But right now I'm claiming that it glided into the sandy wasteland after it had a failure and they found it.
For a recon platform, that's a pretty crappy fail safe mode.
Yes you'd think that if the last known position was over hostile territory a nose-first-into-the-ground landing would be a better bet. A bit of thermite around the critical bits (the stuff you don't want the enemy to get) might help too.
You are confused. SMS to your mobile IS TWO FACTOR AUTH
you said "Password and mobile number is a reasonable choice. The fact that your mobile number is (apparently) so easily stolen doesn't negate this.". I said "It sure does". I wasn't disputing that password+mobile number was two factor auth, I was disputing that it was a reasonable choice.
I may be a bit out of date here but I thought that sniffing an SMS wasn't really that difficult for a sufficiently motivated criminal... but maybe it's sufficiently difficult with today's 3G networks? Last time i checked most carriers didn't encrypt GSM communications, which makes the second factor more about the SMS itself than the phone number.
Two-factor auth isn't a panacea. SMS (or rather, mobile numbers) are real two-factor authentication - or, more accurately, they are a valid second factor. Something you know, something you have, something you are - pick any two. Password and mobile number is a reasonable choice. The fact that your mobile number is (apparently) so easily stolen doesn't negate this.
It sure does. You might say it's the Telco's fault for allowing the service churn to happen, but this lack of security is widely known which makes the SMS as a second factor all but useless, and the banks are stupid for allowing it.
The problem with stealing a wallet is that it might turn out to be empty (and if you flash your wallet around so others can see it's contents, you're an idiot).
What are you saying? That just because enough scientists believe something it doesn't make it true???
I kind of wish that they'd teach the principles of science properly in school, and starting really young. I remember in primary school science the teacher talking about a hypothesis and observations etc but never about why they were important. Maybe it's too tricky for the young mind to grasp but a basic understanding of scientific principles has to be more important than a whole load of the experiments that they teach.
In high school we did an experiment about convection currents in a liquid causing the contents to be mixed around, so we put a few drops of something colourful in a jar, and in another jar too as a control, then applied a heat source to the bottom of the first jar and sure enough the contents mixed around, but then we looked at the control and it was mixed around too. The teacher just brushed that aside because the sun had moved and was now shining on the control jar, causing convection currents in that jar too. She was probably right about that, but it completely defeated the point of having a control and completely violated the scientific method.
Umm, have you ran GoDaddy Sucks through Google? Your UID is low enough that I would have thought you'dve seen lots of interesting articles about GoDaddy here. A lot of people would disagree with you, and I won't do business with them and anyone that I know that is doing business with them I suggest to them that they run such a query and change registrars and hosts. Myself, I use Bluehost for hosting and Nearly Free Speech for registration with privacy protection.
a search for "bluehost sucks" also yields some interesting stories:)
I think part of the problem is that most of the time, most registrars are trouble free, even the very worst ones. It's when you have a problem (whether of your own doing or not) that the real measure of good service becomes apparent. This is what I tell people about Telstra's Bigpond branded ISP services - if you ever have a problem with your service you'll wish you'd gone with someone else.
Interestingly, my transfer away from godaddy (personal, seldom used domain) is just going through now, and the text in their transfer-away confirmation email says "INDUSTRY-BEST LIVE 24/7 SUPPORT". It seems you can claim anything in an email:)
I understand that muggings are violent I just wonder how much bricking stops your typical mugger from still wanting your wallet and how much it stops opportunity theft when someone sets there phone down and walks away from it for a moment.
The problem with stealing a wallet is that it might turn out to be empty (and if you flash your wallet around so others can see it's contents, you're an idiot). As soon as you see someone's phone you know what it is and roughly how much you can get for it. If it's a good phone that you can easily get some money for then you might take the risk of robbing the owner. If you know you won't get anything for it because a stolen phone will be bricked before you can sell it, you won't.
Nobody is saying it will stop all violent muggings, just that it does make a difference.
A username and password should not be sufficient, especially if the domain name has a regsitrar lock. My domain registrar (BulkRegsiter aka eNom) requires two-factor authentication to do anything.
Sounds like you got what you paid for then... in a good way:)
Seriously though, there is a place for a low cost, no frills registrar for domains you aren't particularly attached to and that nobody is going to hold for ransom because they aren't worth the effort. Using such a registrar for a domain that's actually worth something to you is probably a bad choice though.
It's most certainly theft, and on top of that Godaddy is most certainly liable for civil damages.
I just transferred a domain from GoDaddy to a preferred registrar. All I needed, and all I should need, was my username and password.
If I let my username and password fall into the hands of somebody else, which I believe is the case here, and they transferred the domain then firstly, godaddy are not at fault, and secondly, godaddy can't actually do anything about it because they don't own the domain anymore. It's a bit rude of them to not offer more assistance in terms of providing evidence to help the owner prove his ownership to the new registrar, eg maybe the access was from an IP address in a different country than the owner resides, etc, but that's hardly grounds for a civil suit for damanges.
If you buy a domain from a registrar who doesn't charge you enough to offer assistance when something goes wrong, and have a reputation for this, then you kind of get what you deserve.
IMHO, GoDaddy aren't evil, just cheap, and are just a product of our collective race to the bottom in terms of not caring about quality of service when buying a product and only complaining about it when something goes wrong.
I vote for a desktop distro. I take back everything I've said about LibreOffice, I shouldn't have judged it by its stupid name. I discovered that it can use.docx the other day, I was somewhat shocked since that was the only reason I was hanging onto MS Orifice, which, as pretty as it is, is getting quite annoying these days. I would definitely try an Android desktop distro! I've been using Mint 12 for a couple of days and I'm still experiencing quirky behavior. It was pretty bad with Gnome 3, and MATE is not much better, oh well, back to Gnome Classic (No Effects). Installing an Android desktop would be like Christmas morn. It would be oh so sweet to see laptops available "like your phone" for consumers....with free Microsoft compatible office software!!
I wonder if one day we'll see MS Office sold with "Compatible with Google Apps" on the box...
Cuz in the end, its not about catching people who run lights. Enforcing the law is not an end in and of itself, its supposed to be a means to an end. Who cares if we can "catch" more people? It may feel good and let someone justify their job with some metrics but, it doesn't solve the original problem of risks and dangers....not in anything even approaching a realistic way.
Being caught and fined should motivate some people to be more careful, so there is a use in catching them. In this case by delaying the green you can prevent an accident _and_ still catch the offender and ticket them. It's win-win!
People talk about revenue raising like it's a bad thing. A tax on everyone else but me is a great idea! I've never been ticketed for a traffic offence in my 18 years of driving... if you get ticketed regularly then it's more about you than "the system".
Honestly, I think C64 Basic dumbed the whole thing down and instead of the SID used a simple formula on the computers total running time. That would explain lots of weirdness.
Yes the C64 Basic definitely used a deterministic random number generator which you could seed with a time value to not always start from the same point in the sequence.
GP in first sentence says yeast is better than C.elegans. So I say send a beer to Mars, say a nice Belgian Trappist Ale.
Having beer there would help. I know of quite a few people who wouldn't even think about a trip to mars unless they were sure they could get a beer there.
I have one. It works great, but "chirps" occasionally which I think is the sound of the motor spinning down. None of the firmware updates i've applied that claim to fix the chirp actually fix it.
It runs much faster than my previous drive, but i'm also comparing a 7200RPM drive to a 5400RPM drive so the speed increase isn't just because it's a hybrid.
I guess the advantage of the SSD cache is that if you use it in a circular fashion you can avoid a lot of the 'read-erase-rewrite' cycles... but I don't know how the cache is organised for sure.
The Commodore 64 could produce random numbers by sampling the white noise generator in the SID audio chip. They probably weren't as random as shining a laser through the diamond but I wonder if the difference is enough to matter...
And before you grew up(presumably), the 1918 flu pandemic killed literally tens of millions of people. Just because none of the flew strains that were carried in your youth were especially lethal doesn't mean that flu is some sort of inherently mild illness. It can be very dangerous.
On top of that, it mostly killed healthy young people, precisely because their immune system was so strong. The theory i've read about this is that normally the flu works best with a reasonably long incubation period so you are as contagious as possible while you are still well enough to be out and about, because one you start feeling really sick you just stay home in bed and tend not to spread it so far. Having a war going on (or winding up) in 1918 though changed the social dynamic enough that a virus that behaved a bit differently and hit fast and hard did better...
Can we just agree that Apple hardware articles are flamebait by default, especially the ones about the mere possibility of new Apple hardware, and stop frickin posting them?
Agreed. We all know an Apple product isn't official until someone "unintentionally" leaves one in a bar.
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But right now I'm claiming that it glided into the sandy wasteland after it had a failure and they found it.
For a recon platform, that's a pretty crappy fail safe mode.
Yes you'd think that if the last known position was over hostile territory a nose-first-into-the-ground landing would be a better bet. A bit of thermite around the critical bits (the stuff you don't want the enemy to get) might help too.
Somewhere else, a team of international war crime lawyers are laughing and rubbing their hands with glee.
You are confused. SMS to your mobile IS TWO FACTOR AUTH
you said "Password and mobile number is a reasonable choice. The fact that your mobile number is (apparently) so easily stolen doesn't negate this.". I said "It sure does". I wasn't disputing that password+mobile number was two factor auth, I was disputing that it was a reasonable choice.
I may be a bit out of date here but I thought that sniffing an SMS wasn't really that difficult for a sufficiently motivated criminal... but maybe it's sufficiently difficult with today's 3G networks? Last time i checked most carriers didn't encrypt GSM communications, which makes the second factor more about the SMS itself than the phone number.
Unfortunately zero banks in the US (or Australia) offers SecurID
I've had a token (not RSA but equivalent) for years for my bank account in Australia.
Two-factor auth isn't a panacea. SMS (or rather, mobile numbers) are real two-factor authentication - or, more accurately, they are a valid second factor. Something you know, something you have, something you are - pick any two. Password and mobile number is a reasonable choice. The fact that your mobile number is (apparently) so easily stolen doesn't negate this.
It sure does. You might say it's the Telco's fault for allowing the service churn to happen, but this lack of security is widely known which makes the SMS as a second factor all but useless, and the banks are stupid for allowing it.
But what if the wallet is empty?
Then you are wiser than us all
What are you saying? That just because enough scientists believe something it doesn't make it true???
I kind of wish that they'd teach the principles of science properly in school, and starting really young. I remember in primary school science the teacher talking about a hypothesis and observations etc but never about why they were important. Maybe it's too tricky for the young mind to grasp but a basic understanding of scientific principles has to be more important than a whole load of the experiments that they teach.
In high school we did an experiment about convection currents in a liquid causing the contents to be mixed around, so we put a few drops of something colourful in a jar, and in another jar too as a control, then applied a heat source to the bottom of the first jar and sure enough the contents mixed around, but then we looked at the control and it was mixed around too. The teacher just brushed that aside because the sun had moved and was now shining on the control jar, causing convection currents in that jar too. She was probably right about that, but it completely defeated the point of having a control and completely violated the scientific method.
I just checked a recent ticket and it does indeed declare that charge correctly now. The 4 items mentioned are:
1. Cost of performance
2. Cost of venue
3. <illegible smudge>
4. Profit!
Umm, have you ran GoDaddy Sucks through Google? Your UID is low enough that I would have thought you'dve seen lots of interesting articles about GoDaddy here. A lot of people would disagree with you, and I won't do business with them and anyone that I know that is doing business with them I suggest to them that they run such a query and change registrars and hosts. Myself, I use Bluehost for hosting and Nearly Free Speech for registration with privacy protection.
a search for "bluehost sucks" also yields some interesting stories :)
I think part of the problem is that most of the time, most registrars are trouble free, even the very worst ones. It's when you have a problem (whether of your own doing or not) that the real measure of good service becomes apparent. This is what I tell people about Telstra's Bigpond branded ISP services - if you ever have a problem with your service you'll wish you'd gone with someone else.
Interestingly, my transfer away from godaddy (personal, seldom used domain) is just going through now, and the text in their transfer-away confirmation email says "INDUSTRY-BEST LIVE 24/7 SUPPORT". It seems you can claim anything in an email :)
I understand that muggings are violent I just wonder how much bricking stops your typical mugger from still wanting your wallet and how much it stops opportunity theft when someone sets there phone down and walks away from it for a moment.
The problem with stealing a wallet is that it might turn out to be empty (and if you flash your wallet around so others can see it's contents, you're an idiot). As soon as you see someone's phone you know what it is and roughly how much you can get for it. If it's a good phone that you can easily get some money for then you might take the risk of robbing the owner. If you know you won't get anything for it because a stolen phone will be bricked before you can sell it, you won't.
Nobody is saying it will stop all violent muggings, just that it does make a difference.
A username and password should not be sufficient, especially if the domain name has a regsitrar lock. My domain registrar (BulkRegsiter aka eNom) requires two-factor authentication to do anything.
Sounds like you got what you paid for then... in a good way :)
Seriously though, there is a place for a low cost, no frills registrar for domains you aren't particularly attached to and that nobody is going to hold for ransom because they aren't worth the effort. Using such a registrar for a domain that's actually worth something to you is probably a bad choice though.
It's at +5 now... what was the problem again?
It's most certainly theft, and on top of that Godaddy is most certainly liable for civil damages.
I just transferred a domain from GoDaddy to a preferred registrar. All I needed, and all I should need, was my username and password.
If I let my username and password fall into the hands of somebody else, which I believe is the case here, and they transferred the domain then firstly, godaddy are not at fault, and secondly, godaddy can't actually do anything about it because they don't own the domain anymore. It's a bit rude of them to not offer more assistance in terms of providing evidence to help the owner prove his ownership to the new registrar, eg maybe the access was from an IP address in a different country than the owner resides, etc, but that's hardly grounds for a civil suit for damanges.
If you buy a domain from a registrar who doesn't charge you enough to offer assistance when something goes wrong, and have a reputation for this, then you kind of get what you deserve.
IMHO, GoDaddy aren't evil, just cheap, and are just a product of our collective race to the bottom in terms of not caring about quality of service when buying a product and only complaining about it when something goes wrong.
or "aCT54U" if you were to include the country code... still seems meaningless, maybe just a coincidence
Did anyone else notice that the phone number looks like a hex string?
43:54:35:34:55 => CT54U
it doesn't look particularly meaningful unless they were stupid enough to encode a password or something in it.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I vote for a desktop distro. I take back everything I've said about LibreOffice, I shouldn't have judged it by its stupid name. I discovered that it can use .docx the other day, I was somewhat shocked since that was the only reason I was hanging onto MS Orifice, which, as pretty as it is, is getting quite annoying these days. I would definitely try an Android desktop distro! I've been using Mint 12 for a couple of days and I'm still experiencing quirky behavior. It was pretty bad with Gnome 3, and MATE is not much better, oh well, back to Gnome Classic (No Effects). Installing an Android desktop would be like Christmas morn. It would be oh so sweet to see laptops available "like your phone" for consumers....with free Microsoft compatible office software!!
I wonder if one day we'll see MS Office sold with "Compatible with Google Apps" on the box...
Cuz in the end, its not about catching people who run lights. Enforcing the law is not an end in and of itself, its supposed to be a means to an end. Who cares if we can "catch" more people? It may feel good and let someone justify their job with some metrics but, it doesn't solve the original problem of risks and dangers....not in anything even approaching a realistic way.
Being caught and fined should motivate some people to be more careful, so there is a use in catching them. In this case by delaying the green you can prevent an accident _and_ still catch the offender and ticket them. It's win-win!
People talk about revenue raising like it's a bad thing. A tax on everyone else but me is a great idea! I've never been ticketed for a traffic offence in my 18 years of driving... if you get ticketed regularly then it's more about you than "the system".
Honestly, I think C64 Basic dumbed the whole thing down and instead of the SID used a simple formula on the computers total running time. That would explain lots of weirdness.
Yes the C64 Basic definitely used a deterministic random number generator which you could seed with a time value to not always start from the same point in the sequence.
GP in first sentence says yeast is better than C.elegans. So I say send a beer to Mars, say a nice Belgian Trappist Ale.
Having beer there would help. I know of quite a few people who wouldn't even think about a trip to mars unless they were sure they could get a beer there.
Just to make sure...it's not the head unload sound? And you have disabled idle hard drive power off in OS power settings?
It could be anything. All i hear is a chirp.
I have one. It works great, but "chirps" occasionally which I think is the sound of the motor spinning down. None of the firmware updates i've applied that claim to fix the chirp actually fix it.
It runs much faster than my previous drive, but i'm also comparing a 7200RPM drive to a 5400RPM drive so the speed increase isn't just because it's a hybrid.
I guess the advantage of the SSD cache is that if you use it in a circular fashion you can avoid a lot of the 'read-erase-rewrite' cycles... but I don't know how the cache is organised for sure.
The Commodore 64 could produce random numbers by sampling the white noise generator in the SID audio chip. They probably weren't as random as shining a laser through the diamond but I wonder if the difference is enough to matter...
And before you grew up(presumably), the 1918 flu pandemic killed literally tens of millions of people. Just because none of the flew strains that were carried in your youth were especially lethal doesn't mean that flu is some sort of inherently mild illness. It can be very dangerous.
On top of that, it mostly killed healthy young people, precisely because their immune system was so strong. The theory i've read about this is that normally the flu works best with a reasonably long incubation period so you are as contagious as possible while you are still well enough to be out and about, because one you start feeling really sick you just stay home in bed and tend not to spread it so far. Having a war going on (or winding up) in 1918 though changed the social dynamic enough that a virus that behaved a bit differently and hit fast and hard did better...
Can we just agree that Apple hardware articles are flamebait by default, especially the ones about the mere possibility of new Apple hardware, and stop frickin posting them?
Agreed. We all know an Apple product isn't official until someone "unintentionally" leaves one in a bar.