Oh come on! You can use one of those web-to-e-mail services and not lose anything if you stuck with e-mail. In fact, someone seems to have signed me up for one since I daily get web pages e-mailed to me, though unfortunately they are just advertisements. They are even nice enough to put the text into an image so I won't lose the nice fonts. Other times they send me lots of raw HTML that my e-mail client doesn't understand. The future's all in e-mail, I tell you!
So, if we put pressure on banks by making them pay, maybe they'll do things to make phishing attacks harder to carry out. Sounds good... but
If we put pressure on customers by making them pay, maybe they'll do things that make phishing attacks harder to carry out.
In the end, I as a customer to my own bank can entirely prevent phishing attacks on my account, through very little cost to myself. Therefore, I would like to be held responsible for phishing rather than my bank, otherwise I'll be paying for other customers' negligence.
I am not sure if they really want to, but todays applications simply require quite a bit more CPU and RAM then yesterdays applications, even for the very same jobs.
They use quite a bit more CPU and RAM, but do they really require it? As in, maybe they could be written better. Of course, given that such CPU and RAM are cheap these days, it doesn't make sense to spend extra time reducing these requirements a lot.
A crime to hold the command key and click the title bar in Apple's Safari web browser? When you do that, you get a popup menu of the parent "directories" the current web page is in, the same way you do in a Finder window. No URL hacking, just a built-in convenience feature.
'Where a foreign news agency violates the Measures in one of the following manners, Xinhua News Agency shall give it a warning, demand rectification within a prescribed time limit, suspend its release of specified content, suspend or cancel its qualifications of a foreign news agency for releasing news and information in China, on the merits of each case.'
If only the US's news censorship policy were this straightforward and clearly documented, it'd be a lot easier to comply with it! Maybe China can set an example.
In the past, Slashdotting a site into a pile of smouldering ashes was merely a joke, but if this plan goes through, it could be for real (and you could take out half a neightborhood along with it). Overloading a broadband gas pipeline is no laughing matter.
I'm all for a replacement of flash, given all of its disadvantages, but I would like to avoid a format war if one format between these two is clearly superior to the other.
A format war occurs when there are two or more incompatible interfaces for accessing data on media. Since these chips would be the guts inside a thumb drive or other medium using a standard interface, there would be no format war, just a new choice of implementation technology that could be adopted as slowly or quickly as desired.
- MacBook hardware relies on OS to tell its subsystems they they can sleep, as I imagine most hardware does
- Beta version of Vista doesn't have MacBook-specific drivers
- Therefore, Beta version of Vista runs hot all the time, not just when making full use of all hardware at once
What's missing is a reason for this to be newsworthy, especially on a site like this.
I think once it's in the landfill, it's "gone"; that means even if we wanted to, there's no way to harvest it out of a landfill that's remotely profitable.
Currently, yes, but what about in the future? Landfills are becoming full of highly processed materials that would be quite valuable if they were the only source of them.
Unfortunately, Apple Computer Inc. has exclusive rights to the hardware and software that would make it possible for Amazon.com to provide Amazon Unbox for these devices.
Maybe their Digital Restrictions Management system couldn't be made restrictive enough without low-level access to the Mac hardware?
At least you can be sure it might play! Funny how once computers became powerful enough to end compatibility issues, the industry found a way to intentionally prevent things from working reliably.
Now, this isn't a 'vulnerability' in the normal sense of the word: digital rights management is not a feature that users want. Being able to remove copy protection is a good thing for some users, and completely irrelevant for everyone else. No user is ever going to say: 'Oh no. I can now play the music I bought for my PC on my Mac. I must install a patch so I can't do that anymore.'
It most certainly is a vulnerability, when you look at things as "they" do: the software manages digital restrictions on what you can do, so you're the attacker, and it's their security that is being compromised. Never mind that this is all occurring on your machine, and that the only security that's at stake is their government-protected artificial scarcity enforcement system.
At a moment where many people wonder if the use of X is safe, it's good to know that the category X includes something we consider safe, therefore all other things covered by X must also be safe. For example:
At a moment where many people wonder if some uses of molecules are unsafe, it's good to know that other forms of molecular technology have been used for a very long time, therefore all uses of molecules are safe!
Sorry, I just hate stupid logic used to silence rational questions about the safety of certain substances.
And to whoever is tasked with testing the Windows version of iTunes under this environment, have you not yet realized that Apple provides a Mac version?
More concisely, the opposition is to the automation of this data aggregation. This is the essence of a lot of opposition to increased data collection and sharing by various entities; it's not the mere fact of collection, but the reduction in cost to the point that massive correlation and reference can be done and justified for almost anyone.
The terrorists use the Timex Sinclair 1000 computer with that awful memory expansion pack that crashes the computer and wipes out all your data at the slightest touch. No way anyone will get at your data!
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Oh come on! You can use one of those web-to-e-mail services and not lose anything if you stuck with e-mail. In fact, someone seems to have signed me up for one since I daily get web pages e-mailed to me, though unfortunately they are just advertisements. They are even nice enough to put the text into an image so I won't lose the nice fonts. Other times they send me lots of raw HTML that my e-mail client doesn't understand. The future's all in e-mail, I tell you!
So, if we put pressure on banks by making them pay, maybe they'll do things to make phishing attacks harder to carry out. Sounds good... but
If we put pressure on customers by making them pay, maybe they'll do things that make phishing attacks harder to carry out.
In the end, I as a customer to my own bank can entirely prevent phishing attacks on my account, through very little cost to myself. Therefore, I would like to be held responsible for phishing rather than my bank, otherwise I'll be paying for other customers' negligence.
I am not sure if they really want to, but todays applications simply require quite a bit more CPU and RAM then yesterdays applications, even for the very same jobs.
They use quite a bit more CPU and RAM, but do they really require it? As in, maybe they could be written better. Of course, given that such CPU and RAM are cheap these days, it doesn't make sense to spend extra time reducing these requirements a lot.
I let all of the pre-coverage get me to expect either a release date earlier than 1 month before Christmas, or a price closer to $200.
Unless Christmas has been moved to another date or November has been shortened by a week, the first clause is true.
A crime to hold the command key and click the title bar in Apple's Safari web browser? When you do that, you get a popup menu of the parent "directories" the current web page is in, the same way you do in a Finder window. No URL hacking, just a built-in convenience feature.
If only the US's news censorship policy were this straightforward and clearly documented, it'd be a lot easier to comply with it! Maybe China can set an example.
In the past, Slashdotting a site into a pile of smouldering ashes was merely a joke, but if this plan goes through, it could be for real (and you could take out half a neightborhood along with it). Overloading a broadband gas pipeline is no laughing matter.
Like the parent says, the only data they care about is that which can just be re-downloaded if it becomes corrupt (but you'll have to re-buy it too).
A format war occurs when there are two or more incompatible interfaces for accessing data on media. Since these chips would be the guts inside a thumb drive or other medium using a standard interface, there would be no format war, just a new choice of implementation technology that could be adopted as slowly or quickly as desired.
If the problem might be the microwave oven, it means you need to disconnect it from your home entertainment system ASAP.
Let's see...
- MacBook hardware relies on OS to tell its subsystems they they can sleep, as I imagine most hardware does
- Beta version of Vista doesn't have MacBook-specific drivers
- Therefore, Beta version of Vista runs hot all the time, not just when making full use of all hardware at once
What's missing is a reason for this to be newsworthy, especially on a site like this.
Seems kinda obvious to me... we're running out of people who want one and don't have one already.
Sorry, it was me. I haven't bought an iPod yet.
There is only one poll that matters - and it occurs at the ballot box.
Worry not; that last little nuisance is being taken care of.
Currently, yes, but what about in the future? Landfills are becoming full of highly processed materials that would be quite valuable if they were the only source of them.
__XOR__ 0 | 0 = 0 0 | 1 = 1 1 | 1 = 1 1 | 1 = 0
Are you lying incompetent?
You're right, how can we forget the little guy? Someone needs to set up a donation link ASAP!
Shhh, don't give them any ideas!
Maybe their Digital Restrictions Management system couldn't be made restrictive enough without low-level access to the Mac hardware?
At least you can be sure it might play! Funny how once computers became powerful enough to end compatibility issues, the industry found a way to intentionally prevent things from working reliably.
It most certainly is a vulnerability, when you look at things as "they" do: the software manages digital restrictions on what you can do, so you're the attacker, and it's their security that is being compromised. Never mind that this is all occurring on your machine, and that the only security that's at stake is their government-protected artificial scarcity enforcement system.
You must be new here. R.P. is a regular "contributor".
At a moment where many people wonder if the use of X is safe, it's good to know that the category X includes something we consider safe, therefore all other things covered by X must also be safe. For example:
At a moment where many people wonder if some uses of molecules are unsafe, it's good to know that other forms of molecular technology have been used for a very long time, therefore all uses of molecules are safe!
Sorry, I just hate stupid logic used to silence rational questions about the safety of certain substances.
And to whoever is tasked with testing the Windows version of iTunes under this environment, have you not yet realized that Apple provides a Mac version?
More concisely, the opposition is to the automation of this data aggregation. This is the essence of a lot of opposition to increased data collection and sharing by various entities; it's not the mere fact of collection, but the reduction in cost to the point that massive correlation and reference can be done and justified for almost anyone.
The terrorists use the Timex Sinclair 1000 computer with that awful memory expansion pack that crashes the computer and wipes out all your data at the slightest touch. No way anyone will get at your data!