Did anyone notice that, during an ad for this online job index, they made some semi-clever references to two of their competitors, monster.com and hotjobs.com
Yes... I don't know if that was good or not (I assume it was intended)... when I first started watching that commercial and heard the "hot jobs" phrase, I thought, "Oh, a HotJobs.com commercial." Then, when they said "monster of a job," I thought, "Oh, a commercial for Monster.com." Finally, when the revealed that it was a commercial for kForce.com, I thought, "The hell is kForce.com?"
I liked "Off" the most. Because of Off, I got to work in Photoshop for six hours while my roommates have nothing to show for themselves but a few scraps of conversation for the water cooler tomorrow
Let's put it into perspective: While your room mate was enjoying the company of other human beings, while he was sharpening his social skills, having fun, and associating with his peers, you sat alone at your computer for six hours.
Get out of the apartment! Meet some people! Interact! Have fun!
Yeah, it's even more amusing when the teams that are playing deserve to burn in hell. Both of them stabbed their hometowns in the back less than 5 years ago
Did you see that Britanica commercial, which said:
What are the fans in Los Angeles and Houston thinking right now?
I am totally surprised instant replays aren't done in some sort of Bullet-time animation a-la Matrix rip-offs. Imagine a player receiving a pass and the camera view rolls around him with the ball edging towards him. Expect to have 20000 cameras strategically placed inside stadiums to do this in the coming years
That would be so cool! I remember playing some of the Madden Football games on the old 16 bit Super Nintendo that you could watch instant replay, stop at a particular frame, and rotate various angles.
Think how easy that would make the referees' jobs when looking at instant replay?
"Those who wish to give up their freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve either."
But everyone gives up some freedoms to protect others... I believe my high school government teacher referred to it as a "social contract," although it's been several years...
For example, you surrender your right to purchase chemical weapons so that others (in theory) will not purchase chemical weapons, therefore greatly lessening the threat to your life from chemical weapons (a choppy example, sorry).
Anyway, giving up some basic freedoms is essential, in order to protect others. While I don't like the prospect of a government "listening in" on me, if I have to give up that freedom to protect my life, it's worth it. Now, we're not to the point today, I doubt, that if the NSA went away, terrorists would begin terrorizing US cities, killing innocent citizens, but, perhaps one day this will be the case, if it's not already...
How does this not count as cyber-squatting? Didn't he sell the Linux.com name for millions? If he was not a squatter, why not just sell it for the costs needed to maintain the domain name for those years ($30 * # of years held)?
Granted, if I had the Linux.com domain name, I would have sold it for as much as possible as well. Of course, in doing so, I'd expect to be called a squatter...
Companies that want to survive in the long term will have to take this into account in the future. At $16 1/16 per share (down from $65, IPO @ $20), the lesson of eToys will need to be learned by everyone else
I had always heard that they are about 20% off on their predictions each day from the current. So, if they say, "there is a 50% chance of rain tomorrow," that really means there is an 80% chance that there is a 50% chance that it will rain tomorrow. Two days ahead is a 60%, then 40%, and so on.
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AOL says to Beijing leaders, "You let us build the infrastructure and be the ISP, and we'll let you censor our users however you see fit."
That seems it would be a win-win. AOL gets another 20 million users, Chinese get more pipelines without losing control of the information flowing through those pipes...
Well it is pretty cool that the guy is donating the money to charity but don't you get the feeling that he thinks he has stumbled into the stunt of tryng to generate PR for himself
And for his consulting business, no doubt. $2,000 is a modest investment for the PR he is getting.
so he not only didnt take MS's money, but hell match it for charity
Uh, you might want to stick to NT. FYI, MS matches its employee's donations to charity. If he worked for Microsoft, MS would donate $2k to a charity of his choice if he did as well.
Folks, we live in an economy where you don't have to be a profitable company to have a market cap of billions of dollars. Today it's about brand recognition, not profit.
Can't you see that Michael Chaney is just trying to build brand? He has already registered MichaelChaney.com (see http://www.michaelchaney.com/), and, I'd wager, is planning on selling the domain on eBay for $10 million once his fame has pinnacled.
Imagine a geek tabloid, that would rule. Instead of stories about aliens, we'd have stories about upcoming Star Wars plots. Instead of articles on celebrities, there would be articles on Linus, RMS, and ESR.:)
And the second question is, if these companies had been running Linux, would the crackers have been able to get in?
Well, I don't know what computer OS they hacked into. I would assume all of the important information at Visa (credit card #'s, customer info) is sitting on some ancient main frame computer that fills a room.
One of the interesting things about Windows2000 is that it has complete command-line functionality; at least, that's what the Microsoft brainwashed drone told me. In other words, anything you can do from the GUI you can do from the command line. And I thought that Microsoft's claim that the command line was "archaic" and "going away." Microsoft lies lead to Microsoft failures and backpedaling. It's a shame that they are so good at marketing and politics
Don't forget that the developers that work on NT are computer programmers. They like command-line functionality. Just because the Microsoft execs think all end-users should use a GUI tool, the developers are still going to create a command-line tool for their own use.
Did you know that there is tab completion in the command-line tool for NT 4.0, much like there is tab completion in tshell for *NIX? Something that is not enabled by default on NT, but can be turned on with the switch of a registry setting. I doubt an NT project manager speced such a feature. I would assume a developer, who liked UNIX, said, "Hey, tab completion would be neat," and so he implemented it. I would wager a similar bet that the developers said to themselves, "Hey, let's make sure everything can be done via the command-line."
Remember, the developers at MS are just as nerdy as the rest of us, and like computers just as much, and would prefer a command-line over a GUI tool any day of the week...
How big of a problem is credit card theft? I know that there are those out there who have their numbers stolen, and have items purchased with their card, but it seems to be an isolated case.
Stop and ask yourself how many people you personally know that have had their credit card #'s stolen. I know of no one. No one in my immediate or extended family; none of my friends or coworkers. And, like good Americans, the people I know, including myself, have readily used credit cards: at restaurants, on the Net, over the phone, at brick and mortar stores...
Granted, with the Net, credit cards become a lot easier to steal. If your credit card #'s are stolen, and you can list the last five places you've charged at, that gives the credit card company a place to start their investigation. If your #'s were stolen when used at a restaurant, chances are someone at the restaurant is responsible. With the Net, finding who, exactly, stole your #'s may be a bit more difficult, if not impossible.
Regardless, though, is this that big of a problem, or is the media latched onto the next "big thing" here? Granted, no one feels comfortable when you inform them that their credit card #'s are accessible over the Web, but just because they are accessible, does that mean that people are accessing them?
Notice that the holes comes not from large, trusting sites, like Amazon.com, BN.com, eBay.com, or other powerhouse sites. These are tiny, crappy-looking sites. Have you visited some of these sites listed in the article? THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE! They seem to be part of that "Get an eCommerce store for only $30 a month!" kind of thing.
When shopping on the Internet, use common sense, just like you would use when shopping in the non-virtual world. Imagine walking into a sleazy-looking store, an unkempt, shodily arranged and managed store. Would you buy anything from here with a credit card? Just use your common sense, it's what separates us from the monkeys.:)
Finally, it is important to remember that shopping on the Net is no more dangerous than using your credit card at a department store. These sites that were vulnerable were vulnerable because they were hosted by a shoddy web host who didn't know or care about security issues. Having worked with IIS/NT/ASP/data-driven web sites using Microsoft products/technologies, I would wager the problem was from a number of things:
The::$DATA error not being fixed. With ASP pages, you can view the server-side code by appending::$DATA to the querystring. However, this bug was identified a long time ago and a very simple patch has been around just as long...
If you are going to use an Access database (which is what I would assume this cruddy web host uses), do not place it in the Web root or subdirectories. If you place it in the Web root, anyone can download it through a web browser!
Do not hard code usernames or passwords into your server-side scripts, or do not place them in text files in your web root directory! Again, anyone can simply view these files using a web browser!
OK, enough ranting... In closing, let me say that I hope the media doesn't go crazy on issues like this. Yes, these crappy eCommerce sites are unsafe to shop at, but that doesn't mean you can feel confident shopping at Buy.com.
I use to use Linux quite a bit, but one thing that really bugged me was its web browser support. Netscape in Linux absolutely is the most offending program I've ever used. It's slow to load, having multiple windows open and downloading content is painful, and too often Netscape will crash, just disappearing from X. Using Netscape in Linux is almost as painful as using Netscape on a Mac.
Netscape in a Windows environment is easier to use, although I still prefer IE. I know I would boot into Linux much more often if it had a reasonable browser. (end rant)
is that they may have so many clients and so few support staff folks, that when you go over various limits, they might not catch it.
Example, I was hosting on a terrible web host with a 2 GB monthly transfer limit, and had 8 times that traffic throughput, but was never charged a dime.
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Yes... I don't know if that was good or not (I assume it was intended)... when I first started watching that commercial and heard the "hot jobs" phrase, I thought, "Oh, a HotJobs.com commercial." Then, when they said "monster of a job," I thought, "Oh, a commercial for Monster.com." Finally, when the revealed that it was a commercial for kForce.com, I thought, "The hell is kForce.com?"
Not a very effective commercial IMHO.
Let's put it into perspective: While your room mate was enjoying the company of other human beings, while he was sharpening his social skills, having fun, and associating with his peers, you sat alone at your computer for six hours.
Get out of the apartment! Meet some people! Interact! Have fun!
Supposedly ABC is also looking at using the Enhanced TV to supplement Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Did you see that Britanica commercial, which said:
What are the fans in Los Angeles and Houston thinking right now?
That would be so cool! I remember playing some of the Madden Football games on the old 16 bit Super Nintendo that you could watch instant replay, stop at a particular frame, and rotate various angles.
Think how easy that would make the referees' jobs when looking at instant replay?
But everyone gives up some freedoms to protect others... I believe my high school government teacher referred to it as a "social contract," although it's been several years...
For example, you surrender your right to purchase chemical weapons so that others (in theory) will not purchase chemical weapons, therefore greatly lessening the threat to your life from chemical weapons (a choppy example, sorry).
Anyway, giving up some basic freedoms is essential, in order to protect others. While I don't like the prospect of a government "listening in" on me, if I have to give up that freedom to protect my life, it's worth it. Now, we're not to the point today, I doubt, that if the NSA went away, terrorists would begin terrorizing US cities, killing innocent citizens, but, perhaps one day this will be the case, if it's not already...
Granted, if I had the Linux.com domain name, I would have sold it for as much as possible as well. Of course, in doing so, I'd expect to be called a squatter...
Uh, I don't think eToys's stock is low because of the etoy.com thing. Rather, eToys reported a high loss for Q4 of 99. (Losing 38 cents per share) (see http://q uote.fool.com/Snapshot/financials.asp?symbols=ETYS &currticker=ETYS)
But with the supermarket card, you have the option of using it. With Doubleclick's scheme, you aren't aware that you're being tracked...
You can look at C:\Windows\hosts.sam to see a sample hosts file.
Why not use distributed.net to help predict the weather? 786 processors... ha! We could have so many more...
I had always heard that they are about 20% off on their predictions each day from the current. So, if they say, "there is a 50% chance of rain tomorrow," that really means there is an 80% chance that there is a 50% chance that it will rain tomorrow. Two days ahead is a 60%, then 40%, and so on.
That seems it would be a win-win. AOL gets another 20 million users, Chinese get more pipelines without losing control of the information flowing through those pipes...
Do you blame them? I have mine set to 1 or Higher, and sometimes think about setting it up another notch...
And for his consulting business, no doubt. $2,000 is a modest investment for the PR he is getting.
Uh, you might want to stick to NT. FYI, MS matches its employee's donations to charity. If he worked for Microsoft, MS would donate $2k to a charity of his choice if he did as well.
Can't you see that Michael Chaney is just trying to build brand? He has already registered MichaelChaney.com (see http://www.michaelchaney.com/), and, I'd wager, is planning on selling the domain on eBay for $10 million once his fame has pinnacled.
Imagine a geek tabloid, that would rule. Instead of stories about aliens, we'd have stories about upcoming Star Wars plots. Instead of articles on celebrities, there would be articles on Linus, RMS, and ESR. :)
Well, I don't know what computer OS they hacked into. I would assume all of the important information at Visa (credit card #'s, customer info) is sitting on some ancient main frame computer that fills a room.
Don't forget that the developers that work on NT are computer programmers. They like command-line functionality. Just because the Microsoft execs think all end-users should use a GUI tool, the developers are still going to create a command-line tool for their own use.
Did you know that there is tab completion in the command-line tool for NT 4.0, much like there is tab completion in tshell for *NIX? Something that is not enabled by default on NT, but can be turned on with the switch of a registry setting. I doubt an NT project manager speced such a feature. I would assume a developer, who liked UNIX, said, "Hey, tab completion would be neat," and so he implemented it. I would wager a similar bet that the developers said to themselves, "Hey, let's make sure everything can be done via the command-line."
Remember, the developers at MS are just as nerdy as the rest of us, and like computers just as much, and would prefer a command-line over a GUI tool any day of the week...
Stop and ask yourself how many people you personally know that have had their credit card #'s stolen. I know of no one. No one in my immediate or extended family; none of my friends or coworkers. And, like good Americans, the people I know, including myself, have readily used credit cards: at restaurants, on the Net, over the phone, at brick and mortar stores...
Granted, with the Net, credit cards become a lot easier to steal. If your credit card #'s are stolen, and you can list the last five places you've charged at, that gives the credit card company a place to start their investigation. If your #'s were stolen when used at a restaurant, chances are someone at the restaurant is responsible. With the Net, finding who, exactly, stole your #'s may be a bit more difficult, if not impossible.
Regardless, though, is this that big of a problem, or is the media latched onto the next "big thing" here? Granted, no one feels comfortable when you inform them that their credit card #'s are accessible over the Web, but just because they are accessible, does that mean that people are accessing them?
Notice that the holes comes not from large, trusting sites, like Amazon.com, BN.com, eBay.com, or other powerhouse sites. These are tiny, crappy-looking sites. Have you visited some of these sites listed in the article? THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE! They seem to be part of that "Get an eCommerce store for only $30 a month!" kind of thing.
When shopping on the Internet, use common sense, just like you would use when shopping in the non-virtual world. Imagine walking into a sleazy-looking store, an unkempt, shodily arranged and managed store. Would you buy anything from here with a credit card? Just use your common sense, it's what separates us from the monkeys. :)
Finally, it is important to remember that shopping on the Net is no more dangerous than using your credit card at a department store. These sites that were vulnerable were vulnerable because they were hosted by a shoddy web host who didn't know or care about security issues. Having worked with IIS/NT/ASP/data-driven web sites using Microsoft products/technologies, I would wager the problem was from a number of things:
OK, enough ranting... In closing, let me say that I hope the media doesn't go crazy on issues like this. Yes, these crappy eCommerce sites are unsafe to shop at, but that doesn't mean you can feel confident shopping at Buy.com.
Netscape in a Windows environment is easier to use, although I still prefer IE. I know I would boot into Linux much more often if it had a reasonable browser. (end rant)
Example, I was hosting on a terrible web host with a 2 GB monthly transfer limit, and had 8 times that traffic throughput, but was never charged a dime.
http://members.xoom.com/icbias s/movies/cosby_show.rm (A tribute to the Cosby show, when the went off the air)
http://www.icbiass.com/sounds/2f32/cos by.mp3 (Hey kids! Meet Grandpa Murphy!!)
Per your request for a sound clip: http://www.icbiass.com/sounds/9f10/homer_flintston e.ra Or, if you'd like to hear an even funnier one: :)
http://www.icbiass.com/soun ds/2f31/how_do_you_sleep.mp3