*after reading further down* And to top it off, I was beaten to the punch by a slew of judgmental assholes who were/not/ joking, and leapt to conclusion with looking. Ah, well... skip it entirely. No harm meant.
I'm now four years from my bankruptcy and have 50% of my annual salary in unsecured revolving tradelines (i.e: credit cards) and can get the same interest rates as anyone else.
Well, it's clear you learned your lesson! *
* No, I know nothing about your situation, and was merely going for a cheap laugh. No offense intended:)
This is not about deleting the book as much as it is about his annotations. Regardless of anyone's position on deleting the book, Amazon should never have deleted the customers notes. Those notes were created by the customer, and should not have been subject to deletion.
In the summary it says that the notes were not deleted... they just no longer have a context which makes them meaningful.
considering that the hack McKinnon did consisted of logging into passwordless Windows NT computers and typing rude msgs (in wordpad) to the administrator
Just because my door is unlocked it makes it okay to come in and take a crap in the middle of my floor?
It is indeed hard to believe. As far as I've been able to tell, even in the laptops where it ships, it defaults to disabled. You must actively enable it in the BIOS for it to do anything at all. And it is certainly easily possible to get laptops without it - I just did from HP, two different ones.
If you can ever get them to ship in the first place, without things waiting in some weird limbo for three days (even with expedited processing ripoff paid for...)
Do you have sources, or are you just making assumptions based on the fact it's using a laser. It seems to me with mirrors existing as part of any car on the road, they just/might/ have thought of this one.
Not even that. Such an AI could observe only the outward symptoms of our (il)logic as expressed by our behavior. The best it could do would be to mimic behavior and develop logic built on that foundations. It would have no insight into the motivations, reasoning, and logic that leads to do that behavior ourselves.
Yeah, that's how it would be professionally handled. But from experience, thats not how it always works. People just go to other stuff and ignore older work (not saying this would be the case here tho)
Which doesn't make it acceptable. Whether you're a volunteer or paid a six digit salary, if you take on responsibility -- it is a real responsibility, regardless of pay or lack thereof. I deal with the same thing regularly to a lesser extent in running a volunteer game project. There's nothing quite as frustrating as relying on someone to get work done and having them just disappear without even paying the courtesy of telling you "Hey, I'm not going to finish this - find someone else." And it's ten times worse when it's the lead of a project, on whom many other people are depending to keep the project moving forward.
It would take two minutes to write an email. The disappearing act is inexcusable, short of death or coma. (Which I certainly hope has not happened in this case...)
I should have clarified that AX in its present incarnation is no worse than FF plugins -- the early versions which would simply install on demand are a completely different story. Also a valid point - FF plugins have to be specificalyl installed as FF plugins. ActiveX controls can already be installed and registered from anything...
Actually its Attendees' since they are plural and their information was lost
That's really very funny, you're the third person to correct the poster by replying with exactly what s/he had already posted. Too, you've fallen victim to Muphry's law in your own post...
Title should say "attendees'", not "attendee's".
Let me re-paste the same quote, and add the space which reveals that which you all have failed to see...
he thing to keep in mind is that Firefox and other browsers that allow for DLLs to be loaded as plugins are going to have these problems as well
People tend to like to forget about that. ActiveX is no more or less unsafe than FF plugins. Executable code running on the client machine, non-sandboxed. Both FF and IE will prompt you before installing such things, and that's the extent of the protection you get from them. Both can be very easily abused by a malicious creator - all you have to do is get people to install it (bunnies!); or install it yourself as part of another application.
Hm - so why upgrade to new versions? I'm not familiar with mac updates, but do they stop issuing security updates once the new version comes out? If so, that's an excellent reason not to buy. If not... I can't see that it would matter, as nothing requires you to spend the money.
Linux: you could run a windows VM, or WINE for your web browsing needs. That actually might be even safer than browsing directly on any platform, assuming that you didn't use the VM for anything else.
Suprise: lawmakers are once again clueless when it comes to technical issues that have been around for less than 100 years.
The real question is who is advising them so poorly?
Actually, I would say - depending on the final implementation - this may be remarkably clueful. Let me put it in a context that's a little closer to home: I don't want stupid employees with access to my tax records using their PCs to do anything but work. Each additional thing they do increases the chance that going to go and "click on the bunnies", thus ensuring that my data - and yours - is available to whichever botnet claims the machine. So hell yeah - ban all non-governmental use of file sharing. Ban web browsing. Ban fscking ftp. If they don't need it to do their jobs, they shouldn't have it.
The same could be said of ANY employee of an organization that has access to sensitive customer information. We're not talking about protecting people from themselves here (futile at best) -- rather, it's protecting people from the stupidity of other people outside of the realm of their control.
In the age of networked and portable computers, pDAs, lives can be ruined on a massive scale by one careless click.
That being said, I absolutely trust congress to screw this up and pass a bill that prohibits federal employees from using any and all Internet-based tools without 18 levels of approval. This in turn will require hiring more federal employees to manage the approvals process. That will require hiring more federal employees to manage HR and payroll... and if there's one thing that HR is good at, it's instuting more policies that add more overhead and more wasted money on irrelevant education, training, etc. Which in turn means hiring more personnel...
I've ran XP for years and never had a security issue. Standard practices such as not opening attachments from people you don't know and keeping everything updated do wonderfully. Yes, not everyone follows them, but maybe after a few security problems, they'll learn.
So very true. I've not only run flavors of windows for years, but done so without antivirus or anti malware -- and never had* a virus unless I deliberately installed it to see it in action. (Yes, I periodically boot linux and run a CLAM scan of the hdd to make sure of that.) A few very simple steps:
Do enable viewing of file extensions, hidden and OS files immediately.
Do not open attachments that you have not specifically requested**. Do not EVER open an executable attachment .
Save everything to hard drive before opening it - whether it be from a web page or email. The make sure it is what it is supposed to be.
Disable file previewing in Windows Explorer.
Disable HTML content in Windows Explorer.
Always use Detail view in Windows Explorer.
Disable flash except when you need it
Disable Acrobat's behavior of launching embedded in the browser.
Do not use Outlook Express or Outlook. (In more recent history, maybe the next item covers this.)
Do disable HTML view on your mail client
Do disable content downloading on your mail client.
In return you can run your PC happily for years without reformatting, and without the hideous performance hit associated with AV.
*Okay, you caught me. I had a Stoned variant on DOS 3.3 that I picked up from a floppy. First and last.
** In this age of script kiddie madness, virus propogation through modified executables seems
I agree - it's not perfect, and it's far to open to abuse. But to say that it should be covered by the 1st amendment goes well beyond any interpretation of what the 1st amendment is there for. This isn't to say that other means shouldn't be developed to address that kind of inequity -- just that the 1st ain't it
eanwhile, if the defendant can scrape enough together to prevail in court, I sincerely hope the plaintiff gets "tweeted to death" in the aftermath.
It seems logical on the surface, but if people in general leave 3 seconds of space between them and the next car, traffic jams would not occur in the first place -- because there would be room to maneuver around whatever obstruction was causing it.
Try it yourself sometime. It's hard to do at first, because you (we) are so conditioned to react reflexively when driving, and not think ahead. But try it: next time you're in heavy traffic, leave a 3 second gap. You'll notice the following things if you pay attention:
a subset of people will zip around you. they will also zip out of your lane when they catch up to the car in front, usually after slamming on their brakes. Net impact on your arrival time: 0
You will use your brakes much less. That far back, you can see what's coming, and adjust your speed accordingly well ahead of time. Net impact on your arrival time: 0. Net impact on your brakes: Hard to measure. I' coming up on 70,000 miles and am still on my factory original brake pads.
People behind you will use their brakes less, having a reverse ripple effect through traffic-- in effect helping it to move more smoothly. The reason is this: even if they are following you at a half second (and you'll find they often give more than that, when you give more), you are using your brakes less and so they are less reactive.
You won't be pissy and stressed.
The best part is that you can do all of this without arriving any later or earlier than if you kept yourself glued to the bumper in front of you -- but you can do it with a lot less stress, less wear and tear on your vehicle, less risk of lapsing in attention for the wrong second and nearly rear-ending somebody (come on, we've ALL had that close call) and even helping out the general traffic problem in a small way.
Plus there's amusement value! Those drivers scurrying around you, rushing up to the car 3 seconds ahead, slamming on their brakes, jerking their wheels too and fro to get ahead... while you can sit back and shake your head wondering how in the hell you ever let yourself get caught up in that childish insanity.
The second level of amusement value comes when you see those same scurrying ants passing you... again, and again, and again. Because they never look further than the nearest open space in front of them, almost all of them go through a constant cycle of "picking the wrong lane" and getting "stuck" - losing ground, then rushing to make it up again. It's pretty fabulous to watch.
Oh, You must like in Colorado. You just described MANY of the drivers here. The one that you missed is when they drive fast to get to the front of the line AND THEN slow down to the same speed.
It's funny -- all of these irritations that people have, someone else is saying, "You must be from XYZ, because/they/ totally do that!". Nobody seems to realize that lack of consideration for other drivers is rampant in the populated areas of all 50 states -- and quite likely around the world.
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*after reading further down* And to top it off, I was beaten to the punch by a slew of judgmental assholes who were /not/ joking, and leapt to conclusion with looking. Ah, well... skip it entirely. No harm meant.
I'm now four years from my bankruptcy and have 50% of my annual salary in unsecured revolving tradelines (i.e: credit cards) and can get the same interest rates as anyone else.
Well, it's clear you learned your lesson! *
* No, I know nothing about your situation, and was merely going for a cheap laugh. No offense intended :)
Maybe it will help them to stay in their lane too.
Sighted people can't stay in their lanes. It can only get better.
Maybe just a run of bad luck on my part. I've been happy with amazon shipping for non-third-party, so I'll stick with 'em for the nonce.
Yep, I can read ;) I'm talking about orders placed Monday morning that ship Wednesday afternoon or so. On three different occasions now.
This is not about deleting the book as much as it is about his annotations. Regardless of anyone's position on deleting the book, Amazon should never have deleted the customers notes. Those notes were created by the customer, and should not have been subject to deletion.
In the summary it says that the notes were not deleted... they just no longer have a context which makes them meaningful.
considering that the hack McKinnon did consisted of logging into passwordless Windows NT computers and typing rude msgs (in wordpad) to the administrator
Just because my door is unlocked it makes it okay to come in and take a crap in the middle of my floor?
It is indeed hard to believe. As far as I've been able to tell, even in the laptops where it ships, it defaults to disabled. You must actively enable it in the BIOS for it to do anything at all. And it is certainly easily possible to get laptops without it - I just did from HP, two different ones.
If you can ever get them to ship in the first place, without things waiting in some weird limbo for three days (even with expedited processing ripoff paid for...)
Yep, that'd be one of those rare times that falls into the category of "death or coma" :)
Do you have sources, or are you just making assumptions based on the fact it's using a laser. It seems to me with mirrors existing as part of any car on the road, they just /might/ have thought of this one.
Not even that. Such an AI could observe only the outward symptoms of our (il)logic as expressed by our behavior. The best it could do would be to mimic behavior and develop logic built on that foundations. It would have no insight into the motivations, reasoning, and logic that leads to do that behavior ourselves.
That's rather a different case. Frankly, that's a useful feature - as it remains in the user's complete control.
Yeah, that's how it would be professionally handled. But from experience, thats not how it always works. People just go to other stuff and ignore older work (not saying this would be the case here tho)
Which doesn't make it acceptable. Whether you're a volunteer or paid a six digit salary, if you take on responsibility -- it is a real responsibility, regardless of pay or lack thereof. I deal with the same thing regularly to a lesser extent in running a volunteer game project. There's nothing quite as frustrating as relying on someone to get work done and having them just disappear without even paying the courtesy of telling you "Hey, I'm not going to finish this - find someone else." And it's ten times worse when it's the lead of a project, on whom many other people are depending to keep the project moving forward.
It would take two minutes to write an email. The disappearing act is inexcusable, short of death or coma. (Which I certainly hope has not happened in this case...)
I should have clarified that AX in its present incarnation is no worse than FF plugins -- the early versions which would simply install on demand are a completely different story. Also a valid point - FF plugins have to be specificalyl installed as FF plugins. ActiveX controls can already be installed and registered from anything...
I'm tired of that silly myth.
The best programmers I have met were nice people and they were very easy to get along with and work with.
It's all part of the ego trip. If a programmer gets people to say "He's such a nice guy! And talented too!" he goes into nerdgasms.
Actually its Attendees' since they are plural and their information was lost
That's really very funny, you're the third person to correct the poster by replying with exactly what s/he had already posted. Too, you've fallen victim to Muphry's law in your own post...
Title should say "attendees'", not "attendee's".
Let me re-paste the same quote, and add the space which reveals that which you all have failed to see...
Title should say "attendees' ", not "attendee's".
he thing to keep in mind is that Firefox and other browsers that allow for DLLs to be loaded as plugins are going to have these problems as well
People tend to like to forget about that. ActiveX is no more or less unsafe than FF plugins. Executable code running on the client machine, non-sandboxed. Both FF and IE will prompt you before installing such things, and that's the extent of the protection you get from them. Both can be very easily abused by a malicious creator - all you have to do is get people to install it (bunnies!); or install it yourself as part of another application.
Linux: you could run a windows VM, or WINE for your web browsing needs. That actually might be even safer than browsing directly on any platform, assuming that you didn't use the VM for anything else.
Suprise: lawmakers are once again clueless when it comes to technical issues that have been around for less than 100 years.
The real question is who is advising them so poorly?
Actually, I would say - depending on the final implementation - this may be remarkably clueful. Let me put it in a context that's a little closer to home: I don't want stupid employees with access to my tax records using their PCs to do anything but work. Each additional thing they do increases the chance that going to go and "click on the bunnies", thus ensuring that my data - and yours - is available to whichever botnet claims the machine. So hell yeah - ban all non-governmental use of file sharing. Ban web browsing. Ban fscking ftp. If they don't need it to do their jobs, they shouldn't have it.
The same could be said of ANY employee of an organization that has access to sensitive customer information. We're not talking about protecting people from themselves here (futile at best) -- rather, it's protecting people from the stupidity of other people outside of the realm of their control.
In the age of networked and portable computers, pDAs, lives can be ruined on a massive scale by one careless click.
That being said, I absolutely trust congress to screw this up and pass a bill that prohibits federal employees from using any and all Internet-based tools without 18 levels of approval. This in turn will require hiring more federal employees to manage the approvals process. That will require hiring more federal employees to manage HR and payroll... and if there's one thing that HR is good at, it's instuting more policies that add more overhead and more wasted money on irrelevant education, training, etc. Which in turn means hiring more personnel...
Speaking of Obligatory, one can't make the post above without giving credit to its grandfather.
I've ran XP for years and never had a security issue. Standard practices such as not opening attachments from people you don't know and keeping everything updated do wonderfully. Yes, not everyone follows them, but maybe after a few security problems, they'll learn.
So very true. I've not only run flavors of windows for years, but done so without antivirus or anti malware -- and never had* a virus unless I deliberately installed it to see it in action. (Yes, I periodically boot linux and run a CLAM scan of the hdd to make sure of that.) A few very simple steps:
In return you can run your PC happily for years without reformatting, and without the hideous performance hit associated with AV.
*Okay, you caught me. I had a Stoned variant on DOS 3.3 that I picked up from a floppy. First and last.
** In this age of script kiddie madness, virus propogation through modified executables seems
eanwhile, if the defendant can scrape enough together to prevail in court, I sincerely hope the plaintiff gets "tweeted to death" in the aftermath.
seconded
Try it yourself sometime. It's hard to do at first, because you (we) are so conditioned to react reflexively when driving, and not think ahead. But try it: next time you're in heavy traffic, leave a 3 second gap. You'll notice the following things if you pay attention:
The best part is that you can do all of this without arriving any later or earlier than if you kept yourself glued to the bumper in front of you -- but you can do it with a lot less stress, less wear and tear on your vehicle, less risk of lapsing in attention for the wrong second and nearly rear-ending somebody (come on, we've ALL had that close call) and even helping out the general traffic problem in a small way.
Plus there's amusement value! Those drivers scurrying around you, rushing up to the car 3 seconds ahead, slamming on their brakes, jerking their wheels too and fro to get ahead... while you can sit back and shake your head wondering how in the hell you ever let yourself get caught up in that childish insanity.
The second level of amusement value comes when you see those same scurrying ants passing you ... again, and again, and again. Because they never look further than the nearest open space in front of them, almost all of them go through a constant cycle of "picking the wrong lane" and getting "stuck" - losing ground, then rushing to make it up again. It's pretty fabulous to watch.
Oh, You must like in Colorado. You just described MANY of the drivers here. The one that you missed is when they drive fast to get to the front of the line AND THEN slow down to the same speed.
It's funny -- all of these irritations that people have, someone else is saying, "You must be from XYZ, because /they/ totally do that!". Nobody seems to realize that lack of consideration for other drivers is rampant in the populated areas of all 50 states -- and quite likely around the world.