They could easily do that with a small webserver component. Most firewalls do so and I bet it's the same here, it works. You wouldn't have to worry as much about client-side security either, the server only binds to::1.
Whereever you install it. I use [url=http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/]Putty for Symbian OS[/url] myself, but I'm sure SSH clients exist for most smartphones.
For Monopoly this is only true because the game itself is based on a community game.
I did make a "knock-off" and although IANAL, I posted [url=http://www.robertjohnkaper.com/software/atlantik/legal.html]my legal disclaimer[/url] in case it would become a problem.
Definitely not. Facebook claims a ripoff, not a major security breach. If people had access to the entire source code of Facebook this would be a very different lawsuit.
For airliners I think it's actually fair, given the large amount of people who fly without checked-in luggage. I can't decide whether they need or just want to make more money, but this way they won't be making it off my business or weekend trips.
I have never seen a parking fee tacked onto a concert ticket price and I would actually debate that as I'm more likely to arrive/leave by public transportation or a taxi. The other charges are a bit odd and I don't think you can do that in Europe, although we do have a hefty service charge. Those can be fair as well because the ticket agent usually isn't the even organisation.
When it comes to advertising prices, the rest of the world is doing it better indeed.
But there's a tradeoff: we can't do a EU-wide marketing campaigns which include prices due to different VAT rates. Not that we ever could with all the different languages, currencies and local media (most target one state or language region, only few all of Europe).
What kind of taxes are we talking about here? I can't think of any other than VAT/sales tax and those are pretty straight-forward. Are there any other taxes for cell phones in the US which are directly charged to the consumer?
The MPAA already has a project like this. Nearly every time there's a new flick they cast a new Batman. At their rate eventually we've all been Batman.
People seem to think that the 16 digit hex code is "good enough". I digress. For a international communications company that uses the beauroucratic ITIL method for change control this is not very good as it signifies that this was acceptable when checked through numerous channels.
It would not have been difficult to require a sessionable random variable to match along with the key before allowing this.
Agreed, but this is a level of security most businesses can't afford due to scaling issues.
Storage and traffic costs for content delivery networks are much, much lower than for dynamic environments capable of performing authentication at the last step (sending the actual content, not the HTML interface surrounding it).
There's no reason to be concerned about nuclear sites in the near future either.
Our species is quite good at keeping historical records and other sorts of documentation. We have access to records written many centuries ago right now.
If we devolve to a state where we are unable to read today's and tomorrow's records, nuclear sites will be the least of our problems.
The recording industry has nothing to do with it, unless you explicitely sell your copyrights to a record industry in return for time in their studio, marketing, touring budgets and whatnot.
That most of the billboard names have done so only means that the industry is very effective at marketing their best, not that participation is mandatory.
Not just that last mile is a bottleneck. For the majority of services (even and sometimes especially the popular ones) there are also severe bottlenecks on the hosting end, many of which have nothing to do with bandwidth and/or latency.
If any of the hops between (inclusive) you and the service has any capacity/speed problem, you'll notice it.
Sure, now it's...my hard drive melted or the server's down.
Seriously? Kids are starting too young.
You're never too old to learn that you shouldn't depend on a remote system for files you definitely need for a presentation or in this case classwork. USB sticks got popular for a reason. That also removes the hard drive melt problem, it's quite hard to maintain that excuse when you could save to the USB stick which can be verified to malfunction or not.
Actually, you're the one combining them, the tagline just responds to the title. Freudian slip?
Then again combining porn and classrooms might be even more disturbing. I definitely had porn on my Amiga when I was eleven, but I don't recall every seeing it in class.
Keep in mind that there were (and are) a lot of feature regressions which get fixed up over time. But they were not due to us designing them out, it was due to the fact that they did not get ported over in time.
That's actually what makes it so bad: the regressions aren't unintentional bugs, but anticipated shortcomings.
KDE 4.0 and 4.1 are not meant to be perfect in every way. They are meant to establish a new scheme of APIs and a new design dynamic.
That's the realm of alpha, beta and RC releases. Even if you gently accept that KDE 4.0 is not all of KDE 4, you'll have to feel a bit cheated when now 4.1 isn't quite what we were used of KDE in the past.
I've written enough software to realise that an x.0 release comes with new technology that will contain some regressions, but it's really a bad sign when the x.0 is announced as "this is really just a preview" and then the x.1 still isn't meant to be mature.
The application seems to assume that the best summary is the one with the most correlation to the other posts, in other words: the most common viewpoint. While that may work fine for user reviews, in most cases the viewpoint of the masses is usually not the best.
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They could easily do that with a small webserver component. Most firewalls do so and I bet it's the same here, it works. You wouldn't have to worry as much about client-side security either, the server only binds to ::1.
Whereever you install it. I use [url=http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/]Putty for Symbian OS[/url] myself, but I'm sure SSH clients exist for most smartphones.
It's nice, but the downside is that all ads (and other GeoIP/location-based content) are in Norwegian.
Furthermore, Opera Mini uses the handheld media selector in CSS, which is odd because it's supposed to give you the full browser experience.
Damn. Slashdot should really support BB markup, or forums should accept certain HTML. Or I should pay more attention. :(
http://www.robertjohnkaper.com/software/atlantik/legal.htm
For Monopoly this is only true because the game itself is based on a community game.
I did make a "knock-off" and although IANAL, I posted [url=http://www.robertjohnkaper.com/software/atlantik/legal.html]my legal disclaimer[/url] in case it would become a problem.
Definitely not. Facebook claims a ripoff, not a major security breach. If people had access to the entire source code of Facebook this would be a very different lawsuit.
For airliners I think it's actually fair, given the large amount of people who fly without checked-in luggage. I can't decide whether they need or just want to make more money, but this way they won't be making it off my business or weekend trips.
I have never seen a parking fee tacked onto a concert ticket price and I would actually debate that as I'm more likely to arrive/leave by public transportation or a taxi. The other charges are a bit odd and I don't think you can do that in Europe, although we do have a hefty service charge. Those can be fair as well because the ticket agent usually isn't the even organisation.
When it comes to advertising prices, the rest of the world is doing it better indeed.
But there's a tradeoff: we can't do a EU-wide marketing campaigns which include prices due to different VAT rates. Not that we ever could with all the different languages, currencies and local media (most target one state or language region, only few all of Europe).
What kind of taxes are we talking about here? I can't think of any other than VAT/sales tax and those are pretty straight-forward. Are there any other taxes for cell phones in the US which are directly charged to the consumer?
The MPAA already has a project like this. Nearly every time there's a new flick they cast a new Batman. At their rate eventually we've all been Batman.
People seem to think that the 16 digit hex code is "good enough". I digress. For a international communications company that uses the beauroucratic ITIL method for change control this is not very good as it signifies that this was acceptable when checked through numerous channels.
It would not have been difficult to require a sessionable random variable to match along with the key before allowing this.
Agreed, but this is a level of security most businesses can't afford due to scaling issues.
Storage and traffic costs for content delivery networks are much, much lower than for dynamic environments capable of performing authentication at the last step (sending the actual content, not the HTML interface surrounding it).
There's no reason to be concerned about nuclear sites in the near future either.
Our species is quite good at keeping historical records and other sorts of documentation. We have access to records written many centuries ago right now.
If we devolve to a state where we are unable to read today's and tomorrow's records, nuclear sites will be the least of our problems.
No, your offspring (if any) would benefit.
The recording industry has nothing to do with it, unless you explicitely sell your copyrights to a record industry in return for time in their studio, marketing, touring budgets and whatnot.
That most of the billboard names have done so only means that the industry is very effective at marketing their best, not that participation is mandatory.
Lesbian teenagers reinforce more stereotypes than they do break. Unless you live in Lastcentury, AB perhaps?
Have been? I am in such a position.
Hm, that reminds me, I should revise my consultancy rates before /var/log hits 100% on one of the servers.
Most of Europe is on the Eastern Hemisphere. Greenwich isn't in the Balkans.
Not just that last mile is a bottleneck. For the majority of services (even and sometimes especially the popular ones) there are also severe bottlenecks on the hosting end, many of which have nothing to do with bandwidth and/or latency.
If any of the hops between (inclusive) you and the service has any capacity/speed problem, you'll notice it.
Sure, now it's...my hard drive melted or the server's down.
Seriously? Kids are starting too young.
You're never too old to learn that you shouldn't depend on a remote system for files you definitely need for a presentation or in this case classwork. USB sticks got popular for a reason. That also removes the hard drive melt problem, it's quite hard to maintain that excuse when you could save to the USB stick which can be verified to malfunction or not.
Actually, you're the one combining them, the tagline just responds to the title. Freudian slip?
Then again combining porn and classrooms might be even more disturbing. I definitely had porn on my Amiga when I was eleven, but I don't recall every seeing it in class.
Keep in mind that there were (and are) a lot of feature regressions which get fixed up over time. But they were not due to us designing them out, it was due to the fact that they did not get ported over in time.
That's actually what makes it so bad: the regressions aren't unintentional bugs, but anticipated shortcomings.
KDE 4.0 and 4.1 are not meant to be perfect in every way. They are meant to establish a new scheme of APIs and a new design dynamic.
That's the realm of alpha, beta and RC releases. Even if you gently accept that KDE 4.0 is not all of KDE 4, you'll have to feel a bit cheated when now 4.1 isn't quite what we were used of KDE in the past.
I've written enough software to realise that an x.0 release comes with new technology that will contain some regressions, but it's really a bad sign when the x.0 is announced as "this is really just a preview" and then the x.1 still isn't meant to be mature.
Sure, let's take away resources from our emergency services.
The second option doesn't make sense to me either, if 911 were to respond to that, then surely you could just call them yourself to report a theft.
Joke's on me, this time, I guess. *sigh*
I'd love to get a one page summary of all the informative, insightful and interesting comments.
[url=http://slashdot.org/~Rob+Kaper]Here you go[/url].
The application seems to assume that the best summary is the one with the most correlation to the other posts, in other words: the most common viewpoint. While that may work fine for user reviews, in most cases the viewpoint of the masses is usually not the best.