Sending sensitive information from a bank to another company without encrypting it is just reckless and stupid.
This is (just) showing up the way business is done everywhere - on the cheap.
On the surface, all companies go to the trouble to look good - glossy ads, well appointed offices, important landmark locations, etc. But often, just like in a restaurant, out the back it's all dim lighting, rusty hinges, paint peeling off walls etc.
Now I'm not saying all companies, but companies of a certain culture. The rest of this comment was going to be total flamebait so I'll leave it there.
Luckily, the tapes were all 8-track tapes so the authorities have said not to worry, nobody will be able to do anything with them. But the white noise sounds fantastic in 8 channel surround sound!
Well I'll be damned (by Bill Gates) - I can already feel the BSOD hovering over me! Ok they call them Evangelists but they're no different from reps. Bastards. But anyway ok but I still reckon first post (or frosty piss) is a tradition that, though much maligned, always makes me smile.
The purpose of all these off-topic posts so early in the thread is to reduce the number of points available for insightful or interesting comments. No it's not, first posts are usually lame because they're rushed in and the authors cant think of anything clever on the spot. Stop being an ideologue. And I've never met a Microsoft Evangelist - only a paid advertising rep. And moderators use your mod points as you see fit, not as some anonymous coward tells you to.
How many are required to make it official? I think the appeal has to be modded +4 insightful or +5 interesting otherwise Microsoft will just mod it +5 funny and the mod points go down the gurgler.
I cant believe it... did i make first post and wasted it on that lameity? You just blew all the +insightful / +funny modifiers by replying to your own first post. And you can't appeal, either.
...we probably won't see any more countries appeal now that the deadline has passed I guess I never went for countries appeal. Sex appeal, definitely, but countries appeal. What next, western appeal?
It's been passed all round the office, where it's invariably been greeted with ooohs and aaaahs of grinning appreciation. Anyone would have thought it was a picture of Natalie Portman in an unconventional pose. But a flash drive? These people need to get out more.
Wouldn't it be assumed all modern light bulbs are 'solid-state' and will continue to be?
Nope, the one in my fridge is a little man who makes sure there's light when I open the door, for the small cost of mysteriously eating up all the chocolate custard only hours after I put it in there. He's not solid state.
The tin can, piece of string and duct tape dept. NASA's Letter of Response: The first half of the project proposal is cheap and very novel, but the other half (getting the string all the way to Alpha Centauri) could be a bit of a funding issue. Nonetheless we are going ahead with your idea, because even half a project can yield valuable scientific discoveries.
This system won't have the throughput for (decent) porn, encrypted or not. Yeah but at least you can type f&*! expletives to slashdot without geting f*#$red.
Yes if windows could be a glass dome on the roof that captured light and distributed it to many rooms on many floors separated by a novel invention, walls --or even better, ceilings. That would be much more useful than all the other versions of Windows I've seen.
Revision3 is an "internet TV" site. Or, in other words, a site were people upload copyrighted material with five seconds of commentary or something and claim "fair use" despite the blatant copying. Damn, why doesn't someone tell us about these sites before they are taken down so at least we get a chance to see all the content!
Statements like these just make you more likely to get upmodded! That wasn't the intention but, ah well, I guess that's true. Don't really care what I get modded but I'm glad the post stimulated some discussion.
Ok, I admit I wasn't very precise in my wording, but WWII history is still a pretty foggy subject because of all the vested interest in its interpretation and because, on the ground, so many people had conflicting ideas about what was going on. But nonetheless I would venture to say that people went to the US (scientists/etc) after the US occupation of Germany as well as before it.
In each case most left not because they wanted to (attracted to the bright lights of the US or something), but because they had no choice. And when pressed, most people just randomly picked the name of a country they had heard of before. If you could still find people alive who were making those life choices, they would tell you.
The US wasn't the only nation to benefit from all of this and, as it happens, the same generational problems are showing themselves elsewhere (though other countries seem to be coping better).
*why* has the US always relied so much on importing extremely bright and educated scientists (and philosophers)
I wouldn't say 'relied' but I think the US got lucky. But luck only runs so far, I predict. The fickle finger of fate is turning.
OTOH there is argument to support the notion that the US (well, the Bush family) were instrumental in kicking off WWII and, so doing, did the US a favour by flushing out the Jewish intelligentsia from Germany. But that's all quite controversial and I don't want to start more flames than necessary. Just mentioning it out of historical interest.
For making the most insightful statement I've read all day. These laws will make problems worse, not better.
We should never feel guilty about thoughts we have, and feeling we have. Absolutely hits the nail on the head.
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This is (just) showing up the way business is done everywhere - on the cheap.
On the surface, all companies go to the trouble to look good - glossy ads, well appointed offices, important landmark locations, etc. But often, just like in a restaurant, out the back it's all dim lighting, rusty hinges, paint peeling off walls etc.
Now I'm not saying all companies, but companies of a certain culture. The rest of this comment was going to be total flamebait so I'll leave it there.
Well I'll be damned (by Bill Gates) - I can already feel the BSOD hovering over me! Ok they call them Evangelists but they're no different from reps. Bastards. But anyway ok but I still reckon first post (or frosty piss) is a tradition that, though much maligned, always makes me smile.
...we probably won't see any more countries appeal now that the deadline has passed I guess I never went for countries appeal. Sex appeal, definitely, but countries appeal. What next, western appeal?Nope, the one in my fridge is a little man who makes sure there's light when I open the door, for the small cost of mysteriously eating up all the chocolate custard only hours after I put it in there. He's not solid state.
The guy in the freezer is solid state, though
#1: Paper mache models of planets to hang from the ceiling in my bedroom.
1. Encryption is mandatory over such a network
2. Encryption from source to target is also highly advisable
3. Who cares if they put filtering rules. If you want obscene content, you can get it no matter what.
Whew, for a minute there I thought Windows MIGHT have a vulnerability for once.
"Thanks for playing. Try again."
You won't make friends by belittling people.Ok, I admit I wasn't very precise in my wording, but WWII history is still a pretty foggy subject because of all the vested interest in its interpretation and because, on the ground, so many people had conflicting ideas about what was going on. But nonetheless I would venture to say that people went to the US (scientists/etc) after the US occupation of Germany as well as before it.
In each case most left not because they wanted to (attracted to the bright lights of the US or something), but because they had no choice. And when pressed, most people just randomly picked the name of a country they had heard of before. If you could still find people alive who were making those life choices, they would tell you.
The US wasn't the only nation to benefit from all of this and, as it happens, the same generational problems are showing themselves elsewhere (though other countries seem to be coping better).
I wouldn't say 'relied' but I think the US got lucky. But luck only runs so far, I predict. The fickle finger of fate is turning.
OTOH there is argument to support the notion that the US (well, the Bush family) were instrumental in kicking off WWII and, so doing, did the US a favour by flushing out the Jewish intelligentsia from Germany. But that's all quite controversial and I don't want to start more flames than necessary. Just mentioning it out of historical interest.