RunAs doesn't always work as expected
But this guy has a blog dedicated completely to the whole non-admin subject, including some utilities to make it easier.
Granted, you have to be a little stupid to actually enter your name/pwd in a site just because you received an e-mail.
But what about pranks? It's easy to create an email that looks legitimate and send it as another person... You only need your regular email software. Even more if you actually know both people.
For example, when I was studying (4 years ago), we used to email with some teachers. One guy sent a mail to another, posing as the teacher, telling him his test or assignment (I don't remember) was bad.
Not everybody has the time to check mail headers and verify the identity of the sender (and even that can be spoofed). Until we move to an all-signed email world, we're stuck with this.
That scheme is not bad, but it can be improved. In Windows, if you enable the "Password must meet complexity requirements" policy (which can be done at the domain level), passwords are forced to have characters from 3 groups of: lower, upper, digits, and symbols.
I usually generate passwords like !$comPUTER2005, which are really easy to remember, and hard to break (of course, you should switch the element order from password to password...).
Another thing that helps a lot is using always passphrases instead of passwords. "theBLACKcat!" is as strong as "gm4JIsdf39PO".
If you think spam is only V14GR4 ads, it's easy to think most people won't ever buy anything from spammers.
But in Argentina, for example, most of the spam I get is from people selling pirated software. And I must tell you, a LOT of times I've received mails offering programs I needed and didn't want to buy.
The only reason why I didn't buy anything is that I don't want to feed the spammer business. But I really wouldn't expect everybody to do the same.
Let's think about this for a minute... - The average price for a CD in my country (Argentina) is U$S 8 - The average CD contains about 13 songs. That would make the song price 0.62
Now, there are several problems with current DRM'd digital downloads: - Worse quality (lossy compression) - I can play the songs in about 1% of the places where I can play a CD - I can't sell the songs when I get tired of them - I don't get a CD box (they DO add value for me)
This, combined with the fact that distribution costs are A LOT lower, should make the downloaded songs AT LEAST 4 times cheaper. That is, 0.15 a song.
Conclusion: I'll buy DRM'd songs when they price them correctly. 15 cents a song, 2 bucks for an album, and perhaps some discount for buying several albums from the same artist.
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The browser could display the address bar with an alternative background/border, as Firefox does for https.
Of course you should be aware of the change, but it preserves compatibility while adding a way to let the user know the site is probably fake (don't forget 99.9% of the sites in the world DON'T use IDN)
In Argentina, the cost per hour is $0.30 - $1 (USD) It's NEVER more than that. And in big cities (like Buenos Aires, where I live) it's always $0.30 - $0.50
In fact, many people use "Locutorios" (dedicated internet/telephone places) as offices: at $0.30 an hour, it's less than $50 a month.
Even though Microsoft documentation is excellent, I've find LOTS of situations where the behavior isn't clear, and I have to decompile the.NET libraries (using Reflector) to get it right. For example: The documentation for CollectionBase.IList.Remove(object) doesn't say what happens if the value isn't in the collection: ignore or throw an exception (it throws an exception; that sucks).
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RunAs doesn't always work as expected
But this guy has a blog dedicated completely to the whole non-admin subject, including some utilities to make it easier.
Granted, you have to be a little stupid to actually enter your name/pwd in a site just because you received an e-mail.
But what about pranks?
It's easy to create an email that looks legitimate and send it as another person... You only need your regular email software. Even more if you actually know both people.
For example, when I was studying (4 years ago), we used to email with some teachers.
One guy sent a mail to another, posing as the teacher, telling him his test or assignment (I don't remember) was bad.
Not everybody has the time to check mail headers and verify the identity of the sender (and even that can be spoofed). Until we move to an all-signed email world, we're stuck with this.
Well, it's not that bad... I pay about USD 35 a month for TV + cablemodem at 256kbps... the best service I can get is 2mbps, and it's USD 100...
And this is in the most important city of South America.
That scheme is not bad, but it can be improved.
In Windows, if you enable the "Password must meet complexity requirements" policy (which can be done at the domain level), passwords are forced to have characters from 3 groups of: lower, upper, digits, and symbols.
I usually generate passwords like !$comPUTER2005, which are really easy to remember, and hard to break (of course, you should switch the element order from password to password...).
Another thing that helps a lot is using always passphrases instead of passwords. "theBLACKcat!" is as strong as "gm4JIsdf39PO".
It looks like you are backing up data...
If you think spam is only V14GR4 ads, it's easy to think most people won't ever buy anything from spammers.
But in Argentina, for example, most of the spam I get is from people selling pirated software. And I must tell you, a LOT of times I've received mails offering programs I needed and didn't want to buy.
The only reason why I didn't buy anything is that I don't want to feed the spammer business. But I really wouldn't expect everybody to do the same.
Let's think about this for a minute...
- The average price for a CD in my country (Argentina) is U$S 8
- The average CD contains about 13 songs. That would make the song price 0.62
Now, there are several problems with current DRM'd digital downloads:
- Worse quality (lossy compression)
- I can play the songs in about 1% of the places where I can play a CD
- I can't sell the songs when I get tired of them
- I don't get a CD box (they DO add value for me)
This, combined with the fact that distribution costs are A LOT lower, should make the downloaded songs AT LEAST 4 times cheaper. That is, 0.15 a song.
Conclusion: I'll buy DRM'd songs when they price them correctly.
15 cents a song, 2 bucks for an album, and perhaps some discount for buying several albums from the same artist.
More tech details, etc: Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD
...nothing?
Speak for yourself. I live in Argentina and I find it funny.
(But I'm also jewish, so I don't know if it counts. BTW, I'm also socialist; thank G'd I'm not gay and black!)
The browser could display the address bar with an alternative background/border, as Firefox does for https.
Of course you should be aware of the change, but it preserves compatibility while adding a way to let the user know the site is probably fake (don't forget 99.9% of the sites in the world DON'T use IDN)
I have a Sugar Ray disc.
Is it the same?
...I thought they were testing robots by shooting them :-)
In Argentina, the cost per hour is $0.30 - $1 (USD)
It's NEVER more than that. And in big cities (like Buenos Aires, where I live) it's always $0.30 - $0.50
In fact, many people use "Locutorios" (dedicated internet/telephone places) as offices: at $0.30 an hour, it's less than $50 a month.
Asimov wrote about that about 62 years ago. :-)
It's a small story called "Time Pussy". Very funny
...They want their useless ideas back.
Yeah... I like NOFX too =)
It looks nice to me... :-)
Reminds me of the times when I was 4:900/763.1
On the other hand, a search for "microsoft sucks" returns 519,000 results on Google, and 160,630 on MSN.
Just a little more balanced =)
Anyway, do you think anybody that doesn't even have electricity actually cares about internet?
48kbps? Please...
Even the best codecs (Ogg, MPC) sound like crap at those bitrates.
And you won't believe this... the very same thing happens with software cd-keys and activation! :-)
It's a strange world...
Even though Microsoft documentation is excellent, I've find LOTS of situations where the behavior isn't clear, and I have to decompile the .NET libraries (using Reflector) to get it right.
For example: The documentation for CollectionBase.IList.Remove(object) doesn't say what happens if the value isn't in the collection: ignore or throw an exception (it throws an exception; that sucks).
The demonstration of "beer uninstalling" is a little bit ugly...