It just goes to show how bad you all let things get in your gluttony for credit. So, now if you have to answer to a phony threat from any joe blow, I can hardly sympathize. You'll(editorial) will sign anything to get that money. If you want to control the banks and credit card companies, then you'll have to control your cravings for credit. I don't want to have to challenge the charges. I'm going to challenge the company to fix it, dammit. Why should I have to constantly look over my shoulder when I'm paying somebody else to do it for me? Part of the service I expect is protection from exactly these kinds of rackets. With a little discipline, you can make this a buyer's market and get good service at a reasonable price.
If you wrote a check or used your credit card, then yeah, you kind of signed something. A lawyer will draw the link. It's probably valid...compared to an EULA.
I can not for the life of me understand how ANYBODY could buy into a system where you pay to recieve calls. What are you thinking? For that reason alone, I will not own a cel phone in countries that use a system like that. It's utterly insane. Same goes for the area code thing. The cel phone industry totally screwed that up...with all of our help. UGH! Maybe the telemarketing problem will get all of you to demand that the system gets fixed.
I'm not advocating restrictions on the user. I'm advocating the manufacture of robust hardware. The restrictions I would like to see is something like a UL sticker on machines that are used in commercial applications. The x86 is not certifiable, especially with Windows. Those machines are play toys and should be kept away from any critical enviroment. If you want to use them for your local cash register or security cams, fine, but I don't like seeing Windows running at the bank or the hospital. They simply have no place there. Well, maybe in the lunch room...for playing Solitare. These institutions should be using specialized equipment restricted to the purposes intended. Using the x86 is the cheap, lazy way out, and these people have the money to use secure equipment. If he meant ""People take the computer too lightly..." to mean placing them in these situations, then he's right.
OMG! He definitely should've gotten the chair. Hey. I got an idea. How about not giving so much power to such fragile equipment?
People take the computer too lightly...
No, we are using computers where they don't belong. They're not ready for prime time yet. We're putting half baked systems on line. And letting them operate heavy machinery unsupervised is really asking for trouble. We don't allow unsafe cars on the highway. We shouldn't allow defective equipment to run our banks and hospitals and such. If someone was able to remotely control and crash your car, you can bet you would take in it to have it fixed. Why aren't we demanding the same for our computers? No sir, This:"However, in the grand scheme of the virus world, it's the organised crime gangs, which are increasingly emerging to make stacks of money through targeted attacks, that should be dealt the harsh sentences - over and above the dumb teenagers." is definitely the more correct take on the situation...in addition to reliable, secure equipment. While computers should not be as "dumb" as a TV set, it should definitely be kept as harmless as one. Instead of complaining about people exploiting weaknesses in the infrastructure, we should be beefing up the infrastructure. Let's spend our time trying to make it impossible instead of merely illegal. If one person can disrupt the whole world so easily, then that just tells me that the world put too many eggs into one basket.
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Man! Good thing I read the thread first. I almost posted this: "What about us really horrible C programmers? Maybe this will help me pick up the pieces and sweep up the ashes..." When I saw yours just in time. Whew, beat the redundant mod by that much.
Into what? Who needs another Intel? We need to take the Alpha chip's IP away and get it back on the streets. The factory that picks up on it will make a bundle. Dumb and dumber is not competition. And with Apple taking the low road, that goes double. Now we lost the PPC, leaving us with Intel and a wannabe.
Whereas the people listed above did nothing butround up and kill their own countrymen.
So you would feel better if they went outside their borders to do their killing?
I mean Stalin and Polpot were saints compared to us...
I said that? Where? In fact, where did I even inply that? And Stalin was an ally...until he served no further purpose. Kinda like ol' boy...what's his name?...Osama bin Laden Laden? You seem to choose to ignore the fact that we and everybody else will line up with anybody if it serves our needs. You can bet you sweet bippy that if Polpot had been in power and offered us help in Vietnam, we would be right there with him.
I find the redundant mods to be kind of ironic. It would be cool if everybody here got modded redundant just for posting in a duped article. I'm going for two in a row.
And the sad irony is that with Apple going to Intel(UGH!), they will be the first out the door with a "trusted" computer. They always were the first in everything. I'd prefer they weren't the first with this one.
This is exactly how the medical industry operates when it comes to cancer, heart disease, malaria, etc. There's no money in the cure. It's all about never ending treatment. In the case of MS, Windows and Office sales may or may not be dwindling. But the perpetual upgrading and "treatment" for a sick system will keep the money train rolling. For them there is nothing to solve.
The Americans didn't travel all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to kill Brit civilians...
I don't believe travel across the Atlantic was as convenient as it is today. Please don't think for a second that if the situation was reversed today that the Americans won't get just as brutal. In fact the Americans don't need much provocation to go on their killing sprees. Some 100,000 dead Iraqis. 2,000,000 dead Vietnamese. Nobody knows how many dead Central and South Americans. Their is no moral high ground in the war amongst pirates.
Like IE, Claria will become integrated into the system, making it impossible to remove. That's ok. Let them shoot off their nose to spite their feet...
If he stayed off of his property then nobody has a case. Not until he enters the man's physical property. And the signal must be encrypted. I'm not reversing the sense of your argument. This IS the argument. An open signal off the property is out of his control. This is no different from me peeking over the fence to look through his window if he leaves the curtain open. I didn't enter his property. There is no trespass. The signal came to me. Now, you might get me for loitering if I don't have a reason to be in the neighborhood. If you want to get picky, you could possibly get me for unauthorized re-transmission of somebody else's signal. That's what the URL request would be. Then you may have an FCC violation, unlicensed band or not.
I believe if your signal enters my property, it's mine to use. Nobody's going through any doors here. An open signal is being transmitted beyond his property into mine. If he plays his stereo loud enough to hear it, should I be forced to wear ear plugs?
Also, they failed to mention that they had crippled it before he bought it.
Oh, I tend to believe that the phone functioned the way it was advertised to him.
They didn't license it to him, they *sold* it.
I have yet to buy a new phone. Really! I have no idea of the terms that the phone is sold under. Are you sure it isn't licensed? Like the software you buy? Not that it's valid or anything. I'm just wondering. There might be a thingy that says the phone is licensed not sold. Could be interesting. The whole cel phone business is so corrupt. From the area code thing to the communications act that banned full band recievers. We definitely screwed up on this one...right from the beginnning. Paying to receive calls...What's up with THAT??? Yep...we definitely got fished in.
Of course you know you won't get an arguement out of me. Neither of us is looking for this mystical "karma". I just noticed it is being used to reduce the number of people seeing your post simply because the moderator disagrees with the message. After re-reading the link in my sig, you might see me using the pirate metaphor a lot. It's a perfect definition. So, I'll begin here by saying that what we are seeing is the same old continual warfare amongst pirates that has been going on for millenia. The real kind that kill for money. This whole US/China/national anything is so irrelevent. These are just plain ol' thieves robbing the world where ever they go. There will be no attacking anywhere as long as business can continue uninhibited. Unless one side can see an obvious advantage. The moment a blockade of any kind goes up, then all bets are off.
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It just goes to show how bad you all let things get in your gluttony for credit. So, now if you have to answer to a phony threat from any joe blow, I can hardly sympathize. You'll(editorial) will sign anything to get that money. If you want to control the banks and credit card companies, then you'll have to control your cravings for credit. I don't want to have to challenge the charges. I'm going to challenge the company to fix it, dammit. Why should I have to constantly look over my shoulder when I'm paying somebody else to do it for me? Part of the service I expect is protection from exactly these kinds of rackets. With a little discipline, you can make this a buyer's market and get good service at a reasonable price.
If you wrote a check or used your credit card, then yeah, you kind of signed something. A lawyer will draw the link. It's probably valid...compared to an EULA.
...charge for incoming sms...
I can not for the life of me understand how ANYBODY could buy into a system where you pay to recieve calls. What are you thinking? For that reason alone, I will not own a cel phone in countries that use a system like that. It's utterly insane. Same goes for the area code thing. The cel phone industry totally screwed that up...with all of our help. UGH! Maybe the telemarketing problem will get all of you to demand that the system gets fixed.
I'm not advocating restrictions on the user. I'm advocating the manufacture of robust hardware. The restrictions I would like to see is something like a UL sticker on machines that are used in commercial applications. The x86 is not certifiable, especially with Windows. Those machines are play toys and should be kept away from any critical enviroment. If you want to use them for your local cash register or security cams, fine, but I don't like seeing Windows running at the bank or the hospital. They simply have no place there. Well, maybe in the lunch room...for playing Solitare. These institutions should be using specialized equipment restricted to the purposes intended. Using the x86 is the cheap, lazy way out, and these people have the money to use secure equipment. If he meant ""People take the computer too lightly..." to mean placing them in these situations, then he's right.
...forced to use pen and paper...!!??
OMG! He definitely should've gotten the chair. Hey. I got an idea. How about not giving so much power to such fragile equipment?
People take the computer too lightly...
No, we are using computers where they don't belong. They're not ready for prime time yet. We're putting half baked systems on line. And letting them operate heavy machinery unsupervised is really asking for trouble. We don't allow unsafe cars on the highway. We shouldn't allow defective equipment to run our banks and hospitals and such. If someone was able to remotely control and crash your car, you can bet you would take in it to have it fixed. Why aren't we demanding the same for our computers?
No sir, This:"However, in the grand scheme of the virus world, it's the organised crime gangs, which are increasingly emerging to make stacks of money through targeted attacks, that should be dealt the harsh sentences - over and above the dumb teenagers." is definitely the more correct take on the situation...in addition to reliable, secure equipment. While computers should not be as "dumb" as a TV set, it should definitely be kept as harmless as one. Instead of complaining about people exploiting weaknesses in the infrastructure, we should be beefing up the infrastructure. Let's spend our time trying to make it impossible instead of merely illegal. If one person can disrupt the whole world so easily, then that just tells me that the world put too many eggs into one basket.
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Man! Good thing I read the thread first. I almost posted this: "What about us really horrible C programmers? Maybe this will help me pick up the pieces and sweep up the ashes..." When I saw yours just in time. Whew, beat the redundant mod by that much.
And on Slashdot's front page no less
...AMD will be free to continue growing.
Into what? Who needs another Intel? We need to take the Alpha chip's IP away and get it back on the streets. The factory that picks up on it will make a bundle. Dumb and dumber is not competition. And with Apple taking the low road, that goes double. Now we lost the PPC, leaving us with Intel and a wannabe.
Whereas the people listed above did nothing butround up and kill their own countrymen.
So you would feel better if they went outside their borders to do their killing?
I mean Stalin and Polpot were saints compared to us...
I said that? Where? In fact, where did I even inply that? And Stalin was an ally...until he served no further purpose. Kinda like ol' boy...what's his name?...Osama bin Laden Laden? You seem to choose to ignore the fact that we and everybody else will line up with anybody if it serves our needs. You can bet you sweet bippy that if Polpot had been in power and offered us help in Vietnam, we would be right there with him.
I find the redundant mods to be kind of ironic. It would be cool if everybody here got modded redundant just for posting in a duped article. I'm going for two in a row.
And the sad irony is that with Apple going to Intel(UGH!), they will be the first out the door with a "trusted" computer. They always were the first in everything. I'd prefer they weren't the first with this one.
This is exactly how the medical industry operates when it comes to cancer, heart disease, malaria, etc. There's no money in the cure. It's all about never ending treatment. In the case of MS, Windows and Office sales may or may not be dwindling. But the perpetual upgrading and "treatment" for a sick system will keep the money train rolling. For them there is nothing to solve.
The Americans didn't travel all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to kill Brit civilians...
I don't believe travel across the Atlantic was as convenient as it is today. Please don't think for a second that if the situation was reversed today that the Americans won't get just as brutal. In fact the Americans don't need much provocation to go on their killing sprees. Some 100,000 dead Iraqis. 2,000,000 dead Vietnamese. Nobody knows how many dead Central and South Americans. Their is no moral high ground in the war amongst pirates.
Like IE, Claria will become integrated into the system, making it impossible to remove. That's ok. Let them shoot off their nose to spite their feet...
If anybody gets modded redundant here, I'm going to be very upset.
If he stayed off of his property then nobody has a case. Not until he enters the man's physical property. And the signal must be encrypted. I'm not reversing the sense of your argument. This IS the argument. An open signal off the property is out of his control. This is no different from me peeking over the fence to look through his window if he leaves the curtain open. I didn't enter his property. There is no trespass. The signal came to me. Now, you might get me for loitering if I don't have a reason to be in the neighborhood. If you want to get picky, you could possibly get me for unauthorized re-transmission of somebody else's signal. That's what the URL request would be. Then you may have an FCC violation, unlicensed band or not.
I believe if your signal enters my property, it's mine to use. Nobody's going through any doors here. An open signal is being transmitted beyond his property into mine. If he plays his stereo loud enough to hear it, should I be forced to wear ear plugs?
And the guy with the biggest Nuclear bombs still feels he has God on his side.
Well...yeah...
this person can hold more than 5 meg. I would love to see her work a keyboard or telephone.
Also, they failed to mention that they had crippled it before he bought it.
Oh, I tend to believe that the phone functioned the way it was advertised to him.
They didn't license it to him, they *sold* it.
I have yet to buy a new phone. Really! I have no idea of the terms that the phone is sold under. Are you sure it isn't licensed? Like the software you buy? Not that it's valid or anything. I'm just wondering. There might be a thingy that says the phone is licensed not sold. Could be interesting. The whole cel phone business is so corrupt. From the area code thing to the communications act that banned full band recievers. We definitely screwed up on this one...right from the beginnning. Paying to receive calls...What's up with THAT??? Yep...we definitely got fished in.
...that's what causes everyone to check their phones.
And that's precisely why I look for the most common ring I can find. I live for the money shot.
Why should almost everyone's time be wasted with increasingly ridiculous nonsense that benefits almost no one... So, it benefits only a few people...
There. you just answered your own question. Those few people are very influential(for obvious reasons), and this is the result.
...I only shot him to see what would happen...
Hee hee
Of course you know you won't get an arguement out of me. Neither of us is looking for this mystical "karma". I just noticed it is being used to reduce the number of people seeing your post simply because the moderator disagrees with the message. After re-reading the link in my sig, you might see me using the pirate metaphor a lot. It's a perfect definition. So, I'll begin here by saying that what we are seeing is the same old continual warfare amongst pirates that has been going on for millenia. The real kind that kill for money. This whole US/China/national anything is so irrelevent. These are just plain ol' thieves robbing the world where ever they go. There will be no attacking anywhere as long as business can continue uninhibited. Unless one side can see an obvious advantage. The moment a blockade of any kind goes up, then all bets are off.