Neither. I'm trying to point out that, in certain social circles, it is perfectly acceptable to physically gay bash. Sodomy was even illegal, so even the state was in on the game. Fortunately, those social circles are becoming smaller and less common - at least in the Western world. Some countries are passing laws that codify gay bashing.
Because people don't always look for the padlock icon. Chase Bank wants to make sure that every customer connects with SSL. If someone tries to MITM the bank, then they want the customer alerted. This is fail-safe. Your suggestion would simply turn off the little icon when a MITM attack was taking place, which probably would go unnoticed in a high percentage of cases.
As the AC said, the browser isn't made for you - it is made for the average computer user, who has little to no education regarding security algorithms. I'm fairly geeky, and I would have trouble telling you a practical way to verify the authenticity of a self-signed cert. Frankly, I'm not even sure that people look for the little lock icon when they are banking, but at least if it is there you know that you are talking to the site you though you were.
How is providing a base level of encryption less private or less secure then sending something in plaintext simply because the other end hasn't paid a fee to a third party?
Your experience is not representative of that of a gay person. An openly gay person attracts people who hang in circles where it is fine to beat on a gay, like a moth to a porch light. You hung out in a social circle who were decent and law abiding? Great! There are other social circles, though.
I don't doubt that they will get into trouble later - for now they are young enough that they are constantly supervised. Looking forward to puberty! LOL.
You can grouse if you want, but the fact is that the whole "proud" strategy has gotten them pretty damn far. Eventually it will be anachronistic, but it's been pretty successful to date. It wasn't so long ago that it was socially acceptable to beat the holy hell of them, and now most states recognize their marriage. Amazing.
My kids are happy watching amateur-made crappy videos on YouTube. They can always find something on Netflix. At $6/month for less available content (and commercials???) I don't think they have much hope with the younger generation.
Wouldn't this hypothetical depend on a technology that slowly ratcheted up the energy? At that point, don't you think we'd have more data about what the possible repercussions might be? This question seems like asking a cave man if we should mandate airbags.
the simplest explanation for the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates becoming suddenly miles of nothing but sand.
"The simplest" explanation is the climate only marginally suited for intensive agriculture, and humans farmed the holy hell out of it until it was worn out, salted, and desert. We witnessed almost the same thing happen on the prairie in the US (dust bowl). Fortunately, we had progressed beyond the state of agricultural science of 5000 years ago.
Who's to say that the stories are completely bogus?
I come from the other direction: who's to say that the stories have any credibility at all? People have vivid imaginations.
None of the services listed are open source, so that is a red herring. Open source isn't even particularly important here, because your data isn't locked into any kind of a format - you can switch freely to any service at any time, and you have a complete copy of your data at all times. If you really need open source, there are options which require a server: SparkleShare works well for me, and I understand that OwnCloud has something that works decently as well.
My problem with the service is that it works poorly in a mixed-computing environment. It loses xattr between Mac and Windows (and probably Linux). It has some pretty bad behavior when faced with a filename that only differs due to case.
I was just arguing that this is pointless. When I traveled to Israel, I requested that my visa be stamped on a removable sheet of paper to be stapled into my passport. I did this because I didn't want evidence of a trip to Israel when one of my next stops was Malaysia. If someone is trying to get from Liberia to the US, they will do so with no evidence of recently having been in Liberia.
It's not as if there are huge numbers of flights to and from Liberia.
I have no idea what your agenda is. I'm not the one arguing that military ships are "easy". If you think that America's military shipyards are on anywhere near a war footing, or for that matter operating in a manner that would be competitive on the world private markets then you are delusional. They do a fine job of their goal, which is to keep America's ability to produce such weapons alive - a goal which I agree with. Their secondary goal of keeping the fleet fresh is also successful, but let's face it - that goal could be done for considerably less money if we did not insist on building them domestically.
The Korean shipyard is competitive on the world private market, but would probably put out a pretty piss-poor nuclear submarine. They currently operate German diesel-electrics. Daewoo builds them in Korea, but to your point it takes 4 years or so - not anything like the few months one of these cargo ships take.
It's probably true, or based on something true. A lot of those old processes were very dependent on the mix of impurities at a certain location... you could only make [sword/knife/dagger] using an ore from [some hill/bluff/valley]. They didn't know that at the time, or if they did they had no idea why.
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but you used the term decent law abiding citizens to describe them.
No, I didn't. Read up the chain.
Neither. I'm trying to point out that, in certain social circles, it is perfectly acceptable to physically gay bash. Sodomy was even illegal, so even the state was in on the game. Fortunately, those social circles are becoming smaller and less common - at least in the Western world. Some countries are passing laws that codify gay bashing.
That does sound like a better system, though one that was impossible when SSL was first implemented.
Because people don't always look for the padlock icon. Chase Bank wants to make sure that every customer connects with SSL. If someone tries to MITM the bank, then they want the customer alerted. This is fail-safe. Your suggestion would simply turn off the little icon when a MITM attack was taking place, which probably would go unnoticed in a high percentage of cases.
As the AC said, the browser isn't made for you - it is made for the average computer user, who has little to no education regarding security algorithms. I'm fairly geeky, and I would have trouble telling you a practical way to verify the authenticity of a self-signed cert. Frankly, I'm not even sure that people look for the little lock icon when they are banking, but at least if it is there you know that you are talking to the site you though you were.
How is providing a base level of encryption less private or less secure then sending something in plaintext simply because the other end hasn't paid a fee to a third party?
It is worse to have a false sense of security.
I like your world. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in the real one.
Your experience is not representative of that of a gay person. An openly gay person attracts people who hang in circles where it is fine to beat on a gay, like a moth to a porch light. You hung out in a social circle who were decent and law abiding? Great! There are other social circles, though.
You are lucky - we had to explain the birds and the bees without visual aids.
I don't doubt that they will get into trouble later - for now they are young enough that they are constantly supervised. Looking forward to puberty! LOL.
You can grouse if you want, but the fact is that the whole "proud" strategy has gotten them pretty damn far. Eventually it will be anachronistic, but it's been pretty successful to date. It wasn't so long ago that it was socially acceptable to beat the holy hell of them, and now most states recognize their marriage. Amazing.
My kids are happy watching amateur-made crappy videos on YouTube. They can always find something on Netflix. At $6/month for less available content (and commercials???) I don't think they have much hope with the younger generation.
Wouldn't this hypothetical depend on a technology that slowly ratcheted up the energy? At that point, don't you think we'd have more data about what the possible repercussions might be? This question seems like asking a cave man if we should mandate airbags.
the simplest explanation for the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates becoming suddenly miles of nothing but sand.
"The simplest" explanation is the climate only marginally suited for intensive agriculture, and humans farmed the holy hell out of it until it was worn out, salted, and desert. We witnessed almost the same thing happen on the prairie in the US (dust bowl). Fortunately, we had progressed beyond the state of agricultural science of 5000 years ago.
Who's to say that the stories are completely bogus?
I come from the other direction: who's to say that the stories have any credibility at all? People have vivid imaginations.
Thank you, I was just thinking: "You know, if there were space aliens in here, this whole book would be even more believable."
Apple made two mistakes
Yes, I'm sure there is no market for a low-power quiet mini OSX computer.
I lifted it from "The ABC Book" by Dr. Seuss.
Security + Telnet = My Brain Hurts
You might be disappointed if you tried to run the full-power desktop ARM from the pre-Apple era in your mobile device!
Unless my history is rusty, Newton begat the ARM chip that we all know so well.
None of the services listed are open source, so that is a red herring. Open source isn't even particularly important here, because your data isn't locked into any kind of a format - you can switch freely to any service at any time, and you have a complete copy of your data at all times. If you really need open source, there are options which require a server: SparkleShare works well for me, and I understand that OwnCloud has something that works decently as well.
My problem with the service is that it works poorly in a mixed-computing environment. It loses xattr between Mac and Windows (and probably Linux). It has some pretty bad behavior when faced with a filename that only differs due to case.
I was just arguing that this is pointless. When I traveled to Israel, I requested that my visa be stamped on a removable sheet of paper to be stapled into my passport. I did this because I didn't want evidence of a trip to Israel when one of my next stops was Malaysia. If someone is trying to get from Liberia to the US, they will do so with no evidence of recently having been in Liberia.
It's not as if there are huge numbers of flights to and from Liberia.
Lesson: don't go to a shitty community hospital for anything except a broken arm.
I have no idea what your agenda is. I'm not the one arguing that military ships are "easy". If you think that America's military shipyards are on anywhere near a war footing, or for that matter operating in a manner that would be competitive on the world private markets then you are delusional. They do a fine job of their goal, which is to keep America's ability to produce such weapons alive - a goal which I agree with. Their secondary goal of keeping the fleet fresh is also successful, but let's face it - that goal could be done for considerably less money if we did not insist on building them domestically.
The Korean shipyard is competitive on the world private market, but would probably put out a pretty piss-poor nuclear submarine. They currently operate German diesel-electrics. Daewoo builds them in Korea, but to your point it takes 4 years or so - not anything like the few months one of these cargo ships take.
It's probably true, or based on something true. A lot of those old processes were very dependent on the mix of impurities at a certain location... you could only make [sword/knife/dagger] using an ore from [some hill/bluff/valley]. They didn't know that at the time, or if they did they had no idea why.