Govenment should not compete with private business over such matters.
I disagree. When things are best provided as a localized monopoly, I would rather the government (yes, with it's inherent inefficiencies, which are magnitudes less than rabid conservatives would have you believe) have that monopoly, than a for-profit company that will eventually abuse that monopoly.
You can prevent the company from abusing the monopoly with government regulation, true - but then you're spending money to regulate the industry. Better you just do it yourself, via the government.
But it'll be an OEM copy, and by buying it without a PC, you're violating the license, just as surely as if you were pirating it, because it's not authorized.
Heather Hall can trace the start of her online banking nightmare to the day she received what she thought was a legitimate e-mail request from Bank of America asking her to click a link to a bank Web page. The 27-year-old health services worker typed in her login, password and account number.... Bank of America agreed to reimburse the money stolen from Hall's account, but only after she badgered them. "They wanted me to believe it was my fault," says Hall.
Not quite - this would theoretically allow you to now also host your DNS zone on a system with a dynamic IP, as you can now get a change to the root-level NS records in short order.
People have the right to form a union if they want to. If you don't like unions then don't join them. It's not anyone else's problem.
That's amusing.
Don't join. Heh.
A company up here in Canada was bought up by a major telco. The union employees in the major telco forced a vote on the employees of the smaller company, making it mandatory for the smaller company's employees to join the union if they wanted to keep their jobs.
The story on El Reg has a bit of helpful information (emphasis mine):
The flaw affects version 11 of the software of the C65, CX65, M65, S65 model phones, and then only if the phone has already issued three low-battery warnings.
With the "only after three" it sounds like this was meant a 'feature' where they assumed that if you didn't do something after the first three beeps, it must be in your pocket or somewhere else you can't hear it - so crank up the volume.
Obviously, they forgot that people won't immediately end their calls - rather, they'll stay on the call, because their phone is about to die, and they want to get as much info across before it kicks the bucket.
Canada too - at least if the bar calls it a pint, it must meet the legal definition of a pint.
The CBC radio show "Definitely Not The Opera" interviewed one of the guys from the Bureau, and he explained that yes - you can file a complaint that a pint you were served was not a pint, and they will come out, measure it, and if it's short, fine the establishment $500.
Just because they didn't CALL it a "cluster bomb" at the time, doesn't mean it's not of the same classification as what we would now call a cluster bomb - and operate in just the same fashion.
Also, my experience with longer RS232 cable runs is that they get problematic.
Ethernet has the advantage of being very mass market these days - small, inexpensive interfaces are easy now, and if you're already wiring your house with Cat5 ethernet, then you don't need to pull a bunch of parallel RS232 lines. You can also add small hubs or switches easily and spider the lines out, something that requires a rather pricey device to do with RS232.
As to the convenience - I wouldn't think you would leave the system such that you had to log into every device individually. You'd just slave them all to one master console, but you ALSO have the option of just sticking one standalone device in, or direct accessing them if problems arise.
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Govenment should not compete with private business over such matters.
I disagree. When things are best provided as a localized monopoly, I would rather the government (yes, with it's inherent inefficiencies, which are magnitudes less than rabid conservatives would have you believe) have that monopoly, than a for-profit company that will eventually abuse that monopoly.
You can prevent the company from abusing the monopoly with government regulation, true - but then you're spending money to regulate the industry. Better you just do it yourself, via the government.
What do we do when there's no sun hitting the earth's surface for six months?
Get hooked up as living batteries to keep the computers running, of course!
The timing of the second password is not dependent on when the first is entered.
It's evaluated as to what it should be at the moment you hit enter, after punching it in.
We use them all over at work, and it's pretty easy.
Ah, but he's a former Sandia staffer. He obviously got let go for looking into things that would sabotage the Halliburton empire!
Except that in some other systems, the judge is an active participant who is digging to find out what the truth is, rather than a referee.
But it'll be an OEM copy, and by buying it without a PC, you're violating the license, just as surely as if you were pirating it, because it's not authorized.
Do you know what a coralized link is?
Hint: it's not the process of listing one per line.
What part of "it would still be horrific" was too hard for you to understand?
I'm just taking issue with people equating 150 million dead with the loss of all human life on earth. They aren't the same.
150/6000. While a hideous loss of human life, it is not a doomsday scenario. The other 5850 million will keep on going.
As Red Dawn taught us, there's ways around that...
"So who's on our side?"
"[...]and half a billion screaming Chinese."
"I thought there were a billion Chinese."
"There were."
Heather Hall can trace the start of her online banking nightmare to the day she received what she thought was a legitimate e-mail request from Bank of America asking her to click a link to a bank Web page. The 27-year-old health services worker typed in her login, password and account number. ...
Bank of America agreed to reimburse the money stolen from Hall's account, but only after she badgered them. "They wanted me to believe it was my fault," says Hall.
Yes, it's her fault. She did something foolish.
Shockingly, people in this day and age still miss blatant sarcasm!
Not quite - this would theoretically allow you to now also host your DNS zone on a system with a dynamic IP, as you can now get a change to the root-level NS records in short order.
I sure wouldn't want to try that, though....
Folks aren't seeming to get it.
The EMPLOYER would have been thrilled for those employees to remain non-union.
The UNION came in and strongarmed it into being.
People have the right to form a union if they want to. If you don't like unions then don't join them. It's not anyone else's problem.
That's amusing.
Don't join. Heh.
A company up here in Canada was bought up by a major telco. The union employees in the major telco forced a vote on the employees of the smaller company, making it mandatory for the smaller company's employees to join the union if they wanted to keep their jobs.
Yeah, they had a choice, all right.
I think we've well surpassed what a station wagon full of backup tapes can do now....
This is very different from GMail, where every user can invite only one other user.
That's not what my account says...
Maybe at the BEGINNING, yes. If you use them up, you get more, and larger chunks.
I was last issued 6 at one shot.
I've had "Anime" checked off in the "Block stories from homepage" for ages... but this showed up.
Anyone else seeing that?
The story on El Reg has a bit of helpful information (emphasis mine):
The flaw affects version 11 of the software of the C65, CX65, M65, S65 model phones, and then only if the phone has already issued three low-battery warnings.
With the "only after three" it sounds like this was meant a 'feature' where they assumed that if you didn't do something after the first three beeps, it must be in your pocket or somewhere else you can't hear it - so crank up the volume.
Obviously, they forgot that people won't immediately end their calls - rather, they'll stay on the call, because their phone is about to die, and they want to get as much info across before it kicks the bucket.
After all, you have a pre-existing business relationship with them, right? You do pay your taxes, don't you citizen? ;)
Canada too - at least if the bar calls it a pint, it must meet the legal definition of a pint.
The CBC radio show "Definitely Not The Opera" interviewed one of the guys from the Bureau, and he explained that yes - you can file a complaint that a pint you were served was not a pint, and they will come out, measure it, and if it's short, fine the establishment $500.
Well, yeah. He said "linked to from Snopes". The majority of the items on Snopes are old wive's tales that are false.
It's simply an easy metric to test a calculator by. Takes virtually no effort to enter or explain it.
Just because they didn't CALL it a "cluster bomb" at the time, doesn't mean it's not of the same classification as what we would now call a cluster bomb - and operate in just the same fashion.
They may exist, but they look pretty darn pricey.
Also, my experience with longer RS232 cable runs is that they get problematic.
Ethernet has the advantage of being very mass market these days - small, inexpensive interfaces are easy now, and if you're already wiring your house with Cat5 ethernet, then you don't need to pull a bunch of parallel RS232 lines. You can also add small hubs or switches easily and spider the lines out, something that requires a rather pricey device to do with RS232.
As to the convenience - I wouldn't think you would leave the system such that you had to log into every device individually. You'd just slave them all to one master console, but you ALSO have the option of just sticking one standalone device in, or direct accessing them if problems arise.