The difference there is how Apple doesn't seem to have the same anti-OSS, anti-unix stance that Microsoft does. Hence, Apple was not being the hypocrite there while MS most certainly was seen as one.
Oh, our cell phone providers are *quite* backwards. It's quite a hassle even getting a cell co. to undo the provider lock, so if someone was to want to switch providers they'd pretty much need to get a new phone. Luckily, I unlocked mine with some software a while ago so I've had no problems switching providers. However, my sister now has three cell phones, two of which are useless to her, since she couldn't manage to get the unlock codes for them. One of those is GSM so at least that one can ebayed. Not sure about the other one (from Verizon) though.
It was refused because your card is not valid unless it has your signature on the back of it. That signature is there to show that you have read your credit card contract and agree to it, not to act as a security feature.
Any store that has accepted that card would have been out of luck if you were using it fraudulently, as the card company will not cover it if the card has not been signed. How they know that is beyond me though.
While this method may make you feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that your credit is secure, it's actually against the Visa merchant agreement for stores to ask for an ID. A hardware store in my area made a point to require ID with every credit card purchase. It wasn't long before Visa was threatening to pull their card out of that store for breach of contract.
Another note: the signature is _not_ for verifying that you are you, but rather to let the merchant know that you have agreed to the terms of your credit contract. If they accept an unsigned card that is used fraudulently, they are responsible for 100% of the cost.
1. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
2. Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy.
3. The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.
I don't know about you, but #2 sounds like something I'd want from my wireless hardware. Digital != lossless transmission, especially when transmitting using a method prone to interference or signal loss, such as RF.
You aren't alone. I've never noticed a single issue rendering Slashdot and I've been using Firefox for several versions. I just loaded it up in IE and, aside from a few font settings I changed in FF, it looks as identical as could be expected. YMMV, I guess.
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Xerox had little to complain about there. They let Apple study the Alto and it's GUI as they didn't feel that they had a product there that they could really do much with. They invested $1mil in Apple after that and received about a 1700% return on that. Probably more than they expected to get out of the Alto at the time. So I would hardly call it an outright theft.
If you're looking for a way to open an Explorer window with the keyboard, the shortcut is Win-E. Where 'Win' is the key with the Windows logo. Win-D and Win-L are also pretty useful.
On the other hand, one would think that a major computer science/engineering deparment that is getting grants to research ways to withstand DOS attacks would be able to withstand a slashdotting...
Well, then we just provided them with quite a bit of data on DoS attacks, didn't we?
Well, one major difference is that airbags can be legally disabled (after getting a waiver from NHTSA...good luck on that) and this chip presumably cannot due to the good old DMCA.
If they let me disable it in exchange for maybe putting an identifying watermark in the video and me agreeing to not distribute under pain of death/fines, I'd make that trade-off as I probably didn't plan on distributing their content anyway. But that would probably never happen as then I might be able to do something crazy with the video like watching it on my laptop. We can't have that now, can we?
Ok...ignore that comment. It was released as a security update a couple weeks ago as was pointed out.
I need to remember to have my coffee before posting in the morning:)
Hmm...I had to call up before mine would work. Perhaps the person who was in this room before hadn't patched. That or they just wanted to remind me of the etherjack nightmare we had in our Pioneer Hall room.
Yeah, sure, they came out right away for that work order/sarcasm We finally just broke down and bought a switch to share the one good jack.
The University of Minnesota has a similar policy for using it's network, except for the whole reformat thing. They were actually nice enough to provide each student with a CD that had all the necessary patches and removal tools on it. Your ethernet jack was disabled until you proved to them that you had been patched.
Seems like a much more reasonable way of dealing with it than MIT's policy.
Well, there just doesn't seem to be any pattern to how it's throwing files in the Fxx folders under iPond_Control/Music. Yeah, the iPod has a file with the info (I'm assuming that's what iPond_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB is) and pointing to the files in the Fxx folders, but I'm curious if there is a certain way they are divided up into those folders. I don't think it's by album, artist or title since I have albums on there that are spread across several of those folders.
Any idea? I was thinking of writing an app (or winamp plugin) for managing an iPod and I'd probably need to know this.
No, it's not impossible. A good way to get a listing of the MP3's on there is to do a search on it for *.mp3 (mounted in firewire disk mode). They tried to make it difficult to do by hiding the folder they're stored in and splitting the MP3's into several folders (or maybe there's a functional reason for this?)
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*groan*
OK, I admit it. I chuckled at that one.
Sir, you owe me a new monitor. That was too good :)
A newt?
The difference there is how Apple doesn't seem to have the same anti-OSS, anti-unix stance that Microsoft does. Hence, Apple was not being the hypocrite there while MS most certainly was seen as one.
Oh, our cell phone providers are *quite* backwards. It's quite a hassle even getting a cell co. to undo the provider lock, so if someone was to want to switch providers they'd pretty much need to get a new phone. Luckily, I unlocked mine with some software a while ago so I've had no problems switching providers. However, my sister now has three cell phones, two of which are useless to her, since she couldn't manage to get the unlock codes for them. One of those is GSM so at least that one can ebayed. Not sure about the other one (from Verizon) though.
It was refused because your card is not valid unless it has your signature on the back of it. That signature is there to show that you have read your credit card contract and agree to it, not to act as a security feature. Any store that has accepted that card would have been out of luck if you were using it fraudulently, as the card company will not cover it if the card has not been signed. How they know that is beyond me though.
While this method may make you feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that your credit is secure, it's actually against the Visa merchant agreement for stores to ask for an ID.
A hardware store in my area made a point to require ID with every credit card purchase. It wasn't long before Visa was threatening to pull their card out of that store for breach of contract.
Another note: the signature is _not_ for verifying that you are you, but rather to let the merchant know that you have agreed to the terms of your credit contract. If they accept an unsigned card that is used fraudulently, they are responsible for 100% of the cost.
fidelity
n. pl. fidelities
1. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
2. Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy.
3. The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.
I don't know about you, but #2 sounds like something I'd want from my wireless hardware.
Digital != lossless transmission, especially when transmitting using a method prone to interference or signal loss, such as RF.
You aren't alone. I've never noticed a single issue rendering Slashdot and I've been using Firefox for several versions. I just loaded it up in IE and, aside from a few font settings I changed in FF, it looks as identical as could be expected. YMMV, I guess.
Xerox had little to complain about there. They let Apple study the Alto and it's GUI as they didn't feel that they had a product there that they could really do much with. They invested $1mil in Apple after that and received about a 1700% return on that. Probably more than they expected to get out of the Alto at the time. So I would hardly call it an outright theft.
If you're looking for a way to open an Explorer window with the keyboard, the shortcut is Win-E. Where 'Win' is the key with the Windows logo. Win-D and Win-L are also pretty useful.
Well, then we just provided them with quite a bit of data on DoS attacks, didn't we?
My dog does too exist! Take that back!
Well, one major difference is that airbags can be legally disabled (after getting a waiver from NHTSA...good luck on that) and this chip presumably cannot due to the good old DMCA.
If they let me disable it in exchange for maybe putting an identifying watermark in the video and me agreeing to not distribute under pain of death/fines, I'd make that trade-off as I probably didn't plan on distributing their content anyway. But that would probably never happen as then I might be able to do something crazy with the video like watching it on my laptop. We can't have that now, can we?
Ok...ignore that comment. It was released as a security update a couple weeks ago as was pointed out. :)
I need to remember to have my coffee before posting in the morning
I was referring to how it's not showing up on some of my unpatched machines in Windows Update as a critical update (not at all).
MS has issued a patch for this. Why it's not a critical update is beyond me...
That's odd. By your statement, I must not live in the US since I have both a GSM phone and a SIM card provided by my cell service (T-Mobile).
Huh? Oh. You want the article next door. Yeah, having two MS articles in one day will do that to ya.
I, for one, welcome our new redundant joke overl....ah, fsck it......
Hmm...I had to call up before mine would work. Perhaps the person who was in this room before hadn't patched. That or they just wanted to remind me of the etherjack nightmare we had in our Pioneer Hall room.
/sarcasm
Yeah, sure, they came out right away for that work order
We finally just broke down and bought a switch to share the one good jack.
The University of Minnesota has a similar policy for using it's network, except for the whole reformat thing. They were actually nice enough to provide each student with a CD that had all the necessary patches and removal tools on it. Your ethernet jack was disabled until you proved to them that you had been patched.
Seems like a much more reasonable way of dealing with it than MIT's policy.
yeah..I guess I have an iPond or something...where did my brain go?
Any idea? I was thinking of writing an app (or winamp plugin) for managing an iPod and I'd probably need to know this.
No, it's not impossible. A good way to get a listing of the MP3's on there is to do a search on it for *.mp3 (mounted in firewire disk mode). They tried to make it difficult to do by hiding the folder they're stored in and splitting the MP3's into several folders (or maybe there's a functional reason for this?)