dnscache (the relevant part of djbdns) is pretty smart, and pretty paranoid, and when things like this come up, DJB deserves a good round of "I told you so."
The problem here is that some people don't understand how anyone expects to attack these banking sites without also replicating their SSL certificates for secure login. The issue is that most banking sites and others with secure logins don't have a signed page for the login but for the target page of the login, and most browsers don't indicate that the submission of a given login form goes to a secure server or not (until after clicking, and only IF the user hasn't disabled that notice).
As I remember it, DJB thought glue was a bad idea, and dnscache always recursively gets its information starting with the root servers, caching only the data it fetched itself recursively.
This of course is not the case when run in caching-only mode where it queries a parent DNS server which may be faulty (and DJB doesn't recommend this usage).
Yahoo! has a nice login verification image that the user chooses that displays near the login credentials. If the image you chose isn't displayed, you're on a forged page.
Personally, I'd rather someone asked for the right to invalidate any digital Copyright system that violates the rest of Copyright as it stands. That is to say, a DRM system that doesn't allow personal backups would be invalid. A DRM system that won't let me pull out a clip of a song for a review would be invalidated too.
I have nothing against DRM, IF it works within the confines of the law and my rights and that includes self-sacrificing the DRM layer when the law says that file becomes public domain.
Agreed. I believe in Copyright only inasmuch as others shouldn't be able to claim they wrote something that I wrote (or created, more generally).
If Tom Clancy wrote a novel and some hack copied and republished it as his own, that should be wrong.
If however, I loan the book to a friend or cite a few paragraphs as an example of how he foresaw the future of warfare (or not), that should not be illegal.
It seems so common-sense, until the government lobbyists get involved.
How come all these 'real world' benchmarks they did are for 2GB files only? Why not thousands of small files instead? I'd like to know how the filesystem works for Maildir E-mail and web hosting, or for BitTorrent usage. BitTorrent especially loves to trash whole chunks of the drive all at once, although I understand that a test-bed BitTorrent network would take a bit more work.
What about browsing a directory full of downloaded photos (and the resulting thumbnail generation), or re-compressing a music collection?
That's a few benchmarks I think might be realistic.
No, the consumers would claim warranty protection, or possibly file a class-action suit for a known defective part.
Since it still hasn't been ascertained how many of these packages were resold with bad debt in them, or who's to blame, or how they were packaged and represented, blaming the purchaser is somewhat simplistic.
I never said any such thing; I said a manager should appreciate being told when his subordinates aren't doing their jobs properly so he can handle the problem before it grows.
Every complaint reflects the opinions of at least one hundred other people who didn't bother to complain; ignoring complaints is how you go out of business in the service industry.
... which is why both Nintendo and Sony use it for their game controllers? Bluetooth has excellent latency, it just requires chipsets that cost more than generic RF controllers.
But a Bluetooth mouse is universally compatible with other Bluetooth devices whereas the RF dongle version requires a dongle and a device that is compatible with that dongle.
Of course, you'll still have the HT bus advantage on the AMD box when you include the second (or third, or fourth) CPU, something Intel can't compete with yet.
From that perspective, I've been watching the low-power VIA chips slowly creep into desktop speeds. We're at the point where the smaller players can start competing in the desktop and laptop markets soon, and it should be fun.
Repackaging, selling and purchasing of those loans as parts of large packages of debt helped. Instead of individual stupid banks going out of business for the bad loans they signed off on, you've got a whole host of financial institutions who didn't realize what they were buying realizing they can't recover the money they invested in these packages.
I've personally always seen the "totally free market" people as Anarchists myself, not libertarian or republican, despite their own misunderstandings of what they stand for.
I'm proud to be Canadian where our well-regulated banking industry is doing quite well despite the global economic and credit crunch.
... and instead we'd be stuck owning stock we believed would make us money and had value and enjoy the income from the dividends? Wow that would be awful.
Only if those inanimate objects are naturally occurring. Inanimate objects created by other humans who may have (consciously or not) reflected those qualities in the object with their design may indeed deserve such recognition.
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dnscache (the relevant part of djbdns) is pretty smart, and pretty paranoid, and when things like this come up, DJB deserves a good round of "I told you so."
The problem here is that some people don't understand how anyone expects to attack these banking sites without also replicating their SSL certificates for secure login. The issue is that most banking sites and others with secure logins don't have a signed page for the login but for the target page of the login, and most browsers don't indicate that the submission of a given login form goes to a secure server or not (until after clicking, and only IF the user hasn't disabled that notice).
As I remember it, DJB thought glue was a bad idea, and dnscache always recursively gets its information starting with the root servers, caching only the data it fetched itself recursively.
This of course is not the case when run in caching-only mode where it queries a parent DNS server which may be faulty (and DJB doesn't recommend this usage).
Yahoo! has a nice login verification image that the user chooses that displays near the login credentials. If the image you chose isn't displayed, you're on a forged page.
This is in fact being asked for.
Personally, I'd rather someone asked for the right to invalidate any digital Copyright system that violates the rest of Copyright as it stands. That is to say, a DRM system that doesn't allow personal backups would be invalid. A DRM system that won't let me pull out a clip of a song for a review would be invalidated too.
I have nothing against DRM, IF it works within the confines of the law and my rights and that includes self-sacrificing the DRM layer when the law says that file becomes public domain.
You're right, and so's the GP. The GP is right about how the law is written, but you're right about how the courts have chosen to interpret it.
Luckily, some judges have seen fit to ignore the letter of the DMCA and given people the right to do what they should always have been allowed to do.
Asking for these exemptions might cause the government to realize what total idiocy the DMCA is though.
Agreed. I believe in Copyright only inasmuch as others shouldn't be able to claim they wrote something that I wrote (or created, more generally).
If Tom Clancy wrote a novel and some hack copied and republished it as his own, that should be wrong.
If however, I loan the book to a friend or cite a few paragraphs as an example of how he foresaw the future of warfare (or not), that should not be illegal.
It seems so common-sense, until the government lobbyists get involved.
How come all these 'real world' benchmarks they did are for 2GB files only? Why not thousands of small files instead? I'd like to know how the filesystem works for Maildir E-mail and web hosting, or for BitTorrent usage. BitTorrent especially loves to trash whole chunks of the drive all at once, although I understand that a test-bed BitTorrent network would take a bit more work.
What about browsing a directory full of downloaded photos (and the resulting thumbnail generation), or re-compressing a music collection?
That's a few benchmarks I think might be realistic.
No, the consumers would claim warranty protection, or possibly file a class-action suit for a known defective part.
Since it still hasn't been ascertained how many of these packages were resold with bad debt in them, or who's to blame, or how they were packaged and represented, blaming the purchaser is somewhat simplistic.
I never said any such thing; I said a manager should appreciate being told when his subordinates aren't doing their jobs properly so he can handle the problem before it grows.
Every complaint reflects the opinions of at least one hundred other people who didn't bother to complain; ignoring complaints is how you go out of business in the service industry.
... which is why both Nintendo and Sony use it for their game controllers? Bluetooth has excellent latency, it just requires chipsets that cost more than generic RF controllers.
But a Bluetooth mouse is universally compatible with other Bluetooth devices whereas the RF dongle version requires a dongle and a device that is compatible with that dongle.
No, the one thing they were good at was their joysticks for flight simulators. Their mice are sub-par compared to Logitech in my experience.
Unfortunately, they've kept making mice and quit making joysticks.
A single counter-example doesn't contest his statement about rarity at all.
University vs. College.
Comp Sci. is not a trades course; go to a local community college and take a technology or programming course if you want real-world examples.
Computer Science is about learning to understand computing, whether you use real or completely fictional interfaces.
echo "hello world"
Something like a multi HTTP / SMTP server test would be nice, and running a few dozen virtualized servers too.
Of course, you'll still have the HT bus advantage on the AMD box when you include the second (or third, or fourth) CPU, something Intel can't compete with yet.
For the people who like pictures, feel free to check out pictures of one of our socket F server boards before it got closed up and installed.
Considering the size disparity between Intel and AMD, its really very impressive that they keep up at all.
From that perspective, I've been watching the low-power VIA chips slowly creep into desktop speeds. We're at the point where the smaller players can start competing in the desktop and laptop markets soon, and it should be fun.
Religion only works when people have faith in that too, and yet its doing quite well world-wide.
Consumer faith is required for capitalism because otherwise you've moved to a barter system limited to objects of direct value to each participant.
Repackaging, selling and purchasing of those loans as parts of large packages of debt helped. Instead of individual stupid banks going out of business for the bad loans they signed off on, you've got a whole host of financial institutions who didn't realize what they were buying realizing they can't recover the money they invested in these packages.
I've personally always seen the "totally free market" people as Anarchists myself, not libertarian or republican, despite their own misunderstandings of what they stand for.
I'm proud to be Canadian where our well-regulated banking industry is doing quite well despite the global economic and credit crunch.
... and instead we'd be stuck owning stock we believed would make us money and had value and enjoy the income from the dividends? Wow that would be awful.
Only if those inanimate objects are naturally occurring. Inanimate objects created by other humans who may have (consciously or not) reflected those qualities in the object with their design may indeed deserve such recognition.