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Posts made by Kemp
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RE: No security at all
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RE: Another microsoft mishap?
If I may give the most likely answer: the various teams at MS largely operate independently, thus why (for instance) the Office and MSN teams consistently ignore the UI guidelines put out by whatever team handles UI stuff (the shell team? not sure). Also, I'm sure that it doesn't make sense (and would be a huge task to enforce) to make every team stay on top of every new technology put out by MS as a whole. How would you feel if you had just finished putting together your awesome new flash video player and then Silverlight got official release and you had to redevelop the whole thing again?
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RE: The Email Migration
@cconroy said:
Is it common these days to run Exchange servers at a university? What happened to good old Unix email?
My Uni ran Exchange, and has recently migrated to the Windows Live something or other that they host in the magical cloud. They're migrating students slowly and I haven't been reached yet. Hopefully this means that they planned ahead and realised that if they hit problems then they want it to be for as few students as possible. I just set up a dedicated gmail account to retrieve my email anyway.
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RE: Google
The most annoying thing about the custom Firefox homepage is that they removed the language tools link. AFAICT that's the only change (I do see the gmail link). Unfortunately it's the only link I use. The first thing I do is change the homepage to the default google one.
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RE: WTF, Linux contractor loses contract for using Linux.
My bank example probably wasn't the best option as I can see how there might be a whole world of CYA there. I've seen it happen on much less important or secure sites though. desperately trying not to mention webct/blackboard/whatever abomination it is now
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RE: WTF, Linux contractor loses contract for using Linux.
The thing I hate the most is when they do a browser check and refuse to let you see the page at all if you don't match exactly what they want. My bank does this (they support FF but only up to 3.0, 3.5 is not supported and has no chance of working according to them). If I spoof my user agent then I see that actually it does work, flawlessly. Same with some sites that claim only IE compatibility and don't let you even try the others. I don't mind if they give you a quick warning that "this page may not render correctly in your browser", but actually denying you access to the page is just plain retarded. In these cases again, the majority of the time the page works fine in other browsers once you spoof your user agent.
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RE: 17-year-old Dead after Tweeting in the Bathtub
Must be caught in some kind of time distortion, I could have sworn it was first page.
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RE: 17-year-old Dead after Tweeting in the Bathtub
@Helix said:
@drachenstern said:
...... I've not seen many recent computers drawing less than 70A/PC.
70 Amps per PC !!!!!!!
I guess you have not used a computer since ENIAC
hahaha ROFL
Lol, yeah, I'd hate to see his electricity bill running a 16.8kW computer. Or a lab of them.
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RE: Really, facebook?
I get ths as well sometimes using Firefox 3.5. Not cosistently, which is the even more worrying part as it means their detection isn't quite deterministic. I don't spoof my agent there.
A more annoying thing is sites which specifically block access unless you're on the approved list (which they don't keep up to date). My banking site won't let me log in at all unless I spoof an older version of Firefox (3.1 in that case).
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@PJH said:
@tdb said:
I can't quite follow your logic there. The "unlimited" plan costs more than "heavy usage", so what exactly is the fact that implies a lower cap?
The indicated prices when I first linked to the page. Unlimited was less than heavy usage.As I pointed out in my earlier post, the page appears to have changed.
Possibly you accidentally read the introductory price for unlimited and the normal price for capped? Anyway, I don't think this needs much more analysis, it's an easy mistake to make. Especially when we naturally read left to right and then top to bottom, whereas the options are ordered top to bottom and the left to right.
Pre-emptive comment: I know not all languages have reading in that direction, but we're talking in English, and the site is also in English :-P
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@PJH said:
@Kemp said:
Note the 20GB cap is option 2 and costs less than the unlimited option 3.
Hmm. Going (back) to my link shows a different page to the one I was looking at. They've changed the prices as well.
Should have taken a screenshot at the time I think.Well I'm not quite sure what you saw, but the prices have been like this for at least a year now.
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@PJH said:
@Kemp said:
I'm not sure what your point is here. You have confirmed that yes they do have an unlimited option at about £25
No, I've confirmed that they have something that they call unlimited, but which is, in fact, patently not unlimited.And that they have the temerity to offer something for those that are 'heavy users' that has only a 20GB cap. Which implies that the "unlimited" offering has a cap well below 20GB. Which by any definition of the word (except perhaps with the ISPs) is anything but unlimited.
Note the 20GB cap is option 2 and costs less than the unlimited option 3. They mean heavy usage *for a normal home user*, not the likes of us. Confusing to us, yes, but we're not their biggest user base :-P
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
Apparently (and don't hold me to this or base your usage around it), the fair use on BT option 3 is 100GB a month. After that they just throttle rather than cut you off or charge you. Probably if you consistently go over that they may talk to you, but if you transfer over 100GB *every month* then you're back in "something other than ADSL" territory.
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@PJH said:
@Kemp said:
Umlimited transfer? At up to 8MB?@Mole said:
As for internet cost, I pay £25 UKP per month for 30GB and "upto 4MB" connection speed. If I use up that 30GB, then it's £1.50 for each additional GB. Yes I know, I should move, but I'm planning a move to cable rather than this DSL trash.
No idea how you manage that. BT (the default choice until recently) will give you unlimited transfer for £25 a month, at up to 8MB. If a company is giving you less than BT do then they're doing it wrong.
I'm sure there should, at a minimum, two asterisks in that sentence, one pointing to a note about fair use, (which is not a fair definition of unlimited), and the other expanding on the "up to" and explaining why it doesn't say "at least."
Regardless, given the price plans displayed here, there is one such descibed as 20MB/Unlimited@£24.46 (with two such disclaimers, and other crud in with the offer) with, get this, on the same page another "heavy usage option." Now why - if the first mentioned is unlimited - can they offer such an option?
For the lazy (or if the link doesn't work), the 'heavy usage option' comes with an (apparent) absolute 20GB cap. No pricing details given for if you go over that cap. Which in itself implies interesting.cn things about the above 'unlimited' offering.
I'm not sure what your point is here. You have confirmed that yes they do have an unlimited option at about £25 (sorry, I don't care about the 54p). Other than that, you're just having a go at a slightly cheaper option which has a cap. My point still stands.
I have yet to see an ISP (in this country) which offers unlimited transfer without a fair use policy in the smallprint. In this case fair use means almost nothing because I don't know anyone who's fallen foul of it. Maybe if you max out the bandwidth all day every day then it's not for you, but then you'd be someone who isn't looking for ADSL to start with anyway. As for "up to", all ADSL here is listed as that (unless they're trying to trick you) because it depends on a lot of factors, including your distance from the exchange, the age of the lines, the amount of equipment attached to the line in your hous, the bandwidth consumption of nearby people, etc etc. Again, if you don't like it then you don't use ADSL.
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RE: Just saw this popup on Twitter
@lolwtf said:
If he thinks that's the problem, he's probably never heard of SQL injection. Where did you say this website was?
Sometimes you don't even need SQL injection. Once (and I'm not sure how I noticed this) I saw that the online store of a MAJOR high-street chain that sells computer Games posted the details of what you ordered to the basket page. Fair enough, except that these details included the price. It took less than a minute to order various things for 1p each (0p seemed to trigger some kind of error handling and didn't work). I never actually finalised the order in case they chased after me for the full cost, but it was soooo tempting. I tried this again recently and it seems they fixed it.
Actually, if you know particular things to Google for, it'll pick them out of the page source and you can find a lot of sites that have this same flaw. They tend to be very small one-man/woman operations selling homemade things though, and they're far more likely to notice than some big corporation.
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RE: You don't have frames? But they're awesome!
When I was an undergrad we had WebCT, since then I can't remember what they use (though the first alternative was from the guys who did WebCT), but both Blackboard and Moodle sound familiar. No one (students, teachers, IT staff) has liked any of them, and in fact my favourite quote from supervising a lab session was:
"See, when I click this link it crashes the browser, so that's working."
The thing that wasn't working in this case was a PDF download which when opened would bluescreen the PC. To this day I honestly have no idea how they could have managed it. Surely you have to conciously make a decision to screw up that badly?
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@Mole said:
As for internet cost, I pay £25 UKP per month for 30GB and "upto 4MB" connection speed. If I use up that 30GB, then it's £1.50 for each additional GB. Yes I know, I should move, but I'm planning a move to cable rather than this DSL trash.
No idea how you manage that. BT (the default choice until recently) will give you unlimited transfer for £25 a month, at up to 8MB. If a company is giving you less than BT do then they're doing it wrong.
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RE: Big Time WTF job ad
Whoops, I appear to have been browsing the wrong page. *sneaks out quietly*
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RE: Big Time WTF job ad
There were more than a few stiffled laughs at Uni when we saw a lecture slide with OMG CORBA in big letters. Yay Java I guess.
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RE: IEEE.org User Registration
@Rhamphoryncus said:
The real WTF is you were signing up for the IEEE?
I've had plenty of conversations about floating point, but NEVER has anybody referenced or quoted IEEE 754. Frequently mentioned, never used. Although I'm sure a few of the GCC developers reference it privately, it's biggest impact seems to be hardware, but even that has a lot unspecified or implementation defined, nevermind that various bits of hardware ignore whatever rules are inconvenient!
Historical significance is another matter entirely. There used to be a lot more diversity in hardware, which it cut down. Something to be thankful for I guess.
That's a troll, right? Right?
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RE: Locked out of the wha..?
Half my post automatically deleted by editing it = abbreviated version. I'm short on time.
We have a small card reader (not hooked up to the PC). AFAIK it has a random seed which is unique per reader and which only the bank and the reader itself know (requesting a new reader automatically invalidates the old one).For certain transactions you slot your card in, enter your PIN, enter a challenge code given by the site, and it gives you a response code which you type back into the site. For me this is far more secure than my unlocked phone, which has no valuable data on (deliberately, and which a certain McDonalds customer should also have made sure of...).
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RE: Undo files
Wow, you guys really get riled up by random comments =P I know, interwebs, serious business, and all that. Besides, in your rush to prove me wrong you forgot something important. He's not going to come into work and sit there staring at the screen while the computer boots (thus wasting the money you mentioned), he'll be grabbing a drink from the water cooler, or checking his voicemail, or saying hi to someone, or checking the notes people have left scattered around for all the "IMPORTANT" and "URGENT" things that they want doing (he *has* been away two weeks). Either way, I think the time you spent trying to prove me wrong was far more than he would have spent waiting for the computer to finish booting.
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RE: Undo files
@tgape said:
(Once, I went on vacation for two weeks, shortly after having pasted a file. I left the app running, with the screen locked. About a day after I returned, having performed no file-level changes, I hit Ctrl+Z after having bumped the mouse without noticing it. Bam!)
You left your PC on for two weeks with no one using it? Glad I don't pay your power bill. Though those greenhouse gasses aren't going to help much...
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RE: Webservice Error Handling
@APH said:
So, it would be better to not provide information as to the cause of the error?
It would be better to provide a meaningful error message rather than forwarding a message like that. Parsing a custom message is a lot easier for client apps than parsing some random string you happened to get handed by the system. Plus if you ever migrate to another platform (or indeed, simply upgrade your current one, even minor versions in some cases), the message could completely change, meaning all the client apps suddenly have to know to expect something else in order to tell the user "you number was invalid".
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RE: Why do by hand when you can use SQL? (Temporary Tables)
@pscs said:
@Kemp said:
25 - 30 years ago is relatively recently? I mean, sure, in the grand scheme of things that long is nothing to the universe, but I'd say it's long enough for people to catch on that we don't use the long scale anymore...
It's not that long ago. OK, in 1974 the UK government said that they'd use the US system for government statistics. But no one else followed suit immediately...
When I was at school in the 80s a 'British billion' was still a million million, but we were taught kilograms, litres and metres. Nowadays, you'll find lots of people ignoring what the goverment says we should do and still buying a pound of apples, measuring themselves in feet & inches and buying pints of beer. Similarly, some people still use the European 'billion' in Britain.Hmmm... point taken. A billion has just always seemed natural to me as a thousand million. Maybe it's because I use computers far more than I really should so the metric system of prefixes has become an "obvious" thing to me (obvious used in the sense of me thinking that's how it should be, not obvious as in the wider sense).
I don't recall ever having seen anything that quoted a billion as a million million, though I do remember back in high school having a discussion with my maths teacher about which way was the One True Way.
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RE: Why do by hand when you can use SQL? (Temporary Tables)
@pscs said:
@Kemp said:
British here, a billion is a thousand million. Thanks for playing.
The UK normally uses the USA scheme nowadays but it didn't do until relatively recently, and even today it can be ambiguous.25 - 30 years ago is relatively recently? I mean, sure, in the grand scheme of things that long is nothing to the universe, but I'd say it's long enough for people to catch on that we don't use the long scale anymore...
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RE: Why do by hand when you can use SQL? (Temporary Tables)
@m0ffx said:
@cbr600f said:
8.000M€ (european millions, that's like 8.000.000.000€)
There is no such thing as a 'European million'. There is a BRITISH billion (and trillion, quadrillion) etc, which is a million million, as opposed to the American billion, which is a thousand million. There is a milliard, which is a thousand million. But a million is the same always, a thousand thousand.
It does, however, appears as though you are using the 'continental' format, of dots to separate groups of 1000, and commas for the decimal point, rather than the 'English' format which is the reverse. So you either mean 8 million euros, or 8 thousand million euros.
British here, a billion is a thousand million. Thanks for playing.
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RE: Cognos is annoying
I like Squirrel. I mean, I wouldn't use it in actual speech, but it amuses me imagining a squirrel grabbing my query and scurrying away.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@asuffield said:
@ShadowWolf said:
As for the drivers, I think you're being incredibly optimistic if you think Linux drivers are truely leaps & bounds above what Windows provides. There are a ton of really buggy drivers out there for Linux and a lot of hardware whose support is a wasteland.
You're stuck in the 1990s. I can't remember the last time I saw a piece of hardware that lacked linux drivers, with the notable exception of latest-generation ati and nvidia cards.
Seconded. It's getting rather hard to find devices without Linux drivers, you almost have to be deliberate about it. Of course there are still some terrible buggy drivers out there and some devices without any, but the same can be said for Windows.
Before this all gets out of hand (more so than it already is) can I just point out that, ignoring the usual fanboyism that is always going to exist, everyone is essentially making the same points in different ways:
- Both OSs actually have similar problems these days
- People will defend their favourite OS to the death (even if it means using out of date, circumstantial, or unproven evidence)
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@KenW said:
@asuffield said:
@Kemp said:
@KenW said:
Simple example? Data compression. Sure, 7Zip is great; I use it myself. But compare the GUI version against WinZip, and tell me which one you'd rather explain to my mother via a long-distance telephone call?
As for your compression question, I'd rather not install 7zip in the first place (gui version or not) when the archive manager that ships with Ubuntu does quite nicely...
Not to mention that 7zip is for working with 7z files, not zip files, and the GUI is exactly the same on Windows as it is on every other platform.
Right. It's a bad GUI on Windows, exactly the same as on every other platform.
So why bring it up in the first place? Both platforms have better archive management tools. Deliberately choosing the worst one doesn't really make a valid point.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@asuffield said:
@Kemp said:
@KenW said:
Simple example? Data compression. Sure, 7Zip is great; I use it myself. But compare the GUI version against WinZip, and tell me which one you'd rather explain to my mother via a long-distance telephone call?
As for your compression question, I'd rather not install 7zip in the first place (gui version or not) when the archive manager that ships with Ubuntu does quite nicely...
Not to mention that 7zip is for working with 7z files, not zip files, and the GUI is exactly the same on Windows as it is on every other platform.
And one last point before I drop the compression app issue: The aforementioned archive manager has an interface that will be very familiar to anyone who has used winzip or winrar in the past. Your explanation would be basically identical to however you tell her to use winzip, with a couple of important differences: the archive manager is completely freeware, and is available by default without any installation required on the user's part.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@KenW said:
with Ubuntu and other Linux distros, having the package manager is obviously great. Unfortunately, the vast majority of software that the package manager can install for you easily is not worth bothering with; it's nothing even close to the equivalent applications you can find for Windows.
Simple example? Data compression. Sure, 7Zip is great; I use it myself. But compare the GUI version against WinZip, and tell me which one you'd rather explain to my mother via a long-distance telephone call?
Strange, I have all the software I need available in there. I have only needed one piece of software that wasn't available via the standard repositories (JabRef - a java based reference manager), and that has since been added. As for your compression question, I'd rather not install 7zip in the first place (gui version or not) when the archive manager that ships with Ubuntu does quite nicely...
Linux certainly has a reputation for being hard to use for the average person, but distros like Ubuntu have come quite a way in the last year (or indeed in the last couple of months, Ubuntu 7.10 is out now and fixed a substantial number of things that used to bug me). Sure, the average person might be confused at first, but the same happens with Windows. The difference is that with Windows when someone gets completely lost we chuckle and submit it to a dumb users quote site, when the same happens with Linux it's taken as proof that it's unusable.
As for games, the only reason there's a lack for Linux is that the game companies develop for the most commonly used which happens to be Windows. People get Windows bundled on machines, the industry sees most people use Windows, game companies develop for Windows, people see most games are out on Windows, people don't see why they should switch to Linux and lose their games. It's a very unfortunate self-sustaining loop.
I'm not a Linux fanboy/zealot/whatever, just someone who used Windows exclusively until recently and then tried Ubuntu for a while (pretty much had to at work) and found it made so many things easier. I have dual boot and the only thing I really use Windows for is games, which are taking up much less of my time these days anyway.
I'm not trying to convince you that Linux is The Way or that everyone should be made to use it, I'm just saying that if you pick a good modern distro then it really isn't as bad as the general preconception says it is.
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RE: How to resign
@stratos said:
In the contract i got a few months back i found the following gem.
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(very) Roughly translated
The employee will make notice of all inventions, discoveries, improvements, modifications and development that have been made by the employee or in cooperation with the employee. This accounts for both in work time as well as outside of work. These are automatically property of the employer.Besides the fact that it even breaks a few laws, i doubt this was meant to "offer" me things.
That's a pretty standard clause where an employee might be creating original things or improving on existing products. Having brainstormed for ways around this type of thing before, I can assure you that they are needed :P You'll find that in general if it's obviously something you've done on your own then any sensible boss will release the <whatever> back to you. If you used company equipment or IP to do it it's another matter.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@clively said:
And as for the Linux weenies: most of the world really doesn't care that you can have a spinning cube as a desktop on 15 year old hardware. They want something that doesn't take a comp sci degree to pick a "flavor", configure, run, and keep up to date. Also, the whole "open source" thing scares a lot of people. Especially given the number of open source projects that just die because no one wants to fix bugs with them any more. I'd be curious to see how many Linux "distros" have gone the way of the Dodo.
Obviously spoken by someone who hasn't given a modern distro a chance. Take Ubuntu, a semi-retarded person could have that set up and running in virtually no time. They won't have to go looking for software anymore either as almost everything you could ever want is available through either the package manager (which auto-resolves all dependencies, before you start on that one) or the very simple to use Add/Remove program, which gives you nice categories and doesn't show you all the libraries and garbage that you don't care about (which are all again automatically sorted out for you). Linux has come a long way if you pick up a decent distro.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@dlikhten said:
And my response to that is... Linux (with compiz or beryl) has niftier features than vista visually, much more effects, much cooler stuff, AND it performs better WITHOUT the need for such high ram. So by example, we know that it is doable to make a system look good, and perform well. I am not saying Linux > Windows (yes i am) but I am saying that you can't claim that vista does something so phenomenal that it REQUIRES such high hardware.
Exactly. I'm running Compiz on my work machine (they're basically the oldest and slowest machines that still actually run), and it works near flawlessly, smooth effects around 99% of the time. This is a machine with 512MB of RAM (a quarter what Vista asks for), a 2GHz P4 (your average fan heater), an AGP graphics card, and a serious number of applications running at the same time (glancing right now I see Pidgin, two instances of gedit, Thunderbird, two terminals, Firefox, several filesystem browser windows, xfig, and a few instances of evince). I happen to like these effects much better too, and there's definitely more customisation open to me.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
@dphunct said:
Laptop 1 has a separate video memory while
Laptop 2, I eventually learned, has shared video memory.[...]
I doubled the RAM in the vista
machine (2GB), and the only difference is that it crashes less often.The shared memory will cripple your performance. And yes Vista wants a decent graphics card, it's how it renders all the eye candy.
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
I think that one thing people miss is that Vista is designed to run on a new system. The average store-bought PC isn't new, it's just the cheapest parts they could bundle. It has been exactly the same for any new version: running Win98 on a machine purchased for Win95 slowed it down a lot, running XP on a machine purchased for Win98 slowed it down a lot, running Vista on a machine purchased for XP slows it down a lot. The difference may seem more noticeable, but that is only because it's the difference you are experiencing right now rather than one you're just remembering. I don't use Vista myself, and I have no intention of using it in the foreseeable future (and I do rather love pointing out its flaws), but I see far too many people bashing it for the sake of bashing it on incomplete information and things they've heard in passing. It damages the case for all the real complaints.
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RE: Windows Mobile - Error not found
@luke727 said:
But what happens if the resource assembly containing the error message that the resource assembly containing the error message can not be found can not be found?
By the way, was that "screen shot" taken with a digital camera or what?
The borders look too perfectly straight to me, camera shots are never perfectly lined up, and edges never seem to look straight either way.
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RE: Windows Live Password Reset Email
They're specifically giving advice relating to avoiding attacks where the link address is different to the link text. Of course if they're the same then you'll go to the same place, but often phishing emails have links that go somewhere else than the text would imply (having the link text looking like a legitimate link). The advice is good, but obviously not a substitute for checking properly before going there. Either way I call not a wtf.
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RE: Page Division WTF
@fluffy777 said:
YAY! And there's more of the same BS about not BROADCASTING a WEBPAGE.
"Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."So something on the web is never going to be broadcasted? Ever? I've seen plenty of shots of webpages shown on the TV, most importantly the BBC showing a shot of the pirate bay when the HD-DVD key was splashed over it. Besides, they're not talking about the literal thing you're seeing on your screen, they're talking about the content, which is subject to the usual copyright laws.
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RE: Page Division WTF
A script that splits the final fullstop of a sentence onto a new page is a WTF in itself. It makes no sense in terms of content presentation nor in terms of how sentences work. That one has to be deliberate. Like there's a "feature" in the program that makes it find a way to force 2 pages even if there's not enough content.
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RE: Blaring alarm on Verizon phones when dialing 911
@tster said:
@m0ffx said:
@tster said:
@m0ffx said:
@PerdidoPunk said:
@sootzoo said:
Turns out, [b]Verizon said the 911 alarm is on all its new phones[/b]. Verizon said the audible tone is required by the Federal Communications Commission.
That has to be the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of. This must be a case of Executive Oversight.
"Mr. Bumbler suggested that we put this feature into all our new phones to make them more proactive and dynamic with the competition..."
Evidently their lawyers have misread the FCC regulations.
1) Those lawyers should be disciplined
2) Verizon must be FORCED to recall the phones and replace with those that don't have the bug
3) The FCC should start seriously looking into what else in its regulations Verizon might have misread
why would they be forced to do anything? Is there a regulation that says a phone must not make any noise when dialing 911?
No, but it's a safety hazard, as has been discussed, so their perhaps should be. There isn't one because no government thought any company would come up with such a STUPID idea. Sooner or later someone is going to get murdered/assaulted/raped as a result of this. Then Verizon would be sued (and hopefully found liable by any competent court). So it's in their interest to make the recall anyway.
I think you'll find that it's hard to find someone liable for murder when it is obviously someone else who did the murdering. Just because it is a completely stupid idea, doesn't mean that the law needs to enforce it. What if she had her keypad on loud and when she dialed 911, it made 3 loud beeps? You want to sue Verizon because they didn't silence those keys when they were dialed at the beginning of a number?
There's a difference between an option that someone has left switched on, and a frankly ridiculous thing that you are forced to have. IMO those phones should not be sold, if only because they would make the call itself near impossible if they're screeching in your ear.
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RE: Blaring alarm on Verizon phones when dialing 911
Brillant even. Paula must have changed fields...
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RE: Thanks for telling me that
@yet another Matt said:
@j6cubic said:
@yet another Matt said:
Most banks in Korea have their own proprietry encryption that runs on ActiveX (SSL not good enough?), and therefore has to use IE, they even have problems with Vista -- but who doesn't.
No, 40 bit ecryption wasn't good enough, which was everything the USA allowed to be exported when SEED was developed. Korea developed SEED because they needed secure encryption and they did it as ActiveX because that was the most useful way of writing web applications with client-side components at that point. And because SEED works as ActiveX Mircosoft continues to own the Korean market and will for the forseeable future.Ah, I didn't realise how low it was. Is it true that anything above 128bit encryption is not allowed outside America either?
America doesn't set world policy =P You can't *export* higher level encryption from the US, it still exists.
Edit:
There are a few caveats to this iirc. You can't export binaries or source for encryption schemes higher than this, but you *can* send documentation (including complete listings as part of a text document rather than a set of source code)...
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RE: Worse than failure ad wtf
I hope the WTF is "Locate targets Google doesn't even know about!" appearing in an ad for a book about using Google, because the rest is so normal as to be boring...
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RE: -8 > -7
@Vechni said:
the lottery - 18+ and up, no HS diploma required.
they should make a lottery ticket in Camelot where you have to multiply fractions in response to this.
Or simply adding fractions (multiplication is too easy to get right by accident). Can you imagine the outrage? "Who do they think they are telling me that 1/4 plus 1/2 isn't 1/6. Do they think I'm retarded or something?"
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RE: Linksys tech support
I have a WAG354G, and I'd like to advise you all to not go anywhere near one of these with anything less than a tactical nuke. The wireless is very flaky (depending what device you connect with), it has real heat issues, it crashes at random (though it has behaved for a month or so now, which is a nice change), the web interface is slow as hell, and it doesn't seem to actually apply any forwarding options you set (I had to set myself as the DMZ and reboot a time or two in the end). Would you believe it if I mentioned that this was the improved situation with new firmware?
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RE: Where is your e-mail address located?
@slavdude said:
Actually, sex is the physical characteristics you are born with. Gender is what is in your brain.
At last someone pointed it out. I'd like to continue by saying that both your physical characteristics and your mental ones have a grey area between male and female. Just because you don't care about a minority of less than x% doesn't mean no-one else does, or that they are irrelevant.
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RE: Bad choice of font
My first thought was that the crazy red blob was giving the first kid a vasectomy.