I suppose the could run prints through a database, but all that will really tell them is that you were there on that day. Technology for that still takes a while to scan each print and run it through a database, so that search would trail by days. That paper doesn't match up to who signed into the book and time is never recorded there either. I don't see it as a very effective dragnet.
I could see them adding prints to the database as jane/john doe's if they arent paired with a known identity. This would be similar to tracking your Kroger shopping card or some other rewards based card where they track a bar code not a actual person.
as far as being anonymous, they have always had the ability to pull prints off any paper ballot since the technology of print matching became available. Computerized is the most anonymous, but its so anonymous that even the computer gets to vote several hundred times too.
Just goes to show you that M$ doesn't have any 'big picture' thinkers in their company. Sure its possible to have smaller micro centers to distribute heat but does that do ANYTHING to address the fact that data centers are connected to several tier 1 carriers with BGPv4? How many BGPv4 connections will a house have to have to carriers like SPRINT, Level3, ATT, TWTelecom etc to be viable for colocation?
What about power? residential areas are the lowest on the food chain for power. What will it take to have backup diesel and a battery plant in your house for a mere 2 racks?
What about access? Most colocation customers want the ability to get to their equipment or have a consultant get to their equipment to perform hardware maintenance, hardware upgrades, and deal with crisis.
What about cooling? Now that its summer what impact will this extra heat do for your cooling costs?
This is why M$ announces exploits practically every few months. Because someone, somewhere, thinks.. "Gee wouldnt it be swell if a gif image could execute programs on a computer whenever they are opened". "Gee wouldnt it be swell if notepad could execute programs from imbedded mime headers of a text file" and never asking the big picture of "What could go wrong? How could someone misuse this?" I am sure glad the NSA doesnt trust M$ with our secrets. If only the Pentagon would pull their head out of their asses. They seriously need to hire a team of nay-sayers just to get the counter point of some of these terrible ideas.
After the oil spill incident I realized it doesnt matter who wins, they still follow orders of some other puppet master. For two months the POTUS didnt even comment on the spill let alone take action. It was if he was told to run interference. In 2003 our current president, then senator, was adamant against war in general. I truly believe he was against war. After 3 years the gitmo base is still open (something he was against), we still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. We supposedly announced troop withdraw in Iraq but the numbers are still much higher than their 2003 - 2006 levels pre-surge. Now we are in a third war in Lybia. In fact the president is blatantly violating the war powers act (60 days) by another 30 days and counting. The white house response? This isnt a war, its "kinetic military action". I kid you not, that was the word play used to side-step the constitution. This is not a warmonger, quite the opposite. For the current president to do the same sort of thing we blasted the previous president of doing, seems to prove they are just front-men for the real people calling the shots. The elections are just a competition to see who gets lifetime retirement benefits for a small length term.
I had given this great thought at one time, how to make a perfectly fair non-corrupt election. I had come to the conclusion that the only true non-corrupt method is the one used by the U.N. when Iraq had their first post-war elections. The paper ballot and the purple thumb print. The ink doesnt wash off for several days, its hard to vote twice this way. The unique thumb print is preserved on the ballot making it possible to contest a sudden 250 extra votes stuffed into a ballot, how many thumbs can one person have? The drawback? It took nearly a month to count them. In our microwave-oven world of instant gratification we did not like it in 2000 when it took a month to find out who was declared the winner. It is however, the best example of a free election IMO.
so what was battery life like on it? One thing that I absolutely love about my kindle3 is that I can turn off the wifi and 3g after charging it up and read for damn near 6wks straight @ 2hrs / night without having to charge up. And thats while using the built in LED reading light integrated in the cover 30% of the time. Having to keep the ipad charged on a damn-near daily basis just doesnt compare. When you factor in eye strain vs e-ink's no-strain reading I've been very happy with my kindle3. Granted some of my reading has come from other sources other than amazon.com but thats OK too.
If any act is a closer representation of true piracy, its this rather than downloading software. Its very much akin to the Somali pirates that hold merchant ships hostage for a fraction of their actual worth.
should come as no surprise that Al Gore come from this state that has such soft descriptions of infringement of civil liberties. Too bad they dont pass laws banning the rampant incest going on there.
Q: How does a girl in hamilton county know when her mom is on the rag? A: When her brother's dick tastes funny!
At least their domestic abuse program is well funded. Driving through I saw a billboard that said "In Tennessee, Baaaa! means NO!"
outside of an obvious case of someone trying your email to see if you are the person they are trying to reach (hey is this bob from phoenix college back in 1998? ) I would reply to every email as if you were a victim of identity theft. Its absolutely crap that you get legal guardian questions about someone elses kid. That means some asshole put your email instead of theres. Those sites arent in the habit of randomly guessing. Respond so that whatever you pick could be the worst possible result for the person who is using your email address instead of theirs.
remember when the flicker rate of a game was reported to cause seizures and when a news station aired video of the game subsequent seizures were reported? The open nature of the micro controller would make for an interesting rise in blink rates and intensity to get the highest results of inducing some sort of paralytic effect. What if theres a point where 99% of humans will likely experience a 2minute seizure with the correct rate and intensity of light? I'd be interested in how this would be received. I can already think of good and bad uses for such a utility. Fending off an attacker would be one use, but using it to mug someone and steal their purse/wallet could just as easily exist.
But if an employer wants your Facebook username and password, that's completely acceptable - after all, they just need to make sure you're not talking behind their backs!
*sigh* Remember the time when things were much simpler? The service provider said "don't give your password to anyone", and you said "of course not, duh." And that worked. It still works.
hey I think you're onto something here. Facebook is on a quest to tie their authentication into everything. I cant even post on news websites anymore without it telling me I have to login with facebook (which i dont have an account). If they could just link facebook authentication into netflix and similar sites.. then we legally CANNOT give our employers our facebook accounts, otherwise they would be asking us to carry out an illegal order and we can report them to the authorities.
Sounds like kim jun ill might have done a bit of frank herbert reading. Isn't that how the emperor kept the sardaukar loyal? by telling them that it was a test all along and that they were the best of the best, then lavish perks on them.
get a decently beefy machine and load vmware ESXi on it and carve out some virtual machines of different flavors of OS. Make sure you have a flavor of CentOS5 in there as well as a flavor of windows server 2003/2007 etc. Make them work with each other. Take turns on which OS is responsible for network services such as dhcp, mail, etc. Having to research how to set these sort of services up will go a long way to understanding how networking works. Always take the opportunity to tie certain tasks like arp to theoretical discussions like the OSI model of a protocol that you had prior to the applied portion of the curriculum.
I have always been amazed at how networking has been the most under-discussed, under-taught concepts in schools. Regardless of the background, every trainee I've ever had has arrived with a rather poor concept of networking. In almost every case, to them, networking has just meant programming the ip address, dns servers, subnet mask, and gateway when prompted. Almost none of them could even explain when a gateway is needed and when it is not. Words like RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP were just random letters.
IMO if you're going to become a programmer its very likely you'll one day have to write a program that uses the tcp/ip stack in some manner or another. Having a good knowledge of how all the pieces talk to each other and how the network services work to achieve that goal can only help with that job.
What ever happened to presumed innocence? Shouldn't they have to be found guilty rather than just accused? Shouldn't there be some serious goddamn teeth in the bill for those that accuse as a means of manipulation and are later found out to be incorrect allegations they must surrender their company holdings to the accused?
There are several different kind of detectors depending on what type of radiation/contamination you are looking to measure. A 'geiger counter' is, more accurately, a Geiger-Meuller detector that measures gamma radiation (photons) but does not accurately measure neutrons, alpha's or surface contamination. It works on an anode and cathode principle where inbound gamma's excite electrons into escaping their atoms (aka the photoelectric effect). In your case you may benefit better by taking a portable air sample and frisking the paper filter. Perhaps you can get ahold of some old military versions, as long as they still work. The devices I am familiar with are:
AN/PDR-27 gamma detector, most iconic device commonly referred to as a geiger counter AN/PDR-56 alpha survey meter . Detects helium ions AN/PDR-70 neutron detector, has outer poly sheilding to simulate the effect on human tissue
As someone who spent years in the navy nuclear power program I can, from experience, say that the nuclear regulatory commission hands out grades on a very harsh grading scale. Its not like a health code grading system for a restaurant where a B really should be a C or D. Every system has a series of 3 and 4 redundant components on top of manually initiated backup procedures to those systems. This inspection process is part of the approach so that issues can be resolved before disaster strikes. Handing out an F, possibly a C in any other environment, is one means to ensure the plant would never ever actually get to a true F status. In fact, anything less than 80% is highly embarrassing and generates a litany of fixes. The biggest problem with these plants are not equipment so much as personnel. For example, the one accident that everyone thinks of is 3 mile island. Even with their large amount of equipment failures it wasn't the equipment failure alone that cause the incident. It was those running the plant violating one of the primary rules of being an equipment operator 'always believe your indications'. They saw the high temp alarms of the primary relief valves go into alarm state and ass-u-med it was just a bogus faulty alarm. Based on the incident report we studied while in nuclear power school, there were four other times that they violated practices and principles that led up to the perfect storm of stupidity that led to the partial meltdown. Instead of people embarking on a campaign against nuclear power they would be better served embarking on a campaign against hiring stupid people. There are many more dangerous things with fewer safeguards protected by even stupider personnel; the underground vaults housing the nerve agents we used to weaponize for one. Think those are well protected even from a moderate earthquake? They have the potential to kill far more than Fukushima ever will.
I just got up to speed on the whole PSN thing. I never once received an email from sony explaining the problems and I was too busy last week to spend an abundant amount of time on/. reading about the security breach. I just got a call today from fraud protection on my debit card tied to my main bank account. They got triggered to suspicious activity when multiple charges showed up in two different states at the same time. Someone had gone to 2 Home depots in FL and ran $100 gift cards 6 times in 2hrs today. This also happens to be the same card I had used to make a purchase from the PSN network a month ago for the DLC of fallout new vegas. To me this seems a little too coincidental to be the victim of some completely different fraud in the middle of this big stink with the 77 million accounts compromised from the PSN.
well you may feel this way but the excuse for all these ridiculous rate increases over the last 10 years has always been claimed that their volume is decreasing while their costs are are the same. Their budget shows them hemorrhaging cash year after year. I think they're losing a lot on bulk packages which is why they comissioned the 'if it fits it ships' campaign. But lets face it, their tracking sucks and things like ebay are driving non-commercial package delivery, whithout the good tracking system ups and fedex offer your left exposed to getting scammed. I still remember when a first class letter cost 15cents and was so for many years.
don't get me started on that:-).. those fucking assholes only have to pay editors, journalists, accounting, marketing, sales, and IT staff to produce electronic publications.. to produce bound printed material you have all those costs plus the huge printing cost to run all that equipment, materials, staff, shipping etc. They keep trying to charge full price to cover the expenses of all the bound printed material employees. The reality is electronic periodicals have a future and printed material really doesn't. This sort of overcharging to cover the reality that they have way more employees than really needed is the same problem the post office is facing. Weve had more rate increases in the last 10 years than the 200 years preceding. The reason is fewer items are being mailed but the cost of all the infrastructure and employees isnt changing.
They totally missed their opportunity here.. ad support is a good start but they should have worked with periodicals to create a subsidy for a steeper discount. Perhaps they could create a $40 version that required you to subscribe to the NYTimes publication for a period of 12 months that also had the ads on there. The NYT completely saves on printing cost, they expand their reading base, and amazon.com gets more devices out there. Its the cell phone concept that has proven to work very well.
off topic but I have to say, these pulldowns in the main discussion are fucking annoying as hell. Is it me or does everyone else think theyre a terrible idea? It makes it much less easy to read and is quite a turnoff IMHO.
its not quite the same thing as black tape over the warning lights because without a warning light its assumed everything is OK. Truth be told there's plenty of ways to not have a page warning and still be an illegitimate site simply by using close approximations of site names like the fake email going around tricking people into clicking a bogus, yet SSL verified, link. Suddenly they're on a website that resembles the battle.net website visually, with a similar domain perhaps out of china. If you take the extra step to click on the certificate information you'd realize its not blizzard and its a fraud. However, there never existed one warning about it. My opinion is these 'warning lights' lure people into a false sense of security. By giving out those over-the-top warnings on self-signed certificates, people instantly assume a lack of warning is the same is full approval. Take the warning lights away and require people to view their certificates if they're about to give out sensitive data. The problem with idiot lights is they create a boolean condition, if things aren't bad then they must be good.
an encryption only stream is useful if you don't want someone sniffing your traffic, but the most secure thing of the whole process is probably username / password. Consider POP3 and FTP.. those are plain text authentications that people sniff because they likely use the same user/pass to get into other (SSH) ports. Sometimes I just want an encrypted stream so its not plain text on the authentication, because frankly, anything is better than plain text.
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I suppose the could run prints through a database, but all that will really tell them is that you were there on that day. Technology for that still takes a while to scan each print and run it through a database, so that search would trail by days. That paper doesn't match up to who signed into the book and time is never recorded there either. I don't see it as a very effective dragnet.
I could see them adding prints to the database as jane/john doe's if they arent paired with a known identity. This would be similar to tracking your Kroger shopping card or some other rewards based card where they track a bar code not a actual person.
as far as being anonymous, they have always had the ability to pull prints off any paper ballot since the technology of print matching became available. Computerized is the most anonymous, but its so anonymous that even the computer gets to vote several hundred times too.
Just goes to show you that M$ doesn't have any 'big picture' thinkers in their company. Sure its possible to have smaller micro centers to distribute heat but does that do ANYTHING to address the fact that data centers are connected to several tier 1 carriers with BGPv4? How many BGPv4 connections will a house have to have to carriers like SPRINT, Level3, ATT, TWTelecom etc to be viable for colocation?
What about power? residential areas are the lowest on the food chain for power. What will it take to have backup diesel and a battery plant in your house for a mere 2 racks?
What about access? Most colocation customers want the ability to get to their equipment or have a consultant get to their equipment to perform hardware maintenance, hardware upgrades, and deal with crisis.
What about cooling? Now that its summer what impact will this extra heat do for your cooling costs?
This is why M$ announces exploits practically every few months. Because someone, somewhere, thinks.. "Gee wouldnt it be swell if a gif image could execute programs on a computer whenever they are opened". "Gee wouldnt it be swell if notepad could execute programs from imbedded mime headers of a text file" and never asking the big picture of "What could go wrong? How could someone misuse this?" I am sure glad the NSA doesnt trust M$ with our secrets. If only the Pentagon would pull their head out of their asses. They seriously need to hire a team of nay-sayers just to get the counter point of some of these terrible ideas.
After the oil spill incident I realized it doesnt matter who wins, they still follow orders of some other puppet master. For two months the POTUS didnt even comment on the spill let alone take action. It was if he was told to run interference. In 2003 our current president, then senator, was adamant against war in general. I truly believe he was against war. After 3 years the gitmo base is still open (something he was against), we still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. We supposedly announced troop withdraw in Iraq but the numbers are still much higher than their 2003 - 2006 levels pre-surge. Now we are in a third war in Lybia. In fact the president is blatantly violating the war powers act (60 days) by another 30 days and counting. The white house response? This isnt a war, its "kinetic military action". I kid you not, that was the word play used to side-step the constitution. This is not a warmonger, quite the opposite. For the current president to do the same sort of thing we blasted the previous president of doing, seems to prove they are just front-men for the real people calling the shots. The elections are just a competition to see who gets lifetime retirement benefits for a small length term.
I had given this great thought at one time, how to make a perfectly fair non-corrupt election. I had come to the conclusion that the only true non-corrupt method is the one used by the U.N. when Iraq had their first post-war elections. The paper ballot and the purple thumb print. The ink doesnt wash off for several days, its hard to vote twice this way. The unique thumb print is preserved on the ballot making it possible to contest a sudden 250 extra votes stuffed into a ballot, how many thumbs can one person have? The drawback? It took nearly a month to count them. In our microwave-oven world of instant gratification we did not like it in 2000 when it took a month to find out who was declared the winner. It is however, the best example of a free election IMO.
Q: You know the difference between a Magic Show and a Beauty Pageant don't you?
A: A Magic show is a cunning array of stunts
so what was battery life like on it? One thing that I absolutely love about my kindle3 is that I can turn off the wifi and 3g after charging it up and read for damn near 6wks straight @ 2hrs / night without having to charge up. And thats while using the built in LED reading light integrated in the cover 30% of the time. Having to keep the ipad charged on a damn-near daily basis just doesnt compare. When you factor in eye strain vs e-ink's no-strain reading I've been very happy with my kindle3. Granted some of my reading has come from other sources other than amazon.com but thats OK too.
I will finally have sharks with friggen laser beams mounted on their heads.
If any act is a closer representation of true piracy, its this rather than downloading software. Its very much akin to the Somali pirates that hold merchant ships hostage for a fraction of their actual worth.
dont forget to scavenge that printer memory from old dot matrix printers like the old days ;-)
should come as no surprise that Al Gore come from this state that has such soft descriptions of infringement of civil liberties. Too bad they dont pass laws banning the rampant incest going on there.
Q: How does a girl in hamilton county know when her mom is on the rag?
A: When her brother's dick tastes funny!
At least their domestic abuse program is well funded. Driving through I saw a billboard that said "In Tennessee, Baaaa! means NO!"
outside of an obvious case of someone trying your email to see if you are the person they are trying to reach (hey is this bob from phoenix college back in 1998? ) I would reply to every email as if you were a victim of identity theft. Its absolutely crap that you get legal guardian questions about someone elses kid. That means some asshole put your email instead of theres. Those sites arent in the habit of randomly guessing. Respond so that whatever you pick could be the worst possible result for the person who is using your email address instead of theirs.
remember when the flicker rate of a game was reported to cause seizures and when a news station aired video of the game subsequent seizures were reported? The open nature of the micro controller would make for an interesting rise in blink rates and intensity to get the highest results of inducing some sort of paralytic effect. What if theres a point where 99% of humans will likely experience a 2minute seizure with the correct rate and intensity of light? I'd be interested in how this would be received. I can already think of good and bad uses for such a utility. Fending off an attacker would be one use, but using it to mug someone and steal their purse/wallet could just as easily exist.
But if an employer wants your Facebook username and password, that's completely acceptable - after all, they just need to make sure you're not talking behind their backs!
*sigh* Remember the time when things were much simpler? The service provider said "don't give your password to anyone", and you said "of course not, duh." And that worked. It still works.
hey I think you're onto something here. Facebook is on a quest to tie their authentication into everything. I cant even post on news websites anymore without it telling me I have to login with facebook (which i dont have an account). If they could just link facebook authentication into netflix and similar sites.. then we legally CANNOT give our employers our facebook accounts, otherwise they would be asking us to carry out an illegal order and we can report them to the authorities.
Tennessee has whiskey and music... and little else?
inbreeding, don't forget inbreeding.
How does a girl in camble county know when her mom is on the rag....
when her brother's dick tastes funny!
Sounds like kim jun ill might have done a bit of frank herbert reading. Isn't that how the emperor kept the sardaukar loyal? by telling them that it was a test all along and that they were the best of the best, then lavish perks on them.
get a decently beefy machine and load vmware ESXi on it and carve out some virtual machines of different flavors of OS. Make sure you have a flavor of CentOS5 in there as well as a flavor of windows server 2003/2007 etc. Make them work with each other. Take turns on which OS is responsible for network services such as dhcp, mail, etc. Having to research how to set these sort of services up will go a long way to understanding how networking works. Always take the opportunity to tie certain tasks like arp to theoretical discussions like the OSI model of a protocol that you had prior to the applied portion of the curriculum.
I have always been amazed at how networking has been the most under-discussed, under-taught concepts in schools. Regardless of the background, every trainee I've ever had has arrived with a rather poor concept of networking. In almost every case, to them, networking has just meant programming the ip address, dns servers, subnet mask, and gateway when prompted. Almost none of them could even explain when a gateway is needed and when it is not. Words like RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP were just random letters.
IMO if you're going to become a programmer its very likely you'll one day have to write a program that uses the tcp/ip stack in some manner or another. Having a good knowledge of how all the pieces talk to each other and how the network services work to achieve that goal can only help with that job.
What ever happened to presumed innocence? Shouldn't they have to be found guilty rather than just accused? Shouldn't there be some serious goddamn teeth in the bill for those that accuse as a means of manipulation and are later found out to be incorrect allegations they must surrender their company holdings to the accused?
There are several different kind of detectors depending on what type of radiation/contamination you are looking to measure. A 'geiger counter' is, more accurately, a Geiger-Meuller detector that measures gamma radiation (photons) but does not accurately measure neutrons, alpha's or surface contamination. It works on an anode and cathode principle where inbound gamma's excite electrons into escaping their atoms (aka the photoelectric effect). In your case you may benefit better by taking a portable air sample and frisking the paper filter. Perhaps you can get ahold of some old military versions, as long as they still work. The devices I am familiar with are:
AN/PDR-27 gamma detector, most iconic device commonly referred to as a geiger counter
AN/PDR-56 alpha survey meter . Detects helium ions
AN/PDR-70 neutron detector, has outer poly sheilding to simulate the effect on human tissue
As someone who spent years in the navy nuclear power program I can, from experience, say that the nuclear regulatory commission hands out grades on a very harsh grading scale. Its not like a health code grading system for a restaurant where a B really should be a C or D. Every system has a series of 3 and 4 redundant components on top of manually initiated backup procedures to those systems. This inspection process is part of the approach so that issues can be resolved before disaster strikes. Handing out an F, possibly a C in any other environment, is one means to ensure the plant would never ever actually get to a true F status. In fact, anything less than 80% is highly embarrassing and generates a litany of fixes. The biggest problem with these plants are not equipment so much as personnel. For example, the one accident that everyone thinks of is 3 mile island. Even with their large amount of equipment failures it wasn't the equipment failure alone that cause the incident. It was those running the plant violating one of the primary rules of being an equipment operator 'always believe your indications'. They saw the high temp alarms of the primary relief valves go into alarm state and ass-u-med it was just a bogus faulty alarm. Based on the incident report we studied while in nuclear power school, there were four other times that they violated practices and principles that led up to the perfect storm of stupidity that led to the partial meltdown. Instead of people embarking on a campaign against nuclear power they would be better served embarking on a campaign against hiring stupid people. There are many more dangerous things with fewer safeguards protected by even stupider personnel; the underground vaults housing the nerve agents we used to weaponize for one. Think those are well protected even from a moderate earthquake? They have the potential to kill far more than Fukushima ever will.
I just got up to speed on the whole PSN thing. I never once received an email from sony explaining the problems and I was too busy last week to spend an abundant amount of time on /. reading about the security breach. I just got a call today from fraud protection on my debit card tied to my main bank account. They got triggered to suspicious activity when multiple charges showed up in two different states at the same time. Someone had gone to 2 Home depots in FL and ran $100 gift cards 6 times in 2hrs today. This also happens to be the same card I had used to make a purchase from the PSN network a month ago for the DLC of fallout new vegas. To me this seems a little too coincidental to be the victim of some completely different fraud in the middle of this big stink with the 77 million accounts compromised from the PSN.
well you may feel this way but the excuse for all these ridiculous rate increases over the last 10 years has always been claimed that their volume is decreasing while their costs are are the same. Their budget shows them hemorrhaging cash year after year. I think they're losing a lot on bulk packages which is why they comissioned the 'if it fits it ships' campaign. But lets face it, their tracking sucks and things like ebay are driving non-commercial package delivery, whithout the good tracking system ups and fedex offer your left exposed to getting scammed. I still remember when a first class letter cost 15cents and was so for many years.
don't get me started on that :-) .. those fucking assholes only have to pay editors, journalists, accounting, marketing, sales, and IT staff to produce electronic publications.. to produce bound printed material you have all those costs plus the huge printing cost to run all that equipment, materials, staff, shipping etc. They keep trying to charge full price to cover the expenses of all the bound printed material employees. The reality is electronic periodicals have a future and printed material really doesn't. This sort of overcharging to cover the reality that they have way more employees than really needed is the same problem the post office is facing. Weve had more rate increases in the last 10 years than the 200 years preceding. The reason is fewer items are being mailed but the cost of all the infrastructure and employees isnt changing.
They totally missed their opportunity here.. ad support is a good start but they should have worked with periodicals to create a subsidy for a steeper discount. Perhaps they could create a $40 version that required you to subscribe to the NYTimes publication for a period of 12 months that also had the ads on there. The NYT completely saves on printing cost, they expand their reading base, and amazon.com gets more devices out there. Its the cell phone concept that has proven to work very well.
off topic but I have to say, these pulldowns in the main discussion are fucking annoying as hell. Is it me or does everyone else think theyre a terrible idea? It makes it much less easy to read and is quite a turnoff IMHO.
its not quite the same thing as black tape over the warning lights because without a warning light its assumed everything is OK. Truth be told there's plenty of ways to not have a page warning and still be an illegitimate site simply by using close approximations of site names like the fake email going around tricking people into clicking a bogus, yet SSL verified, link. Suddenly they're on a website that resembles the battle.net website visually, with a similar domain perhaps out of china. If you take the extra step to click on the certificate information you'd realize its not blizzard and its a fraud. However, there never existed one warning about it. My opinion is these 'warning lights' lure people into a false sense of security. By giving out those over-the-top warnings on self-signed certificates, people instantly assume a lack of warning is the same is full approval. Take the warning lights away and require people to view their certificates if they're about to give out sensitive data. The problem with idiot lights is they create a boolean condition, if things aren't bad then they must be good.
an encryption only stream is useful if you don't want someone sniffing your traffic, but the most secure thing of the whole process is probably username / password. Consider POP3 and FTP.. those are plain text authentications that people sniff because they likely use the same user/pass to get into other (SSH) ports. Sometimes I just want an encrypted stream so its not plain text on the authentication, because frankly, anything is better than plain text.