That is why you check the cert and add it to your personal list of allowed (by checking it carefully you prevented the initial MITM). Then if the cert ever changes you get notified of the change (catching a later MITM). Again like I said, I am not against the scary warnings, I'm for user education. It is simply a user education thing.
Also you need either A) a CNAME (rejig your whole site) or B) hacked DNS resolver (HA! I bet only an eighth of ISP DNS server even handle more than the common records correctly as is).
Basically what is outlined is if you own example.com, you make a web site http://www.example.com/ and then have:
www.example.com. 30 IN CNAME 0000000abcdef.abcdef.example.com. 0000000abcdef.abcdef.example.com. 30 IN A 1.2.3.4
The hex is a key and a tcp port. It would be trivial as you said for the ISP to deliver instead:
www.example.com. 30 IN CNAME 000000011cafe.abcdef.example.com. 000000011cafe.abcdef.example.com. 30 IN A 0.6.6.6
Also I would love to see someone have used already used cafe.f00d.example.com or some such and have it spectacularly break.
The problem back then was not 'paper bumpers' it was the fact that the family vans were classified as cargo vans. The area in the back was often effectively a tin can. This was solved later with regulations about safety in those areas that often seated people.
My parents bought a conversion van during that era and effectively had a safety cage put in the back. There was a welded ladder frame down both sides of the van and welded cross bars in the doors under the wood and cloth interior.
I'm 31, married, and the father of three but when I was a teenager I sure did my share of practice for driving. Sure I must have had five accidents in two years or so, but they were harmless in beaters. I was goofing off but I was also learning how to drive better than most. I am convinced that by the time I was 18 I was a better driver than 95% of 30 year olds. There were situations in ice where I think if my friends had been driving we would have bitten the dust but I knew how to handle them.
Even to this day every time it first snows I go out to a parking lot to freshen-up on my 'snow driving'. Yes it looks a lot like hooning but you simply need to learn the limits and peculiarities of each of your cars in the snow. For example my VW Golf is very light and if I want to make the turn with out the traction control screwing me I need to get a little motion in the chassis first. There is no way I would have figured this out without first trying a lot of experiments first in a snowy empty parking lot.
So I take offense to your nannying point of view. I certainly did all that I could to get as much experience as I could as a teenager.
Yeah 2% of the time accelerating instead of braking is about right. One time I was on the 101 when an accident happened up in front of me and it started becoming a multicar pile-up. A BMW in front of me hit the brakes and it truly had an impressive stopping distance. The only problem was there was no way that my Volvo would be able to stop before I slammed into him. I decided to go around him but then as I was about to go by a Honda Accord ricocheted off the pile-up and was headed toward my door and I was able to speed out of there before it closed in.
I remember the look on the BMW driver's face as I went past and I saw the Accord spin into him in my rearview mirror.
ABS is wonderful but there is one case I personally have experience with where it greatly increases stopping distance, loose gravel. I lived in a rural area with an abundance of unpaved roads. I used to show-off in high school and had this favorite trick. There was a road that looked like it turned right but there was a little more road that went forward. In the night I would take it too fast and then scream like I can't make the turn in the gravel. Then when I was in the straight forward part, I would lock the brakes and steering wheel and this would cause my front tires to plow-up the gravel around them and stop the car incredibly quickly. I played this joke on many unsuspecting passengers.
Recently I went back and was driving on gravel roads with a modern car and I was surprised at how terrible stopping is when a deer appeared. The ABS constantly kicked in since the wheels locked-up all the time (easy to lock-up on loose gravel) and the turning ability was awful as well. The front would sort of hop in a direction every now and then but you had to predict where it would go since there was no feed back as you turned the steering wheel. The deer and us were going to be toast but I took my foot of the brake and slammed it again while I put the steering wheel at full lock. This dug the front of the car down for long enough that before the ABS kicked in I was plowing with the front tires.
I screwed-up the cover to one of my CV joints in the process, but I did not hit the deer, I simply would have because of the ABS if I had not had all the prior experience with driving on similar roads. I would say that stopping distance on loose gravel in a VW Golf with ABS is 4-5 times longer than in an old Chevy pickup from my personal experience.
If your CRT is a TV and not a computer monitor it probably can't really do 1920x1440. I have a CRT HDTV set and with a computer I wrote a quick test (yippie for modelines) to see how good the tube was. I would say it has an honest 800-850 lines of vertical resolution. After that it was very apparent that lines on the left and right of the screen were blending together into a grayish mess.
It is 30 inches though, so that is better than my great Sony 17 CRT monitor from the couch.
When I'm in a theatre I expect to have to watch trailers, and often find them entertaining
I don't find them entertaining. One time there was 26.5 minutes of ads before the first production company logo appeared before the movie I went to watch. I sure appreciated paying the babysitter for an extra hour.
It really is that bad for the non-PS3 blu-ray players. Basically you find some combination of USB, RJ-45, or burn a CD-R methods to update the firmware and you do need to. It is very common get a new blu-ray disc that will not play and then you need to update the firmware. This can take a while and some players cannot be updated to the newer profiles. There were cases where the manufacturers rushed the firmware updates and those firmware updates would break the players. Just read a bunch of the reviews are places like AVS forums or even teh Amazon.com reviews.
Yes I see that when I beat a boss then I get a new weapon much like the boss used. But I have this dog 'weapon' in the top list even at the very start of the game. When I use him he appears uses some of my weapon power bar and then disappears. I have NO idea how to actually use this robot dog for anything useful.
Thanks for telling me about how to learn what those items at the bottom do. Do I need to select them after finding them to use them or are they automatic?
As a kid I played a bunch of other NES games but never much of Mega Man. I downloaded MM9 yesterday and I see a screen when I press + with a two regions where things are listed. In the top for example I can choose an item where a robot dog appears but what does that do?
On the bottom list there are MANY items, can someone tell me what those things do? The instructions are very much lacking in details. Maybe someone knows of a good web site to read that explains this stuff for someone that did not grow-up with MM-MM4 or so. Not a walk through, I want to figure-out the game myself.
Also I am loving this game. My previous favorite game to play was SuperC, and this shares a lot of the qualities of that. It is very rewarding playing MM9 since I get progressively better the more I play the stages and it requires a level of perfection to play well.
I had an odd situation. I bought the soundtrack to "The Fellowship of the Ring" shortly after the movie came out at a Target and it would not play in my car. I went back to the store and got another one with the same result. I can't remember the details at home but some players would play it others would not, I tried a computer, old CD player, and DVD player. Target did take the CD back and refund the money, I was impressed by this. I just did a bit of googling and could not find any details if this was due to some sort of DRM, it is the only time I ever encountered something like this.
Not all SGI workstations were built like tanks. It started with the Indys, we had a lab of them and after about two years the power supplies started failing and after four only a third still worked when we removed them. In another lab a fan in the O2 power supplies would fail, but that was an inexpensive fix, except for the fact the case was so odd and it was hard to get to that fan.
I have a Wii and I am very fond of the difficulty of these old games. They are challenging yet very rewarding. My reflexes are not what they used to be plus I have lost most feeling in my left thumb do to an accident yet with practice I can do very well in most of the old games. Also there is randomness in many of these old games so you do need to learn techniques as well positions. A perfect game for me is SuperC. With new games it is much too easy to complete them.
The same thing that the SNAP-27 RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) did on the moon since the Apollo 12 (and other Apollo missions) landed on the moon.
They are still there and for many years preformed unmanned experiments on the moon surface after the astronauts left studying moonquakes, meteor impacts, temperature, magnetic field, atmosphere, and gravitational field in addition the long term feasibility of RTG study.
The Gadu Gadu client for Windows used to be a lot like the original versions of ICQ, now it is a bloated and ad supported POS. Good luck with it if you want to use it on a Mac or Unix-alike there used to be official clients that worked, but for about two years now using clients other than the official ones has been forbidden with the network. The open source projects have varying degrees of working but it seems that the protocol is tweaked every now and then so it is hard to keep-up.
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Those are some expensive ten lines of perl code then.
That is why you check the cert and add it to your personal list of allowed (by checking it carefully you prevented the initial MITM). Then if the cert ever changes you get notified of the change (catching a later MITM). Again like I said, I am not against the scary warnings, I'm for user education. It is simply a user education thing.
Also you need either A) a CNAME (rejig your whole site) or B) hacked DNS resolver (HA! I bet only an eighth of ISP DNS server even handle more than the common records correctly as is).
Basically what is outlined is if you own example.com, you make a web site http://www.example.com/ and then have:
www.example.com. 30 IN CNAME 0000000abcdef.abcdef.example.com.
0000000abcdef.abcdef.example.com. 30 IN A 1.2.3.4
The hex is a key and a tcp port. It would be trivial as you said for the ISP to deliver instead:
www.example.com. 30 IN CNAME 000000011cafe.abcdef.example.com.
000000011cafe.abcdef.example.com. 30 IN A 0.6.6.6
Also I would love to see someone have used already used cafe.f00d.example.com or some such and have it spectacularly break.
I had hosting at provider that did this:
them: http://example.com/
me: http://foo.bar.invalid/
them: https://example.com/
me: https://example.com/bar/foo/
They paid for the example.com cert.
I agree. What is wrong with self signed certs? Scary warnings from the browser? That can be educated. Too slow? Hardware is faster now.
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The problem back then was not 'paper bumpers' it was the fact that the family vans were classified as cargo vans. The area in the back was often effectively a tin can. This was solved later with regulations about safety in those areas that often seated people.
My parents bought a conversion van during that era and effectively had a safety cage put in the back. There was a welded ladder frame down both sides of the van and welded cross bars in the doors under the wood and cloth interior.
I'm 31, married, and the father of three but when I was a teenager I sure did my share of practice for driving. Sure I must have had five accidents in two years or so, but they were harmless in beaters. I was goofing off but I was also learning how to drive better than most. I am convinced that by the time I was 18 I was a better driver than 95% of 30 year olds. There were situations in ice where I think if my friends had been driving we would have bitten the dust but I knew how to handle them.
Even to this day every time it first snows I go out to a parking lot to freshen-up on my 'snow driving'. Yes it looks a lot like hooning but you simply need to learn the limits and peculiarities of each of your cars in the snow. For example my VW Golf is very light and if I want to make the turn with out the traction control screwing me I need to get a little motion in the chassis first. There is no way I would have figured this out without first trying a lot of experiments first in a snowy empty parking lot.
So I take offense to your nannying point of view. I certainly did all that I could to get as much experience as I could as a teenager.
Yeah 2% of the time accelerating instead of braking is about right. One time I was on the 101 when an accident happened up in front of me and it started becoming a multicar pile-up. A BMW in front of me hit the brakes and it truly had an impressive stopping distance. The only problem was there was no way that my Volvo would be able to stop before I slammed into him. I decided to go around him but then as I was about to go by a Honda Accord ricocheted off the pile-up and was headed toward my door and I was able to speed out of there before it closed in.
I remember the look on the BMW driver's face as I went past and I saw the Accord spin into him in my rearview mirror.
ABS is wonderful but there is one case I personally have experience with where it greatly increases stopping distance, loose gravel. I lived in a rural area with an abundance of unpaved roads. I used to show-off in high school and had this favorite trick. There was a road that looked like it turned right but there was a little more road that went forward. In the night I would take it too fast and then scream like I can't make the turn in the gravel. Then when I was in the straight forward part, I would lock the brakes and steering wheel and this would cause my front tires to plow-up the gravel around them and stop the car incredibly quickly. I played this joke on many unsuspecting passengers.
Recently I went back and was driving on gravel roads with a modern car and I was surprised at how terrible stopping is when a deer appeared. The ABS constantly kicked in since the wheels locked-up all the time (easy to lock-up on loose gravel) and the turning ability was awful as well. The front would sort of hop in a direction every now and then but you had to predict where it would go since there was no feed back as you turned the steering wheel. The deer and us were going to be toast but I took my foot of the brake and slammed it again while I put the steering wheel at full lock. This dug the front of the car down for long enough that before the ABS kicked in I was plowing with the front tires.
I screwed-up the cover to one of my CV joints in the process, but I did not hit the deer, I simply would have because of the ABS if I had not had all the prior experience with driving on similar roads. I would say that stopping distance on loose gravel in a VW Golf with ABS is 4-5 times longer than in an old Chevy pickup from my personal experience.
I think you are the first person I have seen post what is most likely the new wrinkle.
Thank you.
If your CRT is a TV and not a computer monitor it probably can't really do 1920x1440. I have a CRT HDTV set and with a computer I wrote a quick test (yippie for modelines) to see how good the tube was. I would say it has an honest 800-850 lines of vertical resolution. After that it was very apparent that lines on the left and right of the screen were blending together into a grayish mess.
It is 30 inches though, so that is better than my great Sony 17 CRT monitor from the couch.
When I'm in a theatre I expect to have to watch trailers, and often find them entertaining
I don't find them entertaining. One time there was 26.5 minutes of ads before the first production company logo appeared before the movie I went to watch. I sure appreciated paying the babysitter for an extra hour.
It really is that bad for the non-PS3 blu-ray players. Basically you find some combination of USB, RJ-45, or burn a CD-R methods to update the firmware and you do need to. It is very common get a new blu-ray disc that will not play and then you need to update the firmware. This can take a while and some players cannot be updated to the newer profiles. There were cases where the manufacturers rushed the firmware updates and those firmware updates would break the players. Just read a bunch of the reviews are places like AVS forums or even teh Amazon.com reviews.
Yes I see that when I beat a boss then I get a new weapon much like the boss used. But I have this dog 'weapon' in the top list even at the very start of the game. When I use him he appears uses some of my weapon power bar and then disappears. I have NO idea how to actually use this robot dog for anything useful.
Thanks for telling me about how to learn what those items at the bottom do. Do I need to select them after finding them to use them or are they automatic?
As a kid I played a bunch of other NES games but never much of Mega Man. I downloaded MM9 yesterday and I see a screen when I press + with a two regions where things are listed. In the top for example I can choose an item where a robot dog appears but what does that do?
On the bottom list there are MANY items, can someone tell me what those things do? The instructions are very much lacking in details. Maybe someone knows of a good web site to read that explains this stuff for someone that did not grow-up with MM-MM4 or so. Not a walk through, I want to figure-out the game myself.
Also I am loving this game. My previous favorite game to play was SuperC, and this shares a lot of the qualities of that. It is very rewarding playing MM9 since I get progressively better the more I play the stages and it requires a level of perfection to play well.
The US box art for MM2 was not the anime style either, not as 'bad' as MM though:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Megaman2_box.jpg
I had an odd situation. I bought the soundtrack to "The Fellowship of the Ring" shortly after the movie came out at a Target and it would not play in my car. I went back to the store and got another one with the same result. I can't remember the details at home but some players would play it others would not, I tried a computer, old CD player, and DVD player. Target did take the CD back and refund the money, I was impressed by this. I just did a bit of googling and could not find any details if this was due to some sort of DRM, it is the only time I ever encountered something like this.
Not all SGI workstations were built like tanks. It started with the Indys, we had a lab of them and after about two years the power supplies started failing and after four only a third still worked when we removed them. In another lab a fan in the O2 power supplies would fail, but that was an inexpensive fix, except for the fact the case was so odd and it was hard to get to that fan.
But the NES Metal Gear was still more challenging and fun.
I have a Wii and I am very fond of the difficulty of these old games. They are challenging yet very rewarding. My reflexes are not what they used to be plus I have lost most feeling in my left thumb do to an accident yet with practice I can do very well in most of the old games. Also there is randomness in many of these old games so you do need to learn techniques as well positions. A perfect game for me is SuperC. With new games it is much too easy to complete them.
The same thing that the SNAP-27 RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) did on the moon since the Apollo 12 (and other Apollo missions) landed on the moon.
They are still there and for many years preformed unmanned experiments on the moon surface after the astronauts left studying moonquakes, meteor impacts, temperature, magnetic field, atmosphere, and gravitational field in addition the long term feasibility of RTG study.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Nuclear_Auxiliary_Power_Program
Michael Katz is that you, after all these years!?
I wish something open standards would come along that could kill Gadu Gadu in Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadu_gadu
The Gadu Gadu client for Windows used to be a lot like the original versions of ICQ, now it is a bloated and ad supported POS. Good luck with it if you want to use it on a Mac or Unix-alike there used to be official clients that worked, but for about two years now using clients other than the official ones has been forbidden with the network. The open source projects have varying degrees of working but it seems that the protocol is tweaked every now and then so it is hard to keep-up.