Buy something and ask the cashier to turn it on. They have to, by law in my previous post. Most are even nice enough to turn it on if you just ask, without paying. Though I'd usually spare two quarters to not have to walk into most of the gas stations in LA.:)
California auto stations are required to provide compressed air, water, and a gauge for measuring air pressure to any paying customers at their station. They can be fined if their pumps do not work correctly for more than 5 consecutive days.
In my line of work I'm on every corner of the web each day. I've been using this same XP install since 2002, and only recently (last 5-6 months) have I even installed AVG. I've never had spyware, or a virus on this system.
What did I do?
#1. Don't open e-mail attachments that could contain executable code. (Sadly, since MSOffice sucks, this is what caused me to need AVG. Accepting documents from clients)
#2. Adjust the security settings in your browser-of-choice to prompt on plugins, et al.
#3. Don't download software from less-than-reputable sites.
#4. If anyone else uses my workstation (God forbid), I put them on a Guest user, with no administrative rights.
#5. Oh. I'm behind a $30 D-Link wifi router. Not exactly a PIX, but again, I'm winning.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. -- Noam Chomsky
If you must check your e-mail on a public computer, at least use SSL. Any large webmail provider supports it, and if its your own box, you can setup SSL for free with a self-signed certificate.
I stay in hotels 2-3 nights, per week. I'd say about 60% of the time they photocopy my ID. I usually call ahead, book on the phone with credit card (I call, rather than book online, I find I get better deals this way), and then when I show up in person I give them my name and they give me a key. Sometimes they ask for the credit card I used to book, *OR* the method I wish to pay by. So at this point I could give them a *different* credit card, or cash. No ID.
Seriously guys, there's been 6 in a row. You're duping comments now.
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Persons or organizations providing public services.. Slashdot has Common Carrier Status since they do not censor posts. Hotmail has CCS. Usenet server operators have CCS. Google (and its cache) have CCS. Moderated forums usually do not have CCS, as they manually filter content and allow/disallow "at will".
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It cannot be argued any other way.
I most certainly agree, I too would have a moral obligation to prevent it from spreading, however.. what's right isn't always right.
If you begin censoring content, you will lose Common Carrier Status, and [could] be held liable for anything illegal that moves through your servers from there out. Why do you think usenet (as a whole, there are moderated groups) is so raw and uncensored?
The encoding is applied separately to each component of a domain name which is not representable solely within the ASCII character set, and a reserved prefix 'xn--' is added to the translated Punycode string. For example, bücher becomes bcher-kva in Punycode, and therefore the domain name bücher.ch would be represented as xn--bcher-kva.ch in IDNA.
Compare an ASCII 'punycoded' URL http://xn--tdali-d8a8w.lv/ (http://xn--tdali-d8a8w.lv/) (working) and its full Unicode counterpart that does include Latvian characters with appropriate diacritics: http://tûdaliò.lv (http://t%C5%ABdali%C5%86.lv)
punycoded URLs are prefixed with xn-, and look like nonsense to those of us looking at Latin character sets. Look at the difference between those two sample URLs. Which one is easier to train to identify? Do you have a suggestion for a better solution to IDN spoofing concerns?
From changelog:
International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode.
To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the "network.IDN_show_punycode" preference to false.
It's just no longer the default, which is what most have been crying for, right? Better security by default so our less web-savvy family and friends don't get owned online?
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Heresay - did not match any words.
Did you mean:
Hearsay
Heresy
In 1973? Air hoses were perfect siphoning hoses for gas.
Buy something and ask the cashier to turn it on. They have to, by law in my previous post. Most are even nice enough to turn it on if you just ask, without paying. Though I'd usually spare two quarters to not have to walk into most of the gas stations in LA. :)
California auto stations are required to provide compressed air, water, and a gauge for measuring air pressure to any paying customers at their station. They can be fined if their pumps do not work correctly for more than 5 consecutive days.
perhaps the power plant where you are getting the electricity from is cleaner burning (or nuclear) than your car
But it's not.. from TFA, 60% of electricity produced in the US is generated by burning [much dirtier and more polluting] coal.
In my line of work I'm on every corner of the web each day. I've been using this same XP install since 2002, and only recently (last 5-6 months) have I even installed AVG. I've never had spyware, or a virus on this system.
What did I do?
#1. Don't open e-mail attachments that could contain executable code. (Sadly, since MSOffice sucks, this is what caused me to need AVG. Accepting documents from clients)
#2. Adjust the security settings in your browser-of-choice to prompt on plugins, et al.
#3. Don't download software from less-than-reputable sites.
#4. If anyone else uses my workstation (God forbid), I put them on a Guest user, with no administrative rights.
#5. Oh. I'm behind a $30 D-Link wifi router. Not exactly a PIX, but again, I'm winning.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
-- Noam Chomsky
If you must check your e-mail on a public computer, at least use SSL. Any large webmail provider supports it, and if its your own box, you can setup SSL for free with a self-signed certificate.
I stay in hotels 2-3 nights, per week. I'd say about 60% of the time they photocopy my ID. I usually call ahead, book on the phone with credit card (I call, rather than book online, I find I get better deals this way), and then when I show up in person I give them my name and they give me a key. Sometimes they ask for the credit card I used to book, *OR* the method I wish to pay by. So at this point I could give them a *different* credit card, or cash. No ID.
The other time I just opened my vest
Consider not wearing a vest in public to discourage attackers.
First Post Not About Dupe!
Seriously guys, there's been 6 in a row. You're duping comments now.
Persons or organizations providing public services.. Slashdot has Common Carrier Status since they do not censor posts. Hotmail has CCS. Usenet server operators have CCS. Google (and its cache) have CCS. Moderated forums usually do not have CCS, as they manually filter content and allow/disallow "at will".
It cannot be argued any other way.
I most certainly agree, I too would have a moral obligation to prevent it from spreading, however.. what's right isn't always right.
If you begin censoring content, you will lose Common Carrier Status, and [could] be held liable for anything illegal that moves through your servers from there out. Why do you think usenet (as a whole, there are moderated groups) is so raw and uncensored?
Perhaps this is a problem with the law as a whole, but Common Carrier goes back 70+ years. I don't see this changing soon..
Be aware of Common Carrier Status, and how you'll quickly lose it the instant you start manually censoring.
Is there a 1-900 number we can call you at when the #@$@ups in creative review break my AdWords campaigns? =)
-A Loyal Advertiser
So who are these "competitors" of mulletsgalore.com?
Holy slashvertisement.
and for those of us with real facial hair?
I keep loving seeing these companies lately who are Doing The Right Thing (tm). Here's to hoping clue is contagious.
Greetings from an Ohio expatriate in SoCal. =)
HA-ha!
Wow, I was just thinking it'd be cool if the address bar worked that way no more than a couple hours ago.. nice work :)
Did you even read the wiki?
The encoding is applied separately to each component of a domain name which is not representable solely within the ASCII character set, and a reserved prefix 'xn--' is added to the translated Punycode string. For example, bücher becomes bcher-kva in Punycode, and therefore the domain name bücher.ch would be represented as xn--bcher-kva.ch in IDNA.
Compare an ASCII 'punycoded' URL http://xn--tdali-d8a8w.lv/ (http://xn--tdali-d8a8w.lv/) (working) and its full Unicode counterpart that does include Latvian characters with appropriate diacritics: http://tûdaliò.lv (http://t%C5%ABdali%C5%86.lv) punycoded URLs are prefixed with xn-, and look like nonsense to those of us looking at Latin character sets. Look at the difference between those two sample URLs. Which one is easier to train to identify? Do you have a suggestion for a better solution to IDN spoofing concerns?
Hello FUD.
From changelog:
International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode. To show International Domain Names in Unicode, set the "network.IDN_show_punycode" preference to false.
It's just no longer the default, which is what most have been crying for, right? Better security by default so our less web-savvy family and friends don't get owned online?
From changelog: International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode.
(wiki linkage mine).
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