Set up your own server and read all your mail through it. Have a secure authentication method on your server like one with a digipass or whatever physical authentication token you like.
Allow different levels of security. For example when you log in from an unknown machine or using a special password, you should only be able to perform simple operations like reading the mail, but not change any of the settings.
(of course, this is only for the really paranoid)
By-the-way does any of you guys know if you can have a backdoor in the firmware of your network card for example?
I mean wireless encryption has proven to be a joke, and even though you could in theory set-up a VPN, I am more concerned with having some browser or TCP exploit which would ruin the security of your PDA once and for good. It would be a pity to invest all the effort and go through all the inconvenience and end up in the same place.
But again, probably you're not targetting real security, but something for the average user.
The nicest authentication system i've seen and I currently used is by ABN-AMRO / Netherlands.
Your (debit) card has a crypto-chip on it and you have some universal device like a pocket calculator. I call them universal because they are not tied to a particular account/card. The authentication is done using a normal browser that supports shttp, and it is of the challenge-response type with the human component in the loop.
On the bank login page you receive a number. You slide your card into the device, you type in your PIN and the number on the login page and the device produces a number that you type back into the page. The login procedure has to be repeated to confirm transactions.
I like this better than the devices that produce a key valid for only some time (like 30 seconds). Those are tied to your account so you cannot replace them in a convenient manner, and also have the bad habit of desynchronizing.
The point was that the artists were coerced into signing with the big labels, and of the $10 or $20 that you are paying for a CD only 10% goes to the artist.
Yes, I've been thinking about that also. The good part is that they only draw high current when doing spin-up. If you managed to start them in sequence rather than all-al-once they wouldn't require so much power.
During normal usage a hdd needs about 5-10 Watts.
The problem is that harddrives can be turned on/off in software, so even if you make a system to start them in sequence (not really hard, if you do electronics), you must make sure no software event will make them start spinning at the same time.
This sounds nice indeed (i just read the hardware info on nslu2-linux).
In other words it's just what I need. I would like something more powerfull though: gigabit ethernet, better processor. Flash and RAM are ok, though at current prices a few megabytes more wouldn't hurt.
Sorry, I cannot agree with you. NFS is not better, not if you give a damn about security.
As for faster? I don't know, because with samba I managed transfering at more than 10Mbytes/second on a 100Mbps network, which is about the theoretical limit. I don't see how NFS could be faster. On a gigabit network you may run into other limitations, like harddisk and bus bandwidth, I somehow doubt that the main limitation will be the load put on the processor by the samba server or client.
Nope, that won't work, you can't expect the black hole to have an atmosphere, any gas that is near the black hole and is not orbiting itself would just fall into the black hole.
What there is, is a continuous flow of matter and light (which also has mass) towards the black hole, I believe (though I'm no expert) that that would push things into the black hole.
I think some theories say that there are also some high energy particles coming from the event horizon of the black hole, but I think they're not enough to balance what is flowing in.
> EXT2/3? Get real. Who wants to install 3rd party > drivers every time you plugin your USB device?
I think Sony Cybershot cameras require drivers on Windows 2000, though I'm not sure.
The idea would be to force Microsoft to write it's own EXT2/3 driver and deliver it with Windows. That would be a funny turn of events, though I think it won't happen.
Maybe make a camera that is really good, really cheap, but only supperted on Linux and Mac, though I don't think that will work either.
Oh, I suppose there's a price to be paid for having a monopoly.
On the other hand, i don't like the EU decision, although personally I am in no way affected by it. At least not at this time.
If the decision was taken by an US court I would say: yeah, they are right, but being the EU it doesn't seem right, it's like picking at the success of a foreign company that knew how to take an opportunity and got rich while their own companies were too much behind to do anything. Now they want the short way out of it.
You actually have no clue, or you just pretend to?
If I want to make my own hamburgers I can do so, no matter what the other hamburger producers do, but if I want to make my own telephony service, I need the others to let me connect to their networks.
This just shows that a newcomer company that is pouring a bucket of money into advertising can be about the same as successfull as an established one that does not. But once the newcomer decreases the ammount of advertising it starts sinking rapidly.
From my point of view this is just normal, not some EVIL doing of Google.
no, really, i think US is still better than Russia from this point of view.
The difference is that Russia is going up and US is going down, and the perceived quality of life is connected more to the gradient not to the actual value.
Wrong, Bush made you believe privacy is a luxury. It is a luxury in a nation of paranoid people each spying on his neighbor, not in a society buit on "innocent until proven guilty".
Are you actually suggesting that a state keeping an eye on its citizens is better? Look what happend to the communist countries. Surveillance of it's own citizens was at its peak there.
And it's not a matter of privacy here. I don't have a problem with someone knowing I have porn on my computer. I have a problem the moment when someone is blackmailing me with that knowledge.
I'm sure surveillance existed throughout the US as well, the same period USSR still existed. The difference was what someone could do with the information gathered this way.
... they are simply insulting Apple customers. I guess it's an attempt to decrease Apple sales.
This is one of those things you can qualify as outrageous, since Apple clinets are more likely to download music legally than those buying a generic mp3 player... and yet they are hitting Apple.
I have no idea if anything can be done about this, after all, calling a group of people thieves shouldn't be legal.
Well, did you inform your clients, those using the domain forwarding and masking service, that their sites will not work in some browsers, or you're also using the "not my fault" policy?
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
Doesn't this mean they will continue charging your account even if you're dead?
Also can't I instruct my bank to refuse any payments from my account? If I did sign a contract with goDaddy and I want to break the contract by not making the payment, what's the business of the bank to not letting me do so? avoiding a lawsuit in my name? maybe I want a lawsuit.
Second of all, it still doesn't sound right. As long as you have an account, you have a contract with the bank which authorizes them to make payments in your name. Once you close the account, what right does the bank have to continue to make payments in your name? (unless of course that was specified in your original contract)
(hey, what do you know, I do have a domain registered with goDaddy that expires in a few months)
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If I am an European user, can I sue the judge in the International court of justice for offering my private data to Viacom?
Set up your own server and read all your mail through it. Have a secure authentication method on your server like one with a digipass or whatever physical authentication token you like.
Allow different levels of security. For example when you log in from an unknown machine or using a special password, you should only be able to perform simple operations like reading the mail, but not change any of the settings.
(of course, this is only for the really paranoid)
By-the-way does any of you guys know if you can have a backdoor in the firmware of your network card for example?
PDA sounds nice except for one thing.
How secure those devices are really?
I mean wireless encryption has proven to be a joke, and even though you could in theory set-up a VPN, I am more concerned with having some browser or TCP exploit which would ruin the security of your PDA once and for good. It would be a pity to invest all the effort and go through all the inconvenience and end up in the same place.
But again, probably you're not targetting real security, but something for the average user.
The nicest authentication system i've seen and I currently used is by ABN-AMRO / Netherlands.
Your (debit) card has a crypto-chip on it and you have some universal device like a pocket calculator. I call them universal because they are not tied to a particular account/card. The authentication is done using a normal browser that supports shttp, and it is of the challenge-response type with the human component in the loop.
On the bank login page you receive a number. You slide your card into the device, you type in your PIN and the number on the login page and the device produces a number that you type back into the page. The login procedure has to be repeated to confirm transactions.
I like this better than the devices that produce a key valid for only some time (like 30 seconds). Those are tied to your account so you cannot replace them in a convenient manner, and also have the bad habit of desynchronizing.
The point was that the artists were coerced into signing with the big labels, and of the $10 or $20 that you are paying for a CD only 10% goes to the artist.
I this what you call free market?
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/why
Hey, who's the bastard who modded me down!?
So advertising for a product that doesn't deserve it's price is ok, here on Slashdot, but pointing out its shortcomings isn't.
Yes, I've been thinking about that also.
The good part is that they only draw high current when doing spin-up. If you managed to start them in sequence rather than all-al-once they wouldn't require so much power.
During normal usage a hdd needs about 5-10 Watts.
The problem is that harddrives can be turned on/off in software, so even if you make a system to start them in sequence (not really hard, if you do electronics), you must make sure no software event will make them start spinning at the same time.
This sounds nice indeed (i just read the hardware info on nslu2-linux).
In other words it's just what I need. I would like something more powerfull though: gigabit ethernet, better processor. Flash and RAM are ok, though at current prices a few megabytes more wouldn't hurt.
I was wondering if I can find such a device.
... so great ... and it costs ONLY $600
I could buy a whole fuckin' computer with that money. WITH a few harddrives.
Sorry, I cannot agree with you. NFS is not better, not if you give a damn about security.
As for faster? I don't know, because with samba I managed transfering at more than 10Mbytes/second on a 100Mbps network, which is about the theoretical limit. I don't see how NFS could be faster. On a gigabit network you may run into other limitations, like harddisk and bus bandwidth, I somehow doubt that the main limitation will be the load put on the processor by the samba server or client.
I thought the google engine already achieved self-consciousness...
Nope, that won't work, you can't expect the black hole to have an atmosphere, any gas that is near the black hole and is not orbiting itself would just fall into the black hole.
What there is, is a continuous flow of matter and light (which also has mass) towards the black hole, I believe (though I'm no expert) that that would push things into the black hole.
I think some theories say that there are also some high energy particles coming from the event horizon of the black hole, but I think they're not enough to balance what is flowing in.
> EXT2/3? Get real. Who wants to install 3rd party
> drivers every time you plugin your USB device?
I think Sony Cybershot cameras require drivers on Windows 2000, though I'm not sure.
The idea would be to force Microsoft to write it's own EXT2/3 driver and deliver it with Windows. That would be a funny turn of events, though I think it won't happen.
Maybe make a camera that is really good, really cheap, but only supperted on Linux and Mac, though I don't think that will work either.
Oh, I suppose there's a price to be paid for having a monopoly.
On the other hand, i don't like the EU decision, although personally I am in no way affected by it. At least not at this time.
If the decision was taken by an US court I would say: yeah, they are right, but being the EU it doesn't seem right, it's like picking at the success of a foreign company that knew how to take an opportunity and got rich while their own companies were too much behind to do anything. Now they want the short way out of it.
You actually have no clue, or you just pretend to?
If I want to make my own hamburgers I can do so, no matter what the other hamburger producers do, but if I want to make my own telephony service, I need the others to let me connect to their networks.
Please tell me you understand now.
This just shows that a newcomer company that is pouring a bucket of money into advertising can be about the same as successfull as an established one that does not. But once the newcomer decreases the ammount of advertising it starts sinking rapidly.
From my point of view this is just normal, not some EVIL doing of Google.
no, really, i think US is still better than Russia from this point of view.
The difference is that Russia is going up and US is going down, and the perceived quality of life is connected more to the gradient not to the actual value.
Wrong, Bush made you believe privacy is a luxury. It is a luxury in a nation of paranoid people each spying on his neighbor, not in a society buit on "innocent until proven guilty".
Are you actually suggesting that a state keeping an eye on its citizens is better? Look what happend to the communist countries. Surveillance of it's own citizens was at its peak there.
And it's not a matter of privacy here. I don't have a problem with someone knowing I have porn on my computer. I have a problem the moment when someone is blackmailing me with that knowledge.
I'm sure surveillance existed throughout the US as well, the same period USSR still existed. The difference was what someone could do with the information gathered this way.
... they are simply insulting Apple customers. I guess it's an attempt to decrease Apple sales.
... and yet they are hitting Apple.
This is one of those things you can qualify as outrageous, since Apple clinets are more likely to download music legally than those buying a generic mp3 player
I have no idea if anything can be done about this, after all, calling a group of people thieves shouldn't be legal.
> I'm thinking that within 10-20 years, the RIAA companies
> will either be defunct or will have gotten out of the business.
I hope for this, but it won't happen.
I hope for it not for personal benefit but only to prove that natural selection still works. If they are stupid they deserve to die.
The reason it won't happen is because it's too much money involved. There are too many people interested in keeping them alive.
Well, did you inform your clients, those using the domain forwarding and masking service, that their sites will not work in some browsers, or you're also using the "not my fault" policy?
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
This seems strange to me.
Doesn't this mean they will continue charging your account even if you're dead?
Also can't I instruct my bank to refuse any payments from my account? If I did sign a contract with goDaddy and I want to break the contract by not making the payment, what's the business of the bank to not letting me do so? avoiding a lawsuit in my name? maybe I want a lawsuit.
Second of all, it still doesn't sound right. As long as you have an account, you have a contract with the bank which authorizes them to make payments in your name. Once you close the account, what right does the bank have to continue to make payments in your name? (unless of course that was specified in your original contract)
(hey, what do you know, I do have a domain registered with goDaddy that expires in a few months)
This is like having a party and wanting people to come over, but not too many of them because you don't want to give away too much beer.
Some would rather have a big party even if they are left broke and some won't.
If I really had something to show to the world, and hopefully someday I will, I'll invite Slashdot to come by.