RSA access tokens occassionally need to be 'resynched'. Many systems, like the RSA SecurID do this automatically when you login by accepting the last and previous 10 passwords or whatever. But, if a customer hasn't logged in for a long time, the token can become wayyyy out of sync. So, typically they have to have it resynched in some way. This could involve logging into some known-secure web page and entering in some user information and the current number on the token, or by calling support and telling them what the current number on the token is.
Phishing is possible for at least one password by posing as a 'resync' page or as support personnel. Additionally, if the phisher is sophisticated and has the right software and sufficient computing power, the phisher may be able to deduce the private 'seed key' so that he can get ALL the passwords.
It's important to remember that there is no such thing as an uncrackable security system.
The obvious answer: It's a beta. So if you want to test it and don't mind a few bugs, random crashes, etc. then you might want to try it. If you need something that's solid and stable enough for everyday browsing, continue to use the 1.0.x series.
That's been tried and failed. Maybe it's because human-readability is important. Maybe it's because of the difficulties of revocation and all that. Maybe it's because the costs of adopting a new namespace are quite large and the benefits are quite small. In any case, I've seen people follow that path and fall flat on their face. I wish you well, but be aware of the difficulty.
I think a lot of people have thought that DNS needs replacing, but I think it's just not going to happen. The fact is DNS works and replacing it would be a massive undertaking -- people just aren't willing to expend that much energy fixing something that works perfectly fine for the most part.
After all, Sun does support the GNOME project as well, and that is solidly under the GPL.
Actually most of the GNOME is licensed under the LGPL.
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Ahem. Most *home* buyers.
Most corporate buyers don't want an OS or applications. They've already engaged in volume licensing deals with their OS vendor and their applications vendors. They're just going to strip off the software that's on there and install their own customized load.
That's not the point. The point is that millions of consumers will have access to a full-featured office suite, probably for free and without having to install ANYTHING.
Most consumers could care less whether or not the thing can read Microsoft Office documents. They just want to write a letter to aunt millie, maybe use the spreadsheet do a budget or keep a small 'database' in, etc.
The Ford Escape Hybrid is about par with the Excape XLT. The XLT's base price for FWD is 24,800 and the Hybrid is like 27,500, so the cost difference is only like 10%.
Oh, it gets worse than that. For instance, what if you're a college student and you live in, say California, so your billing address is there. You use, say, Amazon.com to order a gift for someone's wish list who lives in MD, but you go to school in Texas, so that's where the transaction took place.
Good engineering, he says, comes from dividing the task in to component parts, creating specifications for those parts, building samples, testing them to their limits, retesting them to various other limits, until you have a complete understanding of all the failure modes of that component,
Best Buy wouldn't care. They just need a product to ship back to their distributor, who'll likely only look in the box to see that "yup, it's an Antec 430 PSU all right!"
Anyways, your problem was most likely with your drives. Running 6 drives puts quite a drain. Seeing as how a an Intel P4 system needs 350W-400W minimum, 430 just ain't enough to run 6 drives, a power hungry GPU and a water cooler. But even without the 6600GT, you were definitely pushing the limits of the PSU for sure.
But they aren't in the software business.
OEMs don't like dealing with software support issues, they don't even really like selling software. It doesn't make them any money.
OEMs bundle software (and sometimes sell software separately) because it sells computers. Plain and simple.
It's basically what they always do. They're arresting him in order to work out a deal to find and convict the actual thief.
He'll probably cop to possession of stolen property (a lesser offense than actually selling stolen property) and be sentenced time served + community service.
To be fair, Google omits certain sites for Chinese IP addresses because ordinary Internet users in China can't access them without going through some sort of anonymous proxy. They aren't reinforcing China's restrictions, they are just trying to make their own site useable by ordinary people in China. Not everyone in China is smart enough to use anonymous proxies and the like to get around the Great Firewall of China.
that x86 people are interested in "the other side."
Oh, yeah, because once they see the other side they'll never go back!
Try to contain your enthusiasm. Home users don't typically chose their OS/platform by factors such as ease of use or "coolness factor." And corporate desktops definitely don't either.
The choice for home users is usually either A) what they use at work, B) what Bob down the street uses, C) what their neighborhood geek told them to get, or D) what platform they can play the most games on.
The choice for corporate users is made by management and IT management, who typically favor Windows because it is centrally manageable, it's what they already have been using for years, and it's what their users know.
Never mind that easy to use GUI design is eschewed by Linux writers who seem to be inherently unable to grasp that what is easy for a techie geek is NOT the thing that the common end-users need or want.
So what, exactly, is "easy to use" about Windows or other Microsoft products? Before you answer that question, tell me how many "n00b users" you know that use features in Microsoft products like mail filters in Outlook or change tracking in Word or can install programs in Windows by themselves.
Many can't. Maybe even most.
The perception that Windows is easy is ludicrious. I have no idea where it comes from -- anyone else know?
That's not what the deal is. Apple isn't hedging its bets. From the various articles: " Apple Computer Inc. said it has an option to keep buying microprocessors from Freescale Semiconductor Inc., three months after saying Macs will switch to Intel Corp. chips next year."
Apple has negotiated for an option to buy the processors, and there is no set number of processors they will buy. Freescale just agreed to supply whatever Apple orders for the next three years. Apple could order 0. Apple could order a bunch. But probably not. They're most likely buying these processors to support the existing user base, to produce enough existing models to meet existing contractual obligations, and to be able to meet any unexpected surges in demand during the transition period.
Where do people get that Apple is "hedging its bets?" Apple has bet the farm on Mac on Intel. Believe it.
And don't think that for one minute the underlying hardware makes no difference. There will always be certain types of applications that will very much be hardware dependent, and yes, it DOES make a difference.
Actually, I've used both PowerPoint and OOo Impress, and I have to say that I have yet to find any compelling features in PowerPoint that OOo Impress doens't have.
In fact, I find OOo easier to produce the types of presentations that I do. (Heavy on graphics, some animation, nicely legible bullet points).
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RSA access tokens occassionally need to be 'resynched'. Many systems, like the RSA SecurID do this automatically when you login by accepting the last and previous 10 passwords or whatever. But, if a customer hasn't logged in for a long time, the token can become wayyyy out of sync. So, typically they have to have it resynched in some way. This could involve logging into some known-secure web page and entering in some user information and the current number on the token, or by calling support and telling them what the current number on the token is.
Phishing is possible for at least one password by posing as a 'resync' page or as support personnel. Additionally, if the phisher is sophisticated and has the right software and sufficient computing power, the phisher may be able to deduce the private 'seed key' so that he can get ALL the passwords.
It's important to remember that there is no such thing as an uncrackable security system.
Wanna take another guess at why it costs so much? Two words: captive market.
The obvious answer: It's a beta. So if you want to test it and don't mind a few bugs, random crashes, etc. then you might want to try it. If you need something that's solid and stable enough for everyday browsing, continue to use the 1.0.x series.
Heck, I wouldn't even build notepad for Linux if I thought it would cause people to leave my main product.
Maybe not, but apparently they have their own version of vi.
I think a lot of people have thought that DNS needs replacing, but I think it's just not going to happen. The fact is DNS works and replacing it would be a massive undertaking -- people just aren't willing to expend that much energy fixing something that works perfectly fine for the most part.
After all, Sun does support the GNOME project as well, and that is solidly under the GPL.
Actually most of the GNOME is licensed under the LGPL.
Ahem. Most *home* buyers.
Most corporate buyers don't want an OS or applications. They've already engaged in volume licensing deals with their OS vendor and their applications vendors. They're just going to strip off the software that's on there and install their own customized load.
Apparently, here. I didn't do it!
That's not the point. The point is that millions of consumers will have access to a full-featured office suite, probably for free and without having to install ANYTHING.
Most consumers could care less whether or not the thing can read Microsoft Office documents. They just want to write a letter to aunt millie, maybe use the spreadsheet do a budget or keep a small 'database' in, etc.
The price difference depends on the vehicle.
The Ford Escape Hybrid is about par with the Excape XLT. The XLT's base price for FWD is 24,800 and the Hybrid is like 27,500, so the cost difference is only like 10%.
In a related study, 95% of convicted P2P filesharers reported that they at least sometimes eat sliced bread.
So, kiddies, if you don't want to get caught, eat sliced bread.
What??? *looks around self-consciously*
Oh, it gets worse than that. For instance, what if you're a college student and you live in, say California, so your billing address is there. You use, say, Amazon.com to order a gift for someone's wish list who lives in MD, but you go to school in Texas, so that's where the transaction took place.
NOW who gets the tax?
While, yes, you missed the sarcasm, #10 -- Speed. Firefox's Gecko engine renders pages much quicker than IE on the same box.
Best Buy wouldn't care. They just need a product to ship back to their distributor, who'll likely only look in the box to see that "yup, it's an Antec 430 PSU all right!" Anyways, your problem was most likely with your drives. Running 6 drives puts quite a drain. Seeing as how a an Intel P4 system needs 350W-400W minimum, 430 just ain't enough to run 6 drives, a power hungry GPU and a water cooler. But even without the 6600GT, you were definitely pushing the limits of the PSU for sure.
Broken Audio Discs. That is all.
But they aren't in the software business. OEMs don't like dealing with software support issues, they don't even really like selling software. It doesn't make them any money. OEMs bundle software (and sometimes sell software separately) because it sells computers. Plain and simple.
I have Cingular. I have Firefox. I have never experienced any difficulties in paying my Cingular bill on their website.
It's basically what they always do. They're arresting him in order to work out a deal to find and convict the actual thief. He'll probably cop to possession of stolen property (a lesser offense than actually selling stolen property) and be sentenced time served + community service.
To be fair, Google omits certain sites for Chinese IP addresses because ordinary Internet users in China can't access them without going through some sort of anonymous proxy. They aren't reinforcing China's restrictions, they are just trying to make their own site useable by ordinary people in China. Not everyone in China is smart enough to use anonymous proxies and the like to get around the Great Firewall of China.
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See the 'PK'? That stands for 'Phil Katz' as in PKWARE, Inc. As in ZIP.
Next time try unzipping it first.
that x86 people are interested in "the other side." Oh, yeah, because once they see the other side they'll never go back! Try to contain your enthusiasm. Home users don't typically chose their OS/platform by factors such as ease of use or "coolness factor." And corporate desktops definitely don't either. The choice for home users is usually either A) what they use at work, B) what Bob down the street uses, C) what their neighborhood geek told them to get, or D) what platform they can play the most games on. The choice for corporate users is made by management and IT management, who typically favor Windows because it is centrally manageable, it's what they already have been using for years, and it's what their users know.
So what, exactly, is "easy to use" about Windows or other Microsoft products? Before you answer that question, tell me how many "n00b users" you know that use features in Microsoft products like mail filters in Outlook or change tracking in Word or can install programs in Windows by themselves.
Many can't. Maybe even most.
The perception that Windows is easy is ludicrious. I have no idea where it comes from -- anyone else know?
That's not what the deal is. Apple isn't hedging its bets. From the various articles: " Apple Computer Inc. said it has an option to keep buying microprocessors from Freescale Semiconductor Inc., three months after saying Macs will switch to Intel Corp. chips next year." Apple has negotiated for an option to buy the processors, and there is no set number of processors they will buy. Freescale just agreed to supply whatever Apple orders for the next three years. Apple could order 0. Apple could order a bunch. But probably not. They're most likely buying these processors to support the existing user base, to produce enough existing models to meet existing contractual obligations, and to be able to meet any unexpected surges in demand during the transition period. Where do people get that Apple is "hedging its bets?" Apple has bet the farm on Mac on Intel. Believe it. And don't think that for one minute the underlying hardware makes no difference. There will always be certain types of applications that will very much be hardware dependent, and yes, it DOES make a difference.
Actually, I've used both PowerPoint and OOo Impress, and I have to say that I have yet to find any compelling features in PowerPoint that OOo Impress doens't have.
In fact, I find OOo easier to produce the types of presentations that I do. (Heavy on graphics, some animation, nicely legible bullet points).