when it was considered a security hole if you DIDN'T use a redirect on your page? IIRC there used to be an attack vector where malicous sites used links from freemail pages to steel session IDs from the referer-headers.
Why can't we just put our own profiles on ome webspace and model this "friend" thing with something I would e.g. call "link"?
Throw in some decentralized profile hoster (think of geocities) with the possibility to add your friends as links in the html-header (like googles social graph suggests) and some simple profile-page building tools where you upload your pictures and stuff and your profile is generated automatically. For anything else (messages, groups, status updates) use WHATEVER ANYONE ELSE uses too. (Email, Newsgroups, Twitter)
Your account is compromised. Changeing passwords would seem a better solution to me. Voiding all other security tokens should be a part of the password-change-process anyway!
Just logging a hacker out is just like throwing a burgelar out of your house at night and let him keep the keys to your house!
Not sure, but don't they get timestamped with system timestamps (epoch)? And they could easily be timestamped with TIA. We only would need to agree to a new standard, and not fiddle around with an existing standard thats used in many more scenarios than computer or network stuff.
Perhaps we should simply go for a big solution and only use timestamps along with meta-information about timescale/zone.
It would only be confusing if only half of the population switched to the "global time zone".
Good luck trying to switch the whole world to the same thing at once.
I'll come back to you when the confusion between inch and m is gone for good. (and I'm not even talking about real SI units!) I guess bythen also everyone drives on the same side of the roads...
but these are all standards. Different standards for different purposes. And UTC was chosen for civil timekeeping,as this is the standard that aims to keep in sync with the actual astronomical time.
besides that.. if you took out the leap seconds,you would get TIA! You'd have two identical standards with different names, and none of them would fulfill the requirement for civil timekeeping. (no noon drifting off into the evenings)
If you're proposing a global time without the need for timezones, don't make it confusable with "ordinary" times. People tend to meet at "2 o' clock" and NOT at either "two hours after the sun passing its highest point" or "two hours after the global time resetted to 0"
Each time would need to be accompanied with information about the timescale in use.
Or to be more exact: Each time would STILL need to be accompanied with information about the timescale in use.
This should already be done, but usually can be skipped if you have an idea if the person you're talking with is in the same country.
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me a bit of this: http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Firefighters'_Guild
It was a posting about death rays! How could you possibly NOT click on it!
There used to be a time when those gimmicks would be included in the retail box of the games.
Infocom comes to mind.
ok,no rotting meat, but a blood splattered bracelet would SO be in Infocoms style.
when it was considered a security hole if you DIDN'T use a redirect on your page? IIRC there used to be an attack vector where malicous sites used links from freemail pages to steel session IDs from the referer-headers.
That would be the reason he gave as a)
And of course the fact that you shouldn't eat or drink anything there.
Best PR-move ever!
Even if YOU are not allowed to use your old name anymore, you can make the public keep on using it by refusing to pick a new one.
"she who doesn't WANT to be named"
not to be confused with "The artist whose former name was held captive by his record label"
Why can't we just put our own profiles on ome webspace and model this "friend" thing with something I would e.g. call "link"?
Throw in some decentralized profile hoster (think of geocities) with the possibility to add your friends as links in the html-header (like googles social graph suggests) and some simple profile-page building tools where you upload your pictures and stuff and your profile is generated automatically. For anything else (messages, groups, status updates) use WHATEVER ANYONE ELSE uses too. (Email, Newsgroups, Twitter)
+1 Funny for the "Non-Consensual Resurrection"
Despite "no media coverage", it landed on /.
This might backfire!
Wouldn't be the first time to have some stupid anti-celeb turn into a (B-)Celeb and actually start a fashion trend.
I still don't get it... Why are people watching TV shows featuring people that annoy them?
Your account is compromised. Changeing passwords would seem a better solution to me. Voiding all other security tokens should be a part of the password-change-process anyway!
Just logging a hacker out is just like throwing a burgelar out of your house at night and let him keep the keys to your house!
Or a "National Security Letter" where you can't neither talk nor complain about?
BTW: Is it mandatory to put the diagram with the three intersecting circles into each and every powerpoint presentation?
that much for farmers beeing green.....
Not sure, but don't they get timestamped with system timestamps (epoch)? And they could easily be timestamped with TIA. We only would need to agree to a new standard, and not fiddle around with an existing standard thats used in many more scenarios than computer or network stuff.
Perhaps we should simply go for a big solution and only use timestamps along with meta-information about timescale/zone.
THAT sounds sensible, but more like a implementation detail how an OS should handle time.
Yep.
We didn't start bragging about nicking the tests a few days in advance until we were long out of school....
It would only be confusing if only half of the population switched to the "global time zone".
Good luck trying to switch the whole world to the same thing at once.
I'll come back to you when the confusion between inch and m is gone for good. (and I'm not even talking about real SI units!) I guess bythen also everyone drives on the same side of the roads...
but these are all standards. Different standards for different purposes. And UTC was chosen for civil timekeeping,as this is the standard that aims to keep in sync with the actual astronomical time.
besides that.. if you took out the leap seconds,you would get TIA! You'd have two identical standards with different names, and none of them would fulfill the requirement for civil timekeeping. (no noon drifting off into the evenings)
Because it will be confusing and not clear if you're referring to the "old" or the "new" 11 o'clock.
you're giving an old expression new semantics. That's confusing at best, newspeak at worst.
At least make the new timescale different enough from the old one so that it's clear to which someone is referring.
Swatch did at least this right when they tried their "internet time". (Thats pretty much the same thing you're proposing)
If you're proposing a global time without the need for timezones, don't make it confusable with "ordinary" times. People tend to meet at "2 o' clock" and NOT at either "two hours after the sun passing its highest point" or "two hours after the global time resetted to 0"
Each time would need to be accompanied with information about the timescale in use.
Or to be more exact: Each time would STILL need to be accompanied with information about the timescale in use.
This should already be done, but usually can be skipped if you have an idea if the person you're talking with is in the same country.
why are you using UTC-Timestamps in the first place instead of, say, TAI timestamps?
So any clock that wants to stay in sync with UTC must be connected to either NTP or GPS or similar timekeeping service.
...except GPS time already doesn't follow leap seconds.
but, as I learned, at least transmits the offset against UTC (= number of skipped leap seconds) along with the GPS time signal.