Comment Re:And one should add (Score 1) 175
LOL! A soap opera-ish blog from the trenches. Rivarly, cm vs inches and more.
As such they do make a very interesting and non-gruesome read. We have come a long way.
I also found the article itself to be remarkably readable in every aspect (language, spelling and fonts). I did not expect that at all, but then again I am not in the habit of reading 17th century English.
Before leaving the computer I just press WinKey+L.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
Seems I misunderstood the purpose of the software, it's just a boring screen-turner-offer. Should not slashdot when tired.
Now, having to log in -again- when I return is slow and error-prone, especially while sipping coffee. The solution is obviously to use the same software to auto-login a soon as it detects the presence of a user.
I could see how they could be concerned that some of the software features of a higher-end calculator might be created in the new OS that runs on the cheap calculators, but can we all agree that's a ridiculous justification?
I think it's just fine to flash such a device with new software from the ground up. You did buy the hw after all.
OTOH potentially enabling features (just speculating again) that the the producer did not mean for you to use, however clumsily such a lock may be implemented, is a grayish area. But since there is no EULA to accept (yet!) there is probably nothing the producer can do.
Because in the case of direct tv, you're paying for the service, not the hardware.
If I manage to unlock features in my TI calculator that exist in software, but I did not pay for those features when I bought the hardware (I'm just speculating that this might their concern), then this would be exactly analogous to direct TV channel cheating.
If they prevent your initial login to the site from happening, they can use your username + password + rolling code themselves if their software auto logs in.
This of course requires a user to go to a phishing site (miscellaneous.scammersite.com or something more complex), or requires the phisher to own the user's computer enough that they can intercept their connections & deal with the SSL certificate issues) while the phisher's automated software automatically goes to the real miscellaneousbank.com site.
Which is why some banks (in Sweden at the very least) require that the hardware token be used again for the actual transaction.
Used to be IBM blade servers, possibly still. Stackless Python for development.
That right there could easily cover 90% of people's media interests. Especially now that I'm not really into movies as much as I used to be (they suck more, and TV shows are, in some ways, getting better).
You're getting older.
I think we're going down a slippery slope when we start screening DNA. It works against the process of evolution.
The traditional process of evolution stopped working when we got really good at saving youngsters that would previously have died.
Of course we do not want that again, but screening for general health will be increasingly important for the well being of human kind.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
