So, I suspect the machine is compromised, I should store my password in clear text somewhere on that machine? I don't think so.
Have the bank generate a keyboard in random order, "type" in your password using the virtual keyboard and the mouse. Aside from capturing a screenshot (maybe the keyboard should regenerate after each click) and mouse movements, you won't get the password.
Vacation is typically provincially mandated. There is a federal rule that allows a minimum of 2 weeks, but most companies fall under provinical labour law. (The exclusions being federal government employees, telecommunicatons and transport that interact with other provinces and a few others). In Saskatchewan, the minimum is 3 weeks.
The tech sector I belive is very regional. I keep hearing good things about Calgary and Vancouver, but I don't have any first hand experience. Regina (my home) isn't great, but isn't bad for a city of about 225,000.
A long time ago (in this galaxy) I read episodes 7,8 and 9 and I seem to remember the same thing. he wasn't likely to use the force to manipulate the physical world, but he did have a sort of sixth sense as you describe. I seem to remember it also explaining why his and Lea's children (twins?) were also very strong with the force.
Yes and no. One of the benefits of a light sabre is that the immense heat it generates (see melting through blast doors) will also cauterize a wound as it is made. So, there will be little or no blood for cleanup, however disposing of the body and head could still remain tedious. Remember, friends help you move, good friends help you move bodies.
Actually, T1s can be on fibre or copper. I've seen both. And typically your DSL line is also guarantted bandwidth. Cable modem networks use shared bandwidth, but DSL doesn't, at least no more than a T1.
Well, a lost (most?) of us already can see our homes using Google Maps. 3D images of most popular features already exist in greater detail than this will provide. Not many video games need or use highly accurate 3d graphs of the earths surface. As far as your other points... this isn't going to mean real time imaging of the entire planet. That would take substantially more than ONE setup to do.
I was thinking the same thing, then I thought maybe they'll use mercury, liquid at room temperature. While I'm sure a liquid metal is great at dispersing heat (there's a reason most cookware is made from metal), I don't think the extra dangers involved with extra mercury around is a great idea either. Are there other, safer metals, that will stay liquid at room (or near-room) temperature that would work?
The strange thing here is not paying for a service that used to be free, its paying, in essence, to provide that service others. A forum, or comment based site like slashdot's main attraction is the content contributed by its users. Lets face it, if all we wanted was tech news, there are a lot of other sources. So, its intelligent (or funny) comments and disucssions that bring us back, but at the same time, we're the ones providing that content and disucssion. So, would I pay to create content for a site like slashdot (or some forum site) so that others can actually make money? No, I won't. I post comments here, and generally (based on my karma) people enjoy reading them. I do it to share, learn, teach, laugh, etc. If one of my regular sites started charging me to provide that content, I'd probably start my own, similar based site, and keep it free, especially for users that provide the content that makes the site popular. (I guess Karma is the closes thing we have to measuring that).
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Hmm, I'm looking at a Asus Pundit-R for my setup to go in the living room. Of course I could put the whole works in the basement and run nothing but an IR receiver up to the TV, but in any case:
Several HTPC cases are rated at under 30dB - slightly louder than a whisper - that's better than my ExpressVu receiver
I can record one show (at a time) for each tuner card I have. you'll need that digital cable/sat box regardless of your choice, unless its an all in one unit
I like the style of some of the form factors better than a lot of the other stereo equipment I've seen.
I can customize Myth if I really want, but I like the default interface just fine... pretty simple and easy to use as far as I'm concerned
The EPG on Myth is better than my local cable provider and Bell Expressvu - by far.
Myth can play DVDs, give me local weather and news (and/. headlines) in seconds, act as my MP3 player. It's upgradeable. I can play games on it. I can pull the recordings I've made off of it and burn to DVD.
Oh yeah, everything above where I said "I" can do it, my wife who is not a computer person, can also do it.
Try going over the legislation with your brain instead of a comb before calling me names. First, what I said was: no business can refuse to provide service if the customer refuses to provide information that is not vital to the transaction, not that a private company must provide you service. They cannot refuse that service just because you refuse to give non-essential information. Here, I'll link you to the legislation I was referring to:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/text.html And here's the part you'll want to read: 4.3.3
An organization shall not, as a condition of the supply of a product or service, require an individual to consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of information beyond that required to fulfil the explicitly specified, and legitimate purposes.
As for the powers of the Privacy Commissioner, well, no, she can't throw anyone in jail or fine anyone. However, she is regarded as the "expert" in the law. Having her on your side in a court case would be almost as good as a video camera showing the violations. She can also make life costly and hellish for companies by doing an audit on them, which does fall within her power.
So, before you flame, make sure you know what you are talking about. I've actually read through this legislation several times. Obviously you haven't.
Same here. We picked up a cheap vertical only shredder. We have a large back that we store the shreddings in. When winter comes around, it makes it really easy to start a fire with a couple handfuls of the stuff. If we start getting an over abundance, then we just use more paper in the fire.
I think this is great news (even though we've been expecting it for awhile). The nice thing is that now Valve can actually focus on their issues with Steam with all their resources as opposed to trying to deal with Vivendi. Hopefully this will also start a new erra of games being released without the silly rules of publishers getting in the way. HL2 probably would have been cheaper via steam than in the store if it hadn't been for Vivendi.
I for one would be more than happy to download (and burn myself) all the software I purchase if it meant saving some dollars. Not only that, but the actualy software company would probably see a lot more of the money for their software in this type of a model.
In Canada, you could actually bring them before the privacy commissioner for that little encounter. Our wonderful privacy act says that no business can refuse to provide service if the customer refuses to provide information that is not vital to the transaction.
So since the gym really shouldn't need any informaiton about you (including your home phone number and address) and refused you a membership/tour, they've violated the privacy act. The best thing is, if the commissioner finds your complaint "well founded", you may have the option of taking it to court for financial compensation, or the commissione may do it on your behalf. Of course in your case, I don't think there really would be any financial compensation.
I mentioned this earlier, but a similar thing has already happened Canada via the CRTC ruling. The big things are, the VOIP provider must provide 911 service - not necessarily to the nearest call centre to the callers current location. Secondly, the service provider must make a point of informing the customer of the limitations of 911 under voip, namely location. Even GPS isn't fail proof, if I'm in a building I may not be able to pick up GPS. Some more information here.
The CRTC in Canada made 911 mandatory just recently. I wrote about this earlier. They basically say that for a roaming type service (I don't know of any VoIP that isn't), the provider does not have to connect you to the correct call center automatically. Instead, the caller should be able to identify his/her location and then the call can be transfered to the correct center. Not idea, but there is not a reliable way to no location based on IP, or even something like GPS. The other big thing that the CRTC said was that the service provider had to inform the customer clearly of these limits to 911 before the customer signed up. The CRTC news release is here
Ignore the grandparent and mod the parent of this post up. Don't go to school for something that will be in demand in three or four years (presumably when you graduate). Things can change faster than you can complete schooling. Decide what you *want* to do for a living (within reason) and get educated for that. Certain areas of the world are in demand for almost every profession. If you're willing to relocate, you'll find a job.
I really liked working with computers and ended up taking a generic CS course (there were't a lot of "specialty" degrees in the early 90s. I spent most of my time in school learning system and network administration. Now I spend more of my time doing software development because I enjoy it a lot more. You'll enjoy life and your job a lot more if you enjoy the work. Salary is not everything. On more than one occasion I've moved to lower paying jobs because the work would be more enjoyable.
It was a neat concept and was fun, but I found it becoming fairly monotonus after awhile. I'm sorry they're going out of business, I would have liked to have seen more games from this company. I might have to look for a copy of Republic and give it a try.
I wonder what sort of techniques they're going to incorporate to stop people from sharing/keeping the games and "programming" that are available. I'm guessing someone will come out with a freeware client and we'll start seeing torrents of their software before too long.
Really? I wondered about that, but didn't see any mention of it anywhere. That's really disappointing. I think I would have enjoyed this game. Oh well, back to Starcraft I guess.
I think you caught most of them, but missed a big one for a lot of us. Support. I've moved my parents, friends, family, to OO, Firebird, Thunderbird, and other packages since I get fewer calls from them because fewer things go wrong. Not only that, but cost. Dad wanted a word processor (he's trying to write a book). He could have gone an spent $200-$300 on MS-Office. Instead, I spend about 20 mins downloading and install OpenOffice.
Okay, I've heard of, but never played TA. I had a look at the website and am definitely curious and will probably download it tonight and give it a try. Can anyone give me an idea of the game play and such. The FAQ seems to focus mainly on details and differences between it and the origintal TA. I'm a big fan of RTS games (I still play starcraft), and would more than likely love this game. Is it multiplayer?
If you're not trying to actually compress the backup (it didn't sound like you were), might I suggest just buying Dual Layer discs and just doing a straight copy. Requires no CPU, and if you have two drives, hardly requries disk space. They are starting to come down in price, though they are significantly more than a DVD +/- R.
Of course there's also the option of just backing up to a large HD. Again, probably more expensive than blank DVDs, but lets face it, if you're buying box sets and then backing them up, money obviously isn't your biggest concern.
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So, I suspect the machine is compromised, I should store my password in clear text somewhere on that machine? I don't think so.
Have the bank generate a keyboard in random order, "type" in your password using the virtual keyboard and the mouse. Aside from capturing a screenshot (maybe the keyboard should regenerate after each click) and mouse movements, you won't get the password.
Vacation is typically provincially mandated. There is a federal rule that allows a minimum of 2 weeks, but most companies fall under provinical labour law. (The exclusions being federal government employees, telecommunicatons and transport that interact with other provinces and a few others). In Saskatchewan, the minimum is 3 weeks.
The tech sector I belive is very regional. I keep hearing good things about Calgary and Vancouver, but I don't have any first hand experience. Regina (my home) isn't great, but isn't bad for a city of about 225,000.
A long time ago (in this galaxy) I read episodes 7,8 and 9 and I seem to remember the same thing. he wasn't likely to use the force to manipulate the physical world, but he did have a sort of sixth sense as you describe. I seem to remember it also explaining why his and Lea's children (twins?) were also very strong with the force.
Yes and no. One of the benefits of a light sabre is that the immense heat it generates (see melting through blast doors) will also cauterize a wound as it is made. So, there will be little or no blood for cleanup, however disposing of the body and head could still remain tedious. Remember, friends help you move, good friends help you move bodies.
There's another good article about a setup of WiMax in Vegas on openwimax.org. They were consistanly getting 6-17Mbps.
Actually, T1s can be on fibre or copper. I've seen both. And typically your DSL line is also guarantted bandwidth. Cable modem networks use shared bandwidth, but DSL doesn't, at least no more than a T1.
Well, a lost (most?) of us already can see our homes using Google Maps. 3D images of most popular features already exist in greater detail than this will provide. Not many video games need or use highly accurate 3d graphs of the earths surface. As far as your other points... this isn't going to mean real time imaging of the entire planet. That would take substantially more than ONE setup to do.
At least we'll be able to tell who's wearing them since they'll certainly have a big Nike swoosh where the pupil should be.
So Mandrivia is not a made up word either? It doesn't matter how the word/name was made up, if it isn't a word, then its made up.
I was thinking the same thing, then I thought maybe they'll use mercury, liquid at room temperature. While I'm sure a liquid metal is great at dispersing heat (there's a reason most cookware is made from metal), I don't think the extra dangers involved with extra mercury around is a great idea either. Are there other, safer metals, that will stay liquid at room (or near-room) temperature that would work?
The strange thing here is not paying for a service that used to be free, its paying, in essence, to provide that service others. A forum, or comment based site like slashdot's main attraction is the content contributed by its users. Lets face it, if all we wanted was tech news, there are a lot of other sources. So, its intelligent (or funny) comments and disucssions that bring us back, but at the same time, we're the ones providing that content and disucssion. So, would I pay to create content for a site like slashdot (or some forum site) so that others can actually make money? No, I won't. I post comments here, and generally (based on my karma) people enjoy reading them. I do it to share, learn, teach, laugh, etc. If one of my regular sites started charging me to provide that content, I'd probably start my own, similar based site, and keep it free, especially for users that provide the content that makes the site popular. (I guess Karma is the closes thing we have to measuring that).
Oh yeah, everything above where I said "I" can do it, my wife who is not a computer person, can also do it.
Try going over the legislation with your brain instead of a comb before calling me names. First, what I said was: no business can refuse to provide service if the customer refuses to provide information that is not vital to the transaction, not that a private company must provide you service. They cannot refuse that service just because you refuse to give non-essential information. Here, I'll link you to the legislation I was referring to:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/text.htmlAnd here's the part you'll want to read:
4.3.3 An organization shall not, as a condition of the supply of a product or service, require an individual to consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of information beyond that required to fulfil the explicitly specified, and legitimate purposes.
As for the powers of the Privacy Commissioner, well, no, she can't throw anyone in jail or fine anyone. However, she is regarded as the "expert" in the law. Having her on your side in a court case would be almost as good as a video camera showing the violations. She can also make life costly and hellish for companies by doing an audit on them, which does fall within her power.
So, before you flame, make sure you know what you are talking about. I've actually read through this legislation several times. Obviously you haven't.
Same here. We picked up a cheap vertical only shredder. We have a large back that we store the shreddings in. When winter comes around, it makes it really easy to start a fire with a couple handfuls of the stuff. If we start getting an over abundance, then we just use more paper in the fire.
I think this is great news (even though we've been expecting it for awhile). The nice thing is that now Valve can actually focus on their issues with Steam with all their resources as opposed to trying to deal with Vivendi. Hopefully this will also start a new erra of games being released without the silly rules of publishers getting in the way. HL2 probably would have been cheaper via steam than in the store if it hadn't been for Vivendi.
I for one would be more than happy to download (and burn myself) all the software I purchase if it meant saving some dollars. Not only that, but the actualy software company would probably see a lot more of the money for their software in this type of a model.
Congratulations Valve!
In Canada, you could actually bring them before the privacy commissioner for that little encounter. Our wonderful privacy act says that no business can refuse to provide service if the customer refuses to provide information that is not vital to the transaction.
So since the gym really shouldn't need any informaiton about you (including your home phone number and address) and refused you a membership/tour, they've violated the privacy act. The best thing is, if the commissioner finds your complaint "well founded", you may have the option of taking it to court for financial compensation, or the commissione may do it on your behalf. Of course in your case, I don't think there really would be any financial compensation.
I mentioned this earlier, but a similar thing has already happened Canada via the CRTC ruling. The big things are, the VOIP provider must provide 911 service - not necessarily to the nearest call centre to the callers current location. Secondly, the service provider must make a point of informing the customer of the limitations of 911 under voip, namely location. Even GPS isn't fail proof, if I'm in a building I may not be able to pick up GPS. Some more information here.
The CRTC in Canada made 911 mandatory just recently. I wrote about this earlier. They basically say that for a roaming type service (I don't know of any VoIP that isn't), the provider does not have to connect you to the correct call center automatically. Instead, the caller should be able to identify his/her location and then the call can be transfered to the correct center. Not idea, but there is not a reliable way to no location based on IP, or even something like GPS. The other big thing that the CRTC said was that the service provider had to inform the customer clearly of these limits to 911 before the customer signed up. The CRTC news release is here
Ignore the grandparent and mod the parent of this post up. Don't go to school for something that will be in demand in three or four years (presumably when you graduate). Things can change faster than you can complete schooling. Decide what you *want* to do for a living (within reason) and get educated for that. Certain areas of the world are in demand for almost every profession. If you're willing to relocate, you'll find a job.
I really liked working with computers and ended up taking a generic CS course (there were't a lot of "specialty" degrees in the early 90s. I spent most of my time in school learning system and network administration. Now I spend more of my time doing software development because I enjoy it a lot more. You'll enjoy life and your job a lot more if you enjoy the work. Salary is not everything. On more than one occasion I've moved to lower paying jobs because the work would be more enjoyable.
It was a neat concept and was fun, but I found it becoming fairly monotonus after awhile. I'm sorry they're going out of business, I would have liked to have seen more games from this company. I might have to look for a copy of Republic and give it a try.
I wonder what sort of techniques they're going to incorporate to stop people from sharing/keeping the games and "programming" that are available. I'm guessing someone will come out with a freeware client and we'll start seeing torrents of their software before too long.
Really? I wondered about that, but didn't see any mention of it anywhere. That's really disappointing. I think I would have enjoyed this game. Oh well, back to Starcraft I guess.
I think you caught most of them, but missed a big one for a lot of us. Support. I've moved my parents, friends, family, to OO, Firebird, Thunderbird, and other packages since I get fewer calls from them because fewer things go wrong. Not only that, but cost. Dad wanted a word processor (he's trying to write a book). He could have gone an spent $200-$300 on MS-Office. Instead, I spend about 20 mins downloading and install OpenOffice.
Okay, I've heard of, but never played TA. I had a look at the website and am definitely curious and will probably download it tonight and give it a try. Can anyone give me an idea of the game play and such. The FAQ seems to focus mainly on details and differences between it and the origintal TA. I'm a big fan of RTS games (I still play starcraft), and would more than likely love this game. Is it multiplayer?
If you're not trying to actually compress the backup (it didn't sound like you were), might I suggest just buying Dual Layer discs and just doing a straight copy. Requires no CPU, and if you have two drives, hardly requries disk space. They are starting to come down in price, though they are significantly more than a DVD +/- R.
Of course there's also the option of just backing up to a large HD. Again, probably more expensive than blank DVDs, but lets face it, if you're buying box sets and then backing them up, money obviously isn't your biggest concern.