well it wasn't me that handled the upgrade, but I probably still would have done it that way considering that the account is held on the server rather than the client. It obviously must be a bit more complex than that if changing the client screws up the account though, it's not just like switching POP/IMAP clients.
Nah I use exceptions in my Delphi stuff, but I just remember from my learning C days that functions used to return 0 if they exited cleanly (main for example)
Because it's less likely that your CD/DVD will magically disappear, but with a server it could be DDoSed, the company could go bust or not pay their bandwidth bills.. that kind of thing!
I think it's just because our office manager was atrocious at her job. She's been made redundant now, I should mention the lighting to our health and safety officer as he's taken on a lot of her responsibilities. The building's physical security isn't something that I think about very often, to be honest, so I'm probably as much to blame for not bringing it up more often as others are for not getting it sorted out..
Dude, why would I care that the government knows I've gone to the movies today? I wouldn't object to something putting up every thing that I do when I'm out in public to some random blog or something, as long as they respect the privacy of my home, and only observe rather than interfere in what I am doing the rest of the time.. I wasn't saying that the government should get to spy on us unrestrictedly, just that I have no problem with CCTV technology being used in areas well known for a high crime rate, etc etc. As others have pointed out, and it's kind of obvious anyway, most CCTV stuff you see is privately owned anyway. The police have requested CCTV footage from our company's cameras on a few occasions, and we've been happy to oblige because it was all just stuff like car/motorbike thieves, nothing sinister.
Unless you (and in cases even if/when you) are a celebrity you would likely be distressed to have the paparazzi photographing your nether regions each time you get into/out of your car. You could always wear some underwear?:p And for the phone thing, I kind of agree, though again there usually would be places where you can go that there aren't people or microphones likely to be around. Or, you could send a text if you're that paranoid about people listening in. I wasn't saying that people don't deserve dignity, I was just saying that anything you do on the streets should be done while taking into account that someone could be watching.
Fair point, though the only times we've used our CCTV is to try and sort out who scratched what car in the car park, who it was that tried to steal a bunch of copper wire from our yard, who broke into that car across the road, etc etc. I can see how it would also be useful for full on corporate deniability though. Our main problem at the moment is that the lighting in some areas around the building is pretty poor, but they've STILL not done anything about that even after I specifically highlighted (no pun intended) it last year..
From what I rememeber of using Steam (I still have it on my laptop but I haven't used Windows for gaming for a while), you can use single player games offline anyways?
Even better, why not just get a DVD burner and copy them? Or streamrip any stuff you watch online and burn it to DVD, etc. The GP has no imagination;)
Note: I buy all my DVDs, blu-rays, games, and moooost of my music has been bought by me. I don't condone a freeloading lifestyle, I think the creators of a product do deserve reimbursement for the time they spent creating it, and the enjoyment that I am going to get from using said product.. I'm not a big fan of publishers, but original software houses, movie crews and artists deserve their wages.
Well, if (to offset the obviously HUGE amount of piracy that will be counteracted by these measures, can you think of the untold billions that they'll save?) they reduce the price of all their games/media to $10 and the players to $50, then I'd be happy with it phoning home every few days. Otherwise, GTFO..
I think it's a step in the right direction. And coming from someone who works in the intelligence community, I think that's saying a lot. Err.. not really.. isn't that like someone who sells cameras saying that people should buy cameras?
Any security measure that you can foil by putting a mask over your face (and perhaps waddling like a penguin so that they can't identify you by your walk.. unless of course they make everyone in the lineup waddle around.. but you can fool them by waddling with a limp) isn't really much of a security measure.
The thing with our company's CCTV system is that the pictures it records to the HDD are so low res that you can't even make out people's faces. The video feed itself isn't too bad, but what's the use when the evidence is that poor? I'm not sure what official police CCTV records are like of course, hopefully they allow for more "the suspect was wearing a stripey jumper and a hat"
With a name like Internet2 and such high press coverage, you might think that's the future of the internet servicing our homes House: Oh hello, thanks for getting here so quickly! Internet2: I hear you've been having some problems with your tubes, can you direct me to the back door?
That's funny, I use slashes all the time without quotes in my pages and they work fine (using perl generated pages on apache) *shrug* I would think that every URL would need at least one slash to be properly formatted, even if it's a relative path? Maybe I'm overlooking something though.
If everybody in North America was 100% wind powered much of the continent would be without electricity for large periods of time. Not if you all converted your diet to consist mainly of cabbage and beans. I can't believe nobody above has pointed this out yet.
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well it wasn't me that handled the upgrade, but I probably still would have done it that way considering that the account is held on the server rather than the client. It obviously must be a bit more complex than that if changing the client screws up the account though, it's not just like switching POP/IMAP clients.
A "Computer Scientist", yes. Does that count?
Nah I use exceptions in my Delphi stuff, but I just remember from my learning C days that functions used to return 0 if they exited cleanly (main for example)
Because it's less likely that your CD/DVD will magically disappear, but with a server it could be DDoSed, the company could go bust or not pay their bandwidth bills.. that kind of thing!
I think it's just because our office manager was atrocious at her job. She's been made redundant now, I should mention the lighting to our health and safety officer as he's taken on a lot of her responsibilities. The building's physical security isn't something that I think about very often, to be honest, so I'm probably as much to blame for not bringing it up more often as others are for not getting it sorted out..
Dude, why would I care that the government knows I've gone to the movies today? I wouldn't object to something putting up every thing that I do when I'm out in public to some random blog or something, as long as they respect the privacy of my home, and only observe rather than interfere in what I am doing the rest of the time.. I wasn't saying that the government should get to spy on us unrestrictedly, just that I have no problem with CCTV technology being used in areas well known for a high crime rate, etc etc. As others have pointed out, and it's kind of obvious anyway, most CCTV stuff you see is privately owned anyway. The police have requested CCTV footage from our company's cameras on a few occasions, and we've been happy to oblige because it was all just stuff like car/motorbike thieves, nothing sinister.
You must be new here, or just not appreciate subtlety. Nobody RTFAs! :)
Fair point, though the only times we've used our CCTV is to try and sort out who scratched what car in the car park, who it was that tried to steal a bunch of copper wire from our yard, who broke into that car across the road, etc etc. I can see how it would also be useful for full on corporate deniability though. Our main problem at the moment is that the lighting in some areas around the building is pretty poor, but they've STILL not done anything about that even after I specifically highlighted (no pun intended) it last year..
Nah, I got the sarcasm at the start, but I kinda thought it was over at the end of the sentence, oops.
I don't really benefit from newspapers to be honest. I exercise my free speech here on /. a lot more than I ever read any news articles *cough*
Airport Security: Someone's subtly transporting 'Spores' eh? If you'll just step this way, sir..
From what I rememeber of using Steam (I still have it on my laptop but I haven't used Windows for gaming for a while), you can use single player games offline anyways?
Even better, why not just get a DVD burner and copy them? Or streamrip any stuff you watch online and burn it to DVD, etc. The GP has no imagination ;)
Note: I buy all my DVDs, blu-rays, games, and moooost of my music has been bought by me. I don't condone a freeloading lifestyle, I think the creators of a product do deserve reimbursement for the time they spent creating it, and the enjoyment that I am going to get from using said product.. I'm not a big fan of publishers, but original software houses, movie crews and artists deserve their wages.
It's not like they'd need to, someone is going to produce a 'patch' to remove the DRM a couple of days after each game's release anyway..
Well, if (to offset the obviously HUGE amount of piracy that will be counteracted by these measures, can you think of the untold billions that they'll save?) they reduce the price of all their games/media to $10 and the players to $50, then I'd be happy with it phoning home every few days. Otherwise, GTFO..
The moderators are wearing their tinfoil hats today..
Any security measure that you can foil by putting a mask over your face (and perhaps waddling like a penguin so that they can't identify you by your walk.. unless of course they make everyone in the lineup waddle around.. but you can fool them by waddling with a limp) isn't really much of a security measure.
I didn't realise that I was entitled to so much privacy when I'm out in public!!
The thing with our company's CCTV system is that the pictures it records to the HDD are so low res that you can't even make out people's faces. The video feed itself isn't too bad, but what's the use when the evidence is that poor? I'm not sure what official police CCTV records are like of course, hopefully they allow for more "the suspect was wearing a stripey jumper and a hat"
There's no way Yobi could kick Yotta's ass.
Internet2: I hear you've been having some problems with your tubes, can you direct me to the back door?
That's funny, I use slashes all the time without quotes in my pages and they work fine (using perl generated pages on apache) *shrug* I would think that every URL would need at least one slash to be properly formatted, even if it's a relative path? Maybe I'm overlooking something though.