Or just not enclosing personal information in an email?
Examples: Never send anyone their current password via email (even if it's at account creation and it's salted/hashed in the DB).
Other secure information such as credit cards, ssns, etc......why send them via email?
Just say 'Hello , there is issue with your account. Please login to to correct it.'
Or lets say we consider receipt of medication purchases private.....have the confirmation email just show the price and delivery address and block out the names of the medication with XXX, saying 'the information has been hidden for your privacy' - in fact if more sites do this, the general public might finally realize that email is inherently insecure.
You're a software design team...don't go into hardware. Leave hardware to the hardware guys...and do what you do best - design software. Considering the size of your team, trying to develop a hardware platform AND the software to go on top of it may be a bit out of your scope, whereas simply writing a side-loadable android app may be much more feasible.
Plus...you may not need all the apps out there in the store. You may not need email/browser support. But your customers might. And if they do, requiring them to carry around two tablets is just silly.
If you were running a Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 Live CD, then more likely than not you loaded Canonical's Unity interface rather than GNOME3, which imo is even worse.
...because it results in the firm with market power artificially raising prices, meaning that the company demands more and produces less while people pay more for products the company would have been willing to produce for less had it not manipulated the marketplace--effectively, people lose the benefit that reflects the difference between the old price and the new price, and fewer people buy because it costs more, and the company doesn't gain as much as the consumers lose
...except for the fact that just about every Google service is free.
I can still see the possibility of antitrust violations here...but honestly it sounds more to me like jealousy on the part of these other companies. Feels like the Senate is just procrastinating on the bigger issues by having fun with Google.
I think the difference is the fact that it is completely impossible to remove OEM bloatware on Android phones unless you root first...on Windows you can uninstall it (although some stuff might be left around esp. with bloatware...try revo uninstaller) and with Ubuntu you can just apt-get remove. They don't try to actively prevent you from removing the crap.
That's the real problem with the patent system as it exists today - 'ideas' should not be patentable. Overly broad statements like the one you said should not be patentable. Patents should be extremely specific, so as to prevent situations like the one you listed.
That way...if you invent a system for unaided human flight, you must say exactly how you would go about doing it. If you have no money, but a company sees your idea, they can license that patent from you. If it doesn't work, then oh well. But this also promotes innovation - if another company then comes up with a BETTER way to do it, they can actually develop that and file their own patent because the methodology is different, rather than the overly vague and broad catch-all patents that we have today (especially in regards to the software industry).
This is Xbox Live Marketplace...for Xbox Live Arcade and DLC content.
Full games from Xbox On Demand of GFW can be paid directly with a credit card for the exact cash value without any need to use the points system.
"voluntary botnet"
why does such a thing even exist??
Did voluntary Borg exist?
It's called that because the latest version of LOIC has a 'Hive Mind' feature where users give control of their computers (temporarily) to an IRC channel operator, thus becoming part of a voluntary botnet, more so than just 'Lets all attack this target.' See LOIC
The whole "The Word on one machine does not read word files created on another machine in a different version" is utter bullshit. While some formatting data tends to get screwed up, I've never had this problem with one version of word to another in over 10 years.
On the other hand, I used to get one-day extensions in high school by taking a random file, changing the extension to.doc, and then showing the teacher that the file wouldn't open =D
I was simply scrolling down, waiting for someone to make the reference.
Quite amusingly, being in Group 17 on the periodic table (also known as Group VII or Group VII-A), it will behave as a halogen. Masterchiefium is a halogen. Go figure.
Users used to online banking the way they normally do A user that doesn't know anything about security and doesn't realize that doing online banking on the same machine where he/she runs LimeWire is a bad thing will certainly not understand why online banking, which used to be great because it was so convenient, now costs $20 per log-in and you have to reboot. And why the stack of use-once CDs? First, CDs are read-only...how are you going to set that the CD has been used? Second, how is this any more secure and convenient than using a Live CD?
Also, GP gave his telephone idea to make it so it can run in Windows using a temporary password (being temporary, it will render keyloggers ineffective). This was to AVOID booting a custom OS.
Here's the other thing though - If someone steals one of your CDs or if you lose an unused one, you're not going to notice (and yes, people, especially those on business, will likely just throw a stack of them in with their laptops). I also feel like your idea was going somewhere as replacing the telephone idea with having your login credentials built into the CD until you said that the CD would have a custom OS, which brings us back to a LiveCD. So I don't see any way in which this will be better than a Live CD.
Plus...banks will have to print so many of these per user, multiplied by the number of users they have..do you hate the environment or something?
No, what will happen is that the Macs, Linux, smartphones, etc. will still be praised as incredibly secure, and it will just be Adobe's fault. Nobody likes to take the blame or admit that their favorite platform isn't what they said it was, but everyone loves to insult Flash.
The cases where the user would be "hosed" are few to none.
This bug only applies to documents protected with Rights Management Services, which is part of Active Directory and the Windows Server operating system.
Therefore, the only way you would have an issue is if you were on a network that used RMS but had no internet connection, in which case you'd have your IT guy download a fix from some other internet-connected machine and deploy it to the systems with the bug.
This will not affect people who are simply running their own copies of Office 2003 without RMS or Active Directory or any other fancy add-ons.
I'd suggest trying it again under Windows 7 - although I never had to set up forwarding in Vista, it was a pain. I generally ended up switching to something else instead of trying to help the remote user forward ports if it didn't work right away. However, I've yet to have any issues with it on 7.
However, looking at my router's uPnP port-map table right now, Remote Assistance DOES use uPnP to get its ports forwarded properly. If your router doesn't allow this, then that'll probably cause an issue. Again, back on Vista when it didn't work right away I just switched to something else. I'll probably use the same tactic if/when Remote Assistance fails me.
I've actually used it where both computers were behind separate NAT routers over the internet and did not have forwarded ports...Easy Connect did NAT traversal on both networks perfectly fine.
I have no idea what will happen in a dual NAT, but if Assistance fails I generally just switch to using LogMeIn instead of trying to help a remote user get Assistance working over the phone. Regardless, I still appreciate this and the Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7...I've found both to be incredibly useful.
Very much agreed. I actually used to use the trial version of LogMeIn Rescue for a while for this purpose (it gives the technician a password which the remote user enters on logmein123.com), however it was only a trial version.
I also very much agree that LogMeIn is a GREAT tool, and I use it all the time to maintain my machines because some are running Home versions of Windows which doesnt support being a Remote Desktop (which I use when available)
In the past before Windows Remote Assistance had Easy Connect I used to ask users to install the logmein software because it was so much easier than having them get the file and save it and email it.
However, Windows Remote Assistance worked for me when both my computer and the remote one (over the Internet) were behind different NAT routers that did not have ports forwarded, which certainly gives it points in my book. IMO, it's all about having as many tools as possible so you always have a backup plan...RDP, Remote Assistance, LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, WebEx, VNC... Personally I'll try Remote Assistance, and if Easy Connect doesn't work I'll walk them through LogMeIn.
Also, OP stated that he gets calls from 'friends and family members'
While this would work fine for family, installing logmein that allows you access whenever you want is probably not a good idea for friends, and they would probably dislike it.
If they are running Windows 7, its extremely easy to walk them through
- Hitting the start button,
- Typing 'Windows Remote Assistance' in the search bar
- Clicking 'Invite someone you trust to help you,'
- Clicking Easy Connect and having them recite the letters on their screen.
Works in Vista too, but the added option of Easy Connect in Windows 7 that gives a a password for connection instead of using an invitation file makes it really easy for the technologically illiterate to allow you to connect. Just another very easy-to-use option.
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The great thing about those pre-fab solutions is that when someone DOES steal consumer data, you have a scapegoat too!
Or just not enclosing personal information in an email? Examples: Never send anyone their current password via email (even if it's at account creation and it's salted/hashed in the DB). Other secure information such as credit cards, ssns, etc......why send them via email? Just say 'Hello , there is issue with your account. Please login to to correct it.' Or lets say we consider receipt of medication purchases private.....have the confirmation email just show the price and delivery address and block out the names of the medication with XXX, saying 'the information has been hidden for your privacy' - in fact if more sites do this, the general public might finally realize that email is inherently insecure.
This.
You're a software design team...don't go into hardware. Leave hardware to the hardware guys...and do what you do best - design software. Considering the size of your team, trying to develop a hardware platform AND the software to go on top of it may be a bit out of your scope, whereas simply writing a side-loadable android app may be much more feasible.
Plus...you may not need all the apps out there in the store. You may not need email/browser support. But your customers might. And if they do, requiring them to carry around two tablets is just silly.
If you were running a Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 Live CD, then more likely than not you loaded Canonical's Unity interface rather than GNOME3, which imo is even worse.
iGoogle is already a Google service.... http://www.google.com/ig
...because it results in the firm with market power artificially raising prices, meaning that the company demands more and produces less while people pay more for products the company would have been willing to produce for less had it not manipulated the marketplace--effectively, people lose the benefit that reflects the difference between the old price and the new price, and fewer people buy because it costs more, and the company doesn't gain as much as the consumers lose
I can still see the possibility of antitrust violations here...but honestly it sounds more to me like jealousy on the part of these other companies. Feels like the Senate is just procrastinating on the bigger issues by having fun with Google.
I think the difference is the fact that it is completely impossible to remove OEM bloatware on Android phones unless you root first...on Windows you can uninstall it (although some stuff might be left around esp. with bloatware...try revo uninstaller) and with Ubuntu you can just apt-get remove. They don't try to actively prevent you from removing the crap.
If you manage to hack the CA that issues the cert that Google uses and issue your own cert for www.google.com, then yes.
Otherwise, it's like getting your "fake" ID from whatever the DMV is called in the Netherlands.
That's the real problem with the patent system as it exists today - 'ideas' should not be patentable. Overly broad statements like the one you said should not be patentable. Patents should be extremely specific, so as to prevent situations like the one you listed.
That way...if you invent a system for unaided human flight, you must say exactly how you would go about doing it. If you have no money, but a company sees your idea, they can license that patent from you. If it doesn't work, then oh well. But this also promotes innovation - if another company then comes up with a BETTER way to do it, they can actually develop that and file their own patent because the methodology is different, rather than the overly vague and broad catch-all patents that we have today (especially in regards to the software industry).
This is Xbox Live Marketplace...for Xbox Live Arcade and DLC content. Full games from Xbox On Demand of GFW can be paid directly with a credit card for the exact cash value without any need to use the points system.
"voluntary botnet" why does such a thing even exist?? Did voluntary Borg exist?
It's called that because the latest version of LOIC has a 'Hive Mind' feature where users give control of their computers (temporarily) to an IRC channel operator, thus becoming part of a voluntary botnet, more so than just 'Lets all attack this target.' See LOIC
I was told 2015. We still got 5 years...
I wonder how much extra power these cars will require...my money's on 1.21 jigawatts.
Or that we landed a man on the moon in 1969 and yet we no longer have that capability?
Very much agreed.
.doc, and then showing the teacher that the file wouldn't open =D
The whole "The Word on one machine does not read word files created on another machine in a different version" is utter bullshit. While some formatting data tends to get screwed up, I've never had this problem with one version of word to another in over 10 years.
On the other hand, I used to get one-day extensions in high school by taking a random file, changing the extension to
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/google-planning-to-open-the-vp8-video-codec.ars
Apparently, Google is planning on doing just that.
I was simply scrolling down, waiting for someone to make the reference.
Quite amusingly, being in Group 17 on the periodic table (also known as Group VII or Group VII-A), it will behave as a halogen. Masterchiefium is a halogen. Go figure.
Haha wow... I completely missed that. This is what I get for posting on /. at 2 am...
When said convenience is free.
Users used to online banking the way they normally do A user that doesn't know anything about security and doesn't realize that doing online banking on the same machine where he/she runs LimeWire is a bad thing will certainly not understand why online banking, which used to be great because it was so convenient, now costs $20 per log-in and you have to reboot. And why the stack of use-once CDs? First, CDs are read-only...how are you going to set that the CD has been used? Second, how is this any more secure and convenient than using a Live CD?
Also, GP gave his telephone idea to make it so it can run in Windows using a temporary password (being temporary, it will render keyloggers ineffective). This was to AVOID booting a custom OS.
Here's the other thing though - If someone steals one of your CDs or if you lose an unused one, you're not going to notice (and yes, people, especially those on business, will likely just throw a stack of them in with their laptops). I also feel like your idea was going somewhere as replacing the telephone idea with having your login credentials built into the CD until you said that the CD would have a custom OS, which brings us back to a LiveCD. So I don't see any way in which this will be better than a Live CD.
Plus...banks will have to print so many of these per user, multiplied by the number of users they have..do you hate the environment or something?
Which happens to come after THIS April (April 2010 is before June 2010)
No, what will happen is that the Macs, Linux, smartphones, etc. will still be praised as incredibly secure, and it will just be Adobe's fault. Nobody likes to take the blame or admit that their favorite platform isn't what they said it was, but everyone loves to insult Flash.
The cases where the user would be "hosed" are few to none.
This bug only applies to documents protected with Rights Management Services, which is part of Active Directory and the Windows Server operating system.
Therefore, the only way you would have an issue is if you were on a network that used RMS but had no internet connection, in which case you'd have your IT guy download a fix from some other internet-connected machine and deploy it to the systems with the bug.
This will not affect people who are simply running their own copies of Office 2003 without RMS or Active Directory or any other fancy add-ons.
I'd suggest trying it again under Windows 7 - although I never had to set up forwarding in Vista, it was a pain. I generally ended up switching to something else instead of trying to help the remote user forward ports if it didn't work right away. However, I've yet to have any issues with it on 7.
However, looking at my router's uPnP port-map table right now, Remote Assistance DOES use uPnP to get its ports forwarded properly. If your router doesn't allow this, then that'll probably cause an issue. Again, back on Vista when it didn't work right away I just switched to something else. I'll probably use the same tactic if/when Remote Assistance fails me.
I've actually used it where both computers were behind separate NAT routers over the internet and did not have forwarded ports...Easy Connect did NAT traversal on both networks perfectly fine.
I have no idea what will happen in a dual NAT, but if Assistance fails I generally just switch to using LogMeIn instead of trying to help a remote user get Assistance working over the phone. Regardless, I still appreciate this and the Problem Steps Recorder in Windows 7...I've found both to be incredibly useful.
Very much agreed. I actually used to use the trial version of LogMeIn Rescue for a while for this purpose (it gives the technician a password which the remote user enters on logmein123.com), however it was only a trial version.
I also very much agree that LogMeIn is a GREAT tool, and I use it all the time to maintain my machines because some are running Home versions of Windows which doesnt support being a Remote Desktop (which I use when available)
In the past before Windows Remote Assistance had Easy Connect I used to ask users to install the logmein software because it was so much easier than having them get the file and save it and email it.
However, Windows Remote Assistance worked for me when both my computer and the remote one (over the Internet) were behind different NAT routers that did not have ports forwarded, which certainly gives it points in my book. IMO, it's all about having as many tools as possible so you always have a backup plan...RDP, Remote Assistance, LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, WebEx, VNC... Personally I'll try Remote Assistance, and if Easy Connect doesn't work I'll walk them through LogMeIn.
Logmein, certainly. Free, and works well.
Also, OP stated that he gets calls from 'friends and family members'
While this would work fine for family, installing logmein that allows you access whenever you want is probably not a good idea for friends, and they would probably dislike it.
If they are running Windows 7, its extremely easy to walk them through
- Hitting the start button,
- Typing 'Windows Remote Assistance' in the search bar
- Clicking 'Invite someone you trust to help you,'
- Clicking Easy Connect and having them recite the letters on their screen.
Works in Vista too, but the added option of Easy Connect in Windows 7 that gives a a password for connection instead of using an invitation file makes it really easy for the technologically illiterate to allow you to connect. Just another very easy-to-use option.