I don' think that will solve the problem. I would think that most of the numbers are skimmed in the real world and not stolen from cyberspace (though i may be wrong)
Usually it's a cashier at a or a restaurant or bar or some establishment with a card reader thats made in China and thats it. That kind of activity is way easier then intercepting net traffic.
I hope they do. Then the USSS will get pissed at em and raid them under Organised Crime charges. If the RIAA isn't an extortion racket, i don't know what is.
Exactly. What would be a better app would be this:
As it is, most new MP3 players nolonger require drivers to hook up to a host, as they identify themselves as 'USB Mass Storage Devices". So as long as you have a USB port, regardless of weather it's XP, MAC or Linux, all you have to go is plug it in and there you go..
So now imagine if MP3 player makers could add just a bit more firmware and made those players identify eachother. With a cheap $1 USB male -> Female adaptor, you could connect 2 players togather and transfer almost anything between eachother.
I can almost imagine the RIAA shitting themselves if this happends...
They are marketing to teens...
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What on earth are they thinking? Somebody needs to go back to product design school.
Look at how the thing is built. Spec wise it's a solid product, but the way they have made it makes it look as if it was targeted towards 10 year olds and tweens.
If you are a self respecting 16 year old and if you had the option, would you get one of these or an iMac? Part of the whole point of selling high tech toys to teens is that teens who own them want to feel older, more pro, more.. well script kiddie 1337.
You make a product that takes that away and instead says to them "You will be looked upon as a kid who only does innocent things" and expect it to sell?
Big Deal... So kids who'se parents won't buy it for them are just going to get a copy of some warez site or copy it from a friend and apply a no-CD crack.
This entire debaticle is mearly an evercise in curbing game indistry profits and giving the dim wits behind the project a false sense of accomplishment.
"Disclaimer
This is not the official site of Congessman Chris Van Hollen, just in case you can't tell. His official site can be found at: www.house.gov/vanhollen. "
Aside from the domain name, i think he's done a pretty good job of saying that Van Hollen doesn't have anything to do with the site itself.
Barton acknowledged that experts had recently found more than 60 varieties of spyware installed on the panel's own computers. He said all the spyware programs had been installed without the permission of computer users.
The committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, called the proposal approved Tuesday "a bill whose time has come."
"People are increasingly finding their home pages have been changed or their computers are sluggish," she said. "Their computers are no longer their own, and they can't figure out why."
Just goes to show that if the low life spammers annoy the correct people enough (i.e congress), they will sunndely find themselves being 'The winner of this hours lucky draw of a free trip to' prison.
Actualy, what he said is still true. If it wasn't for Paul Allen and his funding of Scaled Composites, SpaceShip One would very likely have never won the prise.
Of course, it's not to say that funding was the only factor, but it was a critical componant.
How cost effective is sending movies this way? I'm pretty sure that compared to the cost of designing, building, launching then maintaining a satellite + gound station + all the specialized gear needed at each screen to do this, it might be cheaper to just UPS a high capacity HDD for each movie.
Although progress is being made against spam and viruses, Gates said the adware and malware problem is getting worse.
"This malware thing is so bad," he said in a speech at the Computer History Museum here. "Now that's the one that has us really needing to jump in."
It's also a problem that has affected Gates personally. He said his home PCs have had malware, although he has personally never been affected by a virus.
"I have had malware, (adware), that crap" on some home machines, he said.
Maybe somebody ought to introduce him to Mozilla. I can say for certain that 99.99% of all Ad and MalWare infections are because of IE and ActiveX. I've not seen a pop up of a piece of crap ware for more then a year now, ever since I started using Mozilla.
Microsoft doesn't need to make anti adware products. All they need to do is either replace IE or make IE as secure as Mozilla, then keep updating it and the problem will go away. An Adware program will only add to the bloat.
Dispite my dislike for the Mac OS, I must say that the Mac itself has quite a following and i seriously doubt it will taper off into oblivion in 10 years.
Unless Steve Jobs dies sometime in the next 10 years and his sucessor is a total idiot.
I was in a meeting with clients the other day. The company was looking to create publicity for their new product and I was there to look into an ad project.
Anyway, in the briefing for the product, I found out that the name they had given to the product was very generic, stright out of the english dictionary (for sake of the story, lets call the product "Apple").
So I asked the marketing guy and one of the directors who was there why they had chosen "Apple" when if soembody were to google Apple, they would get 1001 links about the computer company, then about the fruit, before people would get to their company.
The answer? They said they paid a company who promised that for their fee, they could get the company's page on their product called "Apple" within the top 4 search results on EVERY search engine. (Fat chance)
My point is, optimizing is an evil business every step of the way. If you ask me, it's downright fraud.
Microsoft is kidding itself. Microsoft would like the world to think that their product is like the HARDWARE you buy for your PC. According to them, It's not software, you can't copy it, just like how you can't copy a computers processor. They actualy said this in a news report I read in a local newspaper. (kinda stupid that the OS would cost more then a processor if you ask me)
So Microsoft would like to charge Hardware prices for their software. Now, here in Malaysia, original software titles (aside form tools like Photoshop, but not everybody buys photoshop) generally cost about rm 80* - rm 175* (stuff like Norton AV, game titles, software the aberage joe would buy). But Microsoft would charge rm 350 for Windows if it's OEM with a new system or over rm1K in a box.
Now think about it. In this country a new Processor i.e an AthlonXP 2200+, is rm 180 and in everybody's mine the processor is like the most important thing in a PC. If you try to sell windows at double that, and considet the Pirated windows is avalable for rm 5 on a street corner, would you consider it a good deal?
Heck entire new systems can be had for less then what MS wants for a boxed version of windows. But if Windows cost less then my processor, maybe sell at rm 60, i would consider it a fair deal, since i woun't have to do research to get updates, just turn off my brain and click.
"The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
It proves nothing. There are many companies where an anal management prevents the IT department from doing it's job right. From HR issues to half baked policies.
Around the early 90's, Malaysia had about 3 radio stations that broadcasted in English. The more predominate one was the government owned Radio 4. It is an unformatted station and the DJs basically had the freedom to do whatever they wanted, as long as they were within the tolerances of censorship law.
Radio 4's morning show (morning till about noon) was hosted by a DJ named Patrick Teoh, whose morning show usually consisted of a talk show where he would highlight social issues and current events. He brought up issues like the horrible traffic situation, dirty public toilets and as much as he could, criticism of the follies of those in power.
So, about a week before April Fools day, Patrick was called upon by a friend of his, a Creative Director at an advertising agency. The agency wanted to do a little stunt for April Fools day and a plan was hatched.
Rather a duck was hatched. It was agreed that on April Fools day, Patrick would start his show as normal, and as the topic of the day, he would highlight the (fictional) case of an advertising agency abusing ducks. The Story was that an advertising agency, in making an advertisement featuring dancing ducks, got the ducks to dance by placing them on hot plates and filming them as their feet were burned and jumped.
As expected, the radio station's switch board lit up like a Christmas tree, with callers angrily criticising the Ad agency for their cruelty towards animals and along the way, angry words were said, along with demands for more details and the identity of the company.
As was the plan, about halfway through the show, a (fictional) lady secretary form the Ad Agency was to call the station and she was to tell a (again fictional) sob story about how she felt so guilty that her company was doing this and how the Creative Director for whom she worked was a really cruel man and he was keeping teh ducks in a back room at the office. Along the way she let it slip that the Creative Director was a foreigner.
After the call, again came a new torrent of callers. This time, instead about being about the ducks, the nature of the called suddenly turned nationalistic, with things like "How dare these foreigners come to our country and do this to our ducks?" being said and people were demanding that the Creative Director be sacked and booted out of the country.
Next on the script was a call from a fictional animal rights group, it called itself GNAP, which if you said out loud sounds exactly like the word for 'duck' in a local dialect, the first clue that the whole thing was an April Fools joke. So the group voiced its objections and vowed action. (Satire on the many real life NGO's who are mainly talk and little action)
A few more calls later was the finale, where the Managing Director of the Ad Agency was to call. In his call he would make a public apology on the company's behalf, explaining that the Creative Director acted on his own and the end of the call was a dramatic firing of the Creative Director, with "... wherever you are, if you are hearing this, consider this yourself fired and come over and pack up your things"
Now, even though the Ad Agency was real, the Creative Director was indeed the person named, the story about the ducks, the secretary's admission, the animal rights group and the dramatic closing were pure fiction. It was to be announced later that the who thing was just a April Fools prank.
Now, what wasn't expected that while all this was going on, the real life SPCA was listening in and alarm bells went off. In the heat of the moment, without proper investigation, a police report was lodged against the Ad Agency for cruelty to the ducks. Just after the drama ended on radio, a team of policemen along with the SPCA raided the premises of the Ad Agency.
It was of course explained to the raiding party that the whole thing was a joke, but with all the outrage, the secretary's emotional admission and the dramatic firing of the Creati
The new Firefox v1.0PR has a green arrow under the minimise button that does it. Also, it pops up a message once in a while telling you about new updates.
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I don' think that will solve the problem. I would think that most of the numbers are skimmed in the real world and not stolen from cyberspace (though i may be wrong)
Usually it's a cashier at a or a restaurant or bar or some establishment with a card reader thats made in China and thats it. That kind of activity is way easier then intercepting net traffic.
I hope they do. Then the USSS will get pissed at em and raid them under Organised Crime charges. If the RIAA isn't an extortion racket, i don't know what is.
You mean Daft MacBride....
Exactly. What would be a better app would be this:
As it is, most new MP3 players nolonger require drivers to hook up to a host, as they identify themselves as 'USB Mass Storage Devices". So as long as you have a USB port, regardless of weather it's XP, MAC or Linux, all you have to go is plug it in and there you go..
So now imagine if MP3 player makers could add just a bit more firmware and made those players identify eachother. With a cheap $1 USB male -> Female adaptor, you could connect 2 players togather and transfer almost anything between eachother.
I can almost imagine the RIAA shitting themselves if this happends...
Eactly...
It's like getting underwear for Christmas.
What on earth are they thinking? Somebody needs to go back to product design school.
Look at how the thing is built. Spec wise it's a solid product, but the way they have made it makes it look as if it was targeted towards 10 year olds and tweens.
If you are a self respecting 16 year old and if you had the option, would you get one of these or an iMac? Part of the whole point of selling high tech toys to teens is that teens who own them want to feel older, more pro, more.. well script kiddie 1337.
You make a product that takes that away and instead says to them "You will be looked upon as a kid who only does innocent things" and expect it to sell?
Big Deal... So kids who'se parents won't buy it for them are just going to get a copy of some warez site or copy it from a friend and apply a no-CD crack.
This entire debaticle is mearly an evercise in curbing game indistry profits and giving the dim wits behind the project a false sense of accomplishment.
And in the side panel you will find:
Aside from the domain name, i think he's done a pretty good job of saying that Van Hollen doesn't have anything to do with the site itself.
Add to that, all Google disabled was Right Click. Ctrl + C still works, and so does selecting copy from the edit menu bar.
Yea.. you feel tired but unable to sleep..
Remember, Alcohol is a sedative, while caffeine is a stimulant. Mixing the 2 isn't really a good idea.
Actualy, what he said is still true. If it wasn't for Paul Allen and his funding of Scaled Composites, SpaceShip One would very likely have never won the prise.
Of course, it's not to say that funding was the only factor, but it was a critical componant.
Naw... with the correct set of gears and a light, aerodynamic bike, anybody can go 35kph on flat road.
However, if you could sustain that going uphill over long distance, then thats quite a feat.
How cost effective is sending movies this way? I'm pretty sure that compared to the cost of designing, building, launching then maintaining a satellite + gound station + all the specialized gear needed at each screen to do this, it might be cheaper to just UPS a high capacity HDD for each movie.
Maybe somebody ought to introduce him to Mozilla. I can say for certain that 99.99% of all Ad and MalWare infections are because of IE and ActiveX. I've not seen a pop up of a piece of crap ware for more then a year now, ever since I started using Mozilla.
Microsoft doesn't need to make anti adware products. All they need to do is either replace IE or make IE as secure as Mozilla, then keep updating it and the problem will go away. An Adware program will only add to the bloat.
Dispite my dislike for the Mac OS, I must say that the Mac itself has quite a following and i seriously doubt it will taper off into oblivion in 10 years.
Unless Steve Jobs dies sometime in the next 10 years and his sucessor is a total idiot.
... soon to become Dogbert's Ultimate House...
And does Bob and his brood still live under the couch?
My account is from 1997, and it's still at 2mb. Maybe they are shifting based on server or disc array or something.
I was in a meeting with clients the other day. The company was looking to create publicity for their new product and I was there to look into an ad project.
Anyway, in the briefing for the product, I found out that the name they had given to the product was very generic, stright out of the english dictionary (for sake of the story, lets call the product "Apple").
So I asked the marketing guy and one of the directors who was there why they had chosen "Apple" when if soembody were to google Apple, they would get 1001 links about the computer company, then about the fruit, before people would get to their company.
The answer? They said they paid a company who promised that for their fee, they could get the company's page on their product called "Apple" within the top 4 search results on EVERY search engine. (Fat chance)
My point is, optimizing is an evil business every step of the way. If you ask me, it's downright fraud.
Microsoft is kidding itself. Microsoft would like the world to think that their product is like the HARDWARE you buy for your PC. According to them, It's not software, you can't copy it, just like how you can't copy a computers processor. They actualy said this in a news report I read in a local newspaper. (kinda stupid that the OS would cost more then a processor if you ask me)
So Microsoft would like to charge Hardware prices for their software. Now, here in Malaysia, original software titles (aside form tools like Photoshop, but not everybody buys photoshop) generally cost about rm 80* - rm 175* (stuff like Norton AV, game titles, software the aberage joe would buy). But Microsoft would charge rm 350 for Windows if it's OEM with a new system or over rm1K in a box.
Now think about it. In this country a new Processor i.e an AthlonXP 2200+, is rm 180 and in everybody's mine the processor is like the most important thing in a PC. If you try to sell windows at double that, and considet the Pirated windows is avalable for rm 5 on a street corner, would you consider it a good deal?
Heck entire new systems can be had for less then what MS wants for a boxed version of windows. But if Windows cost less then my processor, maybe sell at rm 60, i would consider it a fair deal, since i woun't have to do research to get updates, just turn off my brain and click.
It proves nothing. There are many companies where an anal management prevents the IT department from doing it's job right. From HR issues to half baked policies.
Why a lawsuit? It was the company's idea in the 1st place.
A true story about the power of Radio
Around the early 90's, Malaysia had about 3 radio stations that broadcasted in English. The more predominate one was the government owned Radio 4. It is an unformatted station and the DJs basically had the freedom to do whatever they wanted, as long as they were within the tolerances of censorship law.
Radio 4's morning show (morning till about noon) was hosted by a DJ named Patrick Teoh, whose morning show usually consisted of a talk show where he would highlight social issues and current events. He brought up issues like the horrible traffic situation, dirty public toilets and as much as he could, criticism of the follies of those in power.
So, about a week before April Fools day, Patrick was called upon by a friend of his, a Creative Director at an advertising agency. The agency wanted to do a little stunt for April Fools day and a plan was hatched.
Rather a duck was hatched. It was agreed that on April Fools day, Patrick would start his show as normal, and as the topic of the day, he would highlight the (fictional) case of an advertising agency abusing ducks. The Story was that an advertising agency, in making an advertisement featuring dancing ducks, got the ducks to dance by placing them on hot plates and filming them as their feet were burned and jumped.
As expected, the radio station's switch board lit up like a Christmas tree, with callers angrily criticising the Ad agency for their cruelty towards animals and along the way, angry words were said, along with demands for more details and the identity of the company.
As was the plan, about halfway through the show, a (fictional) lady secretary form the Ad Agency was to call the station and she was to tell a (again fictional) sob story about how she felt so guilty that her company was doing this and how the Creative Director for whom she worked was a really cruel man and he was keeping teh ducks in a back room at the office. Along the way she let it slip that the Creative Director was a foreigner.
After the call, again came a new torrent of callers. This time, instead about being about the ducks, the nature of the called suddenly turned nationalistic, with things like "How dare these foreigners come to our country and do this to our ducks?" being said and people were demanding that the Creative Director be sacked and booted out of the country.
Next on the script was a call from a fictional animal rights group, it called itself GNAP, which if you said out loud sounds exactly like the word for 'duck' in a local dialect, the first clue that the whole thing was an April Fools joke. So the group voiced its objections and vowed action. (Satire on the many real life NGO's who are mainly talk and little action)
A few more calls later was the finale, where the Managing Director of the Ad Agency was to call. In his call he would make a public apology on the company's behalf, explaining that the Creative Director acted on his own and the end of the call was a dramatic firing of the Creative Director, with "... wherever you are, if you are hearing this, consider this yourself fired and come over and pack up your things"
Now, even though the Ad Agency was real, the Creative Director was indeed the person named, the story about the ducks, the secretary's admission, the animal rights group and the dramatic closing were pure fiction. It was to be announced later that the who thing was just a April Fools prank.
Now, what wasn't expected that while all this was going on, the real life SPCA was listening in and alarm bells went off. In the heat of the moment, without proper investigation, a police report was lodged against the Ad Agency for cruelty to the ducks. Just after the drama ended on radio, a team of policemen along with the SPCA raided the premises of the Ad Agency.
It was of course explained to the raiding party that the whole thing was a joke, but with all the outrage, the secretary's emotional admission and the dramatic firing of the Creati
It DOES have auto Update.
The new Firefox v1.0PR has a green arrow under the minimise button that does it. Also, it pops up a message once in a while telling you about new updates.