Isn't it a bit redundant, seeing as how they have serial numbers already?!?!?! A QR code would contain what, a serial number? Obviously this article thinks it's a web link, which is what QR codes were designed for. If it's a web URL, wtf?! If it's a serial number, just real the serial number instead. They have OCR that does that already.
If you think a massive security flaw will stop some private company from selling them their product suite, you are WRONG. They'll cover it up like their jobs depend on it...because they do.
We've never claimed that chip and pin is 100% secure and the industry has successfully adopted a multi-layered approach to detecting any newly-identified types of fraud.
Yeah, they pass it along to sellers like me. Almost all fraud gets taken straight out of the pockets of the business owner but hey, we've got money, right? Total bullshit. Well guess what I'm refusing to accept ever under any circumstances.
Are you kidding? It said an asteroid tracking radar! This isn't an asteroid-tracking radar or there would have been a hyphen there. I can imagine all sorts of things that the military could use it for like finding the source of broadcast radar pulses and destroying them.
You know those fake flash games that pretend to be a maze or something and then a gigantic scary face pops out and screams and freaks you out? Hehehehehehehe.
I'm the first one to say the gov is wasting money, especially the military or the DHS but if your system is constantly going off and causing that much of a nightmare and it's that far beyond totally not working, they have to do something and immediately. If there was a better alternative immediately available, they would have chosen it. If you want some heads to roll, find out who bought and tested the first system.
I'm a head IT manager at a medium sized company and I'm 25. I repaired computers since I was 15 and was running that as a pretty decent company by the time I hit college. I knew PCs inside and out but MCSE, Linux, advanced programming, low level networking functionality etc that I learned getting a 2 year degree at a public tech college easily doubled my knowledge. I would utterly suck at my job without that degree (technically I got 2 degrees in 2.5 years). If someone doesn't know what the SDLC is and can't tell me what a phased deployment is, they're not working at my company and hopefully not any other company either and we don't even go all that "by the books" really.
Last time I was on Alibaba, I saw listing after listing for tons (literally the measuring unit) of scrap metal and recyclable or post-recycled stuff. So yeah, a $100,000 bucket of scrap aluminum doesn't show up on Amazon a whole lot. This is about as apples to apples as comparing Brian Williams to a crunch wrap supreme taco.
Fun fact, the largest gross sales in the US online are, in order:
1. Amazon
2. Newegg
3. eBay
So anonymous took responsibility for it? Wow, I guess they were talking out their asses just like any other immature, pathetic little hacker kid. Way to downgrade their image straight down the toilet.
That will be remembered as the first time somene got a fucking clue that tablets suck. When was it for netbooks? Sometime in 2009 I think. So companies took a netbook, walled it, took off the keyboard, and sold it to the same damn people as a new product! ANYONE buying a tablet should be forced to type a 2 paragraph facebook wall post on it first. There would be zero sales.
They better permanently put that thing in "airplane" mode or they've got problems! In case you missed the Mythbusters episode that thoroughly tested this, devices with RF broadcasting capabilities of almost any kind can make instruments spin and go generally crazy from even 25+ feet away. What stops it in reality is the EM and RF shielding in the cockpit door. See the problem? You bring an ipad into the cockpit, that plane's going down.
That's how they've done business for 20 years and Jobs only hired people exactly like him. Every single division in his company is in have a monopoly or act like you do mode.
There is no way in hell this is possible. They made a phone centered around an entire transmission technology that another company owns and they didn't have a license for? THAT ISN'T POSSIBLE. No company is that stupid. You don't assemble an entire product and then cross your fingers and hope Samsung licenses it out to you AND THEN sue them for 1 billion dollars and win. Surprise, no LTE for you. What is really going on here? How legitimate is the patent(s) Samsung holds? I'm going to take a guess they don't own LTE itself in its entirety at least, right?
The one place you won't find such discounts, however, is the iBookstore, Apple has opted to fight the Justice Department and go to trial alongside Penguin and MacMillan next year.
Why am I not surprised? Price fixing and monopolistic bullshit even when they don't actually have a monopoly is Apple's bread and butter.
They're acting like this person kept the one and only copy of certain things on a file sharing site. How unbelievably stupid is that?! If that is the case, anyone deserves and FBI raid or copyright notice or random account closure or company bankruptcy so they can learn how unsafe that is. Now that their account is back online, just re-upload all the files.
Since large companies don't care about $9.95, that means it's big dollar amounts. You're on to something here. Either fees should be a percentage-based deal which would slow them way the hell down or just lower the allowed frequency based on how large the dollar amount is. That way anyone can make $10,000 purchases and sales as often as they want but when you start throwing around $10 mil, then you get to wait 5 minutes.
We already have robots that do math. They're called computers lol. Wouldn't building sexbots be a lot more constructive and profitable? rofl. yes, I know, they're already building those too lol. It was a specific reference:P
Skype operates at their maximum allowed free account bandwidth already on my connection as far as I can tell. Steam I download a game for about 1 every 3 months tops. I don't leave my computer running while I'm gone because my room gets too hot and you know, the electrical bill and hard drive wear and tear. Anything I need to access while away is on a synced thumb drive. Keep in mind, I'm an IT manager and computer repair business owner. 99% of other people have even less need for high bandwidth than me and even I don't really need it. In case you missed my other post, Time Warner also offers 50 megabit connections for home users via copper on its premium service. Kinda tears fiber apart lol.
What exactly? Host a website? No static IP and I have a multi-host. Host a gaming server? All my games have better company servers. Host a Linux distro image? Why? Why would I pay more money just to do that? So nothing particularly legal comes to mind. There's not 1 single thing I can think of that fits "Oh man, if only I had a faster connection, I could..." And in case you missed it, via copper coax, Time Warner offers a 50Mb connection in my area. Why do we need fiber for home users again? Time Warner has a fiber backbone. I don't need them cutting holes in my walls to put fiber in when I can get 50Mb over a coax cable lol.
An area with around 150,000 somewhat wealthy people in Wisconsin. I think they have enough customers to run a pretty nice infrastructure at a nice price. it was 3 megabits like 7 years ago but they kept upping it. In real bandwidth tests at our old house, new house, then my new apartment, all test at exactly what they state I get too. You should move to Wisconsin lol. By the way, they now have in my area Turbo (22-28 Mb) and wideband (50+ Mb) and that's over copper with a fiber backbone so why do we need fiber for homes again? I even tested random addresses and they all qualified for wideband because it's not as location-sensitive as DSL.
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Isn't it a bit redundant, seeing as how they have serial numbers already?!?!?! A QR code would contain what, a serial number? Obviously this article thinks it's a web link, which is what QR codes were designed for. If it's a web URL, wtf?! If it's a serial number, just real the serial number instead. They have OCR that does that already.
If you think a massive security flaw will stop some private company from selling them their product suite, you are WRONG. They'll cover it up like their jobs depend on it...because they do.
Yeah, they pass it along to sellers like me. Almost all fraud gets taken straight out of the pockets of the business owner but hey, we've got money, right? Total bullshit. Well guess what I'm refusing to accept ever under any circumstances.
Are you kidding? It said an asteroid tracking radar! This isn't an asteroid-tracking radar or there would have been a hyphen there. I can imagine all sorts of things that the military could use it for like finding the source of broadcast radar pulses and destroying them.
Well, I suppose it is "short term" if they commit suicide but it's quite rude of them to phrase it that way.
You know those fake flash games that pretend to be a maze or something and then a gigantic scary face pops out and screams and freaks you out? Hehehehehehehe.
Nope, judging them based on what their own religious text says. You know, about treating women, what to do about people who insult Muhammed, etc.
This just in: Barbara Streisand is going to appear in this douchebag's next comic :-P
I'm the first one to say the gov is wasting money, especially the military or the DHS but if your system is constantly going off and causing that much of a nightmare and it's that far beyond totally not working, they have to do something and immediately. If there was a better alternative immediately available, they would have chosen it. If you want some heads to roll, find out who bought and tested the first system.
Sure, right after all muslims move to Mars.
I'm a head IT manager at a medium sized company and I'm 25. I repaired computers since I was 15 and was running that as a pretty decent company by the time I hit college. I knew PCs inside and out but MCSE, Linux, advanced programming, low level networking functionality etc that I learned getting a 2 year degree at a public tech college easily doubled my knowledge. I would utterly suck at my job without that degree (technically I got 2 degrees in 2.5 years). If someone doesn't know what the SDLC is and can't tell me what a phased deployment is, they're not working at my company and hopefully not any other company either and we don't even go all that "by the books" really.
Last time I was on Alibaba, I saw listing after listing for tons (literally the measuring unit) of scrap metal and recyclable or post-recycled stuff. So yeah, a $100,000 bucket of scrap aluminum doesn't show up on Amazon a whole lot. This is about as apples to apples as comparing Brian Williams to a crunch wrap supreme taco.
Fun fact, the largest gross sales in the US online are, in order:
1. Amazon
2. Newegg
3. eBay
So anonymous took responsibility for it? Wow, I guess they were talking out their asses just like any other immature, pathetic little hacker kid. Way to downgrade their image straight down the toilet.
That will be remembered as the first time somene got a fucking clue that tablets suck. When was it for netbooks? Sometime in 2009 I think. So companies took a netbook, walled it, took off the keyboard, and sold it to the same damn people as a new product! ANYONE buying a tablet should be forced to type a 2 paragraph facebook wall post on it first. There would be zero sales.
They better permanently put that thing in "airplane" mode or they've got problems! In case you missed the Mythbusters episode that thoroughly tested this, devices with RF broadcasting capabilities of almost any kind can make instruments spin and go generally crazy from even 25+ feet away. What stops it in reality is the EM and RF shielding in the cockpit door. See the problem? You bring an ipad into the cockpit, that plane's going down.
That's how they've done business for 20 years and Jobs only hired people exactly like him. Every single division in his company is in have a monopoly or act like you do mode.
As soon as 1 congressman's iPhone 5 pre-order isn't fulfilled, I guarantee you they'll do something about it.
There is no way in hell this is possible. They made a phone centered around an entire transmission technology that another company owns and they didn't have a license for? THAT ISN'T POSSIBLE. No company is that stupid. You don't assemble an entire product and then cross your fingers and hope Samsung licenses it out to you AND THEN sue them for 1 billion dollars and win. Surprise, no LTE for you. What is really going on here? How legitimate is the patent(s) Samsung holds? I'm going to take a guess they don't own LTE itself in its entirety at least, right?
Why am I not surprised? Price fixing and monopolistic bullshit even when they don't actually have a monopoly is Apple's bread and butter.
They're acting like this person kept the one and only copy of certain things on a file sharing site. How unbelievably stupid is that?! If that is the case, anyone deserves and FBI raid or copyright notice or random account closure or company bankruptcy so they can learn how unsafe that is. Now that their account is back online, just re-upload all the files.
Since large companies don't care about $9.95, that means it's big dollar amounts. You're on to something here. Either fees should be a percentage-based deal which would slow them way the hell down or just lower the allowed frequency based on how large the dollar amount is. That way anyone can make $10,000 purchases and sales as often as they want but when you start throwing around $10 mil, then you get to wait 5 minutes.
We already have robots that do math. They're called computers lol. Wouldn't building sexbots be a lot more constructive and profitable? rofl. yes, I know, they're already building those too lol. It was a specific reference :P
Skype operates at their maximum allowed free account bandwidth already on my connection as far as I can tell. Steam I download a game for about 1 every 3 months tops. I don't leave my computer running while I'm gone because my room gets too hot and you know, the electrical bill and hard drive wear and tear. Anything I need to access while away is on a synced thumb drive. Keep in mind, I'm an IT manager and computer repair business owner. 99% of other people have even less need for high bandwidth than me and even I don't really need it. In case you missed my other post, Time Warner also offers 50 megabit connections for home users via copper on its premium service. Kinda tears fiber apart lol.
What exactly? Host a website? No static IP and I have a multi-host. Host a gaming server? All my games have better company servers. Host a Linux distro image? Why? Why would I pay more money just to do that? So nothing particularly legal comes to mind. There's not 1 single thing I can think of that fits "Oh man, if only I had a faster connection, I could..." And in case you missed it, via copper coax, Time Warner offers a 50Mb connection in my area. Why do we need fiber for home users again? Time Warner has a fiber backbone. I don't need them cutting holes in my walls to put fiber in when I can get 50Mb over a coax cable lol.
An area with around 150,000 somewhat wealthy people in Wisconsin. I think they have enough customers to run a pretty nice infrastructure at a nice price. it was 3 megabits like 7 years ago but they kept upping it. In real bandwidth tests at our old house, new house, then my new apartment, all test at exactly what they state I get too. You should move to Wisconsin lol. By the way, they now have in my area Turbo (22-28 Mb) and wideband (50+ Mb) and that's over copper with a fiber backbone so why do we need fiber for homes again? I even tested random addresses and they all qualified for wideband because it's not as location-sensitive as DSL.