...and.. of course it's completely coincidental and not a single directive was given Apple's programmers to ensure the new software bricks hacked iPhones, right?
It will actually turn out be yet another way of snooping in on citizens without needing to get judicial permission first. I'm sure the RIAA will get involved too so the whole thing will be mostly twisted into blocking or reporting on copyrighted media sharing etc.
And, as ever, all conducted under the guise of anti-terrorism.
Over my 25+ years of being a software developer I've worked for many different companies in both the US and several different European countries and I can truly say that I've not EVER personnaly experienced any workplaces where female software engineers weren't treated at least as equal as male software engineers.
Actually what I have found is that most if not all companies I've ever worked for trip over themselves to ensure female software engineers do get given at least equal breaks, so actually females can end up getting better treated than their male counterparts.
I've also met several women engineers that even though they're actually being treated at least equally still think they are being treated worse.
Its also common to see female engineers get more recognition after actually achieving less than other unrecognised male engineers just apparently because management want to avoid any chance of being accused of discrimination.
Just set up a cron job on your laptop to run traceroute to some arbitrary place (say google) and email you the output twice a day. Have the spam filter on your inbox just toss the email away until the day you need it.
It does rely on the thief not knowing enough to fire up linux in sngle-user mode and kill your crontab entry, which is probably a safe bet. Or (more likely) to just blow away your whole linux partition with a fresh windows install, but that would even affect a commercial product the same, unless it was hardware-based.
Th US has to stop trying to be the world police. Why should Iran just expect the US to jump in? They should grow some balls and try standing up for themselves.
Microsoft clearly have a backdoor because even computers with users settings that disabled updating still got this.
Microsoft decided years ago that users were stupid and their choices to be ignored, and they haven't looked back ever since as people just keep spending good money on whatever rights-eroding crap they put out. It boggles my mind how much most people just quietly put up with this shit.
Huh? I thought it was Al Gore that invented the internet.
Seriously, its retarded that MS is trying to claim that the internet wouldn't be around except for Windows. I mean PC's don't *have* to run windows. If Windows wasn't around the world would just be running something else. Hell, even PC's aren't that necessary. We could all be surfing with Macs or Amigas or thin clients or something else that didn't get invented in this timeline.
I'm a big online UT player. Imagine the scenario: You're been working to get really close to the objective, finally you've managed to dodge a whole team of really good defenders, you've only got at most two seconds to get the game-winning shot in and... Some advertising pop-up appears right over your aiming cross and steals your keyboard and mouse input. You watch helplessy as in that moment you temporarily lose the opportunity to dodge the incoming hail of rockets and get killed.
The you read the stupid advert and find it is trying to sell you some stupid product that is totally irellevant to you.
The only (and I mean only) reason I have windows on my PC at all is for DX10 gaming. I dream of the day that DX10 is ported to Wine/Linux in which case I'll gleefully banish Windows from my PC forever. If MS actually make game-interfering pop-ups happen, that day will just come sooner.
I hope IBM they made VERY sure that Microsoft can't come after them for using MS technology, otherwise it could be giving MS what they want in that it geves them an excuse to attack and try to close down OpenOffice.
except that this lady didn't have any music on her computer at all, yet the RIAA thought they had her IP address so tried to sue her anyway.
They are still suing her only because they can't be seen to back down because their whole tactic is based on incorrectly stating the law to get people to pay them a hefty 'avoid court' fee. The success is largely based on the threatened individual's fear of large attorneys bills and lack of knowledge of the law, rather than actual fact of law.
Finally this woman is the first person with the balls to tell the RIAA to fuck off and die, Now the RIAA are pissed because she is blowing their whole scam. If they go to court, the judge will find the RIAA's activities illegal. If they back down first, they will basically be admitting the same by their own actions.
This woman rocks. Its people like her that improve the world.
After all these failures trying to introduce artificial limitations in their products just for marketing purposes (include DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/DRM/Microsoft Vista/Sony rootkits/etc. too) that by now they would just acecpt that consumers WONT STAND FOR THIS CRAP.
Good managers don't order engineers around. They use the power of their position to provide extra assistance, guidance and support that is otherwise not available directly to engineers just trying to do their job.
I agree its a good game but that isn't the issue. Securom is a third-party and fairly widespread technology used to protect games. It seems the latest incarnation of it requires authentication via the internet. I don't want this to spread to other games, nor will I buy them if it does.
My issues against it is this: I've paid fair and square to play this game whereever and whenever I want, no matter how many times I want to install it. I don't even like the thought that its possible for someone else to interfere with that, let alone the fact that: 1) I have to have an internet connection just to install the game 2) That I have to seek their permission every time I want to install the thing I already paid for 3) That they get informed every time I install the game and from which IP I'm doing it from (technically a privacy concern) 4) I'm at the mercy of the continued availability of their authentication servers. If the company goes bust, has technical server issues, or just decides to stop supporting BioShock, I can no longer install it.
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...and.. of course it's completely coincidental and not a single directive was given Apple's programmers to ensure the new software bricks hacked iPhones, right?
...because all us mouse/keyboard users would completely dominate anyone using a console controller.
The thing that really gets my goat is their totally arrogant presumption that its ok to put files on my box without asking me in the first place.
Its probably just photos of him and his friends from his private collection
If my memory serves me right the fastest ones are able to do 56kb. Its hardly blazingly fast but its double what you currently have.
Huh? In accordance with international law, territorial limits only extend 3 or 12 miles and economic zones 200 miles from the shoreline
That still means nearly all the worlds ocean is free of control.
this will be what it claims ot be on the surface.
It will actually turn out be yet another way of snooping in on citizens without needing to get judicial permission first. I'm sure the RIAA will get involved too so the whole thing will be mostly twisted into blocking or reporting on copyrighted media sharing etc.
And, as ever, all conducted under the guise of anti-terrorism.
Just take off from a ship out at sea outside any territorial limits.
Also using a ship would allow you to travel to and take off from the best latitude (probably the equator) so you'd save spaceship fuel.
Well done conforming to and reinforcing all the negative (and largely incorrect) sterotypes there bub.
Over my 25+ years of being a software developer I've worked for many different companies in both the US and several different European countries and I can truly say that I've not EVER personnaly experienced any workplaces where female software engineers weren't treated at least as equal as male software engineers.
Actually what I have found is that most if not all companies I've ever worked for trip over themselves to ensure female software engineers do get given at least equal breaks, so actually females can end up getting better treated than their male counterparts.
I've also met several women engineers that even though they're actually being treated at least equally still think they are being treated worse.
Its also common to see female engineers get more recognition after actually achieving less than other unrecognised male engineers just apparently because management want to avoid any chance of being accused of discrimination.
Just set up a cron job on your laptop to run traceroute to some arbitrary place (say google) and email you the output twice a day.
Have the spam filter on your inbox just toss the email away until the day you need it.
It does rely on the thief not knowing enough to fire up linux in sngle-user mode and kill your crontab entry, which is probably a safe bet.
Or (more likely) to just blow away your whole linux partition with a fresh windows install, but that would even affect a commercial product the same, unless it was hardware-based.
you don't need money counters when you don't have any money.
Th US has to stop trying to be the world police. Why should Iran just expect the US to jump in? They should grow some balls and try standing up for themselves.
Microsoft clearly have a backdoor because even computers with users settings that disabled updating still got this.
Microsoft decided years ago that users were stupid and their choices to be ignored, and they haven't looked back ever since as people just keep spending good money on whatever rights-eroding crap they put out. It boggles my mind how much most people just quietly put up with this shit.
never to buy bullguard if it can't even deal with a 14 year old virus.
Huh? I thought it was Al Gore that invented the internet.
Seriously, its retarded that MS is trying to claim that the internet wouldn't be around except for Windows. I mean PC's don't *have* to run windows. If Windows wasn't around the world would just be running something else. Hell, even PC's aren't that necessary. We could all be surfing with Macs or Amigas or thin clients or something else that didn't get invented in this timeline.
I'm a big online UT player. Imagine the scenario:
You're been working to get really close to the objective, finally you've managed to dodge a whole team of really good defenders, you've only got at most two seconds to get the game-winning shot in and...
Some advertising pop-up appears right over your aiming cross and steals your keyboard and mouse input. You watch helplessy as in that moment you temporarily lose the opportunity to dodge the incoming hail of rockets and get killed.
The you read the stupid advert and find it is trying to sell you some stupid product that is totally irellevant to you.
The only (and I mean only) reason I have windows on my PC at all is for DX10 gaming. I dream of the day that DX10 is ported to Wine/Linux in which case I'll gleefully banish Windows from my PC forever. If MS actually make game-interfering pop-ups happen, that day will just come sooner.
I hope IBM they made VERY sure that Microsoft can't come after them for using MS technology, otherwise it could be giving MS what they want in that it geves them an excuse to attack and try to close down OpenOffice.
except that this lady didn't have any music on her computer at all, yet the RIAA thought they had her IP address so tried to sue her anyway.
They are still suing her only because they can't be seen to back down because their whole tactic is based on incorrectly stating the law to get people to pay them a hefty 'avoid court' fee. The success is largely based on the threatened individual's fear of large attorneys bills and lack of knowledge of the law, rather than actual fact of law.
Finally this woman is the first person with the balls to tell the RIAA to fuck off and die, Now the RIAA are pissed because she is blowing their whole scam. If they go to court, the judge will find the RIAA's activities illegal. If they back down first, they will basically be admitting the same by their own actions.
This woman rocks. Its people like her that improve the world.
a new low even for no-news days.
ahh.. the galaxy you can look at without ruining your appetite :-)
After all these failures trying to introduce artificial limitations in their products just for marketing purposes (include DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/DRM/Microsoft Vista/Sony rootkits/etc. too) that by now they would just acecpt that consumers WONT STAND FOR THIS CRAP.
Good managers don't order engineers around. They use the power of their position to provide extra assistance, guidance and support that is otherwise not available directly to engineers just trying to do their job.
Do you now have to save a snapshot of your ram anytime any (i.e. even 1 bit) of its contents changes?
I agree its a good game but that isn't the issue.
Securom is a third-party and fairly widespread technology used to protect games. It seems the latest incarnation of it requires authentication via the internet. I don't want this to spread to other games, nor will I buy them if it does.
My issues against it is this:
I've paid fair and square to play this game whereever and whenever I want, no matter how many times I want to install it.
I don't even like the thought that its possible for someone else to interfere with that, let alone the fact that:
1) I have to have an internet connection just to install the game
2) That I have to seek their permission every time I want to install the thing I already paid for
3) That they get informed every time I install the game and from which IP I'm doing it from (technically a privacy concern)
4) I'm at the mercy of the continued availability of their authentication servers. If the company goes bust, has technical server issues, or just decides to stop supporting BioShock, I can no longer install it.