Maybe it is Jimmy Buffett. Eventually, whoever did this scam will want to convert their loot into other assets (other currencies, real estate, gold, etc..) so he/she can use it. If it's just some regular Joe, suddenly driving around in his new Maserati might raise a few eyebrows, but would anyone notice Jimmy Buffett with an extra 5 or 6 million?
A lot of people are saying you shouldn't keep anything sensitive in the cloud but having your personal data exposed isn't the only problem here. Dropbox automatically synchronizes to your PC so during this period anyone could have pushed any file out to your PC without your knowledge --maybe substitute an EXE with a virus, or replace your family photos with child porn.
Make a small cube with each wall made of this material so that sound can enter the cube but it can't get out. Next, let it fill up with sound. Take it to the airport, construction sites, concerts, etc...
Then you leave it somewhere with a sign on it that says, "Open Me."
Doctor: I've examined you, and reviewed your MSMedicalHistory(tm) and it looks like you are in fine health, though I see your blood pressure is slightly higher than last time.
Patient: Well, work has been a bit stressful, should I worry?
Doctor: Not at all. It is still good for your age. Have you tried Halo 3?
Patient: huh?
Doctor: Video games are a great stress reliever. If you don't have an Xbox 360 with Halo3, I can put in an order for one for you. Have you had any other problems?
Patient: Sometimes I get a headache from staring at the computer too long.
Doctor: Hold on -- there, I've adjusted your screen resolution and font size on your home and work computers.
All we need is for the empire to think there is a rebel base here, and they will send the death star to blow up Earth. In which case that thing better fly and it better have one hell of a pilot.
I imagine they do this. So maybe it is something more sophisticated, but still a variation on the same theme. They could know all of Google's IP ranges or maybe instead of doing that, they know a list of ip's that are definately not google.
Instead of trying to know all of google's ip ranges, and blacklist those, they could just whitelist ip ranges that they know don't belong to google. Because they know they belong to various isp's etc. So the whitelist ip's get the spam page. The unknown ip's get the content pages
Probably the reason they don't have content is the sites respond differently to requests from googles search engine then to requests from users. It would seem that they recognize googles search engine, either from the user agent or from the ip range, and then respond with content. It seems they get the content by proxying US sites. Which I don't think is anything new it's just being done on a larger scale.
When they served the proxied content to google, they could rewrite links on the fly to point to their own domains. They could basically appear like they mirror the whole internet. When a request comes in from a user, since it isn't a google user agent, it would just send it to their trojan infested site.
There are a lot of areas where Vista isn't really up to par, for example, A lot of pro audio hardware doesn't yet work with Vista, and also there are latency issues when doing pro audio work in Vista. Also IMO opinion Vista isn't suited for doing development work yet.
With so many applications where Vista isn't suitable, to not continue to offer XP would just hurt the computer sellers.
Re:How does this violate the do no evil credo?
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Google Unveils Flash Ads
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· Score: 2, Insightful
They are in the ripping-off publisher business you mean...
Even if you think that, it's all for the purpose of pushing ads. And maybe they are guilty of profiting off of the works of others. I'm not saying Google isn't evil, they may do questionable things. I was just saying that I don't see how offering flash ads makes them evil.
Text ads can be abused, but Google has policies as to what types of ads are acceptable
Likewise, flash ads aren't evil in themselves, it all depends what kind of behavior they allow. If they allow ads that look like windows dialogs saying "virus detected, click here." Then that is unethical. But the sample ads linked to in the OP didn't seem abusive.
But some people seem to dislike the use of flash for flash's sake. Which is what I meant in pointing out that Slashdot hosts flash ads.
How does this violate the do no evil credo?
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Google Unveils Flash Ads
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· Score: 2, Interesting
How does this violate the do no evil credo? Google is in the advertising business. They have an obligation to offer a product that is competitive to other company's offerings. Otherwise they will lose marketshare.
There is a big flash ad for splunk at the top of this page. I guess Slashdot is evil too.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe it is Jimmy Buffett. Eventually, whoever did this scam will want to convert their loot into other assets (other currencies, real estate, gold, etc..) so he/she can use it. If it's just some regular Joe, suddenly driving around in his new Maserati might raise a few eyebrows, but would anyone notice Jimmy Buffett with an extra 5 or 6 million?
The research will suffer becuase grad students aren't as evolutionarily close to human beings as chimpanzees.
A lot of people are saying you shouldn't keep anything sensitive in the cloud but having your personal data exposed isn't the only problem here. Dropbox automatically synchronizes to your PC so during this period anyone could have pushed any file out to your PC without your knowledge --maybe substitute an EXE with a virus, or replace your family photos with child porn.
Well sure, but civilization 2.0 will be awesome and existing users can upgrade at half price!
That's ok, I believe you.
Make a small cube with each wall made of this material so that sound can enter the cube but it can't get out. Next, let it fill up with sound. Take it to the airport, construction sites, concerts, etc...
Then you leave it somewhere with a sign on it that says, "Open Me."
We could ask Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to ask the aliens to pick it up on their way by sometime.
At long last, the propulsion theories of Freeman Dyson and the vacuuming theories of James Dyson converge.
Perfoming rights organizations, BMI and ASCAP, want a fee for every carbon nanotube sold.
Doctor: I've examined you, and reviewed your MSMedicalHistory(tm) and it looks like you are in fine health, though I see your blood pressure is slightly higher than last time.
Patient: Well, work has been a bit stressful, should I worry?
Doctor: Not at all. It is still good for your age. Have you tried Halo 3?
Patient: huh?
Doctor: Video games are a great stress reliever. If you don't have an Xbox 360 with Halo3, I can put in an order for one for you. Have you had any other problems?
Patient: Sometimes I get a headache from staring at the computer too long.
Doctor: Hold on -- there, I've adjusted your screen resolution and font size on your home and work computers.
Patient: Umm.....
All we need is for the empire to think there is a rebel base here, and they will send the death star to blow up Earth. In which case that thing better fly and it better have one hell of a pilot.
I imagine they do this. So maybe it is something more sophisticated, but still a variation on the same theme. They could know all of Google's IP ranges or maybe instead of doing that, they know a list of ip's that are definately not google.
Instead of trying to know all of google's ip ranges, and blacklist those, they could just whitelist ip ranges that they know don't belong to google. Because they know they belong to various isp's etc. So the whitelist ip's get the spam page. The unknown ip's get the content pages
Probably the reason they don't have content is the sites respond differently to requests from googles search engine then to requests from users. It would seem that they recognize googles search engine, either from the user agent or from the ip range, and then respond with content. It seems they get the content by proxying US sites. Which I don't think is anything new it's just being done on a larger scale.
When they served the proxied content to google, they could rewrite links on the fly to point to their own domains. They could basically appear like they mirror the whole internet. When a request comes in from a user, since it isn't a google user agent, it would just send it to their trojan infested site.
$30/GB is still expensive but I bet in less than 2 years solid state drives in this capacity will come down to a few dollars/GB.
I hope this means that laptops and large capacate media players with extremely long battery life are not too far away.
There are a lot of areas where Vista isn't really up to par, for example, A lot of pro audio hardware doesn't yet work with Vista, and also there are latency issues when doing pro audio work in Vista. Also IMO opinion Vista isn't suited for doing development work yet.
With so many applications where Vista isn't suitable, to not continue to offer XP would just hurt the computer sellers.
Apparently the deadly germs were involve in some kind of 'bizarre love triangle.'
There are instructions on how to relock an iPhone here
It seems a bit involved
Because you are in this one. If you were in a different one you would wonder the same thing.
That's the anthropic principle.
Luckily they will have access to the powerful conversion capabilities of google calculator. Allowing them to do such queries as these:
238900 miles in kilometers
Even if you think that, it's all for the purpose of pushing ads. And maybe they are guilty of profiting off of the works of others. I'm not saying Google isn't evil, they may do questionable things. I was just saying that I don't see how offering flash ads makes them evil.
Text ads can be abused, but Google has policies as to what types of ads are acceptable
Likewise, flash ads aren't evil in themselves, it all depends what kind of behavior they allow. If they allow ads that look like windows dialogs saying "virus detected, click here." Then that is unethical. But the sample ads linked to in the OP didn't seem abusive.
But some people seem to dislike the use of flash for flash's sake. Which is what I meant in pointing out that Slashdot hosts flash ads.
How does this violate the do no evil credo? Google is in the advertising business. They have an obligation to offer a product that is competitive to other company's offerings. Otherwise they will lose marketshare. There is a big flash ad for splunk at the top of this page. I guess Slashdot is evil too.