If you can dig out a copy of IE (or if you want to prove your mozilla browser doesn't put you at risk), you can test your browser for the vulnerability.
The Office won 2! Ok, ok, most of you probably haven't heard of it, but it is a work of sheer genius, and anyone who has worked in a office environment would connect with it at some level.
That's strange, I some of the early Pulp L.P's were on Warp Records, but I can't find them on this site. They were the rare classics that I couldn't afford when I was really into them at Sheffield Uni in the early 90's.
As one of the most famous bands to have recorded for Warp, it is a bit surprising that they don't sell Pulp. Come on Warp, sort it out, I'm ready to buy.
Maybe this is going to court for a good reason. I'm not saying that I believe that the infringement is valid or not. I think I am right in saying that in the British legal system, as I believe in many other countries, there are two types of laws, those set by statute (i.e. an act of parliment) and those set by precedent (i.e. a judge's decision in the high court) which cannot be implemented in a preliminary hearing, they to go to court. My guess is that that is what is happening here, I don't believe that this is something that will succeed as there are similar precedents that in my view would cause this to be thrown out.
Probably wouldn't be that difficult to if you created an email address specifically for it, and the only spam you get is about buying a domain with one of those newer TLD's. Finding the spammer may be harder.
400 hrs? I work in IT in a large American Investment Bank in London, and most of the traders round me are gone by 5:30, some start going when the markets close at 4:30.
...much of the equipment used to build the cell phone system would be manufactured in France, Germany, and elsewhere in western and northern Europe
The biggest manufacturers are Nokia (from Finland) and Ericsson (from Sweden), both of which employ loads of people in the UK (remember us, we're your "allies").
Strikes me that what the US is doing is extreamly dangerous for World Trade, especially between the them and Europe, which, contrary to popular belief, includes the UK, the only country left that seems to believe that what the US is doing in Iraq isn't purely selfish trade protectionism. Sadly this kind of propoganda just undermines the UK's position.
They keep coming out with this cool technology but price it out of reach. My T39 Ericsson mobile phone has been able to connect via GPRS and my laptop's IrDA port for a year now, never done it though because my network providers (O2) costs is extortionate in my opinion, I stick to GSM dialup at 9600 bps to download my email when I am on the move. These mobile telcos shoot themselves in the foot.
Three years ago they were pushing WAP hard but then made it expensive to use, so no-one used it in Europe and all the techie press (including slashdot) said it was a dead and cr@p because of the small form factor, where are the WAP sites now? Slashdot's WAP site seems to have gone (eh Taco?). In South Korea they made WAP and GPRS affordable, and everyone used it, there are lots of sites and both technologies are considered a success.
The really strange technology success (for the telcos) is txting, they thought no-one would be interested so they bundled it as a cheap feature, and everyone used it. If they make GPRS cheap and put useful things on WAP (such as TV guides) then everyone will use it.
£rd generation mobile technologies will also fail unless these telcos learn this painful lesson.
I totally agree with this, last year I did alot of interviewing for some Java/J2EE programmers, I rejected lots of dross (including one guy who told me that there should be no reason why he would ever need to come into the office).
One of the guys I actually hired was a C++ programmer, he had used Java in his spare time and was keen to change. At the time I guess if I had shown him some of the obscure technical questions I have had in the past, he probably would have flunked it. Obviously I do ask some technical questions, guageing opinions, experiences, knowledge of patterns, issues, etc..
What I am trying to say is that general programming interest, aptitude, temperement and problem solving are far more important than 'what is the difference between a Statement, a PreparedStatement and a CallableStatement' as they might not have done any JDBC code before, doesn't mean they couldn't work it out quickly in a work scenario.
BTW C++ guy very quickly became one of the best J2EE guys I have worked with.
If you write anything that uses their.NET libraries, they don't stipulate that you use a particular licence, but you do have to pay them lots of money.
For all Sun's faults in the open source arena, you don't have to pay them if you are writing Java and using their API's or redistributing their Java class files. They also don't care what licaence you use.
If you are a small software shop or someone writing software in your spare time, looking to create software maybe to sell as cheap shareware you may think it is cheap to use C#, you write your software then find you have to pay the expensive price for Visual Studio after all. I don't begrudge microsoft that licence fee at all, they have obviously invested heavily in the platform, but it is deceptive to tell everyone that you can download everything you need to develop for.NET for free and then get them on the licence fee anyway when they look into distributing the application.
Microsoft has told everyone that this is better than Java because it is standards based - well yes the CLR (~VM) and the CLS (~byte code) are standards based, but the BCL or APIs are totally proprietry. Sun may have maintained veto on the Java language but they use the Java Community Process to get other people's opinions, is there a.NET equivalent? If you look at the Microsoft newsgroups, you will see people complaining that there are bugs in some of the BCL and no way of reporting this back to Microsoft.
It's changed from a Wolf into a Wolf in Sheeps clothing.
PAL and NTSC are basically the number of lines on your screen. This does make a difference on VHS tapes, I don't think it has any impact on DVD discs, only the players. I may be wrong though...
Good on him for doing this, I'm glad he is, but the US get the cheapest DVDs anyway - why do you want to play non-US DVDs?
In the UK the DVD price is about twice as much for the same version with different region encoding so I can understand UK users hacking their DVD players and buying US DVDs from Amazon, but why in the US?
Wrong, Chips are big and juicy, and you get them from a 'Chippie' - where you can also buy fish, (French) Fries are small, skinny, taste of nothing and come from McDonalds. French Fries here are also a type of Crisps that somewhat resemble McDonalds fries except they are crispier and taste of vinegar.
I was told once that McDonalds used to use reconstituted chicken feathers for the starch in their Fries, mmm. And I don't know if any of you/.ers saw the program on McDonalds on the BBC a couple of weeks ago - it was a real eye-opener when they quoted the food poisoning outbreaks in the US and some food expert said that they were due to Faeces (that's poo to you) in the Big Macs, mmm tasty.
I wor for a large corp. and we get a massive reduction on hardware costs for buying in bulk, I'm sure M$ get an even better deal. I wonder if the value of the fine will be what M$ pay for the equipment, or the value of the equipment had they bought it at recommended retail price (i.e. the extortionate price you would have to pay at your local computer superstore).
Maybe it will be worked out on what the Equipment would cost in the UK, it would work out even better for them then.
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This is simply brilliant for the likes of iTunes, the best reason i have heard for not putting music CDs in my computer again.
If you can dig out a copy of IE (or if you want to prove your mozilla browser doesn't put you at risk), you can test your browser for the vulnerability.
The Office won 2! Ok, ok, most of you probably haven't heard of it, but it is a work of sheer genius, and anyone who has worked in a office environment would connect with it at some level.
That's strange, I some of the early Pulp L.P's were on Warp Records, but I can't find them on this site. They were the rare classics that I couldn't afford when I was really into them at Sheffield Uni in the early 90's.
As one of the most famous bands to have recorded for Warp, it is a bit surprising that they don't sell Pulp. Come on Warp, sort it out, I'm ready to buy.
Maybe this is going to court for a good reason. I'm not saying that I believe that the infringement is valid or not. I think I am right in saying that in the British legal system, as I believe in many other countries, there are two types of laws, those set by statute (i.e. an act of parliment) and those set by precedent (i.e. a judge's decision in the high court) which cannot be implemented in a preliminary hearing, they to go to court. My guess is that that is what is happening here, I don't believe that this is something that will succeed as there are similar precedents that in my view would cause this to be thrown out.
Probably wouldn't be that difficult to if you created an email address specifically for it, and the only spam you get is about buying a domain with one of those newer TLD's. Finding the spammer may be harder.
I certainly getted spamed on the email address I registerd for it.
400 hrs? I work in IT in a large American Investment Bank in London, and most of the traders round me are gone by 5:30, some start going when the markets close at 4:30.
...much of the equipment used to build the cell phone system would be manufactured in France, Germany, and elsewhere in western and northern Europe
The biggest manufacturers are Nokia (from Finland) and Ericsson (from Sweden), both of which employ loads of people in the UK (remember us, we're your "allies").
Strikes me that what the US is doing is extreamly dangerous for World Trade, especially between the them and Europe, which, contrary to popular belief, includes the UK, the only country left that seems to believe that what the US is doing in Iraq isn't purely selfish trade protectionism. Sadly this kind of propoganda just undermines the UK's position.
Move to Europe, we have civiization here, GSM phones work everywhere.
They keep coming out with this cool technology but price it out of reach. My T39 Ericsson mobile phone has been able to connect via GPRS and my laptop's IrDA port for a year now, never done it though because my network providers (O2) costs is extortionate in my opinion, I stick to GSM dialup at 9600 bps to download my email when I am on the move. These mobile telcos shoot themselves in the foot.
Three years ago they were pushing WAP hard but then made it expensive to use, so no-one used it in Europe and all the techie press (including slashdot) said it was a dead and cr@p because of the small form factor, where are the WAP sites now? Slashdot's WAP site seems to have gone (eh Taco?). In South Korea they made WAP and GPRS affordable, and everyone used it, there are lots of sites and both technologies are considered a success.
The really strange technology success (for the telcos) is txting, they thought no-one would be interested so they bundled it as a cheap feature, and everyone used it. If they make GPRS cheap and put useful things on WAP (such as TV guides) then everyone will use it.
£rd generation mobile technologies will also fail unless these telcos learn this painful lesson.
I think what you want at the moment is Fusion One but then you wan tmore on top, hmm.
I totally agree with this, last year I did alot of interviewing for some Java/J2EE programmers, I rejected lots of dross (including one guy who told me that there should be no reason why he would ever need to come into the office).
One of the guys I actually hired was a C++ programmer, he had used Java in his spare time and was keen to change. At the time I guess if I had shown him some of the obscure technical questions I have had in the past, he probably would have flunked it. Obviously I do ask some technical questions, guageing opinions, experiences, knowledge of patterns, issues, etc..
What I am trying to say is that general programming interest, aptitude, temperement and problem solving are far more important than 'what is the difference between a Statement, a PreparedStatement and a CallableStatement' as they might not have done any JDBC code before, doesn't mean they couldn't work it out quickly in a work scenario.
BTW C++ guy very quickly became one of the best J2EE guys I have worked with.
If you write anything that uses their .NET libraries, they don't stipulate that you use a particular licence, but you do have to pay them lots of money.
.NET for free and then get them on the licence fee anyway when they look into distributing the application.
.NET equivalent? If you look at the Microsoft newsgroups, you will see people complaining that there are bugs in some of the BCL and no way of reporting this back to Microsoft.
For all Sun's faults in the open source arena, you don't have to pay them if you are writing Java and using their API's or redistributing their Java class files. They also don't care what licaence you use.
If you are a small software shop or someone writing software in your spare time, looking to create software maybe to sell as cheap shareware you may think it is cheap to use C#, you write your software then find you have to pay the expensive price for Visual Studio after all. I don't begrudge microsoft that licence fee at all, they have obviously invested heavily in the platform, but it is deceptive to tell everyone that you can download everything you need to develop for
Microsoft has told everyone that this is better than Java because it is standards based - well yes the CLR (~VM) and the CLS (~byte code) are standards based, but the BCL or APIs are totally proprietry. Sun may have maintained veto on the Java language but they use the Java Community Process to get other people's opinions, is there a
It's changed from a Wolf into a Wolf in Sheeps clothing.
PAL and NTSC are basically the number of lines on your screen. This does make a difference on VHS tapes, I don't think it has any impact on DVD discs, only the players. I may be wrong though...
Fair enough, good reason.
Good on him for doing this, I'm glad he is, but the US get the cheapest DVDs anyway - why do you want to play non-US DVDs?
In the UK the DVD price is about twice as much for the same version with different region encoding so I can understand UK users hacking their DVD players and buying US DVDs from Amazon, but why in the US?
Not true in the UK. The UK is sort of Europe.
I also get this one on my Apache/Linux server more than Code Red requests:
/scripts/..%255c%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+ dir" 404
"GET
I much prefer it to IE or Netscape6, although Java Applets just never load. Strange...
Wrong, Chips are big and juicy, and you get them from a 'Chippie' - where you can also buy fish, (French) Fries are small, skinny, taste of nothing and come from McDonalds. French Fries here are also a type of Crisps that somewhat resemble McDonalds fries except they are crispier and taste of vinegar.
/.ers saw the program on McDonalds on the BBC a couple of weeks ago - it was a real eye-opener when they quoted the food poisoning outbreaks in the US and some food expert said that they were due to Faeces (that's poo to you) in the Big Macs, mmm tasty.
I was told once that McDonalds used to use reconstituted chicken feathers for the starch in their Fries, mmm. And I don't know if any of you
In the UK a 12 means that a kid under 12 cannot go in whether accompanied by an adult or not. So it does matter.
I wor for a large corp. and we get a massive reduction on hardware costs for buying in bulk, I'm sure M$ get an even better deal. I wonder if the value of the fine will be what M$ pay for the equipment, or the value of the equipment had they bought it at recommended retail price (i.e. the extortionate price you would have to pay at your local computer superstore).
Maybe it will be worked out on what the Equipment would cost in the UK, it would work out even better for them then.
But then again I'm English
That's just fine, I submited a link to the same site about the new Linux Telepong phone which is far more revolutionary, and my story got rejected.