I went to the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. You just check the books out at the start of the semester, and turn them back in at the end. I have no idea why every university doesn't do this. Maybe that was incentive to get students to go to that hella-cold part of the country.
Right. Because presidents make laws. Oh, wait, that's congress who does that. Also, single issue voting is a really bad idea. Look where we are today because of it.
It doesn't say anything about a last ditch effort in the article. It is simply one effort among many to return value to SCO. The slashdot write-up is a troll. Kudos to michael for getting a troll in the write-up. That's better than getting a first post copy of an old article moded up to +5! The jihad is proud of our inside member michael!
You all appear to have forgotten that we wouldn't have cheap standardized hardware to write free software for if it wasn't for Microsoft and Bill Gates. Bill Gates is the reason we have web logs to bash Bill Gates on.
I just got a game cube recently and so far have played Splinter Cell, Metroid Prime, and Star Wars Rebel Strike Rogue Squadron III. Rebel Strike is the worst game I've played so far. There's no interesting story, and there isn't much replay value. Dispite there not being much replay value you have to play the same boring levels over and over and over again until you earn enough medals to unlock a level that is exactly like a level you have already played over and over and over again. Lame lame lame.
Since IBM makes its money from its Global Services department, and since Global Services writes software for other companies, and since almost all companies use Windows, IBM needs to keep Windows on their engineers systems so their engineers can keep writing software for other companies. So no, IBM is not dropping windows. Ever.
The difference between computer security and meat space security is cost. A good physical lock costs much more than a lock on a standard file cabinet. We simply can't afford to put all our physical documents in safes. It is also obvious to most people that a flimsy file cabinet is much less secure that a safe.
Computer security costs the same if you use some lame hack like MS is doing, or use real cryptography. The cost is nothing. Cryptography algorithms are freely available, and modern processors can handle the encryption without serious inconvenience to the user.
And it is not obvious from looking at the interface to a program how secure it is. You enter a password either way. Most people, for better or worse, have an innate trust in computers and other people. If they have to enter a password they assume their data is secure. Programmers know that. If you supply software that asks for a password and you have no real security behind it you are committing fraud, if not by a legal definition then certainly by an ethical definition. Personally I believe developers should be required by law to provide scientifically sound security in any application that prompts a user for a password.
I'll even bite on your little "most intelligent people" bit of trolling. Most intelligent people don't know what watermarking or digital signatures are, and it is not at all clear what application is secure and what is not. Most intelligent people have better things to do than dink around on computers and read about computer security. They hire people to do that for them or buy software that appears to do that for them. Unfortunately in this case the people they hired are lying scumbags and they purchased software from lying scumbags.
When video games graphically depicting violent acts are a-ok and sell millions of copies, but graphically depicting consentual sex, and act that is both fun and healthy, would be out-right banned from most stores and really have people up in arms. I'm not for censorship at all, but I dream of the day our culture evolves at least to the point where images of violence are more shocking to the public than images of sex.
Never havin used AOL I can't be sure, but I bet they give users an insecure email client (automatically follows external links in html email for example) that actually increases the amount of spam sent to AOL users. So for every inch they gain they probably lose one or two.
I've got the wavebird for game cube. I love it. It is an RF controller, so you don't have to be pointing it at the receiver or anything like that. It feels exactly like the stock game cube controller, except no rumble pack. I got it the same day I got the game cube, so I've never used the wired controller, so I can't really compare. But I don't notice any lag with it. The box claims 100 hours battery life. I haven't measured it, but I'm able to go a few weeks on a set of batteries (2 AA). I've heard the wireless controllers for other consols aren't very good. I only have a game cube though.
Use mozilla firebird with the adblock extention, and run your email through popfile. Use a mail reader built with security in mind (doesn't automatically follow external urls in html email). 99% of your problems are solved.
You can certainly design your systems so no one employee can access the vault. Trying to pay off several people is much less likely to work than paying off one person. You could set it up so you need three or four, or as many as you like. Like our nuclear missile launch systems. The disgruntled employee is a big problem at places where one person (system admin for example) has access to everything. But if that's how you design your systems you get what you deserve.
I don't think the tunnel is big enough to drive through. You could blow up the loading dock pretty good though. If you can get the employees to open the door for you. You could pay them to yoink some records for you, but paying someone to let you detonate a bomb is a different matter.
Contrary to the subtle implications of the slashdot write-up, the article didn't suggest that beer with an antibubble in it tasts like dishwater. It only states that both beer and dishwater can have antibubbles in them. I assume it still tasts like beer.
When you have a winning formula, you use it again.
Spoken like a movie industry executive.
There's a difference between "formula" and "theme." There are lots of good movies based around standard themes. They are creative new takes on a standard theme. Even if you know the theme there can be lots of new ideas in the movie. With a formula movie there are no new ideas beyond minor cosmetic changes. Yeah, making Bruce an old Elvis was neat. But that's where the new ideas ended. I was expecting to see a "mock horror" movie, but not a formula movie.
Doh. What a horrible movie. And I like Bruce Campell's other movies. But they've become formula. This movie followed his formula point for point. The only thing the move reveals is what Bruce Campbell will be like when he is an old man. Turns out he'll be makeing the exact same movie for the rest of his life.
If all the programmers work from home your productivity sinks like a stone. The programmers expenses probably increase, and your cutting their pay? That makes no sense at all. It is a much better deal to pay a bunch of over seas programmers 25% of your pay to work together in an office where productivity remains high. It is time to realize programming takes no special talant. We are the factory workers of the day. Unless you are going back to school and learning something non-computer related you are fucked.
When anything happens in Utah you don't ask "Why is the Utah doing this?". You ask "Why are the mormons doing this?". Be prepared for massive quantities of spam urging you to join the LDS Church. And once you join up please send us a goodly portion of your income. Thanks.
No doubt. I sent a message to real tech support asking if their product was spyware, and how to turn off the popups, and how to ensure their software is only running when I am actually using it. I also told them I would never buy a commercial program from them if their free player represents the quality of their software. They didn't reply about the spyware part or how to ensure it is only running when in use, but did say you _can't_ turn off all the popups (deleted the email this morning or I would paste it in here).
But I did go through the prefs and turn off all the popups I could, and didn't see any popups for two weeks. Then I wiped that machine, so I don't know if a popup would have eventually occured.
Usually if I have to view a real audio file and am on Windows I install real player, view the file, and un-install it. A major pain.
Jesus. You probably don't mean to be a fucking huge racist redneck. Geeks generally don't know too much about events outside of technology. You're basically saying "Those poor sand niggers. What will they do when they can't trade their oil with the white man?" Well, hopefully the white man will leave them alone. You see, the middle east has been used and abused for years as pawns in proxy wars between "1st world nations". The wars were all about oil. Perhaps most of these proxy wars ended with the end of the cold war (except when a Bush is in office), but the middle east is still living with the consequences - dictators, decaying infrastructure, and war. The middle east doesn't need the west to buy their oil. They need the west to get the fuck out. And the west owes them billions upon billions of no strings attached dollars, to help them rebuild infrastructure and governments the west destroyed. Like the money we gave to Europe after WWII fucked it up. (Note in Iraq the racists in the US gov't wants to make it a loan this time because we aren't giving it to white people.)
There are no people up there to kill. Sounds like the ideal place for military wankers like this to "shoot their load" as it were. They get their rocks off, and nobody gets hurt. As for the threat to US satellite - the problem is that satellites are fragile systems. Their only defense is that they are in space. That sort of defense doesn't last long. The solution is to build more robust surveillance systems. The solution is certainly not to spend billions of dollars trying to defend these antiquated systems. Probably something like cheap disposable drones that can be launched over specific sites on demand. It won't matter if you take one of those out. Just launch 10 more. Unfortunately space based 70's sci-if style laser fighters defending satellites are every general's wet dream, so that's the way we are going to go.
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I went to the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. You just check the books out at the start of the semester, and turn them back in at the end. I have no idea why every university doesn't do this. Maybe that was incentive to get students to go to that hella-cold part of the country.
Right. Because presidents make laws. Oh, wait, that's congress who does that. Also, single issue voting is a really bad idea. Look where we are today because of it.
It doesn't say anything about a last ditch effort in the article. It is simply one effort among many to return value to SCO. The slashdot write-up is a troll. Kudos to michael for getting a troll in the write-up. That's better than getting a first post copy of an old article moded up to +5! The jihad is proud of our inside member michael!
You all appear to have forgotten that we wouldn't have cheap standardized hardware to write free software for if it wasn't for Microsoft and Bill Gates. Bill Gates is the reason we have web logs to bash Bill Gates on.
I just got a game cube recently and so far have played Splinter Cell, Metroid Prime, and Star Wars Rebel Strike Rogue Squadron III. Rebel Strike is the worst game I've played so far. There's no interesting story, and there isn't much replay value. Dispite there not being much replay value you have to play the same boring levels over and over and over again until you earn enough medals to unlock a level that is exactly like a level you have already played over and over and over again. Lame lame lame.
Consider this one
Since IBM makes its money from its Global Services department, and since Global Services writes software for other companies, and since almost all companies use Windows, IBM needs to keep Windows on their engineers systems so their engineers can keep writing software for other companies. So no, IBM is not dropping windows. Ever.
Computer security costs the same if you use some lame hack like MS is doing, or use real cryptography. The cost is nothing. Cryptography algorithms are freely available, and modern processors can handle the encryption without serious inconvenience to the user.
And it is not obvious from looking at the interface to a program how secure it is. You enter a password either way. Most people, for better or worse, have an innate trust in computers and other people. If they have to enter a password they assume their data is secure. Programmers know that. If you supply software that asks for a password and you have no real security behind it you are committing fraud, if not by a legal definition then certainly by an ethical definition. Personally I believe developers should be required by law to provide scientifically sound security in any application that prompts a user for a password.
I'll even bite on your little "most intelligent people" bit of trolling. Most intelligent people don't know what watermarking or digital signatures are, and it is not at all clear what application is secure and what is not. Most intelligent people have better things to do than dink around on computers and read about computer security. They hire people to do that for them or buy software that appears to do that for them. Unfortunately in this case the people they hired are lying scumbags and they purchased software from lying scumbags.
When video games graphically depicting violent acts are a-ok and sell millions of copies, but graphically depicting consentual sex, and act that is both fun and healthy, would be out-right banned from most stores and really have people up in arms. I'm not for censorship at all, but I dream of the day our culture evolves at least to the point where images of violence are more shocking to the public than images of sex.
Never havin used AOL I can't be sure, but I bet they give users an insecure email client (automatically follows external links in html email for example) that actually increases the amount of spam sent to AOL users. So for every inch they gain they probably lose one or two.
I've got the wavebird for game cube. I love it. It is an RF controller, so you don't have to be pointing it at the receiver or anything like that. It feels exactly like the stock game cube controller, except no rumble pack. I got it the same day I got the game cube, so I've never used the wired controller, so I can't really compare. But I don't notice any lag with it. The box claims 100 hours battery life. I haven't measured it, but I'm able to go a few weeks on a set of batteries (2 AA). I've heard the wireless controllers for other consols aren't very good. I only have a game cube though.
Zounds. Can we expand Godwin's law to Al Queda?
Use mozilla firebird with the adblock extention, and run your email through popfile. Use a mail reader built with security in mind (doesn't automatically follow external urls in html email). 99% of your problems are solved.
You can certainly design your systems so no one employee can access the vault. Trying to pay off several people is much less likely to work than paying off one person. You could set it up so you need three or four, or as many as you like. Like our nuclear missile launch systems. The disgruntled employee is a big problem at places where one person (system admin for example) has access to everything. But if that's how you design your systems you get what you deserve.
They aren't a backup service. I'm guessing the don't use much more software than what is needed to run the CCTV system.
I don't think the tunnel is big enough to drive through. You could blow up the loading dock pretty good though. If you can get the employees to open the door for you. You could pay them to yoink some records for you, but paying someone to let you detonate a bomb is a different matter.
Contrary to the subtle implications of the slashdot write-up, the article didn't suggest that beer with an antibubble in it tasts like dishwater. It only states that both beer and dishwater can have antibubbles in them. I assume it still tasts like beer.
Spoken like a movie industry executive.
There's a difference between "formula" and "theme." There are lots of good movies based around standard themes. They are creative new takes on a standard theme. Even if you know the theme there can be lots of new ideas in the movie. With a formula movie there are no new ideas beyond minor cosmetic changes. Yeah, making Bruce an old Elvis was neat. But that's where the new ideas ended. I was expecting to see a "mock horror" movie, but not a formula movie.
Doh. What a horrible movie. And I like Bruce Campell's other movies. But they've become formula. This movie followed his formula point for point. The only thing the move reveals is what Bruce Campbell will be like when he is an old man. Turns out he'll be makeing the exact same movie for the rest of his life.
If all the programmers work from home your productivity sinks like a stone. The programmers expenses probably increase, and your cutting their pay? That makes no sense at all. It is a much better deal to pay a bunch of over seas programmers 25% of your pay to work together in an office where productivity remains high. It is time to realize programming takes no special talant. We are the factory workers of the day. Unless you are going back to school and learning something non-computer related you are fucked.
Anybody every use it before its apparent demise? http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone/
When anything happens in Utah you don't ask "Why is the Utah doing this?". You ask "Why are the mormons doing this?". Be prepared for massive quantities of spam urging you to join the LDS Church. And once you join up please send us a goodly portion of your income. Thanks.
No doubt. I sent a message to real tech support asking if their product was spyware, and how to turn off the popups, and how to ensure their software is only running when I am actually using it. I also told them I would never buy a commercial program from them if their free player represents the quality of their software. They didn't reply about the spyware part or how to ensure it is only running when in use, but did say you _can't_ turn off all the popups (deleted the email this morning or I would paste it in here). But I did go through the prefs and turn off all the popups I could, and didn't see any popups for two weeks. Then I wiped that machine, so I don't know if a popup would have eventually occured. Usually if I have to view a real audio file and am on Windows I install real player, view the file, and un-install it. A major pain.
Jesus. You probably don't mean to be a fucking huge racist redneck. Geeks generally don't know too much about events outside of technology. You're basically saying "Those poor sand niggers. What will they do when they can't trade their oil with the white man?" Well, hopefully the white man will leave them alone. You see, the middle east has been used and abused for years as pawns in proxy wars between "1st world nations". The wars were all about oil. Perhaps most of these proxy wars ended with the end of the cold war (except when a Bush is in office), but the middle east is still living with the consequences - dictators, decaying infrastructure, and war. The middle east doesn't need the west to buy their oil. They need the west to get the fuck out. And the west owes them billions upon billions of no strings attached dollars, to help them rebuild infrastructure and governments the west destroyed. Like the money we gave to Europe after WWII fucked it up. (Note in Iraq the racists in the US gov't wants to make it a loan this time because we aren't giving it to white people.)
There are no people up there to kill. Sounds like the ideal place for military wankers like this to "shoot their load" as it were. They get their rocks off, and nobody gets hurt. As for the threat to US satellite - the problem is that satellites are fragile systems. Their only defense is that they are in space. That sort of defense doesn't last long. The solution is to build more robust surveillance systems. The solution is certainly not to spend billions of dollars trying to defend these antiquated systems. Probably something like cheap disposable drones that can be launched over specific sites on demand. It won't matter if you take one of those out. Just launch 10 more. Unfortunately space based 70's sci-if style laser fighters defending satellites are every general's wet dream, so that's the way we are going to go.