You would think, huh? But look at all the stuff that goes overnight by air right now: mail (yes, the USPS ships most First Class by air), UPS, FedEX, flowers from S. America, food from all over the world. Ever been inside a cargo plane? More room than you think, passenger planes have a LOT of stuff in them that cargo planes do not.
I was reading your post, and where it said I was skimming the article and where it said "Morgan Stanley Small Cap Conference" I thought I saw "Stanley Cup", I thought "lame joke, move on..."
I don't know, they could do it by themselves... they have the resources...
Amazon has been no friend of either Seattle or any place it has landed. Sure they could do it themselves, and then export the whole fofillment thing to Mexico or India. A plane full of DVD mailing envelopes can make it to the states in a day.
Tru about CardSystems Solutions being a Windows house, though I suspect it's not web site VBScript that is at the root, if anything VB6 or some.NET crap.
As to MasterCard running Apache on Solaris, what makes you think their web server has much at all to do with back-end credit card processing?
also the fault of the users who become overly confident that nothing can harm their computers
But it is the security firms that promote this idea that if you run their software, your box is "bullet proof". The truth is that these companies are mercenary, and would say just about anything to get people to buy the latest version and than subscribe to updates. I'm not a tinfoil hat type, but there are some who have said such companies have no interest at all in reduction of threats, because it results in lower sales.
This has got to be true. These two cases where very obvious. Clearly, very VERY lazy coders worked on these two rip-offs. But that's probably an exception. It's just too tempting.
how MS bashes linux, and yet is trying to become more and more like it...
It's a command line shell. Does *nix have an exclusive right on those? And, it's not much like *nix shells, except that it's command line... You talk an awful lot about "bashing", pal. Perhaps it is you?
The question is, who would really be interested in it at all?
Well, Windows network admins? Say what you will about Windows, most of it's true. But lot's of serious companies use it, and some of them even hire smart people to admin their systems. Could be usful for something like that, maybe.
An explanation of why a lab in Taiwan has UK power sockets would be in order
And you where thinking that they would have Taiwanese power sockets? Last time I was there, the hotel I stayed in had UK socket, but that's all I know, could have been a mutant hotel... Who knows, the Brits where pretty active in that part of the world a few years back.
First, "registering what you think is a good name with the hopes that you'll be able to resell it for a profit" is not the same as registering various permutations of *Google* or any other trademark you don't own. And second, these Spamer companies that own acres of common and useful words that invariably lead to pseudo-search sites that when I navigate away try to make me set them as my home page, these people should be shot. They are hogging decent domain names from people that might actually use them for useful things, their sites boarder on fraud, they serve no useful purpose at all.
A good example: When 2.6 first came out, the nvidia 2.4 kernel module could be made to compile with only minor modifications!
I'm sorry, I'm not savvy to the mechanics of writing drivers. I, and the VAST majority of people, are not going to fuck around under the hood of a video card driver to make it work, we will simply use a different card, or a different OS.
Of course it depends on how long they have owned it, and what they have been doing with it, but I wouldn't mind Google telling them to fork it over for small but reasonable price. Domain squaters are no better than the lowest type of Spsmmer, they are just the lowest forms of life.
...and virtually nothing for (sort-of) legitimate investigation to our cards...
I think it's important to understand that there is no "sort-of" about it. We have every right to know what information is contained on the cards that we use. Why wouldn't we? What can there possibly be there that is none of our business?
We all know what's going on here. Microsoft is not interested in Chinese bloggers. They are interested in selling copies of their OS and Office. They will be happy to sacrifice retail for government business (you have noticed this it true in the USA as well?).
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You would think, huh? But look at all the stuff that goes overnight by air right now: mail (yes, the USPS ships most First Class by air), UPS, FedEX, flowers from S. America, food from all over the world. Ever been inside a cargo plane? More room than you think, passenger planes have a LOT of stuff in them that cargo planes do not.
I was reading your post, and where it said I was skimming the article and where it said "Morgan Stanley Small Cap Conference" I thought I saw "Stanley Cup", I thought "lame joke, move on..."
Amazon has been no friend of either Seattle or any place it has landed. Sure they could do it themselves, and then export the whole fofillment thing to Mexico or India. A plane full of DVD mailing envelopes can make it to the states in a day.
Obviously not.
Really? They do?
As to MasterCard running Apache on Solaris, what makes you think their web server has much at all to do with back-end credit card processing?
But it is the security firms that promote this idea that if you run their software, your box is "bullet proof". The truth is that these companies are mercenary, and would say just about anything to get people to buy the latest version and than subscribe to updates. I'm not a tinfoil hat type, but there are some who have said such companies have no interest at all in reduction of threats, because it results in lower sales.
Yes, it returns an error. That's the point. Slashdot got tired of be IN validated all the time...
This has got to be true. These two cases where very obvious. Clearly, very VERY lazy coders worked on these two rip-offs. But that's probably an exception. It's just too tempting.
...cough***OpenOffice***cough...
A CLI might be usfull to non-admin type "power" users, but almost certainly is going to be a server / network admin tool.
It's a command line shell. Does *nix have an exclusive right on those? And, it's not much like *nix shells, except that it's command line... You talk an awful lot about "bashing", pal. Perhaps it is you?
Haven't tried it, eh? It shows...
Well, Windows network admins? Say what you will about Windows, most of it's true. But lot's of serious companies use it, and some of them even hire smart people to admin their systems. Could be usful for something like that, maybe.
For the most part, isn't that what a "tablet" PC is? Not really sure what makes this so earth shaking.
...what do you expect?
And you where thinking that they would have Taiwanese power sockets? Last time I was there, the hotel I stayed in had UK socket, but that's all I know, could have been a mutant hotel... Who knows, the Brits where pretty active in that part of the world a few years back.
But you, sir, are always free to submit stories you think are more "newsworthy". There's a link to the left...
First, "registering what you think is a good name with the hopes that you'll be able to resell it for a profit" is not the same as registering various permutations of *Google* or any other trademark you don't own. And second, these Spamer companies that own acres of common and useful words that invariably lead to pseudo-search sites that when I navigate away try to make me set them as my home page, these people should be shot. They are hogging decent domain names from people that might actually use them for useful things, their sites boarder on fraud, they serve no useful purpose at all.
Gotcha.
I'm sorry, I'm not savvy to the mechanics of writing drivers. I, and the VAST majority of people, are not going to fuck around under the hood of a video card driver to make it work, we will simply use a different card, or a different OS.
Of course it depends on how long they have owned it, and what they have been doing with it, but I wouldn't mind Google telling them to fork it over for small but reasonable price. Domain squaters are no better than the lowest type of Spsmmer, they are just the lowest forms of life.
Could this be part of the reason hardware manufacturers don't put a high priority for Linux drivers?
I think it's important to understand that there is no "sort-of" about it. We have every right to know what information is contained on the cards that we use. Why wouldn't we? What can there possibly be there that is none of our business?
We all know what's going on here. Microsoft is not interested in Chinese bloggers. They are interested in selling copies of their OS and Office. They will be happy to sacrifice retail for government business (you have noticed this it true in the USA as well?).