The key to the 'privacy' is the fact that it took effort and expense so only parties with a vested interest or valid enough reason to seek someone would put forth the capital. Making all the information available for a quick 14.95 five minute search opens it up for abuse. It is the difference between $.49 a stamp per spam in the physical mail world (in my country anyways) to the fraction of a penny per message in the digital world. With such a low cost of entry every highschool newspaper will be digging up dirt and making life a good deal more annoying.
Just try running a not released in the last four months version of real player on a system. You can never truely stop the update checks or start center from giving you a friendly reminder that there are newer products (with more advertising options) to download. The older programs work just fine as they usually play newer files anyways by just downloading a 'small' update of a codec.
I realize that they are a business and are trying to turn a profit, but there are better ways to do it. I recently visited Simtropolis.com, a popular fansite for Sim City. They outright say when you first go there that they cannot afford the bandwidth on their own and all it takes is a two or three dollar donation from a small chunck of their users to pay the rent. I was so impressed with this strait forwardness that I paid for myself and a few others that visit the site seeing as I do use their services.
I have done the same thing with Gallery, having people that use the printing services donate to the project. Is it that big of a mystery that when you treat customersright they do pay you back and keep you going? Besides, it helps cut down on your PR costs.
This might show my not so geeky origins (unlike some, I was not conceived at a star trek convention. . . actually, I don't think any one has) but have you ever tried flooring it on an open field of any sort? I was born in Manitoba (yes, we use TCP/OCP) and prairies is something we have plenty of. Unless it used to be an old airport (which makes a great drag strip) or you have a second mortgage to pay for your suspension, it would be a tough mimic of a race way, even baha. And besides, if you have found a place big enough to let you play the simulation, why not turn off the computer and use the realistically rendered graphics of the windshield. Hell, call up a couple friends and get some almost decent AI for the competitors.
I am not sure if they have this down south (I would imagine so) but here we have Mike wireless service. it is a full cell phone but they also act as walkie talkies over the cell network. Also, a delivery company I worked for used cellular network based dispatching systems with both base stations and hand held units. I looked into the prices of these and they were about $30 a month to rent each (depending on quantities)
In addition to cutting out the long lengths of track between stations, most modellers do try to maintain the realism by keeping all the stations and towns in order, replicating real industries at the proper locations, and sometimes even the correct track configuration (orientation and order of all the switches and yard tracks). Like any art, liberties are taken when needed by the space or just the personal taste. There are lots in this hobby that are pure prototype replicators that chastise their fellow modellers for only having 25 rivits on a steam engine instead of 28 (almost like using the 'wrong' gui in your favorite *nix distro) but then there are also those that 'freelance' so much as to make up their own railroad. This is something all of us geeks can relate to as we have seen the hard core "I wrote my own multitasking routine for my kernal" geeks to the "I bought the colourful box and it just seems to work. sorta." gamer geeks.
Besides being able to relive their youths or bring back parts of their pasts (and I have seen many a grown men make choo choo sounds as they follow their trains) there are those that love the challanges posed by the almost puzzle like tasks of getting the cars from your train into the siding and in the right spot without being hit by another train cause you took to long. And that is nothing compared to actually building it, with your digitized signalling system, crossing lights, sound effects and trying to simulate the momentum that a heavy freight train actually has on a miuature scale.
I will still chuckle at the self made choo choo sound effects though.
Besides MS Flight Simulator, are there any other games that actually make use of a second monitor for the plain old PC? Flight sim, as the only example I can think of right now, is still playable with one monitor, but if you have more, you simply open up another 'port' to see out of. Would be nice if more games gave more options that weren't required (so they still sell to the masses) but enhance the experience for the geek inclined.
Last year at the calgary international, they 'modernized' all their arrival and departure screens with portait oriented flat screens running Windows XP to cycle through the flights. For the first few weeks, it was next to impossible to find a feild of view that did not include a sideways XP boot screen as it kept booting, crashing, and trying again. Was a CCTV system really too outdated to justify setting up so many terminals? (not all departures or arrivals would be down at once, so yes, there were a lot of individual systems)
Servings of alcohol is the only thing that makes company functions bareable. . . well at Telus atlest;-)
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going to help with my php coding or secure my linux box? I am sure there are lots of good points of this book, but is it really slashdot worthy? Given the choice between this and CNN's over-rated jako coverage, I will choose the lesser of two evils, but still.
been notified about this un-american attitude of innocent before proven guilty?
We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals.
From an operational perspective, the wireless and wireline businesses of both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility are entirely separate. One side doesn't pay much attention to the other.
This isn't exactly the case. The sacred Darrin of TELOOS (insert german salute here) sees over all of telus, POTS and mobilitiy, and I am guessing there is a much larger margin providing service on the existing land delivery equipment than the construction of an wireless network that can handle the traffic. Trust me, they bought out my company and (all angst about that aside) they are quite good at bundleing extra charges for services that you may or may not of requested onto your bill, and there are just more options for land phones.
I am all about pretty diagrams. I don't know if this book can top the secuirty plus one we used at school where hackers were always depicted as thin white kids at terminals wearing a mad-hatter's hat from alice in wonderland or the wardrobe of carmen sandiego, cape, fidora and all. Not to mention the firewalls were always a clip-art of a brick wall between the cloud and the office building.
Where does the cloud plug in?
Slashdot Mirror
Who cares about the chip, I just want my pci slots to still work with my TV card.
The key to the 'privacy' is the fact that it took effort and expense so only parties with a vested interest or valid enough reason to seek someone would put forth the capital. Making all the information available for a quick 14.95 five minute search opens it up for abuse. It is the difference between $.49 a stamp per spam in the physical mail world (in my country anyways) to the fraction of a penny per message in the digital world. With such a low cost of entry every highschool newspaper will be digging up dirt and making life a good deal more annoying.
Just try running a not released in the last four months version of real player on a system. You can never truely stop the update checks or start center from giving you a friendly reminder that there are newer products (with more advertising options) to download. The older programs work just fine as they usually play newer files anyways by just downloading a 'small' update of a codec.
I have done the same thing with Gallery, having people that use the printing services donate to the project. Is it that big of a mystery that when you treat customers right they do pay you back and keep you going? Besides, it helps cut down on your PR costs.
This might show my not so geeky origins (unlike some, I was not conceived at a star trek convention. . . actually, I don't think any one has) but have you ever tried flooring it on an open field of any sort? I was born in Manitoba (yes, we use TCP/OCP) and prairies is something we have plenty of. Unless it used to be an old airport (which makes a great drag strip) or you have a second mortgage to pay for your suspension, it would be a tough mimic of a race way, even baha. And besides, if you have found a place big enough to let you play the simulation, why not turn off the computer and use the realistically rendered graphics of the windshield. Hell, call up a couple friends and get some almost decent AI for the competitors.
I am not sure if they have this down south (I would imagine so) but here we have Mike wireless service. it is a full cell phone but they also act as walkie talkies over the cell network. Also, a delivery company I worked for used cellular network based dispatching systems with both base stations and hand held units. I looked into the prices of these and they were about $30 a month to rent each (depending on quantities)
In addition to cutting out the long lengths of track between stations, most modellers do try to maintain the realism by keeping all the stations and towns in order, replicating real industries at the proper locations, and sometimes even the correct track configuration (orientation and order of all the switches and yard tracks). Like any art, liberties are taken when needed by the space or just the personal taste. There are lots in this hobby that are pure prototype replicators that chastise their fellow modellers for only having 25 rivits on a steam engine instead of 28 (almost like using the 'wrong' gui in your favorite *nix distro) but then there are also those that 'freelance' so much as to make up their own railroad. This is something all of us geeks can relate to as we have seen the hard core "I wrote my own multitasking routine for my kernal" geeks to the "I bought the colourful box and it just seems to work. sorta." gamer geeks.
Besides being able to relive their youths or bring back parts of their pasts (and I have seen many a grown men make choo choo sounds as they follow their trains) there are those that love the challanges posed by the almost puzzle like tasks of getting the cars from your train into the siding and in the right spot without being hit by another train cause you took to long. And that is nothing compared to actually building it, with your digitized signalling system, crossing lights, sound effects and trying to simulate the momentum that a heavy freight train actually has on a miuature scale.
I will still chuckle at the self made choo choo sound effects though.
The ISP I worked for only had a 4000 modem dialup pool, and even they only kept stats for a week at most.
Besides MS Flight Simulator, are there any other games that actually make use of a second monitor for the plain old PC? Flight sim, as the only example I can think of right now, is still playable with one monitor, but if you have more, you simply open up another 'port' to see out of. Would be nice if more games gave more options that weren't required (so they still sell to the masses) but enhance the experience for the geek inclined.
If they can fold enough, you can finally play battleship without telling your opponent to close their eyes.
People pay money for water, what do you expect?
The problem with common sense is that it is not common.
Last year at the calgary international, they 'modernized' all their arrival and departure screens with portait oriented flat screens running Windows XP to cycle through the flights. For the first few weeks, it was next to impossible to find a feild of view that did not include a sideways XP boot screen as it kept booting, crashing, and trying again. Was a CCTV system really too outdated to justify setting up so many terminals? (not all departures or arrivals would be down at once, so yes, there were a lot of individual systems)
Just click here to solve all your windows vulnrabilities
Information on the worm can be found here and here, and removal tools can be found here and here
Just post the first pages to slashdot, I am sure we can take care of it. . .. now how do I loop a wget script again?
Servings of alcohol is the only thing that makes company functions bareable. . . well at Telus atlest ;-)
going to help with my php coding or secure my linux box? I am sure there are lots of good points of this book, but is it really slashdot worthy?
Given the choice between this and CNN's over-rated jako coverage, I will choose the lesser of two evils, but still.
Lable it "Real Evidence", they won't be able to resist
that on the same page they talk about this flaw, they have the link for "How to Check If You Have ISA Server"
Is the audience of this page really the people we want running and securing corporate networks?
been notified about this un-american attitude of innocent before proven guilty? We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals.
From an operational perspective, the wireless and wireline businesses of both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility are entirely separate. One side doesn't pay much attention to the other.
This isn't exactly the case. The sacred Darrin of TELOOS (insert german salute here) sees over all of telus, POTS and mobilitiy, and I am guessing there is a much larger margin providing service on the existing land delivery equipment than the construction of an wireless network that can handle the traffic. Trust me, they bought out my company and (all angst about that aside) they are quite good at bundleing extra charges for services that you may or may not of requested onto your bill, and there are just more options for land phones.
Just my 2 cents
Richard
Something tells me a 40 pin SATA isn't going to cut it.
. . . is already taken
Taking into account SCO's *cough* strong points *cough*, all we need to re-write is the MOTD functions.
I am all about pretty diagrams. I don't know if this book can top the secuirty plus one we used at school where hackers were always depicted as thin white kids at terminals wearing a mad-hatter's hat from alice in wonderland or the wardrobe of carmen sandiego, cape, fidora and all. Not to mention the firewalls were always a clip-art of a brick wall between the cloud and the office building. Where does the cloud plug in?