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by omh 16y ago
Really? I can see a good use case for the ones that are described at Panopticlick. Things like http_accept, plugin details and fonts are necessary if you want to use the capabilities of the client - you need to know what they have. The time
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by omh 16y ago
This is happening already for much of the 3G internet (at least here in the UK). Perhaps we'll end up with an internet-routable IPv4 address being a chargable extra from ISPs. That could be easier for them than rolling out IPv6, at least in
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by omh 16y ago
I imagine that the AV cabling and switches could get pretty expensive with that many players.
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by omh 16y ago
This sounds similar to Audible (which Amazon now own), or to one of the old postal book clubs. I can definitely see this appealing to people.
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New Adobe Reader with Sandboxing(blogs.adobe.com)
2 points by omh 16y ago|0 comments
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by omh 16y ago
When making a payment? I love the idea of forcing two-factor auth for online banking, but if it was required every time I wanted to spend £5 at a bookstore I think it could get pretty irritating.
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by omh 16y ago
What happens if I book a flight at a badly infected internet cafe computer in Chiang Mai and a key logger reads my password Does VbV make this any worse? It's very difficult to protect against (other than "never use untrusted computers").
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by omh 16y ago
VbV is badly broken, but the suggestions here miss one of the most important points. The use of an iframe means that users can't tell where VbV is coming from and can't be sure either that it is secured or that it's really coming from the b
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by omh 16y ago
Of course the alternative would be a problem as well. If someone comes to me expecting a "90%" answer then they're going to get irritated if my first response is to ask more and more questions. (Unfortunately this is something I often find
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by omh 16y ago
As the comments at TC discuss, this doesn't take account of how many ads are running per page, and depending on how the various numbers stack up it could go either way. But if they were making more money from this, wouldn't today's press re
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by omh 16y ago
Now that I'm back at a computer, I found the 'From the Editor' letter that he was responding to: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/09/start/...
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by omh 16y ago
I don't think it's online, and unfortunately i've now lost my copy of the magazine. It looks like part of an ongoing discussion though, so contacting Wired to get the whole storyis probably best. Good luck!
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by omh 16y ago
I just opened the letters page of UK Wired Magazine and there's a letter from the chief executive of National Rail Enquiries (Chris Scoggins) pledging to open up their data. I'm sure that Wired would be interested in your story, and it's wo
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by omh 16y ago
Clever as this is, it seems that this should be something provided by the operating system rather than each app doing its own thing. And I definitely want the option to manage and disable updates. As a sysadmin, Chrome is a nightmare becaus
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by omh 16y ago
I've never purchased VirtualBox, but there is now at least an email address at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
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by omh 16y ago
The Virtualbox PUEL license allows commercial use as long as it's only being used by one person. And that person has to actually install it themselves. No good for many scenarios, but we use it at work under this clause. It is possible to p
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by omh 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that Virtualbox machines can be cloned, and they'll clone the latest snapshot. It's not easily exposed in the GUI though.
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by omh 16y ago
This has happened before, although the details aren't clear. It was reported last year ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/ripa_iii_figures/ ) that two people had been convicted for similar offences. It seems that most people don't co
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by omh 16y ago
I think that the law is worded so that it's an offence to have encrypted files and not be able to decrypt them. Whether it's deliberate or just forgotten isn't relevant (though I'd hope it would make a difference in sentencing).
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by omh 16y ago
Presumably the UK police are aware of this feature, which could lead to a more interesting situation when you can't prove that you've really unlocked to the deepest level.
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by omh 16y ago
You obviously have more experience with this than me, but in the UK we had no trouble getting BGP advertising with two ISPs for incoming connections (though we're not default-free, just using HSRP between ISPs for outbound).
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by omh 16y ago
Unfortunately $25k is quite a lot for a /24, and you need a /24 if you want to have a network with independent BGP routing (because this is the smallest block in most BGP routers) I manage the networks for a small company and we only need a
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by omh 16y ago
"Killing" a feature before it's rolled out would be great, but it's hard to start talking a potential customer out of a feature request if there's a chance it will put them off your product. Doubly so if it's a salesperson talking to them
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by omh 16y ago
Taking the stairs is a mistake you only make once :) There's a very strongly worded sign at Covent Garden station, telling people that it really is faster to wait for a lift. But I often see tourists making their way up the stairs.
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by omh 16y ago
Underground trains do (almost) always stop at every station on the line. I wonder whether the issue in this case was due to weekend closures - there are very often lines and stations which are closed at the weekend, either for maintenance o
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by omh 16y ago
With OpenID, I wonder whether people would appreciate the option to "outsource" their authentication. If places like domain registrars supported it then people could take the option most convenient for them. Some people would just use OpenI
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by omh 16y ago
That's interesting. Which country/networks, and is it the sender or the recipient who can prioritise?
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by omh 16y ago
This is intended as a second piece of authentication to be used every time you log on, so it's not for resetting passwords at all. So it should always increase security. I agree about bad password resets though. Developers need to consider
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Google Apps adds two-factor authentication via SMS(googleenterprise.blogspot.com)
35 points by omh 16y ago|23 comments
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by omh 16y ago
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but why would you prefer NZB/RAR/PARs over bittorrent? Bittorrent has basic hash checking, will re-download as needed from peers and most usefully you don't have to extract anything afterwards.

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