Actually, what the home office spokesman said sounds pretty sensible. The electronic part doesn't have to be more secure than the paper part. As I understand it, the chip currently contains no more information than what is printed. If you can physically read the passport by looking at it (or taking a picture or whatever), then you have all the information needed to clone the passport without looking at the RFID chip. If you haven't seen the paper part of the passport, then you don't have the key and can't read the RFID part (unless you can crack the encryption without knowing the key). I don't see the problem here.
Of course, if the RFID chip has more information on it than what is displayed on the paper part (fingerprints for example), then there is a problem. As somebody else commented however, when that starts happening, they're going to mandate authentication of the person/machine querying the information using public key cryptography.
Not sure about the number limit, (i don't have that many friends:( ) but you do get several entries for each number, but with a suffix (or maybe prefix - I can't remember) saying which type of number it is. I think it will load the contacts from the sim into the right location as well if you moved to a different sony ericsson phone.
Uhh.. why do you need diagrams? Just use a spreadsheet with the switch ID, port number and vlan. Much easier for others to use, and as far as I can see, you don't lose any ease of use/finding out which ports do what. Colour code the cells based on vlan number if the colours are important.
Actually, I'd guess that the invite system puts an upper limit on the resources google needs to commit to gmail. When they decide to add some new servers to gmail or stress test it further, give out a few more invites. So there is a practical limit - for google, making sure that the service can cope with the amount of users before going live.
if the software being installed does not have a japanese translation available (and there is a japanese version of course), but even so I'm surprised it's not overridable. Also, have you tried setting the default language to english, installing, and changing the language back? I'm not sure if this is possible under windows (I'm a macosx/linux/*bsd user myself), but it seems like a possible workaround.
Strange, thats exactly opposite to my experience - my linksys WRT54G can turn off SSID brodcast (and has WPA support incidentally), whereas the netgear access point (WG502) that I replaced with the linksys was pathetic with respect to security, providing only WEP (with a broken promise of upgrade to WPA), and not allowing me to hide the SSID.
I can see one reason - the credit card companies (in the case of credit cards of course and not debit cards) are liable for most (all but about 30-50 or so) of any amount fraudlently charged to your card. So there is next to no benefit to the customer, and I suspect the banks themselves have judged the cost of migration to be greater than the money lost due to fraud.
I disagree with their recommendation that Secondary shouldn't be used. The submitters problem, selecting something for the purpose of copying, then wanting to use another selection is an ideal situation for the secondary selection - when you realise that you require the second selection, press a hotkey to swap primary and secondary selections, do the selection work, swap back and middle click to paste the original selection in. This probably doesn't need to be implemented at a client level though, perhaps a utility that works globally, setting the hotkey (or perhaps a spare mouse button on a multi button mouse) to swap the two selections. Anybody know if such a utility exists?
What I was actually referring to is the fact that you can get a licence for a shotgun for sports shooting, but are not allowed to carry it in public unless it isn't loaded (and one or two other constraints like not concealing it). If muggers happen to be scared away by the fact that you are carrying your gun (and ipod etc..) on a pigeon shoot, all the better. I guess finding places to shoot pigeons (clay or the soft mushy variety with wings) would be hard to find in London though, so there's another idea out of the window.
Not to mention that this guy is in London, where you can't get a 'carry concealed weapon permit' or whatever. Of course, you could get a Licence to carry a shotgun provided you carry it in full view and not ready to fire. The muggers wouldn't notice that and you would be perfectly safe.. ahem.
Insure everything and backup regularly. Unless you are really lucky, you will get mugged at some point (or at least you have to assume so), and there is nothing you can do to prevent it completely (although not making yourself an obvious target may lessen the risk somewhat). It's best to make sure that when it happens, it is nothing more than a minor annoyance.
(Disclaimer - I have never been mugged, I'm merely paranoid)
Why is is so hard for companies to NOT provide support for multiple operating systems? Some desktop applications I can (almost) forgive, but broadband network access? All the company has to do is use standards and not some proprietary microsoft protocols. Even with mesh networking, provide customers with a wireless access point such as a Linksys WRT54G with firmware to support mesh networking and you don't have to worry about the platform, any computer with ethernet can connect, regardless of platform/OS.
What you would save is the content of the message. As I understand it, quantum encryption (or whatever you want to call it) doesn't prevent what is transmitted from being intercepted, it just guarantees that the interception is detected. So if you transmit the key, and it is intercepted, then don't use the key, and nothing is lost. However, if the message itself was transmitted, then it could be discovered, and knowing that the message was intercepted probably wouldn't help much.
They're called driving licences. I already get asked to show my ID quite often: When going to certain pubs/nightclubs, when buying a mobile phone, verifying my identity when the signature has faded on my debit card, and probably a lot more that I can't remember. I don't see how having an Identity Card with just that purpose could hurt things.
As for why ID cards and not the current system of one of several forms of ID (for things like buying a mobile phone they require two forms of ID from a very short list - an my provisional driving license wasn't on them), it would give a form of identification that everyone would accept. Sure, they could be faked. But so could _every_ _other_ form of identification currently in use.
So I ask the question, why not? Most responses seem to be along the lines of 'we don't know what they could do with the data', or that the police could stop you and demand ID. The police could stop you now if they suspected you, and ask for some form of ID, and if they thought you were a known criminal and couldn't prove otherwise, you would still be taken to the station for questioning.
All the worry about privacy concerns seems to be way too overexagerated. It's just a card that says who you are, not something that broadcasts to the world that you slept with your mates girlfriend last night, or whatever it is you don't want everyone to know.
This is not a troll (ignorant maybe), but what models 'based around funding the fundamentally scarce act of creation itself' been proposed? And would they work in practice?
I'm not thinking of OS/Free Software here, as funding for that is (currently) a little too scarce in my opinion to be practical (and I'm saying that as someone who has been paid to write open source software).
I'm curious as to why they didn't simply use two images (differing slightly of course) side by side, you then go crosseyed (or let your eyes defocus, whichever method is set up), and you would be able to see the 3d image complete with textures etc.
Darwinports worked pretty well for me installing subversion. I can't remember now, but I think it still requires some compiling and setup to get darwinports working, but once it is done, just type port install subversion, and it compiles and installs, without depending on anything stupid like X if it isn't needed.
While you could specifically use PHP and Apache2 in total prefork mode, this basically makes it run exactly like the 1.3 series, so then the real question is what's the point of upgrading at all and not just sticking w/1.3?
Because some servers like the subversion apache module require apache2, and I'd like to not have to run both apache1.3 and 2 in parallel. I am curious as to why the php documentation doesn't mention that using the prefork mpm and php would work fine however.
Something I only noticed a few days ago, if when downloading you click on the button at the top right , a nice little toolbar pops down that lets you set the max uploads and max upload speed. It's not perfect, but serves well for my purposes (previously I used carrafix, which while it did the job, was far from ideal)
I don't think the crowd will be happy until they've slashdotted several small furry animals, a toaster, a pringles tin, and probably an alien civilisation or two.
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Actually, what the home office spokesman said sounds pretty sensible. The electronic part doesn't have to be more secure than the paper part.
As I understand it, the chip currently contains no more information than what is printed. If you can physically read the passport by looking at it (or taking a picture or whatever), then you have all the information needed to clone the passport without looking at the RFID chip. If you haven't seen the paper part of the passport, then you don't have the key and can't read the RFID part (unless you can crack the encryption without knowing the key). I don't see the problem here.
Of course, if the RFID chip has more information on it than what is displayed on the paper part (fingerprints for example), then there is a problem. As somebody else commented however, when that starts happening, they're going to mandate authentication of the person/machine querying the information using public key cryptography.
Not sure about the number limit, (i don't have that many friends :( ) but you do get several entries for each number, but with a suffix (or maybe prefix - I can't remember) saying which type of number it is. I think it will load the contacts from the sim into the right location as well if you moved to a different sony ericsson phone.
E.g.
Joe Bloggs/H
Joe Bloggs/M
Joe Bloggs/O
for home, mobile, other
Uhh.. why do you need diagrams? Just use a spreadsheet with the switch ID, port number and vlan. Much easier for others to use, and as far as I can see, you don't lose any ease of use/finding out which ports do what. Colour code the cells based on vlan number if the colours are important.
Another twist to the story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9YN7O0MD_index_0.html
Contact info:t act.html
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Actually, I'd guess that the invite system puts an upper limit on the resources google needs to commit to gmail. When they decide to add some new servers to gmail or stress test it further, give out a few more invites. So there is a practical limit - for google, making sure that the service can cope with the amount of users before going live.
the people who do like the online games are too busy playing them to answer a survey.
.. at least it would if a link was posted to it on slashdot.
if the software being installed does not have a japanese translation available (and there is a japanese version of course), but even so I'm surprised it's not overridable.
Also, have you tried setting the default language to english, installing, and changing the language back? I'm not sure if this is possible under windows (I'm a macosx/linux/*bsd user myself), but it seems like a possible workaround.
Strange, thats exactly opposite to my experience - my linksys WRT54G can turn off SSID brodcast (and has WPA support incidentally), whereas the netgear access point (WG502) that I replaced with the linksys was pathetic with respect to security, providing only WEP (with a broken promise of upgrade to WPA), and not allowing me to hide the SSID.
I can see one reason - the credit card companies (in the case of credit cards of course and not debit cards) are liable for most (all but about 30-50 or so) of any amount fraudlently charged to your card. So there is next to no benefit to the customer, and I suspect the banks themselves have judged the cost of migration to be greater than the money lost due to fraud.
I disagree with their recommendation that Secondary shouldn't be used. The submitters problem, selecting something for the purpose of copying, then wanting to use another selection is an ideal situation for the secondary selection - when you realise that you require the second selection, press a hotkey to swap primary and secondary selections, do the selection work, swap back and middle click to paste the original selection in.
This probably doesn't need to be implemented at a client level though, perhaps a utility that works globally, setting the hotkey (or perhaps a spare mouse button on a multi button mouse) to swap the two selections. Anybody know if such a utility exists?
What I was actually referring to is the fact that you can get a licence for a shotgun for sports shooting, but are not allowed to carry it in public unless it isn't loaded (and one or two other constraints like not concealing it). If muggers happen to be scared away by the fact that you are carrying your gun (and ipod etc..) on a pigeon shoot, all the better. I guess finding places to shoot pigeons (clay or the soft mushy variety with wings) would be hard to find in London though, so there's another idea out of the window.
Not to mention that this guy is in London, where you can't get a 'carry concealed weapon permit' or whatever. Of course, you could get a Licence to carry a shotgun provided you carry it in full view and not ready to fire. The muggers wouldn't notice that and you would be perfectly safe.. ahem.
Insure everything and backup regularly. Unless you are really lucky, you will get mugged at some point (or at least you have to assume so), and there is nothing you can do to prevent it completely (although not making yourself an obvious target may lessen the risk somewhat). It's best to make sure that when it happens, it is nothing more than a minor annoyance.
(Disclaimer - I have never been mugged, I'm merely paranoid)
Why is is so hard for companies to NOT provide support for multiple operating systems? Some desktop applications I can (almost) forgive, but broadband network access? All the company has to do is use standards and not some proprietary microsoft protocols. Even with mesh networking, provide customers with a wireless access point such as a Linksys WRT54G with firmware to support mesh networking and you don't have to worry about the platform, any computer with ethernet can connect, regardless of platform/OS.
What you would save is the content of the message. As I understand it, quantum encryption (or whatever you want to call it) doesn't prevent what is transmitted from being intercepted, it just guarantees that the interception is detected. So if you transmit the key, and it is intercepted, then don't use the key, and nothing is lost. However, if the message itself was transmitted, then it could be discovered, and knowing that the message was intercepted probably wouldn't help much.
They're called driving licences. I already get asked to show my ID quite often: When going to certain pubs/nightclubs, when buying a mobile phone, verifying my identity when the signature has faded on my debit card, and probably a lot more that I can't remember. I don't see how having an Identity Card with just that purpose could hurt things.
As for why ID cards and not the current system of one of several forms of ID (for things like buying a mobile phone they require two forms of ID from a very short list - an my provisional driving license wasn't on them), it would give a form of identification that everyone would accept. Sure, they could be faked. But so could _every_ _other_ form of identification currently in use.
So I ask the question, why not?
Most responses seem to be along the lines of 'we don't know what they could do with the data', or that the police could stop you and demand ID. The police could stop you now if they suspected you, and ask for some form of ID, and if they thought you were a known criminal and couldn't prove otherwise, you would still be taken to the station for questioning.
All the worry about privacy concerns seems to be way too overexagerated. It's just a card that says who you are, not something that broadcasts to the world that you slept with your mates girlfriend last night, or whatever it is you don't want everyone to know.
This is not a troll (ignorant maybe), but what models 'based around funding the fundamentally scarce act of creation itself' been proposed? And would they work in practice?
I'm not thinking of OS/Free Software here, as funding for that is (currently) a little too scarce in my opinion to be practical (and I'm saying that as someone who has been paid to write open source software).
I'm curious as to why they didn't simply use two images (differing slightly of course) side by side, you then go crosseyed (or let your eyes defocus, whichever method is set up), and you would be able to see the 3d image complete with textures etc.
Darwinports worked pretty well for me installing subversion. I can't remember now, but I think it still requires some compiling and setup to get darwinports working, but once it is done, just type port install subversion, and it compiles and installs, without depending on anything stupid like X if it isn't needed.
Because some servers like the subversion apache module require apache2, and I'd like to not have to run both apache1.3 and 2 in parallel. I am curious as to why the php documentation doesn't mention that using the prefork mpm and php would work fine however.
How about doing the reverse of this, and just leaving the center channel (removing the instruments)?
Then I could fake karaoke!
Something I only noticed a few days ago, if when downloading you click on the button at the top right , a nice little toolbar pops down that lets you set the max uploads and max upload speed. It's not perfect, but serves well for my purposes (previously I used carrafix, which while it did the job, was far from ideal)
I don't think the crowd will be happy until they've slashdotted several small furry animals, a toaster, a pringles tin, and probably an alien civilisation or two.