If Yahoo really wants to improve my email experience, then they can get rid of the annoying, slow-loading, browser-error-causing ad graphics all over the place. Hello! I'm a paying user! Remember that money I send you every month for my AT&T Yahoo DSL service??
Well, considering the number of universities now requiring incoming students to have a computer (and, more specifically, a laptop), I'd say it's pretty mission critical that they're able to support that requirement.
Change tapes weekly? Are you crazy?? I work for a credit union. If we lost a week's worth of data because of a fire, we'd be screwed sideways. And forget about your flavor-of-the-month tape formats, we're talking about mainframes running proprietary systems here. You work with what the system knows or you void your support contract.
Don't know about hosting, but Register4Less is a Canadian registrar that I've used. If you're a fan of the User Friendly comic, then going to http://uf.r4l.com/ will get them a little referral kickback to keep up and running.
Many Dark Tower fans praise Wizard and Glass as the best of the series.
You're kidding, right? Anyone I know that's read this series said that Wizard and Glass was their least favorite. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but it doesn't mesh well with the rest of the series. I was as interested as anybody to find out some of Roland's backstory, but it didn't need to take up 90% of the book. That was just overkill, and it's disorienting to stray from the main plot for that long. Maybe if it had been a separate book that wasn't part of the Dark Tower series I would have liked it better.
In any case, you better believe that Marvel will be getting my hard-earned money for these comics if they're even halfway decent.
I thought Yahoo pledged that they would creat no more products or services until all there current ones were 100% firefox compatible? Launch.yahoo.com still doesn't work with firefox. Now I question their integrity.
Nice troll, go away now. This isn't "creating" a new product or service. It's just R&D stuff, which is why it's labeled as a demo on the Yahoo! research labs page.
Now that you mention it, "Operation Spam Zombies" sounds like some sort of 80s new-wave band... kind of like Operation Ivy meets They Might be Giants, only sillier.
I'm about as close as you can come to being the average 20-something white guy (the frat-boy image comes to mind), and I get pulled for the "random" thorough screening process at pretty much every check-in. And I've never seen this so-called special line at any airport I've been in. For the record, that includes Denver, Detroit Metro, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Salt Lake City, and a handfull of small town airports.
If I had to guess, I'd say that I get picked so that the screeners don't get accused of profiling, but maybe they just like to feel me up.
Every time I see this name, I read it as "toqueville" (maybe because I'm from Michigan). I keep picturing some little town in the northern part of the US or Canada where the whole population walks around wearing wool hats.
That's funny, all I see are Mac zealots bashing *nix zealots and Windows zealots, and vice-versa. Then they pointlessly mod each other up and down, except that the Mac zealots are more likely to read this thread, and therefore the pro-Mac posts tend to keep higher rankings.
Ok, I happen to work for a fairly large financial institution that has several Diebold ATMs, although ours all run OS/2 and therefore aren't vulnerable.
That being said, and after actually RTFA, I'd say Diebold played their cards pretty close to their chest on this one, because they didn't give a lot of detail. For all intents and purposes, these machines are very "dumb". They have just enough information to operate the machinery and communicate with the host. Everything actually involving getting account information, adjusting balances for withdrawals/deposits, etc. gets done remotely. All the ATMs are "driven" by a controller that acually handles the account information.
As a result, these machines have to be in constant communication over a network with the host. In our case, this is a private network over leased lines that never gets anywhere near "The Internet". However, like I said, they are still in constant communication with the host (a.k.a. "server"), which has to be tied in to the bank's network in order to pass messages back and forth regarding user's accounts. This host runs Windows NT/2000/whatever.
Ok try to keep up now...
So, (1)the Nachi worm comes in through the Internet and infects any random machine on the network. (2) That machine starts spreading to the rest of the network, eventually (3) getting to the ATM host ("server") machine. (4) The host, through it's own private network with the ATM machines now infects all the ATMs. Before you know it, Bob's your uncle, and your totally removed from the Internet ATM machines are now infected because of one PC workstation with an opening.
Now I'm not defending Diebold here. What they did was stupid, and is exactly why we're still running an ancient OS on our machines. I'm just trying to enlighten those that seem to think their every transaction is buzzing through the open 'Net.
Welcome to the Island of Dr. Moreau. Over here we have the rabbit-man, and we're working on a cheetah-woman in the back. Care to take a peek?
It's never good when something written by H.G. Wells, and later adapted to a movie for Marlon Brando, comes close to reality...or is that just my thought?
When they've got the supermodel clones ready, though, give me a call.
So, my PHB asks me about POSIX and LSB, to which I respond that it's fallout from the SCO FUD, IMHO. Besides, we use AIX from IBM, so there's no worries about LSB, but there is, again, the SCO FUD. But IANAL, I've just got an A+ and a CCNA, so I suggest the PHB take it to the COO, who talks to the CEO, who goes to our law firm RSTL'n'E.
There's 1,000 people in North Dakota? Wow! I mean, I figured everyone there was drunk and had a hunting rifle (judging from my visit, anyway), but when did there get to be so many of 'em?
In other news today, Metallica has switched to AFLAC.
When asking the band, why they've decided to use AFLAC, they were quoted as saying, "Because f***ing James keeps setting himself on fire!"
Hetfield could not be immediately reached for comment, as he was getting treated for second-degree burns and talking to a duck, who was apparently his insurance rep.
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No, it would be ludicrous. If it was ludacris, it would be warning about addictions to bling.
/pedantic mode off
If Yahoo really wants to improve my email experience, then they can get rid of the annoying, slow-loading, browser-error-causing ad graphics all over the place. Hello! I'm a paying user! Remember that money I send you every month for my AT&T Yahoo DSL service??
Well, considering the number of universities now requiring incoming students to have a computer (and, more specifically, a laptop), I'd say it's pretty mission critical that they're able to support that requirement.
Change tapes weekly? Are you crazy?? I work for a credit union. If we lost a week's worth of data because of a fire, we'd be screwed sideways. And forget about your flavor-of-the-month tape formats, we're talking about mainframes running proprietary systems here. You work with what the system knows or you void your support contract.
Don't know about hosting, but Register4Less is a Canadian registrar that I've used. If you're a fan of the User Friendly comic, then going to http://uf.r4l.com/ will get them a little referral kickback to keep up and running.
Many Dark Tower fans praise Wizard and Glass as the best of the series.
You're kidding, right? Anyone I know that's read this series said that Wizard and Glass was their least favorite. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but it doesn't mesh well with the rest of the series. I was as interested as anybody to find out some of Roland's backstory, but it didn't need to take up 90% of the book. That was just overkill, and it's disorienting to stray from the main plot for that long. Maybe if it had been a separate book that wasn't part of the Dark Tower series I would have liked it better.
In any case, you better believe that Marvel will be getting my hard-earned money for these comics if they're even halfway decent.
I thought Yahoo pledged that they would creat no more products or services until all there current ones were 100% firefox compatible? Launch.yahoo.com still doesn't work with firefox. Now I question their integrity.
Nice troll, go away now. This isn't "creating" a new product or service. It's just R&D stuff, which is why it's labeled as a demo on the Yahoo! research labs page.
Now that you mention it, "Operation Spam Zombies" sounds like some sort of 80s new-wave band... kind of like Operation Ivy meets They Might be Giants, only sillier.
*Ahem*
Bullshit...
I'm about as close as you can come to being the average 20-something white guy (the frat-boy image comes to mind), and I get pulled for the "random" thorough screening process at pretty much every check-in. And I've never seen this so-called special line at any airport I've been in. For the record, that includes Denver, Detroit Metro, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Salt Lake City, and a handfull of small town airports.
If I had to guess, I'd say that I get picked so that the screeners don't get accused of profiling, but maybe they just like to feel me up.
Every time I see this name, I read it as "toqueville" (maybe because I'm from Michigan). I keep picturing some little town in the northern part of the US or Canada where the whole population walks around wearing wool hats.
That's funny, all I see are Mac zealots bashing *nix zealots and Windows zealots, and vice-versa. Then they pointlessly mod each other up and down, except that the Mac zealots are more likely to read this thread, and therefore the pro-Mac posts tend to keep higher rankings.
Typical Slashdot, really...
Don't you get it?! They know that it was actually Martians that killed JFK as part of a CIA plot, so they're covering it up!!
Yeah, better adjust the tinfoil on you hat there, sparky...
No, don't thank Christ, thank Vishnu...
Ok, I happen to work for a fairly large financial institution that has several Diebold ATMs, although ours all run OS/2 and therefore aren't vulnerable.
That being said, and after actually RTFA, I'd say Diebold played their cards pretty close to their chest on this one, because they didn't give a lot of detail. For all intents and purposes, these machines are very "dumb". They have just enough information to operate the machinery and communicate with the host. Everything actually involving getting account information, adjusting balances for withdrawals/deposits, etc. gets done remotely. All the ATMs are "driven" by a controller that acually handles the account information.
As a result, these machines have to be in constant communication over a network with the host. In our case, this is a private network over leased lines that never gets anywhere near "The Internet". However, like I said, they are still in constant communication with the host (a.k.a. "server"), which has to be tied in to the bank's network in order to pass messages back and forth regarding user's accounts. This host runs Windows NT/2000/whatever.
Ok try to keep up now...
So, (1)the Nachi worm comes in through the Internet and infects any random machine on the network. (2) That machine starts spreading to the rest of the network, eventually (3) getting to the ATM host ("server") machine. (4) The host, through it's own private network with the ATM machines now infects all the ATMs. Before you know it, Bob's your uncle, and your totally removed from the Internet ATM machines are now infected because of one PC workstation with an opening.
Now I'm not defending Diebold here. What they did was stupid, and is exactly why we're still running an ancient OS on our machines. I'm just trying to enlighten those that seem to think their every transaction is buzzing through the open 'Net.
Nah, $80.4 billion only gets you about a dozen toilet seats and two dozen hammers in the US government.
Now, just because someone is clueless, doesn't mean they're American. Trust me, idiocy and ignorance are international concepts.
We just prefer to elect them, rather than calling them "royalty"...
iTMS has already worked out the kinks...
See, that's why I haven't used iTMS yet. I mean, c'mon, how can you have a proper music store if you don't even carry The Kinks?
More like "great way to stop giving the service away for free to freeloaders who generate no ad revenue" am i rite?
Well, you would be right, but you're not. After all, Yahoo messenger has no ads on it. Period. Regardless of version or platform.
But say, why does NASA need so many new $10,000 hammers and toilet seats?
Have you ever tried to hammer down your toilet seat in space? It's not easy...
Welcome to the Island of Dr. Moreau. Over here we have the rabbit-man, and we're working on a cheetah-woman in the back. Care to take a peek?
It's never good when something written by H.G. Wells, and later adapted to a movie for Marlon Brando, comes close to reality...or is that just my thought?
When they've got the supermodel clones ready, though, give me a call.
"Aw, come on, guy. Pinch my nipples while I torture this little partridge..."
I dunno, I might start to like Darl if he tortured David Cassidy...
So, my PHB asks me about POSIX and LSB, to which I respond that it's fallout from the SCO FUD, IMHO. Besides, we use AIX from IBM, so there's no worries about LSB, but there is, again, the SCO FUD. But IANAL, I've just got an A+ and a CCNA, so I suggest the PHB take it to the COO, who talks to the CEO, who goes to our law firm RSTL'n'E.
Hmm...no, still a bit too readable.
Yeah! Like Hawaii!
Oh, wait...
Wait a minute...
There's 1,000 people in North Dakota? Wow! I mean, I figured everyone there was drunk and had a hunting rifle (judging from my visit, anyway), but when did there get to be so many of 'em?
Must be sneakin' in from Canada...
In other news today, Metallica has switched to AFLAC.
When asking the band, why they've decided to use AFLAC, they were quoted as saying, "Because f***ing James keeps setting himself on fire!"
Hetfield could not be immediately reached for comment, as he was getting treated for second-degree burns and talking to a duck, who was apparently his insurance rep.
I know, it's been done...but I couldn't resist.