But, for the paranoid types like yourself, the server can be your machine! You can run your own copy of the Liberty Alliance server software and keep all your own data securely encrypted on your hard disk. When you want to use your single sign-on from anywhere on the Internet, it will direct the request to your machine and return the info to the requesting web site.
Sharing is not really the right word here. It's more like the web sites have access to the user's information from a central (or distributed) database that's under control of the user. The idea is not to share anything without the user's permission. The site gets the single sign-on id from the user (via a form or a cookie) and a password. It then (securely) requests the info it needs from the database. The user is allowed to see what it is requesting and, if they approve, the info is returned. That's the theory, anyway - let's wait and see how well the implementation of it pans out.
We got three goldfish about 15 years ago. The first died after about 5 years. The second about 5 years after that. The last one is still going strong!!
I still can't figure out why a company with Microsoft's resources has such mediocre security. They should be blowing Linux and BSD and Mac out of the water with...
But they don't want to fix these problems in the current incarnations of their operating systems. Because then they wouldn't be able to sell as many of the next version with DRM, TCPA compliance, etc.
A couple of years ago, I wrote a program that scraped the localsportsbetting agencies and did the arbitage automatically on simple win bets on horse races. Up until 5 minutes before a race, they were often over the odds - guaranteed wins were possible. However, in the last few minutes, the odds would very quickly move so that the optimal return was almost exactly 93% of investment (the government controlled percentage). I didn't pursue it any further since there were obviously bigger players involved than I could ever hope to be. I suspect that the various totes simply lay off against one another. Other bet types/fixed odds etc. may have changed things but I didn't spend the time.
I'm not doubting what you say, but it seems completely incongruous to me that you'd (deliberately) have lawyers in a combat zone. I guess that what they say about the US being very litigious is true.
Look out sarge, there's a lawsuit pointed at you!!
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Drink Coopers. The only real beer left.
You talked me into it. See you...
Graham
But, for the paranoid types like yourself, the server can be your machine! You can run your own copy of the Liberty Alliance server software and keep all your own data securely encrypted on your hard disk. When you want to use your single sign-on from anywhere on the Internet, it will direct the request to your machine and return the info to the requesting web site.
Graham
Sharing is not really the right word here. It's more like the web sites have access to the user's information from a central (or distributed) database that's under control of the user. The idea is not to share anything without the user's permission. The site gets the single sign-on id from the user (via a form or a cookie) and a password. It then (securely) requests the info it needs from the database. The user is allowed to see what it is requesting and, if they approve, the info is returned. That's the theory, anyway - let's wait and see how well the implementation of it pans out.
Graham
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down (sorry, flashback from primary school).
Graham
We got three goldfish about 15 years ago. The first died after about 5 years. The second about 5 years after that. The last one is still going strong!!
Graham
WWW-based news is better than TV-based news, anyway
Tell me about it...
Graham
Speeding fines ... they help cover the costs of enforcing it
In Victoria (Australia), they do a lot more than that. I reckon the state government's budget could just about be run purely from speeding fines!!
Graham
I still can't figure out why a company with Microsoft's resources has such mediocre security. They should be blowing Linux and BSD and Mac out of the water with...
But they don't want to fix these problems in the current incarnations of their operating systems. Because then they wouldn't be able to sell as many of the next version with DRM, TCPA compliance, etc.
Graham
It may have been well known (to you and me), but that doesn't mean that people aren't still doing it!
Graham
A couple of years ago, I wrote a program that scraped the local sports betting agencies and did the arbitage automatically on simple win bets on horse races. Up until 5 minutes before a race, they were often over the odds - guaranteed wins were possible. However, in the last few minutes, the odds would very quickly move so that the optimal return was almost exactly 93% of investment (the government controlled percentage). I didn't pursue it any further since there were obviously bigger players involved than I could ever hope to be. I suspect that the various totes simply lay off against one another. Other bet types/fixed odds etc. may have changed things but I didn't spend the time.
Graham
Drongo was a horse that consistently ran last (many years ago). Sounds like a fair description of Alston!
Graham
As a mate of mine says, "I'm here for a good time - not a long time".
You might like to research the very first phrase of your post before you try to draw any conclusions from it.
Oh, the irony!
I presume that you've never seen Fawlty Towers!
You probably have a different default printer configured to what he has.
The winner may have used files with a .cc extension and he may have used a few standard library constructs but it's a C program, not a C++ one.
Or perhaps they use smart pointers.
Already been done.
Is invading other countries mandated?
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Hear! Hear!
Graham
Houses of Parliament... Big Ben... Houses of...
I'm not doubting what you say, but it seems completely incongruous to me that you'd (deliberately) have lawyers in a combat zone. I guess that what they say about the US being very litigious is true.
Look out sarge, there's a lawsuit pointed at you!!
Graham
But the requirements said that we wanted a program to print "Goodbye World".
Back in my uni days, we calculated that you'd have to drink 130 or so cans of VB to get your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals!
Graham