From what I've heard - this kid wasn't actually that good with code. The way I've heard the story told was that he picked up the exploit somewhere online and modified it into sasser - so, it was already out there...if he hadn't had done it, someone else probably would've sooner or later.
I heard he actually *released* it a few hours before his birthday, if that was the case then what you're saying wouldn't really matter...but it's certainly an interesting point. I wouldn't consider writing it a crime, to me it's the act of releasing it that crosses the line.
Isn't it obvious? From what I've heard, the cut-down version costs the same as the full edition. So, you're Dell...do you put out the copy that doesn't have Windows Media Player and surely face thousands of "I can't play videos!" complaints from the clueless masses...or do you just stick with what you've been using and supporting for the last few years? Maybe if there was a financial advantage there you would, but that isn't the case. There's absolutely no incentive to change, other than a moral one - and like *that* matters in modern business.
I dunno. I've switched my bank statements to online only now. I get an email reminder when I get issued a new statement, to view it I then have to log onto my banks website using a username, password, plus the answer to a "secret" question chosen from 5 (I think) that I've previously picked out. While it isn't completely secure...it seems it'd be a lot more difficult for someone to steal my information in this context then it would be for them to steal it from the post - especially if I lived in America with those silly post boxes you guys have - what's the problem with putting it through the front door dammit!?!?!:-)
Me too. To be blunt - he really is full of shit. He belongs in Dilbert, he's the sort of guy that makes outlandish statements and then expects them to come true...because he's been labelled as an "expert" and therefore couldn't be wrong...if his opinion and reality don't match - then the problem is with reality.
Sorry. Rant over. I just really hate him with a passion.:-)
This is something that amazes me about MS Word. It seems to have an amazing ability to recover from random crashes/power cuts etc...yet the same feature doesn't seem to have ever made it to any other MS (or other) applications - it seems insane really. I mean, if the team programming Word managed to do it - could it really be that hard?
For a long time, until the EU told them they couldn't do it, you had to get government approval for every piece of equipment you wanted to hook up to the PSTN. Checking for approval meant looking for a device with a green BABT stcker on it
Is that true? The way I understood it was that if you hooked up an "unapproved device" and it caused damage to the network, then you were responsible for all the costs...whereas if an approved device caused damage, then the most you could be liable for is your own equipment.
You owe the guy jack shit. Work the two weeks then walk.
I've been in a very similar position, back in the days of the dot-com crash - I worked as a web-designer for minimum wage (about £4 an hour ~ $7.50), which is clearly fucking dismal to start with. Anyway, at the time I was pretty depressed because of this and other things...it was a crappy place to work and like you people left who were never replaced, so more work/pressure was piled on. Luckily (!) I crashed my car and had to have time off sick (no sick pay either BTW). Spending time away from the place made me realise just how much more ill it was making me. Don't let them continue to treat you like this - you have something better lined up, walk away and don't look back. Honestly, the guy is taking the piss. Forget about "future contacts" with him - because by the sounds of it - he won't be in business much longer.
Did you read the thread? The parent suggested launching probes at earth to gather information about earth in the same way we gather information about other planets.
I think the technology dates back even further than 97, it was designed in the late 80's. There was an interview with one of the guys who worked on it on UK TV last night. It was 17 years ago that he started work on the project, 10 years design, building & testing then 7 years waiting for it to get there.:-)
Seems a bit silly. All the information that we'd collect could be collected other ways, far cheaper and with far better results.
As for the interpretation of the results...the Huygens probe has an exact working copy still on earth. They were built side by side, just in case...and for help with interpretating the data that was returned by the probe that got the mission.
I volunteer some time at a local charity helping out with IT stuff among other things. We've been looking for something that can do simple calender sharing, effectively, easily and cheaply...it simply doesn't exist. Mozilla's efforts so far are so full of bugs as to be completely unusable. It's such a simple app with a huge potential market. It's crying out to be exploited by someone with a little talent...but so far, everything I've found has been seriously lacking.
It's a bit like starting a secret club in your basement. You invite all your friends to join and everything's cool. Suddenly that smelly kid across the road decides he wants to join, when you ask him why...he tells you it's because he wants to listen to you bitch about your mum so he can go tattle on you.
Clearly it's just some crappy marketing scam. This sort of thing was interesting when it was first done in like 1998...but now it's just for marketing companies that have run out of ideas and are trying to be "original". Move along.
I came home drunk and puked on the keyboard of this very laptop once. Luckily I had the presence of mind to unplug it and the battery and wipe it down. Cleaned it up properly the next morning and it's been fine since, that was about 2 years ago. I dunno what's worse, admitting you puked on a laptop while drunk or admitting you use a two year old Compaq laptop.:-)
It's going to be way too expensive to shell out for the sort of equipment you're looking for.
Instead of running a complete backup every few years, why don't you do a rolling backup...say half a dozen copies a week, toss out the old copies and copy the next half a dozen from your collection the next week and so on. You'll still have a backup every few years, it's just that you're not doing the whole thing at once.
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That is not even close to being the truth.
...and here lies the problem...
Moreover, 68 percent said they had had computer trouble in the last year consistent with the problems caused by spyware or adware
While it's true that it could be spyware that these people are suffering from, it could also be countless other things.
From what I've heard - this kid wasn't actually that good with code. The way I've heard the story told was that he picked up the exploit somewhere online and modified it into sasser - so, it was already out there...if he hadn't had done it, someone else probably would've sooner or later.
I heard he actually *released* it a few hours before his birthday, if that was the case then what you're saying wouldn't really matter...but it's certainly an interesting point. I wouldn't consider writing it a crime, to me it's the act of releasing it that crosses the line.
haven't done one single good thing for people of late
They said the same about Clinton and look what happened after he left...
Isn't it obvious? From what I've heard, the cut-down version costs the same as the full edition. So, you're Dell...do you put out the copy that doesn't have Windows Media Player and surely face thousands of "I can't play videos!" complaints from the clueless masses...or do you just stick with what you've been using and supporting for the last few years? Maybe if there was a financial advantage there you would, but that isn't the case. There's absolutely no incentive to change, other than a moral one - and like *that* matters in modern business.
Seems like a stingy fucking reward for such a valuable and large leap in technology.
I offer anyone who can develop me a desktop cold-fusion reactor capable of powering my house a packet of peanuts!
Y'all might want to stand back out of the way of the approaching crowd of nuclear scientists flocking towards me!
I dunno. I've switched my bank statements to online only now. I get an email reminder when I get issued a new statement, to view it I then have to log onto my banks website using a username, password, plus the answer to a "secret" question chosen from 5 (I think) that I've previously picked out. While it isn't completely secure...it seems it'd be a lot more difficult for someone to steal my information in this context then it would be for them to steal it from the post - especially if I lived in America with those silly post boxes you guys have - what's the problem with putting it through the front door dammit!?!?! :-)
Me too. To be blunt - he really is full of shit. He belongs in Dilbert, he's the sort of guy that makes outlandish statements and then expects them to come true...because he's been labelled as an "expert" and therefore couldn't be wrong...if his opinion and reality don't match - then the problem is with reality.
:-)
Sorry. Rant over. I just really hate him with a passion.
A family of gerbils and a little wheel?
This is something that amazes me about MS Word. It seems to have an amazing ability to recover from random crashes/power cuts etc...yet the same feature doesn't seem to have ever made it to any other MS (or other) applications - it seems insane really. I mean, if the team programming Word managed to do it - could it really be that hard?
Damn BT...you have to hand it to them though, they sure know how to cover their arses :-)
For a long time, until the EU told them they couldn't do it, you had to get government approval for every piece of equipment you wanted to hook up to the PSTN. Checking for approval meant looking for a device with a green BABT stcker on it
Is that true? The way I understood it was that if you hooked up an "unapproved device" and it caused damage to the network, then you were responsible for all the costs...whereas if an approved device caused damage, then the most you could be liable for is your own equipment.
You owe the guy jack shit. Work the two weeks then walk.
I've been in a very similar position, back in the days of the dot-com crash - I worked as a web-designer for minimum wage (about £4 an hour ~ $7.50), which is clearly fucking dismal to start with. Anyway, at the time I was pretty depressed because of this and other things...it was a crappy place to work and like you people left who were never replaced, so more work/pressure was piled on. Luckily (!) I crashed my car and had to have time off sick (no sick pay either BTW). Spending time away from the place made me realise just how much more ill it was making me. Don't let them continue to treat you like this - you have something better lined up, walk away and don't look back. Honestly, the guy is taking the piss. Forget about "future contacts" with him - because by the sounds of it - he won't be in business much longer.
Did you read the thread? The parent suggested launching probes at earth to gather information about earth in the same way we gather information about other planets.
I think the technology dates back even further than 97, it was designed in the late 80's. There was an interview with one of the guys who worked on it on UK TV last night. It was 17 years ago that he started work on the project, 10 years design, building & testing then 7 years waiting for it to get there. :-)
Seems a bit silly. All the information that we'd collect could be collected other ways, far cheaper and with far better results.
As for the interpretation of the results...the Huygens probe has an exact working copy still on earth. They were built side by side, just in case...and for help with interpretating the data that was returned by the probe that got the mission.
Putting it in the microwave will kill it, permanently...but there's a chance it'll catch fire.
I volunteer some time at a local charity helping out with IT stuff among other things. We've been looking for something that can do simple calender sharing, effectively, easily and cheaply...it simply doesn't exist. Mozilla's efforts so far are so full of bugs as to be completely unusable. It's such a simple app with a huge potential market. It's crying out to be exploited by someone with a little talent...but so far, everything I've found has been seriously lacking.
It's a bit like starting a secret club in your basement. You invite all your friends to join and everything's cool. Suddenly that smelly kid across the road decides he wants to join, when you ask him why...he tells you it's because he wants to listen to you bitch about your mum so he can go tattle on you.
Clearly it's just some crappy marketing scam. This sort of thing was interesting when it was first done in like 1998...but now it's just for marketing companies that have run out of ideas and are trying to be "original". Move along.
I came home drunk and puked on the keyboard of this very laptop once. Luckily I had the presence of mind to unplug it and the battery and wipe it down. Cleaned it up properly the next morning and it's been fine since, that was about 2 years ago. I dunno what's worse, admitting you puked on a laptop while drunk or admitting you use a two year old Compaq laptop. :-)
It's going to be way too expensive to shell out for the sort of equipment you're looking for.
Instead of running a complete backup every few years, why don't you do a rolling backup...say half a dozen copies a week, toss out the old copies and copy the next half a dozen from your collection the next week and so on. You'll still have a backup every few years, it's just that you're not doing the whole thing at once.
I've done this sort of thing too and I found that I got more out of it making the tape than I did playing it back. :-)
Windows2k has a screen reader built in...admittedly it doesn't work too well, but it's there.