Or maybe VISA and other credit card companies get in on this. Go to a known phishing site, put in a specially assigned VISA card #, trace the merchant on VISA's end when a transaction is attempted.... then hurt them. A "poison credit card", so to speak.
What would happen if the ISP silently blocked P2P, server, VoIP, and gaming ports of their entire user base?
Gaming ports, say Xbox Live, a paid-for gaming service? Microsoft would have a huge screaming fit if Comcast did that. MSFT's legal team would be all over their asses, and rightfully so.
Oh, btw, if tiered Internet service does come into play, I fully expect all malware/virii/spyware to be completely filtered out. Since after all, I am paying for this specialized bandwidth service, and I won't pay for the priveledge of downloading malware. Good luck enforcing that.
I agree. Back 20+ years ago, when you got a personal computer, you pretty much HAD to learn programming to get so much out of it. That seems to be lost on today's PCs for a newer generation. Those kids that typed in magazine-listed programs 20+ years ago most likely are the developers of today, but what about the ones for tomorrow?
Sometimes, there are legitimate reasons for this (such as a bank moving servers and not having time to get a new cert), but they are usually very temporary, so to be safe you can just not do any banking during that period.
1. Inform the customers in advance of server move. 2. Shut down the banking website to ALL customers until that cert is up.
Why the heck was Battlebots aired on Comedy Central? The show, from what I saw of it(and its much better UK counterpart 'robot wars') there was no "comedy" in it. Mind you several years ago Comedy Central loved to air movies that weren't purely 'comedy', but comedy was more of a sidepart(like that one where a girl wants to divorce her parents, and "FM").
What is it with cable networks airing shows that have little or nothing to do with the channel's context? It seems any show, whether new or syndicated can be shoehorned into any cable network, or shifted around(or syndicated around). While it's nice to be able to catch a missed episode of the Apprentice on MSNBC, it doesn't make much sense for other networks.
...then make some sort of crude media center software for it. If it could play shoutcast streams(either local or over the net) + broadband adaptor, hey you have a new use for it.
Heck, do some hardware work, redesign the controller, have some centralized servers for games, and you would be a step ahead of the Phantom!
I hear you on syntax problems. When I am asked for a city, I put in St. Paul. NEVER have I ran into a website that accepts it. It's always SAINT PAUL or ST PAUL. C'mon, just add. "St. Paul" for me, please?
Actually, there's a story behind that. Didn't slashdot have a story on who gets to see emails sent to test@test.com, and other bogus-filled email addresses?
4. Support for more attatchment types, ie what FreeAgent is best known for, so I can grab dem binaries on newsgroups. Thunderbird emulates Outlook Express a little TOO well, right down to the incredibly limited functionality for file encoding types seen on Usenet. I can't stand to use FreeAgent for it is WAY too complicated for a freakin' newsreader.
5. Remember my dang password if the news server I'm on(comcast's forgotten news server) out of the blue to ask me for my un/pw again. If it remembers the wrong password, I'll just erase and re-type it in. but pre-fill it out for me, please? Firefox does.
6. A useable 1-click add to killfile for usenet cooks?
I have 2 surround-sound systems, 1 on each floor of the house.
How hard/much would it be to hook up my ipod/computer/whatever to a small FM transmitter, and transmit to an empty station to get it all over the house? That would be great for parties. All music from one source.
Hey Sony, instead of trying to hop on trendy bandwagons such as RSS for a video game system, allow homebrews again. No, seriously. Why would you turn it off? Why are you trying to implement RSS for a video game console, when you have much bigger fish to try? To me it just seems pointless, like trying to get your bicycle to compile C code. Sony could sell rinky-dink games that you can stuff on your duo card for 99 cents a pop, just like the cell phone companies do(just no subscriptions).
Instead no, they lock out homebrew altogether with more and more and more revisions of their firmware. The codecs on 2.0 required prevent me from playing GTA since I'm happy with 1.50 + TG16 emulator.
All rootkits aside, Sony is really botching things with the PSP, and now I'm starting to wonder what else I could have done with my $250($200 used 1.5 PSP + a ridiculous 50 for a game). Like, I dunno, buy a DS or GBA and scarfed up a bunch of cheap games and have money left over.
Now I wonder if I should even bother saving up for a PS3 with all of Sony and its subsidary's oh-so-wonderful decisions. Trying to get homebrew games(doom never worked for me) and such is starting to become not worth the hassle.
Which brings up an interesting problem: If this were available in the UK, how would the television license come into play? Would it be rolled up into the cost if you wanted to buy an episode of the UK Office? Since you don't need a tele to play it, just a computer or ipod.
Reminds me what a coworker at Blockbuster did with our fun shrinkwrap machine. He'd buy a Mortal Kombat 3 cartridge, put the Mortal Kombat 1 cart back in the package, re-shrink it and return it.
Imagine the disappointment and confusion ensuing with the next customer who buys that one.
It seems the Olympics consists of excessive commercialism(ie branding, etc), local businesses hiking prices when the olympics come to their town, and incredibly draconian actions taken in regards of broadcasts, etc.
Screw the Olympics...
Wait, someone's knocking on my door. Shit, it's the IOC secret police!
The worst aspect of AIM was the "focus stealing" aspect, also present in MSI Installer. NO program EVER should pop up a window and instantly put focus to it. Never, No. Flash it, but don't come up to the front.
Imagine you are talking dirty to your girlfriend in a long typing message, and then an unexpected IM from your grandma pops up, and it's too late, you hit enter. Your message of "....and I'm gonna lick your clit" ends up being sent to grandma.
Yeah, it's never happened to me(happened to someone on bash.org), but a good IM client wouldn't let you do that.
Let's not forget the costly subscription prices on non-multiplayer games for Sprint. That I still do not understand.
Mind you, I switched Samsung phones and I lost out on the ability to play multiplayer Bejeweled. I still to this day don't know where that game is on my acconut.
Getting yet ANOTHER A/V switchbox so you can put it along side your ps2, xbox, gamecube, etc. Yse, when there's one more console on the scene, you don't automatically get A/V in ports added to your home entertainment center, nor an extra outlet.
I've already reached capacity with mine to the point I have to route things through the VCR(2 a/v in ports) and still I have no room for my atari 2600 flashback system nor intellivison system-in-a-controller thing. SUre, I could use the a/v in ports on the tv, but I want to hear the 80s glory in sourround sonud.:)
...several years ago. This was when it was free(is it pay now?). Yahoo's "women seeking men" section consisted of 99% fake ads, which were shills for porn sites. It got to the point where it wasn't worth checking anymore.
As for the others, well, it's a toss-up. But it isn't worth paying for, IMO. Myspace is getting overwhelmed by fake porn site accounts. ie a super-attractive looking(at least from the pictures) girl messages you, and instantly wants to switch to email. Guess what, it's for a porn site, and myspace's administration doesn't do jack shit about it.
The biggest strength of ITunes is being able to clean up multiple MP3 file tags in one sweep. Highlight several MP3s, and you can set them all to the same Artist, year, Album, etc. This is quite helpful when I have numerous tunes by the same artist show up as several artists on my "artists" list. (ie bands with "and" in the title sometimes have &, and it's considered 2 different artists).
I also like the "play next in party shuffle" when you have a hankering for a certain tune.
on the downside, iTunes has created file name pollution on p2p networks with the "03 - Ronnie's song.mp3", ie mp3 files missing the artist name, but with a vague track number. I re-name them as soon as I get them.
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I would recommend Western Digital. Of all the drives I have bought of WD make, NONE of them have failed.
But of course, your mileage may vary.
Or maybe VISA and other credit card companies get in on this. Go to a known phishing site, put in a specially assigned VISA card #, trace the merchant on VISA's end when a transaction is attempted.... then hurt them. A "poison credit card", so to speak.
You know what the sad thing is? Your comment was 100 times better reading than the article referenced.
What would happen if the ISP silently blocked P2P, server, VoIP, and gaming ports of their entire user base?
Gaming ports, say Xbox Live, a paid-for gaming service? Microsoft would have a huge screaming fit if Comcast did that. MSFT's legal team would be all over their asses, and rightfully so.
Oh, btw, if tiered Internet service does come into play, I fully expect all malware/virii/spyware to be completely filtered out. Since after all, I am paying for this specialized bandwidth service, and I won't pay for the priveledge of downloading malware. Good luck enforcing that.
I agree. Back 20+ years ago, when you got a personal computer, you pretty much HAD to learn programming to get so much out of it. That seems to be lost on today's PCs for a newer generation. Those kids that typed in magazine-listed programs 20+ years ago most likely are the developers of today, but what about the ones for tomorrow?
Sometimes, there are legitimate reasons for this (such as a bank moving servers and not having time to get a new cert), but they are usually very temporary, so to be safe you can just not do any banking during that period.
1. Inform the customers in advance of server move.
2. Shut down the banking website to ALL customers until that cert is up.
No fucking around.
Why the heck was Battlebots aired on Comedy Central? The show, from what I saw of it(and its much better UK counterpart 'robot wars') there was no "comedy" in it. Mind you several years ago Comedy Central loved to air movies that weren't purely 'comedy', but comedy was more of a sidepart(like that one where a girl wants to divorce her parents, and "FM").
What is it with cable networks airing shows that have little or nothing to do with the channel's context? It seems any show, whether new or syndicated can be shoehorned into any cable network, or shifted around(or syndicated around). While it's nice to be able to catch a missed episode of the Apprentice on MSNBC, it doesn't make much sense for other networks.
I can only assume for King Kong and Aeon Flux the awards were merly cleverly disguised advertisements.
I mean, how many freakin' awards has the PS3 won already, based on hype & specs?
Oh yeah? I bet the PS4 will beat that out!
...then make some sort of crude media center software for it. If it could play shoutcast streams(either local or over the net) + broadband adaptor, hey you have a new use for it.
Heck, do some hardware work, redesign the controller, have some centralized servers for games, and you would be a step ahead of the Phantom!
I hear you on syntax problems. When I am asked for a city, I put in St. Paul. NEVER have I ran into a website that accepts it. It's always SAINT PAUL or ST PAUL. C'mon, just add. "St. Paul" for me, please?
Actually, there's a story behind that. Didn't slashdot have a story on who gets to see emails sent to test@test.com, and other bogus-filled email addresses?
Let me add..
4. Support for more attatchment types, ie what FreeAgent is best known for, so I can grab dem binaries on newsgroups. Thunderbird emulates Outlook Express a little TOO well, right down to the incredibly limited functionality for file encoding types seen on Usenet. I can't stand to use FreeAgent for it is WAY too complicated for a freakin' newsreader.
5. Remember my dang password if the news server I'm on(comcast's forgotten news server) out of the blue to ask me for my un/pw again. If it remembers the wrong password, I'll just erase and re-type it in. but pre-fill it out for me, please? Firefox does.
6. A useable 1-click add to killfile for usenet cooks?
I have 2 surround-sound systems, 1 on each floor of the house.
How hard/much would it be to hook up my ipod/computer/whatever to a small FM transmitter, and transmit to an empty station to get it all over the house? That would be great for parties. All music from one source.
Just askin...
Hey Sony, instead of trying to hop on trendy bandwagons such as RSS for a video game system, allow homebrews again. No, seriously. Why would you turn it off? Why are you trying to implement RSS for a video game console, when you have much bigger fish to try? To me it just seems pointless, like trying to get your bicycle to compile C code. Sony could sell rinky-dink games that you can stuff on your duo card for 99 cents a pop, just like the cell phone companies do(just no subscriptions).
Instead no, they lock out homebrew altogether with more and more and more revisions of their firmware. The codecs on 2.0 required prevent me from playing GTA since I'm happy with 1.50 + TG16 emulator.
All rootkits aside, Sony is really botching things with the PSP, and now I'm starting to wonder what else I could have done with my $250($200 used 1.5 PSP + a ridiculous 50 for a game). Like, I dunno, buy a DS or GBA and scarfed up a bunch of cheap games and have money left over.
Now I wonder if I should even bother saving up for a PS3 with all of Sony and its subsidary's oh-so-wonderful decisions. Trying to get homebrew games(doom never worked for me) and such is starting to become not worth the hassle.
Which brings up an interesting problem: If this were available in the UK, how would the television license come into play? Would it be rolled up into the cost if you wanted to buy an episode of the UK Office? Since you don't need a tele to play it, just a computer or ipod.
Now I can run Linux on my TI-99/4A!
Reminds me what a coworker at Blockbuster did with our fun shrinkwrap machine. He'd buy a Mortal Kombat 3 cartridge, put the Mortal Kombat 1 cart back in the package, re-shrink it and return it.
Imagine the disappointment and confusion ensuing with the next customer who buys that one.
It seems the Olympics consists of excessive commercialism(ie branding, etc), local businesses hiking prices when the olympics come to their town, and incredibly draconian actions taken in regards of broadcasts, etc.
Screw the Olympics...
Wait, someone's knocking on my door. Shit, it's the IOC secret police!
He was the first quantum writer. He, at the same time wrote and didn't write seasons 4 and 5. :)
The worst aspect of AIM was the "focus stealing" aspect, also present in MSI Installer. NO program EVER should pop up a window and instantly put focus to it. Never, No. Flash it, but don't come up to the front.
Imagine you are talking dirty to your girlfriend in a long typing message, and then an unexpected IM from your grandma pops up, and it's too late, you hit enter. Your message of "....and I'm gonna lick your clit" ends up being sent to grandma.
Yeah, it's never happened to me(happened to someone on bash.org), but a good IM client wouldn't let you do that.
Let's not forget the costly subscription prices on non-multiplayer games for Sprint. That I still do not understand.
Mind you, I switched Samsung phones and I lost out on the ability to play multiplayer Bejeweled. I still to this day don't know where that game is on my acconut.
Getting yet ANOTHER A/V switchbox so you can put it along side your ps2, xbox, gamecube, etc. Yse, when there's one more console on the scene, you don't automatically get A/V in ports added to your home entertainment center, nor an extra outlet.
:)
I've already reached capacity with mine to the point I have to route things through the VCR(2 a/v in ports) and still I have no room for my atari 2600 flashback system nor intellivison system-in-a-controller thing. SUre, I could use the a/v in ports on the tv, but I want to hear the 80s glory in sourround sonud.
...several years ago. This was when it was free(is it pay now?). Yahoo's "women seeking men" section consisted of 99% fake ads, which were shills for porn sites. It got to the point where it wasn't worth checking anymore.
As for the others, well, it's a toss-up. But it isn't worth paying for, IMO. Myspace is getting overwhelmed by fake porn site accounts. ie a super-attractive looking(at least from the pictures) girl messages you, and instantly wants to switch to email. Guess what, it's for a porn site, and myspace's administration doesn't do jack shit about it.
If you want to freak out your superiors in a casual environment, dress up one day, without announcement. They think you are/were at a job interview.
The biggest strength of ITunes is being able to clean up multiple MP3 file tags in one sweep. Highlight several MP3s, and you can set them all to the same Artist, year, Album, etc. This is quite helpful when I have numerous tunes by the same artist show up as several artists on my "artists" list. (ie bands with "and" in the title sometimes have &, and it's considered 2 different artists).
I also like the "play next in party shuffle" when you have a hankering for a certain tune.
on the downside, iTunes has created file name pollution on p2p networks with the "03 - Ronnie's song.mp3", ie mp3 files missing the artist name, but with a vague track number. I re-name them as soon as I get them.