"But thanks to apps like Start8 I don't even have to know there is a metro ui"
But that's a big part of the problem. I also use Start8, but the question is *why* should one have to use it? In terms of technical capabilities and how well it runs, Win8 seems an improvement. In terms of the interface, it sucks. If it requires a third-party tool to make it suck less, then there's a problem. Even worse, it's a problem that's glaringly obvious for most people but completely ignored by MS. All they had to do was add an option to "Blue" that allowed users the *choice* of having a start menu or not, and perhaps fixed up some of the other issues with Metro and fullscreen.
They didn't even address it at all, which shows a fundamental attitude issue that's likely to get worse before it gets better.
What I wonder about is the type of people these companies employ to enable this sort of crap. Does somebody check a box that says "[x] sign up for premium text service?" Do they get a bonus when they sign a few dozen little-old-ladies up for account-skimming horoscope services?
a) So the first person says it was activated from the phone... 2 days before the SIM was put in. Lies. b) Then they say it's a third-party that is doing the billing. Lies c) Then they say it was from a person who previously had the number. Given that they'd already claimed (a) and (b) - not to mention the horoscope mysteriously matching the owner's birthdate - I'd go with more lies.
So where do these companies find employees that are willing to perpetuate these scams. Isn't there anybody who would speak out (or leak the sinister details)? It's evil, but it can only happen if the employees are willing to help it along.
I don't have Paypal attached to an account, but most banks I've dealt with have overdraft as an option.
If you don't have overdraft, then you can end up with NSF fees if a cheque bounces, and sometimes they'll hold recent deposits a bit longer, but for Paypal that shouldn't be an issue.
Indeed, I don't understand why Visa et al don't do something other than a card #'s for recurring payments. If I want to to for my electric bill or whatever, allow me to generate a either a single-use token (for one payment) or one which can only be used by a single company (the electric co). For the multi-use token, it can only be used by the entity which it was initially created for. That means if the Electric Co's payment system gets hacked, nobody can use my token to go on a spending spree elsewhere.
I suggest a clearly visible sign that someone is offended by jokes influenced by sexuality (or, perhaps broadening this to include all jokes?).
I'm guessing (/hoping) the above was a joke, however in this case felt that I should re-iterate that - as many have pointed out already - this particular person WASN'T offended by such jokes in general. That is, she'd already posted up similarly juvenile jokes herself earlier that day. Apparently she was only offended when others make such jokes.
I found that comment a little confusing as well. I'm hoping he means they're cheaper because of less overhead rather than cheaper because they're paid less.
If women come ahead in factors such as sick-days, completion time, etc, I could see if being the latter. For example either
A team of 7-9 women complete a project in the same amount of time it takes a similar male team or
A team of 10 women complete a project in 70-90% of the time it takes a similar male team
I haven't really found much a difference in gender in my own experience (worked with some lazy men, some lazy women, and hard-working individuals of either gender), but in some cases perhaps the above would apply to correspond with the GP's comment.
Indeed. While this is a case of male athletes VS a female, cases of hazing - sometimes to the point of sexual abuse - among males is not entirely uncommon in teen/college athletica. It just bothers me that this is being brought up as a gender issue when it's really more an issue of the privileged class almost being given a pass due to their popularity.
Even geeks/nerds aren't immune to this behaviour though, as seen with the Hans Reiser etc cases.
For whatever reason, "protecting our own" seems to often trump justice or morality within various groups. Some people have brought up the "boys will be boys" attitude, but I can almost guarantee that if this was perpetrated by members of the comp-sci club the reaction would have been much different.
Then maybe they should look at using something other than a/24. Usually this is just laziness, where it's easier/more-convenient to assign a/24 to every little unit. There is an advantage in that it's easier to read the addresses, but this comes at the drawback of using up private address-space much quicker.
Using public address-space for private subnets is just an overall terrible idea. A mis-configured firewall, change-over of gear with default settings, routing issue, or any number of things and you have the potential for either:
a) A private machine ending up live on the internet or
b) Going out to a machine that's live on the internet instead of the internal machine
All it takes is a weak firewall rules and a machine without a gateway/route to the internal box and BLAMMO, suddenly traffic intended for the inside is headed out (and to China, no less).
Regarding Steubenville: was that due to her gender or due to the individuals accused being part of a *very* popular group (the athletes/stars/jocks whatever)?
If a similar incident had happened regarding sexual hazing of a male, or perhaps harassment of a homosexual male, do you thing that the reaction of the "sports-fans" would have been much different?
Just out of curiousity, does anyone know what the laws are regarding taking somebody's picture at a private event and posting them publicly without permission?
In fact, the hardware that doesn't have the so-called "security" is usually cheaper. Add region-logging, no-skip, and other crap simply adds to the cost of the device.
Know any good blu-ray players that are similarly unlockable? I've found that Blu-ray is usually easier to deal with in that Region-1 includes most places I'd watch from anyways, but the DVD region-lock and no-skip is still a huge PITA.
It started out that way, mainly because the money was in the data willingly supplied by users (and shared with "marketing" companies), rather than the in-line advertising.
Now however, it's getting to be a pretty nasty ad-fest as well, with ads sneaking in with your friends comments, and the constantly "Name an animal that doesn't have a letter "a" in the same" bullshit.
Strange, I'm paying a mortgage on my home, and many people pay for their car in instalments. So should we then be prevented from renovating or modifying the a vehicle with after-market components?
On vBulletin forums (I used to administer a bunch) the option was called "Tachy goes to Coventry"
One of the things I actually liked about Facebook was the option to remove posts (from others' view). If you got some insulting retard, you could just extricate yourself from the conversation and there'd be a thread with him basically talking to himself.
I once commented on a female friend's post, and her overly-jealous (and not too bright) then-BF started flaming me. I removed my post and suddenly his flame is attached to her posts. Good times:-)
Except for the amount of products that are recalled because they contain lead paint or heavy metals, because quality control suffers when you're just trying to do things on the cheap. You know, things like stuff your children would play with or put in their mouths.
We were making inroads into product safety, but apparently that made things too expensive. Now we'll just source it out to China where it's cheap and full of dangerous chemicals. Don't worry though, after a bunch of kids get sick it'll be recalled!
Disable/remove the Java browser plugins, which is what the majority of vulnerabilities prey on. Since most generally run MC from a local Java install (not the browser), it should be fairly safe.
Ditto. I actually bought my S2 outright and will probably hang onto it for awhile yet, but the S4 would make a nice upgrade. In particular: better battery life, better screen, and I've *really* missed having an IR transceiver ever since the old palm days.
...make sure you turn it off before going into a Walmart or KFC etc. If that happens, I predict some nerds with Google Glasses gouging their eyes out...
This is something I've noticed on the GS2. It's most noticeable when viewing at an angle in dim light. In normal light or direct-on the tint isn't very noticeable, but it's definitely there.
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"But thanks to apps like Start8 I don't even have to know there is a metro ui"
But that's a big part of the problem. I also use Start8, but the question is *why* should one have to use it?
In terms of technical capabilities and how well it runs, Win8 seems an improvement. In terms of the interface, it sucks. If it requires a third-party tool to make it suck less, then there's a problem. Even worse, it's a problem that's glaringly obvious for most people but completely ignored by MS. All they had to do was add an option to "Blue" that allowed users the *choice* of having a start menu or not, and perhaps fixed up some of the other issues with Metro and fullscreen.
They didn't even address it at all, which shows a fundamental attitude issue that's likely to get worse before it gets better.
What I wonder about is the type of people these companies employ to enable this sort of crap. Does somebody check a box that says "[x] sign up for premium text service?"
Do they get a bonus when they sign a few dozen little-old-ladies up for account-skimming horoscope services?
a) So the first person says it was activated from the phone... 2 days before the SIM was put in. Lies.
b) Then they say it's a third-party that is doing the billing. Lies
c) Then they say it was from a person who previously had the number. Given that they'd already claimed (a) and (b) - not to mention the horoscope mysteriously matching the owner's birthdate - I'd go with more lies.
So where do these companies find employees that are willing to perpetuate these scams. Isn't there anybody who would speak out (or leak the sinister details)? It's evil, but it can only happen if the employees are willing to help it along.
https://twitter.com/HRBraz ?
H.R. coordinator in D.C. sounds close, but not so much the non-profit part.
Just out of curiosity, how do you find 320 compares VBR? Does a variable rate manage to capture the highs properly at appropriate points?
Because they were lazy/incompetent?
I don't have Paypal attached to an account, but most banks I've dealt with have overdraft as an option.
If you don't have overdraft, then you can end up with NSF fees if a cheque bounces, and sometimes they'll hold recent deposits a bit longer, but for Paypal that shouldn't be an issue.
Indeed, I don't understand why Visa et al don't do something other than a card #'s for recurring payments. If I want to to for my electric bill or whatever, allow me to generate a either a single-use token (for one payment) or one which can only be used by a single company (the electric co).
For the multi-use token, it can only be used by the entity which it was initially created for. That means if the Electric Co's payment system gets hacked, nobody can use my token to go on a spending spree elsewhere.
They're already got a training application for that...
I suggest a clearly visible sign that someone is offended by jokes influenced by sexuality (or, perhaps broadening this to include all jokes?).
I'm guessing (/hoping) the above was a joke, however in this case felt that I should re-iterate that - as many have pointed out already - this particular person WASN'T offended by such jokes in general. That is, she'd already posted up similarly juvenile jokes herself earlier that day. Apparently she was only offended when others make such jokes.
about 10-30% cheaper then men
I found that comment a little confusing as well. I'm hoping he means they're cheaper because of less overhead rather than cheaper because they're paid less.
If women come ahead in factors such as sick-days, completion time, etc, I could see if being the latter. For example either
A team of 7-9 women complete a project in the same amount of time it takes a similar male team
or
A team of 10 women complete a project in 70-90% of the time it takes a similar male team
I haven't really found much a difference in gender in my own experience (worked with some lazy men, some lazy women, and hard-working individuals of either gender), but in some cases perhaps the above would apply to correspond with the GP's comment.
" If they had bothered to look at the documentation they would have known"
So you read and familiarize yourself with the entire documentation on every piece of software you use?
Indeed. While this is a case of male athletes VS a female, cases of hazing - sometimes to the point of sexual abuse - among males is not entirely uncommon in teen/college athletica.
It just bothers me that this is being brought up as a gender issue when it's really more an issue of the privileged class almost being given a pass due to their popularity.
Even geeks/nerds aren't immune to this behaviour though, as seen with the Hans Reiser etc cases.
For whatever reason, "protecting our own" seems to often trump justice or morality within various groups. Some people have brought up the "boys will be boys" attitude, but I can almost guarantee that if this was perpetrated by members of the comp-sci club the reaction would have been much different.
Then maybe they should look at using something other than a /24. Usually this is just laziness, where it's easier/more-convenient to assign a /24 to every little unit. There is an advantage in that it's easier to read the addresses, but this comes at the drawback of using up private address-space much quicker.
Using public address-space for private subnets is just an overall terrible idea. A mis-configured firewall, change-over of gear with default settings, routing issue, or any number of things and you have the potential for either:
a) A private machine ending up live on the internet
or
b) Going out to a machine that's live on the internet instead of the internal machine
All it takes is a weak firewall rules and a machine without a gateway/route to the internal box and BLAMMO, suddenly traffic intended for the inside is headed out (and to China, no less).
Regarding Steubenville: was that due to her gender or due to the individuals accused being part of a *very* popular group (the athletes/stars/jocks whatever)?
If a similar incident had happened regarding sexual hazing of a male, or perhaps harassment of a homosexual male, do you thing that the reaction of the "sports-fans" would have been much different?
Just out of curiousity, does anyone know what the laws are regarding taking somebody's picture at a private event and posting them publicly without permission?
In fact, the hardware that doesn't have the so-called "security" is usually cheaper.
Add region-logging, no-skip, and other crap simply adds to the cost of the device.
Know any good blu-ray players that are similarly unlockable? I've found that Blu-ray is usually easier to deal with in that Region-1 includes most places I'd watch from anyways, but the DVD region-lock and no-skip is still a huge PITA.
huge revenues with relatively few advertisements
It started out that way, mainly because the money was in the data willingly supplied by users (and shared with "marketing" companies), rather than the in-line advertising.
Now however, it's getting to be a pretty nasty ad-fest as well, with ads sneaking in with your friends comments, and the constantly "Name an animal that doesn't have a letter "a" in the same" bullshit.
Strange, I'm paying a mortgage on my home, and many people pay for their car in instalments. So should we then be prevented from renovating or modifying the a vehicle with after-market components?
If you break it, you still have to pay for it.
On vBulletin forums (I used to administer a bunch) the option was called "Tachy goes to Coventry"
One of the things I actually liked about Facebook was the option to remove posts (from others' view). If you got some insulting retard, you could just extricate yourself from the conversation and there'd be a thread with him basically talking to himself.
I once commented on a female friend's post, and her overly-jealous (and not too bright) then-BF started flaming me. I removed my post and suddenly his flame is attached to her posts. Good times :-)
Except for the amount of products that are recalled because they contain lead paint or heavy metals, because quality control suffers when you're just trying to do things on the cheap.
You know, things like stuff your children would play with or put in their mouths.
We were making inroads into product safety, but apparently that made things too expensive. Now we'll just source it out to China where it's cheap and full of dangerous chemicals. Don't worry though, after a bunch of kids get sick it'll be recalled!
I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few subs or something of the sort nearby capable of launching a bit more than interceptors...
Disable/remove the Java browser plugins, which is what the majority of vulnerabilities prey on.
Since most generally run MC from a local Java install (not the browser), it should be fairly safe.
Ditto. I actually bought my S2 outright and will probably hang onto it for awhile yet, but the S4 would make a nice upgrade. In particular: better battery life, better screen, and I've *really* missed having an IR transceiver ever since the old palm days.
...make sure you turn it off before going into a Walmart or KFC etc.
If that happens, I predict some nerds with Google Glasses gouging their eyes out...
This is something I've noticed on the GS2. It's most noticeable when viewing at an angle in dim light.
In normal light or direct-on the tint isn't very noticeable, but it's definitely there.