Addendum: Sometimes the spammers are both user and developer but it is what they do in their capacity as a user (send us boatloads of spam) that causes them to be so hated. (Sorry for the double post, I thought of that case just after hitting submit)
What I love is that the same people who say "this is just software, it's not the developer's fault if users happen to use it for illegal/immoral purposes" are the same ones who come on and demand death-by-torture for spammers.
In your example the spammers are the users and not the developers so I fail to see the hypocrisy there...
I would not argue that everyone needs to fully understand encryption and how it works. People do need to have a minimal understanding of how things work though. Asking people to realize that if the little lock is there the page is secure and if it's not there then the page is not private is not a lot to ask. It's actually easier than some of the rules for using the postal system and everyone manages to use that just fine.
As time goes on people seem to expect more from technology and to do more with it while not even giving the same effort to understanding how to use it properly as they did for previous widely-used systems (such as the post office, to recycle that example again).
The tool is designed to give access to another person's web account via insecure wireless transmissions.
As you're not the person who designed the tool that statement is at best an assumption. How can you know what the design intent was? The designer has stated that it was designed to expose and bring attention to the security flaws so there would be more pressure for them to be fixed.
By your logic we are to assume that any vehicle capable of holding cargo is a theft tool and the owner a thief. So the question is are you a thief or do you drive a tiny stripped-down moped?
Blame your manufacturer, especially if they have their own overlay (Blur, TouchWiz, Sense). While they can't be expected to release a new update every single security fix they should be bundling them up and issuing them periodically.
That article was about Google's Nexus 1 phones. Remember that Google shopped its candybar phone to every phone vendor and they wouldn't take it, so Google made it, sold a grip of them, and ushered in all this sweet tech we enjoy today. If they had not done so when they did, we'd not have seen the first good big-screen Android platforms until after WP7 launched, if ever. And now those phones are selling 20M units a quarter in the US alone, giving 44% market share, driving every phone vendor that builds it into profitability or record profitability, giving US non-AT&T networks a phone to sell that isn't absolutely pathetic, and putting money in the pockets of a vast economy of app developers and advertising buyers (and of course, Google).
It's about time they do it again. Even the new "big" Android phone launches would be a minor upgrade from my N1 when you look at the whole hardware package. Add in the support and early upgrades the N1 enjoys and it's hard for me to make an argument for upgrading my phone right now even if I wanted to. I expected we would be hearing about phones under development with dual core Snapdragons by now.
Hopefully Google can do the same thing in the netbook/smartbook market. Some may disagree but I think that market has been stagnating as of late.
Not from the UK either but the article mentions that ATOC is partially publicly-funded. In my mind if they are receiving public funding they should have to make the data publicly available at no charge. After all the public should be receiving something in return for their money.
If you're riding certain Amtrak lines I would consider arriving within an hour or two of your scheduled time success compared to the experiences I've had on the Boston-Albany route.
They don't have the full capability of the web app he wrote though, which he mentions in the article (combining departure times from two nearby stations). Admittedly a niche case but I'm sure it was handy for some.
The retailer and Microsoft made a mistake. This is not much different than if Microsoft had pushed empty boxes through retail outlets and customers got screwed over.
Microsoft didn't make a mistake, that's the point.
Microsoft has an official release date for Kinect and they were going to have the 360 software updates in place in time to support that launch date. The retailer screwed up and sold the product in advance of it's official well-known launch date, before Microsoft had put the support in place for it. This is completely different than Microsoft pushing empty boxes through. They have a product, they have software needed to support that product, and (as of today) they have the software in place to support that product's launch in 3 days.
tl;dr: The retailer couldn't stick to the timeline and as a result customers suffered. Now please explain how Microsoft should be held liable?
Makes perfect sense to me, let the retailer eat the cost of their mistake. Either way it's a moot point now, the new dash is out today. I have to wonder if Microsoft always planned to push it out on Nov 1 or if they accelerated it a few days to help out the people stuck without XBL due to this.
Considering that the Flash and Javascript ads are quite often a vector for malware and make up the (seemingly) vast majority of ads found on sites I do have a policy of blocking all ads. If I know a site has only non-Flash, non-JS ads that aren't intrusive then I will consider allowing them for that site, if they wanted me to watch their ads so they get paid they should have thought about the risk and obnoxiousness their viewer has to deal with when choosing which ad-agency and plan to use on their site.
I BG quite often and as I said at the start of this your statement of getting CC'd every 3 seconds does not hold up in game. You still haven't supported that frequency of not being able to control your character.
As I pointed out AoE CC's that cause you to lose control of your character are all fear effects and usable by 3 classes. You specifically complained of losing control of your toon this frequently which is what I refuted.
The trouble is that some idiotic employers think activities which are perfectly normal to do in public and have nothing to do with work or how that person will perform at work should be used to judge the employability of a potential hire.
My point was that they're removing them in tandem, cc immunities counter cc. If you're under cc every 3 seconds you are doing something horribly wrong.
Where I live currently I'm amazed there aren't bicyclists killed every single day given the amount of traffic and the way people drive. Actually a pedestrian did get killed earlier this summer trying to cross Route 1. In areas where the traffic isn't as crazy that could work though.
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Addendum: Sometimes the spammers are both user and developer but it is what they do in their capacity as a user (send us boatloads of spam) that causes them to be so hated. (Sorry for the double post, I thought of that case just after hitting submit)
What I love is that the same people who say "this is just software, it's not the developer's fault if users happen to use it for illegal/immoral purposes" are the same ones who come on and demand death-by-torture for spammers.
In your example the spammers are the users and not the developers so I fail to see the hypocrisy there...
I would not argue that everyone needs to fully understand encryption and how it works. People do need to have a minimal understanding of how things work though. Asking people to realize that if the little lock is there the page is secure and if it's not there then the page is not private is not a lot to ask. It's actually easier than some of the rules for using the postal system and everyone manages to use that just fine.
As time goes on people seem to expect more from technology and to do more with it while not even giving the same effort to understanding how to use it properly as they did for previous widely-used systems (such as the post office, to recycle that example again).
The tool is designed to give access to another person's web account via insecure wireless transmissions.
As you're not the person who designed the tool that statement is at best an assumption. How can you know what the design intent was? The designer has stated that it was designed to expose and bring attention to the security flaws so there would be more pressure for them to be fixed.
By your logic we are to assume that any vehicle capable of holding cargo is a theft tool and the owner a thief. So the question is are you a thief or do you drive a tiny stripped-down moped?
From that sketchy guy in the back alley, just make sure you aren't wearing the wrong "colors".
Why focus solely on WP7? The same could be said of iOS or Blackberry OS or any OS I'm forgetting which is closed-source.
Blame your manufacturer, especially if they have their own overlay (Blur, TouchWiz, Sense). While they can't be expected to release a new update every single security fix they should be bundling them up and issuing them periodically.
That article was about Google's Nexus 1 phones. Remember that Google shopped its candybar phone to every phone vendor and they wouldn't take it, so Google made it, sold a grip of them, and ushered in all this sweet tech we enjoy today. If they had not done so when they did, we'd not have seen the first good big-screen Android platforms until after WP7 launched, if ever. And now those phones are selling 20M units a quarter in the US alone, giving 44% market share, driving every phone vendor that builds it into profitability or record profitability, giving US non-AT&T networks a phone to sell that isn't absolutely pathetic, and putting money in the pockets of a vast economy of app developers and advertising buyers (and of course, Google).
It's about time they do it again. Even the new "big" Android phone launches would be a minor upgrade from my N1 when you look at the whole hardware package. Add in the support and early upgrades the N1 enjoys and it's hard for me to make an argument for upgrading my phone right now even if I wanted to. I expected we would be hearing about phones under development with dual core Snapdragons by now.
Hopefully Google can do the same thing in the netbook/smartbook market. Some may disagree but I think that market has been stagnating as of late.
You do realize the majority of those "Windows" printers, webcams, mice, keyboards, and joysticks will also work with another OS?
If I had to guess GP is probably referring to this: http://www.compukoko.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/kohjinsha-dz-610-x-320-300x157.jpg
Not from the UK either but the article mentions that ATOC is partially publicly-funded. In my mind if they are receiving public funding they should have to make the data publicly available at no charge. After all the public should be receiving something in return for their money.
If you're riding certain Amtrak lines I would consider arriving within an hour or two of your scheduled time success compared to the experiences I've had on the Boston-Albany route.
They don't have the full capability of the web app he wrote though, which he mentions in the article (combining departure times from two nearby stations). Admittedly a niche case but I'm sure it was handy for some.
The retailer and Microsoft made a mistake. This is not much different than if Microsoft had pushed empty boxes through retail outlets and customers got screwed over.
Microsoft didn't make a mistake, that's the point.
Microsoft has an official release date for Kinect and they were going to have the 360 software updates in place in time to support that launch date. The retailer screwed up and sold the product in advance of it's official well-known launch date, before Microsoft had put the support in place for it. This is completely different than Microsoft pushing empty boxes through. They have a product, they have software needed to support that product, and (as of today) they have the software in place to support that product's launch in 3 days.
tl;dr: The retailer couldn't stick to the timeline and as a result customers suffered. Now please explain how Microsoft should be held liable?
Makes perfect sense to me, let the retailer eat the cost of their mistake. Either way it's a moot point now, the new dash is out today. I have to wonder if Microsoft always planned to push it out on Nov 1 or if they accelerated it a few days to help out the people stuck without XBL due to this.
Considering that the Flash and Javascript ads are quite often a vector for malware and make up the (seemingly) vast majority of ads found on sites I do have a policy of blocking all ads. If I know a site has only non-Flash, non-JS ads that aren't intrusive then I will consider allowing them for that site, if they wanted me to watch their ads so they get paid they should have thought about the risk and obnoxiousness their viewer has to deal with when choosing which ad-agency and plan to use on their site.
If the movie lobbies hadn't managed to get consumer DVD players crippled we wouldn't have to wait through that crap or do anything to get around it.
how many pounds in a ton? None of those numbers ends in zero...all are a pain to convert.
2000 doesn't end in zero?
I BG quite often and as I said at the start of this your statement of getting CC'd every 3 seconds does not hold up in game. You still haven't supported that frequency of not being able to control your character.
As I pointed out AoE CC's that cause you to lose control of your character are all fear effects and usable by 3 classes. You specifically complained of losing control of your toon this frequently which is what I refuted.
I would hope you're developing to W3C standards and not specifically IE8 or you may run into similar problems in the future.
The trouble is that some idiotic employers think activities which are perfectly normal to do in public and have nothing to do with work or how that person will perform at work should be used to judge the employability of a potential hire.
My point was that they're removing them in tandem, cc immunities counter cc. If you're under cc every 3 seconds you are doing something horribly wrong.
Typically they run from 8 to 3, at least that's how my high school and the neighboring one ran.
Where I live currently I'm amazed there aren't bicyclists killed every single day given the amount of traffic and the way people drive. Actually a pedestrian did get killed earlier this summer trying to cross Route 1. In areas where the traffic isn't as crazy that could work though.