It's to make it look like an official attachment or something. Many ATMs have seams where you would see various options attached, like deposit slots or bank statement printers.
While it doesn't make any sense to have any seams around the card reader, some people won't think twice.
It would look more suspicious to have a tiny little thing on the card reader than to have a huge faceplate covering the cardreader slot. It doesn't have to be very thick, in fact if it isn't it can probably use the motors in the machine's card reader to draw in the card.
We've had a problem over here with people putting card readers on the door-openers. You know, the ones which unlock the door when you put in the card?
Then they position a camera to record people entering their PINs. The camera may even be out in the open like a regular security camera... or sitting across the street... so the ATM itself may not be modified.
I do think the fellows who grabbed this hardware are idiots... either that or they're part of a clever bit of propaganda put out by the police.
Microsoft used to have really good tech support. I've known people in the late '80s to sit on the phone for over an hour with a technican, learning about some intricacy of MSDOS or how Windows starts up.
They also used to include really good documentation. It fell to pot with Win3.1 and got worse with Win95, but it began to improve again in the late 90's... even if you have to pay extra for it.
Attempted analogy: a donation from Microsoft builds dependency much in the same way as a drug dealer builds dependency. The recipient would be better off getting nothing, instead building self-sufficiency with free software technologies.
Donating to free software is IMHO far more valuable.
With some of the articles on here regarding how bad a GPL Java would be for Java, it makes me wonder what would happen if MS would GPL J++.
I agree with most of what Sun says on this though, especially about there being no existing GPL implementation of Java (short of gcc's limited Java capabilites...).
The pot-shot at IBM was cute. Misleading, but I think entirely accurate. It just happens to be good business for IBM to work with Linux.
Data corruption is recoverable, but it's a bit of a pain.
For a techie, mounting a drive and ripping off the data is no problem, but that's really a couple hours of work and for a user who doesn't know what a file is much less where they are stored, trying to find where they've saved their precious documents is hell. They'll also try to hold you responsible should you miss anything.
My general pattern was... and still is should I need to do it again some day...
Figure out what apps are on the machine, figure out where the apps store their files, back up all the data from those directories into a reasonably sorted directory structure.
Then.... grab every non-program file modified in the past three months and throw it into one big ugly directory. Pay attention to locations should some other program directory become evident.
Why anyone wouldn't shell out for a new HDD at that point is beyond me. I think I'll make it manditory if I offer anyone any help in the future.
Finally, explain briefly to them what a file is, what a directory is, give them a quick 1-page document describing it...
... afterwards, Microsoft's screwed up C:, D:,/My Computer,/Desktop,.../My Documents heirarchy can completely confuse them. It's really hard to explain how that works to somebody who's struggling with the concept of a file.
The way I understand it, as the stock is purchased, the demand/supply changes, somebody has to barter for those shares, and as the supply dwindles, the cheap sales disappear... in the end, just imagine being the last guy holding the last share Comcast needs... "hmmm, you want $40 for my share which will give you controlling interest in Disney?... Yeah, it's only worth $40 to me, but you seem to be willing to pay a little more for it..."
So rather than fighting that losing battle, mass negotiations like this occur, with boards speaking on behalf of the shareholders.
Here the board said "we don't think your offer is in the shareholder's best interest"
If the shareholders didn't like Eisner, as I understand it, they might be more open to accepting the offer.
If any brokers would like to correct me, please do.
Sort-of. There are four more addressing lines giving you up to 64GB, internally, the kernel can address up to 64TB virtual memory with segment/offset stuff, and of course the 64GB physical memory.
It's similar to the 8088/8086 with a 16 bit cpu, and 1MB of addressable RAM.
The "invention" of geosychronous satelite networks in 1945 is dubious... It's an obvious solution for a problem which nobody was even thinking about at the time.
I will admit that it is an accomplishment for a sci-fi writer, but no more an "invention" than devising a method to manage air traffic for flying cars.... if we get there, somebody will come up with an idea... making cars fly is by far the greater accomplishment... just like launching/building geosynchonous satelites.
60's == Computer Science boom
70's == IT and second CS boom
80's == PC Boom... Microsoft popularizes shrinkwrap EULAs... dark ages begin. Real comp sci pushed into back rooms of academia.
00's == 70's technology explodes from academia into PC industry... 80's era corporations fight to return to lucrative IT dark ages.
Road behaviour varies a lot by region. I give an abnormally large amount of room ahead of me to give me stopping distance, let people in, or smooth out my speed. I don't really get "cut off" as much as people just merge a little too close to me, so I do back off a bit.
The really annoying part is people who tailgate me because they think I'm going too slow because I have a few seconds of room ahead of me... some even have the nerve to pass me only to tailgate the person ahead of me.
There are certainly some regions where I've driven where giving a few car lengths will just open a river of traffic passing you.
Now if they tailgate me, I give just a tiny bit more space ahead of me... i.e. I let off the gas and drop a car length or two. It's better that they jump lanes and pass me, I don't want them anywhere around me.
But then I do other annoying things, like make left turns into left lanes (or right to right in Britain), despite people cutting me off and passing me on the 'slow' lane. I also don't change lanes in intersections... which is a horrible habit people have around here. That and right-turns on reds, people who don't signal such lane changes and bad parallax/depth/speed perception for people making right turns on red... who are also watching for mad cyclists and corner-cutting pedestrians... and dealing with the tailgating jerk in the SUV behind them... it all adds up for some wicked accidents.
If you check one of those common Ontario Road maps, with one side "Northern Ontario" and the other side "Southern Ontario", you'll notice that the scale on Northern Ontario is smaller than that of Southern Ontario. Yet the Sault sometimes just barely appears on the edge of the Southern Ontario map, but also appears on a Northern Ontario map... but the scale is different!
The Sault is indeed at a more southern latitude than Seattle, and it is indeed geographically well in the southern half of the province.
Detroit is at 42 degrees,
Fort Severn is at 56 degrees,
The Sault is at 46 degrees,
Seattle is at 47 degrees.
Granted, most of the time when people are speaking about Southern Ontario, and Northern Ontario, they're drawing the border somewhere along the population rather than the geography. It strikes me as silly though when Ontario-U.S. border towns are considered in Northern Ontario.
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For the automotive industry, I've likened it to oil companies giving away cars for "free" and hiding the cost in the price of gas.
*poof* bye-bye automotive industry.
How do you ctrl-right-click? Like with an xterm?
It's to make it look like an official attachment or something. Many ATMs have seams where you would see various options attached, like deposit slots or bank statement printers.
While it doesn't make any sense to have any seams around the card reader, some people won't think twice.
It would look more suspicious to have a tiny little thing on the card reader than to have a huge faceplate covering the cardreader slot. It doesn't have to be very thick, in fact if it isn't it can probably use the motors in the machine's card reader to draw in the card.
We've had a problem over here with people putting card readers on the door-openers. You know, the ones which unlock the door when you put in the card?
Then they position a camera to record people entering their PINs. The camera may even be out in the open like a regular security camera... or sitting across the street... so the ATM itself may not be modified.
I do think the fellows who grabbed this hardware are idiots... either that or they're part of a clever bit of propaganda put out by the police.
Yep, and last year's "growth" of the U.S. economy matches the fall of its dollar.
Microsoft used to have really good tech support. I've known people in the late '80s to sit on the phone for over an hour with a technican, learning about some intricacy of MSDOS or how Windows starts up.
They also used to include really good documentation. It fell to pot with Win3.1 and got worse with Win95, but it began to improve again in the late 90's... even if you have to pay extra for it.
Hmm...
Attempted analogy: a donation from Microsoft builds dependency much in the same way as a drug dealer builds dependency. The recipient would be better off getting nothing, instead building self-sufficiency with free software technologies.
Donating to free software is IMHO far more valuable.
With some of the articles on here regarding how bad a GPL Java would be for Java, it makes me wonder what would happen if MS would GPL J++.
I agree with most of what Sun says on this though, especially about there being no existing GPL implementation of Java (short of gcc's limited Java capabilites...).
The pot-shot at IBM was cute. Misleading, but I think entirely accurate. It just happens to be good business for IBM to work with Linux.
Data corruption is recoverable, but it's a bit of a pain.
For a techie, mounting a drive and ripping off the data is no problem, but that's really a couple hours of work and for a user who doesn't know what a file is much less where they are stored, trying to find where they've saved their precious documents is hell. They'll also try to hold you responsible should you miss anything.
My general pattern was... and still is should I need to do it again some day...
Figure out what apps are on the machine, figure out where the apps store their files, back up all the data from those directories into a reasonably sorted directory structure.
Then.... grab every non-program file modified in the past three months and throw it into one big ugly directory. Pay attention to locations should some other program directory become evident.
Why anyone wouldn't shell out for a new HDD at that point is beyond me. I think I'll make it manditory if I offer anyone any help in the future.
Finally, explain briefly to them what a file is, what a directory is, give them a quick 1-page document describing it...
... afterwards, Microsoft's screwed up C:, D:, /My Computer, /Desktop, .../My Documents heirarchy can completely confuse them. It's really hard to explain how that works to somebody who's struggling with the concept of a file.
Unix-ish /home is so nice.
The way I understand it, as the stock is purchased, the demand/supply changes, somebody has to barter for those shares, and as the supply dwindles, the cheap sales disappear... in the end, just imagine being the last guy holding the last share Comcast needs... "hmmm, you want $40 for my share which will give you controlling interest in Disney?... Yeah, it's only worth $40 to me, but you seem to be willing to pay a little more for it..."
So rather than fighting that losing battle, mass negotiations like this occur, with boards speaking on behalf of the shareholders.
Here the board said "we don't think your offer is in the shareholder's best interest"
If the shareholders didn't like Eisner, as I understand it, they might be more open to accepting the offer.
If any brokers would like to correct me, please do.
Hey, remember where you are. This is Slashdot. Of course the author, the poster, nor the readers actually read the article!
The article is just to pad space for more slashboxes.
Sort-of. There are four more addressing lines giving you up to 64GB, internally, the kernel can address up to 64TB virtual memory with segment/offset stuff, and of course the 64GB physical memory.
It's similar to the 8088/8086 with a 16 bit cpu, and 1MB of addressable RAM.
Time to dust off the far pointers!
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte213x/LinuxMM/rpt.h tml
solely responsibile for incompatabilities
Hence the EULA shirking all responsibility.
Haiku is 31337
Or so Neil Stephenson wrote
So posers do Haiku
No good in English
Haiku is for Japaneese
In English it is...
Bad.
The "invention" of geosychronous satelite networks in 1945 is dubious... It's an obvious solution for a problem which nobody was even thinking about at the time.
I will admit that it is an accomplishment for a sci-fi writer, but no more an "invention" than devising a method to manage air traffic for flying cars.... if we get there, somebody will come up with an idea... making cars fly is by far the greater accomplishment... just like launching/building geosynchonous satelites.
Does anyone have a reference? This always sounded like an urban legend to me.
I'm not so quick to agree...
One very carefully placed plausibly deniable bug could be a back door... a bit tough to exploit, but a back door regardless.
How do you know that the last security advisory wasn't the discovery of an intentional backdoor?
I didn't do this myself, but it worked well for some friends of mine...
You're in a dorm right?
The rooms are doubles right?
Split with another dormroom. Put four beds in one room and four desks in the other.
Keeping the keg out for all-night parties is the hard part though.
You could see Fonzie's legs! It was HORRIBLE!
They filmed him in shorts, waterskiing with a leather jacket!
Hmmm...
More like
60's == Computer Science boom
70's == IT and second CS boom
80's == PC Boom... Microsoft popularizes shrinkwrap EULAs... dark ages begin. Real comp sci pushed into back rooms of academia.
00's == 70's technology explodes from academia into PC industry... 80's era corporations fight to return to lucrative IT dark ages.
Nevermind that the evidence was almost certainly NOT tainted or modified
Almost certainly?
Excellent, then justice was served, he was almost convicted :-)
(With bad project managers)
So be sure to show up and be quiet. Pay attention or you may miss an opporutnity to have tasks assigned to somebody who isn't present.
Road behaviour varies a lot by region. I give an abnormally large amount of room ahead of me to give me stopping distance, let people in, or smooth out my speed. I don't really get "cut off" as much as people just merge a little too close to me, so I do back off a bit.
The really annoying part is people who tailgate me because they think I'm going too slow because I have a few seconds of room ahead of me... some even have the nerve to pass me only to tailgate the person ahead of me.
There are certainly some regions where I've driven where giving a few car lengths will just open a river of traffic passing you.
Now if they tailgate me, I give just a tiny bit more space ahead of me... i.e. I let off the gas and drop a car length or two. It's better that they jump lanes and pass me, I don't want them anywhere around me.
But then I do other annoying things, like make left turns into left lanes (or right to right in Britain), despite people cutting me off and passing me on the 'slow' lane. I also don't change lanes in intersections... which is a horrible habit people have around here. That and right-turns on reds, people who don't signal such lane changes and bad parallax/depth/speed perception for people making right turns on red... who are also watching for mad cyclists and corner-cutting pedestrians... and dealing with the tailgating jerk in the SUV behind them... it all adds up for some wicked accidents.
I wonder if it will be subject to blank digital audio recordable media levies? You know, the ones which go into the hands of the enemy :-)
If you check one of those common Ontario Road maps, with one side "Northern Ontario" and the other side "Southern Ontario", you'll notice that the scale on Northern Ontario is smaller than that of Southern Ontario. Yet the Sault sometimes just barely appears on the edge of the Southern Ontario map, but also appears on a Northern Ontario map... but the scale is different!
The Sault is indeed at a more southern latitude than Seattle, and it is indeed geographically well in the southern half of the province.
Detroit is at 42 degrees,
Fort Severn is at 56 degrees,
The Sault is at 46 degrees,
Seattle is at 47 degrees.
Granted, most of the time when people are speaking about Southern Ontario, and Northern Ontario, they're drawing the border somewhere along the population rather than the geography. It strikes me as silly though when Ontario-U.S. border towns are considered in Northern Ontario.
The Northern half of Ontario is absurdly large.
Ah yes, a Northern Ontario town, on the southern border of Ontario. South of Seattle. Yep.