I do pretty much 100% of my financial transactions online (with the single exception of tax documents mailed at the start of the year). Lock my mail box? Bah, I'd love for thieves to get into it, and still the bulk junk advertisements that fill it up every week.
(Apparently no one else needs it either. A week in, it doesn't have a single solitary contribution)
Yes, it's the switch to https. If you click past the 'don't go here' you won't even get the site. I explained elsewhere that akamai's "edgesuite" network which serves 80 is a completely different set of servers than those that serve 443 (which they used to call "edgekey" but now are branded something silly). When you go to https on edgesuite, you're connecting to their netstorage service. You get this with *every* akamai customer that's on their edgesuite network.
Akamai is a good way to mitigate attacks, but it's an expensive one. I've just seen this particular error before, because my last company had a pretty deal with Akamai--we got around 7 cents a gig transferred. Not necessarily good compared to other CDNs but pretty good for Akamai. We would see this error because we'd get customers on Akamai, and then they'd do a security scan, it would come back highlighting that the SSL cert didn't match, and asked to fix it. Then, we'd say, ok, just pay for an Akamaized SSL site, which will cost you 5 times as much, plus you have to use Akamai as your SSL vendor, which makes netsol look cheap, and then they'd come back and say "no thanks".
You can tell which sites are on the Akamai SSL network by seeing what they're CNAME'd to. If it's edgesuite.net, it'll give a cert error. If it's edgekey.net, it's good:
Eh, I've set up a lot of Akamaized sites in the past 15 years. That's not a real problem: it's someone who went to an akamaized http site through https. You have to pay extra money to get their SSL versions, and then you have to CNAME your domain to another set of servers, their special SSL servers.
If you put https in front of any site CNAME'd to Akamai that isn't paying for the extra SSL, you'll get basically the same error, because it sends you through their old edge network--it supports SSL, but it's for serving individual assets like images or swfs.
It's probably historically related to the way they rolled out different offerings. Basically, for this site, they didn't want to spend a few thousand extra a month for SSL offerings.
"Most major companies now have a chief corporate security officer tasked with assessing and mitigating "threats" of all sorts -- including from nonprofit organizations."
Wat?? The scare quotes, the weasel words "of all sorts", the addition of "including nonprofits!": This is the silliest, fake-scariest description of the CSO position that I've ever seen.
Personally, I'm beginning to doubt whether the technology exists, fuzzy logic or not, that is able to cook a frozen burrito or chinese noodle box where one part is a fraction of a degree away from initiating nuclear fusion, and the next bite is cold enough to enable superconduction.
You'll be losing that side B-pillar, or at least its connection to the frame. Can it stand up to side-impact collisions? There might also be some structural issues in roll-overs, though I guess no worse than convertibles currently face.
I was terrible at it. I had mostly taught myself writing sometime around age 4-5. When I got to 2nd grade, I held my pen "wrong", and I was absolutely terrible at writing cursive. As a consequence of my inability to write cursive and illegible handwriting, I was placed in the "slow-track" classes in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. All that time I considered myself one of the slower, dumb students. Then came 6th grade, where students got classified by standardized test scores, and I got placed in the smart classes, and also the accelerated learning, because I had the highest math scores in the district. In 7th grade, I went back to printing my letters, and ever since, I've been highly skeptical of cursive and any kind of tracked education placement--both kinds I encountered were so arbitrary.
Cursive should have been ditched with the ballpoint pen. Or the fountain pen. It only has real advantage with true dip pens. Speed is more a matter of practice. Even though I write very little by hand these days, I have such instinctive muscle memory that if needed, I can totally zip out hand-written "printed" notes at impressive rates.
(OK, I remain totally jealous of an elegant italic hand, but I know I'll never master it)
Go look at the article it links to. The main reason it was denied because they weren't trying to brand any potatoes. There's not a single potato in the application. Note this part: "The application doesn’t appear to have anything to do with actual potatoes. The rejection notes that the applicant applied for the trademark to market “entertainment services” and all sorts of merchandise, from clothing to trading cards."
It got denied mainly because it could be confusingly similar to the Washington Redskins team trademark.
'Our planet could cross a dangerous threshold in 2036'
Fortunately, I should be retired by then. Heck, given my drinking habits and weight, I might well be dead. And, given my career as a Unix Administrator, I'll be thankful I don't have to deal with the Y2038 problem.
They seem to have a script to block IPs after 85 requests, too. I had to cycle through several of my externals (via --bind-address) to wget it all (I already own the 3 books, but it's nice to have an electronic copy).
The first amendment as well as the Texas constitution.
It's not an official cease & desist yet though. The city attorney just used those words in an email. Uber might be able to go to court and get an injunction against such, but it's probably far better to wait and let the city make a bigger fool of itself.
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States..."
It's part of the law passed during WWI to justify the draft. Mostly it remains as a curiosity.
"would be akin to Major League Baseball seeking to keep little league baseball from using the name of the sport because someone might confuse the two enterprises."
Not quite--both have baseball in common, which are fundamentally the same thing, the same game. It's more like Major League Baseball going after the League of Women Voters.
Re: Solution: Burn the computer and get another from a safe vendor
"The solution to this seems obvious, Amazon can't be trusted."
And you trust that employees of Newegg will risk charges of criminal contempt under 18 USC 402 by disobeying such orders? That they'll go to jail rather than compromise your privacy?
You do know private citizens don't get to decide what's constitutional or not, right?
There's an "open source", crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey system that is a branch off the last public domain version of the system in the early 20s. It's the Open Shelves Classification. (There's also the Library of Congress classification system, which is PD and which most universities use).
The OLCL has been pretty litigious about its trademarks and copyrights in the past. A few years ago, they sent a C&D to the Library Hotel in NYC, whose floors and rooms are based on the Dewey Decimal system (and whose rooms contain books on particular subjects). After what would now be called the Streisand effect, they backed down, let the hotel give a small amount of money to a charity, and officially licensed the hotel to as a DDCS user.
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Lock my mailbox?
(Apparently no one else needs it either. A week in, it doesn't have a single solitary contribution)
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I found some other sites that will give you the same error:
https://www.pepsi.com
https://www.mountaindew.com
You can tell which sites are on the Akamai SSL network by seeing what they're CNAME'd to. If it's edgesuite.net, it'll give a cert error. If it's edgekey.net, it's good:
[agarvin@atg-home logs]$ dig +short www.pepsi.com
www.pepsi.com.edgesuite.net.
[agarvin@atg-home logs]$ dig +short www.aa.com
aa.com.edgekey.net.
Note this domain:
[agarvin@atg-home logs]$ dig +short www.dni.gov
www.dni.gov.edgesuite.net.
Look at the cert with openssl s_client and you'll see the CN is for a248.e.akamai.net.
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If you put https in front of any site CNAME'd to Akamai that isn't paying for the extra SSL, you'll get basically the same error, because it sends you through their old edge network--it supports SSL, but it's for serving individual assets like images or swfs.
It's probably historically related to the way they rolled out different offerings. Basically, for this site, they didn't want to spend a few thousand extra a month for SSL offerings.
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CSO
Wat?? The scare quotes, the weasel words "of all sorts", the addition of "including nonprofits!": This is the silliest, fake-scariest description of the CSO position that I've ever seen.
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Is it safe?
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I remember being taught cursive in 2nd grade
Cursive should have been ditched with the ballpoint pen. Or the fountain pen. It only has real advantage with true dip pens. Speed is more a matter of practice. Even though I write very little by hand these days, I have such instinctive muscle memory that if needed, I can totally zip out hand-written "printed" notes at impressive rates.
(OK, I remain totally jealous of an elegant italic hand, but I know I'll never master it)
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It got denied mainly because it could be confusingly similar to the Washington Redskins team trademark.
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Fortunately, I should be retired by then. Heck, given my drinking habits and weight, I might well be dead. And, given my career as a Unix Administrator, I'll be thankful I don't have to deal with the Y2038 problem.
Deal with it, youngsters!
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Re: 1st Amendment
It's not an official cease & desist yet though. The city attorney just used those words in an email. Uber might be able to go to court and get an injunction against such, but it's probably far better to wait and let the city make a bigger fool of itself.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States..."
It's part of the law passed during WWI to justify the draft. Mostly it remains as a curiosity.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/863
And then there are asset forfeiture laws, which will make getting back the money very difficult in any case.
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Not quite--both have baseball in common, which are fundamentally the same thing, the same game. It's more like Major League Baseball going after the League of Women Voters.
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Re: Solution: Burn the computer and get another from a safe vendor
And you trust that employees of Newegg will risk charges of criminal contempt under 18 USC 402 by disobeying such orders? That they'll go to jail rather than compromise your privacy?
You do know private citizens don't get to decide what's constitutional or not, right?
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The OLCL has been pretty litigious about its trademarks and copyrights in the past. A few years ago, they sent a C&D to the Library Hotel in NYC, whose floors and rooms are based on the Dewey Decimal system (and whose rooms contain books on particular subjects). After what would now be called the Streisand effect, they backed down, let the hotel give a small amount of money to a charity, and officially licensed the hotel to as a DDCS user.
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