Free six-month certificates - these really work, at least for recent versions of IE. I have one installed on the SSL server in my garage. Issued by some good people in Barcelona.
Platform makes a big difference to performance... we find same query is about six times slower on Solaris 8 than our notionally similar setup on Red Hat 8. (Yes, we used the Postgresql-recommended kernel parameters.)
Free or at least partially-subsidised at the point of use, via the National Health Service, yeah right. So it is, *if* you can find an NHS dentist taking on new patients. Which you can't!
The UK bad-teeth thing IS true, at least on people aged over about 40, due to earlier recognition of the importance of dental hygiene in places such as the US.
Sounds like a desperate attempt to upsell seats in first class to me. I doubt if it's going to work because you're either willing to pay thru the nose for a special seat or you're not, how does better internet access make a difference? I already can and do get an adequate bluetooth/GPRS connection anyway, even in economy class.
Also the UK train system does not have a particularly good record for efficiency, they really struggle with the retailing computers in the snack-bar so why do I not have a good feeling about their ability to operate a satellite link. Personally I would put "not crashing" at the top of my train wish-list instead of wi-fi.
Company goes to police, police call ISP and demand info. ISP refuses, citing numerous data protection laws. Police remind ISP that hey we're the police shithead and by the way looks like your car's illegally parked. ISP caves in and gives info.
Still it's amazing that the computer actually was recovered, I can't honestly imagine myself being taken seriously when reporting a theft then trying to explain how IP address tracing could help.
It's no surprise to me that Joe Sixpack does not secure his wireless access point - I'm amazed he even gets it to work.
Half the time the administration utilities don't function, the unit's own IP address is something unreachable (unless Joe knows howto create static routes) like 192.168.1.100, and don't even get me started on the horrible problems of WEP keys on Windows XP pre- and post- SP1.
Until these devices can be setup easily in a secure way by a normal person we'll continue to have plenty of unexpectedly wide-open SoHo networks.
I "saved" money by recovering an old proprietary computer case from work instead of buying a new ATX case. A certain amount of hacksaw work was required on the sheet metalwork to make the motherboard fit, but it was done OK.
However I forgot hacksawed metal has even sharper edges than cases usually do, when I scraped one of the 12v supply wires over an edge.... Boom, a 500W PSU really does go with a hell of a bang!
Too right, it's not just the referer either it's lots of other things like a strange piece of non-working script to display the "country" box in the form - a mandatory field.
If I'm bored like on a train or something I sometimes look around the bluetooth neighbourhood, there are usually a few other devices close by. A few days ago I visited one of our company's other offices, a colleague (OK he's a Bluetooth developer) there knew I'd arrived before he saw me because his PC notified him when my phone suddenly came within range!
There is nothing wrong with WAP! It had a major piece of bad luck because it arrived on the mobile population slightly ahead of its time.
WAP requires a data transport underneath it, a couple of years ago all that was available to provide this function was an extremely sucky circuit-switched GSM data connection. Of course nobody is going to appreciate running *any* interactive app at 9.6kbs, and the myth grew that WAP was only a toy.
But now try WAP configured to use a more modern GPRS connection instead, in relative terms it is pretty damn fast and the usability of WAP is completely transformed.
If you do same search on www.google.co.uk you get same DMCA notice of missing results. Thanks a lot USA for exporting your laws here... in return do I get to vote for one of these "congresspeople" now?
I wonder if spammers themselves are also using some kinds of statistical method to defeat Bayesian filters, in conjunction with delivery-percentage feedback methods such as 1x1 webbug gifs.
At first my Bayesian filter did a great job but now a slowly increasing proportion of my incoming spam has a "real" unrelated word in the title.
If we can get a federal ban on spam then we could EASILY get those spammers in Jail.
Umm, I'm guessing you're American? Sounds to me like your proposed "federal ban" could only work for spammers who live in your country. Good luck demanding that some spammer in Korea/Estonia/Nigeria gets tossed in jail next time you get a viagra ad.
It's already illegal in the UK to disable or interfere with the operation of any wireless device with a unique ID. This is the by-product of a recent overbroad law designed to eliminate mobile phone cloning.
This sounds insecure to me, all that a bad guy would have to do is sniff peoples' RFID number as they went through doors. Then, program his own RFID gizmo to send the same number. Like used to happen in parking lots with car security systems.
What you really want is cryptographic processing capability in the access token, it would be a lot safer to check before opening that the token could successfully sign the door's challenge.
There is still a major security hazard. Suppose the public PC that you use is compromised by a bad guy, OK so his sniffing your one-time-password is pretty useless to him. However, the bad guy can still sniff the data you key into your SSH sesssion.
Worse, he can insert his own keystrokes into your session! How about he inserts "rm -rf *" for example?
I doubt that ISPs in all countries fulfil this extended logging function.
I'm a cable user so a little out of touch on how dialup works, but here in the UK I think the procedure goes like this:
1. Dialup to a free ISP such as PObox using their published access number and generic logon credentials. They have no idea who you are and could care less.
2. Err... that's it:)
If you're wondering "But how do people get billed" - There is no billing necessary because the cost of the dialup call is slightly more expensive than a regular local call, and the ISP gets cut in to that.
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Free six-month certificates - these really work, at least for recent versions of IE. I have one installed on the SSL server in my garage. Issued by some good people in Barcelona.
IPSCA
Is there a GUI? We use SQLyog for MySQL and have not been able to find anything comparable for Postgresql.
Platform makes a big difference to performance... we find same query is about six times slower on Solaris 8 than our notionally similar setup on Red Hat 8. (Yes, we used the Postgresql-recommended kernel parameters.)
Free or at least partially-subsidised at the point of use, via the National Health Service, yeah right. So it is, *if* you can find an NHS dentist taking on new patients. Which you can't!
The UK bad-teeth thing IS true, at least on people aged over about 40, due to earlier recognition of the importance of dental hygiene in places such as the US.
Sounds like a desperate attempt to upsell seats in first class to me. I doubt if it's going to work because you're either willing to pay thru the nose for a special seat or you're not, how does better internet access make a difference? I already can and do get an adequate bluetooth/GPRS connection anyway, even in economy class.
Also the UK train system does not have a particularly good record for efficiency, they really struggle with the retailing computers in the snack-bar so why do I not have a good feeling about their ability to operate a satellite link. Personally I would put "not crashing" at the top of my train wish-list instead of wi-fi.
Company goes to police, police call ISP and demand info. ISP refuses, citing numerous data protection laws. Police remind ISP that hey we're the police shithead and by the way looks like your car's illegally parked. ISP caves in and gives info.
Still it's amazing that the computer actually was recovered, I can't honestly imagine myself being taken seriously when reporting a theft then trying to explain how IP address tracing could help.
It's no surprise to me that Joe Sixpack does not secure his wireless access point - I'm amazed he even gets it to work.
Half the time the administration utilities don't function, the unit's own IP address is something unreachable (unless Joe knows howto create static routes) like 192.168.1.100, and don't even get me started on the horrible problems of WEP keys on Windows XP pre- and post- SP1.
Until these devices can be setup easily in a secure way by a normal person we'll continue to have plenty of unexpectedly wide-open SoHo networks.
That page triggers my virus checker, I am alerted to presence of "Trojan JS.Cardst"
If you're bad at math and need a quick way to turn a numeric URL into a DNS-named one there is a handy tool ("decipher") at www.samspade.org
I "saved" money by recovering an old proprietary computer case from work instead of buying a new ATX case. A certain amount of hacksaw work was required on the sheet metalwork to make the motherboard fit, but it was done OK.
However I forgot hacksawed metal has even sharper edges than cases usually do, when I scraped one of the 12v supply wires over an edge.... Boom, a 500W PSU really does go with a hell of a bang!
Too right, it's not just the referer either it's lots of other things like a strange piece of non-working script to display the "country" box in the form - a mandatory field.
People are using bluetooth to make new friends
If I'm bored like on a train or something I sometimes look around the bluetooth neighbourhood, there are usually a few other devices close by. A few days ago I visited one of our company's other offices, a colleague (OK he's a Bluetooth developer) there knew I'd arrived before he saw me because his PC notified him when my phone suddenly came within range!
Bluetooth joke (funny)
There is nothing wrong with WAP! It had a major piece of bad luck because it arrived on the mobile population slightly ahead of its time.
WAP requires a data transport underneath it, a couple of years ago all that was available to provide this function was an extremely sucky circuit-switched GSM data connection. Of course nobody is going to appreciate running *any* interactive app at 9.6kbs, and the myth grew that WAP was only a toy.
But now try WAP configured to use a more modern GPRS connection instead, in relative terms it is pretty damn fast and the usability of WAP is completely transformed.
How about these guys in Barcelona for free six-month validity server certs? Or free two-year validity for .edu domains.
If you do same search on www.google.co.uk you get same DMCA notice of missing results. Thanks a lot USA for exporting your laws here... in return do I get to vote for one of these "congresspeople" now?
I wonder if spammers themselves are also using some kinds of statistical method to defeat Bayesian filters, in conjunction with delivery-percentage feedback methods such as 1x1 webbug gifs.
At first my Bayesian filter did a great job but now a slowly increasing proportion of my incoming spam has a "real" unrelated word in the title.
BULL SHIT.
If we can get a federal ban on spam then we could EASILY get those spammers in Jail.
Umm, I'm guessing you're American? Sounds to me like your proposed "federal ban" could only work for spammers who live in your country. Good luck demanding that some spammer in Korea/Estonia/Nigeria gets tossed in jail next time you get a viagra ad.
...and RMS is a gnu nut!
Ba-dum, tish!
It's already illegal in the UK to disable or interfere with the operation of any wireless device with a unique ID. This is the by-product of a recent overbroad law designed to eliminate mobile phone cloning.
This sounds insecure to me, all that a bad guy would have to do is sniff peoples' RFID number as they went through doors. Then, program his own RFID gizmo to send the same number. Like used to happen in parking lots with car security systems.
What you really want is cryptographic processing capability in the access token, it would be a lot safer to check before opening that the token could successfully sign the door's challenge.
You are sooo right, no
There is still a major security hazard. Suppose the public PC that you use is compromised by a bad guy, OK so his sniffing your one-time-password is pretty useless to him. However, the bad guy can still sniff the data you key into your SSH sesssion.
Worse, he can insert his own keystrokes into your session! How about he inserts "rm -rf *" for example?
As I've said before, it's illegal in (at least) the UK to interfere with the operation of a unique ID'd wireless device. Read the Act carefully.
I doubt that ISPs in all countries fulfil this extended logging function.
:)
I'm a cable user so a little out of touch on how dialup works, but here in the UK I think the procedure goes like this:
1. Dialup to a free ISP such as PObox using their published access number and generic logon credentials. They have no idea who you are and could care less.
2. Err... that's it
If you're wondering "But how do people get billed" - There is no billing necessary because the cost of the dialup call is slightly more expensive than a regular local call, and the ISP gets cut in to that.
In the United Kingdom it is illegal to "interfere with the operation of a unique identifier in a wireless mobile communications device"
I rather think microwaving the crap out of an RFID would certainly count as interfering with it...