Apparently something so significant happened that people can just call it "The Incident" and expect others to know about it. Yet I've never heard of anything happening to Google, or originating from Google significant enough and shocking enough to be titled "The Incident". (The worst I've heard is about their camera cars going up the occasional private road).
"Several recent phishing attacks have been directed specifically at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses, and the term whaling has been coined for these kinds of attacks."
Presumably said senior executives tend to be fat and blubbery.
Also interesting (from your Wikipedia article), is a new phishing technique aimed at academia (presumably targeting those of higher intelligence). This new "dolphin phishing" along with all these "whaling" attempts appear to be originating solely from IP addresses in Japan.
When you're at the bottom, the only place you can go is up.
Tell that to AOL and Ask (the two bottom search engines), who have both been losing market share over the last couple months, according to the Barclay's Capital chart from the article.
Hilariously, the title of the/. article is "Bing Gaining Market Share Faster", although the chart clearly shows MS market share increase by 0.4, 0.5, 0.4, 0.1, 0.5, 0.4, and 0.4 percent for each month from June (when Bing was launched) through December, respectively. An honest title would have been "Bing Continues To Gain Market Share At Roughly The Same Rate It Has Since Launch". Of course that's not even taking into account the other reports we've heard recently about Bing supposedly losing market share.
Also, this is my first time seeing query growth being considered as some kind of particularly important/significant statistic. I'm not saying it's not a valid/useful statistic, just that I've never before seen so much importance placed on it.
next up... google builds self-destructing data-centers that explode and erase all data when the chinese seize them...
Sorry, I don't think it's likely Google will switch to Microsoft IIS anytime soon.
I believe that you seriously misrepresent Microsoft IIS. I have significant experience proving that IIS does not require Chinese seizure in order activate its self-destruct sequence.
... because next thing you know, Pakistan will be raining virgins down on India.
I'm pretty sure Pakistan doesn't have enough virgins to do any serious damage to India, they will, however, be able to tap into the significant supply of/.ers who are only too eager to get their revenge against the Indians who took their jobs.
The only issue is, in my opinion, it's not really a stop smoking aid, it's really a smoking replacement. And you have to make sure you keep your batteries charged - a dead battery will lead right back to a cigarette.
I also switched to electronic cigarette only, from a 11-year pack+/day habit, and haven't had an analog cigarette to date (over 8 months). I definitely agree with the idea that it's a smoking replacement instead of stop smoking aid, but until there's evidence of long-term risk I'll treat my nicotine habit like my caffeine habit - sure, it'd be better not to be addicted, but I'm not really all that woorried about it.
I found the battery issue frustrating, and so ended up finding a cheap source directly from China for additional batteries (thus avoiding the insane U.S. distributor/retailer markup). A couple months ago, though, I bought a couple of the USB pass-through devices (that pull power directly from a USB port - no battery). Since I'm sitting at a computer the majority of the day I found this much more convenient (after I got used to have a cord coming off the end of my cigarette) now that I never have to worry about constantly recharging/replacing batteries.
I still have a handful of batteries that use for when I'm away from a computer (out at bars/parties/shopping/etc), but the pass-through device has definitely simplified my nicotine habit. And for the model I use (with a disposable cartridge/atomizer) is only about $20.
I love and use Google's products, and am strongly against China's censorship, but if China backs down to Google on this I feel like I should be more frightened than elated.
But there's always a chance, and it might just be you who draws the unlucky ticket next... and if a helmet helps with that, then why not?
Because you are creating a culture of fear of any harm instead of accepting a certain degree of risk (yes, even of death!) as a part of living a full and satisfying life. There are risks in almost every activity of life (driving a car, walking on a sidewalk, hiking, swimming) that could be partially mitigated with greater safety equipment (floaties for swimming, football pads for a walk down the street) or abstaining from the activity altogether.
The key is to not be caught up in the fear caused by anecdotes and evaluate the risk with proper perspective. A 3-year-old who has just learned the basics of swimming may have 25% likelihood of drowning when unwatched in the pool for more than a couple minutes, a 12-year-old with 9 years swimming experience may have 0.00001% likelihood of drowning when left unwatched for a couple minutes. I know parents who have that "might be you who draws the unlucky ticket next" mentality regarding their 12-year-olds swimming - and have made them wear floaties their entire life. These kids have an irrational fear about the dangers of water/swimming that decreases their enjoyment of the activity. I would argue that this decrease in enjoyment due to incorrectly perceived risk is true for many kids of parents who do not have the ability to properly assess risk vs. enjoyment.
And yes, for every 1 million 12-year-olds whose parents make them wear floaties every time they swim - one of them is saved from a tragic death. The other 999,999 have, for their entire life, lost a great deal of happiness and enjoyment they would have had with a rational awareness of the risks of swimming.
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Apparently something so significant happened that people can just call it "The Incident" and expect others to know about it. Yet I've never heard of anything happening to Google, or originating from Google significant enough and shocking enough to be titled "The Incident". (The worst I've heard is about their camera cars going up the occasional private road).
Seriously?! You've been posting regularly on /. for this last week yet you somehow managed to miss nine of the most commented on stories?! Well, here they are in chronological order:
Google Hacked, may pull out of China
Google.cn has already lifted censorship
Google.cn attack part of broad spying effort
China emphasizes law as Google defies censorship
Google attackers identified as Chinese government
IE 0-day flaw used in Chinese attack
Code used to attack Google now public
German government advises public to stop using IE
Another attack, on law firm suing China
This is also all over the mainstream and business news (although, like all other news stories, it's secondary to the Haiti coverage).
It gets worse. According to the linked Wikipedia article:
"Several recent phishing attacks have been directed specifically at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses, and the term whaling has been coined for these kinds of attacks."
Presumably said senior executives tend to be fat and blubbery.
Also interesting (from your Wikipedia article), is a new phishing technique aimed at academia (presumably targeting those of higher intelligence). This new "dolphin phishing" along with all these "whaling" attempts appear to be originating solely from IP addresses in Japan.
Facebook's a helluva drug.
Well, do you have any proof that it's not a magical phone???
The article specifically said it was a Nokia, not an iPhone.
The first line of dialogue in the movie 2001 a space Odyssey was 23 minutes into the film.
Good point. Counterpoint: Star Wars Holiday Special.
That's no good. Then Daniel Day-Lewis will drink it. HE'LL DRINK IT UP!
Sorry, EN is my 3rd language, and with this you sometimes get such linguistic atrocities...
No worries - incidents happen.
I was more thinking a wizard robe and hat...
When you're at the bottom, the only place you can go is up.
Tell that to AOL and Ask (the two bottom search engines), who have both been losing market share over the last couple months, according to the Barclay's Capital chart from the article.
/. article is "Bing Gaining Market Share Faster", although the chart clearly shows MS market share increase by 0.4, 0.5, 0.4, 0.1, 0.5, 0.4, and 0.4 percent for each month from June (when Bing was launched) through December, respectively. An honest title would have been "Bing Continues To Gain Market Share At Roughly The Same Rate It Has Since Launch". Of course that's not even taking into account the other reports we've heard recently about Bing supposedly losing market share.
Hilariously, the title of the
Also, this is my first time seeing query growth being considered as some kind of particularly important/significant statistic. I'm not saying it's not a valid/useful statistic, just that I've never before seen so much importance placed on it.
Sorry, I don't think it's likely Google will switch to Microsoft IIS anytime soon.
I believe that you seriously misrepresent Microsoft IIS. I have significant experience proving that IIS does not require Chinese seizure in order activate its self-destruct sequence.
Change/Mutation !== Evolution
Change/Mutation-that-increases/strengthens-the-perpetuation/prolification-of-the-original == Evolution
I prefer Terminally Ill: Revenge of Helvetica
Well, Helvetica does make me die a little on the inside each time I use it...
"I think that, given Yutube's volume of crap, any codec Google chose would probably be on a blocklist."
(link NSFW)
Although your link is not suitable for work, it is pointedly relevant to the discussion at hand.
After getting Fox news coverage and front page Slashdotting N* is now significantly higher than the paper estimate.
One of these things is not like the other... (at least as far as he's concerned)
...people who like to "listen" to books...
Honestly, those quotation marks confuse me even more than the idea that you believe you just described a cycle. Viscous, or not.
The porn that I've researched seems to have been made on a sub-$1,000 budget, how are they spending so much money!?
Hookers and boo-- wait, no, that doesn't make sense.
I'm really tired of people casting corporations in such simple-minded light.
Me too!
Corporations exist to make money...
Wait...what?
Just knowing Windows is running in space kind of gives me the willies.
No joke. This seriously hampers any efforts to nuke it from orbit.
... because next thing you know, Pakistan will be raining virgins down on India.
I'm pretty sure Pakistan doesn't have enough virgins to do any serious damage to India, they will, however, be able to tap into the significant supply of /.ers who are only too eager to get their revenge against the Indians who took their jobs.
Fortunately, space is big. Really big.
[citation needed]
The only issue is, in my opinion, it's not really a stop smoking aid, it's really a smoking replacement. And you have to make sure you keep your batteries charged - a dead battery will lead right back to a cigarette.
I also switched to electronic cigarette only, from a 11-year pack+/day habit, and haven't had an analog cigarette to date (over 8 months). I definitely agree with the idea that it's a smoking replacement instead of stop smoking aid, but until there's evidence of long-term risk I'll treat my nicotine habit like my caffeine habit - sure, it'd be better not to be addicted, but I'm not really all that woorried about it.
I found the battery issue frustrating, and so ended up finding a cheap source directly from China for additional batteries (thus avoiding the insane U.S. distributor/retailer markup). A couple months ago, though, I bought a couple of the USB pass-through devices (that pull power directly from a USB port - no battery). Since I'm sitting at a computer the majority of the day I found this much more convenient (after I got used to have a cord coming off the end of my cigarette) now that I never have to worry about constantly recharging/replacing batteries.
I still have a handful of batteries that use for when I'm away from a computer (out at bars/parties/shopping/etc), but the pass-through device has definitely simplified my nicotine habit. And for the model I use (with a disposable cartridge/atomizer) is only about $20.
Since China has already reached her limit with Taiwan, I'm pretty sure the situation would be "take care of".
I love and use Google's products, and am strongly against China's censorship, but if China backs down to Google on this I feel like I should be more frightened than elated.
But there's always a chance, and it might just be you who draws the unlucky ticket next... and if a helmet helps with that, then why not?
Because you are creating a culture of fear of any harm instead of accepting a certain degree of risk (yes, even of death!) as a part of living a full and satisfying life. There are risks in almost every activity of life (driving a car, walking on a sidewalk, hiking, swimming) that could be partially mitigated with greater safety equipment (floaties for swimming, football pads for a walk down the street) or abstaining from the activity altogether.
The key is to not be caught up in the fear caused by anecdotes and evaluate the risk with proper perspective. A 3-year-old who has just learned the basics of swimming may have 25% likelihood of drowning when unwatched in the pool for more than a couple minutes, a 12-year-old with 9 years swimming experience may have 0.00001% likelihood of drowning when left unwatched for a couple minutes. I know parents who have that "might be you who draws the unlucky ticket next" mentality regarding their 12-year-olds swimming - and have made them wear floaties their entire life. These kids have an irrational fear about the dangers of water/swimming that decreases their enjoyment of the activity. I would argue that this decrease in enjoyment due to incorrectly perceived risk is true for many kids of parents who do not have the ability to properly assess risk vs. enjoyment.
And yes, for every 1 million 12-year-olds whose parents make them wear floaties every time they swim - one of them is saved from a tragic death. The other 999,999 have, for their entire life, lost a great deal of happiness and enjoyment they would have had with a rational awareness of the risks of swimming.
Using X rays on that part of your anatomy might not turn out so well.
Maybe not so well for him, but for the rest of society... think of the children*!
* that this guy might have otherwise