All of the Siemens industrial control softwares we use at my workplace use floppy disks for their licenses. It's fairly standard for a lot of control software as far as I've heard.
Why they still use floppy disks when a HASP dongle would work? I don't know. Cost?
I don't think I like it. It's more of a distraction for me than anything else.
As far as promoting better posting habits, I think it might actually promote judging someone on how they look instead of the content of their post.
Also, it introduces the opportunity for annoying advertisements.
I never thought I would be disabling flash content on Slashdot...
A two hour test is pointless to anyone with any knowledge of computing.
A two-hour test is a mighty fine advertisment for a bunch of know-nothing DoD jerks.
I saw a pile of toasters the other day and seriously considered buying one of them, but when I found out I couldn't run Linux on them, I just walked away. Seriously, toaster-makers need to get their heads out of the clouds and realize the true potential of open-source toasting.
The crime is that he did something that is blatantly illegal. He illegally breeched that companies systems.
The consequences of people's actions aren't so simple. There may be no 'visible' harm, but you don't hear the story of their IT staff having to work overtime to resolve that breech and the money that company spent to do it. You can justify it by saying the man was helping further their security by showing them a weakness, but that justification fails when he did it to take advantage of them.
Wikileaks, while providing an amazing humanitarian service to us all, is expendable in a beautiful way. I say that because no matter what any government decides to do, there will always be another person/group to take the torch up when they fall.
Yes, we should all contribute money, code, time and whatever else we can spare for them. We should shout praises of them from mountaintops. But at the end of the day, organizations such as them should be expendable after a period of time.
Make the government(s) spend metric ass-loads of money on shutting them down. Make them waste their resources. Then dissolve the organization and create another one in it's place. Lather, rinse, repeat. You can't stop the signal. There are just too many bits to flip.
The only question is WHEN to cut and run. Two years? Ten years? THAT'S the discussion we should be having. When are our contributions actually being wasted. Sorry if this is off-topic at all, but I think that needed to be said.
...after the purple pterodactyl drops a scone into a random 2mm wide tube which serves as an exhaust port for a tragically-placed air conditioning unit near the accelerator ring.
95% of the criticism I've heard about this game comes from, drum-roll please...
PC Gamers
I've logged nearly 130 hours of MW2 on PS3 and 50 on XBox 360 since it came out (Obviously I don't have a girlfriend).I've never had any problems with aimbots. Maybe one out of a hundred matches have had a connection problem, which which was rectified by moving the host. I've encountered only five or six games in which glitching was actually an issue. I've never had any confusion or problems getting together with friends due to the centralized server. The game play is great and the levels are amazingly well thought out.
Stop blaming the game. The fact is that for all the graphic superiority and mouse/keyboard functionality, the PC has it's own flaws that degrade the game to the point where you aren't satisfied by it.
Also, do you really think that having private servers would help? Or have private servers been putting a pretty enough band-aid on the PC gaming experience that people haven't noticed it's not quite what it's cracked up to be?
Step one: VPN into the facility network.
Step two: VNC into a virtualized PC.
Step three: Do your work on the virtualized PC.
Step four: End session.
Step five: Enjoy a nice snifter of brandy as you don't have to worry about your data being stolen.
Other than heavily encrypted and guarded back-up drives, my company doesn't let any data leave the premises.
Yes, you can make the argument that any network outage would shut down your off-site operations, but it's a small hassle for the payoff in security.
I haven't seen any study that conclusively proves those things even work.
Also, having worked in a hardware chain for eight years, I can tell you that not one person (out of hundreds) ever said they worked; although, that could be chalked up to be people being too stupid to properly instruct themselves in the use of electronics.
Most modern poisons have diuretics that literally make the mouse/rat/cat get thirsty. This typically makes them go outside in search of water, where they then buy the farm. However, if they don't make it outside, be prepared to endure the stench of a rotting animal(s) for a few weeks.
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All of the Siemens industrial control softwares we use at my workplace use floppy disks for their licenses. It's fairly standard for a lot of control software as far as I've heard. Why they still use floppy disks when a HASP dongle would work? I don't know. Cost?
April 1st roll-out...mighty suspicious...
I don't think I like it. It's more of a distraction for me than anything else. As far as promoting better posting habits, I think it might actually promote judging someone on how they look instead of the content of their post. Also, it introduces the opportunity for annoying advertisements. I never thought I would be disabling flash content on Slashdot...
A two hour test is pointless to anyone with any knowledge of computing. A two-hour test is a mighty fine advertisment for a bunch of know-nothing DoD jerks.
I saw a pile of toasters the other day and seriously considered buying one of them, but when I found out I couldn't run Linux on them, I just walked away. Seriously, toaster-makers need to get their heads out of the clouds and realize the true potential of open-source toasting.
The crime is that he did something that is blatantly illegal. He illegally breeched that companies systems. The consequences of people's actions aren't so simple. There may be no 'visible' harm, but you don't hear the story of their IT staff having to work overtime to resolve that breech and the money that company spent to do it. You can justify it by saying the man was helping further their security by showing them a weakness, but that justification fails when he did it to take advantage of them.
Wikileaks, while providing an amazing humanitarian service to us all, is expendable in a beautiful way. I say that because no matter what any government decides to do, there will always be another person/group to take the torch up when they fall. Yes, we should all contribute money, code, time and whatever else we can spare for them. We should shout praises of them from mountaintops. But at the end of the day, organizations such as them should be expendable after a period of time. Make the government(s) spend metric ass-loads of money on shutting them down. Make them waste their resources. Then dissolve the organization and create another one in it's place. Lather, rinse, repeat. You can't stop the signal. There are just too many bits to flip. The only question is WHEN to cut and run. Two years? Ten years? THAT'S the discussion we should be having. When are our contributions actually being wasted. Sorry if this is off-topic at all, but I think that needed to be said.
...after the purple pterodactyl drops a scone into a random 2mm wide tube which serves as an exhaust port for a tragically-placed air conditioning unit near the accelerator ring.
95% of the criticism I've heard about this game comes from, drum-roll please... PC Gamers I've logged nearly 130 hours of MW2 on PS3 and 50 on XBox 360 since it came out (Obviously I don't have a girlfriend).I've never had any problems with aimbots. Maybe one out of a hundred matches have had a connection problem, which which was rectified by moving the host. I've encountered only five or six games in which glitching was actually an issue. I've never had any confusion or problems getting together with friends due to the centralized server. The game play is great and the levels are amazingly well thought out. Stop blaming the game. The fact is that for all the graphic superiority and mouse/keyboard functionality, the PC has it's own flaws that degrade the game to the point where you aren't satisfied by it. Also, do you really think that having private servers would help? Or have private servers been putting a pretty enough band-aid on the PC gaming experience that people haven't noticed it's not quite what it's cracked up to be?
Step one: VPN into the facility network. Step two: VNC into a virtualized PC. Step three: Do your work on the virtualized PC. Step four: End session. Step five: Enjoy a nice snifter of brandy as you don't have to worry about your data being stolen. Other than heavily encrypted and guarded back-up drives, my company doesn't let any data leave the premises. Yes, you can make the argument that any network outage would shut down your off-site operations, but it's a small hassle for the payoff in security.
I haven't seen any study that conclusively proves those things even work. Also, having worked in a hardware chain for eight years, I can tell you that not one person (out of hundreds) ever said they worked; although, that could be chalked up to be people being too stupid to properly instruct themselves in the use of electronics.
Most modern poisons have diuretics that literally make the mouse/rat/cat get thirsty. This typically makes them go outside in search of water, where they then buy the farm. However, if they don't make it outside, be prepared to endure the stench of a rotting animal(s) for a few weeks.