It is like famous people always say [paraphrasing here] "I didn't know how full of crap the media was until I read about myself!"...
I just did a quick search on myself - yahoo search on "my name" gets 230+ hits and google gets 300+ hits... not a common name, but apparently not uncommon. None of the references are me. Academics, comics, writers... none me.
A yahoo "people search" does turn "me" up in a list of 9 hits - 2 of them are me, but both for old addresses [I am a homeowner]. Oddly, my current address of 5+ years does NOT show up. Good.
An "email" yahoo search is even better - I get 10 hits, and 4 of them are actually me!
The newest email address hasn't been used in over 6 years. The oldest is more than 15 years old [uucp days!]
Bottom line - I wouldn't bet much on the info you find on the Internet, and if there is something out there that you don't want people to know, you are doing something wrong.
Half the bills that come to my house have misspellings in my name... why would I want to correct that? I pay the bills... they are happy, I'm happy.
Why don't they bury the waste on a downward going subduction plate?
All those isotopes came from somewhere down there anyhow, right?
Nuclear power seems pretty damn clean to me, and I live about 15 miles from a nuc plant that produces my power, far cheaper (per Kwh) than anything else with no polution that I can see.
1) Constitutional amendment banning all taxes.
2) Fund all Govt programs via voting fees.
3) Each vote costs one dollar [serial number verification posted]
4) buy as many votes as you like, but only in your district.
Basically you vote for representatives to spend the money they have. Not the system now, where you vote for representatives to spend money they don't have and take from wherever they can.
I could be wrong, but I still think it would be hard to "buy" enough representatives to, say "drop all pollution laws" or whatever you think "rich evil corporations" would buy votes for. At the same time, I imagine it would greatly limit the "feature creep" of benefits that government has become. If "people" really want all this stuff why do I (and others who are net payers) feel so screwed at our (high) tax situation?
I could blather on... this is a ridculous idea, but logically, what is so wrong about the idea that those who are paying for govt programs shouldn't have a bit more say in what they will be?
The opposite point of view is that 6 guys in a dark alley "out vote" you when they say you need to pay "taxes" to support their next McDonald's run...
The described scenario requires special tools already [e.g. the knock detector, on the server, and the knock generator, on the client].
If you are not going to do things in the standard way, you can do anything you want.
This means you might as well set up your systems however you want, with regard to what services are on what port. But the services still answer the standard way. To get around this, what if all services had an easy way to change their inital behavior, e.g. accepted an optional plug-in or personality module front?
The plug-in would be some code/script that follows an api that runs a little challenge-response game of the creator's desire.
This user (admin) definable "hand-shake" could range from nothing (i.e. standard service as it is today) to something as simple as Service:I will act "standard" after I see the word "please" or as complicated as the plug-in writer wants to get [strong crypto, multi pass challange/response, hardware key tie-in, etc.
The trick is to make sure plug-in [port listener] is secure - since this would be the object to be attacked. [rather than the current services].
Basically, as has been noted, security thru obscurity, but "standardized" in such a way that it is easier to do, and therefore might get done more often. [but it occurs to me that those who care are already doing something...]
I guess I just described a meta-service, huh? Then all your security eggs would be in one basket.
If this is a patentable idea, send me money, thanks.
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Microsoft plans to release a software update that removes support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or HTTPS URLs in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The following URL syntax is no longer supported in Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer after you install this software update:
http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext
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I just did a quick search on myself - yahoo search on "my name" gets 230+ hits and google gets 300+ hits... not a common name, but apparently not uncommon. None of the references are me. Academics, comics, writers... none me.
A yahoo "people search" does turn "me" up in a list of 9 hits - 2 of them are me, but both for old addresses [I am a homeowner]. Oddly, my current address of 5+ years does NOT show up. Good.
An "email" yahoo search is even better - I get 10 hits, and 4 of them are actually me!
The newest email address hasn't been used in over 6 years. The oldest is more than 15 years old [uucp days!]
Bottom line - I wouldn't bet much on the info you find on the Internet, and if there is something out there that you don't want people to know, you are doing something wrong.
Half the bills that come to my house have misspellings in my name... why would I want to correct that? I pay the bills... they are happy, I'm happy.
I am sure there are other reasons you could get your SSN changed, like "I'm Bill Gates, and every jokester in the world has my SSN..."
Just put the rest on your own web site, and post a link to Slashdot...
...a method for increasing more um, creative, work from geeks...
[Vanilla RedHat 9 installation]
... too bad there is no water where I live :-)
In a blink of the eye (on the cosmic scale) this planit is toast.
I meant to imply that both my wife and I are smart (per standarized tests)... so you might expect our kids to be smart too.
As fortune would have it, our kids seem to be bright too. Nothing more, nothing less was implied.
All those isotopes came from somewhere down there anyhow, right?
Nuclear power seems pretty damn clean to me, and I live about 15 miles from a nuc plant that produces my power, far cheaper (per Kwh) than anything else with no polution that I can see.
The way things are going, I will not endorse my profression "computer engineering" to my kids.
I will suggest to them that they find their true talents and follow that path. (As I think every parent should.)
The bottom line is that the best among us don't always do the best (by objective measurement). The cliche "nice guys finish last", ain't for nothing.
I am doing ok, in life, but sheesh... I lost my train of though.
Moderate as Troll or Funny; Your choice.
Sorry. :-)
190M is much more do-able. OK, let's buy it, sell off the assets... etc. a la 80's corporate raider style...
Hey, wait a minute... Div %13.6 - PE 4.6... crap I need to buy some of this!
lol
Last time I had to eradicate Real Player [from one of my kid's machines] I had to get Ad-Aware to help, and reboot several times...
heh.
1) Constitutional amendment banning all taxes.
2) Fund all Govt programs via voting fees.
3) Each vote costs one dollar [serial number verification posted]
4) buy as many votes as you like, but only in your district.
Basically you vote for representatives to spend the money they have. Not the system now, where you vote for representatives to spend money they don't have and take from wherever they can.
I could be wrong, but I still think it would be hard to "buy" enough representatives to, say "drop all pollution laws" or whatever you think "rich evil corporations" would buy votes for. At the same time, I imagine it would greatly limit the "feature creep" of benefits that government has become. If "people" really want all this stuff why do I (and others who are net payers) feel so screwed at our (high) tax situation?
I could blather on... this is a ridculous idea, but logically, what is so wrong about the idea that those who are paying for govt programs shouldn't have a bit more say in what they will be?
The opposite point of view is that 6 guys in a dark alley "out vote" you when they say you need to pay "taxes" to support their next McDonald's run...
Why, that would be illegal!
This means you might as well set up your systems however you want, with regard to what services are on what port. But the services still answer the standard way. To get around this, what if all services had an easy way to change their inital behavior, e.g. accepted an optional plug-in or personality module front?
The plug-in would be some code/script that follows an api that runs a little challenge-response game of the creator's desire.
This user (admin) definable "hand-shake" could range from nothing (i.e. standard service as it is today) to something as simple as Service: I will act "standard" after I see the word "please" or as complicated as the plug-in writer wants to get [strong crypto, multi pass challange/response, hardware key tie-in, etc.
The trick is to make sure plug-in [port listener] is secure - since this would be the object to be attacked. [rather than the current services].
Basically, as has been noted, security thru obscurity, but "standardized" in such a way that it is easier to do, and therefore might get done more often. [but it occurs to me that those who care are already doing something...]
I guess I just described a meta-service, huh? Then all your security eggs would be in one basket.
If this is a patentable idea, send me money, thanks.
They are not examples of obsolete technologies by the simple evidence that people still buy all those things.
The market will speak. You don't want a comitee telling everyone what to use do you?
Pointy things and blunt objects can be effective weapons too - just because new stuff is available doesn't mean "old stuff" stops working.
Thank you for your polite correction.
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It is in Japan, so it is Asian... no wait, blue... aaaaargh!
Dude - you could sell your house, move to South Dakota and live like a king, and watch real trains go by!
... I am sure this contest will do nothing to dissuade this belief. [And I have written plenty of Perl code that I can no longer read!]
Didn't you RTFA? he asks, rhetorically
They want to work you like a dog for years, then you expire.
Now, here on Earth, wait a minute... Never mind.