If you couldn't get acceptable performance using standard components then the User Guide for your product should have a section describing which replaceable components are non-standard and (hopefully) why. It should explain that those components must be purchased from you for the device to work properly. It shouldn't be left to the customer to assume that they can replace a HD with another standard HD and to find out later that you knew all along that they couldn't.
How about leaving the OS and boot partitions unencrypted and just encrypting your home and data filesystems? So the OS can boot and phone home but your own data is still unavailable to the thief.
You may not be able to "buy it used" like a dead tree book.
I know for example that Barnes and Noble sells ebooks that are tied to the buyer's account and some of them can be loaned to a friend for a limited period of time. (And that's a feature that B&N advertises, you silly person who thought that you can give away or sell what you bought with your own money.)
I'm pretty sure that Amazon does the same with the ebooks they sell.
I'm not sure where you live but in NYC they are focused on Parking violations and they almost completely ignore Traffic violations.
Come to NYC, drive like a maniac, sail through red lights (unless there happens to be a camera on it, then you'll get a ticket in the mail), chase pedestrians out of crosswalks, and kill cyclists as you wish, but don't park illegally or you will pay for it dearly.
Really ? And please tell us, how are customers supposed to protect themselves from that vulnerability ?
Are enterprises supposed to stop using their computers until a patch is ready, tested and deployed ?
Still don't get why it's important to inform the vendor first rather than give bad guys info to attack people who *CANNOT DEFEND THEMSELVES* ?
Well, when I worked on VM/CMS, systems programmers actually did read the code, understand the problem, fix the code all by themselves, and then distribute the fix to other VM shops (with a little help via BitNet). Then IBM would take the fix and ship it with the next release of updates.
When it was a "BSD world", the mechanism was similar. Users find bug, users fix bug, users share fix.
With Linux, we have now a large body of users who couldn't actually find a bug in the code, fix the bug in the code, or even use the distributed patch to fix their own systems, even though the source is available.
And with Windows we have a closed source OS, making it very difficult to find the bug in the code and even more difficult to patch it reliably.
Maybe the problem we are discussing is the result of closed source systems being used for important stuff at sites that don't hire folks who actually could fix the problem. Now is the problem due to a lack of capable programmers or to the "squeeze a penny" mindset of those who hire their IT staff? I ask you this in all seriousness.
According to these papers, Ol' Dirty Bastard was arrested more than 15 times on charges that ranged from resisting arrest to injuring a child, as well as assault, the attempted murder of a police officer, refusing to pay child support and the illegal possession of body armour. It connects him with the Bloods gang and at least two murders, but also describes occasions that ODB was robbed at gunpoint in his own home. "There was an indication that the [thieves] were current or former [music] industry insiders who had banded together to commit the robberies," an officer explained.
I'm currently (for the last several years) paying $40/month for 7Mbps "naked" ADSL from Verizon in NYC.
When I asked for something similar at another location they said that standalone DSL was no longer available and that I should get a voice phone line plus 1Mbps DSL for $50/month. I went with Clear instead (so far so good).
There's a "detail" link or something like that on that screen to show the actual device names (e.g. "/dev/sda"). It took a bit of wondering but I found it because I really really wanted to:-)
And I am absolutely certain that if you should be accused falsely/by accident, then someone will refund your money and compensate your time spent defending yourself.
Sample size of 1: I defended myself in a lawsuit recently, or rather my lawyer defended me. The plaintiff claimed to have spent a little less than 1/2 of what I did on legal fees, yet their lawyer in more than two years produced absolutely nothing of value towards their case and they were presented with all of the evidence that they were wrong within the first month of their complaint.
I won the case and was awarded legal fees. The judge, however, awarded me only about 2/3 of my legal fees because she said that was "about what the case was worth" (despite the other side producing nothing on nearly the same amount.. or so they claimed.. perhaps they claimed less than they actually spent to lower the judge's sense of fair costs for my reimbursement).
That's part of the point of SLAPP lawsuits -- even if you win, you lose.
According to the linked article, the guy just wanted iPhones. In case you missed it, I bolded the specific part where it states that he said that.
In one incident, the suspect followed a student into the lobby of a brownstone on West 114th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue on Nov. 15, pulled a gun and demanded the student's iPhone.
The frightened student immediately took out his phone and handed it over. But it was a BlackBerry.
The thief looked at it and immediately handed it back.
"I want iPhones," he snarled, according to a source.
I love mutt and hate thunderbird (especially over VPN - I spent one hour last week sending one email reply because of slooooow screen redraws).
But at work I'm required to use CentOS 5 and PKI for email encryption, and the CentOS 5 mutt package doesn't support that. Any suggestions other than changing jobs would be appreciated.
I am quoting (below) from the link you provided; I have added italics to indicate the quoted text and boldface to emphasize some of it.
One may wonder: where did this false interpretation originate? Who is responsible for the translation that has sparked such worldwide controversy? The answer is surprising.
The inflammatory "wiped off the map" quote was first disseminated not by Iran's enemies, but by Iran itself. The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm, used this phrasing in the English version of some of their news releases covering the World Without Zionism conference. International media including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Time magazine and countless others picked up the IRNA quote and made headlines out of it without verifying its accuracy, and rarely referring to the source. Iran's Foreign Minister soon attempted to clarify the statement, but the quote had a life of its own. Though the IRNA wording was inaccurate and misleading, the media assumed it was true, and besides, it made great copy.
And a little further down in the article:
The inconsistency of the IRNA's translation should be evidence enough of the unreliability of the source, particularly when transcribing their news from Farsi into the English language.
So we have The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm providing an "unreliable" translation of Ahmadinejad's quote of a statement formerly made by Khomeini. Right.
And we are to therefore conclude that "western media" is at fault for reporting this translated text to the rest of the world? Right.
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If you couldn't get acceptable performance using standard components then the User Guide for your product should have a section describing which replaceable components are non-standard and (hopefully) why. It should explain that those components must be purchased from you for the device to work properly. It shouldn't be left to the customer to assume that they can replace a HD with another standard HD and to find out later that you knew all along that they couldn't.
Wait! Stop! My head is going to explode with all this additional knowledge! Please have mercy!
I mean, they're talking about cellular communications but this seems just perfect for P2P. Maybe a little bit messy though.
Oh man! I couldn't have just read the reply right above mine before posting. Blech.
How about leaving the OS and boot partitions unencrypted and just encrypting your home and data filesystems? So the OS can boot and phone home but your own data is still unavailable to the thief.
An article describing these "Sweepstakes" parlors http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/55670-the-casino-next-door
BTW, I found this URL in a previous /. post, http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3638315&cid=43421823
I'm actually crying when I read this, but thank you for posting it.
Leaving aside that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", here are some rape reports that might interest you:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57511997-504083/elderly-woman-raped-and-mugged-in-central-park-in-broad-daylight-nypd-says/
http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/orange-county/Police-Man-raped-82-year-old-woman-at-knifepoint/-/12978032/19838444/-/f5q5ybz/-/index.html
http://www.foxlexington.com/newsroom/top-stories/videos/elderly-woman-robbed-raped-home-invasion-2435.shtml
Ah, that's enough for me; you can find lots more if you want just like I did, with Google.
I'm not even an Authror and I know for sure that I woodn't.
You may not be able to "buy it used" like a dead tree book.
I know for example that Barnes and Noble sells ebooks that are tied to the buyer's account and some of them can be loaned to a friend for a limited period of time. (And that's a feature that B&N advertises, you silly person who thought that you can give away or sell what you bought with your own money.)
I'm pretty sure that Amazon does the same with the ebooks they sell.
Or just use an array of similar words and randomly pick one:
Are ya happy to see me, or is that a banana in your pocket?
Are ya happy to see me, or is that a blueberry in your pocket?
See, it makes no difference because they are all some sort of fruit.
Well maybe if you just hum a few bars someone here will be able to identify it.
Sometimes the police do recover stolen phones:
"High-tech" method:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/nyregion/crime-scene-chasing-down-a-gps-blip-to-a-stolen-iphone.html
"Low-tech" method:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/apple-ring-stemmed-nypd-busts-iphone-thieves-article-1.1359534
I'm not sure where you live but in NYC they are focused on Parking violations and they almost completely ignore Traffic violations.
Come to NYC, drive like a maniac, sail through red lights (unless there happens to be a camera on it, then you'll get a ticket in the mail), chase pedestrians out of crosswalks, and kill cyclists as you wish, but don't park illegally or you will pay for it dearly.
Well, when I worked on VM/CMS, systems programmers actually did read the code, understand the problem, fix the code all by themselves, and then distribute the fix to other VM shops (with a little help via BitNet). Then IBM would take the fix and ship it with the next release of updates.
When it was a "BSD world", the mechanism was similar. Users find bug, users fix bug, users share fix.
With Linux, we have now a large body of users who couldn't actually find a bug in the code, fix the bug in the code, or even use the distributed patch to fix their own systems, even though the source is available.
And with Windows we have a closed source OS, making it very difficult to find the bug in the code and even more difficult to patch it reliably.
Maybe the problem we are discussing is the result of closed source systems being used for important stuff at sites that don't hire folks who actually could fix the problem. Now is the problem due to a lack of capable programmers or to the "squeeze a penny" mindset of those who hire their IT staff? I ask you this in all seriousness.
Y'know, you might just be right about WTC even though I suspect you don't know it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/11/fbi-wu-tang-clan-ol-dirty-bastard
I'm currently (for the last several years) paying $40/month for 7Mbps "naked" ADSL from Verizon in NYC.
When I asked for something similar at another location they said that standalone DSL was no longer available and that I should get a voice phone line plus 1Mbps DSL for $50/month. I went with Clear instead (so far so good).
Right you are!
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.
In the US, it depends on the jurisdiction:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_to_be_a_lawyer_before_becoming_a_judge
and
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=67949
There's a "detail" link or something like that on that screen to show the actual device names (e.g. "/dev/sda"). It took a bit of wondering but I found it because I really really wanted to :-)
Sample size of 1: I defended myself in a lawsuit recently, or rather my lawyer defended me. The plaintiff claimed to have spent a little less than 1/2 of what I did on legal fees, yet their lawyer in more than two years produced absolutely nothing of value towards their case and they were presented with all of the evidence that they were wrong within the first month of their complaint.
I won the case and was awarded legal fees. The judge, however, awarded me only about 2/3 of my legal fees because she said that was "about what the case was worth" (despite the other side producing nothing on nearly the same amount .. or so they claimed .. perhaps they claimed less than they actually spent to lower the judge's sense of fair costs for my reimbursement).
That's part of the point of SLAPP lawsuits -- even if you win, you lose.
According to the linked article, the guy just wanted iPhones. In case you missed it, I bolded the specific part where it states that he said that.
I bet you think you're joking, eh?
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20111209/manhattan/iphone-mugger-near-columbia-doesnt-want-your-blackberry
I love mutt and hate thunderbird (especially over VPN - I spent one hour last week sending one email reply because of slooooow screen redraws).
But at work I'm required to use CentOS 5 and PKI for email encryption, and the CentOS 5 mutt package doesn't support that. Any suggestions other than changing jobs would be appreciated.
I am quoting (below) from the link you provided; I have added italics to indicate the quoted text and boldface to emphasize some of it.
One may wonder: where did this false interpretation originate? Who is responsible for the translation that has sparked such worldwide controversy? The answer is surprising.
The inflammatory "wiped off the map" quote was first disseminated not by Iran's enemies, but by Iran itself. The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm, used this phrasing in the English version of some of their news releases covering the World Without Zionism conference. International media including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Time magazine and countless others picked up the IRNA quote and made headlines out of it without verifying its accuracy, and rarely referring to the source. Iran's Foreign Minister soon attempted to clarify the statement, but the quote had a life of its own. Though the IRNA wording was inaccurate and misleading, the media assumed it was true, and besides, it made great copy.
And a little further down in the article:
The inconsistency of the IRNA's translation should be evidence enough of the unreliability of the source, particularly when transcribing their news from Farsi into the English language.
So we have The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm providing an "unreliable" translation of Ahmadinejad's quote of a statement formerly made by Khomeini. Right.
And we are to therefore conclude that "western media" is at fault for reporting this translated text to the rest of the world? Right.
Therefore I conclude:
In Iran we don't have unreliable translations like in your country. :-)