If it's negligence in case of the company then it does make sense to sue the company. No employee should be running around with a laptop full of SSNs and addresses around (even if they are encrypted). That's negligence and the full force of the law should be brought on those people.
If it's due to a physical theft, say a burglary, you can't do too much about it. You can only review your procedures and make sure it doesn't happen again.
The worst is when companies fail to report it. They're the ones who should be sued to hell and back.
It will be interesting to see if this speeds up the rate of upgrade by users, as well as upgrades of the add-ons.
Or will it make people go away from Firefox? C'mon seriously, I believe the people using Firefox (unlike patrons of IE) are intelligent enough to upgrade to a new version if they want. They'll stick to FF2 by their own personal choice.
I don't need some nagging software to keep telling me to upgrade. That will put FF along with the lines of RealPlayer, Adobe and Java as one of the more annoying softwares out there. It's already getting enough flak as it is for the SSL certificates.
I support that theory. But even if it is Microsoft, as long as they pushing to open up their technology to other platforms I support it.
I'm a.net developer myself but use Ubuntu at home. I'd love to see mono and silverlight developed fully on Linux so I can use it outside business applications.
You believe you can trust in paper just because it is widespread and been in use for a while. But there are inherent problems with paper too - ballot theft, miscounting etc. You can't ignore problems like an overzealous volunteer counting a few hundred more votes for his favorite candidate.
Electronic ballot machines were brought to eliminate these problems. But in an attempt to make them more fancy they took on more inherent security risks. My two cents is - electronic voting systems ARE better. You only have to make the machines open sourced to strengthen the security.
Hey, don't say anything degrading about Aeron chairs. They're the most comfortable things you can put your base on. The problem was with all the so-called "entrepreneurs" who thought they could spend their cash any way they wished...
Microsoft should have been split at the original DoJ antitrust case. It still should.
There was no need for Microsoft to split. This is the market working itself. When you have a monopoly which does nothing, market forces will bring it down - simple economics.
I have an 8.9" eee pc running on the Intel Mobile Processor (read Celeron). I have both Ubuntu and XP running on dual boot but use Ubuntu more than often. XP is still **very** slow on the laptop and there is continuous disk activity while running it.
I assume the Internet2 will be an attempt to change the networking protocols from the ground up to remove any inefficiencies that exist in the current protocol and build a faster more efficient internet. But, the main problems that they're definitely going to face are;
a. Rolling this out over the current infrastructure. Any compromise on this will result in a slower speeds wiping out any advantages that the new protocols provide.
b. Requiring both the current and the new protocols to co-exist. No one, especially in developing countries, is going to take in the massive up front costs to rollover to Internet2. It has to be done in phases.
c. Adoption by telecom companies. This is the only way Internet2 will succeed. But in the current state of affairs, they're not even willing to support IPV6. Who's going to convince them to move to Internet2?
But I suspect/.ers don't have that kinda cash on hand.
But they could easily get some. Not legally, but round off a few fractions of a penny to a bank account and if you get caught, the worst they would ever do is they would put you for a couple of months into a white-collar, minimum-security resort! Shit, we should be so lucky! Do you know, they have conjugal visits there?
God! I'm looking up money laundering in the dictionary...
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have this strange feeling that we are slowly heading into Asimov's world. And all the problems (and benefits) that come along with it...
Talk about vendor lock in. I just hope Linux starts to make more headway into corporate desktops - and I don't just mean for developers. More support we get for Linux more it is going to be used by corporates.
For whatever it is now, Windows wasn't all that great even 15 years ago. Very rudimentary, few supported applications and all that.
It was all the corporate adoption and the developer ecosystem that has brought Windows to what it is now. I'm sure with more widespread usage we can get Linux to be at the same usage level without the security glitches.
Only if the stopped using corny names like Hardy Heron... (sigh)
ASUS did a very good job by selecting hardware that is supported by Linux. I am a relative n00b to Linuxdom and I was able to re-install Ubuntu on my eee 900 (of course, with all the help that the Internet has), get all the devices working (webcam etc. which needed quite a bit of work), setup dual boot with Windows XP (setting up grub and all that...) and even managed to destroy and restore my MBR afterwards.
To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured McAfee will follow through with their promises for this S.P.A.M. test mail.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. If you ignore this, You will repent later. McAfee is now the largest anti-virus software company and in an effort to make sure that their product remains the most widely used program, they are running an e-mail beta test.
When you forward this e-mail to friends, McAfee can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, McAfee will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, McAfee will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, McAfee will contact you for your address and then send you a check.
I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. McAfee contacted me for my address and within days, I receive a check for $2,500.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over.
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If it's negligence in case of the company then it does make sense to sue the company. No employee should be running around with a laptop full of SSNs and addresses around (even if they are encrypted). That's negligence and the full force of the law should be brought on those people.
If it's due to a physical theft, say a burglary, you can't do too much about it. You can only review your procedures and make sure it doesn't happen again.
The worst is when companies fail to report it. They're the ones who should be sued to hell and back.
Marginal Benefit, my friend. Marginal Benefit.
It will be interesting to see if this speeds up the rate of upgrade by users, as well as upgrades of the add-ons.
Or will it make people go away from Firefox? C'mon seriously, I believe the people using Firefox (unlike patrons of IE) are intelligent enough to upgrade to a new version if they want. They'll stick to FF2 by their own personal choice.
I don't need some nagging software to keep telling me to upgrade. That will put FF along with the lines of RealPlayer, Adobe and Java as one of the more annoying softwares out there. It's already getting enough flak as it is for the SSL certificates.
I support that theory. But even if it is Microsoft, as long as they pushing to open up their technology to other platforms I support it.
.net developer myself but use Ubuntu at home. I'd love to see mono and silverlight developed fully on Linux so I can use it outside business applications.
I'm a
You believe you can trust in paper just because it is widespread and been in use for a while. But there are inherent problems with paper too - ballot theft, miscounting etc. You can't ignore problems like an overzealous volunteer counting a few hundred more votes for his favorite candidate.
Electronic ballot machines were brought to eliminate these problems. But in an attempt to make them more fancy they took on more inherent security risks. My two cents is - electronic voting systems ARE better. You only have to make the machines open sourced to strengthen the security.
Hey, don't say anything degrading about Aeron chairs. They're the most comfortable things you can put your base on. The problem was with all the so-called "entrepreneurs" who thought they could spend their cash any way they wished...
Microsoft should have been split at the original DoJ antitrust case. It still should.
There was no need for Microsoft to split. This is the market working itself. When you have a monopoly which does nothing, market forces will bring it down - simple economics.
I have an 8.9" eee pc running on the Intel Mobile Processor (read Celeron). I have both Ubuntu and XP running on dual boot but use Ubuntu more than often. XP is still **very** slow on the laptop and there is continuous disk activity while running it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend
[citation needed]
I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.
He says, "Have a good day, sir!" and writes you a fine for $500.
I assume the Internet2 will be an attempt to change the networking protocols from the ground up to remove any inefficiencies that exist in the current protocol and build a faster more efficient internet. But, the main problems that they're definitely going to face are;
a. Rolling this out over the current infrastructure. Any compromise on this will result in a slower speeds wiping out any advantages that the new protocols provide.
b. Requiring both the current and the new protocols to co-exist. No one, especially in developing countries, is going to take in the massive up front costs to rollover to Internet2. It has to be done in phases.
c. Adoption by telecom companies. This is the only way Internet2 will succeed. But in the current state of affairs, they're not even willing to support IPV6. Who's going to convince them to move to Internet2?
But I suspect /.ers don't have that kinda cash on hand.
But they could easily get some. Not legally, but round off a few fractions of a penny to a bank account and if you get caught, the worst they would ever do is they would put you for a couple of months into a white-collar, minimum-security resort! Shit, we should be so lucky! Do you know, they have conjugal visits there?
God! I'm looking up money laundering in the dictionary ...
Guess what I got in Google:
A dog's wife.
So this about frikkin' dogs with frikkin' wives with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads?
so that you can see her jee hoovies in 3D coz you know ... (giggle) (giggle)
He got tired of Bart Simpson making him write "I will not send out spam email again." on the chalkboard again and again.
Here's the FBI press release.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have this strange feeling that we are slowly heading into Asimov's world. And all the problems (and benefits) that come along with it ...
Oh c'mon. The mods have no sense of humor...
He was just too embarrassed by the password - ibonkedmymom.
Can't the World Wide Web Consortium take over the job? Of course, Verisign will be all against it as it breaks their monopoly ...
Talk about vendor lock in. I just hope Linux starts to make more headway into corporate desktops - and I don't just mean for developers. More support we get for Linux more it is going to be used by corporates.
... (sigh)
For whatever it is now, Windows wasn't all that great even 15 years ago. Very rudimentary, few supported applications and all that.
It was all the corporate adoption and the developer ecosystem that has brought Windows to what it is now. I'm sure with more widespread usage we can get Linux to be at the same usage level without the security glitches.
Only if the stopped using corny names like Hardy Heron
ASUS did a very good job by selecting hardware that is supported by Linux. I am a relative n00b to Linuxdom and I was able to re-install Ubuntu on my eee 900 (of course, with all the help that the Internet has), get all the devices working (webcam etc. which needed quite a bit of work), setup dual boot with Windows XP (setting up grub and all that...) and even managed to destroy and restore my MBR afterwards.
According to W3C, the web is "the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge."
That's why the aliens haven't published any websites yet...
Only the SMTP headers went out...
I can just see it coming ...
To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured McAfee will follow through with their promises for this S.P.A.M. test mail.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. If you ignore this, You will repent later. McAfee is now the largest anti-virus software company and in an effort to make sure that their product remains the most widely used program, they are running an e-mail beta test.
When you forward this e-mail to friends, McAfee can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, McAfee will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, McAfee will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, McAfee will contact you for your address and then send you a check.
I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. McAfee contacted me for my address and within days, I receive a check for $2,500.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over.