Another interesting note is that they only sell the regular iPod in the 20GB flavor now. They got rid of the other sizes. Guess iPod photo for everyone is the plan.
I was a Majestic Beta tester. About 2 months ago I got a letter saying that they were cutting Majestic from the original planned 8 episodes to 4 episodes, and that the beta testers would be cut off after 4. My guess is that they knew they were getting cancelled then, but they wanted to get the extra subscription money from people for a few more months. This game costs about $120 a year... not exactly cheap compared to other games. A few extra months from people is certainly worth it for them. It is really ashame that the Synthetic folks teamed up with EA, the new owner of the "Worst Software Comany in History" belt (sorry Sierra).
Has anyone else out there run into the problem of percent raises within a company? I came into my department at a very low salary because I had no experiance or degree, but that was over 2 years ago. I am now one of the most productive developers in my department but because of my company's policy on percent raises, I am not getting more than a 15% raise a year. That might seem like a lot, but it will take me 3 more years of that in order to get to the pay of all the other people in my department. Has anyone else run into this, and possibly have a solution? Or should I just be looking for another job?
The problem is that 13 year old script kiddies don't really care. Ya know how you used to cut class even though you knew you would get detention, because you didn't care about the later if the now was fun? Imagine you are 13 and have the power to shut down a server that has been the foundation of EFnet for 12 years, by doing nothing more than running a script a few places. Kids don't care about the results, and nothing is going to change that.
They should have put this info in the article. Maybe even should have mentioned it twice, perhaps in the intro and then a few paragraphs down. You should write a letter to the editor about that glaring omision.
What ever happened to the good old days of people reading and THEN posting?
I work for a hotel, and yesterday a company was supposed to deliver some new in-house software for us, something to do with scheduling. He said that it was ready but because of Code Red he couldn't demo it. Would you know anything about this?
With #1, securities law prohibits trading based on insider information, and it doesn't matter if you yourself are an insider or not.
With #2, it is called extortion, blackmail, etc... and if you give them enough information to get you the money they will have enough information to catch you.
Yea. Oh, except for the fact that when I went from hourly to salary, I went from around $20 an hour to around $3.50 an hour as best I can tell. I get to work nights/weekends/holidays, but I don't get paid any more for it. I would gladly switch to hourly if my company would let me.
Everyone remember about that story where they introduced birds to get rid of the bugs, and the snakes to get rid of the birds, and then they were SOL cause they had a snake infestation? When will people learn that mucking with nature as the primary goal can only lead to worse things?
mfkap
About your IBM thing... go ahead and try selling computers as IBM and say that it stands for Internal Bus Maachines or something... you wouldn't even find a company to manufacture something with IBM on it because of the fact that it is trademarked, and you would be sued in a matter of seconds. This guy built a brand on the term SSH... and openSSH DOES confuse some people (don't bother with the "If I know it everyone does and if they don't know they aren't worthy to use a computer!!!" please) and he does have the legal right to defend his trademark. Just cause you make something free to compete with a named product, doesn't mean you can name it virtually the same thing. If it WAS legal, think of the havoc MS could cause.
If you read the line above it, it states "USB Support-- For easy installation and setup. Works on all systems with an enabled USB port."
I read this as meaning it works on all systems. They are just selling it on an IBM hardware website, and chances are they don't have an option when they post it of saying that an accessory is for non-IBM machines. Sorta a whole marketing thing. My guess is that it does, in fact, work on all systems with PnP USB support.
I think that the problem here is that the larger the list gets, the better chance that the bug/exploit/etc get leaked out and there is l33tbindhax0r.pl floating around the next day. At the same time, if you keep most people off the list, less admins out there are actually aware of the problem, and there are less people that are actually working on a solution. At this point I think that the best solution might still be full disclosure. Yea, the problem gets exploited that much faster, but at least the solution gets out there pretty fast as well.
I assume that this post isn't talking about the DIVX failed Circut City venture. It is talking about the Divx;) codec, which I think is one of the many mpeg4 codec's out there. It gives you pretty good quality at a much higher compression rate, and on the pirate scene you can rip most DVD's to the size of 2 CD's.
The bad name AMD made for itself with it's old chips? What about the good name it has made with its new chips? I consistantly see them meet deadlines and ship dates (unlike Intel), and from the benchmarks I have seen their current products have been faster and cheaper than their Intel counterparts. I don't think that many people out there these days see AMD and automaticly think that it is an inferior product.
This website never ceases to amaze me. For those of us that actually have jobs, you rapidly find out that companies rarely choose the best product for the job. If your boss says "Let's get Microsoft because it is the company standard", or "Let's go MS cause I like the rolling stones and MS used their song in a commercial" you don't have much of a choice. I am sure that the argument to this is "I would never work at a place that wouldn't run everything opensource and let me run anything I want on the network where I have total and absoulte control, and when it all blows up I just blame the other guy". Well, in the real world, thing's don't work that way. I get a paycheck, and my job involves several windows-based products. The fact that the people here consider the vastly dominant (market-wise) operating system to be irrelivant is always amusing.
mfkap
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I don't understand how you can say this without knowing the benefits of this venture. I have not seen very many cases (although there are some) where someone takes a good working program, and decides they are going to spend a huge amount of time and effort working on something that is detremental to the project. I don't think that companies like Oracle would go ahead and pursue a "brain-dead" project just for kicks. Perhaps vast leaps to judgement should be withheld until a somewhat informed decision can be made.
Another little tidbit from Paypal's website, on the info screen where you choose to purchase the product:
BUYER PROTECTION POLICY
If you pay a Verified seller who does not ship the promised goods, you may file a buyer protection claim under PayPal's Buyer Protection Policy. For purchases made on eBay using PayPal on or after 11/10/00, buyers who qualify for eBay's insurance policy (currently limited to $200) may recover up to an additional $200 of protection from PayPal. For non-eBay purchases, PayPal will investigate your claim, and attempt to collect any funds owed to you. You will be entitled to the return of any funds PayPal is able to collect on your behalf. Recovery of your claim is not guaranteed.
Pretty much this says that unless they can get your money back, you are SOL.
Actually, this statement is the single best indicator that this entire company is a sham. The FDIC is present in order to protect someone with a bank balance of loosing their money if the bank declares bankruptcy. Paypal is in fact FDIC insured, as far as I know. This means that if they go bankrupt you can get your money out of them. It has NOTHING to do with fraud, and appears to be trying to convince the user that an unsafe method of currency transfer is in fact safe. I would strongly question why they would put this in there other than it being another way to strengthen their deception. I know for sure that if I take out money from a bank and loose it in a scam, my bank doesn't give me my money back. Yet this is exactly what the above statement is promising.
The concept behind paypal is that you keep money in the account, and you get/pay while keeping a balance in the account. After all, paypal stays in business because they get the interest off of the $40 million people have in their accounts at any one time. If this concept is used, there is no credit card charge, or mabye not the same credit card charge, as used to purchase the DVD player. You might be protected in your charge, but I personally just use the existing balance for new purchases.
It appears that this company takes payment via Paypal. I read an article a few weeks ago about paypal's dispute policy. Paypal stated that they do NOT get involved in disputes, and it is buyer beware. When you use paypal it is the same as using cash, not the same as a credit card. If you have a problem with the seller, you can't get your money back through paypal. I am thinking that some company out there invented this system that does not really exist, made it almost too good to be true, and then sent an email to slashdot to get the hits. Anyone who purchases this through Paypal is probably never going to see this system. Anyone remember that Seti@Home PCI card? I bet this is the same thing, but these guys are actually taking the money and running.
According to APBnews.com, the reason that the box was not yanked is that "most team officials were sleeping off the victory" and were slow to react because of this. Always good to know that your support staff was too hung over to fix the problem. At least poor security wasn't their only problem.
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As I assume you know, the "free" comment refers to the support/maint cost of linux, and not the actual purchase price of the software.
Another interesting note is that they only sell the regular iPod in the 20GB flavor now. They got rid of the other sizes. Guess iPod photo for everyone is the plan.
I was a Majestic Beta tester. About 2 months ago I got a letter saying that they were cutting Majestic from the original planned 8 episodes to 4 episodes, and that the beta testers would be cut off after 4. My guess is that they knew they were getting cancelled then, but they wanted to get the extra subscription money from people for a few more months. This game costs about $120 a year... not exactly cheap compared to other games. A few extra months from people is certainly worth it for them. It is really ashame that the Synthetic folks teamed up with EA, the new owner of the "Worst Software Comany in History" belt (sorry Sierra).
mfkap
Has anyone else out there run into the problem of percent raises within a company? I came into my department at a very low salary because I had no experiance or degree, but that was over 2 years ago. I am now one of the most productive developers in my department but because of my company's policy on percent raises, I am not getting more than a 15% raise a year. That might seem like a lot, but it will take me 3 more years of that in order to get to the pay of all the other people in my department. Has anyone else run into this, and possibly have a solution? Or should I just be looking for another job?
mfkap
The problem is that 13 year old script kiddies don't really care. Ya know how you used to cut class even though you knew you would get detention, because you didn't care about the later if the now was fun? Imagine you are 13 and have the power to shut down a server that has been the foundation of EFnet for 12 years, by doing nothing more than running a script a few places. Kids don't care about the results, and nothing is going to change that.
mfkap
They should have put this info in the article. Maybe even should have mentioned it twice, perhaps in the intro and then a few paragraphs down. You should write a letter to the editor about that glaring omision.
What ever happened to the good old days of people reading and THEN posting?
mfkap
I work for a hotel, and yesterday a company was supposed to deliver some new in-house software for us, something to do with scheduling. He said that it was ready but because of Code Red he couldn't demo it. Would you know anything about this?
mfkap
Well, both are good ways to get arrested.
With #1, securities law prohibits trading based on insider information, and it doesn't matter if you yourself are an insider or not.
With #2, it is called extortion, blackmail, etc... and if you give them enough information to get you the money they will have enough information to catch you.
mfkap
1 +h1|\|K Th4+ |-|4X0R sp34k m4K3S U K-R4d 31337!!! Ahh, the good old days of being 12.... mfkap
Yea. Oh, except for the fact that when I went from hourly to salary, I went from around $20 an hour to around $3.50 an hour as best I can tell. I get to work nights/weekends/holidays, but I don't get paid any more for it. I would gladly switch to hourly if my company would let me.
mfkap
There is a much better picture of him right here.
Everyone remember about that story where they introduced birds to get rid of the bugs, and the snakes to get rid of the birds, and then they were SOL cause they had a snake infestation? When will people learn that mucking with nature as the primary goal can only lead to worse things? mfkap
About your IBM thing... go ahead and try selling computers as IBM and say that it stands for Internal Bus Maachines or something... you wouldn't even find a company to manufacture something with IBM on it because of the fact that it is trademarked, and you would be sued in a matter of seconds. This guy built a brand on the term SSH... and openSSH DOES confuse some people (don't bother with the "If I know it everyone does and if they don't know they aren't worthy to use a computer!!!" please) and he does have the legal right to defend his trademark. Just cause you make something free to compete with a named product, doesn't mean you can name it virtually the same thing. If it WAS legal, think of the havoc MS could cause.
If you read the line above it, it states "USB Support-- For easy installation and setup. Works on all systems with an enabled USB port."
I read this as meaning it works on all systems. They are just selling it on an IBM hardware website, and chances are they don't have an option when they post it of saying that an accessory is for non-IBM machines. Sorta a whole marketing thing. My guess is that it does, in fact, work on all systems with PnP USB support.
Mike
I think that the problem here is that the larger the list gets, the better chance that the bug/exploit/etc get leaked out and there is l33tbindhax0r.pl floating around the next day.
At the same time, if you keep most people off the list, less admins out there are actually aware of the problem, and there are less people that are actually working on a solution. At this point I think that the best solution might still be full disclosure. Yea, the problem gets exploited that much faster, but at least the solution gets out there pretty fast as well.
Mike
I assume that this post isn't talking about the DIVX failed Circut City venture. It is talking about the Divx ;) codec, which I think is one of the many mpeg4 codec's out there. It gives you pretty good quality at a much higher compression rate, and on the pirate scene you can rip most DVD's to the size of 2 CD's.
Mike
The bad name AMD made for itself with it's old chips? What about the good name it has made with its new chips? I consistantly see them meet deadlines and ship dates (unlike Intel), and from the benchmarks I have seen their current products have been faster and cheaper than their Intel counterparts. I don't think that many people out there these days see AMD and automaticly think that it is an inferior product.
Mike
This website never ceases to amaze me. For those of us that actually have jobs, you rapidly find out that companies rarely choose the best product for the job. If your boss says "Let's get Microsoft because it is the company standard", or "Let's go MS cause I like the rolling stones and MS used their song in a commercial" you don't have much of a choice.
I am sure that the argument to this is "I would never work at a place that wouldn't run everything opensource and let me run anything I want on the network where I have total and absoulte control, and when it all blows up I just blame the other guy". Well, in the real world, thing's don't work that way. I get a paycheck, and my job involves several windows-based products. The fact that the people here consider the vastly dominant (market-wise) operating system to be irrelivant is always amusing.
mfkap
I don't understand how you can say this without knowing the benefits of this venture. I have not seen very many cases (although there are some) where someone takes a good working program, and decides they are going to spend a huge amount of time and effort working on something that is detremental to the project. I don't think that companies like Oracle would go ahead and pursue a "brain-dead" project just for kicks. Perhaps vast leaps to judgement should be withheld until a somewhat informed decision can be made.
mfkap
If you really cared you would get a battery the size of a house to keep your box up! I mean, we are talking about UPTIME here!!! :)
Another little tidbit from Paypal's website, on the info screen where you choose to purchase the product:
BUYER PROTECTION POLICY
If you pay a Verified seller who does not ship the promised goods, you may file a buyer protection claim under PayPal's Buyer Protection Policy. For purchases made on eBay using PayPal on or after 11/10/00, buyers who qualify for eBay's insurance policy (currently limited to $200) may recover up to an additional $200 of protection from PayPal. For non-eBay purchases, PayPal will investigate your claim, and attempt to collect any funds owed to you. You will be entitled to the return of any funds PayPal is able to collect on your behalf. Recovery of your claim is not guaranteed.
Pretty much this says that unless they can get your money back, you are SOL.
Actually, this statement is the single best indicator that this entire company is a sham. The FDIC is present in order to protect someone with a bank balance of loosing their money if the bank declares bankruptcy. Paypal is in fact FDIC insured, as far as I know. This means that if they go bankrupt you can get your money out of them. It has NOTHING to do with fraud, and appears to be trying to convince the user that an unsafe method of currency transfer is in fact safe. I would strongly question why they would put this in there other than it being another way to strengthen their deception. I know for sure that if I take out money from a bank and loose it in a scam, my bank doesn't give me my money back. Yet this is exactly what the above statement is promising.
The concept behind paypal is that you keep money in the account, and you get/pay while keeping a balance in the account. After all, paypal stays in business because they get the interest off of the $40 million people have in their accounts at any one time. If this concept is used, there is no credit card charge, or mabye not the same credit card charge, as used to purchase the DVD player. You might be protected in your charge, but I personally just use the existing balance for new purchases.
It appears that this company takes payment via Paypal. I read an article a few weeks ago about paypal's dispute policy. Paypal stated that they do NOT get involved in disputes, and it is buyer beware. When you use paypal it is the same as using cash, not the same as a credit card. If you have a problem with the seller, you can't get your money back through paypal. I am thinking that some company out there invented this system that does not really exist, made it almost too good to be true, and then sent an email to slashdot to get the hits. Anyone who purchases this through Paypal is probably never going to see this system. Anyone remember that Seti@Home PCI card? I bet this is the same thing, but these guys are actually taking the money and running.
According to APBnews.com, the reason that the box was not yanked is that "most team officials were sleeping off the victory" and were slow to react because of this. Always good to know that your support staff was too hung over to fix the problem. At least poor security wasn't their only problem.