The social security number is not important in France as it is in USA. Here, it is only used for health care related services. There is no universal number used by all government or private databases because our rights are protected by the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés: Computer and Freedom National Commission) that exists since the 70's.
For those who, like me, wanted to know more about MXF, it is the Material eXchange Format (and not "Multimedia Exchange Format" as Thomas Davies said in the interview).
The game Driv3r, available on PS/2 and X-box has 3 cities: - Miami - Nice (France), and villages around - Istanbul (Turkey)
The cities are quite well rendered. I know Nice so I can talk, but I can't compare Vice CIty in GTA and Miami in Driv3r as I've never been to Miami.
The game is not as fun as GTA, in particular free driving (out of missions), because it is separated from the scripted game (missions) , the number of secrets is just of 10 per city, and side missions are not interesting. But the main game (missions in a scenario) is very entertaining and of progressive difficulty.
Smart cards are not only used to store data, as magnetic cards, but also to do processing. The processing is usually done to protect access to the data.
That is not a problem. That is a feature. Characters outside cracker's range are a way to have strong passwords. And if the keyboard driver allow to input any char with its code (such as Alt-something) you just have to remember the code of the special chars.
Problems are more usually due to software that limit the range of characters or, worse, that reduce the charset allowed. What can you do when you had created an account on a web site with a strong password, and that some characters are not anymore allowed in the input before any pwd check?
And the more likely people are going to forget their password, the more likely they will call tech support. If the tech support has many such calls they will tend to reduce security rules (such as not check who calls, or not log calls) and this is a much more security risk.
With a french keyboard you can even have stronger password as you have direct access to 8-bits characters.
However users and administrators (for user pwd reset) have so much imagination that the most (only?) common visual password is azerty, while it could be &é"'(- using just the row above. Of course, one is easier on the phone.
I'm not in the US but in France and I have SMS notification for each e-mail received on the e-mail account provided by the operator. I receive in the SMS the e-mail of the sender and the subject of the message.
However I do not consider this to be a good idea, as spammers found this e-mail address five months ago. I now receive about 4 SMS each day related to e-mail notification for a spam received. My SMS box is quickly full (10 entries on my phone including sent SMS). The operator provides absolutely no means of control to filter the messages.
Were all x86 machines to suddenly turn into MIPS machines, consumers would likely select a more stable and prettier operating system whose executables were obtained via sourcecode.
This is why Microsoft is promoting.Net and its processor independance.
Migration to 64 bits is just a question of time, and they learned the lesson of the Windows migration from 16 bits to 32.
Java has nothing about it that makes it any more maintainable than any other language.
I disagree: - it has a quite consistent API that make use of OO concepts such as 'interfaces'. This pushes the programmer to reuse the same concepts in the design of its code. - "one source, one class", no header files mess: this simplifies editing compared to C/C++ - JavaDoc: of course most language have now an equivalent tool. But JavaDoc is THE standard for Java so everybody uses it. - IDE for Java are now far more advanced than IDE for other languages. Do you know about refactoring? This single point is making the difference for code maintenance.
So you should re-read section 3. I'm refering to option b).
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
* a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
* b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
* c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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The Origin of Murphy's Law.
The social security number is not important in France as it is in USA.
Here, it is only used for health care related services. There is no universal number used by all government or private databases because our rights are protected by the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés: Computer and Freedom National Commission) that exists since the 70's.
Ceefax [...] turns 30 today (just 3 days after myself) [...]
And 12 after myself. So what ?
For those who, like me, wanted to know more about MXF, it is the Material eXchange Format (and not "Multimedia Exchange Format" as Thomas Davies said in the interview).
Tableau doesn't say who are its customers, [...]
Look at their brochure: one samble uses a Starbucks cube.
And on the customers page, the world's largest Internet search provider is quite obvious.
This seems to be what you are looking for.
Grand Theft Auto (the first in the serie, published in 1998) had Pogo the Monkey, advertised on the radio in the car.
The game Driv3r, available on PS/2 and X-box has 3 cities:
- Miami
- Nice (France), and villages around
- Istanbul (Turkey)
The cities are quite well rendered. I know Nice so I can talk, but I can't compare Vice CIty in GTA and Miami in Driv3r as I've never been to Miami.
The game is not as fun as GTA, in particular free driving (out of missions), because it is separated from the scripted game (missions) , the number of secrets is just of 10 per city, and side missions are not interesting.
But the main game (missions in a scenario) is very entertaining and of progressive difficulty.
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GTA Road-killers Rendez-vous
UNXUTils seems to be not maintained.
However I use Win32 ports of GNU (and non-GNU) tools from GNUWin32.
They are quite up to date with frequent releases.
You don't need a 3D monitor: you are already reading Slashdot in 3D!
Won't work. They would have to torture you first to get your secret pin.
But torture is known to work.
In "smart card" there is "smart".
Smart cards are not only used to store data, as magnetic cards, but also to do processing. The processing is usually done to protect access to the data.
That is not a problem. That is a feature. Characters outside cracker's range are a way to have strong passwords.
And if the keyboard driver allow to input any char with its code (such as Alt-something) you just have to remember the code of the special chars.
Problems are more usually due to software that limit the range of characters or, worse, that reduce the charset allowed. What can you do when you had created an account on a web site with a strong password, and that some characters are not anymore allowed in the input before any pwd check?
I can log on as anyone at my company without knowing their passwords, by logging on as root and then using su.
Of course. But there is traces in logs (that you can alter as you are root), so we can not strictly consider that is the same.
And the more likely people are going to forget their password, the more likely they will call tech support.
If the tech support has many such calls they will tend to reduce security rules (such as not check who calls, or not log calls) and this is a much more security risk.
With a french keyboard you can even have stronger password as you have direct access to 8-bits characters.
However users and administrators (for user pwd reset) have so much imagination that the most (only?) common visual password is azerty, while it could be &é"'(- using just the row above. Of course, one is easier on the phone.
Settings are stored in your profile. Not in the program directory.
AFAIK, uninstall doesn't remove your profile.
However extensions and plugins (Flash, Acrobat...) are at risk if you accept to remove the Firefox directory at uninstall end.
The article is about PNG, not PHP.
Of course, but this means that free PHP hosting services are at risk, as some malicious users will try to exploit this flaw on the server side.
Is Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird using this lib ?
I'm not in the US but in France and I have SMS notification for each e-mail received on the e-mail account provided by the operator. I receive in the SMS the e-mail of the sender and the subject of the message.
However I do not consider this to be a good idea, as spammers found this e-mail address five months ago. I now receive about 4 SMS each day related to e-mail notification for a spam received. My SMS box is quickly full (10 entries on my phone including sent SMS).
The operator provides absolutely no means of control to filter the messages.
it doesn't really matter if they can run the program on multiple platforms as long as the majority run it on windows.
I wrote that Microsoft cares about processor independance, NOT operating system independance, of course.
Were all x86 machines to suddenly turn into MIPS machines, consumers would likely select a more stable and prettier operating system whose executables were obtained via sourcecode.
.Net and its processor independance.
This is why Microsoft is promoting
Migration to 64 bits is just a question of time, and they learned the lesson of the Windows migration from 16 bits to 32.
Java has nothing about it that makes it any more maintainable than any other language.
I disagree:
- it has a quite consistent API that make use of OO concepts such as 'interfaces'. This pushes the programmer to reuse the same concepts in the design of its code.
- "one source, one class", no header files mess: this simplifies editing compared to C/C++
- JavaDoc: of course most language have now an equivalent tool. But JavaDoc is THE standard for Java so everybody uses it.
- IDE for Java are now far more advanced than IDE for other languages. Do you know about refactoring? This single point is making the difference for code maintenance.
...which I did as long as I worked at the place (not long).
I don't need to ask you why.