Whenever I download an ISO, I always leave BT running until I have uploaded several times what I downloaded. I am talking about Linux ISOs and stuff here. I do not download what I haven't paid for. Even stealing from theiving scumbag record company executives is stealing.
If I get any such letter, I will calmly reply and ask for a formal apology. If that fails, they will get bad publicity. Users come to me all the time at work and ask for reccomendations. At the moment, my advice is just keep away from AOL and TalkTalk. I would need to expand that.
I am also sure that the local press would love the story...
As this study is US specific is it insinuating that the rest of us are safe (unlikely), or is it that they are so parochial that they have forgotten that 96% of humanity is not in the USA (probable).
Many banks in the UK are now giving you card readers. I suspect that some parts of Europe have been doing it for years. Nothing is foolproof but it shows that they want me to think they are trying anyway...
I can only think of one needing a reboot once while running FF3. I was howwever running Outlook and Word at the same time as well. Both of these have caused this PC to hang up several times. So I am not 100% convinced that I have had even one FF3 crash.
Presumably this means that I am destined for 6+ crashes in the next 24 hours...
Good security would mean not showing information that would make lives easier for the bad guys.
Do not show the OS and it would be smart to not show what they are actually doing as well. There may be some scumbag that realises that "za1w2k7dc123" would be a very useful machine to hack into and we now know what weaknesses to try and exploit...
Some/most of these things exist already, some of them are in use and relevant. Others are just excuses for avoiding work.
Most of us have unused processor cores. Multicore is a great idea. Does this mean that someone might actually start writing software that uses them?
We have an ever increasing number of virtual servers. Fabric computing might make for a better PDA or iPod but I can't see it being used in office environments for workers. Mostly for IT techs and Suits
Handy for Sales Weasels but not business related for most of us.
In use already. Many of us use web apps but they have yet to hit the big time. Possible...
I can believe this one.
Yes, computers will continue to have user interfaces...
My phone is ubiqutous. I can believe that I will have a decent PC on me at all times.
Needs more work to show me what that means. In the meantime - a buzzword.
Overlays on the inside of my glasses? In some fields. HUDs for the masses.
Another buzzword and needs clarification to me anyway
And how much of the water that covers this 70% is actually drinkable?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water 97% is salt water and undrinkable. Large scale desalination is energy expensive. I believe it is popular in the Persian Gulf - at least on the rich Arab side - until their money runs out and they go back to the desert...
IT has always calculated in powers of 2. The "gibi" nonsense was invented by dodgy salesmen to talk up their equipment.
Even Microsoft gets it right. I am sitting at a machine with a HDD of 60,011,606,016 bytes. It was sold as 60GB but Windows reports it correctly as 55.8. Why should people be misled because some suit wearing sales wheasel decided to invent a series of rubbish words beginning in gibi?
We need more court cases until this misrepresentation ends. Have you noticed that flat screen monitor sizes are correct, where CRT ones dishonestly used to include bits of the tube you couldn't even see...
Will this stuff be infringing the GPL in any way? You might wonder if MS' lawyers have looked over this but we have heard in the past that Bill & Steve consider it a Communist plot or something...
A laptop has a crummy little keyboard that will give you RSI, a screen that is small enough to give you eyestrain and a fiddly little trackpad if you are lucky. If you are less fortunate, it will just have one of those nasty little pointers that is about good enough for a sales weasel to do powerpoint with.
A desktop system will be cheaper, more powerful with mouse and keyboard of your choice and as many big screens as you can afford.
I have an old laptop. The only thing it can do that my desktops (home or work) can't, is let me watch TV, eat and surf at the same time. I will get a Hauppage card for my home PC at some point then the only extra thing my latop will be able to do is keep my privates warm!
Not using WEP, or better, on your router is giving permission for anyone to use it.
Conversely, putting even the weakest of passwords on it is marking it as private.
A good comparison is a bankroll. If I keep it in my pocket, that shows that I want it.
If I wander around handing people money, it shows I want to share it (assuming I am of sound mind).
I have read in various places, including/. that most corporate leaders have extreme anti-social tendencies.
Perhaps this is to identify our future managers. We are not very good at this here. Don't believe all you hear about the British "Class System". The class war died out in the late '70s - nobody could be bothered. It has restarted in the last 5-10 years but has not been anything except the politicians trying to gain votes.
If this system helps us identify the nasty people, we can train them to be professional suit wearers and run multinationals for us!
The ones that annoy me are ones who are clever and capable but want to not learn things because they feel that their lack of knowledge is a sign of their superiority.
There are plenty of people who have got better things to do than find out how to use something. There are some who are just not able to and even some who are frightened by it.
If someone is scared of technology, I will sympathise and try and sort things without worrying them. If someone else is so busy learning their job that they have little enthusiasm for learning IT fair enough. If someone is so arrogant that mustn't learn how to check if something is actually plugged in then I feel that they may be a waste of DNA.
if they dared explain that Lincoln did not "end slavery"
A much more major opponent of slavery is William Wilberforce.
This came to a head in 1807 - 2 years before Lincoln was born. However, slavery has not ended - and that is just the first link I thought of.
How are these facts comparable to saying the earth is flat?
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Whenever I download an ISO, I always leave BT running until I have uploaded several times what I downloaded. I am talking about Linux ISOs and stuff here. I do not download what I haven't paid for. Even stealing from theiving scumbag record company executives is stealing.
If I get any such letter, I will calmly reply and ask for a formal apology. If that fails, they will get bad publicity. Users come to me all the time at work and ask for reccomendations. At the moment, my advice is just keep away from AOL and TalkTalk. I would need to expand that.
I am also sure that the local press would love the story...
No. I specifically said it was in the UK, rather than just say "banks"
When you make statements about something, say where the something is. That was my criticism of the article.
The USA is not alone in this. So please don't feel singled out ;).
As this study is US specific is it insinuating that the rest of us are safe (unlikely), or is it that they are so parochial that they have forgotten that 96% of humanity is not in the USA (probable).
Many banks in the UK are now giving you card readers. I suspect that some parts of Europe have been doing it for years. Nothing is foolproof but it shows that they want me to think they are trying anyway...
I can only think of one needing a reboot once while running FF3. I was howwever running Outlook and Word at the same time as well. Both of these have caused this PC to hang up several times. So I am not 100% convinced that I have had even one FF3 crash.
Presumably this means that I am destined for 6+ crashes in the next 24 hours...
Good security would mean not showing information that would make lives easier for the bad guys.
Do not show the OS and it would be smart to not show what they are actually doing as well. There may be some scumbag that realises that "za1w2k7dc123" would be a very useful machine to hack into and we now know what weaknesses to try and exploit...
Yes, they are a reply to the article. I presume that when you posted, you had not actually read it.
The purpose of the links in the /. article is to actually inform you. They are not there because they are a pretty colour...
Some/most of these things exist already, some of them are in use and relevant. Others are just excuses for avoiding work.
In some fields, that is a very optimistic figure...
You only have the capital until the oil runs out - unless someone comes up with a power source as cheap as Oil was.
oops! Pressed the wrong button on the calculator. I thought it should be bigger.
Carefully pressing the right buttons, I get 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056
And how much of the water that covers this 70% is actually drinkable?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water 97% is salt water and undrinkable. Large scale desalination is energy expensive. I believe it is popular in the Persian Gulf - at least on the rich Arab side - until their money runs out and they go back to the desert...
According to Robert Heinlein in "The Number Of The Beast" it is actualy 6^6^6 which comes to 2,176,782,336 and we passed that figure a while back.
I work in a hospital. When I am on call, I go to Blockbusters, not the movies.
IT has always calculated in powers of 2. The "gibi" nonsense was invented by dodgy salesmen to talk up their equipment.
Even Microsoft gets it right. I am sitting at a machine with a HDD of 60,011,606,016 bytes. It was sold as 60GB but Windows reports it correctly as 55.8. Why should people be misled because some suit wearing sales wheasel decided to invent a series of rubbish words beginning in gibi?
We need more court cases until this misrepresentation ends. Have you noticed that flat screen monitor sizes are correct, where CRT ones dishonestly used to include bits of the tube you couldn't even see...
Will this stuff be infringing the GPL in any way? You might wonder if MS' lawyers have looked over this but we have heard in the past that Bill & Steve consider it a Communist plot or something...
A laptop has a crummy little keyboard that will give you RSI, a screen that is small enough to give you eyestrain and a fiddly little trackpad if you are lucky. If you are less fortunate, it will just have one of those nasty little pointers that is about good enough for a sales weasel to do powerpoint with.
A desktop system will be cheaper, more powerful with mouse and keyboard of your choice and as many big screens as you can afford.
I have an old laptop. The only thing it can do that my desktops (home or work) can't, is let me watch TV, eat and surf at the same time. I will get a Hauppage card for my home PC at some point then the only extra thing my latop will be able to do is keep my privates warm!But a glide ratio with style!
annex The Great White North
Be very careful! Look what happened the last time the US fell out with Canada! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
Not using WEP, or better, on your router is giving permission for anyone to use it.
Conversely, putting even the weakest of passwords on it is marking it as private.
A good comparison is a bankroll. If I keep it in my pocket, that shows that I want it.
If I wander around handing people money, it shows I want to share it (assuming I am of sound mind).
Not an infinite loop - more like feedback.
You decide whether it is positive or negative feedback though...
I have read in various places, including /. that most corporate leaders have extreme anti-social tendencies.
Perhaps this is to identify our future managers. We are not very good at this here. Don't believe all you hear about the British "Class System". The class war died out in the late '70s - nobody could be bothered. It has restarted in the last 5-10 years but has not been anything except the politicians trying to gain votes.
If this system helps us identify the nasty people, we can train them to be professional suit wearers and run multinationals for us!
The ones that annoy me are ones who are clever and capable but want to not learn things because they feel that their lack of knowledge is a sign of their superiority.
There are plenty of people who have got better things to do than find out how to use something. There are some who are just not able to and even some who are frightened by it.
If someone is scared of technology, I will sympathise and try and sort things without worrying them. If someone else is so busy learning their job that they have little enthusiasm for learning IT fair enough. If someone is so arrogant that mustn't learn how to check if something is actually plugged in then I feel that they may be a waste of DNA.
if they dared explain that Lincoln did not "end slavery"
A much more major opponent of slavery is William Wilberforce. This came to a head in 1807 - 2 years before Lincoln was born. However, slavery has not ended - and that is just the first link I thought of.
How are these facts comparable to saying the earth is flat?
As I am not a lawyer, it was not obvious to me what they were patenting.
Is this patenting having the html on one server and the rest (pictures etc) on other ones?
If it is that, I think there should be some prior art in the original stuff from Tim Berners-Lee.
EU states have been getting in trouble with the EU for years. Mostly it is about money.
Each country is entirely sovereign and can make its own policy. They just may have to answer for it...