Ask a Mathematician and an Engineer this question:
If you stand on one side of a room and each minute you close half the distance to the opposing wall, will you ever get there?
Answers:
Mathematician: No.
Engineer: Close enough for all practical purposes.
The developer defines the covenents and restrictions or allocates that duty to a home owners association when the land lot is sub-divided (thus the term subdivision). The restrictions are permanently attached to the deed to the property and are disclosed to you before you buy the property. You didn't live there first.
Let's get this straight. There's no such thing as *free* health care. Period. Not in the US, Europe nor anywhere else.
What you want is the government to take my money to pay for your problems. Screw you. If you spent too much of your money on double-cheeseburgers and can't afford the insurance or medical treatment, live (or die) with the consequences or your own decisions.
I use Linux also so I'm not vulnerable to this particular issue, however there are some other "phone home" issues that are cross-platform and totally hidden from most people. Have you ever taken a look at how much information you send to google-analytics.com? You're probably thinking 'None' but you're wrong. I added a firewall rule to log all the connections to google-analytics.com and there are hundreds of them established everyday for me alone (or there were until I decided to drop them all). The amount of data Google has on your website visits is scary... and you were never asked if you wanted to provide it. And turning off cookies, etc. won't help you at all. Now that's invasive, IMO.
I gotta agree. There are real two-factor solutions that make this and other problems go away. Even open source solutions http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/ that totally remove cost as an excuse for not being secure. Keylog a One-Time-Passcode (OTP) all you want, it's only good once. Add to that that you can generate the code on a separate device (like a phone or pda) for use logging in on your PC and that's pretty tight, even beats a race attack. Top that off with mutual authentication to prevent a man-in-the-middle or DNS attack.
Why aren't companies doing this? Instead they roll out flawed systems like the HSBC junk or the pretty pictures tech that is becoming popular. This is a solved problem.
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Ask a Mathematician and an Engineer this question: If you stand on one side of a room and each minute you close half the distance to the opposing wall, will you ever get there? Answers: Mathematician: No. Engineer: Close enough for all practical purposes.
The developer defines the covenents and restrictions or allocates that duty to a home owners association when the land lot is sub-divided (thus the term subdivision). The restrictions are permanently attached to the deed to the property and are disclosed to you before you buy the property. You didn't live there first.
Let's get this straight. There's no such thing as *free* health care. Period. Not in the US, Europe nor anywhere else.
What you want is the government to take my money to pay for your problems. Screw you. If you spent too much of your money on double-cheeseburgers and can't afford the insurance or medical treatment, live (or die) with the consequences or your own decisions.
I use Linux also so I'm not vulnerable to this particular issue, however there are some other "phone home" issues that are cross-platform and totally hidden from most people. Have you ever taken a look at how much information you send to google-analytics.com? You're probably thinking 'None' but you're wrong. I added a firewall rule to log all the connections to google-analytics.com and there are hundreds of them established everyday for me alone (or there were until I decided to drop them all). The amount of data Google has on your website visits is scary... and you were never asked if you wanted to provide it. And turning off cookies, etc. won't help you at all. Now that's invasive, IMO.
I gotta agree. There are real two-factor solutions that make this and other problems go away. Even open source solutions http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/ that totally remove cost as an excuse for not being secure. Keylog a One-Time-Passcode (OTP) all you want, it's only good once. Add to that that you can generate the code on a separate device (like a phone or pda) for use logging in on your PC and that's pretty tight, even beats a race attack. Top that off with mutual authentication to prevent a man-in-the-middle or DNS attack. Why aren't companies doing this? Instead they roll out flawed systems like the HSBC junk or the pretty pictures tech that is becoming popular. This is a solved problem.
Assuming, of course, that you never accessed slashdot or myspace from your DSL/Cable or other *easily* trackable IP address.
which character will become a Scientologist?