Doesn't really give any hard data in the article on the intentions, other than "it appears" to be "just for sport". It did say, however, that this happened months ago. So it's not as if they cracked in, prove their theory, and then reported it the next day or something. I get the feeling that this was just kids fucking around and did something the felt was "cool" and have the info as a trophy of sorts (though how they can conclusively prove that, I don't know).
If it was done solely to draw attention to a security flaw, I'd be cheering a little more loudly for these unidentified kids, but at this point, to me, it just looks like schmucks needing a spanking.:(
I'm curious what tipped off the admins 'months later'...
I'm most likely older than your fucking ass, you coward.
Not that I have to explain shit to the likes of you, but typically I tend to try to be a bit more mature and articulate in my postings, but this one was a bit of a raw emotional dump which normally I would have aborted before hitting save.
I don't need you to explain to me it's defects, cuntrag.
Christ, leave us the fuck alone, you greedy fucking little corporate twats. TV swapping does NOTHING to bother you, except exist.
I'm tired of this shit. Really fucking tired of it. Just leave things as is. People watch it first-run when it airs, you sell your fucking commercials.
Holy shit I can't even formulate fucking words to express how goddamn angry I am right now.
"Every television series depends on other markets (such as) syndication and international sales to earn back the enormous investment required to produce the comedies and dramas we all enjoy," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman said in a statement. "Those markets are substantially hurt when that content is stolen."
You fucking short-sighted asshole. By that logic selling series sets of shows on DVD must 'hurt syndication sales'. Bullshit. A set of 20+ HDTV Divx rips of a show taking up precious space on my hard drive isn't going to beat having a neat box DVD set of my favorite show with commentary and extras.
And international sales? Bitch, if it wasn't for TV rips I wouldn't be watching getting into the seventh episode of the new Doctor Who. There's already a 2005 series DVD box set sale in me when it comes out, thanks to people making copies of the show for us to enjoy. I'm sure I'm not alone.
You don't have to control every fucking little inch of your property with an iron fist. Sometimes the fans (remember what fans are?) can help bring in the cash better than whatever half-baked bullshit excuses you try to serve up to the media.
What really pisses me off is that I wrote that before realizing that, in fact, the post in question was a knee-jerk reaction to someone at the Google Blog having a less than savvy mom.
Which makes me wonder why someone who didn't know about the ancient package tracking number voodoo spell was reading Google's blog... I mean, isn't that a bit more savvy than knowing about a basic feature?
And shouldn't an editor (however new) of the biggest geek site on earth be savvy about it already and skip over it?
And what about the blogger in question? He's gotta be savvy: yet he chose to keep his mom in the dark about these things for well over a year.
That's okay, Mr. Fish. I know it's a real strain. The web can be so trying. In this case, it's a whole two clicks deep from the main page. Boy, they really hid this stuff from the public. Almost like they didn't want us to know. Almost...a conspiracy.
I might lose my job over this, but here's some more information you also might not know about, that a friend told me earlier: most toilets made after 1998 have a 'flush' feature that lets you automatically dispose of the waste from inside the bowl. Water comes in and WOOSH takes it down that hole at the bottom! No more need to manually scoop out the contents.
I was going to submit this as a front page post, but I figured you were nice enough to reply, so I'd give you an early heads up on it.
You say "nobody said it was new", and then call it 'news' toward the end. By definition things on the front page of a news site are...well, you know.;)
Anyways, just because you and a handful of others didn't know about this feature, doesn't mean it belongs on the front page.
I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of really interesting tidbits in, say, world history that neither of us are privy to: that doesn't mean someone should submit or accept a front page post about them.
And just for future reference, in the hopes of avoiding further seperate front page posts on each of these long-implemented features: Google can also help you correct wrongly spelled words (including links to a dictionary entry), let you search through a catalogue of images, and I hear they've even got their own web-based email service.
I heartily encourage you, 'Zonk', and the rest of the Funky Bunch to give a healthy once over of the very much hidden Google features page, just chock full of similar surprises. Ciao!
Every place you look it's turning into that. Not asking "what can we do to improve life?", but "how can we turn a profit?".
It makes me seriously ill. It's capitalism gone awry.
It's not that I'm against the idea of business, in theory, it's just that most people are programmed to believe that merely being successful isn't enough. You have to have money flowing out your ass and have destroyed at least six other competing companies -- drowning in a nauseatingly deep sea of cash.
I think Godzilla should have battled Big Business at some point. Might have been an interesting battle.
'Newsflash:' Who do think will fix a problem with standards faster when they crop up? Oooh, right, I guess IE's always been the leader in establishing the strongest standards compliance. *cough*:P
What history? They dropped the name. BFD. Southern New England Telephone co. was basically the first RBOC, but so what? Oh yeah, being "first" is a rich and voluminous history; and all that history was destroyed when SBC dropped the SNET from its name locally. [/sarcasm]
I have an uncontrollable urge to rub my genitals across your left cheek.
In the case of AT&T here, were talking physical history (e.g. original antique phone books). Company names are (at best) just tradition.
I'm trying desperately to find where in my post where I said "When SBC bought SNET it destroyed history forever and is far larger a loss than what little will be lost in this trivial AT&T merger."
Funny, I can't seem to find it.
Gosh, perhaps it's possible that I was just saying that I doubted SBC would care based on similar (but not equal -- that was your interpretation) happenings.
And I can assure you it was more than just a simple name change when they bought SNET.
They didn't seem to give too much of a shit about preserving SNET's history when they bought them up back when I used to work there. Wasn't too bad when they were calling us "SBC/SNET"; that I could live with. But then they dropped it completely...bleh.
It was interesting, to me, to hear someone new to coding side of it express their first reactions. The article is lame, redundant, flamebait to someone who knows all about ActiveX, but not necessarily to someone like myself who's never had to work with it.
The most interesting and sad bit is, despite the fact that it's "old news", and that "everybody knows about" since '97, we're still having this discussion. It's still a security issue. That's scary.:P
It's like MS is too proud to ever admit to a bad judgement call and just remove it, or fix it.
I dunno, I run with full textures on my 128 meg GeForceFX 5600 card. Game runs good too with everything turned on. Full water, textures, shaders, shadows, etc. Surprised the hell out of me. Athlon 1.7ghz, 1 gig of RAM.
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I noticed that instantly. :D
You would think that would be all the more reason to have top security measures in place. Sigh.
Doesn't really give any hard data in the article on the intentions, other than "it appears" to be "just for sport". It did say, however, that this happened months ago. So it's not as if they cracked in, prove their theory, and then reported it the next day or something. I get the feeling that this was just kids fucking around and did something the felt was "cool" and have the info as a trophy of sorts (though how they can conclusively prove that, I don't know).
:(
If it was done solely to draw attention to a security flaw, I'd be cheering a little more loudly for these unidentified kids, but at this point, to me, it just looks like schmucks needing a spanking.
I'm curious what tipped off the admins 'months later'...
I'm most likely older than your fucking ass, you coward.
Not that I have to explain shit to the likes of you, but typically I tend to try to be a bit more mature and articulate in my postings, but this one was a bit of a raw emotional dump which normally I would have aborted before hitting save.
I don't need you to explain to me it's defects, cuntrag.
I'm tired of this shit. Really fucking tired of it. Just leave things as is. People watch it first-run when it airs, you sell your fucking commercials.
Holy shit I can't even formulate fucking words to express how goddamn angry I am right now.
You fucking short-sighted asshole. By that logic selling series sets of shows on DVD must 'hurt syndication sales'. Bullshit. A set of 20+ HDTV Divx rips of a show taking up precious space on my hard drive isn't going to beat having a neat box DVD set of my favorite show with commentary and extras.
And international sales? Bitch, if it wasn't for TV rips I wouldn't be watching getting into the seventh episode of the new Doctor Who. There's already a 2005 series DVD box set sale in me when it comes out, thanks to people making copies of the show for us to enjoy. I'm sure I'm not alone.
You don't have to control every fucking little inch of your property with an iron fist. Sometimes the fans (remember what fans are?) can help bring in the cash better than whatever half-baked bullshit excuses you try to serve up to the media.
ADAPT OR DIE.
Virtual Reality changed all that!
What really pisses me off is that I wrote that before realizing that, in fact, the post in question was a knee-jerk reaction to someone at the Google Blog having a less than savvy mom.
Which makes me wonder why someone who didn't know about the ancient package tracking number voodoo spell was reading Google's blog... I mean, isn't that a bit more savvy than knowing about a basic feature?
And shouldn't an editor (however new) of the biggest geek site on earth be savvy about it already and skip over it?
And what about the blogger in question? He's gotta be savvy: yet he chose to keep his mom in the dark about these things for well over a year.
Poor unsavvy mom.
Savvy, savvy.
(Savvy.)
That's okay, Mr. Fish. I know it's a real strain. The web can be so trying. In this case, it's a whole two clicks deep from the main page. Boy, they really hid this stuff from the public. Almost like they didn't want us to know. Almost...a conspiracy.
I might lose my job over this, but here's some more information you also might not know about, that a friend told me earlier: most toilets made after 1998 have a 'flush' feature that lets you automatically dispose of the waste from inside the bowl. Water comes in and WOOSH takes it down that hole at the bottom! No more need to manually scoop out the contents.
I was going to submit this as a front page post, but I figured you were nice enough to reply, so I'd give you an early heads up on it.
You're welcome.
You say "nobody said it was new", and then call it 'news' toward the end. By definition things on the front page of a news site are...well, you know. ;)
Anyways, just because you and a handful of others didn't know about this feature, doesn't mean it belongs on the front page.
I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of really interesting tidbits in, say, world history that neither of us are privy to: that doesn't mean someone should submit or accept a front page post about them.
And just for future reference, in the hopes of avoiding further seperate front page posts on each of these long-implemented features: Google can also help you correct wrongly spelled words (including links to a dictionary entry), let you search through a catalogue of images, and I hear they've even got their own web-based email service.
I heartily encourage you, 'Zonk', and the rest of the Funky Bunch to give a healthy once over of the very much hidden Google features page, just chock full of similar surprises. Ciao!
Microsoft recently introduced Windows 95, an upgrade that completely replaces your old DOS/Win3.1 combo.
Give me a break. God, I feel like I'm in some sort of trippy time warp or something...
And what's scarier than posting ancient news that was supposed to be common knowledge? The handful of replies that also seem to think it's new.
My head won't stop spinning... whoooa...
...can I have it? FIRST DIBS!
Every place you look it's turning into that. Not asking "what can we do to improve life?", but "how can we turn a profit?".
It makes me seriously ill. It's capitalism gone awry.
It's not that I'm against the idea of business, in theory, it's just that most people are programmed to believe that merely being successful isn't enough. You have to have money flowing out your ass and have destroyed at least six other competing companies -- drowning in a nauseatingly deep sea of cash.
I think Godzilla should have battled Big Business at some point. Might have been an interesting battle.
'Newsflash:' Who do think will fix a problem with standards faster when they crop up? Oooh, right, I guess IE's always been the leader in establishing the strongest standards compliance. *cough* :P
What history? They dropped the name. BFD. Southern New England Telephone co. was basically the first RBOC, but so what?
Oh yeah, being "first" is a rich and voluminous history; and all that history was destroyed when SBC dropped the SNET from its name locally. [/sarcasm]
I have an uncontrollable urge to rub my genitals across your left cheek.
In the case of AT&T here, were talking physical history (e.g. original antique phone books). Company names are (at best) just tradition.
I'm trying desperately to find where in my post where I said "When SBC bought SNET it destroyed history forever and is far larger a loss than what little will be lost in this trivial AT&T merger."
Funny, I can't seem to find it.
Gosh, perhaps it's possible that I was just saying that I doubted SBC would care based on similar (but not equal -- that was your interpretation) happenings.
And I can assure you it was more than just a simple name change when they bought SNET.
They didn't seem to give too much of a shit about preserving SNET's history when they bought them up back when I used to work there. Wasn't too bad when they were calling us "SBC/SNET"; that I could live with. But then they dropped it completely...bleh.
What? No reference to Adventure? :D
"Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!"
Why, are you lookin'?
A9.com's Web Search Results are enhanced by Google. Data provided by A9.com and Alexa Internet is also used for search history and Site Info.
Weird. I wonder if they mean Google's results are added to their own search results or if it's just colorful language meaning all their results.
Some Mega64 maybe? ;)
It was interesting, to me, to hear someone new to coding side of it express their first reactions. The article is lame, redundant, flamebait to someone who knows all about ActiveX, but not necessarily to someone like myself who's never had to work with it.
:P
The most interesting and sad bit is, despite the fact that it's "old news", and that "everybody knows about" since '97, we're still having this discussion. It's still a security issue. That's scary.
It's like MS is too proud to ever admit to a bad judgement call and just remove it, or fix it.
Oh come, now, you know what was meant. :D
I dunno, I run with full textures on my 128 meg GeForceFX 5600 card. Game runs good too with everything turned on. Full water, textures, shaders, shadows, etc. Surprised the hell out of me. Athlon 1.7ghz, 1 gig of RAM.
What the hell! I'm still not done compiling the old version. Well, Gentoo is the best and only distribution real men can use. My box runs so much faster now!
;)
*cough* Actually, I use Knoppix.
I wouldn't mind grabbing that PalmOS version, but the link is broken on the download page. Sigh. :[
Catch 22. Who's going to have the balls to break the cycle, eh? ;)