are the major barrier to Linux desktop adoption. If you spend less time belittling customers for telling you what they want, and more time actually delivering what they want, you'll end up with more customers. If Linux is ever to make headway in the consumer desktop market, the elitist snarking has to stop first.
The worm actually replies with "lol no its not its a virus". Which makes anyone who opens it even dumber, since the thing is actually telling you it's a virus.
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I happen to work in IT at "a major hotel company", and I call B.S. Key cards never have, and never will contain your credit card number. There is simply no valid technical reason that they ever should. In fact, some key system vendors use proprietary encoding on the mag stripes, so you can't even read the key with a normal swipe reader. This whole story is complete BS!!
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are the major barrier to Linux desktop adoption. If you spend less time belittling customers for telling you what they want, and more time actually delivering what they want, you'll end up with more customers. If Linux is ever to make headway in the consumer desktop market, the elitist snarking has to stop first.
Does this, combined with the Air Force's new mission statement, constitute an Act of War?
The worm actually replies with "lol no its not its a virus". Which makes anyone who opens it even dumber, since the thing is actually telling you it's a virus.
This story hit digg early yesterday. Then it hit Metafilter a few hours later. Looks like /. is a liitle slow on the uptake.
but closed minds.
Not quite. When you log in again, you get this: _Now_ I'm annoyed.
They already have a hearing scheduled for Thursday. ;-) x ?committee=3
http://judiciary.house.gov/oversight.aspx?ID=202
And here is the list of the members of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, in case you're interested.
http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.asp
Personally, I prefer Pepsi Blue.
I, for one, welcome our new mapping overlords.
I think that's just an indication that they fear Linux more than OSX.
Since when can every software solution be categorized as "proprietary" or "Linux-based"?
I am so sorry.
I think the interesting story here is the "forensic markers". Anyone have any insight into what technology is involved here?
You mean BritaneySperesNaked!!!.exe had an embedded rootkit!? Shit!
I happen to work in IT at "a major hotel company", and I call B.S. Key cards never have, and never will contain your credit card number. There is simply no valid technical reason that they ever should. In fact, some key system vendors use proprietary encoding on the mag stripes, so you can't even read the key with a normal swipe reader. This whole story is complete BS!!
Why would anybody want to steal the code for OS-2 WARP?