Then that means someone else lifts the servers, swaps the backup tapes/HDDs, gets interrupted by users while reading/.
Of course, that means I can't completely trust the servers or backup media. I'll always trust the users to find a way to interrupt me, so they're not a factor. In short, pay me more because I'm entailing more risk by being responsible for systems that I have less trust in.
Consider also the Tacoma Narrows fiasco, now some decades ago, which in my opinion is not a mistake that competent engineers make, but one due to social promotion at the highest levels of our education system
I know you're young, but the social promotion you're talking about didn't start until the 70's and wasn't commonplace until the 90's (I remember kids flunking often enough). The Tacoma Narrows Bridge went wacky in 1940. The engineers who designed and built that bridge were probably taught in 1910-1935. They're the great-great-grandparents of the spoiled "everyone wins" generation.
Many people have e-readers, probably way over 1 in 10 americans have one.
I've seen two. I live in a moderately large city and have a lot of tech oriented friends. One friend owns a nook, another a kindle. That's it. In the closest B&N, people pick up the nooks and look at them, but they don't seem to be buying them. Probably 1 in 1000 americans or fewer own e-readers (unless you include computers and smartphones).
If libraries move in, a cheap e-paper reader can be sold by the library for $50.
$50? Compared to free library cards? Poor families can't afford $250 for an initial expense and $50 per year for every lost/broken/stolen library e-reader.
Their login method is "what's the iPhone's UUID?" Found that one out the hard way when I purchased a friends' (wiped by me) old iPhone. They're probably an example of doing it wrong.
I got one of these notices from my CC company, and it made me really mad when I thought about how I have *never* received an email from them that wasn't an attempt to sell a balance transfer or other undesired service.
More likely voter ignorance. No one knows enough about every subject (and how every congressman really feels about every subject) to vote appropriately according to their desires. Apathy is a symptom of the vastness of politics and the futility people feel about it, not a cause.
However then to the disgust of the Scientologists in our government I will announce my claim to the soul of L.Ron Hubbard and my intent to sell it to the first fucker that sticks his hand out from under a volcano.
To be fair to Scientologists, they don't believe humans have souls. They believe that thetans (fake-memory-souls) of dead aliens are possessing humans and restricting their actions (making them act ethically). To that end, scientoligists strive to make themselves soulless, conscienceless animals like Tom Cruise.
Fossil found in China recently, yet it "roamed North America"? How do they work that out if it's found in China? Unless of course China has now taken over North America....
The gigantic creature roamed North America and east Asia
Reading comprehension failure? Also, try this.
Okay, we know it roamed East Asia smarty pants. But if this was a "previously unknown" dinosaur, then how does North America fit in that sentence? Reading comprehension failure indeed.
Leaked Docs, ISP planning a music service. I was sure that this was a story about an ISP blocking BitTorrent to direct downloaders to its own service. But BT stands for British Telecom. There should be a law about using so many acronyms in a headline. And while I'm thinking of it, KVM was already a computer acronym, I still hate that Kernel based Virtual Machine is using Keyboard Video Mouse's acronym.
konqueror on kde4 has inline pdf, through okular.
This could become an usability fail. A pdf is not html, displaying the pdf inline will confuse the user
Mosaic had inline JPEG and TIFF support. A JPEG is not HTML. Displaying the JPEG inline will confuse the user. I new a graphic artist in 1995 who made a webpage be just one giant imagemap of an interlaced GIF (using a black&white preview image to speed load times) because HTML couldn't let him design a page exactly the way he wanted. PDF inline would have been a godsend for him back then.
I thought Satan came from the Roman mythology -- Christianity has always adapted to the locals
Read Job to learn about Satan's role in Judaism. He's kind of like a heavenly prosecutor who decided that he'll exact punishment while searching for evidence. "I bet you hid drugs in your Ming vase" *smash* "I bet you hid drugs in your couch cushions!" *slash* "I bet you hid drugs in your dog" *slash*
the number of "posessions" is very small, so is it really worth convening 60 church officials for a week to talk about what he considered to be a small problem?
Assuming they are demon possessions, I'd say that any increase is a cause for alarm. Since the church officials believe they are, it makes sense that they'd convene.
In regards to the demon possessions, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all just untreated severe mental disorders or chemical problems.
Catholicism tends to rule out natural maladies before sending in the exorcists. There are priests whose jobs revolve around disproving "miracles" like Grilled Cheesus Sandwich.
they use a third-party to manage it because they're a grocery store
They're not a grocery store. They're a chain of grocery stores with a corporate head office, their own IT staff, their own marketing, etc. Things like customer data should be handled in-house, but some pointy haired boss decided that the risk(data loss/leak) to benefit(save $$) ratio was worth it. For all they know, this might be corporate espionage, and Piggly Wiggly might have Kroger's customer list complete with emails now. The best use that Piggly Wiggly can make of this is to start advertising low, low, prices at Kroger via spam. A lot of Kroger-themed spam. Maybe low prices on SPAM in the spam.
Y'know, one of the first things experts tell you when you're trying to educate yourself about crypto is not to rely too much on secrets that are baked into a product or system. This situation is a vindication of that principle. The whole house of cards has fallen down in an irreparable way because of a single security breach.
The token system isn't anything like DRM in Sony playstations. Each token is unique, and the only way to break the system was the access RSA's database. The system still works though, because RSA doesn't keep a database of which "something you have" goes with which "something you know". It can be narrowed down per company, but there's still a lot of guesswork and lockouts involved.
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Then that means someone else lifts the servers, swaps the backup tapes/HDDs, gets interrupted by users while reading /.
Of course, that means I can't completely trust the servers or backup media. I'll always trust the users to find a way to interrupt me, so they're not a factor. In short, pay me more because I'm entailing more risk by being responsible for systems that I have less trust in.
Consider also the Tacoma Narrows fiasco, now some decades ago, which in my opinion is not a mistake that competent engineers make, but one due to social promotion at the highest levels of our education system
I know you're young, but the social promotion you're talking about didn't start until the 70's and wasn't commonplace until the 90's (I remember kids flunking often enough). The Tacoma Narrows Bridge went wacky in 1940. The engineers who designed and built that bridge were probably taught in 1910-1935. They're the great-great-grandparents of the spoiled "everyone wins" generation.
So the only downside is a hypothetical tinfoil hat conspiracy theory? okay!
That's what the detractors at the first continental congress said. "checks and balances? Ha! Paranoid!"
Many people have e-readers, probably way over 1 in 10 americans have one.
I've seen two. I live in a moderately large city and have a lot of tech oriented friends. One friend owns a nook, another a kindle. That's it. In the closest B&N, people pick up the nooks and look at them, but they don't seem to be buying them. Probably 1 in 1000 americans or fewer own e-readers (unless you include computers and smartphones).
If libraries move in, a cheap e-paper reader can be sold by the library for $50.
$50? Compared to free library cards? Poor families can't afford $250 for an initial expense and $50 per year for every lost/broken/stolen library e-reader.
I have no idea what it has access to on my iPhone.
Their login method is "what's the iPhone's UUID?" Found that one out the hard way when I purchased a friends' (wiped by me) old iPhone. They're probably an example of doing it wrong.
Does it work on neckbeards? I don't have one and hearing that the other slashdotters do always makes me feel inadequate.
I got one of these notices from my CC company, and it made me really mad when I thought about how I have *never* received an email from them that wasn't an attempt to sell a balance transfer or other undesired service.
You have now.
Voter apathy is the threat.
More likely voter ignorance. No one knows enough about every subject (and how every congressman really feels about every subject) to vote appropriately according to their desires. Apathy is a symptom of the vastness of politics and the futility people feel about it, not a cause.
However then to the disgust of the Scientologists in our government I will announce my claim to the soul of L.Ron Hubbard and my intent to sell it to the first fucker that sticks his hand out from under a volcano.
To be fair to Scientologists, they don't believe humans have souls. They believe that thetans (fake-memory-souls) of dead aliens are possessing humans and restricting their actions (making them act ethically). To that end, scientoligists strive to make themselves soulless, conscienceless animals like Tom Cruise.
Fossil found in China recently, yet it "roamed North America"? How do they work that out if it's found in China? Unless of course China has now taken over North America....
The gigantic creature roamed North America and east Asia
Reading comprehension failure? Also, try this.
Okay, we know it roamed East Asia smarty pants. But if this was a "previously unknown" dinosaur, then how does North America fit in that sentence? Reading comprehension failure indeed.
Leaked Docs, ISP planning a music service. I was sure that this was a story about an ISP blocking BitTorrent to direct downloaders to its own service. But BT stands for British Telecom. There should be a law about using so many acronyms in a headline. And while I'm thinking of it, KVM was already a computer acronym, I still hate that Kernel based Virtual Machine is using Keyboard Video Mouse's acronym.
konqueror on kde4 has inline pdf, through okular. This could become an usability fail. A pdf is not html, displaying the pdf inline will confuse the user
Mosaic had inline JPEG and TIFF support. A JPEG is not HTML. Displaying the JPEG inline will confuse the user. I new a graphic artist in 1995 who made a webpage be just one giant imagemap of an interlaced GIF (using a black&white preview image to speed load times) because HTML couldn't let him design a page exactly the way he wanted. PDF inline would have been a godsend for him back then.
You can even put videos or code into them which will be executed
Only in viewers that support them (Adobe reader). Seriously, FF could reuse a ton of evince code and be close to done very quickly.
But you have to admit, the turtlenecks are quite similar to the collars.
I thought Satan came from the Roman mythology -- Christianity has always adapted to the locals
Read Job to learn about Satan's role in Judaism. He's kind of like a heavenly prosecutor who decided that he'll exact punishment while searching for evidence. "I bet you hid drugs in your Ming vase" *smash* "I bet you hid drugs in your couch cushions!" *slash* "I bet you hid drugs in your dog" *slash*
But 4+missing, not tens of thousands. Even so, it's Infinite% more than the radiation/poisoning deaths.
I am sure, I was counted among "victims" of Chernobyl disaster, too. If you are reading this in US, I am probably healthier than you are.
If you're anything like the Ukrainians I've met, you likely have larger breasts.
the number of "posessions" is very small, so is it really worth convening 60 church officials for a week to talk about what he considered to be a small problem?
Assuming they are demon possessions, I'd say that any increase is a cause for alarm. Since the church officials believe they are, it makes sense that they'd convene.
In regards to the demon possessions, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all just untreated severe mental disorders or chemical problems.
Catholicism tends to rule out natural maladies before sending in the exorcists. There are priests whose jobs revolve around disproving "miracles" like Grilled Cheesus Sandwich.
Is this how Palpatine so expertly handled political affairs? I miss the Emperor's worm and Luke's trampoline.
She'll knight anyone these days.
they use a third-party to manage it because they're a grocery store
They're not a grocery store. They're a chain of grocery stores with a corporate head office, their own IT staff, their own marketing, etc. Things like customer data should be handled in-house, but some pointy haired boss decided that the risk(data loss/leak) to benefit(save $$) ratio was worth it. For all they know, this might be corporate espionage, and Piggly Wiggly might have Kroger's customer list complete with emails now. The best use that Piggly Wiggly can make of this is to start advertising low, low, prices at Kroger via spam. A lot of Kroger-themed spam. Maybe low prices on SPAM in the spam.
I don't have a car, so I never dealt with Fender.
But I bet you own a guitar, you brownie eating, CD copying, community gardening, union joining hippie! Fender's a guitar company.
Here's the press release:
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http://www.epsilon.com/News%20&%20Events/Press_Releases_2011/Epsilon_Notifies_Clients_of_Unauthorized_Entry_into_Email_System/p1057-l3
Poking around on their site, I found this (partial) list of clients:
Americaâ(TM)s Gardening Resource
KeyBank
Staples
TIAA-CREF
Keybank and TIAA-CREF? I bet they have more interesting information than Kroger.
Y'know, one of the first things experts tell you when you're trying to educate yourself about crypto is not to rely too much on secrets that are baked into a product or system. This situation is a vindication of that principle. The whole house of cards has fallen down in an irreparable way because of a single security breach.
The token system isn't anything like DRM in Sony playstations. Each token is unique, and the only way to break the system was the access RSA's database. The system still works though, because RSA doesn't keep a database of which "something you have" goes with which "something you know". It can be narrowed down per company, but there's still a lot of guesswork and lockouts involved.