For the same reason you need a spam filter. That kind of ad agency exists only as a rented postbox, and if you were to track them down, they'd disclaim any relationship to the person posting them.
If given proof they had ever interacted, they'd say the person was "at best, only a contractor", or they "fired them long ago for breaking the law".
Ah, but have you ever seen those 5 cent plastic signs advertising DatingIn.com? Somebody local to you nails/stakes those(and probably all those other signs) and they do it for stupid cheap.
Ad agencies realized people will put those up for a pittance if you didn't care where they went, just wherever someone was already going for work/shopping/etc. And those things are everywhere.
Heaven help us if they were to get the idea to give the homeless a bottle of rotgut and a pad of these malware tickets. It'd be like covering your car with post-its.
Meh, even the fake sex stuff gets way censored. There was a guy several years ago that got breast implants on a dare and when the local news showed a clip of him, they stuck a black bar over his top when he took off his shirt. I doubt many found that of prurient interest.
Or maybe it is just nipples, as they didn't censor manikins when shooting at the mall in outrage over a open-cup bra on display.
Duh, of course he didn't invent anything, he just hooked a wiimote up to a PC and used it to provide positioning for a camera in a virtual scene. Nothing special there.
The reason it wowed eveyone is A) because nobody at nintendo thought to demo it first and B)it let everyone at home do the same thing for way cheaper than before.
Sweet FSM that is true. I worked for an audio retailer that, once we finally added the ability to have product reviews, wanted to suppress all the negative reviews for our house brands(where most of our margin came from). I had to go get published studies that showed having all positive reviews for a product actually hurt sales, because it was obvious the reviews were either filtered or faked.
And this was after having a long history of responding to bad comments on public message boards with solutions/fixes and seeing increases in sales from those responses. Something about being able to control what is shown made them drop all sense.
The Titanic also (probably) sank because somebody bought sub quality steel bolts. Their worker safety record doesn't really counteract that part.
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Actually, that was the case(or maybe it was the plating). After the Titanic sank, the other two ships of her class were refitted. One of them still sank, the other went on for the rest of her useful lifetime.
'Struth! In the future you will not be able to pick "Off" in the settings menu for the clicky noise, only "On" and "Bullhorn, because I'm a perv smart enough to buy a telescopic lens".
You will, however, be able to rewire the "take a picture" button into the speaker wire such that the speaker is disconnected when the button is pressed.
Same thing, different method, again illustrating the futility of politicians legislating on a technology, they don't understand, to solve a social problem, which they don't understand either.
Small correction, then, I do have a library card and a few other shopping cards, but they came with little "just the barcode" tags, for hanging off my keys. Same deal with the RFID tag I need to get into work.
The insurance stuff I only carry when going to the doctor/dentist, which probably isn't smart, but I've been meaning to photograph them with my cell as they have no barcodes or magstripes.
The point is not to make lessons that apply to the real world.
The point is to make plausible bullshit, because a small percent of that bullshit will either later turn out to be true or inspires others to make real.
E.G. geosynchronous orbit, cell phones, flash mobs, the effect of having millimeter radar that counts the change in your pocket, etc.
None of that existed when written about, but having plausible bullshit written about it helped shape what we think about it now that it exists.
But to get that, we also had to have thousands of plausible but still false stories about planet sized computers as powerful as my phone, faster than light travel in a Newtonian/Non-Einstein universe, and Heinlein perving on his opposite sex clones.
And the people tend to look more "average". Not everyone in UK soaps is a model - many look like 'regular' folk.
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For the same reason video game characters tend to be skewed towards looking like models(or pornstar/weightlifter). If you are going to be staring at someone's ass for a few hours a day, every day, wouldn't you rather they be attractive? Continue that thought until it is ridiculous.
Brit soaps are more like... US ensemble cast/not single family sitcoms than soaps.
I wouldn't be suprised if, say, Friends was originally pitched as "let's do a british soap, except funny". ('funny' meaning 'not having to explain the jokes to the producers')
I've only 3 cards, license, debit, and bookstore discount. My cellphone cover has a slot in the back for them and I no longer carry a wallet. Cash goes in that little coin pocket thing in my pants, or in with the cards if it is just a few bills.
I imagine it is probably much like India, where they are quickly phasing in using text messages to initiate bank transfers. A credit card or wire transfer will cost you X%, but sending a text, while outrageously expensive in terms of data, costs a fixed amount usually denominated in the second smallest unit of currency in a country.
Additionally, cell phones in other countries are frequently much cheaper(like 5 bucks); much cheaper than a credit terminal and a landline or having to hire guards to carry your daily bank deposits.
Plus, cell networks are easier to install than running landlines to each location, so most countries with little infrastructure can skip straight to cell networks and only have to build a backbone.
So any manner of doing business through cell phones can reduce costs substantially, be implemented faster and easier, and have more of an impact in a less developed country than, say, the US.
They wanted to make sure the content (the Judge's address) was *not* posted. So yea. You take both servers so that the stuff is offline and they can find the guy.
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Except they didn't take the real server and the judge's information was already removed, thus their action did nothing to achieve their goals.
That said, I'm willing to give the police the benefit of the doubt and assume they were merely ignorant and not malicious. The officer that took the server probably knows nothing of computers and couldn't be expected to say "Hey, this is full of fail." The fellow that asked for the confiscation, however, should have been a little less lazy, checked their records, and seen that the last several times this hadn't worked out for them.
Except this is more like taking somebody's second car when they are investigating a hit & run involving car you used while on vacation in another country.
And they know the car is still in factory mint condition and there won't be any evidence because they've seized it several times before, it has the new car smell(and have probably contracted cancer from it), and the eyelash they taped to the door is still taped to it.
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For the same reason you need a spam filter. That kind of ad agency exists only as a rented postbox, and if you were to track them down, they'd disclaim any relationship to the person posting them.
If given proof they had ever interacted, they'd say the person was "at best, only a contractor", or they "fired them long ago for breaking the law".
Sure, some security testing firms have already added "leave trojaned USB sticks in the parking lot" to their list of tests.
Slap these on cars before lunch, everyone who goes out to lunch will probably check the url when they get back on their work computer.
Ah, but have you ever seen those 5 cent plastic signs advertising DatingIn.com? Somebody local to you nails/stakes those(and probably all those other signs) and they do it for stupid cheap.
Ad agencies realized people will put those up for a pittance if you didn't care where they went, just wherever someone was already going for work/shopping/etc. And those things are everywhere.
Heaven help us if they were to get the idea to give the homeless a bottle of rotgut and a pad of these malware tickets. It'd be like covering your car with post-its.
I didn't say it was a good idea, just possible with enough bandwidth.
In the real world, it'd be horrible. Can you imagine the network congestion when everyone boots up monday morning, or after a power outage? Eww...
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I have this really fat pipe to my university repository, it is almost as fast as disk.
With enough ram, I'd only need one of the 32meg USB sticks rattling around in my junk drawer.
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So that would be a yes to one of those, then?
Actually, with a course of injections, you too can breast feed. If you already have moobs, it is even easier.
Meh, even the fake sex stuff gets way censored. There was a guy several years ago that got breast implants on a dare and when the local news showed a clip of him, they stuck a black bar over his top when he took off his shirt. I doubt many found that of prurient interest.
Or maybe it is just nipples, as they didn't censor manikins when shooting at the mall in outrage over a open-cup bra on display.
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Well, for sufficiently small values of 2...
And Ohio is known for its trained GIS inmates.
I have an idea of when the next terrorist attack will happen.
Or at least if this affects event security like Windows affects network security.
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What, like Ohio?
Duh, of course he didn't invent anything, he just hooked a wiimote up to a PC and used it to provide positioning for a camera in a virtual scene. Nothing special there.
The reason it wowed eveyone is A) because nobody at nintendo thought to demo it first and B)it let everyone at home do the same thing for way cheaper than before.
Sweet FSM that is true. I worked for an audio retailer that, once we finally added the ability to have product reviews, wanted to suppress all the negative reviews for our house brands(where most of our margin came from). I had to go get published studies that showed having all positive reviews for a product actually hurt sales, because it was obvious the reviews were either filtered or faked.
And this was after having a long history of responding to bad comments on public message boards with solutions/fixes and seeing increases in sales from those responses. Something about being able to control what is shown made them drop all sense.
The Titanic also (probably) sank because somebody bought sub quality steel bolts. Their worker safety record doesn't really counteract that part.
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Actually, that was the case(or maybe it was the plating). After the Titanic sank, the other two ships of her class were refitted. One of them still sank, the other went on for the rest of her useful lifetime.
Ditto RIM with the crackberry storm. Although anybody with a patent can make them their bitch, they're Canadian.
'Struth! In the future you will not be able to pick "Off" in the settings menu for the clicky noise, only "On" and "Bullhorn, because I'm a perv smart enough to buy a telescopic lens".
You will, however, be able to rewire the "take a picture" button into the speaker wire such that the speaker is disconnected when the button is pressed.
Same thing, different method, again illustrating the futility of politicians legislating on a technology, they don't understand, to solve a social problem, which they don't understand either.
Small correction, then, I do have a library card and a few other shopping cards, but they came with little "just the barcode" tags, for hanging off my keys. Same deal with the RFID tag I need to get into work.
The insurance stuff I only carry when going to the doctor/dentist, which probably isn't smart, but I've been meaning to photograph them with my cell as they have no barcodes or magstripes.
The point is not to make lessons that apply to the real world.
The point is to make plausible bullshit, because a small percent of that bullshit will either later turn out to be true or inspires others to make real.
E.G. geosynchronous orbit, cell phones, flash mobs, the effect of having millimeter radar that counts the change in your pocket, etc.
None of that existed when written about, but having plausible bullshit written about it helped shape what we think about it now that it exists.
But to get that, we also had to have thousands of plausible but still false stories about planet sized computers as powerful as my phone, faster than light travel in a Newtonian/Non-Einstein universe, and Heinlein perving on his opposite sex clones.
It's a trade-off.
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For the same reason video game characters tend to be skewed towards looking like models(or pornstar/weightlifter). If you are going to be staring at someone's ass for a few hours a day, every day, wouldn't you rather they be attractive? Continue that thought until it is ridiculous.
Brit soaps are more like... US ensemble cast/not single family sitcoms than soaps.
I wouldn't be suprised if, say, Friends was originally pitched as "let's do a british soap, except funny". ('funny' meaning 'not having to explain the jokes to the producers')
I've only 3 cards, license, debit, and bookstore discount. My cellphone cover has a slot in the back for them and I no longer carry a wallet. Cash goes in that little coin pocket thing in my pants, or in with the cards if it is just a few bills.
Thirties.
I imagine it is probably much like India, where they are quickly phasing in using text messages to initiate bank transfers. A credit card or wire transfer will cost you X%, but sending a text, while outrageously expensive in terms of data, costs a fixed amount usually denominated in the second smallest unit of currency in a country.
Additionally, cell phones in other countries are frequently much cheaper(like 5 bucks); much cheaper than a credit terminal and a landline or having to hire guards to carry your daily bank deposits.
Plus, cell networks are easier to install than running landlines to each location, so most countries with little infrastructure can skip straight to cell networks and only have to build a backbone.
So any manner of doing business through cell phones can reduce costs substantially, be implemented faster and easier, and have more of an impact in a less developed country than, say, the US.
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Except they didn't take the real server and the judge's information was already removed, thus their action did nothing to achieve their goals.
That said, I'm willing to give the police the benefit of the doubt and assume they were merely ignorant and not malicious. The officer that took the server probably knows nothing of computers and couldn't be expected to say "Hey, this is full of fail." The fellow that asked for the confiscation, however, should have been a little less lazy, checked their records, and seen that the last several times this hadn't worked out for them.
Or just googled it.
Except this is more like taking somebody's second car when they are investigating a hit & run involving car you used while on vacation in another country.
And they know the car is still in factory mint condition and there won't be any evidence because they've seized it several times before, it has the new car smell(and have probably contracted cancer from it), and the eyelash they taped to the door is still taped to it.
Yay, a car analogy. I feel so dirty now.