IPv6 addresses don't have to be static. If it happens that an ISP implements static IPv6 addresses but dynamic IPv4 addresses, that's your ISP's choice, not a problem with IPv6.
The major operating systems support IPv6 Privacy Extensions. This means they generate and use multiple temporary IPv6 addresses, making them less identifiable than most IPv4 systems.
Also, there's no requirement for IPv6 addresses to be fixed. Just as some ISPs offer dynamic IPv4 addresses now, some ISPs will offer dynamic IPv6 blocks in the future.
Most people already have a composite TV, making the total cost of this device + keyboard + mouse + power supply under $50, as opposed to a real computer which is about $200.
No, because I don't want to carry a key around everywhere, and because I don't want to (and sometimes can't) install encryption software on every computer I need to use email on.
For me, the extra privacy isn't worth the extra inconvenience.
To me it sounds like the Red Cross is upset about the *depiction* of *fictional* violations in games. I don't think they're saying that gamers are literally violating real-world laws.
The Australian standard voltage is 230V +10% -6%. So 255V is outside the allowable range. If they deliberately set the supply to 255V, they'd be exposing themselves to a huge lawsuit. Any 250V-rated components or insulation that failed, causing damage or fire or injury, would all be their fault.
Also, by setting the voltage that high, the power used by other loads (some types of lights and motors, and various other things) would increase noticeably. Generating that much extra power would be more expensive than paying the tiny number of people who have solar feed-in systems.
tl;dr: if you're getting 255V, it's a technical problem rather than a conspiracy, and you should be complaining to your electricity provider rather than to random slashdot readers.
Maybe posting a new article on an issue that was also an issue a year ago is not a "dupe", but an acceptable and possibly even normal thing for a news site to do?
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It's not a "pretty useless protection". It's not just checking that the certificate is valid, it's also checking that the certificate authority has a corresponding root certificate installed on the iPhone. It stops anyone who doesn't have access to the phone from eavesdropping or manipulating the data.
> Secondly, the requests and responses are travelling through the Internet and of course through the airwaves, which means someone could easily alter those replies with the aforementioned valid keys (pretty easy)
If an attacker can arbitrarily alter the contents of an SSL session, we're all a bit screwed anyway. It's certainly not "pretty easy".
I disagree that the carbon tax "bones the economy on a grand scale". I also disagree that we "fucked the future of the country".
Could you provide any information (e.g studies predicting a significant decrease in GDP, standard of living or any other reasonable measure of progress) to support this claim?
I agree that the carbon tax in Australia won't make much of a difference. But of course we can look at each individual in the world and say their individual actions won't make much of a difference. It would be unreasonable to use this as a reason to take no action.
It's impossible to prove anything at all, aside from abstract mathematics and "I think therefore I am" and such. But we shouldn't let philosophy and arguments about human conventions get in the way of the fact that Occam's Razor and the acceptance of unprovable theories is actually incredibly useful.
> It's the online equivalent of book-burning, except you're burning the books and the bookstore.
No it's not. It's the equivalent of standing outside the bookstore and not letting anyone in. I'm not saying that legitimizes it, just that your analogy is poor.
> religious freakjobs dictating Australia's and Iran's Internet content.
Australia's internet is, in practice, as free as other Western countries. There was a proposal to filter it which wasn't implemented. The proposal was motivated by politics and fear, not by religion. Australia is a secular country. It's completely untrue to say that Australia's internet content is currently being dictated by "religious freakjobs" like Iran's.
I think if somebody not familiar with the system believes they can spot a trivial flaw in less than 2 minutes, despite other intelligent people having put a lot of time and effort into writing papers and implementations, there's a good chance that says more about the somebody than about the system.
http://xkcd.com/675/
If electronics still exists in 100 years, someone will still be making microcontrollers with I/O pins plus whatever a recent USB-equivalent is. Building an SD-card reader is pretty trivial.
Quantum entanglement is a reasonably well-understood phenomenon which isn't a method of communication. Please don't use it as a name for your unrelated hypothetical future technology.
Why should they be inconsistent? Why should HTTP be hidden but HTTPS and FTP and other protocols be shown?
I've never found the protocol being displayed in my browser to somehow "distract" me or reduce my productivity. Is this seriously a concern?
You're not forced to run those services as root. You can have something open the port then drop root privileges. Or you can set up firewall rules or a proxy of some sort to forward everything from the lower-numbered port onto a higher port, and not need the server software to ever be root at all.
Slashdot Mirror
The social networking icons on Slashdot comments are hosted on Slashdot servers, and loading a Slashdot page doesn't send anything to Facebook.
Didn't you read the second half of my comment?
IPv6 addresses don't have to be static. If it happens that an ISP implements static IPv6 addresses but dynamic IPv4 addresses, that's your ISP's choice, not a problem with IPv6.
The major operating systems support IPv6 Privacy Extensions. This means they generate and use multiple temporary IPv6 addresses, making them less identifiable than most IPv4 systems.
Also, there's no requirement for IPv6 addresses to be fixed. Just as some ISPs offer dynamic IPv4 addresses now, some ISPs will offer dynamic IPv6 blocks in the future.
Most people already have a composite TV, making the total cost of this device + keyboard + mouse + power supply under $50, as opposed to a real computer which is about $200.
For some applications 2 cores at 5.6GHz are better than any number of cores at 3GHz.
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/applications-power-management/race-to-idle.php suggests that it's better to run faster for a short time than to run slowly.
No, because I don't want to carry a key around everywhere, and because I don't want to (and sometimes can't) install encryption software on every computer I need to use email on.
For me, the extra privacy isn't worth the extra inconvenience.
To me it sounds like the Red Cross is upset about the *depiction* of *fictional* violations in games. I don't think they're saying that gamers are literally violating real-world laws.
Nice conspiracy theory.
The Australian standard voltage is 230V +10% -6%. So 255V is outside the allowable range. If they deliberately set the supply to 255V, they'd be exposing themselves to a huge lawsuit. Any 250V-rated components or insulation that failed, causing damage or fire or injury, would all be their fault.
Also, by setting the voltage that high, the power used by other loads (some types of lights and motors, and various other things) would increase noticeably. Generating that much extra power would be more expensive than paying the tiny number of people who have solar feed-in systems.
tl;dr: if you're getting 255V, it's a technical problem rather than a conspiracy, and you should be complaining to your electricity provider rather than to random slashdot readers.
Maybe posting a new article on an issue that was also an issue a year ago is not a "dupe", but an acceptable and possibly even normal thing for a news site to do?
It's not a "pretty useless protection". It's not just checking that the certificate is valid, it's also checking that the certificate authority has a corresponding root certificate installed on the iPhone. It stops anyone who doesn't have access to the phone from eavesdropping or manipulating the data.
> Secondly, the requests and responses are travelling through the Internet and of course through the airwaves, which means someone could easily alter those replies with the aforementioned valid keys (pretty easy)
If an attacker can arbitrarily alter the contents of an SSL session, we're all a bit screwed anyway. It's certainly not "pretty easy".
If you can eavesdrop on SSL connections, you have better things to do than cloning Siri.
I disagree that the carbon tax "bones the economy on a grand scale". I also disagree that we "fucked the future of the country".
Could you provide any information (e.g studies predicting a significant decrease in GDP, standard of living or any other reasonable measure of progress) to support this claim?
I agree that the carbon tax in Australia won't make much of a difference. But of course we can look at each individual in the world and say their individual actions won't make much of a difference. It would be unreasonable to use this as a reason to take no action.
It's impossible to prove anything at all, aside from abstract mathematics and "I think therefore I am" and such. But we shouldn't let philosophy and arguments about human conventions get in the way of the fact that Occam's Razor and the acceptance of unprovable theories is actually incredibly useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_engraving
Test comment, please ignore.
A couple of points:
> It's the online equivalent of book-burning, except you're burning the books and the bookstore.
No it's not. It's the equivalent of standing outside the bookstore and not letting anyone in. I'm not saying that legitimizes it, just that your analogy is poor.
> religious freakjobs dictating Australia's and Iran's Internet content.
Australia's internet is, in practice, as free as other Western countries. There was a proposal to filter it which wasn't implemented. The proposal was motivated by politics and fear, not by religion. Australia is a secular country. It's completely untrue to say that Australia's internet content is currently being dictated by "religious freakjobs" like Iran's.
> controlled by several domains hosted in Russia
Why are all the major botnets still controlled by domains? It makes them easier to trace and easier to shut down. Is peer-to-peer really that hard?
I think if somebody not familiar with the system believes they can spot a trivial flaw in less than 2 minutes, despite other intelligent people having put a lot of time and effort into writing papers and implementations, there's a good chance that says more about the somebody than about the system. http://xkcd.com/675/
If electronics still exists in 100 years, someone will still be making microcontrollers with I/O pins plus whatever a recent USB-equivalent is. Building an SD-card reader is pretty trivial.
Quantum entanglement is a reasonably well-understood phenomenon which isn't a method of communication. Please don't use it as a name for your unrelated hypothetical future technology.
Why should they be inconsistent? Why should HTTP be hidden but HTTPS and FTP and other protocols be shown? I've never found the protocol being displayed in my browser to somehow "distract" me or reduce my productivity. Is this seriously a concern?
You're not forced to run those services as root. You can have something open the port then drop root privileges. Or you can set up firewall rules or a proxy of some sort to forward everything from the lower-numbered port onto a higher port, and not need the server software to ever be root at all.
But since the exploit source is available, we can easily see that the exploit modified the IRCd code and not any installation code.