And the majority of cleaners will clean around a computer, and not even move a keyboard to clean under never mind clean any part of it. I don't know why this is, but its either because they've been asked not to, its their policy or they're just too scared in case they break something.
So like you said a flat desk is much easier, and it will actually get done
Being lazy cant be botherd googling it either, but I think email spam got its name from the monty python sketch about the meat product I do have to disagree about no one liking Spam, been ages since we had any, but I seem to remember spam fritters were nice.
if search 2.0 is better more relevant results from collective intelligence, will search 3.0 actually just give you what you want rather than a selection that are close?
And do we really ahve to have 2.0 tagged onto every slight improvement, what happened to all the 1.1s and 1.5s?
and anyway weren't web directories (yahoo was like this I think) search 1.0 and the search engines with spiders are actually search 2.0 (pretty much all of them now) so really arent we on search 3.0 now?
I know that was a joke, but I bet if you did ask that you'd get lots of site with hints of where to look, probably from peoples blogs when they lost their car keys and where they found them.
Current search engines know everything yet understand nothing of what they know, hopefully these search 2.0 ones will begin to understand more of what they know.
I agree a qualification to work on databases or any other programming project should be a requierment, but would any computer science degree be enough or would a developer be expected to go to specific courses and get specific certification?
I'd go with the later, as I really have no real database programming training from my degree.
You could go asfar as to say that any part of a system you work on you should be certified to work on especially if they could potentially be open to abuse, and extra certificates always looks good
so Cirtificate of Safe Database Access Coding (CSDAC) Cirtificate of Safe Networking Coding (CSNC) Cirtificate of Safe Input Handling (CSIH)
but maybe its not just a problem for programmers using an api, cant the database's api be made more secure so SQL injection cant happen?
I agree it sounds like they've just missed off the validation stuff, and any programmer knows that an external input that they dont control could potentially be malformed and should be checked.
but forgive my ignorance but would an rfid tag actually contain enough information to do more than break a database? I'm still trying to figure out how it corrupts the database.
I'm guessing you can ger rfid readers that are also writers tag a infects reader, reader infects tag b, and so on, it could potentially become quiet widespread, but then I've already admitted ignorance so thats probably impossable right?
My spellings terrible as is my typing at times, integrated spell checking means I dont have to hope theres an extension written for the new version that'll check my spelling for me
Thats one of the most intelligent comments I've ever seen anyone make on global warming,
this however isn't:)
I say lets deliberatly cool the planet and cover england in a glacier, that way I can go snowboarding all year round without having to travel:) And we wont have to cope with these hot summers and no air con!
on a serious note, we dont know how much effect we're having on the environment but we do know that our actions are releasing more bad chemicals and carbon into the air than nature would release without us, so really we should cut down on anything that could be considered potentially harmful to the environment, even if your only justification is to keep our air clean enough for us to breath
I dont get it the articles say about corporate networks failing under the load.
lets do the math, the majority of broadband packages are below 10Mb I think the fastest available might be 24Mb now, or if your lucky and have a fiber connection you might have 100Mb
an average corporate network 100Mb connections, or a modern on 1Gb connections
so whos corporate network will struggle? I can see their internet connections maybe slowing down if everyones streaming the games, and they'll stop if the quality's rubbish because of the lack of bandwith. The only place that may have any trouble will be the BBC's own servers, They've handled a slashdotting without any trouble they can hadle the few hundred thousand football fans that are able (either through permission or setup) to use the service.
to tell the truth I hadnt considered it, but it only stops commenting on stories not access to the content, it may be time ot find a better antispam method
gotta admit it doesnt take a genius to figure out what my captchas say, but they're keeping the bots off for now
you cant get much simpler than a dictionary word followed by numbers, and its easily readable, it might aswell be plain text rather than an image, but its still keeping them from posting:)
biggest problem I see isnt blocking the spambots from posting, its stopping them from trying to post in the first place as they eat your bandwith
You can get hold of colour identifying apps, so a user can find out what a colour is by hovering their mouse over it.
I'm currently using "WhatColor" as I do alot of web design work where I'm told to use colour x from this image, when x is either a colour name I'm not familiar with, or one I cant recognise very well.
the itentify the colour of item x in this image is probably a good system as the item could change as well as the colour, but theres limited colour names available, how about we go with whats the hex code for the colour of item x in this image, lets see the bots crack that one:)
Not on a massive install base here, but we're using avast's corprate edition, seems to do pretty much all you need, it installs a client and lets the admins control it from a central location, it even installs the client remotely (I'm not sure if this is standard with other AV's as I have no experience) As far as I can tell it should be scalable up to a few hundred systems
Its not something I can can do (no 3g and no tv card), but that sounds pretty cool
I was impressed by standard downloadable movie clips so would expect the 3g ones to be much better especially if its your own recording you actually get what you want not what other people decide everyone wants.
So while everyones watching the world cup highlights on their 3g phones, I could be catching up on lost (which btw the uk channel 4 are offering all aired episodes for free) or something.
"If we accept the argument that the reason that NASA didn't really send men to the moon because the men would die, this does not mean that NASA couldn't send things to the moon. I haven't heard anyone say that the Surveyor missions were faked. So if we go with that, NASA landed mirrors on the moon to coincide with the Apollo missions. These could have been remotely adjusted from Earth."
Thats quite an interesting argument, I hadn't actually heared about the mirrors but they didn't land men I can see how a few mirrors could have been put there robotically. If they did land men its a lot easier to place mirrors though:)
Personally I'd like to see men back on the moon, even if its just to say "hey look we can still do it", but how would we know that its not fake? with the cost of getting men on the moon again they could probably finance alot of CGI time to fake it
Theres also the problem that smilies aren't always understood unless theyre replaced by an image like in im programs
also like you said the meaning also changes based on context too
a smiles always a way of saying I'm happy:-) but a wink;-) could be I'm flirting or I'm joking:-| could mean sarchasm or neutral feelings. then you go into the ones that have been made up for im only that actualy are pretty meaningless without images x-( I'm sick?
the only true way to get meaning across is fully in person so all expressions can be seen and heard, and even then people get misunderstood.
wouldnt it be funny if in a future everyone only commicated with email and im, so when they're actually in person they say the emoticons for example laughing at a joke El oh el, colon dash capital dee
I love that kind of story, I seem to remmeber something on tv a while back that they did an experiment with a transmitter.
They put some people in a house with one in the back yard, and told them that one week it will be on, and the other it will be off. The week that the occupants thought the transmitter was on some of them got sick and blamed it on the transmitter, but they were fine while it was off.
what they didn't tell them till after the experiment was that the transmitter was on when they thought it was off and off when they thought it was on.
Pretty much proving people can make themselves ill if they beleive theres something that will make them ill. obviously they couldnt conclusivly after a week of either say if the transmitter made any real difference to their health.
its more likely that its the fact your holding a warm object up against your face, when in use a phone uses more power from its battery making it heat up, couple that with your hand holding it and blocking air flow, you start to feal warm
Slashdot Mirror
eh? why are you still paying if you don't play and by the sounds of it don't like it?
And the majority of cleaners will clean around a computer, and not even move a keyboard to clean under never mind clean any part of it.
I don't know why this is, but its either because they've been asked not to, its their policy or they're just too scared in case they break something.
So like you said a flat desk is much easier, and it will actually get done
Being lazy cant be botherd googling it either, but I think email spam got its name from the monty python sketch about the meat product
I do have to disagree about no one liking Spam, been ages since we had any, but I seem to remember spam fritters were nice.
"greet the yellow light in the great blue room"
:'(
myspace user: but the yellow lights too bright it burns!
if search 2.0 is better more relevant results from collective intelligence, will search 3.0 actually just give you what you want rather than a selection that are close?
And do we really ahve to have 2.0 tagged onto every slight improvement, what happened to all the 1.1s and 1.5s?
and anyway weren't web directories (yahoo was like this I think) search 1.0 and the search engines with spiders are actually search 2.0 (pretty much all of them now) so really arent we on search 3.0 now?
I know that was a joke, but I bet if you did ask that you'd get lots of site with hints of where to look, probably from peoples blogs when they lost their car keys and where they found them.
Current search engines know everything yet understand nothing of what they know, hopefully these search 2.0 ones will begin to understand more of what they know.
I agree a qualification to work on databases or any other programming project should be a requierment, but would any computer science degree be enough or would a developer be expected to go to specific courses and get specific certification?
I'd go with the later, as I really have no real database programming training from my degree.
You could go asfar as to say that any part of a system you work on you should be certified to work on especially if they could potentially be open to abuse, and extra certificates always looks good
so Cirtificate of Safe Database Access Coding (CSDAC)
Cirtificate of Safe Networking Coding (CSNC)
Cirtificate of Safe Input Handling (CSIH)
but maybe its not just a problem for programmers using an api, cant the database's api be made more secure so SQL injection cant happen?
cheers, I've always had difficulty getting my head round that kind of flaw.
I agree it sounds like they've just missed off the validation stuff, and any programmer knows that an external input that they dont control could potentially be malformed and should be checked.
but forgive my ignorance but would an rfid tag actually contain enough information to do more than break a database? I'm still trying to figure out how it corrupts the database.
I'm guessing you can ger rfid readers that are also writers tag a infects reader, reader infects tag b, and so on, it could potentially become quiet widespread, but then I've already admitted ignorance so thats probably impossable right?
My spellings terrible as is my typing at times, integrated spell checking means I dont have to hope theres an extension written for the new version that'll check my spelling for me
She's right, doing things is expensive, you've just gave me another excuse to buy the game :)
Thats one of the most intelligent comments I've ever seen anyone make on global warming,
:)
:) And we wont have to cope with these hot summers and no air con!
this however isn't
I say lets deliberatly cool the planet and cover england in a glacier, that way I can go snowboarding all year round without having to travel
on a serious note, we dont know how much effect we're having on the environment but we do know that our actions are releasing more bad chemicals and carbon into the air than nature would release without us, so really we should cut down on anything that could be considered potentially harmful to the environment, even if your only justification is to keep our air clean enough for us to breath
Don't some humans fail the test too?
When they do the compertition don't they have an award for the most computerlike human aswell as most human computer?
I dont get it the articles say about corporate networks failing under the load.
lets do the math, the majority of broadband packages are below 10Mb I think the fastest available might be 24Mb now, or if your lucky and have a fiber connection you might have 100Mb
an average corporate network 100Mb connections, or a modern on 1Gb connections
so whos corporate network will struggle?
I can see their internet connections maybe slowing down if everyones streaming the games, and they'll stop if the quality's rubbish because of the lack of bandwith.
The only place that may have any trouble will be the BBC's own servers, They've handled a slashdotting without any trouble they can hadle the few hundred thousand football fans that are able (either through permission or setup) to use the service.
to tell the truth I hadnt considered it, but it only stops commenting on stories not access to the content, it may be time ot find a better antispam method
:)
I like the pun in my name there
gotta admit it doesnt take a genius to figure out what my captchas say, but they're keeping the bots off for now
:)
you cant get much simpler than a dictionary word followed by numbers, and its easily readable, it might aswell be plain text rather than an image, but its still keeping them from posting
biggest problem I see isnt blocking the spambots from posting, its stopping them from trying to post in the first place as they eat your bandwith
You can get hold of colour identifying apps, so a user can find out what a colour is by hovering their mouse over it.
:)
I'm currently using "WhatColor" as I do alot of web design work where I'm told to use colour x from this image, when x is either a colour name I'm not familiar with, or one I cant recognise very well.
the itentify the colour of item x in this image is probably a good system as the item could change as well as the colour, but theres limited colour names available, how about we go with whats the hex code for the colour of item x in this image, lets see the bots crack that one
Your case must be hot!
I must have a storm front in my case, I have red and blue lights
red at the front blue at the back, dont ask why thats just how it happened
Not on a massive install base here, but we're using avast's corprate edition, seems to do pretty much all you need, it installs a client and lets the admins control it from a central location, it even installs the client remotely (I'm not sure if this is standard with other AV's as I have no experience)
As far as I can tell it should be scalable up to a few hundred systems
Its not something I can can do (no 3g and no tv card), but that sounds pretty cool
I was impressed by standard downloadable movie clips so would expect the 3g ones to be much better especially if its your own recording you actually get what you want not what other people decide everyone wants.
So while everyones watching the world cup highlights on their 3g phones, I could be catching up on lost (which btw the uk channel 4 are offering all aired episodes for free) or something.
If I had the kit I'd definatly give this a shot
Thats quite an interesting argument, I hadn't actually heared about the mirrors but they didn't land men I can see how a few mirrors could have been put there robotically. If they did land men its a lot easier to place mirrors though :)
Personally I'd like to see men back on the moon, even if its just to say "hey look we can still do it", but how would we know that its not fake?
with the cost of getting men on the moon again they could probably finance alot of CGI time to fake it
Theres also the problem that smilies aren't always understood unless theyre replaced by an image like in im programs
:-) but a wink ;-) could be I'm flirting or I'm joking :-| could mean sarchasm or neutral feelings. then you go into the ones that have been made up for im only that actualy are pretty meaningless without images x-( I'm sick?
:)
also like you said the meaning also changes based on context too
a smiles always a way of saying I'm happy
the only true way to get meaning across is fully in person so all expressions can be seen and heard, and even then people get misunderstood.
wouldnt it be funny if in a future everyone only commicated with email and im, so when they're actually in person they say the emoticons
for example laughing at a joke
El oh el, colon dash capital dee
lets hope we never get to that stage
I love that kind of story, I seem to remmeber something on tv a while back that they did an experiment with a transmitter.
They put some people in a house with one in the back yard, and told them that one week it will be on, and the other it will be off.
The week that the occupants thought the transmitter was on some of them got sick and blamed it on the transmitter, but they were fine while it was off.
what they didn't tell them till after the experiment was that the transmitter was on when they thought it was off and off when they thought it was on.
Pretty much proving people can make themselves ill if they beleive theres something that will make them ill. obviously they couldnt conclusivly after a week of either say if the transmitter made any real difference to their health.
its more likely that its the fact your holding a warm object up against your face, when in use a phone uses more power from its battery making it heat up, couple that with your hand holding it and blocking air flow, you start to feal warm
We're using ultraVNC here,has a few nice addons, apeares to be windows onle binaries, they also have a load of links to other VNCs