An ASDA (Wal*Mart) in Swansea, Wales, rose the alarm when they had an unusually high amount of oil being sold in their shop. Turns out that it's illegal to use cooking oil as fuel in the UK and I'm pretty sure the USA will catch on to this loss in fuel duty (do they have fuel duty there?).
what this story really seems to point out is the naivete of a lot of people about computers, and the powerful simplicity to seemingly difficult problems that they offer... the average consumer.
With the state of education today, is that really suprising?
If you were arguing that Linux wouldn't work on the home desktop, where the users have no sysadmin to fix things, or no tech support person to direct questions to, you would be right that Linux would be too much.
Funny, the home users i know who use windows don't have sysadmins or tech support people. When a non-techie is faced with a technical problem they are usually stuffed, linux or no linux. I regularly get calls from windows users who say "Help! My email is not working" and that's all they are able to tell me. I'm sure other non-paid involuntary microsoft support techies will have their own bitter stories to tell.
What would be good is if the lines where fatter on one end than the other. This could indicate power/weight in the relationship. Colours would be good too: Red for love, black for hate, etc.
it's horses for courses. copying huge amounts of files will be far quicker in the CLI, whilst visual editing (imaging, whatever) would REQUIRE a GUI. I think they're complementary technologies, not exclusive.
We live in the kind of world where if the country next door decides they don't like your ethnicity, they feel justified in invading your country and killing the lot of you.
They don't even need to be next door, they just have to own oil.
....that the main difficulty in doing a manned mission to Mars was the radiation. He said on TV that there was not sufficient technology to prevent Astronauts getting fried. So can someone tell me how they landed on the moon without getting frazzled? This is a genuine question.
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You think a robo-house would help? Personally, I think a shower unit alone would do the trick.
...as hardware is the only thing I pay for!
The story is here.
Stop Spamming!!! ;)
Er... Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark :/
Doesn't that get expensive?
You mean something like this, or these?
I must admit that I too view it as a privilege mechanism. That's what I thought the "Rights" bit of DRM was...
Having another 8 bits of information for depth. You could then do this easily. Not sure how the hell you'd capture that info though.
I used snort on an IPCOP box. Worked ok for me.
With the state of education today, is that really suprising?
CowboyNeal would be rich! :)
gDesklets are the closest thing I've seen to the kind of achitecture microsoft are trying to achieve.
Why do we need another echelon?
Funny, the home users i know who use windows don't have sysadmins or tech support people. When a non-techie is faced with a technical problem they are usually stuffed, linux or no linux. I regularly get calls from windows users who say "Help! My email is not working" and that's all they are able to tell me. I'm sure other non-paid involuntary microsoft support techies will have their own bitter stories to tell.
What would be good is if the lines where fatter on one end than the other. This could indicate power/weight in the relationship. Colours would be good too: Red for love, black for hate, etc.
it's horses for courses. copying huge amounts of files will be far quicker in the CLI, whilst visual editing (imaging, whatever) would REQUIRE a GUI. I think they're complementary technologies, not exclusive.
They don't even need to be next door, they just have to own oil.
We've got Welsh courses here for Elves.It's very popular too! :)
Aaah! So that's who Daryl McBride is...
That reminds me of the part in the bible about the mark of the beast...
This has been up for at least a fortnight.
....that the main difficulty in doing a manned mission to Mars was the radiation. He said on TV that there was not sufficient technology to prevent Astronauts getting fried. So can someone tell me how they landed on the moon without getting frazzled? This is a genuine question.
I can't believe there is someone moderating on slashdot that doesn't know the star wars script. Incredible!