That's odd. I just clicked both links (using Safari) and they work just fine. AFAIK I have nothing set to hide referrer, unless Safari does that by default as I don't even see it as an option.
I'm by no means a McDonalds fan, but I have to agree about the new salads. They actually have "real" lettuce (meaning a variety of types, not just iceberg) and if you get the non-breaded chicken and the low-cal dressing, you can have the whole thing for about 300 kCal. Not a gourmet meal but if you are stuck eating there it beats the heck out of the other choices.
...if cam captures were the main source of piracy, but from what I've read, it's a lot more common for the leaks to come from "insider" sources. Either from post-production workers, or theatre employees in the projection booth.
Got to wonder about the technical savvy of the reviewer (unless s/he was just quoting from the book or something, in which case I wonder about the author instead.)
For example, creating a firewire emergency disk isn't "arduous" at all. I managed to figure out how in about 5 seconds. (In case you can't figure it out, take your Install CD/DVD that came with the machine, install the system on a firewire partition, and then make sure it's current with updates.)
Or saying that the terminal is for "brave" users. Give me a break. "Experienced" or "Savvy" or something like that, but "Brave"?
One more example... the review says that the book does a good job of explaning how to rexognize when you should use Retrospect, or when you should use Disk Warrior. (After complaining that the book is for advanced users.) Sorry, but most advanced users pretty much know what Retrospect is used for.
Actually, upon reading the review again, it sounds as if half of it was copied from a press release for the book or somethng. I don't think I'll be buying this one anytime soon.
He needs to be careful though. The rust job is so good that should he go away for the weekend and leave it in plain view, his mother might well put it out with the trash!
The article talks about all these low cost WiFi hotspots. We have a local college where you must be a student or faculty, a Borders where you can pay T-Mobile $30 a month, and that's about it. Or maybe they are talking about crusing the neighbourhood looking for unsecured home wireless connections? Hmmmmm!
Is this something like being put in "Fred's Museum of Wonder"? I mean the vote is about as professional looking as those poles on CNN where anyone can vote as often as they like. The Museum site at least looks OK but the vote site is some kind of game fan site.
The article quotes the FTC guy as saying that if Spyware laws were implemented, then every time one did an install of something such as Office there would be hundreds of "helper" programs that would need permission, or warning, or whatever.
I can see his point... if the user is asked for a blanket permission at the start of the install then it negates the purpose of asking permission for the spyware components but if each individual program asks permission, it would take all day.
Not sure what ya'll are doing wrong. I have iTunes on Mac and Windows, (same account on both), no credit card was ever given, and have downloaded Pepsi cap songs and the new Free Songs on both machines with no problem at all.
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but am now making up for it with GURPS
Oh Yeah... still have all my GURPS, and that evolved from The Fantasy Trip, and the line started with a couple of Pocket Games called Melee and Wizard. Man did we waste a lot of hours with those two!
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but in college we were playing Chainmail before D&D came out (original D&D evolved from ading fantasy rules to chainmail rules). When we got D&D (and I still have my original white box with the three booklets) I think our whole "strategy club" went for a month with no sleep!
From the comments out there, it seems like Google is more aggressive than just deleting duplicate sites. If you are an affiliate site for say, Amazon.com, and use their descriptions verbatim for products you offer, this seems to give you a good chance for being deleted. Other examples are also given if you read some of the links given earlier in this topic.
Not sure why you say that. If you read all the way through Naughton's article, he says that the calculations come from Garfinkel, he mentions Technology Review, and then later directly quotes Garfinkel. Sounds like attribution to me.
Can't get to the site to rtfa, but I had a similar course from the same University (different prof) over 25 years ago. It was called "The Physics of Science Fiction" and the premise was that we would read various works of popular science fiction (and watch some movies) and consider how the "laws of physics" were either the same or different in their universes.
Wasn't a bad class really. We read Fred Hoyle, Larry Niven, Hal Clement, and some others that I don't remember. It gave a decent introduction to basic phsyics and was fairly popular on campus amongst the nonscience majors. (I took it because the prof was a friend of mine and said I would enjoy it.)
Courses like this are certainly not going to replace traditional lab physics for science majors, but they can do a fine job of making science more interesting to some students who normally don't enjoy it.
Your post shows that you didn't read the article. They are not putting RFIDs on the phones. The phones are able to act as portable RFID scanners. Also, apparently none of the people who modded you up bothered to read the article either, but then I guess this is/. after all.
I tried to raise the suggestion that when people have no clue at all what the words format, data, or erasing mean, having the choice is a pointless affair.
Format and data I'll give you, but if the person doesn't know what erase means, then they have no business out of diapers, much less on a computer.
Bottom line: GUI needs to use language appropriate to the intended user, that's all.
From the article "Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail."
If you RTFA it says they will make money by inserting ads into your email based on the content. Which sounds like something will be reading your email as it hits your inbox. Lovely.
I've owned Apple products since Apple ][, including many Macs. Had a bad modem on a G3 once. Sent it in, they sent a new one. Recently had a bad remote control on a very new iPod. I went to the web site, entered the problem and had a new control in the mail within 3 days. They didn't ask for the old one back or anything. I know it's only a $40 item, but was nice to have such quick service.
Bottom line, my experience has been that Apple very rarely breaks, and the few times it did break I was given prompt service.
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That's odd. I just clicked both links (using Safari) and they work just fine. AFAIK I have nothing set to hide referrer, unless Safari does that by default as I don't even see it as an option.
Fixed illegal user access the WEB configuration utility.
Now if they only had a grammar checker!
I'm by no means a McDonalds fan, but I have to agree about the new salads. They actually have "real" lettuce (meaning a variety of types, not just iceberg) and if you get the non-breaded chicken and the low-cal dressing, you can have the whole thing for about 300 kCal. Not a gourmet meal but if you are stuck eating there it beats the heck out of the other choices.
just how many other devices have similar "hidden" features, just waiting to be hacked. I suspect it's a lot.
...if cam captures were the main source of piracy, but from what I've read, it's a lot more common for the leaks to come from "insider" sources. Either from post-production workers, or theatre employees in the projection booth.
Got to wonder about the technical savvy of the reviewer (unless s/he was just quoting from the book or something, in which case I wonder about the author instead.)
For example, creating a firewire emergency disk isn't "arduous" at all. I managed to figure out how in about 5 seconds. (In case you can't figure it out, take your Install CD/DVD that came with the machine, install the system on a firewire partition, and then make sure it's current with updates.)
Or saying that the terminal is for "brave" users. Give me a break. "Experienced" or "Savvy" or something like that, but "Brave"?
One more example... the review says that the book does a good job of explaning how to rexognize when you should use Retrospect, or when you should use Disk Warrior. (After complaining that the book is for advanced users.) Sorry, but most advanced users pretty much know what Retrospect is used for.
Actually, upon reading the review again, it sounds as if half of it was copied from a press release for the book or somethng. I don't think I'll be buying this one anytime soon.
He needs to be careful though. The rust job is so good that should he go away for the weekend and leave it in plain view, his mother might well put it out with the trash!
Man, that's impressive.
The article talks about all these low cost WiFi hotspots. We have a local college where you must be a student or faculty, a Borders where you can pay T-Mobile $30 a month, and that's about it. Or maybe they are talking about crusing the neighbourhood looking for unsecured home wireless connections? Hmmmmm!
Is this something like being put in "Fred's Museum of Wonder"? I mean the vote is about as professional looking as those poles on CNN where anyone can vote as often as they like. The Museum site at least looks OK but the vote site is some kind of game fan site.
The article quotes the FTC guy as saying that if Spyware laws were implemented, then every time one did an install of something such as Office there would be hundreds of "helper" programs that would need permission, or warning, or whatever.
I can see his point... if the user is asked for a blanket permission at the start of the install then it negates the purpose of asking permission for the spyware components but if each individual program asks permission, it would take all day.
So what's the solution?
Not sure what ya'll are doing wrong. I have iTunes on Mac and Windows, (same account on both), no credit card was ever given, and have downloaded Pepsi cap songs and the new Free Songs on both machines with no problem at all.
but am now making up for it with GURPS
Oh Yeah... still have all my GURPS, and that evolved from The Fantasy Trip, and the line started with a couple of Pocket Games called Melee and Wizard. Man did we waste a lot of hours with those two!
but in college we were playing Chainmail before D&D came out (original D&D evolved from ading fantasy rules to chainmail rules). When we got D&D (and I still have my original white box with the three booklets) I think our whole "strategy club" went for a month with no sleep!
From the comments out there, it seems like Google is more aggressive than just deleting duplicate sites. If you are an affiliate site for say, Amazon.com, and use their descriptions verbatim for products you offer, this seems to give you a good chance for being deleted. Other examples are also given if you read some of the links given earlier in this topic.
Not sure why you say that. If you read all the way through Naughton's article, he says that the calculations come from Garfinkel, he mentions Technology Review, and then later directly quotes Garfinkel. Sounds like attribution to me.
Can't get to the site to rtfa, but I had a similar course from the same University (different prof) over 25 years ago. It was called "The Physics of Science Fiction" and the premise was that we would read various works of popular science fiction (and watch some movies) and consider how the "laws of physics" were either the same or different in their universes.
Wasn't a bad class really. We read Fred Hoyle, Larry Niven, Hal Clement, and some others that I don't remember. It gave a decent introduction to basic phsyics and was fairly popular on campus amongst the nonscience majors. (I took it because the prof was a friend of mine and said I would enjoy it.)
Courses like this are certainly not going to replace traditional lab physics for science majors, but they can do a fine job of making science more interesting to some students who normally don't enjoy it.
Actually, this is already in testing. Lufthansa is rolling out service on many of its jets, and I'm sure others will follow it it's profitable.
I knew I should have kept my copy of Windows 95!
Your post shows that you didn't read the article. They are not putting RFIDs on the phones. The phones are able to act as portable RFID scanners. Also, apparently none of the people who modded you up bothered to read the article either, but then I guess this is /. after all.
I tried to raise the suggestion that when people have no clue at all what the words format, data, or erasing mean, having the choice is a pointless affair.
Format and data I'll give you, but if the person doesn't know what erase means, then they have no business out of diapers, much less on a computer.
Bottom line: GUI needs to use language appropriate to the intended user, that's all.
assuming this is a serious question, try this for explanation.
"Google hopes to quell any such concerns by assuring users that the content of their messages will remain private."
Which does not say they won't read them. Just says they will keep the contents private. Two very different things.
From the article "Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail."
Maybe you read a different article?
If you RTFA it says they will make money by inserting ads into your email based on the content. Which sounds like something will be reading your email as it hits your inbox. Lovely.
I've owned Apple products since Apple ][, including many Macs. Had a bad modem on a G3 once. Sent it in, they sent a new one. Recently had a bad remote control on a very new iPod. I went to the web site, entered the problem and had a new control in the mail within 3 days. They didn't ask for the old one back or anything. I know it's only a $40 item, but was nice to have such quick service.
Bottom line, my experience has been that Apple very rarely breaks, and the few times it did break I was given prompt service.