If they couldn't store the CC number, you would have to enter it in every time, which I don't think is the case with PSN.
Apparently you didn't read anything I wrote. You don't have to re-enter the CC every time because PCI-E compliant shops store and re-use an authorization number they receive the first time you make a purchase.
I can't imagine the PSN is anything less than PCI-E compliant. That means they can't store the credit card number -- only the last four digits of it. The first time they charge your card, an authorization number is provided along with the transaction. Future transactions then re-use that authorization number, which is validated to make sure that the repeated transactions come only from the same merchant as the initial charge.
My friend's wireless provider does the same thing. When I say wireless, I don't mean cellular and I don't mean wifi, it's some local provider for some corner of our county delivering wireless internet on a licensed spectrum.
Anyways, his terms of service explicitly forbid Bit Torrent and after three days of their service he was disconnected. He called up their tech support line and their first question was, "Well do you play WoW?" After he answered yes, they re-enabled his service and apologized for the inconvenience.
Bit Torrent = Evil except when it keeps people paying their ISP bill...
You're onto the right idea, but I think you've got a few misconceptions. BSD protects the developer's freedom to do what he wants with the code. He can include it in a software package and then relicense that software package however he sees fit, including in a closed-source manner.
It's the GPL that protects the end user's freedom, because any applications he runs that were developed downstream from a GPLed package remain GPLed for him to access all aspects of the code.
But as soon as the end user begins tinkering with code, well then he might refer to himself as a developer and might prefer the lesser restrictions of the BSD.
I don't think you understand what "free in as beer" means. When something is free as in beer, you are welcome to drink as much of it as you want for no charge. You don't get the recipe to the beer, you aren't given the ingredients, you don't get a say in how the beer should taste or could be tweaked for the better.
Closed source software that doesn't doesn't have licensing costs is the analogy described by "free as in beer."
The GPL license is free as in liberty.
Both the GPL and the BSD are free as in liberty, because you are given the code and permission and customize it to do what you want.
In my opinion, the GPL is less free than the BSD license because my liberty becomes limited when I want to distribute my changes in the application to others. With BSD, I'm given the liberty to license the software how I want and I'm given the liberty of not having to provide my source code to others. For a lot of the work that I do, that becomes a big deal -- I can provide software or a service without having to worry about the extra effort required to release something as GPL.
Fight the automatic opt-in for this fee and AT&T will say "Hey, you're violating the terms of our contract by tethering without authorization and we are now terminating our agreement.
By the way, here is your $300 early termination fee."
After I first made the switch with Slackware, I bounced from distro to distro to see what I liked. I stuck with SUSE ever since because Yast made it easier to customize the OS than any other tool I've used.
When they choose their own desktop metaphors and setups, and STILL screw up and then bitch out the IT department for their own shortcomings, that's when said IT department should be able to tell them "Since you can't handle responsibility, you're getting the standard default locked down setup that's almost impossible to bugger up."
We're talking about the Recycle Bin here. How can you bugger that up?
The problem you describe lies with your need to empty the Recycle Bin.
Leaving it on the Desktop is nice for the times you really *do* want to permanently empty those files as well as the times you want to undelete.
Off topic: Why force your personal preference on the users of your company? I think that's poor form. Let them decide how they want to use their own workspace.
I keep different passwords for my accounts based on their importance. Slashdot, Reddit, forums, IM, etc get a weaker password that's easier to remember.
Banks, insurance, work, email and the like get much stronger passwords.
If someone were to compromise my password on a less important site, who cares? I certainly don't.
Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
"/story/" is an absolute path, since it takes you to the document root of the webserver. I think you are referring to a fully qualified path, where the domain name (and perhaps protocol) are also included.
In any case,/etc/hosts is your friend and will easily help you work around both problems without having to build your own HTTP headers or rewrite any URLs.
we decided we needed more generic performance so we went for a different line of processors.
So the T-series values highly parallel processing over generic performance. The anecdote you offer is that your company bought CPUs from someone else because you wanted more generic performance. Yet someone at Oracle "didn't quite get it" when they made the announcement to go after the kind of market that you're in?
They have 4 economical fuel efficient cars. YET they have 5 different Corvette models.
You do realize that the level of horsepower found in Corvettes is by highly efficient engine designs, right? Did you know that most Corvettes achieve 30+ MPG on the freeway? Sure, those V8s can suck gas when pushed to their limits but they are very good at taking small sips for everyday driving.
I agree, but as someone who has to maintain many networks
Well heck no, you don't let an unprotected Windows box anywhere near a corporate network. That's a completely different world, where anti-virus can be useful simply for the notifications.
Slashdot Mirror
No thanks, mine just needs to browse the web.
If they couldn't store the CC number, you would have to enter it in every time, which I don't think is the case with PSN.
Apparently you didn't read anything I wrote. You don't have to re-enter the CC every time because PCI-E compliant shops store and re-use an authorization number they receive the first time you make a purchase.
I can't imagine the PSN is anything less than PCI-E compliant. That means they can't store the credit card number -- only the last four digits of it. The first time they charge your card, an authorization number is provided along with the transaction. Future transactions then re-use that authorization number, which is validated to make sure that the repeated transactions come only from the same merchant as the initial charge.
My friend's wireless provider does the same thing. When I say wireless, I don't mean cellular and I don't mean wifi, it's some local provider for some corner of our county delivering wireless internet on a licensed spectrum.
Anyways, his terms of service explicitly forbid Bit Torrent and after three days of their service he was disconnected. He called up their tech support line and their first question was, "Well do you play WoW?" After he answered yes, they re-enabled his service and apologized for the inconvenience.
Bit Torrent = Evil except when it keeps people paying their ISP bill...
You're onto the right idea, but I think you've got a few misconceptions. BSD protects the developer's freedom to do what he wants with the code. He can include it in a software package and then relicense that software package however he sees fit, including in a closed-source manner.
It's the GPL that protects the end user's freedom, because any applications he runs that were developed downstream from a GPLed package remain GPLed for him to access all aspects of the code.
But as soon as the end user begins tinkering with code, well then he might refer to himself as a developer and might prefer the lesser restrictions of the BSD.
The BSD license is free as in beer.
I don't think you understand what "free in as beer" means. When something is free as in beer, you are welcome to drink as much of it as you want for no charge. You don't get the recipe to the beer, you aren't given the ingredients, you don't get a say in how the beer should taste or could be tweaked for the better.
Closed source software that doesn't doesn't have licensing costs is the analogy described by "free as in beer."
The GPL license is free as in liberty.
Both the GPL and the BSD are free as in liberty, because you are given the code and permission and customize it to do what you want.
In my opinion, the GPL is less free than the BSD license because my liberty becomes limited when I want to distribute my changes in the application to others. With BSD, I'm given the liberty to license the software how I want and I'm given the liberty of not having to provide my source code to others. For a lot of the work that I do, that becomes a big deal -- I can provide software or a service without having to worry about the extra effort required to release something as GPL.
Apparently you haven't heard of the fix.
Fight the automatic opt-in for this fee and AT&T will say "Hey, you're violating the terms of our contract by tethering without authorization and we are now terminating our agreement.
By the way, here is your $300 early termination fee."
After I first made the switch with Slackware, I bounced from distro to distro to see what I liked. I stuck with SUSE ever since because Yast made it easier to customize the OS than any other tool I've used.
When they choose their own desktop metaphors and setups, and STILL screw up and then bitch out the IT department for their own shortcomings, that's when said IT department should be able to tell them "Since you can't handle responsibility, you're getting the standard default locked down setup that's almost impossible to bugger up."
We're talking about the Recycle Bin here. How can you bugger that up?
Anybody who spends more than $1000 for a laptop is a fanboy in my opinion.
My employer spent quite a bit more than that to equip many of us with a Thinkpad. Was it worth the price? I would say every last dime of it.
Thin, light, fast. My laptop is a workhorse. I'm not sure you could deliver something this nice for less than a grand.
They beat Cisco and all their phone placement?
The problem you describe lies with your need to empty the Recycle Bin.
Leaving it on the Desktop is nice for the times you really *do* want to permanently empty those files as well as the times you want to undelete.
Off topic: Why force your personal preference on the users of your company? I think that's poor form. Let them decide how they want to use their own workspace.
No, the GPL does not propagate as long as you aren't redistributing the software to anyone else.
Modify the source all you want, just don't deliver it in any shape or form to a third party.
The justice system also granted Sony the privilege to seize GeoHot's equipment for sharing three integers. That is flawed.
You act like it's Sony's fault that our justice system lets them get away with this crap.
He simply released the email that was sent to him.
Bowling for Columbine was brilliant. Fahrenheit 911 was loony.
I keep different passwords for my accounts based on their importance. Slashdot, Reddit, forums, IM, etc get a weaker password that's easier to remember.
Banks, insurance, work, email and the like get much stronger passwords.
If someone were to compromise my password on a less important site, who cares? I certainly don't.
Using an IP address also doesn't help if the website's designer uses absolute paths (gawd, yes, it still happens).
"/story/" is an absolute path, since it takes you to the document root of the webserver. I think you are referring to a fully qualified path, where the domain name (and perhaps protocol) are also included.
/etc/hosts is your friend and will easily help you work around both problems without having to build your own HTTP headers or rewrite any URLs.
In any case,
we decided we needed more generic performance so we went for a different line of processors.
So the T-series values highly parallel processing over generic performance. The anecdote you offer is that your company bought CPUs from someone else because you wanted more generic performance. Yet someone at Oracle "didn't quite get it" when they made the announcement to go after the kind of market that you're in?
For scale, half the diameter of the Sun is a radius of the Sun.
I can't help but think this is one of many more terrible ideas from Ray LaHood.
That guy is a nut job and needs to be let go.
They have 4 economical fuel efficient cars. YET they have 5 different Corvette models.
You do realize that the level of horsepower found in Corvettes is by highly efficient engine designs, right? Did you know that most Corvettes achieve 30+ MPG on the freeway? Sure, those V8s can suck gas when pushed to their limits but they are very good at taking small sips for everyday driving.
I agree, but as someone who has to maintain many networks
Well heck no, you don't let an unprotected Windows box anywhere near a corporate network. That's a completely different world, where anti-virus can be useful simply for the notifications.