I take it you never worked in any kind of monitoring and enforcement. In reality, what grabs your attention (in addition to user reports) is the certain known patterns which give you a starting point from which to investigate.
I did some of investigating certain port scan patterns back when I was admin on a university campus. About 95% of people doing it were innocent of any wrongdoing, usually gamers with games that did massively overly broad LAN IP/port scanning searching for other players running the same game. About 95% of those who weren't were just starting script kiddies, and catching them in act early let me let them off with a slap on the wrist and no real damage to them or other people. Just young nerds who got their "oh my god 10mbps network" back in POTS modem age, saw another couple of hundred clueless people on the same network and figured they could root their unsecured windows machines to pump up their directconnect hub shares.
And then there were two people I got who were seriously trying to search for vulnerabilities and install trojans on computers of others people for much worse reasons, including one asshole who was actively trying (and succeeding in some cases) to access email accounts and other personal data of young female students to better harass them in real life. These two were banned from campus network and none of those two would have been caught that early in act (if at all), if it were for those of us volunteering as admins following up on certain usage patterns.
FBI is giving out certain usage patterns associated with certain kind of crime. I can very much envision this being incorporated into some sort of workplace monitoring scheme on the email server which will have about the same kind of accuracy. But it gives a starting point from which to look at, and nothing more. For example, your spam, while it would certainly attract attention, would pretty much immediately be disgarded as "not what we're looking for" for obvious reasons, because while it does meet the criteria for the starting point, it's also obviously not what any enforcer would be looking for.
Reporting a crime requires crime that was actually perpetrated, and you wanting to report it. In many cases, things can be managed within company/organization without having to involve actual law enforcement with far lesser consequences for all parties involved.
It goes further then that. Nurses frequently work with patients who have weakened immune systems. These people rely on others, especially medical personnel with whom they have to interact often, to not carry microorganisms that are threatening to their health in amounts significant enough for transmission.
Frankly, this is a bit like pyromaniac trying to work as a fireman.
Actually when it comes to navigation, WP uses nokia maps as base. Those are ahead of google map by a very big margin in terms of accuracy, as they use NavTeq mapping data.
NavTeq collects mapping data from paid local agents and organisations, and has been doing so before Google came to existence.
Point being microsoft is skype's parent company. WP7 could allow certain programs using certain internal APIs to have this functionality. Yet skype, made by microsoft's fully owned subsidiary, could not do this.
WP7 skype was utterly terrible as well. You couldn't even receive calls on it when it wasn't on foreground. It seems more an issue of actual incompetence then intentional malice.
What eye candy are you talking about? Pretty much the only meaningful improvement is in 3D glasses handling, and that covers what, low single digit percentage number of all users if even that? And that has little to do with actual eye candy and everything with proper support anyway. And I couldn't see those improvements on any blogs, websites or trading publications if I wanted to, because to see them, I would need... 3D glasses. I can only read descriptions of the aforementioned improvements and find myself caring very little if at all.
Other improvements in DX11.1 are not even worthy of mentioning, they are so insignificant.
Oni, and his sound card is excellent./signed owned of a 5.1 speaker setup hooked up to his machine to tried said soundcard, but ended up preferring SB audigy2 anyway.
DX11.1 adds essentially nothing of value over DX11. DX9>DX11 added a huge amount of stuff that mattered. Win7 is quite secure. Again, change from XP to Seven was huge, change from Seven to Eight is miniscule. Lastly, do people even shut down their machines anymore for anything other then updates? Everyone I know hibernates their machines.
The more popular guys who actually got laid did understand it however.
Personally I was always in the middle ground, as I happened to be both a "jock" (I was great at sports, still am) and a "nerd" (I liked computers), so I can understand both points of view.
But popular culture is about of giving young people regardless of sex one of greatest tools of sorting who is a part of "popular" crowd and who isn't. That is why view numbers now and DJs playing the music before matters so much when you're commercially producing music aimed several different buyers (such as young teens, older teens, young adults and so on). So if you wanted to get laid with the popular, materialistic stereotypical female, you had to understand exactly how popular culture works and play your cards accordingly.
I still remember a thread on League of Legends forums where Riot, the company behind the game started calling people out on real reasons for their bans. With detailed explanations.
The stuff that they quoted was so full of absolutely retarded levels of flaming and trolling you almost had to bring a fire extinguisher just to read the thread. The really nice sounding people on the forums who made really good cases about how they were unfairly banned came out as ridiculous trolls telling people that they will fuck their victims' mothers while they are dying of cancer and so on.
Nowadays they have this thing called "reform card" which people who get banned by the democratic enforcement system they have in place now get in their mail when they are punished. And we still get a whole lot of threads where people post a link to the reform card choke full of rage, flaming and trolling and ask "why was I punished, I did nothing wrong?"
It just shows that people will come up with most outlandish self delusions when they are punished to avoid having to take the blame for their mistakes in their minds.
Pretty much this. With free sites, you get the service you paid for. Remember, they don't care about you or your success - they care about giving you free dose at the start to hook you and then milk you as hard as they can.
Considering how the video went viral, and how little marketing was used for it in the beginning (which is how music industry is likely inflating, to get music "started up"), it's pretty unlikely that videos like gangnam style would be guilty of artificial inflation to any meaningful extent.
This is more of a thing of a large industry which needs its videos to look good at the very start to succeed. Gangnam style took months from being published to going viral.
None. Most of them are about reducing congestion problems, typically through reducing range (like 2.4GHz to 5GHz shift) or various antennae and beamforming solutions.
Your problem is the exact opposite, and typically handled by installing additional WiFi routers or amplifiers. Your problem has been long solved, but it would appear that your motel is simply not interested in investing in solutions.
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This happened on the ground when plane was empty of people.
Intriguing point, I never thought about it like that.
I take it you never worked in any kind of monitoring and enforcement. In reality, what grabs your attention (in addition to user reports) is the certain known patterns which give you a starting point from which to investigate.
I did some of investigating certain port scan patterns back when I was admin on a university campus. About 95% of people doing it were innocent of any wrongdoing, usually gamers with games that did massively overly broad LAN IP/port scanning searching for other players running the same game. About 95% of those who weren't were just starting script kiddies, and catching them in act early let me let them off with a slap on the wrist and no real damage to them or other people. Just young nerds who got their "oh my god 10mbps network" back in POTS modem age, saw another couple of hundred clueless people on the same network and figured they could root their unsecured windows machines to pump up their directconnect hub shares.
And then there were two people I got who were seriously trying to search for vulnerabilities and install trojans on computers of others people for much worse reasons, including one asshole who was actively trying (and succeeding in some cases) to access email accounts and other personal data of young female students to better harass them in real life. These two were banned from campus network and none of those two would have been caught that early in act (if at all), if it were for those of us volunteering as admins following up on certain usage patterns.
FBI is giving out certain usage patterns associated with certain kind of crime. I can very much envision this being incorporated into some sort of workplace monitoring scheme on the email server which will have about the same kind of accuracy. But it gives a starting point from which to look at, and nothing more. For example, your spam, while it would certainly attract attention, would pretty much immediately be disgarded as "not what we're looking for" for obvious reasons, because while it does meet the criteria for the starting point, it's also obviously not what any enforcer would be looking for.
Reporting a crime requires crime that was actually perpetrated, and you wanting to report it. In many cases, things can be managed within company/organization without having to involve actual law enforcement with far lesser consequences for all parties involved.
It goes further then that. Nurses frequently work with patients who have weakened immune systems. These people rely on others, especially medical personnel with whom they have to interact often, to not carry microorganisms that are threatening to their health in amounts significant enough for transmission.
Frankly, this is a bit like pyromaniac trying to work as a fireman.
He is flat out wrong to the point where it makes it questionable as to how he got his medical license.
Frankly, it makes one wonder what is next? Can a pyromaniac work as a fireman and refuse to work on fire prevention on religious grounds?
You misunderstand. This isn't about getting high amount of accuracy. It's about getting a starting point for such investigation.
On the topic of geeks making their stuff work for them, it is already happening. Wine has supported WoW for a long time.
Actually when it comes to navigation, WP uses nokia maps as base. Those are ahead of google map by a very big margin in terms of accuracy, as they use NavTeq mapping data.
NavTeq collects mapping data from paid local agents and organisations, and has been doing so before Google came to existence.
Are nokia maps still updated for n9?
I know they're still updated for my symbian phone and I've been eyeballing a used N9 as my next phone when this one eventually dies.
Point being microsoft is skype's parent company. WP7 could allow certain programs using certain internal APIs to have this functionality. Yet skype, made by microsoft's fully owned subsidiary, could not do this.
WP7 skype was utterly terrible as well. You couldn't even receive calls on it when it wasn't on foreground. It seems more an issue of actual incompetence then intentional malice.
Yes, because playing a computer game is completely comparable to hard drugs.
I'm guessing you're one of the people who blame video games for school shootings too?
People lost quite a bit of happiness. It's rather sad that there are individuals out there who value happiness of other people as "worth zero".
What eye candy are you talking about? Pretty much the only meaningful improvement is in 3D glasses handling, and that covers what, low single digit percentage number of all users if even that? And that has little to do with actual eye candy and everything with proper support anyway. And I couldn't see those improvements on any blogs, websites or trading publications if I wanted to, because to see them, I would need... 3D glasses. I can only read descriptions of the aforementioned improvements and find myself caring very little if at all.
Other improvements in DX11.1 are not even worthy of mentioning, they are so insignificant.
Oni, and his sound card is excellent. /signed owned of a 5.1 speaker setup hooked up to his machine to tried said soundcard, but ended up preferring SB audigy2 anyway.
DX11.1 adds essentially nothing of value over DX11. DX9>DX11 added a huge amount of stuff that mattered.
Win7 is quite secure. Again, change from XP to Seven was huge, change from Seven to Eight is miniscule.
Lastly, do people even shut down their machines anymore for anything other then updates? Everyone I know hibernates their machines.
The more popular guys who actually got laid did understand it however.
Personally I was always in the middle ground, as I happened to be both a "jock" (I was great at sports, still am) and a "nerd" (I liked computers), so I can understand both points of view.
But popular culture is about of giving young people regardless of sex one of greatest tools of sorting who is a part of "popular" crowd and who isn't. That is why view numbers now and DJs playing the music before matters so much when you're commercially producing music aimed several different buyers (such as young teens, older teens, young adults and so on). So if you wanted to get laid with the popular, materialistic stereotypical female, you had to understand exactly how popular culture works and play your cards accordingly.
I still remember a thread on League of Legends forums where Riot, the company behind the game started calling people out on real reasons for their bans. With detailed explanations.
The stuff that they quoted was so full of absolutely retarded levels of flaming and trolling you almost had to bring a fire extinguisher just to read the thread. The really nice sounding people on the forums who made really good cases about how they were unfairly banned came out as ridiculous trolls telling people that they will fuck their victims' mothers while they are dying of cancer and so on.
Nowadays they have this thing called "reform card" which people who get banned by the democratic enforcement system they have in place now get in their mail when they are punished. And we still get a whole lot of threads where people post a link to the reform card choke full of rage, flaming and trolling and ask "why was I punished, I did nothing wrong?"
It just shows that people will come up with most outlandish self delusions when they are punished to avoid having to take the blame for their mistakes in their minds.
Pretty much this. With free sites, you get the service you paid for. Remember, they don't care about you or your success - they care about giving you free dose at the start to hook you and then milk you as hard as they can.
Considering how the video went viral, and how little marketing was used for it in the beginning (which is how music industry is likely inflating, to get music "started up"), it's pretty unlikely that videos like gangnam style would be guilty of artificial inflation to any meaningful extent.
This is more of a thing of a large industry which needs its videos to look good at the very start to succeed. Gangnam style took months from being published to going viral.
No, get them for defrauding advertisers, who assume the views are legit and pay money for them.
Shorter range is a significant advantage today because it reduces interference.
Interference is probably the main reason for lack of speed and reliability in modern city apartment WiFi.
None. Most of them are about reducing congestion problems, typically through reducing range (like 2.4GHz to 5GHz shift) or various antennae and beamforming solutions.
Your problem is the exact opposite, and typically handled by installing additional WiFi routers or amplifiers. Your problem has been long solved, but it would appear that your motel is simply not interested in investing in solutions.
I'm sure much of the slashdot shares your definition of "easy" and "hard.
I like how you successfully confirmed the subject you were trying to deny on the first line of your post with second line of your post.