no need to go that far. In the privacy settings of firefox change the "Keep Until" option for cookies to "Until i close firefox" and all the cookies will be cleared as soon as you close the browser.
the nice thing about it is you can override it for specific sites through the exceptions button and allow selected sites to keep the cookie permanantly. i do this for slashdot and a few selected sites where i need to preserve my login.
Since the cookies.txt now only contain cookies of important sites i'm thinking of putting my cookies into a SVN repository so i can synchronise them between computers.
Console applications have a different but much more important feature.
Simplicity. Most console UI's are simple. unlike web/GUIs the console UIs are simple and restrictive which means the users have little choice and there is consistant way of doing something. you don't have to worry about what will happen if the user tries to select a different window and stuff. This type of environment is very very usefull for data entry and similar environments.
Wouldn't this create a possible vulnerability where a malicious host could forge a packet containing wrong time and having all other computers updating the clock to that time? or are the hosts somehow able to validate the packets?
I agree it wouldn't do much in terms of dammage but i would guess it would make it possible to bypass a few time restricted activities, logging, etc.
(pseudo random number generator or a generator which depended on hardware events which can be predicted) that was meant as an example of what isn't a truly random generator.
Also it should be remembered OTP is only as good as it's random number source. so unless the OTP was generated using some truly random number generator (pseudo random number generator or a generator which depended on hardware events which can be predicted) then random number sequance becomes predictable and OTP can indeed be broken.
It's ok if people ask for the cash difference the main point of the story is that people seem to prefer having a Wii to a PS3. and this is bad for Sony since if most people regret buying a PS3 and pass on the message to their friends it might tip a few buying decision to the favour of Wii.
on the other hand 70 or so trades out of (i assume) thousands of PS3 sales wouldnt really make much of a difference.
true enough and usually you don't even need to change the font since most clients show plain text with courier.
however there are status and summary messages sent by the system which is preferable to be read without going into excel or third party app. of course if you have a large amount of tabular data it's much better to generate a CSV formatted attachment which is more convenient. but for a relatively little amount of data which needs to be looked at quickly html tables are the best.
This is very true. I my self personally prefer plain text mail except when using outlook at the office where i use the default html or richtext.
however when developing i do sometimes use html because it makes reading tabular data and such much easier to read at a glance. true you could use plain text for these but with lots of information it makes it difficult to quickly extract the information you need.
This would not be practical simply because there are actually some servers which do need to generate lots of emails for valid reasons like order confirmation/status emails which are batch generated at the end of a day.
also cpu time is not a big problem for massive bot net owners who can get a hold of thousands of PCs. as for people noticing the 100% cpu usage on their computers you'd be surprised how much a simple user would brush off as the norm.
this is an excellent idea. but rather than having the registrar generate the SSL keys why not add them to the dns like in spf. this would allow the admins to generate the keys the way they want and if somehow a key is compromised (one of the mail servers gets stolen/hacked) they can quickly and easily generate a new key. also it would be valuable if you could have different keys for different servers.
I like linux and prefer it over windows. And i'm not a microsoft fan either. but i must say that i don't like the sound of this particular FSF project. if you have a product (Linux) you should spend your time promoting it and enhancing it. not trying to degrade you'r competitors product (no matter how truthful it might be).
You're not wrong. this is what microsoft calls 'innovation' take a existing concept or software. re-implement it. get 1000 or so clueless marketing people to hype it with a lot of buzzwords so that all the users will go into 'dummy mode' and use the microsoft's version thinking that it is a innovative product that only microsoft can make.
And that's not the only problem. even provided that sufficient solar energy continues to reach earth what about the effects of smog itself on people. the existing 'smog' already creates so much breathing difficulties in people. how much of a would it be when we make smog intentionally.
"Well the good news is you wont need to wear sunscreen, the bad news.. well the bad news is you'll have to wear a gas mask"
and don't forget that with all these portable mp3/media players, you tube, etc people are starting to take for granted the ability to rip/share media files and do whatever they wish with them. if they come across a windows version which doesn't allow them to do that they WILL consider it to be a bug not a feature.
a few years ago Microsoft and media companies would probably have gotten away putting any damn DRM restriction they want without trouble but i think it's a tad bit too late to do that now. the cat's out of the bag...
I think the poster is confused by not being able to see the BIOS since nowadays most BIOSes display a splash screen or a blank screen making it look like as if it's no there.
Either that or he has a very different computer indeed.
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no need to go that far. In the privacy settings of firefox change the "Keep Until" option for cookies to "Until i close firefox" and all the cookies will be cleared as soon as you close the browser.
the nice thing about it is you can override it for specific sites through the exceptions button and allow selected sites to keep the cookie permanantly. i do this for slashdot and a few selected sites where i need to preserve my login.
Since the cookies.txt now only contain cookies of important sites i'm thinking of putting my cookies into a SVN repository so i can synchronise them between computers.
Didn't somebody say "Science far enough advanced is indistinguishable from magic" or something like that ;)
java uses windows api's as well it has to since that is the only way to interact with the I/O devices.
Console applications have a different but much more important feature.
Simplicity. Most console UI's are simple. unlike web/GUIs the console UIs are simple and restrictive which means the users have little choice and there is consistant way of doing something. you don't have to worry about what will happen if the user tries to select a different window and stuff. This type of environment is very very usefull for data entry and similar environments.
Wouldn't this create a possible vulnerability where a malicious host could forge a packet containing wrong time and having all other computers updating the clock to that time? or are the hosts somehow able to validate the packets?
I agree it wouldn't do much in terms of dammage but i would guess it would make it possible to bypass a few time restricted activities, logging, etc.
Shoul've read it before clicking the post button
(pseudo random number generator or a generator which depended on hardware events which can be predicted) that was meant as an example of what isn't a truly random generator.
Also it should be remembered OTP is only as good as it's random number source. so unless the OTP was generated using some truly random number generator (pseudo random number generator or a generator which depended on hardware events which can be predicted) then random number sequance becomes predictable and OTP can indeed be broken.
It's ok if people ask for the cash difference the main point of the story is that people seem to prefer having a Wii to a PS3. and this is bad for Sony since if most people regret buying a PS3 and pass on the message to their friends it might tip a few buying decision to the favour of Wii.
on the other hand 70 or so trades out of (i assume) thousands of PS3 sales wouldnt really make much of a difference.
"Fire assholes and slashdoters. We pay for 8 hours, fucking work them."
Hmm, so then sir exactly what are you doing posting this rather than f****** work?
true enough and usually you don't even need to change the font since most clients show plain text with courier.
however there are status and summary messages sent by the system which is preferable to be read without going into excel or third party app. of course if you have a large amount of tabular data it's much better to generate a CSV formatted attachment which is more convenient. but for a relatively little amount of data which needs to be looked at quickly html tables are the best.
This is very true. I my self personally prefer plain text mail except when using outlook at the office where i use the default html or richtext.
however when developing i do sometimes use html because it makes reading tabular data and such much easier to read at a glance. true you could use plain text for these but with lots of information it makes it difficult to quickly extract the information you need.
Are you sure you're in the correct website? this one is called slashdot
there is this nice thing called the internet these days where you can find websites like www.dictionary.com ;)
The same can be said of the U.S. military in US. the only difference is that you can enjoy harry potter.
:)
disclaimer : i'm neither british nor american.
True it's sad to see an guilty person walk free.
But it's sadder to see a innocent person goto prison.
not at all. she's a writer thats what she does. i certainly hope she will write more books (not Harry Potter though).
This would not be practical simply because there are actually some servers which do need to generate lots of emails for valid reasons like order confirmation/status emails which are batch generated at the end of a day.
also cpu time is not a big problem for massive bot net owners who can get a hold of thousands of PCs. as for people noticing the 100% cpu usage on their computers you'd be surprised how much a simple user would brush off as the norm.
this is an excellent idea. but rather than having the registrar generate the SSL keys why not add them to the dns like in spf. this would allow the admins to generate the keys the way they want and if somehow a key is compromised (one of the mail servers gets stolen/hacked) they can quickly and easily generate a new key. also it would be valuable if you could have different keys for different servers.
I like linux and prefer it over windows. And i'm not a microsoft fan either. but i must say that i don't like the sound of this particular FSF project. if you have a product (Linux) you should spend your time promoting it and enhancing it. not trying to degrade you'r competitors product (no matter how truthful it might be).
Why is there both a bugs and a Microsoft tag on this article? isn't it rather redundant having both tags?
You're not wrong. this is what microsoft calls 'innovation' take a existing concept or software. re-implement it. get 1000 or so clueless marketing people to hype it with a lot of buzzwords so that all the users will go into 'dummy mode' and use the microsoft's version thinking that it is a innovative product that only microsoft can make.
It's a glitch! quick pull out the guns.
And that's not the only problem. even provided that sufficient solar energy continues to reach earth what about the effects of smog itself on people. the existing 'smog' already creates so much breathing difficulties in people. how much of a would it be when we make smog intentionally.
"Well the good news is you wont need to wear sunscreen, the bad news.. well the bad news is you'll have to wear a gas mask"
and don't forget that with all these portable mp3/media players, you tube, etc people are starting to take for granted the ability to rip/share media files and do whatever they wish with them. if they come across a windows version which doesn't allow them to do that they WILL consider it to be a bug not a feature.
a few years ago Microsoft and media companies would probably have gotten away putting any damn DRM restriction they want without trouble but i think it's a tad bit too late to do that now. the cat's out of the bag...
I think the poster is confused by not being able to see the BIOS since nowadays most BIOSes display a splash screen or a blank screen making it look like as if it's no there.
Either that or he has a very different computer indeed.