As many as it takes to sate our interest? Really, is it that hard for you to resist your obsessive compulsive behavior and not click on the link for stories you aren't interested in?
I'm afraid you were too busy having a stroke to actually let what I said soak in. I'm sorry.
My point wasn't concerning anything regarding people getting ahold of "Joe"'s public key. You and the OP are entirely correct that there is virtually nothing nefarious that can be done with someone's public key.
The point is, HOW do you know that the key labeled "Joe's Public Key" actually is Joe's and not a key created by someone doing a Joe job on Joe? (PS. Since you know what wikipedia is, I won't insult you by telling you to look Joe job up if you don't know what it means.)
Unless you know Joe, and he's handed you his public key on physical media, you can't know. Not without some other secured method of getting the information from him. In other words, you have no way of proving that who you are talking to, is in fact who they say they are.
Without that bit of information, your communication is still just as vunerable than it was without any encryption. Perhaps more so, since you are now operating under the assumption that the channel is secure.
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Congratulations, you are only half wrong.
With "Joe Random"'s public key, you can indeed encrypt using it and only the owner of the matching private key can decrypt it. However, who is to say that you are really using Joe's public key?
And conversely, if you get something signed that can be decrypted using Joe's public key, how can you be sure that it was actually signed by Joe?
The answer is, you can't. Not unless Joe has a secure way of providing you his public key. Perhaps publishing it to a web site works, if the only part of your identity that is being proven is that you are "Joe of web site X". But that still doesn't prove much about Joe, does it?
You obviously haven't gotten a grasp on the whole supply and demand concept here. People like reading about him, therefore people post articles about him. This is news about nerds, what part of it wouldn't fit in the Slashdot topography?
I haven't yet finished the game (last night I quit after sampling the final battle), however I do know from playing around with Portal that you STOP receiving Achievements if you turn cheat mode on.
In Portal I got to a certain section where I had to use consecutive portals to get somewhere and just couldn't get my gun to aim well enough to get the next portal laid down before I would fall. Although I completed the game by switching on noclip for that short section and then turning the cheats back off, I stopped getting any achievements after that.
It's quite possible that the people who haven't yet gotten those achievements are a mixture of people who are still working on completing it or have attempted to cheat past a section.
Outside of specific employment contracts and relevant state laws (i.e. states which aren't as "at will" as the rest of the nation) your company is not obliged to employee you till the end of period of your resignation notice. If they don't employee you, they don't have to pay you.
What previous posters have indicated isn't that the company is obligated to pay for the full period of the notices, but that it may be possible (depending on the unemployment laws in your state, these vary greatly), it may be possible for you to apply for unemployment benefits for the period intervening. This isn't equivalent to being paid by your company, although any money you are paid is charged to the companies unemployment insurance account (maintained in each state they work in). For one, unless you are working at Burger King the cap on unemployment benefits is low enough that you'll be making a small percentage of what you were making before. And secondly, most locations require that you prove that you are looking for another job while on benefits. If they know you already have something lined up, just that it won't start for months down the road, they will probably nix your benefits.
However I would highly suggest that you do your own research in on your own local laws before even considering trying the above. I know for a fact that someone I used to work with tried this in my area and not only did they not get benefits, but because the game was found out after they had already drawn a few checks, they were charged with fraud. They eventually talked their way out of it, but it's not something I would recommend to someone.
I know your post was meant to be funny. But actualy, there are some of us that follow that line of thought (though not to the end you took it).
One of my 'dreams' is to have a HTPC system where there is a custom channel where the shows are ones which I have pre-recorded or purchased on DVD. The idea being that the shows are shown with 'ads' just the ones I want to watch. Each break in the show where the ads would be would be filled with a handful of short clips (trailers for movies and video games, ads that I actually enjoy watching, and other random junk) selected from items I've saved because.
Of course, the ads would be skipable if I just wanted to jump to the next section of the story.
For me, the problem with ads isn't that they are intrusive (most shows I watch were written and scripted knowing they would be have ads between sections, so it's not like the flow is being destroyed) it's that most ads on TV are so effing boring and repeating.
I remember visiting my folks to watch some PPV movie (one of the places where ads shouldn't even be in the first place) and every stupid ad break contained the same effing commercial of some idiot's child making a mess and the loving mother cleaning it up with a smile and X brand paper towels. It would have been cute, once. 20 times in less than 2 hours however just made it incredibly annoying.
From what little I've read on this, the fakes are sent both ways. So while you could drop it on your end, unless the folk on the other side are doing the same you won't get much of an effect. On the other hand, everything starts with just one person.
If you examine the developer's commentary in the game, yes they had to scrap and redo major portions of the game a number of times before they found what they liked. Noteably, one of the first versions had a "Commander" ala Natural Selection that they really wanted to keep but couldn't ever get to 'groove' right.
What they delivered was an excedingly well polished execution of a classic. I don't begrudge them the time it took to come up with this, any more than I'll begrudge Will taking the time to get Spore right. Somethings really are worth their waits.
Until, you know, the ISP drops your ass because you have caused their entire dynamic IP pool to be DDOS'ed. Or, the bot net just starts DDOS'ing the routers just before your IP and suddenly everyone's connection dies.
Having waited for a game that was almost as delayed as DNF, and loving what finally came out, I'm more than willing to let someone like Will take his time and get Spore right, six months is a blink of the eye.
Not quite the same, but people have already discovered how to 'install' Half-Life 2 into Portal. Meaning you can play though Half-Life 2 using the portal gun. From watching the demo video (HL2 proper with portal gun) it looks like fun. Unfortunately I'm at work so I can't look up the link for you, but I'm fairly certain I saw it on Planet Half-Life.
Seriously though, omnipotance is only scary when it's one way. If the government knows everything about me, but I also know everything about them, I really don't need to fear them.
90% of the things people are worried over the world finding out about them are things that 90% of the world shares in common with them. And the remaining 10% of the things people are worried over others knowing about them are easily overlooked when you know the 10% of everyone else as well.
That's what "Google Gears" is for. In otherwords, the only time you should have a problem is if you are not only being DDOS'ed, but on a completely new machine that's never hooked up with your service before.
I may be the only one who has played any of these and would want a remake. But damnit, I never got to finish Universe II before dead floppies took it from me.
For those who never played either of the first two, these were part-space sim, part trader, part interactive fiction, part X-Com style tactical combat (well before X-Com was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.)
The space sim was a 'hard science' simulation, as opposed to a 'fighter combat' simulator. You plotted courses and routes and watched your 'nav screen' to check that other ships weren't attempting to intercept you. Ship to ship combat was handled by missles rather than magic space beam weapons. And if you managed to disable their shields (or they yours) you could send boarding parties over to take control of the ship.
That started the tactical combat, with your squad of marines fighting through randomly generated cooridors attempting to take enough control nodes to shut out the other crew.
If space combat wasn't your thing, you could mine planets. Uninhabited planets were relatively easy to mine, but the best ores were almost always in inhabited planets, leading to a similar combat to the boarding parties, to wipe out the local defences while your mining equipment did it's thing.
And if you were a non-violent person, you could dock at almost at any planet, pickup a huge variety of goods and attempt to make a profit off it. Each planet had it's own set of legal and illegal goods, as well as a 'sophistication' level that determined what they would be interested in.
The IF story is where I eventually got stuck, you play an undercover agent in a Cold War-esque standoff between two planetary alliances (you are on the "democratic" side of course). I got to a point where I couldn't get anything else to happen and lacking the era of easyily found walkthroughs, never figured out what I missed.
But even then, it was still fun wandering the cosmos blasting ships and making a buck.
Is there really a need to avoid proliferation of top level domains? Outside of the old chestnut: "I want to own every domain that could be tied to X"?
Is there some sort of limit where too many top level domains break something?
Because if not, I really don't see the point in worrying about whether we 'need' another top level domain or not. Having more top level domains means more chances that when you look at something, having its domain name can actually tell you something.
I'm surprised that this is not as well known as it is. Having had a feminist neighbor living next door for over five years now, one would think that it would be immediately obvious that the plural of slime would be men. Aren't the synonyms or something?
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I'm afraid you were too busy having a stroke to actually let what I said soak in. I'm sorry.
My point wasn't concerning anything regarding people getting ahold of "Joe"'s public key. You and the OP are entirely correct that there is virtually nothing nefarious that can be done with someone's public key.
The point is, HOW do you know that the key labeled "Joe's Public Key" actually is Joe's and not a key created by someone doing a Joe job on Joe? (PS. Since you know what wikipedia is, I won't insult you by telling you to look Joe job up if you don't know what it means.)
Unless you know Joe, and he's handed you his public key on physical media, you can't know. Not without some other secured method of getting the information from him. In other words, you have no way of proving that who you are talking to, is in fact who they say they are.
Without that bit of information, your communication is still just as vunerable than it was without any encryption. Perhaps more so, since you are now operating under the assumption that the channel is secure.
Congratulations, you are only half wrong.
With "Joe Random"'s public key, you can indeed encrypt using it and only the owner of the matching private key can decrypt it. However, who is to say that you are really using Joe's public key?
And conversely, if you get something signed that can be decrypted using Joe's public key, how can you be sure that it was actually signed by Joe?
The answer is, you can't. Not unless Joe has a secure way of providing you his public key. Perhaps publishing it to a web site works, if the only part of your identity that is being proven is that you are "Joe of web site X". But that still doesn't prove much about Joe, does it?
You obviously haven't gotten a grasp on the whole supply and demand concept here. People like reading about him, therefore people post articles about him. This is news about nerds, what part of it wouldn't fit in the Slashdot topography?
I haven't yet finished the game (last night I quit after sampling the final battle), however I do know from playing around with Portal that you STOP receiving Achievements if you turn cheat mode on.
In Portal I got to a certain section where I had to use consecutive portals to get somewhere and just couldn't get my gun to aim well enough to get the next portal laid down before I would fall. Although I completed the game by switching on noclip for that short section and then turning the cheats back off, I stopped getting any achievements after that.
It's quite possible that the people who haven't yet gotten those achievements are a mixture of people who are still working on completing it or have attempted to cheat past a section.
New? When did he stop?
Please let me join in chorus thanking you for that explanation. That was amazingly informative. Thank you.
Not only is your company not obliged to employee(sic) you, they aren't obliged to employ you either. Bleh, that was a dumb typo.
In the US.
Outside of specific employment contracts and relevant state laws (i.e. states which aren't as "at will" as the rest of the nation) your company is not obliged to employee you till the end of period of your resignation notice. If they don't employee you, they don't have to pay you.
What previous posters have indicated isn't that the company is obligated to pay for the full period of the notices, but that it may be possible (depending on the unemployment laws in your state, these vary greatly), it may be possible for you to apply for unemployment benefits for the period intervening. This isn't equivalent to being paid by your company, although any money you are paid is charged to the companies unemployment insurance account (maintained in each state they work in). For one, unless you are working at Burger King the cap on unemployment benefits is low enough that you'll be making a small percentage of what you were making before. And secondly, most locations require that you prove that you are looking for another job while on benefits. If they know you already have something lined up, just that it won't start for months down the road, they will probably nix your benefits.
However I would highly suggest that you do your own research in on your own local laws before even considering trying the above. I know for a fact that someone I used to work with tried this in my area and not only did they not get benefits, but because the game was found out after they had already drawn a few checks, they were charged with fraud. They eventually talked their way out of it, but it's not something I would recommend to someone.
What with the price of the piss they call beer here, I might as well be...
Correction, few will follow if they change it AND the open source clients don't/can't implement the changes.
Bittorrent Inc. has become the W3C analog and has just about as much influence (i.e. no real influence outside what others have willingly given them).
I know your post was meant to be funny. But actualy, there are some of us that follow that line of thought (though not to the end you took it).
One of my 'dreams' is to have a HTPC system where there is a custom channel where the shows are ones which I have pre-recorded or purchased on DVD. The idea being that the shows are shown with 'ads' just the ones I want to watch. Each break in the show where the ads would be would be filled with a handful of short clips (trailers for movies and video games, ads that I actually enjoy watching, and other random junk) selected from items I've saved because.
Of course, the ads would be skipable if I just wanted to jump to the next section of the story.
For me, the problem with ads isn't that they are intrusive (most shows I watch were written and scripted knowing they would be have ads between sections, so it's not like the flow is being destroyed) it's that most ads on TV are so effing boring and repeating.
I remember visiting my folks to watch some PPV movie (one of the places where ads shouldn't even be in the first place) and every stupid ad break contained the same effing commercial of some idiot's child making a mess and the loving mother cleaning it up with a smile and X brand paper towels. It would have been cute, once. 20 times in less than 2 hours however just made it incredibly annoying.
From what little I've read on this, the fakes are sent both ways. So while you could drop it on your end, unless the folk on the other side are doing the same you won't get much of an effect. On the other hand, everything starts with just one person.
You skip item requirements, not the items, meaning you can do things in a far more efficent fashion as opposed to having to backtrack.
If you examine the developer's commentary in the game, yes they had to scrap and redo major portions of the game a number of times before they found what they liked. Noteably, one of the first versions had a "Commander" ala Natural Selection that they really wanted to keep but couldn't ever get to 'groove' right.
What they delivered was an excedingly well polished execution of a classic. I don't begrudge them the time it took to come up with this, any more than I'll begrudge Will taking the time to get Spore right. Somethings really are worth their waits.
Until, you know, the ISP drops your ass because you have caused their entire dynamic IP pool to be DDOS'ed. Or, the bot net just starts DDOS'ing the routers just before your IP and suddenly everyone's connection dies.
Good luck Mr Bond.
Having waited for a game that was almost as delayed as DNF, and loving what finally came out, I'm more than willing to let someone like Will take his time and get Spore right, six months is a blink of the eye.
I'm guessing you don't know much of the history of Network Solutions/Verisign if you can phrase the question using the word "anymore".
Not quite the same, but people have already discovered how to 'install' Half-Life 2 into Portal. Meaning you can play though Half-Life 2 using the portal gun. From watching the demo video (HL2 proper with portal gun) it looks like fun. Unfortunately I'm at work so I can't look up the link for you, but I'm fairly certain I saw it on Planet Half-Life.
Ok.
All of it?
Phew, that was easy.
Seriously though, omnipotance is only scary when it's one way. If the government knows everything about me, but I also know everything about them, I really don't need to fear them.
90% of the things people are worried over the world finding out about them are things that 90% of the world shares in common with them. And the remaining 10% of the things people are worried over others knowing about them are easily overlooked when you know the 10% of everyone else as well.
That's what "Google Gears" is for. In otherwords, the only time you should have a problem is if you are not only being DDOS'ed, but on a completely new machine that's never hooked up with your service before.
I may be the only one who has played any of these and would want a remake. But damnit, I never got to finish Universe II before dead floppies took it from me.
For those who never played either of the first two, these were part-space sim, part trader, part interactive fiction, part X-Com style tactical combat (well before X-Com was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.)
The space sim was a 'hard science' simulation, as opposed to a 'fighter combat' simulator. You plotted courses and routes and watched your 'nav screen' to check that other ships weren't attempting to intercept you. Ship to ship combat was handled by missles rather than magic space beam weapons. And if you managed to disable their shields (or they yours) you could send boarding parties over to take control of the ship.
That started the tactical combat, with your squad of marines fighting through randomly generated cooridors attempting to take enough control nodes to shut out the other crew.
If space combat wasn't your thing, you could mine planets. Uninhabited planets were relatively easy to mine, but the best ores were almost always in inhabited planets, leading to a similar combat to the boarding parties, to wipe out the local defences while your mining equipment did it's thing.
And if you were a non-violent person, you could dock at almost at any planet, pickup a huge variety of goods and attempt to make a profit off it. Each planet had it's own set of legal and illegal goods, as well as a 'sophistication' level that determined what they would be interested in.
The IF story is where I eventually got stuck, you play an undercover agent in a Cold War-esque standoff between two planetary alliances (you are on the "democratic" side of course). I got to a point where I couldn't get anything else to happen and lacking the era of easyily found walkthroughs, never figured out what I missed.
But even then, it was still fun wandering the cosmos blasting ships and making a buck.
Is there really a need to avoid proliferation of top level domains? Outside of the old chestnut: "I want to own every domain that could be tied to X"?
Is there some sort of limit where too many top level domains break something?
Because if not, I really don't see the point in worrying about whether we 'need' another top level domain or not. Having more top level domains means more chances that when you look at something, having its domain name can actually tell you something.
Most of them are asking you to vote for the gorillas.
I'm surprised that this is not as well known as it is. Having had a feminist neighbor living next door for over five years now, one would think that it would be immediately obvious that the plural of slime would be men. Aren't the synonyms or something?