... Russian Mafia-driven identity/credit card fraud against Americans and citizens of other perceived (note I said "perceived") well to do nations.
These Russian hackers will get the top dollar from the Russian mob, and second to them will be the foreign call/data center workers who have access to foreign outsourced financial/medical data. The hackers will be much more reliable foot soldiers than call/data center workers.
Look to the Russian mafia and their hacker flunkies to be in competition with US criminals and Al Qaeda archetypes as the primary causes of global cybercrime.:(
BTW this isn't meant to be a troll against Russians, Russians as a whole are no more or less cool than the rest of the world... but the Soviet Union did fall apart and their ultra high tech stuff did scatter to the 4 winds, at least 2 of those winds being the Russian Mob...
Marketing/Advertising at any level is not necessarily The Enemy. Marketdroids have their legitimate reason for existence.
The problem is that marketing is based upon the premise that advertising is best achieved by being intrusive / interruptive in nature, i.e. forcing itself on people.
Perhaps intrusive marketing is a doomed concept and something else needs to be considered?
In the tech industry bullshit truly walks out the door and fast.
The bullshit here is clearly coming from SirSlud as it is possible to block all his ads and have nothing left standing to mess up a user's experience whatsoever.
That's one case in Canada. There are countless cases like that in the US where people - kids or otherwise - are left to silently die because they can't afford medical care. Emergency Room care - provided to everyone in the US whether or not they can pay - would not save that Alberta boy's life either.
The ubercapitalistic US has the same health care problems that evil socialist Canada has, and in some cases much worse, and yet we pride ourselves on having the most advanced medical care in the world.
But that's beside the point...:) Canada still has no DMCA, and most importantly? No selective service *grin*
How do you plan on doing that if the phone company owns all the phone lines in the area because they lowballed the competition out of business? Who owns the phone lines? Who regulates access to the phone lines, in unrestricted capitalism?
Practically speaking, how does a second phone company come into that region?
You can forbid monopolies but if the phone company owns all the lines by low-pricing everyone else out, they have a monopoly. How are you going to forbid that monopoly from happening without
c) majority of config files under "Documents and Settings"\Application Settings\* d) other config files under "Program Files" or "c:\windows32" e) more config bs in the system/user registry (any one program has a chance of blasting your whole system or userspace to smithereens)
XP has a) programs under "Program Files" b) libraries under "c:\windows32\system32" c) config files under "Program Files" or "c:\windows32"
Windows XP can get very, very messy, too.
What makes Linux better is often they store config files as.application.config in your personal directory, meaning each user usually has their own configs for user-accessible programs. It's less "efficient" due to more clutter but more "efficient" due to increased customizability and less risk of one person screwing up the settings for the whole system.
I for one take reliability such as this, over convenience.
That's an insult to Linux. Even my old tandy calculator can beat Windows ME in useability.:( Getting someone to prefer Slackware 1.0 over Windows ME is no major achievement.
there was a huge fire spreading, and in some places people weren't allowed to clear the fire hazard twigs and stuff from the ground because it endangered some animal's habitat.
I suppose the fire came and destroyed their habitat anyway, and the people lost their homes too.
I'm normally disgusted by anything the Republicans say about environmental issues but that one incident really was a black mark on liberalism.
Odd, what we have in the US is multinational corporations from all over the world taking total and complete PWNAGE of our politicians by threatening to pull out if they don't get their way.
Are there even any "American" companies any more???
I'm not a fan of EA's business tactics, far from it, but this has happened to all sorts of US companies, and foreign governments protect their markets from the same happening to their companies (see: Japan).
I don't see why US companies should not buy foreign ones.
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... Russian Mafia-driven identity/credit card fraud against Americans and citizens of other perceived (note I said "perceived") well to do nations.
:(
These Russian hackers will get the top dollar from the Russian mob, and second to them will be the foreign call/data center workers who have access to foreign outsourced financial/medical data. The hackers will be much more reliable foot soldiers than call/data center workers.
Look to the Russian mafia and their hacker flunkies to be in competition with US criminals and Al Qaeda archetypes as the primary causes of global cybercrime.
BTW this isn't meant to be a troll against Russians, Russians as a whole are no more or less cool than the rest of the world... but the Soviet Union did fall apart and their ultra high tech stuff did scatter to the 4 winds, at least 2 of those winds being the Russian Mob...
Marketing/Advertising at any level is not necessarily The Enemy. Marketdroids have their legitimate reason for existence.
The problem is that marketing is based upon the premise that advertising is best achieved by being intrusive / interruptive in nature, i.e. forcing itself on people.
Perhaps intrusive marketing is a doomed concept and something else needs to be considered?
In the tech industry bullshit truly walks out the door and fast.
The bullshit here is clearly coming from SirSlud as it is possible to block all his ads and have nothing left standing to mess up a user's experience whatsoever.
That makes his whole argument totally moot.
Try defragging that whole 1 Terabyte or even large partitions of it.
What sacrifices do you make to which dieties to ensure the power doesn't go out while it's in progress?
I see vmalloc didn't come back to respond after you posted documented contradictions to his/her claim.
:)
I hope the mods up your post considerably for a job well done.
I like the idea of having TOTAL CONTROL of my sensitive personal information on **MY** machine and not theirs.
Control comes back to me. I dig that.
I do believe that MS would find some way to screw it up, though.
about privacy has come to an end?
The sheep don't care about the affairs of the shepherders until the wolf gets by...
That's one case in Canada. There are countless cases like that in the US where people - kids or otherwise - are left to silently die because they can't afford medical care. Emergency Room care - provided to everyone in the US whether or not they can pay - would not save that Alberta boy's life either.
:) Canada still has no DMCA, and most importantly? No selective service *grin*
The ubercapitalistic US has the same health care problems that evil socialist Canada has, and in some cases much worse, and yet we pride ourselves on having the most advanced medical care in the world.
But that's beside the point...
Plus you don't get bankrupt over there because you got really sick.
(Ps: this isn't intended as flamebait or a troll post)
Allow competition in?
How do you plan on doing that if the phone company owns all the phone lines in the area because they lowballed the competition out of business? Who owns the phone lines? Who regulates access to the phone lines, in unrestricted capitalism?
Practically speaking, how does a second phone company come into that region?
You can forbid monopolies but if the phone company owns all the lines by low-pricing everyone else out, they have a monopoly. How are you going to forbid that monopoly from happening without
*gasp*
*eek*
Regulation?
The propaganda that capitalism is the most powerful medium for innovation, falls on its face here.
Capitalism with sensible government regulation is indeed the best path to rapid innovation.
Uh oh... did I just say that?!!
Would this (hypothetical) 250ms latency also affect all OTHER traffic including games?
So what you should do is do what you like, and not care if you have no retirement to speak of in the end?
That's stupid.
That's why we have crappy teachers, for instance.
ok, I'll revise that...
c) majority of config files under "Documents and Settings"\Application Settings\*
d) other config files under "Program Files" or "c:\windows32"
e) more config bs in the system/user registry (any one program has a chance of blasting your whole system or userspace to smithereens)
XP has
.application.config in your personal directory, meaning each user usually has their own configs for user-accessible programs. It's less "efficient" due to more clutter but more "efficient" due to increased customizability and less risk of one person screwing up the settings for the whole system.
a) programs under "Program Files"
b) libraries under "c:\windows32\system32"
c) config files under "Program Files" or "c:\windows32"
Windows XP can get very, very messy, too.
What makes Linux better is often they store config files as
I for one take reliability such as this, over convenience.
One of their first customers will be Wile E Coyote.
:)
Mark my words!
That's an insult to Linux. Even my old tandy calculator can beat Windows ME in useability. :( Getting someone to prefer Slackware 1.0 over Windows ME is no major achievement.
I agree. They shouldn't be able to lobby either.
Only PEOPLE should vote.
Or, "Satan vs the Devil, live on Pay Per View!"
Little Baby fascist corporation, meet Big Daddy fascist Government and his +2 barbed wire belt of spankalicious wrath...
Trust me, that would be a bad thing. With bad consequences.
there was a huge fire spreading, and in some places people weren't allowed to clear the fire hazard twigs and stuff from the ground because it endangered some animal's habitat.
I suppose the fire came and destroyed their habitat anyway, and the people lost their homes too.
I'm normally disgusted by anything the Republicans say about environmental issues but that one incident really was a black mark on liberalism.
Perhaps the brass listened to his suggestions and saw them to be credible. It does happen.
The part that would be BS is if he said his dad didn't get a medal or promotion for this.
Odd, what we have in the US is multinational corporations from all over the world taking total and complete PWNAGE of our politicians by threatening to pull out if they don't get their way.
Are there even any "American" companies any more???
... with alarming regularity.
I'm not a fan of EA's business tactics, far from it, but this has happened to all sorts of US companies, and foreign governments protect their markets from the same happening to their companies (see: Japan).
I don't see why US companies should not buy foreign ones.