I had a phishing scam email once that was so convincing I nearly clicked within it, thoughtlessly.
Then I thought, no, I should log into the service's website directly, and see WTF.
That was a close call.
As for you, one hopes that your unbeaten streak is never tarnished. May you also never screw up while trying to pay a bill and get a blemish on your credit report, never get in a fender-bender due to exhaustion, and never have that critical piece of paper with the essential information scribbled on it slip from the wallet, at least while that good friend is around.
And, should the good friend detect you having an encounter with mortality, may they handle it more graciously than you did theirs.
A brief call for empathy is by no means half-witted.
However, the fact that you have a "most humble opinion", yet no sack to reveal your userID, _and_ managed an Insightful mod, underscores your point completely.
It's fairly easy to blame the victim, until it's someone you know.
Admittedly, the cited scams seem fairly outlandish, but there are some quality hustlers out there.
If you think about it from the standpoint of the pure information, you can come up with a plethora of schemes ranging from mere nuisance stuff to the truly diabolical.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA.
This turmoil is brought on by insufficient buzzword-compliance.
What I need you to do is hire me as a consultant, so that I can recommend a few C++ students.
I won't tell you what happens a year or two after that, but it rhymes with "lava".
As a teaser, the third step involves something like the letters "LMX".
Some day you will thank me for this.
I am waiting.
More generally, the thought that some external words on paper will somehow preclude Bad Stuff from happening is a triumph of ass-hattery.
You have to figure they already have laws on the books covering computer crimes. Maybe it gives them some sort of British-only satisfaction:
"Don't make us pass more laws saying it's illegal to do X! There! We did it! Shall we give all of you another, miscreants?"
The nice thing about Silverlight is that it is a breeze to program and work with.
Does this mean that they will implement some search capability in msdn.microsoft.com that doesn't suck, as in copious pond water?
You go there with a ADO question, and get buried in Visual FoxPro returns.
Considering that this is MicroSoft, I consider their non-command of effective search one of the bigger WTFs on the internet.
Leno's monologue last night was not too bad.
It will be harder for Colbert, I think. Of Stewart, Leno, and Colbert, the latter has the most fully developed persona, even if that persona is O'Reilly on steroids.
No, the basis for complaint is valid.
You paid real cash money for something to work a certain way, and it did, until your proprietary-vendor overlord makes up some crappy reason for removing the functionality.
While the specific instance of removing support for ancient formats isn't likely to have too much catestrophic effect, the precedent is well worth bitching about.
The least Redmond could do is turn the converter code over to the public domain, so that, when the unforseen requirement to, say, compare ancient versions of Uncle Hezekiah's will suddenly crops up, people don't have to spend a ton of money to open a simple file.
Of course, there is the business model of having a stable of ancient computers with creaky Windows versions and applications, just for these moments, but that business is so boring as to be hideously expensive.
I dunno. My first thought was Bugs Bunny popping out of the ground, consulting his map, and declaiming: "I should have taken a left turn at Lah-Joe-la".
If you PTFB and smoke comes out of the DVD, you must catch all of the smoke, or the warranty is void, and you've bricked it.
You might get a letter from a woman in Germany telling you to 'cut it out'. (Steven Wright)
If, in frustration, you throw the control, and make many small controls out of it, be sure to plant the buttons in fertile soil, so that you will have a crop of nice new controllers next Spring.
The most devastating thing in the DoD arsenal is the bureaucracy.
Quite amazing what the DoD accomplishes in spite of itself--the truest testament to the unquenchable American spirit.
Case in point: http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroller/icenter/budget/ppbsint.htm
Well, because putting the code out in plain sight for general review simply doesn't work, as revealed by such diasters as GCC, the apache httpd, and the linux kernel.
"The military" encompasses so much as to not mean much. Proprietary vendors still have vast swaths of the DoD by the short hairs. Until very recently, for example, the US Navy had the largest deployed WinNT4.0 rollout as part of the IT21 network configuration on ships. Or so a MicroSoft sales drone was telling me.
We shopped that store in September. I remember checking out some yoyodyne pen gadget which saved the writing electronically via magic paper.
Other than being priced outside of the impulse shopping range, it had the usual Nokia coolness.
The point of the article is well taken, though; cel phones don't do much to engender community.
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Indeed, mine was one of those. I forwarded it to PayPal, who, I presume, called in Mr. Wolf to clean stuff up.
I had a phishing scam email once that was so convincing I nearly clicked within it, thoughtlessly.
Then I thought, no, I should log into the service's website directly, and see WTF.
That was a close call.
As for you, one hopes that your unbeaten streak is never tarnished. May you also never screw up while trying to pay a bill and get a blemish on your credit report, never get in a fender-bender due to exhaustion, and never have that critical piece of paper with the essential information scribbled on it slip from the wallet, at least while that good friend is around.
And, should the good friend detect you having an encounter with mortality, may they handle it more graciously than you did theirs.
A brief call for empathy is by no means half-witted.
However, the fact that you have a "most humble opinion", yet no sack to reveal your userID, _and_ managed an Insightful mod, underscores your point completely.
It's fairly easy to blame the victim, until it's someone you know.
Admittedly, the cited scams seem fairly outlandish, but there are some quality hustlers out there.
If you think about it from the standpoint of the pure information, you can come up with a plethora of schemes ranging from mere nuisance stuff to the truly diabolical.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA.
There is much humor in mis-interpretation.
So some clever criminals can hack the system and render it not just useless, but totally misleading.
Every system implies a work-around.
This turmoil is brought on by insufficient buzzword-compliance.
What I need you to do is hire me as a consultant, so that I can recommend a few C++ students.
I won't tell you what happens a year or two after that, but it rhymes with "lava".
As a teaser, the third step involves something like the letters "LMX".
Some day you will thank me for this.
I am waiting.
More generally, the thought that some external words on paper will somehow preclude Bad Stuff from happening is a triumph of ass-hattery.
You have to figure they already have laws on the books covering computer crimes. Maybe it gives them some sort of British-only satisfaction:
"Don't make us pass more laws saying it's illegal to do X! There! We did it! Shall we give all of you another, miscreants?"
You go there with a ADO question, and get buried in Visual FoxPro returns.
Considering that this is MicroSoft, I consider their non-command of effective search one of the bigger WTFs on the internet.
Does BadHaggis work for your company? If not, how does your company's script blocker affect him?
Isn't BadHaggis an example of a pleonasm?
Leno's monologue last night was not too bad.
It will be harder for Colbert, I think. Of Stewart, Leno, and Colbert, the latter has the most fully developed persona, even if that persona is O'Reilly on steroids.
You could force him to use vi on Windows 3.0, but really: do you hate him that much?
No, the basis for complaint is valid.
You paid real cash money for something to work a certain way, and it did, until your proprietary-vendor overlord makes up some crappy reason for removing the functionality.
While the specific instance of removing support for ancient formats isn't likely to have too much catestrophic effect, the precedent is well worth bitching about.
The least Redmond could do is turn the converter code over to the public domain, so that, when the unforseen requirement to, say, compare ancient versions of Uncle Hezekiah's will suddenly crops up, people don't have to spend a ton of money to open a simple file.
Of course, there is the business model of having a stable of ancient computers with creaky Windows versions and applications, just for these moments, but that business is so boring as to be hideously expensive.
You're right: learning and knowledge are completely overrated, and intellectual curiosity is merely some historical fiction.
I dunno. My first thought was Bugs Bunny popping out of the ground, consulting his map, and declaiming: "I should have taken a left turn at Lah-Joe-la".
You could just set up an external list of videos that don't suck, in something as mundane as your /. journal page.
Why wait for YouTube?
Dammit man: if she ain't broke, fix her until she's tits up!
The most devastating thing in the DoD arsenal is the bureaucracy.
Quite amazing what the DoD accomplishes in spite of itself--the truest testament to the unquenchable American spirit.
Case in point: http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroller/icenter/budget/ppbsint.htm
Well, because putting the code out in plain sight for general review simply doesn't work, as revealed by such diasters as GCC, the apache httpd, and the linux kernel.
I thought my post, which preceded this one in the firehose, I think, was better:
http://slashdot.org/~smitty_one_each/journal/191526
Say, lah vee.
We shopped that store in September. I remember checking out some yoyodyne pen gadget which saved the writing electronically via magic paper.
Other than being priced outside of the impulse shopping range, it had the usual Nokia coolness.
The point of the article is well taken, though; cel phones don't do much to engender community.