I'm sorry, but if I want to write my address as "1337 Drive, Leetown, HAX X0R" simply because it sounds a lot cooler than "123 Main Steet, Liverpool", I bloody well will and it's your job to make sure it gets there!
Mod Parent Up. This lovely little tidbit of information is completely correct and it always gets iterated every single time someone bashes Microsoft over WinFS. It's not a file system. It never was. And it's not dead, it's now part of SQL server under a different name.
But somehow, people don't get this. It's been years since it's been "dropped" from Vista (presumably because it's not actually all that useful after all) yet people still harp on about it. I don't know why the message isn't getting through: It's not a file system. It's not abandoned. It's not a big deal. Until it gets through, all we can really do is mod up the people that constantly point this out =\
Dialup is rated at 56kbps. This broadband is 2Mbit, or about 2000kbps
2000 / 56 = 35.7
That means this initiative is 35.7 times better than dial-up. Now I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that anyone on dialup RIGHT NOW would be glad of such speeds.
I don't know, when researching some really really old file formats for some old games, I found that a lot of documentation for them was held on sites like geocities, long since forgotten about and destined to be lost if Yahoo just pulls the plug completely. No doubt there's a fair amount of information littered over the service amidst all of the Frontpage 97 templated gif-fests. At the very least, they should let archive.org or something back the whole damn thing up, it may have been a rubbish service, but it's still an important part of internet history. That and they'd actually be able to supply some decent bandwidth to the things.
Yeah, I'm well aware of that, but the point is that slashdot's systems are...shall we say...somewhat flaky? It's not like it's some obscure unicode character, so why can't it get some simple parsing correct?
What makes you so sure that's supposed to be camelCase?
Normally I use the alias "Kushan", taken from the game "Homeworld" as it's one of my all time favourites. Unfortunately this alias is sometimes taken by others, so I append "neo" to the beginning (And no, it's nothing to do with the Matrix, rather it's the alternative word for "new"). When I signed up to/. all those years ago, in typical slashdot form, it decided to lower-case the "K" for no reason that I know of other than some strange zealous unix formatting.
In other words, I quite consistently use an upper-case "K" since that's actually the real beginning of my preferred alias, just slashdot itself had/has issues with it.
Not believe me? To this day, it still can't correctly display £. Woot.
It may be only be an alias, but it's still a form of identity. It's still something that links directly back to me and me alone. You know that if you see any other posts on Slashdot made by "neoKushan" that it's the same person who made the above comment as well as this one. If you do a bit of googling and use some common sense, you could almost certainly find my other hangouts around the world wide web. A bit more and you'd be able to find my real name, email, location and I suspect even my phone number.
If I posted that as AC, you'd have absolutely no indication who I was at all. That's a distinct difference.
Lets see, who would I rather listen to - a self-righteous imbecile who apparently feels the need to post anonymously, despite being so sure of themselves, or a man who was bound to a wheelchair most of his life, can't speak without the help of a computer and despite being told he only had a couple of years to live, managed to do more in a few years than 99.99% of other human beings on the planet have ever accomplished in their entire lives? A man that, when faced with quite possibly one of the worst things that could ever happen to single human being, didn't give up. I respect this man more than any other human being that has ever lived. Even without his genius, he is a role model for us all, he is living proof that no matter how bad things may seem, your life need never be over.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls, but this is something I feel so strongly about, I had to say something. Stephen Hawking is a great man, easily one of the greatest people alive today.
Very possible and it was indeed my first thought, in fact it's the most likely cause. The troubling part is that it would have to have been done by one of my local ATMs that I use quite regularly. I didn't notice any changes to them recently, so if it was a skimmer, it was very well hidden. Or perhaps I really just didn't notice it.
Sadly, it's a relatively small bank in Northern Ireland known as First Trust. They're part of Allied Irish Banks, I have no idea if they're part of a larger international group, but considering recent reports indicate that Irish banks may be ready to pull an Iceland, I'd be careful about moving to them just yet.
Where did I say they weren't refunding it? It's not feasible to assume that security is foolproof, so I'm glad to see my bank is on top of things for when their security eventually gets broken.
Strangely enough, about 2 weeks ago I got a call from my bank saying they had noticed some "odd" transactions on my debit card (which is a chip and pin deal). Very small amounts of money, somewhere between £1.40 and £1.70 had been transferred from my account to various accounts in America, via this card. The strange thing was that this was a brand new card, I had to get my old card replaced just after christmas as an unfortunate wallet incident had cracked the old one in half. Between January and March, I had bought nearly nothing with the card, certainly nothing out of the ordinary and until now, I was slightly perplexed as to how my card could have been compromised. I'm glad my bank were on the ball, I've only lost somewhere around £4, which is lucky considering I had a few hundred pounds in my account at the time.
You know, I had the exact same issue this guy is having and, guess what - google gave me that exact answer (Openfire). Of course, I used MirandaIM because I knew Miranda had Jabber support and it's a decent little client, but yeah, another vote for both Openfire and "just fucking google it next time".
When they get an outage, they check how it was caught and if it wasn't caught automatically, they figure out how to next time. Simple rule: They learn from their mistakes and don't put all their eggs in one basket.
This may be the most complex worm/virus ever made, but is it any more prevalent or hard to remove? If I do basic things like keep my Virus definitions and system OS up to date and occasionally scan for spyware, am I still at risk?
In other words, are the ones at risk the same kinds of people who'd be at risk from a lesser, simpler, worm that essentially spreads via a "click here for free porn!" banner?
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I'm sorry, but if I want to write my address as "1337 Drive, Leetown, HAX X0R" simply because it sounds a lot cooler than "123 Main Steet, Liverpool", I bloody well will and it's your job to make sure it gets there!
Mod Parent Up.
This lovely little tidbit of information is completely correct and it always gets iterated every single time someone bashes Microsoft over WinFS. It's not a file system. It never was. And it's not dead, it's now part of SQL server under a different name.
But somehow, people don't get this. It's been years since it's been "dropped" from Vista (presumably because it's not actually all that useful after all) yet people still harp on about it.
I don't know why the message isn't getting through: It's not a file system. It's not abandoned. It's not a big deal.
Until it gets through, all we can really do is mod up the people that constantly point this out =\
Let me do the maths for you...
Dialup is rated at 56kbps.
This broadband is 2Mbit, or about 2000kbps
2000 / 56 = 35.7
That means this initiative is 35.7 times better than dial-up. Now I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that anyone on dialup RIGHT NOW would be glad of such speeds.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I don't know, when researching some really really old file formats for some old games, I found that a lot of documentation for them was held on sites like geocities, long since forgotten about and destined to be lost if Yahoo just pulls the plug completely. No doubt there's a fair amount of information littered over the service amidst all of the Frontpage 97 templated gif-fests.
At the very least, they should let archive.org or something back the whole damn thing up, it may have been a rubbish service, but it's still an important part of internet history.
That and they'd actually be able to supply some decent bandwidth to the things.
False!
Yeah, I'm well aware of that, but the point is that slashdot's systems are...shall we say...somewhat flaky? It's not like it's some obscure unicode character, so why can't it get some simple parsing correct?
What makes you so sure that's supposed to be camelCase?
Normally I use the alias "Kushan", taken from the game "Homeworld" as it's one of my all time favourites. Unfortunately this alias is sometimes taken by others, so I append "neo" to the beginning (And no, it's nothing to do with the Matrix, rather it's the alternative word for "new"). When I signed up to /. all those years ago, in typical slashdot form, it decided to lower-case the "K" for no reason that I know of other than some strange zealous unix formatting.
In other words, I quite consistently use an upper-case "K" since that's actually the real beginning of my preferred alias, just slashdot itself had/has issues with it.
Not believe me? To this day, it still can't correctly display £. Woot.
It may be only be an alias, but it's still a form of identity. It's still something that links directly back to me and me alone. You know that if you see any other posts on Slashdot made by "neoKushan" that it's the same person who made the above comment as well as this one. If you do a bit of googling and use some common sense, you could almost certainly find my other hangouts around the world wide web. A bit more and you'd be able to find my real name, email, location and I suspect even my phone number.
If I posted that as AC, you'd have absolutely no indication who I was at all. That's a distinct difference.
According to that link, Hawking isn't the only person trying to steal things.
Lets see, who would I rather listen to - a self-righteous imbecile who apparently feels the need to post anonymously, despite being so sure of themselves, or a man who was bound to a wheelchair most of his life, can't speak without the help of a computer and despite being told he only had a couple of years to live, managed to do more in a few years than 99.99% of other human beings on the planet have ever accomplished in their entire lives?
A man that, when faced with quite possibly one of the worst things that could ever happen to single human being, didn't give up. I respect this man more than any other human being that has ever lived. Even without his genius, he is a role model for us all, he is living proof that no matter how bad things may seem, your life need never be over.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls, but this is something I feel so strongly about, I had to say something. Stephen Hawking is a great man, easily one of the greatest people alive today.
Very possible and it was indeed my first thought, in fact it's the most likely cause. The troubling part is that it would have to have been done by one of my local ATMs that I use quite regularly. I didn't notice any changes to them recently, so if it was a skimmer, it was very well hidden. Or perhaps I really just didn't notice it.
Sadly, it's a relatively small bank in Northern Ireland known as First Trust. They're part of Allied Irish Banks, I have no idea if they're part of a larger international group, but considering recent reports indicate that Irish banks may be ready to pull an Iceland, I'd be careful about moving to them just yet.
Where did I say they weren't refunding it?
It's not feasible to assume that security is foolproof, so I'm glad to see my bank is on top of things for when their security eventually gets broken.
Strangely enough, about 2 weeks ago I got a call from my bank saying they had noticed some "odd" transactions on my debit card (which is a chip and pin deal).
Very small amounts of money, somewhere between £1.40 and £1.70 had been transferred from my account to various accounts in America, via this card. The strange thing was that this was a brand new card, I had to get my old card replaced just after christmas as an unfortunate wallet incident had cracked the old one in half.
Between January and March, I had bought nearly nothing with the card, certainly nothing out of the ordinary and until now, I was slightly perplexed as to how my card could have been compromised.
I'm glad my bank were on the ball, I've only lost somewhere around £4, which is lucky considering I had a few hundred pounds in my account at the time.
Errata:
"Carma"
Should be:
"Karma"
Was that just a clever way for you to get twice the carma?
You know, I had the exact same issue this guy is having and, guess what - google gave me that exact answer (Openfire).
Of course, I used MirandaIM because I knew Miranda had Jabber support and it's a decent little client, but yeah, another vote for both Openfire and "just fucking google it next time".
So what you're saying is, right, that all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again?
Only because your mistake was NOT drugging the bitch.
The key point:
When they get an outage, they check how it was caught and if it wasn't caught automatically, they figure out how to next time. Simple rule: They learn from their mistakes and don't put all their eggs in one basket.
Wow, that's quite a controversial statement you've made there!
If you want to feel the movies, get a kickass sound system. Your whole ROOM will vibrate!
CELLebrate good times, come on!
This may be the most complex worm/virus ever made, but is it any more prevalent or hard to remove?
If I do basic things like keep my Virus definitions and system OS up to date and occasionally scan for spyware, am I still at risk?
In other words, are the ones at risk the same kinds of people who'd be at risk from a lesser, simpler, worm that essentially spreads via a "click here for free porn!" banner?