Comment Re:"Undead" doesn't mean vibrant, though. (Score 1) 283
You shouldn't send mails using hotmail (or gmail, for that matter). It messes your text up. Use a real e-mail program.
Oh, Slashdot. When will you build a monorail?
The monorail will come. After all, Lyle Lanley already has "given" Springfield a nice highschool. Moreover, he has refurbished the site of the old nuke station into a wonderful university campus teeming with life. He'll be glad to "give" the city a mono-rail, after all the time it is being talked about!
but then of course, it would be so much easier if people were able to appropriate describe a problem, and understand a description...
Just check the IP address for plausibility and accept the expired cert.
That would work against men-in-the-middle who used DNS to hack themselves into your communication with slashdot, but not against men-in-the-middle who'd use routing shenanigans.
He doesn't specialize in jack shit.
Isn't a more polite expression for this santorum?
Calling them stupid is not fair, I think. A majority of the older generation,
Actually, the older generation are not the worst offenders. They are often surprisingly mature as far as risks in technology go.
The worst offenders are actually the facebook generation, who are so accustomed that they need to completely open up their browsers to play a game that they won't give any second thought if a malware site asks them to do the same.
That's like me leaving out a box of jewelry on my front lawn with a note saying that only Alice should take it and then getting upset when it's gone and Alice tells me that she didn't get it
It's more like you're hiding the box in a good hiding place ("under the huge rock at the end of Elm's street"), telling Alice about the place. But then Alice naively asks Mallory "do you know how to get to Elm's street, you know the one with the huge rock at the end?", and then everybody acts astonished when Mallory beat Alice to the chase...
If the user just clicks the link like a normal person, there is no problem.
This is also assuming that the user uses a "normal" mail program where you can actually just click on the link. Apparently, this is not necessarily possible in some of the Microsoft offerings.
Also, if the link is too long, the mail program may break it in 2, and not consider the whole thing to be the same link.
and whoever implemented the integration had the bright idea of hardcoding the forum password for everyone as username+123456, and then just having the eBay login page issue a hidden POST request behind the scenes to authenticate users to the community forum section.
... which means that even if the salt had been something else than +123456, it wouldn't really have been more secure, as that "hidden" POST request would have been present in some web resource (html, javascript) downloaded to the end user's browser...
I think you mean sodium.
Cesium is correct and actually works much better than sodium.
Somehow I don't think it's much of a concern in, say, Central African Republic, or Chad, or East Timor.
Are you sure none of those luxury hotels (for Westerns) in these countries have golf courses next to them?
Try something more mundane. All Champaign must come from that one little region of France. Sparkling wine from anywhere else can't be called Champaign. Your knee-jerk reaction is to call that a crock of bull, but the fact of the matter is that if a bottle says 'Champaign' on it, you get what you're used to. Other sparkling wines may be the same or better, but the Champaign mark hypothetically guarantees your expectations -- even if they are lower.
But virtually all sparkling wines still come in the typical champaign bottle shape...
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
