My email client gets opened up on Monday mornings and doesn't close until Friday afternoon when I go home. It's always running, always in view, and notifies me the moment new mail arrives. It lives on my second monitor. I would assume I'm not the only person who uses a setup like this, considering how important email is to my daily job functions.
I had a perfectly good smart-ass response prepared, but then decided to be nice. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf.
I did not say "The McDonald's Hot Coffee" lawsuit. Since the McDonald's lawsuit, there have been numerous frivilous lawsuits regarding hot coffee and similar issues (the pizza was so hot it burned my tongue!) from poeple trying to get on that gravy train.
I think your high horse is over there, drinking from the stream.
In our finger-in-the-chili, burned-by-hot-coffee, neighbors-dog-barked-at-me-and-scared-me, overly litigious, self-serving, money-hungry society, I'm sure the LAST thing on her mind was "Hey, here's a great way for me to make a sh*tload of cash!"
Have you ever had to fight with credit agencies about fraudulent charges resulting in negative credit reports? Your credit card fraud protection will theoretically excuse the charges, and may even provide a letter to the credit bureaus, but that's about it. Getting the credit agencies to actually DO something and CORRECT the record is a different story. I've gone through this 3 times -- once myself and twice with my fiancee when someone got ahold of a pre-approved cell phone offer that she threw away. Each of the three times was a multi-week, multi-phone call, multi-letter, multi-headache process.
How about someone in a nearby cubicle who wants the root password? Do your servers have fraud protection?
I'm not saying it's common, trivial, or worthwhile to sniff RF keyboard traffic. I'm saying it's possible, and possible is enough reason for me to protect myself. Thanks, but I don't need the headaches that MIGHT arise if someone grabs my CC# or the password to my servers.
Keep in mind, too, that in the utopic world where IPv4 goes away and IPv6 is universal -- the intrinsic security of a home network on private address space sharing a single (protected) internet connection is eliminated. 'Joe Sixpack' now has to learn about real firewalls and such, rather than relying on automagic plug-n-play devices that set up both sides of the network and protect their internal hosts without user intervention.
Call my cynical, but I don't see ISPs handing out IPv6 addresses for free to your average home user. They'll probably keep working on the same model they work on now with IPv4 -- you get one IP address unless you want to pay an extra $5 (or whatever) per month for each additional IP address.
For large networks IPv6 has obvious benefits, but for the home user, I don't see NAT going anywhere anytime soon.
Does it bother no one that 99% of wireless keyboards tranmist over plain RF? Sorry, but I'm not typing in my credit card numbers or passwords on a wireless keyboard.
That being said -- I don't think I could ever live without a wireless mouse now that I've been spoiled. My MX700s sit idly in a box as my MX1000s have taken over at both my office and home.
Sorry for the double-post, just wanted to clear up that I'm not suggesting that worms and viruses are the same thing, only that intentional destruction isn't a new idea, just one that hasn't been practiced much lately.
The fact that I have 2 iPods (1 20GB and 1 shuffle) and that neither of them have the standard "yuppie" headphones to advertise what I'm using to play my music has nothing to do with the fact that I just liked the interface and functionality of the players.
The fact that I buy expensive sunglasses has nothing to do with the fact that they are optically superior to el-cheapo-drug-store-rack sunglasses (try shining a laser or other focused light source through cheap sunglasses, then shine them through a pair of Oakleys or Maui Jims or Ray Bans, or look at the polarization qualities, etc.)
The fact that I would love to own a Ferrari, a BMW M6, a Mercedes 600SL, or a Maserati have nothing to do with the fact that they are engineered, built, and perform at a level you'll never see from a Ford/Dodge/Chevrolet/etc. and that some people actually enjoy driving to the point where a finely tuned machine is exhilarating... it's all because we're just yuppies.
I suppose I shouldn't mention my big-screen HDTV or high-end audio system either, because it certainly can't be because I love music and immersive video experiences... it's just because I'm a yuppie.
I have considered dropping DirecTV (I have a DirecTiVo) for this exact setup. Are the new set-top boxes available yet? Are they all they're cracked up to be? That 2wire box looks like a wonderful system!
Microsoft relying on the public to test its software, and charging for the priviledge... hey, it's worked for every other piece of software they've released.
Can anyone explain why the developers continue to pour effort into two separate browsers that are, at their core, the same thing?
Why can't development be focused on one or the other... let's say FireFox, and have FireFox be the "browser component" of the Mozilla suite instead of having a totally separate browser?
HDTV resolutions are either 1080i (1920x1080), 720p (1280x720), or 1080p (future). Some TVs / projectors vary slightly, such as they'll support 720p but have a 1024x720 pixel array or a 1024x768 pixel array.
VGA resolutions are not the same. What you're probably getting is scaled and/or interpolated output via VGA. That projector has a native resolution of 1024x768, meaning you can dispaly 720 lines of progressive scan resolution without problem. The average human probably can't tell the difference, but technically it's not a true "HD" signal -- meaning it's not ATSC, QAM, or whatever the HD satellite signals are. I'm sure it looks great anyway.
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"Solaris 5.9 build 100041-23" contains Kernel version X.Y.Z, C compiler X.Y.Z, C libraries X.Y.Z.
That's great, until someone does a "pkgadd -d [some important package]", now your argument might not be so valid.
How apropos...
/. thread about geeks and the opposite sex turns into an argument about coding syntax...
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My email client gets opened up on Monday mornings and doesn't close until Friday afternoon when I go home. It's always running, always in view, and notifies me the moment new mail arrives. It lives on my second monitor. I would assume I'm not the only person who uses a setup like this, considering how important email is to my daily job functions.
I had a perfectly good smart-ass response prepared, but then decided to be nice. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf.
I did not say "The McDonald's Hot Coffee" lawsuit. Since the McDonald's lawsuit, there have been numerous frivilous lawsuits regarding hot coffee and similar issues (the pizza was so hot it burned my tongue!) from poeple trying to get on that gravy train.
I think your high horse is over there, drinking from the stream.
In our finger-in-the-chili, burned-by-hot-coffee, neighbors-dog-barked-at-me-and-scared-me, overly litigious, self-serving, money-hungry society, I'm sure the LAST thing on her mind was "Hey, here's a great way for me to make a sh*tload of cash!"
Have you ever had to fight with credit agencies about fraudulent charges resulting in negative credit reports? Your credit card fraud protection will theoretically excuse the charges, and may even provide a letter to the credit bureaus, but that's about it. Getting the credit agencies to actually DO something and CORRECT the record is a different story. I've gone through this 3 times -- once myself and twice with my fiancee when someone got ahold of a pre-approved cell phone offer that she threw away. Each of the three times was a multi-week, multi-phone call, multi-letter, multi-headache process.
How about someone in a nearby cubicle who wants the root password? Do your servers have fraud protection?
I'm not saying it's common, trivial, or worthwhile to sniff RF keyboard traffic. I'm saying it's possible, and possible is enough reason for me to protect myself. Thanks, but I don't need the headaches that MIGHT arise if someone grabs my CC# or the password to my servers.
Keep in mind, too, that in the utopic world where IPv4 goes away and IPv6 is universal -- the intrinsic security of a home network on private address space sharing a single (protected) internet connection is eliminated. 'Joe Sixpack' now has to learn about real firewalls and such, rather than relying on automagic plug-n-play devices that set up both sides of the network and protect their internal hosts without user intervention.
Call my cynical, but I don't see ISPs handing out IPv6 addresses for free to your average home user. They'll probably keep working on the same model they work on now with IPv4 -- you get one IP address unless you want to pay an extra $5 (or whatever) per month for each additional IP address.
For large networks IPv6 has obvious benefits, but for the home user, I don't see NAT going anywhere anytime soon.
You say that like you don't think anything bad could ever happen.
My tinfoil hat is more attractive than your empty bank account.
*cough*... transmit, not tranmist.
*sigh*
Does it bother no one that 99% of wireless keyboards tranmist over plain RF? Sorry, but I'm not typing in my credit card numbers or passwords on a wireless keyboard.
That being said -- I don't think I could ever live without a wireless mouse now that I've been spoiled. My MX700s sit idly in a box as my MX1000s have taken over at both my office and home.
Sorry for the double-post, just wanted to clear up that I'm not suggesting that worms and viruses are the same thing, only that intentional destruction isn't a new idea, just one that hasn't been practiced much lately.
This one was actually intentionally destructive, which is pretty rare.
These days -- yeah... but there was a time when viruses were designed primarly for intentinal destruction. Anyone remember the Monkey virus?
...spoken like a true cynic.
The fact that I have 2 iPods (1 20GB and 1 shuffle) and that neither of them have the standard "yuppie" headphones to advertise what I'm using to play my music has nothing to do with the fact that I just liked the interface and functionality of the players.
The fact that I buy expensive sunglasses has nothing to do with the fact that they are optically superior to el-cheapo-drug-store-rack sunglasses (try shining a laser or other focused light source through cheap sunglasses, then shine them through a pair of Oakleys or Maui Jims or Ray Bans, or look at the polarization qualities, etc.)
The fact that I would love to own a Ferrari, a BMW M6, a Mercedes 600SL, or a Maserati have nothing to do with the fact that they are engineered, built, and perform at a level you'll never see from a Ford/Dodge/Chevrolet/etc. and that some people actually enjoy driving to the point where a finely tuned machine is exhilarating... it's all because we're just yuppies.
I suppose I shouldn't mention my big-screen HDTV or high-end audio system either, because it certainly can't be because I love music and immersive video experiences... it's just because I'm a yuppie.
>What would be the problem with using one really strong password everywhere?
You are kidding, right?
I have considered dropping DirecTV (I have a DirecTiVo) for this exact setup. Are the new set-top boxes available yet? Are they all they're cracked up to be? That 2wire box looks like a wonderful system!
Since when are "DVD quality" and "High Definition" interchangeable terms?
Microsoft relying on the public to test its software, and charging for the priviledge... hey, it's worked for every other piece of software they've released.
That's optimistic. I'd be willing to bet that it would be *less than* 10% who DIDN'T just willingly hand over their info.
Well... ever since Bob Fish moved to Canada, dental hygiene has gone the wayside in London.
Doesn't Cindy Margolis still claim the be the most downloaded woman?
I can't believe no one's said this yet... but I think I'd be scared if my Linux web server was "similary set up" as a Windows one.
Not much of ANYTHING is writeable on a DVD-ROM. :)
Can anyone explain why the developers continue to pour effort into two separate browsers that are, at their core, the same thing? Why can't development be focused on one or the other... let's say FireFox, and have FireFox be the "browser component" of the Mozilla suite instead of having a totally separate browser?
VGA in != HD.
HDTV resolutions are either 1080i (1920x1080), 720p (1280x720), or 1080p (future). Some TVs / projectors vary slightly, such as they'll support 720p but have a 1024x720 pixel array or a 1024x768 pixel array.
VGA resolutions are not the same. What you're probably getting is scaled and/or interpolated output via VGA. That projector has a native resolution of 1024x768, meaning you can dispaly 720 lines of progressive scan resolution without problem. The average human probably can't tell the difference, but technically it's not a true "HD" signal -- meaning it's not ATSC, QAM, or whatever the HD satellite signals are. I'm sure it looks great anyway.