Nothing, assuming you want people you don't know to be able to use your site securely. If you know your users personally, you could give them the certificate for your site in advance.
More realistically, you can get a web certificate for about £20/year which is probably less than your domain and webhosting costs. If you want to use it to accept payments, you can use one of several payment services (Paypal, justgiving etc.) which charge a small percentage rather than an up-front fee.
To see whether that's important to you, just ask the following question:
Do I want people looking at my site to be able to contact me directly.
Also consider the two following situations: 1) Your website has been hacked and is showing a fake IRS "register your details to receive your tax rebate" form. Do you want someone to be able to tell you this, or do you want them to ask your hoster/registrar to pull your site? 2) Your domain expires soon, competing registrars want to advertise to you to move your domain to them.
Here in the UK, private individuals can specifically opt-out of including their personal information in the WHOIS record and that's available through nominet, no matter who your registrar is.
That finely crafted UI is a strict syntax, it's just designed in such a way that you can't write anything invalid.
Is there really any difference between typing the keyword FORWARD followed by the argument 10 and dragging a FORWARD block and then moving a slider?
Personally I'd say it's analogous to the difference between a menu driven GUI and a command line. Both can accomplish the same things but the GUI might be more discoverable and thus easier to learn whereas the command line lets you get things done more quickly.
Alternatively they could cut it out for the American market and sell it as it was created in Europe, where many popular games are given the highest 18+ rating and are still sold in shops.
Are you aware that you can just copy the gcf files from an up to date SteamApps folder onto everyone else's machine? Just be sure to close steam first before copying over the files.
We do this all the time when there's a big TF2 update during a weekend LAN at uni (we have the uni's internet connection mostly to ourselves at 11pm but it's still quicker to copy the files over the network or pass round an external drive).
While I can see the piracy aspect, there are a good few games in my drawer that I wouldn't have considered if I hadn't "borrowed" them for a weekend at a lan party. If you really do have to have 1 CD key per player then I guess SC2 will join the growing list of games which are good but we never have big games with because not enough people own it. (Currently DOWII, CoH. TF2 is the only exception because it's that awesome.)
No you don't, you would only need to enter a password if the script wanted root privileges.
You don't need to be root to run a malicious program as the user who downloaded the program. Without root you can't mess with the whole system or with files belonging to other users but you can still log the user's keystrokes, you can still run a botnet daemon listening for incoming connections, you can still send out spam, you can still search though all the user's personal files, you can still alter the user's startup scripts to run the program again whenever they log in.
If you're an idiot, you're vulnerable no matter what OS you're running.
Whether the site is offering you freeporn.exe or freeporn.sh doesn't matter so long as the user runs it.
Sure, on a secure multi-user system you probably can't screw up everyone else's stuff like you can on Windows but setting a botnet daemon or a keylogger to run on user login is easy.
A huge advert window opens, minimising the fullscreen game that I'm playing to tell me to buy their product.
This must be some use of the word "non-intrusive" which I am not aware of.
Admittedly, I didn't have any problems with it as an anti-virus package, it was much better than bloated "full protection" software packages from Symantec and McAfee but I feel it's cheating somewhat to advertise your product as "free anti-virus" and then use it as a platform to advertise the pay-for versions which just have more features that I don't want.
Or if you aren't used to using a mac. (Middle click should open a new tab, not flash a load of widgets at me)
Or if you can't afford a high enough spec mac. (After opening several large applications and then closing the window rather than quitting the application, you can use up a lot of RAM)
Yes I'm grumpy, yes both of those are problems with easy solutions, yes both problems come from familiarity with another system. It's still wrong to say switching to a mac is painless.
The GP said that the *industry* is overstaffed. There are too many small newspapers, all repeating the same stories from AP. Each of these needs it's own offices, it's own editors, sales people etc. and they're competing with each other to keep their costs down and therefore journalism to a minimum.
There's no way a newspaper can survive without coming up with a complete paper every day, selling advertising space and being able to print and distribute their product. The only place cost cuts can come from journalism. Newspapers carry on surviving, just with less and less actual news.
I beleive they stopped doing this several years ago (a shame really, you could hop between proxies by specifying them manually to get around download limits on rapishare)
Yes, brand new (900MHz, 256MB RAM) machines absolutely ran like crap, mostly thanks to OEM bloatware and it only continued to get slower as the user installed more stuff on it.
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I think that since it's a part of the kernel, it would count as a derivative work which would mean the whole kernel would have to be GPL'd as well.
This is similar to the reason that ZFS can't just be ported to linux, the code is under CDDL which is incompatible with GPL.
I had this exact problem very recently.
If my data was important, I should have been using ECC RAM.
Nothing, assuming you want people you don't know to be able to use your site securely. If you know your users personally, you could give them the certificate for your site in advance.
More realistically, you can get a web certificate for about £20/year which is probably less than your domain and webhosting costs. If you want to use it to accept payments, you can use one of several payment services (Paypal, justgiving etc.) which charge a small percentage rather than an up-front fee.
It is explained reasonably well in the summary.
If you want to know more, I suggest watching the video on http://wave.google.com/
To see whether that's important to you, just ask the following question:
Do I want people looking at my site to be able to contact me directly.
Also consider the two following situations:
1) Your website has been hacked and is showing a fake IRS "register your details to receive your tax rebate" form. Do you want someone to be able to tell you this, or do you want them to ask your hoster/registrar to pull your site?
2) Your domain expires soon, competing registrars want to advertise to you to move your domain to them.
Here in the UK, private individuals can specifically opt-out of including their personal information in the WHOIS record and that's available through nominet, no matter who your registrar is.
No shortage of electrons, just a shortage of sanity from the MS sales/marketing department.
(Anyone who has worked with MS sales/marketing should not be surprised.)
No it wasn't, I didn't understand it at all.
Then again, I wouldn't have seen the explanation if it wasn't for your comment saying how redundant it was.
So thank you.
But they're not allowed to use it for any commercial purpose other than competitive advertising without permission.
Want to write a book about Ruby on Rails and use the Rails logo? Not unless it's endorsed by David Heinemeier Hansson
That finely crafted UI is a strict syntax, it's just designed in such a way that you can't write anything invalid.
Is there really any difference between typing the keyword FORWARD followed by the argument 10 and dragging a FORWARD block and then moving a slider?
Personally I'd say it's analogous to the difference between a menu driven GUI and a command line. Both can accomplish the same things but the GUI might be more discoverable and thus easier to learn whereas the command line lets you get things done more quickly.
Alternatively they could cut it out for the American market and sell it as it was created in Europe, where many popular games are given the highest 18+ rating and are still sold in shops.
Are you aware that you can just copy the gcf files from an up to date SteamApps folder onto everyone else's machine? Just be sure to close steam first before copying over the files.
We do this all the time when there's a big TF2 update during a weekend LAN at uni (we have the uni's internet connection mostly to ourselves at 11pm but it's still quicker to copy the files over the network or pass round an external drive).
While I can see the piracy aspect, there are a good few games in my drawer that I wouldn't have considered if I hadn't "borrowed" them for a weekend at a lan party. If you really do have to have 1 CD key per player then I guess SC2 will join the growing list of games which are good but we never have big games with because not enough people own it. (Currently DOWII, CoH. TF2 is the only exception because it's that awesome.)
If you're buying a gaming PC, you can usually buy an OEM copy of windows with any of the main components for about half the price.
If you're a student you get it either free or very cheap (through MSDNAA or another student offer).
About 3 minutes.
No you don't, you would only need to enter a password if the script wanted root privileges.
You don't need to be root to run a malicious program as the user who downloaded the program. Without root you can't mess with the whole system or with files belonging to other users but you can still log the user's keystrokes, you can still run a botnet daemon listening for incoming connections, you can still send out spam, you can still search though all the user's personal files, you can still alter the user's startup scripts to run the program again whenever they log in.
If you're an idiot, you're vulnerable no matter what OS you're running.
Whether the site is offering you freeporn.exe or freeporn.sh doesn't matter so long as the user runs it.
Sure, on a secure multi-user system you probably can't screw up everyone else's stuff like you can on Windows but setting a botnet daemon or a keylogger to run on user login is easy.
A huge advert window opens, minimising the fullscreen game that I'm playing to tell me to buy their product.
This must be some use of the word "non-intrusive" which I am not aware of.
Admittedly, I didn't have any problems with it as an anti-virus package, it was much better than bloated "full protection" software packages from Symantec and McAfee but I feel it's cheating somewhat to advertise your product as "free anti-virus" and then use it as a platform to advertise the pay-for versions which just have more features that I don't want.
And will pop up a reminder every two days to inform you that for only 19.95/year you could be using AntiVira Premium.
I got so fed up with it that I'm probably going to end up paying for NOD32
No because the cost of shares is based on what people are willing to pay for them and there is a limited supply of shares for a given company.
On the other hand, there are an almost unlimited amount of domains and the cost is whatever the cheapest registrar is charging.
In case you haven't got it yet, we have a Ministry of Defence and a TV Licence
WASD, space to jump, click to shoot.
Nevertheless there have been a lot of rubbish FPSs over the last few years.
Or if you aren't used to using a mac. (Middle click should open a new tab, not flash a load of widgets at me)
Or if you can't afford a high enough spec mac. (After opening several large applications and then closing the window rather than quitting the application, you can use up a lot of RAM)
Yes I'm grumpy, yes both of those are problems with easy solutions, yes both problems come from familiarity with another system. It's still wrong to say switching to a mac is painless.
The GP said that the *industry* is overstaffed. There are too many small newspapers, all repeating the same stories from AP. Each of these needs it's own offices, it's own editors, sales people etc. and they're competing with each other to keep their costs down and therefore journalism to a minimum.
There's no way a newspaper can survive without coming up with a complete paper every day, selling advertising space and being able to print and distribute their product. The only place cost cuts can come from journalism. Newspapers carry on surviving, just with less and less actual news.
As big as Texas and Oklahoma combined? Please.
Texas alone is nearly three times larger than the UK (and nearly twice as large as Japan).
I beleive they stopped doing this several years ago (a shame really, you could hop between proxies by specifying them manually to get around download limits on rapishare)
Yes, brand new (900MHz, 256MB RAM) machines absolutely ran like crap, mostly thanks to OEM bloatware and it only continued to get slower as the user installed more stuff on it.