The skimmer is attached to any arbitrary machine without the cooperation of the ATM owner.
So they can hit even your own bank's machines, if they so desire.
This is the best ATM scam since... well... the last ATM scam, where they put a complete ATM machine in place. Except they got caught because they tried to stiff their ATM machine supplier.
See, the problem is that Neuromancer, without huge rewrites that would kind of destroy the whole point of making it, wouldn't be relevant anymore. At this point, you'd have to treat it as a "reality that could have been" instead of a vision of the future. And remember, most people "on the street" don't know about Gibson and haven't cared about Cyberpunk since pop-cyberpunk imploded, giving birth to some pretty wretched stuff.
Hence my Jules Verne comment.
It was pointed out to me, and I agree wholeheartedly with it, that cyberpunk happened, just not in the way we envisioned it, just as the Nautalus from 20,000 Leagues doesn't match up to the USS Nautalus, the first nuclear submarine.
The other problem is that Blade Runner, as far as Gibson is concerned, gets most of the non-cyberspace visuals right. And cyberspace visuals are now officially lame and tired. Even as an anime, I don't think it would bring much to the plate to be actually influental. I think, at the best, all it would do is partially satisfy some portion of the book fans, depending on how much butchering would be done.
I think the best way to really film Neuromancer is to treat it as a movie about what could have been. A homage to what could have happened 20-30 years after it was written, had things turned out differently.
The problem is that nobody "big" who has a chance to really make it happen has gotten interested in it. Neuromancer has been plauged with nobodys, semi-nobodys, and half-wits trying to put it together and failing. Like Cabana Boys Productions, who sat on the rights for the years before the Matrix when it might have been able to be a blockbuster hit.
The problem is that the one movie that I'd *love* to see is Neuromancer. The rights to it sat unused in the eighties because of "Cabana Boys Productions" (who were actually 2 cabana boys) and, at this point, the non-initiated would just view it as a lame attempt to copy the Matrix.
Wait 50 years and we'll be able to do it like they do Jules Verne novels, I guess.
Otherwise, it's as he said, you can make a movie without actually buying any rights. And he's not famous enough, outside of certain communities, to sell on name recognition.
Actually, my largest problem with Neuromancer was that it took many many readings, starting as a grade school student, before I finally really started to understand everything.
I still re-read the book to pick up new things. I finally realized exactly what Case was talking about when he told Molly to "take advantage of my natural state." lately.
I think the main one is that talking and writing come out of two different brain pathways. Somebody who is an excellent writer on the written/typed page may not be able to talk very elequently when asked.
I tried to write fiction using voice rec but I didn't like having my incomplete and random bits of story broadcast to the rest of the world until I was ready for it. I didn't dictate a single word, in fact, because my then-roomate was in the room and I realized how dumb it was.
However, like terrorist organiziations and organized crime, spam gangs still end up with tendrils in the US that can be attacked with properly crafted laws.
I'm starting to think that spamming and running boiler rooms tends to indicate that the person running them is a sociopath. If they weren't spamming, they'd be running a boiler room. If they weren't running a boiler room, they'd be a pickpocket. If they weren't a pickpocket, they'd be writing get rich quick books like Robert Kiyosaki or Wade Cook. If they weren't writing get rich quick books.... well.. you get the point.
They continue to spam you after you "remove" yourself from the list. I've been doing controlled experiments on these sort of things.
Somebody spidered an autogenerated e-mail address *once* from my webpage (the address encodes the time and IP address of the requester) in violation of the robots.txt file.
This has proven most instructive. I've written up some of my experiences on my weblog. That single address has since been sold, resold, and resold again to a variety of folks. At one point, it was sent an e-mail trojan. It's received all kinds of different spam. Interestingly enough, it has not received any Nigerian advance-fee fraud scams.
Lately, there was a removal form with a JavaScript script included that would prevent you from typing in an address to be removed.
One really funny spam is a dating site that said that one of my friends has set me up on a blind date. To an address only known by spammers.
Telemarketers are not people like you and me in about the same way as Jeffery Dalhmer isn't a person like you and me.
The problem is, because so many folks signed up for it, it very clearly shows them that people really didn't want to be called on the phone, which leads to more troubles down the road for telemarketing-related industries.
True. And I'm not saying that I entirely disagree with you here because these sort of arguments degenerate into absurd statements no matter how you slice and dice them.;)
However, a good way to differentiate between inspiration and copying, especially given a bunch of relatively dumb existing laws and precedents, is one of the biggest, most obnoxious issues that needs to be dealt with.
It gets sticky even for music when they try to determine where a fair-use sample begins and where a blatant rip ends.
The interesting part is the difference between Win2k and Linux. In both cases now, the black hats have access to the source code. However, there are more white hats who have access to the Linux codebase, which will make for some interesting long-term implications.
This also has the potential to solve the NSAKEY contriversy once and for all and provide some interesting insights into how Windows works. I'm wondering if, through the use of countries with more flexible copyright systems, it would be possible to document interesting attributes and then pass them back to WINE and other open-source folk.
The basic problem is that if it's clear that you have viewed the source code and make substantial contributions to a project that competes with Windows, MS will be able to, without being laughed out of court, at least file a lawsuit against you and ruin your day.
The correct analogy is sampling large portions of a beatles song or performing your own rendition of it. If you try to record a beatles song and sell it, you had better pay the proper song royalties or you will get sued.
I'm really fascinated about, if this turns out to not be a lie, the long-term ramifications of this. It's a can of worms that you can't undo. Its impact on the number of security holes, any commentary by third party sources, etc. will be most interesting. Especailly given that it's probably reached areas already where it doesn't have the sort of protections that it has under US laws.;)
It's often the case of who's paying whoever wrote the contract.
The corporate lawyer is paid and rewarded only for looking out for the best interests of the company. If they let juicy situations slide by, they will get a bad reputation, replaced, etc. They can even end up disbarred. They only need to be nice enough to you that it doesn't hurt the company overall. It's also supposed to have clauses to knock any kind of abuse for any kind of employee.
It's like anything else while negotiating. There's one thing they offer, and there's something else that they will settle for. The trick is to get as close to that point without coming off as a troublemaker.
The best situation is to hire a lawyer for yourself but take care to have somebody who's not a laywer at your company (but still authorized to sign for the company) sign it. It will generally involve a few cross-outs here and there. Many of the claims on what you do on your own accord aren't legally enforcable, but it's still better to get things over when you start as opposed to having to answer to legal paperwork.
My previous employer made the attempt. I consulted a lawer, had a few things crossed out, have them sign it, and no problems occured. You just have to paint yourself as a reasonable person and explain that you won't be using their resources or doing anything on company time, *ever* and it will probably just be open source hacking or whatnot.
A now-bankrupt publishing company tried to make me sign a really awful contract for some writing work, so I just walked away from the whole deal.
My current employer made no such attempt, which saved me much trouble. They also don't outsource, treat their programmers well, provide free lunch, etc. All hail the company.;)
You have memory riser cards. They are called DIMMs, SIMMs, and RIMMs, you young whipper-snapper. You do not know the pain of plugging in, chip-by-chip, DRAM chips, in a specific and defined order.
It's most likely the case that, unless you are talking about a NUMA system (which is really, at this stage of the game, only for high-end server systems where a standard architecture is not yet a good idea) electrical interference, impedence, power concerns, speed of light, etc. all work together to make you really only want a few memory sockets, say 4 tops. Otherwise, it just won't work without hurting performance in a major way.
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Well, not really.
The skimmer is attached to any arbitrary machine without the cooperation of the ATM owner.
So they can hit even your own bank's machines, if they so desire.
This is the best ATM scam since... well... the last ATM scam, where they put a complete ATM machine in place. Except they got caught because they tried to stiff their ATM machine supplier.
See, the problem is that Neuromancer, without huge rewrites that would kind of destroy the whole point of making it, wouldn't be relevant anymore. At this point, you'd have to treat it as a "reality that could have been" instead of a vision of the future. And remember, most people "on the street" don't know about Gibson and haven't cared about Cyberpunk since pop-cyberpunk imploded, giving birth to some pretty wretched stuff.
Hence my Jules Verne comment.
It was pointed out to me, and I agree wholeheartedly with it, that cyberpunk happened, just not in the way we envisioned it, just as the Nautalus from 20,000 Leagues doesn't match up to the USS Nautalus, the first nuclear submarine.
The other problem is that Blade Runner, as far as Gibson is concerned, gets most of the non-cyberspace visuals right. And cyberspace visuals are now officially lame and tired. Even as an anime, I don't think it would bring much to the plate to be actually influental. I think, at the best, all it would do is partially satisfy some portion of the book fans, depending on how much butchering would be done.
I think the best way to really film Neuromancer is to treat it as a movie about what could have been. A homage to what could have happened 20-30 years after it was written, had things turned out differently.
The problem is that nobody "big" who has a chance to really make it happen has gotten interested in it. Neuromancer has been plauged with nobodys, semi-nobodys, and half-wits trying to put it together and failing. Like Cabana Boys Productions, who sat on the rights for the years before the Matrix when it might have been able to be a blockbuster hit.
Hrm. You are correct -- I shouldn't have called it a problem. ;)
Right. However, there's different mental pathways for talking and writing. So the problem is not necessarily within your computer, it's in your head.
The problem is that the one movie that I'd *love* to see is Neuromancer. The rights to it sat unused in the eighties because of "Cabana Boys Productions" (who were actually 2 cabana boys) and, at this point, the non-initiated would just view it as a lame attempt to copy the Matrix.
Wait 50 years and we'll be able to do it like they do Jules Verne novels, I guess.
Otherwise, it's as he said, you can make a movie without actually buying any rights. And he's not famous enough, outside of certain communities, to sell on name recognition.
Actually, my largest problem with Neuromancer was that it took many many readings, starting as a grade school student, before I finally really started to understand everything.
I still re-read the book to pick up new things. I finally realized exactly what Case was talking about when he told Molly to "take advantage of my natural state." lately.
Many many reasons.
I think the main one is that talking and writing come out of two different brain pathways. Somebody who is an excellent writer on the written/typed page may not be able to talk very elequently when asked.
I tried to write fiction using voice rec but I didn't like having my incomplete and random bits of story broadcast to the rest of the world until I was ready for it. I didn't dictate a single word, in fact, because my then-roomate was in the room and I realized how dumb it was.
Also, you can't use voice recognition in a cafe.
I have an email address that I obtained in the younger, more naive days of the internet. It has been posted to the usenet, spidered, etc.
It is under my domain name, not AOL or Earthlink or whatever.
The notion that I should have to change an address that I have had for years because of people who shouldn't be in business makes my blood boil.
True.
However, like terrorist organiziations and organized crime, spam gangs still end up with tendrils in the US that can be attacked with properly crafted laws.
I'm starting to think that spamming and running boiler rooms tends to indicate that the person running them is a sociopath. If they weren't spamming, they'd be running a boiler room. If they weren't running a boiler room, they'd be a pickpocket. If they weren't a pickpocket, they'd be writing get rich quick books like Robert Kiyosaki or Wade Cook. If they weren't writing get rich quick books.... well.. you get the point.
Punishment can be an effective deterrent.
They continue to spam you after you "remove" yourself from the list. I've been doing controlled experiments on these sort of things.
Somebody spidered an autogenerated e-mail address *once* from my webpage (the address encodes the time and IP address of the requester) in violation of the robots.txt file.
This has proven most instructive. I've written up some of my experiences on my weblog. That single address has since been sold, resold, and resold again to a variety of folks. At one point, it was sent an e-mail trojan. It's received all kinds of different spam. Interestingly enough, it has not received any Nigerian advance-fee fraud scams.
Lately, there was a removal form with a JavaScript script included that would prevent you from typing in an address to be removed.
One really funny spam is a dating site that said that one of my friends has set me up on a blind date. To an address only known by spammers.
The people calling are folks who really need a buck.
;)
I was referring to the folks who finance and use telemarketing operations.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Telemarketers are not people like you and me in about the same way as Jeffery Dalhmer isn't a person like you and me.
The problem is, because so many folks signed up for it, it very clearly shows them that people really didn't want to be called on the phone, which leads to more troubles down the road for telemarketing-related industries.
No matter how you look at it, you all are arguing about a fictional character from the future.
Which has next to no bearing to reality.
That is, unless upper management is a bunch of trekkies and that's how you ingraciate yourself with them.
True. And I'm not saying that I entirely disagree with you here because these sort of arguments degenerate into absurd statements no matter how you slice and dice them. ;)
However, a good way to differentiate between inspiration and copying, especially given a bunch of relatively dumb existing laws and precedents, is one of the biggest, most obnoxious issues that needs to be dealt with.
It gets sticky even for music when they try to determine where a fair-use sample begins and where a blatant rip ends.
That is exactly my thoughts.
The interesting part is the difference between Win2k and Linux. In both cases now, the black hats have access to the source code. However, there are more white hats who have access to the Linux codebase, which will make for some interesting long-term implications.
This also has the potential to solve the NSAKEY contriversy once and for all and provide some interesting insights into how Windows works. I'm wondering if, through the use of countries with more flexible copyright systems, it would be possible to document interesting attributes and then pass them back to WINE and other open-source folk.
That's not entirely in the tinfoil zone.
;)
The basic problem is that if it's clear that you have viewed the source code and make substantial contributions to a project that competes with Windows, MS will be able to, without being laughed out of court, at least file a lawsuit against you and ruin your day.
The correct analogy is sampling large portions of a beatles song or performing your own rendition of it. If you try to record a beatles song and sell it, you had better pay the proper song royalties or you will get sued.
I'm really fascinated about, if this turns out to not be a lie, the long-term ramifications of this. It's a can of worms that you can't undo. Its impact on the number of security holes, any commentary by third party sources, etc. will be most interesting. Especailly given that it's probably reached areas already where it doesn't have the sort of protections that it has under US laws.
Even in CA, there's still wiggle room for trouble. They use terms like "Inventions", which can still give them room to sue you.
Striking the clause early is good for saving yourself tons of trouble later.
It's often the case of who's paying whoever wrote the contract.
The corporate lawyer is paid and rewarded only for looking out for the best interests of the company. If they let juicy situations slide by, they will get a bad reputation, replaced, etc. They can even end up disbarred. They only need to be nice enough to you that it doesn't hurt the company overall. It's also supposed to have clauses to knock any kind of abuse for any kind of employee.
It's like anything else while negotiating. There's one thing they offer, and there's something else that they will settle for. The trick is to get as close to that point without coming off as a troublemaker.
The best situation is to hire a lawyer for yourself but take care to have somebody who's not a laywer at your company (but still authorized to sign for the company) sign it. It will generally involve a few cross-outs here and there. Many of the claims on what you do on your own accord aren't legally enforcable, but it's still better to get things over when you start as opposed to having to answer to legal paperwork.
;)
My previous employer made the attempt. I consulted a lawer, had a few things crossed out, have them sign it, and no problems occured. You just have to paint yourself as a reasonable person and explain that you won't be using their resources or doing anything on company time, *ever* and it will probably just be open source hacking or whatnot.
A now-bankrupt publishing company tried to make me sign a really awful contract for some writing work, so I just walked away from the whole deal.
My current employer made no such attempt, which saved me much trouble. They also don't outsource, treat their programmers well, provide free lunch, etc. All hail the company.
I've always wanted to know which article on slashdot was the famed goatse.cx redirect...
Or when you got a motherboard with the processor soldered down?
Or my Apple IIgs, with no onboard memory expansion ability. You *had* to buy a memory card if you wanted to expand the memory.
You have memory riser cards. They are called DIMMs, SIMMs, and RIMMs, you young whipper-snapper. You do not know the pain of plugging in, chip-by-chip, DRAM chips, in a specific and defined order.
It's most likely the case that, unless you are talking about a NUMA system (which is really, at this stage of the game, only for high-end server systems where a standard architecture is not yet a good idea) electrical interference, impedence, power concerns, speed of light, etc. all work together to make you really only want a few memory sockets, say 4 tops. Otherwise, it just won't work without hurting performance in a major way.
Your card has dual DVI then. ;)
A single DVI channel won't give you 1600x1200. Two DVI channels will. A lot of video cards only include one channel.