If this same incident happened to Gmail, the story wouldn't just be a tech news article, it would be headline mainstream news.
I think that google takes it all much more seriously that "hotmail". Microsoft just wants to have a player in every game. Google wants to win the championship ring. Google's revenue comes from serving ads on every gmail viewers page. Microsoft could do without ad revenue and still be a viable company. Google could not.
Although you have a point, I think it is safe to assume that if someone's house is broken into, he will report it. The same is true for most violent crimes. I agree it is a bit more problematic for White-Collar and technological crimes, since many times the victim is unaware of being attacked. Although the uncaught criminal rate may be higher than in violent crimes, I still think most are caught. And sorry, no citation.
Actually you are wrong. Less than 50% of these cases are ever cleared. Source: 2006,2007 FBI Unified Crime Report (google it)
As a matter of fact this was a popular topic around here a few years ago. It turns out, there ARE people that want access to the computers in their car, they believe they can do a better job, and that mods are a good thing. Smart phones are the big fad these days, so you read about unlocking and rooting frequently.
HP ? When was the last time they were relevant? Now they have tried to buy their way into another market, and again, noone cares. Even the printers are crap nowadays.
because having known how to since the 90's, it isn't such a big deal to type html tags, and it is what keeps a bunch of idiots pasting a bunch of idiotic links all over the damn place in the comments. And this is news for nerds, we like doing shit like that. If we wanted "normal people news" and features we wouldn't be here.
Who is this Vince you speak of and why are we blaming him instead? Vince, vint, whatever. Listen up unix beardlings because I am about to drop some real history and knowledge on you. He is some surfer guy who was too stoned on Maui Wowie to figure out we needed more than 3.4 Billion Addresses. His name is Vint Cerf, and actually is the REAL REASON why we call it "web surfing". Back in the olden days before young punks like you had global village modems, ISPs and dialup access and stuff, us oldbeards were sitting pretty on T3's, "Cerfing" the internet. Well, it wasn't long until Cerf became Surf, and that you young whippersnappers is how the fax machine was invented.
I'm pretty sure without googling that its "Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun", the 1930's song by Noel Coward. Unless I'm missing something obvious. Sorry to be a sticker.
This isn't a tiny pool or hotel, this is Vegas pool party territory, where there are thousands of people at each massive pool. The pools cost over $60m each, just to gain entrance is $50/person. It's basically a big, very loud, drunken party in the midday sun.
They missed a fantastic opportunity here, they could have used the ray to heat the pool !
If you watch and rate 5 movies/shows per day it only takes 27 years. That's if you don't commit suicide before then.
I once took a weekly history of film class. In one session we watched 3 buster keaton movies in a row, then a Jackie Chan movie that lifted several scenes right from Keaton classics. By the third Keaton feature in a row, laughs were few and far between because we were literally laughed out after a couple of hours. The Jackie Chan flick (maybe Police Story?) brought us back around, though, the fast pace, and the addition of sound/dialogue was a welcome relief.
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You, the consumer are caught in yet another standards-war. Which side will you be on?
The receiving side, getting craploads of ads shoved down my eyeholes as usual.
If this same incident happened to Gmail, the story wouldn't just be a tech news article, it would be headline mainstream news.
I think that google takes it all much more seriously that "hotmail". Microsoft just wants to have a player in every game. Google wants
to win the championship ring. Google's revenue comes from serving ads on every gmail viewers page. Microsoft could do without ad revenue
and still be a viable company. Google could not.
Although you have a point, I think it is safe to assume that if someone's house is broken into, he will report it. The same is true for most violent crimes.
I agree it is a bit more problematic for White-Collar and technological crimes, since many times the victim is unaware of being attacked. Although the uncaught criminal rate may be higher than in violent crimes, I still think most are caught. And sorry, no citation.
Actually you are wrong. Less than 50% of these cases are ever cleared.
Source: 2006,2007 FBI Unified Crime Report (google it)
sue the tenant...that is an unemployed bank robbing bomb maker. That could go wrong in so many interesting ways.
sudo vi ~/.ascensionrc
Since when does Microsoft have a capital S?
Oh my god, this is worse than a spelling or grammar nazi.
I don't even know what to call this new species of troll......
As soon as I ascend in nethack I'll get to those other titles.
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Hehe I love you, but I may be one of the few to have spent hours in the basement of Lawrence Hall of Science playing on the teletype terminals.
I call Bullshit. What "people" are you talking about? The people around here are concerned with
all proprietary and closed computers.
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As a matter of fact this was a popular topic around here a few years ago.
It turns out, there ARE people that want access to the computers in their car, they
believe they can do a better job, and that mods are a good thing. Smart phones are
the big fad these days, so you read about unlocking and rooting frequently.
Please, for the sake of my gram-gram, don't go near ChromeOS.
Shit, I just installed it in a virtual machine (Parallels has a menu item, "Download Chrome OS").
I hope your gram gram is ok!
kudos to the person who will find them all and format to ext4 file system.
awesome post, but since it is almost halloween, why not a killer file system like reiserfs?
HP ? When was the last time they were relevant? Now they have tried to buy
their way into another market, and again, noone cares. Even the printers are crap
nowadays.
We have a few in NYC that are on the border of paying us to read them they are so worthless.
an accurate assessment if ever I've seen one! start with the post and daily news.....
Lazy? Why would I want to type html ever?
because having known how to since the 90's, it isn't such a big deal to type html tags, and it is what keeps a bunch of idiots pasting
a bunch of idiotic links all over the damn place in the comments. And this is news for nerds, we like doing shit like that.
If we wanted "normal people news" and features we wouldn't be here.
I'm going to this event in San Jose to hear him speak and perhaps give me some good advice around IPv6.
http://www.gogonetlive.com/
Next year will probably be the last year I run IPv4.
We'll think about it, Vint.
Who is this Vince you speak of and why are we blaming him instead?
Vince, vint, whatever. Listen up unix beardlings because I am about to drop some real history and knowledge on you.
He is some surfer guy who was too stoned on Maui Wowie to figure out we needed more than 3.4 Billion Addresses.
His name is Vint Cerf, and actually is the REAL REASON why we call it "web surfing".
Back in the olden days before young punks like you had global village modems, ISPs and dialup access and stuff,
us oldbeards were sitting pretty on T3's, "Cerfing" the internet. Well, it wasn't long until Cerf became Surf, and
that you young whippersnappers is how the fax machine was invented.
They are just moving it to the App store, relax everyone.
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[Citation Redacted]
I'm pretty sure without googling that its "Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun", the 1930's song by Noel Coward. Unless I'm missing something obvious. Sorry to be a sticker.
Poor 3G, it was dead even before it was born.
I acknowledge your desire for good summaries, but YMBNH. Apparently you never saw the now famous post announcing apple's ipod. Lame.
This isn't a tiny pool or hotel, this is Vegas pool party territory, where there are thousands of people at each massive pool. The pools cost over $60m each, just to gain entrance is $50/person. It's basically a big, very loud, drunken party in the midday sun.
They missed a fantastic opportunity here, they could have used the ray to heat the pool !
amen! #1 reason I've never understood podcasts... Reading is sooo much faster and more convenient.
not when you are driving a vehicle during your daily commute. Everyone that I know listens to podcasts during
drive / commuting time.
Yes, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. Screw the hi fi audio nuts. Give us lossy compression, give us 0day telecine's and cam rips.
Quality be damned !
If you watch and rate 5 movies/shows per day it only takes 27 years. That's if you don't commit suicide before then.
I once took a weekly history of film class. In one session we watched 3 buster keaton movies in a row, then a Jackie Chan movie
that lifted several scenes right from Keaton classics. By the third Keaton feature in a row, laughs were few and far between because we were literally laughed out after a couple of hours. The Jackie
Chan flick (maybe Police Story?) brought us back around, though, the fast pace, and the addition of sound/dialogue was a welcome relief.