Did anyone else run into trouble with Verisign using Microsoft's code signing last week? A bunch of Verisign's certs expired, which shouldn't have mattered if you were using the API correctly, but WinVerifyTrust() was blocking for minutes at a time. (I'm not sure why the certs belong to Verisign and not MS)
The CryptoAPI mailing list was claiming that "verisign was running slow".
Anyhow, if its true, I don't trust Verisign for to provide infrastructure for squat.
Feds have had the power to get secret warrents from judges from the FISA court since 1978. These judges have never denied American law enforcement a warrant to surveil a conversation.
So under the secret and unchecked FISA court, their powers are essentially unlimited.
This just means they are going through the formality of asking permission - if they don't get it, they'll get it through FISA anyway.
the unit is slower than heck when you're scrolling the show listings or surfing between channels. Overall, I'm OK with it, but the slowness is frustrating
True that. I don't know about the rest of this post, but this part isn't a troll, just fact.
Want to make the listings really slow? Hit the enter button to change your listing options and choose the grid layout. It takes 5 seconds to draw the grid.
Does MythTV have anything like the Home Media Option? I'm pretty excited about the DVD burning potential there.
As to the cost of TiVo, yes that does bother me. In particular, the fact that a lifetime subscription is only good for the life of the particular TiVo for which you bought it. In my experience, TiVo's just aren't durable enough to ever merit the purchase of the lifetime subscription. That makes MythTV most appealing to me.
The primary purpose of Beagle 2 was to find evidence of life on Mars. Spirit Rover's was to find evidence of water. Beagle 2's mission was far more exciting, and I'm disappointed that it seems to have failed.
That being said, the anti-US "u r teh fat and stupids" rhetoric does get annoying sometimes, but those posters are in the minority.
The wireless industry, in particular, has often boasted that it managed to avoid the mistakes of the Internet by avoiding the open architecture and flat-rate pricing of the latter.
Isn't it effectively flat-rate pricing when they give you X minutes for Y dollars a month? Most people pick a plan that gives them more minutes than they'll use, so they never incur the overage charges.
I think for the majority of customers, it's effectively a flat-rate system.
Thanks for the link - that is interesting.
For those that didn't read it, the binaries with SP2 are going to be recompiled with protection to prevent buffer overruns.
But what I'm curious about is this -
closing ports except when they are in use,
How are they going to know what services you want to have listening and which ones you want shut down? And it they don't mean listening services, then isn't the port closed when it isn't in use anyway?
I think if Windows had better security, it would lose much of its user-friendliness, which is its primary appeal.
MS takes a lot of heat over security, but I think they are just delivering what the market wants. If they made Outlook "secure", there would be an immediate uproar by 99.9% of users over the loss of functionality.
Is this the black activist Brent Staples? The guy who wrote "Parallel Time"? If it is, then he seems to really be branching out in terms of subject matter.
He's not a regular for the NYT, is he?
I love TiVo too. Be warned, though - do NOT buy refurbs from tivo.com. The tivo community forum is riddled with reports of these things arriving broken, or breaking a week after they are setup.
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I love Stargate SG-1.
Did anyone watch the new one last night? I missed the ending. Is Jack really dead? He was my favorite character.
I don't think the parent is flamebait.
Ralph Yarro, CEO of the Canopy Group, also sits on Trolltech's Board of Directors and is a part owner of Trolltech.
There is no denying the relationship between SCO and TrollTech.
If you're going to use QT I hope you have indemnification to protect yourself from SCO.
Well, Hoagland does write books on this stuff occassionally, so money might be a factor, but I think he really believes this stuff.
I can't even tell what he is suggesting with the latest photos. Is he suggesting that rock is alive and attacked the rover?
I don't think this is correct. I wrote to K5 AIX libs to enable our app to authenticate to Windows 2000, and it works just fine.
Are you saying that Windows 2000 is incompatible as a KDC or a Kerberos client?
Yes, but isn't it Microsoft's job to renew their certificate with Verisign? It is Microsoft's public key they are signing, after all.
Did anyone else run into trouble with Verisign using Microsoft's code signing last week? A bunch of Verisign's certs expired, which shouldn't have mattered if you were using the API correctly, but WinVerifyTrust() was blocking for minutes at a time. (I'm not sure why the certs belong to Verisign and not MS)
The CryptoAPI mailing list was claiming that "verisign was running slow".
Anyhow, if its true, I don't trust Verisign for to provide infrastructure for squat.
Lego Mindstorms may not have sold well, but they were also hard as hell to find. The only place I can find them anymore is at the Mindstorm's website.
Feds have had the power to get secret warrents from judges from the FISA court since 1978. These judges have never denied American law enforcement a warrant to surveil a conversation.
So under the secret and unchecked FISA court, their powers are essentially unlimited.
This just means they are going through the formality of asking permission - if they don't get it, they'll get it through FISA anyway.
Uh, HMO is quite a bit more than file sharing.
the unit is slower than heck when you're scrolling the show listings or surfing between channels. Overall, I'm OK with it, but the slowness is frustrating
True that. I don't know about the rest of this post, but this part isn't a troll, just fact.
Want to make the listings really slow? Hit the enter button to change your listing options and choose the grid layout. It takes 5 seconds to draw the grid.
Does MythTV have anything like the Home Media Option? I'm pretty excited about the DVD burning potential there.
As to the cost of TiVo, yes that does bother me. In particular, the fact that a lifetime subscription is only good for the life of the particular TiVo for which you bought it. In my experience, TiVo's just aren't durable enough to ever merit the purchase of the lifetime subscription. That makes MythTV most appealing to me.
They've corrected it. What a novel concept. Perhaps /. could take a cue from sfgate.
Check out this news report from SFGate -
Mission officials said that means that if time permitted before the Martian dusk, the rover could start snapping pitchers of Mars late Saturday night.
I hope them pitchers look perty!
Take it easy on Beagle 2.
The primary purpose of Beagle 2 was to find evidence of life on Mars. Spirit Rover's was to find evidence of water. Beagle 2's mission was far more exciting, and I'm disappointed that it seems to have failed.
That being said, the anti-US "u r teh fat and stupids" rhetoric does get annoying sometimes, but those posters are in the minority.
I don't understand this claim -
The wireless industry, in particular, has often boasted that it managed to avoid the mistakes of the Internet by avoiding the open architecture and flat-rate pricing of the latter.
Isn't it effectively flat-rate pricing when they give you X minutes for Y dollars a month? Most people pick a plan that gives them more minutes than they'll use, so they never incur the overage charges.
I think for the majority of customers, it's effectively a flat-rate system.
Thanks for the link - that is interesting. For those that didn't read it, the binaries with SP2 are going to be recompiled with protection to prevent buffer overruns. But what I'm curious about is this - closing ports except when they are in use, How are they going to know what services you want to have listening and which ones you want shut down? And it they don't mean listening services, then isn't the port closed when it isn't in use anyway?
I think if Windows had better security, it would lose much of its user-friendliness, which is its primary appeal. MS takes a lot of heat over security, but I think they are just delivering what the market wants. If they made Outlook "secure", there would be an immediate uproar by 99.9% of users over the loss of functionality.
Is this the black activist Brent Staples? The guy who wrote "Parallel Time"? If it is, then he seems to really be branching out in terms of subject matter. He's not a regular for the NYT, is he?
I love TiVo too. Be warned, though - do NOT buy refurbs from tivo.com. The tivo community forum is riddled with reports of these things arriving broken, or breaking a week after they are setup.