What would happen is the same as what happened after cigarette adversising started to be banned: their profits would increase. Because they were no longer in an arms race with other companies over who could advertise the most (or hoard the most patents and lawyers in this case) they could save the money and make more profit.
you're convicted of not handing over the keys, which IS a crime. You're NOT thrown in jail for what you're suspected of hiding. It's because not handing over the keys is a crime, which can be proved (OK you could have forgotten them), but this is government thinking, not rational thinking.
The most secure thing to do is to use passwords that you don't even know yourself, by using something like KeePass to generate and manage the passwords for you. No matter how hard someone beats you up for your passwords you wont be able to tell them because you've never seen or typed them in yourself. You'll also be able to easily have a completely different and secure password for each site that needs one and not have to worry about your memory.
I keep my keePass file in a truecrypt file and use a password and file for the KeePass unlocking method. That way I have to uncrypt the truecrypt file, open the KeePass file, know my KeePass password and point KeePass to a file that exists on a removable USB stick. Then I can get in. For a lot of sites I let KeePass generate massive complicated passwords so I really cannot type them in accidentally.
I like how you can copy the usernames and passwords to the clipboard and have them automatically removed from the clipboard after a few seconds.
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I think it makes sense from an MS point of view to support ODF first over OOXML.
They probably figure that few people are going to switch to another office suite due to the lack of support for OOXML, but that they might switch if ODF isn't there. So if they implement ODF then people will be happy either using existing Word formats or ODF and they can continue using MS Office. Then later on they can move people over to OOXML and not use the existing Word format as default.
The interim period isn't going to hurt them that much anyway because not that many people will be able to use ODF on a wide scale because people wont have had the chance to change their office application to one that supports the new format. People will continue to use Word formats because that what their customers and partners can open.
There is going to be a slow ramp up to any leveragable mass of users of a new format (and hence potentially new office application), but you might as well minimize your risk by implementing it at the same time, or before your competitors, so your users have less reason to switch.
I think it only doesn't make sense for a marketing finger pointing POV, but I think it makes better business sense.
How does that make sense? You don't have "No murdering" signs all over the place to enforce a law. _It is the law_, you don't need signs for it, it just is. Burglars can't say that a house didn't have a "No burglars" sign on the front door so it's therefore OK to steal from that house. If something is private property, unless you have permission to be there then you shouldn't be there, no need for a no trespassing sign.
OK, so we all agree that we should salt passwords with something. But even without that we should also make the hashing algorithm as slow as possible, perhaps running MD5 recursively 10 times, or using a slower algorithm on itself multiple times, or running different algorithms on the output of others etc. Most of the time this isn't going to have a significant effect on performance of the whole system and it also becomes infeasible to create a rainbow table because each hash will take a lot longer to create.
The old folks will obviously be better at remembering birthdays of all their family and friends because they've been to more of their birthday parties!
As for the home phone number thing - I never call it and the only reason I have it is so I can use ADSL. Why should I remember it then? If you actually want to talk to me call my mobile, it's always by me.
Yeah I know it's cool to bash Balmer around here but he was so right....
"Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Provide good development tools to develop software quickly and effectivly and people will choose your platform over the competitor platform that does not. Microsoft has been creating great development environments and languages for fast application development (VB etc) for years and they would be totally stupid to stop doing that now. It is what gets apps written for their platform which creates users, and so on.
Woman sat in bed with her husband in the bathroom getting ready for bed. The husband pops round the corner with a dildo in hand and asks, "Have you seen my electric toothbrush". Womans face turns to shocked and appears to remove said toothbrush from herself under the covers.
Yeah, their customer service dept got hammered since the roll out of ADSL max and the whole Tiscalli LLU event.
After moving house I've finally got my service back after 5 weeks - 2 weeks of which was BT's fault, to be fair. I've never had to use their support system for anything apart from my house move and the service was below par - my request finaly got dealt with after i posted a thread on their forums!? The support ticket gets ignored yet my forum post gets a response of a phone call. very strange attitude to customer service.
Apart from their customer service though I do find them to be a good reliable ISP.
As a Plus.net customer I'm lucky that my e-mails and/or support tickets weren't affected. It was a silly error that I'm surprised a disaster recovery protocol didn't manage to resurect. It seemed that they went straight to the HDD recovery people instead of a cabinet of tapes.
However, for the sake of argument, lets assume a bank's Web servers run on Linux. Why shouldn't they contribute apache patches? mailing system patches? utilities?
Because they probably don't write their own patches and even if they did they don't necessarily have to release it back to the community (based on the software's use and license). Then the utilities they do write probably do constitute a competitive advantage.
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Where am I supposed to go now if I want to find cheap flights abroard!?!?
What would happen is the same as what happened after cigarette adversising started to be banned: their profits would increase. Because they were no longer in an arms race with other companies over who could advertise the most (or hoard the most patents and lawyers in this case) they could save the money and make more profit.
I prefer Dickens URL
Like this: URL too long for slashdot
It not sensor size, it's pixel size that's important here.
You wont mind if I put everything connected to the internet on your lap then?
I think you'd start to cry after I put only the PCs in my house on your lap.
you're convicted of not handing over the keys, which IS a crime. You're NOT thrown in jail for what you're suspected of hiding. It's because not handing over the keys is a crime, which can be proved (OK you could have forgotten them), but this is government thinking, not rational thinking.
The most secure thing to do is to use passwords that you don't even know yourself, by using something like KeePass to generate and manage the passwords for you. No matter how hard someone beats you up for your passwords you wont be able to tell them because you've never seen or typed them in yourself. You'll also be able to easily have a completely different and secure password for each site that needs one and not have to worry about your memory.
I keep my keePass file in a truecrypt file and use a password and file for the KeePass unlocking method. That way I have to uncrypt the truecrypt file, open the KeePass file, know my KeePass password and point KeePass to a file that exists on a removable USB stick. Then I can get in. For a lot of sites I let KeePass generate massive complicated passwords so I really cannot type them in accidentally.
I like how you can copy the usernames and passwords to the clipboard and have them automatically removed from the clipboard after a few seconds.
Get him a book on electronics and a schematic for an 8086 processor and let him work out the rest from there.
He's 2 FFS! Give him a ball!
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FTFL:
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Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
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Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH
No, you should code as if the person that is debugging your code at 4am is an axe wielding maniac who knows where you live.
"...and that can be easily prevented by nailing everybody to the ground"
Not with no fingers it's not!
I think it makes sense from an MS point of view to support ODF first over OOXML.
They probably figure that few people are going to switch to another office suite due to the lack of support for OOXML, but that they might switch if ODF isn't there. So if they implement ODF then people will be happy either using existing Word formats or ODF and they can continue using MS Office. Then later on they can move people over to OOXML and not use the existing Word format as default.
The interim period isn't going to hurt them that much anyway because not that many people will be able to use ODF on a wide scale because people wont have had the chance to change their office application to one that supports the new format. People will continue to use Word formats because that what their customers and partners can open.
There is going to be a slow ramp up to any leveragable mass of users of a new format (and hence potentially new office application), but you might as well minimize your risk by implementing it at the same time, or before your competitors, so your users have less reason to switch.
I think it only doesn't make sense for a marketing finger pointing POV, but I think it makes better business sense.
How does that make sense? You don't have "No murdering" signs all over the place to enforce a law. _It is the law_, you don't need signs for it, it just is. Burglars can't say that a house didn't have a "No burglars" sign on the front door so it's therefore OK to steal from that house. If something is private property, unless you have permission to be there then you shouldn't be there, no need for a no trespassing sign.
OK, so we all agree that we should salt passwords with something. But even without that we should also make the hashing algorithm as slow as possible, perhaps running MD5 recursively 10 times, or using a slower algorithm on itself multiple times, or running different algorithms on the output of others etc. Most of the time this isn't going to have a significant effect on performance of the whole system and it also becomes infeasible to create a rainbow table because each hash will take a lot longer to create.
The old folks will obviously be better at remembering birthdays of all their family and friends because they've been to more of their birthday parties! As for the home phone number thing - I never call it and the only reason I have it is so I can use ADSL. Why should I remember it then? If you actually want to talk to me call my mobile, it's always by me.
Yeah I know it's cool to bash Balmer around here but he was so right.... "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!" Provide good development tools to develop software quickly and effectivly and people will choose your platform over the competitor platform that does not. Microsoft has been creating great development environments and languages for fast application development (VB etc) for years and they would be totally stupid to stop doing that now. It is what gets apps written for their platform which creates users, and so on.
"You wanna know what I think Alternative music is? Jocks, with punk rock haircuts." - MJK
Hale and Pace scetch?
Woman sat in bed with her husband in the bathroom getting ready for bed.
The husband pops round the corner with a dildo in hand and asks, "Have you seen my electric toothbrush".
Womans face turns to shocked and appears to remove said toothbrush from herself under the covers.
Yeah, their customer service dept got hammered since the roll out of ADSL max and the whole Tiscalli LLU event.
After moving house I've finally got my service back after 5 weeks - 2 weeks of which was BT's fault, to be fair. I've never had to use their support system for anything apart from my house move and the service was below par - my request finaly got dealt with after i posted a thread on their forums!? The support ticket gets ignored yet my forum post gets a response of a phone call. very strange attitude to customer service.
Apart from their customer service though I do find them to be a good reliable ISP.
This happened a while ago now.
As a Plus.net customer I'm lucky that my e-mails and/or support tickets weren't affected. It was a silly error that I'm surprised a disaster recovery protocol didn't manage to resurect. It seemed that they went straight to the HDD recovery people instead of a cabinet of tapes.
... "US Military Developing Ultrasonic Trebuchet".
I am now somewhat disapointed with the subject matter.
Our ancestors may have lived through this several times before but wont it affect us more as we are highly dependent on electricity and satalites etc?
However, for the sake of argument, lets assume a bank's Web servers run on Linux. Why shouldn't they contribute apache patches? mailing system patches? utilities? Because they probably don't write their own patches and even if they did they don't necessarily have to release it back to the community (based on the software's use and license). Then the utilities they do write probably do constitute a competitive advantage.