The whole carbon footprint thing is overrated. and the carbon credits is just a way to make businesses feel better about wasting and polluting. What's the carbon footprint of sleeping? What's the carbon footprint of sitting on the couch watching TV? What's the carbon footprint of eating a microwave pizza? What's the carbon footprint of teleporting? geez
They've been talking about it for the last couple years... I haven't seen much press on it lately, but a bill was introduced to reduce delivery to 5 days.
‘(h) Nothing in this title or any other provision of law shall be considered to prevent the Postal Service from taking whatever actions may be necessary to provide for 5-day delivery of mail and a commensurate adjustment in rural delivery of mail, subject to the requirements of section 3661.’.
Excerpt from the bill (Title I, Subtitle B, section 111(h)) Read this as "allows USPS to move to 5-day delivery" not "mandates USPS to move to 5-day delivery"
- Washington Post article - from the horse's mouth - the bill....112th Congress H.R. 2309 (Postal Reform Act of 2011) sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa [R-CA] - Press release on Rep. Issa's page with a decent summary
I do understand what a self-signed cert is. I've played around with them a little bit in testing, but it has been a while. I primarily use a "real" cert with a commonly trusted CA. Let me rephrase:
Browsers pop up an alert if the site's certificate isn't signed by a trusted CA (e.g. I visit your website which uses your self-signed certificate, but I haven't imported your personal CA root certificate. I obviously don't trust your certificate.) screenshot: http://www.unitone.name/images/firefox_3_ssl_certificate_warning.png
My questions were basically:
- Do you get a similar "untrusted certificate" warning when running self-signed Windows applications? (given, of course, that you haven't imported and trusted that cert) Is this similar to -- or the same as -- the "unknown publisher" warning: http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/215509_uac-unknown-publisher-prompt.png ?
- Assuming that users ARE prompted with a warning similar to the above, won't they typically just click through the dialogs and install/run the app?
Therefore, all that I'm saying is that users are typically stupid, and even if they get a security warning, they won't look at the certificate and certificate path.
Can't you just sign applications and installers with a self-signed certificate? Or is Windows smart enough to recognize this (untrusted publisher, yet signed) and warn the user (similar to how browsers deal with untrusted certs)? And assuming that the user *is* notified, how many people are just going to click through and acknowledge the warning and keep on installing/executing the app?
That being said, I do look at digital signatures whenever I'm unsure of the validity of the executable, but if it looks decently legitimate (as it always seems to...), then I continue to run it. As a dev, I also digitally sign my apps at work with a trusted cert.
Someone give me a fucking assault rifle. They're legal in the US, you know.
That way I can start taking out the suit-wearing criminals that the government continues to ignore and encourage.
Go down to the dock. At Pier 76A-4, there's a blue CONEX box labeled Offshore Shipping Associates, Inc. with serial 2840203821174018. It's unlocked. Open it up. It's loaded with assault weapons and ammo. Take no more than 2 weapons and 12 magazines -- if you take any more, I will hunt you down, Mr. Anonymous Coward. When you leave, crate everything back up and close the CONEX box...make it look like you were never there. I will expect you to reimburse me through my Swiss bank account. I'll send you a bill and routing information through a different channel at a later date.
Also, avoid Customs and Homeland Security at all costs -- they will shoot first and ask questions later. These guys will shoot to kill, especially if you are in possession of assault weapons.
Good luck.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Enjoy the humor. Everything in this post is fictitious. Any resemblances to anything real is purely coincidental. IANAL and IANAAD (arms dealer)
In other news 47% of all news articles are speculative bullshit with no grounding in reality. See we can all make up numbers.
There, Dyinobal....I fixed it for you. We can fabricate numbers as long as we want and have it sound legit as long as we make a wikipedia-style reference See xkcd #906 for details.
So... developers are bad coders, and therefore we should give them free reign over our privacy?
Yes.... no, I jest. IAASD (I am a software developer)
Seriously though, it depends on the developer -- to my dismay, some of the developers I work with put minimal effort into error-checking (even simple function return values)....and whenever the software breaks during operational use, that usually means that I have to go back in and fix it and make it the way it originally should have been...sometimes as an emergency patch. I'm not perfect either, and I'll occasionally overlook a couple checks, but at least I try to put the effort into it. If there were to be a permission-query API as GGP had suggested, it would definitely make things easier.
That being said, I do think it's a good idea for end users to control their privacy as much as they can, so I would support user-configurable permissions.
As other comments have stated, there are currently apps available (AdFree Android, DroidWall, etc...) for root users to control some of this. This is one of the reasons that I've rooted my Motorola Droid. But then again, from what I understand, manufacturers are continually making it increasingly hard to root your phone.
The offspring of Spaniards that committed the genocide of nearly every indigenous people on two major land masses while spreading the word of God that he loves them even as they are being tortured and murdered, who sometimes illegally emigrate to the US by sneaking across the border with Mexico, while having anchor babies (though they still love them) to secure social services and annoy white people while taking jobs they are no longer interested in (at least not for $5 an hour)
Could you imagine putting that as a demographic questionnaire on the census??
Select all that apply: [ ] White/Caucasian [ ] Black/African American [ ] American Indian/Alaska Native [ ] Asian [ ] Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander [ ] Hispanic/Latino (legal) [x] The offspring of Spaniards that committed the genocide of nearly every indigenous people on two major land masses while spreading the word of God that he loves them even as they are being tortured and murdered, who sometimes illegally emigrate to the US by sneaking across the border with Mexico, while having anchor babies (though they still love them) to secure social services and annoy white people while taking jobs they are no longer interested in (at least not for $5 an hour) [ ] Other
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first post, btw
The whole carbon footprint thing is overrated. and the carbon credits is just a way to make businesses feel better about wasting and polluting. What's the carbon footprint of sleeping? What's the carbon footprint of sitting on the couch watching TV? What's the carbon footprint of eating a microwave pizza? What's the carbon footprint of teleporting? geez
I want banana nut! (oh, and congrats to GP :-D )
They've been talking about it for the last couple years... I haven't seen much press on it lately, but a bill was introduced to reduce delivery to 5 days.
‘(h) Nothing in this title or any other provision of law shall be considered to prevent the Postal Service from taking whatever actions may be necessary to provide for 5-day delivery of mail and a commensurate adjustment in rural delivery of mail, subject to the requirements of section 3661.’.
Excerpt from the bill (Title I, Subtitle B, section 111(h))
Read this as "allows USPS to move to 5-day delivery" not "mandates USPS to move to 5-day delivery"
- Washington Post article
- from the horse's mouth
- the bill....112th Congress H.R. 2309 (Postal Reform Act of 2011) sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa [R-CA]
- Press release on Rep. Issa's page with a decent summary
gotcha. Thanks for the clarification and expertise! I'm [obviously] a noob in the area of digitally signed applications. :)
I do understand what a self-signed cert is. I've played around with them a little bit in testing, but it has been a while. I primarily use a "real" cert with a commonly trusted CA. Let me rephrase:
Browsers pop up an alert if the site's certificate isn't signed by a trusted CA (e.g. I visit your website which uses your self-signed certificate, but I haven't imported your personal CA root certificate. I obviously don't trust your certificate.) screenshot: http://www.unitone.name/images/firefox_3_ssl_certificate_warning.png
My questions were basically:
- Do you get a similar "untrusted certificate" warning when running self-signed Windows applications? (given, of course, that you haven't imported and trusted that cert) Is this similar to -- or the same as -- the "unknown publisher" warning: http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/215509_uac-unknown-publisher-prompt.png ?
- Assuming that users ARE prompted with a warning similar to the above, won't they typically just click through the dialogs and install/run the app?
Therefore, all that I'm saying is that users are typically stupid, and even if they get a security warning, they won't look at the certificate and certificate path.
Can't you just sign applications and installers with a self-signed certificate? Or is Windows smart enough to recognize this (untrusted publisher, yet signed) and warn the user (similar to how browsers deal with untrusted certs)? And assuming that the user *is* notified, how many people are just going to click through and acknowledge the warning and keep on installing/executing the app?
That being said, I do look at digital signatures whenever I'm unsure of the validity of the executable, but if it looks decently legitimate (as it always seems to...), then I continue to run it. As a dev, I also digitally sign my apps at work with a trusted cert.
To do so only download from your operating systems repository or app store. If you OS doesn't have one, find one that does.
...because there has never been malware on the Android Market.
and the Amazon App Store has an inherent risk
You must be referring to the nazis....
Blatant Godwin.
Indeed! I've only read the summary and not TFA (hey, this is /.), but I concur with your comment!
the torpedo holes the enemy installs in your sub
+1 Funny (sorry, I don't have any mod points)
Mod parent up :)
Someone give me a fucking assault rifle. They're legal in the US, you know.
That way I can start taking out the suit-wearing criminals that the government continues to ignore and encourage.
Go down to the dock. At Pier 76A-4, there's a blue CONEX box labeled Offshore Shipping Associates, Inc. with serial 2840203821174018. It's unlocked. Open it up. It's loaded with assault weapons and ammo. Take no more than 2 weapons and 12 magazines -- if you take any more, I will hunt you down, Mr. Anonymous Coward. When you leave, crate everything back up and close the CONEX box...make it look like you were never there. I will expect you to reimburse me through my Swiss bank account. I'll send you a bill and routing information through a different channel at a later date.
Also, avoid Customs and Homeland Security at all costs -- they will shoot first and ask questions later. These guys will shoot to kill, especially if you are in possession of assault weapons.
Good luck.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Enjoy the humor. Everything in this post is fictitious. Any resemblances to anything real is purely coincidental. IANAL and IANAAD (arms dealer)
Sweet! Lisa FTW!
Hear, hear! May hammers take over the world!
Believe it or not, I'm dating a girl who can [...]
So...she's still technically single...sweet! What's her phone number?
with butterflies ...duh!
It's hard to make the superscript + blue as seen in wikipedia. the html markup <sup style="color:#0000ff">[1]</sup> doesn't work in slashdot
In other news 47% of all news articles are speculative bullshit with no grounding in reality. See we can all make up numbers.
There, Dyinobal....I fixed it for you. We can fabricate numbers as long as we want and have it sound legit as long as we make a wikipedia-style reference See xkcd #906 for details.
In other news 47% [citation needed] of all news articles are speculative bullshit with no grounding in reality. See we can all make up numbers.
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Reason: Godwin's Law has been invoked
Agreed :)
So... developers are bad coders, and therefore we should give them free reign over our privacy?
Yes. ... no, I jest. IAASD (I am a software developer)
Seriously though, it depends on the developer -- to my dismay, some of the developers I work with put minimal effort into error-checking (even simple function return values). ...and whenever the software breaks during operational use, that usually means that I have to go back in and fix it and make it the way it originally should have been...sometimes as an emergency patch. I'm not perfect either, and I'll occasionally overlook a couple checks, but at least I try to put the effort into it. If there were to be a permission-query API as GGP had suggested, it would definitely make things easier.
That being said, I do think it's a good idea for end users to control their privacy as much as they can, so I would support user-configurable permissions.
As other comments have stated, there are currently apps available (AdFree Android, DroidWall, etc...) for root users to control some of this. This is one of the reasons that I've rooted my Motorola Droid. But then again, from what I understand, manufacturers are continually making it increasingly hard to root your phone.
I've never in my life maximized a window [...]
...so you are on a Mac? :)
The offspring of Spaniards that committed the genocide of nearly every indigenous people on two major land masses while spreading the word of God that he loves them even as they are being tortured and murdered, who sometimes illegally emigrate to the US by sneaking across the border with Mexico, while having anchor babies (though they still love them) to secure social services and annoy white people while taking jobs they are no longer interested in (at least not for $5 an hour)
Could you imagine putting that as a demographic questionnaire on the census??
Select all that apply:
[ ] White/Caucasian
[ ] Black/African American
[ ] American Indian/Alaska Native
[ ] Asian
[ ] Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
[ ] Hispanic/Latino (legal)
[x] The offspring of Spaniards that committed the genocide of nearly every indigenous people on two major land masses while spreading the word of God that he loves them even as they are being tortured and murdered, who sometimes illegally emigrate to the US by sneaking across the border with Mexico, while having anchor babies (though they still love them) to secure social services and annoy white people while taking jobs they are no longer interested in (at least not for $5 an hour)
[ ] Other