I don't know what kind of terms are written in your contract with these people (or how big your company is compared to the software company), but maybe your company can sue them for failing to properly maintain their software. Right now, find other companies that use this software and tell their administrators about the vulnerability and let the pressure build on the software company. Give them a little more time to either get their shit together or blow you off and then threaten lawsuit. It would be irresponsible of you for the sake of your own security to publicly disclose the vulnerability, so you should be doing all you possibly can to not have to do that.
You're probably trolling, but I'm bored so I'll play along and see where this goes. Why the hell would an IP address matter to the average user? The address of a house is necessary because you need to tell people where to find you and where to send letters to you, and that's more akin to an email address. Please name one valid, logical, realistic reason why my technologically-inept father would ever need to know his IP address.
an IP address is not an engine. it is not an elevator. it is the lowest common denominator... the simplest of tools that make the internet work. if you don't know how to start a car, you shouldn't receive a drivers license.
Starting car: turn key until engine starts. Starting internet: double-click the blue e.
IP Addresses are a fairly complex subject. No, they are not the lowest common denominator. No, they are not something that everybody needs to know about. They are a basic part of the internet, but they are not a basic part of USING the internet. Now, show me somebody who administers computer systems and doesn't know anything about IP addresses and I might just accidentally kick him in the nuts, but the end-users need know nothing about it.
I refused to pay and there is a $30 account charge just sitting on my credit report that they illegally renew every 8-9 months as they sell the debt to someone else...
If it's there on your credit report, then you need to report that to the creditors. All 3 credit bureaus have ways of dealing with incorrect/fraudulent entries on your record. If you present proof of cancellation and tell your whole story, they should remove it from your record and tell 1&1's collection agency to get fucked.
Screw the bank being decent, I'm more amazed that 1&1 refunded you! Did you kidnap their VP's daughter or something?
His son, actually.
But in all seriousness, I've never had a problem with 1&1 on the customer service front, and refunds are automatic when you cancel your service effective immediately: cancel.1and1.com. I think they have a 30-day guarantee on new service which gives you a full refund if you cancel, but after that, you get a pro-rated refund, and you can cancel at any time for any reason.
I had a 1&1 subscription that I forgot about and was charged for, which resulted in an overdraft fee of $35, as well as several subsequent $35 overdraft fees on small few-dollar purchases and multiple $5 "Continued Overdraft" fees every day for almost a week. I had 1&1 cancel my account and refund what I paid minus a dollar or so, and Wells Fargo had no problem reversing every single one of those fees once the credit posted. I'm sure other banks would be the same way.
This was a purchase that was not fraudulent. It was not overcharged. It was unexpected, but not in a way that I couldn't possibly have known it was coming. It was my own fuckup, but it was still completely taken care of once 1&1 refunded my money. This isn't a matter of courtesy, this is a matter of legality. A bank can't keep overdraft fees when they have guaranteed protection against fraudulent use of your credit/debit cards.
Actually, SKIDROW's Silent Hunter V crack was out within 24 hours of the game's release and it works just fine. Of course, I wouldn't know this from personal experience.
The article makes it seem like the Census Bureau passed this information to the US Army and the DHS under the table and behind everybody's back without us knowing. In truth, this information is public. The Census Bureau didn't give anything to the other organizations that the rest of the public of the United States doesn't already know. The Census Bureau didn't release anybody's addresses with their specific information, just the ZIP Code. You give them this information with the knowledge that they are going to make the information public (less your name, address, etc), and you have full rights to check the box that says "Decline to State". You, yes YOU, a member of the general public can access all this information -- by ZIP code -- at The American FactFinder. You don't need a fancy job with a fancy title at a fancy government organization.
There has been no violation of trust at any point in time. This is just sensationalist media bullshit.
Except that those mechanisms have yearly caps. And demand far exceeds the caps placed. So for many individuals, especially th every poor, the choice is immigrate illegally or not at all.
Doesn't fucking matter. There are people that have been on the waiting list for a year or more. Those people are people who actually want to come here, and live a full life as a productive member of a society that welcomes them. Anybody who is fit to live in the United States will get their chance to move here. Yeah, it takes a long time, but there's a lot of people trying to get here, so of course it's going to take a long time. What would Disneyland be like if everybody just skipped the line to get on Splash Mountain and just hopped on when they felt like it? Things would be fucked up, that's what.
Last year, I saw a presentation put on by Canal Alliance. The Canal district is an area in San Rafael, CA that has a very high percentage of hispanic residents, many of whom are illegal aliens. This presentation was mostly to tell a sob story. A very pathetic sob story that USES children to tug on people's heart strings. These children -- mostly girls -- told everybody about how scary the ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) raids are, and how they cry at night thinking about how people they know -- or perhaps their parents or other family members -- could be caught and deported at any time by ICE. It was pathetic... and people were gobbling it up.
I think you missed the point. It's not so much that we should be mourning the brutal conquering of the native americans (or, since I live in australia, the aborigines), it's that we shouldn't be so hypocritical about refusing to let others into the country, especially if it is in expense of their life. If anything, it should be in expense of our life.
We're not refusing to let others into the country. We're refusing to let people into the country who do not enter via the proper mechanisms. We want to know who is here, why they are here, and make sure they're not criminals. We want to know where they live, how long they'll be here, and what they're doing for means of income. People who do not follow proper protocols for entry into the United States begin to take advantage of the public resources that are paid for by legal residents and visitors (aka taxpayers) without paying taxes themselves. I welcome all immigrants who wish to follow the rules and laws and pay for the resources they use. I do not welcome those who come here illegally and make my tax money worth less.
And that's exactly what the real native true blooded americans should have done when your ancestors waltzed on in pretending they had some kind of a right to be there.
We waltzed in here with guns ablazing intending to conquer this land and make it our own. We succeeded. This is our land now, and nobody has the right to be here but people we say have the right to be here. And that will be the case until another people do the same to us, which is not likely to happen.
The cave that was showing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs in Dolby3D which uses cyan/magenta and apparently makes people mod me Overrated because they assume I'm wrong.
3D glasses used in modern cinema is Polarized, not tinted with red/blue.
Actually, 3D glasses used in modern cinema is tinted magenta/cyan when being shown in a modern cinema that has not been cinematically retrofitted to show modern-day 3D cinema. Granted, they use technology to their advantage and display/filter the pictures (with $40 glasses that need anti-theft tags so people don't walk away with them) in such a way that there's not MUCH of a color issue, but they still use them.
This will hurt the bottom line of EMI and Pink Floyd, weather or not they care, they will be compensated for their efforts.
A. There is not bottom line of Pink Floyd. They're all rich and are no longer a band... all the money they make from this point is pure profit.
B. Pink Floyd doesn't care about the profit. Each PF album is one big story... essentially one big song in and of itself... and they don't want it being sold in parts. They are artists from a time when music was more art and less career.
C. EMI has no bottom line for Pink Floyd songs either. They don't need to market them, they don't need to book them for concerts, they're really not doing anything with them except the one guy that has to call all the music stores and say "Hey, no more selling individual tracks." So basically any sale of a PF song/album is pure profit for them as well.
D. Anybody who buys a PF track individually is a buster, so I don't care if they don't want to spend $12 on the whole album.
Contrary to the standard opinions here on Slashdot, big corporations are still run by human beings. Just call Verizon and tell them your situation. You're a student that lives in the USA but goes to school in Canada and you can't afford these massive international rates. It doesn't cost Verizon any more to provide service to your phone in Canada than it does to provide service to your phone on the other side of the country from where you live, so all these additional fees are essentially pure profit. Tell them that if you can't get a better deal on your phone service, then you will be forced to switch to GSM so that you can bring your phone across national lines and just switch providers to avoid these huge rates for international service.
It might take some time, effort, and a bit of pleading, but I'm sure you'll manage to get a lower bill out of them.
I've given a couple thousand dollars of my hard-earned cash to Newegg over the years, and I haven't been anything but satisfied. They have a fantastic RMA policy, and a very helpful customer support team, and when you order before noon, items will normally ship the same day (and are guaranteed to ship same-day if you give them an extra $4). I'm sure that they will take good care of every single customer that received a fake product from them.
Obviously if the power goes out, and the service goes offline, then it WASN'T a cloud. If it's a cloud, it can't go down. If it goes down, it wasn't a cloud.
So it appears many consumers really do like flipping through a zillion channels, for both radio and TV. I'd say it's a small Slashdot-style minority clamoring for A La Carte programming.
The push for a la carte isn't about flipping through a zillion channels. It's about price. People don't want to pay $80/mo for 1000 channels if they're only ever gonna watch 10. Sirius costs $10/mo.... to perhaps reduce that to $8/mo isn't even worth the hassle of going through and choosing all the Rock and Jazz channels and never being able to listen to Reggae if you're in a tropical mood.
Can't this be considered breach of contract between Cablevision and its customers? I don't know if that's the case with customers that aren't on a 2-year contract or whatever, but for those that are... they're in contract with Cablevision to be receiving ABC's channels, and Cablevision currently isn't holding up their end of the deal. Perhaps if a lawsuit comes along, it could mean the end of huge mandatory bundles so that it would be possible for cable companies to reimburse customers for specific channels...?
If a guided missile is launched to fly into a window of an enemy-occupied building, the offset can be enough to make a difference between hitting the window and hitting the wall.
GPS doesn't have the kind of precision to guide a shot like that regardless of whether the time is uncalibrated. If we need to launch a missile into a building and it is imperative that it enter the building through a small window, we would surely use laser or thermal guidance... not GPS.
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I don't know what kind of terms are written in your contract with these people (or how big your company is compared to the software company), but maybe your company can sue them for failing to properly maintain their software. Right now, find other companies that use this software and tell their administrators about the vulnerability and let the pressure build on the software company. Give them a little more time to either get their shit together or blow you off and then threaten lawsuit. It would be irresponsible of you for the sake of your own security to publicly disclose the vulnerability, so you should be doing all you possibly can to not have to do that.
...And thank you for not performing these tests anywhere near my hometown.
You're probably trolling, but I'm bored so I'll play along and see where this goes. Why the hell would an IP address matter to the average user? The address of a house is necessary because you need to tell people where to find you and where to send letters to you, and that's more akin to an email address. Please name one valid, logical, realistic reason why my technologically-inept father would ever need to know his IP address.
an IP address is not an engine. it is not an elevator. it is the lowest common denominator... the simplest of tools that make the internet work. if you don't know how to start a car, you shouldn't receive a drivers license.
Starting car: turn key until engine starts. Starting internet: double-click the blue e.
IP Addresses are a fairly complex subject. No, they are not the lowest common denominator. No, they are not something that everybody needs to know about. They are a basic part of the internet, but they are not a basic part of USING the internet. Now, show me somebody who administers computer systems and doesn't know anything about IP addresses and I might just accidentally kick him in the nuts, but the end-users need know nothing about it.
I refused to pay and there is a $30 account charge just sitting on my credit report that they illegally renew every 8-9 months as they sell the debt to someone else...
If it's there on your credit report, then you need to report that to the creditors. All 3 credit bureaus have ways of dealing with incorrect/fraudulent entries on your record. If you present proof of cancellation and tell your whole story, they should remove it from your record and tell 1&1's collection agency to get fucked.
Screw the bank being decent, I'm more amazed that 1&1 refunded you! Did you kidnap their VP's daughter or something?
His son, actually.
But in all seriousness, I've never had a problem with 1&1 on the customer service front, and refunds are automatic when you cancel your service effective immediately: cancel.1and1.com. I think they have a 30-day guarantee on new service which gives you a full refund if you cancel, but after that, you get a pro-rated refund, and you can cancel at any time for any reason.
I had a 1&1 subscription that I forgot about and was charged for, which resulted in an overdraft fee of $35, as well as several subsequent $35 overdraft fees on small few-dollar purchases and multiple $5 "Continued Overdraft" fees every day for almost a week. I had 1&1 cancel my account and refund what I paid minus a dollar or so, and Wells Fargo had no problem reversing every single one of those fees once the credit posted. I'm sure other banks would be the same way.
This was a purchase that was not fraudulent. It was not overcharged. It was unexpected, but not in a way that I couldn't possibly have known it was coming. It was my own fuckup, but it was still completely taken care of once 1&1 refunded my money. This isn't a matter of courtesy, this is a matter of legality. A bank can't keep overdraft fees when they have guaranteed protection against fraudulent use of your credit/debit cards.
Silent Hunter after 1.5 months
Actually, SKIDROW's Silent Hunter V crack was out within 24 hours of the game's release and it works just fine. Of course, I wouldn't know this from personal experience.
The article makes it seem like the Census Bureau passed this information to the US Army and the DHS under the table and behind everybody's back without us knowing. In truth, this information is public. The Census Bureau didn't give anything to the other organizations that the rest of the public of the United States doesn't already know. The Census Bureau didn't release anybody's addresses with their specific information, just the ZIP Code. You give them this information with the knowledge that they are going to make the information public (less your name, address, etc), and you have full rights to check the box that says "Decline to State". You, yes YOU, a member of the general public can access all this information -- by ZIP code -- at The American FactFinder. You don't need a fancy job with a fancy title at a fancy government organization.
There has been no violation of trust at any point in time. This is just sensationalist media bullshit.
Why a nasty feeling? That's the way the world works. Get over it.
Except that those mechanisms have yearly caps. And demand far exceeds the caps placed. So for many individuals, especially th every poor, the choice is immigrate illegally or not at all.
Doesn't fucking matter. There are people that have been on the waiting list for a year or more. Those people are people who actually want to come here, and live a full life as a productive member of a society that welcomes them. Anybody who is fit to live in the United States will get their chance to move here. Yeah, it takes a long time, but there's a lot of people trying to get here, so of course it's going to take a long time. What would Disneyland be like if everybody just skipped the line to get on Splash Mountain and just hopped on when they felt like it? Things would be fucked up, that's what.
Last year, I saw a presentation put on by Canal Alliance. The Canal district is an area in San Rafael, CA that has a very high percentage of hispanic residents, many of whom are illegal aliens. This presentation was mostly to tell a sob story. A very pathetic sob story that USES children to tug on people's heart strings. These children -- mostly girls -- told everybody about how scary the ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) raids are, and how they cry at night thinking about how people they know -- or perhaps their parents or other family members -- could be caught and deported at any time by ICE. It was pathetic... and people were gobbling it up.
I think you missed the point. It's not so much that we should be mourning the brutal conquering of the native americans (or, since I live in australia, the aborigines), it's that we shouldn't be so hypocritical about refusing to let others into the country, especially if it is in expense of their life. If anything, it should be in expense of our life.
We're not refusing to let others into the country. We're refusing to let people into the country who do not enter via the proper mechanisms. We want to know who is here, why they are here, and make sure they're not criminals. We want to know where they live, how long they'll be here, and what they're doing for means of income. People who do not follow proper protocols for entry into the United States begin to take advantage of the public resources that are paid for by legal residents and visitors (aka taxpayers) without paying taxes themselves. I welcome all immigrants who wish to follow the rules and laws and pay for the resources they use. I do not welcome those who come here illegally and make my tax money worth less.
And that's exactly what the real native true blooded americans should have done when your ancestors waltzed on in pretending they had some kind of a right to be there.
We waltzed in here with guns ablazing intending to conquer this land and make it our own. We succeeded. This is our land now, and nobody has the right to be here but people we say have the right to be here. And that will be the case until another people do the same to us, which is not likely to happen.
The cave that was showing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs in Dolby3D which uses cyan/magenta and apparently makes people mod me Overrated because they assume I'm wrong.
Polarized glasses are not $40 and don't require anti-theft tags. They even let you walk out of the theater with them. You're thinking of IMAX.
I'm definitely not talking about IMAX. IMAX uses polarized glasses. I'm talking about Dolby 3D. Read my post again.
3D glasses used in modern cinema is Polarized, not tinted with red/blue.
Actually, 3D glasses used in modern cinema is tinted magenta/cyan when being shown in a modern cinema that has not been cinematically retrofitted to show modern-day 3D cinema. Granted, they use technology to their advantage and display/filter the pictures (with $40 glasses that need anti-theft tags so people don't walk away with them) in such a way that there's not MUCH of a color issue, but they still use them.
This will hurt the bottom line of EMI and Pink Floyd, weather or not they care, they will be compensated for their efforts.
A. There is not bottom line of Pink Floyd. They're all rich and are no longer a band... all the money they make from this point is pure profit.
B. Pink Floyd doesn't care about the profit. Each PF album is one big story... essentially one big song in and of itself... and they don't want it being sold in parts. They are artists from a time when music was more art and less career.
C. EMI has no bottom line for Pink Floyd songs either. They don't need to market them, they don't need to book them for concerts, they're really not doing anything with them except the one guy that has to call all the music stores and say "Hey, no more selling individual tracks." So basically any sale of a PF song/album is pure profit for them as well.
D. Anybody who buys a PF track individually is a buster, so I don't care if they don't want to spend $12 on the whole album.
Contrary to the standard opinions here on Slashdot, big corporations are still run by human beings. Just call Verizon and tell them your situation. You're a student that lives in the USA but goes to school in Canada and you can't afford these massive international rates. It doesn't cost Verizon any more to provide service to your phone in Canada than it does to provide service to your phone on the other side of the country from where you live, so all these additional fees are essentially pure profit. Tell them that if you can't get a better deal on your phone service, then you will be forced to switch to GSM so that you can bring your phone across national lines and just switch providers to avoid these huge rates for international service.
It might take some time, effort, and a bit of pleading, but I'm sure you'll manage to get a lower bill out of them.
I've given a couple thousand dollars of my hard-earned cash to Newegg over the years, and I haven't been anything but satisfied. They have a fantastic RMA policy, and a very helpful customer support team, and when you order before noon, items will normally ship the same day (and are guaranteed to ship same-day if you give them an extra $4). I'm sure that they will take good care of every single customer that received a fake product from them.
Obviously if the power goes out, and the service goes offline, then it WASN'T a cloud. If it's a cloud, it can't go down. If it goes down, it wasn't a cloud.
The cloud got too big and it rained.
It didn't break the DRM, it broke the game.
In fact, it actually served to prove the DRM works! Congratulations Ubisoft development team on creating a working DRM scheme!
So it appears many consumers really do like flipping through a zillion channels, for both radio and TV. I'd say it's a small Slashdot-style minority clamoring for A La Carte programming.
The push for a la carte isn't about flipping through a zillion channels. It's about price. People don't want to pay $80/mo for 1000 channels if they're only ever gonna watch 10. Sirius costs $10/mo.... to perhaps reduce that to $8/mo isn't even worth the hassle of going through and choosing all the Rock and Jazz channels and never being able to listen to Reggae if you're in a tropical mood.
Can't this be considered breach of contract between Cablevision and its customers? I don't know if that's the case with customers that aren't on a 2-year contract or whatever, but for those that are... they're in contract with Cablevision to be receiving ABC's channels, and Cablevision currently isn't holding up their end of the deal. Perhaps if a lawsuit comes along, it could mean the end of huge mandatory bundles so that it would be possible for cable companies to reimburse customers for specific channels...?
Let me know if I am completely wrong about this.
I believe they have 3 warehouses around the country.
If a guided missile is launched to fly into a window of an enemy-occupied building, the offset can be enough to make a difference between hitting the window and hitting the wall.
GPS doesn't have the kind of precision to guide a shot like that regardless of whether the time is uncalibrated. If we need to launch a missile into a building and it is imperative that it enter the building through a small window, we would surely use laser or thermal guidance... not GPS.