I am really sick of hearing this same, lame, usless comment. Who cares about visual voicemail? My cell plan doesnt even INCLUDE voicemail, and I have a Windows Mobile 2006 smartphone.
Not everyone even cares about voicemail on their cell, let alone the visual kind. The iPhone has MUCH more going for it than that lame feature.
For that matter why should anyone have access to the records of who voted at all?
IMO there is no difference in the privacy of who you voted for, and the privacy of if you even voted. It is your right to vote or not to vote. I mean - imagine a week after the election, your local busybody comes by your house and asks why you didn't vote. WTF? Whose business is that?
Obviously someone could just watch for you at your local polling station, but they would have to know who you were in advance for that to work.
The only reason I see for recording that information AT ALL is to ensure no one votes twice, and that function is only valid while the election is in progresss, because it is not something you can even audit afterwards.
Therefore once the election is complete that information should be permanently destroyed.
I think these guys underestimate how much bandwidth the cable companies actually have to play with.
Every two analog channels they can free up off of their wires is good for around 25 Mbps of bandwidth. In my area that is worth at least 1.5 Tbps (60 channels * 25 / 2), and that is just the analog channels I know about - it is probably more like the first 80 or 100 analog channels are currently reserved, or almost 3 Tbps.
Once they are allowed to go fully digital (that is, once set top boxes are so cheap they can give them away to existing old-school customers), they will have no bandwidth issues.
It's part of the protocol. Any link on any web page should be able to specify ANY protocol.
Is anyone complaining that Konqeuror can handle links like sftp://root@someftpsite ?
The whole article is stupid. It is going to come out that this is not remotely exploitable unless you use another remote exploit to install the 3rd party protocol handler.
I am anxious to see how these guys plan to remotely install a URI handler into the registry without any user intervention, unless they are using some other remote exploit, in which case THAT is the actual bug.
Concrete cracks due to temperature changes because it is under stress in a confined area, and the concrete is trying to expand or contract and is not allowed to do so. It is the same reason ice develops cracks.
If this dome is a completely whole concrete structure with no seams, that sits on top of land, it should not crack.
What I would be more worried about is the windows or door frame cracking when the structure shrinks and puts pressure on the frame.
There is no reason that a city can't create a system such that the workers carry with them a GPS-enabled mapping device that can show them EXACTLY what is under them ANYWHERE.
In fact such a system should be federally mandated as mandatory. I hear way too many stories like this.
At my company, email is the primary communication mechanism. I easily get over 100 emails a day that should be responded to by someone, with about 50% of them being "group" mails to more than one person, or to an entire team, which I may or may not respond to directly depending on if I have anything to say.
None of these are "to do" items, they are part of a conversation flow that has to take place between the team and the management in order to get things done. Some companies do this in group meetings, some do it in a top-down delegation approach. Mine does it with email. As such, I check my email around every 2-3 minutes at least, quickly scanning the inbox for messages that pertain to me.
I don't feel it "stressful" though - it is part of the job.
This is why I think stories like this are pointless. You can't take any group of people and generally classify them as checking email too often or too little unless you know the specifics of their job and company and how they use email in their day-to-day life. 150 emails in one day is nothign to me, but I know people in other jobs who would be freaked out if they had to deal with 5 per hour.
.. because people were confusing it. It's called "Climate Change". The havoc we're causing on the atmosphere does not make it uniformly warmer - rather it gets way hotter than average in some areas and way colder than average in others... it just ON THE WHOLE WORLDWIDE is hotter on average.
The huge fluctuations in temperature differential are the main causes of the ever increasing stomr activity in the Atlantic and Pacific.
After 40 odd years, I still vividly remeber getting a slipper thrown at me the first time I said "oh fuck" in front of my mum, I had no idea what it meant I was just parroting the "big kids".
And you don't think that is ridiculous? All you were doing was making sounds come out of your mouth. Without knowing the meaning behind the words, it is not profanity, it is just language.
If I sit there and swear at you in Japanese (assuming you don't speak Japanese), is it going to offend you? Of course not cause you have no idea what I am saying. So those words would not be profanity then.
The proper response should have been for your mother to sit down with you and explain what that word means, why some consider it offensive, and how it should only be used in the presence of people who find it acceptable - and if you do not obey those rules then you will be punished.
Kids are not as stupid and ignorant as some lawmakers and parents make them out to be. In actual fact they're usually ahead of the curve.
The web is not a uniform medium when it comes to discourse, and people should not expect it to be that way. Even a 6 year old surfing the web knows there is a difference between CNN.com and MySpace.com when it comes to community discourse. Unless you like to live in a walled garden, filtering profanity does nothing but shelter kids from the real world. Do these parents actually think their kids don't hear this kind of stuff every day at recess?
Run your electrolysis off nuclear plants. Boom a zero CO2 emission cycle.
"OH BUT THE NUCLEAR WASTE" you say. Who cares? Store it for 15-25 years, by then we will have cheap ion propulsion engines (running off nuclear power), to cleanly jettison the waste into mercury or the sun.
Nuclear is the source solution to most of our energy problems. If the general public was not so misinformed and paranoid about it, and did not have so much of a "not in my backyard" syndrome, we'd be much better off right now.
Well if you don't have a jacket then I simply don't know where else you can expect someone to put things aside from on their belt. You can't carry a cell phone, I don't care how thin, in your front pants pocket because thats where you carry your change and keys and it'll get scratched to hell. Similarly in your back pocket you can't sit down.
Unless you are a woman who carries a purse that's pretty much your only options currently, unless you have some kind of arm strap thing.
I ignore "untrusted cert" warnings all the time at my work, since we don't have any valid ones. Also, if it is my first visit to a site, I generally ignore them. But from GMail? On an open WiFi network? I don't think so.
Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you're sending it on a one-way trip. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Unless they also have an account, they can't see it. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web.
This guy doesn't get it. That's the whole freaking point of social networking, and why facebook is so popular while MySpace is now languishing.
I like the fact that when I enter my cell phone number and upload photos to facebook only my approved friends can see those details.I like the fine-grained permissions that allow me to say people in my univeristy network can view my email address, but not my home phone number.
If I want everyone and their dog to be able to see my photos I'll upload them to a public Picassaweb album or any number of other photo sharing sites.
The reason "open" social networks would never work is you couldn't control the information properly. There would be no way to enforce these types of permissions properly with any kind of reliability.
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I am really sick of hearing this same, lame, usless comment. Who cares about visual voicemail? My cell plan doesnt even INCLUDE voicemail, and I have a Windows Mobile 2006 smartphone.
Not everyone even cares about voicemail on their cell, let alone the visual kind. The iPhone has MUCH more going for it than that lame feature.
..the donut hole.
... and ideal basis for an unbeatable poker bot.
Vegas here I come!
For that matter why should anyone have access to the records of who voted at all?
IMO there is no difference in the privacy of who you voted for, and the privacy of if you even voted. It is your right to vote or not to vote. I mean - imagine a week after the election, your local busybody comes by your house and asks why you didn't vote. WTF? Whose business is that?
Obviously someone could just watch for you at your local polling station, but they would have to know who you were in advance for that to work.
The only reason I see for recording that information AT ALL is to ensure no one votes twice, and that function is only valid while the election is in progresss, because it is not something you can even audit afterwards.
Therefore once the election is complete that information should be permanently destroyed.
And in Konqueror since it was written, since it is designed this way.
It is not the web browser's job to validate input into external URI handlers. It is the URI handler's job.
What kind of a goofy thing is this - has this company never heard of Print to PDF / Print to PS?
I can make a fake HP Laserjet that saves to a file and print to that, then print 1000 copies of these coupons if I want.
I think these guys underestimate how much bandwidth the cable companies actually have to play with.
Every two analog channels they can free up off of their wires is good for around 25 Mbps of bandwidth. In my area that is worth at least 1.5 Tbps (60 channels * 25 / 2), and that is just the analog channels I know about - it is probably more like the first 80 or 100 analog channels are currently reserved, or almost 3 Tbps.
Once they are allowed to go fully digital (that is, once set top boxes are so cheap they can give them away to existing old-school customers), they will have no bandwidth issues.
It's part of the protocol. Any link on any web page should be able to specify ANY protocol.
Is anyone complaining that Konqeuror can handle links like sftp://root@someftpsite ?
The whole article is stupid. It is going to come out that this is not remotely exploitable unless you use another remote exploit to install the 3rd party protocol handler.
Non story.
Is your "working example" remotely installable?
I am anxious to see how these guys plan to remotely install a URI handler into the registry without any user intervention, unless they are using some other remote exploit, in which case THAT is the actual bug.
Concrete cracks due to temperature changes because it is under stress in a confined area, and the concrete is trying to expand or contract and is not allowed to do so. It is the same reason ice develops cracks.
If this dome is a completely whole concrete structure with no seams, that sits on top of land, it should not crack.
What I would be more worried about is the windows or door frame cracking when the structure shrinks and puts pressure on the frame.
Concrete donesn't just spontaneously crack when it is cold. It cracks the same reason ice cracks - it is trying to expand into a confined area.
A dome such as this is not confined. It can expand or contract as much as it wants. It also has no seams. Hence it will not crack.
With today's technology IMO this is inexcuseable.
There is no reason that a city can't create a system such that the workers carry with them a GPS-enabled mapping device that can show them EXACTLY what is under them ANYWHERE.
In fact such a system should be federally mandated as mandatory. I hear way too many stories like this.
It takes all of 1-2 seconds to scan through your inbox and see if any of the 10 new messages need a reply.
At my company, email is the primary communication mechanism. I easily get over 100 emails a day that should be responded to by someone, with about 50% of them being "group" mails to more than one person, or to an entire team, which I may or may not respond to directly depending on if I have anything to say.
None of these are "to do" items, they are part of a conversation flow that has to take place between the team and the management in order to get things done. Some companies do this in group meetings, some do it in a top-down delegation approach. Mine does it with email. As such, I check my email around every 2-3 minutes at least, quickly scanning the inbox for messages that pertain to me.
I don't feel it "stressful" though - it is part of the job.
This is why I think stories like this are pointless. You can't take any group of people and generally classify them as checking email too often or too little unless you know the specifics of their job and company and how they use email in their day-to-day life. 150 emails in one day is nothign to me, but I know people in other jobs who would be freaked out if they had to deal with 5 per hour.
.. because people were confusing it. It's called "Climate Change". The havoc we're causing on the atmosphere does not make it uniformly warmer - rather it gets way hotter than average in some areas and way colder than average in others... it just ON THE WHOLE WORLDWIDE is hotter on average.
The huge fluctuations in temperature differential are the main causes of the ever increasing stomr activity in the Atlantic and Pacific.
After 40 odd years, I still vividly remeber getting a slipper thrown at me the first time I said "oh fuck" in front of my mum, I had no idea what it meant I was just parroting the "big kids".
And you don't think that is ridiculous? All you were doing was making sounds come out of your mouth. Without knowing the meaning behind the words, it is not profanity, it is just language.
If I sit there and swear at you in Japanese (assuming you don't speak Japanese), is it going to offend you? Of course not cause you have no idea what I am saying. So those words would not be profanity then.
The proper response should have been for your mother to sit down with you and explain what that word means, why some consider it offensive, and how it should only be used in the presence of people who find it acceptable - and if you do not obey those rules then you will be punished.
Kids are not as stupid and ignorant as some lawmakers and parents make them out to be. In actual fact they're usually ahead of the curve.
The web is not a uniform medium when it comes to discourse, and people should not expect it to be that way. Even a 6 year old surfing the web knows there is a difference between CNN.com and MySpace.com when it comes to community discourse. Unless you like to live in a walled garden, filtering profanity does nothing but shelter kids from the real world. Do these parents actually think their kids don't hear this kind of stuff every day at recess?
Run your electrolysis off nuclear plants. Boom a zero CO2 emission cycle.
"OH BUT THE NUCLEAR WASTE" you say. Who cares? Store it for 15-25 years, by then we will have cheap ion propulsion engines (running off nuclear power), to cleanly jettison the waste into mercury or the sun.
Nuclear is the source solution to most of our energy problems. If the general public was not so misinformed and paranoid about it, and did not have so much of a "not in my backyard" syndrome, we'd be much better off right now.
A user-mode program should not have write access to binary executables in the first place.
A virus could never propagate via this fashion in a Linux system. Once the original was deleted it would be gone.
Well if you don't have a jacket then I simply don't know where else you can expect someone to put things aside from on their belt. You can't carry a cell phone, I don't care how thin, in your front pants pocket because thats where you carry your change and keys and it'll get scratched to hell. Similarly in your back pocket you can't sit down.
Unless you are a woman who carries a purse that's pretty much your only options currently, unless you have some kind of arm strap thing.
"Run As" is no solution at all. It is the Windows version of sudo, which is fine for things that SHOULD REQUIRE admin access.
But why should I require admin access to change file associations? Or to install a print driver?
"Run As" is just a crutch around poor design.
Because real people like me who don't wear jackets don't want to have to have TWO things on their belt. One is bad enough.
Depends on the context.
I ignore "untrusted cert" warnings all the time at my work, since we don't have any valid ones. Also, if it is my first visit to a site, I generally ignore them. But from GMail? On an open WiFi network? I don't think so.
You may be root but if you delete any of my shows you're going to be stuck purging your own cache for the next month.
Sincerely, your wife.
Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you're sending it on a one-way trip. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Unless they also have an account, they can't see it. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web.
This guy doesn't get it. That's the whole freaking point of social networking, and why facebook is so popular while MySpace is now languishing.
I like the fact that when I enter my cell phone number and upload photos to facebook only my approved friends can see those details.I like the fine-grained permissions that allow me to say people in my univeristy network can view my email address, but not my home phone number.
If I want everyone and their dog to be able to see my photos I'll upload them to a public Picassaweb album or any number of other photo sharing sites.
The reason "open" social networks would never work is you couldn't control the information properly. There would be no way to enforce these types of permissions properly with any kind of reliability.