Or how about OSS community buying the IP assets they tried to claim that they owned through the trials, and once those assets are bought then give them freely to the community.
I realize that giving money to SCO leaves a bad taste in my mouth and the courts have ruled that there wasn't any infringement to begin with, but at least MS can't use that FUD to curtail companies from using Linux.
That's why logs are keep at the ISPs. Get the police involved and the time of the post, and they can identify the people or bots behind it.
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
I could mark this one down as a troll as well, but what's the point since he is wasting one of my mod points in doing so, and it will just post this hate garbarge in another posting.
Has anyone contacted the police and get IP records and get this bozo charged with hate crimes? We do live in the 21st century; language, culture and humanity has moved waaaaaaay past this, and there are laws that are being broken here. Although I think this behavior shouldn't have been allowed to happen then and definitely not now. I am getting upset that I keep seeing this and have to waste time and points burying it, and have seen people posting that to just "ignore it and it will go away", but it hasn't gone away.
I really don't know why after so many months, we are allowing this clown to continue posting. The wording and language is almost exactly the same. So, why doesn't the filter pick this up and log IP and delete the post? Do the overlords in slashdot secretly agree with this language and choose to let this continue.
I come to slashdot to read and comment on various IT / science topics and may not agree with everyone here, but we can be civilized about it.
Sincerely,
White guy that hates racism in all forms.
P.S. Sorry for the rant, but this has gone on for too far. This will be the last time I will waste any of my time commenting on this or using mod points to deal with it. Mod me into oblivion if you wish to do so, but its your conscience.
The blame lies with LAZY system designers and LAZY developers.
Since we're spreading blame, then don't forget the lazy QA department for not testing that, and the lazy BA for not writing sufficient specs, or the data architect who thinks that a CustomerID should only be an INT.
I believe that the root of these issues arises from poor specs that the developer and QA consume to produce code / unit tests that ultimately fail in the end product. I've worked for many companies throughout my career and almost every time this issue occurs it can be pointed to the BA producing the original spec. Most times the BA is over worked / inexperienced and management isn't interested in spending more time on the front of projects to get things done right, or the end users don't want to invest time in working with the BA to get things right. I've seen it all.
Lots of blame to go around, just don't pile it on the developers.
I think the priates could get the constant internet connection re-routed to somwhere else.
Instead of pinging Ubi website (or whatever it is) to see if the internet is connected, the hackers could just get the game to ping 127.0.0.1 instead. Problem solved (me thinks)
Otherwise I'd just take a month off of work and buy a ton of food and go wilderness camping somewhere (Canada would be nice, but not in Feb)
Given the weather you guys had this year in the states, I would rather stay here in Canada (Calgary). Other than a couple of cold days in December (-30 C), its been a relatively balmy winter (near melting temps throughout January). I pity the people in Vancouver though as they don't have much snow for the Olympics.
I think the Chinese could do this by ensuring that the USB, computer, firewall, etc were made by them, and ensuring there was a hidden pipe through all those channels. This would only work in certain scenarios, and I doubt that they would try it until they could guarantee that a customer would be using all compromised equipment.
I wouldn't be surpised if they are trying something like this and selling as a packaged deal (computer + servers + routers + switches + etc) to big corporate US that has R&D that they are interested in but can't get their hands on because that US corp is hesitant to set up a shop in China.
One more reason not to keep your files in "My Documents".
Problem with that logic on windows 7 is that "My documents" are stored in the "c:\users\xxxxxx\Documents" folder. Now the hacker needs to figure out what the xxxxx is.
Maybe this is different under windows 7 (or any other version) when the computer is not on a domain.
Isn't that already called Google, where you give them your email, your pictures, your videos, your calendar, all your documents, all your web searches, and about half of your total web surfing (*cough* analytics *cough* doubleclick *cough)?
That's why double-click and google-analytics are on my blocked no-script list.
Not sure about the cost benefit is worth it on storing data in MS Access over SQL Server or Oracle.
I don't usually have a problem with the business using MS Access as a front-end app for these scenarios, but there is nothing but grief over the quality or reliability of the data when storing it in Access.
I strongly believe the business owns the data, and IT owns the infrastructure for hosting that data. So, if the business wants to have the data available 99.999% and not have issues with concurrency and reliability, then our job in IT is to ensure we use the technologies to get them there.
The business shouldn't care what IT uses for its infrastructure as long as they have access to their data and costs are within budget and its maintainable. And by getting MS Access off the desktops, then the business will save money on licensing, but I imagine that they will keep Access and use ODBC to hook into the SQL or Oracle afterwards, but at least I can control who and how they access it (read / write).
Here's some citation for you and I hope MS is listening because I am frustrated.
I have a problem with MS Access's Ribbon. This is the first time in years I had to touch the product and I spent an hour looking for the "compact and repair" feature to fix a corrupted database. One would figure that such a tool should be under the "Database Tools", but no, they decide to put it under the orb.
Another one ribbon feature that irks me me is the "switch windows". It seems to me that I have more mouse clicks to get there, than using the previous menu option. And the alt+w +1-9 doesn't work anymore.
In MS Word, using the styles ribbon is a PITA. And I never understood in an office suite where all the products are made by the same company why when I open up multiple spreadsheets I can't have them side-by-side like I can in Word. I know that you can get them split, but the point is that Excel acts differently than the other office products in this manner.
I have to use this office suite at work, but am in the process of convincing the business to port all the MS Access apps into something more robust. Not sure what decisions were made in having enterprise applications created in Access, but they are paying for it with databases that get corrupted, concurrent users issues, no real DB transactions, and the nice 2 GB limits on size, but that's a different story. I will be so happy when I can get rid of Access from the enterprise desktops.
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You may think differently if your son does something like this xkcd comic. https://www.xkcd.com/1807/
I've noticed this as well, but using NoScript seems to get around that problem. YMV
Or how about OSS community buying the IP assets they tried to claim that they owned through the trials, and once those assets are bought then give them freely to the community.
I realize that giving money to SCO leaves a bad taste in my mouth and the courts have ruled that there wasn't any infringement to begin with, but at least MS can't use that FUD to curtail companies from using Linux.
My $0.02.
Maybe its a good thing I am Canadian then. We do have laws that do something about this.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/03/20/13300256-qmi.html
That's why logs are keep at the ISPs. Get the police involved and the time of the post, and they can identify the people or bots behind it.
With the language the same in every single post, why doesn't slashdot just filter this out to the garbage before it gets posted.
Maybe we should have a "-1 hate crime" mod, and the overlords can determine what to do with it. As it is, I only see myself or other mods pushing it down, thus wasting one of my mod points whereas I can be modding someone "+1 interesting" instead.
I could mark this one down as a troll as well, but what's the point since he is wasting one of my mod points in doing so, and it will just post this hate garbarge in another posting.
Has anyone contacted the police and get IP records and get this bozo charged with hate crimes? We do live in the 21st century; language, culture and humanity has moved waaaaaaay past this, and there are laws that are being broken here. Although I think this behavior shouldn't have been allowed to happen then and definitely not now. I am getting upset that I keep seeing this and have to waste time and points burying it, and have seen people posting that to just "ignore it and it will go away", but it hasn't gone away.
I really don't know why after so many months, we are allowing this clown to continue posting. The wording and language is almost exactly the same. So, why doesn't the filter pick this up and log IP and delete the post? Do the overlords in slashdot secretly agree with this language and choose to let this continue.
I come to slashdot to read and comment on various IT / science topics and may not agree with everyone here, but we can be civilized about it.
Sincerely,
White guy that hates racism in all forms.
P.S. Sorry for the rant, but this has gone on for too far. This will be the last time I will waste any of my time commenting on this or using mod points to deal with it. Mod me into oblivion if you wish to do so, but its your conscience.
Only need 2 of them, and a million bucks should about do it.
I hear you need a million bucks for that.
No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Your ideas interest me and I would like to subscribe to your architecture diagram
I heard good things about that version too.
Didn't they electrify the barbed wire too? I also heard that the help desk has a "big red shiny button" that controls it.
The blame lies with LAZY system designers and LAZY developers.
Since we're spreading blame, then don't forget the lazy QA department for not testing that, and the lazy BA for not writing sufficient specs, or the data architect who thinks that a CustomerID should only be an INT.
I believe that the root of these issues arises from poor specs that the developer and QA consume to produce code / unit tests that ultimately fail in the end product. I've worked for many companies throughout my career and almost every time this issue occurs it can be pointed to the BA producing the original spec. Most times the BA is over worked / inexperienced and management isn't interested in spending more time on the front of projects to get things done right, or the end users don't want to invest time in working with the BA to get things right. I've seen it all.
Lots of blame to go around, just don't pile it on the developers.
Our version 2.0 system includes a small amount of absorbent material woven into teh seat bottom that can hold 50X it's weight in liquid.
We've moved onto version 2.1 where the absorbent material was replaced with a catheter.
I think the priates could get the constant internet connection re-routed to somwhere else.
Instead of pinging Ubi website (or whatever it is) to see if the internet is connected, the hackers could just get the game to ping 127.0.0.1 instead. Problem solved (me thinks)
Maybe they bought those set of tires from the Russians ;)
I don't understand... can you provide a car analogy for me?
Otherwise I'd just take a month off of work and buy a ton of food and go wilderness camping somewhere (Canada would be nice, but not in Feb)
Given the weather you guys had this year in the states, I would rather stay here in Canada (Calgary). Other than a couple of cold days in December (-30 C), its been a relatively balmy winter (near melting temps throughout January). I pity the people in Vancouver though as they don't have much snow for the Olympics.
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Vancouver+Olympics+could+face+lack+snow+Accuweather/2102994/story.html
I think the Chinese could do this by ensuring that the USB, computer, firewall, etc were made by them, and ensuring there was a hidden pipe through all those channels. This would only work in certain scenarios, and I doubt that they would try it until they could guarantee that a customer would be using all compromised equipment.
I wouldn't be surpised if they are trying something like this and selling as a packaged deal (computer + servers + routers + switches + etc) to big corporate US that has R&D that they are interested in but can't get their hands on because that US corp is hesitant to set up a shop in China.
Good point. Mod the parent up for it.
One more reason not to keep your files in "My Documents".
Problem with that logic on windows 7 is that "My documents" are stored in the "c:\users\xxxxxx\Documents" folder. Now the hacker needs to figure out what the xxxxx is.
Maybe this is different under windows 7 (or any other version) when the computer is not on a domain.
Isn't that already called Google, where you give them your email, your pictures, your videos, your calendar, all your documents, all your web searches, and about half of your total web surfing (*cough* analytics *cough* doubleclick *cough)?
That's why double-click and google-analytics are on my blocked no-script list.
Not sure about the cost benefit is worth it on storing data in MS Access over SQL Server or Oracle.
I don't usually have a problem with the business using MS Access as a front-end app for these scenarios, but there is nothing but grief over the quality or reliability of the data when storing it in Access.
I strongly believe the business owns the data, and IT owns the infrastructure for hosting that data. So, if the business wants to have the data available 99.999% and not have issues with concurrency and reliability, then our job in IT is to ensure we use the technologies to get them there.
The business shouldn't care what IT uses for its infrastructure as long as they have access to their data and costs are within budget and its maintainable. And by getting MS Access off the desktops, then the business will save money on licensing, but I imagine that they will keep Access and use ODBC to hook into the SQL or Oracle afterwards, but at least I can control who and how they access it (read / write).
Here's some citation for you and I hope MS is listening because I am frustrated.
I have a problem with MS Access's Ribbon. This is the first time in years I had to touch the product and I spent an hour looking for the "compact and repair" feature to fix a corrupted database. One would figure that such a tool should be under the "Database Tools", but no, they decide to put it under the orb.
Another one ribbon feature that irks me me is the "switch windows". It seems to me that I have more mouse clicks to get there, than using the previous menu option. And the alt+w +1-9 doesn't work anymore.
In MS Word, using the styles ribbon is a PITA. And I never understood in an office suite where all the products are made by the same company why when I open up multiple spreadsheets I can't have them side-by-side like I can in Word. I know that you can get them split, but the point is that Excel acts differently than the other office products in this manner.
I have to use this office suite at work, but am in the process of convincing the business to port all the MS Access apps into something more robust. Not sure what decisions were made in having enterprise applications created in Access, but they are paying for it with databases that get corrupted, concurrent users issues, no real DB transactions, and the nice 2 GB limits on size, but that's a different story. I will be so happy when I can get rid of Access from the enterprise desktops.
Agreed! Also what I do, is before I encode is to switch 1 to 0 and 0 to 1. That'll really confuse'em!
But, they'll figure that one out eventually. How about leaving all the 0's as 0's and switching the 1's to 0's. That should do the trick ;)
What's to say that you can't get a VM that emulates a x86 instead on this box?