So when will the license you get when you buy a car say 'You can't allow certain people to drive your car.' or "You are not allowed to install a different cd player." or, or, and don't forget about.
If you are one of these people who has a stupid password, you deserve what you get.
The problem is that most of the people that have 'easy' passwords are not the ones that are affected. In a corporate environment if somebody hacks into the system using an easy password its the IT departments fault and problem. HOW COULD THEY LET THIS HAPPEN! I don't care if the person wrote the password on the screen in white-out you should have stopped this hacker. You are FIRED! Meanwhile the bonehead who did it continues to do it. That is why the circle was invented, to graphically illustrate this very example:)
Instead of everybody going to the 'cool' homepage of the lawyers how about the entire slashdot audience go to www.etracks.com like 10 times a day for the next month or so. See how they like HIT-SPAMMING. Be advised I have trademarked that term so when hit-spamming becomes popular and everybody is doing it. I'll become rich.
nbsp;There are quite a few companies and personal developers who already incorporate fully flash sites. To cater to the largest audience possible the better companies also maintain a non-flash site but they are usually extremely bare and are updated days/week/months after the flash site is updated. Since they are only catering to those with non-graphical browsers etc..they don't need any fancy formatting just the information organized effectively.
nbsp; Most technical schools are training their students to use flash and other web development products to create web pages. This allows for the more 'creative/graphical' person to venture onto the web without having to be extremely well trained in HTML and complex tables. I've seen some excellent webpages be produced by people who barely know how to turn on a computer but have lots of creative vision.
maybe YOU and the rest of/. want intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music..but the rest of us just want what they force feed us. No really we do. If you have ever seen people salivate in front of music videos you'll understand why the RIAA promotes the type of music that they do.
If you have been watching any of the anti-paypal sites this isn't a new issue. I'm going to assume that either the plantiffs or their lawyers made a good call and are bringing this up post-IPO so Paypal has a little more incentive to brush it under the table or fix it to try and protect their stock price.
What about somebody (me for example) who comes along and thinks it would be funny to try and climb up the rope to see what they could see...and then when said person gets up to like 30 feet a smarter but meaner buddy on the ground cuts the line and then.....sail sail away. Sail away with me.
At a certain midwest university lets call it Boiler University they use to have an open relay on the university-wide mail server. On the CS mail server for this certain university they obtained and implemented a blacklist for 'SPAM'. As it turns out the main university server was blacklisted and thus the CS server started rejecting all mail from the main university server. Talk about one hell of a troubleshooting task.
Question is have you two actually met yet? Because the online marriage thing has been done already. Anyways...just trying to find humor in every aspect I can.....
HACKERS......a lot of 'evil' hackers that I have talked to all have said they started using and loving computers at an early age. They were writing BASIC programs since they were 6 and other things of this nature. Could it be that getting involved with computers so early deprived them of the time to learn about the rest of the world and mature as upstanding citizens? I was first introduced to computers and BBSes as a freshman in high school and ever since I have had little concern for trying to maintain an active social life with all the 'cool' people. I was more concerned with playing Carmen Sandiego, Simcity and Tradewars. I apologize if my use of 'hacker' was not in accordance with correct geek definition.
Most technological improvements don't make a techies job easier. Because as soon as new technology becomes available to make something easier or less time consuming the entity that employs the techie thinks the techie should be able to accomplish more then the same time frame. So while certain technologies make jobs less mundane I don't think any innovation will make somebodys job easier. Unless of course it replaces the techie's function.
I work at the type of university that your 'bro' was at and I would just like to say SHAME ON YOU for wasting the university's resources for your own gain. Universities have tuition paying students that print enough crap to destroy several hundred square miles of trees without having your out of work ass print up RFC's and other huge documents. There are students here that print documents that are about a foot thick, everyday. While I understand that some of it is useful I doubt any human could read the amount of 'crap' they print.....okay I guess I can end this half-assed rant.
When every week Microsoft supplies a large update to all the dialup users, people will start calling in saying my streaming porn movie is very choppy fix it. And most likely they will only have one phone line so they will disconnect half-way through the update to call tech support and when they get back online for awhile it'll be fine until the update starts over.....then they will call tech support again. This wouldn't be very funny except I guarantee it will happen. Just like the cdrom coffee cup holder probably happened because the funniest things come from real life.
How about putting this kind of setup behind your 'real' firewall. For most personal setups this would be going a step to far but in the slightly more advanced networks it could be a nice added layer. This way you can still log port scans blah blah blah...but if they happen to get by the first one..the second firewall is still a concrete wall and all they have is a hand-made spoon.
If you implemented online books how would you charge for them? I personally could not live without going to B&N and browsing through a book before I make a decision. You could make sample pages available online but then you could just pick out the really good pages and make them viewable while the rest of the book contains nothing but *fluff*.
With all the people on/. that complain about their privacy going out the window why do you embrace TiVO so lovingly? I remember an article on here about people complaining about 'Super Savings' cards that grocery stores use. You would think the grocery store was coming into their home and watching what they ate while TiVO was quietly watching TV with them. Can somebody explain to me why when a grocery store tries to cater to what their customers buy, when they buy it, and who is actually doing the buy that people here go insane. But when TiVo keeps statistics on exactly what people are watching nobody has a care in the world.....
You do anything other then sleep for seven hours a day and it is bound to have adverse effects. I'm sure quite a few people here have sat in a chair coding for seven hours and felt the pain afterwards.
So basically Microsoft employees had a bunch of unused vacation time and Bill is forcing them to take a leave of absence during February and go home and apply patches to their windows machines.
New Zealand has a fiber optic pipe that crosses the Pacific Ocean, which maintains generally high bandwidth along the way
And then when the fiber connection terminates somewhere in the United States we slow it back down so those people down under don't look better then us.
For sale: Left over satellite pieces. Once payment has been received the general locations of the pieces will be sent to you. Bid now to ensure prompt delivery of location information.
You should have been working for some of the dot-bombs. They had numerous lunch meetings at condos in Cancun and look where most of them are now. So you may want to rethink your comment about your company having meetings in far-off places.
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So when will the license you get when you buy a car say 'You can't allow certain people to drive your car.' or "You are not allowed to install a different cd player." or, or, and don't forget about.
The problem is that most of the people that have 'easy' passwords are not the ones that are affected. In a corporate environment if somebody hacks into the system using an easy password its the IT departments fault and problem. HOW COULD THEY LET THIS HAPPEN! I don't care if the person wrote the password on the screen in white-out you should have stopped this hacker. You are FIRED! Meanwhile the bonehead who did it continues to do it. That is why the circle was invented, to graphically illustrate this very example :)
Instead of everybody going to the 'cool' homepage of the lawyers how about the entire slashdot audience go to www.etracks.com like 10 times a day for the next month or so. See how they like HIT-SPAMMING. Be advised I have trademarked that term so when hit-spamming becomes popular and everybody is doing it. I'll become rich.
Give me my MAC cube anyday...8 inches of pure power. HA HO HE!
nbsp; Most technical schools are training their students to use flash and other web development products to create web pages. This allows for the more 'creative/graphical' person to venture onto the web without having to be extremely well trained in HTML and complex tables. I've seen some excellent webpages be produced by people who barely know how to turn on a computer but have lots of creative vision.
You get what you pay for. You want compensation pay for a business line. You want real internet service don't pay for AOL. You want....NEXT!
maybe YOU and the rest of /. want intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music..but the rest of us just want what they force feed us. No really we do. If you have ever seen people salivate in front of music videos you'll understand why the RIAA promotes the type of music that they do.
If you have been watching any of the anti-paypal sites this isn't a new issue. I'm going to assume that either the plantiffs or their lawyers made a good call and are bringing this up post-IPO so Paypal has a little more incentive to brush it under the table or fix it to try and protect their stock price.
What about somebody (me for example) who comes along and thinks it would be funny to try and climb up the rope to see what they could see...and then when said person gets up to like 30 feet a smarter but meaner buddy on the ground cuts the line and then.....sail sail away. Sail away with me.
At a certain midwest university lets call it Boiler University they use to have an open relay on the university-wide mail server. On the CS mail server for this certain university they obtained and implemented a blacklist for 'SPAM'. As it turns out the main university server was blacklisted and thus the CS server started rejecting all mail from the main university server. Talk about one hell of a troubleshooting task.
Question is have you two actually met yet? Because the online marriage thing has been done already. Anyways...just trying to find humor in every aspect I can.....
Congrats!
HACKERS......a lot of 'evil' hackers that I have talked to all have said they started using and loving computers at an early age. They were writing BASIC programs since they were 6 and other things of this nature. Could it be that getting involved with computers so early deprived them of the time to learn about the rest of the world and mature as upstanding citizens? I was first introduced to computers and BBSes as a freshman in high school and ever since I have had little concern for trying to maintain an active social life with all the 'cool' people. I was more concerned with playing Carmen Sandiego, Simcity and Tradewars. I apologize if my use of 'hacker' was not in accordance with correct geek definition.
Most technological improvements don't make a techies job easier. Because as soon as new technology becomes available to make something easier or less time consuming the entity that employs the techie thinks the techie should be able to accomplish more then the same time frame. So while certain technologies make jobs less mundane I don't think any innovation will make somebodys job easier. Unless of course it replaces the techie's function.
I work at the type of university that your 'bro' was at and I would just like to say SHAME ON YOU for wasting the university's resources for your own gain. Universities have tuition paying students that print enough crap to destroy several hundred square miles of trees without having your out of work ass print up RFC's and other huge documents. There are students here that print documents that are about a foot thick, everyday. While I understand that some of it is useful I doubt any human could read the amount of 'crap' they print.....okay I guess I can end this half-assed rant.
When every week Microsoft supplies a large update to all the dialup users, people will start calling in saying my streaming porn movie is very choppy fix it. And most likely they will only have one phone line so they will disconnect half-way through the update to call tech support and when they get back online for awhile it'll be fine until the update starts over.....then they will call tech support again. This wouldn't be very funny except I guarantee it will happen. Just like the cdrom coffee cup holder probably happened because the funniest things come from real life.
Ebay, need I say more. Actually ya I do....people will buy anything!
How about putting this kind of setup behind your 'real' firewall. For most personal setups this would be going a step to far but in the slightly more advanced networks it could be a nice added layer. This way you can still log port scans blah blah blah...but if they happen to get by the first one..the second firewall is still a concrete wall and all they have is a hand-made spoon.
If you implemented online books how would you charge for them? I personally could not live without going to B&N and browsing through a book before I make a decision. You could make sample pages available online but then you could just pick out the really good pages and make them viewable while the rest of the book contains nothing but *fluff*.
With all the people on /. that complain about their privacy going out the window why do you embrace TiVO so lovingly? I remember an article on here about people complaining about 'Super Savings' cards that grocery stores use. You would think the grocery store was coming into their home and watching what they ate while TiVO was quietly watching TV with them. Can somebody explain to me why when a grocery store tries to cater to what their customers buy, when they buy it, and who is actually doing the buy that people here go insane. But when TiVo keeps statistics on exactly what people are watching nobody has a care in the world.....
You do anything other then sleep for seven hours a day and it is bound to have adverse effects. I'm sure quite a few people here have sat in a chair coding for seven hours and felt the pain afterwards.
So basically Microsoft employees had a bunch of unused vacation time and Bill is forcing them to take a leave of absence during February and go home and apply patches to their windows machines.
/me dives into his closet looking for his old macintosh and his legos with a SPARKLE in his eye.
And then when the fiber connection terminates somewhere in the United States we slow it back down so those people down under don't look better then us.
For sale: Left over satellite pieces. Once payment has been received the general locations of the pieces will be sent to you. Bid now to ensure prompt delivery of location information.
You should have been working for some of the dot-bombs. They had numerous lunch meetings at condos in Cancun and look where most of them are now. So you may want to rethink your comment about your company having meetings in far-off places.