It is 261MB+ and is already going slow so be warned.
Fortunately, there's no explanation of what the hell "Avalon" is in the text so that ought to help with the download performance. Had someone actually known what the hell you were so excited about, more people would try to download the software.
Good strategy. It's like those morons who put the important part of their comments in the subject line and continue on to their message. I miss important bits of the message since I do not scan for the subjects so miss out on the point they are attempting to make. It sure makes life easier for the reader if we don't know what is going on and do not have to actually get interested in the article or comment enough to read it.
The part you missed was the refresh between the tests. If you go into the wrong with/without popup blocker option, you have to refresh Secunia's site before going to the other option.
RFID is sending out a number only. It is the serial number of your passport. The reader would then have to look this number up in a database for any info. RFID does not and can not send "name, age, photo and home address".
Despite my knowing that an RFID is sending only the serial number (and only for a few inches and no further), I am still against this. It provides little, if any, benefit and opens up additional levels of exploitation.
With these new, so-called "safeguards" in place, the customs agents could get to trust that when they see their database show up with the same information as is on the passport that they are looking at the proper person. It offers nothing but a false sense of security. False senses of security are often exploited.
Run SSH listening on port 80. Use VNC through an SSH tunnel. Works like a charm provided your firewall is not forcing you through a proxy too. In that case, it get's uglier. Run SSH at home listening on port 80, use a product like HTTP-Tunnel from http://www.http-tunnel.com/ to go through the proxy.
Now, see, "TAB to the button and hit ENTER" is not the best way either. Hitting enter sometimes will choose the "default" button, not necessarily the current button. If you want to hit the current button consistently, you should change your statement to "TAB to the button and hit SPACE."
Hitting enter has resulted in some of the most irritating calls my service desk has had to deal with. The people who are smart enough to use the keyboard are the ones less likely to listen to the responses from the service desk because they are obviously smart enough to know better.
If you're going to preach using the keyboard (like I do), preach it right.
Disclaimer: I like having different applications do different things, and launch each other as necessary. I dislike the BigBlobOfFunctionality(tm) approach to software. I understand that PHBs like BigBlobOfFunctionality because they don't have to learn what the minimise button does.
Your PHB learned what the minimize button does? Mine just launches 15 copies of everything. Outlook is not on top? Launch another!
I would love to switch. I run Linux at home exclusively. I use OpenOffice.org whenever I possibly can. Unfortunately I cannot switch entirely.
I'll switch entirely when I can feel confident that when I email my resume, it can be opened by the recipient properly. PDF, though much more secure, standard and easier to manage, just is not accepted as much. 100% of the employers will accept Microsoft Word documents (up to version 97) but none state PDF or OpenOffice.org files.
I want a new job. Taking a risk because I am using OpenOffice.org and saving my resume as a Microsoft Word 97 document is too much of a risk. Sometimes the formatting is not exactly as I intended it. One time of having a paragraph blow past the right margin and print oddly could mean the difference of getting an interview or not.
For now, I have to stick with Crossover Office and Microsoft Word. Sometimes, I even have to fire up VMWare and run Office in true Windows. sigh.
I worked at a company that did single sign-on very successfully. We wrote a program that watched for the login prompts for each application. When the login prompt showed up, it just stuffed the login information in and hit OK.
It monitored Windows applications, web applications, telnet applications and even watched DOS prompts.
It stored the username/password information on a central server so you could use it from anywhere.
Since it's not free, the only reason I mention is is for some of the concepts. You can use Windows Scripting Host to do much the same thing. I've done a few simple 5 line scripts that monitored for a window to appear with a specific title, then stuffed the username and password in, then hit OK. Do that 50 times, once for each application and you are set.
The hard part comes in when you want to manage password changes, add new applications, etc. That takes some thought.
Doing this in KDE with DCOP is just as straight-forward. Start a project on SourceForge for Windows or KDE and I'll jump in and help. I would love to have a working open source single-signon application.
Great. You poor bastard. You'll be bombarded by hormone infested 16 year olds demanding to drive your car and leaving smelly sneakers all over the house.
Remember, you asked for it.
He's not trying to create a security system. He's trying to minimize the number of times people sign up for a "free 30 day trial" of his services in a way that is useful for others.
I would rather send in a subscription fee of discontinue use of a product if it is not worth the fee to me than dig through the neighbors trash for utility bills. I would also rather subscribe than go through the trouble of buying a $50 fake SS card.
He states right up from what the purpose of the proposal is. It is not intended the be the ultimate authentication product. It is to help the web content publisher minimize the number of freebie trials given out.
. I really wish more people would actually read the article before assuming that this thing is just another MS Passport.
Is this not where someone says "you must be new here."
If people actually read most of the articles before posting, most of the postings would not even exist and Slashdot would not be the huge, wonderful beast that it is.
Besides, no one asked the obvious question. What happens when my toaster stops toasting bread because it no longer recognizes me as its rightful owner? I didn't read the article but I'm assuming that this proposal also covers toasters, MP3 players and, of course, Beowulf clusters of fried slashdotted Linux-in-a-wristwatch-web-servers. *grin*
I'm not sure _I_ would trust a registrar to decide if the name I'm registering is good enough or not. Just because someone registers a group of domain names that does not make sense to the registrar does not mean that the domains are not legitimate.
If someone registers multiple domain names and is proven in court to have been involved in spamming, either spamvertised or sending spam, they should have their domain names revoked.
Innocent until proven guilty. Don't accuse someone of being a spammer just because they have a strange fetish for wiggling tabs (wiggle6767tabs.us) or have a name that does not make sense until after the company is established.
And no, I don't own any odd domain names. The couple I have are registered for real reasons and actually do make sense, I just don't trust someone else to decide if my future registrations are acceptable.
So then, the only issue you have is that your email is added to a list of 20 other people, all of which forward it on leaving your email address in the header. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Why are you surprised that little people care about open formats? Are they supposed to prefer closed formats?
Literally the guy from office space but a woman, huh?
Perhaps you should look up literally in a dictionary.
[voice name="Inigo Montoya voice"]You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.[/voice]
Here. I have mod points. I'll mod it up for you.
D'OH! I can't mod and post! Never mind.
...that was funny. It made me laugh.
It is 261MB+ and is already going slow so be warned.
Fortunately, there's no explanation of what the hell "Avalon" is in the text so that ought to help with the download performance. Had someone actually known what the hell you were so excited about, more people would try to download the software.
Good strategy. It's like those morons who put the important part of their comments in the subject line and continue on to their message. I miss important bits of the message since I do not scan for the subjects so miss out on the point they are attempting to make. It sure makes life easier for the reader if we don't know what is going on and do not have to actually get interested in the article or comment enough to read it.
There. Rant over. I feel better now.
Thanks
We're from the government. We're here to help.
Your new date of birth is February 30th, 1972. We're certain no one else has the same identifying date of birth.
Thank you and have a nice day.
The part you missed was the refresh between the tests. If you go into the wrong with/without popup blocker option, you have to refresh Secunia's site before going to the other option.
That is very good. Plenty of fun.
Zoom in on the bus in the road. Seems there is a minor error there. The car behind it is embedded in the back of the bus.
Still, very cool.
RFID is sending out a number only. It is the serial number of your passport. The reader would then have to look this number up in a database for any info. RFID does not and can not send "name, age, photo and home address".
Despite my knowing that an RFID is sending only the serial number (and only for a few inches and no further), I am still against this. It provides little, if any, benefit and opens up additional levels of exploitation.
With these new, so-called "safeguards" in place, the customs agents could get to trust that when they see their database show up with the same information as is on the passport that they are looking at the proper person. It offers nothing but a false sense of security. False senses of security are often exploited.
OK, your IS security folks will hate me.
Run SSH listening on port 80. Use VNC through an SSH tunnel. Works like a charm provided your firewall is not forcing you through a proxy too. In that case, it get's uglier. Run SSH at home listening on port 80, use a product like HTTP-Tunnel from http://www.http-tunnel.com/ to go through the proxy.
Have fun!
There is always GLIS (Gentoo Linux Install Script):
http://glis.sourceforge.net/
Now, see, "TAB to the button and hit ENTER" is not the best way either. Hitting enter sometimes will choose the "default" button, not necessarily the current button. If you want to hit the current button consistently, you should change your statement to "TAB to the button and hit SPACE."
Hitting enter has resulted in some of the most irritating calls my service desk has had to deal with. The people who are smart enough to use the keyboard are the ones less likely to listen to the responses from the service desk because they are obviously smart enough to know better.
If you're going to preach using the keyboard (like I do), preach it right.
OK, I feel better now.
Your PHB learned what the minimize button does? Mine just launches 15 copies of everything. Outlook is not on top? Launch another!
I would love to switch. I run Linux at home exclusively. I use OpenOffice.org whenever I possibly can. Unfortunately I cannot switch entirely.
I'll switch entirely when I can feel confident that when I email my resume, it can be opened by the recipient properly. PDF, though much more secure, standard and easier to manage, just is not accepted as much. 100% of the employers will accept Microsoft Word documents (up to version 97) but none state PDF or OpenOffice.org files.
I want a new job. Taking a risk because I am using OpenOffice.org and saving my resume as a Microsoft Word 97 document is too much of a risk. Sometimes the formatting is not exactly as I intended it. One time of having a paragraph blow past the right margin and print oddly could mean the difference of getting an interview or not.
For now, I have to stick with Crossover Office and Microsoft Word. Sometimes, I even have to fire up VMWare and run Office in true Windows. sigh.
I worked at a company that did single sign-on very successfully. We wrote a program that watched for the login prompts for each application. When the login prompt showed up, it just stuffed the login information in and hit OK.
It monitored Windows applications, web applications, telnet applications and even watched DOS prompts.
It stored the username/password information on a central server so you could use it from anywhere.
Since it's not free, the only reason I mention is is for some of the concepts. You can use Windows Scripting Host to do much the same thing. I've done a few simple 5 line scripts that monitored for a window to appear with a specific title, then stuffed the username and password in, then hit OK. Do that 50 times, once for each application and you are set.
The hard part comes in when you want to manage password changes, add new applications, etc. That takes some thought.
Doing this in KDE with DCOP is just as straight-forward. Start a project on SourceForge for Windows or KDE and I'll jump in and help. I would love to have a working open source single-signon application.
Great. You poor bastard. You'll be bombarded by hormone infested 16 year olds demanding to drive your car and leaving smelly sneakers all over the house. Remember, you asked for it.
He's not trying to create a security system. He's trying to minimize the number of times people sign up for a "free 30 day trial" of his services in a way that is useful for others.
I would rather send in a subscription fee of discontinue use of a product if it is not worth the fee to me than dig through the neighbors trash for utility bills. I would also rather subscribe than go through the trouble of buying a $50 fake SS card.
He states right up from what the purpose of the proposal is. It is not intended the be the ultimate authentication product. It is to help the web content publisher minimize the number of freebie trials given out.
Is this not where someone says "you must be new here."
If people actually read most of the articles before posting, most of the postings would not even exist and Slashdot would not be the huge, wonderful beast that it is.
Besides, no one asked the obvious question. What happens when my toaster stops toasting bread because it no longer recognizes me as its rightful owner? I didn't read the article but I'm assuming that this proposal also covers toasters, MP3 players and, of course, Beowulf clusters of fried slashdotted Linux-in-a-wristwatch-web-servers. *grin*
I'm not sure _I_ would trust a registrar to decide if the name I'm registering is good enough or not. Just because someone registers a group of domain names that does not make sense to the registrar does not mean that the domains are not legitimate.
If someone registers multiple domain names and is proven in court to have been involved in spamming, either spamvertised or sending spam, they should have their domain names revoked.
Innocent until proven guilty. Don't accuse someone of being a spammer just because they have a strange fetish for wiggling tabs (wiggle6767tabs.us) or have a name that does not make sense until after the company is established.
And no, I don't own any odd domain names. The couple I have are registered for real reasons and actually do make sense, I just don't trust someone else to decide if my future registrations are acceptable.
So then, the only issue you have is that your email is added to a list of 20 other people, all of which forward it on leaving your email address in the header. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Ralsky loves when that happens.
It's a wholly cromulent conclusion to draw
...
the laws of vendodynamics
I love posts that use words like cromulent and vendodynamics straight-faced and deadpan.
Well done! +1 Funny. oh, crud, can't post and moderate. Bummer. Good work, though!
I used this:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/