 characters. You can easily type a whole sentence, which is much easier to remember. Use something like:
Jane's birthday is on October 12th. (with puncuation)
This makes far more sense than actual games for the MAC. With codeweavers work on getting crossover office working on MACs it probably won't be long before Windows games run fine. Not that that better than native ports, we all know, but at least they will be avaliable.
However the iPod idea seem like it would be a money maker. People spend tons of money on cell phone games, why shouldn't apple get in on it. Hopefully they will also open it and the ability to sell through iTunes to others as well.
Song by big-name bands would cost more, and lesser-known acts would cost less (with a minimum of 25 cents.)"
I see a problem here, as 25 cents wouldn't even cover the cost of processing the credit card transaction. I think there are good ideas in the article, but sometimes people don't think all the way through things, or they don't have all the information they need. A credit card transaction often times costs merchants as much as 50 cents.
If you've used the ITMS, you'll have noticed that Apple batches your purchases for a day and then processes them all at the end to try to defray the credit card cost some. However I doubt the record company would accept not getting anything for a song because they only made enough to cover the transaction cost.
On a side note, this is also one of the biggest hold ups in micro payments. The cost of transaction processing is so high that places can't afford them.
Once you click login it redirects you to the actual amazon.com domain to sign in. So when you type in your username and password you actually send that to amazon.com (of course I am assuming that there is no spoofing and other crazy things going on since the whole things seems fairly legitiamte).
I personally don't see why they are even fighting. if I was Apple I would allow it to install on basically any system, but then just not support it. List clearly on the box that support is only for Genuine Apple hardware. Then people like myself could build a white box, run out and buy OS X and support it myself from the Internet, etc.
They would still get thier money from the sale and I would get to try out thier OS without having to fork over the money for thier hardware. I might like it and later want to buy a system from them as well.
More importantly, the FFIEC doesn't consider email a secure method of communication anyway. They probably wouldn't allow the code to be sent via email.
I think my biggest concern is that Apple will make the shift to Intel and then shortly after IBM gets their productions ramped up. Apple decides to continue to produce G5 Macs and then after 6 months or so drops Intel altogether. Then those few that bought x86 systems become the bastard children that Apple wants to forget.
I just don't see what would keep them on Intel if IBM could start performing. They have always seemed to like to have the niche of a different architecture. I'm a little wary of the whole thing.
I have been thinking quite a while about buying an Apple laptop for my wife and I to use as just a carry around the house, use while watching TV to look up things on imdb kind of system. However since it really not a need, I'm going to wait now. I might have gotten a wild hair and bought one out of the blue sometime, but now I won't. I'll wait.
Ahh, but what's the big difference? Everyone loves Google. No one trusts Microsoft, so pulling something of like this is tough for them.
However the wonderful and kind Google, can get away with because of *trust*. Why has Wal-Mart taken over the world...everyone loves them. Now Google is following the same path. Spend a long time building everyone's trust, then turn them into mindless zomebies... "Must by $2 shoes from Wal-Mart"..."Must do tax return on Google"...
Now you're getting into a sticky situation. This would be more along the lines of a violation of the DMCA. I hate that thing too, but reverse engineering is only legal if you have never seen the original product.
You can sometimes get away with this working as a "team", but he's already said that he wrote the code and not mentioned abother team member. This is still questionable, but a lot of people think its how AMD *used* to copy Intel's chips.
Sounds great, but let me add. Its costs about $15 to protest a charge on a card. Not you, but to the issuer of the card. So most issueres have a set amount that they just refund and don't bother with. Its costs $15 to report it and $10 if you have to send additional info. So now for all that work, even if you win the dispute, you gained nothing from it. Not counting in what you paid the person to do it, if so you probably lost money.
Now assume that probably 1/3 of the people don't bother looking at their statements, they don't I know I work for a bank. We had a lady come in last week that has $1000 of fraud on her card and she said "I guess I should look at my statements, maybe I would have caught this sooner." Here I'm talking about bank statements and debit cards, I hope people look at their credit card statements, but I'm sure there's some that don't.
So really there's a pretty good chance that a large number of those transaction would go unnoticed. Don't get me wrong I agree with you that a person would probably get caught, I'm just saying that its not as difficult as you are making it.
Man I hate it when this story comes up. Everyone here seems to forget that they are well above the age of Disney's core audience. Yes *you* will have no interest in anything Disney does after Pixar leaves. However the under 10 (and mostly under 5) year old children that are thier core audience will continue to love Disney.
Everyone is upset that Disney just turns out sequels (although I personally think it sucks) little kids don't care. They just want cartoons and toys. Toy Story 3 probably won't be as good as the first two without Pixar, but its still going to due well because kids won't know the difference.
I'm sure Pixar will be fine without Disney, I just hope they can get a better deal with someone so they can afford to put out films more often.
I read that you guys are rebuilding your own version of all the debian packages you use instead of using vanilla debian. Apparently this means that Ubuntu will not work with general debian apt repositories. Is this true? If so, what is the reasoning behind this and will you in the future be considering changing this policy?
This worries me more than it makes me excited. I have several email addresses that I send mail from home through ISP. I don't believe they are going to put those domains in thier DNS list.
In the case I guess the only option will to be use webmail for any addresses not provided by my ISP. That's a pain...
I wish all of the (open source, I assume the others wouldn't want to play nicely) CMSes would come up with a standard database schema. Everyone of them has some overlapping fields such as "username" "password", "story id", etc. etc.
I wish they could all agree on a schema for the overlaping ones and then extend it for things that they might need. That way changing wouldn't be nearly as hard. I know this is a little off topic but I've just been wanting to say this ever since I tried to switch CMSes about 6 months ago.
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I have no problem with this at all. Many people choose to not "pay" for TV but in exchange they have to watch advertisements.
I would rather put up with ads and still get to use the wikipedia free of charge than to loose it all together (or have to start paying for it.) I do the same thing here at Slashdot. ;)
I will probably get yelled at, but the simple answer to me seems to be writing a web app. It was stated that they are willing to write terminal applications, so there is obviously some programming ability present.
So why not write web apps. If you write your HTML well, then you can run it over pretty low bandwidth and all the work can be done by the server. There are still sites that work with 56k modems so it is possible to create low bandwidth sites (although most have stopped bothering).
There isn't a strong definition of what exactly the goal is and some projects don't lend themselves to being web based, but with a little work most things that can be done through the terminal can be done through the web server with far less bandwidth needed.
I work in IT in the banking industry and I can tell you that not only do we destroy hard drives we are basically required to do so by regulators.
There is a recycling company that does it in our area and they work with a large number of banks and hospitals, etc.
This may not be the reason for the lost emails, but I think destroying drives it a lot more common that many might think.
I used to use a great browser call Phoenix, that was light and fast. Then it changed its name and changed its name again. I still use it because its still the best browser and by far my favorite, however I have trouble calling it light and fast these days.
Okay I'll out myself, I work for a bank. The banks are not the ones acting stupidly its the banks regulators. The use of Cookies/Flash is caused by the FFIEC's (use google to find out what that is) new Multi Factor Authentication requirements for bank's website.
Worst part is, many of the IT regulators already agree that MFA is worthless, however they still required banks to push its inconvenience onto their customers. Its been a pretty large hassle on bank's end as well and it costs us thousands of dollars to implement something that thier own people agree is a waste of time.
To come back to the original post, from what I've seen most banks as stated are only using flash when the cookies are cleared and they are not storing login information in flash, just a key verifying that the computer you are using is your computer. The FFIEC requirement is that the bank has another factor of authentication that will ensure the person is who they say they are. If you don't "enroll" your computer then you'll be asked to answer an annoying security question. Of course every bank if implementing this differently, some are using pictures, other tokens, one time email passwords, but its all to reach the same goal.
Actaully I think the "first letter of the phrase" idea is too complex, why not just use a phrase. Most sane passwords allow up to 128 characters. You can easily type a whole sentence, which is much easier to remember. Use something like:
Jane's birthday is on October 12th. (with puncuation)
or
Do or do not, there is no try.
This makes far more sense than actual games for the MAC. With codeweavers work on getting crossover office working on MACs it probably won't be long before Windows games run fine. Not that that better than native ports, we all know, but at least they will be avaliable.
However the iPod idea seem like it would be a money maker. People spend tons of money on cell phone games, why shouldn't apple get in on it. Hopefully they will also open it and the ability to sell through iTunes to others as well.
Song by big-name bands would cost more, and lesser-known acts would cost less (with a minimum of 25 cents.)"
I see a problem here, as 25 cents wouldn't even cover the cost of processing the credit card transaction. I think there are good ideas in the article, but sometimes people don't think all the way through things, or they don't have all the information they need. A credit card transaction often times costs merchants as much as 50 cents.
If you've used the ITMS, you'll have noticed that Apple batches your purchases for a day and then processes them all at the end to try to defray the credit card cost some. However I doubt the record company would accept not getting anything for a song because they only made enough to cover the transaction cost.
On a side note, this is also one of the biggest hold ups in micro payments. The cost of transaction processing is so high that places can't afford them.
Once you click login it redirects you to the actual amazon.com domain to sign in. So when you type in your username and password you actually send that to amazon.com (of course I am assuming that there is no spoofing and other crazy things going on since the whole things seems fairly legitiamte).
I personally don't see why they are even fighting. if I was Apple I would allow it to install on basically any system, but then just not support it. List clearly on the box that support is only for Genuine Apple hardware. Then people like myself could build a white box, run out and buy OS X and support it myself from the Internet, etc.
They would still get thier money from the sale and I would get to try out thier OS without having to fork over the money for thier hardware. I might like it and later want to buy a system from them as well.
More importantly, the FFIEC doesn't consider email a secure method of communication anyway. They probably wouldn't allow the code to be sent via email.
7 04a.html (This is from the FDIC, but you get the picture).
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2004/fil2
I think my biggest concern is that Apple will make the shift to Intel and then shortly after IBM gets their productions ramped up. Apple decides to continue to produce G5 Macs and then after 6 months or so drops Intel altogether. Then those few that bought x86 systems become the bastard children that Apple wants to forget.
I just don't see what would keep them on Intel if IBM could start performing. They have always seemed to like to have the niche of a different architecture. I'm a little wary of the whole thing.
Well I for one am not.
I have been thinking quite a while about buying an Apple laptop for my wife and I to use as just a carry around the house, use while watching TV to look up things on imdb kind of system. However since it really not a need, I'm going to wait now. I might have gotten a wild hair and bought one out of the blue sometime, but now I won't. I'll wait.
Ahh, but what's the big difference? Everyone loves Google. No one trusts Microsoft, so pulling something of like this is tough for them.
However the wonderful and kind Google, can get away with because of *trust*. Why has Wal-Mart taken over the world...everyone loves them. Now Google is following the same path. Spend a long time building everyone's trust, then turn them into mindless zomebies... "Must by $2 shoes from Wal-Mart"..."Must do tax return on Google"...
Now you're getting into a sticky situation. This would be more along the lines of a violation of the DMCA. I hate that thing too, but reverse engineering is only legal if you have never seen the original product.
You can sometimes get away with this working as a "team", but he's already said that he wrote the code and not mentioned abother team member. This is still questionable, but a lot of people think its how AMD *used* to copy Intel's chips.
Sounds great, but let me add. Its costs about $15 to protest a charge on a card. Not you, but to the issuer of the card. So most issueres have a set amount that they just refund and don't bother with. Its costs $15 to report it and $10 if you have to send additional info. So now for all that work, even if you win the dispute, you gained nothing from it. Not counting in what you paid the person to do it, if so you probably lost money.
Now assume that probably 1/3 of the people don't bother looking at their statements, they don't I know I work for a bank. We had a lady come in last week that has $1000 of fraud on her card and she said "I guess I should look at my statements, maybe I would have caught this sooner." Here I'm talking about bank statements and debit cards, I hope people look at their credit card statements, but I'm sure there's some that don't.
So really there's a pretty good chance that a large number of those transaction would go unnoticed. Don't get me wrong I agree with you that a person would probably get caught, I'm just saying that its not as difficult as you are making it.
I completely agree with you that Lion King 1.5 was a turd, however, of interest is the fact that I know 4 people that own.
Man I hate it when this story comes up. Everyone here seems to forget that they are well above the age of Disney's core audience. Yes *you* will have no interest in anything Disney does after Pixar leaves. However the under 10 (and mostly under 5) year old children that are thier core audience will continue to love Disney.
Everyone is upset that Disney just turns out sequels (although I personally think it sucks) little kids don't care. They just want cartoons and toys. Toy Story 3 probably won't be as good as the first two without Pixar, but its still going to due well because kids won't know the difference.
I'm sure Pixar will be fine without Disney, I just hope they can get a better deal with someone so they can afford to put out films more often.
I read that you guys are rebuilding your own version of all the debian packages you use instead of using vanilla debian. Apparently this means that Ubuntu will not work with general debian apt repositories. Is this true? If so, what is the reasoning behind this and will you in the future be considering changing this policy?
My spelling and grammar skills worry me even more...
I even previewed before posting!
This worries me more than it makes me excited. I have several email addresses that I send mail from home through ISP. I don't believe they are going to put those domains in thier DNS list.
In the case I guess the only option will to be use webmail for any addresses not provided by my ISP. That's a pain...
I got 13837. Its on down the road a bit, but still annoying as well.
I wish all of the (open source, I assume the others wouldn't want to play nicely) CMSes would come up with a standard database schema. Everyone of them has some overlapping fields such as "username" "password", "story id", etc. etc.
I wish they could all agree on a schema for the overlaping ones and then extend it for things that they might need. That way changing wouldn't be nearly as hard. I know this is a little off topic but I've just been wanting to say this ever since I tried to switch CMSes about 6 months ago.
Not a single reply and already /.ed anyone got a mirror?
That is freakin funny. I think from this day forward google should be known as "Go ogle".
So let it be written, so let it be done.