How many falsifiable hypotheses do you test??
Which is obviously not to say that computer 'scientists' don't contribute scientifically to many other disciples - but computing per se isn't a science.
He's already caused the death of many Afghan informants who were working with American troops (at least, according to 4 different NGOs, including Amnesty International).
Sources???
I can't find any references to support your claim. Amnesty International criticized wikileaks ~ 10th/11th August but there don't appear to have been any statements since then.
This smells like bullshit.
According to the website's domain registration, the contact details are:
The Nerd Support
+91.9680115111 Phone
280-A, Talwandi
KOTA, Rajasthan 324005
India
(see GoDaddy whois page, though those details may well be fake as well)
Once upon a time, such people were shunned by the tribe and starved to death. Today, we have built infrastructures that enable these people to survive and thrive. In return, they ruin us.
Not really. Then, as now, the failures starved while the more sophisticated victors lead the tribe. Nowadays the psychopaths fill jails and run multinational corps.
A way to mitigate against tabnapping (and a lot of other phishing) would be for web sites to use http authentication rather than 'pretty', but easily spoofed web page login forms. That way it's quite clear what page you're trying to log in to becuase login is through a hard-to-simulate browser dialogue box which states the target web address. Even quite clueless users might start looking more closely when phisingsite.example.com starts prompting them to log in.
2/ The conservatives and Liberal democrats do a deal, and make a joint platform.
But if that happens the LibDems would be eviscerated. They'd lose almost all popular support and many of their current MPs would refuse to probably refuse to join a Tory coalition, fracturing the party.
About the only credible reason to support them was to get voting reform, (and perhaps also as a left-wing protest vote against Gordon Brown) - as insipid Tory's they have nothing to offer.
Adobe's plugin doesn't need to depend on what the file was served as (that's for the browser to do).
However this is Adobe's problem. The flash plugin should be validating whatever is passed to it before executing it. It should refuse to execute a flash file that has any non-flash component appended (e.g. a flash executable disguised as a zip shouldn't run even if both the flash and zip parts are valid).
Cloud computing is useless for the average user. Who in their right mind would wants to store everything important to them on an advanced cluster for a monthly fee?
You're assuming that a typical user doesn't have their home computer stuffed full of spy-ware, that they know how to backup everything that matters to them and that they only ever want to access their files from a single location and from a single device.
Faceless-mega corporation 'in the cloud' is likely to be much better at managing that data than a typical home user. Even if privacy suffers a bit, at least it will do so in defined and publicised ways (compare and contrast with the problems of techs at the local repair shop rummaging through your data).
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How many falsifiable hypotheses do you test?? Which is obviously not to say that computer 'scientists' don't contribute scientifically to many other disciples - but computing per se isn't a science.
He's already caused the death of many Afghan informants who were working with American troops (at least, according to 4 different NGOs, including Amnesty International).
Sources??? I can't find any references to support your claim. Amnesty International criticized wikileaks ~ 10th/11th August but there don't appear to have been any statements since then. This smells like bullshit.
According to the website's domain registration, the contact details are: The Nerd Support +91.9680115111 Phone 280-A, Talwandi KOTA, Rajasthan 324005 India (see GoDaddy whois page, though those details may well be fake as well)
Once upon a time, such people were shunned by the tribe and starved to death. Today, we have built infrastructures that enable these people to survive and thrive. In return, they ruin us.
Not really. Then, as now, the failures starved while the more sophisticated victors lead the tribe. Nowadays the psychopaths fill jails and run multinational corps.
A way to mitigate against tabnapping (and a lot of other phishing) would be for web sites to use http authentication rather than 'pretty', but easily spoofed web page login forms. That way it's quite clear what page you're trying to log in to becuase login is through a hard-to-simulate browser dialogue box which states the target web address. Even quite clueless users might start looking more closely when phisingsite.example.com starts prompting them to log in.
2/ The conservatives and Liberal democrats do a deal, and make a joint platform.
But if that happens the LibDems would be eviscerated. They'd lose almost all popular support and many of their current MPs would refuse to probably refuse to join a Tory coalition, fracturing the party. About the only credible reason to support them was to get voting reform, (and perhaps also as a left-wing protest vote against Gordon Brown) - as insipid Tory's they have nothing to offer.
A clearer title would be "Amazon Battles Apple by Strong-Arming Publishers"
But still nothing to do with Arm :(
Adobe's plugin doesn't need to depend on what the file was served as (that's for the browser to do). However this is Adobe's problem. The flash plugin should be validating whatever is passed to it before executing it. It should refuse to execute a flash file that has any non-flash component appended (e.g. a flash executable disguised as a zip shouldn't run even if both the flash and zip parts are valid).
Cloud computing is useless for the average user. Who in their right mind would wants to store everything important to them on an advanced cluster for a monthly fee?
You're assuming that a typical user doesn't have their home computer stuffed full of spy-ware, that they know how to backup everything that matters to them and that they only ever want to access their files from a single location and from a single device. Faceless-mega corporation 'in the cloud' is likely to be much better at managing that data than a typical home user. Even if privacy suffers a bit, at least it will do so in defined and publicised ways (compare and contrast with the problems of techs at the local repair shop rummaging through your data).