It's like Evian or Fiji called up and said the Municipal Water System was being used to share some of its water (people dumping it down the drain, and others using it after its recycled in the treatment plant), and then the town shutting down the water. Dumbest move ever.
Not +1 Funny. Parent is +1 Informative. On the same wifi network, my iPhone took three minutes to render/. while my dual core lappy rendered it in about 10 seconds (count it; it's actually a long time). BTW, on my laptop, FF grayed out for that time./.'s JS code sucks hard. I haven't looked, but I'm seriously starting to believe that it's got distributed computing code built in. Both machines loaded other webpages fine before and after.
Remove their admin access. Set auto-updates (and auto-reboots for Wednesday after patch Tuesday). Maybe outsource to India; bad service will force them to think for themselves.
I never run any sudo command except for "sudo su -" any more. I've had too many times where sudo cached cred and ran without asking for my password, then out of habit I typed the password anyway. I'd rather have a root shell since it's what I want most of the time anyway.
Google road rage shooting, it happens sometimes, a confrontation turns deadly because somebody was armed.
It happens because some idiot thinks a piece of iron in his hand makes him special. If there's reasonable assumption that everyone has a piece of iron, everyone will be a little more polite-like. Fences make good neighbors, etc.
People who don't want to pay for a database. What if Microsoft bought Sun? Would Star/OpenOffice be classified as being in a different market as MSOffice?
In this case, the poor "hacker" (I wish him/her luck!) appears to have done the following:
1. Used a specially formatted HTTP request to get a small fabricated purchase to show up as credited to his/her Bing account.
2. Noticed that the cash back did show up with no problem as "available for withdrawal".
3. Tried again with a much larger purchase. Again the purchase shows up in his account.
4. Hacker is hoping that the amount will soon become available for withdrawal.
5. Notified Microsoft about the issue?
Meanwhile, MS allowed a system where someone could redirect money to *someone else's* account, even an innocent third party. Imagine walking out of a local jewelry store, and the gate drops around you, sirens blare... all because a pickpocket put jewels in your pants. Imagine that instead of all of the sirens and gates, the store owner could have implemented a less expensive alternative that would have completely prevented the thief from doing this. So, the jewelry store is paying more to harass its customers... the store owners must enjoy it.
The obvious solution is to tie drivers licenses with hunting licenses, add turrets on to every car, and make it legal to shoot deer from the car train. No one is allowed to mention buffalo in rebuttal.
Last week I was asked to clean an executives blackberry. His track ball was dirty and he couldn't get it to work. Never-mind taking the phone apart voids the warranty. I cleaned the phone (90 minutes) and during that time I posted in my Sametime (company instant messaging status) Cleaning an executives blackberry. 2 hours later I got written up. So the lesson to be learned is to never tell people what your doing for executives cause they may get pissed off.
Wow. Hopefully your company doesn't have a globally searchable problem ticket system where there exists a priority 1 ticket with the name of the exec whose blackberry got cleaned for (hourlyrate*1.5), or you're in for a world of hurt.
In a small company like this, it's an okay method. In a large company, it's career suicide. Executives don't know what information they want. They want *you* to know what information is important; you are the specialist in your field after all. If you force them to choose a metric, they'll chose something like "problems solved" and reprimand you for a stable environment unless you list daily log-checks and backup restore tests as "problems".
I've also seen build numbers match the date of compilation. Ex:
Software v1.1 b091109
But this doesn't exactly keep it simple for people. Not a problem for most linux projects, but probably not good if you need to market anything.
Windows 95, Office '97, Windows 98(se), Windows 2000, Office 2000, Windows Server 2003, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010. Someone thinks it's a good idea for marketing.
"these tomatoes are reproduced synthetically, with only the memories of the sweet flavor from the original. If we keep repeating the process, this fruit will eventually become the real thing."
Obviously, an abortion harms a person, the developing baby. When a baby is conceived, it is a person.
FAIL.
Only failure in terms of legal definition. I assume you also contend that before the Emancipation Proclamation, in the U.S.A. a black slave wasn't a person but a free black man was person just because that was the legal definition. Lawyers play silly word games with reality all the time to get the results they want, but they have to rely on the definitions that others laid before them. Thus the current (and prior) dissonance between common and legal usages of "person".
By contrast, a much smarter answer is to contribute money to medical research to make it possible to sustain a fetus at progressively younger ages, eventually resulting in abortion being unnecessary, and eliminating any possible justification for abortion in the minds of even the staunchest abortion rights advocates.
Justification? So you think that abortions for convenience won't continue if all pregnancies are viable? The justification for such abortions is the same justification for newborn babies found in dumpsters.
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It's like Evian or Fiji called up and said the Municipal Water System was being used to share some of its water (people dumping it down the drain, and others using it after its recycled in the treatment plant), and then the town shutting down the water. Dumbest move ever.
Not +1 Funny. Parent is +1 Informative. On the same wifi network, my iPhone took three minutes to render /. while my dual core lappy rendered it in about 10 seconds (count it; it's actually a long time). BTW, on my laptop, FF grayed out for that time. /.'s JS code sucks hard. I haven't looked, but I'm seriously starting to believe that it's got distributed computing code built in. Both machines loaded other webpages fine before and after.
Remove their admin access. Set auto-updates (and auto-reboots for Wednesday after patch Tuesday). Maybe outsource to India; bad service will force them to think for themselves.
as they tighten their control over the products they sell
They're trying to tighten control over products they *don't* sell!
Guess what else they want control over.
I never run any sudo command except for "sudo su -" any more. I've had too many times where sudo cached cred and ran without asking for my password, then out of habit I typed the password anyway. I'd rather have a root shell since it's what I want most of the time anyway.
Google road rage shooting, it happens sometimes, a confrontation turns deadly because somebody was armed.
It happens because some idiot thinks a piece of iron in his hand makes him special. If there's reasonable assumption that everyone has a piece of iron, everyone will be a little more polite-like. Fences make good neighbors, etc.
Window of time that a flaw is known and exploitable before getting patched.
Why would they want to sell more 360s? Don't they still lose money on each one?
No, they just don't make as much as they'd like. Otherwise, some company would buy them in bulk and strip and sell parts for a profit.
And what of people running old versions of IE on Solaris or Mac? There's no Win32k kernel mode driver there...
This bodes well.
MySQL has a market that Oracle doesn't.
People who don't want to pay for a database. What if Microsoft bought Sun? Would Star/OpenOffice be classified as being in a different market as MSOffice?
If I posted NGA would you automatically know what I was talking about?
That's completely offensive. I'll have you know my ex girlfriend is black. CRKR.
...but, to answer your question: no.
In this case, the poor "hacker" (I wish him/her luck!) appears to have done the following: 1. Used a specially formatted HTTP request to get a small fabricated purchase to show up as credited to his/her Bing account. 2. Noticed that the cash back did show up with no problem as "available for withdrawal". 3. Tried again with a much larger purchase. Again the purchase shows up in his account. 4. Hacker is hoping that the amount will soon become available for withdrawal.
5. Notified Microsoft about the issue?
Meanwhile, MS allowed a system where someone could redirect money to *someone else's* account, even an innocent third party. Imagine walking out of a local jewelry store, and the gate drops around you, sirens blare... all because a pickpocket put jewels in your pants. Imagine that instead of all of the sirens and gates, the store owner could have implemented a less expensive alternative that would have completely prevented the thief from doing this. So, the jewelry store is paying more to harass its customers... the store owners must enjoy it.
...randomly re-registering his sites' names so that no one can read them. Ever.
The obvious solution is to tie drivers licenses with hunting licenses, add turrets on to every car, and make it legal to shoot deer from the car train. No one is allowed to mention buffalo in rebuttal.
Last week I was asked to clean an executives blackberry. His track ball was dirty and he couldn't get it to work. Never-mind taking the phone apart voids the warranty. I cleaned the phone (90 minutes) and during that time I posted in my Sametime (company instant messaging status) Cleaning an executives blackberry. 2 hours later I got written up. So the lesson to be learned is to never tell people what your doing for executives cause they may get pissed off.
Wow. Hopefully your company doesn't have a globally searchable problem ticket system where there exists a priority 1 ticket with the name of the exec whose blackberry got cleaned for (hourlyrate*1.5), or you're in for a world of hurt.
how about asking them what they want to see?
In a small company like this, it's an okay method. In a large company, it's career suicide. Executives don't know what information they want. They want *you* to know what information is important; you are the specialist in your field after all. If you force them to choose a metric, they'll chose something like "problems solved" and reprimand you for a stable environment unless you list daily log-checks and backup restore tests as "problems".
I've also seen build numbers match the date of compilation. Ex: Software v1.1 b091109 But this doesn't exactly keep it simple for people. Not a problem for most linux projects, but probably not good if you need to market anything.
Windows 95, Office '97, Windows 98(se), Windows 2000, Office 2000, Windows Server 2003, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010. Someone thinks it's a good idea for marketing.
Not 3D. /pedant
"these tomatoes are reproduced synthetically, with only the memories of the sweet flavor from the original. If we keep repeating the process, this fruit will eventually become the real thing."
As opposed to what? Cloning?
Actually, yes. Jellyfish normally asexually reproduce; essentially cloning. They can also sexually reproduce.
Well duh. Fish Jelly is the worst idea since slug paste.
Obviously, an abortion harms a person, the developing baby. When a baby is conceived, it is a person.
FAIL.
Only failure in terms of legal definition. I assume you also contend that before the Emancipation Proclamation, in the U.S.A. a black slave wasn't a person but a free black man was person just because that was the legal definition. Lawyers play silly word games with reality all the time to get the results they want, but they have to rely on the definitions that others laid before them. Thus the current (and prior) dissonance between common and legal usages of "person".
By contrast, a much smarter answer is to contribute money to medical research to make it possible to sustain a fetus at progressively younger ages, eventually resulting in abortion being unnecessary, and eliminating any possible justification for abortion in the minds of even the staunchest abortion rights advocates.
Justification? So you think that abortions for convenience won't continue if all pregnancies are viable? The justification for such abortions is the same justification for newborn babies found in dumpsters.