That's irrelevant. If they were collecting bodies and helping wounded the guy should not have fired. I guess he thought the guy in the van was giving aid to the enemy. WTF
And we wonder why people "over there" hate us. I wish they could differentiate us from our government. This will never end while we are over there making mistakes like this.
It's hard to win hearts and minds of the civilians you are trying to protet if you send in a gunship to slaughter them. I wish we as a country would concentrate more on hearts and minds as I think the payoff is much greater.
The only way to bring the MAFIAA to their knee's is to not buy their product. I realize that's easier said than done but torrenting isn't the solution. It does help swing the balance of power but it's only temporary. They are turning up the pressure and eventually the studio's will drive "piracy" underground. It'll never die but all they need to do is drive it out of the mainstream. By the looks of things that's exactly what they're doing.
Farmville = Soft core gaming for the uninitiated dweeb. My wife told me I should try Mafia Wars. I was bored after 5 minutes and went back to Grand Theft Auto.
Sadly the lack of scientific knowledge in jurors and judges makes it such that they are unlikely to be able to understand the issue beyond the false experts and fancy lawyer talkin'.
The cynic in me assumes this is on purpose. People who are "dumbed down" are easier to control. Pretty sad really. We are living in a country where the general population shuns scientific advances in favor of religion and faith./my opinion
"The real pirates will swab the decks with these amateur wanna-be's."
like they do every time. You'd figure when a 16 year old {dvd john} breaks your weak ass content protection system you would sit up and notice but they never learn.
Why would you be posting while you are supposed to be working anyway? If you are stupid enough to do this at work then you deserve what you get. Most companies I have worked for have the standard disclaimer that allows them to spy on you so no big deal here. What would worry me (if I even cared about social networking etc)is someone from work looking at what I post on my own time. But then again you have no reason to expect any privacy (coming from the bastard who said privacy is dead) so what's the point. Social networking is another word for data mining which is why I don't use it.
Regarding your comment about a legitimate election being "wrong" because people voted the "incorrect way", most American people I know (myself included) consider that to be a basic freedom. In America you are free to utter thinly veiled racist comments in order to appeal to your political base of other racist jackasses. The Chinese people lack that basic freedom due to an oppressive government. Your comment about vulgar and uncivilized Americans truly shows how truly ignorant you are.
This is par for the course for them. I've bought two laptops from them in recent years and they have a "computer tune up" service you can get for 39.95. The services offeered are:
1-Perform system updates and improve PC speed and performance, including startup and shutdown optimization
2-Windows updating, menu navigation improvement, quick launch and taskbar cleanup and program shortcut creation
3-Enable basic security functions, including antiphishing and pop-up blocking activation in Internet Explorer
4-Remove unwanted programs and trialware
5-Create desired user accounts (if applicable)
6-Test and verify PC hardware and software functionality
#6 was interesting because you know they prob got paid to put some of that there in the first place. Anyway, the long and short of it is, with the exception of the crapware the comp was up to date with patches etc. It just goes to show you just how conniving they are.
Exactly. I'm always skeptical when they pack stuff like this into phones etc. You figure they have to cut corners somewhere right. Personally I think the engineers should tell the marketing department to stfu.
Honestly I'm amazed that Apple even allowed them to put it in the app store. I'd trade a decent amount of browser speed for an inefficient browser loaded down with crapware any day.
Every major av vendor I know of (Symantec, Mcafee, Panda, Trend Micro, Kaspersky etc) do something like this so I disagree that there is a hidden agenda here. We saw the NY Times exploit on Slashdot a while back so they're not spreading FUD. As far as digging into the real problem, I guess it depends on the audience.
His comment had noting to do with being snarky. I belive he was referring to the apathy many American people feel toward politicians our political system in general. We almost expect them to lie cheat and steal so it's no surprise that they are good at it.
I do tech support for a company that will remain nameless and while we don't really do much in security we do provide a free security suite for our customers. More often than not we get a call from these people after they have been infected. The point of this is, it doesn't matter how good your av or firewall is you still have to contend with users who can't be bothered to educate themselves about basic safety precautions. Most of the people that I speak to are victims of a drive by attack (your computer is infected with 893 trojans/viruses) and never know what hit them. Until we can effectivly address the point and click mentality of these people we're always going to have the same problem.
AAH you must be using Vista (the disfunctioal redneck of operating systems). Some of this was actually fixed (gasp) in Windows 7. I'm still amazed that stuff actually works. For example, If you use the search panel at the bottom of the start menu it actually finds the program you want without going through a bunch of useless menu's. This is especially helpful to me as I support a bunch of end users that don't know their computer. If you get a 404 error sometimes the "diagnose" button actually will restore your connection. I've even seen it recover from a 169. ip address (kiss of death for tech support). Anyway, get Win 7 and you'll be happy.
I wish they did thing like us. Here's how it would work: 1-game publisher announces game 2-Outrage at amount of violence gore sex etc 3-Concerned parents talk to congress 4-Congress talks to the ESRB 5-publisher pays off the ESRB who lowers the rating and everyone's happy.
For a country who has modeled much of their government on our system you would think they would have picked up on this already.
Get over it, privacy is dead (according to that asshole from facebook) and any website/app will mine/sell your data. Information is the new currency of the web. If you are going to be sold you might as well get something for it (enter Google Apps)
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Am I the only one who saw the Target bullseye in the backround? So....the employees at Target are aliens???
That's irrelevant. If they were collecting bodies and helping wounded the guy should not have fired. I guess he thought the guy in the van was giving aid to the enemy. WTF
And we wonder why people "over there" hate us. I wish they could differentiate us from our government. This will never end while we are over there making mistakes like this.
It's hard to win hearts and minds of the civilians you are trying to protet if you send in a gunship to slaughter them. I wish we as a country would concentrate more on hearts and minds as I think the payoff is much greater.
The only way to bring the MAFIAA to their knee's is to not buy their product. I realize that's easier said than done but torrenting isn't the solution. It does help swing the balance of power but it's only temporary. They are turning up the pressure and eventually the studio's will drive "piracy" underground. It'll never die but all they need to do is drive it out of the mainstream. By the looks of things that's exactly what they're doing.
Farmville = Soft core gaming for the uninitiated dweeb. My wife told me I should try Mafia Wars. I was bored after 5 minutes and went back to Grand Theft Auto.
Sadly the lack of scientific knowledge in jurors and judges makes it such that they are unlikely to be able to understand the issue beyond the false experts and fancy lawyer talkin'.
The cynic in me assumes this is on purpose. People who are "dumbed down" are easier to control. Pretty sad really. We are living in a country where the general population shuns scientific advances in favor of religion and faith. /my opinion
No god particles here. We got plenty of black holes though.
"The real pirates will swab the decks with these amateur wanna-be's." like they do every time. You'd figure when a 16 year old {dvd john} breaks your weak ass content protection system you would sit up and notice but they never learn.
Umm keystroke logger on all computers. There fixed that for you.
Why would you be posting while you are supposed to be working anyway? If you are stupid enough to do this at work then you deserve what you get. Most companies I have worked for have the standard disclaimer that allows them to spy on you so no big deal here. What would worry me (if I even cared about social networking etc)is someone from work looking at what I post on my own time. But then again you have no reason to expect any privacy (coming from the bastard who said privacy is dead) so what's the point. Social networking is another word for data mining which is why I don't use it.
lmfao only a truly sick person could see that.my compliments to you sir.
Regarding your comment about a legitimate election being "wrong" because people voted the "incorrect way", most American people I know (myself included) consider that to be a basic freedom. In America you are free to utter thinly veiled racist comments in order to appeal to your political base of other racist jackasses. The Chinese people lack that basic freedom due to an oppressive government. Your comment about vulgar and uncivilized Americans truly shows how truly ignorant you are.
This is par for the course for them. I've bought two laptops from them in recent years and they have a "computer tune up" service you can get for 39.95. The services offeered are: 1-Perform system updates and improve PC speed and performance, including startup and shutdown optimization 2-Windows updating, menu navigation improvement, quick launch and taskbar cleanup and program shortcut creation 3-Enable basic security functions, including antiphishing and pop-up blocking activation in Internet Explorer 4-Remove unwanted programs and trialware 5-Create desired user accounts (if applicable) 6-Test and verify PC hardware and software functionality #6 was interesting because you know they prob got paid to put some of that there in the first place. Anyway, the long and short of it is, with the exception of the crapware the comp was up to date with patches etc. It just goes to show you just how conniving they are.
How can anyone mod the parent "interesting" when it's clearly funny. Must have been a bot or something.
LMFAO wish I still had mod points +1 funny.
Exactly. I'm always skeptical when they pack stuff like this into phones etc. You figure they have to cut corners somewhere right. Personally I think the engineers should tell the marketing department to stfu.
MONEY GREED MARKETSHARE umm...does that answer your question?
Honestly I'm amazed that Apple even allowed them to put it in the app store. I'd trade a decent amount of browser speed for an inefficient browser loaded down with crapware any day.
Every major av vendor I know of (Symantec, Mcafee, Panda, Trend Micro, Kaspersky etc) do something like this so I disagree that there is a hidden agenda here. We saw the NY Times exploit on Slashdot a while back so they're not spreading FUD. As far as digging into the real problem, I guess it depends on the audience.
His comment had noting to do with being snarky. I belive he was referring to the apathy many American people feel toward politicians our political system in general. We almost expect them to lie cheat and steal so it's no surprise that they are good at it.
I do tech support for a company that will remain nameless and while we don't really do much in security we do provide a free security suite for our customers. More often than not we get a call from these people after they have been infected. The point of this is, it doesn't matter how good your av or firewall is you still have to contend with users who can't be bothered to educate themselves about basic safety precautions. Most of the people that I speak to are victims of a drive by attack (your computer is infected with 893 trojans/viruses) and never know what hit them. Until we can effectivly address the point and click mentality of these people we're always going to have the same problem.
AAH you must be using Vista (the disfunctioal redneck of operating systems). Some of this was actually fixed (gasp) in Windows 7. I'm still amazed that stuff actually works. For example, If you use the search panel at the bottom of the start menu it actually finds the program you want without going through a bunch of useless menu's. This is especially helpful to me as I support a bunch of end users that don't know their computer. If you get a 404 error sometimes the "diagnose" button actually will restore your connection. I've even seen it recover from a 169. ip address (kiss of death for tech support). Anyway, get Win 7 and you'll be happy.
I wish they did thing like us. Here's how it would work:
1-game publisher announces game
2-Outrage at amount of violence gore sex etc
3-Concerned parents talk to congress
4-Congress talks to the ESRB
5-publisher pays off the ESRB who lowers the rating and everyone's happy.
For a country who has modeled much of their government on our system you would think they would have picked up on this already.
Get over it, privacy is dead (according to that asshole from facebook) and any website/app will mine/sell your data. Information is the new currency of the web. If you are going to be sold you might as well get something for it (enter Google Apps)