Video The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) 284
French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill 129
An anonymous reader writes "The French Assembly has rejected the Three Strikes bill (in French!) which would allow ISPs to cut off users found to have been downloading protected content after two warnings.
Summary: the Sarkozy administration can go back with a new draft for approval by both chambers or try to get upper house approval of a softer version without the cutoff passed by the lower house."
Comment Re:Sorry, but they're absolutely right (Score 3, Insightful) 646
Theory of Evolution was proven? I clearly need to get out more. I didn't know that it is Theorem of Evolution now.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
"Theories are abstract and conceptual, and to this end they are never considered right or wrong. Instead, they are supported or challenged by observations in the world"
The Environmental Impact of Google Searches 516
paleshadows writes "The Times Online reports that researchers claim that each query submitted to Google has a quantifiable impact. Specifically, two queries performed through a desktop computer generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a cup of tea. From the article: 'While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 [whereas] boiling a kettle generates about 15g [...] Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centers. However, with more than 200m Internet searches estimated daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the Internet is provoking concern. A recent report [argues that] the global IT industry generate[s] as much greenhouse gas as the world's airlines — about 2% of global CO2 emissions.'" Google makes an interesting focus for such claims, but similar extrapolations have been done before about, for instance, the energy costs of sending a short email.
Comment Wait... (Score 1) 250
I'm suing someon
Comment Re:GeoWhoWhat? (Score 1) 291
ah, Diablo Canyon 1, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 2? </Simpsons>For comparison, Diablo Canyon nuclear plant has two reactors
Comment Low Assurance SSL certificates (Score 1) 368
GeoTrust sells low assurance SSL certificates. The only thing they validate is that you "control" the domain (which usually means that they just send you "confirmation" email to whois address. Anyone with stolen credit card can register a domain, and get the certificate, while staying untracable.
Most other CA sell High Assurance certificates, that require validation of
entity ownership of the domain
the fact that person ordering ssl for the domain has the right to do so.
This is done via checking bunch of details, such as departement of state database, whois record, company records, etc, etc, etc. You have to be officer of the company or have notirized permission from the officer of the company to request ssl certificate for the domain. The whois record for the domain must match details from the state database.
When taken all thouse checks together - it alows to prevent fraudster in most cases (you cannot prevent them all the time, not in real time).
GeoTrust "pioneered" low assurance certificates (and basically destroyed credibility of padlock), that bypass all thouse checks and go after domain control only. It created this mess. The "give away" that certificate is low assurance is that "Organization" field of the certificate holds domain name instead of company name. No real bank would go for that.
This is one of the reasons opera displays the company from the certificate field right next to the URL.
This is also the reason microsoft plans to differentiate between "high assurance" and "low assurance" certificates
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/495507 .aspx
Most other CA sell High Assurance certificates, that require validation of
entity ownership of the domain
the fact that person ordering ssl for the domain has the right to do so.
This is done via checking bunch of details, such as departement of state database, whois record, company records, etc, etc, etc. You have to be officer of the company or have notirized permission from the officer of the company to request ssl certificate for the domain. The whois record for the domain must match details from the state database.
When taken all thouse checks together - it alows to prevent fraudster in most cases (you cannot prevent them all the time, not in real time).
GeoTrust "pioneered" low assurance certificates (and basically destroyed credibility of padlock), that bypass all thouse checks and go after domain control only. It created this mess. The "give away" that certificate is low assurance is that "Organization" field of the certificate holds domain name instead of company name. No real bank would go for that.
This is one of the reasons opera displays the company from the certificate field right next to the URL.
This is also the reason microsoft plans to differentiate between "high assurance" and "low assurance" certificates
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/49550
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