Welcome to the world of HDDs, where pretty much EVERY HDD out there is marketed as having rounded storage space (e.g. 1 TB) when that actually is 931.3xx GiB. This was news 10 years ago, when people started to see difference (why is my 40 GB HDD smaller than advertised?)
When saying "use an e-mail service I don't fully own" I meant sending e-mail out to any other address than my own mailserver's address. Also, the fact that someone "can" read your e-mail doesn't mean someone "does" read your e-mail. People get all up in arms about a mere possibility, no matter how unlikely it is.
Um, no, I chose Google voluntarily. I also have a MS Live e-mail account, AND a Yahoo account, AND so on and so forth. They're all great for registering to shady websites and holding SPAM.
Whenever I use an e-mail service I don't fully own, I assume someone else will eventually read my messages. Frankly, nothing I send out is sensitive or important, or something that can't indirectly be obtained through third party sources. Maybe I'm weird, but I listen to my gut feeling that tells me Google is more trustworthy than Microsoft. So. My work e-mail can be read by my employer (I know that for a fact) and is automatically scanned for sensitive words, especially if I send e-mails to external addresses. My personal e-mail is automatically scanned by Google. I say, let them do it, I'm trying hard to determine if there was any message I sent or received that would piss me off when read. And yes, I'm a very light message sender, my Google account activity report for last month shows 7 sent messages, up 40% compared to previous month. One was a reply to a virus link sent by a contact, telling him he has a virus. Two were responses to career opportunities, telling them "I reject your proposal". Three were responses in a conversation with my son's doctor, about his treatment, and one was a cancellation of an online order. Big deal.
You can also not be sure of all ramifications if you fix it. Maybe the possible breakages from fixing it would affect more people than you would make happy after fixing it.
"VBOX-FIX.COM needs 416 bytes of DOS memory and can be loaded high." You whine about 416 bytes? Even in MS-DOS age this was a speck. Not to mention you can just suspend the guest OS instead of rebooting it.
Honestly, it's all about the ROI here. If you have 100 users which are affected by an obscure bug which has a workaround already, and at the same time have maybe 100 other more important bugs to fix, guess what's going to happen with the first bug?
Here in my country, if you're an elderly person who wants a well-paid IT job, all you need to do is learn some ASM and go program industrial robots. Grey hair + not much ASM knowledge can land you a hefty salary. The reason is psychological: recruiters regard elderly applicants as coming "from the past" and are impressed when you display some knowledge of old programming languages. I'm saying ASM because it's still used a lot in niche environments and at the same time there's very few people who can code in ASM, so they're badly needed.
I'm not sure how things are shaping up in this domain for the USA, so take my advice with a grain of salt, please.
You gotta be fucking kidding me. If a country has a police that's dumb enough to not detect 10K missiles being carried around under their nose... well, then they kind of deserve it, to be honest.
Kind of difficult for an enemy with no homeland to send over 10K missiles. Do they spawn them from thin air? They surely must have some base off of which they launch their attack. And a pretty large one, to accommodate 10K missiles.
So... please enlighten me. HOW would you carry to, install at and fire 10K long range missiles from your ENEMY? If I were your enemy, as a country, I am pretty certain I wouldn't let you do that.
"In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the (base 10) exponent being applied to this amount (therefore, to be an order of magnitude greater is to be 10 times as large)."
Mathematically, you are right. However, think the length of music time rather than the # of tracks in this case. After all, Anal Cunt (the band) recorded albums with a pretty large # of tracks:) whereas Joe Satriani's "Silence"... well, it's pretty lengthy. And quiet.
I would honestly be more worried about conflict escalation ladder here. If an enemy launches 10K small missiles that have the potential to kill 100K citizens, the US might escalate the conflict and fight back by launching 50 nuclear warheads which would kill 50M enemy citizens, and so on and so forth, until nobody's left to tell the tale.
jonathan.xa.swift, according to the algorithm. It's just that X has a higher priority than a double-char entry. Damn those recurrent if-then-else loops:)
You're thinking too deep. People WILL use file sharing websites for copyright-infringement purposes, they always will do. I'm actually shocked that the amount of detected infringements is ONLY of about 14 a day. That's probably 100 times LESS than Youtube gets on a daily basis.
I have seen a conflict on middle initial as well, and the system is taught to put an X instead. Yes, really, an X. When that happens, the user is not really happy, and in that case they get to choose an e-mail address. The format is firstname.lastname@domain.tld but the only mandatory part in the username is lastname to be exactly what the user's lastname is.
Example: jonathan.swift@domain.tld comes in first, gets this username. Then we have Jonathan Andrew Swift who gets jonathan.a.swift@domain.tld. When Jonathan Abbott Smith comes in, he gets the loathed jonathan.x.swift@domain.tld, which he can request to be manually changed to jon.swift@domain.tld (if he wishes that). None of them can, however, have their lastname changed from "Swift" to... "Swifty", for example.
Generally, the initial e-mail addresses are automatically assigned but then people can ask for those to be changed manually, and they will be changed if the requested usernames are available.
The funny stuff comes when you have people from latin countries (Spain, Mexico stand out) where (I think because of legal requirements) the system would generate e-mail addresses such as Jesus.Perez.Antonio.Cristiano.Homero.Hernandez@domain.tld - and yes, that happens quite often.
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Welcome to the world of HDDs, where pretty much EVERY HDD out there is marketed as having rounded storage space (e.g. 1 TB) when that actually is 931.3xx GiB.
This was news 10 years ago, when people started to see difference (why is my 40 GB HDD smaller than advertised?)
When saying "use an e-mail service I don't fully own" I meant sending e-mail out to any other address than my own mailserver's address. Also, the fact that someone "can" read your e-mail doesn't mean someone "does" read your e-mail. People get all up in arms about a mere possibility, no matter how unlikely it is.
Um, no, I chose Google voluntarily. I also have a MS Live e-mail account, AND a Yahoo account, AND so on and so forth. They're all great for registering to shady websites and holding SPAM.
Whenever I use an e-mail service I don't fully own, I assume someone else will eventually read my messages. Frankly, nothing I send out is sensitive or important, or something that can't indirectly be obtained through third party sources.
Maybe I'm weird, but I listen to my gut feeling that tells me Google is more trustworthy than Microsoft.
So. My work e-mail can be read by my employer (I know that for a fact) and is automatically scanned for sensitive words, especially if I send e-mails to external addresses. My personal e-mail is automatically scanned by Google. I say, let them do it, I'm trying hard to determine if there was any message I sent or received that would piss me off when read. And yes, I'm a very light message sender, my Google account activity report for last month shows 7 sent messages, up 40% compared to previous month. One was a reply to a virus link sent by a contact, telling him he has a virus. Two were responses to career opportunities, telling them "I reject your proposal". Three were responses in a conversation with my son's doctor, about his treatment, and one was a cancellation of an online order. Big deal.
You can also not be sure of all ramifications if you fix it. Maybe the possible breakages from fixing it would affect more people than you would make happy after fixing it.
I read TFA. My post was supposed to be A JOKE. Why so serious? Lighten up, please :)
I love this generic "serious source" mention. Et tu, Slashdot!
"VBOX-FIX.COM needs 416 bytes of DOS memory and can be loaded high."
You whine about 416 bytes? Even in MS-DOS age this was a speck. Not to mention you can just suspend the guest OS instead of rebooting it.
Honestly, it's all about the ROI here. If you have 100 users which are affected by an obscure bug which has a workaround already, and at the same time have maybe 100 other more important bugs to fix, guess what's going to happen with the first bug?
I read the page and there's a fix for it. So... your issue was?
Here in my country, if you're an elderly person who wants a well-paid IT job, all you need to do is learn some ASM and go program industrial robots. Grey hair + not much ASM knowledge can land you a hefty salary. The reason is psychological: recruiters regard elderly applicants as coming "from the past" and are impressed when you display some knowledge of old programming languages. I'm saying ASM because it's still used a lot in niche environments and at the same time there's very few people who can code in ASM, so they're badly needed.
I'm not sure how things are shaping up in this domain for the USA, so take my advice with a grain of salt, please.
You gotta be fucking kidding me. If a country has a police that's dumb enough to not detect 10K missiles being carried around under their nose... well, then they kind of deserve it, to be honest.
Kind of difficult for an enemy with no homeland to send over 10K missiles. Do they spawn them from thin air? They surely must have some base off of which they launch their attack. And a pretty large one, to accommodate 10K missiles.
So... please enlighten me. HOW would you carry to, install at and fire 10K long range missiles from your ENEMY? If I were your enemy, as a country, I am pretty certain I wouldn't let you do that.
Yes, as long as you make fun of a non-English native speaker. :P
"In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the (base 10) exponent being applied to this amount (therefore, to be an order of magnitude greater is to be 10 times as large)."
Nitpicker.
Mathematically, you are right. However, think the length of music time rather than the # of tracks in this case. After all, Anal Cunt (the band) recorded albums with a pretty large # of tracks :) whereas Joe Satriani's "Silence"... well, it's pretty lengthy. And quiet.
There's an order of magnitude between 20 songs and 20 albums.
Fortunately, most of us are not THAT weird.
I would honestly be more worried about conflict escalation ladder here. If an enemy launches 10K small missiles that have the potential to kill 100K citizens, the US might escalate the conflict and fight back by launching 50 nuclear warheads which would kill 50M enemy citizens, and so on and so forth, until nobody's left to tell the tale.
jonathan.xa.swift, according to the algorithm. It's just that X has a higher priority than a double-char entry. Damn those recurrent if-then-else loops :)
You're thinking too deep. People WILL use file sharing websites for copyright-infringement purposes, they always will do. I'm actually shocked that the amount of detected infringements is ONLY of about 14 a day. That's probably 100 times LESS than Youtube gets on a daily basis.
I have seen a conflict on middle initial as well, and the system is taught to put an X instead. Yes, really, an X. When that happens, the user is not really happy, and in that case they get to choose an e-mail address. The format is firstname.lastname@domain.tld but the only mandatory part in the username is lastname to be exactly what the user's lastname is.
Example: jonathan.swift@domain.tld comes in first, gets this username. Then we have Jonathan Andrew Swift who gets jonathan.a.swift@domain.tld. When Jonathan Abbott Smith comes in, he gets the loathed jonathan.x.swift@domain.tld, which he can request to be manually changed to jon.swift@domain.tld (if he wishes that). None of them can, however, have their lastname changed from "Swift" to... "Swifty", for example.
Generally, the initial e-mail addresses are automatically assigned but then people can ask for those to be changed manually, and they will be changed if the requested usernames are available.
The funny stuff comes when you have people from latin countries (Spain, Mexico stand out) where (I think because of legal requirements) the system would generate e-mail addresses such as Jesus.Perez.Antonio.Cristiano.Homero.Hernandez@domain.tld - and yes, that happens quite often.
I have one word for you, my friend: Poison.
Kill them with fire! They're the spawn of The Thing!