Bluetooth impacts their network, because they can no longer sell you their 0.50$/ea photo transfer service, they can't sell you ringtones for 2.99$ each, and you could use headsets without their 20$ markup.
Answer me this: Why it's a best practice when coding to name the "Total annual cost" variable something like "totalAnnualCost" instead of "HappyZippers"?
I once had to maintain an app where the previous programmer had named an important variable boldLeonidas: The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud. - Dilios, 300
I'd forgive him that if this was controlling whether some text was bold or not, but I think it was an integer which collected a count of how many entries there were in a table.
an MD5 hash of the PIN number *is* stored on the card (making replay attacks possible, believe it or not).
if MD5 is ever cracked...
game over: anyone can get your PIN number.
Bullshit and chips. Look, there are only 10,000 possible pins, do you know how long that would take to force? Hell, a complete rainbow table is only 156k. Even if salted, do you know how long it takes to hash 10,000 4 digit numbers?
There. Just did it. Took 0.1 seconds on my 800mhz laptop.
Your information does not pass a basic sanity test.
(Plus, it's debit cards which have PINs, not credit cards)
Dreamhost repeatedly did this to me when I was hosting with them. They even modified my databases more than once. Mainly adding indexes (including ones that already existed...), but they changed the type of a column once.
That's one of the many reasons I'm not using them anymore.
"These guys have a 75% chance (based on statistical analysis of voip packet sizes) of talking about terrorism! Better bug them for real, so the next time we can listen in."
I've taking Provigil. It's an amazing and weird drug.
On the one hand, It helps endlessly with functioning while sleepy. As a chronic insomniac, I'm never THAT awake, but after two hours of sleep and a provigil, I'm awake enough to drive and take exams. It doesn't even keep you up after it wears off, something every other sleep aid or wake aid I've ever taken does. It avoids the problem of body/mind disconnect, you're AWAKE, not brain awake/body tired or body awake/brain sleepy.
On the other, it has an effect I can only describe as "positional". You can still tell that you're tired, but you only feel it in one part of your head, kinda towards the lower-right-back area. And yes, that's insane. What's weirder is that if you get a headache while on provigil, you'll feel it in that area too. It's kinda like it's turned off your brain's natural "error reporting" that tells you you're tired/headachey, but it doesn't do it for the whole brain. I also had some nasty experiences in the bathroom while on it. That's definitely a downside. (Wee, rather than being late for class because I can't wake up I'm late for class because I'm stuck in the bathroom)
I only used it for about two weeks (despite the above praise, it didn't help with my main problem), but I'd definitely use it again if I had the chance. There's enough times where I've not gotten enough sleep for one reason or another but I really have to be at work the next day that it'd be quite handy to have around.
A developer who coded the engines that nearly all PC first person shooters have run on. That's obviously not enough to accept his words without hesitation, but obviously the person knows more about high-performance 3D rendering than a random coder like myself.
Pffft. Spoken like someone with less than a terabyte of porn. OF COURSE YOU NEED SPECIALIZED APPS FOR PORN! how else are you ever going to find anything in your collection?
I do! But only because it's a gecko engine browser and it's easier than figuring out the stupid firefox profile system. If I need to confirm my site works when I'm not logged in, it's easier to load up epiphany than to kill all the cookies,check, and readd the cookies.
And screw "rose tinted glasses", I played it today. I beat half a dozen Contra levels, I played some Blaster Master and Iron Tank, I watched a movie "100 NES games in 10 minutes", I'm working on a port of Fire 'n' Ice so I spent a while romhacking and screenshotting it, I played a few levels of Lolo and Wario's Woods, and I played through the first two levels of Super Mario Bros in order to compare something against the Java remake/mod of it I'm working on translating.
It's not even "Anonymous", they're trying to scare people into thinking that's a group. It's idiots in 4chan's/b/ who are getting banned left and right.
They're trying to blame it on other sites (like they always do, but the source is 4chan's/b/.
Ignore the lies, it's 4chan, and a few boards that spun off from 4chan when their entire userbase was banned for breaking the rules (BY DOING SHIT JUST LIKE THIS).
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We're also "reversing evolution" by letting me wear glasses.
Oh, and giving me antibiotics and antihistamines.
This is civilization. That's what we do.
It's not abandonware until the goddamn copyright has expired. Does it look like 2079 to you?
No? THEN NOTHING LUCASARTS/LUCASFILM GAMES HAS EVER RELEASED IS ABANDONWARE.
Bluetooth impacts their network, because they can no longer sell you their 0.50$/ea photo transfer service, they can't sell you ringtones for 2.99$ each, and you could use headsets without their 20$ markup.
UMD games, they're going to let you rebuy them off their online store.
UMD movies, no one bought those so they can safely ignore that issue.
Answer me this: Why it's a best practice when coding to name the "Total annual cost" variable something like "totalAnnualCost" instead of "HappyZippers"?
I once had to maintain an app where the previous programmer had named an important variable boldLeonidas:
The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud. - Dilios, 300
I'd forgive him that if this was controlling whether some text was bold or not, but I think it was an integer which collected a count of how many entries there were in a table.
an MD5 hash of the PIN number *is* stored on the card (making replay attacks possible, believe it or not).
if MD5 is ever cracked...
game over: anyone can get your PIN number.
Bullshit and chips. Look, there are only 10,000 possible pins, do you know how long that would take to force? Hell, a complete rainbow table is only 156k. Even if salted, do you know how long it takes to hash 10,000 4 digit numbers?
There. Just did it. Took 0.1 seconds on my 800mhz laptop.
Your information does not pass a basic sanity test.
(Plus, it's debit cards which have PINs, not credit cards)
Hey, the whole point of this digital revolution is to fuck the deaf.
Look, physical media is going away. Your two choices are this crap or pirated rips. Do you think either of them will provide subs? Fat chance!
Dreamhost repeatedly did this to me when I was hosting with them. They even modified my databases more than once. Mainly adding indexes (including ones that already existed...), but they changed the type of a column once.
That's one of the many reasons I'm not using them anymore.
What about all the child porn distributed by udp, sir?
I did! I went from writing captcha-solving bots for my site to working for the US government weather department.
(I think the captcha bot stuff was more productive, actually. )
Since when is it the court's job to "protect their business model"?
"These guys have a 75% chance (based on statistical analysis of voip packet sizes) of talking about terrorism! Better bug them for real, so the next time we can listen in."
ugh. Well, I'm not taking it now, so naturally I'M SLEEPY!
I've taking Provigil. It's an amazing and weird drug.
On the one hand, It helps endlessly with functioning while sleepy. As a chronic insomniac, I'm never THAT awake, but after two hours of sleep and a provigil, I'm awake enough to drive and take exams. It doesn't even keep you up after it wears off, something every other sleep aid or wake aid I've ever taken does. It avoids the problem of body/mind disconnect, you're AWAKE, not brain awake/body tired or body awake/brain sleepy.
On the other, it has an effect I can only describe as "positional". You can still tell that you're tired, but you only feel it in one part of your head, kinda towards the lower-right-back area. And yes, that's insane.
What's weirder is that if you get a headache while on provigil, you'll feel it in that area too. It's kinda like it's turned off your brain's natural "error reporting" that tells you you're tired/headachey, but it doesn't do it for the whole brain.
I also had some nasty experiences in the bathroom while on it. That's definitely a downside. (Wee, rather than being late for class because I can't wake up I'm late for class because I'm stuck in the bathroom)
I only used it for about two weeks (despite the above praise, it didn't help with my main problem), but I'd definitely use it again if I had the chance. There's enough times where I've not gotten enough sleep for one reason or another but I really have to be at work the next day that it'd be quite handy to have around.
"Bricked" is currently in the processing of being remapped to just mean "broken".
A developer who coded the engines that nearly all PC first person shooters have run on. That's obviously not enough to accept his words without hesitation, but obviously the person knows more about high-performance 3D rendering than a random coder like myself.
I've got two. A brand new one (barely used) that works, and another with no shell that only works because I resoldered it.
(That battery latch was horrible. A 200$ device that dies easily because they couldn't be arsed to spend more than half a cent on a connector)
Pffft. Spoken like someone with less than a terabyte of porn.
OF COURSE YOU NEED SPECIALIZED APPS FOR PORN! how else are you ever going to find anything in your collection?
Hey, I graduated college with a final project I originally built to search porn.
Porn powers computer science.
Yahoo just made 45 million, and their shareholders get their share of that 45 million.
Tada! That's where the money goes.
This is slashdot, I'm not talking about telephones.
Who put Microsoft in a monopoly position? I don't remember Big Government being responsible for that.
And how does he feel about "big government" going after people who abuse their monopoly position?
I do!
But only because it's a gecko engine browser and it's easier than figuring out the stupid firefox profile system.
If I need to confirm my site works when I'm not logged in, it's easier to load up epiphany than to kill all the cookies,check, and readd the cookies.
No technical reasons, just the games.
And screw "rose tinted glasses", I played it today.
I beat half a dozen Contra levels, I played some Blaster Master and Iron Tank, I watched a movie "100 NES games in 10 minutes", I'm working on a port of Fire 'n' Ice so I spent a while romhacking and screenshotting it, I played a few levels of Lolo and Wario's Woods, and I played through the first two levels of Super Mario Bros in order to compare something against the Java remake/mod of it I'm working on translating.
NES FOREVER.
It's not even "Anonymous", they're trying to scare people into thinking that's a group. /b/ who are getting banned left and right.
/b/.
It's idiots in 4chan's
They're trying to blame it on other sites (like they always do, but the source is 4chan's
Ignore the lies, it's 4chan, and a few boards that spun off from 4chan when their entire userbase was banned for breaking the rules (BY DOING SHIT JUST LIKE THIS).