Humans may be affected by the changed magnetic poles as well. After a half-million years, men will again be able to find their ways to other places, no longer needing to rely on their spouses to ask directions.
Windows NT may not be VMS...but Dave Cutler, a key designer of both, acknowledges that WNT is VMS with each letter shifted one place...just like HAL and IBM. This was common knowledge inside Digital.
Be careful applying non-technical terms in technical discussions.
The common vernacular "bright" can either refer to luminance (close the shades, the light's too bright), or it can refer to color saturation (Can you tone down that bright green to a mere pastel?). A projector screen that reflects ambient light is going to reduce color saturation; and one that absorbs ambient light will increase color saturation, i.e. make it brighter.
I remember first hearing the word "morph" in conjunction with the movie Terminator 2. IMDB says this would be around that same timeframe, 1991 or so. Unfortunately it would take a little more effort than I've got time for to produce a citation.
If the IRS sent you a listing of what's been reported to them, they would lose the benefit of cross-checking the income reporting paperwork. This could enable you to cheat on your taxes by omitting income that an employer forgot about, and it would pevent the IRS from fining the employer for failing to report it.
Anybody who sent the IRS a W-2 or a 1099 with your name on it is required to send that information to you by January 31, so you should already have the same info the IRS does already.
According to the referenced article, VeriSign does not concede the existence of security issues with their wildcarded name resolution. This suggests a false, yet underlying, assumption: that the user will not provide sensitive information to VeriSign's servers because the servers have not identified themselves as legitimate recipients for that information.
Email breaks this assumption. RFC 2821 section 5 clearly states that when a fully-qualified domain name has no MX record, the MTA should treat the A record as an implicit MX with priority 0. In other words, if you typo the domain name of an email address and VeriSign resolves the domain to their address, VeriSign can receive and review messages that should otherwise bounce...you will not see an error unless VeriSign wants you to, and you will generally have no opportunity to withdraw the email before your mailer attempts to send it to VeriSign.
While many of us know that email (and DNS itself) is inherently insecure, the fact is that cleartext emails sent across the internet routinely contain sensitive information. The fact that VeriSign could (but currently does not) receive these is a security issue that merits consideration. VeriSign is arguably not playing nice with domain name resolution, and nobody should have to rely on them behaving nicely in handling mis-addressed email.
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Humans may be affected by the changed magnetic poles as well. After a half-million years, men will again be able to find their ways to other places, no longer needing to rely on their spouses to ask directions.
Windows NT may not be VMS...but Dave Cutler, a key designer of both, acknowledges that WNT is VMS with each letter shifted one place...just like HAL and IBM. This was common knowledge inside Digital.
The common vernacular "bright" can either refer to luminance (close the shades, the light's too bright), or it can refer to color saturation (Can you tone down that bright green to a mere pastel?). A projector screen that reflects ambient light is going to reduce color saturation; and one that absorbs ambient light will increase color saturation, i.e. make it brighter.
I remember first hearing the word "morph" in conjunction with the movie Terminator 2. IMDB says this would be around that same timeframe, 1991 or so. Unfortunately it would take a little more effort than I've got time for to produce a citation.
If the IRS sent you a listing of what's been reported to them, they would lose the benefit of cross-checking the income reporting paperwork. This could enable you to cheat on your taxes by omitting income that an employer forgot about, and it would pevent the IRS from fining the employer for failing to report it. Anybody who sent the IRS a W-2 or a 1099 with your name on it is required to send that information to you by January 31, so you should already have the same info the IRS does already.
According to the referenced article, VeriSign does not concede the existence of security issues with their wildcarded name resolution. This suggests a false, yet underlying, assumption: that the user will not provide sensitive information to VeriSign's servers because the servers have not identified themselves as legitimate recipients for that information.
Email breaks this assumption. RFC 2821 section 5 clearly states that when a fully-qualified domain name has no MX record, the MTA should treat the A record as an implicit MX with priority 0. In other words, if you typo the domain name of an email address and VeriSign resolves the domain to their address, VeriSign can receive and review messages that should otherwise bounce...you will not see an error unless VeriSign wants you to, and you will generally have no opportunity to withdraw the email before your mailer attempts to send it to VeriSign.
While many of us know that email (and DNS itself) is inherently insecure, the fact is that cleartext emails sent across the internet routinely contain sensitive information. The fact that VeriSign could (but currently does not) receive these is a security issue that merits consideration. VeriSign is arguably not playing nice with domain name resolution, and nobody should have to rely on them behaving nicely in handling mis-addressed email.