I disagree that personal phone numbers are worth less than business ones. In fact this is just a silly thing to say.
What?!? If someone is trying to exploit this security hole do you really think they'd be bothered to get the phone number of your mate Billy? I think they'd be far more interested in getting the numbers from a coperate exec phone or other information that isn't readily available.
Sure you could ring a company and ask to speak to a CEO but if you had his/her mobile number you could have a lot more fun.
This is exactly the reason why its such a big issue.
As an consumer, if you have a bluetooth phone all you are likely to have is the phone number of your friends.
As a geek, you are more than likely to have a PDA for keeping anything more detailed/sensitive.
Business users, executives etc. are more likely to use the advanced functions of there phones and therefore it is they that are most at risk to losing sensitive data.
So, whilst most models dont have bluetooth, the ones that do are the ones that are liekly to have the most valuable information.
I just don't get it why its acceptable, to take something someone has created (musican) and wants to be paid for and give it away for free?.
You're right to say that its not acceptable to share other peoples works. However, what the RIAA is doing is not right either. They are struggling in the current market to sell their product and in a practice that is all to common these days they are suing to make money instead of trying to re-position their products and services into a postion where people will happily buy the product instead of stealing it. The iTunes experiment has proven, to some degree, that people generally want to do the right thing if they treated right. Piss people off and they will get back at you somehow and in this case that means that they will continue to download music.
The RIAA is trying to make a point of certain individuals but its just not working. There was a public outcry in the last few weeks over the suing of a 12 year old girl which made headline news in a lot of mainstream media which has done them no favours.
The RIAA doesn't represent you, they're not your friend (RI stands for Recording Industy)
But who do the RIAA represent? I know that they are supposed to be representing musicians and artits but a lot of musicians have come out against the RIAA's method of trying to stop filesharers. In reality it is the major record labels that the RIAA represent and all they are trying to achieve is to maintain the existing monoply of paying artists very little per CD but charging almost crazy prices them.
I think it is a less then wise approach to continually point and laugh at Microsfot like this. Yes, there software is buggy and flawed. Yes, they can be slow to react to problems/flaws within the operating systems and applications.
However it is worth noting that Linux and OSS in general is not without its flaws either. Its just that there is not so many exploits of it possible or even those that are, are not pounced on by the media. This is because of the (incorrect) perception of the media that Linux is not a major force in the marketplace. When a script kiddie is setting out to get attention and make a name for themselves which OS do you think they'll target? Linux is not that attractive to these guys as its not likely to make headline news around the world as Linux is not firmly embedded (by which I mean market penetration) in all aspects of business and home computing compared to Microsofts software YET.
At some point in the near future (and I hope its very soon) Linux's market penetration is all aspects of computing will become much larger and then thats when the virus writers will turn to it.
So instead of sitting here and slagging of how terrible Microsoft is at doing its job people involed need to be sure that when the time comes that Linux and OSS can do its job properly and not make headlines like this.
Kind of difficult to do VB programmer using emacs, wouldn't you say?
Sometimes as a user, you are just stuck with certain tools, etc. A hardware feature like this can help if you are in a situation where you need it. To most people it'll probably be useless and maybe even annoying but if that is the case then it'll be a niche product and won't affect the mice manufacturers core product lines.
Whilst I agree that scrolling though source code on a normal display may be considered unusual, think about it for another moment.
I do a lot of my coding for my job in VB6. When in the VB IDE I have a quite a large toolbox toolbar, a debug window, a properties box, etc all open. The actual area for souce code can be quite small depending on what I'm doing. Also some of the previous programmers in my company tended to have very long source code lines when they were creating strings for display in error messages and I have to scroll quite often to get to the end of these messages.
I know that it's hardly ideal but then again this isn't an ideal world.
When I was a windows developer (I've reformed), I got really loaded on coffee and hot chocolate mix and actually pulled the damned windows key off of my keyboard, drilled a hole in my office wall, and shoved it in there.
You might want this if you something else other than view web pages.
Many peoples documents, source code or whatever needs to be scrolled horizontally.
It might not be all that original but I think it could be very worthwhile.
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No, he has not fallen under any misconception.
His problem was that he found that he could not achieve what he wanted using a javascript (an arguably limited web-baed scripting language) and decided to move to another language with more powerful features.
Maybe the drop in filesharing traffic is seasonal. New releases are not as frequent from major artists during the summer months so filesharers have less new songs available to download at present.
Why not? Well for starters it's not very relevant in a non-technical course to ask your students to become programmers. Its one thing to ask them to use something like Slashcode but kinda pointless to get them into modifying it without taking away from the course itself.
Windows is a large enough install as it is. What's it going to be like by the time they add all that super-intelligent M$ code to make it to know what I'm thinking.
And another thing, will it mail my boss if I keep looking at the clock.
The glass ins't half full or half empty it's just to damn big!
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I disagree that personal phone numbers are worth less than business ones. In fact this is just a silly thing to say.
What?!? If someone is trying to exploit this security hole do you really think they'd be bothered to get the phone number of your mate Billy? I think they'd be far more interested in getting the numbers from a coperate exec phone or other information that isn't readily available.
Sure you could ring a company and ask to speak to a CEO but if you had his/her mobile number you could have a lot more fun.
This is exactly the reason why its such a big issue.
As an consumer, if you have a bluetooth phone all you are likely to have is the phone number of your friends.
As a geek, you are more than likely to have a PDA for keeping anything more detailed/sensitive.
Business users, executives etc. are more likely to use the advanced functions of there phones and therefore it is they that are most at risk to losing sensitive data.
So, whilst most models dont have bluetooth, the ones that do are the ones that are liekly to have the most valuable information.
I just don't get it why its acceptable, to take something someone has created (musican) and wants to be paid for and give it away for free?.
You're right to say that its not acceptable to share other peoples works. However, what the RIAA is doing is not right either. They are struggling in the current market to sell their product and in a practice that is all to common these days they are suing to make money instead of trying to re-position their products and services into a postion where people will happily buy the product instead of stealing it. The iTunes experiment has proven, to some degree, that people generally want to do the right thing if they treated right. Piss people off and they will get back at you somehow and in this case that means that they will continue to download music.
The RIAA is trying to make a point of certain individuals but its just not working. There was a public outcry in the last few weeks over the suing of a 12 year old girl which made headline news in a lot of mainstream media which has done them no favours.
The RIAA doesn't represent you, they're not your friend (RI stands for Recording Industy)
But who do the RIAA represent? I know that they are supposed to be representing musicians and artits but a lot of musicians have come out against the RIAA's method of trying to stop filesharers. In reality it is the major record labels that the RIAA represent and all they are trying to achieve is to maintain the existing monoply of paying artists very little per CD but charging almost crazy prices them.
I think it is a less then wise approach to continually point and laugh at Microsfot like this. Yes, there software is buggy and flawed. Yes, they can be slow to react to problems/flaws within the operating systems and applications.
However it is worth noting that Linux and OSS in general is not without its flaws either. Its just that there is not so many exploits of it possible or even those that are, are not pounced on by the media. This is because of the (incorrect) perception of the media that Linux is not a major force in the marketplace. When a script kiddie is setting out to get attention and make a name for themselves which OS do you think they'll target? Linux is not that attractive to these guys as its not likely to make headline news around the world as Linux is not firmly embedded (by which I mean market penetration) in all aspects of business and home computing compared to Microsofts software YET.
At some point in the near future (and I hope its very soon) Linux's market penetration is all aspects of computing will become much larger and then thats when the virus writers will turn to it.
So instead of sitting here and slagging of how terrible Microsoft is at doing its job people involed need to be sure that when the time comes that Linux and OSS can do its job properly and not make headlines like this.
These parties will be used by SCO to round up potential IP infringers. Stay at home and save yourself!!!
And lose out on features such as Intellisense, etc that just about make the process of VB programming bareable?
Kind of difficult to do VB programmer using emacs, wouldn't you say?
Sometimes as a user, you are just stuck with certain tools, etc. A hardware feature like this can help if you are in a situation where you need it. To most people it'll probably be useless and maybe even annoying but if that is the case then it'll be a niche product and won't affect the mice manufacturers core product lines.
Whilst I agree that scrolling though source code on a normal display may be considered unusual, think about it for another moment.
I do a lot of my coding for my job in VB6. When in the VB IDE I have a quite a large toolbox toolbar, a debug window, a properties box, etc all open. The actual area for souce code can be quite small depending on what I'm doing. Also some of the previous programmers in my company tended to have very long source code lines when they were creating strings for display in error messages and I have to scroll quite often to get to the end of these messages.
I know that it's hardly ideal but then again this isn't an ideal world.
When I was a windows developer (I've reformed), I got really loaded on coffee and hot chocolate mix and actually pulled the damned windows key off of my keyboard, drilled a hole in my office wall, and shoved it in there.
Maybe you need to drink less coffee.
You might want this if you something else other than view web pages.
Many peoples documents, source code or whatever needs to be scrolled horizontally.
It might not be all that original but I think it could be very worthwhile.
No, he has not fallen under any misconception.
His problem was that he found that he could not achieve what he wanted using a javascript (an arguably limited web-baed scripting language) and decided to move to another language with more powerful features.
Maybe the drop in filesharing traffic is seasonal. New releases are not as frequent from major artists during the summer months so filesharers have less new songs available to download at present.
Why not? Well for starters it's not very relevant in a non-technical course to ask your students to become programmers. Its one thing to ask them to use something like Slashcode but kinda pointless to get them into modifying it without taking away from the course itself.
The issue here is not what issues Windows has. Why does Linux have to be constantly compared to Windows?
If Linux has issues and vulnerablities let them be noted and fixed and get on with instead of saying "Well if we're bad then Windows is worse".
Liux will never get the respect it needs and deserves with that attitude.
And another thing, will it mail my boss if I keep looking at the clock.
The glass ins't half full or half empty it's just to damn big!