Build an OTP function (Ala Google/Blizzard authenticator) into each iDevice that is ONLY eyeball readable into iTunes. The user only needs to read the field above and duplicate it in the field below as he confirms his purchase.
How about if one day the water company comes up with a new contract that says that the water you pay for can only flow from your kitchen tap and no where else? If you want to run it into a tank in your attic, or to your toilet / bathrooms, it'll cost extra?
Is it not the point that if you are sold something by the volume you consume, that it's your business and no one elses what you do with it after you paid for it?
Parent nearly had it right. One forgets that each PS is a unique device. Sony could fit an OTP generator into the firmware, and the above works if you replace the salt with an OTP.
Sony makes Playstations. To access PSN, you need a PS. So why not ship each PS with an OTP generator? Infact, I would think with a little clever engineering, you could even write one as a firmware update and then retrofit all the PS on the network.
Then the server could store the password as a hash. And when authentication is required, the PS first identifies itself with it's serial number, then it transmits the hash of the password supplied, hashed again with the OTP.
And since the OTP is only used to establish secure communication between the PS and the server, you don't even need to bind the PS or the OTP to your account, unlike the implementation banks use or the way battle.net is secured using OTP.
You mean glorified Go-Karting? The moment you come up with some new innovation that gives you an edge in F1, it gets banned. Figured out the optimal shape for maximum downforce? Banned! Traction control? Banned! ABS? Banned... Just google, theres a very long list.
Point is, a road car has more technological advances in it than an F1 car of the same year.
It's not just astronomers. All this unnecessary lighting is also bad for wildlife. It's known to mess up the navigational ability of migratory birds for instance. There's also a whole list of negative effects associated with over lighting.
It's like how people don't understand parody and satire. I just watch and laugh sometimes at how some people are so upset when comedy is made about race, religion, gender etc.
Yes, people get hurt when you say the wrong thing, but people also need to learn to chill, take a step back and laugh at themselves once in a while.
One might go so far as to argue that Apple IS one of the greatest evils in the world today. Remember that when you buy an iDevice, you are actually paying them a premium for the privilege to access their revenue generation system (Give them more money) on their terms.
So someone read the urban myth that you could unlock your car if you lost the remote entry fob by calling home and having someone press the spare fob next to the phone, had a laugh, then went "wait a minute..."?
I know you're kidding, but where I come from, this actually happens. It's illegal but you do see a couple riding a 100cc moped with 3 young children in between on the road sometimes.
Lin is his Family/surname. I initially wasn't sure, but then I found a local news report citing a police official using his given name as "Mun Poo".
Anyway, it's a chinese name and when written in mandarin, surnames come before given names. Confusion arises when the name is romanised (often times in a shoddy manner, so you can't tell just by reading it) and then the surname is moved to the back as is the formal english style. It gets worse in documents where the comma or uppercase seperating first and last names is omitted.
It may simply be from another country. It may be an alien concept to Americans, but a lot of countries subsidize essential drugs for the well being of their citizens.
I'm with the sibling thread. God argument, but it's wrong. From experience, Apple doesn't care if they break stuff. For instance, the "upgrade" to Snow leopard at work broke iChat file transfers, caused all sorts of insanity on our files kept on a NAS because of modification to file permissions and took away the ability to talk directly to our production printer because of the removal of AppleTalk. And thats just the stuff i know about.
Apple's motivation in this case is purely economic. Plain and simple.
For instance, if you compare Streamyx's DNS and another DNS, say OpenDNS, certain sites are stricken from Streamyx's DNS, which everyone is conveniently told to use.
They do make something like that, but on wheels. It's a heavy cargo "train" that is actually made of individual 4 wheeled self propelled segments with a rotating platform on top that's linked up by computer. The beauty of it is that unlike a train where segments are joined back to back, segments can be joined side to side as well, allowing you to transport over sized cargo of varying lengths as well as width, and have a turn radius not much larger than itself.
Imagine an army of ants carrying off a giant grasshopper and you're more or less there.
Exactly! And further, even if a patent is actively making money, it should still expire in 10 years tops. Theres no reason in todays economy that a patent should last more than a decade. Ditto copyright. Life of creator is just rubbish.
And worse, we have the NEP, a socio-economic program which will ensure that you will have to racistly commit a big chunk of any money you spend locally to incompetent companies run by cronies of the ruling government.
As a Malaysian geek i would love to see a Google data center in my back yard. But as a decent human being, i would urge them to stay the hell away.
Thats even more reason to automate ships. Crew or not, pirates will take a ship if they want it's cargo. Having a crew on board just gives them hostages to hold for ransom.
With an automated ship devoid of crew, not only could you harden it against intruders, i bet you could even have some interesting booby traps put in.
Slashdot Mirror
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/11/1458205/Cancer-Cured-By-HIV
So the cure for leukaemia is HIV, and the cure for HIV is leukaemia?
Build an OTP function (Ala Google/Blizzard authenticator) into each iDevice that is ONLY eyeball readable into iTunes. The user only needs to read the field above and duplicate it in the field below as he confirms his purchase.
Right. You're asking marketers to give up what is essentially gold to them?
This is going to be about as successful as setting a flag on en e-mail address and expecting spammers to not spam it.
How about if one day the water company comes up with a new contract that says that the water you pay for can only flow from your kitchen tap and no where else? If you want to run it into a tank in your attic, or to your toilet / bathrooms, it'll cost extra?
Is it not the point that if you are sold something by the volume you consume, that it's your business and no one elses what you do with it after you paid for it?
Parent nearly had it right. One forgets that each PS is a unique device. Sony could fit an OTP generator into the firmware, and the above works if you replace the salt with an OTP.
Sony makes Playstations. To access PSN, you need a PS. So why not ship each PS with an OTP generator? Infact, I would think with a little clever engineering, you could even write one as a firmware update and then retrofit all the PS on the network.
Then the server could store the password as a hash. And when authentication is required, the PS first identifies itself with it's serial number, then it transmits the hash of the password supplied, hashed again with the OTP.
And since the OTP is only used to establish secure communication between the PS and the server, you don't even need to bind the PS or the OTP to your account, unlike the implementation banks use or the way battle.net is secured using OTP.
You mean glorified Go-Karting? The moment you come up with some new innovation that gives you an edge in F1, it gets banned. Figured out the optimal shape for maximum downforce? Banned! Traction control? Banned! ABS? Banned... Just google, theres a very long list.
Point is, a road car has more technological advances in it than an F1 car of the same year.
So I guess you're one of those who also think Russell Peters is racist.
It's not just astronomers. All this unnecessary lighting is also bad for wildlife. It's known to mess up the navigational ability of migratory birds for instance. There's also a whole list of negative effects associated with over lighting.
It's like how people don't understand parody and satire. I just watch and laugh sometimes at how some people are so upset when comedy is made about race, religion, gender etc.
Yes, people get hurt when you say the wrong thing, but people also need to learn to chill, take a step back and laugh at themselves once in a while.
One might go so far as to argue that Apple IS one of the greatest evils in the world today. Remember that when you buy an iDevice, you are actually paying them a premium for the privilege to access their revenue generation system (Give them more money) on their terms.
So someone read the urban myth that you could unlock your car if you lost the remote entry fob by calling home and having someone press the spare fob next to the phone, had a laugh, then went "wait a minute..."?
I know you're kidding, but where I come from, this actually happens. It's illegal but you do see a couple riding a 100cc moped with 3 young children in between on the road sometimes.
Lin is his Family/surname. I initially wasn't sure, but then I found a local news report citing a police official using his given name as "Mun Poo".
Anyway, it's a chinese name and when written in mandarin, surnames come before given names. Confusion arises when the name is romanised (often times in a shoddy manner, so you can't tell just by reading it) and then the surname is moved to the back as is the formal english style. It gets worse in documents where the comma or uppercase seperating first and last names is omitted.
It may simply be from another country. It may be an alien concept to Americans, but a lot of countries subsidize essential drugs for the well being of their citizens.
It's even older than that. This is just an update of the original photoshop job done on the 3Dfx Voodoo2. Remember that card? ;)
I'm with the sibling thread. God argument, but it's wrong. From experience, Apple doesn't care if they break stuff. For instance, the "upgrade" to Snow leopard at work broke iChat file transfers, caused all sorts of insanity on our files kept on a NAS because of modification to file permissions and took away the ability to talk directly to our production printer because of the removal of AppleTalk. And thats just the stuff i know about.
Apple's motivation in this case is purely economic. Plain and simple.
The first property crime happened the day property was invented.
So what you're saying is, the solution to theft is communism?
I hate to tell you this, but they already have.
For instance, if you compare Streamyx's DNS and another DNS, say OpenDNS, certain sites are stricken from Streamyx's DNS, which everyone is conveniently told to use.
Try this too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Propelled_Modular_Transporter
Essentially, a man made army of giant ants.
Link:
http://www.ale-heavylift.com/equipment/index.asp?cid=%CEt%EA
They do make something like that, but on wheels. It's a heavy cargo "train" that is actually made of individual 4 wheeled self propelled segments with a rotating platform on top that's linked up by computer. The beauty of it is that unlike a train where segments are joined back to back, segments can be joined side to side as well, allowing you to transport over sized cargo of varying lengths as well as width, and have a turn radius not much larger than itself.
Imagine an army of ants carrying off a giant grasshopper and you're more or less there.
Exactly! And further, even if a patent is actively making money, it should still expire in 10 years tops. Theres no reason in todays economy that a patent should last more than a decade. Ditto copyright. Life of creator is just rubbish.
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And worse, we have the NEP, a socio-economic program which will ensure that you will have to racistly commit a big chunk of any money you spend locally to incompetent companies run by cronies of the ruling government.
As a Malaysian geek i would love to see a Google data center in my back yard. But as a decent human being, i would urge them to stay the hell away.
Thats even more reason to automate ships. Crew or not, pirates will take a ship if they want it's cargo. Having a crew on board just gives them hostages to hold for ransom.
With an automated ship devoid of crew, not only could you harden it against intruders, i bet you could even have some interesting booby traps put in.