Are you possibly remembering services like CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, GEnie, or the like? While they provided "online" access they weren't the internet. They were more like gated communities.
All the comments are throwaway comments. They should just turn off commenting altogether. 100 posts of "I like this vid" or "This is cool" is nothing but noise.
I'm going to go out get a bunch of credit, rack it right up, and then claim my identity was stolen. The banks can go after Elections Ontario for the bill.
If a picture is relevant to the information presented, then sure it should be included. But to clutter up the information (which is exactly what Wikipedia is about) with an abundance of images is just plain stupid.
Let me guess, when she was a kid she enjoyed the pictures in the books and didn't really have an interest in the words of the story.
First, they will now have access to a crapload more data about people's shopping habits that they can mine and sell.
Second, service charges. Hey now instead of paying for the privilege of using your debit card to Bank A, you can also pay a service charge on top of that to Bank B who is providing this digital wallet.
Zero benefit for the customer.
1) I already carry a physical wallet. I keep my cards in it and they are always with me -- digital wallet provides no benefit over this.
2) If I lose my physical wallet, I call and cancel my cards. With a digital wallet if I lose my cell phone I call and cancel my cards and my phone. -- again, no benefit.
3) I'll have to pay more service charges to the banks for this "service". Banks in Canada nickel and dime us to death already and they will not offer this service for free. -- No benefit.
In a million years who really cares if an archaeologist accidentally digs into a nuclear waste dump. It will only occur once. Once he or she dies from radiation poisoning everyone else will know to stay away.
Also, the assumption here is that in a million years humans, aliens, whomever, won't have the technology to detect those dumps. Heck in a million years they could probably be detected and neutralized from orbit.
Just because you don't like Macs doesn't mean I can't like Macs.
I'm baffled at all the people that stuck with Windows in its various stages of shit. With one exception it NEVER got stable until Windows 7 and that exception is Windows XP with the service packs.
The area of concern is that since the appliances can talk to the utility company then the utility company knows exactly what appliances (fridge, microwave, tv, etc) you have in the house.
Don't most houses have the same set of basic appliances? Fridge, stove, microwave, washer, dryer, dishwasher, tv, computer, etc. So does it really matter if the power company knows too? I can walk down the street and point at any house and list off 10 things that are 99.99% likely to be in each house. Big farking deal.
Just because you type words into a search box, that doesn't make it a CLI
To call the Google search box inside a GUI object (like a web browser) a Command Line Interface shows complete and utter ignorance to what a CLI actually is.
On a CLI you are actually issuing instructions (hence the words Commands in CLI) to the OS commanding it to do something. In a Google search box you are typing terms or key phrases to be used as parameters of a search.
FTFA At that point, the 13-year-old vowed to teach the world about the Batman he knew, about the crusader who lurked in the shadows, about a darker, grittier superhero.
And then he goes out and becomes executive producer of Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and the shit-tastic Halley Berry classic Catwoman.
More like he wanted to show the world that he could cash in on the caped crusader as much as everyone else.
Could have already told him that. Not much of a discovery.
Also, despite pop-up blocking turned on in my browsers many sites still manage to do it. Gee....look at me I'm a gifted computer scientist because I figured out that advertisers have managed to get around that as well.
Well if it is written to infect a Mac then it is not a Windows virus. It's a Mac virus. Hence Apple's claim stands true. Macs are not infected by Windows viruses.
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Are you possibly remembering services like CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, GEnie, or the like? While they provided "online" access they weren't the internet. They were more like gated communities.
Yes, you are right. So is your comment.
So why even have commenting enabled when people abuse it and post meaningless fluff?
All the comments are throwaway comments. They should just turn off commenting altogether. 100 posts of "I like this vid" or "This is cool" is nothing but noise.
Exactly this.
People can still post and share videos but turn off the comments. Most of the time the comments are just noise anyways.
Here we go again.
Came to say this.
Been in the IT industry for 20 years done everything from help desk support to programmer to sys admin.
Never heard of them.
I'm going to go out get a bunch of credit, rack it right up, and then claim my identity was stolen. The banks can go after Elections Ontario for the bill.
A plastic copy of a key is still a key.
This is news how?
"Durrr. Hey look Cleetus this here plastic key works just like a key."
Is she farking serious?
If a picture is relevant to the information presented, then sure it should be included. But to clutter up the information (which is exactly what Wikipedia is about) with an abundance of images is just plain stupid.
Let me guess, when she was a kid she enjoyed the pictures in the books and didn't really have an interest in the words of the story.
I only see benefits for the banks in this scheme.
First, they will now have access to a crapload more data about people's shopping habits that they can mine and sell.
Second, service charges. Hey now instead of paying for the privilege of using your debit card to Bank A, you can also pay a service charge on top of that to Bank B who is providing this digital wallet.
Zero benefit for the customer.
1) I already carry a physical wallet. I keep my cards in it and they are always with me -- digital wallet provides no benefit over this.
2) If I lose my physical wallet, I call and cancel my cards. With a digital wallet if I lose my cell phone I call and cancel my cards and my phone. -- again, no benefit.
3) I'll have to pay more service charges to the banks for this "service". Banks in Canada nickel and dime us to death already and they will not offer this service for free. -- No benefit.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article.
The etching can be read with a microscope. Words and pictographs etched onto the surface....not a computer hard disk.
In a million years who really cares if an archaeologist accidentally digs into a nuclear waste dump. It will only occur once. Once he or she dies from radiation poisoning everyone else will know to stay away.
Also, the assumption here is that in a million years humans, aliens, whomever, won't have the technology to detect those dumps. Heck in a million years they could probably be detected and neutralized from orbit.
It is going to be interesting to see what impact the Supreme Court's decision is going to have on this:
http://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/u-of-t-and-western-sign-agreement-with-access-copyright/
U of T and UWO both signed into this agreement while every other university in Ontario refused to sign and were willing to fight it.
And if you ask nicely The Doctor will upgrade your connection so that you can use it from anytime and anywhere.
Yeah. Very old news.
I guess Nicholas Wade was part of the last wave.
ROFL
Ummmm....different people like different things?
Just because you don't like Macs doesn't mean I can't like Macs.
I'm baffled at all the people that stuck with Windows in its various stages of shit. With one exception it NEVER got stable until Windows 7 and that exception is Windows XP with the service packs.
Everyone was touting the "cloud". It's the next big thing, they'd say. You can get at your stuff from anywhere, they'd say.
But you're screwed if the service gets shut down, I'd reply.
That won't happen, was their reply.
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
(I'm expecting Google Docs to go next.)
The area of concern is that since the appliances can talk to the utility company then the utility company knows exactly what appliances (fridge, microwave, tv, etc) you have in the house.
Don't most houses have the same set of basic appliances? Fridge, stove, microwave, washer, dryer, dishwasher, tv, computer, etc. So does it really matter if the power company knows too? I can walk down the street and point at any house and list off 10 things that are 99.99% likely to be in each house. Big farking deal.
Just because you type words into a search box, that doesn't make it a CLI
To call the Google search box inside a GUI object (like a web browser) a Command Line Interface shows complete and utter ignorance to what a CLI actually is.
On a CLI you are actually issuing instructions (hence the words Commands in CLI) to the OS commanding it to do something. In a Google search box you are typing terms or key phrases to be used as parameters of a search.
FTFA
At that point, the 13-year-old vowed to teach the world about the Batman he knew, about the crusader who lurked in the shadows, about a darker, grittier superhero.
And then he goes out and becomes executive producer of Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and the shit-tastic Halley Berry classic Catwoman.
More like he wanted to show the world that he could cash in on the caped crusader as much as everyone else.
They can already track your reading habits if they wanted to.
Could have already told him that. Not much of a discovery.
Also, despite pop-up blocking turned on in my browsers many sites still manage to do it. Gee....look at me I'm a gifted computer scientist because I figured out that advertisers have managed to get around that as well.
Is the OP saying that the Navy doesn't already run a VPN? WTF?
Well if it is written to infect a Mac then it is not a Windows virus. It's a Mac virus. Hence Apple's claim stands true. Macs are not infected by Windows viruses.