Seriously? How come I specifically remember cleaning viruses at school that somehow people had infected their computers with, then brought a disk to school with some game (Tank Wars, anyone?) that also harbored the virus?
How come I remember sweating over whatever virus I had gotten from some legitimate shareware program?
I haven't had a virus since about 10 years ago, actually!
Webmail from work is still considered 'email' and they're probably within their rights to monitor/access your webmail. Of course it shouldn't be that way, but companies also shouldn't threaten to fire someone because their work email ends up the victim of a spam email campaign involving beastiality.
The tech department thought it was amusing though and took care of it, but damn did my manager give me some strange looks after that.
Considering these malicious programs aren't following any kind of 'standard' to reduce bandwidth utilization when checking over entire subnets of IPs that have been checked by 100000x other copies of the virus, it doesn't suprise me one bit.
It would be like setting up a massive feedback loop on a mail server. When user X gets message X, he passes message X to user Y, who upon receiving message X sends it back to user X.
How long before applications start figuring that they should have an entire core dedicated to them?
Windows, for example. What if the next version of Windows requires a dual-core processor to be usable? You know..Windows gets one core to idle at 80% of its capacity..and spills over into the other core when loading a text file.
If things stayed the way they were now, and the entire other core could be kept separate from the OS and used for gaming/other applications, it would be a great idea.
The newest BIOS revision for the K7MCD board increases the temperature by 15-30F for no reason. It doesn't really do anything more than the last release of the BIOS, either.
Week 1: Operations launch. Works getting done. Going well.
Week 2: Work is better.
Week 3: Pirates came in and confiscated all our computers and electronic equipment. Called the coast guard. I think I heard them laughing in the background.
Week 4: We've drifted into China due to a complete lag of navigation or ship control systems. I, for one, welcome our new communist overlords.
Now we can expect to see a proprietary version of Flash with some important word tagged onto the end (like professional, unleashed, power, etc) that's a total breakage of Flash, that you have to pay $600 to be able to develop for with their new software. The new software would be bloated, slow, take three hours to render a flash movie from raw frames, etc.
Its not good for the consumer, but then again..is the consumer really what the government is worried about anymore?
I bet the pornography industry was interested in what people used to look at back in olden times. Hell, the pornography industry spurred the development of a lot of other useful technologies too!
Where I am in east TN, it used to be just Comcast offering cable and cable internet services. As a result, their internet service was like $70/mo, and their cable TV was way overpriced.
Since several more cable providers have moved into the area, they all have roughly the same price, which is around $30-40 for internet service.
Now what could POSSIBLY warrant a $30/month drop in price for Comcast? Competition, maybe?
What do you think would happen if gas had a competitor? What if electric cars rivaled gas-powered cars for efficiency/ease-of-use? You're damn right gas prices wouldn't be so high. As of now, gas companies can make any excuse they want to jack prices. "Well, this week I have to pay for my new yacht, so I'm going to jack the prices $.04 a gallon. And everyone else will too, because they'll feel that they aren't getting as good a profit. There'll be the ones that only jack theirs $.03 a gallon, but we have enough loyal customers to ensure that I can buy 3 more yachts by tommorow."
Yeah, I posted a review about Bellsouth's DSL service and a week later they let me know I was fired for talking bad about them.
Even though 90% of the review was good, I just mentioned that I didn't like the CS rep. Never did I say I worked for them.
There should be some kind of standardization as to why IP ranges are blacklisted.
Not like, "They said they were neo-Nazi's and we've chosen to ban their entire ISP for not removing their page, because we're offended by Nazi's." which could very well happen now.
But more like, "We've received over 500 unique spam complaints about IPs in this range. Company hasn't responded in 5 business days. IP range is now blacklisted until they do something about it and contact us."
Of course, the larger the ISP, the more attempts to contact them could be made. Like maybe two weeks for a large ISP and a week for a smaller or ISP that's in some backwater country.
In other news, these devices are being utilized in the brand new series of gas pumps designed to pump gas throughout the next century.
"We're very excited about this new technology." says an anonymous CEO of a Fortune 500 oil company.
"No longer can the customer get a free $.009 with every purchase. They'll now be billed down to the exact molecule. Its a tough measure, but those freeloaders were really putting a strain on our budgets."
There's a thin line between being confident and being an asshole.
For example, why would you want to try to be a decent boyfriend when you KNOW that there are 10 other girls within walking distance that would love to have you even if you don't ever call and smack them around for fun?
Yes, there is an optimum level.
You have to be as much of an asshole as you can possibly be and still turn around later and say that you were just joking.
Yeah, that's what I see. I see there are two types of guys in a lot of women's eyes. The kind you fuck and the kind you go crying to when you can't get to a guy you fuck. The later type is also the one you put in charge of fixing your car, raising your kids, and providing general emotional support.
I actually tested this theory one day.
I dressed like a whigger (backwards baseball cap and all) and started talking to your typical overdone-tan chick at the mall and after an hour she was wanting me to come and hang out with her.
Then I was like, "No, I'm actually a nerd. I just wanted to prove something. Sorry."
Its true. Go to any mall and you'll see a not-so-attractive man walking around with a beautiful, well-endowed lady in tow while he's making fun of her to his friends, or is putting her down. He never calls, he never does the dishes, he never puts the seat down, and most of all, he's getting some.
They can sell said game in Japan, make a lot of money. Then depending on how said game does, can chose whether or not to translate and ship it to the US.
If they decide to send it to the US, then you already owning a copy will cost them money. Never mind that you'd probably buy the US version too.
Same thing with regioned DVDs almost. You can go to like China and buy a legit DVD of a new release for like $5 USD. Of course here they're $20-30. About surprised they don't do this BY STATE.
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"Ten years ago, viruses on PCs were uncommon."
Seriously? How come I specifically remember cleaning viruses at school that somehow people had infected their computers with, then brought a disk to school with some game (Tank Wars, anyone?) that also harbored the virus?
How come I remember sweating over whatever virus I had gotten from some legitimate shareware program?
I haven't had a virus since about 10 years ago, actually!
Just when you thought it was safe to leave your buffer uncapped.
Webmail from work is still considered 'email' and they're probably within their rights to monitor/access your webmail. Of course it shouldn't be that way, but companies also shouldn't threaten to fire someone because their work email ends up the victim of a spam email campaign involving beastiality.
The tech department thought it was amusing though and took care of it, but damn did my manager give me some strange looks after that.
Considering these malicious programs aren't following any kind of 'standard' to reduce bandwidth utilization when checking over entire subnets of IPs that have been checked by 100000x other copies of the virus, it doesn't suprise me one bit.
It would be like setting up a massive feedback loop on a mail server. When user X gets message X, he passes message X to user Y, who upon receiving message X sends it back to user X.
Actually, the price of RAM will probably go up after this so said companies can afford to pay off their fines without reaching into their own pockets.
When a telephone company gets fined, where does the money come from? Increased prices/fees.
When an energy company gets fined, where does the money come from? Increased prices/fees.
When a car maker gets fined, where does the money come from? Increased prices/fees.
Why do you think this will be any different? They're just going to do it again, and not get caught.
How long before applications start figuring that they should have an entire core dedicated to them?
Windows, for example. What if the next version of Windows requires a dual-core processor to be usable? You know..Windows gets one core to idle at 80% of its capacity..and spills over into the other core when loading a text file.
If things stayed the way they were now, and the entire other core could be kept separate from the OS and used for gaming/other applications, it would be a great idea.
But guess what.
I wish compotent people worked on BIOS revisions.
The newest BIOS revision for the K7MCD board increases the temperature by 15-30F for no reason. It doesn't really do anything more than the last release of the BIOS, either.
Here's what I'd like to see.
Week 1: Operations launch. Works getting done. Going well.
Week 2: Work is better.
Week 3: Pirates came in and confiscated all our computers and electronic equipment. Called the coast guard. I think I heard them laughing in the background.
Week 4: We've drifted into China due to a complete lag of navigation or ship control systems. I, for one, welcome our new communist overlords.
Now we can expect to see a proprietary version of Flash with some important word tagged onto the end (like professional, unleashed, power, etc) that's a total breakage of Flash, that you have to pay $600 to be able to develop for with their new software. The new software would be bloated, slow, take three hours to render a flash movie from raw frames, etc. Its not good for the consumer, but then again..is the consumer really what the government is worried about anymore?
I bet the pornography industry was interested in what people used to look at back in olden times. Hell, the pornography industry spurred the development of a lot of other useful technologies too!
"Paramount has declared that they will not be accepting *any amount of money* from fans to continue to produce Star Trek Enterprise."
This should tell you something important.
Mapping the mind is easy. Just find neuron #1.
Where I am in east TN, it used to be just Comcast offering cable and cable internet services. As a result, their internet service was like $70/mo, and their cable TV was way overpriced.
Since several more cable providers have moved into the area, they all have roughly the same price, which is around $30-40 for internet service.
Now what could POSSIBLY warrant a $30/month drop in price for Comcast? Competition, maybe?
What do you think would happen if gas had a competitor? What if electric cars rivaled gas-powered cars for efficiency/ease-of-use? You're damn right gas prices wouldn't be so high. As of now, gas companies can make any excuse they want to jack prices. "Well, this week I have to pay for my new yacht, so I'm going to jack the prices $.04 a gallon. And everyone else will too, because they'll feel that they aren't getting as good a profit. There'll be the ones that only jack theirs $.03 a gallon, but we have enough loyal customers to ensure that I can buy 3 more yachts by tommorow."
Yeah, I posted a review about Bellsouth's DSL service and a week later they let me know I was fired for talking bad about them. Even though 90% of the review was good, I just mentioned that I didn't like the CS rep. Never did I say I worked for them.
There should be some kind of standardization as to why IP ranges are blacklisted.
Not like, "They said they were neo-Nazi's and we've chosen to ban their entire ISP for not removing their page, because we're offended by Nazi's." which could very well happen now.
But more like, "We've received over 500 unique spam complaints about IPs in this range. Company hasn't responded in 5 business days. IP range is now blacklisted until they do something about it and contact us."
Of course, the larger the ISP, the more attempts to contact them could be made. Like maybe two weeks for a large ISP and a week for a smaller or ISP that's in some backwater country.
In other news, these devices are being utilized in the brand new series of gas pumps designed to pump gas throughout the next century.
"We're very excited about this new technology." says an anonymous CEO of a Fortune 500 oil company.
"No longer can the customer get a free $.009 with every purchase. They'll now be billed down to the exact molecule. Its a tough measure, but those freeloaders were really putting a strain on our budgets."
When I saw the headline I automatically thought of a certain octopus boss from a Megaman game.
This is the extent of my programming skills
10 goto Hell
20 goto 10
There's a thin line between being confident and being an asshole.
For example, why would you want to try to be a decent boyfriend when you KNOW that there are 10 other girls within walking distance that would love to have you even if you don't ever call and smack them around for fun?
Yes, there is an optimum level. You have to be as much of an asshole as you can possibly be and still turn around later and say that you were just joking.
Yeah, that's what I see. I see there are two types of guys in a lot of women's eyes. The kind you fuck and the kind you go crying to when you can't get to a guy you fuck. The later type is also the one you put in charge of fixing your car, raising your kids, and providing general emotional support.
I actually tested this theory one day. I dressed like a whigger (backwards baseball cap and all) and started talking to your typical overdone-tan chick at the mall and after an hour she was wanting me to come and hang out with her. Then I was like, "No, I'm actually a nerd. I just wanted to prove something. Sorry."
14. Why Being An Asshole Gets You Chicks
Its true. Go to any mall and you'll see a not-so-attractive man walking around with a beautiful, well-endowed lady in tow while he's making fun of her to his friends, or is putting her down. He never calls, he never does the dishes, he never puts the seat down, and most of all, he's getting some.
Easy.
They can sell said game in Japan, make a lot of money. Then depending on how said game does, can chose whether or not to translate and ship it to the US.
If they decide to send it to the US, then you already owning a copy will cost them money. Never mind that you'd probably buy the US version too.
Same thing with regioned DVDs almost. You can go to like China and buy a legit DVD of a new release for like $5 USD. Of course here they're $20-30. About surprised they don't do this BY STATE.
Lets not forget about the OS-crippling bugs and security holes big enough to drive a DVD-full of arbitary code through.