I have been online with a jabber compliant program (mostly ichat, and actually through my own jabber to jabber gateway) as long as this has been possible. I will not be online once this ceases to function. I will not start to run a browser tab just for this. I was also online with ichat on FB xmpp, but i hear that is going away as well. I see this as a very sad time for standards we are moving backwards. Instead of increasing the interoperability between communication networks, it is decreasing.
Strangest thing is - Sweden is a relatively cold country where people pay for heating. And for hot water in the summertime. Can't all this excess (heat)energy be put to good use instead of dumping it to the sea?
I use a mac and i absolutely hate itunes. It is a pointless pile of bloat that i only run when i need to drop a new jailbreaked firmware image on my iphone or something like this. Using itunes to copy a few songs to the iphone is like using a combine harvester to pick up an apple from the ground. Actually that is a bit unfair, because combine harvesters do some function extremely well, itunes has no function at all.
Haven't noticed it. I use hosts files constantly to test that a site works correctly on a name based virtual server before changing the DNS and it has always worked. Granted - i use FF on OSX and you are probably talking about Win.
I haven't seen a DVD player whose region code cannot be removed by a simple procedure on a remote. How is that a grey market curiosity? Or is it different in the US of A?
Marking down who got what (same amount of info as a vending machine collects) can be accomplished by swiping the said id and product barcode. Takes two seconds.
Language does not advocate you to follow anything. Just because humans invented the language to coordinate attacks agains mammoths does not mean using a language advocates hunting. The only reason why php is often served the way it is - a script that is compiled every time - is because it is convenient and often even practical to do so in a virtually hosted environment. Look - i am no fan of php - i am just pointing out that "PHP code is reevaluated for each page call" is simply a false statement.
This is not a language issue. It is an architecture issue. No one forbids you to run php script once and serve multiple pages from it. There are even several well known implementations - google fastcgi for instance. You are effectively saying that the english language sucks because people swear a lot nowadays.
I use reserved MAC addresses and a non-trivial WPA2 password. The router won't connect any unknown MAC addresses.
The wifi router does not need to *connect* to anything. It is yelling your traffic loud and clear over the block, anyone can listen to it. To think that MAC restrictions are any kind of a deterrent, is delusional. MAC lists just serve to annoy legitimate users, it has absolutely no effect on a hacker. (Same goes for hidden SSID by the way). The safest bet would be using 802.1x radius authentication.
So you think that a person who is quite prolific in wifi hacking techniques will be stopped short, because he will not get an address from DHCP and has to figure out the extremely complicated method of assigning an ip address manually? Sounds like an effective technique alright.
Well, my point was that a kill switch on a car would be an easy solution for a complicated problem. I am not sure i would want to have passenger accessible instant killswitch on an airplane i am travelling with.
You couldn't be more wrong. You can't overrev a modern car, it just doesn't rev over a certain point, especially in neutral. The transmission is not destroyed in neutral. Turning the engine off does not engage steering lock - removing the key does. If the steering lock WAS engaged, straight road would be a deathtrap, because the steering locks at an angle.
The thing is - airplanes are in the air. The cars are not. If an airplane motor dies, it falls from the sky - the car just slows down to a halt. So all we need on these modern computerized cars is a huge red kill switch that deprives its computers and engine of power immediately. Like on an escalator.
There are several plugins that enable the classic menu on newer Offices if you really need Office and loathe the ribbon. I use Libre and gdocs myself and run MS Office only when i need to tell my mom over the phone where to find stuff on the ribbon.
Again - all i said is that having upnp off is preferrable to having it on. I also hinted that the amount of buggy programs (PC software as well as software in devices like printers, DVRs, etc) is much larger than the amount amount of malicious programs.
I have not talked about any other security measures that are or are not, should or should not be in place. Instead of arguing my point - how and why is upnp on preferred to manually opening minimum number of ports - you attribute me a lot of things i have NOT SAID and argue with them. Keep up the good work.
I did not say that closed TCP ports are an end to all security woes - i do not know where you took that from. I did not quote any probability of different attack vectors. I merely compared upnp on vs. upnp off situation and said that upnp off on the router is more secure than upnp on.
What you are saying, is essentially - "I have my front door key under the mat - and the only three people who used this key are people who i would have let in anyway. And that key under the mat is just common sense as the crooks can come in by breaking the window and through the chimney or con the cleaning lady anyway."
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I have been online with a jabber compliant program (mostly ichat, and actually through my own jabber to jabber gateway) as long as this has been possible. I will not be online once this ceases to function. I will not start to run a browser tab just for this. I was also online with ichat on FB xmpp, but i hear that is going away as well. I see this as a very sad time for standards we are moving backwards. Instead of increasing the interoperability between communication networks, it is decreasing.
Strangest thing is - Sweden is a relatively cold country where people pay for heating. And for hot water in the summertime. Can't all this excess (heat)energy be put to good use instead of dumping it to the sea?
i don't make the sites, i just set up servers for them
I use a mac and i absolutely hate itunes. It is a pointless pile of bloat that i only run when i need to drop a new jailbreaked firmware image on my iphone or something like this. Using itunes to copy a few songs to the iphone is like using a combine harvester to pick up an apple from the ground. Actually that is a bit unfair, because combine harvesters do some function extremely well, itunes has no function at all.
Isn't there a lag in communications?
Haven't noticed it. I use hosts files constantly to test that a site works correctly on a name based virtual server before changing the DNS and it has always worked. Granted - i use FF on OSX and you are probably talking about Win.
But I do not have 3 friends you insensitive clods!
I haven't seen a DVD player whose region code cannot be removed by a simple procedure on a remote. How is that a grey market curiosity? Or is it different in the US of A?
Leave it to an AC to take a random sentence as a quote and start a rant totally unrelated to said sentence.
Marking down who got what (same amount of info as a vending machine collects) can be accomplished by swiping the said id and product barcode. Takes two seconds.
Language does not advocate you to follow anything. Just because humans invented the language to coordinate attacks agains mammoths does not mean using a language advocates hunting.
The only reason why php is often served the way it is - a script that is compiled every time - is because it is convenient and often even practical to do so in a virtually hosted environment.
Look - i am no fan of php - i am just pointing out that "PHP code is reevaluated for each page call" is simply a false statement.
This is not a language issue. It is an architecture issue. No one forbids you to run php script once and serve multiple pages from it. There are even several well known implementations - google fastcgi for instance.
You are effectively saying that the english language sucks because people swear a lot nowadays.
When did 80 become unblockable?
http://xkcd.com/1172/
As a demonstration of how great this technology is, Google hacked an entire open source office suite into Chrome.
Quickoffice is open source?
Surely you mean four touchdowns in a single game?
I use reserved MAC addresses and a non-trivial WPA2 password. The router won't connect any unknown MAC addresses.
The wifi router does not need to *connect* to anything. It is yelling your traffic loud and clear over the block, anyone can listen to it. To think that MAC restrictions are any kind of a deterrent, is delusional. MAC lists just serve to annoy legitimate users, it has absolutely no effect on a hacker. (Same goes for hidden SSID by the way).
The safest bet would be using 802.1x radius authentication.
So you think that a person who is quite prolific in wifi hacking techniques will be stopped short, because he will not get an address from DHCP and has to figure out the extremely complicated method of assigning an ip address manually? Sounds like an effective technique alright.
Well, my point was that a kill switch on a car would be an easy solution for a complicated problem. I am not sure i would want to have passenger accessible instant killswitch on an airplane i am travelling with.
You couldn't be more wrong. You can't overrev a modern car, it just doesn't rev over a certain point, especially in neutral. The transmission is not destroyed in neutral. Turning the engine off does not engage steering lock - removing the key does. If the steering lock WAS engaged, straight road would be a deathtrap, because the steering locks at an angle.
Have you ever driven one?
The thing is - airplanes are in the air. The cars are not. If an airplane motor dies, it falls from the sky - the car just slows down to a halt. So all we need on these modern computerized cars is a huge red kill switch that deprives its computers and engine of power immediately. Like on an escalator.
There are several plugins that enable the classic menu on newer Offices if you really need Office and loathe the ribbon. I use Libre and gdocs myself and run MS Office only when i need to tell my mom over the phone where to find stuff on the ribbon.
But last time i checked, LibreOffice still complained about missing java runtime (on my OSX) although i have switched it off in LibreOffice prefs.
Again - all i said is that having upnp off is preferrable to having it on. I also hinted that the amount of buggy programs (PC software as well as software in devices like printers, DVRs, etc) is much larger than the amount amount of malicious programs.
I have not talked about any other security measures that are or are not, should or should not be in place. Instead of arguing my point - how and why is upnp on preferred to manually opening minimum number of ports - you attribute me a lot of things i have NOT SAID and argue with them. Keep up the good work.
I did not say that closed TCP ports are an end to all security woes - i do not know where you took that from. I did not quote any probability of different attack vectors. I merely compared upnp on vs. upnp off situation and said that upnp off on the router is more secure than upnp on.
What you are saying, is essentially - "I have my front door key under the mat - and the only three people who used this key are people who i would have let in anyway. And that key under the mat is just common sense as the crooks can come in by breaking the window and through the chimney or con the cleaning lady anyway."