OK, alright, I get the difference between "hacker" and "cracker". But you can't blame them for thinking that a "hacker" = bad person because the word hack (according to my dictionary here) means: "cut using repeated blows: to cut or chop something by striking it with short repeated blows using a sharp tool such as a knife or an ax".
now that's not a nice image to think of:p
i dunno why you guys can't understand it from their point of view:p
This, in fact, has happened to me already. Japanese cell phones have been offering online content for a while now and I recently upgraded to a phone that could view these contents. It was pretty neat, you could check movie times, restaurants, weather, sports, whatever. But the phone bill for my first month since upgrading my phone jumped by about $30! They charge 2 yen per data packet you send, and 4 yen per data packet you receive. The fact that cell phones have TINY screens made it so that the pages you view also have very little information. So you end up requesting 3-4 pages just to get to the info you want. Or maybe that's a "guide-line" set-up by the cell phone companies to rip people off:p Make each page contain as least information as possible so users would have to keep requesting.
Ever since my first bill like that, I've pretty much stopped using the online contents and stuck to spending a few more minutes reading magazines & newspapers:)
The press release is a little dated though, the bank starts June 11 here in Japan...
So in other words, Sony will literally be able to "take" your money.
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they did have that, but it only worked for really popular windows email clients. so i couldn't use their SMTP server cos i use Mail (of OSX).
OK, alright, I get the difference between "hacker" and "cracker". But you can't blame them for thinking that a "hacker" = bad person because the word hack (according to my dictionary here) means: "cut using repeated blows: to cut or chop something by striking it with short repeated blows using a sharp tool such as a knife or an ax".
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now that's not a nice image to think of
i dunno why you guys can't understand it from their point of view
Ever since my first bill like that, I've pretty much stopped using the online contents and stuck to spending a few more minutes reading magazines & newspapers :)
doh! extra space in the the url...
0 3/01-0323E/
http://www.sony.co.jp/en/SonyInfo/News/Press/2001
hmm how come i can't get rid of that extra space between the 0 and 3?
Not only does Sony wants to be your ISP, it wants to be your bank too.
0 3/01-0323E/
http://www.sony.co.jp/en/SonyInfo/News/Press/2001
The press release is a little dated though, the bank starts June 11 here in Japan...
So in other words, Sony will literally be able to "take" your money.