The "Mind if I reboot your machine now?" dialog has to be the worst of them. There you are, innocently coding away, and a dialog pops up that will reboot your machine the second you hit "enter" which, it turns out, is a reasonably common key, and which I always seem to be just about to type when Windows decides to drop by for a chat.
I don't know that I agree that every application must be made skinnable (imagine the tech support nightmare), but I do agree that it's incredibly annoying that Apple's Windows apps don't make use of the Windows look & feel. I don't love Windows, but when you're used to a paradime, you want it to stay consistent. This was a big Apple theme back in the day, but they've broken their own rules with their Windows apps.
As for Adblocking, it's a dealbreaker. I'm not going to use a browser that doesn't allow my to easily remove content that I find distracting/annoying/offensive. I understand that corporations like Apple and Microsoft might not be able to do that to advertisers, but for me, that's just a reason to stay with Firefox.
Ok, so what's the technical means by which a browser distinguishes an Extended Validation certificate from any other? Some sort of information associated with the root in your local store? A certificate policy OID present in the certification path? An extension in the CA or end-entity certificate?
There has to be something, right? What prevents another SSL certificate vendor from simply including this indicator in their certificates, regardless of the registration procedures that they follow? I suppose if they did so they might get blacklisted by MS, which would be a pretty big blow to their business.
SSL, when used for identify verification and not simply for confidentiality, really is the only way to defeat this type of scamming on the web. As everyone else has pointed out, the SSL certificate vendors have effectively nullified the value of SSL for identity verification by following weak registration procedures. It does make sense, given where we are now, to (a) continue allowing SSL for confidentiality without complicated registration, and to (b) offer some sort of enhanced service under which the SSL certificate vendors actually perform their due diligence. What remains to be seen is how effective they'll be.
I couldn't agree more. Yahoo is following down the MS paradigm of "more buttons and panes and widgets is better", and gmail has really offered a completely new way of reading email, which works perfectly for me. The basic experience is quite simple, but the tools are there to do a lot of powerful things if you want to.
I try and I try and I try to keep my corporate Exchange mailbox organized in folders, but inevitably there are messages that belong in multiple places or get misfiled. Searching an Outlook mailbox is close to useless. With gmail, I archive 99.999% of what comes through, and if I need it later, I search.
Where are you? I don't disagree, the cost of living here is outrageous, but I find Boston worth it and then some. Where else is wearing a shirt that says "Jeter sucks A-Rod" not only acceptable, but encouraged?
Agreed. I think that you'll find critical thinking skills, responsibility, and the ability to understand the business side of your company are actually more important than sheer technical ability.
My company interviewed plenty of people over the past three years (I don't recally them actually hiring any, but that's a different story). People who knew their tech were easy to find. It was alot harder to find people who you'd want on your team, who could carry on a persuasive conversation with the boss, who really got what we were doing and why we were doing it.
Try living in a major US city. I live in an old 2-bedroom outside of Boston, commute to a tech job, and have a $1,400/mo rent. Auto insurance is outrageous, state taxes are high...
Actually, I use Speedpass to pay for groceries at Stop & Shop, and after the third use, I've been offered a free Speedpass enabled Timex. I'll probably go get it, not because I want to use it, but because its a free gizmo.
So if other companies start similar programs, the cost, might not be a barrier to your "lower class people".
I also set all of my preferences to "Don't bother me" when they first brought this up, and I've never gotten a word of spam from them. This message itself wasn't spam, you'd all be way more furious if they'd changed their privacy policy or opt-out policy without telling you.
There are a ton evil services out there that bug the crap out of me with spam, Yahoo isn't one of them.
I'm gonna guess that I'm not the only person out there with technical ability who was in a fraternity. You're stereotyping, just like "they" stereotype you.
The people who get promoted to upper management in corporations are (usually) the ones with good social and management skills. If they happen to have good technical skills as well, more power to them, but you can't run a business with just technical skills. It's far harder to manage people than software.
Skewed populations can be handled if you know something about the skew, right? But they have almost no demographic data, other than address.
I agree, though, that TiVo and such have excellent potential for improving ratings system.
No, you're missing the point: it's the same thing. Walmart gets the data for its customer studies by looking at POS data, right? TiVo gets the data for its customer studies by looking at viewing data. It just happens that TiVo is selling the data to the very people who allow them to stay in business: advertisers.
Yah, but you can't use the information in the same way because you don't control the sample set. TiVo doesn't know I'm a single white male 20-something. Nielson is carefully chosen to be representative of the general public, or at least completely random. TiVo is probably more representative of the/. public.
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The "Mind if I reboot your machine now?" dialog has to be the worst of them. There you are, innocently coding away, and a dialog pops up that will reboot your machine the second you hit "enter" which, it turns out, is a reasonably common key, and which I always seem to be just about to type when Windows decides to drop by for a chat.
I don't know that I agree that every application must be made skinnable (imagine the tech support nightmare), but I do agree that it's incredibly annoying that Apple's Windows apps don't make use of the Windows look & feel. I don't love Windows, but when you're used to a paradime, you want it to stay consistent. This was a big Apple theme back in the day, but they've broken their own rules with their Windows apps. As for Adblocking, it's a dealbreaker. I'm not going to use a browser that doesn't allow my to easily remove content that I find distracting/annoying/offensive. I understand that corporations like Apple and Microsoft might not be able to do that to advertisers, but for me, that's just a reason to stay with Firefox.
Ok, so what's the technical means by which a browser distinguishes an Extended Validation certificate from any other? Some sort of information associated with the root in your local store? A certificate policy OID present in the certification path? An extension in the CA or end-entity certificate? There has to be something, right? What prevents another SSL certificate vendor from simply including this indicator in their certificates, regardless of the registration procedures that they follow? I suppose if they did so they might get blacklisted by MS, which would be a pretty big blow to their business. SSL, when used for identify verification and not simply for confidentiality, really is the only way to defeat this type of scamming on the web. As everyone else has pointed out, the SSL certificate vendors have effectively nullified the value of SSL for identity verification by following weak registration procedures. It does make sense, given where we are now, to (a) continue allowing SSL for confidentiality without complicated registration, and to (b) offer some sort of enhanced service under which the SSL certificate vendors actually perform their due diligence. What remains to be seen is how effective they'll be.
I couldn't agree more. Yahoo is following down the MS paradigm of "more buttons and panes and widgets is better", and gmail has really offered a completely new way of reading email, which works perfectly for me. The basic experience is quite simple, but the tools are there to do a lot of powerful things if you want to. I try and I try and I try to keep my corporate Exchange mailbox organized in folders, but inevitably there are messages that belong in multiple places or get misfiled. Searching an Outlook mailbox is close to useless. With gmail, I archive 99.999% of what comes through, and if I need it later, I search.
Presumably DES-EDE will still be supported...
Where are you? I don't disagree, the cost of living here is outrageous, but I find Boston worth it and then some. Where else is wearing a shirt that says "Jeter sucks A-Rod" not only acceptable, but encouraged?
Agreed. I think that you'll find critical thinking skills, responsibility, and the ability to understand the business side of your company are actually more important than sheer technical ability. My company interviewed plenty of people over the past three years (I don't recally them actually hiring any, but that's a different story). People who knew their tech were easy to find. It was alot harder to find people who you'd want on your team, who could carry on a persuasive conversation with the boss, who really got what we were doing and why we were doing it.
Try living in a major US city. I live in an old 2-bedroom outside of Boston, commute to a tech job, and have a $1,400/mo rent. Auto insurance is outrageous, state taxes are high...
Actually, I use Speedpass to pay for groceries at Stop & Shop, and after the third use, I've been offered a free Speedpass enabled Timex. I'll probably go get it, not because I want to use it, but because its a free gizmo. So if other companies start similar programs, the cost, might not be a barrier to your "lower class people".
I'm a "free user", never paid Yahoo a cent, and they've never sent me a piece of spam.
I also set all of my preferences to "Don't bother me" when they first brought this up, and I've never gotten a word of spam from them. This message itself wasn't spam, you'd all be way more furious if they'd changed their privacy policy or opt-out policy without telling you. There are a ton evil services out there that bug the crap out of me with spam, Yahoo isn't one of them.
I'm gonna guess that I'm not the only person out there with technical ability who was in a fraternity. You're stereotyping, just like "they" stereotype you. The people who get promoted to upper management in corporations are (usually) the ones with good social and management skills. If they happen to have good technical skills as well, more power to them, but you can't run a business with just technical skills. It's far harder to manage people than software.
Skewed populations can be handled if you know something about the skew, right? But they have almost no demographic data, other than address. I agree, though, that TiVo and such have excellent potential for improving ratings system.
No, you're missing the point: it's the same thing. Walmart gets the data for its customer studies by looking at POS data, right? TiVo gets the data for its customer studies by looking at viewing data. It just happens that TiVo is selling the data to the very people who allow them to stay in business: advertisers.
Yah, but you can't use the information in the same way because you don't control the sample set. TiVo doesn't know I'm a single white male 20-something. Nielson is carefully chosen to be representative of the general public, or at least completely random. TiVo is probably more representative of the /. public.