They may have repented but have they learned anything? I doubt it. From a Yahoo article:
Sony BMG Music Entertainment's other copy-protected CDs are in trouble. Sony on Tuesday released a patch to take care of a security bug associated with playing CDs using a form of copy protection from SunnComm in personal computers. A leading Princeton University researcher wrote on his blog Wednesday that the patch opens users to malicious attacks. Sony on Thursday said it posted a new patch on its sonybmg.com website to fix the problem. Professor Ed Felten has called on Sony BMG to recall the estimated 6 million SunnComm CDs - including titles by Alicia Keys and Santana - as the label did with CDs with XCP copy protection.
It could just be that you are a distraction. Since you are a short timer, you might take other people's time by chatting with them. Besides, the employees have to deal with surprise exits due to illness all the time so think of this as practice.
Also, if the place sucks to work for, the employer might be rightfully afraid that other emoyees might talk to you about going with you. This isn't to say that you would be unprofessional and poach, but something was wrong enough for you to leave. And before you say, "They could just get your home number," consider how many past employees you are currently in touch with. I tried to get people to leave for much better digs. Walked up with offer in hand. No luck. Inertia is an impressive thing.
One of the reasons for doing is this is to force people to upgrade.
Let's fgace facts, Longwait and Office 2**n have nothing compelling enough to warant upgrading. But this move ensures that you will not be able to find any 64 bit machines that don't have them on it (Even if you don't want them at all)
Plain and simple... It's their attempt at replicating Windows 95 all over again.
I always hate it when people say such great things about the all electric cars. There are some serious problems:
Line loss: instead of your car causing the polution, you've got the electric plant causing the polution. And a lot of that is for electicity that will be lost during transmission.
Single point of failure: What happens when the power goes out for a week because of ice storms? You may not have heat and you can't go anywhere.
Infrastructure: where are you going to charge when you're not at home? Do you think other people want to be paying for the electricity for your car? Try jacking into someone else's power in the city and you'll find your plug holes filled with liquid cement in the morning!
Ultimately, the only way fully electric cars are going to work is when they can generate most or all of the power they need by themselves. Imagine what you could do with a bank of solar panels on the top of a trailer in a tractor trailer rig? (I should patent that. Whoops! Oh well... you heard it here first. The name is Autonomous Crowhard)
"So why aren't they recalling the product that's already in the channel? There are thousands (millions?) of discs sitting on retailers shelves that are just waiting to install the rootkit. Oh yeah, that would hurt their bottom line."
I think you've got a good start here, but there's more. Sony has to be made to understand that even people who trust them now cannot risk buying any of their disks until their rootkits have all been completely removed from the market. And to be safer you should also boycott all artists who's disks are effected. Are you will to take the risk???
How many people here have written checks to Google that they would have otherwise written to Microsoft?
Zero and zero.
But Google has gotten my eyeballs. I've seen the ads and have even clicked on a couple.
When I see a link to MSNBC I run the other way. When I see someone trying to glob onto MS I wretch. I question that company's intelligence. They may be making a good decision by grabbing the biggest coattails, but if they even become popular the Borg might just absorb them.
People like me are the ones they should worry about. We're the ones laughing at the family Christmas party when the homeowner asks if anyone can help them with their computer problem. Sure I'm the only programmer here, but you know what? I don't know crap about Windows.
A perfectly valid thing to do. I just hope you don't mind getting about as much attention as people who leave their piercings in.
Heck, why not just take a sharpie and scribble over all the information in the passport. I'm sure the TSA drone will laugh, chuck you on the shoulder, and say "Welcome home".
Think about it... If item can be tied to you at the point of purchase then the litter folk will definitely have someone to go after. With the fines as high as they are this is would not be a waste of money.
From the way everyone is acting you'd swear this was only the second shuttle flight to ever have anything fall off. A number of people have said that this might have been the cleanest of the 110+ launches
Also, the report incorrectly says "as far as possible from the dangers of firing engines and falling debris, which were responsible for the accidents that destroyed the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003." The new designs will do nothing to protect from a Challenger style accident. The only difference is that lives will not be lost in that case. A big difference but lost of a payload is not inconsequential. Don't forget that standard rockets can also go boom or fail to reach orbit.
Space travel is not safe. There's around a 2% chance that a ship will be lost. But imagine if we grounded every airplane for years any time there was an accident. Or cars. Oops, Bobby Joe in Memphis just had a blowout, everyone off the roads until we can redesign the tires. We need to accept that there is risk. Sure, solve the problem, but in the mean time keep flying.
Warning: everything below assumes that the JPL app and orbital estimates are correct.
There does seem to be a point where Pluto's and EL61's orbits get rather close. I wonder if this could point to a potential common origin? Maybe Something Else (tm) passed by and flung 2003 El61 out of the little triad. (I would doubt Pluto and Charon would be the ones tossed because the odds of them staying together would be low) The distance between the orbits might be explained by precession.
Unfortunately the Java app only covers from Jan 1, 1600-2200 so I couldn't test this theory. Can someone else play with the app and look into the distant past for a near miss?
How much of the push behind the zero noise power supplies is from the makers of white noise generators?
Try this some time... shut off all the machines in your office next time you have to read a paper document. I'm willing to bet you'll suddenly realize that your neighbors are a bunch of noisy louts.
And if their machines were silent they might hear the snoring from your office.
Even in the new system the second Sunday in March 7-13 days before the equinox, while the first Sunday in November is 41-47 after the equinox. Conclusive proof that DST has ZERO to do with actual daylight.
The article was a bit breathless about what could be a simple normal occurrence. These things are so far away they are just red-shifted out of the visible spectrum.
Since the universe is expanding, the further an object is away from the observer, the greater its red-shift. Hubble came up with the idea that the visible universe isn't limited by what's visible... It's limited by the velocity-distance proportionality. At some point everything that would be visible has been completely red-shifted out of the visible spectrum.
I once worked with a guy who had the same problem you have. He would write the most insane, convoluted ode possible in the name of optimization. His code was completely unmaintainable. We even tried showing him that his code was longer/slower at the assembler level.
Don't forget that compilers are designed to optimize normal code constructs. If you come in with something truly bizzare the compiler might just make things worse because it doesn't know what to do.
To date I've seen zero popups. And I don't run any ad-blocker software. Impossible, you say? No. It's very easy...
TURN OFF JAVASCRIPT!!!
Good god! How tough can it be???
Aside from popups, JavaScript is being used for patently stupid things like emulating links. If we just complain whenever we see this, or better yet go elsewhere, people will start to get the idea.
Boycott sites that use JavaScript. Let their webmasters know.
Slashdot Mirror
Sony BMG Music Entertainment's other copy-protected CDs are in trouble. Sony on Tuesday released a patch to take care of a security bug associated with playing CDs using a form of copy protection from SunnComm in personal computers. A leading Princeton University researcher wrote on his blog Wednesday that the patch opens users to malicious attacks. Sony on Thursday said it posted a new patch on its sonybmg.com website to fix the problem. Professor Ed Felten has called on Sony BMG to recall the estimated 6 million SunnComm CDs - including titles by Alicia Keys and Santana - as the label did with CDs with XCP copy protection.
Exactly! Not sure how much you missed while you were away, so just get safe behind the firewall, pop in that Sony CD, and relax.
Also, if the place sucks to work for, the employer might be rightfully afraid that other emoyees might talk to you about going with you. This isn't to say that you would be unprofessional and poach, but something was wrong enough for you to leave. And before you say, "They could just get your home number," consider how many past employees you are currently in touch with. I tried to get people to leave for much better digs. Walked up with offer in hand. No luck. Inertia is an impressive thing.
Let's fgace facts, Longwait and Office 2**n have nothing compelling enough to warant upgrading. But this move ensures that you will not be able to find any 64 bit machines that don't have them on it (Even if you don't want them at all)
Plain and simple... It's their attempt at replicating Windows 95 all over again.
- Line loss: instead of your car causing the polution, you've got the electric plant causing the polution. And a lot of that is for electicity that will be lost during transmission.
- Single point of failure: What happens when the power goes out for a week because of ice storms? You may not have heat and you can't go anywhere.
- Infrastructure: where are you going to charge when you're not at home? Do you think other people want to be paying for the electricity for your car? Try jacking into someone else's power in the city and you'll find your plug holes filled with liquid cement in the morning!
Ultimately, the only way fully electric cars are going to work is when they can generate most or all of the power they need by themselves. Imagine what you could do with a bank of solar panels on the top of a trailer in a tractor trailer rig? (I should patent that. Whoops! Oh well... you heard it here first. The name is Autonomous Crowhard)I think you've got a good start here, but there's more. Sony has to be made to understand that even people who trust them now cannot risk buying any of their disks until their rootkits have all been completely removed from the market. And to be safer you should also boycott all artists who's disks are effected. Are you will to take the risk???
Zero and zero.
But Google has gotten my eyeballs. I've seen the ads and have even clicked on a couple.
When I see a link to MSNBC I run the other way. When I see someone trying to glob onto MS I wretch. I question that company's intelligence. They may be making a good decision by grabbing the biggest coattails, but if they even become popular the Borg might just absorb them.
People like me are the ones they should worry about. We're the ones laughing at the family Christmas party when the homeowner asks if anyone can help them with their computer problem. Sure I'm the only programmer here, but you know what? I don't know crap about Windows.
Heck, why not just take a sharpie and scribble over all the information in the passport. I'm sure the TSA drone will laugh, chuck you on the shoulder, and say "Welcome home".
Stan: Oh my gosh they hurt Kenny!
Kyle: You meanies!
Make it a pink triangle and watch the reaction!
Think about it... If item can be tied to you at the point of purchase then the litter folk will definitely have someone to go after. With the fines as high as they are this is would not be a waste of money.
It's called fdisk.
Do the math... Billyboy's first child was born roughly 9 months from this day. Coincedence?
I thought the key implied part of "improving" was to actually have something to improve upon.
Oh... wait... You meant that they should teach how your "God" created things???
Also, the report incorrectly says "as far as possible from the dangers of firing engines and falling debris, which were responsible for the accidents that destroyed the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and the Columbia in 2003." The new designs will do nothing to protect from a Challenger style accident. The only difference is that lives will not be lost in that case. A big difference but lost of a payload is not inconsequential. Don't forget that standard rockets can also go boom or fail to reach orbit.
Space travel is not safe. There's around a 2% chance that a ship will be lost. But imagine if we grounded every airplane for years any time there was an accident. Or cars. Oops, Bobby Joe in Memphis just had a blowout, everyone off the roads until we can redesign the tires. We need to accept that there is risk. Sure, solve the problem, but in the mean time keep flying.
There does seem to be a point where Pluto's and EL61's orbits get rather close. I wonder if this could point to a potential common origin? Maybe Something Else (tm) passed by and flung 2003 El61 out of the little triad. (I would doubt Pluto and Charon would be the ones tossed because the odds of them staying together would be low) The distance between the orbits might be explained by precession.
Unfortunately the Java app only covers from Jan 1, 1600-2200 so I couldn't test this theory. Can someone else play with the app and look into the distant past for a near miss?
Why should I appreciate my admin??? He's a complete jerk! I really hate when he #!:&*().%@ +++CONNECTION LOST+++
Try this some time... shut off all the machines in your office next time you have to read a paper document. I'm willing to bet you'll suddenly realize that your neighbors are a bunch of noisy louts.
And if their machines were silent they might hear the snoring from your office.
Even in the new system the second Sunday in March 7-13 days before the equinox, while the first Sunday in November is 41-47 after the equinox. Conclusive proof that DST has ZERO to do with actual daylight.
7) Some of Kevin Bacon's movies have been crap.
Since the universe is expanding, the further an object is away from the observer, the greater its red-shift. Hubble came up with the idea that the visible universe isn't limited by what's visible... It's limited by the velocity-distance proportionality. At some point everything that would be visible has been completely red-shifted out of the visible spectrum.
Don't forget that compilers are designed to optimize normal code constructs. If you come in with something truly bizzare the compiler might just make things worse because it doesn't know what to do.
TURN OFF JAVASCRIPT!!!
Good god! How tough can it be???
Aside from popups, JavaScript is being used for patently stupid things like emulating links. If we just complain whenever we see this, or better yet go elsewhere, people will start to get the idea.
Boycott sites that use JavaScript. Let their webmasters know.
a project that no one has ever attempted before
Didn't somebody try the same for Farscape?
And Firefly.
For a direct to DVD subsciption concept, see http://www.fireflymovie.com/directdvd.html.