The folks from Extreme Makeover Home Edition try to raise a house in like a week or whatever and they always have to come back and fix their shoddy work. All the water, heat, and electrical is crap. They use fast-drying concrete that cracks and it's generally one big, fake disaster. THAT has an American building permit and inspection too by the way! I can't wait to see this Chinese piece of crap fall over.
Unfortunately, almost all bitcoin users are a lot smarter than that. If their browser's security features, their antivirus, and their common sense don't all tip them off that it's not the real MTGox, they probably shouldn't be bitcoin users.
I got an overclocked A10 Trinity original to 4.3GHz stable at a mere 127 Fahrenheit after 1 hour of 100% usage using an aftermarket $20 cooler. The GPU registered a 6.4 graphics rating with 1600 MHz memory and 6.9 with 1866MHz memory. So the more you make it look like a graphics card with GDDR5, the more performance you got out of the graphics. So cue the angry rantings over bad graphics performance from the Kingston value line 1333 CL10 RAM users on forums.
Anyway, that gaming grade computer was $575 retail at my shop and ran most modern games at medium to high settings. It blows away a GT430 and most GT440's so that's nice. Now if someone wants a doable graphics card with good video encoding speed to boot, boom, APU. These are amazing for that! Usually you're talking about a $500 computer going to $650 minimum to bump up the power supply to support a GTX640 or 650 minimum to even call it a gaming computer. Now you just swap an i3 out for a 4-core APU and tada, basic gaming computer.
"Police and security experts say they are 'stumped.'"
Let me help: Car makers just don't give a fuck and they have zero background in security. It's the combination of that.
Can we just beg for them to:
Remove Windows 8 from a laptop we already bought
Make Windows 8 and 8.1 (so basically 8.2) not suck so badly
or just beg for them to stop begging us to beg them for Windows 8 machines.
For the last fucking time (hopefully) CPUs and even ideal advanced GPUs like the king of them all, the Radeon 5830 STILL CANNOT MATCH THE NEW ASICs. Normal computers (and TVs and phones) cannot effectively mine bitcoins anymore. You could mine on my i5-2400 24/7 for an entire year straight and come up a couple dollars. Unless anyone has an ASIC miner, they could control 100,000 computers and run them at a nice and undetectable 25% indefinitely and make a tiny, tiny amount of money.
So just about every doctor before him has decided that they're just making too much money, the fans like them too much, they're too well respected, and they need to do worse in their acting career so they quit. Maybe the next person they cast should sign a 10 year contract or something. Nobody on Stargate SG-1 gave a damn about getting a "better" gig until like season 9 or 10.
Oh, that's not a fun kind of problem because then if you check the site with downforeveryoneorjustme.com it will show as up even though the site isn't "working."
...but here's almost exactly the same specs, assembled and with Android 4.1, for $80: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834686007
1GHz A9 CPU
1GB DDR3
Touchscreen
onboard wifi
Plus this has a preconfigured OS plus I heard it's easily rootable to run Linux and whatever else and a Mali 3D accelerator/GPU which is quite nice at HD netflix and games.
And yet regardless, he's not getting in. If I so much as log into my online banking from another computer let alone another state or country, I have to enter multiple security question answers as well. Almost every bank does it that way. If yours doesn't, get a new bank.
I disagree. In this level of douche vs douche, I automatically side with absolutely nobody and just hope it's as large of a train wreck as possible. The fact that this is getting sorted out is really unfortunate.
Oh boy, 4 nukes that you only have to shoot down one time because they're all on the same missile. What a great tactical advantage...for the enemy. Sounds like a cost-saving measure to me, not an amazing advanced weapon.
I was the president of mine in high school and we turned it into the gaming club. We kept the title for funding reasons but really we just threw LAN parties. Membership was pretty high. We also held a dance dance revolution tournament with the finals in the lunchroom.
I've heard from other places though that the biggest success is always building some sort of overclocked, ultra-high storage, superocomputer but sort of an ironic one number-wise since nobody ever has the budget for a brand new one. Basically, throw together a ton of spare parts in a gigantic 1995 era-case with other computers' hard drive cages glued in for like 10 used drives with PCI IDE controllers (like $10 on ebay) and dual power supplies. You can get cages, fans, drives, and all that donated from people who just want to get rid of their junk computers laying around at home. Then run through how to run a proper chkdsk on them all and other technical stuff and definitely paint it and anyone into computers at all will love the project.
This reminds me. To all you haters saying that the US does nothing but import and it's a suicidal economic structure, read that last line. We import cheap plastic crap and clothes and toys from China and export a gigantic supply of food around the world. Yeah, electronics' sourcing are a bit of a problem but other than that, our exports are quite important. That's why Monsanto should really stop fucking it up. I hope the government fines them the entirety of the lost sales.
This is Slash My Dots reporting from the republic of Internetland. In Singapore news, it turns out the royal family are assholes.
News Update: this story may be attempted to be controlled by Singapore but the Internetlandians do not recognize their authority over Internetland, seeing as how they only own and rule Singapore.
That barely applies in most real world examples. Oops, special characters are allowed in an input field for social security numbers and post-filtered after match checking so someone can falsely submit a duplicate SSN by adding a pound sign to the end and get verified for multiple accounts that all validated as real SSNs. Simple! Change the order of your code to check the literal text value in the field before filtering or just run the filter sooner. That could not possibly break anyone's system just because they're running Vista or something. It's purely a logical, procedural fix that doesn't affect anything. That kind of stuff doesn't need to be tested.
Now if your MP3 encoding DLL has a problem so you swap it out with a different manufacturer's DLL, now you're asking for problems because that's not a simple logical procedural fix and who knows how that DLL will run on every configuration.
Plus, then there's the huge fact that a temporary workaround that's extremely simple is usually much faster than actually fixing the problem but just as effective at stopping the security issues. Like if it's a big database problem and a ton of stored procedures need to be altered and a database patch to change the structure needs to be issues, etc, but you can put a realtime keypress checker to make sure nobody is able to press the Z key while focused on a certain text field and that prevents the hack, do it. The majority of security problems are that simple to fix.
I think you misunderstand the most likely implementation of DRM. Let's say I'm a website owner. I control what's on my website, when, and who can view it. It's not even about money. I could be putting out stuff completely for free that I just don't want some Russian or Chinese asshole to upload to some other video site even though I'm not making a penny off it. Also, if I want to make a video not be available on my site anymore, I don't want 5 different unauthorized mirrors of it on 5 different websites that people stole. Just let the website owner control the content of their own website!
That said, I'm sure the MPAA and RIAA and everything to do with them will find some way to make the system completely evil and money-grabbing BS where you can't even access your own content that you paid for half the time. But like I said, if DRM isn't in HTML5 then here comes Silverlight 6.0 or something similar because Netflix (and similar sites) are not going to let users rip off and entire movie and save it to their hard drive. That's not exactly the type of license they paid the studios for.
Do you know how to read? If people literally steal my content and make the money I would have made off of it instead of me, I have a problem with that. I also used to be an author for Demand Media and I made A LOT of money on ad commissions. Then I found out some Chinese website was ripping off my text word for word. They just copied and pasted it and they were ranked higher than my article on Google. 1 article suddenly dropped in income and lost me about $100/mo until the copy was taken down. So yes, IP theft does affect small time, part time and amateur/hobbist people too. If I was elected president, I'd arrest every member of the RIAA and MPAA and dissolve their companies and possibly exile their top level people to another country for crimes against the US legal system but that doesn't mean I don't think HTML5 needs DRM.
I'm a software programmer so I can honestly say if a company takes more than 7 days to issue a fix, they aren't good. Let's say there's a team of 20 programmers working on a huge piece of software like an ASP system on a website. If the 1-2 people responsible for the module hear about the problem like 4 days after it was reported, the boss seriously screwed up. That's a lack of communication in their company. A 30 minute delay for "there's cake in the breakroom" and 7+ day delay on "someone's hacking our website" means someone epically screwed up the importance of that e-mail getting relayed to the correct people.
If the programmers can't read their own damn code that they wrote and figure out why the vulnerability happened, they should be fired. They obviously don't know their own code and didn't use comments or worse yet, they don't know what the command they're doing ACTUALLY do and that was the cause of the problem.
Then if it takes more than 7 days to "publish" or "push" a new version of their software live, then the whole project was designed like it's 15 years ago. These days, you need urgent patches faster than that. Let the programmers who wrote the code do the testing so there's zero delay and then don't require some know-nothing 60-year old head of the department review all code before it goes live.
They didn't add "the start menu."
"There are also options to change what the corners do, and options to boot into alternate screens. For example, if you prefer to see the Apps view versus all the tiles, you can choose to have the Start screen go directly to Apps view."
And that is it. So there's no little context menu style start menu like Windows 95 - 7. Instead of 1 way to view that awful metro interface, now you can have 2 ways. Woooo! It's still a shortcut to the full screen metro interface, not a start menu. Now though, it probably makes it impossible to run stardock in the bottom left.
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The folks from Extreme Makeover Home Edition try to raise a house in like a week or whatever and they always have to come back and fix their shoddy work. All the water, heat, and electrical is crap. They use fast-drying concrete that cracks and it's generally one big, fake disaster. THAT has an American building permit and inspection too by the way! I can't wait to see this Chinese piece of crap fall over.
Unfortunately, almost all bitcoin users are a lot smarter than that. If their browser's security features, their antivirus, and their common sense don't all tip them off that it's not the real MTGox, they probably shouldn't be bitcoin users.
I got an overclocked A10 Trinity original to 4.3GHz stable at a mere 127 Fahrenheit after 1 hour of 100% usage using an aftermarket $20 cooler. The GPU registered a 6.4 graphics rating with 1600 MHz memory and 6.9 with 1866MHz memory. So the more you make it look like a graphics card with GDDR5, the more performance you got out of the graphics. So cue the angry rantings over bad graphics performance from the Kingston value line 1333 CL10 RAM users on forums.
Anyway, that gaming grade computer was $575 retail at my shop and ran most modern games at medium to high settings. It blows away a GT430 and most GT440's so that's nice. Now if someone wants a doable graphics card with good video encoding speed to boot, boom, APU. These are amazing for that! Usually you're talking about a $500 computer going to $650 minimum to bump up the power supply to support a GTX640 or 650 minimum to even call it a gaming computer. Now you just swap an i3 out for a 4-core APU and tada, basic gaming computer.
The only thing stupider than buying a Dell is buying Dell itself. He must not own one at home or he wouldn't even consider it.
"Police and security experts say they are 'stumped.'"
Let me help: Car makers just don't give a fuck and they have zero background in security. It's the combination of that.
Can we just beg for them to:
Remove Windows 8 from a laptop we already bought
Make Windows 8 and 8.1 (so basically 8.2) not suck so badly
or just beg for them to stop begging us to beg them for Windows 8 machines.
For the last fucking time (hopefully) CPUs and even ideal advanced GPUs like the king of them all, the Radeon 5830 STILL CANNOT MATCH THE NEW ASICs. Normal computers (and TVs and phones) cannot effectively mine bitcoins anymore. You could mine on my i5-2400 24/7 for an entire year straight and come up a couple dollars. Unless anyone has an ASIC miner, they could control 100,000 computers and run them at a nice and undetectable 25% indefinitely and make a tiny, tiny amount of money.
The start menu shown there is way too too small to work with touch. What microsoft isn't getting is that nobody gives a fuck.
...can it run Crysis 3?
So just about every doctor before him has decided that they're just making too much money, the fans like them too much, they're too well respected, and they need to do worse in their acting career so they quit. Maybe the next person they cast should sign a 10 year contract or something. Nobody on Stargate SG-1 gave a damn about getting a "better" gig until like season 9 or 10.
Oh, that's not a fun kind of problem because then if you check the site with downforeveryoneorjustme.com it will show as up even though the site isn't "working."
...but here's almost exactly the same specs, assembled and with Android 4.1, for $80:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834686007
1GHz A9 CPU
1GB DDR3
Touchscreen
onboard wifi
Plus this has a preconfigured OS plus I heard it's easily rootable to run Linux and whatever else and a Mali 3D accelerator/GPU which is quite nice at HD netflix and games.
Also, it already did happen and we're just seeing it now. So it's not really a "how long until it happens" thing.
And yet regardless, he's not getting in. If I so much as log into my online banking from another computer let alone another state or country, I have to enter multiple security question answers as well. Almost every bank does it that way. If yours doesn't, get a new bank.
I disagree. In this level of douche vs douche, I automatically side with absolutely nobody and just hope it's as large of a train wreck as possible. The fact that this is getting sorted out is really unfortunate.
Oh boy, 4 nukes that you only have to shoot down one time because they're all on the same missile. What a great tactical advantage...for the enemy. Sounds like a cost-saving measure to me, not an amazing advanced weapon.
I was the president of mine in high school and we turned it into the gaming club. We kept the title for funding reasons but really we just threw LAN parties. Membership was pretty high. We also held a dance dance revolution tournament with the finals in the lunchroom.
I've heard from other places though that the biggest success is always building some sort of overclocked, ultra-high storage, superocomputer but sort of an ironic one number-wise since nobody ever has the budget for a brand new one. Basically, throw together a ton of spare parts in a gigantic 1995 era-case with other computers' hard drive cages glued in for like 10 used drives with PCI IDE controllers (like $10 on ebay) and dual power supplies. You can get cages, fans, drives, and all that donated from people who just want to get rid of their junk computers laying around at home. Then run through how to run a proper chkdsk on them all and other technical stuff and definitely paint it and anyone into computers at all will love the project.
This reminds me. To all you haters saying that the US does nothing but import and it's a suicidal economic structure, read that last line. We import cheap plastic crap and clothes and toys from China and export a gigantic supply of food around the world. Yeah, electronics' sourcing are a bit of a problem but other than that, our exports are quite important. That's why Monsanto should really stop fucking it up. I hope the government fines them the entirety of the lost sales.
This is Slash My Dots reporting from the republic of Internetland. In Singapore news, it turns out the royal family are assholes.
News Update: this story may be attempted to be controlled by Singapore but the Internetlandians do not recognize their authority over Internetland, seeing as how they only own and rule Singapore.
That barely applies in most real world examples. Oops, special characters are allowed in an input field for social security numbers and post-filtered after match checking so someone can falsely submit a duplicate SSN by adding a pound sign to the end and get verified for multiple accounts that all validated as real SSNs. Simple! Change the order of your code to check the literal text value in the field before filtering or just run the filter sooner. That could not possibly break anyone's system just because they're running Vista or something. It's purely a logical, procedural fix that doesn't affect anything. That kind of stuff doesn't need to be tested.
Now if your MP3 encoding DLL has a problem so you swap it out with a different manufacturer's DLL, now you're asking for problems because that's not a simple logical procedural fix and who knows how that DLL will run on every configuration.
Plus, then there's the huge fact that a temporary workaround that's extremely simple is usually much faster than actually fixing the problem but just as effective at stopping the security issues. Like if it's a big database problem and a ton of stored procedures need to be altered and a database patch to change the structure needs to be issues, etc, but you can put a realtime keypress checker to make sure nobody is able to press the Z key while focused on a certain text field and that prevents the hack, do it. The majority of security problems are that simple to fix.
Since baseball is pretty much 1% playtime, 99% dicking around, they should eat into the 99% by inspecting every single thrown ball, lol.
I think you misunderstand the most likely implementation of DRM. Let's say I'm a website owner. I control what's on my website, when, and who can view it. It's not even about money. I could be putting out stuff completely for free that I just don't want some Russian or Chinese asshole to upload to some other video site even though I'm not making a penny off it. Also, if I want to make a video not be available on my site anymore, I don't want 5 different unauthorized mirrors of it on 5 different websites that people stole. Just let the website owner control the content of their own website!
That said, I'm sure the MPAA and RIAA and everything to do with them will find some way to make the system completely evil and money-grabbing BS where you can't even access your own content that you paid for half the time. But like I said, if DRM isn't in HTML5 then here comes Silverlight 6.0 or something similar because Netflix (and similar sites) are not going to let users rip off and entire movie and save it to their hard drive. That's not exactly the type of license they paid the studios for.
Do you know how to read? If people literally steal my content and make the money I would have made off of it instead of me, I have a problem with that. I also used to be an author for Demand Media and I made A LOT of money on ad commissions. Then I found out some Chinese website was ripping off my text word for word. They just copied and pasted it and they were ranked higher than my article on Google. 1 article suddenly dropped in income and lost me about $100/mo until the copy was taken down. So yes, IP theft does affect small time, part time and amateur/hobbist people too. If I was elected president, I'd arrest every member of the RIAA and MPAA and dissolve their companies and possibly exile their top level people to another country for crimes against the US legal system but that doesn't mean I don't think HTML5 needs DRM.
I'm a software programmer so I can honestly say if a company takes more than 7 days to issue a fix, they aren't good. Let's say there's a team of 20 programmers working on a huge piece of software like an ASP system on a website. If the 1-2 people responsible for the module hear about the problem like 4 days after it was reported, the boss seriously screwed up. That's a lack of communication in their company. A 30 minute delay for "there's cake in the breakroom" and 7+ day delay on "someone's hacking our website" means someone epically screwed up the importance of that e-mail getting relayed to the correct people.
If the programmers can't read their own damn code that they wrote and figure out why the vulnerability happened, they should be fired. They obviously don't know their own code and didn't use comments or worse yet, they don't know what the command they're doing ACTUALLY do and that was the cause of the problem.
Then if it takes more than 7 days to "publish" or "push" a new version of their software live, then the whole project was designed like it's 15 years ago. These days, you need urgent patches faster than that. Let the programmers who wrote the code do the testing so there's zero delay and then don't require some know-nothing 60-year old head of the department review all code before it goes live.
They didn't add "the start menu."
"There are also options to change what the corners do, and options to boot into alternate screens. For example, if you prefer to see the Apps view versus all the tiles, you can choose to have the Start screen go directly to Apps view."
And that is it. So there's no little context menu style start menu like Windows 95 - 7. Instead of 1 way to view that awful metro interface, now you can have 2 ways. Woooo! It's still a shortcut to the full screen metro interface, not a start menu. Now though, it probably makes it impossible to run stardock in the bottom left.