Prometheus in Cineworld UK had 40 minutes of trailers; That's 25% of my time in that chair watching trailers for films I don't care about and products I'll never buy. £10.80 for the pleasure.
I'll just torrent from now on. To even consider going back would be a sign of a masochistic personality.
You fail to grasp the inviolable truth that people who watch fictional "slasher porn" create a market for the creation of actual "slasher porn", ultimately leading to actual murder.
This mental backflip was brought to you by CEOP, and the UK Criminal Justice System.
I was recently charged £10.80 to see Prometheus in 3D, then was presented with 40 minutes of trailers and adverts, including two trailers for the new Spider Man movie. The film is 120 minutes long; 1/4 of my time in the cinema was spent watching adverts (Playing Angry Birds), and I'd paid for this experience. I would have been just as happy leaving before the film started as I was staying for the movie. At least I'd have my 2.5 hours back.
The PFY on the desk in the lobby had the audacity to suggest a loyalty card when I said the price and experience were now unbearable. I almost threw the 3D glasses at him.
Why couldn't she have written a UI for the "specialised software package" in VB? A form with the appropriate fields and checkboxes for variables could easily be coded to pass instructions to a CLI application.
Someone should tell this dude about RightHaven... Suing other people for copyright infringement when you yourself don't hold the copyright is A Bad Thing.
... i think they had seen too many episodes of CSI and actually thought you could hack a network with a VB GUI.
I cringed as much as the next nerd when I heard that line, but if you think about it it actually make sense. The fact that the terms are inaccurate is immaterial. She could have told them she fired up Backtrack 5 and used a known buffer overflow vulnerability in $PerimiterSwitchSoftware to get access to the internal network, and a remote code execution attack to enable directory traversal and and run w3svc as Admin, giving her free reign over the network. Would they have understood any more?
You're thinking of it as the actress saying lines for your amusement. She's not. She's telling a colleague, who wouldn't understand anyway, a bunch of buzzwords and jargon to dissuade them from getting too involved in something which will only confuse them, and distract them from their own involvement in the situation.
If Finance ask you about backups, do you tell them about cron jobs and the difference between differential and full backups? No, you tell them it's daily and hosted off site, and they should worry more about getting your pay cheque ready for the last Friday of the month.
But this situation isn't much different than me visiting Tijuana and eating at a local taco stand. The health codes aren't up to US standards, but I know that.
Not really. Unless you're a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional, you're unlikely to be able to tell if the little yellow pill you ordered online is in fact your gout medication, a generic antihistamine, or worming meds for cats, and you won't know until your gout gets worse.
Yo dawg. I heard you like Beowulf Clusters, so I put Anglo-Saxon lore in your nutty breakfast cereal so you can kill the Grendel while you get your Guideline Daily Allowance of dietary fibre.
So you have never have, and never will, rent a house, hotel room, car, etc?
Oh fuck off. If you rent a house, or hotel room, or car, the provider of such can't arbitrarily turf you out without warning or appeal, and keep all of the property you've left in the room / vehicle, or created while using it, for no other reason than it was there.
You want an analogy for this? Here's one: You head to a car dealership.
Salesman: "Obviously the sale is subject to terms and conditions." You: "Yeah, that's pretty standard. Could I read them, though?" Salesman: "No. You have to buy the car first." You: "I really want this car. Ok, let's do it." Salesman: "Ok, thanks for the payment. You don't own the car; You are licensed to use the car. We may take the car from you at any point, without notice, without any appeal process, and any contents within the car or work you have done involving the car is ours too. This is legally binding, and if you don't like it we have many more lawyers than you who we pay very well to bury discenters in debt for the rest of their lives." You: "COULD I HAVE SOME MORE OF THAT SHIT SANDWICH, PLEASE? IT'S SO TASTY."
A lot of the numbers, arguments, evidence etc. don't make a jot of sense to us. It's all pie-in-the-sky hyperbole and backwards Hollywood accounting, where a song which makes $0.99 per sale from a retailer is worth $150,000 if downloaded and shared.
Recovery images are readily available. I've never had a problem sending back faulty hardware with no OS at all (DBAN single pass zero before I use it, before I send it back). Then again, Distance Selling Regulations:)
If we eliminate all of the factors which changed between the accounts being compromised, we are more than likely left with the game installation with addons / automatic updaters (Curse Client etc), the Windows installation itself (rootkit / bootloader), the network (packet sniffing, MITM, compromised email accounts and phishing sites), and the Blizzard side of the equation (Exploit of the client, aforementioned "bad actors", as equally unlikely if not more so than network interception).
I've heard bad rumours regarding the Curse Client including a keylogger, but my account has never been compromised and I've used it since V2. I always exit and check the process is ended before loading WoW, though. Addons, I understand, are loaded after authentication so they can't sniff the password. It's not possible to effectively rootkit scan a Windows installation when online (booted), so an offline scanner like a Dr Web LiveCD would be required. I get the impression from the demeanour (arrogance) of the OP that they didn't do this, so it's a possibility. It's possible the OP and his guildy had other accounts compromised like their email assigned to password recovery, were fooled by a phishing site (DNS hijack and easily skippable cert errors could be missed by the most astute of us). I find believing that Blizz employees have access to plaintext passwords difficult; I wouldn't be surprised if they were hashed at least, encrypted more than likely in the same way they would CC numbers. At this point, I would be interested to know if either of the customers in this instance used the Battle.Net authenticator (mobile app or hardware token).
I'm inclined to side with the ex-Blizz employee on this, partly for technological reasons, partly because the customer seems arrogant enough to not have taken basic precautions or properly followed through with measures to assist in identifying the issue.
Either way, the point is moot; The guy quit WoW and walked away from Blizz. And nothing of value was lost.
The simple solution to this problem is to throw out anybody who doesn't state unequivocally that they will stop the collection of data on US citizens.
Senator 1: "We will take steps to minimise the collection of US communications." Voters: "Get out." Senator 2: "We will drastically reduce the scope of the project to exclude the communications of US citizens as much as possible. Voters: "Get out." Senator 3: "We will stop collecting data on communications made to and from US citizens." Voters: "How will you do that?" Senator 3: "We will scrap the program, and put in legislation ensuring that this kind of warrantless tapping of communications is heavily punished in the future." Voters: "Give that man a job!"
Can you folks please just grow a backbone and get this shit sorted out?
To the user, "the cloud" may as well be "the website" or "the internet" or "the server". They interchange all freely, when talking about the desktop, their word processing package, the printer, the coffee machine, the keypad for the front gate...
Yes, your ID card doesn't work because there is a virus in the reader, and nothing to do with the fact that it looks like you folded it in half to fit it into your purse.
Slashdot Mirror
Die in a fire.
Apparently it was an implementation weakness. The math may still be sound.
Lord of the Rings
The Ring
Yeah, I can see how you would be confused.
Prometheus in Cineworld UK had 40 minutes of trailers; That's 25% of my time in that chair watching trailers for films I don't care about and products I'll never buy. £10.80 for the pleasure.
I'll just torrent from now on. To even consider going back would be a sign of a masochistic personality.
it was $14 for a matinee with a coupon and $6 for a small popcorn
Totally read that as manatee, and thought you shouldn't be so openly derisive of your wife.
You fail to grasp the inviolable truth that people who watch fictional "slasher porn" create a market for the creation of actual "slasher porn", ultimately leading to actual murder.
This mental backflip was brought to you by CEOP, and the UK Criminal Justice System.
I was recently charged £10.80 to see Prometheus in 3D, then was presented with 40 minutes of trailers and adverts, including two trailers for the new Spider Man movie. The film is 120 minutes long; 1/4 of my time in the cinema was spent watching adverts (Playing Angry Birds), and I'd paid for this experience. I would have been just as happy leaving before the film started as I was staying for the movie. At least I'd have my 2.5 hours back.
The PFY on the desk in the lobby had the audacity to suggest a loyalty card when I said the price and experience were now unbearable. I almost threw the 3D glasses at him.
Someone should probably tell Intel; Their legal dept might be interested.
Why couldn't she have written a UI for the "specialised software package" in VB? A form with the appropriate fields and checkboxes for variables could easily be coded to pass instructions to a CLI application.
Why are we arguing about this?!
Someone should tell this dude about RightHaven... Suing other people for copyright infringement when you yourself don't hold the copyright is A Bad Thing.
... i think they had seen too many episodes of CSI and actually thought you could hack a network with a VB GUI.
I cringed as much as the next nerd when I heard that line, but if you think about it it actually make sense. The fact that the terms are inaccurate is immaterial. She could have told them she fired up Backtrack 5 and used a known buffer overflow vulnerability in $PerimiterSwitchSoftware to get access to the internal network, and a remote code execution attack to enable directory traversal and and run w3svc as Admin, giving her free reign over the network. Would they have understood any more?
You're thinking of it as the actress saying lines for your amusement. She's not. She's telling a colleague, who wouldn't understand anyway, a bunch of buzzwords and jargon to dissuade them from getting too involved in something which will only confuse them, and distract them from their own involvement in the situation.
If Finance ask you about backups, do you tell them about cron jobs and the difference between differential and full backups? No, you tell them it's daily and hosted off site, and they should worry more about getting your pay cheque ready for the last Friday of the month.
But this situation isn't much different than me visiting Tijuana and eating at a local taco stand. The health codes aren't up to US standards, but I know that.
Not really. Unless you're a dispensing pharmacist or medial professional, you're unlikely to be able to tell if the little yellow pill you ordered online is in fact your gout medication, a generic antihistamine, or worming meds for cats, and you won't know until your gout gets worse.
Yo dawg. I heard you like Beowulf Clusters, so I put Anglo-Saxon lore in your nutty breakfast cereal so you can kill the Grendel while you get your Guideline Daily Allowance of dietary fibre.
amidoinitrite?
So you have never have, and never will, rent a house, hotel room, car, etc?
Oh fuck off. If you rent a house, or hotel room, or car, the provider of such can't arbitrarily turf you out without warning or appeal, and keep all of the property you've left in the room / vehicle, or created while using it, for no other reason than it was there.
You want an analogy for this? Here's one: You head to a car dealership.
Salesman: "Obviously the sale is subject to terms and conditions."
You: "Yeah, that's pretty standard. Could I read them, though?"
Salesman: "No. You have to buy the car first."
You: "I really want this car. Ok, let's do it."
Salesman: "Ok, thanks for the payment. You don't own the car; You are licensed to use the car. We may take the car from you at any point, without notice, without any appeal process, and any contents within the car or work you have done involving the car is ours too. This is legally binding, and if you don't like it we have many more lawyers than you who we pay very well to bury discenters in debt for the rest of their lives."
You: "COULD I HAVE SOME MORE OF THAT SHIT SANDWICH, PLEASE? IT'S SO TASTY."
Fight Club was a warning, not a manual!
A lot of the numbers, arguments, evidence etc. don't make a jot of sense to us. It's all pie-in-the-sky hyperbole and backwards Hollywood accounting, where a song which makes $0.99 per sale from a retailer is worth $150,000 if downloaded and shared.
You're the lawyer; You tell us!
Yup. Someone posted a link to your site on /. without hitting a cache service first.
Amateur mistake, editor. Make this standard practice, for pity's sake!
I looked at that image. "Avoid the tax; Use a better browser."
The next two points are: "Don't mention IE8 / 9. Get sued into oblivion by Microsoft."
This won't end well.
Recovery images are readily available. I've never had a problem sending back faulty hardware with no OS at all (DBAN single pass zero before I use it, before I send it back). Then again, Distance Selling Regulations :)
If we eliminate all of the factors which changed between the accounts being compromised, we are more than likely left with the game installation with addons / automatic updaters (Curse Client etc), the Windows installation itself (rootkit / bootloader), the network (packet sniffing, MITM, compromised email accounts and phishing sites), and the Blizzard side of the equation (Exploit of the client, aforementioned "bad actors", as equally unlikely if not more so than network interception).
I've heard bad rumours regarding the Curse Client including a keylogger, but my account has never been compromised and I've used it since V2. I always exit and check the process is ended before loading WoW, though. Addons, I understand, are loaded after authentication so they can't sniff the password. It's not possible to effectively rootkit scan a Windows installation when online (booted), so an offline scanner like a Dr Web LiveCD would be required. I get the impression from the demeanour (arrogance) of the OP that they didn't do this, so it's a possibility. It's possible the OP and his guildy had other accounts compromised like their email assigned to password recovery, were fooled by a phishing site (DNS hijack and easily skippable cert errors could be missed by the most astute of us). I find believing that Blizz employees have access to plaintext passwords difficult; I wouldn't be surprised if they were hashed at least, encrypted more than likely in the same way they would CC numbers. At this point, I would be interested to know if either of the customers in this instance used the Battle.Net authenticator (mobile app or hardware token).
I'm inclined to side with the ex-Blizz employee on this, partly for technological reasons, partly because the customer seems arrogant enough to not have taken basic precautions or properly followed through with measures to assist in identifying the issue.
Either way, the point is moot; The guy quit WoW and walked away from Blizz. And nothing of value was lost.
For everyone else, there's Torchlight
The simple solution to this problem is to throw out anybody who doesn't state unequivocally that they will stop the collection of data on US citizens.
Senator 1: "We will take steps to minimise the collection of US communications."
Voters: "Get out."
Senator 2: "We will drastically reduce the scope of the project to exclude the communications of US citizens as much as possible.
Voters: "Get out."
Senator 3: "We will stop collecting data on communications made to and from US citizens."
Voters: "How will you do that?"
Senator 3: "We will scrap the program, and put in legislation ensuring that this kind of warrantless tapping of communications is heavily punished in the future."
Voters: "Give that man a job!"
Can you folks please just grow a backbone and get this shit sorted out?
Second comment on /. I've ever read which made me actually laugh out loud.
I hear the latency is pretty high, though.
To the user, "the cloud" may as well be "the website" or "the internet" or "the server". They interchange all freely, when talking about the desktop, their word processing package, the printer, the coffee machine, the keypad for the front gate...
Yes, your ID card doesn't work because there is a virus in the reader, and nothing to do with the fact that it looks like you folded it in half to fit it into your purse.