Not true, MS still provides some level of support for Windows 2000. I think the last remnants of support end in 2010. Meanwhile, each patch tuesday, there are a ton of patches for the one W2K machine on my network.
IE7 and IE8 have both been declared critical updates by MS, so only home users who really hate IE7/8 and know enough to manually deselect that update, or users whose automatic updates are disabled or broken would still have IE6. This number probably isn't zero; but it isn't huge.
Gmail has no nested folders for example, which was a deal killer by itself.
Indeed. Google doesn't have folders at all. It has labels, which are far more useful.
Most users will organize mail into folder and subfolders. Let's say that we have a set of customer folders and under each customer folder, I might have a subfolder for incoming POs. In Gmail, I replicate this by applying two labels: one label for the customer name and another label for "incoming POs". I can now search for the set of emails that has a the label for a particular customer name AND the "incoming POs" label.
The problem with hierarchical folders is that it is limiting. Labels are not. Any number of labels can be applied to an email, making searching easier.
I think that a 2.5 inch drive weighs less than half the weight of a 3.5 inch drive, so using twice as many of the 2.5" drives (available up to 1TB today) will reduce the weight.
The WSJ must provide some compelling, unique content otherwise this will just become another irrelevant website, with only a few viewers and even less revenue.
You data is most important and you plan to use FAT? Good luck with that!
Seriously, though. No RAID solution that is not totally S/W is portable. But do you really need RAID? It sounds like what you need is a good backup solution with frequent backups. Does you data change so much that losing one day's worth of data would be a problem?
Since the DS was sold during the '70s, if Citroen was in your country until the early '80s, then cars with power brakes (not power-assisted) were sold in your country; which was, I think, my original point.
Ah, that makes more sense now. Over where I live, we don't have manufacturers that do that to my knowledge
Your knowledge is faulty, the Citroen DS was sold in the US (I assume you are in the USA) with the power braking system that I described. Also, I think Rolls-Royce licensed it from Citroes and used it on their cars.
And it is not at all possible that Bernie gave a few million to his sons simply because they were his sons and he wanted them to be happy.
In which case, those sons will have a very weak case when the regulators and others come looking for the sons to give up anything they got from Madoff's fund.
I don't know what planet you're from, but that's not the case. It's a hydraulic system. It does get the benefit of a vacuum booster while the car is running, but the brakes still work after the car's engine dies.
Not on all cars. in the '70s and '80s (and perhaps later), Citroen used a power (not boosted) system on some cars which required pressure to be available to operate the brakes. There was a pressure reservoir, but once this was empty, the brake pedal did nothing.
I still believe it very unlikely that Bernie's sons didn't knowingly participate in this... or at least were aware of it
Since Madoff's fund did not make a single trade for 20 years (or was it for the fund's existance?), I find it impossible to believe they did not know, unless they collected their huge salary checks for doing precisely nothing.
I wonder how that defence will fly when the son's are sued: "Your honor, members of the jury, my clients should not have to repay the millions of dollars that they received in salary, because they did nothing whatsoever to earn it."
But let's not forget the accountant who enabled this -- he should go away for 150 years also. That's probably more important from a deterrent perspective than Madoff going away for the rest of his life.
If you only speak English, then your options are obviously limited, the English speaking countries are quickly enumerated.
Many of the European non-English speaking countries are actually quite suitable for English-only speakers who work in a high-tech job. In those countries (France and French-speaking excepted), it is necessary to have some level of English in order to become qualified for any high-tech job. Also, multi-national companies tend to look for (or require) English speakers. I speak from personal experience of living in a non-English speaking country and when I moved there I spoke none of the local language.
On the other hand, Norway is top of the "Human Development Index", but would you want to deal with the long winters and seasonal affective disorder? Much of Canada and Ireland are at a similar latitude, so the SAD issue remains if you choose there.
If you are starting from the UK, Ireland has to be the easiest country to move to.
Assuming no-one turns up a better score in the next 30 days, do the team members who work for Yahoo and AT&T get to keep their share of the prize money?
I have some sympathy for this guy. Some years ago, I built a fileserver using the best SATA RAID (hardware RAID) cards I could find (~$300) from major manufacturers and enterprise disks (specified for use in RAID systems)
Performance absolutely sucked. The cards were fast enough it I tried to read/write single large files, but when reading/writing large numbers of small files, they were very slow. The first manufacturer's card was appallingly slow. I replaced it with another manufacturer's card and performance was merely slow.
I followed all the manufacturer's recommendations, I communicated with one manufacturer on a Linux RAID mailing list, but was never able to get anything remotely like acceptable performance. For compariso, later I built a fileserver around an old (sub 1GHz) PC, using software RAID and was able to get at least the same performance.
I was only building one machine, so I did not have the luxury of benchmarking it.
Publishing an image of my face on someone else's naked body certainly seems like exploitation to me.
Where does TFA say that he published these pictures? Oh, that's right, it doesn't. So how were the subjects of these photos exploited? Without the prosecution, they would be totally unaware that their images had been used in this manner. If anyone has caused harm to the subjects of the photos, it is the police and prosecution!
Why not just pump 10 bar of pressure into the space scuttle so that the gap opens up again? It is supposed to take 1 atmosphere of pressure more than the outside, yes?
Instead of using illegal wiretaps, the NSA should just buy every drive that is sold on eBay. Just think of the information they could mine out of them!
Personally I don't let a hard drive out of the building unless it's been at least wiped (non-secure data) if not destroyed (secure data). Usually I destroy them just to make sure.
I wonder how effective are the machines designed to bulk wipe hard drives (by bulk, I mean one whole drive at a time)?
Wiping by writing data has problems -- remapped sectors might be recoverable to someone with the right equipment and know-how and these sectors won't be overwritten using normal disk-wiping methods.
What is claimed in the patent is doing ALL of the following in a single product:
- Scanning for access points or looking them up from a storage medium
- Looking up access rights for the access points from a database
- Listing access points to the user, where access points belonging to the same provider are shown as a single item.
Some claims ar more specific, but i think doing only 2 of the 3 things above should not count as infringement or prior art.
I don't know about the database either, but adding the database doesn't seem very inventive. Prior art doesn't have to be identical and there was a case that concluded that putting together two existing technologies to create a new product or device was not, per se, sufficiently inventive.
wherein two or more carrier network identifiers associated with a common carrier network system are aggregated to generate a carrier network system identifier that is included in the user selectable list
Haven't GSM phones done this for ages when roaming? The phone may be in range of multiple towers from multiple providers, yet it only gives a list of providers (not the individual towers).
As for social security/medicaid, people shouldn't be eligible for benefits until they have less than $10,000 of assets (not counting their home) in their name
However, it is not at all surprising that the trace failed. Routing ICMP (which is the protocol traceroute uses) isn't required, and is a security concern.
Uh, NO! The normal implementation of traceroute uses UDP.
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Not true, MS still provides some level of support for Windows 2000. I think the last remnants of support end in 2010. Meanwhile, each patch tuesday, there are a ton of patches for the one W2K machine on my network.
And Windows 2000 users.
Indeed. Google doesn't have folders at all. It has labels, which are far more useful.
Most users will organize mail into folder and subfolders. Let's say that we have a set of customer folders and under each customer folder, I might have a subfolder for incoming POs. In Gmail, I replicate this by applying two labels: one label for the customer name and another label for "incoming POs". I can now search for the set of emails that has a the label for a particular customer name AND the "incoming POs" label.
The problem with hierarchical folders is that it is limiting. Labels are not. Any number of labels can be applied to an email, making searching easier.
Except that history has shown that many software companies won't actually fix problems until forced to do so by full disclosure.
I think that a 2.5 inch drive weighs less than half the weight of a 3.5 inch drive, so using twice as many of the 2.5" drives (available up to 1TB today) will reduce the weight.
Who cares that there is no fool-proof method? All that matters is that there is a significant probablilty of success.
Probably the only people who are safe from this are immigrants!
The WSJ must provide some compelling, unique content otherwise this will just become another irrelevant website, with only a few viewers and even less revenue.
You data is most important and you plan to use FAT? Good luck with that!
Seriously, though. No RAID solution that is not totally S/W is portable. But do you really need RAID? It sounds like what you need is a good backup solution with frequent backups. Does you data change so much that losing one day's worth of data would be a problem?
Since the DS was sold during the '70s, if Citroen was in your country until the early '80s, then cars with power brakes (not power-assisted) were sold in your country; which was, I think, my original point.
Your knowledge is faulty, the Citroen DS was sold in the US (I assume you are in the USA) with the power braking system that I described. Also, I think Rolls-Royce licensed it from Citroes and used it on their cars.
In which case, those sons will have a very weak case when the regulators and others come looking for the sons to give up anything they got from Madoff's fund.
Not on all cars. in the '70s and '80s (and perhaps later), Citroen used a power (not boosted) system on some cars which required pressure to be available to operate the brakes. There was a pressure reservoir, but once this was empty, the brake pedal did nothing.
Since Madoff's fund did not make a single trade for 20 years (or was it for the fund's existance?), I find it impossible to believe they did not know, unless they collected their huge salary checks for doing precisely nothing.
I wonder how that defence will fly when the son's are sued: "Your honor, members of the jury, my clients should not have to repay the millions of dollars that they received in salary, because they did nothing whatsoever to earn it."
But let's not forget the accountant who enabled this -- he should go away for 150 years also. That's probably more important from a deterrent perspective than Madoff going away for the rest of his life.
Are you really sure about that? What about American Airlines flight 587: National Transportation Safety Board, which instead attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls.
However, if you RTFA, it suggests that the flight computer would have stopped controlling the throttles in this case before the plane broke up.
Many of the European non-English speaking countries are actually quite suitable for English-only speakers who work in a high-tech job. In those countries (France and French-speaking excepted), it is necessary to have some level of English in order to become qualified for any high-tech job. Also, multi-national companies tend to look for (or require) English speakers. I speak from personal experience of living in a non-English speaking country and when I moved there I spoke none of the local language.
On the other hand, Norway is top of the "Human Development Index", but would you want to deal with the long winters and seasonal affective disorder? Much of Canada and Ireland are at a similar latitude, so the SAD issue remains if you choose there.
If you are starting from the UK, Ireland has to be the easiest country to move to.
Assuming no-one turns up a better score in the next 30 days, do the team members who work for Yahoo and AT&T get to keep their share of the prize money?
I have some sympathy for this guy. Some years ago, I built a fileserver using the best SATA RAID (hardware RAID) cards I could find (~$300) from major manufacturers and enterprise disks (specified for use in RAID systems)
Performance absolutely sucked. The cards were fast enough it I tried to read/write single large files, but when reading/writing large numbers of small files, they were very slow. The first manufacturer's card was appallingly slow. I replaced it with another manufacturer's card and performance was merely slow.
I followed all the manufacturer's recommendations, I communicated with one manufacturer on a Linux RAID mailing list, but was never able to get anything remotely like acceptable performance. For compariso, later I built a fileserver around an old (sub 1GHz) PC, using software RAID and was able to get at least the same performance.
I was only building one machine, so I did not have the luxury of benchmarking it.
Where does TFA say that he published these pictures? Oh, that's right, it doesn't. So how were the subjects of these photos exploited? Without the prosecution, they would be totally unaware that their images had been used in this manner. If anyone has caused harm to the subjects of the photos, it is the police and prosecution!
How many ways are there to say RTFA!
Instead of using illegal wiretaps, the NSA should just buy every drive that is sold on eBay. Just think of the information they could mine out of them!
I wonder how effective are the machines designed to bulk wipe hard drives (by bulk, I mean one whole drive at a time)?
Wiping by writing data has problems -- remapped sectors might be recoverable to someone with the right equipment and know-how and these sectors won't be overwritten using normal disk-wiping methods.
I don't know about the database either, but adding the database doesn't seem very inventive. Prior art doesn't have to be identical and there was a case that concluded that putting together two existing technologies to create a new product or device was not, per se, sufficiently inventive.
Haven't GSM phones done this for ages when roaming? The phone may be in range of multiple towers from multiple providers, yet it only gives a list of providers (not the individual towers).
Yeah, good way to stop people from saving!
Uh, NO! The normal implementation of traceroute uses UDP.