Can't wait for IT departments to not install these patches and then 1) Blame MS when they're hacked 2) Scream bloody murder at Microsoft's attempt to enable automatic updates.
SiteKey is properly explained to users. Unfortunately, there is no security patch or protection for human impatience and stupidity. There's nothing wrong with the system, it's the users who're at fault. Badly written headline.
I am an engineering student who enjoys lifelong learning and truly believes in it. At the end of the day, however, it comes down to what gets you a job. From my experience with both graduate school and company recruiters, no one's interested in that. The only things they seem to care about are:
1 - GPA
2 - Project/employment experience
(For companies the priority of the above is switched)
None of my hires/acceptances to any institution beyond undergrad seem to have been based on what classes I took or what I could show I learned in a formal academic setting. I know this roughly because the instances in which I've emphasized the above 2 things have gone a LOT better than those in which I've emphasized my coursework. This PARC fellow's an idealist, but he's a bit removed from reality in my experience.
Holy Jesus Christ. No one's even been to that goddamn planet and already we're talking about setting up national parks? Get a life, man. Mars is a goddamn wasteland. In any case, we're not sending nearly enough spacecraft there to make crashed vehicles and eyesore. Sometimes I wonder how people actually spend time thinking BS like this up. Is he on crack? Jesus.
Simple:
- The car is horribly ugly.
- One hour to charge? Filling up at the gas station barely takes 5 minutes
- 200 mile range? Is he kidding? Most gasoline cars can go for well over 300 miles between fillups.
Shimizu needs to get back to reality and stop dreaming.
This is the dumbest proposal I've read about in a long while. As any camera user knows, there are situations in which flash would simply ruin a picture. And requiring a loud noise would not only be annoying, but it would drain the hell out of battery life too. Also, this regulation doesn't cover hidden or even very small digicams, many of which are far more discreet at their jobs than cellphones are or ever will be - so it doesn't solve the privacy problem.
Privacy advocates are beginning to remind me of environmentalists - when they first started they were a level headed group with some good ideas. Now they've become concept fundamentalists declaring ridiculous jihads on everyday activities that are relatively harmless.
As someone who works with Linux, Solaris, Win 2000/XP and Mac OS computers, I can testify that while Linux is a joy to do run intensive calculations on, the user experience simply blows. If these companies can work that out, it would be great.
How ironic. This is similar to what I've read about Linux's advances doing more to hurt Mac OS popularity than Windows. Personally I like IE 6 and see no reason to change.
A recent article in Aviation Week reported a study by a think tank that shows that this tremendously expensive project will actually be practically useless in combat, thanks to its limited range and the extreme vulnerability of a lumbering 747, which is just about the biggest target you can strap wings onto. Oh boy.
No surprise that Google won that shootout. They conduct more effective R&D than any of their competitors. Google's workforce is almost completely PhD, while Microsoft for one employs mostly BS and MS graduates. Guess who delivers the cutting edge performance?
Don't fight harder, fight smarter. Good concept.
But bandwidth equivalent to 3 full-length movies per second to soldiers on the front line? Unless we plan to fly a cloud of satellites focused on every point on the planet, I don't see that happening any time soon.
Rather than a God's eye view, maybe the Pentagon should aim to perfect the bird's or airship's eye view for now.
Oh God, apparently new disc formats are emerging with each passing week. What now? VMD? The only bright spot for this technology is its low cost. Alas, it lacks the backing of major electronics and content companies, thereby consigning it to the rubbish heap before it's even hit the store shelf.
The fact is that the market will not support more than two formats (see SACD vs. DVD-Audio), and in that particular case widespread adoption has been almost nonexistent. On the other hand, single-format markets (see plain old CD, DVD and their (re)writable variants) have grown by leaps and bounds.
This is the second article I've seen on this topic. All that's really needed is to convert the files to newer formats as these come along. Wow. Why does this seem to escape the majority of storage "pundits"?
This is fantastic news. The truth is waging a successful war on a global front requires always-on-site weaponry that can only be achieved by placing these devices in orbit. The 1967 treaty is irrelevant. Good job USAF.
Yet another "security" study that totally ignores the fact that these OSes are so rare that they hardly figure in any hacker's list of targets. Oh boy.
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Can't wait for IT departments to not install these patches and then 1) Blame MS when they're hacked 2) Scream bloody murder at Microsoft's attempt to enable automatic updates.
SiteKey is properly explained to users. Unfortunately, there is no security patch or protection for human impatience and stupidity. There's nothing wrong with the system, it's the users who're at fault. Badly written headline.
I am an engineering student who enjoys lifelong learning and truly believes in it. At the end of the day, however, it comes down to what gets you a job. From my experience with both graduate school and company recruiters, no one's interested in that. The only things they seem to care about are: 1 - GPA 2 - Project/employment experience (For companies the priority of the above is switched) None of my hires/acceptances to any institution beyond undergrad seem to have been based on what classes I took or what I could show I learned in a formal academic setting. I know this roughly because the instances in which I've emphasized the above 2 things have gone a LOT better than those in which I've emphasized my coursework. This PARC fellow's an idealist, but he's a bit removed from reality in my experience.
Amen to that, brother. I use Outlook 2K3, also. Legally bought and owned. Fantastic interface, awesome spam filter, works with everything I need.
Holy Jesus Christ. No one's even been to that goddamn planet and already we're talking about setting up national parks? Get a life, man. Mars is a goddamn wasteland. In any case, we're not sending nearly enough spacecraft there to make crashed vehicles and eyesore. Sometimes I wonder how people actually spend time thinking BS like this up. Is he on crack? Jesus.
JVC forgot to notice that MPEG-2 is horribly inefficient at storing video. MPEG-4 support would be better and really easy to add, at that.
Simple: - The car is horribly ugly. - One hour to charge? Filling up at the gas station barely takes 5 minutes - 200 mile range? Is he kidding? Most gasoline cars can go for well over 300 miles between fillups. Shimizu needs to get back to reality and stop dreaming.
This is the dumbest proposal I've read about in a long while. As any camera user knows, there are situations in which flash would simply ruin a picture. And requiring a loud noise would not only be annoying, but it would drain the hell out of battery life too. Also, this regulation doesn't cover hidden or even very small digicams, many of which are far more discreet at their jobs than cellphones are or ever will be - so it doesn't solve the privacy problem. Privacy advocates are beginning to remind me of environmentalists - when they first started they were a level headed group with some good ideas. Now they've become concept fundamentalists declaring ridiculous jihads on everyday activities that are relatively harmless.
As someone who works with Linux, Solaris, Win 2000/XP and Mac OS computers, I can testify that while Linux is a joy to do run intensive calculations on, the user experience simply blows. If these companies can work that out, it would be great.
... as a traitor, that is. Fortunately there are many other better P2P options available. Goodbye Shawn.
Some things should just be allowed to die. Netscape is one of them. AOL itself (besides their IM application) might be another.
How ironic. This is similar to what I've read about Linux's advances doing more to hurt Mac OS popularity than Windows. Personally I like IE 6 and see no reason to change.
A recent article in Aviation Week reported a study by a think tank that shows that this tremendously expensive project will actually be practically useless in combat, thanks to its limited range and the extreme vulnerability of a lumbering 747, which is just about the biggest target you can strap wings onto. Oh boy.
No surprise that Google won that shootout. They conduct more effective R&D than any of their competitors. Google's workforce is almost completely PhD, while Microsoft for one employs mostly BS and MS graduates. Guess who delivers the cutting edge performance?
Don't fight harder, fight smarter. Good concept. But bandwidth equivalent to 3 full-length movies per second to soldiers on the front line? Unless we plan to fly a cloud of satellites focused on every point on the planet, I don't see that happening any time soon. Rather than a God's eye view, maybe the Pentagon should aim to perfect the bird's or airship's eye view for now.
Oh God, apparently new disc formats are emerging with each passing week. What now? VMD? The only bright spot for this technology is its low cost. Alas, it lacks the backing of major electronics and content companies, thereby consigning it to the rubbish heap before it's even hit the store shelf. The fact is that the market will not support more than two formats (see SACD vs. DVD-Audio), and in that particular case widespread adoption has been almost nonexistent. On the other hand, single-format markets (see plain old CD, DVD and their (re)writable variants) have grown by leaps and bounds.
As I recall, the upgrading rule of thumb (for PCs, at least, is to upgrade when current technology is performing at least 3 times as fast as yours is.
This is the second article I've seen on this topic. All that's really needed is to convert the files to newer formats as these come along. Wow. Why does this seem to escape the majority of storage "pundits"?
Thank God. Back when I had a landline phone, a full 35% of my bill was fees and taxes. I don't want the same to happen to VoIP. Good move, FCC.
This is fantastic news. The truth is waging a successful war on a global front requires always-on-site weaponry that can only be achieved by placing these devices in orbit. The 1967 treaty is irrelevant. Good job USAF.
For once there's a level-headed view of the current security problem that isn't written by another Linuxhead mouthing off. Phew.
Yet another "security" study that totally ignores the fact that these OSes are so rare that they hardly figure in any hacker's list of targets. Oh boy.