Just for fun, I tried it on the sample website provided by the link. Sure I succeeded, but I would not call that easy for anyone not really experienced. We're talking market penetration here, not geek penetration (somehow this bring on very distasteful images in my dirty mind, but whatever). Uh, lets say that it is easy for geeks but hard for A. Joe.
Bollocks. I want you to find any CA that is willing to let you have a certificate for bankieren.rabobank.nl. Not possible? Good, then I can trust the bank site. Don't forget that it only needs one person to notice an anomaly. Banks get audits as well. People think: ooh, you can play man in the middle attacks by requesting weird certificates. But you have to keep the time factor in mind, and the fact that bank SSL sites are N:1 with a very large and interested N.
True, but only if you have to trust it each and every time. The same thing goes for most of my PGP keys. They simply get send to me (at a specific time, if possible). After that I see the responses on my encrypted mail and I am certain I can trust the certificate. After that no man in the middle can harm me.
To make a long story short, it must also be easy to assign trust to a certificate. Maybe not full trust directly, but at least some trust. If you can share the trust as well, that would also be nice. Currently you can trust a certificate, you can import it into your local trusted store. This process is however rather hard and not for you average joe.
Well, which part should they have stuck to then? Or are you saying they are crap whichever way you look at it?
The've server quite a few of my computers with their chipsets and pretty well, but they are in a corner. Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX are great ideas and they've got groovy things like crypto hardware acceleration and decent video decoding facilities.
And don't forget that their latest VIA Nano CPU is an interesting, "all new" design, which is faster than the Intel Atom.
Well? What's so special about that video? The only thing scary about it is the end. They seem to get the license plates of not only cars, but also of Olympic games, unidentified city blocks and of course the omnipresent stolen planes flying into two uninsured towers. Those kind of endings are the things that scare the shit out of me.
Yeah, sounds like Urbanus (a comedian from Vlaanderen), it was so misty he only found out on the freeway doing 100 KM/h that he had taken his bike instead of his car.
I don't know about the US, but in the Netherlands that is a felony. I'd rather have just a ticket, if you don't mind. It's of course different if you drive a stolen car or have 20.000 tickets behind your name.
Those kind of problems should indeed be fixed. But drivers without insurance are a menace and they should definitely be stopped by the police. If it becomes very easy to spot them and the insurance has been gone for just a week or so, they could do without the fine and just give a stern warning.
Well, I heard they were trying to build their own CPU, but building a x86 compatible one - and more importantly one that can compete - will take some time and work. They should better be quick with it though, otherwise they will be missing the boat. AMD and Intel are both very well capable of building chip sets and video. Just the high end video market just won't cut it.
Although this story seems groundless, it does look like the ties between CPU and chip set are getting stronger. This seems to be one of the reasons for ATI to be taken over by AMD. Intel was already creating its own chip sets and has a monopoly on defining an interface between the two. This is an interesting relationship since it would seem that the CPU is only part of the machine nowadays. I'm expecting that this relationship will turn around somewhere in the distant future.
With Intel it was always hard to sell your own chip set against theirs (for the desktop market). Now it will get harder with AMD as well, since they have the ATI chip sets to think about. It would be strange if there would not be some casualties. Hopefully nVidia is big enough to keep some chip sets around for some time. VIA has already given up, I hope their gamble on the embedded market pays off, although they will have pretty strong competition there as well.
Reading through the other comments and reading the bug report on Apache, it seems some other piece of software is to blame as well. Just returning text/plain if the content is unknown, WTF are these guys thinking? And why isn't this fixed after ~ 6 years?
IE looks at the content instead of the MIME header. Another case where M$ fucks up standards protocols. Firefox does this correctly. This is why you see garbage in your browser instead of pictures/movies on some sites. The server tells Firefox that the content is just text/html, while IE just looks at the file itself and simply ignores the MIME HTTP header.
I've once send a message to Tom's hardware because I could not few their video's in Firefox. They configured their server correctly and everything was dandy. I feel a bit more worried in doing this for all other sites that deliver videos and are frequently have ill-configured servers though. They are not always the places I would like to send emails to.
"USians: when are you going to recover the essence of the goodness that your country promised when it was founded?"
And this is the gist of the matter. I can already see a lot of comments if this is actually permitted under the constitution. Now, I'm not from the US, but this institution are rules that try to capture this "essence of goodness". But, as you can see each and every day on Slashdot, rules can be bend.
The first thing you should ask yourself is: "how good/evil is this measure". Then you go check if it fits the constitution. It seems to me that this is both evil and going against the constitution.
The idea that border searches are because of "containing the sovereignty are of course flawed. Are we going to use a laptop to blow up the white house? The batteries that can do that are still a few generations away.
That depends. Have you looked at the euro/yen to dollar ratio's? That badly damaged economy makes for a dollar that is considered pretty cheap by many. There are people that go for a spending trip to new york. If you buy enough electronics you can easily reclaim that ticket.
There are even Dutch people living there that send packages to the Netherlands bought in the US. It's much cheaper than buying the same stuff in Europe (and many electronic products are released earlier in the US).
Of course, this may be a Dutch thing, most of us are able to get along in English pretty fine. One generation later and the people from other countries with heavy wallets (say 50+) will be able to the same thing.
Of course, with their nuclear arsenal, the only thing I'm more afraid of than the US government is those religious idiots igniting a nuclear war. The US government I can safely ignore by not traveling to the US. Global nuclear war is slightly more difficult to avoid.
Well, it seems you got a laptop with inferior graphics system (at least for 3D). So you have only dodged a bullet if you aren't using any high end graphics applications. They were probably waiting for a laptop to become available with a dedicated graphics chip set in it. Your pushing seems to have led to the 3100 solution.
You do know that cost me most of a fine afternoon and most of the evening, don't you? And I'm now planning a LAN party around it. That was old school fun!
I'm sorry, but I'm not that interested in Linux to try each distro to see if they work. And yes, it is a problem with the vendor and Linux: their support is not good enough for the open source drivers to work, if only for the basic 2D and 3D applications.
Maybe so, but why not build just two machines? The only reason I can think of is that this sounds cooler. Maybe they save a bit of money on having a single cooling solution/power supply, but I don't see it. Strange enough, the machine doesn't seem to be symmetric. They've probably put one motherboard upside down, otherwise you would have to split the case. Let's hope the magic doesn't leak out.
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Just for fun, I tried it on the sample website provided by the link. Sure I succeeded, but I would not call that easy for anyone not really experienced. We're talking market penetration here, not geek penetration (somehow this bring on very distasteful images in my dirty mind, but whatever). Uh, lets say that it is easy for geeks but hard for A. Joe.
At least those over 55 years of age.
Bollocks. I want you to find any CA that is willing to let you have a certificate for bankieren.rabobank.nl. Not possible? Good, then I can trust the bank site. Don't forget that it only needs one person to notice an anomaly. Banks get audits as well. People think: ooh, you can play man in the middle attacks by requesting weird certificates. But you have to keep the time factor in mind, and the fact that bank SSL sites are N:1 with a very large and interested N.
True, but only if you have to trust it each and every time. The same thing goes for most of my PGP keys. They simply get send to me (at a specific time, if possible). After that I see the responses on my encrypted mail and I am certain I can trust the certificate. After that no man in the middle can harm me.
To make a long story short, it must also be easy to assign trust to a certificate. Maybe not full trust directly, but at least some trust. If you can share the trust as well, that would also be nice. Currently you can trust a certificate, you can import it into your local trusted store. This process is however rather hard and not for you average joe.
Yeah, well, where is the capital S on spelling?
Well, which part should they have stuck to then? Or are you saying they are crap whichever way you look at it?
The've server quite a few of my computers with their chipsets and pretty well, but they are in a corner. Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX are great ideas and they've got groovy things like crypto hardware acceleration and decent video decoding facilities.
And don't forget that their latest VIA Nano CPU is an interesting, "all new" design, which is faster than the Intel Atom.
Well? What's so special about that video? The only thing scary about it is the end. They seem to get the license plates of not only cars, but also of Olympic games, unidentified city blocks and of course the omnipresent stolen planes flying into two uninsured towers. Those kind of endings are the things that scare the shit out of me.
Yeah, sounds like Urbanus (a comedian from Vlaanderen), it was so misty he only found out on the freeway doing 100 KM/h that he had taken his bike instead of his car.
I don't know about the US, but in the Netherlands that is a felony. I'd rather have just a ticket, if you don't mind. It's of course different if you drive a stolen car or have 20.000 tickets behind your name.
Those kind of problems should indeed be fixed. But drivers without insurance are a menace and they should definitely be stopped by the police. If it becomes very easy to spot them and the insurance has been gone for just a week or so, they could do without the fine and just give a stern warning.
Well, I heard they were trying to build their own CPU, but building a x86 compatible one - and more importantly one that can compete - will take some time and work. They should better be quick with it though, otherwise they will be missing the boat. AMD and Intel are both very well capable of building chip sets and video. Just the high end video market just won't cut it.
Although this story seems groundless, it does look like the ties between CPU and chip set are getting stronger. This seems to be one of the reasons for ATI to be taken over by AMD. Intel was already creating its own chip sets and has a monopoly on defining an interface between the two. This is an interesting relationship since it would seem that the CPU is only part of the machine nowadays. I'm expecting that this relationship will turn around somewhere in the distant future.
With Intel it was always hard to sell your own chip set against theirs (for the desktop market). Now it will get harder with AMD as well, since they have the ATI chip sets to think about. It would be strange if there would not be some casualties. Hopefully nVidia is big enough to keep some chip sets around for some time. VIA has already given up, I hope their gamble on the embedded market pays off, although they will have pretty strong competition there as well.
Yes, but this leads to the question: how do trolls procreate?
They seem to be able to do so, judging on the amount of trolls.
Reading through the other comments and reading the bug report on Apache, it seems some other piece of software is to blame as well. Just returning text/plain if the content is unknown, WTF are these guys thinking? And why isn't this fixed after ~ 6 years?
IE looks at the content instead of the MIME header. Another case where M$ fucks up standards protocols. Firefox does this correctly. This is why you see garbage in your browser instead of pictures/movies on some sites. The server tells Firefox that the content is just text/html, while IE just looks at the file itself and simply ignores the MIME HTTP header.
I've once send a message to Tom's hardware because I could not few their video's in Firefox. They configured their server correctly and everything was dandy. I feel a bit more worried in doing this for all other sites that deliver videos and are frequently have ill-configured servers though. They are not always the places I would like to send emails to.
"USians: when are you going to recover the essence of the goodness that your country promised when it was founded?"
And this is the gist of the matter. I can already see a lot of comments if this is actually permitted under the constitution. Now, I'm not from the US, but this institution are rules that try to capture this "essence of goodness". But, as you can see each and every day on Slashdot, rules can be bend.
The first thing you should ask yourself is: "how good/evil is this measure". Then you go check if it fits the constitution. It seems to me that this is both evil and going against the constitution.
The idea that border searches are because of "containing the sovereignty are of course flawed. Are we going to use a laptop to blow up the white house? The batteries that can do that are still a few generations away.
"Tourism has probably taken a hit as well"
That depends. Have you looked at the euro/yen to dollar ratio's? That badly damaged economy makes for a dollar that is considered pretty cheap by many. There are people that go for a spending trip to new york. If you buy enough electronics you can easily reclaim that ticket.
There are even Dutch people living there that send packages to the Netherlands bought in the US. It's much cheaper than buying the same stuff in Europe (and many electronic products are released earlier in the US).
Of course, this may be a Dutch thing, most of us are able to get along in English pretty fine. One generation later and the people from other countries with heavy wallets (say 50+) will be able to the same thing.
Of course, with their nuclear arsenal, the only thing I'm more afraid of than the US government is those religious idiots igniting a nuclear war. The US government I can safely ignore by not traveling to the US. Global nuclear war is slightly more difficult to avoid.
No problem, nobody noticed until you mentioned it. Everybody thinks it is a good idea as well that you don't hold your breath while exercising.
And why not replace the bat and the ball as well and use robots?
Whop.
Uh oh.
Well, it seems you got a laptop with inferior graphics system (at least for 3D). So you have only dodged a bullet if you aren't using any high end graphics applications. They were probably waiting for a laptop to become available with a dedicated graphics chip set in it. Your pushing seems to have led to the 3100 solution.
You do know that cost me most of a fine afternoon and most of the evening, don't you? And I'm now planning a LAN party around it. That was old school fun!
I'm sorry, but I'm not that interested in Linux to try each distro to see if they work. And yes, it is a problem with the vendor and Linux: their support is not good enough for the open source drivers to work, if only for the basic 2D and 3D applications.
Yes, and if you look at the current "gaming" computers, they're in for a new spin spinning (did I just write that?)
Maybe so, but why not build just two machines? The only reason I can think of is that this sounds cooler. Maybe they save a bit of money on having a single cooling solution/power supply, but I don't see it. Strange enough, the machine doesn't seem to be symmetric. They've probably put one motherboard upside down, otherwise you would have to split the case. Let's hope the magic doesn't leak out.