In a nutshell: "Your account has been disabled, we won't do business with you anymore, and we can't tell you why." Did I miss something? Did Verizon buy out Facebook?
There is a slight difference between the two: Verizon takes customers' cash without telling them why; Facebook refuses to take a customer's cash without telling them why.
I've used PayPal to sell CDs online. I'd frequently get notifications of hack attempts, but it really seemed like a ploy to get more information/money from me to PayPal. They'd never go into any sort of detail about these alleged hacks and then would freeze my account until I jumped through some narrow hoops.
They always give you options, too, and limit them with each successive "hack". So for one instance, they will let you either tie your bank account to them and send them money, give some personal details about yourself, or give them a phone call. If you give them a call, the next attempt will either have you send them money or give your information.
Now 1,000,000 is a number. 10,000 is a number. We call that being specific. Some? How many is some? 900,000? Or three? There's no validity to a report as vague as this was.
It appears that you're trying to spend your money to buy a Snickers from this PayPal vending machine. Unfortunately, we've recently detected someone trying to hack into your account. Please prove that you're you by tying PayPal to your bank account, and then transfer $50 to us which we will refund in your PayPal account.
It appears that you're trying to purchase a new t-shirt at the PayPal store. While you've tied your bank account to us, we've recently detected someone trying to hack into your account. Please prove that you're you by giving us your social security number which we won't use for anything other than your identification. We swear.
It appears that you're not spending any money with your PayPal app on your phone today. We have detected that you may be deceased. Please prove that you're still alive by calling our toll-free 1-800 number from 9 to 5 PM Central. But only after transferring $50 from your bank account to us, which we'll refund in your PayPal account.
DamnSmallLinux is pretty cool. You can put it on a flash drive and basically have a personal OS wherever you go. The only drawback is that you'll have to figure out how to get it to save to your flash drive if you plan on using it for any sort of local work. But otherwise, they make it really easy to download free apps online, from Firefox to Nethack.
What if we knew, for example, that 80% of the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles from 1960-2010 are sung in a major key with an average of 135 beats per minute, that they all follow a I-III-IV chord progression in 4/4 time signature, and that they all follow a "verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus" sequence structure?
Then you still wouldn't be able to make a hit song. Some of the other parts of this "formula" aren't surprising. 135 bpm is a common tempo for letting people dance to the music (and being in 4/4, or common time as it has been called for centuries, helps as well). If you can or want to dance to a piece of music, then you will obviously enjoy it more and remember it, maybe even tell your friends about it and buy it, helping that song's success. The chord progression is common, too, because it resolves to the fifth every time, giving the music an easy and predictable feeling of completion, alienating no one and letting us all feel familiar with the track already.
Though, this study seems shortsighted. Music being written by everyone would likely fall into this "hit formula" as well. Hell, the rock genre is pretty much defined by it.
But because it's so broad, this formula really isn't useful. I'd be more interested in seeing them further it by examining riff and hihat patterns and trying to find a correlation there.
Of course, the design industry brings this sort of thing on themselves, the way they compulsively jump to the latest version of every app the second it's released. You'd think they'd be a bit more cautious given how mission critical this stuff is.
I sort of agree. Yes, anyone should take the time to find out the differences between their old software and the new before completely ditching the older version, let alone trying to migrate over to it instantly. But on the other hand, people expect newer versions of their software to be backwards compatible with the old and that it should expand on what features the old software had. I'm surprised that Apple decided to do this with a product so vital to jobs in the design industry.
Any by hacking you mean beginning various protocol handshakes and not completing them so they time out or overloading the remote server with garbage.Seems like this little collective is just attacking anything that moves at this point.
If being able to search using photos on your phone is already useful to a lot of people, being able to search from your home after you've stored your pictures on your computer just makes sense. I'm just eager to try it for myself since it hasn't seemed to have actually launched yet.
Today we take GUI’s for granted, but back when they were starting up, some people actually saw them as a silly prop for kids. Real men were supposed to use the command line.
Please. Real men still use the command line. That's how I browse Slashdot!
Google also happily ignores meta keywords and of late even meta descriptions, focusing purely on the available content
They only ignore meta descriptions if they feel that they aren't relevant to your page (e.g. if you use the same description for every page on your site or if it doesn't make sense in the context of what your site is about). Meta descriptions probably won't be disappearing from Google's usage in the near future because they can be helpful and are not used to rank pages.
Basically, the new schema should help to clarify the data that search engines find on a site. It's incredibly difficult for machines to categorize pages and information based on text, especially when there are no predefined categories to really start from. This project will hopefully help to take the guesswork out of the more ambiguous pages and keep everyone's search results more relevant, regardless of information.
This is different from the meta keywords tag because those tags were never really descriptive or focused to begin with. You could put anything you want in a meta keywords tag. With microdata, you have a set of datatypes which can be included to tell the search engines about some piece of information on the page.
Even with just a few usages, the search engines should be able to infer that any subsequent appearances of the terms described in the microdata still have to do with that data (so Luke Skywalker shouldn't have to be redefined as the protagonist of Star Wars every time he's mentioned). I also wouldn't be surprised if search engines started to make global definitions based on some sites' usage of microdata (for instance, if Google finds microdata on Richard D. James and every instance of those microdata sets define him as being Aphex Twin, they might be likely to associate sites that don't even mention Aphex Twin with Richard D. James. But this is just speculation.
I've been to several Radio Shack stores in the Twin Cities and they all sell electronics parts. Though, the inventory isn't always quite the same depending on the store. For example, there's one in a mall over here that emphasizes cell phones and plans, yet has a few drawers for parts. But other stores outside of regular malls seem to have fewer phones and accessories and more parts in the drawers and hanging on their walls.
I can't access The Pirate Bay regularly. I noticed that I wasn't able to get on it a few days ago, too, but didn't think much of it. But I can access it just fine through a proxy.
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The article shows that many people say the same thing about a good password.
There is a slight difference between the two: Verizon takes customers' cash without telling them why; Facebook refuses to take a customer's cash without telling them why.
I've used PayPal to sell CDs online. I'd frequently get notifications of hack attempts, but it really seemed like a ploy to get more information/money from me to PayPal. They'd never go into any sort of detail about these alleged hacks and then would freeze my account until I jumped through some narrow hoops.
They always give you options, too, and limit them with each successive "hack". So for one instance, they will let you either tie your bank account to them and send them money, give some personal details about yourself, or give them a phone call. If you give them a call, the next attempt will either have you send them money or give your information.
You like Huey Lewis and The News?
There, fixed that for you.
It appears that you're trying to spend your money to buy a Snickers from this PayPal vending machine. Unfortunately, we've recently detected someone trying to hack into your account. Please prove that you're you by tying PayPal to your bank account, and then transfer $50 to us which we will refund in your PayPal account.
It appears that you're trying to purchase a new t-shirt at the PayPal store. While you've tied your bank account to us, we've recently detected someone trying to hack into your account. Please prove that you're you by giving us your social security number which we won't use for anything other than your identification. We swear.
It appears that you're not spending any money with your PayPal app on your phone today. We have detected that you may be deceased. Please prove that you're still alive by calling our toll-free 1-800 number from 9 to 5 PM Central. But only after transferring $50 from your bank account to us, which we'll refund in your PayPal account.
DamnSmallLinux is pretty cool. You can put it on a flash drive and basically have a personal OS wherever you go. The only drawback is that you'll have to figure out how to get it to save to your flash drive if you plan on using it for any sort of local work. But otherwise, they make it really easy to download free apps online, from Firefox to Nethack.
Then you still wouldn't be able to make a hit song. Some of the other parts of this "formula" aren't surprising. 135 bpm is a common tempo for letting people dance to the music (and being in 4/4, or common time as it has been called for centuries, helps as well). If you can or want to dance to a piece of music, then you will obviously enjoy it more and remember it, maybe even tell your friends about it and buy it, helping that song's success. The chord progression is common, too, because it resolves to the fifth every time, giving the music an easy and predictable feeling of completion, alienating no one and letting us all feel familiar with the track already.
Though, this study seems shortsighted. Music being written by everyone would likely fall into this "hit formula" as well. Hell, the rock genre is pretty much defined by it.
But because it's so broad, this formula really isn't useful. I'd be more interested in seeing them further it by examining riff and hihat patterns and trying to find a correlation there.
Good old IRC isn't centralized either! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalnet
Fix'd.
Why would he need a fake panic key? Looks like his Windows key has caused him enough real panic as it is!
Maybe he's trying to save others from having a bad experience like his. Just a thought.
I sort of agree. Yes, anyone should take the time to find out the differences between their old software and the new before completely ditching the older version, let alone trying to migrate over to it instantly. But on the other hand, people expect newer versions of their software to be backwards compatible with the old and that it should expand on what features the old software had. I'm surprised that Apple decided to do this with a product so vital to jobs in the design industry.
The maximize button? You're still running Firefox OS v1? Hit the F11 key for a free upgrade to v2, which takes up even more screen space
You think that's cool? I don't even use the enter key when I'm writing code, just for the major optimization factor alone.
Any by hacking you mean beginning various protocol handshakes and not completing them so they time out or overloading the remote server with garbage.Seems like this little collective is just attacking anything that moves at this point.
If being able to search using photos on your phone is already useful to a lot of people, being able to search from your home after you've stored your pictures on your computer just makes sense. I'm just eager to try it for myself since it hasn't seemed to have actually launched yet.
Static buildup discharged. Your computer is now OK!
The version of Windows he must use will be proportional to his crimes. In this case, he must use Windows 98 SE SP1.
FTFA:
Please. Real men still use the command line. That's how I browse Slashdot!
They only ignore meta descriptions if they feel that they aren't relevant to your page (e.g. if you use the same description for every page on your site or if it doesn't make sense in the context of what your site is about). Meta descriptions probably won't be disappearing from Google's usage in the near future because they can be helpful and are not used to rank pages.
Basically, the new schema should help to clarify the data that search engines find on a site. It's incredibly difficult for machines to categorize pages and information based on text, especially when there are no predefined categories to really start from. This project will hopefully help to take the guesswork out of the more ambiguous pages and keep everyone's search results more relevant, regardless of information.
This is different from the meta keywords tag because those tags were never really descriptive or focused to begin with. You could put anything you want in a meta keywords tag. With microdata, you have a set of datatypes which can be included to tell the search engines about some piece of information on the page.
Even with just a few usages, the search engines should be able to infer that any subsequent appearances of the terms described in the microdata still have to do with that data (so Luke Skywalker shouldn't have to be redefined as the protagonist of Star Wars every time he's mentioned). I also wouldn't be surprised if search engines started to make global definitions based on some sites' usage of microdata (for instance, if Google finds microdata on Richard D. James and every instance of those microdata sets define him as being Aphex Twin, they might be likely to associate sites that don't even mention Aphex Twin with Richard D. James. But this is just speculation.
That's too hard to remember. I use "password" for my password.
I've been to several Radio Shack stores in the Twin Cities and they all sell electronics parts. Though, the inventory isn't always quite the same depending on the store. For example, there's one in a mall over here that emphasizes cell phones and plans, yet has a few drawers for parts. But other stores outside of regular malls seem to have fewer phones and accessories and more parts in the drawers and hanging on their walls.
They're remaking The Matrix so soon?
I think Microsoft already found out and decided to put a stop to that.
I can't access The Pirate Bay regularly. I noticed that I wasn't able to get on it a few days ago, too, but didn't think much of it. But I can access it just fine through a proxy.