Entrust cross-certified CNNIC as well, and not only they haven't been distrusted for doing so, but CNNIC has been promoted as a root as its own.
If an organization with a history of widespread MITM attacks gets to become a CA, you can see how little trust you can put in the system in general.
The argument for not removing CNNIC from Mozilla is that none of their documented attacks involved SSL. If you rob jewelers, you should be trusted to repair a bank safe, right? And a similar case with Etisalat proved that knowingly signing malware is not enough to be kicked off, either.
Since you can't exactly accuse Google of being technically inept, it's obvious the inability to block tracking, lack of sane cookie handling, etc, in Chrome is done on purpose. It's not a hard thing to implement, too -- heck, even Netscape (2.0?) did cookies better, by giving you choice to allow/allow for session/reject them, and to save your choice per-domain. As far as I know, in Chrome there's currently no way to have cookies limited to a session by default but allow permanent ones on a whitelist basis.
I intentionally insulted both bozos. And note that "Barrack Hussein" is the unmodified first and middle name, way more respectful than "Dubya" -- a corruption of the middle name only, which somehow did not cause you to protest. Perhaps you're irrationally biased towards a representative of one wing of the NeoCon party but not the other?
Speaking of insults, I resent being called "racist", as that's a specific allegation. You can call me a "cunt" all you want, it's a pure insult, no one is going to assume I'm an organ I happen to not possess.
Dubya at least tried to hide his treason (hard to call that a different name), Barrack Hussein says wiretapping is the right thing to do.
But hey, they're respectively 2nd worst and the worst US president in history. Look at other pretenders to these titles: Nixon, almost impeached for wiretapping a single freaking hotel while Dubya and Barrack H. do this to the whole nation. Buchanan who screwed an important task but at least tried. Harding, whose biggest sin was giving an oil company preferential access to a single facility. On the other hand, our present heroes went to multiple wars under knowingly false pretenses, threw away more taxpayer money than all other presidents in history and ensured a dominance of their buddies at Big Finance.
Er, what? 1 error in 9 billion bits is around ten errors per second. A computer with such an error rate is worthless unless you build your algorithms specifically to handle that. Only if you prove the errors are completely random you can put three chips next to each other and vote.
Since when spies (as in the one who contacted this crook) say truth about whom they really work for? It's in their benefit to be able to shove the responsibility onto someone else when caught. That "israeli" spy would really work for China or Iran... or, in this case, FBI.
Java is a "byzantine language", really? You must be a C coder if you seriously think so.
I'd say Linus Torvalds described this well enough.
KISS.
Keep it Simple and Slow? ~
Well, we're talking about Java vs C...
Seriously, there's a bad trend among some "modern" languages of piling up constructs without regards for efficiency, simplicity or sanity. For example, you can write a non-optimized compiler for languages I'd call sane in a week while for some a team in five years can't be expected to fully implement the standard. There is not a single compliant compiler of C++, and for Java it's only because of a skewed definition of "compliant" Sun has. And if you can't write a compiler reliably, how can you program in it?
The language with best balance between simplicity and featuritis I know is LPC. It has things sorely missing in C, like strings (something that C++ scrrewed in epic ways...), refcounted structures (arrays, mappings), closures, rudimentary OOP.
I did not get to learn golang yet, but it looks promising. I do have a bit of beef with some details, but nothing that'd make me vomit.
in all honesty, I'm going to buy the next Avril Lavigne single that comes out as soon as it comes out...
Please, don't. If you can't upgrade your taste in music, at least pirate the stuff. Nearly all of the money goes to organizations that make things worse.
If you insist on some "moral" stuff, you can mail the artist (or an awful screamer in your case:p) some cash directly. Just don't feed the RIAA.
It has nothing, but the poster has an axe to grind. I'm thoroughly sick of those "that evil nucular stuff will doom us" crowd.
Nukes, and even more, nuclear power plants, are dangerous but efficient. And that vile ban treaty is what destroyed the most promising project for interstellar travel.
I prefer a desktop for programming, a laptop for browsing leisurely about the apartment, and a tablet for reading in bed. A tablet is any good only for mindlessly consuming. The moment you want to write more than a few words or do more than a couple clicks, it fails horribly.
I'm in love with N900, albeit I did need to customize it a lot as Nokia's software is really not up to scratch. With a general purpose OS, it removed any need I had for laptops: at home and at work, I have desktops with comfortable keyboards and big monitors. Anywhere on the go, I have a portable device -- one that, unlike laptops and big tablets, fits into a pocket, and unlike tablets it has a decent input dev.
I don't think putting anything in the niche between makes sense. You can at most have something portable, something luggable and something for heavy-duty work. An additional device that is "easily luggable" seems totally superfluous to me.
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Reading too much Phil&Kaja Foglio's works? Good.
Or, better, require that the new cert is signed by the just expired key, and if not, raise the dire warning.
No credibility lost, it's not them who got hacked but their DNS provider.
Entrust cross-certified CNNIC as well, and not only they haven't been distrusted for doing so, but CNNIC has been promoted as a root as its own.
If an organization with a history of widespread MITM attacks gets to become a CA, you can see how little trust you can put in the system in general.
The argument for not removing CNNIC from Mozilla is that none of their documented attacks involved SSL. If you rob jewelers, you should be trusted to repair a bank safe, right? And a similar case with Etisalat proved that knowingly signing malware is not enough to be kicked off, either.
You mean, it should be legal to rob you or murder you unless you register for a legal protection program?
Since you can't exactly accuse Google of being technically inept, it's obvious the inability to block tracking, lack of sane cookie handling, etc, in Chrome is done on purpose. It's not a hard thing to implement, too -- heck, even Netscape (2.0?) did cookies better, by giving you choice to allow/allow for session/reject them, and to save your choice per-domain. As far as I know, in Chrome there's currently no way to have cookies limited to a session by default but allow permanent ones on a whitelist basis.
And I regularly watch 1080p video on it.
Yeah, and nowadays, setups whose display has a vertical resolution of 768 are marketed as "high-end".
I intentionally insulted both bozos. And note that "Barrack Hussein" is the unmodified first and middle name, way more respectful than "Dubya" -- a corruption of the middle name only, which somehow did not cause you to protest. Perhaps you're irrationally biased towards a representative of one wing of the NeoCon party but not the other?
Speaking of insults, I resent being called "racist", as that's a specific allegation. You can call me a "cunt" all you want, it's a pure insult, no one is going to assume I'm an organ I happen to not possess.
Dubya at least tried to hide his treason (hard to call that a different name), Barrack Hussein says wiretapping is the right thing to do.
But hey, they're respectively 2nd worst and the worst US president in history. Look at other pretenders to these titles: Nixon, almost impeached for wiretapping a single freaking hotel while Dubya and Barrack H. do this to the whole nation. Buchanan who screwed an important task but at least tried. Harding, whose biggest sin was giving an oil company preferential access to a single facility. On the other hand, our present heroes went to multiple wars under knowingly false pretenses, threw away more taxpayer money than all other presidents in history and ensured a dominance of their buddies at Big Finance.
Er, what? 1 error in 9 billion bits is around ten errors per second. A computer with such an error rate is worthless unless you build your algorithms specifically to handle that. Only if you prove the errors are completely random you can put three chips next to each other and vote.
Since when spies (as in the one who contacted this crook) say truth about whom they really work for? It's in their benefit to be able to shove the responsibility onto someone else when caught. That "israeli" spy would really work for China or Iran... or, in this case, FBI.
Java is a "byzantine language", really? You must be a C coder if you seriously think so.
I'd say Linus Torvalds described this well enough.
KISS.
Keep it Simple and Slow? ~
Well, we're talking about Java vs C...
Seriously, there's a bad trend among some "modern" languages of piling up constructs without regards for efficiency, simplicity or sanity. For example, you can write a non-optimized compiler for languages I'd call sane in a week while for some a team in five years can't be expected to fully implement the standard. There is not a single compliant compiler of C++, and for Java it's only because of a skewed definition of "compliant" Sun has. And if you can't write a compiler reliably, how can you program in it?
The language with best balance between simplicity and featuritis I know is LPC. It has things sorely missing in C, like strings (something that C++ scrrewed in epic ways...), refcounted structures (arrays, mappings), closures, rudimentary OOP.
I did not get to learn golang yet, but it looks promising. I do have a bit of beef with some details, but nothing that'd make me vomit.
Add more and more junk like generics and you'll end with languages as byzantine as C++ or Java.
KISS.
Reaching the moon is impossible with the technology of today. It'd take several years and gobs of work to recreate what we knew in 1969.
in all honesty, I'm going to buy the next Avril Lavigne single that comes out as soon as it comes out...
Please, don't. If you can't upgrade your taste in music, at least pirate the stuff. Nearly all of the money goes to organizations that make things worse.
If you insist on some "moral" stuff, you can mail the artist (or an awful screamer in your case :p) some cash directly. Just don't feed the RIAA.
I have a better idea: what about grouping similar commands in a hierarchical structure, based on their meaning rather than name?
I guess you missed the joke. Identity service = evil (unless you're a marketer). Killing SuperPoke = thoroughly good (unless you're a soccer mom).
The whole point of a worm is that they have multiple machines.
We still have people setting local admin passwords to "admin" and 123?
There's more of them than those with reasonable passwords. I'm not counting those with medium strength in either group.
Seriously, "common sense" is not so common nowadays. And from what I see, the quality of passwords is actually going down.
Various workplaces start work at different hours anyway, so how does this help?
If you want to be strict here, please mind the distinction between XOR and OR :p
It has nothing, but the poster has an axe to grind. I'm thoroughly sick of those "that evil nucular stuff will doom us" crowd.
Nukes, and even more, nuclear power plants, are dangerous but efficient. And that vile ban treaty is what destroyed the most promising project for interstellar travel.
I prefer a desktop for programming, a laptop for browsing leisurely about the apartment, and a tablet for reading in bed.
A tablet is any good only for mindlessly consuming. The moment you want to write more than a few words or do more than a couple clicks, it fails horribly.
I'm in love with N900, albeit I did need to customize it a lot as Nokia's software is really not up to scratch. With a general purpose OS, it removed any need I had for laptops: at home and at work, I have desktops with comfortable keyboards and big monitors. Anywhere on the go, I have a portable device -- one that, unlike laptops and big tablets, fits into a pocket, and unlike tablets it has a decent input dev.
I don't think putting anything in the niche between makes sense. You can at most have something portable, something luggable and something for heavy-duty work. An additional device that is "easily luggable" seems totally superfluous to me.
FTP has more flaws than just clear text passwords. Requiring multiple connections, often in opposite ways, for one.
So does Hurd, and there's orders of magnitude more software you can run on it.