I would love to mess with them like that, but alas, I dont have the balls and I was usually on my way to an appointment, so getting dragged out of the vehicle and searched would have made me miss it. I did always want to answer the question of "Is this your vehicle?" with "Si" though.
A few months back I was traveling El Centro to San Diego about once every other week and had to deal with that. When I left, I actually got an agent with a sense of humor when I crossed into AZ. I had a bunch of expensive stuff in the backseat with a blanket over it and the agent asked if there was anyone hiding under the blanket and I responded with "God I hope not", he actually chuckled and waved me by.
The agent that stopped me in New Mexico didnt seem to have a sense of humor though, so it was all yessir and nosir with him. I swear I saw a cavity search in my future there. Alabama tags and license, lived in Texas and was coming from El Centro. (I had just moved from AL to TX and then went out to CA for a few months to take care of my dad after his surgery).
I always hate when they ask me all those questions, even though I've done nothing wrong it makes me feel like I have.
I too have been using Opera for years on various OS's and machines. I've recently noticed the problem using Opera in Ubuntu since 10.10. I dont use my Windows7 partition enough to notice if it affects that OS as well, nor my Android phone. It used to only happen when I visited NHL.com, but lately it just kind of happens all over. Not frequently enough to really piss me off, just like maybe once every few days for 10-20 secs at a time.
I also encounter a weird bug where text input wont work unless I give focus to the desktop and then return to the Opera window.
I still prefer Opera to all other browsers I have tried though. I've been using and upgrading it since 9.x, so I still have the older user interface, not the new "glass" effect one. I really dont like that one much.
Well, I'd imagine he has quite a bit of lawyer bills to pay right now so a good paying job is probably a good idea for him. I don't see how you would think it equates to working for Sony. Facebook didn't take him to court.
They're saying that he is going to be working on the iOS app, so at least he is doing something he knows. After thinking about it, I'm surprised something like this didn't happen sooner. He knows iOS pretty well, it only makes sense that he would get a job somewhere making apps for it, and Facebook is one of the bigger companies with a more hacker friendly attitude.
Just because a lot of people bought it doesnt make it good though. People who dont read reviews and pay attention to the gaming world will buy almost anything. I too was all psyched about a lot of those rehashes until I rented them or read the reviews. A lot of people bought a game becuase they saw it and thought to themselves "Hey, I loved that game as a kid, and now its updated to run on my new shiny console!" and then realized the only reason it was fun when they were kids was because they were kids and that was the best there was at the time.
They may not have had handsets available, but they had the mobile access points and usb dongles.
Kind of off topic but I dont understand the need for speeds that fast on a phone, unless you are tethering. But a couple of mbps is enough to stream video to your phone. Hell, the 22mbps offered by LTE is faster than most peoples home wired connection. (Not saying they shouldnt offer it, I just dont see why so many people are so excited about it)
Except that CDMA is only used by a handful of carriers worldwide, while everyone else uses GSM. While I know that that doesnt make GSM better, it means that if you cant use your CDMA phone when you travel abroad unless you go to the few countries that use it. (Which for a lot of people is a non-issue, but for the people it affects, its kind of a big issue)
Seriously though, why didnt they do this when VZW started doing it, instead of spending so much on advertising about how awesome their network was (when it wasnt). If they would have taken the advertising dollars and actually spent it on the network to make it do what they claimed it could, maybe people wouldnt constantly rate them the lowest in customer satisfaction.
Or hating all of Sony for the SonyBMG rootkit fiasco, SCEx getting hacked, etc. SonyBMG (music label), SCEx (SCEA, SCEJ and whatever the European one is, SCEE?) (game console), SOE (software), and whatever the name of the Sony hardware division is. They may all be called Sony, but they are all different divisions that dont have any say/control/knowledge what the others do. SonyBMG used to be pissed about the hardware division creating mp3 players around 2000, as they saw anything that played mp3's as a piracy enabler.
So basically hate Sony for whatever reason you want, just make sure you are hating the correct part of Sony. Untill the removal of otherOS, I always thought it was stupid when people would whine like little girls about the whole rootkit thing, SCEx had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it, so not buying a Playstation because SonyBMG messed up your computer always seemed to me like hating your neighbors friendly spouse because your neighbor stole your newspaper.
Anyway, it just gets me that people who understand that Anonymous is a collective of a bunch of different cliques that sometimes share goals and all use the same banner dont get that many massive corporations are basically separate companies that all share the same name.
They did not store the passwords in cleartext, from the PSN Blog:
"One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link."
I use clamav. I'm currently running a dual boot setup with Win7, but its only used for gaming (once a month or so) and for a few programs that I've only gotten to run without a hiccup in windows. Since I dont use it all that often, I also dont update it all that often, so having an AV run from outside the OS seems like its not a bad idea.
Actually, my wife was playing Angry Birds on the PS3 on a 1080i screen earlier today. But it was only as a time waster while waiting for a phone call. I bought it to play on my PSP, but it plays on the PS3 just as well. (And my wife also just picked up Dragon Age 2 that we pre-ordered for her back in Jan., so its not just a casual gamers thing, its more of a "its a good waste of a few minutes" thing)
What you say is true about the Kinect, as shown by the success of the Wii. Casual gamers are looking for casual games and arent always aware of what is on the market. I just talked my 55+yr old father into picking up a PS3 for Blu-ray, Netflix, and MLB.tv and he is an avid non-gamer. Though when I informed him that we could get Trivial Pursuit on the console he got excited.
I see consoles becoming more of an entertainment hub (like the PS3 and X360 were designed for). For my wife, I never would have talked her into getting her own PS3 (she would confiscate mine to play the first Dragon Age so I suggested it to her but she veto'd the idea) until she saw how handy it was for when she wanted to watch Netflix or stream something off of the media server while I was gaming. Sure casual gaming has its place, but full fledged games will always have a place too, even if they are on a multi-purpose device (PC's anyone?).
Forgive me if this is hard to follow, I've had a little to drink.
A data block does not block premuim SMS. You need a premium SMS block. And no, the blocks dont get removed everytime you make a change to your account, but some changes, such as going from regular phone to smartphone or multimedia phone will auto remove the blocks and if you dont tell the rep that you want to keep the blocks, they dont re-add them. Also, if you make the change yourself on your account website, you have to make sure the blocks are still in place.
Also, they are not interested in having this fraud continue, becuase it costs them more in customer service having to accept the call and refund the charge. Remember, those charges are from a third party, VZW still pays them even though they may remove them from your bill.
Premium SMS shows up on VZW bills under the data charges section. Since its a monthly charge, you dont have to scour your bill, you just have to look for a $9.99 charge under data.
The reason they want customers to tell them which ones were unsolicited is because sometimes people do request the service. Not often, but sometimes. In the 2 months I was doing inbound customer service for VZW, I had to deal with people being pissed about premium SMS numerous times and only had 1 person admit to requesting the service. And then there were people who used the service but were not aware it cost as much as it did. So, yes, not everyone with premium SMS charges on their bill need refunds.
I dunno about that. When I worked at Sears, the 3D demo for Motostorm on the Sony display was frickin amazing. It may not work well for all genres, but for racing games it was fantastic looking.
You have the technologies mixed up a bit. The TV's that need the active shutter glasses have a very wide viewing angle, whereas the ones such as the new Toshibas and the screen on the 3DS have the small viewing angle.
If they leaned down and was messing with something near the wheel well, how do I know they arent tampering with my brakes? If I actually see them attach something to my vehicle, how do I know they arent attaching an explosive device?
Though I'm not an advocate of shoot first, ask questions later when my life or someone elses isnt in immediate danger, if I saw someone messing with my vehicle, I would come out with my shotgun at the ready and demand to know WTF they were doing.
Before this story was all over the net, if I would have found one of these on my vehicle, my first call would have been to the local PD's bomb squad.
Have you ever shot a small animal with one? My granduncle in law used his to hunt deer, then my uncle and I borroed it to handle some burrowing rodents. We didnt pick up the carcasses, we picked up the peices.
I was pondering this the other night myself. A distro dedicated to gaming. And then I started thinking about an entity making a bunch of boxes with identical hardware, running this gaming distro, and suddenly you have a console like platform. You could make them upgradeable as well, as long as it has at least X amount of performance.
Imagine a dedicated linux gaming platform. With a keyboard/mouse control as a default, but you'd still have the ability to install a USB gamepad. I get all tingly inside.
Someone please make this so I can give you my money.
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I would love to mess with them like that, but alas, I dont have the balls and I was usually on my way to an appointment, so getting dragged out of the vehicle and searched would have made me miss it. I did always want to answer the question of "Is this your vehicle?" with "Si" though.
A few months back I was traveling El Centro to San Diego about once every other week and had to deal with that. When I left, I actually got an agent with a sense of humor when I crossed into AZ. I had a bunch of expensive stuff in the backseat with a blanket over it and the agent asked if there was anyone hiding under the blanket and I responded with "God I hope not", he actually chuckled and waved me by.
The agent that stopped me in New Mexico didnt seem to have a sense of humor though, so it was all yessir and nosir with him. I swear I saw a cavity search in my future there. Alabama tags and license, lived in Texas and was coming from El Centro. (I had just moved from AL to TX and then went out to CA for a few months to take care of my dad after his surgery).
I always hate when they ask me all those questions, even though I've done nothing wrong it makes me feel like I have.
When I was a kid, I used to build shuttles in my living room all the time.
Only if you want it in print, you can view it for free on your myverizon.com website.
I too have been using Opera for years on various OS's and machines. I've recently noticed the problem using Opera in Ubuntu since 10.10. I dont use my Windows7 partition enough to notice if it affects that OS as well, nor my Android phone. It used to only happen when I visited NHL.com, but lately it just kind of happens all over. Not frequently enough to really piss me off, just like maybe once every few days for 10-20 secs at a time.
I also encounter a weird bug where text input wont work unless I give focus to the desktop and then return to the Opera window.
I still prefer Opera to all other browsers I have tried though. I've been using and upgrading it since 9.x, so I still have the older user interface, not the new "glass" effect one. I really dont like that one much.
Well, I'd imagine he has quite a bit of lawyer bills to pay right now so a good paying job is probably a good idea for him. I don't see how you would think it equates to working for Sony. Facebook didn't take him to court.
They're saying that he is going to be working on the iOS app, so at least he is doing something he knows. After thinking about it, I'm surprised something like this didn't happen sooner. He knows iOS pretty well, it only makes sense that he would get a job somewhere making apps for it, and Facebook is one of the bigger companies with a more hacker friendly attitude.
Just because a lot of people bought it doesnt make it good though. People who dont read reviews and pay attention to the gaming world will buy almost anything. I too was all psyched about a lot of those rehashes until I rented them or read the reviews. A lot of people bought a game becuase they saw it and thought to themselves "Hey, I loved that game as a kid, and now its updated to run on my new shiny console!" and then realized the only reason it was fun when they were kids was because they were kids and that was the best there was at the time.
They may not have had handsets available, but they had the mobile access points and usb dongles.
Kind of off topic but I dont understand the need for speeds that fast on a phone, unless you are tethering. But a couple of mbps is enough to stream video to your phone. Hell, the 22mbps offered by LTE is faster than most peoples home wired connection. (Not saying they shouldnt offer it, I just dont see why so many people are so excited about it)
Except that CDMA is only used by a handful of carriers worldwide, while everyone else uses GSM. While I know that that doesnt make GSM better, it means that if you cant use your CDMA phone when you travel abroad unless you go to the few countries that use it. (Which for a lot of people is a non-issue, but for the people it affects, its kind of a big issue)
Five whole cities?
Seriously though, why didnt they do this when VZW started doing it, instead of spending so much on advertising about how awesome their network was (when it wasnt). If they would have taken the advertising dollars and actually spent it on the network to make it do what they claimed it could, maybe people wouldnt constantly rate them the lowest in customer satisfaction.
That was the first comment to make me laugh out loud in a long time, thank you good sir.
Or hating all of Sony for the SonyBMG rootkit fiasco, SCEx getting hacked, etc. SonyBMG (music label), SCEx (SCEA, SCEJ and whatever the European one is, SCEE?) (game console), SOE (software), and whatever the name of the Sony hardware division is. They may all be called Sony, but they are all different divisions that dont have any say/control/knowledge what the others do. SonyBMG used to be pissed about the hardware division creating mp3 players around 2000, as they saw anything that played mp3's as a piracy enabler.
So basically hate Sony for whatever reason you want, just make sure you are hating the correct part of Sony. Untill the removal of otherOS, I always thought it was stupid when people would whine like little girls about the whole rootkit thing, SCEx had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it, so not buying a Playstation because SonyBMG messed up your computer always seemed to me like hating your neighbors friendly spouse because your neighbor stole your newspaper.
Anyway, it just gets me that people who understand that Anonymous is a collective of a bunch of different cliques that sometimes share goals and all use the same banner dont get that many massive corporations are basically separate companies that all share the same name.
They did not store the passwords in cleartext, from the PSN Blog:
"One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link."
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/02/playstation-network-security-update/
I use clamav. I'm currently running a dual boot setup with Win7, but its only used for gaming (once a month or so) and for a few programs that I've only gotten to run without a hiccup in windows. Since I dont use it all that often, I also dont update it all that often, so having an AV run from outside the OS seems like its not a bad idea.
You do not need to provide a credit card to sign up for PSN, only if you wish to use one to make a purchase from the PSN store.
Actually, my wife was playing Angry Birds on the PS3 on a 1080i screen earlier today. But it was only as a time waster while waiting for a phone call. I bought it to play on my PSP, but it plays on the PS3 just as well. (And my wife also just picked up Dragon Age 2 that we pre-ordered for her back in Jan., so its not just a casual gamers thing, its more of a "its a good waste of a few minutes" thing)
What you say is true about the Kinect, as shown by the success of the Wii. Casual gamers are looking for casual games and arent always aware of what is on the market. I just talked my 55+yr old father into picking up a PS3 for Blu-ray, Netflix, and MLB.tv and he is an avid non-gamer. Though when I informed him that we could get Trivial Pursuit on the console he got excited.
I see consoles becoming more of an entertainment hub (like the PS3 and X360 were designed for). For my wife, I never would have talked her into getting her own PS3 (she would confiscate mine to play the first Dragon Age so I suggested it to her but she veto'd the idea) until she saw how handy it was for when she wanted to watch Netflix or stream something off of the media server while I was gaming. Sure casual gaming has its place, but full fledged games will always have a place too, even if they are on a multi-purpose device (PC's anyone?).
Forgive me if this is hard to follow, I've had a little to drink.
A data block does not block premuim SMS. You need a premium SMS block. And no, the blocks dont get removed everytime you make a change to your account, but some changes, such as going from regular phone to smartphone or multimedia phone will auto remove the blocks and if you dont tell the rep that you want to keep the blocks, they dont re-add them. Also, if you make the change yourself on your account website, you have to make sure the blocks are still in place.
Also, they are not interested in having this fraud continue, becuase it costs them more in customer service having to accept the call and refund the charge. Remember, those charges are from a third party, VZW still pays them even though they may remove them from your bill.
Premium SMS shows up on VZW bills under the data charges section. Since its a monthly charge, you dont have to scour your bill, you just have to look for a $9.99 charge under data.
The reason they want customers to tell them which ones were unsolicited is because sometimes people do request the service. Not often, but sometimes. In the 2 months I was doing inbound customer service for VZW, I had to deal with people being pissed about premium SMS numerous times and only had 1 person admit to requesting the service. And then there were people who used the service but were not aware it cost as much as it did. So, yes, not everyone with premium SMS charges on their bill need refunds.
I used to stare at these things all day long. They do work at way more than 45deg. I would say closer to 90.
I dunno about that. When I worked at Sears, the 3D demo for Motostorm on the Sony display was frickin amazing. It may not work well for all genres, but for racing games it was fantastic looking.
You have the technologies mixed up a bit. The TV's that need the active shutter glasses have a very wide viewing angle, whereas the ones such as the new Toshibas and the screen on the 3DS have the small viewing angle.
If they leaned down and was messing with something near the wheel well, how do I know they arent tampering with my brakes? If I actually see them attach something to my vehicle, how do I know they arent attaching an explosive device?
Though I'm not an advocate of shoot first, ask questions later when my life or someone elses isnt in immediate danger, if I saw someone messing with my vehicle, I would come out with my shotgun at the ready and demand to know WTF they were doing.
Before this story was all over the net, if I would have found one of these on my vehicle, my first call would have been to the local PD's bomb squad.
Have you ever shot a small animal with one? My granduncle in law used his to hunt deer, then my uncle and I borroed it to handle some burrowing rodents. We didnt pick up the carcasses, we picked up the peices.
Ahhh, I see.
Though if you reread the GP, he does mention a distro as well.
I was pondering this the other night myself. A distro dedicated to gaming. And then I started thinking about an entity making a bunch of boxes with identical hardware, running this gaming distro, and suddenly you have a console like platform. You could make them upgradeable as well, as long as it has at least X amount of performance.
Imagine a dedicated linux gaming platform. With a keyboard/mouse control as a default, but you'd still have the ability to install a USB gamepad. I get all tingly inside.
Someone please make this so I can give you my money.