They do this already, its called a CD-Key. But like you said, there are problems with corporate customers. Oh? whats that? There is a corporoate version? Oh, guess it doesn't do much good then.
Just use the DVD CSS code to scramble your encrypted files. The MPAA will insist the police are not allowed to have the key, and if the police crack they key, the MPAA will sue them.
AMEN! I was thinking the exact same thing! Oddly enough, I have a Canon scanner right now that refuses to work on my wifes WinXP system. I plugged it into my box, and SANE picked it up and it works great:)
right, not to mention the fact that atleast in the U.S. the road and/or sidewalks are government property and considered an easement.
I have always hated the fact that sidewalks are government property, but I am responsible for removing snow and such. If someone slips and falls on your sidewalk, you can be held responsible.
You don't think if the public had this option, that they would take it? Look at the Hummer. It was designed to be a military vehicle, and the public demanded it. A few years later, everyone drives one and bitches about how much gas costs.
Notice I never mentioned specifically to India. Many of my friends have worked at local call centers in the area. Everyone of them told me about the checks that are done when a person enters and leaves work. The company they worked for did everything they could to ensure no confidential information was leaving the call center. The same should be done with any company that is being outsourced to.
I hope companies look at situations like this, and use it in their decision making process to decide whether or not to outsource to other companies. Its one thing if they send them source code to a project and the people sell it, but when they are giving our personal information to another company, they should be damned sure it wont be sold.
I expected to read 1000 comments from people talking about how cookies are not evil, and how they have been mis portrayed, but thats not what I read at all. Let me go over what I know, and maybe some people can correct me... here are the common cookie fears I know of
Cookies can be used to track my browsing habbits
Well, yes and no. If yahoo.com sets a cookie, google.com can not read it. A 3rd party tracking service could get involved, and could set a cookie via img tags. But even without that cookie, they could juat as easily track you by your IP address and UserAgent strings.
Cookies fill up my hard drive
Seriously, have you ever checked how much space cookies take up? I think my cookie file is maybe 1mb, and I browse alot of sites.
Cookies are used to store my personal information
Well, yeah. But cookies are on your computer, not the web pages. In order for a site to set a cookie with your name and address, you would have had to give it to them first, your browser doesnt just send it to them by default. If you are worried about a company having your personal info, yet you still fill it into any form you see, cookies are NOT your problem.
Im sure I can go on with more fears, I hear them alot, but I wont. Anyone else who can think of any, or feel they can counter one of those three, please chime in
You forget, even without cookies, companies could track you accross web sites. Cookies for a.com are not sent to b.com. In order for a.com and b.com to correctly track you, one or the other must use an img or something to track you. Even without the use of a cookie, fairly accurate tracking could be done based on your IP address and UserAgent strings. If a few large companies wanted to track you, they could just as easily combine their server logs, and do some data mining. I fail to see how cookies are any more evil than an IP address. Hell I'd say a company knowning your IP address is more dangerous, if someone knows your IP address, then packet flood you.
Why not charge those who are causing the problems a fine? I run my own mail server on a co-located server, there is no reason I should have to pay extra to connect to it.
How do you pick what distros to work with? There are so many to choose from, do you just choose those who give you financial backing? Should the release time of distro A be forced to coincide with distro B? Should Red Hat and commercial vendors be in control?
I think they should release fixes as soon as a stable fix is available. Alot of people just use a distro for a base install, and then build apps from source, some even choose to do Linux From Scratch, its their choice. No one should be locked into Vendor/Distro release schedules if their not using their products.
You're assuming the security hole is announced at the same time as the fix. This isnt always the case. In a case where an exploit is already known and possibly in use, it is always best to make a fixed version available, without waiting for the distros.
All they are doing is intensifying a reflection, that is not "seeing around corners." If they did the feat without the book present, then I would be impressed.
Did you compare the number of security holes on each browser that allowed remote access to the system?
Yes, we see Mozilla/Firefox bugs all the time, but they are fixed quicked, and far less severe. I do believe the last "bug" in Firefox/Moz that gave system access was actually do to a bug with Windows shell extensions, and the developers still went out of their way to work around it so people wouldnt be affected.
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They do this already, its called a CD-Key. But like you said, there are problems with corporate customers. Oh? whats that? There is a corporoate version? Oh, guess it doesn't do much good then.
By knowing the encryptiong keys of the bombers, then the police too can know the secret of the resurrection.
Just use the DVD CSS code to scramble your encrypted files. The MPAA will insist the police are not allowed to have the key, and if the police crack they key, the MPAA will sue them.
So your saying by not wanting to pay taxes, we are supporting terrorists?
AMEN! I was thinking the exact same thing! Oddly enough, I have a Canon scanner right now that refuses to work on my wifes WinXP system. I plugged it into my box, and SANE picked it up and it works great :)
Why can't vendors have the access point managment software (that most have) create a disk that will auto configure clients?
right, not to mention the fact that atleast in the U.S. the road and/or sidewalks are government property and considered an easement.
I have always hated the fact that sidewalks are government property, but I am responsible for removing snow and such. If someone slips and falls on your sidewalk, you can be held responsible.
You don't think if the public had this option, that they would take it? Look at the Hummer. It was designed to be a military vehicle, and the public demanded it. A few years later, everyone drives one and bitches about how much gas costs.
You are assuming it is the web site publishers inflating the click count.
But then again, African Helicopters are non-migratory.
*COUGH*BULLSHIT*COUGH*
Notice I never mentioned specifically to India. Many of my friends have worked at local call centers in the area. Everyone of them told me about the checks that are done when a person enters and leaves work. The company they worked for did everything they could to ensure no confidential information was leaving the call center. The same should be done with any company that is being outsourced to.
I hope companies look at situations like this, and use it in their decision making process to decide whether or not to outsource to other companies. Its one thing if they send them source code to a project and the people sell it, but when they are giving our personal information to another company, they should be damned sure it wont be sold.
I didnt figure it was just gonna go away.
I expected to read 1000 comments from people talking about how cookies are not evil, and how they have been mis portrayed, but thats not what I read at all. Let me go over what I know, and maybe some people can correct me... here are the common cookie fears I know of
Cookies can be used to track my browsing habbits
Well, yes and no. If yahoo.com sets a cookie, google.com can not read it. A 3rd party tracking service could get involved, and could set a cookie via img tags. But even without that cookie, they could juat as easily track you by your IP address and UserAgent strings.
Cookies fill up my hard drive
Seriously, have you ever checked how much space cookies take up? I think my cookie file is maybe 1mb, and I browse alot of sites.
Cookies are used to store my personal information
Well, yeah. But cookies are on your computer, not the web pages. In order for a site to set a cookie with your name and address, you would have had to give it to them first, your browser doesnt just send it to them by default. If you are worried about a company having your personal info, yet you still fill it into any form you see, cookies are NOT your problem.
Im sure I can go on with more fears, I hear them alot, but I wont. Anyone else who can think of any, or feel they can counter one of those three, please chime in
You forget, even without cookies, companies could track you accross web sites. Cookies for a.com are not sent to b.com. In order for a.com and b.com to correctly track you, one or the other must use an img or something to track you. Even without the use of a cookie, fairly accurate tracking could be done based on your IP address and UserAgent strings. If a few large companies wanted to track you, they could just as easily combine their server logs, and do some data mining. I fail to see how cookies are any more evil than an IP address. Hell I'd say a company knowning your IP address is more dangerous, if someone knows your IP address, then packet flood you.
AMEN TO THAT! I always just figured if a girl was willing to cheat, then her other man wasn't doing something right.
Isn't microsoft known for using other peoples ideas? Now they won't have to buy the companies, they can just steal the ideas :)
Why not charge those who are causing the problems a fine? I run my own mail server on a co-located server, there is no reason I should have to pay extra to connect to it.
Hey! don't polute the ocean! Drop them on the Redmond campus.
How do you pick what distros to work with? There are so many to choose from, do you just choose those who give you financial backing? Should the release time of distro A be forced to coincide with distro B? Should Red Hat and commercial vendors be in control?
I think they should release fixes as soon as a stable fix is available. Alot of people just use a distro for a base install, and then build apps from source, some even choose to do Linux From Scratch, its their choice. No one should be locked into Vendor/Distro release schedules if their not using their products.
You're assuming the security hole is announced at the same time as the fix. This isnt always the case. In a case where an exploit is already known and possibly in use, it is always best to make a fixed version available, without waiting for the distros.
All they are doing is intensifying a reflection, that is not "seeing around corners." If they did the feat without the book present, then I would be impressed.
Where does seeing around corners come in?
Did you compare the number of security holes on each browser that allowed remote access to the system? Yes, we see Mozilla/Firefox bugs all the time, but they are fixed quicked, and far less severe. I do believe the last "bug" in Firefox/Moz that gave system access was actually do to a bug with Windows shell extensions, and the developers still went out of their way to work around it so people wouldnt be affected.