I mean, after all, Toshiba paid 150 million bucks to studios for "Promotion Consideration" in August of 2007 -- 50 million bucks to Paramount and 100 to Dreamworks. So, why not do the same, and pay some (proportionally big amount) of money to buy competitor's supporter? The winners are movie studios anyways, be it Paramount/Dreamworks (who won't have to be HD-DVD only now) or Warner...
Funny how HD-DVD was "dying the slow death" in August, but thanks in part to transfusion it lived up to, well, 2008:)
Worse:) It needs to work when anyone tries to pull out RAM out of running computer. Otherwise someone with a power drill will make a hole in a case and just rip the modules out, plug them into reading device, do a dump of the content, look for key, decrypt the hard drive, etc etc. It' just like when people used to yank floppies with important information out of the drive that tries to format it. Sure, some information will die. But at least some of it can be enough to restore important file/key etc.
When people say "Insert relevant ads" it usually means ISP hacked the page you got from remote server and inserted and ad that wasn't there, or replaced one on the page with something else. Bad thing. Here, they organize new ad platform. Any site that uses it will be showing something Phorm servs up, and it, in turn, will try to figure out what to show by using ALL of your surfing history, no matter what sites you visit. So, if you go to golf sites A, B, C (that serve ads via yahoo, for example), and then to Phorm-using site M that has articles on electronics, site M will show you golf ads, due to your click-stream.
Of course advertisers will be disappointed to find out, that many people actually use one connection for a household. So, while from the point of view of ISP user clicked Cooking A, Cooking B, Valentine's day, Heavy metal band, Banking, Myspace... in reality it's 2-3-4 individual users. And showing wife an ad for a new heavy album won't make CTR go through the roof. And teenager might actually barf at the sight of the cooking ads.
p.s. ISPs sell the data anyways, not usre how this opt-out would work...
And what exactly makes you think that "Analog" tower is not connected to the T1 with digital converter that works exactly the same regardless of which radio tract your call came through? Digital handling has been around for a loooong time, with all long-distance being handled like that as well. Plus that little box in your neighborhood that has "Don't dig, fiber network" pole next to it also handles all your calls in digital format. So, this argument is a complete BS. There were two big reasons for maintaining Analog connectivity -- FCC mandate and hope for cross-over roaming charges. Same towers almost always have digital equipment on them, GSM or CDMA, depending on rural carrier's preference.
While Facebook still allows you to remove your information (but they need a grace period for archive/backup because otherwise it's a great way to sue -- kill your information, sue them next day because 7 day backups would STILL have your info), Electronic Arts doesn't allow removal AT ALL. Here's what their "support" replies to question on how to remove account:
Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.
Unfortunately a registration code can only be used to create one account. If it has been used to register an account before, it cannot be used again to create a new account. Also, the account registered once cannot be unregistered or deleted. You will need to login to the game using the same account name and password with which you have registered the game. And there is no way to merge two accounts into one. If you are concerned about deletion of an account, then please note that accounts once created can never be cancel or removed from our database.
I am not sure I understand correctly, where people got the idea that that particular security research company sells info to "the bad guys". Unlike the open source software, inspecting and finding flaws in black box type of systems is more labor intensive (perhaps some of it can be automated but only some). Someone has to pay for this. Because if they do "the ethical thing" they will have no money to pay rent and buy food, and won't be able to continue what they do. That way users will still "suffer due to bugs", except it's more likely that some shady company will be able to afford to pay someone to find exploits for them ONLY versus selling it to other security testing companies.
Easiest solution is, of course, to pay for updates via cooperation between multiple companies that just happen to have extremely buggy software. If you have regular zero day exploits popping up every month, those $10000 are well spent. They don't want to pay their developers to change the process and improve the testing, then they pay third party for black-box audits and fix problems after the fact.
If you want to get on ever higher ethical horse, think about ethical problems of the company that keeps releasing buggy stuff over and over and over again. If you accidentally add poison to your cookies every few months (instead of just laxative, because you give the cookies away for free and get a fee from anti-diarrheal manufacturer for spikes in consumption), wouldn't you have ethical obligation to stop the bakery and re-evaluate your process? Of course pointing finger at third party that does poison testing of baked stuff and sells results to merchants and labs is much easier.
I'd say it depends on the baby. Otherwise you wouldn't have people who speak foreign languages quite well (unless you define "a baby" as someone under 30 years old or so). Just because certain sounds are not used in the household doesn't mean baby won't be able to process them. Otherwise all republicans would never ever heard the word "sex" as that sound is simply not used in a proper right-wing household;)
Just as I said when original discussion happened, Russian government was not responsible. Now, is Pentagon still ready to bomb cyberattackers? If yes, then next student with a grudge will finish off a country or two before we have a chance of intelligent machines or human-made bacteria to kill us all.
Yes, it's very limited (OS/Browser/Media Player) but remember, this is NOT a standalone service. People do not subscribe to Netflix to "watch streaming movies". No. The only purpose of streaming at this time is to provide a bonus extra feature. For those cases where you sit at the computer and want to run some movie in a background. For those who really really want to watch it on TV there'll be a set-top box. For everyone else, Netflix will remain a DVD rental service.
P.s. do they already make an iTunes for Linux? I thought so. So no matter what Apple announces, it'd be just as useless for the Linux crowd.
You do, actually. Because otherwise some channels will simply not work any more. One-way communication means all channels are broadcasted _at once_. And your card has means to decode channels A through M (but not N through Z, even though the feed is there). Now with switching video they only broadcast channels that are presently in use (A,E,L...), so in order to watch channel D your box/card/device has to be able to talk back to the node and say "I'd like channel D now" to which it gets back "Ok, it's on digital channel 1342.1" and magically that particular channel is assigned feed from D for some amount of time, after which it will be reused. That way cable company can offer you virtually unlimited number of channels even though the bandwidth is limited (and in worst case scenario they only need one channel per each consumer's device). Time Warner already started to move some channels to this delivery system, therefore if you have a cable card and you want to see one of those "small" channels you are out of luck. And if you have "digital cable compatible TV" then you may see some channels that keep on switching content. So yes, you do want a two way communication, even if you never use Video on Demand.
Because every professional just _has_ to keep his own SMTP server with multiple redundant mail drops, back-up and web interface, simplified interface for WAP/mobile devices and a spam filter, right?
Instead professionals should simply get Google Apps for their domain and have Google Mail work as "professional@thatismydomain.com". Duh:)
Because it's much more difficult into getting a statewide monopoly, and because both ATT and Time Warner now have state-wide right to provide the service. Have you seen that many local authorities grant multiple licenses? No. Because it's easy (and probably fun) to talk over a group of local politicians into locking everyone in your town into exactly ONE provider "for your own good". You also pay for this wonderful right by dishing out extra 4 bucks for "franchise fee" and only get to have one cable company. The more providers there are, the better.
Well, this sound suspiciously sounds like a re-work of old sound Tell Me systems play while trying to decipher what the beep user tried to say. Just try to call 1-800-555-TELL (1-800-555-8355) and play with the menu. That sound is also a sure sign that you're dealing with Tell Me designed system -- for example Fandango uses their back-end, some banks and some other interactive voice systems.
Of course Tell Me was bought by Microsoft so now it's inevitably evil:) Even though they were before Google in voice stuff:)
I wonder how soon someone will buy gift card for the right amount with cash and then tries to buy the iPhone with it:) Or a combo of prepaid Visa card and gift card. Or buy something useless for cash, then return it (unopened) and use store credit to buy the iPhone or... just sue their asses:)
I remember that story about some GPS units by default finding a cemetery in the destination town. In this case it'd be totally appropriate:) Plus, I prefer extra fast cross-country flight to a road trip. I mean if you enjoy the route there's no need for "OMG! We're JUST driving 5 miles above the limit!" and if you do need the speed then don't be an ass and board a place. More fuel efficient too:)
If there is a registrar that continues to support the zone, why push for removal? What, they're gonna force everyone off.uk and into.gb next? If someone wants to have user.su, let them. Plus if several countries declare themselves to be Secular Union, you can point them in that direction:)
I'd say that's the right observation for completely wrong reasons. Your credit score depends on the amount of the credit line you use. So if you have a card that's being used up to 90% and then your creditor increases your credit line so you only use 60% of your card the score improves (that's also why it's recomended to have several cards and spread your charges around instead of using one to the max). You may have problem only if your total amount of credit starts to exceed your possible income. But in that case you don't really need another credit card anyways (though it may have implications for getting a different type of credit such as mortgage etc) But yes, credit companies love to extend the credit to "not credit worthy" because there is a better chance of getting fees/interest payments/etc.
Of course it's more fun to think that all of the free credit increases you get are just companies trying to "get you". But it's sorta like believing that cities that provide water service do it so they can put "evil drugs" in the water. And electric companies transmit through the power lines hidden mind control signals.
If credit card is really interested in screwing you, they wouldn't increase your credit line. Instead they'd report to credit agencies that you were late with your payment 3 times by more than 30 days, which'll put your rating in the toilet so much faster.
If iPhone sold briskly at old price, there'd be no need to cut it anyways. I don't believe in charity in such short timespan. So, the real reason was that people mostly shunned 4Gb models, and even 8Gb models did not sell as quickly as Apple wanted.
Plus now there's a chance for people that simply want a "touch iPod" to actually buy one (without 2 year contract, with a chance of using the regular good-old-keyboard based phone with Voice Dial and perhaps 3G on their own carrier). So there really has to be a good incentive to switch to an iPhone. Lowered price is supposed to be one.
While it's probably nice for user that types in something like MyDogSkip as a password, typing in something location based (for example njio1357vgyu) is way more complicated. Which makes entering "hard" passwords extra-extra hard. Instead of muscle-memory you need to use your mouse to do it "one lick at a time". Yuk.
While the fact that employer's Monster account(s) were stolen/cracked/pilfered is sad, the article says that trojan was essentially storing search results. That information is available anyways, as people with resumes in open access do want to be contacted so they publish the email/phone/name etc and anyone with a screen scraper can amass this pile of "personal data". There is no indication that job seeker's database was stolen.
As for phishers I had a run in with one company claiming to "hire for Google" and demanding my SSN so they could "put my data into candidate database at Google, that absolutely demands SSN as unique ID". That was several months ago.
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I mean, after all, Toshiba paid 150 million bucks to studios for "Promotion Consideration" in August of 2007 -- 50 million bucks to Paramount and 100 to Dreamworks. So, why not do the same, and pay some (proportionally big amount) of money to buy competitor's supporter? The winners are movie studios anyways, be it Paramount/Dreamworks (who won't have to be HD-DVD only now) or Warner...
:)
Funny how HD-DVD was "dying the slow death" in August, but thanks in part to transfusion it lived up to, well, 2008
Worse :) It needs to work when anyone tries to pull out RAM out of running computer. Otherwise someone with a power drill will make a hole in a case and just rip the modules out, plug them into reading device, do a dump of the content, look for key, decrypt the hard drive, etc etc.
It' just like when people used to yank floppies with important information out of the drive that tries to format it. Sure, some information will die. But at least some of it can be enough to restore important file/key etc.
When people say "Insert relevant ads" it usually means ISP hacked the page you got from remote server and inserted and ad that wasn't there, or replaced one on the page with something else. Bad thing. Here, they organize new ad platform. Any site that uses it will be showing something Phorm servs up, and it, in turn, will try to figure out what to show by using ALL of your surfing history, no matter what sites you visit. So, if you go to golf sites A, B, C (that serve ads via yahoo, for example), and then to Phorm-using site M that has articles on electronics, site M will show you golf ads, due to your click-stream.
... in reality it's 2-3-4 individual users. And showing wife an ad for a new heavy album won't make CTR go through the roof. And teenager might actually barf at the sight of the cooking ads.
Of course advertisers will be disappointed to find out, that many people actually use one connection for a household. So, while from the point of view of ISP user clicked Cooking A, Cooking B, Valentine's day, Heavy metal band, Banking, Myspace
p.s. ISPs sell the data anyways, not usre how this opt-out would work...
And what exactly makes you think that "Analog" tower is not connected to the T1 with digital converter that works exactly the same regardless of which radio tract your call came through? Digital handling has been around for a loooong time, with all long-distance being handled like that as well.
Plus that little box in your neighborhood that has "Don't dig, fiber network" pole next to it also handles all your calls in digital format. So, this argument is a complete BS.
There were two big reasons for maintaining Analog connectivity -- FCC mandate and hope for cross-over roaming charges. Same towers almost always have digital equipment on them, GSM or CDMA, depending on rural carrier's preference.
While Facebook still allows you to remove your information (but they need a grace period for archive/backup because otherwise it's a great way to sue -- kill your information, sue them next day because 7 day backups would STILL have your info), Electronic Arts doesn't allow removal AT ALL.
Here's what their "support" replies to question on how to remove account:
Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.
Unfortunately a registration code can only be used to create one account. If it has been used to register an account before, it cannot be used again to create a new account. Also, the account registered once cannot be unregistered or deleted. You will need to login to the game using the same account name and password with which you have registered the game. And there is no way to merge two accounts into one. If you are concerned about deletion of an account, then please note that accounts once created can never be cancel or removed from our database.
I am not sure I understand correctly, where people got the idea that that particular security research company sells info to "the bad guys". Unlike the open source software, inspecting and finding flaws in black box type of systems is more labor intensive (perhaps some of it can be automated but only some). Someone has to pay for this. Because if they do "the ethical thing" they will have no money to pay rent and buy food, and won't be able to continue what they do. That way users will still "suffer due to bugs", except it's more likely that some shady company will be able to afford to pay someone to find exploits for them ONLY versus selling it to other security testing companies.
Easiest solution is, of course, to pay for updates via cooperation between multiple companies that just happen to have extremely buggy software. If you have regular zero day exploits popping up every month, those $10000 are well spent. They don't want to pay their developers to change the process and improve the testing, then they pay third party for black-box audits and fix problems after the fact.
If you want to get on ever higher ethical horse, think about ethical problems of the company that keeps releasing buggy stuff over and over and over again. If you accidentally add poison to your cookies every few months (instead of just laxative, because you give the cookies away for free and get a fee from anti-diarrheal manufacturer for spikes in consumption), wouldn't you have ethical obligation to stop the bakery and re-evaluate your process? Of course pointing finger at third party that does poison testing of baked stuff and sells results to merchants and labs is much easier.
I'd say it depends on the baby. Otherwise you wouldn't have people who speak foreign languages quite well (unless you define "a baby" as someone under 30 years old or so). Just because certain sounds are not used in the household doesn't mean baby won't be able to process them. Otherwise all republicans would never ever heard the word "sex" as that sound is simply not used in a proper right-wing household ;)
Just as I said when original discussion happened, Russian government was not responsible. Now, is Pentagon still ready to bomb cyberattackers? If yes, then next student with a grudge will finish off a country or two before we have a chance of intelligent machines or human-made bacteria to kill us all.
Yes, it's very limited (OS/Browser/Media Player) but remember, this is NOT a standalone service. People do not subscribe to Netflix to "watch streaming movies". No. The only purpose of streaming at this time is to provide a bonus extra feature. For those cases where you sit at the computer and want to run some movie in a background.
For those who really really want to watch it on TV there'll be a set-top box.
For everyone else, Netflix will remain a DVD rental service.
P.s. do they already make an iTunes for Linux? I thought so. So no matter what Apple announces, it'd be just as useless for the Linux crowd.
At that speed you will reach your download/upload limit on your unlimited connection in just a few hours :D
You do, actually. Because otherwise some channels will simply not work any more. One-way communication means all channels are broadcasted _at once_. And your card has means to decode channels A through M (but not N through Z, even though the feed is there). Now with switching video they only broadcast channels that are presently in use (A,E,L...), so in order to watch channel D your box/card/device has to be able to talk back to the node and say "I'd like channel D now" to which it gets back "Ok, it's on digital channel 1342.1" and magically that particular channel is assigned feed from D for some amount of time, after which it will be reused.
That way cable company can offer you virtually unlimited number of channels even though the bandwidth is limited (and in worst case scenario they only need one channel per each consumer's device). Time Warner already started to move some channels to this delivery system, therefore if you have a cable card and you want to see one of those "small" channels you are out of luck. And if you have "digital cable compatible TV" then you may see some channels that keep on switching content.
So yes, you do want a two way communication, even if you never use Video on Demand.
Because every professional just _has_ to keep his own SMTP server with multiple redundant mail drops, back-up and web interface, simplified interface for WAP/mobile devices and a spam filter, right?
:)
Instead professionals should simply get Google Apps for their domain and have Google Mail work as "professional@thatismydomain.com". Duh
Now we'll have routers do the wiggly bee dance AND check the ping times at the same time. :)
What will they think of next, EBGP?
Because it's much more difficult into getting a statewide monopoly, and because both ATT and Time Warner now have state-wide right to provide the service.
Have you seen that many local authorities grant multiple licenses? No. Because it's easy (and probably fun) to talk over a group of local politicians into locking everyone in your town into exactly ONE provider "for your own good". You also pay for this wonderful right by dishing out extra 4 bucks for "franchise fee" and only get to have one cable company.
The more providers there are, the better.
Well, this sound suspiciously sounds like a re-work of old sound Tell Me systems play while trying to decipher what the beep user tried to say. Just try to call 1-800-555-TELL (1-800-555-8355) and play with the menu.
:) Even though they were before Google in voice stuff :)
That sound is also a sure sign that you're dealing with Tell Me designed system -- for example Fandango uses their back-end, some banks and some other interactive voice systems.
Of course Tell Me was bought by Microsoft so now it's inevitably evil
I wonder how soon someone will buy gift card for the right amount with cash and then tries to buy the iPhone with it :) :)
Or a combo of prepaid Visa card and gift card.
Or buy something useless for cash, then return it (unopened) and use store credit to buy the iPhone
or... just sue their asses
Admitting targeting Apple to grab headlines grabs headlines too :)
Now, how long until this recursion dies with out of memory error...
I remember that story about some GPS units by default finding a cemetery in the destination town. In this case it'd be totally appropriate :) :)
Plus, I prefer extra fast cross-country flight to a road trip. I mean if you enjoy the route there's no need for "OMG! We're JUST driving 5 miles above the limit!" and if you do need the speed then don't be an ass and board a place. More fuel efficient too
Does this mean that all they have to do to exclude from the "tax man's view" is simply not accept the invitation to be a power seller? :)
If there is a registrar that continues to support the zone, why push for removal? What, they're gonna force everyone off .uk and into .gb next? If someone wants to have user.su, let them. Plus if several countries declare themselves to be Secular Union, you can point them in that direction :)
I'd say that's the right observation for completely wrong reasons. Your credit score depends on the amount of the credit line you use. So if you have a card that's being used up to 90% and then your creditor increases your credit line so you only use 60% of your card the score improves (that's also why it's recomended to have several cards and spread your charges around instead of using one to the max).
You may have problem only if your total amount of credit starts to exceed your possible income. But in that case you don't really need another credit card anyways (though it may have implications for getting a different type of credit such as mortgage etc)
But yes, credit companies love to extend the credit to "not credit worthy" because there is a better chance of getting fees/interest payments/etc.
Of course it's more fun to think that all of the free credit increases you get are just companies trying to "get you". But it's sorta like believing that cities that provide water service do it so they can put "evil drugs" in the water. And electric companies transmit through the power lines hidden mind control signals.
If credit card is really interested in screwing you, they wouldn't increase your credit line. Instead they'd report to credit agencies that you were late with your payment 3 times by more than 30 days, which'll put your rating in the toilet so much faster.
If iPhone sold briskly at old price, there'd be no need to cut it anyways. I don't believe in charity in such short timespan.
So, the real reason was that people mostly shunned 4Gb models, and even 8Gb models did not sell as quickly as Apple wanted.
Plus now there's a chance for people that simply want a "touch iPod" to actually buy one (without 2 year contract, with a chance of using the regular good-old-keyboard based phone with Voice Dial and perhaps 3G on their own carrier). So there really has to be a good incentive to switch to an iPhone. Lowered price is supposed to be one.
While it's probably nice for user that types in something like MyDogSkip as a password, typing in something location based (for example njio1357vgyu) is way more complicated. Which makes entering "hard" passwords extra-extra hard. Instead of muscle-memory you need to use your mouse to do it "one lick at a time". Yuk.
While the fact that employer's Monster account(s) were stolen/cracked/pilfered is sad, the article says that trojan was essentially storing search results.
That information is available anyways, as people with resumes in open access do want to be contacted so they publish the email/phone/name etc and anyone with a screen scraper can amass this pile of "personal data". There is no indication that job seeker's database was stolen.
As for phishers I had a run in with one company claiming to "hire for Google" and demanding my SSN so they could "put my data into candidate database at Google, that absolutely demands SSN as unique ID".
That was several months ago.
Sloppy case with badly collected evidence, based on the law that was enacted after alleged crime occurred...
Gee, I am shocked at the verdict!
Just wait for an appeal or for attempts to sue current owners.