Actually, she didn't have the savvy to flush her cache.
Maybe she did, maybe she didn't. But, from the article :
Seymour, now employed by the U.S. Department of Defense, testified how digital investigators can trace activity on a computer, including information the user has deleted.
Maybe Seymour felt the need to explain how she could trace deleted files because the accused had indeed deleted the files. She might not have had the savvy to degauss the drive though (how many people do?)
Actually, she'd have done much better not to have killed anyone in the first place.
This is coming from a bank. They probably spent ridiculous amounts of money verifying linux is secure. They probably take microsofts word for it.
Also, from TFA:
"Some will be surprised to learn that our Windows environment has a lower total cost of ownership than our current Linux environment."
HSBC claims it will achieve cost savings by reducing the number of Linux distributions it uses
So basically, they're saying it costs more to manage several different distributions of Linux than a single "distribution" of Windows... Well d'uhh. How about migrating all their Linux boxes to one distro, and then telling us it's harder to manage.
Since the console still does not have easy availability everywhere for those that want one (Amazon had them in stock for several days then sold out again), how does anyone know if people want them or not?
The article is about the UK launch, and how it's not yet sold out.
Where are the geeks camping outside Virgin Megastore, poised expectantly, fire-axes in hand, waiting for the moment the clock strikes midnight on 23 March? There is no crowd, there are no streamers. You can walk into a Blockbuster today and order one for launch.
Not only the UK PS3 launch doesn't have the same craziness as it had in the US, and the pre-orders are not even sold out yet. For a console launch, that's pretty "unwanted".
I agree. This is the reason you see more people buying console games. Resale value. You can't resell PC games, so people tend to buy less of them. If you could just bring in your old PC games to the store, and trade them in for new ones, I think a lot more people would be buying them.
I bought used PC games on at least 3 occasions. I bought used copies of "Hitman 2: Silent Assassin" and "SimCity 4" at a 'round the corner game store (real brick&mortar, not black or grey market), as well as a used copy of "Galactic Civilization II: Dread Lords" at EB-Games. I also had no problem registering the games with the serial numbers, so either the previous owners didn't bother to register, or they somehow un-registered.
While it's not as common as for console games, it is possible to buy a used PC games, so I guess it is possible so resell PC games.
The thing to fix is, getting rid of the DST change completely
Or at the very least, the acronym DST should change. Since the so-called "standard" time lasts from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March which is 19 weeks, and the "daylight saving time" lasts the remaining 34 weeks, the one which lasts longer (summer time) should be called "standard time", while the winter time, opposite of DST, should really be called "daylight wasting time".
Really, if we're so save daylight, why not save it all year long? Otherwise, we're just wasting it.
It's admirable they are moving to open software, but their priority should be requiring the use of standards compiling software in all government areas.
Ubuntu uses GCC, which is a pretty standard compiler to me...
I guess you missed the part about them not being safety related. One is for the seat heater, the other the rear door lock, and neither problem is present in my car. Nice try, better luck next time!
And when your seat heater malfunctions and the seat catches fire, and then you can't leave the car because the rear door lock won't open... what will you do then?
They understand how to navigate the OS. Basically, the interface is a known to them. Windows continues to dominate the market from past domination. Plus the fact that most any computer you can buy comes with the latest version of Windows. And because most users are familiar with their older products, they stick with what they know.
Next time they buy a new computer and are faced with Vista with the bells and whistles enabled, and have to use Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, they'll prove that they can adapt to a new interface, and can use software that they are not familiar with, as well as navigate a new OS.
You parents are not less able to use a modern Linux distro than they are able to use Vista. Yet, they will eventually adapt to Vista.
Well, while native support might be nice, you dont actually need it. 6to4 works nicely.
What I wonder though is, since there are so damn many IPv6 addresses available, and it's mostly based on the MAC address of the machine, getting a static IP should be pretty easy. Does 6to4 manage to let you connect to a computer with a static IPv6 address even if the IPv4 address given by the ISP is dynamic?
But if, for example, I'm a software engineer that worked on PageRank at Google, I understand not re-implementing PageRank at my new workplace, but why should I stop working in search engine technology? Why should I restart from (almost) scratch, doing something I'm not expert in, having probably lesser opportunities and wages, etc.?
I'm a software engineer, and I've seen plenty of those clauses. While they might be enforceable, I don't see how them as overly restrictive. Unless you are qualified to do only a single type of software (doing PageRank stuff as per your example), there's nothing that keeps you from working at another company, doing another type of software. Software engineering isn't about PageRank.
In fact I can't understand how can US workers comply and go away with such a draconian practice like a "non compete" clause. What do they think you are supposed to do for a year? Washing cars?
If, after leaving your company, you are totally unable to find a software engineering job that isn't a direct competitor to your former employer, then you are not a software engineer, you are a PageRank specialist that can't adapt and that doesn't have a broad enough skill set. There aren't tons of companies in need of a PageRank specialist, but thousands of them who need a real software engineer.
How about we just stop allowing anchor babies - have a child in the US? At least one parent must be a citizen or else he's not a US citizen. Since most of those people are Mexican, I looked it up - if your parents are Mexican, so are you. Dunoo about Honduras.
And what about all of the other countries in the world? There'd need to be agreements with all of them. If two parents from China have a baby in the US, since he was not born in China, then the Chinese government isn't required to give him Chinese citizenship (s/China//). So if the baby is not American, he'd have no nationality at all.
what do you know of Microsoft's development practices - beyond "they write crappy bloated software" - I'm talking about what a software engineer would see and deal with daily? What methodologies do they use?
This is something I definitely wouldn't want to deal with.
Its more likely the communists... both craft reported a red shift throughout the galaxy...
I know I shouldn't reply to this but... it can't be. A red shift means acceleration (we see a red shift in galaxies because they accelerate away from us). However, the Pioneers are slowing down, so we should see a blue shift (purple shift?)
Maybe you can explain why climate prediction is any easier long range then short and how anyone would know whether long range climate predictions were worth a shit?
Because in the long term, we predict "climate", while in the short term, we predict "weather". It's totally different.
See, I have no idea of what's the weather gonna be like next week. It could be warmer, it could be colder. Both are possible, high variations are possible (and common) in a short span of time. Now, let's look at three months in the future, which is early June. Heck, let's even pick a date, the 5th of June. I still have no idea what the weather will be on June 5th, it could be sunny, it could be raining. But I'm pretty damn sure it's gonna be warmer than it is today. That's how climate works.
I know. I regularly predict stock prices fifty years out and haven't been wrong yet [...] Trouble is, I don't have a friggin' clue whether my predictions are right but they sure are easy to make.
Predicting for the long term, like 50 years worth of stock price, is quite feasible if you study trends. Stock prices are very volatile in the short run (and we've seen that in the past couple of days), but there's a reason every good financial advisor will tell you to invest in the long term. While day-to-day, stocks can go from +100% to -50% a year, a 30 year average will almost always net you +8% a year. So yes, predicting stock price (not a single stock price, but the stock market) is quite easy fifty years out.
There's currently an election in Québec. The Bloc (federal) and the PQ (provincial) share the same electoral funds and they don't have enough for two elections the same year.
I really doubt the Bloc and the PQ share the same funds, and I suspect that would go against some electoral law about funding. Do you have a reference of some sort?
In that case, are the terrorists stupid? I thought the US was the Great Satan, with Great Britain as our sniveling lackey and Israel as the evil demon sitting on our shoulder. Guess they didn't get the memo (or are REALLY bad with maps).
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the US import most of its oil from Canada. Hitting Canada would have a dramatic effect on the US.
It is easy to understand why Nintendo wants Wii to get Internet access. But they really need to put in an interlock so parents can have the option to disable it. For a Wii in the living room it would be great, for a unit intended to be installed in a pre-teen's bedroom it would be a dealbreaker for me if not for the fact I'm a geek and could just kill access at the router.
You do know that you can password protect the Wii's Internet access, right? Killing the connection at the router is not a good measure, since your neighbor might have an open router.
Other than getting a full list of user names on my system, what does the/etc/passwd file contain that I don't want others to know? It's not like passwords are stored in there or anything...
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Maybe she did, maybe she didn't. But, from the article :
Maybe Seymour felt the need to explain how she could trace deleted files because the accused had indeed deleted the files. She might not have had the savvy to degauss the drive though (how many people do?)
Well said.
Also, from TFA :
So basically, they're saying it costs more to manage several different distributions of Linux than a single "distribution" of Windows... Well d'uhh. How about migrating all their Linux boxes to one distro, and then telling us it's harder to manage.
The article is about the UK launch, and how it's not yet sold out.
Not only the UK PS3 launch doesn't have the same craziness as it had in the US, and the pre-orders are not even sold out yet. For a console launch, that's pretty "unwanted".
Whoever communicates in 1337-5p34k is more script-kiddie than geek.
Microsoft sells Windows, which competes directly with OS-X, which is tied to Macs.
I bought used PC games on at least 3 occasions. I bought used copies of "Hitman 2: Silent Assassin" and "SimCity 4" at a 'round the corner game store (real brick&mortar, not black or grey market), as well as a used copy of "Galactic Civilization II: Dread Lords" at EB-Games. I also had no problem registering the games with the serial numbers, so either the previous owners didn't bother to register, or they somehow un-registered.
While it's not as common as for console games, it is possible to buy a used PC games, so I guess it is possible so resell PC games.
Or at the very least, the acronym DST should change. Since the so-called "standard" time lasts from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March which is 19 weeks, and the "daylight saving time" lasts the remaining 34 weeks, the one which lasts longer (summer time) should be called "standard time", while the winter time, opposite of DST, should really be called "daylight wasting time".
Really, if we're so save daylight, why not save it all year long? Otherwise, we're just wasting it.
Ubuntu uses GCC, which is a pretty standard compiler to me...
And when your seat heater malfunctions and the seat catches fire, and then you can't leave the car because the rear door lock won't open... what will you do then?
Next time they buy a new computer and are faced with Vista with the bells and whistles enabled, and have to use Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, they'll prove that they can adapt to a new interface, and can use software that they are not familiar with, as well as navigate a new OS.
You parents are not less able to use a modern Linux distro than they are able to use Vista. Yet, they will eventually adapt to Vista.
What I wonder though is, since there are so damn many IPv6 addresses available, and it's mostly based on the MAC address of the machine, getting a static IP should be pretty easy. Does 6to4 manage to let you connect to a computer with a static IPv6 address even if the IPv4 address given by the ISP is dynamic?
Someone did, and it's not my blog.
I'm a software engineer, and I've seen plenty of those clauses. While they might be enforceable, I don't see how them as overly restrictive. Unless you are qualified to do only a single type of software (doing PageRank stuff as per your example), there's nothing that keeps you from working at another company, doing another type of software. Software engineering isn't about PageRank.
If, after leaving your company, you are totally unable to find a software engineering job that isn't a direct competitor to your former employer, then you are not a software engineer, you are a PageRank specialist that can't adapt and that doesn't have a broad enough skill set. There aren't tons of companies in need of a PageRank specialist, but thousands of them who need a real software engineer.
And what about all of the other countries in the world? There'd need to be agreements with all of them. If two parents from China have a baby in the US, since he was not born in China, then the Chinese government isn't required to give him Chinese citizenship (s/China//). So if the baby is not American, he'd have no nationality at all.
This is something I definitely wouldn't want to deal with.
I know I shouldn't reply to this but... it can't be. A red shift means acceleration (we see a red shift in galaxies because they accelerate away from us). However, the Pioneers are slowing down, so we should see a blue shift (purple shift?)
Because in the long term, we predict "climate", while in the short term, we predict "weather". It's totally different.
See, I have no idea of what's the weather gonna be like next week. It could be warmer, it could be colder. Both are possible, high variations are possible (and common) in a short span of time. Now, let's look at three months in the future, which is early June. Heck, let's even pick a date, the 5th of June. I still have no idea what the weather will be on June 5th, it could be sunny, it could be raining. But I'm pretty damn sure it's gonna be warmer than it is today. That's how climate works.
Predicting for the long term, like 50 years worth of stock price, is quite feasible if you study trends. Stock prices are very volatile in the short run (and we've seen that in the past couple of days), but there's a reason every good financial advisor will tell you to invest in the long term. While day-to-day, stocks can go from +100% to -50% a year, a 30 year average will almost always net you +8% a year. So yes, predicting stock price (not a single stock price, but the stock market) is quite easy fifty years out.
I really doubt the Bloc and the PQ share the same funds, and I suspect that would go against some electoral law about funding. Do you have a reference of some sort?
True. Toronto's incident was only one threat. "Farther west" also seems to be in their crosshair.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the US import most of its oil from Canada. Hitting Canada would have a dramatic effect on the US.
Just like the public has already forgotten about the DS when everybody went out to buy PSPs and watch UMDs
You do know that you can password protect the Wii's Internet access, right? Killing the connection at the router is not a good measure, since your neighbor might have an open router.
I know all that, which is why I said that I don't know why I would fear exposing my /etc/passwd file.
Because I miss my good old days of running Windows with IE?
Other than getting a full list of user names on my system, what does the /etc/passwd file contain that I don't want others to know? It's not like passwords are stored in there or anything...
How the hell are you using Google to not find any match for "declarative judgement"???