Canadian's don't carry cash. Period. At least not Canadians under 30. This is one area in which the US and Canada are vastly different... cash is now hardly used for any transactions in Canada anymore, at all.
This service is actually very well priced because it is competing with E Interac email money transfers in Canada (EMT). Most banks charge you $1.50 to send an EMT if it is not covered by your banking plan. 50 cents is much less.
I can tell you right now, this service is going to be immensely popular.
a) Get rid of all existing private regulations across all industries b) Pass a new law that says privacy is assumed absolute across all matters unless permission is otherwise given c)... nothing else?
Seriously, I don't know why anything should be otherwise. No one in any industry should be allowed to share my information with anyone else unless I gave them permission.
I realize that is not how it is now, but it is how it SHOULD BE.
Because if the attacker could do that at Starbucks, he would not need to cache-poison my browser to get my login cookies to slashdot... they would already be sent with every request.
This is why DNSSEC is important to get rolled out. And also why you should not use public WiFi to do anything online that you worry about someone compromising.
All it is is a pretty wild theory that an exploit could occur... and there are a vast number of increasingly unlikely events that have to transpire for it to happen.
a) Your browser has to have unpatched remote script injection exploits.
b) You have to be using VPN to connect to *an untrusted network*. This is the opposite of what you normally use VPN for
c) Once connected to this insecure network via VPN, you have to for some reason visit a page on it that shares the IP address as another web server in your network. As well, the person who is hosting the exploit script on this page (that they are trying to cache) has to also know the name of the exact same script file *on your network*, so that the cache will pick it up the next time you connect to your own resources.
To me, all seems very unlikely. Sure, you could do this in a lab environment, but in the real world, if a would-be-intruder already knew that much about your network, and you are for some reason VPN'ing into a network that they control, then you likely have bigger issues with physical security and meat-space trust relationships in our business, and are already screwed over.
You are not playing against the house - therefore THERE IS NO HOUSE ODDS. It is totally irrelevant if the dec is real or virtual - both real and online casinos make a fixed percentage of money based on the size of the pot - they don't care at all who walks away with it.
.. because most of the people there probably think they could do your job.
It's not the same problem as being IT at a finance company or other enterprise. In those places, the pain is always the stupid questions 24/7, and troubleshooting "my printer won't work".
in a software shop, the problem is usually more along the lines of locking down a guy's network access because he is using SOCKS to tunnel around the mandatory web proxy, or demanding developers wanting X or Y software available right away, etc.
It is a different set of problems. At the end, being treated with respect is the same as it is in any other customer facing job. Treat the customer with respect and they will return in kind. Understand, everyone there is trying to get a job done.
I am a developer too and most of the time I have no contact with IT at all, because I handle my own problems. The only time I talk to IT is if I have a legitimate hardware issue, or a requirement for something to do my job. As such, when I go to make thee requests in a polite way, I expect to not get an eye-roll or exasperation etc. I expect a polite response with a probable timeline. Maybe a "No problem, I can probably get that to you for Wednesday" - as opposed to "I don't have time for this sh*t right now. Come back tomorrow!"
Just remember - you are in customer service. The other employees, they are your customers.
If you actually want to READ and POST text news, then I don't know why anyone would use an NNTP client nowadays. Google Groups is a far superior gateway.
If you are interested in binaries, then I would point you to Astraweb. They have great price plans.
No - There is no need for them. If you want to tell a story, do it through the game play, not cut-scenes.
Again - if I wanted to sit down passively and watch a movie, then that is what I would be doing! Not playing a game.
As games get more and more interactive it is just going to become more and more annoying.
Imagine in years ahead where you are in a VR type of simulator where you are actually running around through rooms chasing someone, and you walk through a door, and all action stops so you can watch some stupid movie scene - instead of continuing with the storyline in VR with you as the character. How crappy would that be?
Now explain how is it any more acceptable when you are using a keyboard or joystick for control?
In what way is Android a closed system? Anyone can write Android apps. The API is fully open. Anyone can publish them to the Google ap store. Or you can just install them individually like any application for any OS.
I don't see how you can compare Android to the iPhone as both being closed. The iPhone is closed in every single way. Android in nearly none.
Performance is created by the compiler, not the language. A C program compiled with a shitty compiler is going to run slower than a Ruby one in a good VM, even though C is running native on the CPU. For that matter, what if I take the C code and compile it with the CLR as a VM target?
I wish people would stop trying to compare languages by performance, it does not make any sense. The only language it makes any sense for at all is assembler.
Am I the only one who could care less about cinematics in video games?
Any time I am playing a game and a cut scene occurs, all it does is remove me from the game play, and I just find the "skip" button as quickly as possible.
When I am playing a game, I want it to be interactive. I want control, I want to act as the character. Cut scenes and cinematics totally detract from that - they take me out to a third person view they act like the "third wall" still exists, when in the rest of the game, it does not exist.
At the end of it - if I wanted to watch a film, that is what I would be doing, not playing a video game.
I wish all of these cut scenes and cinematics were just add-ons later or dropped; imagine how much quicker a game could be released if so much time and money was not invested in this.
When it comes to a project like WINE, which is trying to re-implement another closed API, the most important thing is compatibility, period. If doing that means you have to duplicate some of the same crappy code, so be it.
The fact that senior members of the wine project, which is as old as the hills, are rejecting working code because it "is not done right", is both disappointing and frustrating. It seems they have forgotten one of the mantras of open source code - release early and release often. If someone has a working DIB engine, get it in there, so people can use it and report bugs on it! If some code-snob in the team thinks they can do a better job, fine, they are free to do so - but in the man time, leave the working "incorrect" copy in there, so people who actually USE the project can get more work done with it.
The first thing your secure VPN tunnel should be doing is altering the client's DNS profile to only use the DNS servers on the other side of the tunnel. Anything else is totally insecure.
There is a big difference between taking a bunch of pictures of buildings and posting them online than posting live video online.
Once faces and license plates are blurred, all Street View is is LITERALLY a bunch of pictures of buildings. All it really is is Photobucket in a nice UI.
I don't fathom why people think it has anything to do with privacy at all.
...if you paid them enough in the first place to attract people with the right talent and drive.
Teaching is by far the most important, overworked, and underpaid position in the country.
Why do people post stores like this and for some reason purposefully leave out the airline? If it is a factual occurrence you are perfectly within your rights to tell us about it, and we would all be better informed by doing so.
If you think Cobert is annoying and full of hot air then you don't get the show at all, because that is exactly what heis trying to portray, on purpose, via his stage persona. That is why it is so funny.
People like you who think he is being that way naturally do not get the humor.
What would likely happen if this gained any momentum at all is Cobert would mock the campaign on his show and instead request the Cobert nation to all start calling it the Perens flu, after which they would promptly outnumber anyone on Slashdot or the news media, and that would end up being the name that would stick.
Slashdot Mirror
From the sounds of it you are an American.
Canadian's don't carry cash. Period. At least not Canadians under 30. This is one area in which the US and Canada are vastly different... cash is now hardly used for any transactions in Canada anymore, at all.
This service is actually very well priced because it is competing with E Interac email money transfers in Canada (EMT). Most banks charge you $1.50 to send an EMT if it is not covered by your banking plan. 50 cents is much less.
I can tell you right now, this service is going to be immensely popular.
You've got the wrong last name, and are thus detined to failure.
Waiting for a Z. Cochrane to come forward.
a) Get rid of all existing private regulations across all industries ... nothing else?
b) Pass a new law that says privacy is assumed absolute across all matters unless permission is otherwise given
c)
Seriously, I don't know why anything should be otherwise. No one in any industry should be allowed to share my information with anyone else unless I gave them permission.
I realize that is not how it is now, but it is how it SHOULD BE.
Because if the attacker could do that at Starbucks, he would not need to cache-poison my browser to get my login cookies to slashdot... they would already be sent with every request.
This is why DNSSEC is important to get rolled out. And also why you should not use public WiFi to do anything online that you worry about someone compromising.
All it is is a pretty wild theory that an exploit could occur... and there are a vast number of increasingly unlikely events that have to transpire for it to happen.
a) Your browser has to have unpatched remote script injection exploits.
b) You have to be using VPN to connect to *an untrusted network*. This is the opposite of what you normally use VPN for
c) Once connected to this insecure network via VPN, you have to for some reason visit a page on it that shares the IP address as another web server in your network. As well, the person who is hosting the exploit script on this page (that they are trying to cache) has to also know the name of the exact same script file *on your network*, so that the cache will pick it up the next time you connect to your own resources.
To me, all seems very unlikely. Sure, you could do this in a lab environment, but in the real world, if a would-be-intruder already knew that much about your network, and you are for some reason VPN'ing into a network that they control, then you likely have bigger issues with physical security and meat-space trust relationships in our business, and are already screwed over.
What we need, after this, is mobile phones with screens as well!
That would be so useful....
What are you talking about?
You are not playing against the house - therefore THERE IS NO HOUSE ODDS. It is totally irrelevant if the dec is real or virtual - both real and online casinos make a fixed percentage of money based on the size of the pot - they don't care at all who walks away with it.
.. because most of the people there probably think they could do your job.
It's not the same problem as being IT at a finance company or other enterprise. In those places, the pain is always the stupid questions 24/7, and troubleshooting "my printer won't work".
in a software shop, the problem is usually more along the lines of locking down a guy's network access because he is using SOCKS to tunnel around the mandatory web proxy, or demanding developers wanting X or Y software available right away, etc.
It is a different set of problems. At the end, being treated with respect is the same as it is in any other customer facing job. Treat the customer with respect and they will return in kind. Understand, everyone there is trying to get a job done.
I am a developer too and most of the time I have no contact with IT at all, because I handle my own problems. The only time I talk to IT is if I have a legitimate hardware issue, or a requirement for something to do my job. As such, when I go to make thee requests in a polite way, I expect to not get an eye-roll or exasperation etc. I expect a polite response with a probable timeline. Maybe a "No problem, I can probably get that to you for Wednesday" - as opposed to "I don't have time for this sh*t right now. Come back tomorrow!"
Just remember - you are in customer service. The other employees, they are your customers.
If you actually want to READ and POST text news, then I don't know why anyone would use an NNTP client nowadays. Google Groups is a far superior gateway.
If you are interested in binaries, then I would point you to Astraweb. They have great price plans.
No - There is no need for them. If you want to tell a story, do it through the game play, not cut-scenes.
Again - if I wanted to sit down passively and watch a movie, then that is what I would be doing! Not playing a game.
As games get more and more interactive it is just going to become more and more annoying.
Imagine in years ahead where you are in a VR type of simulator where you are actually running around through rooms chasing someone, and you walk through a door, and all action stops so you can watch some stupid movie scene - instead of continuing with the storyline in VR with you as the character. How crappy would that be?
Now explain how is it any more acceptable when you are using a keyboard or joystick for control?
In what way is Android a closed system? Anyone can write Android apps. The API is fully open. Anyone can publish them to the Google ap store. Or you can just install them individually like any application for any OS.
I don't see how you can compare Android to the iPhone as both being closed. The iPhone is closed in every single way. Android in nearly none.
Performance is created by the compiler, not the language. A C program compiled with a shitty compiler is going to run slower than a Ruby one in a good VM, even though C is running native on the CPU. For that matter, what if I take the C code and compile it with the CLR as a VM target?
I wish people would stop trying to compare languages by performance, it does not make any sense. The only language it makes any sense for at all is assembler.
To have fun is not a good enough reason to do something?
I guess you would be happier if he was just another fat slob who "has fun" by watching American Idol?
This is quite possibly the most asinine comment I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Am I the only one who could care less about cinematics in video games?
Any time I am playing a game and a cut scene occurs, all it does is remove me from the game play, and I just find the "skip" button as quickly as possible.
When I am playing a game, I want it to be interactive. I want control, I want to act as the character. Cut scenes and cinematics totally detract from that - they take me out to a third person view they act like the "third wall" still exists, when in the rest of the game, it does not exist.
At the end of it - if I wanted to watch a film, that is what I would be doing, not playing a video game.
I wish all of these cut scenes and cinematics were just add-ons later or dropped; imagine how much quicker a game could be released if so much time and money was not invested in this.
When it comes to a project like WINE, which is trying to re-implement another closed API, the most important thing is compatibility, period. If doing that means you have to duplicate some of the same crappy code, so be it.
The fact that senior members of the wine project, which is as old as the hills, are rejecting working code because it "is not done right", is both disappointing and frustrating. It seems they have forgotten one of the mantras of open source code - release early and release often. If someone has a working DIB engine, get it in there, so people can use it and report bugs on it! If some code-snob in the team thinks they can do a better job, fine, they are free to do so - but in the man time, leave the working "incorrect" copy in there, so people who actually USE the project can get more work done with it.
BPA in plastic bottles was banned in Canada last year.
And I never trust anyone who is a big enough tool to write comments on something without even looking into what it is.
You run privoxy on your own local machine. No packets are being inspected by anyone.
The first thing your secure VPN tunnel should be doing is altering the client's DNS profile to only use the DNS servers on the other side of the tunnel. Anything else is totally insecure.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/
There is a big difference between taking a bunch of pictures of buildings and posting them online than posting live video online.
Once faces and license plates are blurred, all Street View is is LITERALLY a bunch of pictures of buildings. All it really is is Photobucket in a nice UI.
I don't fathom why people think it has anything to do with privacy at all.
Sounds like there will be a lot of cheap XOs on sale on eBay pretty soon - can't wait.
...if you paid them enough in the first place to attract people with the right talent and drive. Teaching is by far the most important, overworked, and underpaid position in the country.
Why do people post stores like this and for some reason purposefully leave out the airline? If it is a factual occurrence you are perfectly within your rights to tell us about it, and we would all be better informed by doing so.
If you think Cobert is annoying and full of hot air then you don't get the show at all, because that is exactly what heis trying to portray, on purpose, via his stage persona. That is why it is so funny.
People like you who think he is being that way naturally do not get the humor.
What would likely happen if this gained any momentum at all is Cobert would mock the campaign on his show and instead request the Cobert nation to all start calling it the Perens flu, after which they would promptly outnumber anyone on Slashdot or the news media, and that would end up being the name that would stick.