Troll? You have got to be shitting me. We're talking about a protocol that stank of obsolescence out of the gate. There's nothing defensible about MMS. It needs to die. NOW.
No, the fact that any phones still do MMS to the exclusion of proper MIME email is what's sad. MMS has been a silly, obsolete hack since the moment it was conceived. I for one have no intention of ever sending or receiving another MMS, and I think it is unfortunate that Apple have caved in to pressure to support this nasty, hokey, pile-of-crap technology. I was hoping that Apple would continue to use their position as the manufacturer of the #1 top-selling mobile phone in the country to pressure other manufacturers to phase MMS out and replace it with far more interoperable MIME email.
that 1000 years of history is generally a period during which an organization learns to be get along with other people in the world. if in 1000 years scientology still exists and still behaves in the same way, it is still a cult. it's not the time period. it's the maturity gained during that period.
A proper desktop computer. A box that sits on the desk, with a cable running to the monitor of my choice. Not some labyrinthine mix of laptop and desktop hardware crammed like sardines behind an unreplaceable 6-bit display with some fancy dithering to make it look like it's an 8-bit panel. A box with a removable video card and an empty hard disk bay or two.
not quite true. the security of modern public-key cryptography is based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, but unless i am gravely misunderstanding them, most symmetric-key algorithms aren't threatened by increasingly efficient factorization tools.
Because you don't just use RAM to hold your processes; you use it for caching frequently accessed data from your (comparatively slower) hard disks as well. Thus, there is never any such thing as "enough" RAM, that is, until you have enough primary storage to equal the sum of all the secondary storage you'll use in a single computing session PLUS the amount of memory needed by all your running processes.
But nobody has that much memory. It's a waste of money. So, we trust the OS to swap out inactive pages and then fill the remaining space with disk caches. Then we spec our systems with as much primary storage as we need to contain actively used memory from processes as well as a healthy disk cache for the persistent data we're working on. With modern memory management, we get substantially higher disk access performance as well as a system that's affordable because it doesn't contain a terabyte of solid-state memory that can't even remember anything through a reboot.
Dammit, I must be doing it wrong. My swap partition is assigned its encryption key from/dev/random at boot time -- maybe I should switch to a passphrase?
Firefox 3 is singled out because of the obscene number of clicks required to accept and store the self-signed certificate. Sure, make this four-click routine the default behavior. But some of us deal with a lot of sites that use self-signed certificates. Let us set a configuration option to do it with one click. That's all I ask. I even promise I'll SSH into the machine and examine the key materials myself.
Your perspective makes sense if I trust that the CAs are doing something resembling a reasonable job handing out certificates. Once I no longer trust that they are properly verifying certificate applicants, the possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack is just one among many ways my messages can be read by an unintended third party.
An attacker who wants my financial details etc. is probably going to get them, and she doesn't need to attack my HTTP encryption to do so. I like SSL because it makes listening to my HTTP connections more difficult. No, not impossible. But much more difficult. Without SSL, anyone along the way can read my messages. For the moment, it's just me, Bob, and Eve. No, I don't like Eve one bit. But if she wants my shit, she's going to get it anyway.
Yeah, it would be nice if the CAs verified certificate applicants more aggressively. Then there would be a plausible hope that I could really trust the system to verify who was on the other end of my connection. But as I noted before, a certificate signed by a third party is easier and cheaper to buy than my usual 6-pack of beer. As long as that's true, I'll save my money for the beer and go see Bob in person if I've got something I really need to tell him in secret.
No, I use SSL to obscure my messages from people in between me and the server. If I want to verify the party to whom I'm speaking, I'll go over there myself with a 6-pack.
The funny thing about that 6-pack is that it costs more than the "real" SSL certificate, and I actually have to show ID sometimes to get it.
What's great about milk crates is that the milk bottlers finally retooled all their gear, so the crates were too small to hold 12" records. Narrower milk bottles, smaller crates, differently sized shelves in the stores...
And they got that all done just in time, too, because the new crates fit two rows of CDs just perfectly.
The programmer asserts that I Am Rich is a work of art. I tend to agree. There is a lot of expensive software in the world, and right alongside it is a lot of freeware and free software that performs the same functionality (sometimes less, and sometimes much more). Heinrich has found a function for software that cannot be performed by something that's not expensive -- you can't affirm "I Am Rich" with an Iphone application that costs nothing. It also serves as an interesting critique of a marketplace Apple has created for the exchange of goods that have no marginal cost to produce.
cdparanoia uses older techniques that are not the state of the art in recovering data from physically damaged audio CDs. exact audio copy has been patched and upgraded repeatedly over the last decade, and its age and cruftiness finally become pretty burdensome.
for a modern, cruft-free secure audio extractor, take a look at rubyripper. it uses cdparanoia in a novel way to securely extract audio from damaged media.
personally, i am a fan of the digital innovations skip doctor. it won't fix a label-side scratch, but i can only think of a couple of discs with intact foil that i've not been able to repair with mine.
Well, the reason there's no scrabble clone with discs instead of rectangular tiles is that discs don't tile as well, and the board would be a mess. This is not a problem for a computer game, of course, but would be impractical in a physical game set.
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Troll? You have got to be shitting me. We're talking about a protocol that stank of obsolescence out of the gate. There's nothing defensible about MMS. It needs to die. NOW.
No, the fact that any phones still do MMS to the exclusion of proper MIME email is what's sad. MMS has been a silly, obsolete hack since the moment it was conceived. I for one have no intention of ever sending or receiving another MMS, and I think it is unfortunate that Apple have caved in to pressure to support this nasty, hokey, pile-of-crap technology. I was hoping that Apple would continue to use their position as the manufacturer of the #1 top-selling mobile phone in the country to pressure other manufacturers to phase MMS out and replace it with far more interoperable MIME email.
that 1000 years of history is generally a period during which an organization learns to be get along with other people in the world. if in 1000 years scientology still exists and still behaves in the same way, it is still a cult. it's not the time period. it's the maturity gained during that period.
and we get the same thing when we try to watch stuff on the BBC website. it's not an american thing, it's just a copyright proprietarian thing.
i like the iphone keyboard.
note: i am someone curses when i have to type on any computer keyboard not equipped with cherry mx blue or alps white keyswitches.
That's exactly what we're talking about. They won't ship a proper desktop computer for under $2000. In 2009.
A proper desktop computer. A box that sits on the desk, with a cable running to the monitor of my choice. Not some labyrinthine mix of laptop and desktop hardware crammed like sardines behind an unreplaceable 6-bit display with some fancy dithering to make it look like it's an 8-bit panel. A box with a removable video card and an empty hard disk bay or two.
It's not hard, guys.
not quite true. the security of modern public-key cryptography is based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, but unless i am gravely misunderstanding them, most symmetric-key algorithms aren't threatened by increasingly efficient factorization tools.
Because you don't just use RAM to hold your processes; you use it for caching frequently accessed data from your (comparatively slower) hard disks as well. Thus, there is never any such thing as "enough" RAM, that is, until you have enough primary storage to equal the sum of all the secondary storage you'll use in a single computing session PLUS the amount of memory needed by all your running processes.
But nobody has that much memory. It's a waste of money. So, we trust the OS to swap out inactive pages and then fill the remaining space with disk caches. Then we spec our systems with as much primary storage as we need to contain actively used memory from processes as well as a healthy disk cache for the persistent data we're working on. With modern memory management, we get substantially higher disk access performance as well as a system that's affordable because it doesn't contain a terabyte of solid-state memory that can't even remember anything through a reboot.
Dammit, I must be doing it wrong. My swap partition is assigned its encryption key from /dev/random at boot time -- maybe I should switch to a passphrase?
orders of magnitude better? do you have the hyperbole plugin on or something? i can barely tell them apart, aside from the spash screen.
Firefox 3 is singled out because of the obscene number of clicks required to accept and store the self-signed certificate. Sure, make this four-click routine the default behavior. But some of us deal with a lot of sites that use self-signed certificates. Let us set a configuration option to do it with one click. That's all I ask. I even promise I'll SSH into the machine and examine the key materials myself.
Your perspective makes sense if I trust that the CAs are doing something resembling a reasonable job handing out certificates. Once I no longer trust that they are properly verifying certificate applicants, the possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack is just one among many ways my messages can be read by an unintended third party.
An attacker who wants my financial details etc. is probably going to get them, and she doesn't need to attack my HTTP encryption to do so. I like SSL because it makes listening to my HTTP connections more difficult. No, not impossible. But much more difficult. Without SSL, anyone along the way can read my messages. For the moment, it's just me, Bob, and Eve. No, I don't like Eve one bit. But if she wants my shit, she's going to get it anyway.
Yeah, it would be nice if the CAs verified certificate applicants more aggressively. Then there would be a plausible hope that I could really trust the system to verify who was on the other end of my connection. But as I noted before, a certificate signed by a third party is easier and cheaper to buy than my usual 6-pack of beer. As long as that's true, I'll save my money for the beer and go see Bob in person if I've got something I really need to tell him in secret.
You do your banking at a local free wireless hotspot? Really?
No, I use SSL to obscure my messages from people in between me and the server. If I want to verify the party to whom I'm speaking, I'll go over there myself with a 6-pack.
The funny thing about that 6-pack is that it costs more than the "real" SSL certificate, and I actually have to show ID sometimes to get it.
Oh no no. The story went unnoticed until now. It says so right there in the summary.
yeah, the first Trailer Trash Skanks 7" was pretty good but ever since they got that new drummer...
Ambitious... but rubbish.
What's great about milk crates is that the milk bottlers finally retooled all their gear, so the crates were too small to hold 12" records. Narrower milk bottles, smaller crates, differently sized shelves in the stores...
And they got that all done just in time, too, because the new crates fit two rows of CDs just perfectly.
The programmer asserts that I Am Rich is a work of art. I tend to agree. There is a lot of expensive software in the world, and right alongside it is a lot of freeware and free software that performs the same functionality (sometimes less, and sometimes much more). Heinrich has found a function for software that cannot be performed by something that's not expensive -- you can't affirm "I Am Rich" with an Iphone application that costs nothing. It also serves as an interesting critique of a marketplace Apple has created for the exchange of goods that have no marginal cost to produce.
Except sometimes, the box says AES and instead you get XOR. I'll take LUKS and dm-crypt over that any day of the week.
cdparanoia uses older techniques that are not the state of the art in recovering data from physically damaged audio CDs. exact audio copy has been patched and upgraded repeatedly over the last decade, and its age and cruftiness finally become pretty burdensome.
for a modern, cruft-free secure audio extractor, take a look at rubyripper. it uses cdparanoia in a novel way to securely extract audio from damaged media.
personally, i am a fan of the digital innovations skip doctor. it won't fix a label-side scratch, but i can only think of a couple of discs with intact foil that i've not been able to repair with mine.
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Well, the reason there's no scrabble clone with discs instead of rectangular tiles is that discs don't tile as well, and the board would be a mess. This is not a problem for a computer game, of course, but would be impractical in a physical game set.
You can thank Netscape's plugin spec for that -- it runs the plugin binary in the same memory space as the browser.