He needs to ask his SO to marry him again in the poll. That got LOADS of pagehits. Could scatter some ads for dating sites, mail-order brides, etc. around the page.
That said if you do not own a TV(like I have in the past) you still get a *lot* of hassle from them as they dont believe you dont own a TV and there is no way to prove that to them.
The biggest mistake most people make is to let TVL worry them.
Hint: Ignore *ALL* of their letters, and slam the door in their inspectors' faces (if they ever turn up). 99.99999% of the time, you will be without trouble. The remainder of the time, they won't get too far in court if you DON'T own a TV.
Are you, by any chance, complaining? If so, you're just another freeloading idiot that expects somebody else to serve you completely free content. Sorry, but capitalism doesn't work that way. Moron.
I, for one, do not relish the thought of a "group swim for the fun of swimming" event at the olympics:)
I, on the other hand, think you just came up with a fantastic idea for a new event. All female swimmers have to wear bikinis and group-swim. It's a requirement.
Hang on, it's possible to prove a positive here. If the flat-Earthers went to the edge of the Earth, they would fall off. How can they defend the fact that that doesn't happen?
And I have a simple rule: I don't enter my account's password into any form that's not on a page clearly and verifiably served by my bank's Web server.
Well that's not a particularly easy one to enforce because IFRAMEs can be made to blend into the page and be unnoticeable. Still, if you do notice it, ever thought of right-click | this frame | view frame info?
NoScript on my install of FF has the VbV domains marked as untrusted, and I think I have set up blunt adblock filters to stop anything at all being loaded to do with VbV. Generally, surfing without javascript seems to stop VbV from working in the first place though.
Don't you think you're overreacting a bit? VbV might shift some liability to the customer, but it isn't just some BS the banks made up; it really does increase security if you pick a secure password and don't give it out.
We have no bags at the supermarkets anymore, unless you buy them. So almost everybody has bags or boxes that will last much longer.
Environment and such, ya know. Other countries do the same, I believe.
They're starting to do it in the UK and it pisses me off. Please, plastic bags at supermarkets have an infinitesimal affect on the environment, compared to overall pollution levels. Anyone who gets a warm glowing feeling because they bought a permenant bag, and inconveniences themselves that way (have a trolley full of food and remember that you left your permenant bags in the car? DOH!) is a moron.
If I share your WLAN access in a public cafe it's really no big deal to play man in the middle and exchange the presented certificate for my own.
You can't just snoop the packets, it has to be an active MITM attack with specialized software to do that. Adds a layer of difficulty. Not insignificant.
The only case where self-signed certificates can be secure is when you manually verify the validity of a certificate beforehand and save it in your cert store.
Quite a common scenario. If I frequently visit a website's HTTPS site on my laptop - e-mail provider, small online store, etc. - from home, I'll already have stored its cert. Your attack will therefore be noticed when I access it from the WLAN. It's not as good as proper SSL, but as others have said, it's a mile better than accessing stuff via http://./
Dunno whether CAcert has anything to do with StartCom, but they offer free basic SSL certs too. I use one for my personal site.
I'd like to have seen Firefox at least treat self-signed certs the same as regular HTTP - that is, at least make it look like a regular webpage with no SSL instead of throwing up a big warning - but with StartCom's certs already accepted in Firefox, you can at least get free SSL that way.
Unfortunately, Opera and IE don't seem to recognize StartCom as a trusted CA. This rather scuppers the idea of free SSL for all.
And for some reason, the New York council's www.nystopchildporn.com website seems to be attracting a very different calibre of individual than they'd planned...
Is the open source movements plan to vilify any and all attempts of the 'establishment' to work with us? Is that the plan?
When you bear in mind what has generally happened to groups who attempted to cooperate with Microsoft in the past then, yes, that sounds like a pretty good plan.
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Sonic 1 and 2 on the Genesis are better.
Everything else on the SNES whips the shit out of anything the Genesis had.
He needs to ask his SO to marry him again in the poll. That got LOADS of pagehits. Could scatter some ads for dating sites, mail-order brides, etc. around the page.
How could such a thing happen?
I agree, it's terrible. Blood certainly spoils my wii.
Yeah, but you shouldn't have to use a fucking Firefox plugin to fix a website's look and feel.
Hey, why don't all sites just go back to how they were in 1990! We should all use Stylish to apply our own styles!
That said if you do not own a TV(like I have in the past) you still get a *lot* of hassle from them as they dont believe you dont own a TV and there is no way to prove that to them.
The biggest mistake most people make is to let TVL worry them.
Hint: Ignore *ALL* of their letters, and slam the door in their inspectors' faces (if they ever turn up). 99.99999% of the time, you will be without trouble. The remainder of the time, they won't get too far in court if you DON'T own a TV.
Are you, by any chance, complaining? If so, you're just another freeloading idiot that expects somebody else to serve you completely free content. Sorry, but capitalism doesn't work that way. Moron.
I, for one, do not relish the thought of a "group swim for the fun of swimming" event at the olympics :)
I, on the other hand, think you just came up with a fantastic idea for a new event. All female swimmers have to wear bikinis and group-swim. It's a requirement.
Hang on, it's possible to prove a positive here. If the flat-Earthers went to the edge of the Earth, they would fall off. How can they defend the fact that that doesn't happen?
Google are too invasive.
And I have a simple rule: I don't enter my account's password into any form that's not on a page clearly and verifiably served by my bank's Web server.
Well that's not a particularly easy one to enforce because IFRAMEs can be made to blend into the page and be unnoticeable. Still, if you do notice it, ever thought of right-click | this frame | view frame info?
NoScript on my install of FF has the VbV domains marked as untrusted, and I think I have set up blunt adblock filters to stop anything at all being loaded to do with VbV. Generally, surfing without javascript seems to stop VbV from working in the first place though.
Don't you think you're overreacting a bit? VbV might shift some liability to the customer, but it isn't just some BS the banks made up; it really does increase security if you pick a secure password and don't give it out.
Well, at least it seems like a fair and balanced commentary.
one of whom has a pathetically small military, the other is really too far away to do any good.
Which is which?
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy Apple?
This would suggest to me that _somebody_ is a shitty squat blog, plagiarising for page hits.
Hey! Don't talk about Slashdot that way.
You've never played Civilization, right? :-)
All you can get here is Karma (whooptie-do), at least Obama gives out a free lunch or diner.
Wow, he's more generous than I thought! Where do I get my free diner? I can sell the building alone for $100,000!
We have no bags at the supermarkets anymore, unless you buy them. So almost everybody has bags or boxes that will last much longer.
Environment and such, ya know. Other countries do the same, I believe.
They're starting to do it in the UK and it pisses me off. Please, plastic bags at supermarkets have an infinitesimal affect on the environment, compared to overall pollution levels. Anyone who gets a warm glowing feeling because they bought a permenant bag, and inconveniences themselves that way (have a trolley full of food and remember that you left your permenant bags in the car? DOH!) is a moron.
It is by far the most convenient O/S to date for my business needs...no doubt in my mind
You might wanna try dating one of your (female) superiors. It tends to work a lot better for your business needs.
Also killing a dragon. You have to kill a dragon.
If I share your WLAN access in a public cafe it's really no big deal to play man in the middle and exchange the presented certificate for my own.
You can't just snoop the packets, it has to be an active MITM attack with specialized software to do that. Adds a layer of difficulty. Not insignificant.
The only case where self-signed certificates can be secure is when you manually verify the validity of a certificate beforehand and save it in your cert store.
Quite a common scenario. If I frequently visit a website's HTTPS site on my laptop - e-mail provider, small online store, etc. - from home, I'll already have stored its cert. Your attack will therefore be noticed when I access it from the WLAN. It's not as good as proper SSL, but as others have said, it's a mile better than accessing stuff via http://./
Dunno whether CAcert has anything to do with StartCom, but they offer free basic SSL certs too. I use one for my personal site.
I'd like to have seen Firefox at least treat self-signed certs the same as regular HTTP - that is, at least make it look like a regular webpage with no SSL instead of throwing up a big warning - but with StartCom's certs already accepted in Firefox, you can at least get free SSL that way.
Unfortunately, Opera and IE don't seem to recognize StartCom as a trusted CA. This rather scuppers the idea of free SSL for all.
And for some reason, the New York council's www.nystopchildporn.com website seems to be attracting a very different calibre of individual than they'd planned...
Is the open source movements plan to vilify any and all attempts of the 'establishment' to work with us? Is that the plan?
When you bear in mind what has generally happened to groups who attempted to cooperate with Microsoft in the past then, yes, that sounds like a pretty good plan.
... against those hot coffee makers. It can cause nasty scalding if you trip up and spill it.