Quite agree. I suspect you'll find that Google already gets a large number of people contacting them suggesting they do this or that. Having a centralised place where they can employ a guy to sift the wheat from the chaff seems a sensible next step.
If you think that a sane society is one that strings people up to a lamp-post for saying things you disagree with, then I'll stick to being insane. Truth will out; mob lynchings should not be necessary.
Hardly surprising, considering the public sectors long and colourful history of IT debacles. See El Reg and Private Eye ad nauseum. One more reason to SSL all my traffic to a proxy somewhere (anywhere) else.
That's great, but unless you personally have the skills to create them from scratch, knowing that such things can be manufactured is worthless. In a doomsday scenario, there are no communications links and transport becomes non-existant, meanign that it becomes practically impossible to quickly duplicate many of the things we take for granted.
The problem here is that there is no competition, so private companies have no incentive to be any good. Here in the UK, although the actual production and distribution of electricity is done centrally, we buy it through one of half a dozen or so companies, and it's very easy to switch. We don't generally have problems like you describe (though to be fair, we don't have many tornadoes either).
Make sure your mains switch is double throw; some just open the live side. If this is the case, the guy who is trying to patch your power lines back together will die when you fire up your generator. Power companies get snarky about householders killing their staff.
Your suggestion has a lot of sense behind it, but the obvious problem I can see is that people will move to using the hardest tyres they can lay their hands on, which has serious safety implications. Also, what about people crossing the state line and buying their tyres elsewhere?
They delibarately created their root certificate with an expiry date of 2004, in case it leaked. So there was no point creating a proof-of-concept as it wouldn't work anyway.
That's very good practice. However, for as long as banks continue making outbound calls without verifying themselves to their customers, it won't work, because end users are used to receiving such calls.
Well, buying those things makes the world go round. It's people who aren't in control of what they spend and the banks who let them that are the problem. Gift cards, there's another story though. I used to work for a small retailer that was big into pushing gift cards. I worked it out - 94% of all the money spent on our gift certificates was *never* redeemed. Now that is what I call a profit margin.
I'm not concerned about the ability to serve justice in any particular trial that is televised, but I do have reservations about the broader implications. Television is entertainment, and any other function it serves is co-incidental to that. If you televise court cases, how do you prevent the justice system from being seen as just another bit of reality television? The last thing the justice system needs is jurors who can't tell the difference between a courtroom and the judging panel of X-Factor. What I think would work, however, is wiring the courthouse for sound, as the Supreme Court does. That allows for pulic access to justice without compromising the gravity of the system.
This might be a useful start. McAfee's DLP at least is fairly useless; I have to circumvent it quite regularly in my job and I'm squrely in the target user market for it, and have no problems getting round it in various ways.
Umm, and how do you establish that you trust your OpenID provider? By, umm, encrypting your communications with them...using a key signed by a CA. Oops.
I was pretty shocked too. Some of the people on that list I definitely do not trust. I suppose it's inevitable; getting on to the list of trusted roots is a license to print money. The answer is pretty simple: browsers should stop shipping with certs preinstalled, and we the end-users should be paying for a subscription to a root certificate we trust.
The problem is the economic incentives. Do the roots have an economic incentive to verify all the parties it certifies? No, they have an incentive to sell as many certificates as possible. Browsers should not include certificates and users should pay for a subscription to a certificate authority *they* choose to trust. That would put the incentive boot on the other foot.
When the prayers kick off, stand up, go outside, and ask them to call you back when they are done. I did this and very soon they dropped off the agenda.
That's the law, true. Whether it would stand up to a constitutional challenge is another matter, and the way things are these days, it's not going to be too long before someone pushes it all the way. I wouldn't be too confident.
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Quite agree. I suspect you'll find that Google already gets a large number of people contacting them suggesting they do this or that. Having a centralised place where they can employ a guy to sift the wheat from the chaff seems a sensible next step.
If you think that a sane society is one that strings people up to a lamp-post for saying things you disagree with, then I'll stick to being insane. Truth will out; mob lynchings should not be necessary.
Hardly surprising, considering the public sectors long and colourful history of IT debacles. See El Reg and Private Eye ad nauseum. One more reason to SSL all my traffic to a proxy somewhere (anywhere) else.
That's great, but unless you personally have the skills to create them from scratch, knowing that such things can be manufactured is worthless. In a doomsday scenario, there are no communications links and transport becomes non-existant, meanign that it becomes practically impossible to quickly duplicate many of the things we take for granted.
The problem here is that there is no competition, so private companies have no incentive to be any good. Here in the UK, although the actual production and distribution of electricity is done centrally, we buy it through one of half a dozen or so companies, and it's very easy to switch. We don't generally have problems like you describe (though to be fair, we don't have many tornadoes either).
Make sure your mains switch is double throw; some just open the live side. If this is the case, the guy who is trying to patch your power lines back together will die when you fire up your generator. Power companies get snarky about householders killing their staff.
On the other hand, there are over 9000 types of people who get *this* joke...
IANAT, but that sounds like a job for a Stirling Engine.
You mean it was ever good? My only complaint is the number of posters whining about the "good old days" that never existed ;)
Your suggestion has a lot of sense behind it, but the obvious problem I can see is that people will move to using the hardest tyres they can lay their hands on, which has serious safety implications. Also, what about people crossing the state line and buying their tyres elsewhere?
Well, we've all accidentally the verb at some point or another.
They delibarately created their root certificate with an expiry date of 2004, in case it leaked. So there was no point creating a proof-of-concept as it wouldn't work anyway.
That's very good practice. However, for as long as banks continue making outbound calls without verifying themselves to their customers, it won't work, because end users are used to receiving such calls.
Well, buying those things makes the world go round. It's people who aren't in control of what they spend and the banks who let them that are the problem. Gift cards, there's another story though. I used to work for a small retailer that was big into pushing gift cards. I worked it out - 94% of all the money spent on our gift certificates was *never* redeemed. Now that is what I call a profit margin.
Haha. I can't think why anyone would ever want to build a stochastic financial model...
I'm not concerned about the ability to serve justice in any particular trial that is televised, but I do have reservations about the broader implications. Television is entertainment, and any other function it serves is co-incidental to that. If you televise court cases, how do you prevent the justice system from being seen as just another bit of reality television? The last thing the justice system needs is jurors who can't tell the difference between a courtroom and the judging panel of X-Factor. What I think would work, however, is wiring the courthouse for sound, as the Supreme Court does. That allows for pulic access to justice without compromising the gravity of the system.
This might be a useful start. McAfee's DLP at least is fairly useless; I have to circumvent it quite regularly in my job and I'm squrely in the target user market for it, and have no problems getting round it in various ways.
Umm, and how do you establish that you trust your OpenID provider? By, umm, encrypting your communications with them...using a key signed by a CA. Oops.
I was pretty shocked too. Some of the people on that list I definitely do not trust. I suppose it's inevitable; getting on to the list of trusted roots is a license to print money. The answer is pretty simple: browsers should stop shipping with certs preinstalled, and we the end-users should be paying for a subscription to a root certificate we trust.
The problem is the economic incentives. Do the roots have an economic incentive to verify all the parties it certifies? No, they have an incentive to sell as many certificates as possible. Browsers should not include certificates and users should pay for a subscription to a certificate authority *they* choose to trust. That would put the incentive boot on the other foot.
When the prayers kick off, stand up, go outside, and ask them to call you back when they are done. I did this and very soon they dropped off the agenda.
(Linux) No, Finnish.
That's the law, true. Whether it would stand up to a constitutional challenge is another matter, and the way things are these days, it's not going to be too long before someone pushes it all the way. I wouldn't be too confident.
Because nothing causes logical clarity of thought like telling people that their mistakes will result in cold, dark death for all involved.
Huh. Personally, I feel anything with no wireless and less space than a Nomad is pretty lame.