And yes, you're right about the clones, but the thing I'm saying is that the kernel changes are being done so that you can't build your own clone because then they wouldn't get any money from the sale of the hardware the OS is run on.
The copyrighters right to copyright is not protected by the U.S. Constitution
... Section 8 - Powers of Congress
Yep - that would be the ability of the US Congress to control whether or not the copyrighters have a right to copyright. Note that it provides congress with a power, it does not provide the people with a right.
Importantly, it has the clause "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" - once copyright is no longer filling that role, it should not be in place...
If you go into an airtraffic control centre, and see how they pass information, little strips of paper attached to wooden blocks...
Actually, you'll usually find that they don't pass information like that, they use that as per-user temp-storage space... Information is typically communicated between ATC personnel verbally; the receiving controller writes the information down on his blocks, and uses them for as long as (s)he is guiding said aircraft.
stoborrobots:/home/stoborrobots$ su -
Password:
root:/root# apt-get update
Hit http//mirror.au.realworld.org unstable/main Packages
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
root:/root# apt-get install life
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
life
life is already the newest version (24.6.realworld.8-1)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root:/root# exit
stoborrobots:/home/stoborrobots$ stfu already
bash: stfu: command not found
stoborrobots:/home/stoborrobots$
Nope, sorry, I can't seem to do that; do you have a link to the sources so I can compile them for myself? If not, you could try to # apt-get install humour
Simply a handheld device (in the formfactor of the old Sharp Wizard PDAs) with a GPRS connection (remember, the real guide took a little while to DL over the subetha), linked to Wikipedia or that version of the guide on the BBC site (although, Wikipedia makes more sense)...
On another note, am I the only crazy one or is there someone else who liked Windows 3.1 better than Windows 95?
Well, you can notch up two for crazy... Everything about 95 felt wrong compared to 3.1...
My favourite experience was walking onto a customer site last year where they were still running an old machine with 3.1 and getting to use it in a "production" environment... It made those years of playing with one at home feel so much more worthwhile...
Through the GUI: Run YaST2. Select "Software Installation". Select "Package Groups" filter. In the Tree View, Select "Development" -> "Languages" -> "Java". Tick the box next to "java-1_5_0-sun-plugin" Click "Accept". Wait a few moments. Click "Finish".
"Large icons" have nothing to do with spatial file browsing.
You're right; sorry about the confusion.
What I meant to say was that when you put Windows Explorer into "Large Icons" mode, it also behaves much like a spatial file manager. The default settings for Explorer would:
* Have every folder open in its own window, * Have each folder remember it's window location on screen (for the most part - apparently this is not reliable behaviour, but it usually works) * When in "Large Icons" mode and with "Auto Arrange" turned off, allow the icons in the window to be arranged in a spatial manner, * Usually (but again, apparently not reliably) remember the positions of icons in the window.
In fact, going through the Wikipedia article linked above, the only things I notice which Win95 didn't do, by default, is show open folders with a different icon to unopened ones. In addition, there is the reliability issue which Wikipedia points out; I never noticed it, but apparently folders sometimes forget where they and their icons should be...
You can try it: put your settings to: (From memory because I don't have a Windows box handy at the moment; adjust to suit...)
- "Large Icons" on - "Each folder remembers own settings" on - "Auto arrange" off - "Open windows in separate processes" off - Set "Open folders in" to "New Window" - For each folder, set "View as web page" to off.
Now you can double click "My Computer", resize the window; open some folders, resize those; try to reopen an already open window - it will bring the already open one to the front; close and reopen some windows; they will (usually) reopen in their same location...
Alternately, if you have a machine you can do a fresh install, Windows 95 defaults to "almost spatial". (May possibly work with 98 & ME - I don't remember what the defaults those are...)
I concede that it's not really a spatial browser, but it comes close enough on most accounts...
Because if it's in software, the phishing site simply needs to retrieve the software from your machine. The hardware system works because it's out of band data, which cannot be easily intercepted by the phishers.
Another out-of-band system someone here suggested is SMS messages from the bank... when you attempt a login, the bank sends you an SMS (text message) with a number in it and you type that number into the website.
To be secure, it needs to have information which is not communicated in easily extracted form in the same medium as the original attack.
Which one of you has ever got a 'Security Details Update' request from YOUR bank by phone or letter let alone by email...
*raises hand*
(Yes, it is genuine. Yes, despite the email address being from the wrong domain. Yes, it does have an update details link despite saying that it will not. )
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if my wallet gets stolen it's useless without knowing which bank and account it's for, as well as the username and password for logging in.
And at least some of those pieces of information is already in there with the card: your bank cards describe both your bank name and account. All one has to do is map the password cards back to the corresponding bank card, which is not necessarily all that difficult.
That said, I do like that idea better than this SiteKey one...
- Three questions are one time only and are NOT credit card or account related - You also choose a tacky photo - Once the questions are set then it will ask you only one time from the machine you are at to answer one of the three questions - Once you have answered you are presented with the tacky photo and a request for your password - You have to reauthenitcate at each machine you are at and let BoA know if you want that machine added to the list of "safe" machines, meaning you don't have to answer the question again and are presented with only the photo and request for password.
Hmm... So the attacker merely has to get your cookies to get identified as a "safe" machine? This does not inspire me with a great deal of confidence...
(PS: in case people don't get it, there is no way for your bank to identify "your safe machine" except through what the browser sends it, which is mostly limited to Browser and OS versions, and your list of cookies. Guess which can be used to uniquely identify machines...)
Drop a document onto the title bar of another document's window, and it opens that document in a new window? Seems... stupid?
Heheh.... Yeah, I agree...
That's an interesting lesson in how misfeatures get created... Originally that action would have opened the file in a new MDI child window, which makes some sense. When Word got "upgraded" from MDI to SDI windows, the same behaviour was retained (drop on titlebar == open file without closing old one), which means that you get stupid effects like that.
I greatly prefer the "drop the document onto the application icon to open the document"paradigm built into OS X.
That works too; Drag a file over an Application icon on the desktop or the "Quick Launch" bar (or any other Application or Application shortcut...) and it will fire up, most likely as you expect...
Still, I'm not all that convinced that there is a "right" behaviour here... It's simply a matter of being predictable, which... oh, that's not there either.:-S
"What might the user be thinking when they drop a file/text snippet/image/url on me?"
[cynic] That there's your problem - you seem to believe that users are capable of thinking! [/cynic]
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Cheers.
Really? I don't see that anywhere in the Apple Single Use License Agreement...
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
Yep - that would be the ability of the US Congress to control whether or not the copyrighters have a right to copyright. Note that it provides congress with a power, it does not provide the people with a right.
Importantly, it has the clause "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" - once copyright is no longer filling that role, it should not be in place...
If you go into an airtraffic control centre, and see how they pass information, little strips of paper attached to wooden blocks...
Actually, you'll usually find that they don't pass information like that, they use that as per-user temp-storage space... Information is typically communicated between ATC personnel verbally; the receiving controller writes the information down on his blocks, and uses them for as long as (s)he is guiding said aircraft.
# apt-get install humour
Well, you could do it...
Yeah, but could you do it with two weeks, and a $100 budget?
Yeah, but could you do it with only two weeks and a $100 budget?
Like it hadn't occurred to hundreds of people by that point that a graphical interface was a good idea?
Yeah, but could they do it with only two weeks and a $100 budget?
What the hell, I've got karma to burn...
or even, 3/4000
Possibly, but I prefer the ability to create a .procphone file which will route the boss's calls to /dev/null during lunchbreaks and happy hour...
On another note, am I the only crazy one or is there someone else who liked Windows 3.1 better than Windows 95?
Well, you can notch up two for crazy... Everything about 95 felt wrong compared to 3.1...
My favourite experience was walking onto a customer site last year where they were still running an old machine with 3.1 and getting to use it in a "production" environment... It made those years of playing with one at home feel so much more worthwhile...
Through the GUI:
Run YaST2.
Select "Software Installation".
Select "Package Groups" filter.
In the Tree View, Select "Development" -> "Languages" -> "Java".
Tick the box next to "java-1_5_0-sun-plugin"
Click "Accept".
Wait a few moments.
Click "Finish".
No Command Line necessary at all...
Should we have been forewarned of the possibility of this patent when that article linked to a research.microsoft website?
:-S
Just a thought...
*looks over at his empty friends list on /.*
Well, with a comment like that, what else did you expect?
"Large icons" have nothing to do with spatial file browsing.
You're right; sorry about the confusion.
What I meant to say was that when you put Windows Explorer into "Large Icons" mode, it also behaves much like a spatial file manager. The default settings for Explorer would:
* Have every folder open in its own window,
* Have each folder remember it's window location on screen (for the most part - apparently this is not reliable behaviour, but it usually works)
* When in "Large Icons" mode and with "Auto Arrange" turned off, allow the icons in the window to be arranged in a spatial manner,
* Usually (but again, apparently not reliably) remember the positions of icons in the window.
In fact, going through the Wikipedia article linked above, the only things I notice which Win95 didn't do, by default, is show open folders with a different icon to unopened ones. In addition, there is the reliability issue which Wikipedia points out; I never noticed it, but apparently folders sometimes forget where they and their icons should be...
You can try it: put your settings to: (From memory because I don't have a Windows box handy at the moment; adjust to suit...)
- "Large Icons" on
- "Each folder remembers own settings" on
- "Auto arrange" off
- "Open windows in separate processes" off
- Set "Open folders in" to "New Window"
- For each folder, set "View as web page" to off.
Now you can double click "My Computer", resize the window; open some folders, resize those; try to reopen an already open window - it will bring the already open one to the front; close and reopen some windows; they will (usually) reopen in their same location...
Alternately, if you have a machine you can do a fresh install, Windows 95 defaults to "almost spatial". (May possibly work with 98 & ME - I don't remember what the defaults those are...)
I concede that it's not really a spatial browser, but it comes close enough on most accounts...
how can I promote myself as a candidate for translation?
Umm, get the source, and contribute back the diffs?
(See also http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/ fro more...)
The National bank is doing it. ... Works great.
:-S)
Sounds cool... (Guess which bank is not one of the four I use...
Because if it's in software, the phishing site simply needs to retrieve the software from your machine. The hardware system works because it's out of band data, which cannot be easily intercepted by the phishers.
Another out-of-band system someone here suggested is SMS messages from the bank... when you attempt a login, the bank sends you an SMS (text message) with a number in it and you type that number into the website.
To be secure, it needs to have information which is not communicated in easily extracted form in the same medium as the original attack.
I'm told Westpac do as well.
Westpac do, but only if you're a Business or Corporate customer... It doesn't help those of us with personal accounts...
Australian banks have started sending one-time passwords via SMS to your mobile phone.
Really? Which one(s)?
*raises hand*
(Yes, it is genuine. Yes, despite the email address being from the wrong domain. Yes, it does have an update details link despite saying that it will not. )
if my wallet gets stolen it's useless without knowing which bank and account it's for, as well as the username and password for logging in.
And at least some of those pieces of information is already in there with the card: your bank cards describe both your bank name and account. All one has to do is map the password cards back to the corresponding bank card, which is not necessarily all that difficult.
That said, I do like that idea better than this SiteKey one...
Hmm... So the attacker merely has to get your cookies to get identified as a "safe" machine? This does not inspire me with a great deal of confidence...
(PS: in case people don't get it, there is no way for your bank to identify "your safe machine" except through what the browser sends it, which is mostly limited to Browser and OS versions, and your list of cookies. Guess which can be used to uniquely identify machines...)
Drop a document onto the title bar of another document's window, and it opens that document in a new window? Seems ... stupid?
:-S
Heheh.... Yeah, I agree...
That's an interesting lesson in how misfeatures get created... Originally that action would have opened the file in a new MDI child window, which makes some sense. When Word got "upgraded" from MDI to SDI windows, the same behaviour was retained (drop on titlebar == open file without closing old one), which means that you get stupid effects like that.
I greatly prefer the "drop the document onto the application icon to open the document"paradigm built into OS X.
That works too; Drag a file over an Application icon on the desktop or the "Quick Launch" bar (or any other Application or Application shortcut...) and it will fire up, most likely as you expect...
Still, I'm not all that convinced that there is a "right" behaviour here... It's simply a matter of being predictable, which... oh, that's not there either.
"What might the user be thinking when they drop a file/text snippet/image/url on me?"
[cynic] That there's your problem - you seem to believe that users are capable of thinking! [/cynic]
I do think ideas like this should be implemented in real code, in a real window environment...
Try it out here: http://www.kmonos.net/lib/orimado.en.html