I have to agree about CA greed. Whenever I see a site using a Mozilla approved CA, my initial thought is no longer whether my connection is secure, but rather an acknowledgment that the site paid protection to Verisign that year.
Yeah, that looks like a bad idea, it'd probably be better to go with the addon in Timothy's post, perspectives, since that actually tracks changes with self-signed certificates.
Your fallacy of appeal to emotion doesn't change the fact it's a stupid-ass ruling. Sure she used a fake name, but she may have also used an HP or Dell computer in the process. Should we also fine the respective OEMs for providing the medium that influenced the suicide, or should we narrow our sights to what is relevant?
"Cue?" Screw that noise, cue was years ago. I'm already sporting a tin-foil hat, running at them with a pitch-fork, torch, and an unfounded sense of outrage!
True, but the purpose of this was to find out which TLD was the most dangerous. So while no one usually does discriminate against the TLD of a site, it's nice to know what the odds are of it being malicious.
Yeah, and while we're at it, everyone should stop playing GTA since it doesn't even come close to operating a gun, or a helicopter, or a.... what was that? Nintendo has a bowling game and you don't actually throw a 12 pound ball at your television?! Heresy I tell you!
Oh, and that was sarcasm. I thought it was obvious, but since you're so dense as to completely miss the fact that it's just a damn game, I thought I'd point it out for you...
It all comes down to practice. Most people practice walking and using their arms for basic operations on a daily basis. But not all of us can perform a Joe Morello drum solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKq3HD0EFc). But if you practice using those limbs enough, it could become 2nd nature.
I fly about 10 times a year, and I can say with complete confidence that every bit of the airport is entirely theater. You want to see their entire system broken in two words?
Obsidian Knife.
But anyway, since everyone mentions the security bottleneck, I'll say the other one that bothers the hell out of me: the arbitrary no electronics time. At this point, I don't bother to turn anything off. In fact, I've turned on devices just out of spite. I don't even bother to hide it; the moment I get on a plane, I put on my headphones and mp3 player and lay back.
For the longest time, no one said anything to me. But then about 3 months ago, a flight attendant asked me prior to take-off of my headphones were on. When I said yes, she told me to turn them off because they interfere with the plane's systems and it's for everyone's safety or something generic like that.
I said back to her, "It doesn't interfere with anything and perfectly safe to leave on, but I'll play the game." I then turned off the noise canceling on the headphones, which turned off a red led, and she predictably mistook that for the power button.
Normally I'm not that much of a prick, but listening to misinformation being propagated over and over makes me care considerably less.
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I have to agree about CA greed. Whenever I see a site using a Mozilla approved CA, my initial thought is no longer whether my connection is secure, but rather an acknowledgment that the site paid protection to Verisign that year.
Good idea.
And normal http should just throw an exception to close out firefox since those sites don't even both to encrypt the possibly fraudulent site.
Yeah, that looks like a bad idea, it'd probably be better to go with the addon in Timothy's post, perspectives, since that actually tracks changes with self-signed certificates.
I found a firefox add-on that makes the browser behave a bit more rationally called perspectives: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/
Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat!
It may be his district, but if you agree with his politics, another vote in the house is another vote in the house.
Translation:
Rabble! Rabble! Rabble! I don't like dumb people going where I go!
Also, I'm required to confiscate your geek certification since you used market-speak as a reason a geek shouldn't do what they want.
Next time he's giving a presentation: "My best friend Shawn Michaels has gotten into (insert new hobby here) lately."
Here, you can borrow this one: <3
Your fallacy of appeal to emotion doesn't change the fact it's a stupid-ass ruling. Sure she used a fake name, but she may have also used an HP or Dell computer in the process. Should we also fine the respective OEMs for providing the medium that influenced the suicide, or should we narrow our sights to what is relevant?
"Cue?" Screw that noise, cue was years ago. I'm already sporting a tin-foil hat, running at them with a pitch-fork, torch, and an unfounded sense of outrage!
Not quite,
But Jon Stewart + anger + disillusionment of religion = Lewis Black
Only if the ones beyond Uranus are to be called cockeyeds.
Everyone defies the classification since they're so busy looking at the larger part that they miss the complete picture:
Pluto-Charon is a binary system. The end.
Now everyone, can we move on?
He is if normalized to the average republican.
And screw the blackjack!
Matt Groening already decided this for us; why are we even debating this?
This is awesome, it's like McCain's the new Chuck Norris... due to extreme antiquity.
True, but the purpose of this was to find out which TLD was the most dangerous. So while no one usually does discriminate against the TLD of a site, it's nice to know what the odds are of it being malicious.
Valve has already addressed this:
If Valve ever dissolves, they are going to release a final patch that disables the phone-home check.
Yeah, and while we're at it, everyone should stop playing GTA since it doesn't even come close to operating a gun, or a helicopter, or a.... what was that? Nintendo has a bowling game and you don't actually throw a 12 pound ball at your television?! Heresy I tell you!
:)
Oh, and that was sarcasm. I thought it was obvious, but since you're so dense as to completely miss the fact that it's just a damn game, I thought I'd point it out for you...
You Welcome, BTW.
It all comes down to practice. Most people practice walking and using their arms for basic operations on a daily basis. But not all of us can perform a Joe Morello drum solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKq3HD0EFc). But if you practice using those limbs enough, it could become 2nd nature.
Well, that really depends on who your target donors are.
I fly about 10 times a year, and I can say with complete confidence that every bit of the airport is entirely theater. You want to see their entire system broken in two words?
Obsidian Knife.
But anyway, since everyone mentions the security bottleneck, I'll say the other one that bothers the hell out of me: the arbitrary no electronics time. At this point, I don't bother to turn anything off. In fact, I've turned on devices just out of spite. I don't even bother to hide it; the moment I get on a plane, I put on my headphones and mp3 player and lay back.
For the longest time, no one said anything to me. But then about 3 months ago, a flight attendant asked me prior to take-off of my headphones were on. When I said yes, she told me to turn them off because they interfere with the plane's systems and it's for everyone's safety or something generic like that.
I said back to her, "It doesn't interfere with anything and perfectly safe to leave on, but I'll play the game." I then turned off the noise canceling on the headphones, which turned off a red led, and she predictably mistook that for the power button.
Normally I'm not that much of a prick, but listening to misinformation being propagated over and over makes me care considerably less.