The spoofing vulnerability is only partly an issue in my mind.
Personally, I'd love Firefox to try and catch obvious spoof attempts and warn the user immediately that the link looks like an attempt to spoof a source, but this again will just be worked around eventually.
A mouse-over showing the actual source host for the link in question would be nice but wait, there's already an extension for Firefox that does that.
"I don't think that word means what you think it means."
A 'state' is an autonomous region of the world, if you will, with governance of some form. The USA is a grouping of independant states (more or less these days), whereas Canada is one state, France is a state, and Germany is a state, but the EU is not a state.
There are many meanings for the word, but "by the state" usually means "by government" in this context.
It seems to me that in the post-dialup world, many people ditched PPP as fast as they could because of the miseries they had setting it up in those days.
With modern tools like wvdial and rp-pppoe however, you never need to see the pppd command-line anymore.
PPP is a very powerful protocol and it will work for many of your situations. IPSec however does have a lot of features not implicit in SSH + PPP.
Its called living in a democracy -- with a few exceptions for the "Greater good", what the majority think is true, is true.
Period.
Vote people out of office who disagree.
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There's a reason I never got a Comp Sci degree. Mind you, I'd love to take a good distance-ed algorithms course if anyone feels like recommending one.
For reference, I've been programming in C/C++/Perl/Python/bash/sed/awk/etc. for around 12 years now, but sometimes find myself reinventing a wheel because I didn't take a course.
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I didn't read past your first paragraph, sorry.
If you don't fit the Google model, work elsewhere. Period.
I love the Google model. I'd love to work for Google if they had a canadian office that was hiring.
I'd be very happy to do the interview -- its the type of person I am. I love a challenge, I love intellectualism.
Mozilla Thunderbird blocks images by default in messages until you click "load images". Useful for reading graphical newsletters you *did* subscribe to.
LDAP is not and has never been read-only. LDAP is fully read-write capable, its simply up to the client to support write access and the server to have correct permissions.
Read-write support for LDAP in Mozilla would make me very happy (bookmark storage, contact storage, settings, etc.)
That's what makes me laugh whenever I see those ads; they're lying (to keep their jobs). If the executives upstairs weren't the ones losing money, then why would they spend that much money on a trailer to tell us how they're not losing money?
Yeah, the little guys need jobs. I *paid* to see this movie, I'm in the theatre, shut up.
In Canada, its illegal, even in a public place, to take a picture of someone without their consent now (response to phone cameras, peeping toms, etc.).
The first Intel AGP graphics cards used the same trick and some reviewers actually claimed that they'd out-perform other graphics cards from the likes of 3dfx, etc.
That didn't happen by a long shot -- AGP never kept up with on-board memory speeds.
Unfortunately, your last comparison (dealing with whether a movie is a consumable or an object that can be returned) is flawed.
Firstly, I was speaking of purchasing a DVD, and my reference to the theatre was only w.r.t. previewing.
I have frequently gone to a movie in the theatre, not liked it and walked out demanding a refund. I've gotten those refunds every time. I go back to see other movies -- I guess your consumable argument falls down.
Secondly, as for buying a DVD, you can also return it if you don't like it -- or can you? Most places won't take them back, like software, for some reason. For that reason, I only buy used DVDs at the local second-hand shop. Good selection too.
I'm 27, married, with a child, own a $1000+ stereo system and make similar cash to the previous poster. I download movies before they're available on DVD then buy them if I like them. Wait, you want me to see if I like the movie by paying $10 to go to the theatre?
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RPM is easier to deal with for the user than Installshield. Use it.
Its basically equivalent to the Microsoft Installer format.
I'd rather build RPMs than MSIs most days, and I do both.
The spoofing vulnerability is only partly an issue in my mind.
Personally, I'd love Firefox to try and catch obvious spoof attempts and warn the user immediately that the link looks like an attempt to spoof a source, but this again will just be worked around eventually.
A mouse-over showing the actual source host for the link in question would be nice but wait, there's already an extension for Firefox that does that.
"I don't think that word means what you think it means."
A 'state' is an autonomous region of the world, if you will, with governance of some form. The USA is a grouping of independant states (more or less these days), whereas Canada is one state, France is a state, and Germany is a state, but the EU is not a state.
There are many meanings for the word, but "by the state" usually means "by government" in this context.
It seems to me that in the post-dialup world, many people ditched PPP as fast as they could because of the miseries they had setting it up in those days.
With modern tools like wvdial and rp-pppoe however, you never need to see the pppd command-line anymore.
PPP is a very powerful protocol and it will work for many of your situations. IPSec however does have a lot of features not implicit in SSH + PPP.
PS Windows XP has tab completion.
Full-length movie on DVD for $30, movie with no extras on CD in SVCD format for $10.
Something like that at least.
Its called living in a democracy -- with a few exceptions for the "Greater good", what the majority think is true, is true.
Period.
Vote people out of office who disagree.
There's a reason I never got a Comp Sci degree. Mind you, I'd love to take a good distance-ed algorithms course if anyone feels like recommending one.
For reference, I've been programming in C/C++/Perl/Python/bash/sed/awk/etc. for around 12 years now, but sometimes find myself reinventing a wheel because I didn't take a course.
I didn't read past your first paragraph, sorry.
If you don't fit the Google model, work elsewhere. Period.
I love the Google model. I'd love to work for Google if they had a canadian office that was hiring.
I'd be very happy to do the interview -- its the type of person I am. I love a challenge, I love intellectualism.
You mean kerberos?
Most industries learned a long time ago to give away free stuff to encourage people to market the products for them.
Its a lot easier to put your logo on a tshirt and have it seen by thousands of college kids than to buy an ad during the superbowl.
Mozilla Thunderbird blocks images by default in messages until you click "load images". Useful for reading graphical newsletters you *did* subscribe to.
The majority of the people I train have no idea what the address bar is for.
The problem isn't where to host the .torrent files, its how to host the trackers.
Now if every client was a tracker, that might be different.
LDAP is not and has never been read-only. LDAP is fully read-write capable, its simply up to the client to support write access and the server to have correct permissions.
Read-write support for LDAP in Mozilla would make me very happy (bookmark storage, contact storage, settings, etc.)
Which part of hating foreigners and ratting on your neighbours and wanting to destroy inter-country free trade makes you think fascism? :-)
Speaking of that agency ... I wonder how many of their spooks read Slashdot.
;-)
Anyone grepped the logs recently?
That's what makes me laugh whenever I see those ads; they're lying (to keep their jobs). If the executives upstairs weren't the ones losing money, then why would they spend that much money on a trailer to tell us how they're not losing money?
Yeah, the little guys need jobs. I *paid* to see this movie, I'm in the theatre, shut up.
I'd moderate that funny if I could ;-)
We do however have a lot of kiosks in malls for paying parking fines and the like.
In Canada, its illegal, even in a public place, to take a picture of someone without their consent now (response to phone cameras, peeping toms, etc.).
I'd like to know how that fits in.
You don't "consume" a DVD. Get over it.
Yes, a grocery store will accept rotten food back -- I've done it. "I bought this yesterday and its covered in mold already"
Oh, and read the label on that jar of jelly. "Return unused portion for refund". Most companies *want* you to tell them you didn't like their product.
GET O-V-E-R IT.
Every company in the world understands the consumer is their customer except the music/movie industry who wants to push us into slavery.
The first Intel AGP graphics cards used the same trick and some reviewers actually claimed that they'd out-perform other graphics cards from the likes of 3dfx, etc.
That didn't happen by a long shot -- AGP never kept up with on-board memory speeds.
Unfortunately, your last comparison (dealing with whether a movie is a consumable or an object that can be returned) is flawed.
Firstly, I was speaking of purchasing a DVD, and my reference to the theatre was only w.r.t. previewing.
I have frequently gone to a movie in the theatre, not liked it and walked out demanding a refund. I've gotten those refunds every time. I go back to see other movies -- I guess your consumable argument falls down.
Secondly, as for buying a DVD, you can also return it if you don't like it -- or can you? Most places won't take them back, like software, for some reason. For that reason, I only buy used DVDs at the local second-hand shop. Good selection too.
I'm 27, married, with a child, own a $1000+ stereo system and make similar cash to the previous poster. I download movies before they're available on DVD then buy them if I like them. Wait, you want me to see if I like the movie by paying $10 to go to the theatre?
I just searched Google for Learn Cobol and only got 417k results. Not that popular a subject anymore I suppose.