Not really a PITA, so much as a loooong wait while you get assigned to cushy positions until your clearance comes through.
I got mine from the Navy, and the hardest part was remembering where the heck I'd been since high school. And unless you *save* your previous paperwork, it gets harder and harder to remember where you've been and what you were doing with whom.
Once you've got your paperwork in, it usually takes about 2-3 months for Naval Investigative Services to interview all the people on your SF-86. So maybe a PITA, if you don't do your homework?
For me and most of the folks I worked with, it was pretty straightforward. But long. Very long.
Yes, I'm seeing it also, but only when I close the browser completely. I'm using FF 2.0.1.14 (I think?) My copy of FF Portable doesn't have a problem, though.
So long as I don't close-or crash-the browser, all my login cookies are retained. But after a restart, they're all gone. It's odd, FF will remember where I was and what I was doing, but it doesn't retain the cookies.
Could this possibly be a "security feature"? Y'know...the Feds are bashing in your door, so you just hit the power button and kiss all your login cookies goodbye?
Ooops...I just gave the developers an excuse. Oh well...
I'm more concerned about security. Would this feature make it easier to break into my car?
If you can afford this car, then you're not going to be parking it in places where such a thing can happen. In fact, you won't even *be* in places where such a thing can happen.
Its issues like this-appearing on SlashDot-that have taught me to be VERY careful of metadata on my files.
When I recently installed OpenOffice, I entered all my details. Then, after I'd created a.PDF for my business partner, I checked to make sure it had the proper credentials in the metadata. Whoops! It had mine, not my partner's.
A quick retooling and re-save of the file, and everything came up roses.
So yeah! Learning from the mistakes of others will help you avoid showing up here as the topic du jour.
Good Daycycle, Citizen, and welcome to Alton Towers, where fun is mandatory! Please bear in mind that failure to have fun is considered Treason, and is punishable by painful death reserved for Commie Mutant Traitors and those Citizens who failed to have fun.
Thank you for your cooperation, Citizen, and remember to have fun!
What is this business of these things not having anything of value on them?
Obviously, the OCCUPANT is incredibly valuable? They can afford to plunk their own nation state out in the middle of the ocean!
If they have that kind of dosh, then they (or their families) can easily afford a few million dollars in ransom.
Why do you think immigrants who win the lottery in the US beg the news people to let them get their families out of their home country before announcing their winnings on TV? Because they're all kidnapped within 24 hours of the announcement, that's why.
These floating playhouses would be nothing but money trees. And easily picked, too.
You have to keep in mind that ISP's don't deal with "techies", since most techies are savvy enough to fix 99% of their own problems.
What they have to deal with are the clueless users, grandmas and busy people who have neither the time nor the inclination to understand anything other than point-and-click.
And those clueless users comprise nearly 90% of their userbase.
Cutting off those clueless users would be tantamount to corporate suicide. Much like British Telcom found out back in 2001 with the outbreak of CodeRed? They tried your "simple fix" and lost thousands upon thousands of customers, when every clueless user was shut down.
Unfortunately BT was just as clueless. They wouldn't reconnect you until your machine showed up as clean on their network, and you couldn't clean your machine until you got the update. You couldn't get the update until you connected to the net to download it.
Quite typical for British customer service, but there you go.
Okay, the company is currently doing some things that look suspicious to a highly jaded crowd, but actually make a lot of sense for someone who's been swamped with genuine interest. So we just wait and see how things settle down.
And we haven't seen or heard ANYTHING from Apple. It's been more than a few days, and Apple is not known for sitting on their laurels when it comes to such things. If this were illegal or fishy, Apple would be all over them like white on rice and crowing from the rooftops about it.
So far, zip from Apple.
Here's an idea? How about we let these folks SETTLE IN for a bit and see how things turn out before we start writing their obituary?
They're using credit cards for transactions, AND they're using PayPal on top of it. It's not like your money will vaporize without a trace, folks? There's a reason Nigerian and other scammers want you to use money orders and Western Union.
...that everyone automatically assumes that any allegedly "hostile action" coming out of China is being perpetrated by the government?
What about ordinary citizens?
I mean, come ON people! China was a superpower TWO THOUSAND YEARS before the Egyptians were building their pyramids! There's just a teeeeeny-tiny smidgen of National Pride, here folks. Not to mention that a full half of everything we have in our so-called 'modern world' came from Chinese inventions a few thousand years ago?
And here WE are, not even 400 years old, acting like we're all that.
Please. This isn't an attack by the Chinese government? This is a proper bitch-slapping by a bunch of kids in the Chinese equivalent of Kintergarten who got mad because we're dissing their national heritage.
It was the ONLY thing that worked. In fact, it worked so well that the spammers had to declare open warfare against them.
Hah! Let's see them try THAT with Google. Oh, and seeing all of Google's Gmail customers becoming virtual BlueFrogs by default would be pretty cool, too!
Other causes for military concern include possible supply-chain vulnerabilities, where vulnerabilities are introduced into chipsets during manufacturing that an adversary can then exploit, and electronics vulnerabilities.
I guess that explains what happened to me?
I got an email from a supply company requesting payment of nearly $15,000 for, I kid you not, 2200 telephones. Apparently, they'd been ordered, purchased and delivered to my former duty station at NCTAMS PAC in Hawaii.
Mind you, they were all delivered to a mailbox that was probably all of 8x3x5 inches. I did the math, and 2200 desk telephones wouldn't have fit inside the whole mail BUILDING, let alone the post box.
Nobody at the base ever saw the order-they would have, since that many phones would have come on 5 pallets-and nobody knew what they heck was going on. Finally, after working with the business owner, it was determined that the owner had been hacked.
The phones went one way, the bill went the other, I got a nervous laugh, the poor business owner got screwed and the military was twirling around going "Wha?! Wha?!? HUH!??!"
Didn't have to pay a cent, though. Wonder how it turned out?
1.5 million spammers, phishers, crackers and other assorted criminals around the world have been VERY busy taking it apart to make sure THEY know every hole.
...it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mail including those containing political, religious or other speech protected by the First Amendment
Sorry sweety, but in all my years on the net, getting spam, I've NEVER seen an email asking me, "Dear Sir, would you like a bigger God?" or "Dear Sir, would you like a more honest politician?".
And at the end of the day, both politics and religion are just another form of porn, viagra or stock scam.
Slashdot Mirror
This should make games like "Alone in the Dark", "Resident Evil" and "BioShock" a LOT harder.
Monster: "OOOGITY-BOOGITTY!"
Me: GYAAH!! OHSHITOHSHITWHERESTHEFIRECOMMAN*
Game: You have been eviscerated. Try again.
Not really a PITA, so much as a loooong wait while you get assigned to cushy positions until your clearance comes through.
I got mine from the Navy, and the hardest part was remembering where the heck I'd been since high school. And unless you *save* your previous paperwork, it gets harder and harder to remember where you've been and what you were doing with whom.
Once you've got your paperwork in, it usually takes about 2-3 months for Naval Investigative Services to interview all the people on your SF-86. So maybe a PITA, if you don't do your homework?
For me and most of the folks I worked with, it was pretty straightforward. But long. Very long.
Yes, I'm seeing it also, but only when I close the browser completely. I'm using FF 2.0.1.14 (I think?) My copy of FF Portable doesn't have a problem, though.
So long as I don't close-or crash-the browser, all my login cookies are retained. But after a restart, they're all gone. It's odd, FF will remember where I was and what I was doing, but it doesn't retain the cookies.
Could this possibly be a "security feature"? Y'know...the Feds are bashing in your door, so you just hit the power button and kiss all your login cookies goodbye?
Ooops...I just gave the developers an excuse. Oh well...
I'm more concerned about security. Would this feature make it easier to break into my car?
If you can afford this car, then you're not going to be parking it in places where such a thing can happen. In fact, you won't even *be* in places where such a thing can happen.
Its issues like this-appearing on SlashDot-that have taught me to be VERY careful of metadata on my files.
.PDF for my business partner, I checked to make sure it had the proper credentials in the metadata. Whoops! It had mine, not my partner's.
When I recently installed OpenOffice, I entered all my details. Then, after I'd created a
A quick retooling and re-save of the file, and everything came up roses.
So yeah! Learning from the mistakes of others will help you avoid showing up here as the topic du jour.
Good Daycycle, Citizen, and welcome to Alton Towers, where fun is mandatory! Please bear in mind that failure to have fun is considered Treason, and is punishable by painful death reserved for Commie Mutant Traitors and those Citizens who failed to have fun.
Thank you for your cooperation, Citizen, and remember to have fun!
Your Friend,
The Computer
What is this business of these things not having anything of value on them?
Obviously, the OCCUPANT is incredibly valuable? They can afford to plunk their own nation state out in the middle of the ocean!
If they have that kind of dosh, then they (or their families) can easily afford a few million dollars in ransom.
Why do you think immigrants who win the lottery in the US beg the news people to let them get their families out of their home country before announcing their winnings on TV? Because they're all kidnapped within 24 hours of the announcement, that's why.
These floating playhouses would be nothing but money trees. And easily picked, too.
1. Set the bug zapper on the ground.
2. Set up chairs.
3. Set up cooler and fill with cheap beer.
4. Sell beer to spectators.
5. Profit!
Tell THIS girl [wikipedia.org] that she wasn't in a war zone.
Thank you for posting this. I've always wondered who this girl was, and what happened to her. You just made my day.
You have to keep in mind that ISP's don't deal with "techies", since most techies are savvy enough to fix 99% of their own problems.
What they have to deal with are the clueless users, grandmas and busy people who have neither the time nor the inclination to understand anything other than point-and-click.
And those clueless users comprise nearly 90% of their userbase.
Cutting off those clueless users would be tantamount to corporate suicide. Much like British Telcom found out back in 2001 with the outbreak of CodeRed? They tried your "simple fix" and lost thousands upon thousands of customers, when every clueless user was shut down.
Unfortunately BT was just as clueless. They wouldn't reconnect you until your machine showed up as clean on their network, and you couldn't clean your machine until you got the update. You couldn't get the update until you connected to the net to download it.
Quite typical for British customer service, but there you go.
I'm sure the last thing this kid's family would want to find out about is his furry porn collection.
;)
Aside from the fact that you're obviously not dead, it sounds as if you're speaking from experience. Was it first-paw?
...and mistook it for a new card combo from Magic: The Gathering.
I think I need to get outside more.
Hmmmm. I can see it now...
*scratch balls*
(AIR-STRIKE SUMMONED)
In fact, fences being used to keep _citizens_ in is relatively uncommon.
Except in New Jersey. You have to pay a toll to escape.
Guh. Kill me now, plz. Kthxbye.
*pssst* America hasn't given up our guns yet.
Right, but which link(s)? There's 5, and one of them goes to Gizmodo. More info please?
...all I'm seeing is a lot of hurf-blurf.
Okay, the company is currently doing some things that look suspicious to a highly jaded crowd, but actually make a lot of sense for someone who's been swamped with genuine interest. So we just wait and see how things settle down.
And we haven't seen or heard ANYTHING from Apple. It's been more than a few days, and Apple is not known for sitting on their laurels when it comes to such things. If this were illegal or fishy, Apple would be all over them like white on rice and crowing from the rooftops about it.
So far, zip from Apple.
Here's an idea? How about we let these folks SETTLE IN for a bit and see how things turn out before we start writing their obituary?
They're using credit cards for transactions, AND they're using PayPal on top of it. It's not like your money will vaporize without a trace, folks? There's a reason Nigerian and other scammers want you to use money orders and Western Union.
...that everyone automatically assumes that any allegedly "hostile action" coming out of China is being perpetrated by the government?
What about ordinary citizens?
I mean, come ON people! China was a superpower TWO THOUSAND YEARS before the Egyptians were building their pyramids! There's just a teeeeeny-tiny smidgen of National Pride, here folks. Not to mention that a full half of everything we have in our so-called 'modern world' came from Chinese inventions a few thousand years ago?
And here WE are, not even 400 years old, acting like we're all that.
Please. This isn't an attack by the Chinese government? This is a proper bitch-slapping by a bunch of kids in the Chinese equivalent of Kintergarten who got mad because we're dissing their national heritage.
Why doesn't Google go with the Blue Frog/Security Method?
It was the ONLY thing that worked. In fact, it worked so well that the spammers had to declare open warfare against them.
Hah! Let's see them try THAT with Google. Oh, and seeing all of Google's Gmail customers becoming virtual BlueFrogs by default would be pretty cool, too!
Other causes for military concern include possible supply-chain vulnerabilities, where vulnerabilities are introduced into chipsets during manufacturing that an adversary can then exploit, and electronics vulnerabilities.
I guess that explains what happened to me?
I got an email from a supply company requesting payment of nearly $15,000 for, I kid you not, 2200 telephones. Apparently, they'd been ordered, purchased and delivered to my former duty station at NCTAMS PAC in Hawaii.
Mind you, they were all delivered to a mailbox that was probably all of 8x3x5 inches. I did the math, and 2200 desk telephones wouldn't have fit inside the whole mail BUILDING, let alone the post box.
Nobody at the base ever saw the order-they would have, since that many phones would have come on 5 pallets-and nobody knew what they heck was going on. Finally, after working with the business owner, it was determined that the owner had been hacked.
The phones went one way, the bill went the other, I got a nervous laugh, the poor business owner got screwed and the military was twirling around going "Wha?! Wha?!? HUH!??!"
Didn't have to pay a cent, though. Wonder how it turned out?
Somehow, I don't foresee sending a JDAM into some clueless n00b's family room window as being good publicity.
1.5 million spammers, phishers, crackers and other assorted criminals around the world have been VERY busy taking it apart to make sure THEY know every hole.
...it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mail including those containing political, religious or other speech protected by the First Amendment
Sorry sweety, but in all my years on the net, getting spam, I've NEVER seen an email asking me, "Dear Sir, would you like a bigger God?" or "Dear Sir, would you like a more honest politician?".
And at the end of the day, both politics and religion are just another form of porn, viagra or stock scam.
Check the video. 12:03-12:07. The researcher mentions something about "Scientologists".
It's all Xenu's fault! I KNEW IT!!