The way the IRS one works is that you get a spam email with an attachment. You click on the attachment which brings you to a site that looks just like the IRS'. It then asks for bank accounts, credit cards, debit cards, SSN, DOB, adresses, names, etc... everything needed to rob you blind.
The IRS pretty much doesn't give a shit - they're pretty blaze about it when contacted.
Just remind them that they won't be able to take the money if the other guy already took it.
If you're talking of frequency of the call, that's how many times you call per second. If you make 3000 calls per second, that's a hell of a lot.
But really, I wonder if the article person confuses (sampling) frequency with bandwidth? Not that they used to be sampled, but that's a common measure. In that case, these would be equivalent to 6.6 kHz sampling rate. I know, like it makes a big difference. But still...
Researchers recruited a bunch of college guys and used motion-capture to create avatars of them dancing. When women watched the avatars (2 videos included in story), the men they found most attractive were those who kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs.
Being a trendy virtual avatar, this will be very useful to me. Maybe sometime they'll have the women looking at actual guys, so the humans can get some benefit from this too.
One of the fun part of video games is playing the same level as someone else then talking about it, sharing frustrations and strategies. Once every level is different, this becomes much less easily done.
You mean where it allows you to save the level you played and replay it? Not hard to do, just save the RNG seed state (see SimCity classic for example).
I've totally managed to avoid this by never purchasing a PS3, an XBox, a Nintendo DS, or for that matter, an iPhone.
Wait a minute, I thought these companies forced people to buy the stuff. At least that's what I always hear. You're telling me people voluntarily pay money for this stuff, even though they know the company is going to keep the hardware locked down?
We can't even get people to read the articles referenced in submissions. That's wildly optimistic to expect us to watch a video that is over 2 hours long.
As long as nobody watches it, we can't really say for certain what's in it.
I'd have no problem with a person taking risks and getting killed due to it, as long as they didn't put anyone else at risk. Even if you ran across a busy freeway, you'd put others at risk because they might get into a wreck trying to avoid you. You could argue that it's their fault for trying to avoid you, but if they didn't, they'd put pedestrians at more risk, including those who don't do stupid things.
No, because you presumably have learned to use your vision more effectively, for example looking around you more often than hearing people do. Also, you're deaf all the time, where as someone wearing earphones is only unable to hear sounds around them only some of the time, and so isn't as adept at compensating.
But maybe they should realize that people who use personal music players dangerously have a mental handicap, and give them some special help.
I was probably one of those dumb kids, back when I was a teen and rode my bike. Way before mp3 players, but I'd wear headphones. Totally idiotic. When I'm on a bike now, I keep my eyes and ears open at all times (not that I even have a cellphone or portable music player anyway). Same when driving: no music, no talking with passengers; just focus on driving, which is plenty interesting if you really get into it.
The solution seems obvious to me: don't give anyone the power to do things like this. Without that, no amount of bribing will bring it about, because there's nobody with that power to bribe in the first place.
And who should we blame? Corps, who like everyone, has their best interests in mind, or those who grant their wishes? It should be pretty clear as to the real cause of monopolies...
Um, when data is stolen, it's copied, you don't copy it and then delete it, that's going to alert the user that you're collecting information.
Yes, stealing data will altert the user as to the theft, so you should copy it instead of stealing it. But it sounds like you're saying that copying something is stealing it. Data theft is taking a hard drive full of the only copies someone has of something, or (idiotically) making copies and then deleting the originals. Merely copying that and leaving the original would not be theft, since nothing was removed.
Since we've always been told that going that fast is really dangerous, they'll be putting aside all this money to pay to victims of all the wrecks this will cause, right? And while they're at it, can they offer day passes for breaking other laws as well? It'll bring in more money for the government, which is all that matters, right?
Calling it a "tea bag" filter even though you don't use it like one (that is, place it in cup and let it sit for a while) is misleading. Should we call it a "USB thumb drive" water filter just because it's a similar size?
It is a closed system, that is where they lose. Nokia or Apple can say "hey, they are enabling SSL on IMAP, there is absolutely nothing we can do." RIM, as there is a central server, can't do it.
Good point. When one has a choice, better to put one's trust in an algorithm or design that is (apparently) secure, than a company that could be corrupted by governments, insiders, etc.
These are names of regions famous for their wines. You'd have to be completely ignorant about wine culture to avoid that little fact. [...] Your perspective is skewed because you live in a far away country which has failed to protect these names from abuse by competitors until now.
No, you were correct about being completely ignorant about wine. Had no idea those were names of places. Not that there's any reason I would, having drunk maybe three alcoholic beverages in my life.
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Just remind them that they won't be able to take the money if the other guy already took it.
You just have to employ some counter-measures for the signal jamming advertising technology. There's a little bit of content that makes it through.
Don't worry, we'll be sure our high-tech DRM'd textbooks last even less time than their physical counterparts.
But really, I wonder if the article person confuses (sampling) frequency with bandwidth? Not that they used to be sampled, but that's a common measure. In that case, these would be equivalent to 6.6 kHz sampling rate. I know, like it makes a big difference. But still...
Yeah, if they're about pushing, then I've got a tractor beam unit right here. As a bonus, it blows refreshing air.
Being a trendy virtual avatar, this will be very useful to me. Maybe sometime they'll have the women looking at actual guys, so the humans can get some benefit from this too.
1080p on a tiny cellphone screen? Tell me when they have that on a flashlight. Imagine all the detail you won't be able to see in the tiny beam!
You mean where it allows you to save the level you played and replay it? Not hard to do, just save the RNG seed state (see SimCity classic for example).
And then we begin the War on Unhappiness, which of course is a disaster and ends up targeting people engaging in peaceful activities.
Wait a minute, I thought these companies forced people to buy the stuff. At least that's what I always hear. You're telling me people voluntarily pay money for this stuff, even though they know the company is going to keep the hardware locked down?
Interesting post. Please consider using paragraphs in the future. They help readability singificantly.
As long as nobody watches it, we can't really say for certain what's in it.
And would be just as unnecessary as preceding a pair of words with the phrase "two words" (by the way, this sentence has twenty six words).
Thanks for this very interesting post. It's going in my personal "best of" collection.
I'd have no problem with a person taking risks and getting killed due to it, as long as they didn't put anyone else at risk. Even if you ran across a busy freeway, you'd put others at risk because they might get into a wreck trying to avoid you. You could argue that it's their fault for trying to avoid you, but if they didn't, they'd put pedestrians at more risk, including those who don't do stupid things.
But maybe they should realize that people who use personal music players dangerously have a mental handicap, and give them some special help.
I was probably one of those dumb kids, back when I was a teen and rode my bike. Way before mp3 players, but I'd wear headphones. Totally idiotic. When I'm on a bike now, I keep my eyes and ears open at all times (not that I even have a cellphone or portable music player anyway). Same when driving: no music, no talking with passengers; just focus on driving, which is plenty interesting if you really get into it.
The solution seems obvious to me: don't give anyone the power to do things like this. Without that, no amount of bribing will bring it about, because there's nobody with that power to bribe in the first place.
5 more words: 2 more words: scared off
And who should we blame? Corps, who like everyone, has their best interests in mind, or those who grant their wishes? It should be pretty clear as to the real cause of monopolies...
Yes, stealing data will altert the user as to the theft, so you should copy it instead of stealing it. But it sounds like you're saying that copying something is stealing it. Data theft is taking a hard drive full of the only copies someone has of something, or (idiotically) making copies and then deleting the originals. Merely copying that and leaving the original would not be theft, since nothing was removed.
Since we've always been told that going that fast is really dangerous, they'll be putting aside all this money to pay to victims of all the wrecks this will cause, right? And while they're at it, can they offer day passes for breaking other laws as well? It'll bring in more money for the government, which is all that matters, right?
Calling it a "tea bag" filter even though you don't use it like one (that is, place it in cup and let it sit for a while) is misleading. Should we call it a "USB thumb drive" water filter just because it's a similar size?
Good point. When one has a choice, better to put one's trust in an algorithm or design that is (apparently) secure, than a company that could be corrupted by governments, insiders, etc.
No, you were correct about being completely ignorant about wine. Had no idea those were names of places. Not that there's any reason I would, having drunk maybe three alcoholic beverages in my life.