What about stuff that hasn't been released on CD? Not everything worth having was deemed worth rereleasing by the media conglomerates.
There's also the principle of the thing, not paying twice for something you've already got, when you're perfectly content with the quality you've currently got.
Too bad my Pine 3.95 (the version on our university system) doesn't have an "r" command in setup. It apparently lets you set up "rules" for filtering, according to the Pine FAQ.
I wonder if this could be extended to include email marketing, such that falsifying From: headers in sales-pitch email would be illegal? Not that it would stop most spammers, but still, it's the same idea.
Dude, you totally missed the point. You claimed in your post that companies should not be criminally liable as a result of being hacked. I said, there are cases where they _are_ liable and should be. I did _not_ say that companies should _always_ be criminally liable, or that there should be a law making that so. I think it would be good for security all around if major access providers were legally bound to maintain secure conditions, but that doesn't mean I think everyone should have to do so. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I agree with the poster you responded to.
Don't use due diligence, get hacked into, and something happens to someone else, and you'll likely answer to a court. Not for the consequences to or for directly harming the other entity, but for negligently allowing it to happen by using poor security.
If I own guns, and I leave the gun case unlocked, and my kid's friend gets out a gun and shoots another kid, guess what: I'm partially liable, for not taking proper precautions. That's the way it is, and we all have to take responsibility for our actions, even if it's just running an insecure network.
Lets say that I dont care about security. ANd lets say we get hacked. You are suggesting that I somehow comitted a crime?
If you did not practice "due diligence" in protecting customer data, or as a result of your company being hacked someone is harmed (company or person), or your network is used as a "jumping off point" for hackers, or if a hacker uses a server in Marketing to store child porn...
I could keep going, but I won't. Any of those cases would land you and/or your company and/or your admins in court. Yes, you have the right to do what you want to your company. But the instant it affects someone or something that does not belong to you, it is no longer your free choice.
Let's say that hacker breaks in, and copies your HR employee database, which includes SSN's, salaries, etc. about all your employees. Think for a minute they'll just let it go as "well, it's the company's choice to ignore security"?
I use the "Diddle" drawing program to take pictorial/equation notes. It's kludgy going back & forth between the text editor and the drawing program, but it's easier to understand what I wrote later. It's about the simplest way to enter an equation/diagram I can imagine, though. Diddle is based on "Doodle," do a search for either on palmgear or tucows.
My parents are in Bettendorf (Quad Cities), their Mediacom service has been up just fine with no DNS. I am crossing my fingers that it continues to be that way. I spent my Thanksgiving break wiring their bedrooms and kitchen with ethernet so that they could all share the cablemodem, I'd rather that not have been a waste.
hardware keyboard (Treo 180) OR grafitti (Treo 180g) but no sense of which is cheaper
They cost the same. It's purely personal preference as to which you get.
8 hour battery life: This seems short for either a cell phone OR a pda
Where did you get that number? It's 2.5 hours talk time, 60 hours standby time, which is quite reasonable. Look here.
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A realatively inexpensive device (solar maybe) for the kids' shirt. You lose your kid? Go to the security desk, and they can find what AP your kid is closest too.
They have similar things already in use in theme parks. A water park I went to last summer had a system where you would check out a transmitter for each family member, on a wristband like a watch. You could take your transmitter to a viewing station and it would pinpoint on a map where the other members of the group were. So the kids can go off on their own and the parents can still keep tabs on them, or large groups don't have to wander around looking for each other. Pretty slick, IMHO.
My friends play Pente in class all the time. It is a bit like Go. The rules are simple but strategy can get very complex. Here is a simple explanation.
My solution is to get a Palm and play Patience, but that's beside the point.
I won't argue the technical merits of DSL vs. Cable since everyone's experience is a little different. Nor the pricing difference, since here they're basically the same price. However, I think which installation is faster depends much more on the individual company than the technology or industry. When I got DSL, it took about a week from the time I called before I got service. When I got cable (not cablemodem, just regular TV cable), it was over a month before an install tech could be sent out and I finally got service. The same is true for technical problems encountered by users; if the company doing it gets it right, neither should have major problems.
Moral: when choosing a service, research the particular company offering service in your area, not the experiences of users in other cities. The two might not be comparable.
You've hit it right on the head. Bullets + airplanes = BAD IDEA. If we do put Federal Marshals on airplanes (not that I think we should), they should NOT be armed with guns. Stun weapons of some sort, perhaps, tasers, etc. but absolutely not guns. Firearms have no business on an airplane in anyone's hands.
I am actually disappointed that many ATMs are swipe-based now rather than insert-based. One safety feature of an ATM card is that if you report it stolen, your bank can put a block on it such that if it is inserted into an ATM the machine will eat it. It will also do the same if someone attempts to brute-force your PIN and guesses wrong too many times. This is a big plus IMHO.
Is the reason they put those logos there for "brand recognition," that is, so you know what channel you're watching? Or is it so when someone tapes a show there's a watermark of sorts saying "this show belongs to this network." To distinguish from, say, episodes sold on tape. Or, so if a video shows up on the net, they can tell what area it came from (if your local network uses a localized logo eg. with call letters).
I'm just curious. I don't like the annoying logos either (they tend to sit right on top of something I want to see, like a sports ticker). Just wondering what the reason is for using them (besides "because we can").
Exactly. With most building projects or traditional engineering projects, _something_ similar has been done by _someone_ many, many times before. When a software project is essentially starting from scratch, there's little to base a real estimate on.
There are lots of standards that were at one time mass-used, but which are now difficult or impossible to find working "readers" for.
Examples off the top of my head:
Records
8-track tapes
5.25 floppies
If something requires a device for viewing/reading/etc, over time, those devices will cease to work or be produced.
This feature does in fact exist! If you click on "original format" when viewing a usenet posting, it will display in plaintext exactly as you are describing, including the message-ID. It's on the right-hand side near the top, next to "view complete thread".
There's a series of books coauthored by Larry Gonick called The Cartoon Guide To . They're excellent overviews of a subject in language/pictures that make them easy to understand without dumbing it down. Topics range from statistics to genetics to the History of the Universe. I've read several of them; I personally own The Cartoon Guide to Genetics and The Cartoon Guide to Physics; the former I absorbed before a summer internship in a genetics lab, and the latter got a friend through Classical Physics. Definitely recommend them as good introductory texts.
(MS) Hearts. No, I'm not kidding. It's simple since it's the same as playing it with real cards. This also makes it less intimidating. Allows the two of you to play against each other without having to track down two more people to play when you feel like it.
This assumes you have two windows computers, of course, I don't know if anyone's got a similar thing going for Linux/Mac/etc. Anyone else have suggestions for "simple games" where the computer can fill in for missing people?
That's wierd. I can understand wanting a local number, because they shouldn't have to call long distance to reach you. Yes, they can tell if it's a local number, and if they want, they can figure out if it's a cell number or not. But there's no reason to care as long as it's a local call. I mean, would they rather have you give them a cellular number, or a friend's landline number?
Did they have a legit reason for wanting a landline number, or was it "just because"? For that matter, why would you not have a cell number that was local?
Interesting. Maybe it's your area; anywhere I've lived, everyone wants a contact number where you can be reached, but nobody cares (or asks) what kind of number it is. My old roommate gave out her cell number for everything, which was not a local call, but since she was never home anyway it made more sense to call her phone. Heck, some people here (broke-college-student town), don't have a phone at all; as long as you can give a number where they will be able to get a hold of you, that's good enough.
If my cellphone is my only local, home number, and it is a local call, what do they care if it's a cellphone or a landline? Why should they even know what type of line it is? Why would you bother to tell them? They call the number, and I answer. They wouldn't be kept out because of anti-cellular-solicitation laws, either, because they're not telemarketing.
They want a contact number. This is my number. End of discussion.
Yup, I agree, if you're entering extensive text (eg writing emails) a keyboard really is necessary. For folks not wanting to wait for the Treo, there is a similar keyboard add-on from Etherage called the ClipKee. Even more portable than the Stowaway. Seems like if you combined that with a Visor and VisorPhone you would get a clunky version of the Treo.
Absolutely. Every Christmas, I decide to get Legos for one of my brothers. And every year I end up getting something else cuz they're just too expensive. Anything in my price range has like, a dozen pieces and half of them are the fancy specific pieces. Bleah.
The mom in the story said her son is "saving his allowance" to buy one of the Bionicles(sp?). How much allowance does this kid get?
If legos were cheaper, I'd buy them all the time for myself. They're still fun. As it is, though, anything worth having is too expensive.
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my grandfather had his Nintendo (that's the original *8-bit* system) hooked up to his.
I _still_ have my 8-bit NES hooked up to my Commodore64 monitor. We've always run it that way. Picture's smaller than on a TV, but much sharper.
That reminds me, it's been a while since I played Dr. Mario...Excuse me...
What about stuff that hasn't been released on CD? Not everything worth having was deemed worth rereleasing by the media conglomerates.
There's also the principle of the thing, not paying twice for something you've already got, when you're perfectly content with the quality you've currently got.
Too bad my Pine 3.95 (the version on our university system) doesn't have an "r" command in setup. It apparently lets you set up "rules" for filtering, according to the Pine FAQ.
I wonder if this could be extended to include email marketing, such that falsifying From: headers in sales-pitch email would be illegal? Not that it would stop most spammers, but still, it's the same idea.
Dude, you totally missed the point. You claimed in your post that companies should not be criminally liable as a result of being hacked. I said, there are cases where they _are_ liable and should be. I did _not_ say that companies should _always_ be criminally liable, or that there should be a law making that so. I think it would be good for security all around if major access providers were legally bound to maintain secure conditions, but that doesn't mean I think everyone should have to do so. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I agree with the poster you responded to.
Don't use due diligence, get hacked into, and something happens to someone else, and you'll likely answer to a court. Not for the consequences to or for directly harming the other entity, but for negligently allowing it to happen by using poor security.
If I own guns, and I leave the gun case unlocked, and my kid's friend gets out a gun and shoots another kid, guess what: I'm partially liable, for not taking proper precautions. That's the way it is, and we all have to take responsibility for our actions, even if it's just running an insecure network.
Lets say that I dont care about security. ANd lets say we get hacked. You are suggesting that I somehow comitted a crime?
If you did not practice "due diligence" in protecting customer data, or as a result of your company being hacked someone is harmed (company or person), or your network is used as a "jumping off point" for hackers, or if a hacker uses a server in Marketing to store child porn...
I could keep going, but I won't. Any of those cases would land you and/or your company and/or your admins in court. Yes, you have the right to do what you want to your company. But the instant it affects someone or something that does not belong to you, it is no longer your free choice.
Let's say that hacker breaks in, and copies your HR employee database, which includes SSN's, salaries, etc. about all your employees. Think for a minute they'll just let it go as "well, it's the company's choice to ignore security"?
I use the "Diddle" drawing program to take pictorial/equation notes. It's kludgy going back & forth between the text editor and the drawing program, but it's easier to understand what I wrote later. It's about the simplest way to enter an equation/diagram I can imagine, though. Diddle is based on "Doodle," do a search for either on palmgear or tucows.
(not the poster you're replying to)
My parents are in Bettendorf (Quad Cities), their Mediacom service has been up just fine with no DNS. I am crossing my fingers that it continues to be that way. I spent my Thanksgiving break wiring their bedrooms and kitchen with ethernet so that they could all share the cablemodem, I'd rather that not have been a waste.
hardware keyboard (Treo 180) OR grafitti (Treo 180g) but no sense of which is cheaper
They cost the same. It's purely personal preference as to which you get.
8 hour battery life: This seems short for either a cell phone OR a pda
Where did you get that number? It's 2.5 hours talk time, 60 hours standby time, which is quite reasonable. Look here.
A realatively inexpensive device (solar maybe) for the kids' shirt. You lose your kid? Go to the security desk, and they can find what AP your kid is closest too.
They have similar things already in use in theme parks. A water park I went to last summer had a system where you would check out a transmitter for each family member, on a wristband like a watch. You could take your transmitter to a viewing station and it would pinpoint on a map where the other members of the group were. So the kids can go off on their own and the parents can still keep tabs on them, or large groups don't have to wander around looking for each other. Pretty slick, IMHO.
My friends play Pente in class all the time. It is a bit like Go. The rules are simple but strategy can get very complex. Here is a simple explanation.
My solution is to get a Palm and play Patience, but that's beside the point.
I won't argue the technical merits of DSL vs. Cable since everyone's experience is a little different. Nor the pricing difference, since here they're basically the same price. However, I think which installation is faster depends much more on the individual company than the technology or industry. When I got DSL, it took about a week from the time I called before I got service. When I got cable (not cablemodem, just regular TV cable), it was over a month before an install tech could be sent out and I finally got service. The same is true for technical problems encountered by users; if the company doing it gets it right, neither should have major problems.
Moral: when choosing a service, research the particular company offering service in your area, not the experiences of users in other cities. The two might not be comparable.
You've hit it right on the head. Bullets + airplanes = BAD IDEA. If we do put Federal Marshals on airplanes (not that I think we should), they should NOT be armed with guns. Stun weapons of some sort, perhaps, tasers, etc. but absolutely not guns. Firearms have no business on an airplane in anyone's hands.
Referring to item 3:
I am actually disappointed that many ATMs are swipe-based now rather than insert-based. One safety feature of an ATM card is that if you report it stolen, your bank can put a block on it such that if it is inserted into an ATM the machine will eat it. It will also do the same if someone attempts to brute-force your PIN and guesses wrong too many times. This is a big plus IMHO.
Is the reason they put those logos there for "brand recognition," that is, so you know what channel you're watching? Or is it so when someone tapes a show there's a watermark of sorts saying "this show belongs to this network." To distinguish from, say, episodes sold on tape. Or, so if a video shows up on the net, they can tell what area it came from (if your local network uses a localized logo eg. with call letters).
I'm just curious. I don't like the annoying logos either (they tend to sit right on top of something I want to see, like a sports ticker). Just wondering what the reason is for using them (besides "because we can").
Exactly. With most building projects or traditional engineering projects, _something_ similar has been done by _someone_ many, many times before. When a software project is essentially starting from scratch, there's little to base a real estimate on.
There are lots of standards that were at one time mass-used, but which are now difficult or impossible to find working "readers" for.
Examples off the top of my head:
Records
8-track tapes
5.25 floppies
If something requires a device for viewing/reading/etc, over time, those devices will cease to work or be produced.
A server path doesn't make much sense for an _archive_ really. Why do you want the Path: line?
This feature does in fact exist! If you click on "original format" when viewing a usenet posting, it will display in plaintext exactly as you are describing, including the message-ID. It's on the right-hand side near the top, next to "view complete thread".
There's a series of books coauthored by Larry Gonick called The Cartoon Guide To . They're excellent overviews of a subject in language/pictures that make them easy to understand without dumbing it down. Topics range from statistics to genetics to the History of the Universe. I've read several of them; I personally own The Cartoon Guide to Genetics and The Cartoon Guide to Physics; the former I absorbed before a summer internship in a genetics lab, and the latter got a friend through Classical Physics. Definitely recommend them as good introductory texts.
(MS) Hearts. No, I'm not kidding. It's simple since it's the same as playing it with real cards. This also makes it less intimidating. Allows the two of you to play against each other without having to track down two more people to play when you feel like it.
This assumes you have two windows computers, of course, I don't know if anyone's got a similar thing going for Linux/Mac/etc. Anyone else have suggestions for "simple games" where the computer can fill in for missing people?
That's wierd. I can understand wanting a local number, because they shouldn't have to call long distance to reach you. Yes, they can tell if it's a local number, and if they want, they can figure out if it's a cell number or not. But there's no reason to care as long as it's a local call. I mean, would they rather have you give them a cellular number, or a friend's landline number?
Did they have a legit reason for wanting a landline number, or was it "just because"? For that matter, why would you not have a cell number that was local?
Interesting. Maybe it's your area; anywhere I've lived, everyone wants a contact number where you can be reached, but nobody cares (or asks) what kind of number it is. My old roommate gave out her cell number for everything, which was not a local call, but since she was never home anyway it made more sense to call her phone. Heck, some people here (broke-college-student town), don't have a phone at all; as long as you can give a number where they will be able to get a hold of you, that's good enough.
If my cellphone is my only local, home number, and it is a local call, what do they care if it's a cellphone or a landline? Why should they even know what type of line it is? Why would you bother to tell them? They call the number, and I answer. They wouldn't be kept out because of anti-cellular-solicitation laws, either, because they're not telemarketing.
They want a contact number. This is my number. End of discussion.
Yup, I agree, if you're entering extensive text (eg writing emails) a keyboard really is necessary. For folks not wanting to wait for the Treo, there is a similar keyboard add-on from Etherage called the ClipKee. Even more portable than the Stowaway. Seems like if you combined that with a Visor and VisorPhone you would get a clunky version of the Treo.
Absolutely. Every Christmas, I decide to get Legos for one of my brothers. And every year I end up getting something else cuz they're just too expensive. Anything in my price range has like, a dozen pieces and half of them are the fancy specific pieces. Bleah.
The mom in the story said her son is "saving his allowance" to buy one of the Bionicles(sp?). How much allowance does this kid get?
If legos were cheaper, I'd buy them all the time for myself. They're still fun. As it is, though, anything worth having is too expensive.