its like global warming vs the oil industry, it will take numerous studies over decades until the "truth" will finally come out
And if the global warming is anything to go by, the "truth" might never come out.
As is rooting for companies with patents in general just because of a broken patent system.
People seem to be pre-occupied with prejudices about the patent system that they hardly ever look at the case in question before they decide who should win.
The tracking was already possible long time ago. I know it was at least with GSM networks. At some point in time one was able to get information about their stolen mobile phone's position from the Telco in my country, provided that the thief was stupid enough to use the SIM card which most of them were.
They stopped doing it for some time now, but the ability is there.
What's new is that the information is now open to public.
From TFA: There is increasing awareness about the importance of knowing where your staff are in case of incidents like the July London bombings.
So what good exactly is businesses tracking employees on an incident like that?
The range of things you can justify in fear of terrorist attacks never stops widening.
Well, MS ships more units of SQL Server than Oracle and IBM does combined, so I am not sure if this largest db vendor in the world argument could hold.
And of course, having mentioned that I'm gonna be modded down.
Well, tough shit. Get more people on board and raise the application fees. The number of rejected patents due to proof of prior art will make defensive patents disappear.
Well, an even better idea is to "tax" companies who get too much rejected patents... Not necessarily tax as in pay money, but inflict some sort of punishment, make companies afraid of filing ridiculous patents that they know should be rejected.
And of course it goes without saying that for this to work the idiots at the patent office must be replaced with people who can actually understand what they're granting patents for.
You're not an engineer obviously.
To be the best at whatever it is that you do, you have to take it personally. People who work with concepts like "I just do what I'm paid to do" are rarely ever the best. A software engineer's code is his little baby, to see it being broken/hacked into or whatever is like seeing someone harming their baby. And worst of all, it's happening because they didn't "secure" their baby enough.
Actually one of the common techniques for interviewing software engineers is to ask them to talk about _the_ project they're most proud of, if the interviewee didn't get personal they're usually deemed not passionate enough about their job and it could be a deal breaker for hiring the canidate.
that can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometers per second
The phrase is just meaningless. Acceleration is measured in distance per time squared units. so it's either kilometer per second squared or accelerates small aluminum plates to speeds of 34 kilometers per second.
Your argument seems to boil down to "it's not a problem for me, so it shouldn't be a problem for you either.", with a little bit of "it must be your fault, because it hasn't happened to me."
You couldn't be further from the truth. I never said spam filtering is for lamers or whatever you're implying. I just said that those prevention techniques are worth mentioning alongside spam filtering. Because I'd seen a numerous guides for spam filtering, and reviews for spam filtering products, yet non spoke of those passive simple things you can do to help. We have cure for flu but you still know better than to kiss someone with a cold don't you?
Everyone is looking for ways to filter spam out of their mailboxes. I get around 1 spam email a week at my work email box. and 1 a day at my personal email box. And it's not magic.
You can just try to be wise about it and not spray your email address eveywhere you can. Use your most important email address cautiously, only give it out to respectable trustworthy companies or websites. Use a secondary email as a honeypot for spam.
I am sure someone can combine a handful rules of the thumb about this better than I do. And it's very effective!
For example if you calculate 73 - 6 + 7, your working memory will store the intermediate steps necessary to work out the answer.
That doesn't need any working memory to speak of, even if you're of average IQ you will simply recognize it's much easier to calculate -6+7 first which yields 1 and then add it to 73 to get 74.
slap together an encryption technique in an hour
and have it broken in half an hour, Sony developed a technique that was broken with a marker pen. And I think that took them much more than an hour to "slap together"
I think they are yet to apply paint to it, no way they're gonna release it like this imo.
But I can imagine it in black with the big trademark 'X' on it. wouldn't be too bad I think.
Case 1 is when you're in a meeting, conference, movie theater, etc and you don't have the liberty to hold up your phone and talk. SMS will let you communicate "silently"
Case 2 is for international communication, my gf lived away for very long periods and it is not affordable for me to call her and say goodnight everynight. SMS made sense back then, it does a trick (a little bit) and costs far less.
And here in Egypt sms are far cheaper than calls anyway.
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its like global warming vs the oil industry, it will take numerous studies over decades until the "truth" will finally come out
And if the global warming is anything to go by, the "truth" might never come out.
What about the linking
Wait a minute, does this mean that there is software other than Microsoft's that has security issues? I'm flabbergasted.
because in a few hours there will be...
As is rooting for companies with patents in general just because of a broken patent system. People seem to be pre-occupied with prejudices about the patent system that they hardly ever look at the case in question before they decide who should win.
The tracking was already possible long time ago. I know it was at least with GSM networks. At some point in time one was able to get information about their stolen mobile phone's position from the Telco in my country, provided that the thief was stupid enough to use the SIM card which most of them were.
They stopped doing it for some time now, but the ability is there.
What's new is that the information is now open to public.
From TFA:
There is increasing awareness about the importance of knowing where your staff are in case of incidents like the July London bombings.
So what good exactly is businesses tracking employees on an incident like that?
The range of things you can justify in fear of terrorist attacks never stops widening.
No, we're on our way to robots riding robots. When animal right groups intervene for the camels.
Sir, I would really like to know the source of your invaluable information.
Well, MS ships more units of SQL Server than Oracle and IBM does combined, so I am not sure if this largest db vendor in the world argument could hold.
And of course, having mentioned that I'm gonna be modded down.
Well, tough shit. Get more people on board and raise the application fees. The number of rejected patents due to proof of prior art will make defensive patents disappear.
Well, an even better idea is to "tax" companies who get too much rejected patents... Not necessarily tax as in pay money, but inflict some sort of punishment, make companies afraid of filing ridiculous patents that they know should be rejected.
And of course it goes without saying that for this to work the idiots at the patent office must be replaced with people who can actually understand what they're granting patents for.
A spammer reading /. would be very thankful for the ideas...
sorry, forgot to close the tag after the first "have to" :s
You're not an engineer obviously. To be the best at whatever it is that you do, you have to take it personally. People who work with concepts like "I just do what I'm paid to do" are rarely ever the best. A software engineer's code is his little baby, to see it being broken/hacked into or whatever is like seeing someone harming their baby. And worst of all, it's happening because they didn't "secure" their baby enough. Actually one of the common techniques for interviewing software engineers is to ask them to talk about _the_ project they're most proud of, if the interviewee didn't get personal they're usually deemed not passionate enough about their job and it could be a deal breaker for hiring the canidate.
that can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometers per second
The phrase is just meaningless. Acceleration is measured in distance per time squared units. so it's either kilometer per second squared or accelerates small aluminum plates to speeds of 34 kilometers per second.
Your argument seems to boil down to "it's not a problem for me, so it shouldn't be a problem for you either.", with a little bit of "it must be your fault, because it hasn't happened to me."
You couldn't be further from the truth. I never said spam filtering is for lamers or whatever you're implying. I just said that those prevention techniques are worth mentioning alongside spam filtering. Because I'd seen a numerous guides for spam filtering, and reviews for spam filtering products, yet non spoke of those passive simple things you can do to help.
We have cure for flu but you still know better than to kiss someone with a cold don't you?
Everyone is looking for ways to filter spam out of their mailboxes. I get around 1 spam email a week at my work email box. and 1 a day at my personal email box. And it's not magic.
You can just try to be wise about it and not spray your email address eveywhere you can.
Use your most important email address cautiously, only give it out to respectable trustworthy companies or websites.
Use a secondary email as a honeypot for spam.
I am sure someone can combine a handful rules of the thumb about this better than I do. And it's very effective!
For example if you calculate 73 - 6 + 7, your working memory will store the intermediate steps necessary to work out the answer.
That doesn't need any working memory to speak of, even if you're of average IQ you will simply recognize it's much easier to calculate -6+7 first which yields 1 and then add it to 73 to get 74.
you're right I've never bought it, but I saw the prices online :D
$60 for a DVD is daylight robbery
slap together an encryption technique in an hour
and have it broken in half an hour, Sony developed a technique that was broken with a marker pen. And I think that took them much more than an hour to "slap together"
pr0n is probably still profitable because of the ridiculous profit margins involved.
You could pay $20 for a pr0n DVD whose production cost something in the order of thousands of dollars.
Compare that to a multi-million dollar budget needed for a top (non-pr0n) movie and you've got a pretty different deal there.
I think they are yet to apply paint to it, no way they're gonna release it like this imo.
But I can imagine it in black with the big trademark 'X' on it. wouldn't be too bad I think.
Something sucking when it's supposed to suck doesn't actually suck. What sucks is if your product that is supposed to suck doesn't. ;)
Got it?
Don't you think a reimplementation of the VM is too much of a price to pay for such a small convenience?
Text messaging is very useful in 2 cases:
Case 1 is when you're in a meeting, conference, movie theater, etc and you don't have the liberty to hold up your phone and talk. SMS will let you communicate "silently"
Case 2 is for international communication, my gf lived away for very long periods and it is not affordable for me to call her and say goodnight everynight. SMS made sense back then, it does a trick (a little bit) and costs far less.
And here in Egypt sms are far cheaper than calls anyway.