Because last time this happened, people's cards did get corrupted. I think it's more likely that the staff in that station decided not to take any chances, and tell people not to put their cards near the readers just in case.
Certainly at the station I was going through the only instructions given were to go straight through the barriers, but we weren't warned about not using the readers.
Sadly I'm on a travelcard, so I still got to pay for the privilege, but at least I didn't have to queue up behind any tourists trying to work out how to get their suitcase through the barriers for once.
According to The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/25/london.transport) it's because Transys, who the Oyster system is contracted out to, are sending incorrect data.
I'll admit, when I got to the underground station this morning to hear about an "Oyster card problem" which meant that all the gates were open, my first thought was that someone had used the exploit to do unpleasant things to their network, but I think it's just wishful thinking.
If it carries on like this, I might stop paying for a travelcard, since it seems every couple of weeks everyone gets to travel for free anyway;)
I may be entirely wrong, but I thought that Yahoo Music worked on a rental basis, where you could listen to as much music as liked so long you kept paying the service fee, so this isn't quite as bad as the OP made it sound.
People havn't *bought* the music, so they havn't lost something that they paid money for, expecting it to continue being available for the rest of time.
I take it your in the US. In the UK so long as BT have upgraded your exchange for DSL, there's going to be choice of ISPs, since they're required to let any ISP use there network.
But Apple actually had to go out of their way to make the iPhone depend on iTunes and I'm just having a really hard time seeing why that kind of crap should only be illegal when you're a monopoly.
They tie it to iTunes, because that's the software they use for synchronising it with a computer. It also happens to be the software that someone owning an Apple device with music capabilities is likely to be using.
Would you also be complaining if they released some standalone sync software, which did exactly the same thing as iTunes currently does?
You can indeed - MyOpenID, the only provider I really have an experience with, allow you to set up multiple aliases, and then choose which one you want to use when you first authenticate with a site.
I also have more hope for running your own provider. I don't see why anyone doing OpenID auth would care that much how "secure" your provider is. The only people who really care about that sort of thing are banks, and I can't see them accepting OpenID anytime soon.
Good security doesn't even let the other party know your cleartext password, or access your account with them without it. But I don't see how OpenID will do anything like that.
Maybe you should try reading the spec then, since that's exactly what it's designed to do.
The only place that gets your plain text password is your OpenID provider, and whenever you try to login to another site using OpenID, you get redirect to your provider's site, where:
1) If you don't already have a session open, you login, and then go to 2.
2) You get asked if you really want to login on the client site, and if so, what information do you want to let them have (usually anything from "nothing at all" to "everything", or a combination of them).
This way the only site you need to implicitly trust is the OpenID provider - which if you choose can be on your own server, running your own code, with whatever means of authentication you like.
If you're feeling really paranoid you could even have it send you a text message, or electrocute your balls, every time someone logs in with your credentials, so that even if someone does get them you'll know as soon as they try to use it, and can disable or change them.
I know MyOpenID support using client side SSL certificates for authentication, although in that situation your login really is only as secure as your workstation.
At first glance it's hard for me to see where Drizzle would fit where SQLite doesn't.
Anywhere you need concurrent access - SQLite is not designed as a high performance database, it's designed as a simple to implement, single file database.
Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing your workflow with the iPod Touch / iPhone... I think I'd prefer it to any of the WinCE smartphone/PDAs. Right now my main flow is something like:
Palm T|X * sync/backup PIM with PC using jpilot It's done using iTunes instead, but it's much the same thing, although if you're using Linux as your primary OS, you'll have a harder time. I have little doubt someone will reverse engineer Mobile Me's API at some point though, at which point you should be able to do it over wifi.
* goosync to publish to my Google Calendar I've stopped using Google Calendar now, but when I did, I'd sync my laptop with that, and then everything would end up on my iPod.
* pSSH for access to screen on my PC for IRC, email, centerim etc. I'm not sure about this - I don't know of any "official" terminal apps, but if you jailbreak it, you can get a terminal installed quite easily (and access to the BSD internals of the iPod)
* VersaMail IMAP access to my Courier mail spool for offline email viewing. The mail app supports IMAP natively. Just give it the server details.
* PalmVNC for doing anything else not supported (I rarely use it, but it's indispensible for those few times) I forget what it's called, but there's a VNC client in the App Store
* Sunrise + Plucker for daily reading material No idea - I don't tend to use it for that sort of thing.
* TCPMP for music / video playback It's an iPod;)
* Progect for tracking checklists of things I'm using Things at the moment, although I'm really looking for something that can sync with Remember the Milk, so I can have the same todo list on all my machines.
* Keyring + CryptoPad for secure info Again, I'm not sure about that. I've never really liked the idea of having anything vulnerable on a portable device that can be stolen as easily as an iPod.
* tejpWriter + IRkeyboard for writing/editing text It's definately lacking here, since I don't know of any support for external keyboards, and there's no decent text editors (unless you installed a terminal app, in which case you get vim!)
* PalmPDF for reviewing slides You can apparantly add PDFs to your photo library, and they'll be rendered fine, but it is a bit of a hack.
* Documents for light office work, spreadsheets I never really do anything work related on it - I think it'll render Office documents, but you can't edit them.
* Mapopolis for offline map viewing outside of network coverage Pass - Google Maps is great, and will cache the last area you were looking at, but I don't know of anything really offline.
* games & other toys, nice engineering calculator, dictionary/thesaurus, astronomical guide, etc. that I've found handy over the years Check the App Store - they all sound like things that will be there.
Blackberry (from work) * sync email & PIM with Exchange Mail now supports ActiveSync with Exchange, in the same way a Blackberry does.
* Google Maps with external Bluetooth GPS Datalogger I don't know of GPS integration, but I'm sure you've seen Maps on them.
* Browser for the occasional google search Mobile Safari is the best portable browser I've used.
You may be someone who hates everything Apple, in which case ignore this, but I'm finding the iPod Touch to be an amazing PDA since the latest firmware update with applications was released.
There's very little it can't do now, and not only can you run your usual PIM functionality, but it also makes a passable portable games system (graphically, I'd say it's better then my DS, but controls are somewhat lacking).
I think these days I'd disagree with you - in the 90s you'd definately have the separation between sysadmins and developers, but that's changed as companies try to spend less money on IT staff.
For example I'm officially a developer, but this week I'm responsible for setting up the pair of servers my application will run on for fail over, which I'm quite happy about personally.
I get experience working on HA systems, and doing the odd bit of admin now and again means that should every development job in the country suddenly disappear, I shouldn't have much of a problem getting a job as a Unix admin instead.
Every Mac (apart from the XServes) has an infrared port enabled out of the box, so that you can use the remote control, so it's not just older computers.
Pixar films have few, if any, interspersed subplots, flashbacks, or flash-forwards.
And thank god for that.
Especially the lack of flashbacks and flash-forwards. If you can't write a coherent plot, bouncing around time like some sort of Dr. Who wannabe isn't going to make it any better.
He could, but then he's also got to manage that server, instead of doing his real job.
A managed server is probably the best bet, but they cost big money for anything useful, and you'll probably get some salesman trying to sell you an entire "solution", instead of just what you wanted.
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Because last time this happened, people's cards did get corrupted. I think it's more likely that the staff in that station decided not to take any chances, and tell people not to put their cards near the readers just in case.
Certainly at the station I was going through the only instructions given were to go straight through the barriers, but we weren't warned about not using the readers.
Sadly I'm on a travelcard, so I still got to pay for the privilege, but at least I didn't have to queue up behind any tourists trying to work out how to get their suitcase through the barriers for once.
Oh... and chilled urine, or whatever I'm meant to say at seeing that no one else has commented yet ;)
I did read the headline. Just because someone is capable of exploiting the system doesn't mean thats what happened.
Somehow I trust The Guardian slightly more then "Barence".
According to The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/25/london.transport) it's because Transys, who the Oyster system is contracted out to, are sending incorrect data.
I'll admit, when I got to the underground station this morning to hear about an "Oyster card problem" which meant that all the gates were open, my first thought was that someone had used the exploit to do unpleasant things to their network, but I think it's just wishful thinking.
If it carries on like this, I might stop paying for a travelcard, since it seems every couple of weeks everyone gets to travel for free anyway ;)
I may be entirely wrong, but I thought that Yahoo Music worked on a rental basis, where you could listen to as much music as liked so long you kept paying the service fee, so this isn't quite as bad as the OP made it sound.
People havn't *bought* the music, so they havn't lost something that they paid money for, expecting it to continue being available for the rest of time.
I take it your in the US. In the UK so long as BT have upgraded your exchange for DSL, there's going to be choice of ISPs, since they're required to let any ISP use there network.
They tie it to iTunes, because that's the software they use for synchronising it with a computer. It also happens to be the software that someone owning an Apple device with music capabilities is likely to be using.
Would you also be complaining if they released some standalone sync software, which did exactly the same thing as iTunes currently does?
You can indeed - MyOpenID, the only provider I really have an experience with, allow you to set up multiple aliases, and then choose which one you want to use when you first authenticate with a site.
I also have more hope for running your own provider. I don't see why anyone doing OpenID auth would care that much how "secure" your provider is. The only people who really care about that sort of thing are banks, and I can't see them accepting OpenID anytime soon.
Maybe you should try reading the spec then, since that's exactly what it's designed to do.
The only place that gets your plain text password is your OpenID provider, and whenever you try to login to another site using OpenID, you get redirect to your provider's site, where:
1) If you don't already have a session open, you login, and then go to 2.
2) You get asked if you really want to login on the client site, and if so, what information do you want to let them have (usually anything from "nothing at all" to "everything", or a combination of them).
This way the only site you need to implicitly trust is the OpenID provider - which if you choose can be on your own server, running your own code, with whatever means of authentication you like.
If you're feeling really paranoid you could even have it send you a text message, or electrocute your balls, every time someone logs in with your credentials, so that even if someone does get them you'll know as soon as they try to use it, and can disable or change them.
I know MyOpenID support using client side SSL certificates for authentication, although in that situation your login really is only as secure as your workstation.
What?
I may be replying to a troll, who knows, but I'm interested to know why you're cheering on Launchpad in a thread about MySQL.
Anywhere you need concurrent access - SQLite is not designed as a high performance database, it's designed as a simple to implement, single file database.
Muslims don't have a problem with dogs, they have a problem with *pet* dogs.
You can own a dog to protect your property or yourself, but it shouldn't be allowed into the house.
Palm T|X
* sync/backup PIM with PC using jpilot
It's done using iTunes instead, but it's much the same thing, although if you're using Linux as your primary OS, you'll have a harder time. I have little doubt someone will reverse engineer Mobile Me's API at some point though, at which point you should be able to do it over wifi.
* goosync to publish to my Google Calendar
I've stopped using Google Calendar now, but when I did, I'd sync my laptop with that, and then everything would end up on my iPod.
* pSSH for access to screen on my PC for IRC, email, centerim etc.
I'm not sure about this - I don't know of any "official" terminal apps, but if you jailbreak it, you can get a terminal installed quite easily (and access to the BSD internals of the iPod)
* VersaMail IMAP access to my Courier mail spool for offline email viewing.
The mail app supports IMAP natively. Just give it the server details.
* PalmVNC for doing anything else not supported (I rarely use it, but it's indispensible for those few times)
I forget what it's called, but there's a VNC client in the App Store
* Sunrise + Plucker for daily reading material
No idea - I don't tend to use it for that sort of thing.
* TCPMP for music / video playback ;)
It's an iPod
* Progect for tracking checklists of things
I'm using Things at the moment, although I'm really looking for something that can sync with Remember the Milk, so I can have the same todo list on all my machines.
* Keyring + CryptoPad for secure info
Again, I'm not sure about that. I've never really liked the idea of having anything vulnerable on a portable device that can be stolen as easily as an iPod.
* tejpWriter + IRkeyboard for writing/editing text
It's definately lacking here, since I don't know of any support for external keyboards, and there's no decent text editors (unless you installed a terminal app, in which case you get vim!)
* PalmPDF for reviewing slides
You can apparantly add PDFs to your photo library, and they'll be rendered fine, but it is a bit of a hack.
* Documents for light office work, spreadsheets
I never really do anything work related on it - I think it'll render Office documents, but you can't edit them.
* Mapopolis for offline map viewing outside of network coverage
Pass - Google Maps is great, and will cache the last area you were looking at, but I don't know of anything really offline.
* games & other toys, nice engineering calculator, dictionary/thesaurus, astronomical guide, etc. that I've found handy over the years
Check the App Store - they all sound like things that will be there.
Blackberry (from work)
* sync email & PIM with Exchange
Mail now supports ActiveSync with Exchange, in the same way a Blackberry does.
* Google Maps with external Bluetooth GPS Datalogger
I don't know of GPS integration, but I'm sure you've seen Maps on them.
* Browser for the occasional google search
Mobile Safari is the best portable browser I've used.
On screen keyboards maybe? They've only been around for a few years, so you might have missed them, but it's hardly rocket science.
You may be someone who hates everything Apple, in which case ignore this, but I'm finding the iPod Touch to be an amazing PDA since the latest firmware update with applications was released.
There's very little it can't do now, and not only can you run your usual PIM functionality, but it also makes a passable portable games system (graphically, I'd say it's better then my DS, but controls are somewhat lacking).
And it even comes with an iPod ;)
I think these days I'd disagree with you - in the 90s you'd definately have the separation between sysadmins and developers, but that's changed as companies try to spend less money on IT staff.
For example I'm officially a developer, but this week I'm responsible for setting up the pair of servers my application will run on for fail over, which I'm quite happy about personally.
I get experience working on HA systems, and doing the odd bit of admin now and again means that should every development job in the country suddenly disappear, I shouldn't have much of a problem getting a job as a Unix admin instead.
Come on - what sort of a CEO would that make him? He'd be laughed out of the building by all the other CxOs.
Give it a break - when the pickings are slim, you take what you can get.
Every Mac (apart from the XServes) has an infrared port enabled out of the box, so that you can use the remote control, so it's not just older computers.
And thank god for that.
Especially the lack of flashbacks and flash-forwards. If you can't write a coherent plot, bouncing around time like some sort of Dr. Who wannabe isn't going to make it any better.
He could, but then he's also got to manage that server, instead of doing his real job.
A managed server is probably the best bet, but they cost big money for anything useful, and you'll probably get some salesman trying to sell you an entire "solution", instead of just what you wanted.
No one who's been forced to, but we have a support contract for our primary DB server.
That gets us binaries compiled with Intel's compiler (about a 20% performance boost I think), and a shoulder to cry on should anything go wrong.
Why wouldn't you want to hire him. Almost everyone doing a job will jump ship to another employer if they offer considerably more money.
Most people wouldn't join the Mafia, and have some morals, but I think in more cases then I'd like even people's morals are for sale.