I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent...
Is this even a data leak? "Names and social security numbers" -- I'm sure that information is all publicly available. Couldn't anyone simply run a few thousand social security numbers by some official government lookup web service and get these names?
Now, TFA says "personal information, SUCH AS names and social security numbers". When I see a wording like that in a context like this, I'm convinced that "names and social security numbers" is precisely all it is!
First, newer netbook chipsets built within the last year should handle 720p just fine. The only thing holding it back on the web is Flash being a bloated pig, and if you have to use Flash, those videos won't play on the iPad anyway, making this a moot point.
Not really true... most people watch videos on Youtube, and on the netbook, these are shown with Flash, but on the iPad, they are shown without Flash. I've met so many people who are convinced you can't watch Youtube videos on an Ipad/Iphone that this feels worth pointing out.
"Captalism works" doesn't mean "everyone's happy". Typically, it only means management, investors, stockholders etc are. For each passing year, the majority of employees seem to benefit less and less from any success their company enjoys.
It's now possible for anybody to publish a website in a sea of noise, and get noticed, provided someone is looking for their content. This was impossible before google.
I'm sure Altavista was a little worse than Google, but it wasn't so useless that it was impossible to find stuff!
Seriously, really, what if everyone on a US jury would be called a "judge"? Would they then not be "fellow citizens" anymore?
Fact is, they're not even called "judges" in Sweden either. It's hard to translate; it means something like "committee persons".
They are of course also our fellow citizens. They serve on more than one trial (but this is not their job), they're fewer than on a US jury, but the difference is one of terminology and numbers, not principle.
They're not there to convict the innocent any more than US jurors are there to convict the innocent. It boggles the mind that smart people toss around the idea that they can be.
What I do is stay behind the console cycle. When the PS3 had been out for a while, I bought a second-hand PS2 for next to nothing and started buying cheap, good second-hand games. And since I'm always behind the cycle, I never feel like I'm missing out.
Of course a PC could do what my Playstation does -- if there were DualShock controllers for the PC, and Tekken games. But there aren't. The fighting game is a whole genre that's completely absent from the PC platform.
(and where there may be different ways to transliterate from Chinese to pinyin)
It's a minor point, but there's only one way from Chinese to pinyin. Because pinyin is the name of one specific way to transliterate from Chinese to the latin alphabet.
Did anyone look at the pictures?!
There's no doubt in my mind that they are all in fact official Toyoto photos. Toyota is not claiming ownership of random photos of their cars.
I firmly believe that Barack Obama is going to bring the change we need to alter the way the world see us. We need to earn back a little of our reputation that the eight previous years have lost us.
Guys, you just did. All of it. I'm serious; from here on you can sit back and eat donuts.
... and now with the lower price it's just bloated and unfriendly? Well, yes! I've been using it for a while and it's got the same interface, just different graphics in places.
It doesn't crash as much as it did, but the headaches are still there -- no control over screen layout, searching your mailbox only finds about 75% of your search string occurences, no custom views, sorting e-mails is difficult, nothing's really collapsable like in Outlook, etc, etc. I'm sure the server is great, awesome. Way better than Exchange.
Yeah, I believe Exchange is great, a smashing server, and that's what counts. Not this crude matter.
A challenge-response version of this is how banks handle web access for their customers in my country. The web site shows you a code which you type into your individual gadget, which gives you its individual reponse that becomes your one-time password. And the reason I post this at all is I'm prejudiced about the USA and think American internet banks just use simple user/pass security.
One key difference is that Apple and Google's products have always been best-of-breed, while Microsoft has always been the lowest-common-denominator. When you say "quality", Microsoft isn't the company that jumps to mind. (Perhaps "cheap", but now Linux is eating them from below on that, so I'm not exactly sure what Microsoft's "core" is anymore.) Microsoft's "core" is "standard". You're supposed to use Microsoft because everyone else does. And for obvious reasons, once this core is in place, it's a tricky one to eat away.
The guy who posted the photos didn't do it to "spoil" anything for anyone. He provided thousands of people with a copy of what they most dearly wanted days earlier than they could have otherwise got it. Spoiling, my ass!
The guy is (for obvious reasons) completely anonymous, he's not exactly gaining fame. To argue "now everyone knows his name"... are you a troll?
Shooting Lennon killed a person; defacing artwork, well, it destroys artwork. But here, nothing has been destroyed. I bet almost to a person, everyone who downloaded this will also buy the book.
I am not a lamer, so I've never bought any iTunes music. I had no idea it was encoded at 128 kb/s! (I guess it's something other than MP3 so my experience is not entirely relevant, but it's got to be comparable.) The recent Apple products I've used have all been of impressive quality, so I'm surprised they of all people are peddling such crappy audio. I don't exactly have golden ears, and going above 192 kb/s in an MP3 never makes any difference to me, but if it's a 128, I can spot that within seconds and throw it away. If it's got cymbals in it, ugh!
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I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent ...
Is this even a data leak? "Names and social security numbers" -- I'm sure that information is all publicly available. Couldn't anyone simply run a few thousand social security numbers by some official government lookup web service and get these names? Now, TFA says "personal information, SUCH AS names and social security numbers". When I see a wording like that in a context like this, I'm convinced that "names and social security numbers" is precisely all it is!
Not really true ... most people watch videos on Youtube, and on the netbook, these are shown with Flash, but on the iPad, they are shown without Flash. I've met so many people who are convinced you can't watch Youtube videos on an Ipad/Iphone that this feels worth pointing out.
"The ones that just want someone else to do their work" ... I would suggest that IT support is not really the users' work, after all.
"Captalism works" doesn't mean "everyone's happy". Typically, it only means management, investors, stockholders etc are. For each passing year, the majority of employees seem to benefit less and less from any success their company enjoys.
What's this article you're quoting?
but there are always a few hapless romantics who like to see the world as it once was.
An arctic region covered with ice.
BLACK METAL! The icy dawn lifteth with an horizon like "Nordens" on fire!!!1
How is that unique to the US? Many countries are so small that it's not even possible to live more than an hour away from the workplace.
It's now possible for anybody to publish a website in a sea of noise, and get noticed, provided someone is looking for their content. This was impossible before google.
I'm sure Altavista was a little worse than Google, but it wasn't so useless that it was impossible to find stuff!
Seriously, really, what if everyone on a US jury would be called a "judge"? Would they then not be "fellow citizens" anymore? Fact is, they're not even called "judges" in Sweden either. It's hard to translate; it means something like "committee persons". They are of course also our fellow citizens. They serve on more than one trial (but this is not their job), they're fewer than on a US jury, but the difference is one of terminology and numbers, not principle. They're not there to convict the innocent any more than US jurors are there to convict the innocent. It boggles the mind that smart people toss around the idea that they can be.
What I do is stay behind the console cycle. When the PS3 had been out for a while, I bought a second-hand PS2 for next to nothing and started buying cheap, good second-hand games. And since I'm always behind the cycle, I never feel like I'm missing out.
Of course a PC could do what my Playstation does -- if there were DualShock controllers for the PC, and Tekken games. But there aren't. The fighting game is a whole genre that's completely absent from the PC platform.
(and where there may be different ways to transliterate from Chinese to pinyin)
It's a minor point, but there's only one way from Chinese to pinyin. Because pinyin is the name of one specific way to transliterate from Chinese to the latin alphabet.
In TFA, the creator is "just 36 years old"! I'm young again!
Did anyone look at the pictures?! There's no doubt in my mind that they are all in fact official Toyoto photos. Toyota is not claiming ownership of random photos of their cars.
What, no Kamen Rider jokes?!
I firmly believe that Barack Obama is going to bring the change we need to alter the way the world see us. We need to earn back a little of our reputation that the eight previous years have lost us.
Guys, you just did. All of it. I'm serious; from here on you can sit back and eat donuts.
You're surprised that OS and software influence overall experience?
I'm sure that's very insightful, but have you even seen, say, an EEE PC? It doesn't HAVE a desktop. It's like Windows 3.11.
... and now with the lower price it's just bloated and unfriendly? Well, yes! I've been using it for a while and it's got the same interface, just different graphics in places. It doesn't crash as much as it did, but the headaches are still there -- no control over screen layout, searching your mailbox only finds about 75% of your search string occurences, no custom views, sorting e-mails is difficult, nothing's really collapsable like in Outlook, etc, etc. I'm sure the server is great, awesome. Way better than Exchange. Yeah, I believe Exchange is great, a smashing server, and that's what counts. Not this crude matter.A challenge-response version of this is how banks handle web access for their customers in my country. The web site shows you a code which you type into your individual gadget, which gives you its individual reponse that becomes your one-time password. And the reason I post this at all is I'm prejudiced about the USA and think American internet banks just use simple user/pass security.
Help! You just modded a guy Insightful for asking whether Microsoft products are poor!
I am not a lamer, so I've never bought any iTunes music. I had no idea it was encoded at 128 kb/s! (I guess it's something other than MP3 so my experience is not entirely relevant, but it's got to be comparable.) The recent Apple products I've used have all been of impressive quality, so I'm surprised they of all people are peddling such crappy audio. I don't exactly have golden ears, and going above 192 kb/s in an MP3 never makes any difference to me, but if it's a 128, I can spot that within seconds and throw it away. If it's got cymbals in it, ugh!