This is possibly the worst summary ever written in Slashdot history. It doesn't make an ounce of sense!!! What page links to what inside of what session? It sounds like they're saying they have to pay per SSL connection while they re-route you to the original manufacturer's page like a click fraud scam but then that somehow charges you extra and then they're somehow making money off not protecting your credit card number...so like they're passing your card number to the product maker? And then they say "the company" suggesting that only one company is behind this and yet it's a widely used scam? Seriously, WTF is this article even trying to say is happening. It's like a bunch of random garbage thrown together into a story.
Here's a little suggestion to the summary writer. It might be a good idea to say who's doing what to who and how for a story about a scam. I'm no more educated now than before I read it.
With so many people selling PS2s because they bought a PS3, there have been $100 systems on down for sale for a loooong time. Since my family's poor, we're "down a tier" in consoles and bought someone's PS2 when they got the PS3 and we got it for I think under $100. So the only difference is it's brand new compared to used. Well mine works fine so I don't care either way. I think a lot of the people that wanted a PS2 already bought one used for cheaper so this isn't going to do very well.
Oh come on, the explanation is simple. You've got to be crazy to write a message to someone with postal mail. Welcome to the 21st century people, we have e-mail now!
lol I was gonna mention that too. Uranium splitting into all helium, if it's even possible, would release so much energy it would like knock us out of orbit or something lol. I mean each atom would theoretically give off like 46x the energy or something cuz helium is 4 nucleotic particle (I made that term up I think lol) and uranium has 184. Oh wait I think it has to break more than one bond to split 184 in two so I'm not doing the math lol. But it'd blow your ass up.
hey, I've got the usual question that I should probably know by now but nobody has been able to explain very well to me. If you fuse something and it gives off a ton of energy, then you "fiss" it and it gives a ton of energy...wtf? I can't figure out how the whole uranium is big and helium is small thing ties in but inside a star it does fusion and fission at different parts of its life and they both give off a lot of energy. It just doesn't make sense.
you'd have to figure out yourself that the password increments and the first letter of it changes to the middle letter of whatever day it is. Ooooh what's up now? lol. It gets worse, trust me. I just got sick of writing lol.
Last time there was a story about moon mining, they had some stats on the density of the isotope they're looking for and it would take so much more energy to just mine it let alone go there and get it and bring it back, that you might as well just strap the rocket engine to a turbine instead of bringing the stuff back to a nuclear plant. It wouldn't even be remotely efficient if we had a city on the moon to run just that off rare isotopes because the density of it in the soil is so ridiculously low.
well that's just dumb. In war you've gotta have some balls! Enough citizens and businesses in China have a valid copy of a windows OS that if Microsoft released a China only windows update that wipes their hard drives, so many businesses would fail, it would kill their economy like throwing a grenade at a groundhog. I mean just think, if 1% of all business computers in China had a legitimate copy of windows and downloaded and installed the update, that could be like the utilities going down or major nationwide companies or airports. You can't just turn off a lot of companies for a few days or weeks. Everything would melt into chaos.
what the hell's so hard about building a printer? lol. Don't even make it track the vote. You press a button, NOT a touchscreen, and it prints a slip. Walmart practically has some of those for checkouts lol. They should cut all the operating system and logging and networking and other bullshit and just make it a machine. Don't even put a significant processing capable chip in it. Just make it print your damn pick.
the player wars aren't really related cuz people who can crack the format, don't use the players, duh lol. And the ones who can't crack it have to use the players. The format wars is a different story though.
btw the only reason they should have dropped them IS the PS3. If you're gonna pay that much to watch a damn HD movie, you might as well be able to play games on it. It's like cell phones. I wanna call ppl but hey...Frogger! sure, why not lol
I could get that dolphin that they taught to paint (look it up) to sign my signature on a check and the bank would still take it. It doesn't even have to be words or letters. As long as someone scribbled my signature, they're not going to reject it so the check's good. Signatures aren't quite the same thing.
Now my 2 cents, I just design security systems that are so freaky and confusing that hackers just give up because it's too odd. The hacker or otherwise bad person just gives up and is like "wtf is it, broke or just haunted?" If someone made a software suite where you can design your own ridiculous security system with basically unlimited possibilities of whatever the user can dream up, people would have some pretty ridiculous security! Everyone here always complains about security through obscurity. You try opening a ridiculously large-bit-encryption archive file of mine when at the "enter the password" screen, you have to wave the cursor over the password field then type submit in it and click the exit button which reveals a crossword puzzle with only one valid word in it but you have to in fact click the squares so the highlighted letters form a smiley face then within 3 seconds, click on the password field then press tab three times which is the only wat to get you to the now unlocked, real invisible password entry box and type your password in stutter type (doubles of each letter followed by a backspace) and then press the red X in the top right to submit it and open the archive. You aren't getting into that archive! That's so screwy, someone would give up trying to figure out what the hell was going on in minutes. And good luck brute forcing it cuz that'll take all the computers on earth a couple hundred trillion years. Plus it's not that hard of a process to remember when you really think about it. It'd take someone who memorized it like 15 seconds tops to do it all and even if someone watched it, they'd have trouble remembering it or understanding it. They'd have to have a camera recording your keyboard and mouse synchronized with another camera watching the screen and also be able to guess the time requirements. Do all that with an incrementing password (like fishfish2 then next time it's fishfish3) at the end of it and they'd barely be able to solve it if you told them every step. Waaaaaaay better and more secure than drawing a picture on a low res grid.
InPhase has a kick ass product out already, right now. As in not some upcoming promise and not some theoretical device. In fact, it's not even a prototype. Businesses buy holographic drives from them right now for write once backups. This 10 years crap really doesn't mean anything. Do you know how killer holographics is going to be 10 years from now? A lot farther along than a technology that ohhhh you know, doesn't exist at the moment.
My only real issue with legislation like this is that it doesn't mean squat to the rest of the world
I could see the US (well Bush) blocking all content country-wide that is determined to have come from a non-US ad agency. Thousands of countries in the rest of the world would be pissed but oh well lol. And then regulate the US ads and tada, almost no spyware links in ads. The vast majority by far of spyware and adware and malware really is from links to something free in an ad.
well gee, don't post why or anything. For any random anything, you take the number of possibile outcomes divided by the number of outcomes that have happened (how many drawings there have been) and the lower the number, the more random and the higher the number, the less random it will seem. So in short, there haven't been enough lottery drawings for the data to show how random it is. For example, if you have a 6 sided standard die, there's 6 possible outcomes. If you roll it 10 times it will probably look like one number is WAY more likely to come up. It might even show that you're 2x more likely to roll a 6 for example. But if you roll the die 10,000 times, you'll find that every number comes up almost exactly 16.66666 % of the time. I know that's a terrible example cuz dice throws aren't random and it depends on how high you hold it and how much force and which side is up when you throw it but I'm not re-writing it now lol. To appear really random, chances are (no pun intended) that you'll have to have an outcome at least as many times as there are possible outcomes. Like you have to roll a 100 sided die 100 times before the data stops looking so choppy. So how many lottery drawings do we have to wait for to get those conspiracy theorists to shut up? About 175,711,536
It's a miracle! Not that they're finally going after spyware, but that some congressmen actually started using the internet and found out what kind of crap you can catch on your computer from it! Yay! I've been waiting for aggressive antispyware legistlation practically since the internet was invented. I really don't care if it puts me out of a job (in home repairer)
Has anyone else noticed that more money and time and effort has been spent trying to make and use good, fair, electronic voting machines than it would have taken to just keep using paper ballots and have them counted like usual? Isn't the point to save money and time and make it more efficient? I think another point was to make elections less riggable and more accurate but Diebold killed that dumb idea behind a long time ago lol.
the last one I saw, I kid you not, was 95% salts. I think 3 compounds weren't salts. How reactive are salts? NOT VERY! You need acids and bases to do some real cool stuff. That's not universally true cuz you can strip the fun compounds of the salts and stuff but it's still more difficult in general
I and my dead 4GB flash drive strongly agree. I want to actually be able to run games that load like 10,000 skin files off a tiny drive without it dying in half a year so I can sit down and play advanced games. The demand for "bring my software with me" style technology is huge right now and all the hardware for it currently fails way too fast.
Btw holographics from InPhase still has this beat already on write once backup technology. Nobody's ever going to be the leader above them in this decade. You know why? Cuz right now I can pick up the phone and get a functional drive and disks that can hold 1.6TB each with a shelf life of like forever. And of course speeds of 120 MB/s reading. This 18 months stuff isn't going to cut it. If this really is re-writeable though, it has a chance if and when it finally comes out.
you're missing the point. Even if they cost $395 to make and they only net $5 profit, that's still millions of dollars in profits missed because some people just will not buy and AT&T only device.
you know, let's say the phone costs $150 to actually make in labor and parts. I dunno if it's higher or lower, that's just a guess. They'd make $250 profit on each phone. So if let's say 1 million people want an iphone. But 500,000 won't buy one because they hate AT&T. They're making $682 per person on 500,000 people and missing $250 per person on the other 500,000 people. So they're making $341 million instead of $466 million if they sold unlocked ones. That's a pretty significant loss of income!!! Whether they want to admit it or not, the profit they make per phone isn't insignificant and some people absolutely will not ever settle for AT&T as a carrier and they're losing those potential customers.
maybe they created a controller that could read and write from then simultanerously so it's double the read/write speed. I hope so cuz it better be able to beat my sata drives in read write speed otherwise I don't really care how fast the seek time is cuz any file over like 100KB would be slower to open on it than a normal hard drive.
oh yeah and I agree with the other posts. Call me when it's on its way to my budget, not just store shelves lol.
They say these are some of the first but I have another theory. They aren't and there are older ones, but we can't see them. Does anyone else think that maybe there are galaxies so old and fairly small (as in dense) that their supermassive black hole had enough time to literally sucked the entire thing in and now there's no more matter outside it so it's completely invisible to us? Cuz we can only really see black holes by seeing the stuff that's emitted from matter around it that's being sucked in.
If there are chunks that big and so much matter all in one pretty flat disk (ie close to each other) then how come it doesn't all suck itself into one big piece? That's what supposedly happened to earth and we got one big moon and no ring. How does the ring stay a ring and not gravitize together?
damn right. First of all if it was good, they'd market it here since America is one of the top gadget markets. Either it doesn't meet our standards or it's not cost effective to market here because it sucks. All of these fancy gadgets are probably way crappier than they sound and will break before you get them home or they contain more lead than a 19th century pipe. Plus apparently the article author has never heard of ebay.
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This is possibly the worst summary ever written in Slashdot history. It doesn't make an ounce of sense!!! What page links to what inside of what session? It sounds like they're saying they have to pay per SSL connection while they re-route you to the original manufacturer's page like a click fraud scam but then that somehow charges you extra and then they're somehow making money off not protecting your credit card number...so like they're passing your card number to the product maker? And then they say "the company" suggesting that only one company is behind this and yet it's a widely used scam? Seriously, WTF is this article even trying to say is happening. It's like a bunch of random garbage thrown together into a story.
Here's a little suggestion to the summary writer. It might be a good idea to say who's doing what to who and how for a story about a scam. I'm no more educated now than before I read it.
With so many people selling PS2s because they bought a PS3, there have been $100 systems on down for sale for a loooong time. Since my family's poor, we're "down a tier" in consoles and bought someone's PS2 when they got the PS3 and we got it for I think under $100. So the only difference is it's brand new compared to used. Well mine works fine so I don't care either way. I think a lot of the people that wanted a PS2 already bought one used for cheaper so this isn't going to do very well.
Oh come on, the explanation is simple. You've got to be crazy to write a message to someone with postal mail. Welcome to the 21st century people, we have e-mail now!
lol I was gonna mention that too. Uranium splitting into all helium, if it's even possible, would release so much energy it would like knock us out of orbit or something lol. I mean each atom would theoretically give off like 46x the energy or something cuz helium is 4 nucleotic particle (I made that term up I think lol) and uranium has 184. Oh wait I think it has to break more than one bond to split 184 in two so I'm not doing the math lol. But it'd blow your ass up.
hey, I've got the usual question that I should probably know by now but nobody has been able to explain very well to me. If you fuse something and it gives off a ton of energy, then you "fiss" it and it gives a ton of energy...wtf? I can't figure out how the whole uranium is big and helium is small thing ties in but inside a star it does fusion and fission at different parts of its life and they both give off a lot of energy. It just doesn't make sense.
you'd have to figure out yourself that the password increments and the first letter of it changes to the middle letter of whatever day it is. Ooooh what's up now? lol. It gets worse, trust me. I just got sick of writing lol.
Last time there was a story about moon mining, they had some stats on the density of the isotope they're looking for and it would take so much more energy to just mine it let alone go there and get it and bring it back, that you might as well just strap the rocket engine to a turbine instead of bringing the stuff back to a nuclear plant. It wouldn't even be remotely efficient if we had a city on the moon to run just that off rare isotopes because the density of it in the soil is so ridiculously low.
well that's just dumb. In war you've gotta have some balls! Enough citizens and businesses in China have a valid copy of a windows OS that if Microsoft released a China only windows update that wipes their hard drives, so many businesses would fail, it would kill their economy like throwing a grenade at a groundhog. I mean just think, if 1% of all business computers in China had a legitimate copy of windows and downloaded and installed the update, that could be like the utilities going down or major nationwide companies or airports. You can't just turn off a lot of companies for a few days or weeks. Everything would melt into chaos.
what the hell's so hard about building a printer? lol. Don't even make it track the vote. You press a button, NOT a touchscreen, and it prints a slip. Walmart practically has some of those for checkouts lol. They should cut all the operating system and logging and networking and other bullshit and just make it a machine. Don't even put a significant processing capable chip in it. Just make it print your damn pick.
the player wars aren't really related cuz people who can crack the format, don't use the players, duh lol. And the ones who can't crack it have to use the players. The format wars is a different story though.
btw the only reason they should have dropped them IS the PS3. If you're gonna pay that much to watch a damn HD movie, you might as well be able to play games on it. It's like cell phones. I wanna call ppl but hey...Frogger! sure, why not lol
I could get that dolphin that they taught to paint (look it up) to sign my signature on a check and the bank would still take it. It doesn't even have to be words or letters. As long as someone scribbled my signature, they're not going to reject it so the check's good. Signatures aren't quite the same thing.
Now my 2 cents, I just design security systems that are so freaky and confusing that hackers just give up because it's too odd. The hacker or otherwise bad person just gives up and is like "wtf is it, broke or just haunted?" If someone made a software suite where you can design your own ridiculous security system with basically unlimited possibilities of whatever the user can dream up, people would have some pretty ridiculous security! Everyone here always complains about security through obscurity. You try opening a ridiculously large-bit-encryption archive file of mine when at the "enter the password" screen, you have to wave the cursor over the password field then type submit in it and click the exit button which reveals a crossword puzzle with only one valid word in it but you have to in fact click the squares so the highlighted letters form a smiley face then within 3 seconds, click on the password field then press tab three times which is the only wat to get you to the now unlocked, real invisible password entry box and type your password in stutter type (doubles of each letter followed by a backspace) and then press the red X in the top right to submit it and open the archive. You aren't getting into that archive! That's so screwy, someone would give up trying to figure out what the hell was going on in minutes. And good luck brute forcing it cuz that'll take all the computers on earth a couple hundred trillion years. Plus it's not that hard of a process to remember when you really think about it. It'd take someone who memorized it like 15 seconds tops to do it all and even if someone watched it, they'd have trouble remembering it or understanding it. They'd have to have a camera recording your keyboard and mouse synchronized with another camera watching the screen and also be able to guess the time requirements. Do all that with an incrementing password (like fishfish2 then next time it's fishfish3) at the end of it and they'd barely be able to solve it if you told them every step. Waaaaaaay better and more secure than drawing a picture on a low res grid.
InPhase has a kick ass product out already, right now. As in not some upcoming promise and not some theoretical device. In fact, it's not even a prototype. Businesses buy holographic drives from them right now for write once backups. This 10 years crap really doesn't mean anything. Do you know how killer holographics is going to be 10 years from now? A lot farther along than a technology that ohhhh you know, doesn't exist at the moment.
well gee, don't post why or anything. For any random anything, you take the number of possibile outcomes divided by the number of outcomes that have happened (how many drawings there have been) and the lower the number, the more random and the higher the number, the less random it will seem. So in short, there haven't been enough lottery drawings for the data to show how random it is. For example, if you have a 6 sided standard die, there's 6 possible outcomes. If you roll it 10 times it will probably look like one number is WAY more likely to come up. It might even show that you're 2x more likely to roll a 6 for example. But if you roll the die 10,000 times, you'll find that every number comes up almost exactly 16.66666 % of the time. I know that's a terrible example cuz dice throws aren't random and it depends on how high you hold it and how much force and which side is up when you throw it but I'm not re-writing it now lol. To appear really random, chances are (no pun intended) that you'll have to have an outcome at least as many times as there are possible outcomes. Like you have to roll a 100 sided die 100 times before the data stops looking so choppy. So how many lottery drawings do we have to wait for to get those conspiracy theorists to shut up? About 175,711,536
It's a miracle! Not that they're finally going after spyware, but that some congressmen actually started using the internet and found out what kind of crap you can catch on your computer from it! Yay! I've been waiting for aggressive antispyware legistlation practically since the internet was invented. I really don't care if it puts me out of a job (in home repairer)
Has anyone else noticed that more money and time and effort has been spent trying to make and use good, fair, electronic voting machines than it would have taken to just keep using paper ballots and have them counted like usual? Isn't the point to save money and time and make it more efficient? I think another point was to make elections less riggable and more accurate but Diebold killed that dumb idea behind a long time ago lol.
the last one I saw, I kid you not, was 95% salts. I think 3 compounds weren't salts. How reactive are salts? NOT VERY! You need acids and bases to do some real cool stuff. That's not universally true cuz you can strip the fun compounds of the salts and stuff but it's still more difficult in general
I and my dead 4GB flash drive strongly agree. I want to actually be able to run games that load like 10,000 skin files off a tiny drive without it dying in half a year so I can sit down and play advanced games. The demand for "bring my software with me" style technology is huge right now and all the hardware for it currently fails way too fast. Btw holographics from InPhase still has this beat already on write once backup technology. Nobody's ever going to be the leader above them in this decade. You know why? Cuz right now I can pick up the phone and get a functional drive and disks that can hold 1.6TB each with a shelf life of like forever. And of course speeds of 120 MB/s reading. This 18 months stuff isn't going to cut it. If this really is re-writeable though, it has a chance if and when it finally comes out.
you're missing the point. Even if they cost $395 to make and they only net $5 profit, that's still millions of dollars in profits missed because some people just will not buy and AT&T only device.
you know, let's say the phone costs $150 to actually make in labor and parts. I dunno if it's higher or lower, that's just a guess. They'd make $250 profit on each phone. So if let's say 1 million people want an iphone. But 500,000 won't buy one because they hate AT&T. They're making $682 per person on 500,000 people and missing $250 per person on the other 500,000 people. So they're making $341 million instead of $466 million if they sold unlocked ones. That's a pretty significant loss of income!!! Whether they want to admit it or not, the profit they make per phone isn't insignificant and some people absolutely will not ever settle for AT&T as a carrier and they're losing those potential customers.
maybe they created a controller that could read and write from then simultanerously so it's double the read/write speed. I hope so cuz it better be able to beat my sata drives in read write speed otherwise I don't really care how fast the seek time is cuz any file over like 100KB would be slower to open on it than a normal hard drive.
oh yeah and I agree with the other posts. Call me when it's on its way to my budget, not just store shelves lol.
I think the new Sony handheld cam has a filter that picks up bullshit so you're gonna keep seeing ghosts lol.
They say these are some of the first but I have another theory. They aren't and there are older ones, but we can't see them. Does anyone else think that maybe there are galaxies so old and fairly small (as in dense) that their supermassive black hole had enough time to literally sucked the entire thing in and now there's no more matter outside it so it's completely invisible to us? Cuz we can only really see black holes by seeing the stuff that's emitted from matter around it that's being sucked in.
If there are chunks that big and so much matter all in one pretty flat disk (ie close to each other) then how come it doesn't all suck itself into one big piece? That's what supposedly happened to earth and we got one big moon and no ring. How does the ring stay a ring and not gravitize together?
damn right. First of all if it was good, they'd market it here since America is one of the top gadget markets. Either it doesn't meet our standards or it's not cost effective to market here because it sucks. All of these fancy gadgets are probably way crappier than they sound and will break before you get them home or they contain more lead than a 19th century pipe. Plus apparently the article author has never heard of ebay.