It's not dying for bills in my house. The billers have really screwed up
electronic billing around here. They don't email you the actual bill, just a notice that your bill is available on their web site. For 'n' billers I am expected to maintain 'n' user-IDs, and passwords and go fetch 'n' bills. Pox on that. USPS has business with me until the e-bills are pushed to me.
It's a dstinction without a difference. They're lurking in the shadows between me and people (and web sites) I communicate with. It's creepy and I don't like it and I hope to find convenient ways to make it harder.
I guess this was intended to be funny, and it hs been modded as such, but I find it beneath contempt to make jokes about pain management, which is in such miserable shape in America.
It turns out that the numbnuts at PogoPlug have somehow arranged to forbid pasting userid or password into their login form. I emailed them about it and their response was that they would consider changing it as a feature enhancement. So keepass is useless there and I have to hand type my complex password. Idiots!
It is not necessary for our inability to achieve perfection to get in the way of having good practices. A few commonly accepted things could form the start of a set of best practices. Stuff like handling passwords correctly and preventing buffer overflows. We need some sort of professional organization a-la AMA or the Bar Association or various engineering groups to manage and promulgate a set of best practices. And yes, if we could develop that and then a systems engineer or programmer or their management were to ignore best practices and foist really stupid stuff on the public, especially fo money, I would support a trip to civil court.
We have lived too long with the "not responsible for anything" license and it is time to start moving toward making that disclaimer "against public policy".
I went through most of the comments on this article and I can not find any that address the root problem, which is this: Where the hell does Intel get off telling its customers what they have to build with their chips? If I were a designer of equipment and considering these chips I would tell Intel to ESAD.
Whatever became of Eudora? When Qualcomm bailed out of it there was talk of integrating it into one of Mozilla's products -- Thunderbird, I guess -- but I haven't heard much about what came of that. So I'm still Macgyvering Eudora to work on XP.
I guess the reason I'm dragging my heels is my complete mystification and annoyance that the designers of IPV6 didn't do something sensible like make some small corner of the V6 address space map to the V4 address space. So instead of being simple and seamless, I have to spend some time fooling around with my equipemnt and software to work around that omission. A pox on the designer's heads.
"virii" is not a word. The correct plural of "virus" is simply "viruses".
In current usage that is probably right. But at least give some acknowledgement to classical Latin, in which virii would, indeed, be the plural of virus. I've never figured out why we use the Latin word but refuse to use its Latin plural.
Perhaps we should redirect our discussion from the mis-spelled domian name to the user name. The culprit either deliberately set up one or more specific user names, or set up his mail system to accept any user name that was presented, a-la mailinator. In either case it seems to me that his actions can be seen as deliberately trapping (and opening) communications not intended for him. If he set up specific mail boxes such as joe.smith@hisdomain then perhaps some sort of impersonation charge could be brought.
WPA/WEP etc do not provide for encryption of the traffic through the WiFi. They only serve to limit who may use the WiFi connection. If you want encrypted data transfer then HTTPS or equivalent is mandatory.
“A driver’s license is not a matter of civil rights. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege,’’ she said.
Yep, that "logic" is used to shred the Fourth Amendment and now to enable this junk. We've got to fix this bug. The right to travel unmolested by car should, inded, be a civil right.
So go find some parts and build them a system that will run the software they use. It would probably save them considerable money and certainly would avoid chaos in the office. Ancient adage: Get the software you need and then buy the computer that runs it.
I'm really ticked about how the allocation of addresses has been handled over the years, and I can't seem to get a reasonable answer as to why the allocation strategy can't be fixed. How come we can't (pardon the expression) claw back a bunch of allocated but unused addresses from the organizations that are squatting on them? How come we can't allocate addresses in smaller blocks?
This kind of self righteous thinking makes me furious. I try to lose weight, I fail, I ask for help, and I am told, "Go thou and sin no more." The medical community seems to have decided that obesity is a character flaw.
Well, screw that. How about the medical community getting off their high horses and treating this wide spread and serious condition as a medical problem. Create a National Obesity Society, get some funding, do some research, figure out a treatment.
Just for the record, FORTRAN is at least 50 years old. I wrote a program at GE Evendale for the IBM 704 using FORTRAN in the summer of 1959. The language was very young at the time. The documentation, such as it was, was typewritten, not printed. Typical FORTRAN scenario: run it once, tqweak it a little, run it again, all done.
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It's not dying for bills in my house. The billers have really screwed up electronic billing around here. They don't email you the actual bill, just a notice that your bill is available on their web site. For 'n' billers I am expected to maintain 'n' user-IDs, and passwords and go fetch 'n' bills. Pox on that. USPS has business with me until the e-bills are pushed to me.
It's a dstinction without a difference. They're lurking in the shadows between me and people (and web sites) I communicate with. It's creepy and I don't like it and I hope to find convenient ways to make it harder.
WGET is available for Windows and it runs fine.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.ne...
I guess this was intended to be funny, and it hs been modded as such, but I find it beneath contempt to make jokes about pain management, which is in such miserable shape in America.
Yeh, yeh, I know ... bye bye, karma
It turns out that the numbnuts at PogoPlug have somehow arranged to forbid pasting userid or password into their login form. I emailed them about it and their response was that they would consider changing it as a feature enhancement. So keepass is useless there and I have to hand type my complex password. Idiots!
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
It is not necessary for our inability to achieve perfection to get in the way of having good practices. A few commonly accepted things could form the start of a set of best practices. Stuff like handling passwords correctly and preventing buffer overflows. We need some sort of professional organization a-la AMA or the Bar Association or various engineering groups to manage and promulgate a set of best practices. And yes, if we could develop that and then a systems engineer or programmer or their management were to ignore best practices and foist really stupid stuff on the public, especially fo money, I would support a trip to civil court.
We have lived too long with the "not responsible for anything" license and it is time to start moving toward making that disclaimer "against public policy".
I went through most of the comments on this article and I can not find any that address the root problem, which is this: Where the hell does Intel get off telling its customers what they have to build with their chips? If I were a designer of equipment and considering these chips I would tell Intel to ESAD.
Ya forgot the rule: don't feed the troll.
Whatever became of Eudora? When Qualcomm bailed out of it there was talk of integrating it into one of Mozilla's products -- Thunderbird, I guess -- but I haven't heard much about what came of that. So I'm still Macgyvering Eudora to work on XP.
I guess the reason I'm dragging my heels is my complete mystification and annoyance that the designers of IPV6 didn't do something sensible like make some small corner of the V6 address space map to the V4 address space. So instead of being simple and seamless, I have to spend some time fooling around with my equipemnt and software to work around that omission. A pox on the designer's heads.
"virii" is not a word. The correct plural of "virus" is simply "viruses".
In current usage that is probably right. But at least give some acknowledgement to classical Latin, in which virii would, indeed, be the plural of virus. I've never figured out why we use the Latin word but refuse to use its Latin plural.
Foul! Some of us old codgers invented the darn internet thingie :)
mod this dumb-ass down please!
Hmmm..... I do not see a mod category "factually incorrect". I guess "overrated" would have to do. What do others use?
Perhaps we should redirect our discussion from the mis-spelled domian name to the user name. The culprit either deliberately set up one or more specific user names, or set up his mail system to accept any user name that was presented, a-la mailinator. In either case it seems to me that his actions can be seen as deliberately trapping (and opening) communications not intended for him. If he set up specific mail boxes such as joe.smith@hisdomain then perhaps some sort of impersonation charge could be brought.
"and then give it post-facto legitimacy after the fact." Yeh, that's the best kind of post-facto legitimacy. :)
WPA/WEP etc do not provide for encryption of the traffic through the WiFi. They only serve to limit who may use the WiFi connection. If you want encrypted data transfer then HTTPS or equivalent is mandatory.
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl mistakes.
“A driver’s license is not a matter of civil rights. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege,’’ she said. Yep, that "logic" is used to shred the Fourth Amendment and now to enable this junk. We've got to fix this bug. The right to travel unmolested by car should, inded, be a civil right.
So go find some parts and build them a system that will run the software they use. It would probably save them considerable money and certainly would avoid chaos in the office. Ancient adage: Get the software you need and then buy the computer that runs it.
'Taint funny, McGee.
I'm really ticked about how the allocation of addresses has been handled over the years, and I can't seem to get a reasonable answer as to why the allocation strategy can't be fixed. How come we can't (pardon the expression) claw back a bunch of allocated but unused addresses from the organizations that are squatting on them? How come we can't allocate addresses in smaller blocks?
'Taint funny, McGee.
No, but if I had I sure wouldn't be on Facebook publishing my whereabouts.
This kind of self righteous thinking makes me furious. I try to lose weight, I fail, I ask for help, and I am told, "Go thou and sin no more." The medical community seems to have decided that obesity is a character flaw.
Well, screw that. How about the medical community getting off their high horses and treating this wide spread and serious condition as a medical problem. Create a National Obesity Society, get some funding, do some research, figure out a treatment.
Just for the record, FORTRAN is at least 50 years old. I wrote a program at GE Evendale for the IBM 704 using FORTRAN in the summer of 1959. The language was very young at the time. The documentation, such as it was, was typewritten, not printed. Typical FORTRAN scenario: run it once, tqweak it a little, run it again, all done.