Or 2 buildings, 16 rooms and 64 dividers. Plus with Hyperthreading probably a water cooler and some pot plants.

When tazers were being introduced the mantra was repeated that they would only be used 'as a last resort, in place of a gun'. Also 'they're completely safe'.

Here we are a few years later with regular news blips about kids and the elderly being tased for any reason or no reason at all, and there is a very long list of tazer fatalities.

Time and time and time again, scary shit becomes commonplace because people believe the promises of restraint, safety, public good. Every time, complete bullshit.

Because 'portable devices' is way too difficult to convey.

I love how this article singles out the iPad for no valid reason whatsoever, just to whore up attention since the iPad is the latest hot topic. Should have thrown in some 9/11 or Obama references for added traffic. Maybe mention Haiti or Thailand a bit. Sleep patterns blah blah IPAD blah devices IPAD blah blah IPAD blah light intensity blah IPAD blah

Uh, Creative were just as responsible for the stagnation thing. In fact, they've doing it across several different technologies at the same time! Webcams, Audio cards, portable media players. Creative peddle complete shit.

Proves it? The two points you mentioned are valid but not related.

Yeah you are. PoS systems are rarely able to be adequately physically secured, and located out in public areas, handling financial transactions, and operated by staff with minimal training and accountability. Not saying that AV is correct in this scenario, but you shouldn't pretend PoS is an environment that can be securely isolated, or that the network is the only vector for an attack.

You mean Experts Exchange's 'scroll to the bottom and you get the answers anyway' intelligence-wall?

Bullsh. He's talking about basic text formatting options that are buggy or in some cases, broken. He's dead right about that. Issues abound in Gmail, too... like how signature text and body text are treated differently when composing an email, and often that can bug out and leave you unable to edit the body text because GMail things it's all one big signature. Dumb.

Mind you, similar criticism can be applied to Word, too, it's less buggy than GDocs, but still has problems. Adding a page break then wondering why your new Heading 1 line is also changing the spacing on the previous page... or why you can't seem to move beyond the end of a table at the end of your document to start a new line. Stuff like that.

GDocs has some way to go in terms of usability, even for basic corporate documentation.

A few months back I built a new PC. Once I had the OS installed, I went online and downloaded a copy of my email client. Then I configured the client to talk to my ISPs email servers. That meant digging into my old paper files and finding my ISPs new customer letter where it had my mail server info and username/password that I don't use for anything else (so had forgotten). Then once it was set up I realised that I'd only be receiving new mail from the ISP, and had to turn on the old PC to take a copy of my old emails. Importing took a bit of time. Something about different versions of the program between backing the data up and restoring it.

Just kidding. I opened firefox and logged into GMail.

This would be the same phenomenon where people perceive gamers as wasting time on a childish hobby, then themselves spend hours each day playing bejeweled/mahjong, or sat in front of the tube being fed drivel. Meanwhile, many gamers spend their time developing teams, honing tactical thinking, collaborating to create new 3d content, socializing, or solving puzzles.

Eh? I have the euro version of this charger because it lets me boost my camera batteries from my netbook. It's perfect for the travelling that I do. It runs without the software installed, but the software shows the battery charge status, which can be handy. Not to mention, when I bought it you got a pair of 2400mA AA cells plus the charger for far less than the wall charger cost alone. Which one of us is ignorant in this matter? Oh, it's you ;)

Deciding off your own bat that their password changing policy isn't particularly secure, then deliberately subverting it to use an even weaker password than the spirit of the policy, then attepting to propogate this out to other employees? Wow, you're an epically arrogant and irresponsible employee.

This is caused by running out of disk space on C:\ Seen it a few times.

Its not really Windows Update that's being used in this exploit, its the Background Intelligent Transfer Service which, in a nutshell, is a service that downdaloads data to your PC while minimising disruption to other network activity i.e. surfing the net, gaming, or downloading other files. Its a built-in feature of Windows XP but has only been implemented once or twice.

Windows update makes use of the BITS service. Malware can make use of the BITS service. Its not logical to then say that Malware is exploiting Windows update. Any more than an attack that utilised Java would be exploiting Azureus (A java application).

The reason malware utilising BITS is a problem is because with any application-level firewall, permission for BITS to access the net is already granted and so unlike a regular trojan, the firewall won't spit a potentially suspicious permission request up when it tries to download more malware from the 'net. This same exploit is true of the JVM too.

A solution to the problem might be to instance such services. But by doing that it sort of renders them not services anymore.

So eh, mark my stats +1 pedantry, but to perpetuate this as a Windows Update exploit isn't accurate.