A corporation will get the certificate issued for their shiny professional 'main' URL, like www.ReallyGreatBank.com, and then their online account management system ends up being a redirect to wherever the hell they felt like putting it. For example, while I don't know if they have certificate issues, Citibank's many 'main' sites for themselves and their acquisitions, take you to www.accountonline.com/yada-yada.
I guess if we all complained until we were blue in the face, businesses -might- make more of an effort to keep the certificates in line with the actual sites. However, the answer received in this case: 'Sorry I can't escalate that' shows that the corporations know we'll suck it up and deal.
Personally I consider a DNS poisoning sufficiently unlikely compared to simpler scams (like redirecting to a similarly named domain) that I don't sweat it too much.
From TFA: Eventually customer issues reach the breaking point and CEO steps in. Josh is called to the carpet, so like the child he is, he picks up his ball and goes home. Company suffers. All goes to show that management ought to nip the problem in the bud before it ever gets this bad.
They don't have to cheat. They have the odds on their side.
Most valuable comment in this thread! That's really all anybody really needs to know, yet people prefer to believe in dealers cheating, rigged machines, whatever.
The ISS is only 240 miles up. The astronauts can only see a small amount of Earth's surface at any given time. This was mentioned once on Astronomy Cast - which I highly recommend, and you can get it straight from the horse's mouth here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_letter5.html
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Your points are all valid, but I hope you realize your needs place you in a small minority of all computer users. I'm involved directly in multi-platform software development and I rarely need to do the things you mention. When I do (e.g. command line tools) our Windows developer setups have done a lot to bring Windows capability to parity with Linux.
You make a good point, compared to 90's efforts like @mart (an offshoot of Alpha World) which crashed and burned. However, I question whether Photosynth will scale to the massive extent needed. Just consider what you said: "take a gazillion frames from lots of angles of view". The shopkeeper will have to scan the store, the shelves, and maybe each individual item on each shelf to create a compelling experience. I don't think a 'google street view' equivalent of the inside of a store is going to cut it. Unless we're talking about an art gallery with two or three pieces on pedestals, I think this amounts to hours of effort and many TBs of data. Will Photosynth really be able to chew on all that data and create a massively complex 3D model? Could it possibly be cost effective to do so?
Not so true in the United States (at least where I live). Here, the posted speed limits are based on politics, or sometimes, based on a single unfortunate incident that happened decades ago. Our roads and highways are often engineered for much higher speeds than posted. This creates a continuous disconnect between theory and reality, since drivers often drive the speed that feels safe, which means they often drive the engineered speed. My own personal rule of thumb is to drive about 5 MPH over the posted speed, and honestly I get really ticked off if I'm stuck behind somebody not doing likewise.
I've heard it said that speed limits are supposed to be re-evaluated periodically, and raised if the majority of drivers are exceeding them. That doesn't happen, suggesting to me that either the powers-that-be enforce their own upper bound, or the whole idea is just an urban legend.
I am also quite confident that I've read a Star Trek novel that explicitly identified Vulcan as a planet of Epsilon Eridani. I recall the prologue or opening chapters of the novel referred to Earth as "Sol III" and Vulcan as "Eri (something)" for short, but it definitely mentioned Epsilon Eridani as the star.
is that Hubble will burn out the transmitter relay before NASA can send the command sequence requesting all its science data through the backup system, thus requiring The Creator to appear in person to complete the sequence. Calling Story Musgrave!
In theory the online casinos have ways to catch this kind of collusion. If 8 people at a table are connecting from the same IP address, that sets off alarm bells. If the same 8 accounts keep playing together at the same table day after day, even if they're all over the world, that sets off alarms. The local game clients themselves can look for signs of screen scraping applications that might be capturing the hole cards and transmitting them to other players.
All that said, I have no idea whether or not the online casinos are really successful at preventing outside collusion.
Regardless of whether you agree with the GP's analogy, your counterargument is obviously flawed. It assumes that slashdot readers, especially the ones that condone piracy, are operating with any kind of logic or maturity instead of your basic "Information wants to be free! Power to the Peeps! Screw the Man!" bullshit.
You have no idea how dejected I was upon reading those words. I'd love to see a reboot, and I don't agree with those who say it can't possibly be well done. Adams was a genius but he didn't have a monopoly on genius.
Well that was certainly how I read the story. It seemed like Adams was trying to lock every door and throw away all the keys.
However, I still thought there was a chance that Adams (or now a predecessor) could reboot the story, given how many digressions about various deities the books had included. My money is on Almighty Bob, Old Thrashbarg's deity, or somebody who shall remain nameless from the Domain of the King.
The iPhone comes with a cable to connect its 30 pin proprietary dock with USB. It charges over USB. True, it charges faster by plugging its USB connector into the charger that's also supplied with the phone. Did I mention that that charger is tiny at roughly one cubic inch (16.39 cc)? At least Apple tried to minimize the clutter. The charger can sit on a power strip without blocking access to either adjacent socket.
Of course, if you want to be a purist, just throw the charger away and forget you ever had it.
BTW, I don't own any 'expensive connecting devices' for the 30-pin dock connector and I'm not likely to buy any either.
I could argue they don't have to exist at all. Shouldn't the people who live in the community have some say whether not these services are installed? I'm appalled that states are caving in to lobbying from the Cable and Telecom industry and taking away local control over these agreements. In Massachusetts, Verizon has been complaining that it's too expensive to negotiate with each town individually. I'm a fan of FIOS, but I still think the proper response is 'tough shit'.
This often doesn't work even if you know the benefits and try to do it. Why? Because commercial sites seem to feel free to change the SSL-enabled target URL anytime they want, and your bookmarks go bad.
A site like "http://www.bigfakebank.com" might redirect to "https://www.bigfakebanksecure.com/foobar/phlegm/000:1145:5555:8675309/fapfap.php" one day and something entirely different a month later.
They -expect- their customer to start from the port 80 version of their site first, and really don't bother making it easy for them to go right to the SSL-enabled domain.
I have no idea where you got that from the GP's statement. It seemed to me he was just referring to the statistics on this type of event (murder-suicide). Nothing racist there. Data isn't racist. It just is.
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A corporation will get the certificate issued for their shiny professional 'main' URL, like www.ReallyGreatBank.com, and then their online account management system ends up being a redirect to wherever the hell they felt like putting it. For example, while I don't know if they have certificate issues, Citibank's many 'main' sites for themselves and their acquisitions, take you to www.accountonline.com/yada-yada.
I guess if we all complained until we were blue in the face, businesses -might- make more of an effort to keep the certificates in line with the actual sites. However, the answer received in this case: 'Sorry I can't escalate that' shows that the corporations know we'll suck it up and deal.
Personally I consider a DNS poisoning sufficiently unlikely compared to simpler scams (like redirecting to a similarly named domain) that I don't sweat it too much.
From TFA: Eventually customer issues reach the breaking point and CEO steps in. Josh is called to the carpet, so like the child he is, he picks up his ball and goes home. Company suffers. All goes to show that management ought to nip the problem in the bud before it ever gets this bad.
The Sopranos ended mid head-shot (at least that's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it!)
I suggest you avoid looking at your desk calendar or the whole rest of the year will be ruined for you.
They don't have to cheat. They have the odds on their side.
Most valuable comment in this thread! That's really all anybody really needs to know, yet people prefer to believe in dealers cheating, rigged machines, whatever.
The ISS is only 240 miles up. The astronauts can only see a small amount of Earth's surface at any given time. This was mentioned once on Astronomy Cast - which I highly recommend, and you can get it straight from the horse's mouth here:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_letter5.html
wikipedia is leaching off of us [citation needed]
... there, fixed that for you.
I want one for my laptop!
Your points are all valid, but I hope you realize your needs place you in a small minority of all computer users. I'm involved directly in multi-platform software development and I rarely need to do the things you mention. When I do (e.g. command line tools) our Windows developer setups have done a lot to bring Windows capability to parity with Linux.
You make a good point, compared to 90's efforts like @mart (an offshoot of Alpha World) which crashed and burned. However, I question whether Photosynth will scale to the massive extent needed. Just consider what you said: "take a gazillion frames from lots of angles of view". The shopkeeper will have to scan the store, the shelves, and maybe each individual item on each shelf to create a compelling experience. I don't think a 'google street view' equivalent of the inside of a store is going to cut it. Unless we're talking about an art gallery with two or three pieces on pedestals, I think this amounts to hours of effort and many TBs of data. Will Photosynth really be able to chew on all that data and create a massively complex 3D model? Could it possibly be cost effective to do so?
The key word there is OEM. Technically OEM copies of Windows must be sold with hardware, even though plenty of distributors will sell it alone.
Not so true in the United States (at least where I live). Here, the posted speed limits are based on politics, or sometimes, based on a single unfortunate incident that happened decades ago. Our roads and highways are often engineered for much higher speeds than posted. This creates a continuous disconnect between theory and reality, since drivers often drive the speed that feels safe, which means they often drive the engineered speed. My own personal rule of thumb is to drive about 5 MPH over the posted speed, and honestly I get really ticked off if I'm stuck behind somebody not doing likewise.
I've heard it said that speed limits are supposed to be re-evaluated periodically, and raised if the majority of drivers are exceeding them. That doesn't happen, suggesting to me that either the powers-that-be enforce their own upper bound, or the whole idea is just an urban legend.
I am also quite confident that I've read a Star Trek novel that explicitly identified Vulcan as a planet of Epsilon Eridani. I recall the prologue or opening chapters of the novel referred to Earth as "Sol III" and Vulcan as "Eri (something)" for short, but it definitely mentioned Epsilon Eridani as the star.
The failure of our financial system in language anybody can understand. This comment is worth the price of admission. Well done sir!
is that Hubble will burn out the transmitter relay before NASA can send the command sequence requesting all its science data through the backup system, thus requiring The Creator to appear in person to complete the sequence. Calling Story Musgrave!
That's not "lost". It was imaginary money in the first place.
In theory the online casinos have ways to catch this kind of collusion. If 8 people at a table are connecting from the same IP address, that sets off alarm bells. If the same 8 accounts keep playing together at the same table day after day, even if they're all over the world, that sets off alarms. The local game clients themselves can look for signs of screen scraping applications that might be capturing the hole cards and transmitting them to other players.
All that said, I have no idea whether or not the online casinos are really successful at preventing outside collusion.
Regardless of whether you agree with the GP's analogy, your counterargument is obviously flawed. It assumes that slashdot readers, especially the ones that condone piracy, are operating with any kind of logic or maturity instead of your basic "Information wants to be free! Power to the Peeps! Screw the Man!" bullshit.
Next time WARN me if you're going to give away game information!
*stops trying to open the horse in cliffski's game*
You have no idea how dejected I was upon reading those words. I'd love to see a reboot, and I don't agree with those who say it can't possibly be well done. Adams was a genius but he didn't have a monopoly on genius.
Well that was certainly how I read the story. It seemed like Adams was trying to lock every door and throw away all the keys.
However, I still thought there was a chance that Adams (or now a predecessor) could reboot the story, given how many digressions about various deities the books had included. My money is on Almighty Bob, Old Thrashbarg's deity, or somebody who shall remain nameless from the Domain of the King.
The iPhone comes with a cable to connect its 30 pin proprietary dock with USB. It charges over USB. True, it charges faster by plugging its USB connector into the charger that's also supplied with the phone. Did I mention that that charger is tiny at roughly one cubic inch (16.39 cc)? At least Apple tried to minimize the clutter. The charger can sit on a power strip without blocking access to either adjacent socket.
Of course, if you want to be a purist, just throw the charger away and forget you ever had it.
BTW, I don't own any 'expensive connecting devices' for the 30-pin dock connector and I'm not likely to buy any either.
I could argue they don't have to exist at all. Shouldn't the people who live in the community have some say whether not these services are installed? I'm appalled that states are caving in to lobbying from the Cable and Telecom industry and taking away local control over these agreements. In Massachusetts, Verizon has been complaining that it's too expensive to negotiate with each town individually. I'm a fan of FIOS, but I still think the proper response is 'tough shit'.
This often doesn't work even if you know the benefits and try to do it. Why? Because commercial sites seem to feel free to change the SSL-enabled target URL anytime they want, and your bookmarks go bad.
A site like "http://www.bigfakebank.com" might redirect to "https://www.bigfakebanksecure.com/foobar/phlegm/000:1145:5555:8675309/fapfap.php" one day and something entirely different a month later.
They -expect- their customer to start from the port 80 version of their site first, and really don't bother making it easy for them to go right to the SSL-enabled domain.
I have no idea where you got that from the GP's statement. It seemed to me he was just referring to the statistics on this type of event (murder-suicide). Nothing racist there. Data isn't racist. It just is.