The mobile phone that I own is an Audiovox 8610, which appears not to take applications that aren't purchased from Virgin Mobile USA's store. Anything more than a flip phone appears to need a contract. How are the tools to test a mobile phone application before publishing it free?
Virgin Mobile DOES have android phones, you know. The Optimus V at $199 is a decent phone.
You can get hosting for as little as $1.00 a month. A domain name is $8 or $9 a year, sometimes less with coupons. SSL Certs are $8.95 a year from Namecheap, although not every website is going to require an SSL certificate.
"Washington, D.C., with its under 1 million population, has become the first jurisdiction in the United States to legalize online gambling.
The District of Columbia is looking to raise millions of dollars from a multi-billion dollar industry that, until now, has operated exclusively offshore from the United States. That apparently is about to change."
"Players are really loyal in this industry," Ifrah said. "You really have to ask yourself what is the incentive a player is going to have to leave a trusted site with global competition to play in a site that's untested and kind of unknown and doesn't offer you the same level of play."
Looks to me like they just want to get rid of the competition.
You can pick up a single site SSL certificate for under $20
And a dedicated IPv4 address for $60, according to Go Daddy. Otherwise, you shut out users of Android 2.x and users of Windows XP, whose built-in SSL library does not support SNI.
Comodo SSL certs are $8.95 from Namecheap, or you get a free cert when you register or transfer a domain there.
Namecheap offers Comodo certs for $8.95 per year. They also did a promo for quite a while where you'd get a free cert with a domain name purchase, but that's either ended or coming to an end shortly.
Facebook users on Monday were left contemplating the security of private details stored on the social-networking site after part of its source code was leaked onto the Internet.
The site on Monday acknowledged that a section of its code had been copied and published on a blog, but stressed that none of the personal details of its 52 million users had been compromised.
Over the weekend, a blog called Facebook Secrets published details of part of Facebook's source code, the set of commands which determine the way the site appears when it is viewed by users.
WASHINGTON (AP) [5.14.99] - A teen-ager identified as a computer hacker whose name appeared on the Internet site for the White House after vandals altered it this week has been indicted in Virginia on charges he broke into another government computer.
A grand jury indicted Eric Burns, 19, on three counts of computer intrusion. Burns, reportedly known on the Internet as ``Zyklon,'' was accused of breaking into a computer between August 1998 and January 1999 in northern Virginia that is used by the U.S. Information Agency.
``Zyklon'' was one of a dozen names listed on the hacked version of the White House Web site, which was altered overnight Sunday for a few minutes before government computers automatically detected the intrusion.
The indictment returned Thursday also accuses Burns of breaking into two other computers in northern Virginia, one owned by LaserNet of Fairfax and another by Issue Dynamics Inc. of Alexandria.
You're thinking of Qwest actually. AT&T and the rest of the phone companies handed over data without a warrant, and Qwest told the US Gov to go pound sand.
They should pull a Trent Reznor and re-submit the app. It sounds like approval is very subjective based on the reviewer. Chances are it might get approved the second time around.
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In Minneapolis here, we had a stranger abduction Amber Alert a week or two ago.
Exactly. Domains are $9 a year, or cheaper with coupon codes.
The mobile phone that I own is an Audiovox 8610, which appears not to take applications that aren't purchased from Virgin Mobile USA's store. Anything more than a flip phone appears to need a contract. How are the tools to test a mobile phone application before publishing it free?
Virgin Mobile DOES have android phones, you know. The Optimus V at $199 is a decent phone.
You can get hosting for as little as $1.00 a month. A domain name is $8 or $9 a year, sometimes less with coupons. SSL Certs are $8.95 a year from Namecheap, although not every website is going to require an SSL certificate.
T-Mobile has cheaper monthly plans if they don't subsidize your device.
http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/online-gambling-becomes-legalized-united-states-thanks-washington-dc-041211.html
"Washington, D.C., with its under 1 million population, has become the first jurisdiction in the United States to legalize online gambling.
The District of Columbia is looking to raise millions of dollars from a multi-billion dollar industry that, until now, has operated exclusively offshore from the United States. That apparently is about to change."
"Players are really loyal in this industry," Ifrah said. "You really have to ask yourself what is the incentive a player is going to have to leave a trusted site with global competition to play in a site that's untested and kind of unknown and doesn't offer you the same level of play."
Looks to me like they just want to get rid of the competition.
You can pick up a single site SSL certificate for under $20
And a dedicated IPv4 address for $60, according to Go Daddy. Otherwise, you shut out users of Android 2.x and users of Windows XP, whose built-in SSL library does not support SNI.
Comodo SSL certs are $8.95 from Namecheap, or you get a free cert when you register or transfer a domain there.
$60 for an ipv4 address is over priced, by a lot.
Namecheap offers Comodo certs for $8.95 per year. They also did a promo for quite a while where you'd get a free cert with a domain name purchase, but that's either ended or coming to an end shortly.
If they make a change to your contract, then yes you can get out of your contract without an early cancellation fee.
ICANN made about $60 Million in 2009, which is the last year I could find numbers available for.
ICANN makes 18 cents off of each domain name, not "about $7". The "about $7" goes to the registry, which is Verisign for .com and .net.
Qwest turned them down.
Lots of ISPs offer ipv6 though, or you could always get a free tunnel from he.net or similar.
Most pagers back then used satellites for coverage.
Anyone remember the satellite outage in 1998 when pagers stopped working for 2 days?
we'd be using our 1200bps modems connecting to the local BBS and swapping email over fido.
Finally, the HHGG in your pocket.
Does it come with a towel, or do I need to provide my own?
Grand Theft Auto and other games made use of it, as well.
My G1 Android phone is working fine, I'm still able to access and receive gmail.
You would have my vote.
I noticed this yesterday, and they only seem to hijack www.example.com, and not example.com or ftp.example.com.
Still a pain in the ass, and I'm in the process of opting-out. The opt-out is pretty easy, and I've also sent an email to comcast regarding this.
The facebook code was leaked a year ago:
Facebook users on Monday were left contemplating the security of private details stored on the social-networking site after part of its source code was leaked onto the Internet.
The site on Monday acknowledged that a section of its code had been copied and published on a blog, but stressed that none of the personal details of its 52 million users had been compromised.
Over the weekend, a blog called Facebook Secrets published details of part of Facebook's source code, the set of commands which determine the way the site appears when it is viewed by users.
Was this by any chance Kenyatech?
www.rootfest.net/squatters.html
If you want to see news for nerds, go to the firehose and vote up what you want to see.
I have a story in the firehose: .org now signed for dnssec
WASHINGTON (AP) [5.14.99] - A teen-ager identified as a computer hacker
whose name appeared on the Internet site for the White House after vandals
altered it this week has been indicted in Virginia on charges he broke
into another government computer.
A grand jury indicted Eric Burns, 19, on three counts of computer
intrusion. Burns, reportedly known on the Internet as ``Zyklon,'' was
accused of breaking into a computer between August 1998 and January 1999
in northern Virginia that is used by the U.S. Information Agency.
``Zyklon'' was one of a dozen names listed on the hacked version of the
White House Web site, which was altered overnight Sunday for a few minutes
before government computers automatically detected the intrusion.
The indictment returned Thursday also accuses Burns of breaking into two
other computers in northern Virginia, one owned by LaserNet of Fairfax and
another by Issue Dynamics Inc. of Alexandria.
You're thinking of Qwest actually. AT&T and the rest of the phone companies handed over data without a warrant, and Qwest told the US Gov to go pound sand.
They should pull a Trent Reznor and re-submit the app. It sounds like approval is very subjective based on the reviewer. Chances are it might get approved the second time around.