Spectrum space. The usable ranges are large, but not infinite. What if they wanted to use that part of the specturm for something of immediate use to them?
Their main concern there I believe is that you could send the evil attachment to an unprivileged user and that could lead to elevated privileges for that user or to execute code beyond that user's privs.
Regardless of where it originates from, isn't any program that allows an unprivledged user to execute code beyond that users privledge a serious issue? Why would it have higher privledges because an e-mail client downloaded it?
PS: While we're at it, I love the way creationists can't tell the difference between the big bang theory of the universe, and the evolution theory of biological life. Is schooling in America that bad that supposedly 'educated' people are having trouble differentiating between galaxies and animals?
Because the biblical explaination covers both creation of the galaxies (or rather, of all the stars in the universe) and animals, and thus people who believe there is an inherent contradiction between science and religion pit the two alternating theories as: genesis vs. big bang and evolution.
Of course, this brings us to people who believe there is an inherent contradiction. Heck, no one is going to be swayed by a comment on slashdot, so I'll leave it at that.
Originally: "It turns out that the typical recruiters sales pitch, which emphasizing job promotion and security..." Actually: "It turns out that the typical recruiters sales pitch, which emphasizes job promotion and security..."
Actually, it was scarier than poor grammar. It was poor cut and paste skills. The true original, FTFA:
The typical recruiters sales pitch emphasizing job promotion and security acts to keep women out of the information technology jobs, according to a Penn State research study of 92 female IT practitioners.
What happens when I'm in a coffee shop using an anonymous mailer?
Do I have to attach my credit card number to each e-mail and, as a corrallary, can I not send e-mail 10 days later when all credit cards are canceled until further notice?
, American Express was the only one whose customers in this experiment, when I called them a week later, said that AmEx had contacted them and told them to change their number
The problem is the company that deals with fraudulent use for Visa, Mastercard, etc. (but not AmEx), is the issuing bank. Capital One or Bank of America is who you would report fraud to, not Visa or Mastercard. They are also the ones who would phone you about suspicious charges.
Although, while we are complaining, I called Ford and explained that their locally-owned dealerships commonly let me take a test drive without even leaving my license. I waited several months before taking this public, to give Ford the opportunity to fix the problem. It should be a simple matter for Ford to have an employee call every dealership once a month and remind them not to do this. I found out later that they don't even plan on checking the security of the dealerships, so I'm not going to publish this outrage. I was still able to do this at several dealerships when I checked yesterday! I bumped into the manager on my way out, distracted by thinking about the firm letter I would send to Ford.
Fraud is a money-maker for CC companies. They refuse to pay, then charge the store for accepting a fradulent charge. I don't know if they also charge the user. But it's the retail outlets, the same class (and possibly same ones) that leaked the numbers in the first place that end up getting hit.
Ironic that you would use date as an argument because the European version is Day-Month-Year, which follows the same specific to general path as URLs. In fact, this pattern is repeated quite often...
FirstName LastName (in Western Countries, at least)
Titles (Vice then President)
East Germany instead of Germany East
I would go on, but my point is that both methods are used quite often. So it was an arbitrary choice. Someone apparently decided that Specific to General was for URLs.
"When the copyright expires on Madonna's stupid Bananas song, she doesn't lose the ability to make money from it. She can still sing in it concerts, sell CDs/MP3s/whatever, and anything else she wants." she will have been dead for 70 years. Thus unable to make money on the Bananas song
On the off chance that you really don't understand the modding system and I can be of help I shall respond.
Your karma does not control your mod points, at least not to the degree that high karma -> mod points. A positive karma score makes you eligible to recieve mod points randomly.
You cannot both post and mod one topic.
Humor no longer nets you karma. This was rmoved for some reason.
Your off-topic post was at the root-level, and his response was actually topical because it related to your original post.
The inital rating of your posts is not determined by how much karma you burn, etc. It is determined by whether you are logged in, your current karma level's sign (positive or negative), and a special karma bonus, which I don't understand. But it is outside of your control. People who are not posting modify that level.
I remember using M$'s speech recognition engine (the version that comes with Office 2k3) to prototype a training program. It was designed to teach radio protocol. And actually, it worked very well. It helped that we had a very limited vocabulary, and even more constricted sentence construction.
This seems like a legitimate distinction to me. After all, just like video games show shrink-rays yet a real one would be worthy of a patent, so would being able to walk into a store and pressing a button under the item you want to buy it.
Obvious guy whispers in ear
What? You mean they're a online (virtual) store..?
IANAL, but... Isn't there a positive obligation to investigate prior art before filing. Just like you have a positive obligation to keep your walkway free of ice, protect children from attracive nuiscences and pay your taxes?
Wait, I have a car analogy too! If you're driving your car, and you close your eyes and speed through every stop sign, then shouldn't you still be ticketed (AFAIK, not seeing a stop sign is a legitimite, although difficult to prove, defense. But I'm not very sure as I made up the fact for my car analogy as required by Slashdot bylaw 22.45.b)
I wonder if every linux user/developer will join in a similar case against M$ and it's 235 patents. Hey, at least that way we could find out what they were!
Somewhere, I believe in one of Scott Adam's (the Dilbert creator) books he has a (purportedly) true story about a company where the testers were paid $100 per bug they found. According to him, the program was scrapped after a week, but not before quite a few expensive gifts went from testers to programmers.
It seemed like the an urban legend ala the Woz getting $100 for each chip he got off a board, but I've heard that that one is actually true, so maybe both are??
Yes, it's the fallacy of assuming the whole set has parts comprable to one element. Yes I know this. Please mod the logic Funny and the first paragraph Informative.
I don't think there's any disagreement that FF eats up unholy amounts of RAM and CPU cycles. But the worst was when trying to use Flash, as it would consume until it crashed the code I was working on. Unfortunately, for a long time that was the first question I would ask people when the software crashed. Somethings wrong if I think (correctly) your browser is the most likely cause of a crash
I love Opera which I see as lean and mean (I use it on a 133 Mhz laptop I keep for sentemental reasons).
Well, I needed money at the time so I embezzled $1.5 million dollars from the payroll department, and my boss couldn't prove I had done that. He then proceeded to tell my secretary to bring a totally bogus sexual harrassment charge to convince me to quit. I mean, it's hardly sexual harassement to stop going out of your way to get raises for people when you stop sleeping with them, right? I mean, I wasn't trying to coerce her anymore, the pregnancy made her look all fat.
Well, not only did I not get the job, but it turns out that they record all the interviews to protect themselves legally. I lost all my money in child support and sexual harrassment payments to my secretary, and in 18 more years, when I get out, I'm going to know how to respond to that question.
Why did you leave your previous job?
On the advice of council, I'm going to take the 5th
Disclaimer: The above is fiction only. I am not a criminal.
Slashdot Mirror
Spectrum space. The usable ranges are large, but not infinite. What if they wanted to use that part of the specturm for something of immediate use to them?
I heard the same thing from my gf as she was telling me the various gifts I would be getting her for her birthday.
Regardless of where it originates from, isn't any program that allows an unprivledged user to execute code beyond that users privledge a serious issue? Why would it have higher privledges because an e-mail client downloaded it?
What constitutes an exploit
I don't know if any of those have been done on a Mac, but I'm curious where you would draw the line.
Becuase the patches are all released on the first(?) Tuesday of every month.
Why doesn't Slashdot tell me when Thanksgiving is?
Because the biblical explaination covers both creation of the galaxies (or rather, of all the stars in the universe) and animals, and thus people who believe there is an inherent contradiction between science and religion pit the two alternating theories as: genesis vs. big bang and evolution.
Of course, this brings us to people who believe there is an inherent contradiction. Heck, no one is going to be swayed by a comment on slashdot, so I'll leave it at that.
Actually, it was scarier than poor grammar. It was poor cut and paste skills. The true original, FTFA:
Do I get hit with a $70,000 tax bill?
What happens when I'm in a coffee shop using an anonymous mailer?
Do I have to attach my credit card number to each e-mail and, as a corrallary, can I not send e-mail 10 days later when all credit cards are canceled until further notice?
The problem is the company that deals with fraudulent use for Visa, Mastercard, etc. (but not AmEx), is the issuing bank. Capital One or Bank of America is who you would report fraud to, not Visa or Mastercard. They are also the ones who would phone you about suspicious charges.
Although, while we are complaining, I called Ford and explained that their locally-owned dealerships commonly let me take a test drive without even leaving my license. I waited several months before taking this public, to give Ford the opportunity to fix the problem. It should be a simple matter for Ford to have an employee call every dealership once a month and remind them not to do this. I found out later that they don't even plan on checking the security of the dealerships, so I'm not going to publish this outrage. I was still able to do this at several dealerships when I checked yesterday! I bumped into the manager on my way out, distracted by thinking about the firm letter I would send to Ford.
Fraud is a money-maker for CC companies. They refuse to pay, then charge the store for accepting a fradulent charge. I don't know if they also charge the user. But it's the retail outlets, the same class (and possibly same ones) that leaked the numbers in the first place that end up getting hit.
It was used to run Chernobyl.
Letter grades should be capitalized: D-
That is all
I always wondered if the sites that resell their e-mail addresses were clever enough to filter out the ones with their name built into it?
Ironic that you would use date as an argument because the European version is Day-Month-Year, which follows the same specific to general path as URLs. In fact, this pattern is repeated quite often...
I would go on, but my point is that both methods are used quite often. So it was an arbitrary choice. Someone apparently decided that Specific to General was for URLs.
Sorry to nit-pick but
"When the copyright expires on Madonna's stupid Bananas song, she doesn't lose the ability to make money from it. She can still sing in it concerts, sell CDs/MP3s/whatever, and anything else she wants." she will have been dead for 70 years. Thus unable to make money on the Bananas songOn the off chance that you really don't understand the modding system and I can be of help I shall respond.
The FAQ actually is quite detailed.
I would like to amend my previous submission to read as follows.
If a game taught a process by which:
A HUD which consists of a glowing red button. The pressing of said button activates a shrink ray.
And a real life shrink ray operated off of a glowing red button.
Is that analogous? Or should I give up and take a nap.
I remember using M$'s speech recognition engine (the version that comes with Office 2k3) to prototype a training program. It was designed to teach radio protocol. And actually, it worked very well. It helped that we had a very limited vocabulary, and even more constricted sentence construction.
This seems like a legitimate distinction to me. After all, just like video games show shrink-rays yet a real one would be worthy of a patent, so would being able to walk into a store and pressing a button under the item you want to buy it.
Obvious guy whispers in ear
What? You mean they're a online (virtual) store..?
IANAL, but...
Isn't there a positive obligation to investigate prior art before filing. Just like you have a positive obligation to keep your walkway free of ice, protect children from attracive nuiscences and pay your taxes?
Wait, I have a car analogy too! If you're driving your car, and you close your eyes and speed through every stop sign, then shouldn't you still be ticketed (AFAIK, not seeing a stop sign is a legitimite, although difficult to prove, defense. But I'm not very sure as I made up the fact for my car analogy as required by Slashdot bylaw 22.45.b)
I wonder if every linux user/developer will join in a similar case against M$ and it's 235 patents. Hey, at least that way we could find out what they were!
Somewhere, I believe in one of Scott Adam's (the Dilbert creator) books he has a (purportedly) true story about a company where the testers were paid $100 per bug they found. According to him, the program was scrapped after a week, but not before quite a few expensive gifts went from testers to programmers.
It seemed like the an urban legend ala the Woz getting $100 for each chip he got off a board, but I've heard that that one is actually true, so maybe both are??
Yes, it's the fallacy of assuming the whole set has parts comprable to one element. Yes I know this. Please mod the logic Funny and the first paragraph Informative.
Thank You
I opened up Word 2k3. It seems that under Options -> Security (I know, a crazy place to expect the government to look). There is a checkbox that reads
Warn before printing, saving or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments.I just tested it, and yes this feature seems to work.
Oh, sorry, what I meant is for a large no-bid contract, I can help the military prevent this in the future via real-time user warnings.
I don't think there's any disagreement that FF eats up unholy amounts of RAM and CPU cycles. But the worst was when trying to use Flash, as it would consume until it crashed the code I was working on. Unfortunately, for a long time that was the first question I would ask people when the software crashed. Somethings wrong if I think (correctly) your browser is the most likely cause of a crash
I love Opera which I see as lean and mean (I use it on a 133 Mhz laptop I keep for sentemental reasons).
I tried the honesty route, and it backfired:
Well, not only did I not get the job, but it turns out that they record all the interviews to protect themselves legally. I lost all my money in child support and sexual harrassment payments to my secretary, and in 18 more years, when I get out, I'm going to know how to respond to that question.
Disclaimer: The above is fiction only. I am not a criminal.