SSL does the same as DNSSEC. If SSL says kokakola.com, you'll get a warning if you're not on kokakola.com otherwise it works just fine.
The Coca Cola Company only appears in the so-called "Extended Validation SSL" which means some validation might have been done. It's the same as the badges of BBB on websites or the "No Hackers Here" icons. Doesn't mean unscrupulous dealers won't ever put those badges on their websites or someone with a bad BBB rating can't put it on but if you click through and ANALYZE the data, then you can make a decision based upon it.
People need to learn how to read, people need to learn what they are doing. SSL certificates are like the CarFax report when you go buy a car. Most dealers will give it to you if you ask for it, some unscrupulous dealers might not give you the right one, most dealers don't point out there are minor issues with the car even though the CarFax could be clean. The CarFax however doesn't reveal whether the dealer is good, whether there is special language in the sales contract or that you're going to get set up with a larger-than-expected car payment. The CarFax tells you nothing about the dealer, only that there are no (very specific major) issues with the car.
What they could've done (and any advanced enough civilization is capable of this) is let their lives be simulated. First they started hooking up to the machines for fun and vacation, then they started getting addicted, then everybody got on it and this required more and more energy to simulate the world and to take the input of the connected individuals. Eventually the energy requirements required first a partial, then the war came for the resources that were left in the sunlight. Then they built a full Dyson sphere to either run the war or end the war. The civilization is now dead but the computers are still running, still simulating the world.
Copyrighted for the book, game or movie adaptation.
The thing is, NASA already knows (or should know) how to put people in space. They put a LOT of people on the moon they should be able to get to Mars (notwithstanding the human factor) with the current technological and scientific developments. Make the same rocket you had, the same vehicle you had, pack it with the more advanced version of the fuel you had before, add ion/nuclear thrusters or whatever (I'm not a rocket scientists, but it's not rocket science), use the gravity catapults of Earth, Moon or anything else in between and get your ass to Mars. The reverse trajectory needs less fuel to get off Mars and then gravity can do the rest.
We can get a robot there without much problems, maybe we can go dust it off too.
Alternatively develop a larger robot that can do more than scoot a few cm per day and pack it with tools like shovels and scientific gear (whatever an astronaut would bring) and can bring stuff back. A back and forth robotic mission shouldn't be too hard and is less dangerous and less expensive than moving meatbags that way.
I don't know how Windows computers do these days but both Mac and Linux machines with a decent battery survive many days if not weeks in sleep/suspend mode. My iBook G4 went a week in sleep mode and the battery survived for less than an hour in active mode.
My wife Dell from work (Win7) seems to come out of sleep mode every few minutes but I always thought that was because of the Windows-based Enterprise crap they put on, maybe it's just Windows.
No, because practically all iOS games are between 0.99 and 15.00 and practically all Nintendo games start at 25.00 while having the same audience and technically comparable features and power. We don't expect handhelds to run Far Cry 2 at 120fps so that's not really an issue.
You're missing the point. ICMP has to be implemented in order for your IP stack to work. Whether you drop, reject or accept certain ICMP packets is irrelevant, if your IP connection wants to work, it has to process them. If there is a bug in how you process ICMP packets it won't matter whether or not you reply to them or not.
And most recent tools don't rely on ping anymore as Windows Firewall does drop all ICMP packets. Even nmap has had the option of testing a host without ping for as far as I can remember.
A) Correctly recycling e-waste takes a lot of money B) Most companies are not allowed to (or should not) resell or give away because of tax write-offs done on the products. There are companies that literally have warehouses of trash (we have an 8 port BNC router that takes 4U in one of those) because it's cheaper to keep than recycle.
It's the media's fault. Both Amazon and Apple have succeeded due to a relatively DRM free environment. I remember some people trying the WalMart site and complaining that they couldn't play it on their particular device because it wasn't blessed by Microsoft. Then they shut down their DRM servers effectively corrupting every customers library, after that they never recovered
That is stupid. Any IP host should respond to a ping. It's one way of testing if everything is working. Disabling ping just because your IP stack is buggy is security through obscurity. ICMP has to be implemented according to standard.
There have been many implementations of this any many variations since at least the early 90's. I don't know when the patent was lodged but I think Apple themselves may have prior art on this.
Patents and patent trolls should become illegal in our current economic environment.
Then you have the raw binary data but still no information. I guess ASCII would be fairly easy to decode even with simple forensics but once you go in the other medias like audio and video (compression) it would become a lot harder to decode. You have to assume that the people finding your discs have no recollection at all about your present and most likely it will become a religious icon before being decoded by an inquiring soul. Maybe on the front you can draw instructions similar to the Pioneer probes.
The savings go pretty quick. I needed to replace my outside incandescents yearly (extreme temperatures during summer AND winter) and the others burned out pretty quick too plus they taxed some of the old wiring (cotton-aluminum) and a lot of the newer wiring was done wrong which made me worried about the load on those wires.
LED's fixed both the replacement and the load issue - I use about 60W worth of LED bulbs on a circuit that used probably 1kW combined (I took out a combination of 40W, 60W and even the inappropriate 100W bulbs).
And a Dremel in the correct place (once you know where the contact needs to be) would've fixed that. Also, it makes the unit practically unfixable if necessary for whatever reason, you don't want to be throwing out $1k worth of product every time it fails.
But think about the cost of that also not forgetting that if the control mechanism messes up, those motors if simply powered up can remain stationary and are virtually impossible to move. Most security is just to keep a simple thief out. An intelligent, dedicated, targeted attacker will always succeed if you give it enough resources. If nothing else I'll just get a plasma cutter and cut out your door.
Anyone introducing this would commit political suicide. It would simply be spun as: He wants to end Medicare benefits and raise taxes. People would hear: He's going to kill all old people and make everyone pay for it.
"Essential" spending is Republican speak for "Military". What they fail to realize is both parties don't have a clue how to reign in the spending the government does. Both sides are simply tied into the businesses they need to give the money to. What we need to do is publicize (instead of privatize) all major social costs (health care, pensions,...), cut the size of unnecessary departments (like the DoD, DHS...) and remove all ties other departments with companies they have a conflict of interest with including preventing lobbyist and past CEO's of companies to become part of the leadership (FDA, FCC). Simply allocating evenly distributed funds for campaigns and disallowing any further benefits from non-governmental sources for members of Senate, Congress and any federal Court would help.
It all comes down to common sense. Due to a grant that I was able to get to buy my house I had to attend first some classes on debts, credit, mortgages, homeownership etc. There were several people there with less than $100 to spare per month and $1000's in credit card debt that thought they were in good shape to go buy a 80-150k house knowing good well they didn't have the common sense to save rather spending it all on consumables like a juvenile.
You can take an ARM if you want if you're going to sell or pay off the house within the next 5 years but many didn't want to take a simple Google search and look at history to see what the APR's did eg. in the 80s (after the Vietnam War) or if they did they ignored it. During and after every major war the US engages there is a 'mortgage rate crisis' so with the Iraq AND Afghan War going at the same time, what did they expect would happen?
Those type of people shouldn't be getting a mortgage and those that do give them one are stupid and deserve to lose their business. My business bank didn't buy into the credit swaps and faulty mortgages and neither does the credit union I eventually went with so they never even felt the bump in the market. This told me that even if none of the banks were bailed out and they would all have bankrupted, there would be plenty of bank businesses still in operation and since the FDIC backs most existing accounts in the US, nobody would've noticed if their accounts were transferred. One of my accounts was transferred to another bank and all I had to deal with was a different logo on the building and a different website to go to.
Since it uses electricity, it will also be better for your environment compared to your 2 stroke mower that doubles as a gasoline evaporator. They are available from several companies in several prices.
If you got like the poster have to spend $3500 + gas and maintenance + salary to get your lawn mowed, there are really big ones available that will probably get ROI in 2-3 years. There's some mathematics for you.
There are plenty of other solutions out there and many have found out that virtualization (or cloudization of your server park) is not the end-all be-all of many problems we encounter (such as performance issues, security problems, conflicts between applications) it still doesn't fix and in many cases (usually due to bad understanding and management of the virtual server park) makes things worse than they should be.
There are certain people (I would say 60% of departments deploying virtual server parks) that think it will make their problems with the few servers they have disappear. However they multiply their practices that created the problems in the first place by 10 or however much virtual machines they deploy and don't understand that you now have to manage the full system for 50 machines instead of 5.
Just because you don't trust a CA doesn't mean you can't build up a TLS/SSL connection. It will just throw a tantrum that the CA is not trusted and ask you if you want to continue. But for most sites that is simply unacceptable so they'll just go ahead and buy a cert from a generally trusted CA.
SSL certificates are not meant to verify identities. They're meant to authenticate hostnames and secure links. If somebody hacks the server and gets the keys to the certificate or replaces the hosted content with something else you still can't blame the CA or SSL.
There is no such thing as macro-evolution. The rat doesn't all of a sudden start eating poisonous plants and sweating them out.
Most likely the selective pressure was made in several small steps: - There is less food at one point and the only thing left is poisonous plants. Some die of the plant, some die of hunger. Those that are somewhat 'immune' to the poison get to breed. - If there is less food for the rats, there is usually less food for the rest of the ecosystem as well. Things start eating or bringing to their kids the rats that are still alive (most animals don't eat carcasses). Some rats have groomed after eating the poisonous plants and thus are better at not being eaten thus they can breed. - As time goes on, certain rats that bring out the poison better (sweating, length of arms for grooming, certain hair types that hold on to the poison better) have better survival rates and get to breed.
The thing is it doesn't even have to happen this way. I don't know the details about this rat but it could be that the hollow hairs evolved for an entirely different purpose. If the climate was dry, this might've been better at catching dewdrops to drink etc. etc.
Evolution is hard and the whole 'tech path' isn't always available to us (or we're simply not interested or we haven't investigated it yet) yet we can make conjectures based on the time and place of where we find a preserved ancestor specimen or DNA analysis reveals who it's cousins are in other areas.
Both Java and MySQL can still be installed, there are even nicely made packages for it even directly from Apple (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421). MySQL was never included in the desktop OS (but still installable) and in the server OS, MySQL is still automatically migrated on upgrade but PostgreSQL is included and recommended. ZFS was at one point being developed into Mac OS X as well but never made it because of the Sun/Oracle deal and the licensing fell through.
I don't think Windows comes with Java, MySQL or even their own MSSQL and Oracle doesn't seem to want people to use it's products for free (as you can see with the Android lawsuits).
Sun should've been taken over by Apple, Google or any other company besides Oracle. Oracle as predicted has let go of the majority of the brain trust of Sun, strangled a lot of nice projects (like OpenSolaris) and will eventually require hefty licensing fees of all tech and patents Sun ever created.
All your customers are on Windows because you only write programs for Windows. The market these days is larger than Windows as it's market share is going down in favor of both Linux and Mac.
Microsoft created.NET and just like the other 'cultures' they manufactured before they will dump it for something else as the market needs something leaner and more geared towards using ARM or other CPU's, multicore functionality and built-in security.
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SSL does the same as DNSSEC. If SSL says kokakola.com, you'll get a warning if you're not on kokakola.com otherwise it works just fine.
The Coca Cola Company only appears in the so-called "Extended Validation SSL" which means some validation might have been done. It's the same as the badges of BBB on websites or the "No Hackers Here" icons. Doesn't mean unscrupulous dealers won't ever put those badges on their websites or someone with a bad BBB rating can't put it on but if you click through and ANALYZE the data, then you can make a decision based upon it.
People need to learn how to read, people need to learn what they are doing. SSL certificates are like the CarFax report when you go buy a car. Most dealers will give it to you if you ask for it, some unscrupulous dealers might not give you the right one, most dealers don't point out there are minor issues with the car even though the CarFax could be clean. The CarFax however doesn't reveal whether the dealer is good, whether there is special language in the sales contract or that you're going to get set up with a larger-than-expected car payment. The CarFax tells you nothing about the dealer, only that there are no (very specific major) issues with the car.
What they could've done (and any advanced enough civilization is capable of this) is let their lives be simulated. First they started hooking up to the machines for fun and vacation, then they started getting addicted, then everybody got on it and this required more and more energy to simulate the world and to take the input of the connected individuals. Eventually the energy requirements required first a partial, then the war came for the resources that were left in the sunlight. Then they built a full Dyson sphere to either run the war or end the war. The civilization is now dead but the computers are still running, still simulating the world.
Copyrighted for the book, game or movie adaptation.
The thing is, NASA already knows (or should know) how to put people in space. They put a LOT of people on the moon they should be able to get to Mars (notwithstanding the human factor) with the current technological and scientific developments. Make the same rocket you had, the same vehicle you had, pack it with the more advanced version of the fuel you had before, add ion/nuclear thrusters or whatever (I'm not a rocket scientists, but it's not rocket science), use the gravity catapults of Earth, Moon or anything else in between and get your ass to Mars. The reverse trajectory needs less fuel to get off Mars and then gravity can do the rest.
We can get a robot there without much problems, maybe we can go dust it off too.
Alternatively develop a larger robot that can do more than scoot a few cm per day and pack it with tools like shovels and scientific gear (whatever an astronaut would bring) and can bring stuff back. A back and forth robotic mission shouldn't be too hard and is less dangerous and less expensive than moving meatbags that way.
I don't know how Windows computers do these days but both Mac and Linux machines with a decent battery survive many days if not weeks in sleep/suspend mode. My iBook G4 went a week in sleep mode and the battery survived for less than an hour in active mode.
My wife Dell from work (Win7) seems to come out of sleep mode every few minutes but I always thought that was because of the Windows-based Enterprise crap they put on, maybe it's just Windows.
No, because practically all iOS games are between 0.99 and 15.00 and practically all Nintendo games start at 25.00 while having the same audience and technically comparable features and power. We don't expect handhelds to run Far Cry 2 at 120fps so that's not really an issue.
You're missing the point. ICMP has to be implemented in order for your IP stack to work. Whether you drop, reject or accept certain ICMP packets is irrelevant, if your IP connection wants to work, it has to process them. If there is a bug in how you process ICMP packets it won't matter whether or not you reply to them or not.
And most recent tools don't rely on ping anymore as Windows Firewall does drop all ICMP packets. Even nmap has had the option of testing a host without ping for as far as I can remember.
A) Correctly recycling e-waste takes a lot of money
B) Most companies are not allowed to (or should not) resell or give away because of tax write-offs done on the products. There are companies that literally have warehouses of trash (we have an 8 port BNC router that takes 4U in one of those) because it's cheaper to keep than recycle.
It's the media's fault. Both Amazon and Apple have succeeded due to a relatively DRM free environment. I remember some people trying the WalMart site and complaining that they couldn't play it on their particular device because it wasn't blessed by Microsoft. Then they shut down their DRM servers effectively corrupting every customers library, after that they never recovered
That is stupid. Any IP host should respond to a ping. It's one way of testing if everything is working. Disabling ping just because your IP stack is buggy is security through obscurity. ICMP has to be implemented according to standard.
There have been many implementations of this any many variations since at least the early 90's. I don't know when the patent was lodged but I think Apple themselves may have prior art on this.
Patents and patent trolls should become illegal in our current economic environment.
Then you have the raw binary data but still no information. I guess ASCII would be fairly easy to decode even with simple forensics but once you go in the other medias like audio and video (compression) it would become a lot harder to decode. You have to assume that the people finding your discs have no recollection at all about your present and most likely it will become a religious icon before being decoded by an inquiring soul. Maybe on the front you can draw instructions similar to the Pioneer probes.
They're having problems writing a macros interpreter? Wouldn't surprise me, that thing is probably a mess of spaghetti code.
The savings go pretty quick. I needed to replace my outside incandescents yearly (extreme temperatures during summer AND winter) and the others burned out pretty quick too plus they taxed some of the old wiring (cotton-aluminum) and a lot of the newer wiring was done wrong which made me worried about the load on those wires.
LED's fixed both the replacement and the load issue - I use about 60W worth of LED bulbs on a circuit that used probably 1kW combined (I took out a combination of 40W, 60W and even the inappropriate 100W bulbs).
And a Dremel in the correct place (once you know where the contact needs to be) would've fixed that. Also, it makes the unit practically unfixable if necessary for whatever reason, you don't want to be throwing out $1k worth of product every time it fails.
But think about the cost of that also not forgetting that if the control mechanism messes up, those motors if simply powered up can remain stationary and are virtually impossible to move. Most security is just to keep a simple thief out. An intelligent, dedicated, targeted attacker will always succeed if you give it enough resources. If nothing else I'll just get a plasma cutter and cut out your door.
Anyone introducing this would commit political suicide. It would simply be spun as: He wants to end Medicare benefits and raise taxes. People would hear: He's going to kill all old people and make everyone pay for it.
"Essential" spending is Republican speak for "Military". What they fail to realize is both parties don't have a clue how to reign in the spending the government does. Both sides are simply tied into the businesses they need to give the money to. What we need to do is publicize (instead of privatize) all major social costs (health care, pensions, ...), cut the size of unnecessary departments (like the DoD, DHS...) and remove all ties other departments with companies they have a conflict of interest with including preventing lobbyist and past CEO's of companies to become part of the leadership (FDA, FCC). Simply allocating evenly distributed funds for campaigns and disallowing any further benefits from non-governmental sources for members of Senate, Congress and any federal Court would help.
It all comes down to common sense. Due to a grant that I was able to get to buy my house I had to attend first some classes on debts, credit, mortgages, homeownership etc. There were several people there with less than $100 to spare per month and $1000's in credit card debt that thought they were in good shape to go buy a 80-150k house knowing good well they didn't have the common sense to save rather spending it all on consumables like a juvenile.
You can take an ARM if you want if you're going to sell or pay off the house within the next 5 years but many didn't want to take a simple Google search and look at history to see what the APR's did eg. in the 80s (after the Vietnam War) or if they did they ignored it. During and after every major war the US engages there is a 'mortgage rate crisis' so with the Iraq AND Afghan War going at the same time, what did they expect would happen?
Those type of people shouldn't be getting a mortgage and those that do give them one are stupid and deserve to lose their business. My business bank didn't buy into the credit swaps and faulty mortgages and neither does the credit union I eventually went with so they never even felt the bump in the market. This told me that even if none of the banks were bailed out and they would all have bankrupted, there would be plenty of bank businesses still in operation and since the FDIC backs most existing accounts in the US, nobody would've noticed if their accounts were transferred. One of my accounts was transferred to another bank and all I had to deal with was a different logo on the building and a different website to go to.
Since it uses electricity, it will also be better for your environment compared to your 2 stroke mower that doubles as a gasoline evaporator. They are available from several companies in several prices.
If you got like the poster have to spend $3500 + gas and maintenance + salary to get your lawn mowed, there are really big ones available that will probably get ROI in 2-3 years. There's some mathematics for you.
Unless you start there and end at the side where your barn/shed is located.
There are plenty of other solutions out there and many have found out that virtualization (or cloudization of your server park) is not the end-all be-all of many problems we encounter (such as performance issues, security problems, conflicts between applications) it still doesn't fix and in many cases (usually due to bad understanding and management of the virtual server park) makes things worse than they should be.
There are certain people (I would say 60% of departments deploying virtual server parks) that think it will make their problems with the few servers they have disappear. However they multiply their practices that created the problems in the first place by 10 or however much virtual machines they deploy and don't understand that you now have to manage the full system for 50 machines instead of 5.
Just because you don't trust a CA doesn't mean you can't build up a TLS/SSL connection. It will just throw a tantrum that the CA is not trusted and ask you if you want to continue. But for most sites that is simply unacceptable so they'll just go ahead and buy a cert from a generally trusted CA.
SSL certificates are not meant to verify identities. They're meant to authenticate hostnames and secure links. If somebody hacks the server and gets the keys to the certificate or replaces the hosted content with something else you still can't blame the CA or SSL.
There is no such thing as macro-evolution. The rat doesn't all of a sudden start eating poisonous plants and sweating them out.
Most likely the selective pressure was made in several small steps:
- There is less food at one point and the only thing left is poisonous plants. Some die of the plant, some die of hunger. Those that are somewhat 'immune' to the poison get to breed.
- If there is less food for the rats, there is usually less food for the rest of the ecosystem as well. Things start eating or bringing to their kids the rats that are still alive (most animals don't eat carcasses). Some rats have groomed after eating the poisonous plants and thus are better at not being eaten thus they can breed.
- As time goes on, certain rats that bring out the poison better (sweating, length of arms for grooming, certain hair types that hold on to the poison better) have better survival rates and get to breed.
The thing is it doesn't even have to happen this way. I don't know the details about this rat but it could be that the hollow hairs evolved for an entirely different purpose. If the climate was dry, this might've been better at catching dewdrops to drink etc. etc.
Evolution is hard and the whole 'tech path' isn't always available to us (or we're simply not interested or we haven't investigated it yet) yet we can make conjectures based on the time and place of where we find a preserved ancestor specimen or DNA analysis reveals who it's cousins are in other areas.
Both Java and MySQL can still be installed, there are even nicely made packages for it even directly from Apple (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421). MySQL was never included in the desktop OS (but still installable) and in the server OS, MySQL is still automatically migrated on upgrade but PostgreSQL is included and recommended. ZFS was at one point being developed into Mac OS X as well but never made it because of the Sun/Oracle deal and the licensing fell through.
I don't think Windows comes with Java, MySQL or even their own MSSQL and Oracle doesn't seem to want people to use it's products for free (as you can see with the Android lawsuits).
Sun should've been taken over by Apple, Google or any other company besides Oracle. Oracle as predicted has let go of the majority of the brain trust of Sun, strangled a lot of nice projects (like OpenSolaris) and will eventually require hefty licensing fees of all tech and patents Sun ever created.
All your customers are on Windows because you only write programs for Windows. The market these days is larger than Windows as it's market share is going down in favor of both Linux and Mac.
Microsoft created .NET and just like the other 'cultures' they manufactured before they will dump it for something else as the market needs something leaner and more geared towards using ARM or other CPU's, multicore functionality and built-in security.