Comment Normal? (Score 1) 704
I have a friend whose 14-year-old son spends all his time gaming, like any normal teenager
The definition of "normal" must have changed since when I was growing up...
I have a friend whose 14-year-old son spends all his time gaming, like any normal teenager
The definition of "normal" must have changed since when I was growing up...
They kept track of how many a person bought by their credit card.
How do they do that? I thought a retailer cannot store your credit card number past a reasonable processing period.
If I do work today I don't continue getting paid for it 70 years after I'm dead... why should you?
Although I completely agree that the extention of copyright to ever-increasing terms is scandalous and that it should be restricted to the original 10-20 years, I don't buy the argument above. Say I build a house today that I rent out and which generates income for me during my lifetime - should my family be denied that income (or even the house itself!) after I die?
Similarly, if a writer publishes a book today, and then dies a year from now, his family should be able to benefit from his work for a reasonable period of time.
Obviously, the house is a tangible asset while a work of art is not (at least, not in the case of books), but you cannot simply state that my descendants shouldn't receive any income from either asset after I die.
Even if there were unknown bugs, you still wouldn't be able to decide: staying logged in gives the attacker more encrypted material to analyze from the same session & keys. Re-loging in every 10 minutes gives them more handshake data.
By the way, I hope that hosts.allow is not the only way you're protecting your servers from the "big bad internet"...
"Apple iPad: it may not have many features, but at least it's expensive"
Come to think of it, this could be the slogan for a lot of Apple products...
Pics or it didn't happen!
So do you make her laugh? Does she make you laugh?
Basil Fawlty: Do you remember when we were first manacled together? We used to laugh quite a lot. Sybil Fawlty: Yes, but not at the same time, Basil.
Also, this statement from Comcast's blog is blatantly false:
Despite the fact that web addresses are easier to remember than their IP address counterparts, sometimes you mistype an address. Let's say you type in http://www.comtcas.com/ (instead of http://www.comcast.com./ Normally you then sit and wait for the Web browser to time out, then you receive an error message that the site does not exist, and then you have to retype the correct address.
Normally you would *never* "sit and wait for the Web browser to time out" (well, these *are* Comcast's DNS servers after all, so in this specific case it might be true). Normally, your browser would get a DNS resolution failure and show you a built-in error page instantaneously. Now, on the other hand, you have to wait until your browser goes off and loads a page of Comcast ads.
Domain Helper my a$$!
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