granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office
Or, more easily, just offer the entire jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network, and then firesheep their accounts...
Which is why I always close my browser after a banking session.
Which is why I always use a secure OS and a secure browser to do my online banking.
If you use Internet Explorer on Windows, "closing" your browser is not enough. Internet Explorer is part of the OS, and keeps on running in the background even if no window of it is showing.
Hence the suggestion that after using online banking, you close the browser not just log out of the session. Or would this not help with this malware?
This trojan only target windiots, Slashdot users intelligent enough to use Firefox should be safe.
For those who do use Internet Explorer: when you close it, it's not really closed; it's part of the OS after all! In order to really "close" Internet Explorer, you'd need to shut down your computer.
The amount of replacement HDDs that I've had to hand out due to users not understanding that a laptop can't be thrown on the passenger seat of a car while it's on and open...
There's quite a difference between carefully moving a laptop, and throwing it...
That's all fine and good, but it's not like someone sitting with a laptop ON THEIR LAP isn't going to shift around or move at all. If it's on a table, fine. But I guarantee that laptops are moved all the time without dire consequences.
However, keeping it ON YOUR LAP can lead to dire consequences. Especially if you are not moving it enough...
He's been sucking off the teet of his father for decades.
Mmmmm... nice salty-sugary man milk... yum!
Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability.
Especially those users who have a relative or friend who works in the Microsoft PC sales business
Porky societal leeches like that should be airlifted to the Serengeti to feed the cheetahs and hyenas, which would also make entertaining video.
Wouldn't that be cruelty to animals, feedings them rotten food like that?
Did you know you can get a handicap sticker for having a drug addiction?
What did whoever decided that smoke?
For instance the iPhones have screwed up simple time shifts multiple times, and noone seems that concerned about it.
Indeed. People only seem to be concerned if a person of value is late...
I predict lots of people showing up to work 2 hours late if they us their cellphones or iDevice as an alarm clock.
Or four hours if they use an iPhone...
It's very practical because I can answer to everybody and point them to http://hoaxbusters.org/ or like (using BCC this time).
... or you could even set up a procmail script that does it automatically for you.
Should I tell everyone to get off my lawn or do others miss it as well?
I'm missing it as well.
But I've got to disappoint you: nowadays business users are just as clueless with e-mail and everything computer. True geeks are a dying species, both in the home arena and in the business arena.
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
