IANAL, but don't you have to sign a contract to make it legally binding? I don't think they can get away with stuff like this without you signing something.
Well, it seems that the TiVo recorders are sold almost at the production cost and financed via the service bills. So, I guess there are a some other similar devices out there, but expect them to cost a lot more.
Well, I kind of agree but many ppl, sometimes even "professionals" just don't think about it. How many wireless LANs are/were not insecure? And they were most often put together by ppl who was supposed to know what they were doing. So general warnings aren't wrong, are they?
But why would anyone want to sniff the mouse? Keyboards, I can understand, but what useful information could you possibly get from a mouse?:)
I (almost) never used wintels before 92 - 93, or something like that (Amiga was still superior:). The thing I remember is that when I began to use wintels (win 3.x), it seemed like everyone used Word Perfect, it was *the* word processor. Then came Word. At first everyone thought Word was just a joke (just like we thought about win), but about a year later everyone was using it.
Maybe there were differences between them, I only used them for letters and simple reports, so to me they felt pretty much the same (which made WP the copycat). It might have been different if you used them for something more complex?
But Star Office was just a copy of Word. The question is if an original word processor could be developed open source.
Well iirc, Word was from the beginning in many ways a copy of Word Perfect, so I wouldn't call it 'original' in any sense. How many ways are there to make a word processor, anyway? Most follow the same general layout, only word has evolved more than the most. And there are obviously word processors that are open source.
And on the other hand, no open source development team would probably give you the 'paperclip'...;-)
Partly because that's what old school Mac users are used to, and partly because studies have proved that a LOT of people have no idea how to exploit the functionality of a two button mouse, and many people often get confused and click the wrong one.
Hmmm... I'm not quite buying that. In what way should shift+command+MB be any easier than 3:rd MB?
I wouldn't be surprised if these people would give out dangerous information to a clever social engineer.
Yes, that is another issue you could make them aware of. Why not take a day, or even a few hours of a day to educate the emplyees in basic security awareness?
"Do not give out this information to ppl outside the company. Do not click on these.exe &.vbs files that was attached to your email. Do not use Outlook express."... And so on...
Having drills otoh... I dunno, how would you set them up?
I too was fooled and started looking for my friends old BBS (located in Sweden) on the list.
On the other hand, I couldn't find the place where the author said it contained every BBS in the world. I'd rather blame the guy who put the topic to the story (michael?).
Slashdot Mirror
...but it remains good for what Slashdot has been saying for months is its real purpose of introducing its users to new music?
How are you supposed to get introduced to new music if you don't even know the name of the band? Try Audiogalaxy instead, www.audiogalaxy.com...
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IANAL, but don't you have to sign a contract to make it legally binding? I don't think they can get away with stuff like this without you signing something.
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If you don't like the TiVo service, you could always buy one of these.
More expensive, naturally.
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A quick search on google turned up this link: http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/tv.html ...
Enjoy!
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Well, it seems that the TiVo recorders are sold almost at the production cost and financed via the service bills. So, I guess there are a some other similar devices out there, but expect them to cost a lot more.
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It depends on how long you kept the cat locked in the box, doesn't it? :)
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Kind of offtopic, but is there anything like amiga's old "Snoopdos" for Linux?
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Anyone know any mirrors of the mpeg version (i.e. fellowship2.mpeg)?
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Well, I kind of agree but many ppl, sometimes even "professionals" just don't think about it. How many wireless LANs are/were not insecure? And they were most often put together by ppl who was supposed to know what they were doing. So general warnings aren't wrong, are they?
:)
But why would anyone want to sniff the mouse? Keyboards, I can understand, but what useful information could you possibly get from a mouse?
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...(which made word the copycat)... not WP
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Well, then idrc :)
:). The thing I remember is that when I began to use wintels (win 3.x), it seemed like everyone used Word Perfect, it was *the* word processor. Then came Word. At first everyone thought Word was just a joke (just like we thought about win), but about a year later everyone was using it.
I (almost) never used wintels before 92 - 93, or something like that (Amiga was still superior
Maybe there were differences between them, I only used them for letters and simple reports, so to me they felt pretty much the same (which made WP the copycat). It might have been different if you used them for something more complex?
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But Star Office was just a copy of Word. The question is if an original word processor could be developed open source.
;-)
Well iirc, Word was from the beginning in many ways a copy of Word Perfect, so I wouldn't call it 'original' in any sense. How many ways are there to make a word processor, anyway? Most follow the same general layout, only word has evolved more than the most. And there are obviously word processors that are open source.
And on the other hand, no open source development team would probably give you the 'paperclip'...
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Partly because that's what old school Mac users are used to, and partly because studies have proved that a LOT of people have no idea how to exploit the functionality of a two button mouse, and many people often get confused and click the wrong one.
Hmmm... I'm not quite buying that. In what way should shift+command+MB be any easier than 3:rd MB?
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I wouldn't be surprised if these people would give out dangerous information to a clever social engineer.
.exe & .vbs files that was attached to your email. Do not use Outlook express."... And so on...
Yes, that is another issue you could make them aware of. Why not take a day, or even a few hours of a day to educate the emplyees in basic security awareness?
"Do not give out this information to ppl outside the company. Do not click on these
Having drills otoh... I dunno, how would you set them up?
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I agree. Voting and drivig should never be combined.
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Hehehe... Robowars for the guys with the brains and the *big* money... :)
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I too was fooled and started looking for my friends old BBS (located in Sweden) on the list.
On the other hand, I couldn't find the place where the author said it contained every BBS in the world. I'd rather blame the guy who put the topic to the story (michael?).
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Wasn't there a proposal for a law, much like this one, in Denmark some time ago?
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*lol*
:)
Yeah, just look what it did to the poor raver kids.
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"I see a red house and I want to paint it blaaack..."
A black house would rule... =))
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Well, it's a nice idea, but some of us may want to use our phones for calling.... ;)
Maybe if I installed a second line...
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When I was little and I had no sense, I took a wiz on an electric fence
:)
I actually saw a guy do this a long time ago. He screamed.
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Maybe they just misspelled? Chances are they meant Helford (Rob). I dunno...
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They don't brown??? Try, just like my (stupid) friend, to defrost some buns about 35 minutes or something. Then look *inside* them... :)
:))
They also produce a lot of cool smoke.
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Maybe you should give Newtek's Aura2 a try... Although it's not DP, it's pretty cool and got a little bit of the amiga-app-feel...
Me think's it's pretty kool.
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