I really, really hope this means a quick death for that awful Motoblur crap that runs on top of the Android UI on all Motorola smartphones. Requiring a mandatory web-based account registration for it with no corporate management whatsoever immediately disqualified every demo phone we tried for my company. I think it even required individual paypal or credit card accounts with no spending restrictions available. I guess they didn't think they'd need any business customers at all ever, because they don't like money or something. I have a feeling Google is smarter than that.
Hmmm 24 hours of criminals posting tweets detrimental to your business on their own account which is displayed in their own software. I guess everyone over at WHMCS must be on vacation...OR ARE COMPLETE MORONS! Maybe they forgot their security question though, lol.
You're burying the lead. A brand new, fresh install of Windows of any OS variation going to google.com will see a "get chrome" button. Not some hyperlink somewhere hidden, not some fudged search result, right on google.com itself. So....yeah. In fact, I think the wording is "Chrome: A better way to surf the web. Click here to get it" or something to that effect.
Also, I guarantee that offering the free angry birds app inside of Chrome as a plugin was 50% of their market share alone.
Well, there's that, lol. That sort of reminds me of all the people who say they have an advantage because they get "free" electricity. Yeah, until their landlord/roommates/parents see an energy bill. Two 5830's overclocked were almost 1/4 of my energy bill so I would think the person paying for your "free electricity" would catch that and make it not so free. The same goes for hardware that you don't own, like you said. Someone will see the energy bill or even just the resource usage logs.
Hey look, someone who doesn't know about bitcoins commenting on the story. Call me now, miss Cleo is waitin'! I didn't mention that there's a java based browser miner that doesn't work very well because of two things. First, that wouldn't make him a penny since operating a pool based on it with a hard coded pool target is ultra low money for the operator, people simply mining for you would never happen, and there are 3 distinct reasons why it can't run silently without a user's knowledge that I won't even go into. So I don't think that's what it was. Also, I don't believe the story referenced that type of software anyway.
Here in the US we have a $270/month cable connection that's 10x2Mb so yeah, our daily backup uploads would take longer than 24 hours, or as they call it on the street, a day. We don't have the best compression or de-dupe but still. I can't even imagine quickbooks off the web let alone our actual databases. As far as I'm concerned, cloud stuff isn't a magical futuristic awesome technology to migrate to, it's a crappy, slow, unstable, budget solution that small business might consider. I just love the ads for "build your own local, onsite cloud solution!" or as I like to call it, "not cloud."
Also, the networking book I read estimated that the bandwidth vs cost of Fedex 1 day guaranteed overnight to anywhere US to US was a better cost compared to bandwidth solution than a station wagon on the freeway. Barracuda backup solutions agrees and uses that as the initial backup method.
Before know-nothing morons start commenting on this article, here's some truth from an actual bitcoin miner. Mining software has no public facing interface when ran from a website. He also was not trying to send out a virus to mine for him or he'd be arrested and fired. He was simply using the CPU and GPU cycles to mine coins and make money.
This is exceptionally stupid because if it was CPU mining, well my i5 chip can hit 8 million hashes per second and my single overclocked 5830 Radeon card can hit 315 million, making it almost 40x faster. So assuming it was a faster modern Xeon, let's say 2x the speed, if the company owned 40 servers and he ran it nonstop on all of them at 100% CPU usage (not likely) then he should have instead bought 1 5830 for about $90 on ebay and mined coins himself. What an idiot.
It is possible that the servers had AMD/ATI cards that he was using without much performance impact on the website(s) but google "bitcoin hardware mining comparison" to see just how awful cards that aren't optimized for gaming do at mining.
Considering my friend's kinect takes about 5 tries to perform remotely complex commands and we have to hide under a bunker of pillows we nicknamed the kinect bunker to get it to stop recognizing the wrong person, I'm not sure it's quite at surgical grade levels. Even for just imaging and not interaction, it's not very accurate. If it was a person, it'd be declared legally blind so I think perhaps a webcam or photographic camera would be more helpful.
Everyone states things like "4% of internet traffic is still IE6. WHAT IDIOTS?!" Yeeeeah, that's me downloading drivers on a reinstall. It ships by default with XP so it won't be gone from server logs until after April 8th, 2014. Also, technically if a place was using Deep Freeze, it would be downgraded from moronic to unwise because security issues would be as critical.
Is the Persian Gulf unlabeled? Is it labeled "Gulf" (sounds stupid, but no reason for a lawsuit)? Is it labeled something else?
It's labeled Israeli Freedom Pond.
That's only because I don't work for Google. If I did, it'd be labeled "Fuck you" before this story even broke. Possibly "Fuck you, Iran" to avoid confusion though for people who didn't catch the news story.
Oh and a "software glitch" would tell everyone in Iran looking up driving directions to drive off a cliff. It would literally state "take a right, and go drive off a cliff" lol.
I do agree that the article was a bit lacking in reality but your assessment wasn't realistic either. So they added a bunch of features that Linux and Mac had forever. La-dee-da. Try reading #28 for example though. That is a virus meltdown nuclear apocalypse waiting to happen. Even shutting your PC completely down won't unload the drivers. They're permanently stuck there. Kiss your PC goodbye when you get a virus because every legit, professional repair store is now going to turn into one of those "reinstall monkeys" that reinstall the OS (or use Win8's awful restore feature) to fix silly little problems. How that feature landed in the "good" category is beyond me.
You basically have to create a Live ID to use Windows 8? No more Start Menu? Have you seen a metro interface with an "average" amount of applications installed? It's like a puzzle that's not fun to do. And speaking of metro, a steamlined, facebook-like interface to let users install malware and adware-stuffed crap from shady vendors at never before seen speeds? Awesome. The shutdown button is buried in an illogical place?
This is going to be a disaster that makes Vista and possibly ME look good, although I plugged a USB mouse into a fully patched ME system once and it blue screened so that one might be a close tie.
Usually when a bunch of BTC are stolen, it causes a dive in prices because everyone's afraid when the stolen coins are sold off, they'll crash the price. If they right now dumped off 100% of them onto the largest exchange, it would go from $4.99 to $4.82.
By the way, lol @ the 100 posts above me that comment on BTC and clearly know little to nothing accurate about it.
I have a much cheaper solution. Anyone going 45 up the onramp or going 60 in the fast lane or basically anyone driving a Buick and causing a 10 mile backup behind them should be detected and pickedup by a giant robot arm and dropped on a county road instead of the highway. Getting rid of dumbasses that can't drive would effectively double the overall throughput of every highway, guaranteed.
Also, automation would do nothing for cement trucks and large equipment, which cannot easily be robotized and would still slow down traffic.
That would classify as "purposeful" downloading or viewing or whatever. The same goes if you watched a streaming movie on some rogue TV and movie streaming sight. Just because it was in a popup doesn't mean anything but if you sat there for an hour, you probably landed on that page on purpose and watched the movie.
So what are 17-18 year old at the most students from a high school doing in a tavern? Maybe they should just enforce the existing rules to keep them out of there.
This seems like such an unstable system that it's practically a security issue. Could someone, in theory, purposely send bad traffic to as many internet relays (or whatever) as possible, causing them to stall and shutting down huge chunks of the internet?
Or maybe their parents didn't have allergies so they moved out into a rural area. That's something I'd never do when I get married because I have allergies.
I had allergies since before I was 1 year old so sorry, it's still extremely genetic.
Technically, it's a protocluster, since it's so young
Technically it's no younger than anything around it, as all matter in the universe is the same age, it's just farther away so it looks like it's young. It's actually exactly the same age as things that are closer. I hope the same people who write things like this aren't responsible for the calculations that resulted in "dark matter."
He had no reason to do that though because his antivirus software assured him that it offered 100% protection against corrupt politically based sham trials in the summary of its heuristics capabilities.
Actually, people breaking down your door and basically kidnapping you is what happens if you do let it expire. That's why they're so dramatic and persistent about pestering you about it!
Badminton is totally the shit to play but not to watch so that's out. I did watch a Madden (on Xbox) tournament on ESPN and it was awkward, embarrassing, and insulting to gamers. I'm 99% sure the winner was on meth too so that one's out. I've got an idea! Dance Dance Revolution freestyle tournaments instead of the NFL. There's only one single video on all of youtube of someone doing a back flip during one. I mean, come on!
I'm pretty sure North Korea's failed missiles helped defend against North Korea's failed missiles actually. I still want a big ass flying laser cannon though.
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I really, really hope this means a quick death for that awful Motoblur crap that runs on top of the Android UI on all Motorola smartphones. Requiring a mandatory web-based account registration for it with no corporate management whatsoever immediately disqualified every demo phone we tried for my company. I think it even required individual paypal or credit card accounts with no spending restrictions available. I guess they didn't think they'd need any business customers at all ever, because they don't like money or something. I have a feeling Google is smarter than that.
Hmmm 24 hours of criminals posting tweets detrimental to your business on their own account which is displayed in their own software. I guess everyone over at WHMCS must be on vacation...OR ARE COMPLETE MORONS! Maybe they forgot their security question though, lol.
You're burying the lead. A brand new, fresh install of Windows of any OS variation going to google.com will see a "get chrome" button. Not some hyperlink somewhere hidden, not some fudged search result, right on google.com itself. So....yeah. In fact, I think the wording is "Chrome: A better way to surf the web. Click here to get it" or something to that effect.
Also, I guarantee that offering the free angry birds app inside of Chrome as a plugin was 50% of their market share alone.
Well, there's that, lol. That sort of reminds me of all the people who say they have an advantage because they get "free" electricity. Yeah, until their landlord/roommates/parents see an energy bill. Two 5830's overclocked were almost 1/4 of my energy bill so I would think the person paying for your "free electricity" would catch that and make it not so free. The same goes for hardware that you don't own, like you said. Someone will see the energy bill or even just the resource usage logs.
Hey look, someone who doesn't know about bitcoins commenting on the story. Call me now, miss Cleo is waitin'! I didn't mention that there's a java based browser miner that doesn't work very well because of two things. First, that wouldn't make him a penny since operating a pool based on it with a hard coded pool target is ultra low money for the operator, people simply mining for you would never happen, and there are 3 distinct reasons why it can't run silently without a user's knowledge that I won't even go into. So I don't think that's what it was. Also, I don't believe the story referenced that type of software anyway.
Here in the US we have a $270/month cable connection that's 10x2Mb so yeah, our daily backup uploads would take longer than 24 hours, or as they call it on the street, a day. We don't have the best compression or de-dupe but still. I can't even imagine quickbooks off the web let alone our actual databases. As far as I'm concerned, cloud stuff isn't a magical futuristic awesome technology to migrate to, it's a crappy, slow, unstable, budget solution that small business might consider. I just love the ads for "build your own local, onsite cloud solution!" or as I like to call it, "not cloud."
Also, the networking book I read estimated that the bandwidth vs cost of Fedex 1 day guaranteed overnight to anywhere US to US was a better cost compared to bandwidth solution than a station wagon on the freeway. Barracuda backup solutions agrees and uses that as the initial backup method.
Before know-nothing morons start commenting on this article, here's some truth from an actual bitcoin miner. Mining software has no public facing interface when ran from a website. He also was not trying to send out a virus to mine for him or he'd be arrested and fired. He was simply using the CPU and GPU cycles to mine coins and make money.
This is exceptionally stupid because if it was CPU mining, well my i5 chip can hit 8 million hashes per second and my single overclocked 5830 Radeon card can hit 315 million, making it almost 40x faster. So assuming it was a faster modern Xeon, let's say 2x the speed, if the company owned 40 servers and he ran it nonstop on all of them at 100% CPU usage (not likely) then he should have instead bought 1 5830 for about $90 on ebay and mined coins himself. What an idiot.
It is possible that the servers had AMD/ATI cards that he was using without much performance impact on the website(s) but google "bitcoin hardware mining comparison" to see just how awful cards that aren't optimized for gaming do at mining.
Considering my friend's kinect takes about 5 tries to perform remotely complex commands and we have to hide under a bunker of pillows we nicknamed the kinect bunker to get it to stop recognizing the wrong person, I'm not sure it's quite at surgical grade levels. Even for just imaging and not interaction, it's not very accurate. If it was a person, it'd be declared legally blind so I think perhaps a webcam or photographic camera would be more helpful.
Everyone states things like "4% of internet traffic is still IE6. WHAT IDIOTS?!" Yeeeeah, that's me downloading drivers on a reinstall. It ships by default with XP so it won't be gone from server logs until after April 8th, 2014. Also, technically if a place was using Deep Freeze, it would be downgraded from moronic to unwise because security issues would be as critical.
Is the Persian Gulf unlabeled? Is it labeled "Gulf" (sounds stupid, but no reason for a lawsuit)? Is it labeled something else?
It's labeled Israeli Freedom Pond.
That's only because I don't work for Google. If I did, it'd be labeled "Fuck you" before this story even broke. Possibly "Fuck you, Iran" to avoid confusion though for people who didn't catch the news story.
Oh and a "software glitch" would tell everyone in Iran looking up driving directions to drive off a cliff. It would literally state "take a right, and go drive off a cliff" lol.
I do agree that the article was a bit lacking in reality but your assessment wasn't realistic either. So they added a bunch of features that Linux and Mac had forever. La-dee-da. Try reading #28 for example though. That is a virus meltdown nuclear apocalypse waiting to happen. Even shutting your PC completely down won't unload the drivers. They're permanently stuck there. Kiss your PC goodbye when you get a virus because every legit, professional repair store is now going to turn into one of those "reinstall monkeys" that reinstall the OS (or use Win8's awful restore feature) to fix silly little problems. How that feature landed in the "good" category is beyond me.
You basically have to create a Live ID to use Windows 8? No more Start Menu? Have you seen a metro interface with an "average" amount of applications installed? It's like a puzzle that's not fun to do. And speaking of metro, a steamlined, facebook-like interface to let users install malware and adware-stuffed crap from shady vendors at never before seen speeds? Awesome. The shutdown button is buried in an illogical place?
This is going to be a disaster that makes Vista and possibly ME look good, although I plugged a USB mouse into a fully patched ME system once and it blue screened so that one might be a close tie.
If it was George W Bush, he would have sent fighter jets to bomb Canada's tar sands. So....there's always that extremely logical option, lol.
Usually when a bunch of BTC are stolen, it causes a dive in prices because everyone's afraid when the stolen coins are sold off, they'll crash the price. If they right now dumped off 100% of them onto the largest exchange, it would go from $4.99 to $4.82.
By the way, lol @ the 100 posts above me that comment on BTC and clearly know little to nothing accurate about it.
I have a much cheaper solution. Anyone going 45 up the onramp or going 60 in the fast lane or basically anyone driving a Buick and causing a 10 mile backup behind them should be detected and pickedup by a giant robot arm and dropped on a county road instead of the highway. Getting rid of dumbasses that can't drive would effectively double the overall throughput of every highway, guaranteed.
Also, automation would do nothing for cement trucks and large equipment, which cannot easily be robotized and would still slow down traffic.
That would classify as "purposeful" downloading or viewing or whatever. The same goes if you watched a streaming movie on some rogue TV and movie streaming sight. Just because it was in a popup doesn't mean anything but if you sat there for an hour, you probably landed on that page on purpose and watched the movie.
So what are 17-18 year old at the most students from a high school doing in a tavern? Maybe they should just enforce the existing rules to keep them out of there.
This seems like such an unstable system that it's practically a security issue. Could someone, in theory, purposely send bad traffic to as many internet relays (or whatever) as possible, causing them to stall and shutting down huge chunks of the internet?
I can see how people could get so passionate over the topic. I myself passionately don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Or maybe their parents didn't have allergies so they moved out into a rural area. That's something I'd never do when I get married because I have allergies.
I had allergies since before I was 1 year old so sorry, it's still extremely genetic.
Technically it's no younger than anything around it, as all matter in the universe is the same age, it's just farther away so it looks like it's young. It's actually exactly the same age as things that are closer. I hope the same people who write things like this aren't responsible for the calculations that resulted in "dark matter."
He had no reason to do that though because his antivirus software assured him that it offered 100% protection against corrupt politically based sham trials in the summary of its heuristics capabilities.
Actually, people breaking down your door and basically kidnapping you is what happens if you do let it expire. That's why they're so dramatic and persistent about pestering you about it!
Badminton is totally the shit to play but not to watch so that's out. I did watch a Madden (on Xbox) tournament on ESPN and it was awkward, embarrassing, and insulting to gamers. I'm 99% sure the winner was on meth too so that one's out. I've got an idea! Dance Dance Revolution freestyle tournaments instead of the NFL. There's only one single video on all of youtube of someone doing a back flip during one. I mean, come on!
I think he should name it the Valdez too.
I'm pretty sure North Korea's failed missiles helped defend against North Korea's failed missiles actually. I still want a big ass flying laser cannon though.