You did sign up for fraud protection with a valid number, something that will probably add some small annual fee to the guy's card, so you are probably now guilty of credit card fraud
No, I went through the first step of signing up, which was to enter a Visa number. I didn't complete the sign-up.
What, you thought investigative agents hang around 24 hours a day? No, they value sleep
Only having investigatve agents available during normal business hours is fine, but how about suspending or cancelling the cards? I'd have expected them to be able to handle that 24/7.
The higher rollover risk negates the benefits of the heavier frame
Error. You ignore the fact that the rollover risk is partly under the driver's control, by avoiding driving in ways that are prone to rollover. The heavier frame, on the other hand, helps in accidents caused by other people that the driver could not avoid.
Besides A.B.C.D where A, B, C, and D are decimal octets, and A, where A is a decimal 32-bit value, there are two more decimal forms for IP addresses that work: A.B where A and B are 16-bit decimal numbers, and, A.B where A is 8-bit and B is 24-bit.
That last one is interesting. Suppose you live in Seattle (area code 206). If you could get IP address 206.A.B.C, and then write it in the 8-bit.24-bit form, for appropriate A, B, and C, the 24-bit part will have 7 decimal digits, and you can write your IP address as 206.NNNNNNN.
Now go out and get NNNNNNN as your phone number, and then you can put on your business card:
I too have been subjected to PayPal "review" this afternoon. Twice in one day they asked me to re-confirm my personal information, which I did successfully each time
Unless this has a built-in privilege escalation, I don't see how this is true. If it just runs as the user (which it appears to) then you could erase the users information that way, but not the disk
So, basically, it can't wipe out those parts of the disk that are trivial to restore from the system install CDs, and instead only gets the parts that are actually important to the user? How comforting.:-)
I don't understand the Army's interest in this
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The army is basically using first person shooters to promote recruitment.
Yet, think about it. Play these games, have a lot of fun, then realize "Hey...if that had been real, I wouldn't have been able to respawn those 20 times I died...do I really want to do that kind of thing in real life???" and then run at warp 10 away from the recruiter. That's what I'd do, anyway.
Doesn't seem like it should be a good recruiting tool at all.
Since there is no legitimate use for this kind of P2P network (every legitimate use can be met with "regular" P2P software), I predict that the software itself will be made illegal, and so simply running it on the net will be grounds for prosecution.
It is very hard to justify something when the ONLY difference between it and something else is that it has features whose only use is to make it easier to break the law.
Gah! The charts are shrunk so that the labels are hard to read, and the order of the results and color assigned to each FS seems to have been picked randomly for each chart, so once you squint and decipher one of them...you have to start over on the next.
I can't recall a case in which Microsoft had viable products and decent sales and exited instead of spending more money to compete more effectively
I don't know what they sales were like compared to the DirecTV Tivo units, but perhaps UltimateTV is such a case?
I have one, and it is at least as viable as Tivo. They were behind on some features originally (e.g., nothing like "season pass"), but had dual tuner support first, and picture-in-picture. They updated the firmware a couple years ago to add all the good missing features, and it remains overall a better PVR than Tivo for DirecTV users.
They are just speculating on the purposes of these patents. My guess is that the purpose is defensive. Microsoft is a big target for everyone who gets a bogus patent nowadays. It is in their best interest to patent every damn thing they can that their software does, simply to prevent others from doing so.
At least when I been into colocation facilities they had fairly rigorous check-in procedures
The phrase collocation facilities could cover a wide range of facility types. It could cover a datacenter like you are thinking of, manned 24/7, or it could be a small switching center where Sprint has leased a rack from Verizon that is normally unmanned unless someone from Sprint or Verizon actually is working on the equipment.
There is one of the later near my apartment. Basically, a building smaller than a small house, with equipment from the ILEC and maybe one or two CLECs. I assume they have an alarm or security cameras, but someone could break the door, and be in and out, long before any police could arrive.
That said, I have a little fire safe that I keep important stuff in, like car titles, contracts and cd-rom backups of my computer files
Have you checked the specs of that safe? Most fire safes are designed to protect paper, not CD-ROM. The temperature at which a CD-ROM becomes damaged is lower than the temerature at which paper ignites, and the safe is usually only designed to keep below the later.
Actually, all property taxes are bad. Thanks to them, I can't just move out and live a recluse life on some farm all by myself; the state decides it wants to get in my face about oweing it taxes when I just want to subsist farm, mabye sell some crops to buy a couple things here and there and be left well enough alone. It's kinda sad really
You can effectively fix this. The sum of the present values of all your future propert tax payments is finite. Set aside that amount of money in reasonable investments and pay your property taxes from the earnings.
I was going to stick with it until Fedora was ready, but it doesn't seem feasible. I've been trying for two weeks to get through with up2date for a kernel update--servers too busy.
While writing this, I finally got through, and it is downloading at 10 KB/sec. It's going to take a long long time for this update.
Redhat really botched this. They should have pushed off EOL until Fedora is out of testing, and kept Redhat Network available until then. Back before all this, when I had a paid RHN subscription, updates were always available promptly, and downloaded very fast.
Bnetd wasn't trying to "interoperate" with Blizzard's network. It was trying to make a network that could be used instead of Blizzard's network.
KCEasy, on the other hand, was providing a way to use Kazaa's network.
It seems to me that is a major difference. Bnetd is basically competing with Blizzard, and reverse engineering to compete is (or should be) fine. KCEasy is basically providing a way to freeload off of Kazaa. I don't see how they should have a right to do that.
I like the fact that 'stable' really does mean stable when running debian
All the major distributions seem stable enough. Servers behind the firewall, so they can skip many updates, have no trouble reaching hundreds of days uptime (they only go down for hardware problems). For servers exposed to the net, there are usually a few kernel updates a year, so that limits uptime.
A few years ago, things might have been different, but Linux, both the kernel and the major applications, have matured sufficiently that stability is not a problem except for the very extreme bleeding edge.
In other words, choosing Debian over another modern distribution because of stability is like choosing to vacation in Bermuda instead of Hawaii because Bermuda's ocean is wet.
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No, I went through the first step of signing up, which was to enter a Visa number. I didn't complete the sign-up.
Only having investigatve agents available during normal business hours is fine, but how about suspending or cancelling the cards? I'd have expected them to be able to handle that 24/7.
Error. You ignore the fact that the rollover risk is partly under the driver's control, by avoiding driving in ways that are prone to rollover. The heavier frame, on the other hand, helps in accidents caused by other people that the driver could not avoid.
That last one is interesting. Suppose you live in Seattle (area code 206). If you could get IP address 206.A.B.C, and then write it in the 8-bit.24-bit form, for appropriate A, B, and C, the 24-bit part will have 7 decimal digits, and you can write your IP address as 206.NNNNNNN.
Now go out and get NNNNNNN as your phone number, and then you can put on your business card:
Phone and IP: 206.NNNNNNN
and impress the geeks.
Result: you have a bunch of large files, all very fragmented, and the free space is very fragmented.
Then how come iTunes supports CD burning? Are you only supposed to use iTunes to play those CDs?
Hmmmm.....you sure you haven't been phished?
So, basically, it can't wipe out those parts of the disk that are trivial to restore from the system install CDs, and instead only gets the parts that are actually important to the user? How comforting. :-)
Yet, think about it. Play these games, have a lot of fun, then realize "Hey...if that had been real, I wouldn't have been able to respawn those 20 times I died...do I really want to do that kind of thing in real life???" and then run at warp 10 away from the recruiter. That's what I'd do, anyway.
Doesn't seem like it should be a good recruiting tool at all.
It is very hard to justify something when the ONLY difference between it and something else is that it has features whose only use is to make it easier to break the law.
I'm curious...has anyone ever seen any money spent that could NOT have been used elsewhere?
Gah! The charts are shrunk so that the labels are hard to read, and the order of the results and color assigned to each FS seems to have been picked randomly for each chart, so once you squint and decipher one of them...you have to start over on the next.
I don't know what they sales were like compared to the DirecTV Tivo units, but perhaps UltimateTV is such a case?
I have one, and it is at least as viable as Tivo. They were behind on some features originally (e.g., nothing like "season pass"), but had dual tuner support first, and picture-in-picture. They updated the firmware a couple years ago to add all the good missing features, and it remains overall a better PVR than Tivo for DirecTV users.
They said they were going to GPL YaST. Have they done so for this release?
Too bad iTunes is 20 nickels for music.
They are just speculating on the purposes of these patents. My guess is that the purpose is defensive. Microsoft is a big target for everyone who gets a bogus patent nowadays. It is in their best interest to patent every damn thing they can that their software does, simply to prevent others from doing so.
Please explain how SACD is not as good as DVD-A? The general opinion of audiophiles seems to be that SACD is better.
The phrase collocation facilities could cover a wide range of facility types. It could cover a datacenter like you are thinking of, manned 24/7, or it could be a small switching center where Sprint has leased a rack from Verizon that is normally unmanned unless someone from Sprint or Verizon actually is working on the equipment.
There is one of the later near my apartment. Basically, a building smaller than a small house, with equipment from the ILEC and maybe one or two CLECs. I assume they have an alarm or security cameras, but someone could break the door, and be in and out, long before any police could arrive.
Have you checked the specs of that safe? Most fire safes are designed to protect paper, not CD-ROM. The temperature at which a CD-ROM becomes damaged is lower than the temerature at which paper ignites, and the safe is usually only designed to keep below the later.
You can effectively fix this. The sum of the present values of all your future propert tax payments is finite. Set aside that amount of money in reasonable investments and pay your property taxes from the earnings.
While writing this, I finally got through, and it is downloading at 10 KB/sec. It's going to take a long long time for this update.
Redhat really botched this. They should have pushed off EOL until Fedora is out of testing, and kept Redhat Network available until then. Back before all this, when I had a paid RHN subscription, updates were always available promptly, and downloaded very fast.
They are gambling...if you can call something with odds of about a million to one in their favor gambling.
KCEasy, on the other hand, was providing a way to use Kazaa's network.
It seems to me that is a major difference. Bnetd is basically competing with Blizzard, and reverse engineering to compete is (or should be) fine. KCEasy is basically providing a way to freeload off of Kazaa. I don't see how they should have a right to do that.
So, how many bits do I need for a symmetric cipher key in order to push a brute force search past the computational limit of the universe?
All the major distributions seem stable enough. Servers behind the firewall, so they can skip many updates, have no trouble reaching hundreds of days uptime (they only go down for hardware problems). For servers exposed to the net, there are usually a few kernel updates a year, so that limits uptime.
A few years ago, things might have been different, but Linux, both the kernel and the major applications, have matured sufficiently that stability is not a problem except for the very extreme bleeding edge.
In other words, choosing Debian over another modern distribution because of stability is like choosing to vacation in Bermuda instead of Hawaii because Bermuda's ocean is wet.