Now, understand that banks will use your information any way they can in-house, manipulate numbers and deposit totals and anything else analytical so they can sell a credit card or a loan (its called cross-selling). But what they cannot do is give your information to other 3rd parties without your direct consent unless its under federal mandate and/or decree (read: court order and/or the Patriot act).
Now this is all fine and good, but when you do something substantial with your money and/or your financial outlook (say, investing or buying a home), you open up yourself to offers from 3rd parties. You sign a document saying so.
So what you're saying is that banks don't share your personal information with outsiders (and it's FUD to say so) unless you do any actual banking. That's really insightful.
Feel free to google "Bank Privacy" and read up on the hometown banks and the big boys: They all pretty much say the same thing. If they are under FDIC (for banks) or NCUA (for credit unions), they all fall under the same guidelines: Your information cannot be shared unless you say so.
And if you have to "say so" in order to get any banking done, the distinction is trivial.
Offshore data management services is simply a scarier way of saying Disaster Recovery. You want your bank to keep running even if the home office (or data center) explodes, right? Then don't start bitching about them backing up data in different places.
"Offshore" typically refers to another country. Why do they need to store my data in another country for backup purposes? Maybe they think the entire country will be destroyed? I think in that case my bank and I will have bigger problems.
Yes, it's a great job on his part, few of us here would be able to pull it off, but why should we get excited? What does it offer? Just because someone doesn't get excited about it doesn't mean he dimisses his work.
Did you read the post he was responding to? The post was quite dismissive. You're focusing on the one word "exicitng" and intentionally missing the point.
To me it needs to offer something unique to be something else than a hobby project.
Slashdot has entries on hobby projects all the time. The "exciting" part is subjective but that's no reason to crap on those sorts of projects.
It's awful to complain about what are obviously volunteer efforts, but in the spirit of the season I'm going to be Ebeneezer Scrooge. What's the point in mirroring just the first page of a web page, particularly when the first page is just fluff?
A click on the "about" button on any of these mirrors is a pretty good test of their usefulness, or lack thereof: you're not doing anybody any good if all the links go back to the slashdotted site. Anybody got a mirror which passes that simple test?
While this is worst case scenario - man it would definitly be throwing salt on the wound.
No, the worst case scenario would be inadvertantly giving up financial information to a relative or acquantance who has no business receiving it. There are plenty of very ugly disputes over estates, ISPs with a total lack of integrity could do a lot of damage in some of those situations.
Have a clear written policy and stick to it. Make sure the user can understand what will be done with their data if they die. That is the sum total of what can be done.
So you knew the flaws of your reasoning before you posted? Thats... strange.
What flaws?
Nothing I stated was untrue. The response implied a line of argument that I never intended to make. Knocking over a strawman... so hard! So impressive!
Linux _desperately_ needs to have a working, easy to use RAD environment. Something as simple, or simpler than Visual Basic. I want to be able to create a simple Linux application by dragging and dropping some form elements onto a page and double clicking on a button and typing a few lines of simple code and have it all working
The sad part is, 99.9% of the Linux development community holds you in the utmost contempt, or at the very best, doesn't understand your needs.
You do realize that small changes in the Earth's temperature (and that is all we have experienced so far, small changes) are completely normal and happen all the time.
There is an awful lot going on right now (sunburned penguins, melting of permafrost we built on over a hundred years ago, etc.) which hasn't happened before in recorded history. These things probably happened before, but they aren't happening all the time. That's just silly.
Does anyone think that the Sci Fi channel will ever get actual decent Sci Fi authors to do their scripts and come up with series for them?
That's not particularly important to making a good film, honestly, whether it's science fiction or some other genre. They need really good directors. I can think of a few films that had really good science fiction authors but still didn't accomplish much. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
The director controls almost everything during the making of a film, in any genre. The writer just gives a little fuel, the director isn't obligated to follow the screenplay. There are instances where the author and director work very closely together, like 2001, and the result can be pretty good. It's not a guarantee, though.
One thing this incident brought to mind even before I read your comment: Ursula LeGuin bitching in her (awful) Norton Science Fiction anthology that Blade Runner "travestied" the book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Blade Runner, one of the widely-recognized classics of adult science fiction.
Philip Dick, unlike LeGuin, was pretty graceful about the fact that the film was very different than his book, and supposedly liked the movie.
Yeah I know about that, and I know I can methodically reorganize my Start menu too, but the point is that this type of stuff interrupts the creative flow.
Clicking that check box "interrupts the creative flow?" You only have to do it once. As for the Start menu, I'm not sure how obsessive-compulsive you'd have to be to spend a lot of time rearranging THAT.
I'd love to see an example of this. In my experience, the community of Mac users has been a great resource...
It wasn't really the Mac community I really had in mind when I responded to your comment, although I'm sure it happens there sometimes. It's a much larger problem when people take Linux out for a spin and start asking questions. Particularly when they show the unmitigated gall to relate their questions to their user experience in Windows or MacOS. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.
It's less likely a user would abandon their Mac just because the barrier to entry is higher: they've already spent at least a thousand bucks on the thing. But yes, the users are probably nicer, too.
I know I'm rambling, but hey - since we're sharing, do you want to know what annoys the hell out of me with Windows these days? The taskbar. If you have an Office app open with multiple documents, each document gets a tile in the taskbar - even though the documents are in daughter windows
Right click on the taskbar. Click properties. Check the box next to "Group similar taskbar buttons." Click OK.
This feature definitely isn't perfect, since you don't have any control over how crowded the taskbar gets before it starts grouping things together. But it seems to be what you want.
Choosing not to use a type of computer because you don't like the attitude of some of its users is pretty stupid.
Not if you're accustomed to getting your support from user communities online, rather than calling support. It would take an awful lot of zealots to turn me off of an operating system, but I've certainly seen this phenomenon in action. Ask the "wrong" question and everyone piles on with criticism, the question goes unanswered, and the user who is evaluating some new technology says "to hell with it."
This [lowendmac.com] machine is four years old. It can be had for about $800. I'd take one in a minute for running Mac OS X. But a new iBook G4 is $100 more. The used Mac market is crazy because the machines are so useful.
Write a simple program with 10 holes in it, point them out, and boom you win.
We are talking about finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them aren't we? I'd get extra credit for finding and exploiting holes the class requirements.
More likely your prof would say "that's very funny," and then flunk you. Tactics like this aren't unheard of, particularly from desparate students who are behind, and they usually end badly.
I have my main address, which only 'real people' know, friends and family. It never gets any spam because it's totally secret.
Then for everything else I assign a throw away address on one of my domains, the mail on these gets checked only when I'm expecting something (like a signup confirmation/verification etc).
You must not be involved in business or dealing with the public. That's nice. Here on planet "not living in our parents' basement," we need to let people know what our email address is and have that email address be there for a while.
Any respectable geek shouldn't be getting spam in the first place, let alone be stupid enough to click the unsubscribe links.
Oh, and by the way, I love the way NX causes further confusion regarding the question of what's a client and what's a server. In the case of FreeNX: You use nxclient to connect to an ssh server, where nxserver is the login shell of the user "nx" (as which you authenticate yourself first). nxserver starts the servers it needs, and the client applications connect to the X server on the client through the servers started by nxserver, which are clients to the nxproxy on the client:).
So, does it run completely from cd or not? If it really needs to install stuff to the harddisk it could form a problem in work environments where users might not have write access to the harddisk.
You can't run much of anything without write access to the harddisk. Maybe you mean administrative access to the machine? Not even the normal Cygwin installation requires that.
That said, I don't know anything about this livecd.
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So what you're saying is that banks don't share your personal information with outsiders (and it's FUD to say so) unless you do any actual banking. That's really insightful.
And if you have to "say so" in order to get any banking done, the distinction is trivial.
"Offshore" typically refers to another country. Why do they need to store my data in another country for backup purposes? Maybe they think the entire country will be destroyed? I think in that case my bank and I will have bigger problems.
For starters, they could kick Yoda out.
We could be kind and use the word "sheltered," or perhaps "unimaginative."
Check out the site they recommend you use to opt out of receiving credit reports, https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
To protect your privacy, you have to give them your social security number, in addition to your name, address, and date of birth. Oh the irony.
Did you read the post he was responding to? The post was quite dismissive. You're focusing on the one word "exicitng" and intentionally missing the point.
Slashdot has entries on hobby projects all the time. The "exciting" part is subjective but that's no reason to crap on those sorts of projects.
You're wrong.
It's awful to complain about what are obviously volunteer efforts, but in the spirit of the season I'm going to be Ebeneezer Scrooge. What's the point in mirroring just the first page of a web page, particularly when the first page is just fluff?
A click on the "about" button on any of these mirrors is a pretty good test of their usefulness, or lack thereof: you're not doing anybody any good if all the links go back to the slashdotted site. Anybody got a mirror which passes that simple test?
No, the worst case scenario would be inadvertantly giving up financial information to a relative or acquantance who has no business receiving it. There are plenty of very ugly disputes over estates, ISPs with a total lack of integrity could do a lot of damage in some of those situations.
Have a clear written policy and stick to it. Make sure the user can understand what will be done with their data if they die. That is the sum total of what can be done.
Sucker. The word is sucker. And thanks to you and your kind, identity theft is a lot easier and more profitable than it would otherwise be.
Not after the bored kids get their hands on a few of these. For 12 year old boys these things probably represent hours of entertainment.
What flaws?
Nothing I stated was untrue. The response implied a line of argument that I never intended to make. Knocking over a strawman... so hard! So impressive!
No. It doesn't.
The sad part is, 99.9% of the Linux development community holds you in the utmost contempt, or at the very best, doesn't understand your needs.
Thanks for spending three paragraphs telling me nothing I didn't already know. 3 slashdot
What, it's not the president's job to represent the minority that agrees with him?
There is an awful lot going on right now (sunburned penguins, melting of permafrost we built on over a hundred years ago, etc.) which hasn't happened before in recorded history. These things probably happened before, but they aren't happening all the time. That's just silly.
That's not particularly important to making a good film, honestly, whether it's science fiction or some other genre. They need really good directors. I can think of a few films that had really good science fiction authors but still didn't accomplish much. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
The director controls almost everything during the making of a film, in any genre. The writer just gives a little fuel, the director isn't obligated to follow the screenplay. There are instances where the author and director work very closely together, like 2001, and the result can be pretty good. It's not a guarantee, though.
One thing this incident brought to mind even before I read your comment: Ursula LeGuin bitching in her (awful) Norton Science Fiction anthology that Blade Runner "travestied" the book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Blade Runner, one of the widely-recognized classics of adult science fiction.
Philip Dick, unlike LeGuin, was pretty graceful about the fact that the film was very different than his book, and supposedly liked the movie.
Clicking that check box "interrupts the creative flow?" You only have to do it once. As for the Start menu, I'm not sure how obsessive-compulsive you'd have to be to spend a lot of time rearranging THAT.
It wasn't really the Mac community I really had in mind when I responded to your comment, although I'm sure it happens there sometimes. It's a much larger problem when people take Linux out for a spin and start asking questions. Particularly when they show the unmitigated gall to relate their questions to their user experience in Windows or MacOS. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.
It's less likely a user would abandon their Mac just because the barrier to entry is higher: they've already spent at least a thousand bucks on the thing. But yes, the users are probably nicer, too.
Right click on the taskbar. Click properties. Check the box next to "Group similar taskbar buttons." Click OK.
This feature definitely isn't perfect, since you don't have any control over how crowded the taskbar gets before it starts grouping things together. But it seems to be what you want.
Not if you're accustomed to getting your support from user communities online, rather than calling support. It would take an awful lot of zealots to turn me off of an operating system, but I've certainly seen this phenomenon in action. Ask the "wrong" question and everyone piles on with criticism, the question goes unanswered, and the user who is evaluating some new technology says "to hell with it."
Or because the buyers are so dumb.
More likely your prof would say "that's very funny," and then flunk you. Tactics like this aren't unheard of, particularly from desparate students who are behind, and they usually end badly.
You must not be involved in business or dealing with the public. That's nice. Here on planet "not living in our parents' basement," we need to let people know what our email address is and have that email address be there for a while.
The second part of that might actually be true.
Oh, and by the way, I love the way NX causes further confusion regarding the question of what's a client and what's a server. In the case of FreeNX: You use nxclient to connect to an ssh server, where nxserver is the login shell of the user "nx" (as which you authenticate yourself first). nxserver starts the servers it needs, and the client applications connect to the X server on the client through the servers started by nxserver, which are clients to the nxproxy on the client :).
You have got a lot of free time.
You can't run much of anything without write access to the harddisk. Maybe you mean administrative access to the machine? Not even the normal Cygwin installation requires that.
That said, I don't know anything about this livecd.
And wait until someone else comes around and fucks the article up again.
Anything remotely interesting is controversial to someone.