No it doesn't. It has a lame 'Other OS' mode that runs in a hypervisor with no access to the graphics acceleration and only limited access to the processors.
The PS3 itself is so locked down nobody has actually managed 'homebrew' on it yet.
Firefox has been able to do this for ages. In fact it gives you a menu with all the recently closed tabs and you can pick which one you want to restore.
Some do, but of course they fill their vacancies real quick. There are a few companies around here that only hire on recommendation now because they've got far too many people want to work there.
You have to take an idea and give it form. There are a nearly infinite number of ways of doing so - some will work, many won't... that's where experience and knowledge comes in.
Just because you can't go abstract like picasso doesn't mean it's not creative. A building has to be correct (much more so than a program, as there are laws involved), but you try telling an architect that what they do isn't creative and they'll just laugh at you.
You can't train someone who doesn't have the aptitute to be a programmer. I've seen it loads of times - people who went through all the graduate stuff, read lots of books, fart algorithms in their sleep.. and can't code their way out of a paper bag. Not because they don't have the knowledge, but because they simply don't have the aptitude. The problem is I've seen attitudes like yours promote these idiots into places where they can actually do harm, like project leads.
To solve a problem in a new way you need to be able to think differently, not just copy what someone else has done. That's the difference between a code monkey and a true programmer.
It's been true for a *long* time and it's not just gaming it's across the industry.
Basically employers only want the perfect employee - someone who knows their systems intimately has decades of experience.. and will work for about £15k.
Years ago the IT press were bleating on about their 'skills shortage'. At the time I was looking for work myself and knew over a dozen skilled programmers in the same boat. It wasn't that we didn't have skills - it was that we didn't have the *exact* skills that the employers wanted (even down to exact compiler versions and wanting insane number of years of experience of new applications.. I'm sure there's a job out there now that insists on '10 years JDK 2.1.1a' and the manager is bitching about how there's this skills shortage as nobody qualifies...).
Since the laptop was presumably in a private network and didn't have a public IP that wouldn't make a lot of sense - it couldn't serve anything.
Even most home users are safe from this kind of attack... pretty much the only way to leave yourself that vulnerable is to enable upnp, and even non-techies generally know that's a bad idea.
It's taught as the correct method to deal with them at driving schools, and I believe even tested for now.
Being tailgated is a dangerous situation - if you're forced to brake for any reason they will cause a nasty accident. The average tailgater is also a speeder, so even putting your foot down isn't going to shake them. Your only other choice is to slow down - not to force them to stop tailgating, but to improve your reaction time and lessen the chance you'll have to break suddenly and kill them.
As a car driver, I can't see that it's my responsibility to anticipate that a cyclist will pull out to pass a parked car without looking to see if I'm approaching at 18 mph faster than him - it's your life, and your safety.
Actually it *is* your responsibility to allow for that possibility. Shit happens on the road and you should be looking for it and being ready to deal with it, otherwise you're an accident waiting to happen.
I doubt it. If the competitor is able to send mailings without being blacklisted , then there are no honeypot addresses in there. It is not likely that enough recipients will take the effort to report the mail to spamcop.net
It only takes a couple. He's just about to piss of a few thousand people. Blacklists don't only use honeypots.. a blacklist that did that wouldn't be very good.
And spamcop.net is *very* popular.
Not that it's likely to matter - the moment his ISP realizes what's going on his internet connection will be dead.
Firstly, most mail servers don't reject until you've sent the DATA, so that attack wouldn't work. Secondly, they have a limit on the number of recipients anyway. Thirdly, no spammer is going to go to all that effort - they just spam every address on their 'list'.
t wouldn't actually conduct, it would be worthless as an ethernet cable, and no slashdotter would have any idea what to actually do with it... not unlike 6 foot tall blond virgins in fact.
21TB is a server to be maintained and the resultant cost. To the average ISP it's a lot - it's most likely more than they have on their entire webserver farm. 1.5TB a day is a fair chunk of data too that can be better put to use elsewhere.
If you were to ask for hosting at the ISP and ask for 1.5TB/day transfer they'd charge you the going rate - then you'd realize how much it was.
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No it doesn't. It has a lame 'Other OS' mode that runs in a hypervisor with no access to the graphics acceleration and only limited access to the processors.
The PS3 itself is so locked down nobody has actually managed 'homebrew' on it yet.
Firefox has been able to do this for ages. In fact it gives you a menu with all the recently closed tabs and you can pick which one you want to restore.
Some do, but of course they fill their vacancies real quick. There are a few companies around here that only hire on recommendation now because they've got far too many people want to work there.
Programming *is* mostly creative.
You have to take an idea and give it form. There are a nearly infinite number of ways of doing so - some will work, many won't... that's where experience and knowledge comes in.
Just because you can't go abstract like picasso doesn't mean it's not creative. A building has to be correct (much more so than a program, as there are laws involved), but you try telling an architect that what they do isn't creative and they'll just laugh at you.
You can't train someone who doesn't have the aptitute to be a programmer. I've seen it loads of times - people who went through all the graduate stuff, read lots of books, fart algorithms in their sleep.. and can't code their way out of a paper bag. Not because they don't have the knowledge, but because they simply don't have the aptitude. The problem is I've seen attitudes like yours promote these idiots into places where they can actually do harm, like project leads.
To solve a problem in a new way you need to be able to think differently, not just copy what someone else has done. That's the difference between a code monkey and a true programmer.
It's been true for a *long* time and it's not just gaming it's across the industry.
Basically employers only want the perfect employee - someone who knows their systems intimately has decades of experience.. and will work for about £15k.
Years ago the IT press were bleating on about their 'skills shortage'. At the time I was looking for work myself and knew over a dozen skilled programmers in the same boat. It wasn't that we didn't have skills - it was that we didn't have the *exact* skills that the employers wanted (even down to exact compiler versions and wanting insane number of years of experience of new applications.. I'm sure there's a job out there now that insists on '10 years JDK 2.1.1a' and the manager is bitching about how there's this skills shortage as nobody qualifies...).
So at least Nokia gets it
Have you *seen* Symbian?
All too often gadgets end up being a maze of features stacked haphazardly together, with no thought on ease of use whatsoever.
Ah yes.. I see you've used an N95.
And these younger people can't work out how to type '70 f to c' into google?
I agree though when using nonstandard units you should always say what they are.
Since the laptop was presumably in a private network and didn't have a public IP that wouldn't make a lot of sense - it couldn't serve anything.
Even most home users are safe from this kind of attack... pretty much the only way to leave yourself that vulnerable is to enable upnp, and even non-techies generally know that's a bad idea.
It's a corporate laptop. The chances that it had a publicly addressable IP address is pretty much zero.
It don't buy it anyway - the last thing a kiddie porn site wants to do is attract attention by wide distribution of its contents.
I bet apple store employees are going to be watching *really* carefully now otherwise all the demo macs will be rooted...
Until you win, then the other side gets to pick up the bill.
This is unlike the US where unless you're rich there's no point in defending yourself.
I presume they inherited their law from the UK, as a colony, and would recognise the 1689 Bill of Rights, guaranteeing free speech.
I wonder if these people are behind the 'Domain Registry of America' scam letters that we get in the UK, with the OFT being involved.
Turns out the original ones were from canada too.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/06/court_bars_canadian_domain_slammer/
It's taught as the correct method to deal with them at driving schools, and I believe even tested for now.
Being tailgated is a dangerous situation - if you're forced to brake for any reason they will cause a nasty accident. The average tailgater is also a speeder, so even putting your foot down isn't going to shake them. Your only other choice is to slow down - not to force them to stop tailgating, but to improve your reaction time and lessen the chance you'll have to break suddenly and kill them.
As a car driver, I can't see that it's my responsibility to anticipate that a cyclist will pull out to pass a parked car without looking to see if I'm approaching at 18 mph faster than him - it's your life, and your safety.
Actually it *is* your responsibility to allow for that possibility. Shit happens on the road and you should be looking for it and being ready to deal with it, otherwise you're an accident waiting to happen.
Not really. If you didn't ask for it it's spam.
'partner' could be anyone from a different bookstore to the local porn merchant. It's code for 'everyone that bought this mailing list'.
Unless they specifically ask you if you want to receive email from their 'partners' and you tick it, then you didn't agree to it.
Not zero cost.
Loss of internet connectivity - finding a new ISP will cost money, and business.
Loss of customer goodwill - many won't trade with spammers.
Then there's the potential laywer cost when you get sued.
And 0.5% response is *wildly* over optimistic for spam.
I doubt it. If the competitor is able to send mailings without being blacklisted , then there are no honeypot addresses in there. It is not likely that enough recipients will take the effort to report the mail to spamcop.net
It only takes a couple. He's just about to piss of a few thousand people. Blacklists don't only use honeypots.. a blacklist that did that wouldn't be very good.
And spamcop.net is *very* popular.
Not that it's likely to matter - the moment his ISP realizes what's going on his internet connection will be dead.
4. Your company will be breaching the AUP of their service provider and may lose their internet connectivity - possibly permanently.
It depends where he's bouncing. If he's bouncing at the SMTP level there will never be any backscatter - only the sending server will receive it.
Firstly, most mail servers don't reject until you've sent the DATA, so that attack wouldn't work.
Secondly, they have a limit on the number of recipients anyway.
Thirdly, no spammer is going to go to all that effort - they just spam every address on their 'list'.
...and don't forget ohci.
t wouldn't actually conduct, it would be worthless as an ethernet cable, and no slashdotter would have any idea what to actually do with it. .. not unlike 6 foot tall blond virgins in fact.
snake oil, ripoff, ... , immoral, denon, harry potter
:p Now I've got tea all over my keyboard...
I was doing fine until I got to the last one
21TB is a server to be maintained and the resultant cost. To the average ISP it's a lot - it's most likely more than they have on their entire webserver farm. 1.5TB a day is a fair chunk of data too that can be better put to use elsewhere.
If you were to ask for hosting at the ISP and ask for 1.5TB/day transfer they'd charge you the going rate - then you'd realize how much it was.