Why are people complaining about this. Most registrars send out several email warnings prior to an expiration almost to the point where it's annoying. Secondly, if a domain is that important to you shouldn't you be using the registrars auto renewal service?
True. Search is blazing fast from Japan but other Google services such as Google Apps sometimes lag. I can only assume that those services are served from the states.
The topic of "are you human" was covered on Security Now a while back and someone brought up a great point. Tools to deter bots also makes it difficult for accessibility software since they use many of the same concepts as bots. Even audio captchas are no longer a strong bot deterrence.
With advocacy groups like the National Federation of the Blind suing Target for their inaccessible website it'll be a very tough challenge to develop new good captchas while maintaining accessibility to everyone.
On another note, could an organization representing the mathematically challenged sue companies using math captchas?
What we need are free phishing kits with trojans that report phishing sites to phishing filter databases or better yet to the administrators of site they're trying to emulate since they'd have the most incentive to take action. The hard part is hiding the trojan and traffic it generates.
$999 is not the price for the SSD, it's the price for the upgrade. You're loosing the 80GB 1.8" drive. An 80GB drive is less than $534 but the point is still valid.
I read somewhere many years ago that the problem with peltier coolers is that they are active devices and as such are susceptible to failure. When they do they basically become an insulator rather than a conductor of heat and you could fry your hardware. At least with heatsink + fans if the fan fails the heatsink will still perform some passive cooling and the chip will heat up gradually and your temp sensors would have a bit more time to react. In fact your fan monitors would sense the fan failure even before that.
There's a good review of the Kindle by Steve Gibson of GRC.com and Security now titled "Why and how the Kindle changes everything". One thing to note is that he believes in the success of ebooks in general which is a good thing for someone reviewing an ebook reader. He basically gives the Kindle a big thumbs up but mentions the typical issues of a first generation device.
I heard that their tech budget was actually low. Even heard of some servers in country running off laptops, thrashing and eventually killing those frail 2.5" drives. I suppose it may have differed in different regiments/troops or whatever the divisions are called (sorry not a military guy).
What about a candidate who stands a chance? While Paul may be the best candidate for this issue, let's not forget that Obama has a good chance at winning the presidency and promotes net privacy. From a recent interview:
As president, I will strengthen privacy protections for the digital age and will harness the power of technology to hold government and business accountable for violations of personal privacy.
I'm glad to see my tax money put to good use to keep our country safe. I'm sure supersonic bombs are the answer to stopping hijacked US airlines or car bomb wielding extremist. [/sarcasm]
I read part of the page in the link and one part stood out and not just because it's in big bold type:
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
The problem with this statement is that our behavioral expectations are developed from our experiences. If we've only experienced bad UI, our expected behavior will be that of the bad UI.
Sometimes it's immediately clear that the new UI is more intuitive but othertimes it takes a while to realize how much better a new UI is simply because we are still expecting the old behavior.
I wonder how fast this thing can be retracted in the event of a storm. Dropping sails is relatively fast but winding in thousands of feet of cable is going to take some time (length of cables would be the diagonal hypotenuse of an imaginary right triangle with a height of 1000ft and an unknown length possibly longer than 1000ft).
Have no fear Comcast will save us with throttling! If every ISP used traffic shaping to slow down all but casual browsing we wouldn't have to worry about this. [/sarcasm]
Your arguments over exaggerated. Think of the most computer illiterate person you know. Would they ever confuse a microwave with a Windows PC? Seriously. The problem is that this thing looks exactly like all other Windows PCs on the outside and many people never heard of Linux so they may assume it's like all the other PCs.
Now your point about the Mac is valid but with Apple's aggressive marketing they've distanced themselves with Windows so greatly that anyone who watches TV at least in the US knows that they're "different" and would be likely to ask the salesperson if __software will run.
For those people who lined up for this thing, I'm sure they knew what they got and they would probably would have just laughed at the sign.
Well it is a warning. Remember, not everyone is a Slashdot reader. Many customers will see a PC and automatically assume it's a Windows PC because they have no idea there are alternatives. They'll think that they can run the software which is probably sitting on the shelf just behind this computer because it says "PC" on the box regardless of the preceding word "Windows". Oh wait, I'm sure the Walmart checkout person will know that the two are incompatible and inform the customer.
So true. If they have not already done so, it would be wise of Walmart to have a nice big sign next to this product stating that it does NOT use MS Windows.
I still side with the customer especially since businesses have insurance for product loss but lets not forget that it is entirely possible that the victim actually has the drive and is trying to pull a scam on the business.
Business abuse occurs quite often. For instance:
1) Customer carries a little ketchup sized packet of water to squirt on the ground to sue for dangerous conditions.
2) Customer pockets a product in plain sight then drops it out of sight while still in the store. Once the customer is falsely accused they sue.
Pardon my incorrect legal terminology.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not like they're frontrunning (sniping) domain names.
True. Search is blazing fast from Japan but other Google services such as Google Apps sometimes lag. I can only assume that those services are served from the states.
The topic of "are you human" was covered on Security Now a while back and someone brought up a great point. Tools to deter bots also makes it difficult for accessibility software since they use many of the same concepts as bots. Even audio captchas are no longer a strong bot deterrence.
With advocacy groups like the National Federation of the Blind suing Target for their inaccessible website it'll be a very tough challenge to develop new good captchas while maintaining accessibility to everyone.
On another note, could an organization representing the mathematically challenged sue companies using math captchas?
We just need multi-core brains and SMP optimized synapses then multi tasking should be no problem.
What we need are free phishing kits with trojans that report phishing sites to phishing filter databases or better yet to the administrators of site they're trying to emulate since they'd have the most incentive to take action. The hard part is hiding the trojan and traffic it generates.
$999 is not the price for the SSD, it's the price for the upgrade. You're loosing the 80GB 1.8" drive. An 80GB drive is less than $534 but the point is still valid.
I read somewhere many years ago that the problem with peltier coolers is that they are active devices and as such are susceptible to failure. When they do they basically become an insulator rather than a conductor of heat and you could fry your hardware. At least with heatsink + fans if the fan fails the heatsink will still perform some passive cooling and the chip will heat up gradually and your temp sensors would have a bit more time to react. In fact your fan monitors would sense the fan failure even before that.
There's a good review of the Kindle by Steve Gibson of GRC.com and Security now titled "Why and how the Kindle changes everything". One thing to note is that he believes in the success of ebooks in general which is a good thing for someone reviewing an ebook reader. He basically gives the Kindle a big thumbs up but mentions the typical issues of a first generation device.
...Macworld has up an article comparing Leopard to Gutsy Gibbon.
...unless we can bring down their shields. All forces target the shield generators!
Close but more accurately. They hope that...
- Pirates will begin to use Vista.
- New popularity will convince third party software developers to fix Vista compatibility issues.
- New popularity will make many Vista gripes clear to MS.
- MS will roll out service packs.
- Companies/enterprise will begin to buy Vista.
- Profit
It worked for XP and PhotoshopI bet if your luggage contained less than legal contents they'd have kept better track of it.
I heard that their tech budget was actually low. Even heard of some servers in country running off laptops, thrashing and eventually killing those frail 2.5" drives. I suppose it may have differed in different regiments/troops or whatever the divisions are called (sorry not a military guy).
Forgot to mention that Obama also supports ODF and openness in general.
I'm glad to see my tax money put to good use to keep our country safe. I'm sure supersonic bombs are the answer to stopping hijacked US airlines or car bomb wielding extremist. [/sarcasm]
Sometimes it's immediately clear that the new UI is more intuitive but othertimes it takes a while to realize how much better a new UI is simply because we are still expecting the old behavior.
I wonder how fast this thing can be retracted in the event of a storm. Dropping sails is relatively fast but winding in thousands of feet of cable is going to take some time (length of cables would be the diagonal hypotenuse of an imaginary right triangle with a height of 1000ft and an unknown length possibly longer than 1000ft).
Have no fear Comcast will save us with throttling! If every ISP used traffic shaping to slow down all but casual browsing we wouldn't have to worry about this. [/sarcasm]
Your arguments over exaggerated. Think of the most computer illiterate person you know. Would they ever confuse a microwave with a Windows PC? Seriously. The problem is that this thing looks exactly like all other Windows PCs on the outside and many people never heard of Linux so they may assume it's like all the other PCs. Now your point about the Mac is valid but with Apple's aggressive marketing they've distanced themselves with Windows so greatly that anyone who watches TV at least in the US knows that they're "different" and would be likely to ask the salesperson if __software will run. For those people who lined up for this thing, I'm sure they knew what they got and they would probably would have just laughed at the sign.
Well it is a warning. Remember, not everyone is a Slashdot reader. Many customers will see a PC and automatically assume it's a Windows PC because they have no idea there are alternatives. They'll think that they can run the software which is probably sitting on the shelf just behind this computer because it says "PC" on the box regardless of the preceding word "Windows". Oh wait, I'm sure the Walmart checkout person will know that the two are incompatible and inform the customer.
So true. If they have not already done so, it would be wise of Walmart to have a nice big sign next to this product stating that it does NOT use MS Windows.
On a board this small they should have tossed the PS/2 and parallel ports and instead added some extra USB ports or e-SATA.
I still side with the customer especially since businesses have insurance for product loss but lets not forget that it is entirely possible that the victim actually has the drive and is trying to pull a scam on the business. Business abuse occurs quite often. For instance: 1) Customer carries a little ketchup sized packet of water to squirt on the ground to sue for dangerous conditions. 2) Customer pockets a product in plain sight then drops it out of sight while still in the store. Once the customer is falsely accused they sue. Pardon my incorrect legal terminology.