Senior management frequently consider themselves exempt from just about all company policies which apply to the lower ranks, it shouldn't be too surprising to find that IT security policy is among the ones they feel are below them.
The problem with that proposal is that you need the liquids to enable the solids to be moved - if you don't have any liquids, those solids are stuck there. Then you have a tank full of toxic, strongly radioactive salt and crud. What you gonna do now, son?
I'm sincerely hoping the submitter was being sarcastic about that. Because civil liberties shouldn't be a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue, it should be an every-wing issue. It's the fundamental idea of modern democracy, and should never be negotiable.
As the submitter, I'd like to point out that the final paragraph was added by the editor and I also think the "crazy libertarians" line is a little weird, especially for somewhere like Slashdot which has generally liberal views on technology and privacy.
Then child porn. Then hate speech. Then speech to create political unrest. Then pro-abortion speech. Then pro-Republican speech.
Um... if you read TFA then you'll see it's actually "First child porn, then file sharing". The fact that you have child porn on that list as if it's something people should be able to access is a little disturbing too.
I've never owned an Apple product and chances are I never will, but I can't deny the changes Jobs and Apple brought to many people's lives. Apple and the consumer technology industry will sorely miss him for his insights and leadership.
If you're going to be a grammar pedant at least try to be a correct grammar pedant.
Google pulled the paid apps section of the Market for users in Taiwan.
"Of the market" as in "belonging to/part of the Market". This is perfectly valid and much better English than using "off" in the way you wanted to see.
I have to agree with the parent, this just seems like the initial Java hype all over again. Not to say that Java is a bad concept, but it simply hasn't achieved what some of its early proponents thought it would.
In terms of the article itself, the author has clearly got caught up in the hype and forgotten that:
a) Microsoft's core market is the business market, not the consumer market.
b) Even if they would go for it, big software houses would be very uncomfortable writing applications which anyone could view the source code of and rip off.
I mean, try telling enormous ERP vendors like SAP or Sage that they need to rewrite their software in HTML5 + JS. Yeah, sure, they'll get right on that. Companies have huge investments in traditional applications (as opposed to 'apps') and that's not going to change anytime soon considering most of the big players still consider.NET to be new and fancy, especially not when it threatens their IP. Not to mention that the article completely neglects to think about the Windows Server product line - do they seriously expect people to be writing server-side applications in this way?
My prediction is that we'll see a few HTML5 weather widgets to go on the tiles interface and that everything else will continue down the.NET line. Maybe by the time Windows 8 see widespread business adoption sometime around 2020 then there'll be a couple of HTML5 intranet widgets and company stock tickers too, but the idea of all software going this route anytime soon is pure fantasy.
Safeway trialled this in the UK 15 years ago in the mid 90s at several of their largest supermarkets including the one I shopped at. The device itself was a bit more crude (basically a barcode scanner with a memory and 16x2 LCD screen) but the concept was identical. It was also a massive failure, because people would do everything they could to steal things up to and including stealing the scanners. Then, because of the increased shrinkage, the chances of being forced to 'randomly' go back through the normal checkout anyway in order to double check your scanning shot right up, and because of that ("What's the point if I'm just going to have to go through the checkout anyway?") people stopped using them and they were gone in under a year.
It sounds like a nice idea but relies on honesty. You'd be surprised how many petty thieves there are when people think they can get away with it.
They hide data by splitting it into small pieces, writing it to disk in random order and marking that sector empty.
Sounds like a disaster to me, all you need to do is to use the disk, just defrag it and your hidden data is gone.
Yeah that was my thought too. Although you could consider defrag to be a secure destruct mechanism...;)
This is likely to be the first game I will "obtain for free" for several years. Like you I liked AC1 and like you I was going to buy AC2 but fuck that noise, my net connection regularly goes down and I am NOT going to be denied an offline gaming experience because of it.
First we had submitters who didn't read the stories they were posting.
Then we had editors who didn't read the stories they were approving.
Now we have companies who don't read the articles they put out.
Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
...so before all us Brits start going on about how our cars perform so much better, you need to multiply US MPG figures by 1.2 to make them equivilant to UK MPG figures, as an Imperial gallon > US gallon.
This is what happens when companies start valuing advertising revenue above all else.
To be honest I've avoided Gamespot for a while. Partly this is due to the increasing trend of locking away everthing to subscribers only, but mainly it was because I've read several reviews there that I felt were far too generous towards inferior games - and this was backed up by much lower scores on other sites.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that advertisers have had leverage over Gamespot reviews for quite some time now (ever since the CNET aquisition maybe?) and that we're finally seeing the fallout of that.
It's a double kick in the face really - not only are they selling out their core values and business, but they're effectively cheating their subscribers out of what they are paying for.
Hopefully this will generate enough negative publicity (and drop in subscribers) to make the management team wake up and realise that they've completely lost the plot.
Yet another misleading summary brought to you by slashdot.
Vista supports HDCP over DVI - I should know, I'm using it. The claims of HD content degredation on DVI are bullshit; it works so long as your graphics card and monitor support HDCP over DVI.
It would be nice if submitters (and editors!) took the time to check facts before posting incorrect scaremongering to the front page.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not annoying and I'm not suggesting it's acceptable, but for this to be on the front page of slashdot seems a bit over the top. Why?
There is a known workaround (re-run the installation of the application you want to uninstall - the vast majority of the time you will be propted to select from adding features, repairing features or uninstalling the application)
It's a pretty trivial bug which doesn't affect any critical systems or features
It doesn't affect that many systems - I'm running 3 Vista x64 systems and none of them have this problem
I can't believe I'm even reading this.
The entire selling point of this system is that it allows hardware developers to do sloppy work? Great! The build-and-fix approach has worked wonders for software what with constant security alerts and all, why not use it for hardware? Inspired!
Have they put any thought into this at all?
That other people might make malicious "patches"?
That they'd be opening up hardware to all the vulnerabilities that software has?
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What's that you say? The NYT reporting sensationalist untruths? Where did I leave my monocle...
Senior management frequently consider themselves exempt from just about all company policies which apply to the lower ranks, it shouldn't be too surprising to find that IT security policy is among the ones they feel are below them.
The problem with that proposal is that you need the liquids to enable the solids to be moved - if you don't have any liquids, those solids are stuck there. Then you have a tank full of toxic, strongly radioactive salt and crud. What you gonna do now, son?
I'm sincerely hoping the submitter was being sarcastic about that. Because civil liberties shouldn't be a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue, it should be an every-wing issue. It's the fundamental idea of modern democracy, and should never be negotiable.
As the submitter, I'd like to point out that the final paragraph was added by the editor and I also think the "crazy libertarians" line is a little weird, especially for somewhere like Slashdot which has generally liberal views on technology and privacy.
Then child porn. Then hate speech. Then speech to create political unrest. Then pro-abortion speech. Then pro-Republican speech.
Um... if you read TFA then you'll see it's actually "First child porn, then file sharing". The fact that you have child porn on that list as if it's something people should be able to access is a little disturbing too.
I've never owned an Apple product and chances are I never will, but I can't deny the changes Jobs and Apple brought to many people's lives. Apple and the consumer technology industry will sorely miss him for his insights and leadership.
I've no doubt there are some sick, twisted people out there who are gonna get off on the animal cruelty pics. :(
Luckily, they're all PETA members.
The word is "off", not "of".
If you're going to be a grammar pedant at least try to be a correct grammar pedant.
Google pulled the paid apps section of the Market for users in Taiwan.
"Of the market" as in "belonging to/part of the Market". This is perfectly valid and much better English than using "off" in the way you wanted to see.
I have to agree with the parent, this just seems like the initial Java hype all over again. Not to say that Java is a bad concept, but it simply hasn't achieved what some of its early proponents thought it would.
.NET to be new and fancy, especially not when it threatens their IP. Not to mention that the article completely neglects to think about the Windows Server product line - do they seriously expect people to be writing server-side applications in this way?
.NET line. Maybe by the time Windows 8 see widespread business adoption sometime around 2020 then there'll be a couple of HTML5 intranet widgets and company stock tickers too, but the idea of all software going this route anytime soon is pure fantasy.
In terms of the article itself, the author has clearly got caught up in the hype and forgotten that:
a) Microsoft's core market is the business market, not the consumer market.
b) Even if they would go for it, big software houses would be very uncomfortable writing applications which anyone could view the source code of and rip off.
I mean, try telling enormous ERP vendors like SAP or Sage that they need to rewrite their software in HTML5 + JS. Yeah, sure, they'll get right on that. Companies have huge investments in traditional applications (as opposed to 'apps') and that's not going to change anytime soon considering most of the big players still consider
My prediction is that we'll see a few HTML5 weather widgets to go on the tiles interface and that everything else will continue down the
Safeway trialled this in the UK 15 years ago in the mid 90s at several of their largest supermarkets including the one I shopped at. The device itself was a bit more crude (basically a barcode scanner with a memory and 16x2 LCD screen) but the concept was identical. It was also a massive failure, because people would do everything they could to steal things up to and including stealing the scanners. Then, because of the increased shrinkage, the chances of being forced to 'randomly' go back through the normal checkout anyway in order to double check your scanning shot right up, and because of that ("What's the point if I'm just going to have to go through the checkout anyway?") people stopped using them and they were gone in under a year.
It sounds like a nice idea but relies on honesty. You'd be surprised how many petty thieves there are when people think they can get away with it.
They hide data by splitting it into small pieces, writing it to disk in random order and marking that sector empty. Sounds like a disaster to me, all you need to do is to use the disk, just defrag it and your hidden data is gone.
Yeah that was my thought too. Although you could consider defrag to be a secure destruct mechanism... ;)
If you believe that then man, I hope you never find out how an Airplane works!
This is likely to be the first game I will "obtain for free" for several years. Like you I liked AC1 and like you I was going to buy AC2 but fuck that noise, my net connection regularly goes down and I am NOT going to be denied an offline gaming experience because of it.
Get a grip Ubisoft.
First we had submitters who didn't read the stories they were posting. Then we had editors who didn't read the stories they were approving. Now we have companies who don't read the articles they put out. Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
I mean really? A bug in beta software? This is outrageous, haul Microsoft up before congress immediately.
Of course, it would have helped if I hadn't run on autopilot and put a needless order by clause on the end, but you get the idea.
Yep, that ought to do it!
I'm guessing being emailed confidential deployment plans and the route for Airforce 1 would get them off to a good start!
...because it's always someone elses problem.
...so before all us Brits start going on about how our cars perform so much better, you need to multiply US MPG figures by 1.2 to make them equivilant to UK MPG figures, as an Imperial gallon > US gallon.
This is what happens when companies start valuing advertising revenue above all else.
To be honest I've avoided Gamespot for a while. Partly this is due to the increasing trend of locking away everthing to subscribers only, but mainly it was because I've read several reviews there that I felt were far too generous towards inferior games - and this was backed up by much lower scores on other sites.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that advertisers have had leverage over Gamespot reviews for quite some time now (ever since the CNET aquisition maybe?) and that we're finally seeing the fallout of that.
It's a double kick in the face really - not only are they selling out their core values and business, but they're effectively cheating their subscribers out of what they are paying for.
Hopefully this will generate enough negative publicity (and drop in subscribers) to make the management team wake up and realise that they've completely lost the plot.
Yet another misleading summary brought to you by slashdot.
Vista supports HDCP over DVI - I should know, I'm using it. The claims of HD content degredation on DVI are bullshit; it works so long as your graphics card and monitor support HDCP over DVI.
It would be nice if submitters (and editors!) took the time to check facts before posting incorrect scaremongering to the front page.
Woah, dude, you like totally replaced the S with a dollar implying that you think Microsoft are greedy!
Man, you're so edgy and insightful.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not annoying and I'm not suggesting it's acceptable, but for this to be on the front page of slashdot seems a bit over the top. Why?
- There is a known workaround (re-run the installation of the application you want to uninstall - the vast majority of the time you will be propted to select from adding features, repairing features or uninstalling the application)
- It's a pretty trivial bug which doesn't affect any critical systems or features
- It doesn't affect that many systems - I'm running 3 Vista x64 systems and none of them have this problem
This all seems a bit knee-jerk.I can't believe I'm even reading this.
The entire selling point of this system is that it allows hardware developers to do sloppy work? Great! The build-and-fix approach has worked wonders for software what with constant security alerts and all, why not use it for hardware? Inspired!
Have they put any thought into this at all?
That other people might make malicious "patches"?
That they'd be opening up hardware to all the vulnerabilities that software has?
Jesus christ people, use some common sense.