All of the above plus Windows and a few others. I've got a pretty good chance of being able to figure out how to move my private key to another machine and use it with another browser, so I wouldn't worry too much.
Moreover, if there's no extradition treaty then there's no being extradited to there if someone should happen to be tied to their untimely demise or fraudulent financial ruin then slip back to the original country.
So that's what they mean by "no preset spending limit" in their ads? Fair enough, I guess. Still, the control freaks among us would probably rather know.
Most credit card companies are fairly reasonable on at least one issue, even if they are total assholes about everything else: if you're a good customer who rarely gets near the limit for long and always pays on time, they're generally willing to bump your limit up a bit to get you to pay more interest. All it usually takes is a call to them saying that since you're a solid customer in good standing and you need a little extra credit right now, you'd appreciate getting that credit through their company where you have an established relationship instead of paying interest to their competition.
I'd be less worried about your individual email account and more worried about that Exchange installation on the NT4 box in the janitor's closet that your employer uses as a mail server. Having everyone's password reset data is better and often easier than having just yours.
On lower-security sites like this, I tend to send a password reset link with a long (about 40 character) random string as part of the URL that is good for 24 hours, until the password is reset, or the "I did not request this reset" link is followed instead. You'd be surprised how many people get a password sent to them in an email then refuse to change that.
If the banks are really interested in security, though, why don't they give you a USB drive with a trusted browser program that generates your very own public/private key pair when you first sign up for online banking? If the teller or customer service window is the perfect place to deposit a check, it's the perfect place to deposit your public key.
Actual cash is involved in very few of a bank's transactions these days, so secure storage and transfer of data are really the heart and soul of their business. If their servers are secure enough to store private information like your balances and transaction history, then surely they're secure enough to store a public piece of information like an RSA public key.
No, it's the copyright law that limits what you can do. Free software licenses loosen some of those restrictions somewhat. They just don't loosen them as much as certain other OSS license or placing the work in the public domain.
Thanks. My favorite local computer shops have either closed or cut back to minimal inventory so they don't get stuck with new old stock. Some of my buddies who do consulting, repair, and custom builds get their customers' old kit as disposal. They each have a list of what I've got for trade and what I want, so it's a matter of time.
These people aren't trying to identify anything else as the Olympics. They're trying to say the IOC is complicit with suppression and torture. The Olympic rings are being used to identify who they're supposed to identify, so there's no trademark issue.
Used P3 motherboards tend to go for $10 to $15 in working order, plus reasonable shipping.
My dad is always afraid he's going to do something to break my mom's computer when he plays Unreal Tournament and Doom on it, so I've been considering building him a P3 system to play those older games on.
I don't have the spare parts I'm not using myself to build him an entire system. I have a slot 1 P3 600 with 133Mhz bus, but no 133 MHz slot 1 motherboards. I have a 733Mhz socket 370 P3, but no motherboard for anything over 466 MHz in that socket type. I have an NLX motherboard and riser with no case (which I might go ahead and build). I'd hate to buy or build him a new system and leave these old parts just lying around. A P3 700 or a Athlon 650 or so with 256 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive, and a 120 watt power supply is about all he needs.
If I could find a motherboard for a 133 MHz P3 600, 733 MHz P3 socket 370, or Athlon 1000 socket A(462) for nothing, he'd have his system. My wife and I are on a pretty tight budget right now with me trying to get my business off the ground. If I have to put more than a few dollars into this system, it might have to wait to be part of his birthday or Christmas gifts.
I'm not begging you for your parts, but giving you an example of someone who would gladly take some of that stuff if they could get it. Shipping for old computer stuff, even just a motherboard, tends to outweigh its market value. There's probably someone with similar goals for parts like that near you, though.
I still remember how fond my high school physics teacher was of any source of solid capacitors. Even if the board is shot as a whole, a few parts are often useful to someone who knows how to use them.
In some states, Goodwill has stopped accepting computers altogether. There are laws about selling a system you can't describe properly, about accounting for the donation value properly, OS licensing issues, and more that has convinced them that it's not worthwhile. It's not a bad option if yours still accepts them and it's stuff a complete new user could find useful.
There are also Freecycle groups in some not-so-major cities, too. I live in a town of about 45,000, and we have one. You're a little less likely to find a taker for obscure stuff than in a bigger city, but it's worth a shot.
I'm thinking they're looking at ways to make the connections smaller and lighter, since some camera attachments take quite a bit of power. When you're dealing with a flammable fuel, a short circuit in the wrong part of the device isn't very safe, either. In the case of hydrogen, you're probably talking about a slightly flammable small leak that will dissipate into the air. If there's a spark that gets to the fuel storage, where the hydrogen is in a larger amount, then that sounds pretty bad. Either one doesn't sound pleasant, but then neither does an exploding conventional battery.
It's certainly a technical challenge, considering there's still lots of refinement going on in delivery to hydrogen cars at the refilling stations. This is stuff that's jostled around in a bag, then quickly assembled. It's great if they can pull it off in a reliable way, but that sounds like a pretty big "if".
RTF patent application. They want to centralize fuel storage and distribute it to the attachements to each generate their own power in their own fuel cells.
Patenting a system having a fuel distribution system from the camera to the attachments so that you don't need a separate fuel storage tank in each device is an outrage? Seems pretty ingenious to me.
From the application:
[0013]According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic equipment system including an electronic equipment body, a connection device connected to the electronic equipment body, independent power generation cells each disposed to the electronic equipment body and to the connection device, and a fuel storage vessel disposed to the electronic equipment body, in which fuel from the fuel storage vessel is suppliable to each of the independent power generation cells.
Someone upthread said (after reading the application) that it's not about having a fuel cell in the camera or even having a fuel cell in the camera power the attachments. It's about having a fuel tank and fuel lines in the camera body which distributes the fuel to separate fuel cells in the camera and the attachments. I'd say that's fairly novel, if one doesn't compare it to air tools and a compressor.
I doubt you even need to get out of the current process to cause significant harm. The current process in this case can register itself as the default for many different URL types, make network connections, run sandboxed scripts, download files from the network to disk, configure itself to launch helper applications for certain filetypes, and launch those helper applications. If you have control over what applications it downloads from where, when it launches those, and what data those applications work on, you effectively have a zombie box already.
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Now you're assuming people know who their real father is, or that their mothers even know.
All of the above plus Windows and a few others. I've got a pretty good chance of being able to figure out how to move my private key to another machine and use it with another browser, so I wouldn't worry too much.
They do have a right to say that upgrade-only versions of their OS are not sold as full versions.
Moreover, if there's no extradition treaty then there's no being extradited to there if someone should happen to be tied to their untimely demise or fraudulent financial ruin then slip back to the original country.
So that's what they mean by "no preset spending limit" in their ads? Fair enough, I guess. Still, the control freaks among us would probably rather know.
Most credit card companies are fairly reasonable on at least one issue, even if they are total assholes about everything else: if you're a good customer who rarely gets near the limit for long and always pays on time, they're generally willing to bump your limit up a bit to get you to pay more interest. All it usually takes is a call to them saying that since you're a solid customer in good standing and you need a little extra credit right now, you'd appreciate getting that credit through their company where you have an established relationship instead of paying interest to their competition.
I'd be less worried about your individual email account and more worried about that Exchange installation on the NT4 box in the janitor's closet that your employer uses as a mail server. Having everyone's password reset data is better and often easier than having just yours.
On lower-security sites like this, I tend to send a password reset link with a long (about 40 character) random string as part of the URL that is good for 24 hours, until the password is reset, or the "I did not request this reset" link is followed instead. You'd be surprised how many people get a password sent to them in an email then refuse to change that.
You assume the text entry box has enough space for either of those. You may be making a mistaken assumption.
One-time passwords aren't a bad idea at all.
If the banks are really interested in security, though, why don't they give you a USB drive with a trusted browser program that generates your very own public/private key pair when you first sign up for online banking? If the teller or customer service window is the perfect place to deposit a check, it's the perfect place to deposit your public key.
Actual cash is involved in very few of a bank's transactions these days, so secure storage and transfer of data are really the heart and soul of their business. If their servers are secure enough to store private information like your balances and transaction history, then surely they're secure enough to store a public piece of information like an RSA public key.
Is your hometown, by any chance, Quahog RI?
No, it's the copyright law that limits what you can do. Free software licenses loosen some of those restrictions somewhat. They just don't loosen them as much as certain other OSS license or placing the work in the public domain.
Thanks. My favorite local computer shops have either closed or cut back to minimal inventory so they don't get stuck with new old stock. Some of my buddies who do consulting, repair, and custom builds get their customers' old kit as disposal. They each have a list of what I've got for trade and what I want, so it's a matter of time.
These people aren't trying to identify anything else as the Olympics. They're trying to say the IOC is complicit with suppression and torture. The Olympic rings are being used to identify who they're supposed to identify, so there's no trademark issue.
Version control... So that's how all these deities keep coming back from the dead?
Used P3 motherboards tend to go for $10 to $15 in working order, plus reasonable shipping.
My dad is always afraid he's going to do something to break my mom's computer when he plays Unreal Tournament and Doom on it, so I've been considering building him a P3 system to play those older games on.
I don't have the spare parts I'm not using myself to build him an entire system. I have a slot 1 P3 600 with 133Mhz bus, but no 133 MHz slot 1 motherboards. I have a 733Mhz socket 370 P3, but no motherboard for anything over 466 MHz in that socket type. I have an NLX motherboard and riser with no case (which I might go ahead and build). I'd hate to buy or build him a new system and leave these old parts just lying around. A P3 700 or a Athlon 650 or so with 256 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive, and a 120 watt power supply is about all he needs.
If I could find a motherboard for a 133 MHz P3 600, 733 MHz P3 socket 370, or Athlon 1000 socket A(462) for nothing, he'd have his system. My wife and I are on a pretty tight budget right now with me trying to get my business off the ground. If I have to put more than a few dollars into this system, it might have to wait to be part of his birthday or Christmas gifts.
I'm not begging you for your parts, but giving you an example of someone who would gladly take some of that stuff if they could get it. Shipping for old computer stuff, even just a motherboard, tends to outweigh its market value. There's probably someone with similar goals for parts like that near you, though.
I still remember how fond my high school physics teacher was of any source of solid capacitors. Even if the board is shot as a whole, a few parts are often useful to someone who knows how to use them.
In some states, Goodwill has stopped accepting computers altogether. There are laws about selling a system you can't describe properly, about accounting for the donation value properly, OS licensing issues, and more that has convinced them that it's not worthwhile. It's not a bad option if yours still accepts them and it's stuff a complete new user could find useful.
There are also Freecycle groups in some not-so-major cities, too. I live in a town of about 45,000, and we have one. You're a little less likely to find a taker for obscure stuff than in a bigger city, but it's worth a shot.
What kind of motherboards? Any of those cases NLX? I'm always looking for a video cards for an old system.
Obviously, some moderator gets none lately -- sex or jokes.
I'm thinking they're looking at ways to make the connections smaller and lighter, since some camera attachments take quite a bit of power. When you're dealing with a flammable fuel, a short circuit in the wrong part of the device isn't very safe, either. In the case of hydrogen, you're probably talking about a slightly flammable small leak that will dissipate into the air. If there's a spark that gets to the fuel storage, where the hydrogen is in a larger amount, then that sounds pretty bad. Either one doesn't sound pleasant, but then neither does an exploding conventional battery.
It's certainly a technical challenge, considering there's still lots of refinement going on in delivery to hydrogen cars at the refilling stations. This is stuff that's jostled around in a bag, then quickly assembled. It's great if they can pull it off in a reliable way, but that sounds like a pretty big "if".
RTF patent application. They want to centralize fuel storage and distribute it to the attachements to each generate their own power in their own fuel cells.
Patenting a system having a fuel distribution system from the camera to the attachments so that you don't need a separate fuel storage tank in each device is an outrage? Seems pretty ingenious to me.
From the application:
[0013]According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic equipment system including an electronic equipment body, a connection device connected to the electronic equipment body, independent power generation cells each disposed to the electronic equipment body and to the connection device, and a fuel storage vessel disposed to the electronic equipment body, in which fuel from the fuel storage vessel is suppliable to each of the independent power generation cells.
Someone upthread said (after reading the application) that it's not about having a fuel cell in the camera or even having a fuel cell in the camera power the attachments. It's about having a fuel tank and fuel lines in the camera body which distributes the fuel to separate fuel cells in the camera and the attachments. I'd say that's fairly novel, if one doesn't compare it to air tools and a compressor.
I doubt you even need to get out of the current process to cause significant harm. The current process in this case can register itself as the default for many different URL types, make network connections, run sandboxed scripts, download files from the network to disk, configure itself to launch helper applications for certain filetypes, and launch those helper applications. If you have control over what applications it downloads from where, when it launches those, and what data those applications work on, you effectively have a zombie box already.