"Gamers are everywhere and they're everyone. They are your friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and kids, they lead responsible and caring lives, balancing their enjoyment of interactive entertainment with many other activities important to a well-rounded lifestyle,"
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-001 addresses the cross-domain vulerability with their HTML Help Active-X control. Microsoft mentions that it's "newly" discovered, but see the proof-of-concept at Security Focus--posted into BugTraq almost a month ago.
Incidentally, if you're one of those rare Windows users running IE in restricted (ESC) mode, your vulnerability is mitigated... suprise, suprise.
Part V continues the administration learning curve on Using Clients and Setting Up Servers. Chapters include... FTP, sendmail, NFS... Probably every advanced user to administrator should take some time over...
Really? How useful to today's average system adminintrator is learning FTP, sendmail, and NFS? Written any sendmail.cf's lately?
I think I'll skim that chapter and only read the Apache/OpenSSH part.
Approximately 2 percent of these calls are listened to either live or after the fact, and it may come as a surprise that Big Brother even listens to what you may say while you are on hold
Listeners are primarily interested in monitoring the agent and his/her adherence to support protocol--not the caller per-se, as some sort of eavesdropping effort. IMO, that doesn't equate to "Big Brother"... however I'll keep my finger near the mute button:)
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
I'm not sure why we should listen to patent advice from someone who copied the name of a teen actress as a/. nick. (Not a flame...
Sure sounded like one.
At any rate, you should know that patents in the modern sense originated from Italy. From Wikipedia:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Members of the European Parliament from countries including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden have asked for the software patent directive to be redone from scratch
The patent directive is ill-advised because it unnecessarily broadens the area that could be governed by patents. It's not even just about software patents. Patents on ideas are wrong, whether in software or in business. You should patent some concrete machinery, not a way of doing things.
Microsoft Business Solutions CRM is the basket, how many eggs they're putting in it is questionable. Microsoft CRM can automate sales processes in various industry segments, and mobilize sales forces with the hope of improving service--doesn't that qualify as the goals of a full-featured CRM?
Now whether or not they're competitive in the larger markets is an open question. Perhaps with some time/experience they'll get better at it; customers in the CRM field are usually demanding and have a strong hand at shaping features. As they develop new markets in various industries, MS will learn alot.
many are finding ways to take advantage of it and make money off of it
ZDNet Australia had a good article a few days ago about a website, http://www.incybernet.com that the Red Cross and Tasmanian police were investigating for fraud. They were using the Red Cross logo, soliciting for credit card, money order, or cash donations. Of course, they wouldn't return calls from the mobile phone number listed on the website.
Amazingly, the site is still up. The owner, "Damion", offers the following weak apology:
"My sincere apology to redcross Australia and world vision Australia , and other well know charity's for disfame i might of bought to your relief efforts or your company"
Code is just a form of instruction, it's not really 'art' in the popular sense of the word.
There is an aesthetic to really good code. When I see a task or algorithm coded elegantly, simply, and efficiently... to me, it is a work of art.
How can you review a piece of code and identify the team member that contributed it, without a hint otherwise? Because there's a personal and creative aspect to producing it.
Having said that, however, I believe the same could be said of the serious practitioner in virtually any profession.
The new approach eliminates the need to use SD-to-USB adapters
I think this would be great after taking pics, when you've left your camera's cable somewhere else, and you want to email them from a notebook, PC, etc.
Also, I neglected to mention in my previous post...
One factor behind MS AntiSpyware's successful may be the use of quadratic probing in a secondary clustering to traverse file patterns, which are stored in an acylic graph.
Fleischer and Trippen elaborate further on this technique in a Java implementation, which of course Microsoft did not employ. The rationale, however, is the same.
In reply to your sig, I personally think Pudge is one of the hottest things on/. these days. I find his ruggedly-crafted opinions and rock-hard rhetoric... well, stimulating.
I'm willing to be that doesn't make 2 days worth of charge
I have a T-Mobile iPAQ with PocketPC Phone Edition. I listen to music, podcasts, and surf the net every day for many hours. I'm amazed how long the battery lasts--usually 4 days.
At stake, in what could be the last great territorial land-grab, is the promise of untold mineral riches
Where humans have tread, the Arctic has suffered. Plans for a northern shipping route through the Russian Arctic could open up oil, gas, and other natural resources for exploitation. This could increase the risk of oil spills and introduce species such as rats to the ecoregion, which could have drastic consequences for nesting seabirds. The Novaya Zemlya area has a unique problem. It has been serving as a test area for nuclear weapons and suffers from elevated levels of plutonium, cesium, and other radioactive pollutants.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-001 addresses the cross-domain vulerability with their HTML Help Active-X control. Microsoft mentions that it's "newly" discovered, but see the proof-of-concept at Security Focus--posted into BugTraq almost a month ago.
Incidentally, if you're one of those rare Windows users running IE in restricted (ESC) mode, your vulnerability is mitigated... suprise, suprise.
I think I'll skim that chapter and only read the Apache/OpenSSH part.
Who will sell games to us big-breasted girls, that's the real question.
I like bubbles.
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
At any rate, you should know that patents in the modern sense originated from Italy. From Wikipedia:
Oops, sorry... ERP != CRM.
I like bubbles.
Now whether or not they're competitive in the larger markets is an open question. Perhaps with some time/experience they'll get better at it; customers in the CRM field are usually demanding and have a strong hand at shaping features. As they develop new markets in various industries, MS will learn alot.
Amazingly, the site is still up. The owner, "Damion", offers the following weak apology:
You can pay good money for this and get some free games with it.
How can you review a piece of code and identify the team member that contributed it, without a hint otherwise? Because there's a personal and creative aspect to producing it.
Having said that, however, I believe the same could be said of the serious practitioner in virtually any profession.
1. The Legacy Media.
2. He said, she said, we said.
3. What the printing press did to the Catholic Church the blogging press does to the media church.
4. Open Source Journalism, or: "My readers know more than I do." (Dec. 28)
5. News turns from a lecture to a conversation. (Dec. 29)
6. "Content will be more important than its container." (Jan. 1)
7. "What once was good--or good enough--no longer is." (Jan.4)
8. "The victory of affinity over geography."
9. The Pajamahadeen.
10. The Reality-Based Community.
Yes, I was scratching my head a little after reading that, too.
But it does underscore one point: the best ideas are not really all that simple.
Also, I neglected to mention in my previous post...
One factor behind MS AntiSpyware's successful may be the use of quadratic probing in a secondary clustering to traverse file patterns, which are stored in an acylic graph.
Fleischer and Trippen elaborate further on this technique in a Java implementation, which of course Microsoft did not employ. The rationale, however, is the same.
I like bubbles.
In reply to your sig, I personally think Pudge is one of the hottest things on /. these days. I find his ruggedly-crafted opinions and rock-hard rhetoric ... well, stimulating.