It turned out that an inside person had put a physical keylogger (USB pass-through device between computer and keyboard, ordered straight from China) on the Comptroller's computer one night and collected it a week later
Are the users required to change their passwords every week? If not, just to play devil's advocate, if she had logged data for a month, or waited a week or two, it's likely that she would have been successful.
Don't worry about it. Give it to them on a DVD. It'll then be up to the museum to take care of the art the same way they take care of the other art they have. I don't think it's realistic to expect to be able to read a DVD 100, 50, or even 30 years from now. I'm sure that the museum will move the data to an appropriate storage medium as technology advances.
I don't know much about 3G, but I remember ads on TV at least five or six years years ago about people taking photos with their phones and sending them to someone else's phone. I assume that's MMS. Several of my friends have been able to do that with their phones for years.
Please cite where I have derided the multitouch interface. Given that I have never done so, I think you will find citing that instance to be quite a challenge.
You could have had a half-arsed C+P implementation that could have held the platform back.
Now I'm curious. Why do you think a half-assed C+P implementation would have held the platform back? I would think that something, even if less than optimal, would have been better than nothing. I'm interested in hearing you elaborate on your comment.
Sales figures suggest that most people didn't care.
Sales figures are important if you are a stockholder. I'm not so I care from the perspective of "should I purchase this." As I said in my previous message, and as you pointed out, Apple had different priorities. I'd rather purchase a product that I feel the company is going to implement correctly and give the useful, but less exciting to code for, features as much priority as the flashy, shiny stuff. Apple's track record with the iPhone demonstrates that they value "shiny" over "not-exciting but necessary." Couple that with not being able to install whatever software I want on a device I own means that I don't find the iPhone to be a good value.
I disagree. The past can say a lot about how a company treats its customers.
iPhone users have been clamoring for cut and paste since the phone was first released two years ago. Apple dismissed it as unnecessary and then finally, two years later, adds the feature. I would have expected Apple to listen to their customer base and implemented this feature earlier. Meanwhile, iPhone users either had to go without or jailbreak their phones and void their warranty. Apple's response to this says a lot about how they listen to their customers and what you can expect if you purchase an Apple product.
Regarding MMS, many millions of phones supported MMS before the iPhone was released. Having MMS support is an interoperability issue. Until now the iPhone couldn't send or receive pictures to/from another phone.
What this tells me is that Apple likes to work on the fun, sexy stuff like accelerometers and multi-touch interfaces, but skips over the mundane but still very useful features.
No joke. They should have provided a torrent. This type of distribution is what bittorrent excels at. It would have provided everyone with a better experience and saved MS some bandwidth.
One obstacle to all sites using SSL is the lack of support for SSL virtual hosts. That obstacle is now gone thanks to SNI.
Many sites have dedicated IP addresses and can use SSL just fine. But there are many other web sites that use shared hosting and are shared behind a single IP. Since Apache and several other web servers now support SNI, along with most modern web browsers, this is a service that hosting providers could offer to their customers. Customers can weigh the cost of using SSL without paying for a dedicated IP, but with the limitations for users of IE on XP, or spend the money for a dedicated IP address. IPv6 is being deployed quite slowly so IP addresses will likely cost customers more money over the next several years than they do today.
Now is the time to start including Apache with the SNI patches as a package in major distros. This would help SNI gain exposure and get the code tested by more users. Valuable feedback can be collected and used to improve the software. Users could choose to install it over the regular Apache packages if they wanted to try out SSL virtual hosts. If they don't want to use it, they can install the regular Apache package. Debian and Ubuntu are two distros that already include packages for different versions of Apache. Distros have included packages and experimental code before. This is nothing new.
As the bugs get fixed over the next year or two, we may see the SNI patches make their way into a regular Apache release which would be included in distros. By that time Windows XP will be well on the decline as it enters the twilight of its support cycle and Vista and Windows 7 displace it. I suspect that Firefox will continue to gain significant marketshare.
Of course, by that time IPv6 may be widely deployed and SSL virtual hosts, or virtual hosts specifically, will be a non-issue. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
But from now on you feel free to pretend 'all websites' are run by hobbyists who can afford to ignore 60% or more of the people out there
No where have I made that claim. Please read my posts again.
Could you please explain why we should do this? Are you so opposed to a particular programming language that you would remove software that was written in this language? Do you also not install programs that were written in C++, preferring only to use programs written in C?
Yeah, except for that whole 'XP running IE6 or IE7', which is something like 60% of all web browsers.
And steadily declining. It's also only relevant if you care about being accessible to everyone. Do you think Amazon.com or Ebay is going to fret over hosting multiple sites behind a single IP address? Of course not. SSL virtual hosts are most important to home users like you and me. That's where the value it. Not all of those sites care about being accessible by every browser. If people can't access my site, they can upgrade to Firefox or do without.
I'm sure it's fun having huge chunks of gold around the place, but when their religious text contains categorical denunciation of wealth it strikes me as odd.
Just ask the American citizens who President FDR forced into concentration camps. FDR had become so powerful, he was able to imprison millions of Americans with just a word from his lips, like a living reincarnation of the Roman Emperor and completely contrary to the Supreme Law of the Land.
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Except for that "only runs on a single OS" problem.
1,000,000,000 bits per second because bitrate is standardized on 1,000 bit/s not 1,024 bit/s.
Are the users required to change their passwords every week? If not, just to play devil's advocate, if she had logged data for a month, or waited a week or two, it's likely that she would have been successful.
Obviously it requires GNOME.
... that we know of at this time.
Don't worry about it. Give it to them on a DVD. It'll then be up to the museum to take care of the art the same way they take care of the other art they have. I don't think it's realistic to expect to be able to read a DVD 100, 50, or even 30 years from now. I'm sure that the museum will move the data to an appropriate storage medium as technology advances.
Thunderbird doesn't hold a candle to Outlook. Evolution might be a more apt comparison.
Do you really have that many clients running browsers in virtual machines that it's worth testing for?
That still links to the beta 4 download.
Yes it does. It's the same code being executed whether it's running on a Dell, HP, IBM, or in a VM.
Drew pull.
I don't know much about 3G, but I remember ads on TV at least five or six years years ago about people taking photos with their phones and sending them to someone else's phone. I assume that's MMS. Several of my friends have been able to do that with their phones for years.
Could you provide some specific examples of how the US lags behind other countries in wireless features?
Please cite where I have derided the multitouch interface. Given that I have never done so, I think you will find citing that instance to be quite a challenge.
Now I'm curious. Why do you think a half-assed C+P implementation would have held the platform back? I would think that something, even if less than optimal, would have been better than nothing. I'm interested in hearing you elaborate on your comment.
Sales figures are important if you are a stockholder. I'm not so I care from the perspective of "should I purchase this." As I said in my previous message, and as you pointed out, Apple had different priorities. I'd rather purchase a product that I feel the company is going to implement correctly and give the useful, but less exciting to code for, features as much priority as the flashy, shiny stuff. Apple's track record with the iPhone demonstrates that they value "shiny" over "not-exciting but necessary." Couple that with not being able to install whatever software I want on a device I own means that I don't find the iPhone to be a good value.
I disagree. The past can say a lot about how a company treats its customers.
iPhone users have been clamoring for cut and paste since the phone was first released two years ago. Apple dismissed it as unnecessary and then finally, two years later, adds the feature. I would have expected Apple to listen to their customer base and implemented this feature earlier. Meanwhile, iPhone users either had to go without or jailbreak their phones and void their warranty. Apple's response to this says a lot about how they listen to their customers and what you can expect if you purchase an Apple product.
Regarding MMS, many millions of phones supported MMS before the iPhone was released. Having MMS support is an interoperability issue. Until now the iPhone couldn't send or receive pictures to/from another phone.
What this tells me is that Apple likes to work on the fun, sexy stuff like accelerometers and multi-touch interfaces, but skips over the mundane but still very useful features.
Wow! MMS! Cut and Paste! Apple is really pushing the boundaries of computing these days.
Everyone that bought an iPhone got sold down the river if the best Apple can do is release 5+ year old cell phone features as something new.
No joke. They should have provided a torrent. This type of distribution is what bittorrent excels at. It would have provided everyone with a better experience and saved MS some bandwidth.
Which family? The Addams Family?
Yes, I did. Specifically, I said that I'd like to see SSL used on all web sites. Here's the exact quote:
One obstacle to all sites using SSL is the lack of support for SSL virtual hosts. That obstacle is now gone thanks to SNI.
Many sites have dedicated IP addresses and can use SSL just fine. But there are many other web sites that use shared hosting and are shared behind a single IP. Since Apache and several other web servers now support SNI, along with most modern web browsers, this is a service that hosting providers could offer to their customers. Customers can weigh the cost of using SSL without paying for a dedicated IP, but with the limitations for users of IE on XP, or spend the money for a dedicated IP address. IPv6 is being deployed quite slowly so IP addresses will likely cost customers more money over the next several years than they do today.
Now is the time to start including Apache with the SNI patches as a package in major distros. This would help SNI gain exposure and get the code tested by more users. Valuable feedback can be collected and used to improve the software. Users could choose to install it over the regular Apache packages if they wanted to try out SSL virtual hosts. If they don't want to use it, they can install the regular Apache package. Debian and Ubuntu are two distros that already include packages for different versions of Apache. Distros have included packages and experimental code before. This is nothing new.
As the bugs get fixed over the next year or two, we may see the SNI patches make their way into a regular Apache release which would be included in distros. By that time Windows XP will be well on the decline as it enters the twilight of its support cycle and Vista and Windows 7 displace it. I suspect that Firefox will continue to gain significant marketshare.
Of course, by that time IPv6 may be widely deployed and SSL virtual hosts, or virtual hosts specifically, will be a non-issue. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
No where have I made that claim. Please read my posts again.
Please do not use personal attacks. I will be glad to engage you in conversation but only if you can be civil.
Could you please explain why we should do this? Are you so opposed to a particular programming language that you would remove software that was written in this language? Do you also not install programs that were written in C++, preferring only to use programs written in C?
And steadily declining. It's also only relevant if you care about being accessible to everyone. Do you think Amazon.com or Ebay is going to fret over hosting multiple sites behind a single IP address? Of course not. SSL virtual hosts are most important to home users like you and me. That's where the value it. Not all of those sites care about being accessible by every browser. If people can't access my site, they can upgrade to Firefox or do without.
Heretic! Blasphemer! [points finger] Get him!
Here's a link for non-Americans who may not know about this.
For a corn star?