It would have been interesting to post that exact same comment here two years ago, substituting only the word "Obama" for the word "Bush".
Not attributing this to you personally, but when you point a finger at the current boogeyman you should fully except the same thing to happen with the next guy.
It's immaterial whether Obama was personally responsible or not. The buck stops with the President, whether that President is Truman, Bush or Obama. It's his administration, it's his responsibility, and he will be held to the same standards of judgment as the previous President.
I'm insulted, and appalled. What is next, refusing service if you have ( legal ) things they don't approve of on your drive ( like porn? )
That's not "next", that's "now". Try getting support on an iPhone where you've installed software that hasn't been specifically approved for you to use by Apple.
The walled garden sure is beautiful, but there are guards everywhere.
The game wasn't kind to the Russians, the Brits or the Americans. All three were responsible for massive civilian casualties at different points in the game. The only difference is that there's an entire (optional and clearly labeled) level where you are directly responsible and at that time you're part of a Russian terrorist team.
If you are using Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome, get Greasemonkey and install the Facebook Purity script (http://steeev.freehostia.com/wp/2009/03/19/facebook_purity_cleans_up_the_facebook_homepage/).
It blocks Mafia Wars, Farmville, quizzes and more. Basically you just see stuff your friends actually write.
http://www.cygnion.net/ It did exist, and there are still some available out there if you look hard enough. It had some issues, the main one being lack of sales hampering the development of the technology any further, but it worked pretty well all being said.
I owned a CyberGenie, which was circa 2001 or 2002, something like that. If I remember right it was actually developed by Ericsson and then spun off as Cygnion just before they launched the product, where it died a pretty quick death during the dot.bomb. Seems like it was less than one year, but that was a while back and my memory is fuzzy. Required an always-on Windows system to run, and the wireless handsets had terrible range. An interesting concept, though.
There isn't a middle ground. Leased lines like T1 and T3 are tariffed. Ethernet, DSL, and cable aren't so they can do stupid crap with pricing and service 'till the cows come home. There's usually an SLA on a T1 and that adds some cost. Although you can get a T1 for $400 to $700 these days, that's still way too much for exactly what you're talking about. Forget pricing out multilink T1 for 3 meg fixed.
There is definitely a middle ground. I suspect all of the broadband providers offer both residential and business packages, and I know for a fact that Cox, Time Warner and Verizon all do.
I pay for business services, even though I do not own a business, because (1) I do not want to be contractually restricted to a speed cap, (2) I want a support team that can do more than advise me to reset my modem and (3) I want to run web services without violating my contract. My provider had no problem provisioning business services in my home, I just had to call a different number to order service.
It costs about twice as much as residential service, but nowhere near what a T1 costs, and it's much faster to boot.
(1) The price goes up because the cable channels keep demanding more money. At one time channels asked for about 25 cents per home, and collected that money from Comcast, Dish, Directv, and so on. In today's world some channels like CNN or FOX News still only ask for 25 cents, but other channels like Sci-Fi, TNT, ABCfamily, and Disney are demanding 90 cents per subscriber, with the most-expensive channel ESPN charging $3/subscriber.
Therefore since these cable channels are demanding more fees, our monthly bills also go up.
(2) I'd say Dish and Directv are competing more with cable than one another. Dish now offers service for a mere $20 a month, plus $5 if you want locals, which is a darn good deal. Certainly better than what Comcast would charge me (~$65).
(3) I actually have neither of these. I get my TV for free via antenna (about 45 channels total), plus $15 internet for video-on-demand.
On top of that, the media conglomerates make demands about packaged channels.
"You want to offer Discovery channel to your subscribers? You'll need to pay for these other six shitty channels barely anyone wants to watch, too."
Then the cost gets passed along to the subscriber.
Dish seems to do a better job of fighting this than DirecTV or any of the cable providers. Or at least I've heard about them fighting it and no one else (I am not a Dish customer).
The real issue here is that building infrastructure like this requires such a huge amount of capital that it's a natural monopoly.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, necessarily, but I would like to point out that these companies invested the massive capital required into the infrastructure precisely because they would have a guaranteed monopoly to pay back their investment. It's not a natural monopoly, it's a legally guaranteed monopoly. It would have been better to put a reasonable sunset on the monopoly, if one is necessary to get the infrastructure moving, and that's the real error that was made.
The other option is to nationalize the infrastructure, which has happened in some other countries. None with a geography anywhere near the size of the USA, though, and we're already burning through cash so fast our great-grandkids will still be cussing us long after we're dead.
Also seems like vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 for all the Debian boxes I can get my hands on...
I just looked and it's >0 on my Debian box, which is patched regularly but still uses packaged kernels. So I guess that would be one of the ones you can't get your hands on.:P
In this case, it sounds like the customer was pretty glad they'd used weak passwords.
The implication is that they'd locked some files up in an encrypted zip, forgotten the password, and wanted the contents back.
If they'd chosen a stronger key, they'd not have got their files back.
TFA:
This analysis may be insightful as you develop your enterprise password policies, or choose your personal passwords.
(A good password policy is: don't forget your passwords!)
Alternatively, an disgruntled former employee may have refused to divulge the password. A third possibility is that this individual became unable to reveal the password through injury or death.
And this is the major problem with the series really, idiot fans who will read whatever pages he wiped his ass with regardless of their content or quality... listen to yourself, its horribly edited, rambling, but I'll DEFINITELY read it. They know they can put out crap and you somehow feel you've put too much into it to turn back. Sounds like a great reason to write 30 more books to me.
I look at the entire work and decide if there's enough good too offset the drivel. Everyone has a different threshold. I have problems with parts the series but not so many that I'm not enjoying it overall. I wish it were better but I do not wish it had never been written at all.
And that right there is the problem with roughly half of the books in this series; weak editing. No one appeared to be keeping Jordan in control and preventing him from spinning off more and more subplots that did little or nothing to move the story forward. Literally thousands of pages where major plot elements were barely even touched upon. I don't presume to understand how the relationship works when you're married to your editor, but it must have some kind of impact on how criticism is applied and conveyed.
I still really enjoy the series as an overall work. I'll definitely read the new one when it's available in an ebook format. I just wish Jordan had had a good editor so he could have finished his masterpiece himself.
I suspect (but do not know) that once we see the actual emails there's no way on earth anyone with an IQ above retarded would believe it was real.
Man, you've got your headquarters in your hindquarters. No offense.
No offense taken.
(1) Telling lies from truth is different from IQ. Some very bright people are extremely gullible, some very dull people have an unerring radar for falsehoods.
Perhaps I used the wrong semantics. I don't mean that literally. What I meant is that a reasonable person would be able to understand that it isn't "real". It appears likely to me that this woman is just greedy. But as I said I've not seen the campaign materials, so it's just what I suspect based on my knowledge of similar "viral" marketing.
(2) It's neither morally nor legally permissible to purposely scare the hell out of someone merely because they're less intelligent.
I'm really not sure how to respond to this, except to say that I believe thinking like this created the concept of Politically Correct speech. You need to ask yourself if this woman had a reasonable reaction. It's safe to assume that Toyota doesn't think they can sell cars by scaring the hell out of people.
(3) Many tens of thousands of people - mostly women - are stalked each year in this great nation, and a portion of them murdered by their stalkers. So a campaign like this odds are will reach some of them, who already know that stalking threats are real, have already been stalked, and just like a veteran hearing a backfire and finding himself back in battle, can easily be returned to the real psychological state - even by an instance they intellectually know is fake.
I understand what you're saying, but would it not be a more reasonable to contact law enforcement and seek protection, then sue? Her lawyer wouldn't say if she had or not, but I'm confident if she had actually called the cops then she'd be suing them, too.
Maybe, but terrifying sure is. Victims of stalking find that they are incapable of doing day-to-day things. The lady had a legitimate fear, she told her friends, then she later was ridiculed for those fears. This is all the fault of Toyota.
I for one hope that she wins the whole $10 million. Maybe only that way will dumb-ass marketers start *thinking* about what they do!
I suspect (but do not know) that once we see the actual emails there's no way on earth anyone with an IQ above retarded would believe it was real. Have you ever seen one of these campaigns? Even imbeciles know they're fake.
I'm not a fanboi of any particular OS and use all the major ones at home (Win7, Macbook Pro, Ubuntu, Debian, BSD, etc.). They're just tools and they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
But this is a serious bug, and based on the past I'm certain there would be many posts from smug Apple fanbois if it had been a Windows bug. I don't use my Guest account either, but that doesn't mean it would have sucked major ass if I had lost all my data because I did. The user could not possibly predict that just using the Guest account would incur this kind of risk.
It doesn't make sense to be an apologist. I cannot understand why Apple seems to get a free pass from their user community when this sort of thing happens to them. It's not enough to point out that the other developers have problems, too. Get pissed off and help them be better next time.
You know, I had noticed a very anti-nVidia bias from the Inquirer before and once I saw your post I realized I hadn't seen any of that sort of thing for a while. Good post. As a disinterested observer I'll confirm that The Inquirer definitely has (had?) it in for nVidia for some reason.
I think it's because the first movies came out in the 70's and 80's aimed at the PG-13 market, and we didn't have major release movies showing endless hordes getting mowed down in the style of Tarentino or Rodriguez back then. Heck, the PG-13 didn't even exist at the time, and a R rating would have probably made Star Wars stillborn. As far as I can recall, the first three movies were completely bloodless. Pretty sure all of them were, come to think of it.
Shooting a stormtrooper was like shooting a robot; they didn't come across as being "people" on the screen, just faceless, nameless "bad guys" with no emotional impact or graphic violence tied to their deaths. I think if they were creating the stormtrooper costumes today they'd look quite different.
I've only ever heard pidgin in reference to something the locals in Hawaii speak, but never in reference to mainland black dialects. I think we're still calling that ebonics or some such made-up word?
It's not just fraud that's a potential problem. Any job where you have access to sensitive information should require background check, with the employee's knowledge and permission, of course. If someone is in serious debt they are more likely to compromise their integrity.
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It would have been interesting to post that exact same comment here two years ago, substituting only the word "Obama" for the word "Bush".
Not attributing this to you personally, but when you point a finger at the current boogeyman you should fully except the same thing to happen with the next guy.
It's immaterial whether Obama was personally responsible or not. The buck stops with the President, whether that President is Truman, Bush or Obama. It's his administration, it's his responsibility, and he will be held to the same standards of judgment as the previous President.
It is a strange day on /. when tubgirl is on topic...
Oh, if only that were true.
I'm insulted, and appalled. What is next, refusing service if you have ( legal ) things they don't approve of on your drive ( like porn? )
That's not "next", that's "now". Try getting support on an iPhone where you've installed software that hasn't been specifically approved for you to use by Apple.
The walled garden sure is beautiful, but there are guards everywhere.
The game wasn't kind to the Russians, the Brits or the Americans. All three were responsible for massive civilian casualties at different points in the game. The only difference is that there's an entire (optional and clearly labeled) level where you are directly responsible and at that time you're part of a Russian terrorist team.
If you are using Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome, get Greasemonkey and install the Facebook Purity script (http://steeev.freehostia.com/wp/2009/03/19/facebook_purity_cleans_up_the_facebook_homepage/).
It blocks Mafia Wars, Farmville, quizzes and more. Basically you just see stuff your friends actually write.
The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Wouldn't that also make it the least prestigious general decoration?
http://www.cygnion.net/
It did exist, and there are still some available out there if you look hard enough. It had some issues, the main one being lack of sales hampering the development of the technology any further, but it worked pretty well all being said.
I owned a CyberGenie, which was circa 2001 or 2002, something like that. If I remember right it was actually developed by Ericsson and then spun off as Cygnion just before they launched the product, where it died a pretty quick death during the dot.bomb. Seems like it was less than one year, but that was a while back and my memory is fuzzy. Required an always-on Windows system to run, and the wireless handsets had terrible range. An interesting concept, though.
There isn't a middle ground. Leased lines like T1 and T3 are tariffed. Ethernet, DSL, and cable aren't so they can do stupid crap with pricing and service 'till the cows come home. There's usually an SLA on a T1 and that adds some cost. Although you can get a T1 for $400 to $700 these days, that's still way too much for exactly what you're talking about. Forget pricing out multilink T1 for 3 meg fixed.
There is definitely a middle ground. I suspect all of the broadband providers offer both residential and business packages, and I know for a fact that Cox, Time Warner and Verizon all do.
I pay for business services, even though I do not own a business, because (1) I do not want to be contractually restricted to a speed cap, (2) I want a support team that can do more than advise me to reset my modem and (3) I want to run web services without violating my contract. My provider had no problem provisioning business services in my home, I just had to call a different number to order service.
It costs about twice as much as residential service, but nowhere near what a T1 costs, and it's much faster to boot.
(1) The price goes up because the cable channels keep demanding more money. At one time channels asked for about 25 cents per home, and collected that money from Comcast, Dish, Directv, and so on. In today's world some channels like CNN or FOX News still only ask for 25 cents, but other channels like Sci-Fi, TNT, ABCfamily, and Disney are demanding 90 cents per subscriber, with the most-expensive channel ESPN charging $3/subscriber.
Therefore since these cable channels are demanding more fees, our monthly bills also go up.
(2) I'd say Dish and Directv are competing more with cable than one another. Dish now offers service for a mere $20 a month, plus $5 if you want locals, which is a darn good deal. Certainly better than what Comcast would charge me (~$65).
(3) I actually have neither of these. I get my TV for free via antenna (about 45 channels total), plus $15 internet for video-on-demand.
On top of that, the media conglomerates make demands about packaged channels.
"You want to offer Discovery channel to your subscribers? You'll need to pay for these other six shitty channels barely anyone wants to watch, too."
Then the cost gets passed along to the subscriber.
Dish seems to do a better job of fighting this than DirecTV or any of the cable providers. Or at least I've heard about them fighting it and no one else (I am not a Dish customer).
The real issue here is that building infrastructure like this requires such a huge amount of capital that it's a natural monopoly.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, necessarily, but I would like to point out that these companies invested the massive capital required into the infrastructure precisely because they would have a guaranteed monopoly to pay back their investment. It's not a natural monopoly, it's a legally guaranteed monopoly. It would have been better to put a reasonable sunset on the monopoly, if one is necessary to get the infrastructure moving, and that's the real error that was made.
The other option is to nationalize the infrastructure, which has happened in some other countries. None with a geography anywhere near the size of the USA, though, and we're already burning through cash so fast our great-grandkids will still be cussing us long after we're dead.
It's 4096 (by default) in the Debian-packaged kernel on my system as well.
Also seems like vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 for all the Debian boxes I can get my hands on...
I just looked and it's >0 on my Debian box, which is patched regularly but still uses packaged kernels. So I guess that would be one of the ones you can't get your hands on. :P
In this case, it sounds like the customer was pretty glad they'd used weak passwords.
The implication is that they'd locked some files up in an encrypted zip, forgotten the password, and wanted the contents back.
If they'd chosen a stronger key, they'd not have got their files back.
TFA:
This analysis may be insightful as you develop your enterprise password policies, or choose your personal passwords.
(A good password policy is: don't forget your passwords!)
Alternatively, an disgruntled former employee may have refused to divulge the password. A third possibility is that this individual became unable to reveal the password through injury or death.
And this is the major problem with the series really, idiot fans who will read whatever pages he wiped his ass with regardless of their content or quality... listen to yourself, its horribly edited, rambling, but I'll DEFINITELY read it. They know they can put out crap and you somehow feel you've put too much into it to turn back. Sounds like a great reason to write 30 more books to me.
I look at the entire work and decide if there's enough good too offset the drivel. Everyone has a different threshold. I have problems with parts the series but not so many that I'm not enjoying it overall. I wish it were better but I do not wish it had never been written at all.
Jordan's wife (who also edits the series)
And that right there is the problem with roughly half of the books in this series; weak editing. No one appeared to be keeping Jordan in control and preventing him from spinning off more and more subplots that did little or nothing to move the story forward. Literally thousands of pages where major plot elements were barely even touched upon. I don't presume to understand how the relationship works when you're married to your editor, but it must have some kind of impact on how criticism is applied and conveyed.
I still really enjoy the series as an overall work. I'll definitely read the new one when it's available in an ebook format. I just wish Jordan had had a good editor so he could have finished his masterpiece himself.
Man, you've got your headquarters in your hindquarters. No offense.
No offense taken.
(1) Telling lies from truth is different from IQ. Some very bright people are extremely gullible, some very dull people have an unerring radar for falsehoods.
Perhaps I used the wrong semantics. I don't mean that literally. What I meant is that a reasonable person would be able to understand that it isn't "real". It appears likely to me that this woman is just greedy. But as I said I've not seen the campaign materials, so it's just what I suspect based on my knowledge of similar "viral" marketing.
(2) It's neither morally nor legally permissible to purposely scare the hell out of someone merely because they're less intelligent.
I'm really not sure how to respond to this, except to say that I believe thinking like this created the concept of Politically Correct speech. You need to ask yourself if this woman had a reasonable reaction. It's safe to assume that Toyota doesn't think they can sell cars by scaring the hell out of people.
(3) Many tens of thousands of people - mostly women - are stalked each year in this great nation, and a portion of them murdered by their stalkers. So a campaign like this odds are will reach some of them, who already know that stalking threats are real, have already been stalked, and just like a veteran hearing a backfire and finding himself back in battle, can easily be returned to the real psychological state - even by an instance they intellectually know is fake.
I understand what you're saying, but would it not be a more reasonable to contact law enforcement and seek protection, then sue? Her lawyer wouldn't say if she had or not, but I'm confident if she had actually called the cops then she'd be suing them, too.
Maybe, but terrifying sure is. Victims of stalking find that they are incapable of doing day-to-day things. The lady had a legitimate fear, she told her friends, then she later was ridiculed for those fears. This is all the fault of Toyota.
I for one hope that she wins the whole $10 million. Maybe only that way will dumb-ass marketers start *thinking* about what they do!
I suspect (but do not know) that once we see the actual emails there's no way on earth anyone with an IQ above retarded would believe it was real. Have you ever seen one of these campaigns? Even imbeciles know they're fake.
I'm not a fanboi of any particular OS and use all the major ones at home (Win7, Macbook Pro, Ubuntu, Debian, BSD, etc.). They're just tools and they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
But this is a serious bug, and based on the past I'm certain there would be many posts from smug Apple fanbois if it had been a Windows bug. I don't use my Guest account either, but that doesn't mean it would have sucked major ass if I had lost all my data because I did. The user could not possibly predict that just using the Guest account would incur this kind of risk.
It doesn't make sense to be an apologist. I cannot understand why Apple seems to get a free pass from their user community when this sort of thing happens to them. It's not enough to point out that the other developers have problems, too. Get pissed off and help them be better next time.
In rooting for one party over the other blindly, we ignore the fact that none of these guys are serving us well.
QFT
If you think Republicans are evil and Democrats are good (or vice-versa), all you've done is buy into propaganda.
Look at what they do instead of what they say, then draw your own conclusions. Political parties aren't about ideas, they are about teams.
You know, I had noticed a very anti-nVidia bias from the Inquirer before and once I saw your post I realized I hadn't seen any of that sort of thing for a while. Good post. As a disinterested observer I'll confirm that The Inquirer definitely has (had?) it in for nVidia for some reason.
Since when do "generic wood screws" come chromed and without a tapered head? Has the author actually seen a generic wood screw before?
Summary is crap, article is slashdotted. Next, please.
I think it's because the first movies came out in the 70's and 80's aimed at the PG-13 market, and we didn't have major release movies showing endless hordes getting mowed down in the style of Tarentino or Rodriguez back then. Heck, the PG-13 didn't even exist at the time, and a R rating would have probably made Star Wars stillborn. As far as I can recall, the first three movies were completely bloodless. Pretty sure all of them were, come to think of it.
Shooting a stormtrooper was like shooting a robot; they didn't come across as being "people" on the screen, just faceless, nameless "bad guys" with no emotional impact or graphic violence tied to their deaths. I think if they were creating the stormtrooper costumes today they'd look quite different.
I've only ever heard pidgin in reference to something the locals in Hawaii speak, but never in reference to mainland black dialects. I think we're still calling that ebonics or some such made-up word?
It's not just fraud that's a potential problem. Any job where you have access to sensitive information should require background check, with the employee's knowledge and permission, of course. If someone is in serious debt they are more likely to compromise their integrity.