Just because it doesn't play your files doesn't mean it doesn't work. It plays something like 95% of the DivX/MPEG-4/Xvid files I throw at it.
The reason your h264 files won't play is because they use the wrong container format. You can easily convert them in less than 60 seconds. (Try mkv2vob)
Which is completely irrelevant to your original point. You don't need to opt out of openID, just don't use it if you don't want to.
There are many good ways to fix the problems with passwords. A shared secret (e.g. an image or a sentence) that your provider only shows to you (several banks do this, I'm not aware of an openID provider which does).
Or you can remove the password entirely. There are providers that use client-side SSL certs (my choice), one time passwords or "click on the correct picture(s)" in order to log on. All of which might not work. You can only do so much to protect people from themselves. If they run programs they receive by email, all bet's are off.
Of course, your entire argument assumes that people have different passwords for different sites, yet fall for phishing attempts which don't reveal the important passwords.
https://certifi.ca/ actually offers a free provider that works with any SSL certificate. As you point out, this makes phishing almost impossible. You need a certificate from somewhere else, but there is a list of certificate providers on that site, some of which are free. There is one other provider I know of that offers this, but I couldn't get their service to work.
You don't understand how openID works. There is no central database, if you try to login to site.example.org, you give it your username, it redirects you to your provider's website (e.g. openid.yahoo.com), where you authenticate. The provider then sends you back to the original website. Your password is safe as long as you don't fall for a phishing attempt and as long as your provider (yahoo) doesn't screw up.
I don't have to argue with every half-baked theory on the internet. If you read the comments to this article, they're full of people shooting down the idea you espoused. a) It's not my argument to make. Do you have any proof for your outrageous claim? As in a court case. Certifying copies is what a notary public is for. I'm skeptical the judge would give much weight to your proof. b) I've heard at least two lawyers laugh at the idea you just described. It probably depends on jurisdiction, you really should mention what country's law you're arguing from. c) This paricular website: http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp seems to strongly disagree with you. I'm not going to find any more, you find some support for your claim. d) Moral rights really only apply if you assign your copyright. Your entire "argument" is unsubstantiated assertions. I'm warning people to talk to a lawyer before they rely on them.
Modding up wrong advice makes you an even bigger idiot.
There's no point in mailing something to yourself unless you are a stamp collector. This is why asking for legal advice on slashdot is a really bad idea.
This decision is not very applicable to the rest of Canada because Quebec is a civil law jurisdiction (like Continental Europe and Louisiana). The court looks to the Civil Code of Quebec to decide the case.
In the rest of the provinces, the court looks to the "common law", that is to say, rulings in previous cases. This is similar to England and most of the United States.
If you read the supreme court's decision, it relies heavily on the Civil Code of Quebec.
Of course, I am not a laywer and this is not legal advice. If you want advice, pay for it.
Several (but not all) Canadian provinces have mandatory public auto insurances. It's a government monopoly.
A few people in Alberta, which has a private system, actually try to (illegally) take out insurance by claiming they live in Saskatchewan, which has a public system and lower rates. Of course, they get the lower rates by limiting your right to sue if you get involved in an accident. It is also, arguably, more efficient.
What's dell going to do, have people ship them old computers? Ya, that'll be real cheap.
This is one of those places where you should tax something and have the government provide the service. There are definitely going to be economies of scale.
The Province of Alberta (Canada) already has a program where there is a small fee when you buy a computer and then they recycle old computers for free. You just take the computer to a local depot:
I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice and this is based on Canadian law, but UK law is similar.
If the new corporation is controlled by the same people, the transaction is considered to be non-arm's-length. If the assets aren't sold at fair market value and the old corporation goes bankrupt (as a result of a legal judgement), the transaction could be set aside and the assets would go to the old corporations creditors. Courts don't like bankrupt people or companies giving away their assets.
What they could do is start a new corporation in the same business without any of the old corporations assets. They are two distinct legal entities, so the contract probably wouldn't apply.
There are no valid SINs starting with 0. Though I think the CRA can assign fictitious SINs starting with 0 to people who don't have SINs. (Since you can't work without a SIN, this would be pretty hard.)
It is 1.5 hours drive from where I live, and a really beautiful place.
So you know, that should be: It is a 1.5 hour drive from...
1.5 hours is describing how long the drive is, so you say "a 1.5 hour drive", or if it was farther away "a 3 hour drive". Don't ask me to justify the language, I just speak it.:-)
It is a *great* ad blocker. It works as a transparent proxy, so it will work with any browser. It is available for OS X, Windows (which I use) and various Linux distributions.
Do you have any idea how incredibly stupid most people are. How often do you think someone is going to press the wrong finger onto the scanner by accident. After the first time, the police department is going to stop sending in a SWAT team and just call the store and ask if they have another very confused customer.
Well, let's pretend that Tom lives in Germany. And let's pretend that Amazon.com only lets you set up a donation account if you live in the United States. What about Amazon.com again?
Any answer I give you will offend someone. But that's too bad, people are too easily offended.
Basically, Linus is the person who wrote the Linux "kernel", the core of the operating system. The GNU software people wrote a lot of the programs that most people use with linux. Thus many pendantic people like to call it "GNU/Linux".
In short, you don't have a mailinator account, you can check the e-mail for any account you can name.
Tell the nytimes your email is nytimes@mailinator.com. THen go to mailinator, type nytimes into the account box and check the mail. Heck, there might even still be emails from someone elses nytimes account signup. (they purge them regularily though)
There's a reason the americans don't change their currency. It is the gold standard in underdeveloped countries. From dictators in Africa with safes full of hundred dollar bills to ordinary people in parts of latin america who want "dollars". If you changed it, how are you planning on telling the millions of people in the world with dollar bills from the past few decades. That's also why they're all the same boring colour.
You're forgiven. I'll admit, I laughed at the original joke. And the only reason I did laugh was because I do know what went on at the time. This is definately black humour. This certainly wasn't meant to be a realistic representation of the German government. In fact, if you didn't have any knowledge of history, I don't think you would understand the joke.
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Just because it doesn't play your files doesn't mean it doesn't work. It plays something like 95% of the DivX/MPEG-4/Xvid files I throw at it.
The reason your h264 files won't play is because they use the wrong container format. You can easily convert them in less than 60 seconds. (Try mkv2vob)
Which is completely irrelevant to your original point. You don't need to opt out of openID, just don't use it if you don't want to.
There are many good ways to fix the problems with passwords. A shared secret (e.g. an image or a sentence) that your provider only shows to you (several banks do this, I'm not aware of an openID provider which does).
Or you can remove the password entirely. There are providers that use client-side SSL certs (my choice), one time passwords or "click on the correct picture(s)" in order to log on. All of which might not work. You can only do so much to protect people from themselves. If they run programs they receive by email, all bet's are off.
Of course, your entire argument assumes that people have different passwords for different sites, yet fall for phishing attempts which don't reveal the important passwords.
https://certifi.ca/ actually offers a free provider that works with any SSL certificate. As you point out, this makes phishing almost impossible. You need a certificate from somewhere else, but there is a list of certificate providers on that site, some of which are free. There is one other provider I know of that offers this, but I couldn't get their service to work.
You don't understand how openID works. There is no central database, if you try to login to site.example.org, you give it your username, it redirects you to your provider's website (e.g. openid.yahoo.com), where you authenticate. The provider then sends you back to the original website. Your password is safe as long as you don't fall for a phishing attempt and as long as your provider (yahoo) doesn't screw up.
A more detailed explanation is available.
I don't have to argue with every half-baked theory on the internet. If you read the comments to this article, they're full of people shooting down the idea you espoused.
a) It's not my argument to make. Do you have any proof for your outrageous claim? As in a court case. Certifying copies is what a notary public is for. I'm skeptical the judge would give much weight to your proof.
b) I've heard at least two lawyers laugh at the idea you just described. It probably depends on jurisdiction, you really should mention what country's law you're arguing from.
c) This paricular website:
http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp
seems to strongly disagree with you. I'm not going to find any more, you find some support for your claim.
d) Moral rights really only apply if you assign your copyright.
Your entire "argument" is unsubstantiated assertions. I'm warning people to talk to a lawyer before they rely on them.
Offering people wrong advice makes you an idiot.
Modding up wrong advice makes you an even bigger idiot.
There's no point in mailing something to yourself unless you are a stamp collector. This is why asking for legal advice on slashdot is a really bad idea.
This decision is not very applicable to the rest of Canada because Quebec is a civil law jurisdiction (like Continental Europe and Louisiana). The court looks to the Civil Code of Quebec to decide the case.
In the rest of the provinces, the court looks to the "common law", that is to say, rulings in previous cases. This is similar to England and most of the United States.
If you read the supreme court's decision, it relies heavily on the Civil Code of Quebec.
Of course, I am not a laywer and this is not legal advice. If you want advice, pay for it.
Several (but not all) Canadian provinces have mandatory public auto insurances. It's a government monopoly.
A few people in Alberta, which has a private system, actually try to (illegally) take out insurance by claiming they live in Saskatchewan, which has a public system and lower rates. Of course, they get the lower rates by limiting your right to sue if you get involved in an accident. It is also, arguably, more efficient.
More information about Manitoba Public Insurance.
Sigh, this is why we need an "incorrect" moderation.
That is possibly the worst explanation of the money multiplier effect that i have ever heard.
What's dell going to do, have people ship them old computers? Ya, that'll be real cheap.
This is one of those places where you should tax something and have the government provide the service. There are definitely going to be economies of scale.
The Province of Alberta (Canada) already has a program where there is a small fee when you buy a computer and then they recycle old computers for free. You just take the computer to a local depot:
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/env/waste/ewaste/index.html
Someone doesn't understand how the law works.
I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice and this is based on Canadian law, but UK law is similar.
If the new corporation is controlled by the same people, the transaction is considered to be non-arm's-length. If the assets aren't sold at fair market value and the old corporation goes bankrupt (as a result of a legal judgement), the transaction could be set aside and the assets would go to the old corporations creditors. Courts don't like bankrupt people or companies giving away their assets.
What they could do is start a new corporation in the same business without any of the old corporations assets. They are two distinct legal entities, so the contract probably wouldn't apply.
There are no valid SINs starting with 0. Though I think the CRA can assign fictitious SINs starting with 0 to people who don't have SINs. (Since you can't work without a SIN, this would be pretty hard.)
So you know, that should be:
It is a 1.5 hour drive from
1.5 hours is describing how long the drive is, so you say "a 1.5 hour drive", or if it was farther away "a 3 hour drive". Don't ask me to justify the language, I just speak it.
Try using Privoxy.
It is a *great* ad blocker. It works as a transparent proxy, so it will work with any browser. It is available for OS X, Windows (which I use) and various Linux distributions.
Do you have any idea how incredibly stupid most people are. How often do you think someone is going to press the wrong finger onto the scanner by accident. After the first time, the police department is going to stop sending in a SWAT team and just call the store and ask if they have another very confused customer.
Well, let's pretend that Tom lives in Germany. And let's pretend that Amazon.com only lets you set up a donation account if you live in the United States. What about Amazon.com again?
Any answer I give you will offend someone. But that's too bad, people are too easily offended.
Basically, Linus is the person who wrote the Linux "kernel", the core of the operating system. The GNU software people wrote a lot of the programs that most people use with linux. Thus many pendantic people like to call it "GNU/Linux".
That's my line!
I've used both and I prefer mailinator.
In short, you don't have a mailinator account, you can check the e-mail for any account you can name.
Tell the nytimes your email is nytimes@mailinator.com. THen go to mailinator, type nytimes into the account box and check the mail. Heck, there might even still be emails from someone elses nytimes account signup. (they purge them regularily though)
There's a reason the americans don't change their currency. It is the gold standard in underdeveloped countries. From dictators in Africa with safes full of hundred dollar bills to ordinary people in parts of latin america who want "dollars". If you changed it, how are you planning on telling the millions of people in the world with dollar bills from the past few decades. That's also why they're all the same boring colour.
I wonder whether this would even be legal.
Here in Alberta (Canada), everyone always checks the signature on my card. I am constanty impressed.
You're forgiven. I'll admit, I laughed at the original joke. And the only reason I did laugh was because I do know what went on at the time. This is definately black humour. This certainly wasn't meant to be a realistic representation of the German government. In fact, if you didn't have any knowledge of history, I don't think you would understand the joke.
Would you leave you passphrase written down on every nearby surface?
Becuase your fingerprints will be all over unless you wear gloves all the time.
Other body parts aren't quite this extreame but still have similar weaknesses.