Or, if you're in the nice neighborhood I live in, you could just walk up to the door of the house you're going to photograph, ring the bell and someone could give you personalized directions. Remember people, not everyone is a scary axe murder, even if the govt. & media portray it that way to keep you scared. Talk to your neighbors for gods sake!
Are you willing to accept email from anyone on the internet? Perhaps someone who read a post of yours on slashdot, or a web page you put up? If so, then only accepting signed email will not protect you from spam. There's nothing to keep spammers from generating new keys often and signing their spam. Once the key is blacklisted, they create a new identity (or identity web if necessary) and send more spams. Sure, it can up the cost incrementally, but it doesn't scale well. SPF is designed to authenticate the sending domain, SMTP AUTH can authenticate the sending user in the domain (both protecting whitelisting), and HashCash can up the cost to send an email such that for non-whitelisted sender the cost is reasonable, but for bulk email it's too costly.
The only trouble with the combination of SPF & HashCash is where spammers sign onto mailing lists and use the fact that the list itself would be whitelisted by the recipients to deliver the email. That could be handled by filters and moderators.
That's not true. Because after you start with the live person, asking them questions and such, you can turn them into dead people and use forensics on them.:-)
Your post made me think that the user prompt really needs to be: "Do you trust this website with full control over your computer?" But the problem is with the browser. If the browser were designed to be able to per-domain sandbox even plugins (a shit load of work I know, and it would limit their functionality), then a user could install a plugin downloaded from a site, view that site, and all the plugin could do would be screw with the data from that site. I guess what I'm advocating is that plugins be written in java, or at least execute in a java-sandbox like environment.
The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste.
You've got some decent points in your rant, but I'm not sure that this is one of them. You see, even with the food supply as fucked as you think it is, people still live much longer, healthier lives than they did 200 years ago when all the food they ate was 'natural' and 'wholesome'.
Tim Berners-Lee had been saying right from the beginning that viewing a web page should be integrated with creating it.
Well, the very first web browser (WorldWideWeb.app) was also a WYSIWYG page editor. It helped that it didn't even support IMG tags, but I'm not sure that what you're quoting is more than that.
Why cant someone just invent a new similar, improved web that is separated from the current WWW, with its own specific browser, and implement the various ins, outs and whathaveyous to keep the riffraff from exploiting it in very annoying ways?
We did. Oh, you haven't heard of it? Sorry, um, nevermind I've mispoken.
That's exactly "free as in speech". If I give a speech at a gathering and you write it all down and start distributing it, you're violating my copyright. However, if you distribute a patch set to my speech because you feel it reads better with your modifications, then you're welcome to do so.
That attack could work, since I'm pretty sure Domain Keys doesn't sign the envelope. Yahoo could immediately disable that account, but the spammer could continue to resend the same message. The 'To:' header would likely show only a no longer valid email address for the spammer. The 'From:' would of course be an ex-valid Yahoo account, probably created with bogus info. But given that the messages would have to be completely identical, solutions like DCC (http://www.rhyolite.com/) would help.
Actually, I think the 'right' approach is to require congress to produce the tax laws as valid pseudo-code in some high level script. That way the laws are well codified, and some hacker can translate the pseudo-code into 'real' executable code and then wrap it with a decent UI...
Of course, the tax laws would _never_ actually compile:-)
Given that the solar/wind/manure electric production equipment capital outlay was done by the 'consumer' rather than PG&E, which saves them lots of money, and that the small generation systems like solar/wind/manure are typically better for the environment/public-good than larger plants like hydro/coal/oil, the greater benefit to the public good by encouraging people to overbuild their local plants and contribute a net positive to the grid would increase the public good. God that was an ugly rambling sentence. Basically, small power stations good for many, PG&E good for few (rich). Therefore the laws should encourage small power generation. Also, note that with a Time-Of-Use meter a net consumer of electricity can pay nothing, but with a different production/time curve a large net-producer can owe money.
I just meta-moderated for the mod who moderated your post as a troll as 'unfair'. Not sure exactly what's going on, but the link 'wilwheaton.org' does sometimes show a nasty picture and sometimes redirects to wilwheaton.net, the official site.
Well, what I meant was that Microsoft could 'catch' people who were trying to pirate their software on limewire by sending out a fake (or real) version of their software which would phone home and scream 'help, i'm being pirated by IP...', not that it was Microsoft's fault the guy was an idiot. Not that I couldn't be convinced of that.:-)
This is a perfect use for Fast User Switching. Create an account with no perms and no data you care about losing. Test downloads in that account. You can do it without even logging out.
Be careful though of the fact that there's no restriction on network access for a 'no perms' account. (This is a failing of UNIX in general, not MacOS in particular.) This would allow Microsoft/anyone to put out a trojan like this, and send back a 'this IP fell for it' packet, or even run a server on a 'high' port (depending on your firewall configuration).
Not that it matters. With eVoting I'm sure that even if _everyone_ clicks on CowboyNeal, Bush will still 'somehow' get elected. Sorry, I've been reading way too much Gregg Palast lately.
I heard that, but I don't believe it. On a 'normal' CD, it appears to be true, but on CD-Rs, it appears that there's approximately equal protection on both sides. Check out my images here: CD Edge Images.
Also note how at the edge at least how wavy the line is. This is from a bargain-basement CDR, and a Keyspan USB-Serial Driver CD.
That's funny. I LOATHE C++ for the opposite reason. in Obj-C I can easily tell what's an object and when messages are getting sent. With C++ I have to spend precious brain cells trying to figure out what the fu*k is going on: Is that a structure or an object? Does it matter in this case? Is that '+' (plus-sign) doing string concatenation, or adding the two strings as if they were int's?
Don't even get me started on Templates vs. Dynamic Binding, or the lack of named parameters...
I worked on some software where I requested a password from the user and didn't want to just pick something that every customer would know was the default for every install. So I ended up using 'ps' and transforming the output quite a bit, figuring that the odds the output would be the same on two different boxes were minimal.
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Or, if you're in the nice neighborhood I live in, you could just walk up to the door of the house you're going to photograph, ring the bell and someone could give you personalized directions.
Remember people, not everyone is a scary axe murder, even if the govt. & media portray it that way to keep you scared. Talk to your neighbors for gods sake!
Are you willing to accept email from anyone on the internet? Perhaps someone who read a post of yours on slashdot, or a web page you put up? If so, then only accepting signed email will not protect you from spam. There's nothing to keep spammers from generating new keys often and signing their spam. Once the key is blacklisted, they create a new identity (or identity web if necessary) and send more spams. Sure, it can up the cost incrementally, but it doesn't scale well.
SPF is designed to authenticate the sending domain, SMTP AUTH can authenticate the sending user in the domain (both protecting whitelisting), and HashCash can up the cost to send an email such that for non-whitelisted sender the cost is reasonable, but for bulk email it's too costly.
The only trouble with the combination of SPF & HashCash is where spammers sign onto mailing lists and use the fact that the list itself would be whitelisted by the recipients to deliver the email. That could be handled by filters and moderators.
That's not true. Because after you start with the live person, asking them questions and such, you can turn them into dead people and use forensics on them. :-)
Shit, 13 years ago I was running NeXTStep and it _still_ kicks the shit out of windows and pretty much any other OS that wasn't derived from it :-)
I remember reading about a guy who used an Apple //e, AppleWriter, and a postscript printer. His documents were marked up in Postscript!
Wacky, but if it works for you, I won't argue.
Your post made me think that the user prompt really needs to be: "Do you trust this website with full control over your computer?"
But the problem is with the browser. If the browser were designed to be able to per-domain sandbox even plugins (a shit load of work I know, and it would limit their functionality), then a user could install a plugin downloaded from a site, view that site, and all the plugin could do would be screw with the data from that site. I guess what I'm advocating is that plugins be written in java, or at least execute in a java-sandbox like environment.
The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste.
You've got some decent points in your rant, but I'm not sure that this is one of them. You see, even with the food supply as fucked as you think it is, people still live much longer, healthier lives than they did 200 years ago when all the food they ate was 'natural' and 'wholesome'.
Tim Berners-Lee had been saying right from the beginning that viewing a web page should be integrated with creating it.
Well, the very first web browser (WorldWideWeb.app) was also a WYSIWYG page editor. It helped that it didn't even support IMG tags, but I'm not sure that what you're quoting is more than that.
Why cant someone just invent a new similar, improved web that is separated from the current WWW, with its own specific browser, and implement the various ins, outs and whathaveyous to keep the riffraff from exploiting it in very annoying ways?
We did. Oh, you haven't heard of it? Sorry, um, nevermind I've mispoken.
That's exactly "free as in speech". If I give a speech at a gathering and you write it all down and start distributing it, you're violating my copyright. However, if you distribute a patch set to my speech because you feel it reads better with your modifications, then you're welcome to do so.
That attack could work, since I'm pretty sure Domain Keys doesn't sign the envelope.
Yahoo could immediately disable that account, but the spammer could continue to resend the same message. The 'To:' header would likely show only a no longer valid email address for the spammer. The 'From:' would of course be an ex-valid Yahoo account, probably created with bogus info.
But given that the messages would have to be completely identical, solutions like DCC (http://www.rhyolite.com/) would help.
First Cobalt Qube (2700) was based on MIPS, not ARM. Perhaps you're speaking of an in-house prototype that never saw the light of day?
Actually, I think the 'right' approach is to require congress to produce the tax laws as valid pseudo-code in some high level script. That way the laws are well codified, and some hacker can translate the pseudo-code into 'real' executable code and then wrap it with a decent UI...
:-)
Of course, the tax laws would _never_ actually compile
Given that the solar/wind/manure electric production equipment capital outlay was done by the 'consumer' rather than PG&E, which saves them lots of money, and that the small generation systems like solar/wind/manure are typically better for the environment/public-good than larger plants like hydro/coal/oil, the greater benefit to the public good by encouraging people to overbuild their local plants and contribute a net positive to the grid would increase the public good.
God that was an ugly rambling sentence.
Basically, small power stations good for many, PG&E good for few (rich). Therefore the laws should encourage small power generation.
Also, note that with a Time-Of-Use meter a net consumer of electricity can pay nothing, but with a different production/time curve a large net-producer can owe money.
I don't know...when I told my co-workers that I bought a surplus geiger counter off e-bay they told me I'd broken their geek-meter!
I just meta-moderated for the mod who moderated your post as a troll as 'unfair'. Not sure exactly what's going on, but the link 'wilwheaton.org' does sometimes show a nasty picture and sometimes redirects to wilwheaton.net, the official site.
Well, what I meant was that Microsoft could 'catch' people who were trying to pirate their software on limewire by sending out a fake (or real) version of their software which would phone home and scream 'help, i'm being pirated by IP...', not that it was Microsoft's fault the guy was an idiot. Not that I couldn't be convinced of that. :-)
Sweet, learn something new every day. I should put that on my NetBSD server box.
and weren't networked (how do you print??)
//e without a network. If you went to a school without computers, maybe you'd be able to figure it out...
Gee, I could print just fine from my Apple
This is a perfect use for Fast User Switching. Create an account with no perms and no data you care about losing. Test downloads in that account. You can do it without even logging out.
Be careful though of the fact that there's no restriction on network access for a 'no perms' account. (This is a failing of UNIX in general, not MacOS in particular.) This would allow Microsoft/anyone to put out a trojan like this, and send back a 'this IP fell for it' packet, or even run a server on a 'high' port (depending on your firewall configuration).
Not that it matters. With eVoting I'm sure that even if _everyone_ clicks on CowboyNeal, Bush will still 'somehow' get elected.
Sorry, I've been reading way too much Gregg Palast lately.
I heard that, but I don't believe it. On a 'normal' CD, it appears to be true, but on CD-Rs, it appears that there's approximately equal protection on both sides. Check out my images here:
CD Edge Images.
Also note how at the edge at least how wavy the line is. This is from a bargain-basement CDR, and a Keyspan USB-Serial Driver CD.
That's funny. I LOATHE C++ for the opposite reason. in Obj-C I can easily tell what's an object and when messages are getting sent.
With C++ I have to spend precious brain cells trying to figure out what the fu*k is going on:
Is that a structure or an object? Does it matter in this case?
Is that '+' (plus-sign) doing string concatenation, or adding the two strings as if they were int's?
Don't even get me started on Templates vs. Dynamic Binding, or the lack of named parameters...
andr0meda, shut the hell up. Pay no attention to him. NZ is a vast toxic wasteland. Pretty much unlivable. Never go there.
:-)
At least that's what I told people when I came back from spending 3 months bike touring there. Hate to have it inundated with the unwashed
I worked on some software where I requested a password from the user and didn't want to just pick something that every customer would know was the default for every install. So I ended up using 'ps' and transforming the output quite a bit, figuring that the odds the output would be the same on two different boxes were minimal.