Secondly, forcing someone to use Linux+Firefox for a purpose which could technically be done with any browser+os combo, is just what people hate some banking/e-commerce sites
If MS made a free livecd that you could customize to your hearts content, then maybe it would be a viable choice instead of linux.
What other browser+os combo would you suggest?
And sure, it wont work automagically for a lot of people, but its not that hard to put a cd in drive, reboot, wait 30 seconds, and have a login screen popup to get into the bank. For those it doesn't work for, maybe techonology will continue to improve, just like it does every single year.
So how exactly would you hack this bankOS that sends all its communications to a hardcoded bank server using strong encryption.
It comes with zero open ports, and refuses to communicate to any computer except the bank.
Plus, its only used for relatively short time spans giving you a very small window to attack, and an active user on the machine at the time of your attack.
And, you can send a specific version number tagged on the browser, so if a customer has an old version with a security threat, the server can tell them and deny them.
A liveCD is the best solution I can think of for providing a secure communication line.
Of course other crops grow better, and other climates can change. The problem is, have you considered how much of the world is fed by corn, wheat, and rice? The temperatures these crops need are known quantities, and the output at various temparatures is known.
Sure you may can grow more bananas, but they don't feed the world. And likewise, you can turn siberia into a vast farmland, except there is currently about zero infrastructure for doing that in the time span that this warming is happening in.
We know that the earth IS getting warmer. And we know that it goes through natural cycles of climate change. We know that people affect the climate in SOME way, but the debate too often focuses on how much is caused by man, and how much is natural, as if natural warming is somehow better.
The point so many global warming critics ignore is that whether it is a natural phenonema or not, doesn't change the danger. The amount of crops that can be grown worldwide will shrink for every degree the planet goes up, until evolution kicks in.
Just a few degrees globally can literally end up causing the starvation of millions of people.
It doesn't save the theaters any money in distribution costs. Those costs are paid by the studios. The studio pay for film labs to create the films at $2k a pop or so, which is the major cost, compared to $100 for shipping which the theaters pay.
But, do you think the studios will offer any better terms to the theater owners to induce them to use these digital projectors which would save them at least $100k (minus satellite costs) a year per theater? Of course not. And will they offer any better booking rates which reflect the decrease in price? Of course not. They expect the theater owners to pay for everything, and the studios to get the major cost savings from it, and thats why you don't see more digital houses.
BTW, DTS uses a specially encoded CD that syncs up with the film track. The other digital sound formats, and an Analog one too, are encoded on the film.
Like most other religions/cults, it tries to make people feel like their problems are not their own fault, but a horrible curse on all humans from an evil entity (or aliens in the case of scientology).
The difference is, that scientologists claim that problems can be solved, not by personal will and faith and all those other intangibles, but by Money. Meaning it attracts a lot of wealthy people, celebrities, etc, who like the idea of buying their way towards perfection/heaven. And, since money can be converted into power, the religion can maintain a fairly strong powerbase, despite all the absolutely ludicrous claims.
It amazes me that the members can simply overlook all the direct quotes from L Ron Hubbard where he discussed inventing a religion for the sole purpose of making money.
I have absolutely _no_ sympathy for people who think that because it's just a "little crime" there should be just a "little penalty".
Have you ever heard of the phrase, 'the punishment fitting the crime'? Its the basis for the concept we know of as "justice". For example, a man in Texas was sent to prison for 16 years for stealing a candy bar. Most people consider that unjust and a rather extreme penalty for a "little crime". Do you have any sympathy for him, or is he an evil lawbreaker? Where exactly should we draw the line on how to punish people if we don't try to balance and take into consideration the nature of the crime?
If you want to get into the web-app business, then it is a smart move to support the open source browser that actually tries to comply to open standards.
Everyone knows that if they started making all their web-apps based on activeX, or other MS specific browser hooks, then sooner or later MS would break it.
The article doesn't really explain why this confidential data was being moved in the first place.
Why were they flying tapes around? Shouldn't backup tapes be kept in secure offsite storage? Were they moving their data center? Do they regularly fly customer information around the world rather than use something mundane like SSL?
This article leaves a lot of unanswered questions about who in their right mind gave a bunch of tapes to freaking baggage handlers. Seems like they lost somebodys luggage, and somebody just happened to be carrying around a huge database of federal employee banking information. Brilliant.
Google realized long ago that per user fees would never work in the search engine business, and it would never work for a wiki either.
What is worrisome is what exactly will they sell? Maybe it would be moderately benign like text ads on associated topics. Or maybe they will sell the ability to lock a topic to a business, to ensure 'competitors' don't tarnish their image?
One thing is for sure, google is way too smart to try to charge consumers for access, they charge businesses for advertising.
There are plenty of PHB's who are militant about MS products. They don't post on message boards and the like though. They stick to company memos and purchasing decisions.
You are advocating making purchasing decisions based on the ability to sue the manufacturer.
Are you sure you aren't a lawyer?
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Everything's going to have DRM whether you or I like it or not. Spend some time trying to mold the future by encouraging things like Steam that at least offer something in return, rather than fighting the inevitable.
You actually believe those marketing drones??
DRM is not inevitable. How many years have copy protection schemes been implemented on games / other software? 20+ at least
In the entire history of software, how many copy protection schemes have never been broken? How many have stood for more than a single year?
Every piece of software I have EVER bought has been available through piracy, but nonetheless the software industry continues to grow.
So why is an Orwellian world of DRM surviellance inevitable?
For God's sakes, DOOM was released as shareware, and made ID millions of dollars. So don't start spouting about how the loss of freedom is something we need to accept to keep the game industry alive.
And freedom is exactly the right word. When a company spies on you to determine whether you can use a product you have already paid for, what other term could possibly apply?
But the real question is, did this request go through a judge to get a warrant, or was it simply some sysadmin making a claim (which could be easily refuted by an expert) and the police arresting somebody on one mans word.
Will police arrest somebody if I claim they killed somebody, or do they still need evidence?
And what is amazing is that you believe an international group dedicated to peace and non-violence is responsible for the deaths of 10k people.
How can you possibly believe that the people saying "please stop killing each other" are MORE responsible for the ensuing deaths than the people who are actually going around killing each other???
How come you don't blame the Nepalese govt? How come you don't blame the rebels?
You instead blame the peace activists for the results of war. That is ludicrous.
I've used at least 10 different distros in the 8 years I've been running various linux boxes, be it server or desktop.
Would I still be using linux if I had been stuck with only 1 distro? No way.
Have you ever considered that sometimes parallel research and design can come up with better results? Sure, there is some duplicated effort, and some dev work gets overlooked and lost, but you get a stronger product in the end.
If everyone focused on one way of doing things, it doesn't mean that the end result is twice as good than if people focused on two ways of doing things.
Businesses are driven by business decisions. If you want an ISP that will fight spam, then you have to stop giving money to your ISP that doesn't fight spam.
The reality is that while it would be nice if other people did everything for us, many times you have to take matters into your own hands.
I'm a web developer and unlike seemingly every other poster thus far, I use linux. I'm excited about this news.
I last used Bluefish about a year ago, and I absolutely loved it, but... it crashed, often.
I've been using Quanta and have grown to like it, but my environment is Gnome, so Quanta is something of an ungainly beast with all those kde parts loading on top of gnome.
I'm compiling Bluefish now, and can't wait to test it out.
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Secondly, forcing someone to use Linux+Firefox for a purpose which could technically be done with any browser+os combo, is just what people hate some banking/e-commerce sites
If MS made a free livecd that you could customize to your hearts content, then maybe it would be a viable choice instead of linux.
What other browser+os combo would you suggest?
And sure, it wont work automagically for a lot of people, but its not that hard to put a cd in drive, reboot, wait 30 seconds, and have a login screen popup to get into the bank. For those it doesn't work for, maybe techonology will continue to improve, just like it does every single year.
So how exactly would you hack this bankOS that sends all its communications to a hardcoded bank server using strong encryption.
It comes with zero open ports, and refuses to communicate to any computer except the bank.
Plus, its only used for relatively short time spans giving you a very small window to attack, and an active user on the machine at the time of your attack.
And, you can send a specific version number tagged on the browser, so if a customer has an old version with a security threat, the server can tell them and deny them.
A liveCD is the best solution I can think of for providing a secure communication line.
Of course other crops grow better, and other climates can change. The problem is, have you considered how much of the world is fed by corn, wheat, and rice? The temperatures these crops need are known quantities, and the output at various temparatures is known.
Sure you may can grow more bananas, but they don't feed the world. And likewise, you can turn siberia into a vast farmland, except there is currently about zero infrastructure for doing that in the time span that this warming is happening in.
We know that the earth IS getting warmer. And we know that it goes through natural cycles of climate change. We know that people affect the climate in SOME way, but the debate too often focuses on how much is caused by man, and how much is natural, as if natural warming is somehow better.
The point so many global warming critics ignore is that whether it is a natural phenonema or not, doesn't change the danger. The amount of crops that can be grown worldwide will shrink for every degree the planet goes up, until evolution kicks in.
Just a few degrees globally can literally end up causing the starvation of millions of people.
It doesn't save the theaters any money in distribution costs. Those costs are paid by the studios. The studio pay for film labs to create the films at $2k a pop or so, which is the major cost, compared to $100 for shipping which the theaters pay.
But, do you think the studios will offer any better terms to the theater owners to induce them to use these digital projectors which would save them at least $100k (minus satellite costs) a year per theater? Of course not. And will they offer any better booking rates which reflect the decrease in price? Of course not. They expect the theater owners to pay for everything, and the studios to get the major cost savings from it, and thats why you don't see more digital houses.
BTW, DTS uses a specially encoded CD that syncs up with the film track. The other digital sound formats, and an Analog one too, are encoded on the film.
Like most other religions/cults, it tries to make people feel like their problems are not their own fault, but a horrible curse on all humans from an evil entity (or aliens in the case of scientology).
The difference is, that scientologists claim that problems can be solved, not by personal will and faith and all those other intangibles, but by Money. Meaning it attracts a lot of wealthy people, celebrities, etc, who like the idea of buying their way towards perfection/heaven. And, since money can be converted into power, the religion can maintain a fairly strong powerbase, despite all the absolutely ludicrous claims.
It amazes me that the members can simply overlook all the direct quotes from L Ron Hubbard where he discussed inventing a religion for the sole purpose of making money.
You charge $2k for 20 hours of work? For... web design? I must be working in the wrong market if you can get away with those prices.
I have absolutely _no_ sympathy for people who think that because it's just a "little crime" there should be just a "little penalty".
Have you ever heard of the phrase, 'the punishment fitting the crime'? Its the basis for the concept we know of as "justice". For example, a man in Texas was sent to prison for 16 years for stealing a candy bar. Most people consider that unjust and a rather extreme penalty for a "little crime". Do you have any sympathy for him, or is he an evil lawbreaker? Where exactly should we draw the line on how to punish people if we don't try to balance and take into consideration the nature of the crime?
Let me get this straight... they want to crack down on political speech on personal websites?
How is this different from Iran?
If you want to get into the web-app business, then it is a smart move to support the open source browser that actually tries to comply to open standards.
Everyone knows that if they started making all their web-apps based on activeX, or other MS specific browser hooks, then sooner or later MS would break it.
The article doesn't really explain why this confidential data was being moved in the first place.
Why were they flying tapes around?
Shouldn't backup tapes be kept in secure offsite storage?
Were they moving their data center?
Do they regularly fly customer information around the world rather than use something mundane like SSL?
This article leaves a lot of unanswered questions about who in their right mind gave a bunch of tapes to freaking baggage handlers. Seems like they lost somebodys luggage, and somebody just happened to be carrying around a huge database of federal employee banking information. Brilliant.
Google realized long ago that per user fees would never work in the search engine business, and it would never work for a wiki either.
What is worrisome is what exactly will they sell? Maybe it would be moderately benign like text ads on associated topics. Or maybe they will sell the ability to lock a topic to a business, to ensure 'competitors' don't tarnish their image?
One thing is for sure, google is way too smart to try to charge consumers for access, they charge businesses for advertising.
There are plenty of PHB's who are militant about MS products. They don't post on message boards and the like though. They stick to company memos and purchasing decisions.
You are advocating making purchasing decisions based on the ability to sue the manufacturer.
Are you sure you aren't a lawyer?
Everything's going to have DRM whether you or I like it or not. Spend some time trying to mold the future by encouraging things like Steam that at least offer something in return, rather than fighting the inevitable.
You actually believe those marketing drones??
DRM is not inevitable. How many years have copy protection schemes been implemented on games / other software? 20+ at least
In the entire history of software, how many copy protection schemes have never been broken? How many have stood for more than a single year?
Every piece of software I have EVER bought has been available through piracy, but nonetheless the software industry continues to grow.
So why is an Orwellian world of DRM surviellance inevitable?
For God's sakes, DOOM was released as shareware, and made ID millions of dollars. So don't start spouting about how the loss of freedom is something we need to accept to keep the game industry alive.
And freedom is exactly the right word. When a company spies on you to determine whether you can use a product you have already paid for, what other term could possibly apply?
But the real question is, did this request go through a judge to get a warrant, or was it simply some sysadmin making a claim (which could be easily refuted by an expert) and the police arresting somebody on one mans word.
Will police arrest somebody if I claim they killed somebody, or do they still need evidence?
That hackers would never think to forge a browser agent tag.
So you got everything running, and figured out how to make linux work in your dorm without any tech support help.
Did you learn something in the process?
Looks like the college is doing its job to me.
(And supporting a solaris shell vs supporting students who want to run linux are WAY different environments)
And what is amazing is that you believe an international group dedicated to peace and non-violence is responsible for the deaths of 10k people.
How can you possibly believe that the people saying "please stop killing each other" are MORE responsible for the ensuing deaths than the people who are actually going around killing each other???
How come you don't blame the Nepalese govt?
How come you don't blame the rebels?
You instead blame the peace activists for the results of war. That is ludicrous.
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How about a car instead. Being able to experience a whole new world of freedom is a lot more interesting than investing so you can be a rich geezer.
Life isn't only about making the largest possible amount of money before you die.
I'd prefer the raw sewage people used to throw onto the streets in Victorian times to the demeaning bullshit the advertiser assaults us with.
You prefer raw sewage over billboards? I hate billboards too, but at least they don't spread cholera and track feces into my living room.
Users dont care about choice? Are you for real?
I've used at least 10 different distros in the 8 years I've been running various linux boxes, be it server or desktop.
Would I still be using linux if I had been stuck with only 1 distro? No way.
Have you ever considered that sometimes parallel research and design can come up with better results? Sure, there is some duplicated effort, and some dev work gets overlooked and lost, but you get a stronger product in the end.
If everyone focused on one way of doing things, it doesn't mean that the end result is twice as good than if people focused on two ways of doing things.
Businesses are driven by business decisions. If you want an ISP that will fight spam, then you have to stop giving money to your ISP that doesn't fight spam.
The reality is that while it would be nice if other people did everything for us, many times you have to take matters into your own hands.
I'm a web developer and unlike seemingly every other poster thus far, I use linux. I'm excited about this news.
I last used Bluefish about a year ago, and I absolutely loved it, but... it crashed, often.
I've been using Quanta and have grown to like it, but my environment is Gnome, so Quanta is something of an ungainly beast with all those kde parts loading on top of gnome.
I'm compiling Bluefish now, and can't wait to test it out.