Why don't we wait to hear how they got compromised, first, m'kay?
If it because some moron let his password slip (either because it is a stupid password or got key-logged), then it is not a vulnerability, per se, and really shouldn't be used in the "MS rulez, linux SuXorz!!!" argument.
My next music purchase will be a huge iPod that I can store all my music on, just as soon as I find a good way to interface it to my car
If you have a head unit with cd-changer input, but no cd changer, you can probably find someone that sells a converter to provide RCA inputs. This, for example, is used for VWs. I used it in my wife's Passat for her iPod.
If you do have a CD changer, you can get something like this.
It lets you switch your CD-in between the changer and 3 different RCA inputs. I got it in my car for my iPod and it rocks.
In an RIAA-less world, where song swapping hasn't brought copyright violations to the forefront, would these organization build their own network or would they use an existing service?
One of the reason they are building their own network instead of using one already made is so they can track who gets what, when. This requirement has primarily surfaced due to the actions of the RIAA.
In effect, the RIAA has made a self-fulfilling prophecy:
1. People use P2P for legitimate and illegitimate uses. 2. RIAA says "There are no legitimate uses for these P2P networks". 3. Those people/organizations that do/would use P2P legitimately leave/build other infrastructure. 4. Few, if any, legitimate users remain on the current services.
Do you think 99% of users give two rats asses about what Office program they are using?
Can they double-click a little picture of a document to open and edit it? Do they see the dark B, slanted I, and underlined u on a toolbar when editing? Can they click on "Times New Roman" or "12" to change the way the letters look? Can they read documents from others? Does a little red squiggly appear under words that are not spelled correctly?
IF the answers to these questions are YES, then it doesn't matter that you are not "training" them on the dominant platform. They'll be able to operate pretty much any word processor for years to come.
I'm still trying to figure out out how the decision by the three countries is any different than this or this... well, at least why it's just not the other side of the same coin.
If that's the case, maybe it's best to attack the format and not the program.
Howabout an email server plugin that detects DOC/CSV formats and automatically converts them into open-format equivalents?
That way, clients/customer's wouldn't need to change how they send documents and departments are free to standardize on whatever program they want, so long as it can read the open file format.
I am not implying that this is easy or even possible, just that it might be a better way to attack the problem from a business standpoint.
tdemark: Would you mind if I reproduced your comments on a web site? I think they're a good starting point which should be disseminated, not buried in a/. story.
Go for it... though, I'll give credit where credit is due: my post was based on the hazy memory of an article from "The Perl Journal" that came out just after the 2000 election.
(flips through pile of old magazines)
The Perl Journal, Issue #20 - "Secure Internet Voting With Perl" by Lincoln Stein
- When voting is complete, the voting machine generates a receipt with a randomly-generated, unique string, lets call it the Vote ID. Maybe use date, time, location, and booth id as the basis, plus some addition randomness. The important thing is that the VID is NOT related to the ID of a specific person. Example: The VID can be used to state that "VID 2343da6c7b779e87f87a voted for candidate X in election Y", but cannot say "VID 2343da6c7b779e87f87a is John Q. Smith from Perioa, IL".
- The machine prints a receipt with the VID and your votes listed. It then asks, "Does the receipt match how you wanted to vote?" If yes, the voting process is finished. If no, the voter can go back and make changes.
- After the voting is done, all votes and results are published. Everyone is then able to check their own vote and verify it was tallied correctly.
- If, and only if, the vote on the tally does not match the vote on the receipt, then the vote can be changed to match the receipt after the fact.
This makes fraud a lot harder since people can verify how their votes got tallied and detect and tampering.
Instead of doing everything from scratch, why don't you see if you can find a house that is similar to what you want at a site like this.
Or, go to Home Depot or Lowes and finger through a "450 Two Story House Plans" or similar book. If it has something you like, then buy the book (they usually cost less than $15).
If you buy a set of blueprints, you can then to takeoffs pretty easily.
The downside is that the plans will cost you $500 - $600 for a single copy, which, in the scheme of building a new house, is not that much.
It's awesome, and I haven't seen anything implemented like it anywhere else.
Umm... you mean like keywords in Mozilla?
I think they have been around since 0.9.
Basically, you define a keyword for a bookmark and place '%s' somewhere in the bookmarked URL. When you type the keyword in the Location bar, anything that follows is used to replace the '%s'.
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When I submitted this around noon yesterday, the updated file was not available. Apple didn't give any timeline other than "We're working on it".
But, you are right. As of last night, 8:49 PM ET (according to the modification date), the component has been updated.
If you have purchased the component from the Apple store, log in, go to "Your Account", and then "Software Download Purchases" to get the update file.
The new file is 4 bytes larger (732272 bytes) and has the following checksums:
MD5 de67658d2070b3f662ba94e42df6780c
sum 14209 716
cksum 2146919698 732272
It's got replaceable batteries, and unlike the iPod, you don't have to remortgage your house to buy a replacement battery.
If you have to get a loan for $49, you probably shouldn't buy an iPod.
Or any MP3 player for that matter.
- Tony
Does the primary language of the person who programs your dialog boxes really matter?
Let's see:
"Are you sure you want to delete this file?"
Or:
"Sure are you would enjoy this file to remove?"
Yes. Yes it does matter.
- Tony
The site was created in the last week.
Days after Apple announced the $99 battery replacement policy.
Months after www.ipodbattery.com offered $50 battery replacements.
Why don't we wait to hear how they got compromised, first, m'kay?
If it because some moron let his password slip (either because it is a stupid password or got key-logged), then it is not a vulnerability, per se, and really shouldn't be used in the "MS rulez, linux SuXorz!!!" argument.
- Tony
and no annual $129 bug fixes.
Yeah, well maybe they should given that their track record has cost the world billions , at least.
- Tony
Actually, I think he's referring to the time between Microsoft admiting there is a bug and the time a patch is available.
Example: Today's Windows bug. Microsoft announced it today and patched it today. That's less than 24 hours to "fix" it.
This type of logic makes perfect sense to the PR or marketing departments.
- Tony
My next music purchase will be a huge iPod that I can store all my music on, just as soon as I find a good way to interface it to my car
If you have a head unit with cd-changer input, but no cd changer, you can probably find someone that sells a converter to provide RCA inputs. This, for example, is used for VWs. I used it in my wife's Passat for her iPod.
If you do have a CD changer, you can get something like this.
It lets you switch your CD-in between the changer and 3 different RCA inputs. I got it in my car for my iPod and it rocks.
- Tony
While that's an interesting point, consider this:
In an RIAA-less world, where song swapping hasn't brought copyright violations to the forefront, would these organization build their own network or would they use an existing service?
One of the reason they are building their own network instead of using one already made is so they can track who gets what, when. This requirement has primarily surfaced due to the actions of the RIAA.
In effect, the RIAA has made a self-fulfilling prophecy:
1. People use P2P for legitimate and illegitimate uses.
2. RIAA says "There are no legitimate uses for these P2P networks".
3. Those people/organizations that do/would use P2P legitimately leave/build other infrastructure.
4. Few, if any, legitimate users remain on the current services.
Without 2, would 3 and 4 follow?
Just a thought...
- Shadow
I'm slowly getting her converted to Mozilla
Why do it slowly? Just download Moz/Firebird, change the icon, maybe put an IE-like skin on it, and rename it "IEXPLORE.EXE".
If she asks, reply that this new version of IE fixes some security bugs.
- Tony
Not that my site is a perfect cross-section, on several hundred thousand PV per day, I get the following breakdown:
74% MSIE
13% Netscape
9% Mozilla
3% Opera
1% Other
- Tony
Do you think 99% of users give two rats asses about what Office program they are using?
Can they double-click a little picture of a document to open and edit it?
Do they see the dark B, slanted I, and underlined u on a toolbar when editing?
Can they click on "Times New Roman" or "12" to change the way the letters look?
Can they read documents from others?
Does a little red squiggly appear under words that are not spelled correctly?
IF the answers to these questions are YES, then it doesn't matter that you are not "training" them on the dominant platform. They'll be able to operate pretty much any word processor for years to come.
I'm still trying to figure out out how the decision by the three countries is any different than this or this... well, at least why it's just not the other side of the same coin.
- Tony
Your comment is pretty close to reality ... during Blaster about 1/3rd of the city of Philadelphia's computers were down.
If that's the case, maybe it's best to attack the format and not the program.
Howabout an email server plugin that detects DOC/CSV formats and automatically converts them into open-format equivalents?
That way, clients/customer's wouldn't need to change how they send documents and departments are free to standardize on whatever program they want, so long as it can read the open file format.
I am not implying that this is easy or even possible, just that it might be a better way to attack the problem from a business standpoint.
- Tony
At least with MS, you can always format and install Linux
What makes you think you can't do this with Apple's proprietary hardware?
- Tony
tdemark: Would you mind if I reproduced your comments on a web site? I think they're a good starting point which should be disseminated, not buried in a /. story.
... though, I'll give credit where credit is due: my post was based on the hazy memory of an article from "The Perl Journal" that came out just after the 2000 election.
Go for it
(flips through pile of old magazines)
The Perl Journal, Issue #20 - "Secure Internet Voting With Perl" by Lincoln Stein
(checks Google for a link)
Here is the original article:
Secure Internet Voting With Perl
I'd add one more feature:
- When voting is complete, the voting machine generates a receipt with a randomly-generated, unique string, lets call it the Vote ID. Maybe use date, time, location, and booth id as the basis, plus some addition randomness. The important thing is that the VID is NOT related to the ID of a specific person. Example: The VID can be used to state that "VID 2343da6c7b779e87f87a voted for candidate X in election Y", but cannot say "VID 2343da6c7b779e87f87a is John Q. Smith from Perioa, IL".
- The machine prints a receipt with the VID and your votes listed. It then asks, "Does the receipt match how you wanted to vote?" If yes, the voting process is finished. If no, the voter can go back and make changes.
- After the voting is done, all votes and results are published. Everyone is then able to check their own vote and verify it was tallied correctly.
- If, and only if, the vote on the tally does not match the vote on the receipt, then the vote can be changed to match the receipt after the fact.
This makes fraud a lot harder since people can verify how their votes got tallied and detect and tampering.
- Since the voting machine doesn't kno
There is nothing OSX can do on a beige G3 that Linux can't
Except run Photoshop and Quark, which was the first specification in the list.
- Tony
Yeah, because we know if "secretaries and managers" need more of anything, it's games.
I hope that artists do not become driven to work on "hits" and ignore the practice of making the songs that they themselves enjoy.
I wonder if the exact opposite is possible.
Let's say the artist has 20 songs, and only 12 "fit" on the CD, it would be kinda of cool for them to release the other 8 to iTMS.
Since I'm not in the music business, I don't know how likely this is, but it would be interesting none-the-less.
- Tony
I've studied atmospheric phenomena for many years and I have yet to see bird contrails.
Perhaps the word you are looking for is this.
Although, I admit that bird contrails would be an interesting sight. =)
Instead of doing everything from scratch, why don't you see if you can find a house that is similar to what you want at a site like this.
Or, go to Home Depot or Lowes and finger through a "450 Two Story House Plans" or similar book. If it has something you like, then buy the book (they usually cost less than $15).
If you buy a set of blueprints, you can then to takeoffs pretty easily.
The downside is that the plans will cost you $500 - $600 for a single copy, which, in the scheme of building a new house, is not that much.
- Tony
It's awesome, and I haven't seen anything implemented like it anywhere else.
Umm... you mean like keywords in Mozilla?
I think they have been around since 0.9.
Basically, you define a keyword for a bookmark and place '%s' somewhere in the bookmarked URL. When you type the keyword in the Location bar, anything that follows is used to replace the '%s'.
- Tony
You then have the possibility that votes may not be anonymous.
Currently, unless voting by mail, the majority of votes cannot physically be linked to an individual voter.
- Tony