It's called game testing, and it barely makes minimum wage. Unfortunately many high-school kids don't realize how little those jobs pay and actually make them "career goals".
Very interesting idea. Consequently, Space is the only key you don't hit in combination with shift (except for gaming), tough if you do it right you should still be able to hit both simultaneously.
I'm waiting for the day when consumers can layout their own keyboards. We already have custom-fittings for earplugs, car seats (luxury only at this point), clothing, safety equipment and much more. Why not computer hardware?
Funny, I'm the complete opposite. My pinky finger can't even reach the bottom-left corner of my keyboard without causing cramps, so for me it's the perfect place to stash the one key that I don't use while touch typing.
We also haven't (to my knowledge) developed anything that logically works like our brains. A computer follows rules, procedures and steps to accomplish tasks. The human brain is completely different.
Our brains work by association and reference. When a computer comes up with an answer it either calculates it or looks it up in a file or database according to some criteria. When a human comes up with an answer, it is a complex procedure where everything that is currently in memory (even things that are completely unrelated) are used as starting blocks and our brains does this weird spanning tree where it jumps between thoughts, ideas and memories through their relationships. For instance, if you make a computer repeat a number (or calculation, etc) and then ask it something completely unrelated (like, pick a random vegetable), it's answer will seldom have anything to do with its other work. Contrastly, if you tell a human to say "six" a bunch of times, then pick a vegetable, 98% will pick carrot. Skip the "six" part, and your results will be completely different.
In short, computers have no intuition or ability to associate things with each other unless its designer gives it criteria (or the definition of criteria) with which to work. A human brain generates these relationships subconsiously, almost by accident.
The extra Ethernet isn't just for the TV, but the things plugged into the TV as well. A couple game consoles, a DVR, a smart TV, audio system, etc. Just about all multimedia devices support Ethernet these days.
Whenever I've had to do warranty repairs, I make a point of verifying multiple times that I can send the laptop in without the harddrive. I simply explain that I have confidential information, including information related to 3rd parties (which there is) and they usually just put a note in the support ticket. This also prevents the "we had to reformat the hdd to fix the problem" scenerio.
First, the stores know it was a credit card purchase because you usually have to bring in your receipt to get the return, or did you think they would be able to look up the sale in the computer just by looking at the product?!?
As for the rest of your explanations, those are all related to rentals where a "you may owe us money if you fuck it up" agreement is always presented clearly before they record your information, but I can see by the hilarious link in your signature that you may have difficulty following peoples' explanations.
The only legitimate way (for the store) that I can see having caused this is Travis Mansbridge's explanation (in the sibling post to yours) where the POS machines where compromised.
Sorry, I should have been more clear and ruled out your technicality. The physics we have studied (in black holes, etc) correlate with the physics we observe on earth. I didn't mean to say that all of the laws of physics are different, only those that we have studied. I meant physics in the sense of what we have recorded in the field of physics, similar to how most people when referring to biology are in fact referring to earthly biology. For instance, most people would say that water is a requirement of life, but it's technically only a requirement of life we have observed.
The cards in question (it's even in the summary) were used at brick and mortar retailers. I want to know how/why these credit card numbers were being stored in the first place. If I walk into a store and buy something with a credit card, they have NO business keeping that information after they've received the money!
We have plenty of places in this Universe that are ruled by different (from Earth) physics (inside a black hole, or a neutron star, etc.)
No, they are the same physics. The effects (time dilation, etc) are simply more prominent because the inputs (mass density, etc) are at such high extremes.
Depending on the software you are using for receiving your email, you may be able to do a partial catch-all. For instance, have it accept any emails sent to "spamcatch.xxxxxx@yourdomain.com", then just change the xxxxx part. This still lets you track which company gave away your email and also reduces the chances of getting someone else's mail by accident.
Of course the best solution is to make a script or something that lets you quickly generate one-off accounts, but the above may be enticing if you insist of doing it the lazy way.
I also run startx (will xinit) from terminal as a non-root user and my X server still runs as root (this is on arch linux). Seems strange to me as well.
1) Encourage lots of people to get the service
2) Wait a few months for them to sink money into hardware and infrastructure due to high demand
3) Hit them with a boycott
4) Anti-profit!
Not quite. Javascript can also make outgoing connections. There used to be a lot of attacks that used javascript to connect to machine on your side of the router (or even local ports). Browser developers have been working on closing these for a while now, but they haven't fixed them all yet.
For the amount of money Yahoo is being paid to serve these adds, they should be heavily reviewing any that are anything more than an image with a link.
At least with the bb keys you can feel where the edge of the key is. With a touchscreen you can't even SEE the edge of the key because your damn finger is in the way!
Bitcoins are not "generated" currency. While bitcoins themselves may be generated through the algorithm, that does not cause a generation of total bitcoin value in the system. When new bitcoins get generated, a slight drop (or lessening of the increase) of the value of any given bitcoin occurs. If a billion bitcoins suddenly got generated (due to a bug, etc), bitcoins value would plummit. This is very similar to other countries who suddenly decide to print a bunch of money. When this happens, other countries devaluate the exchange of that currency and the only real effect felt is the devaluation of the value of overyone else's money that happens to be in the same currency (unless of course the printing/generating is done in secret, but that just delays the crash).
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JavaScript was the "hot" back-end technology about 4-5 years ago. At that time, most devs have concluded that it's not so hot after all.
FTFY
It's called game testing, and it barely makes minimum wage. Unfortunately many high-school kids don't realize how little those jobs pay and actually make them "career goals".
Very interesting idea. Consequently, Space is the only key you don't hit in combination with shift (except for gaming), tough if you do it right you should still be able to hit both simultaneously.
I'm waiting for the day when consumers can layout their own keyboards. We already have custom-fittings for earplugs, car seats (luxury only at this point), clothing, safety equipment and much more. Why not computer hardware?
Funny, I'm the complete opposite. My pinky finger can't even reach the bottom-left corner of my keyboard without causing cramps, so for me it's the perfect place to stash the one key that I don't use while touch typing.
I'm not saying it's impossible to make computers think like us, just that we are nowhere near doing it at this point in history.
We also haven't (to my knowledge) developed anything that logically works like our brains. A computer follows rules, procedures and steps to accomplish tasks. The human brain is completely different.
Our brains work by association and reference. When a computer comes up with an answer it either calculates it or looks it up in a file or database according to some criteria. When a human comes up with an answer, it is a complex procedure where everything that is currently in memory (even things that are completely unrelated) are used as starting blocks and our brains does this weird spanning tree where it jumps between thoughts, ideas and memories through their relationships. For instance, if you make a computer repeat a number (or calculation, etc) and then ask it something completely unrelated (like, pick a random vegetable), it's answer will seldom have anything to do with its other work. Contrastly, if you tell a human to say "six" a bunch of times, then pick a vegetable, 98% will pick carrot. Skip the "six" part, and your results will be completely different.
In short, computers have no intuition or ability to associate things with each other unless its designer gives it criteria (or the definition of criteria) with which to work. A human brain generates these relationships subconsiously, almost by accident.
The extra Ethernet isn't just for the TV, but the things plugged into the TV as well. A couple game consoles, a DVR, a smart TV, audio system, etc. Just about all multimedia devices support Ethernet these days.
That's why you click on sources and see where they lead before blindly accepting them...
Whenever I've had to do warranty repairs, I make a point of verifying multiple times that I can send the laptop in without the harddrive. I simply explain that I have confidential information, including information related to 3rd parties (which there is) and they usually just put a note in the support ticket. This also prevents the "we had to reformat the hdd to fix the problem" scenerio.
Don't make a claim and then expect the skeptics to find your evidence for you.
First, the stores know it was a credit card purchase because you usually have to bring in your receipt to get the return, or did you think they would be able to look up the sale in the computer just by looking at the product?!?
As for the rest of your explanations, those are all related to rentals where a "you may owe us money if you fuck it up" agreement is always presented clearly before they record your information, but I can see by the hilarious link in your signature that you may have difficulty following peoples' explanations.
The only legitimate way (for the store) that I can see having caused this is Travis Mansbridge's explanation (in the sibling post to yours) where the POS machines where compromised.
Sorry, I should have been more clear and ruled out your technicality. The physics we have studied (in black holes, etc) correlate with the physics we observe on earth. I didn't mean to say that all of the laws of physics are different, only those that we have studied. I meant physics in the sense of what we have recorded in the field of physics, similar to how most people when referring to biology are in fact referring to earthly biology. For instance, most people would say that water is a requirement of life, but it's technically only a requirement of life we have observed.
Very nice solution, I will have to consider doing that!
The cards in question (it's even in the summary) were used at brick and mortar retailers. I want to know how/why these credit card numbers were being stored in the first place. If I walk into a store and buy something with a credit card, they have NO business keeping that information after they've received the money!
We have plenty of places in this Universe that are ruled by different (from Earth) physics (inside a black hole, or a neutron star, etc.)
No, they are the same physics. The effects (time dilation, etc) are simply more prominent because the inputs (mass density, etc) are at such high extremes.
Of course, but most people wouldn't intrisically know what a catch-some is. catch-all has become a term of its own.
Depending on the software you are using for receiving your email, you may be able to do a partial catch-all. For instance, have it accept any emails sent to "spamcatch.xxxxxx@yourdomain.com", then just change the xxxxx part. This still lets you track which company gave away your email and also reduces the chances of getting someone else's mail by accident.
Of course the best solution is to make a script or something that lets you quickly generate one-off accounts, but the above may be enticing if you insist of doing it the lazy way.
Wouldn't the same apply to second hand computers/laptops/tablets, etc?
I also run startx (will xinit) from terminal as a non-root user and my X server still runs as root (this is on arch linux). Seems strange to me as well.
You can't patent and algorithm. At least your not supposed to be able to...
Better idea:
1) Encourage lots of people to get the service
2) Wait a few months for them to sink money into hardware and infrastructure due to high demand
3) Hit them with a boycott
4) Anti-profit!
Not quite. Javascript can also make outgoing connections. There used to be a lot of attacks that used javascript to connect to machine on your side of the router (or even local ports). Browser developers have been working on closing these for a while now, but they haven't fixed them all yet.
For the amount of money Yahoo is being paid to serve these adds, they should be heavily reviewing any that are anything more than an image with a link.
At least with the bb keys you can feel where the edge of the key is. With a touchscreen you can't even SEE the edge of the key because your damn finger is in the way!
Bitcoins are not "generated" currency. While bitcoins themselves may be generated through the algorithm, that does not cause a generation of total bitcoin value in the system. When new bitcoins get generated, a slight drop (or lessening of the increase) of the value of any given bitcoin occurs. If a billion bitcoins suddenly got generated (due to a bug, etc), bitcoins value would plummit. This is very similar to other countries who suddenly decide to print a bunch of money. When this happens, other countries devaluate the exchange of that currency and the only real effect felt is the devaluation of the value of overyone else's money that happens to be in the same currency (unless of course the printing/generating is done in secret, but that just delays the crash).