Actually, if people stopped supporting HTML email, none of this would happen. Because links like <a href="http://phonysite.freewebpages.cx/site/bankofamircaphishingsit/login.phpe">bankofamerica.com</a> would be quite obvious in plain text email.
But people and email client developers insist on such non-standard email that's just a red carpet for phishing and provides no actual use to any legitimate user.
A lot of us Linux users use Windows exactly because our lives depend on it. Linux at home, Windows at work. When Microsoft makes our jobs harder than necessary, yes, we are going to complain. "But you get paid for it" - yeah, but I don't get paid more just because my job got harder.
"Their lives depend on it"? I haven't used windows in 4 years. Am I dead? "Getting paid for it" isn't an excuse. The IT market is full of jobs and there's huge demand for decent IT people. If you boss wants you to use windows, you either (1) quit, or (2) use windows because you don't have a problem with that.
This is the only OS in the world that people complain about NOT having a menu to access applications. It's ok that OS X has never had a Start menu. And I thought Windows was dumb, Linux rules. But all these "expert" users who claim to run Linux or OS X as their primary OS sure seem distraught by something that shouldn't affect them often because, after all, they wouldn't use Windows if their life depended on it.
Mac has friendlier ways of opening applications (and this comes from a guy who hates OS X). User-friendly linux distros have similar buttons on the bottom-left or top-left corner (depending on the distro).
Why do care if I don't use windows? I don't use Mint, but I still care about it, because it's something non-tech-savy people (like my mom, gf, etc) can use. The same applies (applied) here.
There's definitely demand for.NET programmers. Just not in startups and places where you work.
Places where I worked, or places ex-coworkers work at, or places know by any acquaintance, or mayor corporations, or university colleagues (I'm both teacher AND student), or friends, or anyone else for that matter.
Seriously, the market share for.NET is TINY, while first year students can get job in java because the demand for programmers is so ridiculously huge that there's no way to find enough people. I've even seen a few job postings for python, but for.net? Not yet. Not in my lifetime.
As an experiences python and java programmer, I can tell you that there's almost NO demand for.net progammers, and, because of this, they tend to be the worst payed.
Try not to publish this as "Linux", but rather "Open Source". You'll probably get fans of other FLOSS software how may in future be interested in moving to linux, but would me somewhat intimidated by what "LUG" sounds like. You'll also get participation from BSD users. (As a BSD user at the time, I never felt comfortable with being a member of a "LINUX user group" at my former university.
One of my banks has "eight digit, numbers only, cannot repeat numbers", and each time I change it, it no digits must me replaced in the same place as the last password. No three digits must be consecutive numbers, or consecutive in reverse order. Amongst other conditions.
Generating a rememerable password is extremely hard. Even random numbers are of little use, since they tend to be rejected as well.
This results in me having to use keepassx (instead of MY BRAIN) to store my passwords.
Meanwhile, I can easily remember passwords for sites with free-form strings as password. I can even use unique ones everywhere. It would also take several centuries to brute force any of those.
So we need DRM to support things like discographics? Great, let's scrap those plans for DRM then, and see if they (and their deprecated business model) go away once and for all!
Those same kids that use their cell phones at school have 3g/4g, so they still have perfect access to porn. They probably have internet at home as well.
When you BYOD onto my network, we control it, we can wipe it, we can install and uninstall apps and if you dont agree to our terms, dont bother complaining that you cant BYOD. BYOD is not open slather, if you want to bring your own device, fine, we welcome that but you will be registering it with our MDM (Mobile Device Management) system before you're even so much as able to put mail on there, that means our policies get enforced on your device (and your administrative privileges for that device get taken away). Sorry, but this part isn't negotiable.
BYOD isn't a priviledge. I'm actually putting additional resources onto my job to do it more efficiently. Why do I also have to give YOU control over it?
I use my personal PC for work. If my boss want access to wipe it, install stuff etc, my answer would be "No. I own it. If you want control over it, give me one payed by yourself. I want to do whatever I want on it on non-work time. Also, don't expect me to ever carry it with me the moment I leave the office."
Maybe you should improve your licensing options or choose better products with less licensing. Throwing out high quality people because a 3rd party company bullies you is not really great business practice.
Yeah, really high quality employees which were illegaly redistributing copyrighted works inside a corporate enviroment!
I agree. Even before the age of the internet, users had the change of bringing in a floppy with Monkey Island on it, buy nobody did that because they know they'd get fired for fooling around in work time. The same needs to apply to modern internet usage: you don't restrict it, but make sure people aren't slacking off all day long.
BYOD is not just about someone saving money. It's about people expecting to have their devices work and IT in organizations being too slow or not having enough funding to give everybody their device of choice.
I've found BYOD is actually a big PITA for large organisations because the devices people are bringing are almost universally Android or iOS, and in both cases the OS and apps have terrible support for HTTP proxies; and many large organisations use proxies to control web access from within their networks.
If users bring their own devices, and those have OSs that don't even support HTTP proxies, then that's the users' problem. You can't have a BYOD policy and then have to deal with devices that have network support that looks like it's 2001. What's next "my device doesn't support TCP/IP"?
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Gaming is slowly moving over to other platforms.
Casual gamers are moving onto consoles (wii, anyone?), tablets and smartpones.
Tech-savy gamers are moving to wine or steam on linux.
The rest (non-tech-savvy, hardcore gamers) are split between consoles and windows, with windows loosing market every minute.
Actually, if people stopped supporting HTML email, none of this would happen.
Because links like <a href="http://phonysite.freewebpages.cx/site/bankofamircaphishingsit/login.phpe">bankofamerica.com</a> would be quite obvious in plain text email.
But people and email client developers insist on such non-standard email that's just a red carpet for phishing and provides no actual use to any legitimate user.
I RTFA, and all I could think about is BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH.
Why the hell did you RTFA? This is slashdot, we don't RTFA here!
A lot of us Linux users use Windows exactly because our lives depend on it. Linux at home, Windows at work. When Microsoft makes our jobs harder than necessary, yes, we are going to complain. "But you get paid for it" - yeah, but I don't get paid more just because my job got harder.
"Their lives depend on it"? I haven't used windows in 4 years. Am I dead?
"Getting paid for it" isn't an excuse. The IT market is full of jobs and there's huge demand for decent IT people. If you boss wants you to use windows, you either (1) quit, or (2) use windows because you don't have a problem with that.
This is the only OS in the world that people complain about NOT having a menu to access applications. It's ok that OS X has never had a Start menu. And I thought Windows was dumb, Linux rules. But all these "expert" users who claim to run Linux or OS X as their primary OS sure seem distraught by something that shouldn't affect them often because, after all, they wouldn't use Windows if their life depended on it.
Mac has friendlier ways of opening applications (and this comes from a guy who hates OS X).
User-friendly linux distros have similar buttons on the bottom-left or top-left corner (depending on the distro).
Why do care if I don't use windows?
I don't use Mint, but I still care about it, because it's something non-tech-savy people (like my mom, gf, etc) can use.
The same applies (applied) here.
There's definitely demand for .NET programmers. Just not in startups and places where you work.
Places where I worked, or places ex-coworkers work at, or places know by any acquaintance, or mayor corporations, or university colleagues (I'm both teacher AND student), or friends, or anyone else for that matter.
Seriously, the market share for .NET is TINY, while first year students can get job in java because the demand for programmers is so ridiculously huge that there's no way to find enough people. .net? Not yet. Not in my lifetime.
I've even seen a few job postings for python, but for
So what is vine?
The website says absolutely nothing, there are apps for two OSs I don't use, no web interface, no description...?
Does it have ANY market share? Why should we care?
If everything on earth is destroyed, all remaning github users will have no issues with the new uptimes anyway.
As an experiences python and java programmer, I can tell you that there's almost NO demand for .net progammers, and, because of this, they tend to be the worst payed.
Try not to publish this as "Linux", but rather "Open Source". You'll probably get fans of other FLOSS software how may in future be interested in moving to linux, but would me somewhat intimidated by what "LUG" sounds like.
You'll also get participation from BSD users. (As a BSD user at the time, I never felt comfortable with being a member of a "LINUX user group" at my former university.
One of my banks has "eight digit, numbers only, cannot repeat numbers", and each time I change it, it no digits must me replaced in the same place as the last password. No three digits must be consecutive numbers, or consecutive in reverse order. Amongst other conditions.
Generating a rememerable password is extremely hard. Even random numbers are of little use, since they tend to be rejected as well.
This results in me having to use keepassx (instead of MY BRAIN) to store my passwords.
Meanwhile, I can easily remember passwords for sites with free-form strings as password. I can even use unique ones everywhere. It would also take several centuries to brute force any of those.
Indeed, this being "news for nerds", these are the actual facts we all care about!
Horse-pulled carridges just work, and don't need to be replaced.
If my employer doesn't trust me with sensitive data (which I need for my own work), then they should not keep me their employee.
"graphic routines" in this case, doesn't just refer to drivers.
The graphic routines reside in kernel space?
An absolute necessity for performance reasons.
Oh, that's why Value got more FPS on games natively on linux vs windows, right?
I avoid risky behaviors on Internet
I don't think op has flash installed.
[...]turned on, and turned off after several minutes[...]
Even so, polling a webcam is a few seconds at most, not minutes.
So we need DRM to support things like discographics?
Great, let's scrap those plans for DRM then, and see if they (and their deprecated business model) go away once and for all!
Those same kids that use their cell phones at school have 3g/4g, so they still have perfect access to porn.
They probably have internet at home as well.
IMHO, Mr. Torvalds should step in and organize / unify this mess if the Year of Linux in the desktop is to ever happen.
As much as some people here may not like him, Mr. Shuttleworth was doing exactly what you described.
FTFY
I don't think I installed all my packages into /home. I don't think I did system-wide configurtion in /home either.
When you BYOD onto my network, we control it, we can wipe it, we can install and uninstall apps and if you dont agree to our terms, dont bother complaining that you cant BYOD. BYOD is not open slather, if you want to bring your own device, fine, we welcome that but you will be registering it with our MDM (Mobile Device Management) system before you're even so much as able to put mail on there, that means our policies get enforced on your device (and your administrative privileges for that device get taken away). Sorry, but this part isn't negotiable.
BYOD isn't a priviledge. I'm actually putting additional resources onto my job to do it more efficiently. Why do I also have to give YOU control over it?
I use my personal PC for work. If my boss want access to wipe it, install stuff etc, my answer would be "No. I own it. If you want control over it, give me one payed by yourself. I want to do whatever I want on it on non-work time. Also, don't expect me to ever carry it with me the moment I leave the office."
Maybe you should improve your licensing options or choose better products with less licensing. Throwing out high quality people because a 3rd party company bullies you is not really great business practice.
Yeah, really high quality employees which were illegaly redistributing copyrighted works inside a corporate enviroment!
I agree. Even before the age of the internet, users had the change of bringing in a floppy with Monkey Island on it, buy nobody did that because they know they'd get fired for fooling around in work time. The same needs to apply to modern internet usage: you don't restrict it, but make sure people aren't slacking off all day long.
BYOD is not just about someone saving money. It's about people expecting to have their devices work and IT in organizations being too slow or not having enough funding to give everybody their device of choice.
I've found BYOD is actually a big PITA for large organisations because the devices people are bringing are almost universally Android or iOS, and in both cases the OS and apps have terrible support for HTTP proxies; and many large organisations use proxies to control web access from within their networks.
If users bring their own devices, and those have OSs that don't even support HTTP proxies, then that's the users' problem.
You can't have a BYOD policy and then have to deal with devices that have network support that looks like it's 2001.
What's next "my device doesn't support TCP/IP"?