Their objection is to the use of a typed name as a "digital signature". They are not using digital signatures in a way that would be consistent with the ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND
NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT.
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Inkblot Passwords
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The cracker would need to know *nothing* about the individual user, just what responses were most common statistically.
The article described a system that would generate an infinite number of random inkblots. Every user would have their own set of inkblots that their password was generated from. If everybody used the same inkblots, I could see how this would be a problem. With random inkblots there would be no statistical answers that were most common. You would have a unique set of inkblots to crack for each unique individual.
Technically that is only the partial truth. On MSN you get your featured sites (the three you mentioned), your sponsored sites, and then your webdirectory sites. Featured and sponsored are paid listings and of course Microsoft will "pay" to be at the top of its search engine.
If you want to compare the listings start with the paid listing on both or start with the web directory listings for both but you can't skew the results and say Microsofts engine is biased.
BTW- the top web directory listing for MSN search of "linux" is www.linux.org and the top two "sponsored" sites on Google are Oracle and E-Bay.
Ship CD's to every registered Windows owner at the company's expense?
When the year 2000 rolled around Microsoft issued their Year 2000 Resource CD to make everything Year 2000 compliant. You could go online and request the resource CD which was shipped free of charge.
Perhaps they shouldn't ship it to every registered user but they should give to option to get a free CD.
Side note: I just got my AOL version 7 CD in the mail and I am not even a registered user.
I felt like the article lacked foundation. Sounds like the guy heard about a 30 second trailer that his cousin uncle saw and decided to flamebait every Star Trek fan.
He uses extremely vague suppositions to catogorize the Star Trek series and doesn't even include every movie in his 5 plot categories.
He might as well lump them all into the good versus evil category.
I would have to say that even with redundant plots, each movie was entertaining in its own rights.
I don't like my HTML generated in one humumgous unbroken string when I look at the source.
I don't like to look at huge unbroken strings either but if you have ever connected to the internet at 26k you will appreciate any site that optimizes their HTML. Eliminating the whitespace can shave as much as 5% of the file size. Changing variable names to TLN can shave off another 10%-20% of the file size.
I recently compared XML file size on large XML files by using these two methods. I found that some of the files were reduce 25% of the original file size. The network traffic that this eliminated certainly outweighed the readability of the files.
When generating HTML dynaically I create one long string. If I need to debug the client side HTML I use a program that I can copy the HTML into and format for readability by adding whitespace. For comments I use comment tags that I can search for in the server side source.
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on how long before this technology shows up in an episode of CSI?
Boldly go where no Malaysian has gone before -- to space, the final frontier." Offer is for Malaysians only, though.
What, no H1B visas accepted?
Their objection is to the use of a typed name as a "digital signature". They are not using digital signatures in a way that would be consistent with the ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT.
The cracker would need to know *nothing* about the individual user, just what responses were most common statistically.
The article described a system that would generate an infinite number of random inkblots. Every user would have their own set of inkblots that their password was generated from. If everybody used the same inkblots, I could see how this would be a problem. With random inkblots there would be no statistical answers that were most common. You would have a unique set of inkblots to crack for each unique individual.
Technically that is only the partial truth. On MSN you get your featured sites (the three you mentioned), your sponsored sites, and then your webdirectory sites. Featured and sponsored are paid listings and of course Microsoft will "pay" to be at the top of its search engine.
If you want to compare the listings start with the paid listing on both or start with the web directory listings for both but you can't skew the results and say Microsofts engine is biased.
BTW- the top web directory listing for MSN search of "linux" is www.linux.org and the top two "sponsored" sites on Google are Oracle and E-Bay.
Ship CD's to every registered Windows owner at the company's expense?
When the year 2000 rolled around Microsoft issued their Year 2000 Resource CD to make everything Year 2000 compliant. You could go online and request the resource CD which was shipped free of charge.
Perhaps they shouldn't ship it to every registered user but they should give to option to get a free CD.
Side note: I just got my AOL version 7 CD in the mail and I am not even a registered user.
I felt like the article lacked foundation. Sounds like the guy heard about a 30 second trailer that his cousin uncle saw and decided to flamebait every Star Trek fan.
He uses extremely vague suppositions to catogorize the Star Trek series and doesn't even include every movie in his 5 plot categories.
He might as well lump them all into the good versus evil category.
I would have to say that even with redundant plots, each movie was entertaining in its own rights.
Even die hard Trekkies liked Wesley about as much as Star Wars fans liked Jar Jar.
I don't like my HTML generated in one humumgous unbroken string when I look at the source.
I don't like to look at huge unbroken strings either but if you have ever connected to the internet at 26k you will appreciate any site that optimizes their HTML. Eliminating the whitespace can shave as much as 5% of the file size. Changing variable names to TLN can shave off another 10%-20% of the file size.
I recently compared XML file size on large XML files by using these two methods. I found that some of the files were reduce 25% of the original file size. The network traffic that this eliminated certainly outweighed the readability of the files.
When generating HTML dynaically I create one long string. If I need to debug the client side HTML I use a program that I can copy the HTML into and format for readability by adding whitespace. For comments I use comment tags that I can search for in the server side source.