Yes, and when a mission-critical computer system goes down, say a hospital computer system, and lives are possibly enangered by this "annoyance," it becomes a little more clear why this sort of thing needs to be addressed publicly
Should that particular situation arise, it would be addressed publicly. The hospital would have hell to pay for exposing life support equipment to external influences.
In this case, I believe a hacking could be an "Act of God", wihout wanting to give much credit to the hacker.
If you hook up a mission critical system to an unprotected electricity outlet, and a surge spike takes down the system for several hours, causing global warming/extinction of emperor penguin or whatever, you can sue the pants off the electric company, but it will be your fault in the end.
(1) It's something that you can train for -- and, with training, improve in
(2) It's something in which your progress and fitness and skill/talent can be measured
(3) It's something in which some people are just naturally gifted and others can achieve at a level commensurate with their effort -- to a point. At some higher levels of mathematics, though -- just like at some levels of athletics (e.g. the Tour de France, the Olympics), no amount of training can overcome a genetic deficiency.
Most of all, both (mathematics & sports) are fun!
By that criteria, should needlepoint knitting be considered a sport? How about cooking? Airplane piloting? Writing?
A lot of activities fit that criteria, most of them are not considered sport.
This is total bullshit, Bobby Fisher should be freed.
Most likely, he will be.
He will either get a slap on the wrist or will plead insanity.
Just a guy would played a game in violation of sanctions.
Yup. And there are american citizen that go to Cuba in spite of the embargo. Nothing happens to them, usually. My guess is that if some official notices, they usually look the other way.
Man.. this is getting all so boring. It will just drags out for years.
Whoa! I just had a flashback to the O.J. Simpson trial. Remember when it looked as if it was going to go on forever? Whatever happened to judge Ito? Nah... too lazy to google it up.
Now our new CIO has elected to stop that benefit using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen. The rumor now is that we should also pay for blackberries, cell phones and pagers.
What your new CIO is not telling you is that your department budget has been cut back and they are no longer able to pay for your broadband. If they won't let you itemize your broadband connection, ask if you can itemize dialup connection and phone costs for every call you have to make for business reasons.
If you have to be on-call, then they should at least reimburse you for cell phone/pagers costs. I'm not sure about blackberries, tho.
My company pays for my broadband and whenever I'm on-call, they pay for my cell phone costs and they provide the pagers. They also pay overtime for on-call related work, but my personal policy is, if I don't have to leave my house, I don't charge them. Also, they usually understand that if I stay up half the night soving a problem (from home or at the office), I'll probably be late for work in the morning and tend to look the other way.
How is your company's overall situation? Are finances suffering? Read between the lines on what your boss told you and figure out wether it's safe to protest or you should simply start thinking about employment elsewhere.
Disclaimer: IANAL, YMMV, caveat emptor, boni anima teuri amen, and all that.
There are other reasons, but they all pale in comparison to my want for OS X.
Hell, I know the feeling. I tried out a Mac with OSX at a shop and fell in love.
I don't *need* it. I probably never will. I have all the tools I use in Windows and would probably have to give up a couple of programs (games?) to move to OSX, but god I crave it. The same way I craved my Gamecube and my Xbox.
I can't afford a Mac right now (at least a powerful enough Mac not to feel like I'm downgrading) and my place of work is a Windows enviroment for workstations, but I'll probably save and buy me one for Xmas.
Funny thing is, I've never coveted my neighbor's car/house/wife. It takes all kinds, I guess.
I've finally given up and moved those directories into My Documents since all the dialogs keep resetting to look under My Documents first.
God, that's annoying!!! I suppose there must be a registry hack for this, but I haven't really bothered to look for it. I simply gave up and now use My Documents, as well.
I'd play it, as long as it's not a mere excuse for John Deere promotion.
The way I see it, gameplay could consist of a real simulation of the farming business/activities or a simple "make money so you can buy a kickass tractor which in turn will be the equivalent of a 4X powerup".
As an example of why software makers should be held liable, imagine a nuclear power plant being run by some OS. Now imagine that OS has a bug which causes it to crash if certain conditions are met. Now imagine those conditions are met one day, causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
Which is why Microsoft forbids the use of MS software for such mission critical apps.
If you need an OS to run a nuclear plant, you'll have it custom made, by someone who can be held liable and who'll probably provide the source.
The funky camera in Ninja Gaiden is perhaps the hardest aspect of the game for me (admitely, I haven't got very far in the game) and I constantly wish for "Super Mario Sunshine"-like camera control. Screw the first person view, it's not that useful anyway.
If no-one is going to look at the adverts, why would the sponsors bother to advertize in y! at all? So they won't advertize, and Yahoo will no longer receive that revenue.
Is it? I always tought IE was part of Windows, and not free at all. If you pay for Windows, you pay for IE, and so you paid for the software maintenance, and that includes fixing security holes.
You have the right idea, but I would skip a couple of steps:
1. ISP notices email traffic 2. ISP calls users (same day if possible) 3. If no answer is provided or the user cannot resolve the problem on short notice, disconnect.
The problem with email and registered letter is time. A couple of days of malicious activity will generate quite a lot of traffic. Perhaps instead of disconnecting, the ISP could throttle SMTP traffic, until the user solves the problem on way or another.
They probably did. There's some stuff in their boxed edition that cannot be downloaded from their ftp site, so I guess they simply made an install CD with the stuff you could get from a normal ftp install.
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Politicians in America go where the money is
Just like politicians everywhere else in the world.
Yes, and when a mission-critical computer system goes down, say a hospital computer system, and lives are possibly enangered by this "annoyance," it becomes a little more clear why this sort of thing needs to be addressed publicly
Should that particular situation arise, it would be addressed publicly. The hospital would have hell to pay for exposing life support equipment to external influences.
In this case, I believe a hacking could be an "Act of God", wihout wanting to give much credit to the hacker.
If you hook up a mission critical system to an unprotected electricity outlet, and a surge spike takes down the system for several hours, causing global warming/extinction of emperor penguin or whatever, you can sue the pants off the electric company, but it will be your fault in the end.
Well, I found it funny, in a Buckaroo Banzai/Plan 9/Rocky Horror kind of way.
Tackyness can be funny, but when it is overdone and overexposed, it simply loses appeal.
Hell, it was funnier than that damned badger/mushroom/snake animation.
It's all fun and games til goatse.cx comes up...
Big screen goatse... thanks for the mental image. Now I gotta make a call and cancel that pizza.
And my opinion is similar to 3llia's.
From 3llia's post:
ere are some traits of a sport:
(1) It's something that you can train for -- and, with training, improve in
(2) It's something in which your progress and fitness and skill/talent can be measured
(3) It's something in which some people are just naturally gifted and others can achieve at a level commensurate with their effort -- to a point. At some higher levels of mathematics, though -- just like at some levels of athletics (e.g. the Tour de France, the Olympics), no amount of training can overcome a genetic deficiency.
Most of all, both (mathematics & sports) are fun!
By that criteria, should needlepoint knitting be considered a sport? How about cooking? Airplane piloting? Writing?
A lot of activities fit that criteria, most of them are not considered sport.
This is total bullshit, Bobby Fisher should be freed.
Most likely, he will be.
He will either get a slap on the wrist or will plead insanity.
Just a guy would played a game in violation of sanctions.
Yup. And there are american citizen that go to Cuba in spite of the embargo. Nothing happens to them, usually. My guess is that if some official notices, they usually look the other way.
Man.. this is getting all so boring. It will just drags out for years.
Whoa! I just had a flashback to the O.J. Simpson trial. Remember when it looked as if it was going to go on forever? Whatever happened to judge Ito? Nah... too lazy to google it up.
An extended version of Gods and Generals?
An extended version of that movie would be longer than the civil war was.
Call it the M*A*S*H syndrome: the TV series lasted almost 4 times longer than the Korean war itself.
Always respond to unexpected after-hours calls with, "I have been drinking, and I can't drive."
;-)
Next HR performance review:
"Employee AxemRed is very capable but seems to have a drinking problem. I recommend we let him go before the problem scales any further".
Now our new CIO has elected to stop that benefit using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen. The rumor now is that we should also pay for blackberries, cell phones and pagers.
What your new CIO is not telling you is that your department budget has been cut back and they are no longer able to pay for your broadband. If they won't let you itemize your broadband connection, ask if you can itemize dialup connection and phone costs for every call you have to make for business reasons.
If you have to be on-call, then they should at least reimburse you for cell phone/pagers costs. I'm not sure about blackberries, tho.
My company pays for my broadband and whenever I'm on-call, they pay for my cell phone costs and they provide the pagers. They also pay overtime for on-call related work, but my personal policy is, if I don't have to leave my house, I don't charge them. Also, they usually understand that if I stay up half the night soving a problem (from home or at the office), I'll probably be late for work in the morning and tend to look the other way.
How is your company's overall situation? Are finances suffering? Read between the lines on what your boss told you and figure out wether it's safe to protest or you should simply start thinking about employment elsewhere.
Disclaimer: IANAL, YMMV, caveat emptor, boni anima teuri amen, and all that.
Just remove all shortcuts to IE and replace them with FF links.
*and* remember to name them to something obvious (such as "Internet Browser" o "Web Browser"). They might think "Firefox" is some kind of game.
Is Sarge becoming the Half Life 2 of Linux distros?
I accidentally spilled a drink onto my laptop's keyboard where it drained into the laptop's innards
Did the computer fall in love with the girl upstairs? (the one you had your eyes on)? It's been known to happen.
There are other reasons, but they all pale in comparison to my want for OS X.
Hell, I know the feeling. I tried out a Mac with OSX at a shop and fell in love.
I don't *need* it. I probably never will. I have all the tools I use in Windows and would probably have to give up a couple of programs (games?) to move to OSX, but god I crave it. The same way I craved my Gamecube and my Xbox.
I can't afford a Mac right now (at least a powerful enough Mac not to feel like I'm downgrading) and my place of work is a Windows enviroment for workstations, but I'll probably save and buy me one for Xmas.
Funny thing is, I've never coveted my neighbor's car/house/wife. It takes all kinds, I guess.
I personally enjoy the drug "alcohol"
Yup... that'sh gonna do wondersh for shtability...
I've finally given up and moved those directories into My Documents since all the dialogs keep resetting to look under My Documents first.
God, that's annoying!!! I suppose there must be a registry hack for this, but I haven't really bothered to look for it. I simply gave up and now use My Documents, as well.
I'd play it, as long as it's not a mere excuse for John Deere promotion.
The way I see it, gameplay could consist of a real simulation of the farming business/activities or a simple "make money so you can buy a kickass tractor which in turn will be the equivalent of a 4X powerup".
As an example of why software makers should be held liable, imagine a nuclear power plant being run by some OS. Now imagine that OS has a bug which causes it to crash if certain conditions are met. Now imagine those conditions are met one day, causing the cooling system in the reactor to stop working as it should. I think we all know what happens next...
Which is why Microsoft forbids the use of MS software for such mission critical apps.
If you need an OS to run a nuclear plant, you'll have it custom made, by someone who can be held liable and who'll probably provide the source.
'full 360 degree control of the [in-game] camera'
Dear god... make it so, make it so!
The funky camera in Ninja Gaiden is perhaps the hardest aspect of the game for me (admitely, I haven't got very far in the game) and I constantly wish for "Super Mario Sunshine"-like camera control. Screw the first person view, it's not that useful anyway.
If no-one is going to look at the adverts, why would the sponsors bother to advertize in y! at all? So they won't advertize, and Yahoo will no longer receive that revenue.
Get it?
Not bloody likely - that would require they condescend to use something as archaic as the command line and the grep command.
Can you imagine clicking thru the event viewer in the hotmail cluster?
(no, I don't know crap about Windows servers).
Or if they have to use the command line, they can always use "find".
Isn't Internet Explorer also free?
Is it? I always tought IE was part of Windows, and not free at all. If you pay for Windows, you pay for IE, and so you paid for the software maintenance, and that includes fixing security holes.
Ideally the process would go something like this:
You have the right idea, but I would skip a couple of steps:
1. ISP notices email traffic
2. ISP calls users (same day if possible)
3. If no answer is provided or the user cannot resolve the problem on short notice, disconnect.
The problem with email and registered letter is time. A couple of days of malicious activity will generate quite a lot of traffic. Perhaps instead of disconnecting, the ISP could throttle SMTP traffic, until the user solves the problem on way or another.
Wow! I mean so what? It was never all that difficult to get SuSE before
It wasn't difficult, but if you didn't have a fat pipe or a local mirror, it was a bother.
Now, somebody who uses Suse at work can burn an ISO an install it at home, maybe pass it on to a friend and have him try it also, etc.
Previously, the only other alternative was to buy the boxed set.
or did they leave stuff out?
They probably did. There's some stuff in their boxed edition that cannot be downloaded from their ftp site, so I guess they simply made an install CD with the stuff you could get from a normal ftp install.