Anyone else notice how all of the April Fool's posts were tagged 'gay'? I don't particularly like that. But it's the general public, not/.'s editors. What are folksonomy sites supposed to do when they end up reflecting realworld prejudices and stereotypes?
iBill handles non-porn billing too; does anyone know if those customers were in the breach?
For example, I formerly subscribed to the Washington Post's electronic edition, which relied on iBill. Telling of iBill's character, after I cancelled my subscription, they began marketing adult material to me through a newsletter called "G Spot News." Slightly different coverage than the Post.
try moving to india to try and get your job back from dell only to get dysintry and heat stroke, lose your wallet and end up working in low grade indian miget porno to get enough money to buy a can of coke, only to get typhode.
Not to worry. I hear there are over 10,000 Indian doctors working on a cure for spellingitis.
Why rely on the microbe to produce the nanowires at its pace and spec? The really interesting stuff is self-assembling (as in self-positioning, not tiny robots building other robots) nanoparticles. These guys allowed coated gold nanoparticles to self-organize on a DNA scaffold... and it can be reproduced in <10 minutes. Watch out Moore's Law.
I actually think the greater danger is in human skill lock-in. As a U.S. federal employee, I can't tell you how many people are wed to WordPerfect or Word because that's what they know (and thus any other UI "doesn't make sense"). Software can always be upgraded or customized (say, in the future, to read outdated file formats). Trying to convince 50 of your coworkers to switch to a new tool and use it to its full potential is the hard part. That's why we should all support open-source usability standardization.
Actually, if we should do anything, it's stop holding vendors responsible for fraudulent charges and move that accountability to the banks, credit card companies, and third party processors. This would create an immediate incentive to stamp out ID theft and CC hacking. As it stands now, the vendors will bear the brunt of any of these thefts and the banks will actually make money on them.
I must say that there should be a clean, concise list of security flaws that should never appear within a web browser, and each browser should be forced to undergo testing against that list before being released.
To have such fundamental flaws appear, whether by accident or negligence, is unacceptable.
Brilliant! We should dispatch this solution post-haste. And please, won't someone think of the children?
Why should any government use proprietary methods or software for any public project? Isn't there an expectation that the public corporation ought to invest public monies wisely? Given a choice between a proprietary option and an open one, it should be a no-brainer. And if open ones don't exist, the government's money is a pretty good incentive for an enterprising person to create one.
As an employee of the U.S. federal government, I cringe every time my employer makes me save a document in Word or Excel--in part because I've seen our network drive littered with now-inaccessible Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets from the oh-so-distant 1990s.
Dangerous for the indivudal maybe. But inexperienced computer users actually serve the community by spurring better-designed software. There will always be inexperienced users in the world, and Joe Everyman's ignorance acts like a vaccine by forcing developers to put out his fires. It's poor human implementation that make developers think about the user's security for him--and this is a good thing because the system, i.e., the network dominated by the millions of people who are not geeks, is only as strong as the lowest common denominator.
Bill Gates: Chairman Il, I'm calling in regards to your proposal to develop MSN-orthKorea.
Kim Jong Il: Ahh, yes. I would like all searches to return two results--the party's web page and Western blondes. And the butterfly is too free. Can you change it to a moth made from gray wool and the sorrows of my people?
Bill Gates: I think we can do that. MothXP (formerly My Moth) enables you to go that place today.
Kim Jong Il: Excellent... Can you make the moths old?
Somewhere, a communications major in a dream job is writing:
"There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of history for everyone than this report today regarding SLAC providing users with illegal copies of Archimedes' ancient work. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis using particle accelerators all over the world."
This just doesn't seem that earth-shattering to me. Aren't "less dependence on vendors" and "easier to customize" just rephrasing "lower cost"? A vendor will do just about anything if the price is right (envisioning jokes to follow). With FOSS, you're just not held hostage to the developers' price point to customize your product or stay in business.
But isn't this the same logic behind evolution and natural selection? FOSS may not be the end use for everyone. In other words, who cares if the world is dependent on IE so long as the external pressures FOSS create result in a better IE product, which will be used by nearly everyone for the time being.
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It's already trademarked in another industry.
Anyone else notice how all of the April Fool's posts were tagged 'gay'? I don't particularly like that. But it's the general public, not /.'s editors. What are folksonomy sites supposed to do when they end up reflecting realworld prejudices and stereotypes?
iBill handles non-porn billing too; does anyone know if those customers were in the breach? For example, I formerly subscribed to the Washington Post's electronic edition, which relied on iBill. Telling of iBill's character, after I cancelled my subscription, they began marketing adult material to me through a newsletter called "G Spot News." Slightly different coverage than the Post.
The whole federal government is supporting nanotechnology... and has for years.
They were fined $10 million and have agreed to obstain from the practice in the future.
Obstain? If you merge the definitions of abstain and obtain, the hybrid does kind of fit the situation.Don't you mean:
It's this kind of sh*t that will cause the first new TLD after a handover to ICANN to be .us-sucks.
Not to worry. I hear there are over 10,000 Indian doctors working on a cure for spellingitis.
Why rely on the microbe to produce the nanowires at its pace and spec? The really interesting stuff is self-assembling (as in self-positioning, not tiny robots building other robots) nanoparticles. These guys allowed coated gold nanoparticles to self-organize on a DNA scaffold... and it can be reproduced in <10 minutes. Watch out Moore's Law.
I actually think the greater danger is in human skill lock-in. As a U.S. federal employee, I can't tell you how many people are wed to WordPerfect or Word because that's what they know (and thus any other UI "doesn't make sense"). Software can always be upgraded or customized (say, in the future, to read outdated file formats). Trying to convince 50 of your coworkers to switch to a new tool and use it to its full potential is the hard part. That's why we should all support open-source usability standardization.
Actually, if we should do anything, it's stop holding vendors responsible for fraudulent charges and move that accountability to the banks, credit card companies, and third party processors. This would create an immediate incentive to stamp out ID theft and CC hacking. As it stands now, the vendors will bear the brunt of any of these thefts and the banks will actually make money on them.
I, for one, welcome our new, hard-to-find overlords.
I can picture the yellow tooltip now.
Austin 3:16 says Internet Archive just kicked your ass!
Somewhere, in a secret underground lair wallpapered with 100 dollar bills, Dick Grasso is laughing maniacally.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Microsoft satisfies eYOU.
Customer: So you lost my personal records in transit?
Citibank: Yes. We're very sorry.
Customer: I see. Well, I'd like to withdraw my deposits.
Citibank: Well, it's funny you should ask...
Brilliant! We should dispatch this solution post-haste. And please, won't someone think of the children?
Why should any government use proprietary methods or software for any public project? Isn't there an expectation that the public corporation ought to invest public monies wisely? Given a choice between a proprietary option and an open one, it should be a no-brainer. And if open ones don't exist, the government's money is a pretty good incentive for an enterprising person to create one.
As an employee of the U.S. federal government, I cringe every time my employer makes me save a document in Word or Excel--in part because I've seen our network drive littered with now-inaccessible Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets from the oh-so-distant 1990s.
Dangerous for the indivudal maybe. But inexperienced computer users actually serve the community by spurring better-designed software. There will always be inexperienced users in the world, and Joe Everyman's ignorance acts like a vaccine by forcing developers to put out his fires. It's poor human implementation that make developers think about the user's security for him--and this is a good thing because the system, i.e., the network dominated by the millions of people who are not geeks, is only as strong as the lowest common denominator.
Bill Gates: Chairman Il, I'm calling in regards to your proposal to develop MSN-orthKorea.
Kim Jong Il: Ahh, yes. I would like all searches to return two results--the party's web page and Western blondes. And the butterfly is too free. Can you change it to a moth made from gray wool and the sorrows of my people?
Bill Gates: I think we can do that. MothXP (formerly My Moth) enables you to go that place today.
Kim Jong Il: Excellent... Can you make the moths old?
Somewhere, a communications major in a dream job is writing:
This just doesn't seem that earth-shattering to me. Aren't "less dependence on vendors" and "easier to customize" just rephrasing "lower cost"? A vendor will do just about anything if the price is right (envisioning jokes to follow). With FOSS, you're just not held hostage to the developers' price point to customize your product or stay in business.
But isn't this the same logic behind evolution and natural selection? FOSS may not be the end use for everyone. In other words, who cares if the world is dependent on IE so long as the external pressures FOSS create result in a better IE product, which will be used by nearly everyone for the time being.
Explain to me why 3 men and a cat can't get married but 2 men can?
Because gay men don't like pussies.