Microsoft have been doing a lot of good hard work in the Web Services standards related fields, spending considerable amounts of resources coming up with some pretty good stuff.
Give them credit where it's due, and scorn where it is apt, and the critique becomes much stronger.
The PKI movement has been riddled by ita own complexity ever since its beginning.
The problem with PKI is that it depends on a common trusted root, and a global namespace. It is also hampered by crude certificate revocation methods.
There is a movement towards a simpler PKI, SPKI, which addresses all those isues. Of course, there will be need for co-operation between about the both approaches.
Sometimes lack of foresight prevents safety. This needs to be taken into consideration when purchasing.
Some of the newer laptop models are moving the Kensington hole (the one where you fasten the wire to secure the machine to an immovable object) into awkward positions. The hole should really be somewhere in the back, where the ports are, so that it can be locked at all times.
Take Dell Inspiron 5000e as an example with its hold to the far right cornere, so that any attached wire would be in the way of an external mouse.
I have seen many occasions of people removing any physical security devices because of this.
There is a similar project in the Internet Mapping Project, whcih some of you may remember. It has been going on for a while. Other interesting mapping and visualization projects are at The Stillman Projects and C5's 1:1.
Smartcards should interest hackers. They come in two main variants: memory cards and processor cards. The first can be seen as a miniature, secure filesystem, the latter adds some kind of processing power to the former. Costs for CPU cards can be a few dollars each, even in large quantities.
There are some interesting properties of smartcards. First, they are assumed to be *somewhat* tamper proof. This includes a degree of difficulty in using physcial, electrical, even social engineering to find out what's inside. There are many nice papers on tampering, especially Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note which is somewhat of a classic on the perils of believing something to be unhackable.
Ah, some nostalgia... the Java Card, which I had the fortunate to be part of developing back in 1997, is a cool device, deploying a Java VM in a few K of ROM and some 256 bytes of RAM. Yes, that is tiny!
Sadly, if you do business in California, you need to be either incorporated in California, or registered as a "foreign corporation". In either case you pay state franchise fees and are subject to state taxes (on top of whatever you need to pay in your state of incorporation). And, of course, federal taxes are for all US corporations.
I would not be surprised if most states have the same arrangement.
I believe what rental stores really want is the repeat business; if the customer is forced to enter the store to return the disk/tape, those chances are greater.
That's also why some rental places close their drop-boxes during open hours.
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Would it be equally fun if you replace "blondes" with "Polacks"?
How about "jews"?
"Blacks"?
> ... choice of using an RSA SecurID Authenticator, ...
> RSA Smart Card, RSA USB Authenticator
So I got all that vendor independence going for me.
Which is good.
Something you would've been (famous)
Something you could've been (a contender)
Something you should've been (born into a wealthier family)
I think that's a bit unfair.
Microsoft have been doing a lot of good hard
work in the Web Services standards related fields,
spending considerable amounts of resources coming
up with some pretty good stuff.
Give them credit where it's due, and scorn where it
is apt, and the critique becomes much stronger.
It's 2008. Give me my f*ing flying car instead.
...maybe, after a while, Wal-mart will force Netflix to carry only movies made in China?
This is what you used to do for ages:
# sync
# sync
# sync
Seems there was a reason for it.
Yep. 1.0.4 still says 1.0.2 if you install
over an old 1.0.2.
Great QA.
This popularizing of "tough" physics and "hard" math is all hogwash.
We all know, deep inside, that the world is run by pixies.
Who is number one?
Microsoft PDC 2003 attendees will get an alpha of Longhorn. PDC 2003 is October 26-30. So we'll see 10.3 a few days before.
Coincidence? I think not!
The PKI movement has been riddled by ita own complexity ever since its beginning.
The problem with PKI is that it depends on a common trusted root, and a global namespace. It is also hampered by crude certificate revocation methods.
There is a movement towards a simpler PKI, SPKI, which addresses all those isues. Of course, there will be need for co-operation between about the both approaches.
See Carl Ellison's page for more great info, especially a thorough comparison of approaches.
Sometimes lack of foresight prevents safety. This needs to be taken into consideration when purchasing.
Some of the newer laptop models are moving the Kensington hole (the one where you fasten the wire to secure the machine to an immovable object) into awkward positions. The hole should really be somewhere in the back, where the ports are, so that it can be locked at all times.
Take Dell Inspiron 5000e as an example with its hold to the far right cornere, so that any attached wire would be in the way of an external mouse.
I have seen many occasions of people removing any physical security devices because of this.
There is a similar project in the Internet Mapping Project, whcih some of you may remember. It has been going on for a while. Other interesting mapping and visualization projects are at The Stillman Projects and C5's 1:1.
Smartcards should interest hackers. They come in two main variants: memory cards and processor cards. The first can be seen as a miniature, secure filesystem, the latter adds some kind of processing power to the former. Costs for CPU cards can be a few dollars each, even in large quantities.
There are some interesting properties of smartcards. First, they are assumed to be *somewhat* tamper proof. This includes a degree of difficulty in using physcial, electrical, even social engineering to find out what's inside. There are many nice papers on tampering, especially Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note
which is somewhat of a classic on the perils of believing something to be unhackable.
Ah, some nostalgia... the Java Card, which I had the fortunate to be part of developing back in 1997, is a cool device, deploying a Java VM in a few K of ROM and some 256 bytes of RAM. Yes, that is tiny!
Sadly, if you do business in California, you need to be either incorporated in California, or registered as a "foreign corporation". In either case you pay state franchise fees and are subject to state taxes (on top of whatever you need to pay in your state of incorporation). And, of course, federal taxes are for all US corporations.
I would not be surprised if most states have the same arrangement.
I believe what rental stores really want is the repeat business; if the customer is forced to enter the store to return the disk/tape, those chances are greater.
That's also why some rental places close their drop-boxes during open hours.
Entegrity -- supposedly for Enterprise + Entegrity
Much better to use the excellent free stuff from www.sysinternals.com for all of us who are stuck with at least one Windows machine at work.
But which version is that...? What do we
know about this one?
You know what to do boys and girls. Be nice.
VB is definitely up there on the shelf of
unsexiness, next to that Oracle package and that Clarify binder.
Isn't it true most programmers using stuff
like VB are like painters who are into
abstract art just because they don't have
other skills? Too unfair?
Are there really people who *want* to use VB?