Gives more credence to the idea of one time use credit card numbers. Now you don't even have to be online to have your number stolen.
This should come as no suprise seems it has been easier to steal credit card numbers offline than online for some time now. Think about that pimply faced waiter disapearing in the back with your credit card at a restaraunt. Who cares if you lose your credit card/number anyway?
Re:Not as bad as all that
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Google Juice
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If this is the case, then wouldn't it be arguable that some of the cases mentioned in the article, esp. Daniel Pearl, may not have been "Attacks" at all, but current events? I'm sure a lot of people were linking to Daniel Pearl stories not all that long ago.
Not our precious Google! Looks like the search for alternatives may be even more vital. Does anyone know if the method discussed in the article would work with search engines using recently discussed technology? In either case, the search goes on for a more utopic search engine.
This might be a factor: the other day I got a call from a gal with Lotus/IBM asking if I think a per user/per month external email would be marketable. This is the second time I've heard of a company starting to offer such a product, the first being Cisco. Since then I've come across a few companies marketing to the same tune.
Along the same idea as Microsoft's software subscriptions, this could be the email model of the future. Now we throw in the factor that companies may not even be in control of where/how their documents are being destroyed? Assuming, of course, that it is possible to destroy all evidence of an email. (Due to the nature this could be quite difficult)
I know that even with on-site, 100% controlled email it has proven difficult to find a good way to enforce a document retention policy. Users (and I'm no different) have tendency to want to horde their past emails, text index them, and search them from time to time, as you never know just what pieces of the past, from two weeks to two years, might prove useful. You can restrict the size of a user's mail-file size, but this only restricts how much the save and not how far back they can save. As of right now, mail servers don't seem to take into account an enforced document retention policy. Will a "Delete Documents Older Than:" field appear as an option on newer versions of Exchange or Domino?
Blizzard Entertainment sadly mislead?
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I wonder what Blizzard hopes to achieve by taking this route. It would seem to me that it has been proven that being a nazi doesn't improve sales. Why don't they look to companies like ID software and the example they have set with Quake. Creators of one of the most successful multiplayer games to date, ID Software has maintained a much more loose policy for multiplayer game play. {plus they have a policy of releasing every game under linux!}
...an exclusive new exclusive business agreement...
Now, will Space Adventures, Ltd. be exclusivly signing with any other exclusive business partners else or will this be an exclusivlyexclusive relationship with US Airways?
This government learned nothing from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number.
How could we expect them to learn anything when we have Congressman screaming "National ID" since 9/11. The article itself mentions the USA as considering a national ID.
It really makes you wonder why the project hasn't died. From the article I really can't see anything that the hurd will offer that the linux kernel does not already offer. And with linux already as widespread as it is, it doesn't seem like the Hurd has much of a market.
The Hurd...provides a rather complete and usable operating system today. It is not ready for production use, as there are still many bugs and missing features.
Complete. Usable. Not Ready. Buggy. Missing Features.
The article claims that Columbus used maps created by the Chinese also mentioned in the article. It seems rather silly that anyone ever claimed that Columbus discoverd America in the first place if his journals indicated that he took a map with him.
...I get more and more disgusted with people who simply reboot a server whenever it hangs because it's easier than actually thinking about what the problem is and how to fix it.
My old boss used to call this "lobotomizing" a server.
This is great! Does this mean that we will finally have a search engine with categories that actually mean something? Until now, categories have mostly been self-proclaimed by the submiter to the search engine or the meta-tags on the site itself. This could mean that browsing by category will become more and more useful in the future.
After some interaction among me, Verio, and lawyers from Stanford Law School's Internet and Society law clinic, Verio agreed to not immediately terminate my service if I modified my mailer software to avoid forwarding large quantities of email from single addresses over short periods of time.
Seems rather generous of Verio to me, it is after all their equipment to control the way that they want.
I think if you look around you'll notice this in discussion boards accross the online realm. A statistic a remember from a few years ago said that GenerationX [of course] was the fastest growing while the baby-boomers, of all people, were the second fastest. But, of late, I've noticed a more well rounded internet community. Of course, some age groups are still more likely to participate in voicing their opinions than others...
Oh, and though a bit off topic - I just can't get used to that Hong Kong, China thing... its just... weird.
Ok... {deep breath} Point taken on the 'welfare state' accusation. That was more a reference to the article and to the idea out there that everything should be free. The idea that we all share the wealth created from the efforts of individuals is commonly [pun intended] referred to as communism. Sorry. The Pursuit of Happiness often involves the obtaining of money as it is the means to most ends in this country. So, for instance, if happiness is time with your kids, take a look at what you are spending more of your time doing, is it making money or playing with your kids? If its making money, which it is for most, then maybe you should make a movie, make a couple million dollars, and take the next couple of years off.
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Gives more credence to the idea of one time use credit card numbers. Now you don't even have to be online to have your number stolen.
This should come as no suprise seems it has been easier to steal credit card numbers offline than online for some time now. Think about that pimply faced waiter disapearing in the back with your credit card at a restaraunt. Who cares if you lose your credit card/number anyway?
If this is the case, then wouldn't it be arguable that some of the cases mentioned in the article, esp. Daniel Pearl, may not have been "Attacks" at all, but current events? I'm sure a lot of people were linking to Daniel Pearl stories not all that long ago.
Not our precious Google! Looks like the search for alternatives may be even more vital. Does anyone know if the method discussed in the article would work with search engines using recently discussed technology? In either case, the search goes on for a more utopic search engine.
This might be a factor: the other day I got a call from a gal with Lotus/IBM asking if I think a per user/per month external email would be marketable. This is the second time I've heard of a company starting to offer such a product, the first being Cisco. Since then I've come across a few companies marketing to the same tune.
Along the same idea as Microsoft's software subscriptions, this could be the email model of the future. Now we throw in the factor that companies may not even be in control of where/how their documents are being destroyed? Assuming, of course, that it is possible to destroy all evidence of an email. (Due to the nature this could be quite difficult)
I know that even with on-site, 100% controlled email it has proven difficult to find a good way to enforce a document retention policy. Users (and I'm no different) have tendency to want to horde their past emails, text index them, and search them from time to time, as you never know just what pieces of the past, from two weeks to two years, might prove useful. You can restrict the size of a user's mail-file size, but this only restricts how much the save and not how far back they can save. As of right now, mail servers don't seem to take into account an enforced document retention policy. Will a "Delete Documents Older Than:" field appear as an option on newer versions of Exchange or Domino?
I wonder what Blizzard hopes to achieve by taking this route. It would seem to me that it has been proven that being a nazi doesn't improve sales. Why don't they look to companies like ID software and the example they have set with Quake. Creators of one of the most successful multiplayer games to date, ID Software has maintained a much more loose policy for multiplayer game play. {plus they have a policy of releasing every game under linux!}
...an exclusive new exclusive business agreement...
Now, will Space Adventures, Ltd. be exclusivly signing with any other exclusive business partners else or will this be an exclusivly exclusive relationship with US Airways?
This government learned nothing from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number.
How could we expect them to learn anything when we have Congressman screaming "National ID" since 9/11. The article itself mentions the USA as considering a national ID.
I'd say eleven years and counting is "ahead".
It really makes you wonder why the project hasn't died. From the article I really can't see anything that the hurd will offer that the linux kernel does not already offer. And with linux already as widespread as it is, it doesn't seem like the Hurd has much of a market.
The Hurd...provides a rather complete and usable operating system today. It is not ready for production use, as there are still many bugs and missing features.
Complete. Usable. Not Ready. Buggy. Missing Features.
Most geeks have the brightness lower than ordinary people (who have the annoying tendency to push contrast and brigtness to the top).
That's odd, I've never heard that said about geeks before, but now that I think of it - my brightness is set to 0.
Go here to look at the other page that the posted color link is comparing to.
Funny though, I think that the beige on black would have looked more white if the autor didn't comment in bright white text right next to the color.
...but they can't create a simple, easy to use tool to do so and distribute it to every single person in the world...
You mean a slimjim? True, they aren't distributed to "every single person in the world" but I doubt this "tool" is either.
Combine with this you could have a cool looking band.
You're right, there have got to be errors in the article. Or, possibly, the Chinese thought that they discovered India, as well?
The article claims that Columbus used maps created by the Chinese also mentioned in the article. It seems rather silly that anyone ever claimed that Columbus discoverd America in the first place if his journals indicated that he took a map with him.
...I get more and more disgusted with people who simply reboot a server whenever it hangs because it's easier than actually thinking about what the problem is and how to fix it.
My old boss used to call this "lobotomizing" a server.
This automatically put the satellite into a pre-programmed "safe mode" configuration on December 10, 2001.
Don't tell me it's running Windows!
I have plenty more. How about:
Semi Secure Shell
This is great! Does this mean that we will finally have a search engine with categories that actually mean something? Until now, categories have mostly been self-proclaimed by the submiter to the search engine or the meta-tags on the site itself.
This could mean that browsing by category will become more and more useful in the future.
Well, the Democrats invented the internet, don't they have the right to regulate it?
According to CNN, the number of people with Web access at home by the end of 2001 was 498 million...
Ah, the busy signals...
After some interaction among me, Verio, and lawyers from Stanford Law School's Internet and Society law clinic, Verio agreed to not immediately terminate my service if I modified my mailer software to avoid forwarding large quantities of email from single addresses over short periods of time.
Seems rather generous of Verio to me, it is after all their equipment to control the way that they want.
I think if you look around you'll notice this in discussion boards accross the online realm. A statistic a remember from a few years ago said that GenerationX [of course] was the fastest growing while the baby-boomers, of all people, were the second fastest. But, of late, I've noticed a more well rounded internet community.
Of course, some age groups are still more likely to participate in voicing their opinions than others...
Oh, and though a bit off topic - I just can't get used to that Hong Kong, China thing... its just... weird.
Ok...
{deep breath}
Point taken on the 'welfare state' accusation. That was more a reference to the article and to the idea out there that everything should be free. The idea that we all share the wealth created from the efforts of individuals is commonly [pun intended] referred to as communism.
Sorry.
The Pursuit of Happiness often involves the obtaining of money as it is the means to most ends in this country. So, for instance, if happiness is time with your kids, take a look at what you are spending more of your time doing, is it making money or playing with your kids? If its making money, which it is for most, then maybe you should make a movie, make a couple million dollars, and take the next couple of years off.
Oh, yeah, btw... Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 6. There you go - free trade as defined in the constitution.
The not so Secure Shell.