It's official... SCOX has just advanced to the #1 position on the NASDAQ "Ten Most Declined" list... who says there's no justice? Any bets on it going back to 0.60/share within the next few weeks?
SCOX is now down 20.44%, making it the second biggest loser on the NASDAQ today... and rapidly closing on Cyberonics, which is off 21.17%! Show of hands... who wants to see SCOX make #1 on this list?
SCOX is now off 10.22% to 7.82... looks like the sell orders are beginning to finally come in. We may yet have a winner for today's "Ten Most Declined" NASDAQ stocks!
B. Gates: Note to self: Bugs that break all network connectivity obviously aren't really a big problem, because hardly anybody sends email to report the problem!
Yes, they've got a huge installed user base that reports problems very quickly... why should that pay people to find bugs, when there are 600,000 people willing to pay them for the priviledge of beta-testing their software?
No, SCOX is only down 0.40 points, or 4.59%. I beleive is was _at_ 8.4 points, not _down_ 8.4 points. 52 week low is 0.60, 52 week high is 9.22... looks like a good time to short SCOX!
Uh, how well do hard disk drives actually work when in the trunk of a car involved in a high speed chase? This brings new meaning to the phrase "head crash", doesn't it? Seems like the lower-tech VCR would be more reliable in this case...
You're forgetting that half the code in drivers, and especially in drivers for first-release hardware, it actually work-arounds for bugs in the hardware. Releasing the source to the driver would make any mistakes in the hardware painfully obvious to anyone with enough time to analyze the driver. Given the development cycle time on these video chips, I'm willing to bet noone has released one yet that worked perfectly in the first release.
Goverment? Hell, Corporations act that way! I recently got a message on my answering machine from a credit card card company to the effect of "We don't understand why you don't pay us the $19,000 you owe us. Please call us at (long distance number) to resolve this."
1) Apparently thier credit collector was calling everbody in Oregon with the same (very common) last name as the person that owed the money and threatening them. They didn't care that my first name was NOT "Lance". 2) I sure as hell am not going to spend money on toll charges to explain their mistake to them, so I called their 1-800 number. 3) They promised they wouldn't call me any more, but did they ever apologize for upsetting me (I assumend somebody had committed identity thefy). No!
Remember, it's the RIAA, not the government, that is using these "Shoot first, ask questions later" tactics. They are only being assisted by their bought-and-paid-for laws.
Aren't cell phones automatically not suposed to be called ('cause it costs me airtime minutes). Why not just use a cell phone as your only voice line (telemarketers can call my computer all day... it ain't gonna answer!)
I suspect that Best Buy, like many stores, suffers higher losses from Employee Theft than from it's customers. Hiring more employees to abuse customers won't fix this problem. Wouldn't it make more sense to just watch the customers that go through the checkout line, and then go back into the store instead of leaving?
We are making Linux "more like windows" for 1 simple reason: the most significant cost per seat in any computer installation is not the cost of the software or the hardware, it's the cost of the user training. If Linux looks and feels like the interface almost everybody is already used to, then retraining costs are smaller, and more people are likely to adopt it. That Dvorak doesn't see this only proves what I've been saying for years: "Dvorak is an idiot!"
What would Nixon have done with JFK's medical records (he was a VERY sick man) when he ran against him? Surely politicians would be above "leaking" to the press information detrimental to their opponents, wouldn't they? Do you think J. Edger Hoover could have figured out which politicos were cheating on their wives from their credit card and phone records? But surely somebody like the head of the FBI would never use information in the FBI files to blackmail U.S. citizens, now would they? Oh, and agents of the IRS or local police departments never run the records of aquaintences just for the "fun" of it, do they?
The fact is, the TIA is an open invitation to anybody with access to the database to abuse the information within for fun and profit.
Wouldn't it a heckova lot cooler to use flexible displays or electronic paper wrapped around the iPod so you could customize the external appearance yourself? Skins for physical devices -- now THAT is cool!
So, when are people going to start hacking into the dark fiber to create their own bootleg high bandwidth networks? If the companies that laid the fiber aren't using it, they'll never notice...
Historically, in the vast majority of security compromises have been acheived though "human engineering", e.g. calling somebody up and asking them for their password, while in very few cases the technological measures have actually failed. So it appears the human factors DOES require a lot more attention.
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Now down 26.75% to 6.38... wow! Lie and lose 25% of your market value in a single day... now THAT is justice!
It's official... SCOX has just advanced to the #1 position on the NASDAQ "Ten Most Declined" list... who says there's no justice? Any bets on it going back to 0.60/share within the next few weeks?
SCOX is now down 20.44%, making it the second biggest loser on the NASDAQ today... and rapidly closing on Cyberonics, which is off 21.17%! Show of hands... who wants to see SCOX make #1 on this list?
SCOX is now off 10.22% to 7.82... looks like the sell orders are beginning to finally come in. We may yet have a winner for today's "Ten Most Declined" NASDAQ stocks!
B. Gates: Note to self: Bugs that break all network connectivity obviously aren't really a big problem, because hardly anybody sends email to report the problem!
Yes, they've got a huge installed user base that reports problems very quickly... why should that pay people to find bugs, when there are 600,000 people willing to pay them for the priviledge of beta-testing their software?
No, SCOX is only down 0.40 points, or 4.59%. I beleive is was _at_ 8.4 points, not _down_ 8.4 points. 52 week low is 0.60, 52 week high is 9.22... looks like a good time to short SCOX!
I'd say the chance of anybody buying Linux from SCO after this is practically zero out to 6 decimal places...
SCOX is only off 0.41 or 4.71%... doesn't look like Wall Street reacts as fast as we thought.
Uh, how well do hard disk drives actually work when in the trunk of a car involved in a high speed chase? This brings new meaning to the phrase "head crash", doesn't it? Seems like the lower-tech VCR would be more reliable in this case...
You're forgetting that half the code in drivers, and especially in drivers for first-release hardware, it actually work-arounds for bugs in the hardware. Releasing the source to the driver would make any mistakes in the hardware painfully obvious to anyone with enough time to analyze the driver. Given the development cycle time on these video chips, I'm willing to bet noone has released one yet that worked perfectly in the first release.
1) Apparently thier credit collector was calling everbody in Oregon with the same (very common) last name as the person that owed the money and threatening them. They didn't care that my first name was NOT "Lance".
2) I sure as hell am not going to spend money on toll charges to explain their mistake to them, so I called their 1-800 number.
3) They promised they wouldn't call me any more, but did they ever apologize for upsetting me (I assumend somebody had committed identity thefy). No!
Remember, it's the RIAA, not the government, that is using these "Shoot first, ask questions later" tactics. They are only being assisted by their bought-and-paid-for laws.
Yep, I want the same people that brought us Amtrak running our nation's network security, you betcha!
Aren't cell phones automatically not suposed to be called ('cause it costs me airtime minutes). Why not just use a cell phone as your only voice line (telemarketers can call my computer all day... it ain't gonna answer!)
I suspect that Best Buy, like many stores, suffers higher losses from Employee Theft than from it's customers. Hiring more employees to abuse customers won't fix this problem. Wouldn't it make more sense to just watch the customers that go through the checkout line, and then go back into the store instead of leaving?
Yes, but have they been ordered to make it work properly in Windows???
We are making Linux "more like windows" for 1 simple reason: the most significant cost per seat in any computer installation is not the cost of the software or the hardware, it's the cost of the user training. If Linux looks and feels like the interface almost everybody is already used to, then retraining costs are smaller, and more people are likely to adopt it. That Dvorak doesn't see this only proves what I've been saying for years: "Dvorak is an idiot!"
The fact is, the TIA is an open invitation to anybody with access to the database to abuse the information within for fun and profit.
Wouldn't it a heckova lot cooler to use flexible displays or electronic paper wrapped around the iPod so you could customize the external appearance yourself? Skins for physical devices -- now THAT is cool!
Actually, millions of people do every year, only they refer to it as "a pilgrimage to Mecca", not "a holiday".
When you begin to find cartoon squirrels attractive, maybe you should take that as a sign that you REALLY need to get out more often!
So, when are people going to start hacking into the dark fiber to create their own bootleg high bandwidth networks? If the companies that laid the fiber aren't using it, they'll never notice...
Does this mean Saudi Arabia can now shut down ALL the porn sites, as they are illegal there? This IS a pretty scary precedent.
Historically, in the vast majority of security compromises have been acheived though "human engineering", e.g. calling somebody up and asking them for their password, while in very few cases the technological measures have actually failed. So it appears the human factors DOES require a lot more attention.
The seem to have forgotten at least one principle: The user must NOT be an idiot.