Anti-circumvention provisions being "bad law and bad policy" as Lawrence Lessig called them in his 2001 op-ed piece Jail Time in the Digital Age must be the reason why they get adopted the world over (Ayn Rand comes to mind).:-( It's a logical next step for him to have focused on corruption research.
not commercial, more of a personal side project for some friends. I've no experience configuring or administering a Linux server
Don't go it all on your own then. At the risk of sounding a bit like an advertisement, for the sake of brevity:
If you can read German, that's a host to be seen: fully documented configuration, minimal GUI, ssh account at one click without much of an appetite for personal information, avidly blogging webmaster, domains at just 5€ for registration and 50 cents extra/month.
They would appreciate a monthly 5-10€ contribution after the free trial month, but let you start as low as 1€ if you're on a budget.
Haven't found that kind of feature set lately (since hosting at French altern.org was lawyered out of existence more than a decade ago actually) at such a price point, let alone in English - is there any other host like this these days?
...music&lyrics, just like its U.S. Sonny Bono / pro-Disney etc. counterparts - or wait a minute, was there a flaw in that reasoning every time they passed such a thing? (In spite of the Supreme Court's verdict that Congress is constitutionally free to make stupid laws in that respect...)
Can you justify a retroactive copyright extension like the one that got just passed in Europe one month ago?
These crosscutting flight demonstrations were selected because of their potential to provide tangible, near-term products and infuse high-impact capabilities into NASA's future space exploration and science missions. By investing in high payoff, disruptive technologies that industry does not have in-hand today, NASA matures the technologies required for its future missions while proving the capabilities and lowering the cost for other government agency and commercial space activities.
You can get cheap certificates at startssl.com. Basic one-site certificates (no wildcard, no subject alt names) are free, anything more fancy costs 59.90$ per identified user
Up 20% recently BTW, and still requiring intermediate certificates that are a hassle to install particularly in Plesk.
There seems to be no good reason why a certificate for wildcard (or simply more than one) subdomains should require more thorough validation (and hence much higher cost) than for the second level domain itself though.
collusion of the browser makers with [...] warnings and "scare the user" policies. Giving ownership of the encrypted data channel to profit making operations was a stupid, stupid move, and has served only to cripple e-commerce from the day it began -- it's one more useless and endless cost for the small entrepreneur to have to absorb, and therefore in the end, the consumer.
For almost 2 decades, making certificates that browsers would accept prohibitively expensive for most has ensured that the largest part of Internet traffic is still transmitted unencrypted (or susceptible to eavesdropping). Proponents of crypto bans and Clipper chips probably wouldn't call that "stupid" at all, but rather revel in getting their way for so long even without implementing any of these measures.
"Your honor, since even on Windows the latest crop of computers has become way too energy-efficient to heat the dorm halls, that clustered brute-forcing of the **AA master key by our CS class must have been a completely unintended by-product of their attempts to survive the winter term without freezing..."
literally, as several nations of Eastern Europe have done (upon their liberation from Soviet-style "bureaucrazy") - making the search for loopholes not worth the bother anymore for most (low-)tax payers.
For every type of tax simplified or repealed, entire chapters can be dropped from the statute books.
However, fittingly for the Land of the not-so-tax-Free and the Home of the Brave especially on IRS filing day,;-) the quote appearing below this article reads:
Hope not, lest ye be disappointed. -- M. Horner
The projector+blinds approach, much underestimated
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Especially if you need blinds anyway (for the windows so as not to get up with the sun at 5am), even some of the cheapest ones such as http://www.avforums.com/forums/projector-screens/372990-ikea-tupplur.html at US$15-20 make a great screen (up to 100" approx. with a much better viewing angle than LCDs, and none of especially Plasmas' reflection issues). With cleverly designed brackets, they can even be mounted to curtain rails (and double as LED fixtures) to be removed without a trace from rented rooms later on: http://diy-community.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=63752&d=1278867980
Very often, some piece of furniture or drywall (easily bridged by 125mm ventilation tubing or one of the monster-sized grommets e.g. from http://www.mockett.com/furniture-hardware/wire-cable-management) at the opposite side of the room will lend itself to building an excellent "hush box" for the projector (smokers will want to integrate an otherwise optional "museum glass").
The hard part is to hide it from the neighbors or they'll want to visit all too often;-) - and the pressure it creates to upgrade the entire collection to BluRays now that the difference in resolution really shows.
A pity affordable FullHD 3D projection is still a few years away for home cinemas - but even then this type of installation is most easily upgraded.
To wipe out any trace of that consolation, you should know that there are people out there who are gleeful at the thought that you expect your staff to train themselves, on their own time, on their own dime.
Two more factors that make it a vicious circle:
Employees not given the chance to train themselves (after unpaid overtime as late as midnight?) to get the formal qualifications and certifications will almost necessarily be underpaid, while most training comes at a price tag that requires a corporate sponsor.
Only if, adding insult to injury, their crew too has to fly into an eternal blue&green Vista boot screen.;-)
As you seem to see the final episode, will salvation be as easy as Rush&Eli getting to install Linux at last (comes with a FLOSS driver for Chevron 9 out of the box) ?
Next time you're a manager in a largely obsolete business that still has paying customers (if only for the nostalgia of physical media), just neither intimidate, rootkit-infect, alienate nor sue them.
Looking at their netbook, a fine fanless piece and pretty much the MiniMacBook that never was, from http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Mini-Laptops/bd-p/minilaptops it seems they ruined that by (besides a debatable display) shipping with Windows 7 Starter (of all OSes) on a mere Gig of non-upgradable RAM - neither their own nor any other Linux (all of which, and even MacOS someone made work), nor even XP.
Technically speaking, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?
Two interesting reads on this:
[I]magine a school or a church distributing routers among parents or parishioners as a fund-raiser. Let's see how long SBC or Verizon lasts against the Baptists. Now THAT's disruptive.
> No-one deciding to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement (with the social networking provider in the instant case) for personal gain should work at a correctional facility.
Neither should people that ask you to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement.
Of course not, but if they did, the interviewer's defense (credibility aside) might be that it was just a test of the applicant's ethics and integrity.
Having demonstrated their neglect for either, in front of the recruiting officers, those consenting to that demand should never be given such jobs (what if otherwise an inmate ever similarly offered them a "bonus" to their wage later on?), even if the request had been made in bad faith, i.e. to actually access applicant's personal information.
Goes without saying that those asking the question, and everyone in command responsibility for them, should be fired all the same (and possibly indicted where applicable).
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Anti-circumvention provisions being "bad law and bad policy" as Lawrence Lessig called them in his 2001 op-ed piece Jail Time in the Digital Age must be the reason why they get adopted the world over (Ayn Rand comes to mind). :-( It's a logical next step for him to have focused on corruption research.
Don't go it all on your own then. At the risk of sounding a bit like an advertisement, for the sake of brevity:
If you can read German, that's a host to be seen: fully documented configuration, minimal GUI, ssh account at one click without much of an appetite for personal information, avidly blogging webmaster, domains at just 5€ for registration and 50 cents extra/month.
They would appreciate a monthly 5-10€ contribution after the free trial month, but let you start as low as 1€ if you're on a budget.
Haven't found that kind of feature set lately (since hosting at French altern.org was lawyered out of existence more than a decade ago actually) at such a price point, let alone in English - is there any other host like this these days?
OIC, they've hired an MBA... ;-)
Up 20% recently BTW, and still requiring intermediate certificates that are a hassle to install particularly in Plesk.
There seems to be no good reason why a certificate for wildcard (or simply more than one) subdomains should require more thorough validation (and hence much higher cost) than for the second level domain itself though.
For almost 2 decades, making certificates that browsers would accept prohibitively expensive for most has ensured that the largest part of Internet traffic is still transmitted unencrypted (or susceptible to eavesdropping). Proponents of crypto bans and Clipper chips probably wouldn't call that "stupid" at all, but rather revel in getting their way for so long even without implementing any of these measures.
That's probably because they knew the Warner logo was the best 3D effect they'd see in that movie.
"Your honor, since even on Windows the latest crop of computers has become way too energy-efficient to heat the dorm halls, that clustered brute-forcing of the **AA master key by our CS class must have been a completely unintended by-product of their attempts to survive the winter term without freezing..."
I am sure they are not unique or at the cutting edge (Canadian universities are nowhere near as well funded as American ones).
But they do teach geography, for one thing. ;)
SCNR...
For a midsized company, one would be a fool not to go with cloud based services.
Until that close encounter between an excavator and both of your redundant Internet connections... ;-)
For every type of tax simplified or repealed, entire chapters can be dropped from the statute books.
However, fittingly for the Land of the not-so-tax-Free and the Home of the Brave especially on IRS filing day,
Especially if you need blinds anyway (for the windows so as not to get up with the sun at 5am), even some of the cheapest ones such as http://www.avforums.com/forums/projector-screens/372990-ikea-tupplur.html at US$15-20 make a great screen (up to 100" approx. with a much better viewing angle than LCDs, and none of especially Plasmas' reflection issues). With cleverly designed brackets, they can even be mounted to curtain rails (and double as LED fixtures) to be removed without a trace from rented rooms later on: http://diy-community.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=63752&d=1278867980
;-) - and the pressure it creates to upgrade the entire collection to BluRays now that the difference in resolution really shows.
Very often, some piece of furniture or drywall (easily bridged by 125mm ventilation tubing or one of the monster-sized grommets e.g. from http://www.mockett.com/furniture-hardware/wire-cable-management) at the opposite side of the room will lend itself to building an excellent "hush box" for the projector (smokers will want to integrate an otherwise optional "museum glass").
The hard part is to hide it from the neighbors or they'll want to visit all too often
A pity affordable FullHD 3D projection is still a few years away for home cinemas - but even then this type of installation is most easily upgraded.
Two more factors that make it a vicious circle:
Employees not given the chance to train themselves (after unpaid overtime as late as midnight?) to get the formal qualifications and certifications will almost necessarily be underpaid, while most training comes at a price tag that requires a corporate sponsor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn-lTytfGo might help you "get it".
Only if, adding insult to injury, their crew too has to fly into an eternal blue&green Vista boot screen. ;-)
As you seem to see the final episode, will salvation be as easy as Rush&Eli getting to install Linux at last (comes with a FLOSS driver for Chevron 9 out of the box) ?
No, it's just the evaporating "weight" of the dollar (and cardboard walls of mortgaged real estate) I'm afraid. ;-)
its own inhabitants..." ;-)
SCNR, with a nod to Douglas Adams.
http://press.redhat.com/about/news/blog/commitment-to-open/ for the information right from the hacker's mouth.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2979107840/tt0492486
Next time you're a manager in a largely obsolete business that still has paying customers (if only for the nostalgia of physical media), just neither intimidate, rootkit-infect, alienate nor sue them.
Looking at their netbook, a fine fanless piece and pretty much the MiniMacBook that never was, from http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Mini-Laptops/bd-p/minilaptops it seems they ruined that by (besides a debatable display) shipping with Windows 7 Starter (of all OSes) on a mere Gig of non-upgradable RAM - neither their own nor any other Linux (all of which, and even MacOS someone made work), nor even XP.
Two interesting reads on this:
Robert X. Cringely, The Little Engine That Could, http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2004/pulpit_20040527_000456.html
And the other one to give to the kids:
Cory Doctorow, http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/, 2008
> No-one deciding to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement (with the social networking provider in the instant case) for personal gain should work at a correctional facility.
Neither should people that ask you to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement.
Of course not, but if they did, the interviewer's defense (credibility aside) might be that it was just a test of the applicant's ethics and integrity.
Having demonstrated their neglect for either, in front of the recruiting officers, those consenting to that demand should never be given such jobs (what if otherwise an inmate ever similarly offered them a "bonus" to their wage later on?), even if the request had been made in bad faith, i.e. to actually access applicant's personal information.
Goes without saying that those asking the question, and everyone in command responsibility for them, should be fired all the same (and possibly indicted where applicable).