"It would be a disservice to them to make them use Macs or Linux boxes and breed ignorance to the real world."
Windows didn't exist when I was at school. I still to this day have to do all my work in BBC Basic and Logo. Getting modern programs to run in 32Kb is no fun, I can tell you.
"I noticed the picture showed a card had a chip which presumably makes it more difficult to break into then - say - a credit card."
Funny you should say that, from midnight tonight, any payment by credit/debit cards in shops will have to use the chip and pin system, ie: a chip embedded in the credit card. If you have a disability which prevents you from inputting a pin number you can apply for a special card which will allow you to use a signature.
I'm sure all credit card fraud will cease immediately tomorrow.
"I wonder what the impact of getting rid of massive amounts of these files would be?"
I'd be more worried about the impact of files being modified rather than deleted. If a file disappears you'll probably know about it, if the number five in a few of your spreadsheets is turned into a a one and all the ones into fives how long would it take to be discovered.
The damage would be far worse if you can't tell the extent of it.
I suppose at least knowing the date this virus is going to start screwing things up gives you a date for a last known good backup.
Bill Gates actually has a remote control hidden in his bra which will cause all the PCs to rise up against humanity, just like Mom in Futurama.
William Gibson is more believable than Steve. I'm still awaiting his predicted raw sockets apocalypse.
I'm as big a Microsoft sceptic as you're likely to meet but Steve Gibson is nothing more than a self publicist with enough technical knowledge to scare anyone susceptible to sensationalism.
"The RAID controller ought to recover from having its drives randomly reordered. I don't know whether any of them actually do this, but it seems like an obvious feature for a device which whose primary purpose is failure prevention."
That's probably what the guy who did the drive juggling trick said just before he trashed everyones data.
"Why this is to expensive for the best, richest, smartest, thoughest country on the face of the Eartjh, is a mystery. Maybe pourimg more money into USA rather than wasting it in Iraq?"
Having just read the thirty or so posts that have been made as I write this, I cannot believe I am the only one who read the "laugh derisively" bit as tongue-in-cheek.
Do you really imagine Linus will start jumping on planes and seeking out kernel contributers to laugh in their faces. Bloody hell, I know geeks have trouble with anything not strictly literal but sheesh.
I read it as "Certain people are repeatedly making changes at the last minute and I'd really rather they didn't".
HBO are basically going "Hey! People are stealing our stuff!"
We apologise but tonights episode of Rome has been cancelled. Unfortunately it appears to have been stolen. We appeal to the evil users of bittorrent to kindly return our episode so that it may be shown at a later date.
Slashdot Mirror
So, do you like Crystal Reports or not?
"It would be a disservice to them to make them use Macs or Linux boxes and breed ignorance to the real world."
Windows didn't exist when I was at school. I still to this day have to do all my work in BBC Basic and Logo. Getting modern programs to run in 32Kb is no fun, I can tell you.
Perhaps slashdot has more than one moderator.
That's the single most stupid comment I've heard on this website in the last 5 years.
^G^G^G
Round one to cbiltcliffe.
Seems fitting
What absolute twaddle.
"I noticed the picture showed a card had a chip which presumably makes it more difficult to break into then - say - a credit card."
Funny you should say that, from midnight tonight, any payment by credit/debit cards in shops will have to use the chip and pin system, ie: a chip embedded in the credit card. If you have a disability which prevents you from inputting a pin number you can apply for a special card which will allow you to use a signature.
I'm sure all credit card fraud will cease immediately tomorrow.
"I've often wondered why I can't even draw a line in GIMP."
Hold down the shift key and it draws a line.
Excel spreadsheet pr0n, now that's kinky.
Perhaps someone could video an explanation using sock puppets and coloured blocks and post it on google video.
"I wonder what the impact of getting rid of massive amounts of these files would be?"
I'd be more worried about the impact of files being modified rather than deleted. If a file disappears you'll probably know about it, if the number five in a few of your spreadsheets is turned into a a one and all the ones into fives how long would it take to be discovered.
The damage would be far worse if you can't tell the extent of it.
I suppose at least knowing the date this virus is going to start screwing things up gives you a date for a last known good backup.
It's not really stealing if they're giving it away on the street corner like your promiscuous mother.
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."
Bill Gates actually has a remote control hidden in his bra which will cause all the PCs to rise up against humanity, just like Mom in Futurama.
William Gibson is more believable than Steve. I'm still awaiting his predicted raw sockets apocalypse.
I'm as big a Microsoft sceptic as you're likely to meet but Steve Gibson is nothing more than a self publicist with enough technical knowledge to scare anyone susceptible to sensationalism.
"Mostly everything is HTML tags and you never know which ones are just the background and which ones are hostile and aggressive. "
Shoot 'em all and let the W3C sort 'em out.
"The RAID controller ought to recover from having its drives randomly reordered. I don't know whether any of them actually do this, but it seems like an obvious feature for a device which whose primary purpose is failure prevention."
That's probably what the guy who did the drive juggling trick said just before he trashed everyones data.
"it's sort of frustrating sometimes that you can't communicate with your opponents over the link"
:-)
I can usually guess what an opponent is shouting when you hit them with a red shell and take the race on the finishing straight.
"the guys that bullied us at school went off to study law and economy."
You had a much better class of bully at school than at ours.
A show made by idiots, to allow idiots to watch other idiots is a good summary though.
It also has to be added that Johnny Vaughan (the host of the show) is an annoying smug twat.
"Why this is to expensive for the best, richest, smartest, thoughest country on the face of the Eartjh, is a mystery. Maybe pourimg more money into USA rather than wasting it in Iraq?"
You forgot "Best Educated".
As an Aussie, let me say : Worst episode ever
As someone from the UK let me second that, truly awful.
Having just read the thirty or so posts that have been made as I write this, I cannot believe I am the only one who read the "laugh derisively" bit as tongue-in-cheek.
Do you really imagine Linus will start jumping on planes and seeking out kernel contributers to laugh in their faces. Bloody hell, I know geeks have trouble with anything not strictly literal but sheesh.
I read it as "Certain people are repeatedly making changes at the last minute and I'd really rather they didn't".
Pfft. HBO own the Sopranos and this is all they got. What a bunch of pussies. They should get Tony to sort things.
HBO are basically going "Hey! People are stealing our stuff!"
We apologise but tonights episode of Rome has been cancelled. Unfortunately it appears to have been stolen. We appeal to the evil users of bittorrent to kindly return our episode so that it may be shown at a later date.
Thank you for your cooperation.
HBO
"... so are you saying that Bernie Eccelstone and Bill Gates are one in the same person?
"Well... they both make obscene amounts of money for starters... "
And they have the same barber.