OK, I smoke. Probably about 10 roll-ups a day. But I also don't drive a car, I bike everywhere.
Man, do I feel guilty for causing all that global warming through smoking! (I have no qualms in believing smoke passive or otherwise is detrimental to health though)
Perhaps slightly OT, but the article is slashdotted and the header mentioned VISA and breaches.
I think one of the greatest mistakes the credit/debit card companies/banks (certainly here in the UK) made was the compulsary PIN entering (as opposed to a signature) at point-of-sale. Now all you need to do is stand behind me and see my PIN, or if you work at the store - have the security camera trained at the keypad then either lift my wallet or clone my card. All you need is that four digit number, and you've pretty much got my bank account.
My point is, companies make fundamental security errors, and will continue to do so.
I'm not sure if the name ITV is already trademarked, as there's a long established TV station in the UK called ITV, which stands for Independent TeleVision.
to be honest, its easier to just give a call to explain a problem or to ask for something.
Couldn't agree more, I'm a "credit controller" (I work in accounting and get debtors to pay my company). A phonecall pretty much always yields better results. EG:
Hi there can I speak to the accounts payable please?
Hi, I'm calling from this company, and you owe us money. Can we have it please?
Sure you can have your money, I'll write a cheque up today
Thanks for that. What was your name again?
That's how a conversation might go at work. Takes all of five minutes, I've got their name, they know I spoke to them, and I record what they say. It gives much more accountability that I spoke to Bob from accounts who promised me a cheque by a certain date. Even with email delivery reciepts (which are pretty useless), you don't get that level of accountability than with a phonecall.
Email. No thought required. I work in an office, and I get a ton of emails every day. Each one of them tends to cause work for me.
If HTTP was blocked at work though, I'd be looking for another job pretty quick. Saying that, my new company recently decided that I must take lunch at 12pm rather than 1pm and that was enough for me to accept interviews at other companies.
The internet as we know it is still a baby. As new ideas happen and are implemented, the processes will be refined in some way. Here's a page that explains how such a system can evolve. First a small set of mods, then more, then BAD MODS NO, and metamoderation happened. Bad users on/. are unable to post, etc...
I tried out Second Life for the first time today, and was sorely dissapointed. I'd read the BBC News article about it so I thought I'd see what the fuss was about.
It was really laggy, maybe my housemate was killing my bandwidth with downloading again. That made it pretty much unplayable, but the fact it crashed no less than ten times (something my computer never does) in about 30 minutes turned me right off it.
What I did observe though was a lot of confused characters running around and telling each other to "get lost" and then LOLing heartily. Reminded me of school in some small way.
I went to this site. I was paired with someone, then presented with my image. It was one I recognised, the 'broken image link' glyph. I tagged 'broken' and '404' among other things.
I didn't get one tag in common with my partner!
The tags that are installed in your bin are there to identify a bin with a household and issue an instruction to the truck to weigh on lift. There's no worthwhile talk of it tracking discarded packets RFIDs and profiling you based on your garbage....
I used Firefox 2.0 beta 1 and ended up getting really pissed off. The thing crashed several times a day, I submitted a bug report every time. Went back to 1.5, and happily sailing along again. Firefox hasn't crashed since I went back to the last non beta.
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Do we want one dominant game for each strategy? No, we don't but alternatives surface after time. Doom may have been the defining FPS a few years ago, but is it any more? No. And could you label one current FPS as 'definitive'? I doubt it. MMORPGs are relatively new territory, but there are other games out there. Don't play them myself, but a lot of my friends play a game called EVE.
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OK, I smoke. Probably about 10 roll-ups a day. But I also don't drive a car, I bike everywhere.
Man, do I feel guilty for causing all that global warming through smoking! (I have no qualms in believing smoke passive or otherwise is detrimental to health though)
I was hoping for something a little closer to Extreme Ironing.
That would have been cool.
Perhaps slightly OT, but the article is slashdotted and the header mentioned VISA and breaches.
I think one of the greatest mistakes the credit/debit card companies/banks (certainly here in the UK) made was the compulsary PIN entering (as opposed to a signature) at point-of-sale. Now all you need to do is stand behind me and see my PIN, or if you work at the store - have the security camera trained at the keypad then either lift my wallet or clone my card. All you need is that four digit number, and you've pretty much got my bank account.
My point is, companies make fundamental security errors, and will continue to do so.
government officials have closed down 8,907 shops and street vendors, 481 publishing companies and 942 illegal websites.
Shutting down 942 'illegal' websites means nothing purely because it's China. Wikipedia is illegal there, so is Slashdot probably.
I'm not sure if the name ITV is already trademarked, as there's a long established TV station in the UK called ITV, which stands for Independent TeleVision.
As long as they include a warning label on the CD case (like the 'copy protected' ones), so we can choose not to buy it that will be fine.
there has been fraud, corruption, and all manner of crap going on in elections in the US since the beginning of time.
My, aren't we feeling patriotic today. Who cares that you failed history.
Couldn't agree more, I'm a "credit controller" (I work in accounting and get debtors to pay my company). A phonecall pretty much always yields better results. EG:
Hi there can I speak to the accounts payable please?
Hi, I'm calling from this company, and you owe us money. Can we have it please?
Sure you can have your money, I'll write a cheque up today
Thanks for that. What was your name again?
That's how a conversation might go at work. Takes all of five minutes, I've got their name, they know I spoke to them, and I record what they say. It gives much more accountability that I spoke to Bob from accounts who promised me a cheque by a certain date. Even with email delivery reciepts (which are pretty useless), you don't get that level of accountability than with a phonecall.
Email. No thought required. I work in an office, and I get a ton of emails every day. Each one of them tends to cause work for me.
If HTTP was blocked at work though, I'd be looking for another job pretty quick. Saying that, my new company recently decided that I must take lunch at 12pm rather than 1pm and that was enough for me to accept interviews at other companies.
Th-th-th-that's all folks!
The internet as we know it is still a baby. As new ideas happen and are implemented, the processes will be refined in some way. Here's a page that explains how such a system can evolve. First a small set of mods, then more, then BAD MODS NO, and metamoderation happened. Bad users on /. are unable to post, etc...
I tried out Second Life for the first time today, and was sorely dissapointed. I'd read the BBC News article about it so I thought I'd see what the fuss was about.
It was really laggy, maybe my housemate was killing my bandwidth with downloading again. That made it pretty much unplayable, but the fact it crashed no less than ten times (something my computer never does) in about 30 minutes turned me right off it.
What I did observe though was a lot of confused characters running around and telling each other to "get lost" and then LOLing heartily. Reminded me of school in some small way.
It isn't very portable with that kind of weight.
A warning against buying technology that is not yet proven and standardised?
I'd be moving even sooner if I had a multimillion dollar vehicle parked in my garage.
I should hope so too, for all that money.
Oh no! I went to Holland last year and smoked some weed, which is illegal in the US. Guess I won't be seeing those relatives across the pond now.
Now the web will really mooooove forwards!
I went to this site. I was paired with someone, then presented with my image. It was one I recognised, the 'broken image link' glyph. I tagged 'broken' and '404' among other things.
I didn't get one tag in common with my partner!
Vanilla mp3s sound bland.
The tags that are installed in your bin are there to identify a bin with a household and issue an instruction to the truck to weigh on lift. There's no worthwhile talk of it tracking discarded packets RFIDs and profiling you based on your garbage....
I used Firefox 2.0 beta 1 and ended up getting really pissed off. The thing crashed several times a day, I submitted a bug report every time. Went back to 1.5, and happily sailing along again. Firefox hasn't crashed since I went back to the last non beta.
Do we want one dominant game for each strategy? No, we don't but alternatives surface after time. Doom may have been the defining FPS a few years ago, but is it any more? No. And could you label one current FPS as 'definitive'? I doubt it. MMORPGs are relatively new territory, but there are other games out there. Don't play them myself, but a lot of my friends play a game called EVE.
Don't worry, all the major AV software suppliers are working on the common cold virus as we speak.
It's also pretty obvious that was a metaphor.
Graphical User Interfaces are intuitive because you can remember the location of things.
That's easy. It's at c:/>Files\Home\Photos\1997\Family\Snaps\*.jpg
duh.