Legal action?
No. There's only one way to resolve this properly.
Get all the main protagonists from Oracle, SAP and HP stripped to the waist in a mud pit and give 'em each a handbag. Last man standing wins.
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Yes, but the standard way of doing this for Windows lusers is to fake an infection report and offer the user a FREE!!!1!111!! Antivirus scanner.
Such a technique would produce reactions of: "Bollocks" and "What the f*** would I want one of those for?" from Mac lusers.
Watch out for popups offering FREE!!!!11!!! nude photos of Steve Jobs......
That caused a slight snigger here.
It was the irony in the fact that these days punch cards are, if anything, rather more quaintly archaic than pencil and paper. After all, pencils and paper are still widely in use for other purposes.
Can't remember exactly when it was I last saw a punch card reader, but it was a very long time ago and even then it was a candidate as a museum piece.
I recently ditched Office 2k3 at home in favour of 2010. A certain amount of ribbon-related cursing ensued, but after an hour or so it all clicked.
Now I swear at the bloody awful UI on 2k3 while at work and Sod's Law gets its own back.
I reckon there are two problems here. First is that it appears to be impossible to like both versions at the same time. Second is that 2010 (and presumably 2007) feel "right" with the Win 7 UI. Now I've never tried it, but I reckon it would grate on XP and of course, as nobody in their right mind deployed Vista, that's where most 2k7 installations ended up.
Oh, I dunno. I reckon that if I were a Customs officer I wouldn't write him off as not suspicious immediately.
You just couldn't let a "rubber glove" opportunity like *that* go begging. It'd be one of the best times to trot out that amusing bottle of Tabasco sauce with the "aqueous lubricant" label stuck on it, while your colleague cues up a Johnny Cash record on the jolly old gramophone.....
Yes you can. I'd spend the entire day sitting here thumping the "upvote" button if I were allowed to.
Sod the music theft^H^H^H^H^Hcopyright infringement*, the best thing about this is that the world's most gaping PC attack vector** has just taken a kick in the nuts.
*Yes I do sometimes pander to petty-minded little pedants. Why do you ask?
**Yup. Beats out Windows itself.
"There should be a presumption that people wishing to work or volunteer with children and vulnerable adults are safe to do so unless it can be shown otherwise."
Holy heck! That sounds suspiciously like presuming someone to be innocent until they are proven guilty. Someone in Government said that?
The NuLabour types must have had a collective attack of the vapours seeing that in the press while tucking into their eggy soldiers this morning.
"Failed projects will have an implication on how the public views the government."
Well they've never given a flying fuck to date and I look forward to this entirely sensible change in attitude from the Great Unwashed. Just don't expect me to hold my breath.
"This means the media often has a field day."
Presumably he either means Private Eye or a "media field day" has been extended in scope to include 2 column inches on page 24 and an op-ed article on slow news day.
Spot on. WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy - does exactly what it says on the tin.
Remember the furore recently at some security conference or other, when the organisers said upfront they'd be sniffing the wireless network to prove a point and delegates should watch out for it? Everyone got terribly careful about ensuring that their wireless connections were secured with the latest bum-covering protocols, checked out that any certificates offered were kosher and such. None of which made any bleedin' difference whatsover to the sniffer plugged into the LAN that all the access points were connected to.
I thought they made a terribly good point myself.
I vividly remember the Toshiba offerings of the very early 90's. Those had the charming feature that when you opened them they exploded to double the size, making 'em nigh on impossible to reassemble. The parts physically wouldn't fit into the case unless you were an octopus and able to exert inward force from eight directions at once.
No, the people who should be taken out and shot are those downloading crap from Lime^H^H^H^HTrojanwire. It's the computing equivalent of dropping your kecks, rubbing half a pound of Kerrygold into your arsehole, grabbing your ankles and shouting: "Come and get it" while stood in the showers of the lifers wing of a maximum security prison.
At the very least they should be banned for life from using anything with more processing power than an abacus.
As the Lord Jobs himself put it when he preached the parable of the App Store unto the faithful: ".....it won't be the only place...."
So Mozilla can still kick out their betas via other means heretical unto the true believers and everyone's happy. Even those who hold to the vile heresy of Safari being not the holiest*.
So what's the issue then? We're down to "some big company's website b0rks browser A", which is so common it doesn't normally merit column inches on slow news day.
*That's holiest as in blessed amongst browsers, not holiest as in full of bloody great holes.
First seen back in July? That wouldn't have been some time after Mozilla caused FF to produce a genuine screen saying that users should update their Flash plugin would it? Hmm, September 2009 apparently, so yes it would.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/17/firefox_users_with_vulnerable_flash/
At the time Mozilla were bemoaning the fact that only 35% of those prompted to clicked the "download upgrade" link. Presumably they're the same ones who've been pwned since July.
"also MS was supposed to release a free tool for this??"
You mean MS Security Essentials?
Yes it is indeed free, yes it works and it's actually a bloody site less of a clog than AVG. It also doesn't constantly nag you to go to the all-singing, all dancing, all paid for version. So far it seems to lack the recurring false positives that plagued AVG when I gave it house room for a while.
MS don't crow about it though or offer it as an installation option. I think they're worried about the lawsuit potential inherent in waving this particular flag.
Also correct.
Which implies that saying this to the entire world in 140 characters probably wasn't the best approach.
Yes *we* can all understand what that is intended to mean, but I'll bet that the "understanding" of the vast majority of Twitter users was rather different. Considered as a group they're not exactly famed for their collective intelligence or technical prowess.......
"iOS does not (unless jailbroken) allow you that freedom, but does not suffer from Viruses to the same extent as Android ."
Really? Last time I heard, the only phone platform that had ever had a verified, spreading virus in the wild was the, er, iPhone.
Has there been a nasty Android one recently that I missed (actually at least two would be necessary to qualify for the "not....the same extent as" bit of that)?
Too right. Way to reinforce the myth that open software really is only the province of command-line fixated, sandal wearing geeks. I'm absolutely astonished that so many seem to support this statement. If someone from MS had said: "Open is defined as scary techie shit that users won't understand in a million years" he'd have been quite correctly flamed to a crisp for his pains.
Nice one. Did Andy Rubin put one barrel through each foot there or has he still scope for further foot / barrel related idiocy?
.....needs to get of its collective fat arse and read this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html?page=18
(Hat tip to Code Monkey who posted that link last time this was discussed here).
Whatever the rights and wrongs of copyright in this situation, it seems plain that this is waaaay more than a simple data creation exercise and that it is actually the manual checking, matching, cross-referencing and reworking of the first automated compilation draft of the source data that comprises the bulk of the process.
I always remember the episode of "Angel" with Wesley and Angel on a motorbike (Cordelia half-inched Angel's motor IIRC).
When they went to set off, Wesley presented Angel with a crash helmet, which Angel refused to wear on the grounds that it was pink and he was immortal anyway so it didn't matter. An argument ensued over the inconvenience of being stopped by the law. Matters were resolved by Wesley saying: "Stop being such a wanker and put it on.". Stress on the word "wanker" too.
As I heard it, this came about as the director wasn't happy with the script and wanted something more argument-endingly pithy. He asked Alexis Denisof for a candidate English (he worked over here for several years) epithet for someone making such a fuss over nothing. He responded: "Oh, I'd probably call him a wanker". A brief check of the "naughty words" list revealed that "wanker" wasn't on there, so in it went.
I sprayed tea all over the table in disbelief when it aired in the early evening on Sky 1.
"Oh we can't do that, we'd be helping oppressive regimes to control their citizens."
<Sales forecast slideshow>
"Right. So that's video calls off and all sent mail and texts copied to the Interior Ministry. Ok?"
Next time you try to pin a value on your human rights, just remember it's already been officially pegged at somewhere below Apple's margin on iPhone sales in your country.
There was I thinking that the Severn Bore was the interminable and tedious ongoing discussions on the merits, problems and costs of a tidal barrage on the Severn that's kept various departments, potential contractors and talking heads of every stripe in business for many years. Not to mention filling a few pages in the Sunday Supplements every now and again.
Turns out it's a sort of tidal wave thingy. Who knew?
Of course that's entirely attributable to GW and nothing at all to do with profiteering builders chucking up vast housing developments on flood plains, justifying same with: "well it hasn't flooded in the last 30-odd years so it probably won't".
Here's a clue. If it's flat and near to a watercourse*, it's probably flooded in the past sometime and probably will again one day. Tarmaccing and concreting over vast swathes of it, increasing surface water runoff into the watercourse, will only serve to bring that day closer.
You don't have to be a climatologist to work out the main causes here, although having studied geography to 'O' level may help.
* Or "prime building land in a picturesque setting" as it's more usually referred to these days.
Once the dust has settled, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an announcement from Oracle and IBM about some Oracle "runs on the bare iron" product being optimised for IBM kit as well as SUN^H^H^Htheir own.
Oracle must have nobbled IBM somehow and the threat of their own servers displacing IBM products due to some proprietary optimisation tweaks is the only thing I can think of.
What's the point of us all earning huge sums of money getting "super injunctions"* for our clients when all the names and juicy dirt are all over teh intahtoobz within five minutes?
This has got to stop or rich bastards won't pay us to hush up their improprieties any more.
*You know, the ones where you're not only not allowed to publish the dirt, you're also not allowed to mention that you're not allowed to publish the dirt and you're not allowed to mention that there's anything in place that's not allowing you to mention that you're not allowed to publish the dirt. Or something like that.
Because his lawyers reckon the club's more likely to have 650 grand than the dancer?
She could have a problem here. Strip club owners aren't exactly renowned for their sensitivity, respect for the law and ability to accept misfortune gracefully. She may find someone from the less reputable end of the debt-collection business reclaiming 650 large ones out of her hide in a dark alley sometime soon.
Nul points for that (even if you translated it into Spanish and submitted it in 1968).
Ok, there's some swearing, the writer's obviously right up on his high horse and hasn't got a leg to stand on, but proper punctuation and correct capitalisation*? Starting a sentance with "And" isn't enough to make up for that.
Very poor......
*I guess that the commies were right and the bourgeois intelligentsia are actually fascist running-dog lackeys after all.