In this case it is doubly stupid since CFLs save you money as well...
Not always. I have some fixtures in my house that if I put a CFL in it will burn out in a week or two, but putting a good old incandescent bulb in there will last a year or two. That light is used for about 5 minutes a day, so I save a lot of money by putting in incandescents. Just because on paper something can save you money, doesn't mean that in practice it does. Those figures are from perfect condition labs, not how people actually use them.
The red light cameras are not always clearly marked. Some of them near me have signs for it, but others don't have a sign at all.
And your assertion that you haven't had problems with them since you don't run red lights is ridiculous. I don't run red lights either and I have had them take pictures of me when I was the first car in the line and I didn't clear the intersection before it turned red (I was paying attention and started into the intersection immediately after it turned green). I know of one that takes a picture of every vehicle turning left (been doing that for about 5 years now). There are times/places where it is impossible to not get hit by the red light cameras without knowing the flawed ones.
Reading the article, it appears Seattle scored highly based, at least in part, on things they say they plan to do.
If Obama saying he is going to do stuff (and not actually doing them) is enough to get him a Nobel prize, then why can't Seattle win this for saying they will improve things?
Could Slashdot please put in some sort of filter to automatically detect this nut and not let him post this on every story? Most the time I am against censorship, but this same comment does not belong on every story posted.
The reason Sony is being fined is because of how their security was implemented. The other companies had actual security in place. Sony's security was the equivalent of a sign on the data saying "Please don't take this". The ICO knows that no security is 100% safe, but expects companies to at least attempt to keep data safe (which Sony did not do in this case). Sony also had every single one of its divisions customer data hacked.
They also offered free identity protection to ALL OF THEIR CUSTOMERS, for free.
I never got an offer of free identity protection when my data was stolen. The emails I got from them basically said "By the way, you may want to keep an eye out for identity theft". My data wasn't stolen through the PSN, but through the online MMO games portion.
Data sense is to track how much you have used and limit some services when you are low on remaining data for the month. It does not look at the content of the data, just the amount and which app initiated it.
No it doesn't. Viruses take advantage of a vulnerability to infect a system. Once it is on the system it doesn't use the vulnerability anymore.
Obligatory car analogy: You got a nail through a tire on your car. To take care of it you just don't drive on the road with nails on it where you got the first one. This doesn't fix it as the nail is still there making the tire deflate.
Mistake #1:
He compares it to 32 GB iPad, yet fails to mention that Windows and Office alone eat up about 12GB. So in reality, Surface is 20 GB and not 32.
Obvious shill is obvious.
And if he compared it to the 16GB iPad that would not have been a fair comparison because the Surface has a lot more storage. The 32GB iPad does not have 32GB of usable storage either. 32GB iPad to 32GB Surface is the closest to a fair comparison.
Most of the founding fathers are 'suspected atheists.'
Actually, most of the founding fathers were proclaimed deists. They believed that a God created everything, then sat back to watch everything. This same believe could have lost you the trust of the people back then as well.
Except you don't need to overhaul everything to IPv6. You can run a local IPv4 intranet for the legacy systems and only connect to the public internet on IPv6. Of course this requires every web facing server to have IPv6, which still needs a lot of work.
It wasn't the employees email that was hacked. An employees Drop Box account was hacked that had a file with client email addresses in it. They seriously need to create and enforce some rules on storing customer data.
So this means that anytime I am at a public place and fire up a VPN to access work materials I am engaged in terrorist activities? Hopefully tech companies will shed some light over how absurd the FBI and DoJ are being on this.
It is US only, and it's not just Sony, at least AT&T, EA and Microsoft have clauses like that in their recent updated terms of use. Microsoft doesn't even give you the option of opting out of it like the others.
When I accepted the recent changes I thought I saw something about sending in a letter to opt out of that clause for the 360. I will have to see if I can find the text of it to check.
b) MS didn't offer a "mail a letter to opt out" like Sony did. So MS' clause is actually worse
I thought I remembered seeing that you could opt out by sending a letter in when I accepted the latest 360 EULA. I will have to check that again tonight...
I am sure that instances like going on vacation can skew the hierarchy. If you often go for a few days without email access it will easily mess up how quickly you reply to various emails.
Nothing. Apple is not a monopoly, anti-trust doesn't apply.
You can still have an anti-trust lawsuit against you if you are not a monopoly. You can also be a monopoly and not get an anti-trust lawsuit against you. What matters is monopolistic practices, which any company can do.
Or, just don't run an Ethernet connection to the cell. I mean, having an Ethernet cable would be an issue anyway! Why even provide a data jack for them to use?
Modern game consoles also have built-in wireless. Even if the prison has no WiFi, they could hijack a nearby unencrypted wireless...
You go into a Microsoft store and you see PCs that you can get elsewhere for cheaper. Where's the incentive to buy from Microsoft?.
The reason the computers in Microsoft Stores are more expensive is because they run Windows Signature which does not contain the bloatware that comes on machines bought from the manufacturers, and is also tuned for optimal performance on that machine. To my knowledge, the Microsoft Store is the only place that will sell the machines with Signature, but I could be wrong in that regard.
Disclaimer: I do work for Microsoft. I also expect suddenly everyone on Slashdot will probably try to burn me at the stake now...
Not quite the final owner. My previous phone was an iPhone 3GS, and with iOS4 I felt it was horribly slow and I was tired of it within a few weeks of it releasing. Since then I have started to work for Microsoft (quick disclaimer) and I have loved my Focus. All the different stuff that is built in makes it fun to just play with the built in features. I played for awhile with Bing Vision on it just to see what all I could get it to recognize.
So you have no snow cover in the winter? Not being to flippant, just curious how big of a band of the US has cold enough weather to require heat but not enough snow to generally have your roof be white all winter anyways?
Colorado is cold enough that we need heat in the winter. We also get plenty of the winter without snow on our roofs (for those that are not in the mountains anyway).
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In this case it is doubly stupid since CFLs save you money as well...
Not always. I have some fixtures in my house that if I put a CFL in it will burn out in a week or two, but putting a good old incandescent bulb in there will last a year or two. That light is used for about 5 minutes a day, so I save a lot of money by putting in incandescents. Just because on paper something can save you money, doesn't mean that in practice it does. Those figures are from perfect condition labs, not how people actually use them.
The red light cameras are not always clearly marked. Some of them near me have signs for it, but others don't have a sign at all.
And your assertion that you haven't had problems with them since you don't run red lights is ridiculous. I don't run red lights either and I have had them take pictures of me when I was the first car in the line and I didn't clear the intersection before it turned red (I was paying attention and started into the intersection immediately after it turned green). I know of one that takes a picture of every vehicle turning left (been doing that for about 5 years now). There are times/places where it is impossible to not get hit by the red light cameras without knowing the flawed ones.
Reading the article, it appears Seattle scored highly based, at least in part, on things they say they plan to do.
If Obama saying he is going to do stuff (and not actually doing them) is enough to get him a Nobel prize, then why can't Seattle win this for saying they will improve things?
The most hellish software you could ever hope to not attempt to program.
Could Slashdot please put in some sort of filter to automatically detect this nut and not let him post this on every story? Most the time I am against censorship, but this same comment does not belong on every story posted.
They were probably finally able to login to the game last night.
They also offered free identity protection to ALL OF THEIR CUSTOMERS, for free.
I never got an offer of free identity protection when my data was stolen. The emails I got from them basically said "By the way, you may want to keep an eye out for identity theft". My data wasn't stolen through the PSN, but through the online MMO games portion.
Data sense is to track how much you have used and limit some services when you are low on remaining data for the month. It does not look at the content of the data, just the amount and which app initiated it.
As it renders the virus useless.
No it doesn't. Viruses take advantage of a vulnerability to infect a system. Once it is on the system it doesn't use the vulnerability anymore.
Obligatory car analogy: You got a nail through a tire on your car. To take care of it you just don't drive on the road with nails on it where you got the first one. This doesn't fix it as the nail is still there making the tire deflate.
Mistake #1: He compares it to 32 GB iPad, yet fails to mention that Windows and Office alone eat up about 12GB. So in reality, Surface is 20 GB and not 32.
Obvious shill is obvious.
And if he compared it to the 16GB iPad that would not have been a fair comparison because the Surface has a lot more storage. The 32GB iPad does not have 32GB of usable storage either. 32GB iPad to 32GB Surface is the closest to a fair comparison.
Most of the founding fathers are 'suspected atheists.'
Actually, most of the founding fathers were proclaimed deists. They believed that a God created everything, then sat back to watch everything. This same believe could have lost you the trust of the people back then as well.
Except you don't need to overhaul everything to IPv6. You can run a local IPv4 intranet for the legacy systems and only connect to the public internet on IPv6. Of course this requires every web facing server to have IPv6, which still needs a lot of work.
It wasn't the employees email that was hacked. An employees Drop Box account was hacked that had a file with client email addresses in it. They seriously need to create and enforce some rules on storing customer data.
So this means that anytime I am at a public place and fire up a VPN to access work materials I am engaged in terrorist activities? Hopefully tech companies will shed some light over how absurd the FBI and DoJ are being on this.
It is US only, and it's not just Sony, at least AT&T, EA and Microsoft have clauses like that in their recent updated terms of use. Microsoft doesn't even give you the option of opting out of it like the others.
When I accepted the recent changes I thought I saw something about sending in a letter to opt out of that clause for the 360. I will have to see if I can find the text of it to check.
b) MS didn't offer a "mail a letter to opt out" like Sony did. So MS' clause is actually worse
I thought I remembered seeing that you could opt out by sending a letter in when I accepted the latest 360 EULA. I will have to check that again tonight...
dev387 has posted this link 2x earlier and is a link to goatse. Please mod parent down as troll
This same poster did the same link earlier in the comments and it was reported as Goatse. Please mod parent down.
I am sure that instances like going on vacation can skew the hierarchy. If you often go for a few days without email access it will easily mess up how quickly you reply to various emails.
Nothing. Apple is not a monopoly, anti-trust doesn't apply.
You can still have an anti-trust lawsuit against you if you are not a monopoly. You can also be a monopoly and not get an anti-trust lawsuit against you. What matters is monopolistic practices, which any company can do.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Or, just don't run an Ethernet connection to the cell. I mean, having an Ethernet cable would be an issue anyway! Why even provide a data jack for them to use?
Modern game consoles also have built-in wireless. Even if the prison has no WiFi, they could hijack a nearby unencrypted wireless...
You go into a Microsoft store and you see PCs that you can get elsewhere for cheaper. Where's the incentive to buy from Microsoft?.
The reason the computers in Microsoft Stores are more expensive is because they run Windows Signature which does not contain the bloatware that comes on machines bought from the manufacturers, and is also tuned for optimal performance on that machine. To my knowledge, the Microsoft Store is the only place that will sell the machines with Signature, but I could be wrong in that regard.
Disclaimer: I do work for Microsoft. I also expect suddenly everyone on Slashdot will probably try to burn me at the stake now...
Not quite the final owner. My previous phone was an iPhone 3GS, and with iOS4 I felt it was horribly slow and I was tired of it within a few weeks of it releasing. Since then I have started to work for Microsoft (quick disclaimer) and I have loved my Focus. All the different stuff that is built in makes it fun to just play with the built in features. I played for awhile with Bing Vision on it just to see what all I could get it to recognize.
So you have no snow cover in the winter? Not being to flippant, just curious how big of a band of the US has cold enough weather to require heat but not enough snow to generally have your roof be white all winter anyways?
Colorado is cold enough that we need heat in the winter. We also get plenty of the winter without snow on our roofs (for those that are not in the mountains anyway).
I am pretty shocked at this. Apple seems to be big on money grabbing from everybody for everything lately.