Isn't there some sort of criminal justice recourse for the victims at some point here? It seems like there should be at least one hotshot DA willing to take up the case. Or am I missing something about their deceptive practices that somehow does not translate to criminal action?
"CNet reports that information from applications will be retained for 12 years, and eventually up to 75 years. "
Like as in,
This will go on your permanent record!
I would bet money a lot of government and I know for a fact a lot of private organizations do NOT audit their general security logs in a timely and in an effective fashion.
Of course, its scarier when its the government considering the host of private info they have on us.
But keep in mind how many credit card companies have been compromised and how much info they have on us.
The problem is of course much bigger than one organization.
Sometimes it seems AT&T does not know wtf it wants - with its exclusive deal with Apple and its eyes on a platform it wants to if I read the article correctly "open source" it seems to wandering blindly around.
Apple as long as its selling units is not really going to care.
I nearly turned down a free completely paid for Blackberry with the service paid for automatically by the company for the chance to own an iPhone even if it meant expensing by bill month to month.
I mean it seems like I have been seeing this statement for years.
We are running out of IPv4 addresses and the sky is falling. There has to be something real behind at least part of this right?
So does anyone have a real number or time in which we will really run out of IPv4 addresses?
I wonder if this is simply a reflection of the sheer number of bloggers out there in the world.
Besides let me get on my high horse and say a journalist is a journalist and a blogger is a blogger.
They both have their place but a blogger with a few exceptions are not online journalists. They are frickin bloggers.
Each have their place and their uses and I am not saying one is better than the other.
But they are not the same.
But does it run on .... shit that does not work...
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The improved sound support is welcome.
I just feel that my previous experience with yum was that it was clunky on older hardware and a bit slow next to Synaptic and apt-get on the same machine.
Slicking up the interfaces is nice and the inclusion of OpenOffice 3 is very cool though.
Good luck Fedora maybe I will try them out instead of Ubuntu next time I decide to upgrade my OS.
I can see the funny hacks on this where some numbnut starts sending the disable code to everyone's laptop in the room.
Sounds cute but ain't practical.
Track it? Practical. Disable it? Limited use.
Now comic book geeks are going to be quoting physics theory they don't understand to quantify arguements about Earth-1 versus Earth-2 grounds to why the old pre-Crisis DC universe was better.
Comic book guys rejoice !
Most companies I know either use SuSe or Redhat or if they don't care/want/need support they use Debian.
Primarily Ubuntu has gotten the node from admins and developers as the install of choice for their desktop not their servers. At least in everyone I have talked to.
I don't see a big corporate adoption factor for Ubuntu yet. But that begs the big question is what am I missing?
Someone have some links to business adoption of Ubuntu?
It has to be pretty rock hard not just from a usability or even a glitch/bug standpoint.
Instead to make up for the failures in Vista, it has to be as fast XP and from what I have gathered about Vista it needs to have hw vendor support absolutely nailed.
Wasn't it the point of many windows fans that a lot of the Vista issues was poor/botched support by vendors?
Lots of the other sites with full length shows interrupt the action in odd places to add in ads and the resume on the show is breaky and odd.
Also Hulu is not the only competition for this service it seems especially for nostalgia really old shows that there are a couple of services offering this.
I watched Chico and the Man on AOL video for example. I hit Barney Miller on Hulu I believe and aren't there other sites as well?
I mean it just sounds like manager code for less personal space and stuffing everyone into large open spaces that minimizes privacy and ups the whole chat noise factor the nth degree.
I thought using the two controllers would throw him off and such made me personally think twice about the wii for Christmas we planned on.
Then he got ahold of it and just ripped into the game.
This thing if it has legs to keep the game interesting in the long term is on face value and after a few minutes of playing really fun and engrossing - it really sucks you in. I had to basically drag him off so other kids could get their turn and to get him a milk shake.
Considering how much he loves ice cream and such that is a pretty big endorsement.
The bullying tactics the lawyers have used in the suits typically reside under the term of "unduly burdensome".
I am glad that the U. of Oregon stood up to these guys but it seems that the idea of a warrant or getting this information as being "unduly burdensome" seems pretty broad.
Is there a solid definition in these types of cases for what is really unduly burdensome?
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Isn't there some sort of criminal justice recourse for the victims at some point here? It seems like there should be at least one hotshot DA willing to take up the case. Or am I missing something about their deceptive practices that somehow does not translate to criminal action?
"CNet reports that information from applications will be retained for 12 years, and eventually up to 75 years. " Like as in, This will go on your permanent record!
I would bet money a lot of government and I know for a fact a lot of private organizations do NOT audit their general security logs in a timely and in an effective fashion. Of course, its scarier when its the government considering the host of private info they have on us. But keep in mind how many credit card companies have been compromised and how much info they have on us. The problem is of course much bigger than one organization.
Sometimes it seems AT&T does not know wtf it wants - with its exclusive deal with Apple and its eyes on a platform it wants to if I read the article correctly "open source" it seems to wandering blindly around. Apple as long as its selling units is not really going to care. I nearly turned down a free completely paid for Blackberry with the service paid for automatically by the company for the chance to own an iPhone even if it meant expensing by bill month to month.
I mean it seems like I have been seeing this statement for years. We are running out of IPv4 addresses and the sky is falling. There has to be something real behind at least part of this right? So does anyone have a real number or time in which we will really run out of IPv4 addresses?
I wonder if this is simply a reflection of the sheer number of bloggers out there in the world. Besides let me get on my high horse and say a journalist is a journalist and a blogger is a blogger. They both have their place but a blogger with a few exceptions are not online journalists. They are frickin bloggers. Each have their place and their uses and I am not saying one is better than the other. But they are not the same.
The improved sound support is welcome. I just feel that my previous experience with yum was that it was clunky on older hardware and a bit slow next to Synaptic and apt-get on the same machine. Slicking up the interfaces is nice and the inclusion of OpenOffice 3 is very cool though. Good luck Fedora maybe I will try them out instead of Ubuntu next time I decide to upgrade my OS.
I can see the funny hacks on this where some numbnut starts sending the disable code to everyone's laptop in the room. Sounds cute but ain't practical. Track it? Practical. Disable it? Limited use.
Now comic book geeks are going to be quoting physics theory they don't understand to quantify arguements about Earth-1 versus Earth-2 grounds to why the old pre-Crisis DC universe was better. Comic book guys rejoice !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(TOS_episode) Overview: The starship Enterprise plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with an alien planet-killing machine. Come on if you cannot list a Star Trek episode where is the geek cred?
My grandparents refused I remember a long time ago to give out their Social Security Number to anyone.
I remember when you put your credit card onto the manual machine and then made sure to get the carbons.
For the luxury of convenience we have given up our security our anonynimity in not just the digital world but the world at large.
And for this price we get one-click shopping and online bill paying and such. But when the waiter swipes you card # it all comes back to you.
And am I any better than anyone else in this regard ? No. Not really.
Most companies I know either use SuSe or Redhat or if they don't care/want/need support they use Debian.
Primarily Ubuntu has gotten the node from admins and developers as the install of choice for their desktop not their servers. At least in everyone I have talked to.
I don't see a big corporate adoption factor for Ubuntu yet. But that begs the big question is what am I missing?
Someone have some links to business adoption of Ubuntu?
My windows work laptop went from a fast little Duo Core fairly recent Dell which was quick but felt pretty damn cheap to a complete slow dog.
Not sure if its the software my company used or if its the disk IO overhead or what.
I do know after encrypting my entire disk I now get the PGP login screen immediately after the CMOS screen and before the Windows loader. No Problem.
The real problem is after that. The minute Windows loads up the disk starts churning and barely ever stops.
It just churns and churns and that little hd light just keeps going and going.
And everything just slows right down after that. Oh yes I am not the only one saying this either. Almost everyone reporting the same sort of results.
I actually thought it was a good idea - considering the amount of travel many deployment personnel in my company commit to in a year.
But do your research.
Try out whatever solution with your heavy hitting power users.
Don't settle for security that hampers performance.
It has to be pretty rock hard not just from a usability or even a glitch/bug standpoint.
Instead to make up for the failures in Vista, it has to be as fast XP and from what I have gathered about Vista it needs to have hw vendor support absolutely nailed.
Wasn't it the point of many windows fans that a lot of the Vista issues was poor/botched support by vendors?
the mess makes you!
Seriously though these kinds of analysis of political leaning toward behavior seem as silly as the easily startled tend to be more conservative.
How much of this do you folks in the Slashdot community out there really buy into?
Lots of the other sites with full length shows interrupt the action in odd places to add in ads and the resume on the show is breaky and odd.
Also Hulu is not the only competition for this service it seems especially for nostalgia really old shows that there are a couple of services offering this.
I watched Chico and the Man on AOL video for example. I hit Barney Miller on Hulu I believe and aren't there other sites as well?
Like MS Office of a couple of revisions ago.
And as a couple of other users said its not documented terribly well.
For the folks who use it day to day - do you actually get used to it or is it something you simply work around?
For such a large effort, it seems wild they had so many different distros running in their environment.
What do you guys think?
Sure, you could have held out hope that Wal-Mart would do the right thing.
But did you really expect them to?
Come on folks chime in. Did the fact that they caved really come across your desk as news that caught you off guard?
If it did, I got this bridges and some wonderful swamp land in FLA I am selling cheap.
I mean it just sounds like manager code for less personal space and stuffing everyone into large open spaces that minimizes privacy and ups the whole chat noise factor the nth degree.
Am I just being cynical?
who set them up the bomb?
But how does this fit into the Rosenberg trial and other people the US executed for passing on state secrets?
I know that post cold war pretty convincing evidence has come out saying they did perform spying for the Soviet Russian state.
But how does this all fit together?
... does it run linux?
Imagine a wireless beowulf cluster of robotic maids with tv screens built into their ass !!
Shit that doesn't work here.
I thought using the two controllers would throw him off and such made me personally think twice about the wii for Christmas we planned on.
Then he got ahold of it and just ripped into the game.
This thing if it has legs to keep the game interesting in the long term is on face value and after a few minutes of playing really fun and engrossing - it really sucks you in. I had to basically drag him off so other kids could get their turn and to get him a milk shake.
Considering how much he loves ice cream and such that is a pretty big endorsement.
He wanted to keep going.
The bullying tactics the lawyers have used in the suits typically reside under the term of "unduly burdensome".
I am glad that the U. of Oregon stood up to these guys but it seems that the idea of a warrant or getting this information as being "unduly burdensome" seems pretty broad.
Is there a solid definition in these types of cases for what is really unduly burdensome?