Who said anything about a phone? I said iPod.
The parent (now grandparent) comment was talking about those who want the phone without the phone features. I was satirically illustrating that such a thing is called an iPod.
The same report, in fact, also says: In the first 6 months, Red Hat fixed 119 of the 129 that had been publicly disclosed at release time, but new disclosures during the period meant that 65 issues were widely disclosed, but unpatched at the end of the first 6 months. 12 of the unfixed issues were High severity and 7 were Medium severity according to NVD ratings.
and During the first 6 months, Ubuntu fixed 145 vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. 47 of those fixed were rated High severity in the NVD.
At the end of the 6 month period, there were at least5 20 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS did not yet have a patch from Ubuntu. and During the first 6 months, Apple fixed a total of 60 vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X v10.4, of which 18 were rated High severity in the NVD.
At the end of the 6 month period, Mac OS X v10.4 still had 16 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that did not yet have a patch from Apple, 3 of them rated High severity.
But of course we don't care about all that here on/.
Conversations with your wife _at your home_ exhibit what's called a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Conversations with your wife on the bus or at the park do not. You could have an expectation of privacy, but not a very reasonable one at that.
It's not the software's problem, I'm a Comcast customer living in WA. Everybody around here complains about the box (including those making the MS software themselves) and nobody is expecting things to get better with the switch because most of the problems are with the firmware of the box, not the software.
That's why your complaints about the box with the Guideworks software are exactly my complaints about the box with the MS software, same locking up, same queuing up of the button presses, same everything.
But my mp3-enabled car stereo does not play AAC and probably won't for a long time. I'll be buying those DRM free AAC files, converting them to mp3 and then probably deleting the AAC altogether since I can reasonably expect anything that plays AAC to play mp3 but not vice versa.
Thank You!
Worse than creating the worm is hacking a triple DES 128-bit encryption scheme by banging on a keyboard while masturbating for 30 seconds. I'm actually surprised they bothered getting a real encryption algorithm name.
the synthetic compound they created and which has a similar molecular structure as morphine. Still, more tests need to be done before this natural drug can replace morphine
just yet... I applaud the car and the idea and technology behind it. But the article seems to me intentionally misleading. It compares the car to Ferrari Enzos and Porsche Carrera GTs and compares the prices as if the cars are equal, which they are absolutely not. They just cite the 0-60mph time, and while that achievement is impressive, 0-60mph times have been (and still are being) used to confuse consumers for so long. Regular car manufacturers would gear their cars to hit 60 in 2nd no matter how optimal or suboptimal that is just to get a good 0-60mph. And this is in play here again with a car that can hit 60 in 3 seconds but with a maximum speed of 130mph. Granted, most people never even hit a 100mph, but still for a fair comparison you should also factor in that both the Carrera GT and the Enzo will top out above 200mph. And for something that's more comparable costwise check the C6 corvette Z06 which will not only turn out close 0-60 times (4 seconds) but also outrun the little roadster up to 190mph.
Morale? Not exactly the most objective article I've seen.
Yeah, except that if you're familiar with quantum mechanics you'll have figured out we learned all we could from the double slit experiment more than 50 years ago and have moved on to other experiments.
But you do need a *proper* *scientific* experiment to begin with for ESP.
Since when do we consider groundless speculation interesting?
I love slashdot, seriously, but it's just getting too much to take whenever the article is about MS. Can't we control our fanboyism and be just a little bit more constructive with our comments?
Did my fair share of tech support to a European Union delegation.
Incident 1: User X complains about his computer "not wanting to shutdown". Of course, user was selecting restart from the nice windows combobox. Incident 2: User Y says his computer won't start. I go and check the computer and everything is fine, all the LEDs are on and the hdd is churning away. Turns out the user dialled down the brightness to zero on his monitor. That was back when they had the analog controls for brightness on them monitors.
Nope, you paid MS for the value you saw in the binaries. Not in expectation of better future versions. When any software vendor "improve" their code or come up with new version they usually charge you for the new version, maybe with a customer appreciation discount for those who shelled out the cash for the older one.
In the same spirit your car should go to someone else when you can't fix/take care of it. Maybe even your house if you're not keeping it clean enough. I'm sure one of the homeless can promise to keep it clean if you "let it go" to them.
If Mr. anonymous coward really thinks hthe world is deprived of his ingenious innovations why doesn't he start his own codebase instead of asking for it to be handed to him on a silver plate?
This new technique appears to be applicable to simultaneously deducing the locations and motions of atoms in solids (as opposed to gases/plasmas).
Doesn't this conflict with Quantum mechanics?
This is actually what might gain popularity. 157mpg obtained with clever design for lightweightness and aerodynamics. At least it can fill a gap and extend the "mileage" (no pun) we can get out of Petrol till Hydrogen power or alternatives take off.
Everybody does stupid things, but to be reminded about them every single day must be hell.
It doesn't have to be. It's just about your attitude towards them. Like you said, everybody does stupid things. You can just as well look back, laugh at them, and enjoy some self sarcasm
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Get rid of all of these hard drives.
And not be able to do anything whatsoever with your computer when you're away from a cable?
Who said anything about a phone? I said iPod.
The parent (now grandparent) comment was talking about those who want the phone without the phone features. I was satirically illustrating that such a thing is called an iPod.
I thought one could purchase an unlocked iPod from the Apple stores, instead of going to AT&T?
The same report, in fact, also says: /.
In the first 6 months, Red Hat fixed 119 of the 129 that had been publicly disclosed at release time, but new disclosures during the period meant that 65 issues were widely disclosed, but unpatched at the end of the first 6 months. 12 of the unfixed issues were High severity and 7 were Medium severity according to NVD ratings.
and
During the first 6 months, Ubuntu fixed 145 vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. 47 of those fixed were rated High severity in the NVD. At the end of the 6 month period, there were at least5 20 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS did not yet have a patch from Ubuntu.
and
During the first 6 months, Apple fixed a total of 60 vulnerabilities affecting Mac OS X v10.4, of which 18 were rated High severity in the NVD. At the end of the 6 month period, Mac OS X v10.4 still had 16 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that did not yet have a patch from Apple, 3 of them rated High severity.
But of course we don't care about all that here on
Conversations with your wife _at your home_ exhibit what's called a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Conversations with your wife on the bus or at the park do not. You could have an expectation of privacy, but not a very reasonable one at that.
No, somebody should find the US Patent Office's RSS feed. Maybe we can make it post to /.'s front page automatically too.
It's not the software's problem, I'm a Comcast customer living in WA. Everybody around here complains about the box (including those making the MS software themselves) and nobody is expecting things to get better with the switch because most of the problems are with the firmware of the box, not the software.
That's why your complaints about the box with the Guideworks software are exactly my complaints about the box with the MS software, same locking up, same queuing up of the button presses, same everything.
How about (5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB C9 + 1)?
Without me, my 128-bit integer is useless. Without my 128-bit integer I am useless.
I think your 128 bit integer is useless with or without you.
But my mp3-enabled car stereo does not play AAC and probably won't for a long time.
I'll be buying those DRM free AAC files, converting them to mp3 and then probably deleting the AAC altogether since I can reasonably expect anything that plays AAC to play mp3 but not vice versa.
Because the first (barely) intelligent thief who inserts a bootable CD into your laptop and formats it will void your "insurance".
Thank You!
Worse than creating the worm is hacking a triple DES 128-bit encryption scheme by banging on a keyboard while masturbating for 30 seconds. I'm actually surprised they bothered getting a real encryption algorithm name.
the synthetic compound they created and which has a similar molecular structure as morphine. Still, more tests need to be done before this natural drug can replace morphine
Talk about self contradiction...
just yet...
I applaud the car and the idea and technology behind it.
But the article seems to me intentionally misleading. It compares the car to Ferrari Enzos and Porsche Carrera GTs and compares the prices as if the cars are equal, which they are absolutely not.
They just cite the 0-60mph time, and while that achievement is impressive, 0-60mph times have been (and still are being) used to confuse consumers for so long. Regular car manufacturers would gear their cars to hit 60 in 2nd no matter how optimal or suboptimal that is just to get a good 0-60mph. And this is in play here again with a car that can hit 60 in 3 seconds but with a maximum speed of 130mph. Granted, most people never even hit a 100mph, but still for a fair comparison you should also factor in that both the Carrera GT and the Enzo will top out above 200mph.
And for something that's more comparable costwise check the C6 corvette Z06 which will not only turn out close 0-60 times (4 seconds) but also outrun the little roadster up to 190mph.
Morale? Not exactly the most objective article I've seen.
Yeah, except that if you're familiar with quantum mechanics you'll have figured out we learned all we could from the double slit experiment more than 50 years ago and have moved on to other experiments. But you do need a *proper* *scientific* experiment to begin with for ESP.
Since when do we consider groundless speculation interesting?
I love slashdot, seriously, but it's just getting too much to take whenever the article is about MS. Can't we control our fanboyism and be just a little bit more constructive with our comments?
Did my fair share of tech support to a European Union delegation.
Incident 1: User X complains about his computer "not wanting to shutdown". Of course, user was selecting restart from the nice windows combobox.
Incident 2: User Y says his computer won't start. I go and check the computer and everything is fine, all the LEDs are on and the hdd is churning away. Turns out the user dialled down the brightness to zero on his monitor. That was back when they had the analog controls for brightness on them monitors.
Yeah it does. As well as harm your credit score which it does too.
for software update notifications. Really mind boggling technology isn't it?
Oh wait, it's not 1996....
Nope, you paid MS for the value you saw in the binaries. Not in expectation of better future versions. When any software vendor "improve" their code or come up with new version they usually charge you for the new version, maybe with a customer appreciation discount for those who shelled out the cash for the older one. In the same spirit your car should go to someone else when you can't fix/take care of it. Maybe even your house if you're not keeping it clean enough. I'm sure one of the homeless can promise to keep it clean if you "let it go" to them. If Mr. anonymous coward really thinks hthe world is deprived of his ingenious innovations why doesn't he start his own codebase instead of asking for it to be handed to him on a silver plate?
hmmm and in what name, exactly, should MS give you the source code they paid millions for?
This new technique appears to be applicable to simultaneously deducing the locations and motions of atoms in solids (as opposed to gases/plasmas).
Doesn't this conflict with Quantum mechanics?
This is actually what might gain popularity. 157mpg obtained with clever design for lightweightness and aerodynamics. At least it can fill a gap and extend the "mileage" (no pun) we can get out of Petrol till Hydrogen power or alternatives take off.
of game programmers as illustrated by the well known example of Mr. John Carmack.
Everybody does stupid things, but to be reminded about them every single day must be hell.
It doesn't have to be. It's just about your attitude towards them. Like you said, everybody does stupid things. You can just as well look back, laugh at them, and enjoy some self sarcasm