Ok, someone explain to me why a standard for office documents based on XML is bad. Surely it is better than the proprietary Office formats (e.g..DOC) that were the defacto standard before.
Oh, that's right -- it's from Microsoft. I guess that's reason enough, on slashdot.
Ok, how are you getting an extra three hours each day? Some kind of time warp thing? Tell us, please!
On the other hand... I'd probably just use the extra time surfing pron... so maybe I'm better off not knowing.
Privacy -- in general, not just for these situations where someone was doing something illegal -- would be greatly served (and Geek Squad wouldn't find people's private videos of themselves on vacation or whatever) if they'd just add in the feature everyone wants. Not everyone wants that. The NSA, CIA, FBI and Secret Service would probably prefer that you not be able to easily encrypt your data.
The only reason that spammers continue to send spam is that there are gullible fools clicking the links... Or am I living in La La Land?
Please tell me more about this La La Land. I'd be especially interested in any timeshares that might be available there. I anxiously await further information from you and look forward to doing business with you and your partners...
I would expect that something called "Termination Shock" would have some dramatic effect on an object crossing it. Is this the case? It doesn't sound like it based on what I read. Sounds like a more appropriate name would be "Subsonic Solar Wind Boundary". But what fun is that?
I'd love to get my son or daughter interested in this. But given the limited list of options I don't really see this happening. Heck, four of the ten options are content management systems(!). Is this really going to excite young high school kids? Where's the music related projects? The social networking projects?
Incidentally, the Japanese also have better wired internet access. The vast majority can get fiber to the home at a reasonable price. You're not kidding. I was able to purchase a day's worth of internet access for 500 yen. That's less than US$5.00! This was both at the hotel and at Narita airport. Here in Washington state I can purchase online access on the state ferry for about $3.00 for 15 minutes. Somethings not right...
I got in on the beta test and still use the ebay/paypal key dongle for my login. Makes it 100% ineffective for phishing scams to get my login.
That was my first reaction too. But if they really hacked into the eBay servers and were able to get to your credit card information, well then that dongle isn't going to be of much help. Sure you're safe from them bidding for Beanie Babies on your behalf, but the credit card information is another story. Luckily, it sounds like this might be a hoax.
Yes, you are. One thing that many people forget when comparing voting systems to banking systems is that voting is anonymous. There is (supposed to be) no way to determine how a person voted once their ballot has been cast. In particular, voters do not take anything away from the polls that indicates how they voted. This is to prevent situations were people are coerced into voting a certain way -- if there is no way to prove they voted for a particular person, then you can't effectively force them to vote a certain way. Also, there is no way (once elected) to go after the people that didn't vote for you, as no such list exists.
people understand the concept that wireless enables sharing...
Except that it doesn't enable sharing! At least not in a timely fashion and not without encumbering it with the most restrictive DRM ever.
The sharing idea is nice, but I wonder if it would have been more effective if it were implemented using Bluetooth -- allowing a Zune to essentially act as a wireless headphone to another. This way you can hear what I'm hearing and I can play DJ for a group of friends (if I had any). If you like a song you can tag it and download/purchase it later. This seems much more social and no one needs to get squirted.
The only reason they get paid less is because the company can get away with it.
Now, now. That's not the only reason. If they decide to replace the janitor, they can train his replacement in a very short time. If they replace a developer, it will take (hopefully) much longer.
It boils down to supply and demand. If there is a line of equally-skilled people willing to take the job, then the value of that job will be less. Simple as that.
It's been a long time (thankfully) since I've had to deal with this. But I'd echo the article about disconnecting from the net to eliminate further attacks. Then I'd remove the drive and save it for forensics -- replacements are cheap (I'm assuming a small business doesn't have expensive RAID setups). Assume that everything has been compromised and restore from a backup prior to the intrusion (hopefully you can tell when that was).
Oh, and keep your clocks synchronized. This will help if you need to trace intrusions across systems.
First they want to tax internet purchases, now they want to put RFID tags on my license. I think our legislators are hopped up on too much StarBucks... I liked it better when they didn't do anything.
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Ok, someone explain to me why a standard for office documents based on XML is bad. Surely it is better than the proprietary Office formats (e.g. .DOC) that were the defacto standard before.
Oh, that's right -- it's from Microsoft. I guess that's reason enough, on slashdot.
Any chance of getting this document in XPS format? Just asking...
On the other hand... I'd probably just use the extra time surfing pron... so maybe I'm better off not knowing.
He who smelt it, dealt it.
I for one welcome our new robotic over-lords... of the flies.
Actually, there are some predictions made by religion. For example, the book of Revelations. (Assuming that you can make sense of it of course).
As far as I know, we're still waiting for the results to determine how accurate a predictor it actually is.
I would expect that something called "Termination Shock" would have some dramatic effect on an object crossing it. Is this the case? It doesn't sound like it based on what I read. Sounds like a more appropriate name would be "Subsonic Solar Wind Boundary". But what fun is that?
I'd love to get my son or daughter interested in this. But given the limited list of options I don't really see this happening. Heck, four of the ten options are content management systems(!). Is this really going to excite young high school kids? Where's the music related projects? The social networking projects?
Hell no! I for one am going to stock up on marshmallows!
That was my first reaction too. But if they really hacked into the eBay servers and were able to get to your credit card information, well then that dongle isn't going to be of much help. Sure you're safe from them bidding for Beanie Babies on your behalf, but the credit card information is another story. Luckily, it sounds like this might be a hoax.
Or turning the boxes of pineapple upside down cake mixes upside down! That will show the man!
I thought that's what grandchildren were for.
Yes, you are. One thing that many people forget when comparing voting systems to banking systems is that voting is anonymous. There is (supposed to be) no way to determine how a person voted once their ballot has been cast. In particular, voters do not take anything away from the polls that indicates how they voted. This is to prevent situations were people are coerced into voting a certain way -- if there is no way to prove they voted for a particular person, then you can't effectively force them to vote a certain way. Also, there is no way (once elected) to go after the people that didn't vote for you, as no such list exists.
Except that it doesn't enable sharing! At least not in a timely fashion and not without encumbering it with the most restrictive DRM ever.
The sharing idea is nice, but I wonder if it would have been more effective if it were implemented using Bluetooth -- allowing a Zune to essentially act as a wireless headphone to another. This way you can hear what I'm hearing and I can play DJ for a group of friends (if I had any). If you like a song you can tag it and download/purchase it later. This seems much more social and no one needs to get squirted.
Now, now. That's not the only reason. If they decide to replace the janitor, they can train his replacement in a very short time. If they replace a developer, it will take (hopefully) much longer.
It boils down to supply and demand. If there is a line of equally-skilled people willing to take the job, then the value of that job will be less. Simple as that.
Thankfully he didn't confuse it with the Wet dream (of which I shan't go into details).
It's been a long time (thankfully) since I've had to deal with this. But I'd echo the article about disconnecting from the net to eliminate further attacks. Then I'd remove the drive and save it for forensics -- replacements are cheap (I'm assuming a small business doesn't have expensive RAID setups). Assume that everything has been compromised and restore from a backup prior to the intrusion (hopefully you can tell when that was).
Oh, and keep your clocks synchronized. This will help if you need to trace intrusions across systems.
Just because you can build a million dollar laptop, doesn't mean that you should. Now, please don't do anything so silly again. Thank you.
First they want to tax internet purchases, now they want to put RFID tags on my license. I think our legislators are hopped up on too much StarBucks... I liked it better when they didn't do anything.