The word 'bug' is a slang word, a colloquialism. It can be any unseemly crawly thing, from insects to arachnids (spiders, scorpions) to worms to germs (the flu bug) to crustacea (mud bugs). Flaws in designs are also regularly called bugs.
The word 'insect' refers to a specific Linnaean branch of taxonomy, the class of Insectidae. Members of this class, at adult stage, have a three-segment body, six legs, antennae, and functional or non-functional wings. A spider is not an insect, for example, but a walking-stick is.
As for "copying large amounts of company data", what ever happened to employee trust? i.e. You should only hire someone you can trust to do job you put them in, because there's no getting around giving them access to sensitive information. It's like telling the company accountant that they can't have access to the financial records, because they might embezzle money!
You can train a horse to stay in the barn, but it's far more effective to close the doors as well.
Some companies work with "trade secrets."
Some companies work with YOUR "private information."
Some companies work with your country's "military profile."
I think it's perfectly appropriate to empower the IT department to set forth a flexible and strategic policy of which devices are interoperable, and which devices are not.
You are under the naive delusion (common of geeks and kids) that there is a crisp and objective "correct answer" to everything, and that knowing the correct answer will solve anything.
Snow tyres are very useful if you live in Quebec, but an unnecessary pain in the arse to have to store if you never leave Florida.
Not to mention, you won't find any replacement 'tyres' of any kind in Florida. They might look at you funny, then try to substitute with some other kind of part, like a 'tire.'
You frickin' dork. We're talking about a means of falsifying the caller-ID display. The whole point is that the phisher would call you, with your bank's real number on the display. Geez, wake up people.
I want something a little bit larger than the Zaurus clamshells, a little more capable, and has zero Microsoft infection involved. Sell this same palmtop at a reasonable price running Linux, and you'll get me to buy it.
Unless you pronounce that "stuffoo," it's not an acronym. Acronyms are word-like and pronounced like words. STFU is an initialism, an abbreviation, but not an acronym.
I have an ImageTank G2 for field photography. It's basically a CompactFlash-to-Harddrive siphon, trapping your photographs like the GhostBusters ghost containment devices. It has a very rudimentary interface, but that's all you really need in the field to ensure your photos are secure, without the bulk and logistics of a laptop.
I've lusted after the Archos media varieties lately, especially the newer one that has a CompactFlash slot without requiring a dongle. The units allow image playback to LCD or TV, which is handy when you're visiting relatives who want to see your shots before you go home to do serious prints or processing.
Why am I reminded of the scene in Spaceballs where Dot Matrix vacuums the air from the planet? Heck, it's been so long since I've seen it, I don't even know if that's accurate. I just remember a huge vacuum near a planet, with Joan Rivers' voice over.
But somehow a few rafts colonized the polynesian islands. Somehow a compass, a sextant and a bunch of canvas guided boats across the Atlantic for centuries.
Why is this "knews" piece even relevant? CNN has a pro-MPAA, pro-RIAA, Valenti puff piece every couple days. You don't see a whole lot of well-rounded copyright discourse on the major media news outlets. (Gee, I wonder why...) CNN: We're tough on music fans. We like suing kids and grandmas. We equate infringement with theft. We are fair and balanced, too.
Who will be the first to threaten a gratuitous infringement/trademark lawsuit? Stephen King (aka Richard Bachman) for the story title, "The Running Man," or Arnold Schwarzenegger who played the main character of the screen adaptation?
By the way, read the print version of the story. The last page of the book is a very interesting parallel to the September 11 attacks of New York. You know, the attack that "nobody could have foreseen."
The definition of theft revolves around depriving the original owner, not around the price of the item. Theft has nothing to do with what you "should have paid for;" you can still steal something that the original owner wasn't intending to sell at all.
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Clients still have to download the player, it's just that the player is now in a form which is downloaded with less effort.
The word 'bug' is a slang word, a colloquialism. It can be any unseemly crawly thing, from insects to arachnids (spiders, scorpions) to worms to germs (the flu bug) to crustacea (mud bugs). Flaws in designs are also regularly called bugs.
The word 'insect' refers to a specific Linnaean branch of taxonomy, the class of Insectidae. Members of this class, at adult stage, have a three-segment body, six legs, antennae, and functional or non-functional wings. A spider is not an insect, for example, but a walking-stick is.
You can train a horse to stay in the barn, but it's far more effective to close the doors as well.
Some companies work with "trade secrets."
Some companies work with YOUR "private information."
Some companies work with your country's "military profile."
I think it's perfectly appropriate to empower the IT department to set forth a flexible and strategic policy of which devices are interoperable, and which devices are not.
You are under the naive delusion (common of geeks and kids) that there is a crisp and objective "correct answer" to everything, and that knowing the correct answer will solve anything.
Wasn't sure what this bit meant, but I wish I had mod points to mod up the rest of it.
Minor White (1834-1903), artist. You know, Google isn't so hard.
capn commlinks, "We need warp drive now! Chief Engineer?"
sk0tt1e commlinks, "wtf! bbl, sis is having a spaz"
* sk0tt1e has disconnected
capn yells, "Damn!"
FFX and FFX-2's crystal are in Luca (the center of the round plaza), and in the tops of Macalania Woods.
You forgot the glue that binds every Final Fantasy premise: an ally character named Cid.
Not to mention, you won't find any replacement 'tyres' of any kind in Florida. They might look at you funny, then try to substitute with some other kind of part, like a 'tire.'
You frickin' dork. We're talking about a means of falsifying the caller-ID display. The whole point is that the phisher would call you, with your bank's real number on the display. Geez, wake up people.
spelling "ridiculous" as "rediculous" is more ridiculous, by far
Hidden extensions are bad news.
Too bad none of my machines have floppy drives.
I want something a little bit larger than the Zaurus clamshells, a little more capable, and has zero Microsoft infection involved. Sell this same palmtop at a reasonable price running Linux, and you'll get me to buy it.
Anyone can write unreadable code.
It takes an artist to write code that is both unreadable and beautiful at the same time.
If your entry isn't beautiful, you're just a bad programmer.
Unless you pronounce that "stuffoo," it's not an acronym. Acronyms are word-like and pronounced like words. STFU is an initialism, an abbreviation, but not an acronym.
I've lusted after the Archos media varieties lately, especially the newer one that has a CompactFlash slot without requiring a dongle. The units allow image playback to LCD or TV, which is handy when you're visiting relatives who want to see your shots before you go home to do serious prints or processing.
Why am I reminded of the scene in Spaceballs where Dot Matrix vacuums the air from the planet? Heck, it's been so long since I've seen it, I don't even know if that's accurate. I just remember a huge vacuum near a planet, with Joan Rivers' voice over.
But somehow a few rafts colonized the polynesian islands. Somehow a compass, a sextant and a bunch of canvas guided boats across the Atlantic for centuries.
Imagine a technician comes to your home, you tell them what's wrong and what you did...
But do you have a 27B-6 form? I'm a bit of a stickler for details.
Why is this "knews" piece even relevant? CNN has a pro-MPAA, pro-RIAA, Valenti puff piece every couple days. You don't see a whole lot of well-rounded copyright discourse on the major media news outlets. (Gee, I wonder why...) CNN: We're tough on music fans. We like suing kids and grandmas. We equate infringement with theft. We are fair and balanced, too.
They had a choice between the Red pill (Novell) and the Big Blue pill (IBM). Neither one will get them out of this rabbit hole now.
1 GB / 1 GB = 1 (nondimensioned).
Who will be the first to threaten a gratuitous infringement/trademark lawsuit? Stephen King (aka Richard Bachman) for the story title, "The Running Man," or Arnold Schwarzenegger who played the main character of the screen adaptation?
By the way, read the print version of the story. The last page of the book is a very interesting parallel to the September 11 attacks of New York. You know, the attack that "nobody could have foreseen."
The definition of theft revolves around depriving the original owner, not around the price of the item. Theft has nothing to do with what you "should have paid for;" you can still steal something that the original owner wasn't intending to sell at all.