I recently spent 2 1/2 weeks in southern Chile/Argentina. I was traveling with people who were travelling for 10 months, and I spoke to a lot of people who were travelling for a long time. The simplest way I saw was just to transfer images from a camera using USB and then burn them on a CD. I wouldn't have thought this, but there were LOTS of internet cafes that provided this ability. Small towns in the middle of Patagonia with 1000 people would have 3 internet cafes. And, from what I've been told, it's like this all over South America.
Maybe where you are going it's different, but maybe you should look at the available technology where you are going.
I haven't tried these guys, or know anyone first hand that does, but 3.75 Hosting seem to offer pretty cheap hosting. I've been toying with the idea of moving to them. They charge $3.75/month and give 100Mb space, at 1 cent per Mb per month for additional storage. That's still $120/year/Gb, but it isn't *so* bad.
Has anyone tried them? Any thougths.... good, bad, indifferent?
You don't need combo CD-ROM/CD-R disks for this. Just use a CD-RW and you get all the functionality (ie being able to modify/create files) of an HD based system off the CD.
Just throw Knoppix on a CD-RW and *presto*. This seems to simple, and I'm probably missing something, but I don't see why this couldn't be done...
Rather use up a bit of paper and ink than damage your eyes.
I had the same concern (I sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day at work) so I asked an optometrist this week. Her answer: looking at a computer screen causes 'short term' eye strain, but no long term damage. Basically, get a good night's sleep and your fine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't storing ALL your data on the web server a bit insecure. Ideally you should have the LDAP server behind a firewall and have the web app authenticate itself to pull the data. Obviously this isn't going to give complete security, since if the web server gets cracked it can be used to attack the LDAP server, but it'll make a cracker jump through a few more hoops. Otherwise, if the web server gets cracked the attacker can suck all of the data in the directory straight off the web server.
This isn't exactly how VeriSign authenticates you. When you pay $15 for a cert you are getting a class 1 certificate, which, if you read the VeriSign Certificate Practices Agreement, you will find only authenticates your email address. Basically, they are saying that the owner of the cert controls the email address in the subject of the certificate. This is not done through a 'cryptographically secure' way, but for $15 what do you want? Really, this class of certs should only be used for encryption, and not authentication (ie. digital signatures). Your credit card is not an authentication source, just a method of payment.
Whay you are really paying for is the fact the CA is pre-installed in most browsers, mail clients, etc, and achieving this isn't inexpensive. You have to prove to Microsoft, Netscape, etc, that you run a secure data centre, that you have appropriate policies and procedures in place, etc.
Of course you can just sign your own cert, but then everyone who uses your cert will get a message saying that the cert isn't trusted, blah, blah, blah. In fact, a new patch for Outlook won't let you encrypt an email if it can't validate the recipient's cert. Also, for $15 it's probably cheaper for you to buy one from VeriSign than generate your own cert (assuming, say, $25/hr).
VeriSign offers a timestamping product. Basically, you upload your doc, or a hash of it (can't remember exactly) and VeriSign signs it using their private key and appends a timestamp to it and stores the sig for later retrieval.
If you want to verify a document existed at a certain time you can re-upload it, they can validate the signature and verify the doc existed at the time of the stamp.
Since most of us already trust VeriSign for SSL certs, why not timestamping?
I know you're a troll but....
shouldn't you also know the difference between evar/ever?
I wait, have I just been tricked??? Now I see how foolish we all truely are. Thank you master.
I work for a small network security company. Last year they gave us a fleece blanket with the company logo on it (the joke was that its a security blanket). Really, though, it was the best piece of swag I ever got. I don't think it's too expensive, gender neutral, one size fits all... and everyone liked them.
I don't think the point is just to drive users to AOL. As the article points out the online version of these magazines has hurt readership, so perhaps the point is to drive users to the magazines, since they no longer can get the content for free.
The United States seems to have a strange infatuation with weird voting technology: levers, punch cards, touch screens, etc. And look at where it's gotten you (see: florida(twice), virginia, etc.)
How about paper and pencil? During the last Canadian federal election 13 million votes were counted in 4 hours, by hand.
If you have a system that works efficently, with little concerns of errors or security, do you really think *any* software is going to improve it????
In a recent 'Ask Slashdot' the president of a university student society complained that the university had blocked access to Kazaa and was complaining it was censorship, and asked what the slashdot community thought of this. To my surprise, there was a chorus of people saying "Stop whining... these are university resources, file sharing is pointless, takes huge bandwidth, etc...".
I think the same thing applies here. When you have 90~95% of people using IE, why should your congress(wo)man have her staff spend their time testing the site with every freeware/OSS/weirdo browser. Personally I love Mozilla/Phoenix, but that doesn't mean that the government should necessarily support any whim I may have. There's no reason she should even take comments through an online form. There are many other channels, that worked perfectly well for hundreds of years before the internet to contact your elected officials. So really, be thankful there is any online form at all, and, if you really don't like it, write a letter:)
I think this is true. While basic economic theory says that demand increases as price decreases, there are many counter examples to this. For instance people will buy more steak if the price is higher, to a point. People deem that some products are less valuable if they are cheaper....
The moral of the story: an easy way to get rich is exploit these people.
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I recently spent 2 1/2 weeks in southern Chile/Argentina. I was traveling with people who were travelling for 10 months, and I spoke to a lot of people who were travelling for a long time. The simplest way I saw was just to transfer images from a camera using USB and then burn them on a CD. I wouldn't have thought this, but there were LOTS of internet cafes that provided this ability. Small towns in the middle of Patagonia with 1000 people would have 3 internet cafes. And, from what I've been told, it's like this all over South America.
Maybe where you are going it's different, but maybe you should look at the available technology where you are going.
Has anyone tried them? Any thougths.... good, bad, indifferent?
You don't need combo CD-ROM/CD-R disks for this. Just use a CD-RW and you get all the functionality (ie being able to modify/create files) of an HD based system off the CD.
Just throw Knoppix on a CD-RW and *presto*. This seems to simple, and I'm probably missing something, but I don't see why this couldn't be done...
I had the same concern (I sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day at work) so I asked an optometrist this week. Her answer: looking at a computer screen causes 'short term' eye strain, but no long term damage. Basically, get a good night's sleep and your fine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't storing ALL your data on the web server a bit insecure. Ideally you should have the LDAP server behind a firewall and have the web app authenticate itself to pull the data. Obviously this isn't going to give complete security, since if the web server gets cracked it can be used to attack the LDAP server, but it'll make a cracker jump through a few more hoops. Otherwise, if the web server gets cracked the attacker can suck all of the data in the directory straight off the web server.
This joke doesn't really work when written, it has to be spoken, but I'll give it a shot here:
Q: What's 120?
A (shouting): 5
(Hint: the answer is 5!)
I think to do my job it would have to incorporate logic to generate random slashdot posts...
This isn't exactly how VeriSign authenticates you. When you pay $15 for a cert you are getting a class 1 certificate, which, if you read the VeriSign Certificate Practices Agreement, you will find only authenticates your email address. Basically, they are saying that the owner of the cert controls the email address in the subject of the certificate. This is not done through a 'cryptographically secure' way, but for $15 what do you want? Really, this class of certs should only be used for encryption, and not authentication (ie. digital signatures). Your credit card is not an authentication source, just a method of payment.
Whay you are really paying for is the fact the CA is pre-installed in most browsers, mail clients, etc, and achieving this isn't inexpensive. You have to prove to Microsoft, Netscape, etc, that you run a secure data centre, that you have appropriate policies and procedures in place, etc.
Of course you can just sign your own cert, but then everyone who uses your cert will get a message saying that the cert isn't trusted, blah, blah, blah. In fact, a new patch for Outlook won't let you encrypt an email if it can't validate the recipient's cert. Also, for $15 it's probably cheaper for you to buy one from VeriSign than generate your own cert (assuming, say, $25/hr).
Just my $0.02.
VeriSign offers a timestamping product. Basically, you upload your doc, or a hash of it (can't remember exactly) and VeriSign signs it using their private key and appends a timestamp to it and stores the sig for later retrieval.
If you want to verify a document existed at a certain time you can re-upload it, they can validate the signature and verify the doc existed at the time of the stamp.
Since most of us already trust VeriSign for SSL certs, why not timestamping?
I know you're a troll but.... shouldn't you also know the difference between evar/ever? I wait, have I just been tricked??? Now I see how foolish we all truely are. Thank you master.
I work for a small network security company. Last year they gave us a fleece blanket with the company logo on it (the joke was that its a security blanket). Really, though, it was the best piece of swag I ever got. I don't think it's too expensive, gender neutral, one size fits all... and everyone liked them.
I don't think the point is just to drive users to AOL. As the article points out the online version of these magazines has hurt readership, so perhaps the point is to drive users to the magazines, since they no longer can get the content for free.
"We didn't just fall off the turnip truck a year ago and realize we needed to do this," he said. "We started thinking about this three years ago."
Oh, so they fell of the Turnip truck three years ago...
You're wrong. I live in Toronto, and I voted with paper and pencil.
I can't believe this. This kind of thing just makes me so angry... so mad... makes me want to a smash! Arrgghh... Beatty!
The United States seems to have a strange infatuation with weird voting technology: levers, punch cards, touch screens, etc. And look at where it's gotten you (see: florida(twice), virginia, etc.)
How about paper and pencil? During the last Canadian federal election 13 million votes were counted in 4 hours, by hand.
If you have a system that works efficently, with little concerns of errors or security, do you really think *any* software is going to improve it????
In a recent 'Ask Slashdot' the president of a university student society complained that the university had blocked access to Kazaa and was complaining it was censorship, and asked what the slashdot community thought of this. To my surprise, there was a chorus of people saying "Stop whining... these are university resources, file sharing is pointless, takes huge bandwidth, etc...". I think the same thing applies here. When you have 90~95% of people using IE, why should your congress(wo)man have her staff spend their time testing the site with every freeware/OSS/weirdo browser. Personally I love Mozilla/Phoenix, but that doesn't mean that the government should necessarily support any whim I may have. There's no reason she should even take comments through an online form. There are many other channels, that worked perfectly well for hundreds of years before the internet to contact your elected officials. So really, be thankful there is any online form at all, and, if you really don't like it, write a letter :)
I think this is true. While basic economic theory says that demand increases as price decreases, there are many counter examples to this. For instance people will buy more steak if the price is higher, to a point. People deem that some products are less valuable if they are cheaper.... The moral of the story: an easy way to get rich is exploit these people.