Just take radio; payola is still in business, so labels literally pay to get their music on the air, as a promotional tool to drive album sales.
I haven't heard 'payola' very much, so I looked it up. It seems to carry some more negative connotations that 'advertising' (literally paying a bribe for promotion of one's product). Is there, perhaps, a more accurate word?
I got the impression this is meant to be a locally-administered system rather than a remote one. I would have a hard time blaming Microsoft for a social engineering-based security breach of a MS Exchange setup, though I would not hesitate to lampoon them for such a breach at Hotmail.
The hell it doesn't! If hackers can pay the janitor or other employee a few bucks to access the CEO's email then I wanna know that before I hand StrongWebmail $$$ to handle my email.
That depends on what they are providing. If they are providing a hosting service of some sort, then bribing a janitor counts. If they are providing a system to be handled by the local network admins (that's the impression I get), then it shouldn't. The janitors there are not the janitors that will be around the customers servers.
Didn't IBM do some business with the Nazis?
Not every job can be justified solely by being more lucrative.
In the case of the RIAA lawyers, this could be self-destructive in the long term. If they get disbarred for their antics, they are pretty much selling their careers for a small premium. It's only worth it if they are near retirement already.
I dunno. Jack Thomson was known by name in the geek community long before they disbarred him. After so much time, the RIAA lawyers are still mostly refered to as... the RIAA lawyers. No single lawyer had stood out as being more spectacularly imbecilic than the rest, so they may be taking turns pulling these stunts. Yes, as a whole the number of bad decisions is overwhelming, but does any single lawyer have more than a handful of black marks to his name?
I could understand if they don't want to pay up to someone that hacked something other than their software. Exploiting a Window bug may count if they are not cross-platform may count, but bribing the janitor probably doesn't. Yes, a real cracker may hack one of this product's customers that way, but Telesign couldn't be at fault for that.
Again, I see them not actually caring about developing something for ARM if they have the possibility to buy a solution.
What solution? As far as desktop OSs go, there are only 9 Linux and BSD distributions that support it. Plus the iPhone's version of OS X. Where are they going to buy a solution from?
For April Fool's last year, the distro I was using (alpha Kubuntu, I believe) replaced the wallpaper with an image of a unicorn. Needless to say, I didn't close my browser much at school.
I bought it because nobody else ever wanted any, so I didn't have to worry about someone asking for a sip and drinking half the bottle, I didn't have to worry about shared germs, etc. Nobody else liked grapefruit juice.
The moral of the story is, get yourself an uncommon user interface and an unfamiliar alternative browser. Shrug and say "do you know how to use Galeon on Afterstep" or the like, and you'll probably get a lot of intimidated demurrals.
How many people in the US know that the US liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi occupation in 1991, invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, and invaded Iraq in 2003? That is the equivalent question.
Eh. Tiananmen Square was 20 years ago. The First Persian Gulf War was nearly that long ago, But Afghanistan and Iraq are much more recent and have been more ongoing.
My brother bought a used blackberry and got tried getting a basic, just-minutes-no-internet plan for it. He left the store with the understanding that that's what he got, but when the bill came in he found out he couldn't not have internet service.
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Tested the web-browsing before I bought one....
And now that you have it: how's the Linux compatibility?
Just take radio; payola is still in business, so labels literally pay to get their music on the air, as a promotional tool to drive album sales.
I haven't heard 'payola' very much, so I looked it up. It seems to carry some more negative connotations that 'advertising' (literally paying a bribe for promotion of one's product). Is there, perhaps, a more accurate word?
Pick a UID. Any UID. I'm pretty sure there are few homosexual women lurking here.
There are a few other major families. Also prominent is the png clan, and to a lesser extent bmp.
Hmmmm.... Jingles 121st.
Doesn't really have a good ring to it.
Are you sure about that?
Sure. I'm in cell A18. Ask for 'Bubba'.
I got the impression this is meant to be a locally-administered system rather than a remote one. I would have a hard time blaming Microsoft for a social engineering-based security breach of a MS Exchange setup, though I would not hesitate to lampoon them for such a breach at Hotmail.
The hell it doesn't! If hackers can pay the janitor or other employee a few bucks to access the CEO's email then I wanna know that before I hand StrongWebmail $$$ to handle my email.
That depends on what they are providing. If they are providing a hosting service of some sort, then bribing a janitor counts. If they are providing a system to be handled by the local network admins (that's the impression I get), then it shouldn't. The janitors there are not the janitors that will be around the customers servers.
An impartial judge who has taken no bribes should always consider a motion based on a reasonably sound argument.
Does he need to keep a straight face while doing so?
Looks like my turn to invoke Godwin's law:
Didn't IBM do some business with the Nazis?
Not every job can be justified solely by being more lucrative.
In the case of the RIAA lawyers, this could be self-destructive in the long term. If they get disbarred for their antics, they are pretty much selling their careers for a small premium. It's only worth it if they are near retirement already.
(sort of like in football where you can get a new first down).
I'm sorry, I don't get the reference. Could we have a car analogy?
I dunno. Jack Thomson was known by name in the geek community long before they disbarred him. After so much time, the RIAA lawyers are still mostly refered to as... the RIAA lawyers. No single lawyer had stood out as being more spectacularly imbecilic than the rest, so they may be taking turns pulling these stunts. Yes, as a whole the number of bad decisions is overwhelming, but does any single lawyer have more than a handful of black marks to his name?
Telesign, a provider of voice-based authentication software...
Sounds like something for protecting a phone system.
I could understand if they don't want to pay up to someone that hacked something other than their software. Exploiting a Window bug may count if they are not cross-platform may count, but bribing the janitor probably doesn't. Yes, a real cracker may hack one of this product's customers that way, but Telesign couldn't be at fault for that.
Or perhaps the explosions were in the Nevada desert or Japan, and he wasn't?
You should probably tell the article submitter that.
You should read what you quoted again:
Having support for it in some unreleased or nightly beta doesn't count.
Firefox's beta isn't a nightly build. That would be Minefield.
Again, I see them not actually caring about developing something for ARM if they have the possibility to buy a solution.
What solution? As far as desktop OSs go, there are only 9 Linux and BSD distributions that support it. Plus the iPhone's version of OS X. Where are they going to buy a solution from?
Especially when the suits realize that we'll have to do it again later.
When?
For April Fool's last year, the distro I was using (alpha Kubuntu, I believe) replaced the wallpaper with an image of a unicorn. Needless to say, I didn't close my browser much at school.
I bought it because nobody else ever wanted any, so I didn't have to worry about someone asking for a sip and drinking half the bottle, I didn't have to worry about shared germs, etc. Nobody else liked grapefruit juice.
The moral of the story is, get yourself an uncommon user interface and an unfamiliar alternative browser. Shrug and say "do you know how to use Galeon on Afterstep" or the like, and you'll probably get a lot of intimidated demurrals.
I do much the same with diet colas.
It knows I'm coming from Canada, so if you're getting different results where you are, maybe geography plays a role?
I think he's just trolling. It's the second of three very similar posts.
He said not to read the discussions. Headlines are OK, and you might not get much flack for reading the summary.
How many people in the US know that the US liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi occupation in 1991, invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, and invaded Iraq in 2003? That is the equivalent question.
Eh. Tiananmen Square was 20 years ago. The First Persian Gulf War was nearly that long ago, But Afghanistan and Iraq are much more recent and have been more ongoing.
My brother bought a used blackberry and got tried getting a basic, just-minutes-no-internet plan for it. He left the store with the understanding that that's what he got, but when the bill came in he found out he couldn't not have internet service.