People used to say the same thing about firefox. There aren't enough users to make a difference. Look at where we are now. Firefox is probably around 20% market share, and it's too prominent for web site designers to just sit and ignore it. The changes aren't going to happen over night. With all the inroads Linux is making in the UMPC market, and lowend computer market, it's only a matter of time before hardware manufacturers have to wake up and start supporting it.
Yes, but we can all still have multiple computers. Keep one "trusted" computer for all the stuff that requires you have one, and have another computer, or 2 or 3, they are getting cheap, for doing all the useful/unauthorized stuff.
Like I said, it could be easily avoided. There are many programming jobs out there that don't require the use of calculus. The fact that some require calculus doesn't mean that jobs that require calculus can't be avoided if you don't know calculus, or just don't want to work with calculus.
If the page isn't SSL, then you can change the contents as they pass over the wire, so it doesn't require that the banks webserver is hacked. If the page is in SSL, then you can be assured that it wasn't changed between the server on you. If the server is somehow hacked, then there's nothing you can do. If you're going to assume the bank's web server is hacked, you shouldn't be doing online banking.
you're not hurting anyone but yourself by cheating
That's a big cliche and not true in a lot of cases. Lets say as part of your degree you have to take a calculus course. If you were to cheat in that course, you may not be hurting yourself at all. The material might not be useful in any other courses you do. And the material would probably not be useful in your future career, or could be easily avoided. What harm would you be doing to yourself by not learning the material, and just cheating. Any downsides of not learning it would be offset by the ability to learn the material in more applicable courses better (time to learn material is limited), while still receiving high marks. The only way you could get hurt is if you get caught. However assuming you don't get caught, you haven't done any harm to yourself.
What's wrong with doing the experiments? I mean, as long as the experiments were done in a proper scientific manner, why not try it out. You can only learn the truth through experimentation. Assuming ESP doesn't exist because you haven't be able to do it before isn't very scientific.
Wrong. I think you'll find that one of the biggest problems with the US government is that there's way too much control by private corporations. There's too many laws to help out corporations, and too many laws restricting the rights of the individual. The countries that seem to work the best, are the ones that put the rights and living conditions of people above the well being of corporations.
Yes, but that only works for people who are smart enough to check that they are at the right url, and that they are on HTTPS, and that the certificate isn't phoney in the first place. For the people who fall for phishing scams, it's completely invalid, because they aren't checking the URL, or even checking if the site is on HTTPS, or anything else they should be checking. So, if you bother to check for HTTPS and the proper URL, then you don't need site key. And if you need site key to help you figure out if you are at the proper URL, then it doesn't help you at all.
If the login form isn't on and SSL page, how does the user ensure that the page is being posted to the correct location? Do they have to view the source to figure out where it is being posted to? For all you know, that unsecured login page had some javascript inserted that takes the information you enter, and sends it to a different page. Or even simpler, just has the form action replaced with something else completely different. Without looking at the page source, and verifying every line, you have no idea where the form is going to submit to or what's going to happen once you enter your credentials.
Couldn't the phishing site just take your login ID from you, post it to the banks website, possibly through a proxy botnet machine so it wouldn't look like a whole bunch of requests were coming from a single machine, and download the site key image and show you the proper one? I don't think any phishing scams haven't gotten this sophisticated yet, because it's easy enough to just do it the old fashioned way. But if things get hard enough, and all bank websites start using tricks like this, then I could see phishing getting much more sophisticated. If someone is stupid enough to type their credentials, even just their login ID, to a site that is posing as their bank, then there's really nothing that the bank can do to stop them. The phishing site basically just has to proxy all the relevant information back to the user, it make it look exactly like the banks page.
I use random password like strings for the answers to those questions also. It's too easy for just about anybody who knows me to guess the correct answers to those questions. You don't even have to know me, you can just check out my facebook profile. My first highschool is obvious, because there is only 1 in my hometown.
Right, thanks for the correction. It was East Germany. For some reason, my coordinate system gets reverse when I think about the other side of the world.
It makes me think of West Germany. I was watching "The Lives of Others" the other day, and one scene made me realize just how crazy things were. They analyzed the output of a typewriter, and figured out the make and model of the typewriter, and then they proceeded to ask who in the country had one of these typewriters. Apparently none were registered? Registering typewriters? Seriously. Treating a method of disseminating information as a controlled item. It seems we are headed in that direction. Where the governments want to be able to control what we talk about, and with whom we talk.
Agreed. I started getting my music from emusic, where things are a little bit more sane, in terms of pricing and the lack of DRM. I miss the big name bands a little bit, but I still have plenty of good music, and I'm discovering more good stuff all the time. I'm not saying emusic is the only good service. There's amiestreet, or just straight up Creative Commons stuff. There's plenty of good music out there. You don't need to stick with the big name bands to get good music.
Already exists to some extent. Anybody who uses their system as a PVR knows the virtues of specialized chips. I have a TV Tuner, and it does MPEG2 encoding on board. You can record encoded video without even pushing your actual CPU above 10%. I remember trying to do the same thing with a TV Tuner without onboard encoding chips, and you could only encode at very low bitrates, and even then you'd have dropped frames and out of sync audio. For tasks that are extremely calculation intensive that you do often, it's generally a really good idea to get specialized chips. However, I can't think of any other processing that gets done on most computers regularly to justify creating a specialized chip that doesn't already exist. Sound, graphics, physics, video encoding, all have their own processors. What's left?
Exactly. That's the point. People should be using PDO, with prepared statements, and I do this. But this Drizzle database wants to remove the ability to create prepared statements. Which means you won't be able to use PDO. Since it actually supports so few features, it'll probably have it's own little interface ala mysql_ so that you don't accidentally call unsupported functions and get "feature not supported" errors.
Most UPS devices should have a test button. Try pushing the test button when your computer isn't doing anything critical to see if it really can stand up to the load. If you don't have a test button. Just yank the cord from the wall (or back of the UPS unit), If it fails, it means that you don't have enough power for the devices hooked up to it.
Kids also have more access to money than many people think. While $50 may be a lot of money to a kid, they don't have any expenses for things they truly need that aren't covered by income. So all their income is disposable income. When I got my first job, I felt much richer than I do now, with much more disposable income, because I had no responsibilities. Even now, I have disposable income, but have responsibilities, so I feel like I should be investing, instead of spending it on frivolous things.
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Or maybe they are chanting Yahoo! at the people running Yahoo, signifying that they are a bunch of Yahoos. In the sense of Gulliver's Travels that is.
People used to say the same thing about firefox. There aren't enough users to make a difference. Look at where we are now. Firefox is probably around 20% market share, and it's too prominent for web site designers to just sit and ignore it. The changes aren't going to happen over night. With all the inroads Linux is making in the UMPC market, and lowend computer market, it's only a matter of time before hardware manufacturers have to wake up and start supporting it.
Yes, but we can all still have multiple computers. Keep one "trusted" computer for all the stuff that requires you have one, and have another computer, or 2 or 3, they are getting cheap, for doing all the useful/unauthorized stuff.
Like I said, it could be easily avoided. There are many programming jobs out there that don't require the use of calculus. The fact that some require calculus doesn't mean that jobs that require calculus can't be avoided if you don't know calculus, or just don't want to work with calculus.
If the page isn't SSL, then you can change the contents as they pass over the wire, so it doesn't require that the banks webserver is hacked. If the page is in SSL, then you can be assured that it wasn't changed between the server on you. If the server is somehow hacked, then there's nothing you can do. If you're going to assume the bank's web server is hacked, you shouldn't be doing online banking.
Because the school receives federal or state funding and they want to ensure they aren't funding institutions that don't live up to certain criteria.
That's a big cliche and not true in a lot of cases. Lets say as part of your degree you have to take a calculus course. If you were to cheat in that course, you may not be hurting yourself at all. The material might not be useful in any other courses you do. And the material would probably not be useful in your future career, or could be easily avoided. What harm would you be doing to yourself by not learning the material, and just cheating. Any downsides of not learning it would be offset by the ability to learn the material in more applicable courses better (time to learn material is limited), while still receiving high marks. The only way you could get hurt is if you get caught. However assuming you don't get caught, you haven't done any harm to yourself.
What's wrong with doing the experiments? I mean, as long as the experiments were done in a proper scientific manner, why not try it out. You can only learn the truth through experimentation. Assuming ESP doesn't exist because you haven't be able to do it before isn't very scientific.
Wrong. I think you'll find that one of the biggest problems with the US government is that there's way too much control by private corporations. There's too many laws to help out corporations, and too many laws restricting the rights of the individual. The countries that seem to work the best, are the ones that put the rights and living conditions of people above the well being of corporations.
Yes, but that only works for people who are smart enough to check that they are at the right url, and that they are on HTTPS, and that the certificate isn't phoney in the first place. For the people who fall for phishing scams, it's completely invalid, because they aren't checking the URL, or even checking if the site is on HTTPS, or anything else they should be checking. So, if you bother to check for HTTPS and the proper URL, then you don't need site key. And if you need site key to help you figure out if you are at the proper URL, then it doesn't help you at all.
If the login form isn't on and SSL page, how does the user ensure that the page is being posted to the correct location? Do they have to view the source to figure out where it is being posted to? For all you know, that unsecured login page had some javascript inserted that takes the information you enter, and sends it to a different page. Or even simpler, just has the form action replaced with something else completely different. Without looking at the page source, and verifying every line, you have no idea where the form is going to submit to or what's going to happen once you enter your credentials.
Couldn't the phishing site just take your login ID from you, post it to the banks website, possibly through a proxy botnet machine so it wouldn't look like a whole bunch of requests were coming from a single machine, and download the site key image and show you the proper one? I don't think any phishing scams haven't gotten this sophisticated yet, because it's easy enough to just do it the old fashioned way. But if things get hard enough, and all bank websites start using tricks like this, then I could see phishing getting much more sophisticated. If someone is stupid enough to type their credentials, even just their login ID, to a site that is posing as their bank, then there's really nothing that the bank can do to stop them. The phishing site basically just has to proxy all the relevant information back to the user, it make it look exactly like the banks page.
I use random password like strings for the answers to those questions also. It's too easy for just about anybody who knows me to guess the correct answers to those questions. You don't even have to know me, you can just check out my facebook profile. My first highschool is obvious, because there is only 1 in my hometown.
Right, thanks for the correction. It was East Germany. For some reason, my coordinate system gets reverse when I think about the other side of the world.
It makes me think of West Germany. I was watching "The Lives of Others" the other day, and one scene made me realize just how crazy things were. They analyzed the output of a typewriter, and figured out the make and model of the typewriter, and then they proceeded to ask who in the country had one of these typewriters. Apparently none were registered? Registering typewriters? Seriously. Treating a method of disseminating information as a controlled item. It seems we are headed in that direction. Where the governments want to be able to control what we talk about, and with whom we talk.
Agreed. I started getting my music from emusic, where things are a little bit more sane, in terms of pricing and the lack of DRM. I miss the big name bands a little bit, but I still have plenty of good music, and I'm discovering more good stuff all the time. I'm not saying emusic is the only good service. There's amiestreet, or just straight up Creative Commons stuff. There's plenty of good music out there. You don't need to stick with the big name bands to get good music.
And then we'll all just use TOR.
Already exists to some extent. Anybody who uses their system as a PVR knows the virtues of specialized chips. I have a TV Tuner, and it does MPEG2 encoding on board. You can record encoded video without even pushing your actual CPU above 10%. I remember trying to do the same thing with a TV Tuner without onboard encoding chips, and you could only encode at very low bitrates, and even then you'd have dropped frames and out of sync audio. For tasks that are extremely calculation intensive that you do often, it's generally a really good idea to get specialized chips. However, I can't think of any other processing that gets done on most computers regularly to justify creating a specialized chip that doesn't already exist. Sound, graphics, physics, video encoding, all have their own processors. What's left?
Wow, that's even better than the latest Grumble Volcano Time Trial on MarioKart Wii.
Exactly. That's the point. People should be using PDO, with prepared statements, and I do this. But this Drizzle database wants to remove the ability to create prepared statements. Which means you won't be able to use PDO. Since it actually supports so few features, it'll probably have it's own little interface ala mysql_ so that you don't accidentally call unsupported functions and get "feature not supported" errors.
10% of 30,000,000 is 3,000,000. Also, what is meant by 30,000,000 MILLION? Is it 30,000,000,000,000 or is the Million just redundant wording?
No. But I hear it will have genuine people personalities.
Most UPS devices should have a test button. Try pushing the test button when your computer isn't doing anything critical to see if it really can stand up to the load. If you don't have a test button. Just yank the cord from the wall (or back of the UPS unit), If it fails, it means that you don't have enough power for the devices hooked up to it.
Kids also have more access to money than many people think. While $50 may be a lot of money to a kid, they don't have any expenses for things they truly need that aren't covered by income. So all their income is disposable income. When I got my first job, I felt much richer than I do now, with much more disposable income, because I had no responsibilities. Even now, I have disposable income, but have responsibilities, so I feel like I should be investing, instead of spending it on frivolous things.
So what happens when you forget your OpenID password? Do they email it to you? Do you lose access to all your accounts?