Democracy is being responsible to the people. That is a feature, not a bug.
Except we don't have a democracy, the United States is a constitutional federal republic. Actual democracy is a terrible idea, the average person is an idiot.
Frankly none of the sites I would use OpenID for are even remotely important, the ones which I do care about should be issuing RSA SecureID tokens anyways.
So you're saying that someone on minimum wage with no marketable skills and a family to support should be worried about purchasing a luxury item? im sorry but that's ridiculous
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Mass transit receives enormous subsidies and only service small areas, which massively shifts the numbers.
Democracy is being responsible to the people. That is a feature, not a bug.
Except we don't have a democracy, the United States is a constitutional federal republic. Actual democracy is a terrible idea, the average person is an idiot.
Mailmerge exists in OOo.
I was tlaking more along the lines of using Word as the primary means of accessing something like a warehouse inventory list.
Mailmerge exists in OOo.
I meant more like Word being the primary means of accessing say an inventory database.
That entirely depends on how heavily you rely on odd-ball features in office.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
If you are just doing basic word processing it is unlikely that you will run into any problems beyond the (marginally) different UI.
That is only true if the flaws in the OS you know present less of a danger than the risk of you failing to configure something properly.
Frankly debian is past that point.
Then why are you using Debian and not using an actually secure OS OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
Yes but the law was passed in 1897 so the $75 fine would have been a small fortune.
And what about his friend right off camera with a white board a marker and google?
Well this sounds completely wrong but realistically the vast majority of the documentation is in english, just because it's a common language.
Something tells me that they're doing it wrong
Why? The technology clearly exists.
Frankly none of the sites I would use OpenID for are even remotely important, the ones which I do care about should be issuing RSA SecureID tokens anyways.
Either you are an idiot or you are purposely ignoring the point that I am making.
I do not carry around any device capable of storing a key, that includes flash drives/cds/netbooks/laptops/floppy discs/punch cards OR ANYTHING ELSE.
Also, I'm using firefox so you're looking for cookies.sqlite
Nothing would stop a page from providing classic username/password in addition
The same applies to OpenID
have a third party service that manages your keys if you like
How is this any better than OpenID?
when a single secure token would be much more secure and easier to use
A single cryptographic key would be cumbersome, even in comparison to 15+ passwords. A Physical token? for junk sites? I don't think so.
Also if you really don't trust the OpenID provider you can simply run your own.
Honestly it's not that complicated http://wiki.openid.net/Run_your_own_identity_server
No you can take your bookmarks and extensions everywhere that lets you run firefox portable.
OpenID was designed to be platform agnostic and require nothing more than a web browser.
Any solution that requires me to carry around a flash drive is not a real solution.
So I'd have to remember an entire RSA key?
oh no I just have to carry a flash drive with me at all times?
No thanks.
Anyways that already exists, https can require client certificates.
You clearly have absolutely no idea how OpenID works at all.
The centralization occurs at your OpenID provider, who would be the likes of VeriSign
You do not trust each OpenID consumer.
Do you see OpenID anywhere on the front page to Facebook?
There's your problem, people don't know that OpenID even exists.
Yeah or maybe they could teach themselves a marketable skill in the mean time.
You're ignoring the benefit to the public at large.
Services which previously were either very difficult or very expensive to develop might now be possible.
The TV spectrum was chosen to broadcast television because it is very useful for broadcast.
So you're saying that someone on minimum wage with no marketable skills and a family to support should be worried about purchasing a luxury item? im sorry but that's ridiculous
If you don't have a full time job why are you worried about buying a luxury item?
$800 a month?
$800 / ( 40 hours a week * 4 weeks ) = $5 an hour.
Right