Indeed, ejabberd is a fantastic server. It's the first one (and possibly still the only) to feature full XMPP compliance, and offers features that others don't. I run this one myself.
So what do you do instead? What advantage is there to having every HTTPS site interactively prompt you whether to accept the certificate or not?
The only benefit I can see is if you telephone the administrator of every such site, have them read the certificate's fingerprint, and verify that the one you received in the browser matches.
Since you don't do this, how do you know whether to accept or not?
"67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex." "11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed." "78. One in 18 people has a third nipple."
Why should they be left out? If they are new discoveries, the world would like to know about them. The fact that they are anatomy/sex related is no reason to leave research out of publication/dissemination.
My university uses social security numbers as student IDs. So to view my GPA and such, I would log in with my social security number. This goes as far as writing the last 4, 6, or all digits of the SSN on exams.
You can request a random ID to be issued to you, but by the time incoming students realize that their SSN is their campuswide ID, it's pretty much too late.
I suggest NOT just clicking the link above, as it will begin downloading a never-ending file. Instead, click here: http://qnan.org:8000/katrina.ogg.m3u.
I've temporarily put up an audio stream of MSNBC: put http://qnan.org:8000/katrina.ogg into your media player. Please don't abuse it, as there is a max. listener limit.
Responsible customers aren't the ones spamming the hell out of the world. It's the clueless ones. The "simple economic forces" that you wish for don't occur for one of the reasons laissez-faire capitalism fails: consumers typically do not make ideal decisions, and therefore cannot police themselves.
If you choose to download the torrents, click the download links on BBC anyway -- their goal is to ascertain the public's interest in downloading these files.
That's actually the point of Einstein's special relativity: "Overturning the old absolutist views of Aristotle, it held that motion, or at least uniform motion in a straight line, only had meaning relative to something else, and that there was no absolute reference frame by which all things could be measured."
It also relates to Galilean relativity: "Another way of formulating the observation that there is no phenomenon in dynamics that will allow an observer to establish a zero point of uniform velocity, is to state that the laws of motion are equally valid in all inertial reference frames."
So I hate to break it to you, but what seems so obvious to you now is only obvious thanks to these amazing-in-their-time discoveries.
My mother, my father, and probably anyone over the age of 40. Audio tape recording has been made simple and obvious: there are two decks, one of them has a Record button right by the Play button. Most people, though, would be surprised to discover that a sound card can actually accept sound!
Yes -- look for dead pixels on a white background, then change the background color to black and look for pixels that are stuck on. The latter part may be easier if you try several backgrounds with different solid colors.
What the anonymous coward said about a checkerboard does not make sense to me -- how is it easier to look for dead pixels when every other pixel is off? (And same logic applies to pixels stuck on.) However, his method is good for auto-adjusting LCD color, which is another discussion.
The University of Texas at Dallas, which I attend, teaches MIPS assembly in its "Introduction to Digital Systems" course (CS 2310), as well as computer architecture (which is tightly coupled with assembly) in several other courses. Some of these courses are required for a CS major.
It might even be possible to query to find out when a specific printer was sold.
That part is not feasible for now. The barcode, although unique to the product, is not unique to each instance of it. So, they'd initially have to suspect everyone who bought that type of printer.
What do you think of this Libertarian candidate web site in terms of accessibility, taste in design, and content? I am its webmaster, and I tried to make it pleasant for the average Slashdotter, besides the expected audience. I'd like to hear feedback.
Let me explain further. The amount of content provided over an HTTP connection doesn't always correlate directly with the size reported in the HTTP headers. Not only THAT, but it doesn't reflect the fact that sure, my document is, say, 10k, but includes links to 2000 external images, turning the once simple 10k file into a 1 meg whopper. And guess what. You don't have ANY idea untill you actually parse the HTML.
This example is far from being analogous. With images embedded in HTML, a webserver does not send them to a web browser them as one continuous stream of data -- the browser gets the HTML, makes itself a list of the image URLs to retrieve, then makes separate independent connections to the web browser, one per image. Recent versions of Mozilla support pipelining which allows decent webservers to return multiple files in one network connection, but the requests are still separate.
Here's a sample session, with > indicating a client and < indicating a server: > GET/index.html < HTTP 200 OK { The browser realizes that it needs two other images } > GET/image1.jpg < HTTP 200 OK > GET/blah.gif < HTTP 200 OK
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Indeed, ejabberd is a fantastic server. It's the first one (and possibly still the only) to feature full XMPP compliance, and offers features that others don't. I run this one myself.
For your solution, look no further than Jabber.
So what do you do instead? What advantage is there to having every HTTPS site interactively prompt you whether to accept the certificate or not?
The only benefit I can see is if you telephone the administrator of every such site, have them read the certificate's fingerprint, and verify that the one you received in the browser matches.
Since you don't do this, how do you know whether to accept or not?
Sure, currently 150,000 copies of data puts a large strain on the servers... what about one copy broadcast via multicast, much akin to airwaves?
Too bad we're all in this boat together.
Please read The Tragedy of the Commons.
Meanwhile, others are just best LEFT OUT:
"67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex."
"11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed."
"78. One in 18 people has a third nipple."
Why should they be left out? If they are new discoveries, the world would like to know about them. The fact that they are anatomy/sex related is no reason to leave research out of publication/dissemination.
Wow, a university-wide Jabber server, and open-source software on a university-endorsed CD. What is this technologically-superior university?
Thank you for your insightful comment.
My university uses social security numbers as student IDs. So to view my GPA and such, I would log in with my social security number. This goes as far as writing the last 4, 6, or all digits of the SSN on exams.
You can request a random ID to be issued to you, but by the time incoming students realize that their SSN is their campuswide ID, it's pretty much too late.
I suggest NOT just clicking the link above, as it will begin downloading a never-ending file. Instead, click here: http://qnan.org:8000/katrina.ogg.m3u .
I've temporarily put up an audio stream of MSNBC: put http://qnan.org:8000/katrina.ogg into your media player. Please don't abuse it, as there is a max. listener limit.
Responsible customers aren't the ones spamming the hell out of the world. It's the clueless ones. The "simple economic forces" that you wish for don't occur for one of the reasons laissez-faire capitalism fails: consumers typically do not make ideal decisions, and therefore cannot police themselves.
Thomas, some friendly advice: spell-check your resume.
If you choose to download the torrents, click the download links on BBC anyway -- their goal is to ascertain the public's interest in downloading these files.
That's actually the point of Einstein's special relativity: "Overturning the old absolutist views of Aristotle, it held that motion, or at least uniform motion in a straight line, only had meaning relative to something else, and that there was no absolute reference frame by which all things could be measured."
It also relates to Galilean relativity: "Another way of formulating the observation that there is no phenomenon in dynamics that will allow an observer to establish a zero point of uniform velocity, is to state that the laws of motion are equally valid in all inertial reference frames."
So I hate to break it to you, but what seems so obvious to you now is only obvious thanks to these amazing-in-their-time discoveries.
My mother, my father, and probably anyone over the age of 40. Audio tape recording has been made simple and obvious: there are two decks, one of them has a Record button right by the Play button. Most people, though, would be surprised to discover that a sound card can actually accept sound!
With a 5% APR at continuous compounding, it will be 431 years before this happens.
Yes -- look for dead pixels on a white background, then change the background color to black and look for pixels that are stuck on. The latter part may be easier if you try several backgrounds with different solid colors.
What the anonymous coward said about a checkerboard does not make sense to me -- how is it easier to look for dead pixels when every other pixel is off? (And same logic applies to pixels stuck on.) However, his method is good for auto-adjusting LCD color, which is another discussion.
E-mailed.
The University of Texas at Dallas, which I attend, teaches MIPS assembly in its "Introduction to Digital Systems" course (CS 2310), as well as computer architecture (which is tightly coupled with assembly) in several other courses. Some of these courses are required for a CS major.
It might even be possible to query to find out when a specific printer was sold.
That part is not feasible for now. The barcode, although unique to the product, is not unique to each instance of it. So, they'd initially have to suspect everyone who bought that type of printer.
Funny; the site berates us for wasting their bandwidth by hotlinking, yet it uses a 49 KB image to do so.
The police were trying to clear traffic ahead of her, and finally one got in front of her and used his brakes to slow her car down.
Exactly how does that work? A car is not a horse...
What do you think of this Libertarian candidate web site in terms of accessibility, taste in design, and content? I am its webmaster, and I tried to make it pleasant for the average Slashdotter, besides the expected audience. I'd like to hear feedback.
Let me explain further. The amount of content provided over an HTTP connection doesn't always correlate directly with the size reported in the HTTP headers. Not only THAT, but it doesn't reflect the fact that sure, my document is, say, 10k, but includes links to 2000 external images, turning the once simple 10k file into a 1 meg whopper. And guess what. You don't have ANY idea untill you actually parse the HTML.
/index.html /image1.jpg /blah.gif
This example is far from being analogous. With images embedded in HTML, a webserver does not send them to a web browser them as one continuous stream of data -- the browser gets the HTML, makes itself a list of the image URLs to retrieve, then makes separate independent connections to the web browser, one per image. Recent versions of Mozilla support pipelining which allows decent webservers to return multiple files in one network connection, but the requests are still separate.
Here's a sample session, with > indicating a client and < indicating a server:
> GET
< HTTP 200 OK
{ The browser realizes that it needs two other images }
> GET
< HTTP 200 OK
> GET
< HTTP 200 OK
Is there anything similar to this in the US? Air Force?