See here where somebody(ies) editing the article tried to make it sound like there's some risk involved. But it - and this is the funny part - cites this which, if you read both articles, contradicts what the phone article just said.
I'll paraphrase: Cell phones emit radiation on a frequency incapble of cellular or subcellular damage (non-ionizing radiation). The only remaining possible electro-magnetic radiation damage possible is heat which requires vastly different frequencies, which cell phones do not produce.
This is why I have not signed up for their service....yet.
If the spammers have your address already (and if you get spam, they do) all they have to do is diff their cleaned list against their uncleaned one in it and they know who on Blue Security's list is also a valid address on their list.
However, continuing to send more spam to those addresses is utter fucking stupidity by the spammers.
If you're on Blue Security's list then you obviously hate spam and will not buy anything advertised that way. Therefore it's a waste of the spammers' resources to send you any spam! Some of the spammers complied with Blue Security (I was reading a lot about this yesterday via Digg) were actually smart enough to see this I think...
It's actually better for everybody including the spammers to scrub their lists against Blue Security's database. Sending more spam to verified Blue Security addresses is childish, and more importantly down right stupid.
Read Bugs in Writing by Lyn Dupré. I learned more from this one book in one semester at college than my previous 15 years of English, Writing and composition classes combined.
This is also true with voice recgonition software.
The more frustrated you get, the farther from normal your voice becomes, and the less accurate the speech recognition matches. Which makes you more frustrated...
He makes a valid point. If you'd ever tried to get a decent phone with no camera you'd know.
I used to work in defense contracting and camera phones weren't permitted in a lot of the buildings. So I went shopping for a camera-less phone. The best phone I could find for a carrier with good service in my area was the LG VX3200.
There's a bigger market for camera-less phones than you think, but phone makers today aren't releasing many phones without cameras.
Your analogy of the VW bug doesn't fit either. He's not trying to use something for a different purposes than it was intended (as with the bug) he's trying to use a phone as a phone.
It's more like he is trying to get a car but manufacturers keep installing factory standard radar detectors in all cars but the Ford Pinto. But radar detectors are illegal in Virginia and require voiding your warranty to remove them!
If you force your users to change passwords too frequently they'll just pick one password and increment some number in it, or write it down each time.
Or if they're really tricksy ones, they'll just change the password $numberOfTimesSystemRemembers + 1 in one sitting and resume using their old one within minutes of changing it.
There's a fine balance to be struck between security and inconviencing your users to the point that they work around security for convenience.
Talking to someone with a handsfree device is no different from talking to someone sitting in the back seat.
It's using your shoulder/hand to hold the phone that impairs your ability to drive - because you have fewer appendages fully free to operate the vehicle - not talking to someone you can't see.
My chest and shoulders are actively hurting right now because of the rigorous resistance training I did yesterday as I sit here looking at a monitor display and typing on an ergonomic keyboard while I pretend to be writing java code.
I highly encourage you to get to the gym, make yourself go regularly. The health benefits are outstanding, and the girls definitely pay more attention. Most people will be impressed simply because you're a geek and a gym rat.
I'm not trying to delude anyone. You're not going to turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger if you're a scrawny fucker like me, but if you seriously commit to it the difference will surprise you and maybe even get you laid. Besides, the chicks at the gym are often hot, and they don't wear those outfits anywhere else.;-)
This is why you have a designated porn buddy. Someone who will take care of your stash if you should die. Friends are good, but family members are better (next of kin being notified first and all of that).
He wasn't informing the parents, which I fully advocate. He was carding the kids themselves (implying the parents weren't there). It's not the store's responsibility to deny kids games. If you don't want your kids buying games, don't give them the money or ask the store not to sell them to your kid.
I fully intend to let my kids play violent video games, because they're video games.
Inform the parents and let them decide. If the parents aren't present, tough shit. The stores aren't being paid to raise the kids. It's a simple division of labor. Parents raise kids, stores sell stuff. The two shouldn't mingle. If any store ever tried this "carding" malarky on my kids that were attempting to make a legal game purchase you can bet your ass I'd be in there giving their manager a lecture.
It is not the job of the government or Gamespot to shield my kids from violent video games. If I want that to happen I'll see to it personally. Just as any good parent would.
You misunderstand me. I'm all for informing the parent, and letting the parents of the child parent the frickin' child. But what he was doing was refusing to sell games to kids (it was implied the parents weren't there). It is perfectly legal in most states to sell M rated video games to kids and therefore the store should stay out of it.
What I'm against is retail stores trying to enforce their morals on their customers at their own behest.
And this applies to the parent poster how? He didn't say these titles should be banned, he said the parents should be informed. I disagree with Walmart pulling music, but that's their right. There is nothing wrong with being informed prior to purchase as to the type of material on a CD or in a game.
It applies because it's another example of a retail store inflicting its morals on its customers.
And this applies to the parent poster how? He didn't say these titles should be banned, he said the parents should be informed. I disagree with Walmart pulling music, but that's their right. There is nothing wrong with being informed prior to purchase as to the type of material on a CD or in a game.
He said nothing of informing parents! He said, "We had the ESRB ratings posted on big signs as well, and we carded people who wanted to buy an M game."
Laws against selling video games of [rating] to [demographic] are being declared unconstitutional left and right. ("In a decision that drew upon the judicial rulings of cases where similar legislation had been deemed unconstitutional, Judge Whyte wrote that "games are protected by the First Amendment and that plaintiffs are likely to prevail in their argument that the Act violates the First Amendment.")
Since your personal attack on me seems to have been based on a misconception of my point I'll let it slide saying only this: I'm not going to let my kids (assuming I ever have any) be complete shitheads like you seem to think they would be. I'll let my kids choose their own path alright, as long as it's not a foolish path.
The bottom line is, stores should not be telling us how to raise our kids. I don't believe there is any correlation between playing violent video games and criminals, I blame bad parenting.
What other people choose to buy is none of your business. Taking away people's right to choose is not the right thing to do. Keep your own morals to yourself. I'm glad you no longer work there.
Why should you protect people from things which are REAL, you know, these REAL things commonly known as LIFE? (*hat off to Offspring*)
This is one reason a lot of today's music is watered down shit. Walmart won't sell CDs with explicit lyrics. Walmart was (and maybe still is) the biggest seller of CDs in the US. Walmart alone could make or break an album. If Walmart refuses to sell an album. Many labels won't publish an ablum that they know won't be very profitable. They will force the artists to "clean up" the album. So you couldn't put explicit lyrics in an album.
That's right, Walmart had the power to decide what kind of content artists could have in their art.
I'm a pretty rabid opponent of big ass SUVs, but I can't help but point out that if one guy has six SUVs he's probably not using any more gas or creating any more pollutants than someone with one SUV because one guy can't drive six automobiles at once.
There is nothing viral about this story. It is just an RFID reader buffer overflow vulnerability. There may only ever be one tag involved in an attack; only the RFID reader software is affected, not other tags.
Why do the editors approve stories with such blatant buzzword abuse?
I mostly only use Adobe Acrobat Reader and I've noticed a trend in it to get more and more bloated, and less and less user friendly as the version numbers get higher. It now takes longer to load, annoys me more by asking me to "upgrade" constantly, it wants to install yahoo toolbar with itself, it adds a freaking add banner to itself mostly directing you to yahoo crap.
Acrobat reader really is tending more toward malware program that just happens to be able to read pdf files. I wish the people who decide to make their products step way outside the sane scope of the product would knock it off. Every time they do it I jump ship or "upgrade" to an older version.
I am now happily using 5.0. I think it's the last streamlined non-annoying version. You can actually turn off update checking. (Amazing!) I consider any program that prohibits me from turning off its automatic updates to have a terminal illness. Meaning I will replace it soon with a program that behaves itself.
To get back off the tangent, I could rant about virus scanners all day. About how futile they are and how little they benefit you and - I guess in this case - how much they can actually hurt you, but I've done it before, however, McAfee has a bigger PR department than I do so it's pretty futile.
Speak with your money. Quit buying virus scanners.
Given that the thing is mostly blind I'd speculate that the "hairs" are for detecting food (prey).
Something tickles a couple of "hairs", the lobster tries to grab & eat. Something disturbs all/most/a lot of them, lobster realizes its either moving water or too big to eat and doesn't react.
But IANAMB (marine biologist) so I'm making shit up as I go along.
At college the majority used AIM (a great many of those used Deadaim or some other thing to make AIM less shitty, like adding logging, removing ads etc).
Here at work lots of people use Trillian, myself included. I got two of my friends started on it here too. Trillian is nice but has a lot of bugs, at least one of which they have no plans to fix.
[rant]I contacted them about trillian accessing my hd every 2 seconds. After several emails I learned from Scott, one of the developers, that it's because Trillian is checking for AIM:GoIM type links. Apparently it writes them there, then reads them out 2 seconds later? Terrible design. Not to mention you have to have trillian pro to view HTML profiles. You can't even see the URL your friends have in their AIM profiles without the pro version. Because only professionals have friends with html links in their profiles! And their preferences organization is just plain awful. They tried to make it like Windows XP...and mostly succeeded. However, that is the problem. It's not a good design. Trillian is by no means fantastic, it's just the best of the crappy that I've found so far.[/rant]
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RF radiation fears are absurd.
See here where somebody(ies) editing the article tried to make it sound like there's some risk involved. But it - and this is the funny part - cites this which, if you read both articles, contradicts what the phone article just said.
I'll paraphrase: Cell phones emit radiation on a frequency incapble of cellular or subcellular damage (non-ionizing radiation). The only remaining possible electro-magnetic radiation damage possible is heat which requires vastly different frequencies, which cell phones do not produce.
This is why I have not signed up for their service....yet.
If the spammers have your address already (and if you get spam, they do) all they have to do is diff their cleaned list against their uncleaned one in it and they know who on Blue Security's list is also a valid address on their list.
However, continuing to send more spam to those addresses is utter fucking stupidity by the spammers.
If you're on Blue Security's list then you obviously hate spam and will not buy anything advertised that way. Therefore it's a waste of the spammers' resources to send you any spam! Some of the spammers complied with Blue Security (I was reading a lot about this yesterday via Digg) were actually smart enough to see this I think...
It's actually better for everybody including the spammers to scrub their lists against Blue Security's database. Sending more spam to verified Blue Security addresses is childish, and more importantly down right stupid.
Read Bugs in Writing by Lyn Dupré. I learned more from this one book in one semester at college than my previous 15 years of English, Writing and composition classes combined.
If the war has failed, why is it still going on?
This is nonenforcable.
I predict it to be about as successful as the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. I'm surprised we haven't yet had a war on piracy.
This is also true with voice recgonition software.
The more frustrated you get, the farther from normal your voice becomes, and the less accurate the speech recognition matches. Which makes you more frustrated...
It doesn't matter what the individual vote says anyway, we're still using the electoral college.
The USA isn't a democracy people, it is a republic.
When did I complain about Nokia? Or the carrier? Or rebates? And what do you mean by specialized phone?
He makes a valid point. If you'd ever tried to get a decent phone with no camera you'd know.
I used to work in defense contracting and camera phones weren't permitted in a lot of the buildings. So I went shopping for a camera-less phone. The best phone I could find for a carrier with good service in my area was the LG VX3200.
There's a bigger market for camera-less phones than you think, but phone makers today aren't releasing many phones without cameras.
Your analogy of the VW bug doesn't fit either. He's not trying to use something for a different purposes than it was intended (as with the bug) he's trying to use a phone as a phone.
It's more like he is trying to get a car but manufacturers keep installing factory standard radar detectors in all cars but the Ford Pinto. But radar detectors are illegal in Virginia and require voiding your warranty to remove them!
If you force your users to change passwords too frequently they'll just pick one password and increment some number in it, or write it down each time.
Or if they're really tricksy ones, they'll just change the password $numberOfTimesSystemRemembers + 1 in one sitting and resume using their old one within minutes of changing it.
There's a fine balance to be struck between security and inconviencing your users to the point that they work around security for convenience.
Talking to someone with a handsfree device is no different from talking to someone sitting in the back seat.
It's using your shoulder/hand to hold the phone that impairs your ability to drive - because you have fewer appendages fully free to operate the vehicle - not talking to someone you can't see.
My chest and shoulders are actively hurting right now because of the rigorous resistance training I did yesterday as I sit here looking at a monitor display and typing on an ergonomic keyboard while I pretend to be writing java code.
;-)
I highly encourage you to get to the gym, make yourself go regularly. The health benefits are outstanding, and the girls definitely pay more attention. Most people will be impressed simply because you're a geek and a gym rat.
I'm not trying to delude anyone. You're not going to turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger if you're a scrawny fucker like me, but if you seriously commit to it the difference will surprise you and maybe even get you laid. Besides, the chicks at the gym are often hot, and they don't wear those outfits anywhere else.
This is why you have a designated porn buddy. Someone who will take care of your stash if you should die. Friends are good, but family members are better (next of kin being notified first and all of that).
He wasn't informing the parents, which I fully advocate. He was carding the kids themselves (implying the parents weren't there). It's not the store's responsibility to deny kids games. If you don't want your kids buying games, don't give them the money or ask the store not to sell them to your kid.
I fully intend to let my kids play violent video games, because they're video games.
Inform the parents and let them decide. If the parents aren't present, tough shit. The stores aren't being paid to raise the kids. It's a simple division of labor. Parents raise kids, stores sell stuff. The two shouldn't mingle. If any store ever tried this "carding" malarky on my kids that were attempting to make a legal game purchase you can bet your ass I'd be in there giving their manager a lecture.
It is not the job of the government or Gamespot to shield my kids from violent video games. If I want that to happen I'll see to it personally. Just as any good parent would.
You misunderstand me. I'm all for informing the parent, and letting the parents of the child parent the frickin' child. But what he was doing was refusing to sell games to kids (it was implied the parents weren't there). It is perfectly legal in most states to sell M rated video games to kids and therefore the store should stay out of it.
What I'm against is retail stores trying to enforce their morals on their customers at their own behest.
And this applies to the parent poster how? He didn't say these titles should be banned, he said the parents should be informed. I disagree with Walmart pulling music, but that's their right. There is nothing wrong with being informed prior to purchase as to the type of material on a CD or in a game.
It applies because it's another example of a retail store inflicting its morals on its customers.
And this applies to the parent poster how? He didn't say these titles should be banned, he said the parents should be informed. I disagree with Walmart pulling music, but that's their right. There is nothing wrong with being informed prior to purchase as to the type of material on a CD or in a game.
He said nothing of informing parents! He said, "We had the ESRB ratings posted on big signs as well, and we carded people who wanted to buy an M game."
Laws against selling video games of [rating] to [demographic] are being declared unconstitutional left and right. ("In a decision that drew upon the judicial rulings of cases where similar legislation had been deemed unconstitutional, Judge Whyte wrote that "games are protected by the First Amendment and that plaintiffs are likely to prevail in their argument that the Act violates the First Amendment.")
Since your personal attack on me seems to have been based on a misconception of my point I'll let it slide saying only this: I'm not going to let my kids (assuming I ever have any) be complete shitheads like you seem to think they would be. I'll let my kids choose their own path alright, as long as it's not a foolish path.
The bottom line is, stores should not be telling us how to raise our kids. I don't believe there is any correlation between playing violent video games and criminals, I blame bad parenting.
What other people choose to buy is none of your business. Taking away people's right to choose is not the right thing to do. Keep your own morals to yourself. I'm glad you no longer work there.
Why should you protect people from things which are REAL, you know, these REAL things commonly known as LIFE? (*hat off to Offspring*)
This is one reason a lot of today's music is watered down shit. Walmart won't sell CDs with explicit lyrics. Walmart was (and maybe still is) the biggest seller of CDs in the US. Walmart alone could make or break an album. If Walmart refuses to sell an album. Many labels won't publish an ablum that they know won't be very profitable. They will force the artists to "clean up" the album. So you couldn't put explicit lyrics in an album.
That's right, Walmart had the power to decide what kind of content artists could have in their art.
I'm a pretty rabid opponent of big ass SUVs, but I can't help but point out that if one guy has six SUVs he's probably not using any more gas or creating any more pollutants than someone with one SUV because one guy can't drive six automobiles at once.
How the hell would you know if this law was ever broken if they don't tell anyone?
So your PS3 is required to have an internet connection to play games?
Not going to fly.
Even if it did, what's to prevent spoofing the 'ok to play' message via a proxy server?
That post REEKS of marketing shill. Especially since it's your first comment ever.
Congratulations SpryWeb you're the first person to ever make my foe list.
There is nothing viral about this story. It is just an RFID reader buffer overflow vulnerability. There may only ever be one tag involved in an attack; only the RFID reader software is affected, not other tags.
Why do the editors approve stories with such blatant buzzword abuse?
I mostly only use Adobe Acrobat Reader and I've noticed a trend in it to get more and more bloated, and less and less user friendly as the version numbers get higher. It now takes longer to load, annoys me more by asking me to "upgrade" constantly, it wants to install yahoo toolbar with itself, it adds a freaking add banner to itself mostly directing you to yahoo crap.
Acrobat reader really is tending more toward malware program that just happens to be able to read pdf files. I wish the people who decide to make their products step way outside the sane scope of the product would knock it off. Every time they do it I jump ship or "upgrade" to an older version.
The good thing is it's really easy to put a stop to it: http://www.oldversion.com/
I am now happily using 5.0. I think it's the last streamlined non-annoying version. You can actually turn off update checking. (Amazing!) I consider any program that prohibits me from turning off its automatic updates to have a terminal illness. Meaning I will replace it soon with a program that behaves itself.
To get back off the tangent, I could rant about virus scanners all day. About how futile they are and how little they benefit you and - I guess in this case - how much they can actually hurt you, but I've done it before, however, McAfee has a bigger PR department than I do so it's pretty futile.
Speak with your money. Quit buying virus scanners.
I have the same bank and I fucking HATE sitekey.
Why does it ask me to log in, then to - essentially - log in again?
And bookmarks to the sitekey login page do not work.
I use online banking way too much to tolerate such bullshit. I thought about switching banks to get away from sitekey!
Almost as annoying as their autotimeout, which thankfully my friend wrote a greasemonkey script to nullify.
They put so much effort into making their site secure and hard to phish that they made it a royal fucking pain in the ass to all their customers.
I emailed them several times about it and they didn't give a crap.
Given that the thing is mostly blind I'd speculate that the "hairs" are for detecting food (prey).
Something tickles a couple of "hairs", the lobster tries to grab & eat. Something disturbs all/most/a lot of them, lobster realizes its either moving water or too big to eat and doesn't react.
But IANAMB (marine biologist) so I'm making shit up as I go along.
It depends mostly on what who you know uses.
At college the majority used AIM (a great many of those used Deadaim or some other thing to make AIM less shitty, like adding logging, removing ads etc).
Here at work lots of people use Trillian, myself included. I got two of my friends started on it here too. Trillian is nice but has a lot of bugs, at least one of which they have no plans to fix.
[rant]I contacted them about trillian accessing my hd every 2 seconds. After several emails I learned from Scott, one of the developers, that it's because Trillian is checking for AIM:GoIM type links. Apparently it writes them there, then reads them out 2 seconds later? Terrible design. Not to mention you have to have trillian pro to view HTML profiles. You can't even see the URL your friends have in their AIM profiles without the pro version. Because only professionals have friends with html links in their profiles! And their preferences organization is just plain awful. They tried to make it like Windows XP...and mostly succeeded. However, that is the problem. It's not a good design. Trillian is by no means fantastic, it's just the best of the crappy that I've found so far.[/rant]