> what does a genuine email fromm the bank look like?
Simple. My bank N E V E R sends an email that requires a logon. Most banks are the same.
This is exactly the case with an aunt of mine. I stepped through setting up her net banking, and told her, explicitly explained and MADE SURE she got it that her bank will NEVER send an email asking for password details, personal info, logins, etc. I showed her the page on her bank's own site that explained that, and went through why it was important.
And then six months later she's phished, and loses a little over $1200. Her excuse? "Yeah I knew they wouldn't send those emails out, but it looked real".
There's no helping some people, they just want to lose their cash I'm sure.
A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it 'will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there
That's like saying hurricane Katrina was a boon to the New Orleans economy, as it instantly created thousands of search & rescue, demolition, rebuilding and emergency management jobs.
The problem with towers like this is they cause a fast rising column of air. air that was once dense and down on the ground. It is essentially a pump powered by the heat of the sun falling on the ground and heating the air down at sea level. Now once the air is thrown up into the air several miles where does it go?
What will happen is that you cause a bump in the atmosphere that extends higher into space that causes the air to be interacted with by more particles in space, and changes the composition of the atmosphere. Not to mention the atmosphere that is then lost to space.
What a good idea, pumping the very air we breathe into space so it is modified and lost. We only have so much oxygen on the planet it's not like losing it is a good idea
Stories like this show why people can't rely on science to show the way forward with so many rumours and mis-ideas about global warming.
We have large areas of land that might emit methane and warm the planet more. Or maybe large areas of land that might sink more carbon into them and offset the effects of industrial emissions on global warming. Whatever, it's something we didn't know about.
So what does that lead to in the end? basically "Something we didn't know about might cause cooling or warming".
How you can base an entire country's future of emissions on science like this, I don't know. Scientists should get their acts together and only release known facts, not speculation like this.
Presumably they have 18 years worth of fuel from the past 28 years (1978 to 2006) worth of garbage dumping. Garbage dumping is still going to go on, so within the first 3 years of the project running there'll be another 2 years worth of running time for the plant.
> how would you go about punishing someone in the real world for > something they did in an artificial one? And can they be punished?
Jack Thompson, this is a very transparent ruse. And no, no matter how much you have against grand theft auto, no you cannot have people punished for stealing cars in a game. Sorry.
Lollipop-style colors for computers isn't necessarily a good thing, and those were god awful slow, even for powerpc architecture. I'd take a G3 any day.
Those iMacs came only in one colour: white. They were also faster than any G3 tower, and faster all around than any G3 with the exception of the last iBook G3s.
This looks like any 15 year old's "I won't be coming back here and you all suck" stormouts. The ones that happen each week, and he'll be back within a few hours.
You may be technically correct, but they didn't achieve anything meaningful on the surface before the Viking probes. (As far as flyby missions, both countries had sent prior probes.) Therefore, the article summary really isn't the affront to history that you make it out to be.
Except the article summary says "The solar system had welcomed its first interplanetary visitor from Earth" which is also completely wrong, as the USSR had reached venus in 1970, and venus is still part of the solar system. It landed safely, and sent back data. Venera 7, 8, 9 and 10 all landed on venus and sent back data before viking touched down on mars.
OK the article starts with "The solar system had welcomed its first interplanetary visitor from Earth, a triumphant moment that marked the start of mankind's efforts to probe its neighbor planet for signs of life and set the sights for every Martian mission to follow." So why is this, when russians sent many probes to mars beforehand? Admittedly none of them the success of Viking but russians still reached the surface first. This stinks.
My cousin was even taught at school that Sally Ride was the first woman into space when this is patently untrue. Why the revisionism? is it just for the sake of a good first few paragraphs or is it something worse?
It's a nice bit of spin on their part I think. Their response is equivalent to a little annoying idiot at school going up to a big kid, threatening them, and coming back all beat up with "This is a victory! He only told me to piss off, not to piss off and not come back!"
Price fixing, especially at a strategic time like this, just shouldn't be allowed. I'm not sure there's really enough evidence for it to go to court unfortunately, and could cost AMD dearly if they try to fight it legally. Intel have a small bump in performance that brings them a bit closer to AMD performance, and they use this along with a lot of intel fanboyism in the media in the last six months to boost their image, and on top of that they price fix their prices downwards to half of AMD. No single one of these things is probably any different to what most companies would do if given half the chance, but they're stacking the odds in their favour by performing all things at once, making cheaper chips, better chips and putting good reviews out in the media.
And in the end the better man (AMD) is the one that suffers. Being a smaller company too they will suffer more than Intel will suffer from having to put up with lower prices. It's a classic MS strategy:(
Out of the box may be one thing, but continuing use is something else.
Don't let anyone tell you macs have no malware, it's just not true. from Renepo the rootkit, to php worms that send out spam infecting message boards, to word macro viruses to the recent oompaloompa, they affect macs as badly as they can affect windows.
One thing that tells mac users they have fewer viruses is poor antivirus software. A friend of mine works in a mac shop and often people will come in with bizarre problems with their macs. No networking working, slow networking, random crashes, won't wake properly from sleep. Scanning with an antivirus package shows no viruses, yet a software reinstall fresh from scratch fixes many of those problems. What does that tell you caused the problems? Some malware running on the machine is what.
When mac software gets up to scratch in detecting the worms that are out there for macs, that is the only time people will get the truth about maleware infections. Sophos need to get off their ass and make something more worthwhile for macs and then we'll see who goes saying what about security.
I wonder if in an ideal world discoveries made by accident should be patentable?
The way I see it if you put effort and invest a lot of time and money into something, you can patent it and deserve a small amount of exclusivity to your invention in order to pay you back for all you invested. This of course does not include software patents.
But if something is discovered so easily by accident by someone, they have not invested any time or money. It has just come to them by luck, and I think then that should be general knowledge to be used for the good of humans in general, and not kept to one person who has a monopoly on their luck.
If *BSD has the drivers, then they're licensed as a bsd licence. That means it's a day's work at the most to port them to Linux and re-release as GPL. That means Linux always has the same drivers as *BSD
I got to play with this a couple weeks of go, and I think MS is doing alot better than expected. Earlier reviews of vista and longhorn before that rightly criticized it for some really bad issues but they're very cleaned up now, and given them more than six months more to complete it I think they can ship something great out of this. I don't say it will end up changing the dynamics of a desktop in competition with linux as they are now very distinct systems with their own niches, as vista is just more of the same, but it's more of the same made better.
You may joke about it but don't be surprised if it's the real thing. There are many government tracking sites noticing some big changes happening like this, preparing for larger disasters than the country can be prepared for with the general populace. chemtrail deposits are up, a recent upsurge in volcanic and earthquake activity, communications between the government and operatives in foreign countries are up, and the recent comet breakup could bring some catastrophic impacts. Aanyone see a pattern here? Check out Save Lives to read up on what one researcher has discovered.
This brought to you by the same people who INSIST global warming is man-made and it's time to kill our economy by placing unnecessary restrictions on it.
The world can take a lot more than we small humans are dishing out to it. The oceans alone can absorb 100 times more CO2 than we have ever pumped into the atmosphere without taking a blink. This is just more proof of nature's resilience. Don't bow to the environmentalist hype machine.
This is not "activist" pictures, it is documentary images I have seen on national TV.
I propose an addendum to godwin's law. If someone mentions "It's true, I saw it on national TV" then they lose and the debate is over. Oh and everyone gets to laugh at them for weeks.
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> what does a genuine email fromm the bank look like?
Simple. My bank N E V E R sends an email that requires a logon. Most banks are the same.
This is exactly the case with an aunt of mine. I stepped through setting up her net banking, and told her, explicitly explained and MADE SURE she got it that her bank will NEVER send an email asking for password details, personal info, logins, etc. I showed her the page on her bank's own site that explained that, and went through why it was important.
And then six months later she's phished, and loses a little over $1200. Her excuse? "Yeah I knew they wouldn't send those emails out, but it looked real".
There's no helping some people, they just want to lose their cash I'm sure.
A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it 'will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there
That's like saying hurricane Katrina was a boon to the New Orleans economy, as it instantly created thousands of search & rescue, demolition, rebuilding and emergency management jobs.
You can spin anything any way you like.
The problem with towers like this is they cause a fast rising column of air. air that was once dense and down on the ground. It is essentially a pump powered by the heat of the sun falling on the ground and heating the air down at sea level. Now once the air is thrown up into the air several miles where does it go?
What will happen is that you cause a bump in the atmosphere that extends higher into space that causes the air to be interacted with by more particles in space, and changes the composition of the atmosphere. Not to mention the atmosphere that is then lost to space.
What a good idea, pumping the very air we breathe into space so it is modified and lost. We only have so much oxygen on the planet it's not like losing it is a good idea
There's a new Uwe Boll film in there I'm sure. "Rise of the Global Warming Bog Men"
Stories like this show why people can't rely on science to show the way forward with so many rumours and mis-ideas about global warming.
We have large areas of land that might emit methane and warm the planet more. Or maybe large areas of land that might sink more carbon into them and offset the effects of industrial emissions on global warming. Whatever, it's something we didn't know about.
So what does that lead to in the end? basically "Something we didn't know about might cause cooling or warming".
How you can base an entire country's future of emissions on science like this, I don't know. Scientists should get their acts together and only release known facts, not speculation like this.
Presumably they have 18 years worth of fuel from the past 28 years (1978 to 2006) worth of garbage dumping. Garbage dumping is still going to go on, so within the first 3 years of the project running there'll be another 2 years worth of running time for the plant.
> how would you go about punishing someone in the real world for
> something they did in an artificial one? And can they be punished?
Jack Thompson, this is a very transparent ruse. And no, no matter how much you have against grand theft auto, no you cannot have people punished for stealing cars in a game. Sorry.
Lollipop-style colors for computers isn't necessarily a good thing, and those were god awful slow, even for powerpc architecture. I'd take a G3 any day.
Those iMacs came only in one colour: white. They were also faster than any G3 tower, and faster all around than any G3 with the exception of the last iBook G3s.
The picture shown for System 5 is not a Mac system, rather it's a version of the Apple IIGS desktop.
The picture labelled as System 6 is a version of System 7, not System 6.
This looks like any 15 year old's "I won't be coming back here and you all suck" stormouts. The ones that happen each week, and he'll be back within a few hours.
Why is this on slashdot?
You may be technically correct, but they didn't achieve anything meaningful on the surface before the Viking probes. (As far as flyby missions, both countries had sent prior probes.) Therefore, the article summary really isn't the affront to history that you make it out to be.
Except the article summary says "The solar system had welcomed its first interplanetary visitor from Earth" which is also completely wrong, as the USSR had reached venus in 1970, and venus is still part of the solar system. It landed safely, and sent back data. Venera 7, 8, 9 and 10 all landed on venus and sent back data before viking touched down on mars.
OK the article starts with "The solar system had welcomed its first interplanetary visitor from Earth, a triumphant moment that marked the start of mankind's efforts to probe its neighbor planet for signs of life and set the sights for every Martian mission to follow." So why is this, when russians sent many probes to mars beforehand? Admittedly none of them the success of Viking but russians still reached the surface first. This stinks.
My cousin was even taught at school that Sally Ride was the first woman into space when this is patently untrue. Why the revisionism? is it just for the sake of a good first few paragraphs or is it something worse?
It's a nice bit of spin on their part I think. Their response is equivalent to a little annoying idiot at school going up to a big kid, threatening them, and coming back all beat up with "This is a victory! He only told me to piss off, not to piss off and not come back!"
Price fixing, especially at a strategic time like this, just shouldn't be allowed. I'm not sure there's really enough evidence for it to go to court unfortunately, and could cost AMD dearly if they try to fight it legally. Intel have a small bump in performance that brings them a bit closer to AMD performance, and they use this along with a lot of intel fanboyism in the media in the last six months to boost their image, and on top of that they price fix their prices downwards to half of AMD. No single one of these things is probably any different to what most companies would do if given half the chance, but they're stacking the odds in their favour by performing all things at once, making cheaper chips, better chips and putting good reviews out in the media.
:(
And in the end the better man (AMD) is the one that suffers. Being a smaller company too they will suffer more than Intel will suffer from having to put up with lower prices. It's a classic MS strategy
Out of the box may be one thing, but continuing use is something else.
Don't let anyone tell you macs have no malware, it's just not true. from Renepo the rootkit, to php worms that send out spam infecting message boards, to word macro viruses to the recent oompaloompa, they affect macs as badly as they can affect windows.
One thing that tells mac users they have fewer viruses is poor antivirus software. A friend of mine works in a mac shop and often people will come in with bizarre problems with their macs. No networking working, slow networking, random crashes, won't wake properly from sleep. Scanning with an antivirus package shows no viruses, yet a software reinstall fresh from scratch fixes many of those problems. What does that tell you caused the problems? Some malware running on the machine is what.
When mac software gets up to scratch in detecting the worms that are out there for macs, that is the only time people will get the truth about maleware infections. Sophos need to get off their ass and make something more worthwhile for macs and then we'll see who goes saying what about security.
Given the context, wouldn't it be Press F1 to continue
F1? geddit? oh well.
Not only that, but take a look at the URL for the new supposed press release. Change the number after it, they all refer to the same press release
7 0 is the same as http://www.openlinux.org/releasedetail.cfm?id=2137 1 is the same as http://www.openlinux.org/releasedetail.cfm?id=21 is the same as http://www.openlinux.org/releasedetail.cfm?id=5000 0
http://www.openlinux.org/releasedetail.cfm?id=213
Magnets powerful enough to bend aluminum and glass? that I would like to see.
I wonder if in an ideal world discoveries made by accident should be patentable?
The way I see it if you put effort and invest a lot of time and money into something, you can patent it and deserve a small amount of exclusivity to your invention in order to pay you back for all you invested. This of course does not include software patents.
But if something is discovered so easily by accident by someone, they have not invested any time or money. It has just come to them by luck, and I think then that should be general knowledge to be used for the good of humans in general, and not kept to one person who has a monopoly on their luck.
> This compares with 28% for Yahoo!;
I wouldn't have put any of the other search engines as much above 10%, perhaps in total. It's surprising google has 50% of the market.
This seems bogus.
If *BSD has the drivers, then they're licensed as a bsd licence. That means it's a day's work at the most to port them to Linux and re-release as GPL. That means Linux always has the same drivers as *BSD
Unless someone's been lazy
I got to play with this a couple weeks of go, and I think MS is doing alot better than expected. Earlier reviews of vista and longhorn before that rightly criticized it for some really bad issues but they're very cleaned up now, and given them more than six months more to complete it I think they can ship something great out of this. I don't say it will end up changing the dynamics of a desktop in competition with linux as they are now very distinct systems with their own niches, as vista is just more of the same, but it's more of the same made better.
You may joke about it but don't be surprised if it's the real thing. There are many government tracking sites noticing some big changes happening like this, preparing for larger disasters than the country can be prepared for with the general populace. chemtrail deposits are up, a recent upsurge in volcanic and earthquake activity, communications between the government and operatives in foreign countries are up, and the recent comet breakup could bring some catastrophic impacts. Aanyone see a pattern here? Check out Save Lives to read up on what one researcher has discovered.
It all fits. Keep your mind open.
This brought to you by the same people who INSIST global warming is man-made and it's time to kill our economy by placing unnecessary restrictions on it.
The world can take a lot more than we small humans are dishing out to it. The oceans alone can absorb 100 times more CO2 than we have ever pumped into the atmosphere without taking a blink. This is just more proof of nature's resilience. Don't bow to the environmentalist hype machine.
This is not "activist" pictures, it is documentary images I have seen on national TV.
I propose an addendum to godwin's law. If someone mentions "It's true, I saw it on national TV" then they lose and the debate is over. Oh and everyone gets to laugh at them for weeks.