This sounds like the perfect thing for a Consumer Protection agency to do. Kind of like the one currently running headless because Republicans are blocking the confirmation of it's head (along with a whole lot of other nominations).
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."
Yes, space is really big - but we've already had collisions. It's a little like the turn-of-the-century automobile crash in Kansas City - which only had two cars registered therein.
Then there's the Kessler Syndrome, in which case a single collision's fragment could cause additional collisions, and on and on in a chain reaction that leaves us unable to pass a belt of grinding metal bits.
OK, that may be a bit hyperbolic, but still. It's not too early to start thinking about this.
My personal suggestion is a solar-powered moon-based laser that hits anything that comes between it and earth. Small things it might vaporize, larger things will be nudged by reaction to expanding gas into a lower orbit, eventually to fall to Earth.
Jesus Christ on stick, you people disgust me. Not a single comment about the content of these lectures, the life and theories of the man, it's all about how Microsoft pooped in your pool by putting this up in the same format Netflix uses. Seriously.
Thank you for demonstrating the root problem here - the conflation of Morals = Ethics. They don't, and this situation is a perfect example. Paypal may not be acting Ethically. They are incapable (as is any corporation) of acting Morally.
Also, they are entirely justified in refusing access to this account - if, as it says in the summary, the account holder has not authorized withdrawals from the associated checking account. Paypal has always required the ability to withdraw from an account automatically, to correct in case of fraud or improper crediting of an account. This has always been the case, for every Paypal user. Why should this group be different?
Yes, this MUST be a Russian allegory, because everyone knows the nature-loving West was all about destroying the high-tech Russian bad guys.
Why must everything be an allegory? Why does everyone insist on trying to see a deeper meaning, and doing whatever possible to make sure that deeper meaning is what they want it to be? Can't one just read the story for the sake of enjoyment?
It took reading the summary twice for me to realize this story wasn't about the Borland C Compiler. I couldn't figure out what the hell Facebook had to do with the best cross-platform C compiler and library ever written.
I was actually just talking to my Domino admin the other day about BCC:. Every chance he gets, he reminds our users about it. Almost nobody knows what it is, can't imagine a use case, and thus fail to even try - until we give them a couple of good solid examples.
You're vastly misinterpreting the target market for Farmville. It's not the teenagers, it's the stay-at-home moms. The average Farmville player is a 43-year-old woman.
This entire thread, with one notable exception, is entirely, horribly uninformed. As the only other worthwhile poster points out, the Firesheep plugin proves that once you have the FB cookie (which can be sniffed via MITM attack or over Wifi), you can hop onto a Facebook session from any computer. Maybe not a shortcoming with the idea of login cookies, but certainly a shortcoming in Facebook's handling of them.
Second, about two weeks ago FB started officially supporting an HTTPS-Always preference. There's a checkbox in Account, under Security, that forces all connections (and I do mean all, even connections to other subdomains) to use SSL. No plugin needed.
As much as I enjoy Facebook, and correctly monitor both security settings AND what data I allow it to access, I'm really happy that Firesheep showed how piss-poor their security was. It gave the final push to my campaign to secure the "public" wifi hotspots our company offers to it's guests.
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Putty's user base: "All of them."
Oh god that made my day. Thank you sir or madam.
This sounds like the perfect thing for a Consumer Protection agency to do. Kind of like the one currently running headless because Republicans are blocking the confirmation of it's head (along with a whole lot of other nominations).
2004? Pfft. My IDS is still showing probes from the Blaster Worm, that was 2003.
I prefer "abuse@ftc.gov" for my spam traps, as it provides a nice self-reporting feature. "These nails taste irony" - and irony tastes good.
Robert Heinlein put it best:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."
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No, that would be decremental, not detrimental.
Yes, space is really big - but we've already had collisions. It's a little like the turn-of-the-century automobile crash in Kansas City - which only had two cars registered therein.
Then there's the Kessler Syndrome, in which case a single collision's fragment could cause additional collisions, and on and on in a chain reaction that leaves us unable to pass a belt of grinding metal bits.
OK, that may be a bit hyperbolic, but still. It's not too early to start thinking about this.
My personal suggestion is a solar-powered moon-based laser that hits anything that comes between it and earth. Small things it might vaporize, larger things will be nudged by reaction to expanding gas into a lower orbit, eventually to fall to Earth.
In accordance with Pope's Law, I can't tell if this should be laughed at or laughed with. My parody detector is completely fried in these crazy years.
Jesus Christ on stick, you people disgust me. Not a single comment about the content of these lectures, the life and theories of the man, it's all about how Microsoft pooped in your pool by putting this up in the same format Netflix uses. Seriously.
We move all our department stuff into the Data Center. Consolidate all of our equipment into one spot, less field work, fewer techs.
We move our Data Center into the Cloud. Less equipment in our Data Center, even fewer techs and admins, reclaim power cooling and space.
Now we move the Cloud back into our Data Center? What's next, distribute our data center into the branches so it's disaster-tolerant?
... wait...
Holy crap, I can't believe you were the first to say that.
Babylon 5 is a completed story. Ditto Farscape. As much as I would love to see more of both, they're done. They told the story they were meant to.
Now, if you want to do something else in the same universe... Crusade, for example...
yeah, that's right - let's count on companies steeped in respect for metrics and numbers to just stop logging who visits their site. That'll happen.
Next time you hear about a network speed record being broken, check the OS. Betcha it's FreeBSD.
Why use Ubuntu when you could use Debian?
To sum up - get bent is why.
Thank you for demonstrating the root problem here - the conflation of Morals = Ethics. They don't, and this situation is a perfect example. Paypal may not be acting Ethically. They are incapable (as is any corporation) of acting Morally.
Also, they are entirely justified in refusing access to this account - if, as it says in the summary, the account holder has not authorized withdrawals from the associated checking account. Paypal has always required the ability to withdraw from an account automatically, to correct in case of fraud or improper crediting of an account. This has always been the case, for every Paypal user. Why should this group be different?
Where's my '+1 Arousing' mod?
Wait, so the power failure was caused by damage to the hard drive? Did you actually read the comment?
Yes, this MUST be a Russian allegory, because everyone knows the nature-loving West was all about destroying the high-tech Russian bad guys.
Why must everything be an allegory? Why does everyone insist on trying to see a deeper meaning, and doing whatever possible to make sure that deeper meaning is what they want it to be? Can't one just read the story for the sake of enjoyment?
It took reading the summary twice for me to realize this story wasn't about the Borland C Compiler. I couldn't figure out what the hell Facebook had to do with the best cross-platform C compiler and library ever written.
I was actually just talking to my Domino admin the other day about BCC:. Every chance he gets, he reminds our users about it. Almost nobody knows what it is, can't imagine a use case, and thus fail to even try - until we give them a couple of good solid examples.
You're vastly misinterpreting the target market for Farmville. It's not the teenagers, it's the stay-at-home moms. The average Farmville player is a 43-year-old woman.
This entire thread, with one notable exception, is entirely, horribly uninformed. As the only other worthwhile poster points out, the Firesheep plugin proves that once you have the FB cookie (which can be sniffed via MITM attack or over Wifi), you can hop onto a Facebook session from any computer. Maybe not a shortcoming with the idea of login cookies, but certainly a shortcoming in Facebook's handling of them. Second, about two weeks ago FB started officially supporting an HTTPS-Always preference. There's a checkbox in Account, under Security, that forces all connections (and I do mean all, even connections to other subdomains) to use SSL. No plugin needed. As much as I enjoy Facebook, and correctly monitor both security settings AND what data I allow it to access, I'm really happy that Firesheep showed how piss-poor their security was. It gave the final push to my campaign to secure the "public" wifi hotspots our company offers to it's guests.
Now I know how to populate my botnet next time there's a Flash vulnerability. I could have the power of Slashdot at my command!
The real question is: Did they slim it down, or did everything else exceed E17's bloat?
Fnord!