Right you are. Being on the SoftImage side, that chronology is fuzzier to me.

Still have an Indigo R4400 Elan here, under the desk...

Interesting, your take on SoftImage as related to the games world. XSI was after my folks were all driven away by the 3.x taper...

SoftImage was king. Alias Wavefront was a powerful contender, with different strengths and weaknesses.

Microsoft bought SoftImage, as a part of the effort to displace high-end Unix workstations with PC's running NT. It was all over, but the shouting. Alias transformed Wavefront into Maya in roughly this timeframe, while MS starved out "dot release" life support on SoftImage...

He also abhorred the violent creation of the Israeli nation, and was actively anti-Zionist.

Yet his work has been captured by the Hebrew University, and is used to glorify a nation who's creation he saw as tragic, and who's establishment he repudiated.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/einstein-on-palestine-and-zionism/
 

Kurzweil is Lex Luthor.

Still near the pump house? Is Pannikin still open?

Or Keyser Sose?

I Score...

69. Make your own joke.

I would rather see JPEG 2000 support.

CA?

You mean "certificate".

Probably, they are not.

NSA has been doing hash collisions in MD5 space to get past this niggle. Your company, probably not. Yet. :-)

FxCop is still under active development and ships with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. They merely changed the name to "Code Analysis"
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visual...

Tough to detect with MOST browsers. They don't report cert chaining in a way that's useful for this. You COULD check the trust chain everytime you HTTPS. Firefox has the Lock icon to click. Same for Safari.

There are plugins for Firefox that alleviate this:

An indicator of changes in chain-of-trust, etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perspectives/ Way cool "web-of-trust" validation infrastructure, with more info here:
http://perspectives-project.org/
http://perspectives-project.org/firefox/

People STILL ask me why I don't use Chrome or Surfari...

Additionally? Modify your workstations settings to use an authoritative external DNS server. OpenDNS is good... enough. Or your ISP servers from home. Then? Use TOR to browse. Be careful with your bank! They may close web-access to your account if TOR has it appear that you log in from Switzerland and Iceland!

These are not the best counter measures, and don't handle every case. TOR relies on SSL - but on a proxy-port, not 80, so usually outside the scope of these gateways. Depending how your company has it's CA published, they may still look "right" when using external DNS lookups, too.

I think the increased prevalence of HTTPS in the last 2 years has forced more companies to do it.

I work for a Fortune 500 and they quietly implemented this around the end of 2013. It breaks various installers that phone home to check licenses, it breaks automatic updates like Firefox, and secure file transfer sites don't work. But even the software engineers didn't notice it for quite a while since corporate IT pushed down certificates to everyone's machine. There are a few sites that they don't intercept, presumably because it would get them in trouble or interfere on too large of a scale. Ex: Some banks are not intercepted, neither is Microsoft.com since I bet that would break Windows Update.

Thank you for posting these explanations!

I want to go back in time and ask my math teachers if they know these things. Because this is what math is about! Seeing the magical connections between reality and numbers.