There would be nothing stopping them from performing a MITM attack, no. But if everybody was using HTTPS it would be much more expensive and resource intensive to perform DPI on a large scale.
My point is simply you are no worse off using HTTPS than HTTP, so you should not have to go through all the warnings that will scare a lot of people away.
Exactly, you lose nothing by using a self-signed certificate, but gain protection from deep packet inspection and other entities who shouldn't be reading your data anyway.
In my opinion the main point the article makes is: - HTTPS with a self signed certificate is in no way worse than HTTP.
With HTTPS you are protected against all attacks that simply snoops your traffic. You are not protected against a man-in-the-middle attack, but they are much harder to perform. Thus, I believe a HTTPS connection should be showed exactly as a normal HTTP.
Also, think of the new law in Sweden that will allow a government agency to SNOOP all traffic transitioning the Swedish borders. They are not allowed to alter your data, and thus cannot fake a man-in-the-middle-attack.
You can't compare just the energy usage of the CPU and then draw the conclusion that you can encode 3x as many MP3s using that system. A more fair way to compare them are the total system energy usage:
The VIA requires about 77.5 watt for 460 seconds to encode the MP3s, 77.5 * 460 = 35,650 joules.
The Atom needs 60.1 watt for 600 seconds or 36,060 joules.
This means that if all you were doing with the computer was encoding MP3s, you could actually encode slightly (very slightly) more MP3s on a VIA system.
The bug in Vista is that it sends somewhat broken DHCP requests that Lund Energi's DHCP server refuses to reply to. If you have a home router the DHCP server in the router would (propably) reply to the requests from Vista and other computers on your LAN. And the router sends correct DHCP requests to Lund Energi's server in order to get it's own public IP address.
In short, having a home router would solve the problem.
And what would happen to you if you turned down their offer? You would die, wouldn't you? Not a very good bargaining position if you ask me.
This would be like making it illegal to negotiate on new car prices. Sure the car dealer has a high MSRP, but you're a fool to pay it.
Again this is just stupid. When you go negotiate the price of a new car you don't have to buy the car, you can just go away and by the car later at a different location. When you are unconcious in the ER you need sevice right away. You don't have the option to wait a while or go to a different hospital.
Like someone already stated http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209244&cid =17064240, you need to negotiate the price before you actually need the service. And even then it is not likely to work very well if you are only negotiating for yourself.
What if the candidates were: - Republican - Democrat - Nazi
Many would realise that either R or D is far better than N. Should they still not vote because they don't know wich of R or D they should vote for?
I belive you should vote to make sure extremist opinions supported by a small percentage of the population get an unproportional part of the votes. Even if you are not certain of which candidate is better, you may realise that some are far better than others.
(This may not apply very well to the american national elections with two more or less even sized parties. But for instance in swedish municipal elections, a non voter allows extremist parties to take more seats.)
Funny, I just read about Skype implementing censoring of text-messages for the Chinese market. I have no problem with Skype following local regulations, even if it is censorship. But considering this quote from Skypes homepage:
Skype encrypts all calls and instant messages end-to-end for unrivaled privacy.
If Skype really had end-to-end encryption, censoring would be impossible. How can we trust Skype to implement any encryption for voice calls? Who knows who is listening...
[Sorry for ranting a bit off-topic. Must be the late hour.]
"A one megapixel camera has one million blue photo detectors, one million red photo detectors and one million green photo detectors."
A 1 MP camera has one million photodetectors, half of which are green, 1/4 red, and 1/4 blue (in most cameras). From this image a one megapixel output image with all RGB components for each pixel is interpolated.
Then there is the issue about bits per pixel. Sensors commonly has 10 or 12 bits per pixel. With a 12 bits per pixel, 13 MP sesor you thus get:
It surely is. Also from the sample images it looks like the TV Wonder Elite and the eVGA NVTV filters the video much more aggressively. Given more detailed video sequences the Hauppauge card probably would have compared better.
Is it right for software companies to force schools to pay for their software? I mean, the ones who benefit most from the schools choice of software is the software company because students who learn Word in school are more likely to buy it themselves and to propagate to thier future employers to buy it. My point is that the software industry should GIVE thier applications away to schools, as they will gain on it in the long run.
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There would be nothing stopping them from performing a MITM attack, no. But if everybody was using HTTPS it would be much more expensive and resource intensive to perform DPI on a large scale.
My point is simply you are no worse off using HTTPS than HTTP, so you should not have to go through all the warnings that will scare a lot of people away.
Exactly, you lose nothing by using a self-signed certificate, but gain protection from deep packet inspection and other entities who shouldn't be reading your data anyway.
In my opinion the main point the article makes is:
- HTTPS with a self signed certificate is in no way worse than HTTP.
With HTTPS you are protected against all attacks that simply snoops your traffic. You are not protected against a man-in-the-middle attack, but they are much harder to perform. Thus, I believe a HTTPS connection should be showed exactly as a normal HTTP.
Also, think of the new law in Sweden that will allow a government agency to SNOOP all traffic transitioning the Swedish borders. They are not allowed to alter your data, and thus cannot fake a man-in-the-middle-attack.
You can't compare just the energy usage of the CPU and then draw the conclusion that you can encode 3x as many MP3s using that system. A more fair way to compare them are the total system energy usage:
The VIA requires about 77.5 watt for 460 seconds to encode the MP3s, 77.5 * 460 = 35,650 joules.
The Atom needs 60.1 watt for 600 seconds or 36,060 joules.
This means that if all you were doing with the computer was encoding MP3s, you could actually encode slightly (very slightly) more MP3s on a VIA system.
Just my 5c to keep the comparisons fair.
The bug in Vista is that it sends somewhat broken DHCP requests that Lund Energi's DHCP server refuses to reply to. If you have a home router the DHCP server in the router would (propably) reply to the requests from Vista and other computers on your LAN. And the router sends correct DHCP requests to Lund Energi's server in order to get it's own public IP address.
In short, having a home router would solve the problem.
And I am pretty sure he was more likely to hurt himself / need to use health insurance for it.
(Axiom: Schwarzenegger had health insurance)
And what would happen to you if you turned down their offer? You would die, wouldn't you? Not a very good bargaining position if you ask me.
This would be like making it illegal to negotiate on new car prices. Sure the car dealer has a high MSRP, but you're a fool to pay it.Again this is just stupid. When you go negotiate the price of a new car you don't have to buy the car, you can just go away and by the car later at a different location. When you are unconcious in the ER you need sevice right away. You don't have the option to wait a while or go to a different hospital.
Like someone already stated http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209244&cid =17064240, you need to negotiate the price before you actually need the service. And even then it is not likely to work very well if you are only negotiating for yourself.
What if the candidates were:
- Republican
- Democrat
- Nazi
Many would realise that either R or D is far better than N. Should they still not vote because they don't know wich of R or D they should vote for?
I belive you should vote to make sure extremist opinions supported by a small percentage of the population get an unproportional part of the votes.
Even if you are not certain of which candidate is better, you may realise that some are far better than others.
(This may not apply very well to the american national elections with two more or less even sized parties. But for instance in swedish municipal
elections, a non voter allows extremist parties to take more seats.)
[Sorry for ranting a bit off-topic. Must be the late hour.]
"A one megapixel camera has one million blue photo detectors, one million red photo detectors and one million green photo detectors."
A 1 MP camera has one million photodetectors, half of which are green, 1/4 red, and 1/4 blue (in most cameras). From this image a one megapixel output image with all RGB components for each pixel is interpolated.
Then there is the issue about bits per pixel. Sensors commonly has 10 or 12 bits per pixel. With a 12 bits per pixel, 13 MP sesor you thus get:
13M * 12 = 156 Mbits = 19.5 Mbytes.
Or maybe he was refering to Arab country. His world probably has only a handfull of countries, USA, Europe, Arab...
The scary thing is he was modded "3, interesting"...
It surely is. Also from the sample images it looks like the TV Wonder Elite and the eVGA NVTV filters the video much more aggressively. Given more detailed video sequences the Hauppauge card probably would have compared better.
This pretty much summarises the whole discussion here. Moderate up please.
Is it right for software companies to force schools to pay for their software?
I mean, the ones who benefit most from the schools choice of software is the software company because students who learn Word in school are more likely to buy it themselves and to propagate to thier future employers to buy it.
My point is that the software industry should GIVE thier applications away to schools, as they will gain on it in the long run.