is a fear of two-factor authentication. Really, the solution here is to keep the fancy fingerprint-system and to *combine* it with a PIN that can be changed readily by presenting a second form of photo ID. This way, if your fingerprints get compromised, your PIN is still unique and you can change it whenever you want. The fact that they're so insistent on "touch it and go without any work!" is the security downfall, and it's kind of sad when it would literally take an extra 10 seconds at most to input a 6-digit PIN with your other hand while your hand was being read by the reader.
Two (or three) factor authentication is really the way to go for any system that you care about. Apparently people aren't remembering this from Security 101.
Well, you can compile your own binary from the (always was, still is, always will be) freely available NeoOffice source code - the intel code is there right now, go for it. You don't want to do that? What are your options?
Well, if you can bear to wait a couple more weeks you can download a binary for free from the developers.
As long as OO.o takes to compile, you might as well just wait for the binary, dude.
Kroger is obviously not interested in quality employees.
Having worked at a Kroger store for nearly a year, I can tell you that this is quite definitely the case. Some of my co-workers could barely tie their own shoes, which explains how I was made surrogate management after 2 weeks and the rest of the employees stayed in the same job for YEARS on end.
Then they're being stupid. An "understanding" is not a contract, and if they want to enforce ther expectation that the cartridges will be returned then they should apply the proper number of attorneys to the purchasers of said cartridges. (Forcing you to sign a contract at time of sale or something like that.)
Just because they say "Hey, we'd really really like you to send this back" doesn't make that some sort of binding agreement. Contracts are required to have prior agreement by both parties and the opportunity for renegotiation. They've got no legs to stand on, and at least this was the wacky moon 9th circuit instead of a real court, so we know this decision won't stand for very long.
I'm still *in* the state, but people are having problems calling me, and I'm in a rather weird scenario right now too. My phone (area code 502) is currently located in area code 318 (north/east LA.) If one of my friends from 502 tries to call my phone (again, a 502 number) they get some sort of T-Mobile recorded message that the call could not be completed due to the hurricane. However, if I try to call my cell phone from another 318 number, it works fine. I'm puzzled.
I do have to give kudos to T-Mo for their infrastructure only being down for about 12 hours after the hurricane hit, despite it wreaking havoc over half the state. I was impressed, I was expecting Louisiana to be without phone service for weeks.
I don't know where you get the idea that transactions don't settle until the month after a swipe, but at the grocery store I work at, all of our electronic transactions are settled and we're paid for them at about 10:45p.m. every night. We sure as hell don't have a month's worth of float for all of our credit card purchases.
For anybody. It emulates the best aspects of the mac's "packaging" system (bundles) while also making it easy to get new stuff.
Hopefully, this takes off in more of the 'newbie oriented' distros so that we can say "Just type cp/software/openoffice/usr/software to install" instead of./configure && make && make install.:)
I still would like to know how they plan on fixing library dependencies, but... assuming they get over that, I'll be very happy once this is released.
You think they're going to lock down the sound & video API's in the OS so that nobody can make their own media players?
They already have, nimwit. Google for "Secure Audio Path" and marvel at how you can't play DRM'd files in WMP with an unapproved (unsigned) audio driver. It's already in place, and it's only going to get worse.
By long-established convention, a zone's administrator can be contacted by sending an email to the address published in the RNAME field of the zone's SOA record. VeriSign publishes the email address
nstld@verisign-grs.com in the RNAME field of the.com and.net zone SOA records and actively reads and responds to legitimate messages sent to this address.
From the PDF file they released about "SiteFinder".
This is great. 3 remote root holes in less than a month!
You question, "how can MS spin this positively?" They can call it "remote code execution" - sell it as a feature: "With this feature, anyone, anywhere in the world can run programs on your machine! Use it to get back at your enemies and to play pranks on your friends! Great fun for all!"
I just hope that Google does at least say "Hey, you might be able to find what you're looking for on our blog search" at the end or something - like they do now with Google Answers. I do applaud their effort to make their database even more relevant though, and is yet another reason I have to admit to being a shameless whore for Google.
Microsoft has made hardware standards for quite some time. They still haven't gotten in the hardware business (other than peripherals.) And why on earth is it so awful that MS is trying to make Windows better? We (the/. crowd) always bitch about how much it sucks, why don't we applaud MS when they do something to try to fix it? Setting up a standard for PC hardware that they think will integrate better with Windows is fine IMO - if it helps make "the" consumer OS better for the consumer, more power to them. I don't blindly support monopoly abuse, but I really don't think that's what's happening here. I think that MS is taking steps to make the PC better (by integrating telephony and other "cool" features). The system they've set up has some real innovation and isn't merely copying the work of others. I think we should at least see it before mindlessly bashing it (as some of the other comments have already done.)
Re: number 9, go ahead and route these ports between units. In fact, it would probably save you money. JUST DO NOT LET THEM GET OUTSIDE! Filter all incoming and outgoing traffic for Rendezvous and MS File Sharing at your border router. That way, people can use MS File Sharing/Rendezvous within the units and not go out onto your expensive metered pipe unless they have to.
Actually, you're wrong. The IRC network that I admin on is NOT about file sharing (and please don't join it and set up warez channels just to prove me wrong.) We are about chat, and we have a philosophy and a userbase that makes us that way. I strongly feel that we're doing something right -- rather than creating a place for l33t kiddies to hang out and swap the latest warez, we are (attempting to) create a community where users will *gasp* chat!
I know this is overly ambicious (and we are small now), but I think we'll only get better with time.
Then watch as every e-mail from a windows user comes encrypted with a Palladium-approved e-mail app required for decryption. Or watch as any media file you find/download/buy/rip on a Windows PC gets encrypted and locked to that specific PC in hardware. Or watch as web sites demand to check that you're running a Palladium-enabled system before you can enter.
The scope of this is a lot more far reaching than just Windows.
The Constitution "gives Congress wide leeway to prescribe `limited times' for copyright protection and allows Congress to secure the same level and duration of protection for all copyright holders, present and future," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said from the bench.
And, ladies and gentlemen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an idiot. 120 years is not a 'limited time' by any stretch of the imagination, especially considering that our country has only been around for ~250ish. The Supreme Court is supposed to be insulated from all that money crap, but this decision merely proves that they're just as corrupt as Captiol Hill. What a shame.
Oops! Just deleted the e-mail from your (mother/father/brother/sister/spouce/SO/ boss/once in a life time confidential offer).
But isn't that what I get everyday from the spammers? Once in a lifetime confidential offers to enlarge my penis, accept money from Nigeria, meet hot lesbian college chicks and more?
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Me: Mandrake sucks, Debian rules! /.er: Retort about difficulty of installation
Me: Counter-retort about lack of 'free'ness of $DISTRIBUTION /.er: Counter-counter-retort still about difficulty of installation /.er 2: "One distribution to rule them all" comment /.er 3: "Beowulf Cluster" comment
Troll: "You get what you pay for" comment /.er 4: "Linux will never be on the desktop" manifesto (at least 100K)
{several replies about why Linux WILL TOO be on the desktop, several replies about why Linux isn't ready, and at least 4 people advocating throwing away X}
Yeah, I can now create threads in my head. Who needs to actually *READ* the threads, you can just make them up yourself!
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is a fear of two-factor authentication. Really, the solution here is to keep the fancy fingerprint-system and to *combine* it with a PIN that can be changed readily by presenting a second form of photo ID. This way, if your fingerprints get compromised, your PIN is still unique and you can change it whenever you want. The fact that they're so insistent on "touch it and go without any work!" is the security downfall, and it's kind of sad when it would literally take an extra 10 seconds at most to input a 6-digit PIN with your other hand while your hand was being read by the reader.
Two (or three) factor authentication is really the way to go for any system that you care about. Apparently people aren't remembering this from Security 101.
You don't know how Sidekicks work.
RTFA.
Funny, I just received moderator privileges after I'd gone almost 2 months without getting them. Obviously some sort of bureaucratic mixup on /.'s end.
Amusingly, slashcode mangled "So you can see all the international sites. Duh!!" to that.
Granted, I was using lots of slighty-lees-than-standard (in US English) characters, but still.
ó ýöù å s s. !!
Then they're being stupid. An "understanding" is not a contract, and if they want to enforce ther expectation that the cartridges will be returned then they should apply the proper number of attorneys to the purchasers of said cartridges. (Forcing you to sign a contract at time of sale or something like that.)
Just because they say "Hey, we'd really really like you to send this back" doesn't make that some sort of binding agreement. Contracts are required to have prior agreement by both parties and the opportunity for renegotiation. They've got no legs to stand on, and at least this was the wacky moon 9th circuit instead of a real court, so we know this decision won't stand for very long.
I'm still *in* the state, but people are having problems calling me, and I'm in a rather weird scenario right now too. My phone (area code 502) is currently located in area code 318 (north/east LA.) If one of my friends from 502 tries to call my phone (again, a 502 number) they get some sort of T-Mobile recorded message that the call could not be completed due to the hurricane. However, if I try to call my cell phone from another 318 number, it works fine. I'm puzzled.
I do have to give kudos to T-Mo for their infrastructure only being down for about 12 hours after the hurricane hit, despite it wreaking havoc over half the state. I was impressed, I was expecting Louisiana to be without phone service for weeks.
I don't know where you get the idea that transactions don't settle until the month after a swipe, but at the grocery store I work at, all of our electronic transactions are settled and we're paid for them at about 10:45p.m. every night. We sure as hell don't have a month's worth of float for all of our credit card purchases.
For anybody. It emulates the best aspects of the mac's "packaging" system (bundles) while also making it easy to get new stuff.
/software/openoffice /usr/software to install" instead of ./configure && make && make install. :)
... assuming they get over that, I'll be very happy once this is released.
Hopefully, this takes off in more of the 'newbie oriented' distros so that we can say "Just type cp
I still would like to know how they plan on fixing library dependencies, but
Interestingly Enough, VeriSign is still returning NXDOMAIN for some things:
gpleff02@kappa:~$ host p.gtld-servers.net
Host p.gtld-servers.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
gpleff02@kappa:~$ host p.gtld-servers.net a.gtld-servers.net
Using domain server:
Name: a.gtld-servers.net
Address: 192.5.6.30#53
Aliases:
gpleff02@kappa:~$
This move is pathetic.
This is great. 3 remote root holes in less than a month!
You question, "how can MS spin this positively?" They can call it "remote code execution" - sell it as a feature: "With this feature, anyone, anywhere in the world can run programs on your machine! Use it to get back at your enemies and to play pranks on your friends! Great fun for all!"
I just hope that Google does at least say "Hey, you might be able to find what you're looking for on our blog search" at the end or something - like they do now with Google Answers. I do applaud their effort to make their database even more relevant though, and is yet another reason I have to admit to being a shameless whore for Google.
Microsoft has made hardware standards for quite some time. They still haven't gotten in the hardware business (other than peripherals.) And why on earth is it so awful that MS is trying to make Windows better? We (the /. crowd) always bitch about how much it sucks, why don't we applaud MS when they do something to try to fix it? Setting up a standard for PC hardware that they think will integrate better with Windows is fine IMO - if it helps make "the" consumer OS better for the consumer, more power to them. I don't blindly support monopoly abuse, but I really don't think that's what's happening here. I think that MS is taking steps to make the PC better (by integrating telephony and other "cool" features). The system they've set up has some real innovation and isn't merely copying the work of others. I think we should at least see it before mindlessly bashing it (as some of the other comments have already done.)
Re: number 9, go ahead and route these ports between units. In fact, it would probably save you money. JUST DO NOT LET THEM GET OUTSIDE! Filter all incoming and outgoing traffic for Rendezvous and MS File Sharing at your border router. That way, people can use MS File Sharing/Rendezvous within the units and not go out onto your expensive metered pipe unless they have to.
ISDN. ;-)
Actually, you're wrong. The IRC network that I admin on is NOT about file sharing (and please don't join it and set up warez channels just to prove me wrong.) We are about chat, and we have a philosophy and a userbase that makes us that way. I strongly feel that we're doing something right -- rather than creating a place for l33t kiddies to hang out and swap the latest warez, we are (attempting to) create a community where users will *gasp* chat!
I know this is overly ambicious (and we are small now), but I think we'll only get better with time.
Greg "gleffler" Leffler
Services Administrator
irc.liveharmony.org
Then watch as every e-mail from a windows user comes encrypted with a Palladium-approved e-mail app required for decryption. Or watch as any media file you find/download/buy/rip on a Windows PC gets encrypted and locked to that specific PC in hardware. Or watch as web sites demand to check that you're running a Palladium-enabled system before you can enter.
The scope of this is a lot more far reaching than just Windows.
Spam abuses you! (sorry, but it had to be done.)
And, ladies and gentlemen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an idiot. 120 years is not a 'limited time' by any stretch of the imagination, especially considering that our country has only been around for ~250ish. The Supreme Court is supposed to be insulated from all that money crap, but this decision merely proves that they're just as corrupt as Captiol Hill. What a shame.
Oops! Just deleted the e-mail from your (mother/father/brother/sister/spouce/SO/ boss/once in a life time confidential offer).
But isn't that what I get everyday from the spammers? Once in a lifetime confidential offers to enlarge my penis, accept money from Nigeria, meet hot lesbian college chicks and more?
Me: Mandrake sucks, Debian rules!
/.er: Retort about difficulty of installation
/.er: Counter-counter-retort still about difficulty of installation
/.er 2: "One distribution to rule them all" comment
/.er 3: "Beowulf Cluster" comment
/.er 4: "Linux will never be on the desktop" manifesto (at least 100K)
Me: Counter-retort about lack of 'free'ness of $DISTRIBUTION
Troll: "You get what you pay for" comment
{several replies about why Linux WILL TOO be on the desktop, several replies about why Linux isn't ready, and at least 4 people advocating throwing away X}
Yeah, I can now create threads in my head. Who needs to actually *READ* the threads, you can just make them up yourself!