but that's what he goes on to explain later. He says: "What you need is a pre-emptive strike. Fight fire with fire! Install one of our products and we'll break your computer until it's in an unusuable state. I'd like to see you catch a virus when your internet doesn't work and your computer takes 10 minutes to boot."
They're not inducing clicks so it's not by definition click fraud. Who titled that? They're relying on a normal amount of clicks and just taking a commission off them that Google themselves offer freely. So basically they're just violating Google's terms of service for their search API. Actually it might not even say anything specifically related to showing a search API as a full page but still collecting the commission or whatever they're doing. Sounds like it's 99% Google's fault if you ask me.
Leechget is a cool program for this. I think it does data verification during or at the end of the download and supports pausing and resuming. It is primarily a download accelerator/manager but it also installs a right click context menu of "copy here using leechget" for all local file transfers. So go that over the network and you'll not only get it there correctly but it'll go at max speed because it opens multiple connections at once and sends parts of the file then re-joins them.
I think all software should be on those. If you scratch a USB drive, it still works. I don't think they have as good of a shelf life but it's not like you'd do a whole ton of I/O on it to kill it quickly. How often do you reinstall windows? Some really expensive software like robo-sewer control programs for robotic sewing machines installs off a USB drive and also requires that the USB drive be plugged in to start up the software. Talk about hard to pirate! You can't just image the drive either. It senses the serial number of the drive or something. Just think if games did this. They could be totally open with no stupid DRM malware or internet connection required. Just the USB drive needs to be plugged in and you're good.
Plus, why stop there? I reeeeeally think Microsoft (and everyone else) should go back to cartridges for video games instead of CD/DVD games. Then there's basically no size limit, developers just add in a 16GB memory chip instead of 8 if they have a big game. That worked for the sega genesis and N64. Plus you can't scratch your cartridge and then have to pay another $60, and they could make the cartridge easily self destructable if anyone opens it to avoid ROMing. Just make the inside a vacuum and put an air sensor that will release a quick charging capacitor burst that fries all the memory chips if it senses air. That and put two layers of barely separated copper foil around the inside of the plastic casing and if anyone tries to penetrate it, they touch and complete a circuit that fries the memory. Flash based memory or basically anything non-optical needs to be implemented for a lot more future technology so I'm all for windows going to it at least!
What they need to put the most effort into are the biggest problems or they'll turn into a Microsoft product. All kinds of fancy features and new tricks are nice and all and you can't get away with having 0 of them but they need to fix the core complaints and problems to attract the most users.
1 because CNN is retarded and 2 because nobody is already immune to it so anyone could catch it. Yeah, I know, that's a stupid reason to fear monger but they don't even need a reason at all so this is good for them. But in the meantime, I've got an idea how to vaccinate yourself. If you're in remotely good health, just catch it on purpose, stay home for about 3-5 days, get better, and tada, you've got much more T-cells against it than any vaccine will give you.
obviously the EU is like Ted Stephens several times over. They hear stupid people bitching about it being unfair and they know nothing about how computers actually work and now they get themselves stuck in a trap like this. I really, really, really hope that computer stores start carrying USB drives with "firefox" on them that really has a rigged, adware spyware plugin infested version of Firefox that they're getting paid by the malware writers to sell. That way it'll blow up in the EU's face even worse.
It's so that they know if they really are or aren't there so after like 5 missed hours they can boot them from the class without a refund like most US colleges do. It's not like teenager truancy prevention.
You gotta hand it to them and some other MMOGs for planning epic endings. Sometimes the game does get kinda boring over time but people keep playing anyway so to just have a boring end date with nothing happening is crap. You gotta at least do SOMETHING. So that's cool that they're not just going all corporate on everyone and setting a date then enforcing it heartlessly without a big ending. Ever since some people started playing the game, they've been fantasizing about some epic event that they knew would never happen and here it is to make all their dreams come true. It's like if you know your car's gotta go, you want to at least see an air force Raptor hit it with a hellfire missile:D
This thing has to be faster than an N64 and I rigged it up to play one game and one game only so now it's a console lol. But it's an AMD K6-2 machine at like 450MHz. I bumped it up from 64 MB of ram to 192 and put an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card in it so it can just barely play Stepmania, a knock off of Dance Dance Revolution. It runs Windows ME cuz I needed that for the PS2 to USB dance pad adapter drivers to for sure work. Also it wasn't fast enough for Ubuntu lol. The first thing I did when I got it was see that it had a PCI network card and I was like "yeah, I don't think so" and took that out so there's no way the winner of the DDR competition in October will try and connect it to the internet after they get it home. It's an old HP compaq case with the wavy, bulgy front that looks kinda neat once you paint it red and the body black and with. It seriously looks like an alienware now lol. People will ahve no idea what they're getting but it looks cool! Well as long as all they do is boot up and open Stepmania, they're fine:D Pretty neat, huh? Especially since I got it for free. btw I also got a $10 monstrous CRT monitor at a rummage sale and gave it and some small speakers the same black and red paint job so the whole set looks like it costs $2000 instead of about $40 lol.
this may sound awful but if it sounds remotely good, it may be the best option. Sell them all the progress so far and let them finish the whole project and take a big lump sum for it. Then immediately start a new project with your people and finish that one so basically you're developing one product and getting paid for two. But if you love the project too much and don't trust them or they want you to finish it yourself under their control, I've got a better options. Trust me, letting them buy you out and basically hire you then tell you what to do will NEVER end well. It always sucks no matter what. They'll insist on some stupid feature or make a dumb decision and then you're stuck with it. Tell them you refuse to ever do that and when you're done with the whole thing, you can license the entire thing solely to them and they can act as your marketing and control and support side and just pay you royalties based on sales.
well there's "your computer" as you stated it and then there's a $299 netbook that can do the same plus surf the internet and beats Kindle DX's price. I could write a landscapable text file viewer in my sleep and anyone can get a netbook to open a PDF. It's like there's some contest to see who can make a computer that does the least. When these things first came out, it looks like low end but still good laptop = $400. Kindle DX = $450 or whatever they said. Those 9" LCD picture frames that can make slideshows and hold like 100 pictures wooooow = $700+ (at the time when they came out). So apparently the less something does, the more it costs. The slower the processor, the more it costs too. This is just dumb. Soon they'll be selling an e-paper pocket calculator that's just a flexible LCD screen for $1000 and all it does is run a calculator program.
It would be more constructive to stay around and just go on a hatin' rampage about every little way that Apple douches is up and charges for services. If everyone just leaves it then all the sensible people are gone and only the Apple fans are left.
If you take all the seats out of most minivans, they can really giddeyup lol. Seriously, our old van had the same if not better acceleration when totally stripped down as my V6 Mercury cougar and that's 170HP and 2800 pounds.
And old people have powered wheel chairs so it's even. Not that I'm implying a 35 year old programmer would need one lol. In fact, they'll have robolegs or their brain in a robot body when they're old:P
Maybe they should include virtualized Vista too so Windows 7 can look better by comparison.
Also, most license agreements for software simply says that it can be used on "one machine" or reference the hardware in some way. So since it's one machine on one computer hardware system, you can basically force the company to cough up another license or extend yours to work in both environments. Some companies have specific statements related to virtualization but not a lot of them.
Anyone with any sort of film SFX training can fake the hell out of something and make it look realistic. It's especially easy if you took a real video and then added some CG or other alterations then sampled it down to cameraphone quality. It'd look perfect. You could easily make it look like a gun that was being pointed at someone fire even though it never did. Add a little flash overlay and a sound effect with a filter to make it sound camera phone-like and tada, you've just been shot it. In fact, it'd be simple to add the gun to an empty hand too. This is pretty ridiculous.
Yes only the wealthy can afford them but if they made more and got more popular, maybe they could start selling $20,000 sedans. And there's no faster way to grow a company than to give em a bunch of money. On the other hand, it would appear they waste a ton of money and stupid, fancy designs and features because they're targetting rich people. Maybe that's the only way they can survive for now, by targetting that market, and their long term goal is to be the Honda of electric and hybrid vehicles. I hope the gov researched their intention regardling that ahead of time but I doubt it.
To this day, nobody has beaten some of the better written anti-botting random events in the game Runescape. They use rotating 3D models in Jave with shifting light overlays to change the colors of the pixels randomly. And here's why captchas do work and always will. You take like 1 day to write a captcha generator and it takes someone a week or two, maybe even months to write an AI program that can read it. Then as soon as you notice spammers getting past it, you change one thing and they have to almost start over from scratch. With Java you just swap out the 3D model and it's a completely different set of pixels to measure and the bot builders have to almost start from scratch. There's basically no more botting in RS anymore.
technically, it's the hardware manufacturures with driver issues. Some company makes a piece of hardware and I'm supposed to write a driver for it? Um no!
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I'm not sure I'm clear on how they want this to work. Is it purely software or will the thing physically interrupt the power supply or will it do something to the BIOS? There's weaknesses and vulnerabilities to all three. Depending on how they do it, you could disable any software solution they use or just boot to Knoppix off a DVD and keep surfing the web and doing whatever:-) And if it's a hardware interrupt, crack it open and get out the soldering iron or hack saw. Or just take out the stupid part that's doing it!
okay, obviously you have no idea how it works whatsoever. I believe it writes a parity bit for error checking. So every time it has to write 8 bits, it writes 9 instead. So that would make 12.5% slower, right? Or 8.8%, I forget which way it goes. Plus, you think it calculates that parity bit using magic? Match is involved so a processing chip somewhere is used.
mine's actually encased in 20 feet of solid lead. Now you might think that's pretty inconvenient but it has front USB running out to the front plate. Putting CDs in it is a pain though. But I refuse to lose any performance to ECC ram!
so you invested in Bernie Madoff too? lol. Everyone looks back and thinks "awww, that's right, he's not a real investor." You know the only reason he didn't scam toddlers is cuz they don't have any money lol.
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but that's what he goes on to explain later. He says: "What you need is a pre-emptive strike. Fight fire with fire! Install one of our products and we'll break your computer until it's in an unusuable state. I'd like to see you catch a virus when your internet doesn't work and your computer takes 10 minutes to boot."
They're not inducing clicks so it's not by definition click fraud. Who titled that? They're relying on a normal amount of clicks and just taking a commission off them that Google themselves offer freely. So basically they're just violating Google's terms of service for their search API. Actually it might not even say anything specifically related to showing a search API as a full page but still collecting the commission or whatever they're doing. Sounds like it's 99% Google's fault if you ask me.
Leechget is a cool program for this. I think it does data verification during or at the end of the download and supports pausing and resuming. It is primarily a download accelerator/manager but it also installs a right click context menu of "copy here using leechget" for all local file transfers. So go that over the network and you'll not only get it there correctly but it'll go at max speed because it opens multiple connections at once and sends parts of the file then re-joins them.
I think all software should be on those. If you scratch a USB drive, it still works. I don't think they have as good of a shelf life but it's not like you'd do a whole ton of I/O on it to kill it quickly. How often do you reinstall windows? Some really expensive software like robo-sewer control programs for robotic sewing machines installs off a USB drive and also requires that the USB drive be plugged in to start up the software. Talk about hard to pirate! You can't just image the drive either. It senses the serial number of the drive or something. Just think if games did this. They could be totally open with no stupid DRM malware or internet connection required. Just the USB drive needs to be plugged in and you're good. Plus, why stop there? I reeeeeally think Microsoft (and everyone else) should go back to cartridges for video games instead of CD/DVD games. Then there's basically no size limit, developers just add in a 16GB memory chip instead of 8 if they have a big game. That worked for the sega genesis and N64. Plus you can't scratch your cartridge and then have to pay another $60, and they could make the cartridge easily self destructable if anyone opens it to avoid ROMing. Just make the inside a vacuum and put an air sensor that will release a quick charging capacitor burst that fries all the memory chips if it senses air. That and put two layers of barely separated copper foil around the inside of the plastic casing and if anyone tries to penetrate it, they touch and complete a circuit that fries the memory. Flash based memory or basically anything non-optical needs to be implemented for a lot more future technology so I'm all for windows going to it at least!
What they need to put the most effort into are the biggest problems or they'll turn into a Microsoft product. All kinds of fancy features and new tricks are nice and all and you can't get away with having 0 of them but they need to fix the core complaints and problems to attract the most users.
1 because CNN is retarded and 2 because nobody is already immune to it so anyone could catch it. Yeah, I know, that's a stupid reason to fear monger but they don't even need a reason at all so this is good for them. But in the meantime, I've got an idea how to vaccinate yourself. If you're in remotely good health, just catch it on purpose, stay home for about 3-5 days, get better, and tada, you've got much more T-cells against it than any vaccine will give you.
obviously the EU is like Ted Stephens several times over. They hear stupid people bitching about it being unfair and they know nothing about how computers actually work and now they get themselves stuck in a trap like this. I really, really, really hope that computer stores start carrying USB drives with "firefox" on them that really has a rigged, adware spyware plugin infested version of Firefox that they're getting paid by the malware writers to sell. That way it'll blow up in the EU's face even worse.
It's so that they know if they really are or aren't there so after like 5 missed hours they can boot them from the class without a refund like most US colleges do. It's not like teenager truancy prevention.
You gotta hand it to them and some other MMOGs for planning epic endings. Sometimes the game does get kinda boring over time but people keep playing anyway so to just have a boring end date with nothing happening is crap. You gotta at least do SOMETHING. So that's cool that they're not just going all corporate on everyone and setting a date then enforcing it heartlessly without a big ending. Ever since some people started playing the game, they've been fantasizing about some epic event that they knew would never happen and here it is to make all their dreams come true. It's like if you know your car's gotta go, you want to at least see an air force Raptor hit it with a hellfire missile :D
This thing has to be faster than an N64 and I rigged it up to play one game and one game only so now it's a console lol. But it's an AMD K6-2 machine at like 450MHz. I bumped it up from 64 MB of ram to 192 and put an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card in it so it can just barely play Stepmania, a knock off of Dance Dance Revolution. It runs Windows ME cuz I needed that for the PS2 to USB dance pad adapter drivers to for sure work. Also it wasn't fast enough for Ubuntu lol. The first thing I did when I got it was see that it had a PCI network card and I was like "yeah, I don't think so" and took that out so there's no way the winner of the DDR competition in October will try and connect it to the internet after they get it home. It's an old HP compaq case with the wavy, bulgy front that looks kinda neat once you paint it red and the body black and with. It seriously looks like an alienware now lol. People will ahve no idea what they're getting but it looks cool! Well as long as all they do is boot up and open Stepmania, they're fine :D Pretty neat, huh? Especially since I got it for free. btw I also got a $10 monstrous CRT monitor at a rummage sale and gave it and some small speakers the same black and red paint job so the whole set looks like it costs $2000 instead of about $40 lol.
this may sound awful but if it sounds remotely good, it may be the best option. Sell them all the progress so far and let them finish the whole project and take a big lump sum for it. Then immediately start a new project with your people and finish that one so basically you're developing one product and getting paid for two. But if you love the project too much and don't trust them or they want you to finish it yourself under their control, I've got a better options. Trust me, letting them buy you out and basically hire you then tell you what to do will NEVER end well. It always sucks no matter what. They'll insist on some stupid feature or make a dumb decision and then you're stuck with it. Tell them you refuse to ever do that and when you're done with the whole thing, you can license the entire thing solely to them and they can act as your marketing and control and support side and just pay you royalties based on sales.
well there's "your computer" as you stated it and then there's a $299 netbook that can do the same plus surf the internet and beats Kindle DX's price. I could write a landscapable text file viewer in my sleep and anyone can get a netbook to open a PDF. It's like there's some contest to see who can make a computer that does the least. When these things first came out, it looks like low end but still good laptop = $400. Kindle DX = $450 or whatever they said. Those 9" LCD picture frames that can make slideshows and hold like 100 pictures wooooow = $700+ (at the time when they came out). So apparently the less something does, the more it costs. The slower the processor, the more it costs too. This is just dumb. Soon they'll be selling an e-paper pocket calculator that's just a flexible LCD screen for $1000 and all it does is run a calculator program.
It would be more constructive to stay around and just go on a hatin' rampage about every little way that Apple douches is up and charges for services. If everyone just leaves it then all the sensible people are gone and only the Apple fans are left.
If you take all the seats out of most minivans, they can really giddeyup lol. Seriously, our old van had the same if not better acceleration when totally stripped down as my V6 Mercury cougar and that's 170HP and 2800 pounds.
And old people have powered wheel chairs so it's even. Not that I'm implying a 35 year old programmer would need one lol. In fact, they'll have robolegs or their brain in a robot body when they're old :P
Maybe they should include virtualized Vista too so Windows 7 can look better by comparison.
Also, most license agreements for software simply says that it can be used on "one machine" or reference the hardware in some way. So since it's one machine on one computer hardware system, you can basically force the company to cough up another license or extend yours to work in both environments. Some companies have specific statements related to virtualization but not a lot of them.
Anyone with any sort of film SFX training can fake the hell out of something and make it look realistic. It's especially easy if you took a real video and then added some CG or other alterations then sampled it down to cameraphone quality. It'd look perfect. You could easily make it look like a gun that was being pointed at someone fire even though it never did. Add a little flash overlay and a sound effect with a filter to make it sound camera phone-like and tada, you've just been shot it. In fact, it'd be simple to add the gun to an empty hand too. This is pretty ridiculous.
Yes only the wealthy can afford them but if they made more and got more popular, maybe they could start selling $20,000 sedans. And there's no faster way to grow a company than to give em a bunch of money. On the other hand, it would appear they waste a ton of money and stupid, fancy designs and features because they're targetting rich people. Maybe that's the only way they can survive for now, by targetting that market, and their long term goal is to be the Honda of electric and hybrid vehicles. I hope the gov researched their intention regardling that ahead of time but I doubt it.
I think it'd be more effective to empty out the uranium and make a big statue out of it. Then it'd be so decorative and artistic lol.
To this day, nobody has beaten some of the better written anti-botting random events in the game Runescape. They use rotating 3D models in Jave with shifting light overlays to change the colors of the pixels randomly. And here's why captchas do work and always will. You take like 1 day to write a captcha generator and it takes someone a week or two, maybe even months to write an AI program that can read it. Then as soon as you notice spammers getting past it, you change one thing and they have to almost start over from scratch. With Java you just swap out the 3D model and it's a completely different set of pixels to measure and the bot builders have to almost start from scratch. There's basically no more botting in RS anymore.
technically, it's the hardware manufacturures with driver issues. Some company makes a piece of hardware and I'm supposed to write a driver for it? Um no!
I'm not sure I'm clear on how they want this to work. Is it purely software or will the thing physically interrupt the power supply or will it do something to the BIOS? There's weaknesses and vulnerabilities to all three. Depending on how they do it, you could disable any software solution they use or just boot to Knoppix off a DVD and keep surfing the web and doing whatever :-) And if it's a hardware interrupt, crack it open and get out the soldering iron or hack saw. Or just take out the stupid part that's doing it!
okay, obviously you have no idea how it works whatsoever. I believe it writes a parity bit for error checking. So every time it has to write 8 bits, it writes 9 instead. So that would make 12.5% slower, right? Or 8.8%, I forget which way it goes. Plus, you think it calculates that parity bit using magic? Match is involved so a processing chip somewhere is used.
mine's actually encased in 20 feet of solid lead. Now you might think that's pretty inconvenient but it has front USB running out to the front plate. Putting CDs in it is a pain though. But I refuse to lose any performance to ECC ram!
so you invested in Bernie Madoff too? lol. Everyone looks back and thinks "awww, that's right, he's not a real investor." You know the only reason he didn't scam toddlers is cuz they don't have any money lol.