That pegged my BS detector too. Then, the "review" itself was so badly written that I didn't bother finishing it. If that's the way the book itself is written, I doubt I'd ever want to read it even if it did have worthwhile info in it. Considering the ivory-tower writing style and the fact that the reviewer is a friend of the author, I have no reason to think that there's anything I'd ever want or need to know in it.
Well, at least this article did one good thing: it helped me avoid wasting my money on a bunch of badly-written gobledygook.
You may be right. Alas, I was composing the post at the same time as the one about the certified letter and the lawyer or I'd have thought twice before making my suggestion.
I had to take one of those "collect your urine for 24 hours" tests once. I'd thought that it was testing for traces of something so they needed a big sample. It turns out I was wrong. They're actually testing for a number of waste products that are produced at different times of day.
The first thing you do is dispute the charges with your credit card company. If they accepted the payment but didn't renew your domain, they took your money under false pretenses, and could be charged with fraud. (IANAL, so check with your friendly neighborhood landshark before trying to press charges.) Even if they can't be charged, you don't have to pay until the dispute is resolved. Then, if they want to keep your money (and they will) they either have to give you back your domain or make the credit card company agree that they had the right to take your money and not give you what you paid for. Somehow, I doubt they're going to manage that second option and will probably cave simply because it's cheaper than trying to screw somebody who's fighting back.
It shouldn't be hard to find out the server's IP address and the format of the request. Once you have that, DDOS and every single person using Opera is hosed. Not exactly a smooth move, Mr. Exlax!
That's what I would have thought except that one of them is Calvin and Hobbs, easily available in book form. Seems a bit pointless to keep you from saving it, doesn't it?
Preferably fleshed out to include "or Flash" as well.
I don't mind Flash when it's there for a good reason. What bugs me is when Flash is used to display static images.
Part of my morning routine is following various comic strips at several sites. At one of them, three of the strips are displayed in Flash. Why? It's not like the images are going to change as you watch them or anything? I use FireFox with FlashBlock, meaning that I have to click on the box to see the strips, so it's more apparant to me than to Joe Luser running IEeeeeeeeeee. Even so, it's a misuse of the technology and no properly designed site should ever be guilty of such a thing.
Frankly, my company overcharges for our sites, but we can do that because the client gets the results they wanted.
If your clients get the results they wanted, you haven't really overcharged them, especially if their original vision was impractical or unworkable. One of the things they're paying for is your ability to turn their ideas into something that works and does what they need.
The Soviets were very lucky with Chernnbyl, and they knew it from experience. Back in 1957, a waste storage plant at Mayak, near Chelyabinsk, blew up in a non-nuclear explosion estimated at 75 tons of TNT, contaminating hundreds of square miles. From what I've heard, the site was visible on the Landsat photos as a dead spot surrounded by biomass. It's much more dangerous to pass through that region today than it is to visit Ground Zero at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki and will probably be so for decades if not centuries.
Bottle rockets powered by pressurized water (I remember using them about 45 years ago when I was a kid.) aren't solid fuel rockets like the article's talking about. You can't (as far as I know) launch a solid fuel rocket using a nonflammable propellant.
The summary says that officials are concerned because these hobbyists are using a "flammable propellant" to launch their rockets. Isn't that the whole point? I mean, come on now, what good would it be to use a nonflammable propellant?
I was thinking of direct access, not remote. You don't even need to run any special program to reset the Admin password, just log on. That can lead to people logging on as Admin on impulse, just because they can, and messing up your box while you're at lunch. Not a Good Idea!
I don't think so. If I'm not mistaken, not havng a password for Administrator means that anybudy can log into that account simply by pressing Enter when it asks for a password. Instead of total security, a total lack of it by default. I'm not surprised, as security's always seemed to be an afterthought at Microsoft.
Interesting. FC 5 has a built-in firewall. I don't remember if you have to select it or if you have to specifically de-select it if you don't want, but it's there. Not only that, it comes up before the network connection is opened, not after like on Windows. (Just yesterday, I was watching a Win2k box boot on a LAN with no Internet connection. First it established the network connection then it applied the security policy. Seems a tad backwards, doesn't it?)
So by unprotected, they mean some old installation without any recent patches, not a patched machine with no firewall.
Of course they did. They wanted to find out how often it was attacked, and by what and the best way to do that is to put up a machine with no defenses. Kinda hard to count the attacks when most of them don't get past your router, or are stopped by your software firewall so quickly they don't even get logged, doncha know.
Of course there were no bars of gold-pressed latinum for sale. I was a tad surprised that there were no bids of the form "five bars of gold-pressed latinum." After all, they were used as a currency.
I found the number of currencies used interesting, and can imagine the work needed to get them converted back and forth fast enough to keep up with the action. One thing, though, there was no mention of bars of gold-pressed latinum.
Just one more reason to stick with XP for those applications that only run on Windows.
Either that, or use Linux and Wine. I've never gone past Win 98 SE, because it does what I want the way I want it and newer versions all have things (like "NT technology") that I prefer to stay away from. If I had to run a Windows program that wouldn't run under 98, I'd just reboot into Linux and install it under Wine. I'm sure that by the time there are programs that require Vista to run, Wine will handle it quite nicely.
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Well, at least this article did one good thing: it helped me avoid wasting my money on a bunch of badly-written gobledygook.
Why should we blow up the Moon? It's not like it's obstructing our view of the planet Venus or anything.
That's if you're taking a calcium test. In my case they were testing for a number of things and needed a full day's output to find them all.
You may be right. Alas, I was composing the post at the same time as the one about the certified letter and the lawyer or I'd have thought twice before making my suggestion.
Yes, I know, but that's the first time one ever looked back.
I had to take one of those "collect your urine for 24 hours" tests once. I'd thought that it was testing for traces of something so they needed a big sample. It turns out I was wrong. They're actually testing for a number of waste products that are produced at different times of day.
Hey, if the RIAA can do it, why can't you?
It shouldn't be hard to find out the server's IP address and the format of the request. Once you have that, DDOS and every single person using Opera is hosed. Not exactly a smooth move, Mr. Exlax!
Thanx! I hadn't even thought of that. Live and learn.
What Van Allan belt? Don't you know it caught fire and was blown up by an atomic missile back in the early '60s?
That's what I would have thought except that one of them is Calvin and Hobbs, easily available in book form. Seems a bit pointless to keep you from saving it, doesn't it?
I don't mind Flash when it's there for a good reason. What bugs me is when Flash is used to display static images.
Part of my morning routine is following various comic strips at several sites. At one of them, three of the strips are displayed in Flash. Why? It's not like the images are going to change as you watch them or anything? I use FireFox with FlashBlock, meaning that I have to click on the box to see the strips, so it's more apparant to me than to Joe Luser running IEeeeeeeeeee. Even so, it's a misuse of the technology and no properly designed site should ever be guilty of such a thing.
If your clients get the results they wanted, you haven't really overcharged them, especially if their original vision was impractical or unworkable. One of the things they're paying for is your ability to turn their ideas into something that works and does what they need.
The Soviets were very lucky with Chernnbyl, and they knew it from experience. Back in 1957, a waste storage plant at Mayak, near Chelyabinsk, blew up in a non-nuclear explosion estimated at 75 tons of TNT, contaminating hundreds of square miles. From what I've heard, the site was visible on the Landsat photos as a dead spot surrounded by biomass. It's much more dangerous to pass through that region today than it is to visit Ground Zero at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki and will probably be so for decades if not centuries.
So, tell me, Mr. Bones, is hydrogen peroxide a SOLID PROPELLANT?
Bottle rockets powered by pressurized water (I remember using them about 45 years ago when I was a kid.) aren't solid fuel rockets like the article's talking about. You can't (as far as I know) launch a solid fuel rocket using a nonflammable propellant.
The summary says that officials are concerned because these hobbyists are using a "flammable propellant" to launch their rockets. Isn't that the whole point? I mean, come on now, what good would it be to use a nonflammable propellant?
I was thinking of direct access, not remote. You don't even need to run any special program to reset the Admin password, just log on. That can lead to people logging on as Admin on impulse, just because they can, and messing up your box while you're at lunch. Not a Good Idea!
OMG!!!! PONIES!
I don't think so. If I'm not mistaken, not havng a password for Administrator means that anybudy can log into that account simply by pressing Enter when it asks for a password. Instead of total security, a total lack of it by default. I'm not surprised, as security's always seemed to be an afterthought at Microsoft.
Interesting. FC 5 has a built-in firewall. I don't remember if you have to select it or if you have to specifically de-select it if you don't want, but it's there. Not only that, it comes up before the network connection is opened, not after like on Windows. (Just yesterday, I was watching a Win2k box boot on a LAN with no Internet connection. First it established the network connection then it applied the security policy. Seems a tad backwards, doesn't it?)
Of course they did. They wanted to find out how often it was attacked, and by what and the best way to do that is to put up a machine with no defenses. Kinda hard to count the attacks when most of them don't get past your router, or are stopped by your software firewall so quickly they don't even get logged, doncha know.
Of course there were no bars of gold-pressed latinum for sale. I was a tad surprised that there were no bids of the form "five bars of gold-pressed latinum." After all, they were used as a currency.
I found the number of currencies used interesting, and can imagine the work needed to get them converted back and forth fast enough to keep up with the action. One thing, though, there was no mention of bars of gold-pressed latinum.
Either that, or use Linux and Wine. I've never gone past Win 98 SE, because it does what I want the way I want it and newer versions all have things (like "NT technology") that I prefer to stay away from. If I had to run a Windows program that wouldn't run under 98, I'd just reboot into Linux and install it under Wine. I'm sure that by the time there are programs that require Vista to run, Wine will handle it quite nicely.