"Apple's hardware today is amazing — it has never been better."
BULLSHIT! from 2007 to 2009 they were #1 in least failures in laptops. Now they're beat by ASUS, Toshiba, MSI, Samsung, and Sony. They're 6th place in quality! SIXTH! Guess which place they are in price vs speed. I'll give you a hint: Fujitsu and Avatar beat them.
It's almost as if VPN providers didn't build their services to stream 200GB of bandwidth per month for some jackass paying $9.99 and would ban those types of bandwidth hogs from their service. You know, back in reality they do that. In fantasy land, apparently EVERYONE is using VPNs and proxies to stream perfect quality HD content and it's an epidemic.
So besides that, it SERIOUSLY should be illegal to pay these ransoms. All they have to do is pass a law that says you can't hand money over to criminals or terrorists or whoever they might be and selfish people like this wouldn't pay the ransoms. If nobody pays, they stop doing it! So anyone who gets hit by this should realize they're morons who should have had a backup and shouldn't click links in clearly fake e-mails and they'll just have to deal with the consequences.
There are zero good, classic-style turn-based RPGs like the Exile and Avernum series. Seriously, ZERO! I was as shocked as you were. There's an ungodly expensive Final Fantasy version for Android but that's not really old enough to be "classic." I'm talking like Dragon Warrior and other dungeon crawl and mission RPGs.
Good thing I had the foresight to made it difficult to impossible to associate any online nickname or username or URL with my actual name like 8+ years ago.
How stupid are these people that they keep getting caught? This didn't even sound like the type of braggy, immature morons that usually hack things. It was allegedly a DDOS for hire demonstration from a professional business group style thing.
The #1 question on everyone's mind is, does the data leaked indicate that mangement at Nvidia also admits that the shield is a pointless, overpriced device with no market? I'm reeeeally dying to know. They're like a tablet mixed with a PSP mixed with a steambox but worse than all 3. I can't imagine anyone there is too happy with it.
"radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled. "
I thought climbing too quickly stalls an engine. Why would climbing slowly in denser air that can run the engines better cause it to stall? Any pilots know what they're talking about? (or do they mean it was going too slow while climbing as opposed to climbing at too low of a rate).
Remember when everyone bought netbooks because they thought they could run their entire life off a single core atom equivilant to a late model pentium 3 and 1GB of RAM on a 10" screen with a failure rate double that of budget laptops? Then they realized that wasn't realistic and they all ended up in pawn shops. Tablets are netbooks with no keyboard. I am so glad people are finally realizing it. I guess smart watches will crash in 2 years as well, although I think even right now nobody wants one.
They forgot the best example. Nobody wanted to "buy" Google Plus and it's free. So then they pulled a "Microsoft" and tried to shove it down everyone's throat by force like Vista license sales and that failed just as miserably.
And yet at my company I can't get the GM and president to let me implement a basic computer and security competency test for all new hires that use computers. I'm CIO by the way.
It has Seth Rogan in it and it has the setting of an intellectual comedy film sort of like Frasier and people are surprise it "isn't very funny?" THEY'RE SURPRISED?! How is that surprising to anyone?
This had nothing to do with security. They DDOSed it. A monkey could do that. That's traffic control, not security. Maybe they should have found everyone using hacks and cheats in console games and make their Xboxes melt. Then that would be something. Other than that, it's like saying you broke into a bank when in fact you sprayed fire hoses at it so nobody could get in and then still didn't get in or access anything inside.
So they had to have an international meeting to discuss how nobody wants Parkour in the olympics because, as they top level famous pros put it, if you think you did good then you did and you win. Then there's thousands of e-sports pros that do want to be in the olympics but the top olympics people are ignoring them.
I have this amazing new business strategy. You give away free wifi so that most guests buy your rooms in the first place and stay at your hotels and give you money. Oh crap, I think someone invented that strategy in like 2002.
Wonderful. Two directors in a row that want to turn it into a soap opera and have no respect for the series or its style or history. Get ready for another Dragonball Z the live action movie.
My grandparents built a house for like $14,000 and sold it after about 55 years. Adjusted for inflated and estimating all property taxes and maintenance costs and insurance, it cost them 3x the final sale value of the house to live there. It's roughly equal to living in a very expensive apartment for 50 years except people don't cut the lawn or plow snow for you.
Oh, gotcha. I don't think it's a hacker group. They're all busy attacking Sony for being stupid. The only logical entity behind knocking out North Korea's internet is Seth Rogan himself:-P
After 8 years of onsite computer repairs, I have a deep insight into this sort of thing. At my company we have a nickname for people who make $10,000 a month and have $5,000 of it go to their 5000 sq ft mansion. They're "poor people living in a big house." Why the hell do people spend that much money on a house? If I won $200,000,000 in the powerball, I'd buy a 3000 sq ft house. Then I'd spend the rest on awesome stuff. Who the hell wants a giant house like that? Plus, that's how NFL players keep going broke. You know if you make it to the NFL or make Minecraft that you're making a ton of money ONCE. Like one and done, surprise you're poor. I'd hoard that money like crazy and budget it out over 100 years. What and idiot.
To anyone about to say real estate is an investment, go look at his electric bill, cleaning bill, and property taxes.
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"Apple's hardware today is amazing — it has never been better."
BULLSHIT! from 2007 to 2009 they were #1 in least failures in laptops. Now they're beat by ASUS, Toshiba, MSI, Samsung, and Sony. They're 6th place in quality! SIXTH! Guess which place they are in price vs speed. I'll give you a hint: Fujitsu and Avatar beat them.
It's almost as if VPN providers didn't build their services to stream 200GB of bandwidth per month for some jackass paying $9.99 and would ban those types of bandwidth hogs from their service. You know, back in reality they do that. In fantasy land, apparently EVERYONE is using VPNs and proxies to stream perfect quality HD content and it's an epidemic.
So besides that, it SERIOUSLY should be illegal to pay these ransoms. All they have to do is pass a law that says you can't hand money over to criminals or terrorists or whoever they might be and selfish people like this wouldn't pay the ransoms. If nobody pays, they stop doing it! So anyone who gets hit by this should realize they're morons who should have had a backup and shouldn't click links in clearly fake e-mails and they'll just have to deal with the consequences.
There are zero good, classic-style turn-based RPGs like the Exile and Avernum series. Seriously, ZERO! I was as shocked as you were. There's an ungodly expensive Final Fantasy version for Android but that's not really old enough to be "classic." I'm talking like Dragon Warrior and other dungeon crawl and mission RPGs.
There's no excuse for making gamers spend time with their families on Christmas, damn it.
Good thing I had the foresight to made it difficult to impossible to associate any online nickname or username or URL with my actual name like 8+ years ago.
How stupid are these people that they keep getting caught? This didn't even sound like the type of braggy, immature morons that usually hack things. It was allegedly a DDOS for hire demonstration from a professional business group style thing.
We had a new salesman take a fake fedex cryptowall e-mail and forward it to the entire company. Explain that then.
The #1 question on everyone's mind is, does the data leaked indicate that mangement at Nvidia also admits that the shield is a pointless, overpriced device with no market? I'm reeeeally dying to know. They're like a tablet mixed with a PSP mixed with a steambox but worse than all 3. I can't imagine anyone there is too happy with it.
"radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled. "
I thought climbing too quickly stalls an engine. Why would climbing slowly in denser air that can run the engines better cause it to stall? Any pilots know what they're talking about? (or do they mean it was going too slow while climbing as opposed to climbing at too low of a rate).
Remember when everyone bought netbooks because they thought they could run their entire life off a single core atom equivilant to a late model pentium 3 and 1GB of RAM on a 10" screen with a failure rate double that of budget laptops? Then they realized that wasn't realistic and they all ended up in pawn shops. Tablets are netbooks with no keyboard. I am so glad people are finally realizing it. I guess smart watches will crash in 2 years as well, although I think even right now nobody wants one.
They forgot the best example. Nobody wanted to "buy" Google Plus and it's free. So then they pulled a "Microsoft" and tried to shove it down everyone's throat by force like Vista license sales and that failed just as miserably.
And yet at my company I can't get the GM and president to let me implement a basic computer and security competency test for all new hires that use computers. I'm CIO by the way.
You do know that 200 years ago the life expectancy was just a hair lower, right?
I was watching the bubble universe episode of Doctor Who while I read that. Blew my freakin mind lol.
It has Seth Rogan in it and it has the setting of an intellectual comedy film sort of like Frasier and people are surprise it "isn't very funny?" THEY'RE SURPRISED?! How is that surprising to anyone?
This had nothing to do with security. They DDOSed it. A monkey could do that. That's traffic control, not security. Maybe they should have found everyone using hacks and cheats in console games and make their Xboxes melt. Then that would be something. Other than that, it's like saying you broke into a bank when in fact you sprayed fire hoses at it so nobody could get in and then still didn't get in or access anything inside.
So they had to have an international meeting to discuss how nobody wants Parkour in the olympics because, as they top level famous pros put it, if you think you did good then you did and you win. Then there's thousands of e-sports pros that do want to be in the olympics but the top olympics people are ignoring them.
I have this amazing new business strategy. You give away free wifi so that most guests buy your rooms in the first place and stay at your hotels and give you money. Oh crap, I think someone invented that strategy in like 2002.
Wonderful. Two directors in a row that want to turn it into a soap opera and have no respect for the series or its style or history. Get ready for another Dragonball Z the live action movie.
"in order to protect their internal Wi-Fi services."
I'm soooo sure that's the real reason and it has nothing to do with money.
I didn't know he was a tax-exempt non-profit who gets to keep the entire sale price of his product. That's astonishing news.
My grandparents built a house for like $14,000 and sold it after about 55 years. Adjusted for inflated and estimating all property taxes and maintenance costs and insurance, it cost them 3x the final sale value of the house to live there. It's roughly equal to living in a very expensive apartment for 50 years except people don't cut the lawn or plow snow for you.
Oh, gotcha. I don't think it's a hacker group. They're all busy attacking Sony for being stupid. The only logical entity behind knocking out North Korea's internet is Seth Rogan himself :-P
After 8 years of onsite computer repairs, I have a deep insight into this sort of thing. At my company we have a nickname for people who make $10,000 a month and have $5,000 of it go to their 5000 sq ft mansion. They're "poor people living in a big house." Why the hell do people spend that much money on a house? If I won $200,000,000 in the powerball, I'd buy a 3000 sq ft house. Then I'd spend the rest on awesome stuff. Who the hell wants a giant house like that? Plus, that's how NFL players keep going broke. You know if you make it to the NFL or make Minecraft that you're making a ton of money ONCE. Like one and done, surprise you're poor. I'd hoard that money like crazy and budget it out over 100 years. What and idiot.
To anyone about to say real estate is an investment, go look at his electric bill, cleaning bill, and property taxes.