I get calls when anything over £300 is taken on my debit card.. or over £500 on my credit card.
I used to get those, they would call up and ask me to confirm TO THEM my date of birth, my address, mothers maiden name, etc, all this so see if I have spent my own money? Can I have something a little more secure than that please? Answer, yes I can, I switched banks, one that not only hasnt outsourced everything to another country where customer services sound like Apu or Manjula from The Simpsons (no offence, but they do), but also take customer privacy and security a little more seriously.
I guess the bigger idiot theory works well for banks too...
What's next!? Cigarette companies are going to claim that they aren't harmful to your health?
I agree with the statement, but I think its more akin to one cigarette company making claims that another cigarette company is less harmful to people's health than their brand. Buy Microsoft brand cigarettes today, guaranteed 10% less lung cancer victims than open source alternatives.
In that case, you may as well always mod using those two and never fear the meta-moderators wrath!
Maybe there should be an option in user settings whereby you can choose to show or hide who you have modded up or down, or how much you mod up rather than down.. or.. ahh forget it, bye bye karma, I knew thee well!
Your mods seem to be getting more and more silly in the way they dish out mod points, why just yesterday I was modded down as offtopic for stating a fact. Ok maybe I should have had "-1 State the bleeding obvious" or "-1 Smartarse" but not offtopic.
I guess we can only hope that those same mods arent meta moderating those kind of mod points.
Anyways the bigger picture here is that this so called 8mb is only available to a *very* small ammount of the population, and upon closer inspection it seems to be a scam to use the promise of faster downloads (namely pr0n and warez no doubt) to advertise their 500k and 1mb products.
Yes I am in the UK, yes I have tried to sign up, yes I have read their TOS, I didnt even hear about this on slashdot, I saw an advert for it on the tube yesterday.
Life, dont talk to me about life, here I am, brain the size of a planet and you ask is empty the trash Marvin, open the airlock marvin, clean the ship Marvin.
I'm sure some enterprising young person or persons could download said source from an appropriate location and provide support to X or Y company or companies should they feel the need. Whether this is legal or not is an entirely different matter (and I don't condone it)
As a programmer myself, I would advise you to taste quite a few programming languages - excel at one, and be adequate at many. That way a potential employer can see a range of skills, giving you more chance of aquiring said role.
Its very easy to pick up a second or third language after you have the grasp of one, and by the time you know 4 or 5, it will literally take you 2 days to be competent in virtually any language.
I wouldnt say I have a great list for spyware, *HOWEVER* I do know that if you try and install google desktop on a machine with spyware, it refuses to install, and reports back names (dlls etc) of things that are conflicting due to googles desktop wanting to trap the tcp/ip stack itself rather than some spy/malware taking it over.
Of course it doesnt work with some proxy clients too, but hey its a start!
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I get calls when anything over £300 is taken on my debit card.. or over £500 on my credit card.
I used to get those, they would call up and ask me to confirm TO THEM my date of birth, my address, mothers maiden name, etc, all this so see if I have spent my own money? Can I have something a little more secure than that please?
Answer, yes I can, I switched banks, one that not only hasnt outsourced everything to another country where customer services sound like Apu or Manjula from The Simpsons (no offence, but they do), but also take customer privacy and security a little more seriously.
I guess the bigger idiot theory works well for banks too...
Don't you mean news at 8.011 ?
Speaking of which, I saw Paranoia today in an episode of chucklevision!
What's next!? Cigarette companies are going to claim that they aren't harmful to your health?
I agree with the statement, but I think its more akin to one cigarette company making claims that another cigarette company is less harmful to people's health than their brand. Buy Microsoft brand cigarettes today, guaranteed 10% less lung cancer victims than open source alternatives.
I wasn't being a grammar nazi, I was stating a fact.
Someone tell the Americans that the rest of the English speaking world don't have a u in colour, honour, etc
Shouldn't that be Someone tell the Americans that the rest of the English speaking world DO have a u in colour, honour, etc....
In that case, you may as well always mod using those two and never fear the meta-moderators wrath!
Maybe there should be an option in user settings whereby you can choose to show or hide who you have modded up or down, or how much you mod up rather than down.. or.. ahh forget it, bye bye karma, I knew thee well!
Dear Slashdot
Your mods seem to be getting more and more silly in the way they dish out mod points, why just yesterday I was modded down as offtopic for stating a fact. Ok maybe I should have had "-1 State the bleeding obvious" or "-1 Smartarse" but not offtopic.
I guess we can only hope that those same mods arent meta moderating those kind of mod points.
Come back 1997! All is forgiven.
You daft bugger, £40 is $75.3495 USD according to XE Universal currency converter.
Anyways the bigger picture here is that this so called 8mb is only available to a *very* small ammount of the population, and upon closer inspection it seems to be a scam to use the promise of faster downloads (namely pr0n and warez no doubt) to advertise their 500k and 1mb products.
Yes I am in the UK, yes I have tried to sign up, yes I have read their TOS, I didnt even hear about this on slashdot, I saw an advert for it on the tube yesterday.
http://www.google.com/
Life, dont talk to me about life, here I am, brain the size of a planet and you ask is empty the trash Marvin, open the airlock marvin, clean the ship Marvin.
Yes, I do.
I'm sure some enterprising young person or persons could download said source from an appropriate location and provide support to X or Y company or companies should they feel the need. Whether this is legal or not is an entirely different matter (and I don't condone it)
or profits.... No wait.
I'm sure Nintendo didn't design it for use with GBA flash carts, although what a smart move that would have been!!... *yawn*
If this wasnt so +5 funny it would be +5 makes baby Jesus cry :(
As a programmer myself, I would advise you to taste quite a few programming languages - excel at one, and be adequate at many. That way a potential employer can see a range of skills, giving you more chance of aquiring said role.
:)
Its very easy to pick up a second or third language after you have the grasp of one, and by the time you know 4 or 5, it will literally take you 2 days to be competent in virtually any language.
API's however, are another story
I bet at least one of the jurors purchased a penis enlarger and, let's say, wasn't totally satisfied with the results...
I bet at least one of the inmates purchased a penis enlarger. If he wasn't pleased with the results.. you will be!
I'm not. I for one welcome our Artificially inteligent Latex overl. erm... ladies?
I would imiagine it would be a false positive. Which is much better than a false negative, false postive makes you a little annoyed for a short while.
Yes but too many false positives will cause you to ignore it or find a way to disable it entirely.
Now this is what I call one sophisticated phishing scheme
I'll say so! They got some lovely free advertising from Slashdot! Now all I have to do is confirm my credit card details...
ROFLOMGLOL!!!!1
I wouldnt say I have a great list for spyware, *HOWEVER* I do know that if you try and install google desktop on a machine with spyware, it refuses to install, and reports back names (dlls etc) of things that are conflicting due to googles desktop wanting to trap the tcp/ip stack itself rather than some spy/malware taking it over.
Of course it doesnt work with some proxy clients too, but hey its a start!
If only more companies would do this in similar situations...
:)
Do what? open source some software so that their servers can get a good slashdotting?
Bit pointless giving us the link if we cant buy anything :)