It's still the user's responsibility to have a software firewall running. Sure a cracker might borrow some bandwidth but the user isn't any more exposed than they would be using any other network.
Since it's separate from your computer you can put your MiFi by the window or somewhere where it gets the best reception but use your computer in a more comfortable setting.
What did you do before electronic filing? You printed one or two copies of your taxes and filed them away. It's really not that hard to store seven years of printed tax returns. Also, even though they know they should, most people DON'T back up all of their files nor do they keep seven year's worth of electronic files. The bottom line is that you should print hard copies EVERY YEAR and take good care of them JUST IN CASE.
And in case YOU haven't been paying attention, a version with no activation will be released after tax season so that you can print out your returns.
Your story is interesting, and I just want to add a couple of points.
I want to reiterate what someone else already said - don't base your opinion on one experience. Every company messes up from time to time.
You were dealing with the sales staff, not the technical support. This article was rating the technical support, which is handled by a completely different group of people at Dell.
Your story shows us just how important the sales staff is. If they had at least one person competent enough to deal with your issue (which probably isn't that uncommon), they would have had another sale. What makes it worse for Dell is that they just lost a repeat customer. Since you already have two Dells, and you were looking at a third, it seems reasonable to guess that you would have bought a fourth, fifth and maybe even sixth computer from them if the third purchase had gone smoothly.
Regardless of this one purchase, I would still recommend buying Dells. They're pretty solid machines - solid enough that I've never had to call technical support.
According to the article, Sybase is using the OFAC list. This list, also called the SDN list, includes specially designated nationals and does not include US citizens. Sybase's software probably wouldn't have helped catch this guy.
Why would you be sharing it over gnutella so you can get it at work?
You just answered your own question. One could share files over gnutella so that one can get them at work.
I'm not saying this is an optimal or even slightly desirable way to provide access to one's files. However, gnutella is out there and easy to use so assume someone is using gnutella to share files with themselves. Is there a crime here? That is the question.
Why do you think it's going to get worse? Are people getting more immoral and deceitful? Are you more likely to steal software today then you were yesterday?
Personally, with products like Linux and OpenOffice freely available, I have less motivation to pirate software than I did a few years ago. There's no reason to steal an inferior product when a legitimate and economical alternative is available.
Does this mean you're going to stop using the Internet too? Spending your whole life dodging advertising seems like a depressing way to live. But, whatever floats your boat I guess *shrug*.
An IDE does not define a language, but when you have two languages with nearly identical syntax, the IDE can be the factor that pushes a developer to one language or the other.
As for the Word macros, have fun writing them. While you're working on them, the rest of us developers using existing IDEs will be producing code.
Basing the success of a language on the number of commercial apps available for it is not a good metric. Take Visual Basic as an example. There really aren't that many commercial applications written in VB. There are tons of shareware and freeware app, but you won't find many VB programs at Best Buy or Fry's. Now go visit corporate IT departments and you'll find VB apps everywhere. That's why there are millions of VB developers.
PS - If anyone does know of any commercial VB apps, please list them here.
A full-featured IDE that lets you collapse arbitrary sections of code? (Among other features of course)
A few million Visual Studio users looking for the next new thing?
Support from an 800-pound gorilla?
Java has a lot going for it too and neither language should be discounted.
Maybe in five years COBOL.NET will be king...*shrug* You just never know in this industry and that's what makes it fun.
Now add photo and the state has a current image of almost every citizen which could then be plugged into cctv systems at political demonstrations and immediately identify people opposed to the current government. Bye Bye Freedom of Speach and hello the ability to track someone where ever they go.
I'm having problems following this logic. If you demonstrate in person, you're already giving up your anonymity. I don't see how a government having pictures of you eliminates freedom of speech. Unless you mean freedom of anonymous speech, but that's a freedom that I don't believe exists, nor should it need to exist. If you have to claim anonymity to speak your mind due to threat of incarceration or anything else, than you have bigger freedom issues.
Warez kiddies hoard software like other kids hoard baseball cards, or pokemon, or whatever the new craze is. It's about who can hoard more.. it's not even about theft.
The problem with this argument is that kids save up their money for baseball cards and pokemon. The people who create baseball cards and pokemon get paid for their work. This is not true for warez.
Thanks. That should help with most sites. For some reason though, I've run into a lot of sites where changing the font size in my browser had no effect. Regardless, one's ordered and on its way. I hope/. enjoys its 3%;-P
Does anyone know if you can run this at 640x480 as is? I'm thinking of getting it for my aging mother-in-law and I'm not sure if 800x600 on a 10-inch screen will be readable by her.
Thanks!
According to Compaq, a new one comes with a 3-year limited warranty. According to Tiger, the recertified one comes with a 1-year limited warranty. I guess they don't have that much faith in the recertification process!
I really, really don't like Microsoft's abuse. I don't like things like the Registry, which is a database that frequently has errors that cannot be fixed with the tools Microsoft supplies. All settings for most programs are contained in the registry, and if there is bad error, it can be necessary to start over completely, and re-install all programs. For some people with a lot of programs, this can take 20 hours.
I don't see how the Registry has anything to do with Microsoft's "abuse".
Most registry problems are caused by third-party software, not the OS itself. For whatever reason, uninstall programs never seem to clean up the registry properly.
There is really no need for programs the use the registry. It doesn't really offer that much flexibility over INI files so if anyone's to blame here, it's the software developers for using the registry incorrectly. Of course, this probably happened because they were under the pressure of impossible deadlines, etc.
Now, don't mislabel me as a Microsoft sympathizer. There is certainly lots of room for improvement in their products. However, don't blame Microsoft for providing a tool that's misused by others.
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It's still the user's responsibility to have a software firewall running. Sure a cracker might borrow some bandwidth but the user isn't any more exposed than they would be using any other network.
Since it's separate from your computer you can put your MiFi by the window or somewhere where it gets the best reception but use your computer in a more comfortable setting.
What did you do before electronic filing? You printed one or two copies of your taxes and filed them away. It's really not that hard to store seven years of printed tax returns. Also, even though they know they should, most people DON'T back up all of their files nor do they keep seven year's worth of electronic files. The bottom line is that you should print hard copies EVERY YEAR and take good care of them JUST IN CASE.
And in case YOU haven't been paying attention, a version with no activation will be released after tax season so that you can print out your returns.
Your story is interesting, and I just want to add a couple of points.
I want to reiterate what someone else already said - don't base your opinion on one experience. Every company messes up from time to time.
You were dealing with the sales staff, not the technical support. This article was rating the technical support, which is handled by a completely different group of people at Dell.
Your story shows us just how important the sales staff is. If they had at least one person competent enough to deal with your issue (which probably isn't that uncommon), they would have had another sale. What makes it worse for Dell is that they just lost a repeat customer. Since you already have two Dells, and you were looking at a third, it seems reasonable to guess that you would have bought a fourth, fifth and maybe even sixth computer from them if the third purchase had gone smoothly.
Regardless of this one purchase, I would still recommend buying Dells. They're pretty solid machines - solid enough that I've never had to call technical support.
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According to the article, Sybase is using the OFAC list. This list, also called the SDN list, includes specially designated nationals and does not include US citizens. Sybase's software probably wouldn't have helped catch this guy.
Why would you be sharing it over gnutella so you can get it at work?
You just answered your own question. One could share files over gnutella so that one can get them at work.
I'm not saying this is an optimal or even slightly desirable way to provide access to one's files. However, gnutella is out there and easy to use so assume someone is using gnutella to share files with themselves. Is there a crime here? That is the question.
But if you own the original album and you're sharing it at home so that you can listen to it at work, do they have a case? Any lawyers out there?
Why do you think it's going to get worse? Are people getting more immoral and deceitful? Are you more likely to steal software today then you were yesterday?
Personally, with products like Linux and OpenOffice freely available, I have less motivation to pirate software than I did a few years ago. There's no reason to steal an inferior product when a legitimate and economical alternative is available.
Stolen info included "the perfect mix of information to allow identity theft" according to the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force."
Where the heck did this quote come from? Am I reading the wrong article? The article isn't nearly as exciting as the posting made it out to be.
It may be your property, but you're subscribing to their service and I'm sure this was mentioned in the contract that you signed.
Does this mean you're going to stop using the Internet too? Spending your whole life dodging advertising seems like a depressing way to live. But, whatever floats your boat I guess *shrug*.
An IDE does not define a language, but when you have two languages with nearly identical syntax, the IDE can be the factor that pushes a developer to one language or the other.
As for the Word macros, have fun writing them. While you're working on them, the rest of us developers using existing IDEs will be producing code.
Basing the success of a language on the number of commercial apps available for it is not a good metric. Take Visual Basic as an example. There really aren't that many commercial applications written in VB. There are tons of shareware and freeware app, but you won't find many VB programs at Best Buy or Fry's. Now go visit corporate IT departments and you'll find VB apps everywhere. That's why there are millions of VB developers.
PS - If anyone does know of any commercial VB apps, please list them here.
What does C# have?
A full-featured IDE that lets you collapse arbitrary sections of code? (Among other features of course)
A few million Visual Studio users looking for the next new thing?
Support from an 800-pound gorilla?
Java has a lot going for it too and neither language should be discounted.
Maybe in five years COBOL.NET will be king...*shrug* You just never know in this industry and that's what makes it fun.
Now add photo and the state has a current image of almost every citizen which could then be plugged into cctv systems at political demonstrations and immediately identify people opposed to the current government. Bye Bye Freedom of Speach and hello the ability to track someone where ever they go.
I'm having problems following this logic. If you demonstrate in person, you're already giving up your anonymity. I don't see how a government having pictures of you eliminates freedom of speech. Unless you mean freedom of anonymous speech, but that's a freedom that I don't believe exists, nor should it need to exist. If you have to claim anonymity to speak your mind due to threat of incarceration or anything else, than you have bigger freedom issues.
This isn't too surprising. The article is dated March 11 so it's at least a year old.
Nobody that uses a PC will be fooled by this
;-P
Obviously you've never worked in PC support
Warez kiddies hoard software like other kids hoard baseball cards, or pokemon, or whatever the new craze is. It's about who can hoard more.. it's not even about theft.
The problem with this argument is that kids save up their money for baseball cards and pokemon. The people who create baseball cards and pokemon get paid for their work. This is not true for warez.
Thanks. That should help with most sites. For some reason though, I've run into a lot of sites where changing the font size in my browser had no effect. Regardless, one's ordered and on its way. I hope /. enjoys its 3% ;-P
Does anyone know if you can run this at 640x480 as is? I'm thinking of getting it for my aging mother-in-law and I'm not sure if 800x600 on a 10-inch screen will be readable by her. Thanks!
According to Compaq, a new one comes with a 3-year limited warranty. According to Tiger, the recertified one comes with a 1-year limited warranty. I guess they don't have that much faith in the recertification process!
Now, don't mislabel me as a Microsoft sympathizer. There is certainly lots of room for improvement in their products. However, don't blame Microsoft for providing a tool that's misused by others.