If there are to be protections in place by the US government for VOIP, there will be taxes. Huge taxes, like $5 a call, due to lobbying from the phone companies.
Even more if its overseas, or out of your immediate area!
Now instead of buying a higher quality but slightly more expensive board (like an nForce type or its Intel-compatable cousin, whatever that is) you can buy a cheap-ass ECS board with gimpy AMD support for the same price!
This wouldn't even be good for reviews, like someone else posted about earlier. Think about what the AMD must now go through besides just an ordinary socket. Hell, even if you made the ordinary 6 inches tall it would probably be faster than this solution!
It does in fact fall under espionage laws. The government shouldn't have to waste the money to train all their employees in resisting torture, nor should they all be forced to learn how to avoid spyware.
You as an IT manager could lock down their PCs enough to where spyware couldn't get in. Your job probably has a big slice of 'information security' thrown in there.
Of course, I think even attempted espionage, or conspiracy to commit is illegal. So you could just log all attempts and send it to the higher ups.
Yeah, hacking the carts to remove the expiration date is a good way to get some lawsuits sent at you. After all, they have a big legal department and have a lot of extra money for a legal fund.
What if you saw a pack of razors at the store for like, $1 for a decent quality brand? You'd probably buy them if you're the shaving type. Now lets say that these are made from some revolutionary material that biodegrades in three days. The expiration date on the package is set for three days after sale. You buy the razors and think you're getting a good deal. Three days later, the razors are a puddle of nondescript goo in the package you bought them in.
You do some research and find a way to 'deactivate' the degrading mechanism.
You've just destroyed this company's business model. Their 'good idea' is now a disaster that it might take them months to change. Of course its a stupid idea for the company, but they're more worried about those who oppose them (you) than making good ideas.
You guys should feel lucky. I've got 1500/256. It costs me $50 a month.
Someone asked why you'd want to pay for 1500/256. You know, I can't afford to have a T3 come into my house. Tht's why I pay for my pathetic broadband that Bellsouth pretty much has a monopoly on around here./near Knoxville, TN
I have to hand it to them, they are doing a good job. But they need to stop letting people sell so much gold.
Then again, its probably fed by them. My guess is in Diablo 2, they made a bunch of 'must have' runewords full of ultra-rare runes, sold the runes to some websites, and the websites sold them to the general public.
Result? You get your ass kicked in PvP. Not kicked, but totally blown away. Because everyone else has the top of the line best runeworded etheral equipment, thanks to the selling.
The point isn't that someone that paid his way through the game without having to farm any money or items at all is now level 60.
The point is the economy will go bad from it. What happens when a good third of the players that are under level 60 have a damn near infinite pool of money they can buy?
Everything they need is going to be bought from the AH at whatever price they can find it. People see they can get more for junk, and prices go up.
Pretty soon its 25 gold for a level 40 weapon, whereas now its 3-10 for an 'uncommon' one.
The same thing happened in Diablo 2. You could buy stacks of an often-duped ring (The Stone of Jordan, or SoJ) for cheap online. Same with the other items. You could buy whatever you wanted out of game and have it delivered to your in game character.
The economy took a nose dive. Suddenly, no one wanted ANYTHING for trade unless it was the absolute best. You couldn't get a goddamn Bonesnap for anything less than a Stormshield. And the path is going there with the other games, too.
I played FFXI before this. It was just starting to get bad there. The prices would consistantly go up, from say 1500z for a stack of crystals, to 2500z, to 3000z all within a month. It went from affordable, to downright lame for a price.
The people that want to have fun and don't want to have to go buy their money from eBay get screwed. Big time. When they can no longer buy ANYTHING of value.
So what happens when your due diligence isn't enough? What if someone that works at a gas station or a hotel grabs your debit card number and does the Fandango with it?
I guaren-fucking-tee you that someone that has replied to these comments would say, "You deserve it!" and list some explanation why we should take hours a day to protect our bank accounts.
If someone decides to transfer all my funds to a foreign country, that should be a big red flag. Or anytime a large amount is going to be transferred to another account. They should have to get verification from the account holder before high dollar amounts are able to go through.
These people I used to work with both had their CCs stolen by an employee that quit on that day. They had hundreds of dollars racked up by day two, on each card. They went to the police, prosecuted, and their banks didn't hold them accountable for the purchases.
Know how the woman got their CCs? They left their purses on their own desks when they went to the bathroom or went on break. According to some people, they deserved it.
Probably a dupe, but its 'good news' so I don't mind hearing it twice. I mean, if this were TV, we'd hear it every fifteen minutes from every news channel.
Companies aren't going to change their ways when it comes to programming unless they're forced to. I mean, why make people work 8 hour shifts when you can make them work 12? Or 16? Sometimes without adequate compensation?
Logistical offices that do things like accounting, customer service, tech support, call centers, etc are the ones that want someone that will put in an honest days work, be friendly, professional, etc. They'll probably rarely expect you to work long hours, and probably not expect any kind of creativity from you.
Programming jobs, however, are by their very nature, rushed. The company wants the product out the door as fast as it can, so it can start harvesting the rewards. The problem is, they don't want an honest day's work. They want you to work a month at 12 hour days and then either forget about you, or start the 'honest days work' thing while looking for a way to fire you for the next set of gung-ho youngsters willing to forego their lives for 'experience' and 'adequate compensation'
AMD chips seem to be a lot cheaper than similarly-fast Intel chips.
AMD chips seem to run cooler than comparable Intel chips.
AMD chips seem to have more support and 'options' than Intel chips.
Whats keeping Intel afloat? While mobo combo shopping recently, I barely paid any attention to the Intel line. All I saw was 1.3x price for 95% performance.
Rather than go after movie/music/software BTers by hand, they'll invent some kind of automated webspider to go through every website looking for torrent links. If it has a certain key word, it'll be tagged.
Knowing them, a C&D order will be sent out without looking at it. If its not removed, they'll pull something else equally banal and stupid.
There are all kinds of issues when trying to deal with spammers themselves.
First, you have to find them. And prove that they sent the spam knowingly (and it wasn't a virus or worm or something). Then you have to hope and pray their local government and/or ISP (if outside the US) gives a damn about their activities.
That's a pretty big feat to accomplish in itself.
Then you have to be able to prove (probably in court) that it was their spam operation. That can be harder without judicial help.
You might get some satisfaction if their operation is shut down after all this, but they probably have others in on it, ready to take the business over. Start from scratch.
Spammer pays his court-ordered dues, and goes right back to spamming, being a little more careful.
This is too lengthy a process for spammers. I think that if the ISP doesn't do anything, and the local government doesn't care, it should be up to the users of the internet to stop the spammer. Now, this can be RBLing the spammer, or causing his hard drive to detonate inside of its case. Some society should be set up to reward people that take down spammers. Kind of like a mercnet, only with emphasis on not physically injuring the person, but rather on shutting down their operation.
People that play DAoC but don't want to buy two computers will love this. It'll let them run their buffbots and mains without too much of a hassle./scandalous
The next version of Windows will have things that only their spyware removal program is able to remove, due to restrictions that the OS places on letting third party programs modify things..
Of course the spyware will be able to make it through backdoors in things like caluclator and notepad, because God knows they're wired to the central part of the Windows kernel!
Aiming a device that's notorious for being used to aim projectiles with at an airplane isn't the smartest thing in the world to do.
This story should be up there with the 'dumbest criminals' like something from Fark. I mean, come on. That would be like popping up from behind something with a realistic plastic gun and aiming it at a police officer.
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If there are to be protections in place by the US government for VOIP, there will be taxes. Huge taxes, like $5 a call, due to lobbying from the phone companies.
Even more if its overseas, or out of your immediate area!
That's a great idea.
Now instead of buying a higher quality but slightly more expensive board (like an nForce type or its Intel-compatable cousin, whatever that is) you can buy a cheap-ass ECS board with gimpy AMD support for the same price!
This wouldn't even be good for reviews, like someone else posted about earlier. Think about what the AMD must now go through besides just an ordinary socket. Hell, even if you made the ordinary 6 inches tall it would probably be faster than this solution!
This just in..
High school girl arrested for telling her boyfriend to 'drink bleach and die'
If this were Fark, we'd need an 'Aussie' tag.
Stolen from Fark.
"Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs. Hilarity ensues."
Anyone else think that Slashdot is starting to look like the 'News' section from the Uplink game..?
I can imagine the fark headline in a few years.
NASA scientists market Martian microbes as 'Martian sea monkies'. Hilarity ensues.
Could you imagine..
No..
But what about Doom3 benchmarks? I mean, people WILL buy it if it gives 1fps more on Doom3.
It does in fact fall under espionage laws. The government shouldn't have to waste the money to train all their employees in resisting torture, nor should they all be forced to learn how to avoid spyware.
You as an IT manager could lock down their PCs enough to where spyware couldn't get in. Your job probably has a big slice of 'information security' thrown in there.
Of course, I think even attempted espionage, or conspiracy to commit is illegal. So you could just log all attempts and send it to the higher ups.
Yeah, hacking the carts to remove the expiration date is a good way to get some lawsuits sent at you. After all, they have a big legal department and have a lot of extra money for a legal fund.
What if you saw a pack of razors at the store for like, $1 for a decent quality brand? You'd probably buy them if you're the shaving type. Now lets say that these are made from some revolutionary material that biodegrades in three days. The expiration date on the package is set for three days after sale. You buy the razors and think you're getting a good deal. Three days later, the razors are a puddle of nondescript goo in the package you bought them in.
You do some research and find a way to 'deactivate' the degrading mechanism.
You've just destroyed this company's business model. Their 'good idea' is now a disaster that it might take them months to change. Of course its a stupid idea for the company, but they're more worried about those who oppose them (you) than making good ideas.
You guys should feel lucky. I've got 1500/256. It costs me $50 a month.
/near Knoxville, TN
Someone asked why you'd want to pay for 1500/256. You know, I can't afford to have a T3 come into my house. Tht's why I pay for my pathetic broadband that Bellsouth pretty much has a monopoly on around here.
I have to hand it to them, they are doing a good job. But they need to stop letting people sell so much gold.
Then again, its probably fed by them. My guess is in Diablo 2, they made a bunch of 'must have' runewords full of ultra-rare runes, sold the runes to some websites, and the websites sold them to the general public.
Result? You get your ass kicked in PvP. Not kicked, but totally blown away. Because everyone else has the top of the line best runeworded etheral equipment, thanks to the selling.
You all are missing the point entirely.
The point isn't that someone that paid his way through the game without having to farm any money or items at all is now level 60.
The point is the economy will go bad from it. What happens when a good third of the players that are under level 60 have a damn near infinite pool of money they can buy?
Everything they need is going to be bought from the AH at whatever price they can find it. People see they can get more for junk, and prices go up.
Pretty soon its 25 gold for a level 40 weapon, whereas now its 3-10 for an 'uncommon' one.
The same thing happened in Diablo 2. You could buy stacks of an often-duped ring (The Stone of Jordan, or SoJ) for cheap online. Same with the other items. You could buy whatever you wanted out of game and have it delivered to your in game character.
The economy took a nose dive. Suddenly, no one wanted ANYTHING for trade unless it was the absolute best. You couldn't get a goddamn Bonesnap for anything less than a Stormshield. And the path is going there with the other games, too.
I played FFXI before this. It was just starting to get bad there. The prices would consistantly go up, from say 1500z for a stack of crystals, to 2500z, to 3000z all within a month. It went from affordable, to downright lame for a price.
The people that want to have fun and don't want to have to go buy their money from eBay get screwed. Big time. When they can no longer buy ANYTHING of value.
Until one of you gets burnt.
So what happens when your due diligence isn't enough? What if someone that works at a gas station or a hotel grabs your debit card number and does the Fandango with it?
I guaren-fucking-tee you that someone that has replied to these comments would say, "You deserve it!" and list some explanation why we should take hours a day to protect our bank accounts.
If someone decides to transfer all my funds to a foreign country, that should be a big red flag. Or anytime a large amount is going to be transferred to another account. They should have to get verification from the account holder before high dollar amounts are able to go through.
These people I used to work with both had their CCs stolen by an employee that quit on that day. They had hundreds of dollars racked up by day two, on each card. They went to the police, prosecuted, and their banks didn't hold them accountable for the purchases.
Know how the woman got their CCs? They left their purses on their own desks when they went to the bathroom or went on break. According to some people, they deserved it.
This have anything to do with today's release of radioactives in FL?
Probably a dupe, but its 'good news' so I don't mind hearing it twice. I mean, if this were TV, we'd hear it every fifteen minutes from every news channel.
Companies aren't going to change their ways when it comes to programming unless they're forced to. I mean, why make people work 8 hour shifts when you can make them work 12? Or 16? Sometimes without adequate compensation?
Logistical offices that do things like accounting, customer service, tech support, call centers, etc are the ones that want someone that will put in an honest days work, be friendly, professional, etc. They'll probably rarely expect you to work long hours, and probably not expect any kind of creativity from you.
Programming jobs, however, are by their very nature, rushed. The company wants the product out the door as fast as it can, so it can start harvesting the rewards. The problem is, they don't want an honest day's work. They want you to work a month at 12 hour days and then either forget about you, or start the 'honest days work' thing while looking for a way to fire you for the next set of gung-ho youngsters willing to forego their lives for 'experience' and 'adequate compensation'
AMD chips seem to be a lot cheaper than similarly-fast Intel chips.
AMD chips seem to run cooler than comparable Intel chips.
AMD chips seem to have more support and 'options' than Intel chips.
Whats keeping Intel afloat? While mobo combo shopping recently, I barely paid any attention to the Intel line. All I saw was 1.3x price for 95% performance.
Rather than go after movie/music/software BTers by hand, they'll invent some kind of automated webspider to go through every website looking for torrent links. If it has a certain key word, it'll be tagged.
Knowing them, a C&D order will be sent out without looking at it. If its not removed, they'll pull something else equally banal and stupid.
There are all kinds of issues when trying to deal with spammers themselves.
First, you have to find them. And prove that they sent the spam knowingly (and it wasn't a virus or worm or something). Then you have to hope and pray their local government and/or ISP (if outside the US) gives a damn about their activities.
That's a pretty big feat to accomplish in itself.
Then you have to be able to prove (probably in court) that it was their spam operation. That can be harder without judicial help.
You might get some satisfaction if their operation is shut down after all this, but they probably have others in on it, ready to take the business over. Start from scratch.
Spammer pays his court-ordered dues, and goes right back to spamming, being a little more careful.
This is too lengthy a process for spammers. I think that if the ISP doesn't do anything, and the local government doesn't care, it should be up to the users of the internet to stop the spammer. Now, this can be RBLing the spammer, or causing his hard drive to detonate inside of its case. Some society should be set up to reward people that take down spammers. Kind of like a mercnet, only with emphasis on not physically injuring the person, but rather on shutting down their operation.
3,000+ patents.
Does the USPTO have time to review all of these patents for accuracy/authenticy?
People that play DAoC but don't want to buy two computers will love this. It'll let them run their buffbots and mains without too much of a hassle. /scandalous
The next version of Windows will have things that only their spyware removal program is able to remove, due to restrictions that the OS places on letting third party programs modify things..
Of course the spyware will be able to make it through backdoors in things like caluclator and notepad, because God knows they're wired to the central part of the Windows kernel!
Aiming a device that's notorious for being used to aim projectiles with at an airplane isn't the smartest thing in the world to do.
This story should be up there with the 'dumbest criminals' like something from Fark. I mean, come on. That would be like popping up from behind something with a realistic plastic gun and aiming it at a police officer.
"Your OLED monitor wants a1 broth."