All she has to do is counter-sue with a lawyer who will take this case on a contingency basis. Done. This kind of thing happens all of the time.
Re:Yet another reason to get the *cheap* phones
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Don't leave bluetooth enabled when not using it? Jesus christ... we're talking about a PHONE here? That's entirely too complicated. That's like saying that you should disconnect your computer from the Net when you're not using it. It's very simple... bluetooth is insecure, and is not used by probably 99% of people with cellphones. Thus, the smart thing to do is to avoid it like the plauge.
It's just onesy-twosey pictures and videos. Nothing like the quality that you find on a good pay site. And, it's much harder to browse on P2P sites than say, a web site or a real physical store. It's out there, but it's generally no really worth it.
Yet another reason to get the *cheap* phones
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This is yet another reason NOT to buy those stupid phones with 14 different features. Every time I buy a cell phone, I buy the cheapest one available, so it doesn't have all of this crap associated with it. I just want a cell phone that *works*. The last thing I want is a phone with so many useless features that it actually has *security* holes! That's insane. So if it comes to the point where the only phone I can get has this stupid Bluetooth stuff, then I have to worry about feds wiretapping me AND kids hacking in? Great. I'm going back to cans and string.
By addressing such problems today as the use of P2P networks to disseminate pornography,...
Last I checked, in the People's Republic of the US, pornography wasn't illegal. But I guess it's just a matter of time before anything deemed by the Old, White, Male, Jesus-Freaks that run this country to be "harmful" will be illegal. Jesus H Christ... I think it's time to move the movie Brazil from the "Fiction" section of the video store to the "Documentary" section. I think it's also time that I move out of this fucking country.
At what point did state governments start to unabashedly refer to its citizens as consumers?
More importantly, when did state governments or the Fed start to give a shit about consumers *or* citizens? I thought they just worked for special interest groups and big corporations.
Yet another beginner how to program in PHP book. Wow. I needed that like a hole in the head. And encouraging programmers to use MySQL as opposed to learning good database techniques... fantastic. Sounds like a real winner (note tongue in cheek)
imagine WinXP running supercomputers or an https server!
Funny you say that./. stopped responding a few minutes ago right after I read this post. So, the first thing I did was check Google. Fine. Well, it could be cached... so I checked my site, running IIS and https. Came up fine./. came up after a few more tries, several minutes later...
But in some categories, ALL Linux based apps suck. Like I've said here 1,000,000 times: show me a single, decent, comprehensive Linux-based business financials package. Payroll, inventory, PO's, vouchers, reorder points, taxes, reporting, receivables aging, etc. Just one. There may be 1000 based Windows apps that do this out there, and 990 of them may suck, but there at at least some to choose from.
For Linux to even be a consideration (support, price, stability notwithstanding), there needs to be an excellent business financial package, and an excellent point of sale system. At the very least.
Not exactly, but close. He's describing the Slashdot community perfectly. What you fellow/.'ers don't realize is that Slashdot is an aberration. It's a tiny, tiny, subculture that has this inflated sense of self-worth. From a business perspective, Linux is on very, very shaky ground, and is still very experimental./.'ers don't seem to realize in the real world... where decisions aren't made haphazardly (Well, we can save $100 on a copy of Windows, let's use Linux), Linux is a giant risk, and primarily is used and supported by said zealots. The same zealots who wave off lawsuits because they don't agree with them, or they think they're frivolous. The truth of the matter is that most/.'ers are NOT decision makers, and are not suited to be for things like zealotry about a silly piece of software.
So I say, it's time to wake up and realize that what this guy is describing is accurate. You just don't see it if you spend you day with like minded Slashdotters. Kind of like Nascar fans who can't possibly imagine people who have no interest in Nascar, or any other subculture for that matter.
I understand that it's short term, and based on rumors. I was countering your "ooo! $0.65! I'm rich" comment, which indicated that you didn't have an understanding that that was 12%m which is the relevant number. $0.65 is completely irrelevant.
You see, people like you are why the SEC requires brokerages to ask how much investment knowledge you have. You have next to none. You see, the amount of $0.65 is irrelevant. The 12% jump this morning that is that $0.65 (actually, $0.58) is VERY significant. Banks now pay about 1% on savings account for a year. 12% in 3 hours is very significant. Anybody who owns SCOX should be very, very happy. Please, before you start buying investments, pick up an "Investing for Dummies" books and read it cover to cover. People like you are the ones who lost their life savings during the dot-com bubble.
How, exactly, is this article slanted? I didn't read a single thing that was opinion. Instead, it was full of facts. Sorry if you don't like those facts, but that's what they are. Besides, Forbes is a well-respected magazine whose staff obviously understand business. Call me nuts, but I'd listen to Forbes over any silly online tech rag any day of the week. Unlike Slashdot, they don't use terms like "M$" and "FUD", which are both juvenile enough to warrant any article that uses them instantly void of any credibility, whatsoever.
I am SO sick of these Microsoft security holes. Plus, a fix in "a few weeks"? What are they thinking? Jesus, if this were open source, we'd have a fix *today*, and we probably wouldn't have had this happen in the first place!! What am I supposed to do about my machine during the next "few weeks"? Make sure that avoid all sites with PNG files, even though I don't know if they have any until I surf to them? Piece of shit company...
Oh wait...
Ooops. Just re-read the article. Yaaay Open Source! I'm so glad that they've been open about this bug, and are fixing it so quickly! Good job guys!
Well, it doesn't really matter. The installer for 0.9.3 says "0.9.2". Who fucking knows what version you're using? Just uninstall, reinstall, setup everything again. Oh yeah. And do this daily.
Then what? You still don't know what in the hell happens to your vote! For all you know, it gets shoved under a couch, thrown out, or somebody wipes their ass with it. Unless you physically follow your paper ballot all of the way to the top vote counter, and watch that person increment the total by one after looking at your ballot, then watch the entire process so that the top vote counter doesn't decrease the vote count by one, you have no way of being sure that your vote counted. There has to be trust somewhere. I doubt that Diebold is a company to trust from what I've read, but pen & paper is only marginally better. You still have to trust the entire vote counting system, and everybody involved with it.
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Yeah, but that article is just from some little shit blog. You don't know if you're getting the real thing unless you get it directly.
And how do we know that isn't a trojaned copy?
Beta? You're suggesting that people install a *beta* service pack?!?!
All she has to do is counter-sue with a lawyer who will take this case on a contingency basis. Done. This kind of thing happens all of the time.
Don't leave bluetooth enabled when not using it? Jesus christ... we're talking about a PHONE here? That's entirely too complicated. That's like saying that you should disconnect your computer from the Net when you're not using it. It's very simple... bluetooth is insecure, and is not used by probably 99% of people with cellphones. Thus, the smart thing to do is to avoid it like the plauge.
It's just onesy-twosey pictures and videos. Nothing like the quality that you find on a good pay site. And, it's much harder to browse on P2P sites than say, a web site or a real physical store. It's out there, but it's generally no really worth it.
This is yet another reason NOT to buy those stupid phones with 14 different features. Every time I buy a cell phone, I buy the cheapest one available, so it doesn't have all of this crap associated with it. I just want a cell phone that *works*. The last thing I want is a phone with so many useless features that it actually has *security* holes! That's insane. So if it comes to the point where the only phone I can get has this stupid Bluetooth stuff, then I have to worry about feds wiretapping me AND kids hacking in? Great. I'm going back to cans and string.
You didn't know? Among the clueless fucks who run our country, Internet Explorer = "The Internet".
By addressing such problems today as the use of P2P networks to disseminate pornography,...
Last I checked, in the People's Republic of the US, pornography wasn't illegal. But I guess it's just a matter of time before anything deemed by the Old, White, Male, Jesus-Freaks that run this country to be "harmful" will be illegal. Jesus H Christ... I think it's time to move the movie Brazil from the "Fiction" section of the video store to the "Documentary" section. I think it's also time that I move out of this fucking country.
At what point did state governments start to unabashedly refer to its citizens as consumers?
More importantly, when did state governments or the Fed start to give a shit about consumers *or* citizens? I thought they just worked for special interest groups and big corporations.
Yet another beginner how to program in PHP book. Wow. I needed that like a hole in the head. And encouraging programmers to use MySQL as opposed to learning good database techniques... fantastic. Sounds like a real winner (note tongue in cheek)
imagine WinXP running supercomputers or an https server!
/. stopped responding a few minutes ago right after I read this post. So, the first thing I did was check Google. Fine. Well, it could be cached... so I checked my site, running IIS and https. Came up fine. /. came up after a few more tries, several minutes later...
Funny you say that.
But in some categories, ALL Linux based apps suck. Like I've said here 1,000,000 times: show me a single, decent, comprehensive Linux-based business financials package. Payroll, inventory, PO's, vouchers, reorder points, taxes, reporting, receivables aging, etc. Just one. There may be 1000 based Windows apps that do this out there, and 990 of them may suck, but there at at least some to choose from.
Amen.
For Linux to even be a consideration (support, price, stability notwithstanding), there needs to be an excellent business financial package, and an excellent point of sale system. At the very least.
so that's how long in "Microsoft" days? November?
Probably. At least it's not in Mozilla days. That would make it November...2007.
Ah, perfect example. Somebody rated the parent this post as a "Troll". This is *exactly* the mindset that the Forbes article referred to.
Does that sound like unbiased journalism?
/.'ers don't realize is that Slashdot is an aberration. It's a tiny, tiny, subculture that has this inflated sense of self-worth. From a business perspective, Linux is on very, very shaky ground, and is still very experimental. /.'ers don't seem to realize in the real world... where decisions aren't made haphazardly (Well, we can save $100 on a copy of Windows, let's use Linux), Linux is a giant risk, and primarily is used and supported by said zealots. The same zealots who wave off lawsuits because they don't agree with them, or they think they're frivolous. The truth of the matter is that most /.'ers are NOT decision makers, and are not suited to be for things like zealotry about a silly piece of software.
Not exactly, but close. He's describing the Slashdot community perfectly. What you fellow
So I say, it's time to wake up and realize that what this guy is describing is accurate. You just don't see it if you spend you day with like minded Slashdotters. Kind of like Nascar fans who can't possibly imagine people who have no interest in Nascar, or any other subculture for that matter.
I understand that it's short term, and based on rumors. I was countering your "ooo! $0.65! I'm rich" comment, which indicated that you didn't have an understanding that that was 12%m which is the relevant number. $0.65 is completely irrelevant.
You see, people like you are why the SEC requires brokerages to ask how much investment knowledge you have. You have next to none. You see, the amount of $0.65 is irrelevant. The 12% jump this morning that is that $0.65 (actually, $0.58) is VERY significant. Banks now pay about 1% on savings account for a year. 12% in 3 hours is very significant. Anybody who owns SCOX should be very, very happy.
Please, before you start buying investments, pick up an "Investing for Dummies" books and read it cover to cover. People like you are the ones who lost their life savings during the dot-com bubble.
How, exactly, is this article slanted? I didn't read a single thing that was opinion. Instead, it was full of facts. Sorry if you don't like those facts, but that's what they are. Besides, Forbes is a well-respected magazine whose staff obviously understand business. Call me nuts, but I'd listen to Forbes over any silly online tech rag any day of the week. Unlike Slashdot, they don't use terms like "M$" and "FUD", which are both juvenile enough to warrant any article that uses them instantly void of any credibility, whatsoever.
Most people don't use SUSE. Most people use Windows. I use Firefox on W2K. How do I get this new patch, huh?
See how you can get a fixed version RIGHT NOW?
Programmers and advanced sysadmins can get a fixed version right now. Every normal person has to wait "a few weeks".
I am SO sick of these Microsoft security holes. Plus, a fix in "a few weeks"? What are they thinking? Jesus, if this were open source, we'd have a fix *today*, and we probably wouldn't have had this happen in the first place!! What am I supposed to do about my machine during the next "few weeks"? Make sure that avoid all sites with PNG files, even though I don't know if they have any until I surf to them? Piece of shit company...
Oh wait...
Ooops. Just re-read the article. Yaaay Open Source! I'm so glad that they've been open about this bug, and are fixing it so quickly! Good job guys!
Well, it doesn't really matter. The installer for 0.9.3 says "0.9.2". Who fucking knows what version you're using? Just uninstall, reinstall, setup everything again. Oh yeah. And do this daily.
Then what? You still don't know what in the hell happens to your vote! For all you know, it gets shoved under a couch, thrown out, or somebody wipes their ass with it. Unless you physically follow your paper ballot all of the way to the top vote counter, and watch that person increment the total by one after looking at your ballot, then watch the entire process so that the top vote counter doesn't decrease the vote count by one, you have no way of being sure that your vote counted. There has to be trust somewhere. I doubt that Diebold is a company to trust from what I've read, but pen & paper is only marginally better. You still have to trust the entire vote counting system, and everybody involved with it.