Our firm logs all IM Messages - I think the product is called IM Manager.
You need to register on an internal webpage all of your IM accounts you want to use (if you try to use an unregistered one you will not be able to connect) and everytime you start a conversation a message is printed warning you that the conversation is being recorded.
Seems reasonable to me - we are in the financial industry too.
If I don't want my messages logged, I shouldn't use email/IM at work. There is no automatic right to privacy in the office.
Generally most rob attempts involve threat of life or harm. With that in mind, if you're able to, you have every right to kick the shit out of the con, throw him across the street, bang him up with a couple of trash cans, and give a few swift kicks when he's in the puddle on the street. Then call the cops to pick up the banged-up body.
Hopefully when he get released from the police station 24-hours later he'll think twice before trying to rob someone else.
Or he will find someone who is a lot smaller to pick on, or use more violence in the 'first strike'.
Muggers often feel that society has let them down and that they are the victims. Getting arrested just adds to their persecution complex and makes them more bitter.
I'm not saying 'Be nice to Muggers' but beating up someone (although satisfying) is only responding to the symptoms, it is not dealing with the problem.
It's a hell of a lot easier to just climb up and place the dinosaur in the webcam view than to hack the webcam feed - especially in a country where people go outside their houses on a regular basis.
You are forgetting the fact that the Aznar government, which supported helping Iraq, was very popular in Spain and was headed for re-election. The terrorism changed it.
No they weren't. It was widely predicted a week before the election that the Aznar goverment was going to be kicked out but that it would be a close thing. Then the Goverment tried to pin the bombing on ETA even though it was pretty obvious that it wasn't an ETA style attack and that was the final straw.
SUN has been fighting with Microsoft for a very long time - I think they know Microsoft and their tactics much better than we do and are not going into the partnership lightly. They will be very aware of what happens to companies that 'partner' with Microsoft.
"Keep your friends close, But your enemies closer" - Sun Tzu
They didn't let SPARC die, they decided not to bring one particular SPARC chip to the market. That chip was a dead end anyway - all the later SPARC's in the roadmap are built from a different core.
So rather than work to get a dead end chip certified and then EOL it a year later, they just didn't bring it to market.
I've had several boxes running for Solaris for 1000 days without any problem.
Machines on my site are built from a jumpserver meaning they are built in a couple of hours (probably less but I don't sit there watching them). After that they are plug and play.
For the vast majority of my servers, the only reboots are for datacentre powerdowns.
And how will you know which products contain this modification?
Can you confidently sort all the food in your apartment into GM/non-GM and get it right?
What about the food you eat at restaurants?
Let's get some compulsory labelling and then those people who want to avoid these products are able to.
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We'll soon be able to fly to Japan in less than two hours. It's going to be a truly small world for everyone.
Although technically we could fly to Japan in less than two hours, it won't happen for a number of reasons.
Firstly, cost. Still takes a lot of fuel to get you to those speeds. You need to get a lot of bums on seats, or at least enough people wanting to pay the price to fly that quickly to make it viable. How many of us were willing to pay for the shorter trip time on the Concorde?
Secondly (and more importantly) noise. The Concorde could fly to Tokyo from London or New York right now, except that the people under the flightpath don't like the noise. Ever noticed that the only regularly scheduled flights for the Concorde (when it flew) were over the ocean and not land?
Do they make you fill out paperwork on the way out? Like, hey, you didn't declare that laptop on the way out, and now you're coming back with one? Nice try buddy, pay up the VAT
Nope, never had this problem. In fact, unless you are coming back from an 'interesting' place like Jamaica, you will probably not ever speak to a customs officer at Heathrow.
They don't. In the UK at least, the onus is on the traveller to prove you left home with the laptop; a purchase receipt or a valuation are accepted.
That may be the law, but is not necessarily what you will encounter.
I've been based in the UK for the last few years and travelled internationally frequently (once a month or so) with highvalue items such as laptops, DVD player, projector etc and I have *never* had any issue. Never even been asked about it.
You think everyone coming off a flight with a laptop bag is asked to prove they own it? I would have no chance since I don't keep the receipts.
Last time I came through I had 2 laptops since one was shipped to me by work while I was overseas - wasn't asked about that either (apart from being asked to turn them on and get them checked before getting on the plane).
You're replying to a reply about the fact that this virus (like several before it, actually) can auto-launch from the preview pane. This is a "feature" specific to Outlook. If you don't use a mail program made by Microsoft, it probably won't affect you.
This is not one of those things that happens to Windows just because it's the easiest thing to pick on. This is one that specifically happens because a feature that is massively insecure was still included, just because one user in a thousand might find Outlook easier to use because of it.
I don't know about one user in a thousand but at my work it's more like one in three use that feature. Preview pane is very useful. I use it myself.
Although we do have a corporate virus/spam scanner and I have a personal scanner running too, I still still feel nervous about using it.
There are some nice features in LookOut! but there is a huge wedge of features that I never use and useful things are buried in the menus.
Nevertheless, I would change mail clients except we are a exchange shop which heavily uses forms. No chance of using anything else (not even the brower version of outlook).
"I guess this is only in hyper-hygienic Japan, but you can get latex keyboard covers. They're flexible, washable, molded to the keyboard layout, and quite usable."
I've seen these for sale but have seen very few people using them.
I've seen keyboards in cafe's (in London) with heavy duty clingfilm over the keyboard. Very practical since you just throw it away once it gets too mucky.
It costs closer to $2000 if you buy it in Japan:-)
I have had a play with this in BIC and it is very nice. What lets it down for me is the lack of wireless (you need to use a pcmcia card for that) and the keyboard is closer in feel to those rollup keyboards than a 'normal' keyboard. Still very useable and so, so light!
I am tossing up between this one, the Sony TR3 and the Panasonic Y2.
"The zire is a toy, come back when you have something with a persistant connection to the internet, a larger screen, a keyboard, and a phone and we'll talk. 2.5G devices are everywhere and eat up power like you wouldn't believe"
The grandparent was talking about PDA's, please stay ontopic.
My M505 is the same - I use it throughout the day and only charge infrequently. Unfortunately since my palm is getting old, I have to charge weekly instead of monthly like previously.
You can solve the security problem - your online bank does it.
The problem is that you have to sacrifice anonyminity to do so - and that is unacceptable for a voting system.
"But the sonic booms... the world doesn't want sonic booms. So death to the Concorde."
That means death to Concorde on cross-country routes like NY-LA or London-LA but on routes that are mostly over ocean (London-NY, Tok-Singapore, Tok-Hong Kong, Tok-San Franciso, Tok-LA, LA-Sydney) it is still acceptable. Not all of those routes would be profitable though.
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Our firm logs all IM Messages - I think the product is called IM Manager. You need to register on an internal webpage all of your IM accounts you want to use (if you try to use an unregistered one you will not be able to connect) and everytime you start a conversation a message is printed warning you that the conversation is being recorded. Seems reasonable to me - we are in the financial industry too. If I don't want my messages logged, I shouldn't use email/IM at work. There is no automatic right to privacy in the office.
4 years is a long time to bring something to market.
Methinks this is vapourware.
In Yen the U50 is Y178500 and the U70 is Y210000
Fortunately for me my base currency is UK pounds and I live in Japan so I am laughing all the way from the Bank to Akiharibara.
Hopefully when he get released from the police station 24-hours later he'll think twice before trying to rob someone else.
Or he will find someone who is a lot smaller to pick on, or use more violence in the 'first strike'.
Muggers often feel that society has let them down and that they are the victims. Getting arrested just adds to their persecution complex and makes them more bitter.
I'm not saying 'Be nice to Muggers' but beating up someone (although satisfying) is only responding to the symptoms, it is not dealing with the problem.
It's a hell of a lot easier to just climb up and place the dinosaur in the webcam view than to hack the webcam feed - especially in a country where people go outside their houses on a regular basis.
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Having an optical zoom in the kaitai will certainly improve the photo quality considerably.
No they weren't. It was widely predicted a week before the election that the Aznar goverment was going to be kicked out but that it would be a close thing. Then the Goverment tried to pin the bombing on ETA even though it was pretty obvious that it wasn't an ETA style attack and that was the final straw.
"Keep your friends close, But your enemies closer" - Sun Tzu
So rather than work to get a dead end chip certified and then EOL it a year later, they just didn't bring it to market.
Still plenty of life in the SPARC family.
Machines on my site are built from a jumpserver meaning they are built in a couple of hours (probably less but I don't sit there watching them). After that they are plug and play.
For the vast majority of my servers, the only reboots are for datacentre powerdowns.
I'm pretty happy with that stability thank you.
Before you complain too much, it might to wise to see which one was written first and then complain to the imitator.
Can you confidently sort all the food in your apartment into GM/non-GM and get it right?
What about the food you eat at restaurants?
Let's get some compulsory labelling and then those people who want to avoid these products are able to.
Although technically we could fly to Japan in less than two hours, it won't happen for a number of reasons.
Firstly, cost. Still takes a lot of fuel to get you to those speeds. You need to get a lot of bums on seats, or at least enough people wanting to pay the price to fly that quickly to make it viable. How many of us were willing to pay for the shorter trip time on the Concorde?
Secondly (and more importantly) noise. The Concorde could fly to Tokyo from London or New York right now, except that the people under the flightpath don't like the noise. Ever noticed that the only regularly scheduled flights for the Concorde (when it flew) were over the ocean and not land?
Nope, never had this problem. In fact, unless you are coming back from an 'interesting' place like Jamaica, you will probably not ever speak to a customs officer at Heathrow.
That may be the law, but is not necessarily what you will encounter.
I've been based in the UK for the last few years and travelled internationally frequently (once a month or so) with highvalue items such as laptops, DVD player, projector etc and I have *never* had any issue. Never even been asked about it.
You think everyone coming off a flight with a laptop bag is asked to prove they own it? I would have no chance since I don't keep the receipts.
Last time I came through I had 2 laptops since one was shipped to me by work while I was overseas - wasn't asked about that either (apart from being asked to turn them on and get them checked before getting on the plane).
This is not one of those things that happens to Windows just because it's the easiest thing to pick on. This is one that specifically happens because a feature that is massively insecure was still included, just because one user in a thousand might find Outlook easier to use because of it.
I don't know about one user in a thousand but at my work it's more like one in three use that feature. Preview pane is very useful. I use it myself.
Although we do have a corporate virus/spam scanner and I have a personal scanner running too, I still still feel nervous about using it.
There are some nice features in LookOut! but there is a huge wedge of features that I never use and useful things are buried in the menus.
Nevertheless, I would change mail clients except we are a exchange shop which heavily uses forms. No chance of using anything else (not even the brower version of outlook).
I've seen these for sale but have seen very few people using them.
I've seen keyboards in cafe's (in London) with heavy duty clingfilm over the keyboard. Very practical since you just throw it away once it gets too mucky.
I have had a play with this in BIC and it is very nice. What lets it down for me is the lack of wireless (you need to use a pcmcia card for that) and the keyboard is closer in feel to those rollup keyboards than a 'normal' keyboard. Still very useable and so, so light!
I am tossing up between this one, the Sony TR3 and the Panasonic Y2.
"The zire is a toy, come back when you have something with a persistant connection to the internet, a larger screen, a keyboard, and a phone and we'll talk. 2.5G devices are everywhere and eat up power like you wouldn't believe" The grandparent was talking about PDA's, please stay ontopic. My M505 is the same - I use it throughout the day and only charge infrequently. Unfortunately since my palm is getting old, I have to charge weekly instead of monthly like previously.
That was deliberate chosen to be the longest number of pulses to minimise the number of accidental dialing due to line faults, cables touching etc.
Simple, Secure, Anonymous. Which two do you want?
Simple and secure online banking is commonplace - but there is no anonyminity involved.
Simple and anonymous vote counting is easy - but if you want to make it secure you have a whole extra set of problems
Monkey.cx anyone?
"But the sonic booms... the world doesn't want sonic booms. So death to the Concorde."
That means death to Concorde on cross-country routes like NY-LA or London-LA but on routes that are mostly over ocean (London-NY, Tok-Singapore, Tok-Hong Kong, Tok-San Franciso, Tok-LA, LA-Sydney) it is still acceptable. Not all of those routes would be profitable though.
What a great spoof article! Oh what? You thought it was serious? Read it again, and pay more attention this time.