Any ideas why this would be beneficial at all? Are they going for the record thing, like some work places have a big sign that say "It's been days since the last workplace injury"? Are they trying to say "hey, Windows is secure! See, no patches released in days"?
What if a highly critical bug is discovered tomorrow, something big enough that several exploits are in the wild by next week? Will they release a patch then, or will they stick to their policy and hold out on us until 2004?
And how do you know which 1 or 2 songs off the CD are good? Clear Channel controls most of the radio stations and plays the same poprock stuff on every one of them. How can you know if the rest of the album is crap, or if you're missing out, if you don't try it?
Also, I am aware of the licensing differences but to me a song that is on the radio should not be illegal to download. It's just another way for me to sample that song.
Forget ATMs coming under attack by worms, MSNBC has this article about Dateline NBC's investigative report into fake ATMs and other ATM related scams. ATM frauds are a clever combination of social engineering and hardware hacking. The most sophisticated thefts involve the purchase and setup of real ATMs that actually do dispense cash to avoid suspicion, but are altered to save both the card's magnetic signature and the customers PIN, which are later added to false cards and used to empty bank accounts at real ATMS. The 'ATM gang' profiled managed to purchase and setup 50+ machines and steal over $4 million from over 21,000 customers. The machines can be purchased legitimately and hooked into the banking network with no more than a regular bank account. Less sophisticated attacks include building and attaching false fronts to existing ATMs to collect info, and using covert cameras to collect PINs from afar. The articles has some handy tips for avoiding scams."
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slightly offtopic I know... but I imaginet he title must have got a few of you thinkin how you could get ahold of scorched earth again...
I enjoy Scorched3D, a pretty good 3D remake of the game
Of course this is stupid, bad, mean, blah blah blah. You guys have already covered that. What's interesting to me though is that Microsoft needs device makers to make devices that favor (or atleast are compatible with) windows. iPOD (used to) prefer Macs, and so someone in love with iPods would probably prefer a mac. If Microsoft discourages manufacturers from making devices compatible with windows, they will end up hurting their popularity (duh.)
Find me an OS that isn't vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits.
the BSD family is susceptible, so is Linux and MacOS. Hell, even Gameboy Advance or PalmOS are just as likely to be vulnerable.
The problem with Microsoft OS's is their security model. The OS allows scripts in any email or webpage to run on by default, things like that. Of course, they promise that this Palladium stuff will fix that, but really it won't, because Microsoft doesn't see random emails and webpages as untrustworthy -- they see users as untrustworthy. bleh.
The dorm I was in during college was built in the 50s, but did have a 4-plug outlet on 3 of the 4 walls. With a few powerstrips it was enough.
My apartment also has (nearly) enough outlets. Our major complaint is that it is a 2 bedroom and 1 bedroom has a TV outlet (used for cable modem and mythtv). The other room has a phone outlet.
I know ever since camera phones/pdas came out the first thing that came to my mind is taking a picture of every cute girl that walked by:)
You could look all professional on your pda and secretly snapping pictures of her butt. Sure it's not ethical, but when technology makes it so easy...:)
OK. Just as with any other order, you pay for shipping and handling. I'm sure if you foot the bill to send a shuttle up to retrieve it, they'll be happy to let you keep it.
A lot of people have complained that the DMCA and cases like this destroy the free economy. Well guess what, it still is a free economy.
If a certain company makes it illegal for you to use a universal remote, then that is a strong downside to their product. Think of it as a feature (in the case of TVs for sake of argument: TV 1 supports HDTV and universal remotes, TV 2 supports HDTV, but you will be sued if you try to use a universal remote on it. Well, I think i'd buy TV 1. That's the free economy for you:)
Likewise with printers: if printer A won't let me use cheaper 3rd party cartridges, then I'm not going to buy their printer.
Rather than just delete the email, I'd sure like to spend thousands of tax dollars to import, house, and feed a foreign nuisance to society. Our jails and prisons are so over populated as it is, sure... why not just take on the burden of the entire WORLD's criminals?
There's tons of sites out there offering "buddy services" like buddy dating, enhanced AIM profiles, aim forwarding, etc.
AimBuddy might be a good starting point if you actually want to get into that stuff.
Anyway, all these people (especially highschool & college kids) are putting their IM names out to these sites and I'm betting atleast 1 of the sites is buying/selling screennames like mad.
One of the general rules of moderating, if I remember, is to try to mod up more than you mod down. This guy does have a point. It might not be one you agree with, but some people (myself included) find online resources much more useful than 1000pg books.
I'm sure you can find something better to do with your mod points than mark people as troll:)
I don't feel sorry for the murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Who I feel sorry for are the people there for other reasons. After all, if certain people had their way we'd all be in there for downloading mp3s.
It always made me nervous to label my CDs with a good black Sharpie permanent marker. I haven't seen any failures I can directly relate to it though, so I still do it.
I suspect since data is stored on the label side of the CD, not the shiney side, that things like markers, writing too hard on it with a ball point pen, glue, etc could cause serious problems.
And as a side note, my brand preference: Memorex is the only thing I'll trust my data on.
I tried verbatim once cuz it was cheap and about half of those were coasters. Of course, I didn't realize that until I'd backed up about 20gb onto a bunch of them, and had to reburn it all to Memorex.
Having a DNC list is great and all, but if you either can't or don't enforce it, it's worthless.
I'd say AT&T is testing their limits, seeing what they can get away with. If the FCC lets them go on this one, I suspect the DNC list will become pretty useless.
Free as in speech, yes. You can do what you want with your linux system. You can modify it (provided you make those modifications publicly available), you can copy it for friends, install it on several computers, whatever.
Free as in beer has always been an added plus. Bottom line is people have to eat. Sure, a lot of linux stuff is done by sudents as personal projects or even school projects. However, if you want to push Linux into the Enterprise, and it seems that most people want it there, it has to be backed by a company (or several companies), and they need to make money.
This whole decision does suck, and I wonder if in the long run it will cost them money, but perhapse its necessary.
If he's upset about the anonymous comments to the blog, I don't possibly see how this could hold up in court.
First, it's possible that the site has a disclaimer like "we are not responsible for comments made to this site by the readers". If it doesn't, it probably should.
Second, and most important, is that it's an anonymous comment. You can't really prove who wrote it. Luskin may have put those comments there with intent to then sue the site. Or, someone else with an agenda against either the site or Luskin put the comments there so the blog site would take the fall for them.
To put it in a real world context, which often clears things up: A lot of organizations have open bulletin boards. If someone posts something offensive on their board, are they accountable for it? Should they remove it?
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Any ideas why this would be beneficial at all? Are they going for the record thing, like some work places have a big sign that say "It's been days since the last workplace injury"? Are they trying to say "hey, Windows is secure! See, no patches released in days"?
What if a highly critical bug is discovered tomorrow, something big enough that several exploits are in the wild by next week? Will they release a patch then, or will they stick to their policy and hold out on us until 2004?
And how do you know which 1 or 2 songs off the CD are good? Clear Channel controls most of the radio stations and plays the same poprock stuff on every one of them. How can you know if the rest of the album is crap, or if you're missing out, if you don't try it?
Also, I am aware of the licensing differences but to me a song that is on the radio should not be illegal to download. It's just another way for me to sample that song.
The article submission, with problems in bold:
Forget ATMs coming under attack by worms, MSNBC has this article about Dateline NBC's investigative report into fake ATMs and other ATM related scams. ATM frauds are a clever combination of social engineering and hardware hacking. The most sophisticated thefts involve the purchase and setup of real ATMs that actually do dispense cash to avoid suspicion, but are altered to save both the card's magnetic signature and the customers PIN, which are later added to false cards and used to empty bank accounts at real ATMS. The 'ATM gang' profiled managed to purchase and setup 50+ machines and steal over $4 million from over 21,000 customers. The machines can be purchased legitimately and hooked into the banking network with no more than a regular bank account. Less sophisticated attacks include building and attaching false fronts to existing ATMs to collect info, and using covert cameras to collect PINs from afar. The articles has some handy tips for avoiding scams."
slightly offtopic I know... but I imaginet he title must have got a few of you thinkin how you could get ahold of scorched earth again...
I enjoy Scorched3D, a pretty good 3D remake of the game
And the orignal Scorched Earth.
Remember, No Kibitzing!!
Of course this is stupid, bad, mean, blah blah blah. You guys have already covered that. What's interesting to me though is that Microsoft needs device makers to make devices that favor (or atleast are compatible with) windows. iPOD (used to) prefer Macs, and so someone in love with iPods would probably prefer a mac. If Microsoft discourages manufacturers from making devices compatible with windows, they will end up hurting their popularity (duh.)
Find me an OS that isn't vulnerable to buffer overflow exploits.
the BSD family is susceptible, so is Linux and MacOS. Hell, even Gameboy Advance or PalmOS are just as likely to be vulnerable.
The problem with Microsoft OS's is their security model. The OS allows scripts in any email or webpage to run on by default, things like that. Of course, they promise that this Palladium stuff will fix that, but really it won't, because Microsoft doesn't see random emails and webpages as untrustworthy -- they see users as untrustworthy. bleh.
The dorm I was in during college was built in the 50s, but did have a 4-plug outlet on 3 of the 4 walls. With a few powerstrips it was enough.
My apartment also has (nearly) enough outlets. Our major complaint is that it is a 2 bedroom and 1 bedroom has a TV outlet (used for cable modem and mythtv). The other room has a phone outlet.
Isn't it fucking rediculous that the FCC thinks it's a fucking good idea to allow the fucking word 'fucking' on tv as an adjective. fucking brilliant.
At the same time, these California dipshits ban the term master/slave.
Another one:
maps.yahoo.com/
I prefer their map service over mapblast, mapquest, etc.
http://tv.yahoo.com/
http://finance.yahoo.com/
good for findin out what's on tv, and lookin up stock info.
I know ever since camera phones/pdas came out the first thing that came to my mind is taking a picture of every cute girl that walked by :)
:)
You could look all professional on your pda and secretly snapping pictures of her butt. Sure it's not ethical, but when technology makes it so easy...
OK. Just as with any other order, you pay for shipping and handling. I'm sure if you foot the bill to send a shuttle up to retrieve it, they'll be happy to let you keep it.
A lot of people have complained that the DMCA and cases like this destroy the free economy. Well guess what, it still is a free economy.
:)
If a certain company makes it illegal for you to use a universal remote, then that is a strong downside to their product. Think of it as a feature (in the case of TVs for sake of argument: TV 1 supports HDTV and universal remotes, TV 2 supports HDTV, but you will be sued if you try to use a universal remote on it. Well, I think i'd buy TV 1. That's the free economy for you
Likewise with printers: if printer A won't let me use cheaper 3rd party cartridges, then I'm not going to buy their printer.
Rather than just delete the email, I'd sure like to spend thousands of tax dollars to import, house, and feed a foreign nuisance to society. Our jails and prisons are so over populated as it is, sure... why not just take on the burden of the entire WORLD's criminals?
sheesh.
There's tons of sites out there offering "buddy services" like buddy dating, enhanced AIM profiles, aim forwarding, etc.
AimBuddy might be a good starting point if you actually want to get into that stuff.
Anyway, all these people (especially highschool & college kids) are putting their IM names out to these sites and I'm betting atleast 1 of the sites is buying/selling screennames like mad.
"an amorphous, social mass that can't be controlled by anyone? "
Isn't that the sort of structure that allowed for spam and viruses?
One of the general rules of moderating, if I remember, is to try to mod up more than you mod down. This guy does have a point. It might not be one you agree with, but some people (myself included) find online resources much more useful than 1000pg books.
:)
I'm sure you can find something better to do with your mod points than mark people as troll
I don't feel sorry for the murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Who I feel sorry for are the people there for other reasons. After all, if certain people had their way we'd all be in there for downloading mp3s.
It always made me nervous to label my CDs with a good black Sharpie permanent marker. I haven't seen any failures I can directly relate to it though, so I still do it.
I suspect since data is stored on the label side of the CD, not the shiney side, that things like markers, writing too hard on it with a ball point pen, glue, etc could cause serious problems.
And as a side note, my brand preference: Memorex is the only thing I'll trust my data on.
I tried verbatim once cuz it was cheap and about half of those were coasters. Of course, I didn't realize that until I'd backed up about 20gb onto a bunch of them, and had to reburn it all to Memorex.
Hey if you wanna miss out on seeing Carrie-Anne Moss (as Trinity) gettin it on, fine by me... but that's definitelly not my chosen bathroom break :)
Having a DNC list is great and all, but if you either can't or don't enforce it, it's worthless.
I'd say AT&T is testing their limits, seeing what they can get away with. If the FCC lets them go on this one, I suspect the DNC list will become pretty useless.
Free as in speech, yes. You can do what you want with your linux system. You can modify it (provided you make those modifications publicly available), you can copy it for friends, install it on several computers, whatever.
Free as in beer has always been an added plus. Bottom line is people have to eat. Sure, a lot of linux stuff is done by sudents as personal projects or even school projects. However, if you want to push Linux into the Enterprise, and it seems that most people want it there, it has to be backed by a company (or several companies), and they need to make money.
This whole decision does suck, and I wonder if in the long run it will cost them money, but perhapse its necessary.
aw damn. [ /i ] ... I am an idiot :)
It happens to all of us every now and then, right?
If he's upset about the anonymous comments to the blog, I don't possibly see how this could hold up in court.
First, it's possible that the site has a disclaimer like "we are not responsible for comments made to this site by the readers". If it doesn't, it probably should.
Second, and most important, is that it's an anonymous comment. You can't really prove who wrote it. Luskin may have put those comments there with intent to then sue the site. Or, someone else with an agenda against either the site or Luskin put the comments there so the blog site would take the fall for them.
To put it in a real world context, which often clears things up: A lot of organizations have open bulletin boards. If someone posts something offensive on their board, are they accountable for it? Should they remove it?
Dude, Q104 starts next week.