It would have been more likely that a ton of charges would have been made immediately after the numbers were stolen.
And that probably *has* been done. It's not all that easy to verify that some cards out of 2.2 million weren't used fradulently. I mean, hey, if *I* grabbed 2.2 million cards, I'd use a couple *really* fast before anyone found out.:-P
Let's not forget that the key length can only be 40-bits, due to export restrictions. Greater than 40-bit encryption cannot be exported. 40-bit encryption can be cracked in a matter of a few hours on a single 2-4 Ghz Pentium 4.
Of course, as you allude to, all of this is a violation of the DMCA. The fed's are probably watching my IP address right now, waiting for me to download Celine Dion's latest album so they can arrest me and have me put in front of a firing squad.;)
Now think about blogging with page ranking applied. Might be much more useful than normal blogging. As search engines with PageRank are compared to normal search engines.
Like Slashdot with the ability of users to mod stories?:-P
As Cringely points out, a Sun acquisition makes a lot more sense for a larger PC company that currently doesn't have a path to server market penetration.
Why? The same reasons you just outlined for Apple (hardware being commoditized, mainstream about to go 64-bit, Sparc not much advantage, etc...) would apply to *any* PC company without a path to server market penetration, including Sony (which isn't really a PC company, but that's another discussion.)
Apple and Sun are a good fit because they both offer non-mainstream solutions. Apple at least has *some* inroads to the corporate market (graphic design departments and companies in particular are still primarily stocked with Apple equipment), but Sony has none. Name a major company putting Sony on user's desks or even in their laps? Vaio's are *consumer* equipment, not corporate equipment.
Apple has a strong brand equity in multiple market segments, Sony only has a strong brand equity in the consumer market. Sun has a strong brand equity in the server market.
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But to say that a merger with Sony would be better than Apple is just plain dumb.
I agree. I also think that a merger with Apple would be a good idea. They complement each other, really. Apple lacks solid credibility in the server market, and Sun lacks solid crediblity in the desktop market. But Apple clearly is a serious contender in the desktop Unix market, and Sun will continue to be a serious contender in the server market, at least until the transformation of Linux into a serious, competent enterprise platform is complete.
I stopped using my back button when I used to use Opera. Tabbed browsing eliminated my need for a back button (in most cases), and kept my browsing organized. Now, Mozilla and Phoenix support this.
I wouldn't say 'eliminated' but it certainly cuts it down, especially when googling for info, I don't have to find my google search in the back button anymore. (I don't use any sidebar searching because sidebar searches don't give you all the info.)
And, BTW, Konqueror 3.1 also supports tabbed browsing now too. Phoenix rocks, and its way faster than mozilla, but it still doesn't beat Konq for speed and stability. NOt to mention Konq supports subpixel antialiasing (great for LCD panels;) out of the box, while Phoenix requires some tweaking. (To be fair, Phoenix isn't releasable yet either).
Let's not even forget... I could download something on one machine, and store it elsewhere. Prove that I have the file, or that I ever had the file, especially if you can't find the other machine.
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However, bands would have to worry about concert sales.
No more than sales of live albums or live broadcasts hurt concert sales, I think. There's a difference between listening to a live album, seeing it on a broadcast, and seeing it LIVE and IN PERSON.
It's like the diff. between watching the hockey game on TV and actually showing up at Joe Louis Arena. (Little plug for my fav team for those in the know...:-P)
What are the affects of the sun on this plastic.few dings I set my Ultra 80 down on it and had no problems. I should probably try a Blade 1000, though. I'd be willing to bet that an Enterprise Server would cause a few dings though.:)
Saturn isn't really a separate company. Saturn Corporation is really a sales unit. The actual *design* and *production* of Saturn vehicles is done by General Motors North American Vehicle Operations. Saturns are produced in a separate plant in Springhill, TN., yes, but the employees of that plant don't work for Saturn, they work for GM. The vehicle development work (that is the design and engineering) is done primarily at GM's Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. (I should know, I used to work there;) ).
Where is AIX's really good bibliography integration with word processing? Without that it is worthless to my wife. Where is AIX's really good diagraming tool? Without that its no good for me. Where is AIX radiology package? Without that its no good for my dad.
AIX isn't meant to be all things to all people. That's Windows' job.:) AIX is a rock-stable, reliable, and efficient operating system. It's main uses are in servers -- where, feature-for-feature, Linux *still* can't compete at the high end -- and in high-end graphics applications like CAD and visualization -- think CATIA, Alias WaveFront, etc. -- and in high-end scientific applications -- for instance, some of the supercomputers computers built for the Department of Energy by IBM run AIX.
Take the XFS filesystem.
Please! Take it!:) I run Linux-2.4.19+XFS patches at home and it has MAJOR lossage problems after a power interruption. As in it randomly loses files. Not cool.
(OTOH, it's great on my SGI boxes at work. FWIW, I'm a sysadmin and I have to support SGI, AIX, Linux and Solaris servers and workstations.)
Yes, you get GST back which is a federal tax, but not PST which is a provincial tax.
I dunno about the PST...someone told me that you can get it back, but I think they're confused by the fact that you can write off 100% of all you pay in PST in Canada on your U.S. federal income tax (which I don't think you can do with the GST, because you're expected to get that back from Canada).
I live near Detroit. I'm about 15 minutes from the Canadian border and I can tell you that Canada has a similar law -- you buy stuff in Canada and if you save your receipts for items over some base cost, you can send them to the Canadian government and they'll cut you a refund check for the GST taxes (Goods and Services Tax).
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Your business should be the renting of the actually lancomputers for play, not the space/location for people to come in and setup their own
OTOH, having a space/docking port for people to bring in laptops might not be a bad idea... you could even use 802.11b to provide LAN connections instead of fiddling with twisted pair.
Exactly. By combining cloning and stem cell research, growing individual organs becomes possible. The key is to do the cloning process, and then somehow hack the stem cells so that they *only* form an organ, such as a heart, lung, or even whole systems such arms, legs, auditory, visual etc.
But the first step is making human cloning into a repeatable, reliable thing, and also a full understanding of how stem cells turn into various other types of cells, such as heart tissue or bone cells, or blood cells, nerve cells, etc.
Once you get that, things like permanent paralysis or multiple sclerosis or deafness or blindness or heart disease, or possibly even cancer can be completely cured.
SOAPBOX> We truly live in exciting times. Unfortunately, a few religious wackos stand in the way of progress, so cloning and stem cell research are currently being held back. Write your Congresscritter and tell them YOU WANT to cure previously incurable diseases, and that the best way to do that is cloning and stem cell research!/SOAPBOX>
I think there's one key difference that you're missing here, though. Time magazine doesn't have a readerbase with a significant number of serial murderers subscribed to it.
How do you know what serial murderers read?:-P
'sides, who says that slashdot has any responsibility to keep trolls off other people's sites? I would think that would be up to each webmaster to decide on his or her own what mechanism will keep the k1dd13z away.
Arguably, anyone that reads Time Magazine or even just watches CNN is now about halfway toward being equipped to kill people from a distance with a sniper rifle.
Sure. OTOH, the info published in Time Magazine is available in just about any library in any postindustrial country in the world. What diff does it make if Time publishes it?
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The Dell Dimension, with the powerful Intel Pentium 4 processor.
"Dude, imagine if you had a Beowulf cluster of these things!"
Maybe that should have a been a half smiley ;) It was more of a HHOS.
It would have been more likely that a ton of charges would have been made immediately after the numbers were stolen.
:-P
:-P
And that probably *has* been done. It's not all that easy to verify that some cards out of 2.2 million weren't used fradulently. I mean, hey, if *I* grabbed 2.2 million cards, I'd use a couple *really* fast before anyone found out.
*Stop* looking at me like that!
SP1 is an interesting one - maybe something in it is required - or maybe they're just using it to presuade people to run the fix. I don't know.
:-P
Or maybe they want to ensure that people are running non-pirated versions of XP.
Let's not forget that the key length can only be 40-bits, due to export restrictions. Greater than 40-bit encryption cannot be exported. 40-bit encryption can be cracked in a matter of a few hours on a single 2-4 Ghz Pentium 4.
;)
Of course, as you allude to, all of this is a violation of the DMCA. The fed's are probably watching my IP address right now, waiting for me to download Celine Dion's latest album so they can arrest me and have me put in front of a firing squad.
Now think about blogging with page ranking applied. Might be much more useful than normal blogging. As search engines with PageRank are compared to normal search engines.
:-P
Like Slashdot with the ability of users to mod stories?
wasn't there a game for MS-DOS computers based on that book, or am I crazy?
As Cringely points out, a Sun acquisition makes a lot more sense for a larger PC company that currently doesn't have a path to server market penetration.
Why? The same reasons you just outlined for Apple (hardware being commoditized, mainstream about to go 64-bit, Sparc not much advantage, etc...) would apply to *any* PC company without a path to server market penetration, including Sony (which isn't really a PC company, but that's another discussion.)
Apple and Sun are a good fit because they both offer non-mainstream solutions. Apple at least has *some* inroads to the corporate market (graphic design departments and companies in particular are still primarily stocked with Apple equipment), but Sony has none. Name a major company putting Sony on user's desks or even in their laps? Vaio's are *consumer* equipment, not corporate equipment.
Apple has a strong brand equity in multiple market segments, Sony only has a strong brand equity in the consumer market. Sun has a strong brand equity in the server market.
But to say that a merger with Sony would be better than Apple is just plain dumb.
I agree. I also think that a merger with Apple would be a good idea. They complement each other, really. Apple lacks solid credibility in the server market, and Sun lacks solid crediblity in the desktop market. But Apple clearly is a serious contender in the desktop Unix market, and Sun will continue to be a serious contender in the server market, at least until the transformation of Linux into a serious, competent enterprise platform is complete.
Apple's stength in Sun's weakness and vice versa.
I stopped using my back button when I used to use Opera. Tabbed browsing eliminated my need for a back button (in most cases), and kept my browsing organized. Now, Mozilla and Phoenix support this.
;) out of the box, while Phoenix requires some tweaking. (To be fair, Phoenix isn't releasable yet either).
I wouldn't say 'eliminated' but it certainly cuts it down, especially when googling for info, I don't have to find my google search in the back button anymore. (I don't use any sidebar searching because sidebar searches don't give you all the info.)
And, BTW, Konqueror 3.1 also supports tabbed browsing now too. Phoenix rocks, and its way faster than mozilla, but it still doesn't beat Konq for speed and stability. NOt to mention Konq supports subpixel antialiasing (great for LCD panels
But symian os is already OSS and probably better for mobile phone
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Wow! Open Source Monkeys? Let's get them cracking on Linux 3.0.
when spamfilters come alive... their prime directive will be "eliminate anything that is worthless"
:)
Oh goodie! Does this mean no more redundant articles and boring biotech articles on Slashdot?
Some antispam software checks to see if the return address is legit by querying mail servers, etc.
Let's not even forget ... I could download something on one machine, and store it elsewhere. Prove that I have the file, or that I ever had the file, especially if you can't find the other machine.
However, bands would have to worry about concert sales.
:-P)
No more than sales of live albums or live broadcasts hurt concert sales, I think. There's a difference between listening to a live album, seeing it on a broadcast, and seeing it LIVE and IN PERSON.
It's like the diff. between watching the hockey game on TV and actually showing up at Joe Louis Arena. (Little plug for my fav team for those in the know...
What are the affects of the sun on this plastic.few dings :)
I set my Ultra 80 down on it and had no problems. I should probably try a Blade 1000, though. I'd be willing to bet that an Enterprise Server would cause a few dings though.
Saturn isn't really a separate company. Saturn Corporation is really a sales unit. The actual *design* and *production* of Saturn vehicles is done by General Motors North American Vehicle Operations. Saturns are produced in a separate plant in Springhill, TN., yes, but the employees of that plant don't work for Saturn, they work for GM. The vehicle development work (that is the design and engineering) is done primarily at GM's Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. (I should know, I used to work there ;) ).
You know Slashdot is going "mainstream" when people have to explain who Linus is.
Or when they have to even use his last name.
Where is AIX's really good bibliography integration with word processing? Without that it is worthless to my wife. Where is AIX's really good diagraming tool? Without that its no good for me. Where is AIX radiology package? Without that its no good for my dad.
:) AIX is a rock-stable, reliable, and efficient operating system. It's main uses are in servers -- where, feature-for-feature, Linux *still* can't compete at the high end -- and in high-end graphics applications like CAD and visualization -- think CATIA, Alias WaveFront, etc. -- and in high-end scientific applications -- for instance, some of the supercomputers computers built for the Department of Energy by IBM run AIX.
:) I run Linux-2.4.19+XFS patches at home and it has MAJOR lossage problems after a power interruption. As in it randomly loses files. Not cool.
AIX isn't meant to be all things to all people. That's Windows' job.
Take the XFS filesystem.
Please! Take it!
(OTOH, it's great on my SGI boxes at work. FWIW, I'm a sysadmin and I have to support SGI, AIX, Linux and Solaris servers and workstations.)
Yes, you get GST back which is a federal tax, but not PST which is a provincial tax.
I dunno about the PST...someone told me that you can get it back, but I think they're confused by the fact that you can write off 100% of all you pay in PST in Canada on your U.S. federal income tax (which I don't think you can do with the GST, because you're expected to get that back from Canada).
I live near Detroit. I'm about 15 minutes from the Canadian border and I can tell you that Canada has a similar law -- you buy stuff in Canada and if you save your receipts for items over some base cost, you can send them to the Canadian government and they'll cut you a refund check for the GST taxes (Goods and Services Tax).
Your business should be the renting of the actually lancomputers for play, not the space/location for people to come in and setup their own
OTOH, having a space/docking port for people to bring in laptops might not be a bad idea... you could even use 802.11b to provide LAN connections instead of fiddling with twisted pair.
Exactly. By combining cloning and stem cell research, growing individual organs becomes possible. The key is to do the cloning process, and then somehow hack the stem cells so that they *only* form an organ, such as a heart, lung, or even whole systems such arms, legs, auditory, visual etc.
/SOAPBOX>
But the first step is making human cloning into a repeatable, reliable thing, and also a full understanding of how stem cells turn into various other types of cells, such as heart tissue or bone cells, or blood cells, nerve cells, etc.
Once you get that, things like permanent paralysis or multiple sclerosis or deafness or blindness or heart disease, or possibly even cancer can be completely cured.
SOAPBOX>
We truly live in exciting times. Unfortunately, a few religious wackos stand in the way of progress, so cloning and stem cell research are currently being held back. Write your Congresscritter and tell them YOU WANT to cure previously incurable diseases, and that the best way to do that is cloning and stem cell research!
I think there's one key difference that you're missing here, though. Time magazine doesn't have a readerbase with a significant number of serial murderers subscribed to it.
:-P
How do you know what serial murderers read?
'sides, who says that slashdot has any responsibility to keep trolls off other people's sites? I would think that would be up to each webmaster to decide on his or her own what mechanism will keep the k1dd13z away.
Arguably, anyone that reads Time Magazine or even just watches CNN is now about halfway toward being equipped to kill people from a distance with a sniper rifle.
Sure. OTOH, the info published in Time Magazine is available in just about any library in any postindustrial country in the world. What diff does it make if Time publishes it?