Yeah, it's a moving target... Given that is isn't the longest thread i've seen by far I think it's safe to infer that there are Slashdot pages that easily exceed 1 megabyte. That's broadband for you, making long rants and flamewars possible since 1999...:-D
This Slashdot page is 300Kb now... You seem to be forgetting that pages aren't just white with black text only. There is a lot of media being loaded, and 320Kb is only a little if you think about it. A large JPEG alone can be bigger, and multiple on one page will easily put a page in the megabyte range (i'm looking at you Bing).
Yeah, but that 320Kb is most likely divided over at least 30 HTML/CSS/JS/JPG/PNG/SWF files... And headers include lots of information including cookies being sent back-and-forth, so the average headers are closer to 1000 bytes (around 500 both ways) per request now. According to my count this is around 30Kb, or an overhead of 10%, so this does leave some room for improvement... But if you account for the fact that those 320Kb will most likely also be transmitted with gzip compression the bytes over the wire are closer to 100Kb (roughly), so this brings the header-overhead on the wire to a whopping 30%. Those headers can be compressed with standard gzip to bring it back down to around 8Kb, but when you would take advantage of compression with a predefined dictionary optimized for HTTP headers you could shave it down a lot more, at least well under the 30% overhead we currently waste.
I hope Google will kickstart this initiative by adding it to Google Chrome and contributing code to HTTP servers, this way Chrome will be even faster than competition and other browsers will have to keep up... I love it when competition works!
A ginger female atheist (devilwoman!), excellent!!! As you can see the aussie internet filters that would protect them from 'all the evils' has failed them once again...
Yes, and yes. But I have other problems with iTunes (or Quicktime). I'd rather download MP3's from other sites that offer it too... Most have better quality, price and no crappy software needed.
But to be fair, if the RIAA hadn't demanded the DRM Apple would most likely 'offer' it themselves, they have a clear advantage by only letting people play their tracks in iTunes and on their iPods... The mentality that a user does not own his hardware/software/media fits Apple like a glove.
The S in HTTPS stands for two distinct things that add security:
- Encryption
- Verification
The second one is the 'added value' the CAs provide... I'm fairly sure you can see how you can do without for most normal sites (especially considering regular HTTP does neither).
As to your ISP intercepting idea, you could implement this with by 'knowing' which sites have CA-certs and which don't... the method for this can be with a list of known keys, or simply with a special DNS record indicating 'do not accept SS-certs for this domain' (now you can object that the ISP can also mess the DNS request up but when interested you can also read about DNSSEC).
But legal ramification of hacking the encryption with a MITM attack should be sufficient to deter any ISP in a country that invented 'code of law'.
They seem to agree on this, and think Flash is the way to go (see http://www.infoworld.com/print/125721). Either that is BS or this article is BS, they can't claim both. Everything they say could be said for Flash and vice-versa.
Yes! Hence the term 'fenced pasture', it seemed appropriately lesser than a 'walled garden' (jumping over the fence is always an option). The term 'prison' only applies to the digital restrictions, software and music for example which are locked up pretty good.
My point is that there is a valid business for people who don't give a fuck about these digital restrictions and it's a valid choice if you don't. I have no predisposition here, I care equally less for the choice of people choosing Apple as they care for it...
What you forgot to mention is that there are billions of people who love Apple's 'walled garden' (perhaps 'fenced pasture' would be a better suited term for a prison for a content flock of sheep). It's no longer a niche brand... shouting 'imminent demise' is a bit of early drama...
So, it is possibly false... In my opinion it's the best working model you can come up with. I have yet to encounter anything that isn't "possibly false"... There is no such thing as an absolute truth, it only exists if you blind yourself to all other truths. But since humans are apparently built to account for the possibility of failure there should be no problem with a 'good enough' truth...
It only raises one important question: Why are people fighting, kicking and screaming, every step of the way when their absolute truths appear to be probabilistically (or even provably) false in hindsight? It should be expected, right???
A series is really made by the actors... and all good series have at least some very talented actors. Being attractive can land you a role, but it won't *make* the series.
I really do agree with you on the first part though, when I see a new face in a series I appreciate it more than when they would have gotten some older tired typecasted actor for the part. In SF they re-use actors a little too much, but all good series also have excellent new actors. And when they *do* use a good actor for a new series it helps if it a totally different genre, like the series Castle about a writer... they even had an epic reference to him being a 'space cowboy' dressed completely in Firefly style. A cool little personal homage...
If they give the 14 geeks with the highest donations a personal little easter egg (or cameo) in one of the episodes they will get more money then they know what to do with... SF geek bidding war!
But I would gladly pay the $50 up front if they promise to make a new Firefly season in the next couple of years... Fuck man, I will pay ten times that if they promise to make an alternate ending to Battlestar Galactica...
I think community supported SF would actually work pretty well, just cut out the TV indeed and get quality without the restrictions imposed by that industry. The artists and the consumers, a most powerful combination without the superfluous layers between them.
Who'd have thought that adults would possibly object to being treated like pedophiles who rape 5 year olds?
FTFY. Did you notice how anyone who voiced their concern regarding censorship or privacy was immediately 'against us looking out for the children' and thus 'for pedophilia'...
1) What regular user even knows the difference between HTTP and HTTPS? They only know 'the little lock' and 'the geen bar'. There have been known 'attacks' that just display a lock icon *inside* the page and people assume everything is peachy.
2) What user outside of IT knows about MITM attacks? There is not even an icon to indicate this shit. And when you mis-type the URL you can get a completely legit cert and still have a MITM attack (don't assume people never miss the typo or a CA means anything special, they will hand it out to anyone with $100), so I have to disappoint you: the little lock icon does *not* keep you safe from a MITM attack!
3) It's quite a leap to assume people know the relation between HTTPS and MITM and we might have to un-teach them that if the default crappy behavior is changed for the greater good of adding encryption to an otherwise completely insecure HTTP connection...
Thanks man! This was always bugging me on every PC with NoScript... and I always forget the name of the boolean in the about:config. Now I can disable it (or explain to someone else how to disable it) much more easily.
This is beneficial to everyone if you don't have one of these screens per new fad. In my opinion to be truly useful everything in the house should be controlled with the same house computer in a neat interface: Power, music, calendar, the doorbell + opener, your fridge (with RFID you can have food expiration warning and auto-ordering online etc.). Add voice activation and you're golden!
Enough dreaming, time for a reality check: this thing is still pretty useless... A big disadvantage of these wireless 'Zigbee' blocks is they are way too clunky, create one that can be built into the wall socket and i'll install them all over the house immediately! That is the product i've been waiting for and am still waiting for: adding 'smart power' to my house in a way that doesn't leave those ugly things hanging from every power socket.
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Yeah, it's a moving target... Given that is isn't the longest thread i've seen by far I think it's safe to infer that there are Slashdot pages that easily exceed 1 megabyte. That's broadband for you, making long rants and flamewars possible since 1999... :-D
This Slashdot page is 300Kb now... You seem to be forgetting that pages aren't just white with black text only. There is a lot of media being loaded, and 320Kb is only a little if you think about it. A large JPEG alone can be bigger, and multiple on one page will easily put a page in the megabyte range (i'm looking at you Bing).
Yeah, but that 320Kb is most likely divided over at least 30 HTML/CSS/JS/JPG/PNG/SWF files... And headers include lots of information including cookies being sent back-and-forth, so the average headers are closer to 1000 bytes (around 500 both ways) per request now. According to my count this is around 30Kb, or an overhead of 10%, so this does leave some room for improvement... But if you account for the fact that those 320Kb will most likely also be transmitted with gzip compression the bytes over the wire are closer to 100Kb (roughly), so this brings the header-overhead on the wire to a whopping 30%. Those headers can be compressed with standard gzip to bring it back down to around 8Kb, but when you would take advantage of compression with a predefined dictionary optimized for HTTP headers you could shave it down a lot more, at least well under the 30% overhead we currently waste.
I hope Google will kickstart this initiative by adding it to Google Chrome and contributing code to HTTP servers, this way Chrome will be even faster than competition and other browsers will have to keep up... I love it when competition works!
A ginger female atheist (devilwoman!), excellent!!! As you can see the aussie internet filters that would protect them from 'all the evils' has failed them once again...
Yes, and yes. But I have other problems with iTunes (or Quicktime). I'd rather download MP3's from other sites that offer it too... Most have better quality, price and no crappy software needed.
But to be fair, if the RIAA hadn't demanded the DRM Apple would most likely 'offer' it themselves, they have a clear advantage by only letting people play their tracks in iTunes and on their iPods... The mentality that a user does not own his hardware/software/media fits Apple like a glove.
People in general are sheep, and - to put it bluntly - don't give a fuck about shit. Now get off my lawn!
The S in HTTPS stands for two distinct things that add security:
- Encryption
- Verification
The second one is the 'added value' the CAs provide... I'm fairly sure you can see how you can do without for most normal sites (especially considering regular HTTP does neither).
As to your ISP intercepting idea, you could implement this with by 'knowing' which sites have CA-certs and which don't... the method for this can be with a list of known keys, or simply with a special DNS record indicating 'do not accept SS-certs for this domain' (now you can object that the ISP can also mess the DNS request up but when interested you can also read about DNSSEC). But legal ramification of hacking the encryption with a MITM attack should be sufficient to deter any ISP in a country that invented 'code of law'.
They seem to agree on this, and think Flash is the way to go (see http://www.infoworld.com/print/125721). Either that is BS or this article is BS, they can't claim both. Everything they say could be said for Flash and vice-versa.
Yes! Hence the term 'fenced pasture', it seemed appropriately lesser than a 'walled garden' (jumping over the fence is always an option). The term 'prison' only applies to the digital restrictions, software and music for example which are locked up pretty good.
My point is that there is a valid business for people who don't give a fuck about these digital restrictions and it's a valid choice if you don't. I have no predisposition here, I care equally less for the choice of people choosing Apple as they care for it...
What you forgot to mention is that there are billions of people who love Apple's 'walled garden' (perhaps 'fenced pasture' would be a better suited term for a prison for a content flock of sheep). It's no longer a niche brand... shouting 'imminent demise' is a bit of early drama...
Should be easy if browser-developers play ball and get rid of the stupid warning when a certificate is self-signed...
Damn, over 3 years late?!!! That's *really* fucking old news, even for Slashdot standards.
It was in my feed... maybe more than a year ago... was only mildly interesting then, and really annoying now.
Well, *Probably*...
Absolutely! It's probabilistically true... :)
So, it is possibly false... In my opinion it's the best working model you can come up with. I have yet to encounter anything that isn't "possibly false"... There is no such thing as an absolute truth, it only exists if you blind yourself to all other truths. But since humans are apparently built to account for the possibility of failure there should be no problem with a 'good enough' truth...
It only raises one important question: Why are people fighting, kicking and screaming, every step of the way when their absolute truths appear to be probabilistically (or even provably) false in hindsight? It should be expected, right???
A series is really made by the actors... and all good series have at least some very talented actors. Being attractive can land you a role, but it won't *make* the series.
I really do agree with you on the first part though, when I see a new face in a series I appreciate it more than when they would have gotten some older tired typecasted actor for the part. In SF they re-use actors a little too much, but all good series also have excellent new actors. And when they *do* use a good actor for a new series it helps if it a totally different genre, like the series Castle about a writer... they even had an epic reference to him being a 'space cowboy' dressed completely in Firefly style. A cool little personal homage...
If they give the 14 geeks with the highest donations a personal little easter egg (or cameo) in one of the episodes they will get more money then they know what to do with... SF geek bidding war!
But I would gladly pay the $50 up front if they promise to make a new Firefly season in the next couple of years... Fuck man, I will pay ten times that if they promise to make an alternate ending to Battlestar Galactica...
I think community supported SF would actually work pretty well, just cut out the TV indeed and get quality without the restrictions imposed by that industry. The artists and the consumers, a most powerful combination without the superfluous layers between them.
Who'd have thought that adults would possibly object to being treated like pedophiles who rape 5 year olds?
FTFY. Did you notice how anyone who voiced their concern regarding censorship or privacy was immediately 'against us looking out for the children' and thus 'for pedophilia'...
1) What regular user even knows the difference between HTTP and HTTPS? They only know 'the little lock' and 'the geen bar'. There have been known 'attacks' that just display a lock icon *inside* the page and people assume everything is peachy.
2) What user outside of IT knows about MITM attacks? There is not even an icon to indicate this shit. And when you mis-type the URL you can get a completely legit cert and still have a MITM attack (don't assume people never miss the typo or a CA means anything special, they will hand it out to anyone with $100), so I have to disappoint you: the little lock icon does *not* keep you safe from a MITM attack!
3) It's quite a leap to assume people know the relation between HTTPS and MITM and we might have to un-teach them that if the default crappy behavior is changed for the greater good of adding encryption to an otherwise completely insecure HTTP connection...
Thanks man! This was always bugging me on every PC with NoScript... and I always forget the name of the boolean in the about:config. Now I can disable it (or explain to someone else how to disable it) much more easily.
Like I said, historic significance... no reason to Godwin all over yourself. ;)
This is beneficial to everyone if you don't have one of these screens per new fad. In my opinion to be truly useful everything in the house should be controlled with the same house computer in a neat interface: Power, music, calendar, the doorbell + opener, your fridge (with RFID you can have food expiration warning and auto-ordering online etc.). Add voice activation and you're golden!
Enough dreaming, time for a reality check: this thing is still pretty useless... A big disadvantage of these wireless 'Zigbee' blocks is they are way too clunky, create one that can be built into the wall socket and i'll install them all over the house immediately! That is the product i've been waiting for and am still waiting for: adding 'smart power' to my house in a way that doesn't leave those ugly things hanging from every power socket.
Didn't Amazon use to make money selling dead trees and other stuff online? What happened?
1) Amazon sell all sorts of crap online...
2) ???
3) Amazon is a patent troll.
4) Profit!
and I hope all goes well. This is a significant step in the history of humankind as a space-faring species, a little corporate step sideways...