Isn't this a good thing? Exploits in the IE engine will not be able to be exploited through email. IMHO, emails should be text based with little formatting and the CSS and image heavy content should be on a web page. I know that people will disagree with me, but I believe it is a good thing.
Actually, at my company we use turnstiles that only operate when your badge is scanned. Yes, you could jump over the barrier but that looks suspicious. Plus there is a guard station there to prevent you from doing so. This does solve the problem of being able to hold the door open, though.
I'd like to see the FBI tap and sort my 400 kb/s bittorrent traffic that goes on 24/7. Then try and find an AIM message which looks corrupted because it's encrypted anyway.
I would like to point out that AIM traffic goes over a completely different port than bittorrent traffic. It wouldn't be a matter of sorting through the traffic, it would be adding a filter to the packets. This is trivial. Breaking the encryption of the conversation is another story...
am I blind or is there no download link on spread firefox ? kinda silly aint it ?
I would agree but then I realized that most people going to spreadfirefox.com already have firefox. The people wanting to get firefox should go to getfirefox.com. =)
While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots, 76 percent reported that they stopped for ads that are entertaining or relevant to their own interests. Women are also more likely to pause for TV and movie promos.
"DVRs give them a mechanism to find commercials that are relevant, and that's a big message," Brooks said. "It's not that people don't want commercials, it's irrelevant interruptions that turn them off."
Ok, that is a big hint to the tv industry. Women do not want irrelevant commercials, but are willing to watch and advertisement that they are interested in. Unfortunately for the tv industry, I don't think men want commercials at all...
Also FTA:
The study, which was commissioned by Lifetime,
Lifetime, the network for women, is saying, "ADVERTISE HERE! WOMEN WATCH COMMERCIALS!"
"Handwriting recognition had severe limitations in the late 1980's and early 1990's and no company that attempted pen computing was successful then," [Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake] said.
Go was sold to AT&T Corp. in 1994, which closed the company in July of the same year. In November of 1994, Microsoft shut down its competing pen-computing effort, called PenWindows, which the suit alleges had largely existed to destroy Go.
Go was based on handwriting recognition. The technology was not very good in the early 90's and has only recently become usable. I realize that most of Slashdot never sides with Microsoft but in this case Microsoft only made a competing product that didn't even do very well itself. Just because Microsoft shut down their PenWindows division after Go was sold does not mean that it existed to destroy Go. This was 1994! Handwriting recognition was horrible!
-Keith
I bought an iPaq so that I could put linux on it, just because I thought it was fun. It came with Windows Mobile 2003 (WinCE2003) and I can honestly say that I do not like WM2003. I am waiting for some issues to be resolved with familiar and my specific model (h5555) and until then I am using this godawful OS that came installed.
If you want a PDA that Just Works, buy a Palm. I had one before. I wanted to tinker with something that had WiFi (Palms with WiFi are expensive).
Speaking of WiFi, one of the things that I really HATE about WM2003 is the "Work/Internet" specification on the network card. You need to tell it if you are connecting to your work network or the internet. The only way to connect to Windows shares is by choosing "Work". It will refuse to connect to the internet when you choose work. For some reason the checkbox that says "My work network also connects to the internet" won't stay checked. My home network is set up correctly, why won't it just work like every other WiFi device?
First of all, this exploits holes that already have patches on Windows systems:
The code exploits a number of patched Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, including some that go back as far as 2002. Systems that haven't been updated would be vulnerable to the exploit.
So patch and you'll be fine. Second, if you don't want to patch, you can just block this company's IP:
According to the Internet Storm Center, companies can prevent the downloading of adware and spyware from iframeDollars' servers by blocking the IP address 81.222.131.59.
You bring up a good point, it is unreasonable to think that every second of the day should be dedicated to work. However, I think the fact that they are only monitoring work email addresses allows me to use this analogy:
I remember in high school when the police found drugs in someone's locker. The kid claimed that they had no right to look in his locker because it is his. In this case, the locker is owned by the school and by using it he is giving up his rights to privacy.
I realize that high school is different than the real world, but like many other people have said, just use gmail and the like.
On a side note: I am posting this from work, but I am not giving up "sensitive" information.
I think I may be playing Devil's advocate here, but I don't really have a problem with the companies reading their employee's email. Your work email address is for just that - work. These emails are written on company time and they are on the company network. I'm sure there is an AUP for the company network; they aren't hiding the fact that they can read your emails.
In short, don't waste time with personal emails at work and don't send out company secrets through email. Isn't that unethical anyway?
Keith
In the bill, it references section 43.21 of the Texas penal code. I looked it up to find the definition of obscenity (and material, but that's not interesting). Here:
1. "Obscene" means material or a performance that:
A. the average person, applying contemporary community standards,would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest insex;
B. depicts or describes:
i. patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or
ii. patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state or a device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs; and
C. taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political,and scientific value.
I found C pretty funny, isn't that pretty much half of the internet?
offtopic: anyone know how to stop windows from swapping when there is 500mb+ of free ram? it's really annoying, and just putting the swap to 0 on all drives doesn't really solve the problem either(and some soft freak off from it, this is on XP). I hate having 1.5gb of ram and only seeing half of it used regularly while having windows swap horrendously.
I know exactly what you mean and I don't think that many people understand. When I have Firefox minimized for a few hours, Windows likes to put the whole program in swap (or something) because when I try to restore it, it takes like 30 seconds. There is a way to change that.
In the [386enh] section of your system.ini file, add:
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1
That seemed to help me. The site that I got this from is here,
but it seems to be down now.
At first I thought, what could they possibly add that would make it more useful than Google? In the article it mentions classifieds:
Media companies will also use newsreaders to enable readers to more easily scan and search their classifieds, Ferguson said. Readers will be able to sign up for alerts about new listings, such as a car from a particular model year, he said.
I think that will be useful, but only when you are looking for something to buy. Other than that, what makes me want to switch over to their news reader? Granted, they do write the stories, but Google and Yahoo are not biased in what stories show up first, are they?
Keith
I did not say it was weird, or even wrong to want the best. I am saying that with this piece of software in particular the C++ is a mess. I personally use many open source programs: OOo, gaim, firefox, thunderbird, filezilla, tinycad, and yet I still use Windows (yeah, yeah...). I don't even know what you are suggesting here. Do you suggest that someone comes up with a new, more open language that is as easy as Java?
I think the article makes some interesting points, such as:
Some might argue against Schönheit's characterization of C++ as complex or Java as being not slow. However, technical arguments are in many ways beside the point.
What I got out of it is that the Java environment makes it far easier to add features to the current OO. From the article:
Java allows more rapid development of components for OpenOffice.org, without struggling with the complexity of OpenOffice.org's C++ build environment. People complain about releases not being quick enough and when Java is used to make the build environment less complicated, people bitch about it not being open source. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
We need to start Bittorrenting these web pages !
Can someone PLEASE tell Slash to do this.
Very annoying these websites getting obliterated by the masses.
How hard would it be to torrent these sites ?
I can tell you that is definately not the intention of BitTorrent. The intention of it is to be used for large files. What we really need to do is use the Coral cache on every url on the main page.
These improvements allow amputees improved mobility over the Vietnam era, with many limbless veterans already contemplating running, skiing, and even a return to combat, according to veterans officials.
Apparently some want to go back, I would guess the US would send them back.
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Isn't this a good thing? Exploits in the IE engine will not be able to be exploited through email. IMHO, emails should be text based with little formatting and the CSS and image heavy content should be on a web page. I know that people will disagree with me, but I believe it is a good thing.
Keith
Actually, at my company we use turnstiles that only operate when your badge is scanned. Yes, you could jump over the barrier but that looks suspicious. Plus there is a guard station there to prevent you from doing so. This does solve the problem of being able to hold the door open, though.
I'd like to see the FBI tap and sort my 400 kb/s bittorrent traffic that goes on 24/7. Then try and find an AIM message which looks corrupted because it's encrypted anyway.
I would like to point out that AIM traffic goes over a completely different port than bittorrent traffic. It wouldn't be a matter of sorting through the traffic, it would be adding a filter to the packets. This is trivial. Breaking the encryption of the conversation is another story...
am I blind or is there no download link on spread firefox ? kinda silly aint it ?
I would agree but then I realized that most people going to spreadfirefox.com already have firefox. The people wanting to get firefox should go to getfirefox.com. =)
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
Alien and Sedition Acts, specifically the Sedition Acts. From wikipeida:
The Sedition Act made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against government or government officials.
I think that qualifies.
While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots, 76 percent reported that they stopped for ads that are entertaining or relevant to their own interests. Women are also more likely to pause for TV and movie promos.
"DVRs give them a mechanism to find commercials that are relevant, and that's a big message," Brooks said. "It's not that people don't want commercials, it's irrelevant interruptions that turn them off."
Ok, that is a big hint to the tv industry. Women do not want irrelevant commercials, but are willing to watch and advertisement that they are interested in. Unfortunately for the tv industry, I don't think men want commercials at all...
Also FTA:
The study, which was commissioned by Lifetime,
Lifetime, the network for women, is saying, "ADVERTISE HERE! WOMEN WATCH COMMERCIALS!"
See, there's a slant to everything.
Keith
"Handwriting recognition had severe limitations in the late 1980's and early 1990's and no company that attempted pen computing was successful then," [Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake] said.
Go was sold to AT&T Corp. in 1994, which closed the company in July of the same year. In November of 1994, Microsoft shut down its competing pen-computing effort, called PenWindows, which the suit alleges had largely existed to destroy Go.
Go was based on handwriting recognition. The technology was not very good in the early 90's and has only recently become usable. I realize that most of Slashdot never sides with Microsoft but in this case Microsoft only made a competing product that didn't even do very well itself. Just because Microsoft shut down their PenWindows division after Go was sold does not mean that it existed to destroy Go. This was 1994! Handwriting recognition was horrible! -Keith
I bought an iPaq so that I could put linux on it, just because I thought it was fun. It came with Windows Mobile 2003 (WinCE2003) and I can honestly say that I do not like WM2003. I am waiting for some issues to be resolved with familiar and my specific model (h5555) and until then I am using this godawful OS that came installed.
If you want a PDA that Just Works, buy a Palm. I had one before. I wanted to tinker with something that had WiFi (Palms with WiFi are expensive).
Speaking of WiFi, one of the things that I really HATE about WM2003 is the "Work/Internet" specification on the network card. You need to tell it if you are connecting to your work network or the internet. The only way to connect to Windows shares is by choosing "Work". It will refuse to connect to the internet when you choose work. For some reason the checkbox that says "My work network also connects to the internet" won't stay checked. My home network is set up correctly, why won't it just work like every other WiFi device?
First of all, this exploits holes that already have patches on Windows systems:
The code exploits a number of patched Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, including some that go back as far as 2002. Systems that haven't been updated would be vulnerable to the exploit.
So patch and you'll be fine. Second, if you don't want to patch, you can just block this company's IP:
According to the Internet Storm Center, companies can prevent the downloading of adware and spyware from iframeDollars' servers by blocking the IP address 81.222.131.59.
You bring up a good point, it is unreasonable to think that every second of the day should be dedicated to work. However, I think the fact that they are only monitoring work email addresses allows me to use this analogy:
I remember in high school when the police found drugs in someone's locker. The kid claimed that they had no right to look in his locker because it is his. In this case, the locker is owned by the school and by using it he is giving up his rights to privacy.
I realize that high school is different than the real world, but like many other people have said, just use gmail and the like.
On a side note: I am posting this from work, but I am not giving up "sensitive" information.
I think I may be playing Devil's advocate here, but I don't really have a problem with the companies reading their employee's email. Your work email address is for just that - work. These emails are written on company time and they are on the company network. I'm sure there is an AUP for the company network; they aren't hiding the fact that they can read your emails. In short, don't waste time with personal emails at work and don't send out company secrets through email. Isn't that unethical anyway? Keith
http://maps.google.com/?sll=42.360007%2C-071.08787 0
That exact same map was in TFA, except it was the satellite photo.
I know exactly what you mean and I don't think that many people understand. When I have Firefox minimized for a few hours, Windows likes to put the whole program in swap (or something) because when I try to restore it, it takes like 30 seconds. There is a way to change that. In the [386enh] section of your system.ini file, add: That seemed to help me. The site that I got this from is here, but it seems to be down now.
At first I thought, what could they possibly add that would make it more useful than Google? In the article it mentions classifieds:
Media companies will also use newsreaders to enable readers to more easily scan and search their classifieds, Ferguson said. Readers will be able to sign up for alerts about new listings, such as a car from a particular model year, he said.
I think that will be useful, but only when you are looking for something to buy. Other than that, what makes me want to switch over to their news reader? Granted, they do write the stories, but Google and Yahoo are not biased in what stories show up first, are they? Keith
I did not say it was weird, or even wrong to want the best. I am saying that with this piece of software in particular the C++ is a mess. I personally use many open source programs: OOo, gaim, firefox, thunderbird, filezilla, tinycad, and yet I still use Windows (yeah, yeah...). I don't even know what you are suggesting here. Do you suggest that someone comes up with a new, more open language that is as easy as Java?
I think the article makes some interesting points, such as:
Some might argue against Schönheit's characterization of C++ as complex or Java as being not slow. However, technical arguments are in many ways beside the point.
What I got out of it is that the Java environment makes it far easier to add features to the current OO. From the article:
Java allows more rapid development of components for OpenOffice.org, without struggling with the complexity of OpenOffice.org's C++ build environment. People complain about releases not being quick enough and when Java is used to make the build environment less complicated, people bitch about it not being open source. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
What is an AMD 65? I thought it was AMD64...
The ones that fail: will not succeed.
;)
That's deep
With the 32-bit version the maximum is 4GB, while systems running the 64-bit version will have as much as 32GB
Isn't it supposed to be 16TB not 32GB? Just look at the table. Maybe it is referring to something else...
These improvements allow amputees improved mobility over the Vietnam era, with many limbless veterans already contemplating running, skiing, and even a return to combat, according to veterans officials.
Apparently some want to go back, I would guess the US would send them back.
Not only is it old, it doesn't seem to have very much technical information in it. Am I wrong? I actually did RTFA.
The server is just crawling after just one comment.
I think the mirrordot mirror will work better.
Here is a mirror