Born: October 10, 1966. Her Chinese nationality would have helped hide her true age.
According to the article, "The unnamed actress says the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008." Her IMDB profile, created in 2003, had her DOB as 1970 until it was changed at the end of 2008, matching the timeline given in the lawsuit.
Here's a video link showing how she says she is "always 26", clearly not wanting to talk about her age.
"Plaintiff has experience rejection in the industry for each “40-year-old” role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman,” the lawsuit says. It sounds like the litigant is complaining that she can't get 40 year old roles because she looks too young, and can't get younger roles because she is over 40. Bai Ling is 45.
bai-ling.org is hosted in Texas. She filmed two movies in Texas. About the only thing that doesn't match up is the "anglicized name", although her name could be a simplified stage name.
Considering Google adds its updater as both a service and as scheduled tasks and will reinstall these to keeps the undocumented service always running, always connecting to the internet, I would say spyware.
Clearly 10-key is going to soon be as lost a skill as Gregg shorthand, morse code keying, and communicating without adding your own laugh track. LOL!:)
I did exactly as the submitter suggested, 20 years ago, inverting the number pad on IBM keyboards keycaps in my school (of course without the keyboard remapping to go along with it). A subtle change, except for those who have no touch-typing ability - it confuses the hell out of them!
We (the geeks) actually have a responsibility to educate those poor people rather than calling them idiots. Nothing beats a scammer better than being forewarned.
Don't we more have a responsibility to find the people running these Indian companies, take out a plane ticket to Bangalore, and waterboard them in their own sewage-filled rivers? Nothing says "stop calling" like a respiratory system full of feces... Throwing pies at the CEO that outsourced the jobs didn't seem to work...
These people at Adobe are getting unbelievable. Now, the way that you could previously have gotten an offline installer (choose different OS/different browser), foists you a web downloader instead of a full installer, and guess what? You run it, and it deletes itself! Besides foisting Google Toolbar on you (or McAfee Antivirus crapware if you are downloading Firefox flash), this is about as slimeball as it gets.
That's why you don't sell uncounterfeitable, undisputable, unrevocable, instantly transferrable Bitcoins for Paypal payments, which can be disputed, paid with stolen credit cards, accounts frozen, etc. Don't blame Bitcoin for PayPal suckage.
I just did that. If a certificate authority has been compromised and arbitrary signed certificates are being shown in the wild, it's probably best to deauthorize them and let them issue a new root CA and certificates to everyone once they have the person who leaked private info beaten within an inch of their life, and then 2.54cm more.
Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Advanced pane -> Encryption tab. "View Certificates". "Authorities" tab. Select DigiNotar Root CA, Edit Trust, De-select check boxes.
That's how it works. Or how it's supposed to work if the receiver designer knows it's not supposed to be a bass-boost button. It's tied to the volume, although it should really be a loudness knob instead of button, because different speaker placement and efficiency and different source levels make for a different reference level where your ear needs compensation for the 'live concert' frequency response at lower volumes.
It is very possible to have sound levels above +0 db in digital recording, even though the individual samples are not clipped. CD mastering where the volume is digitally maximized can truncate individual clipped samples without regard to the analog output level, so your statement is false.
Talk to any guitarist and they know that guitarists use tube amps because of the sound of the distortion when they are pushed far beyond the rated power. Guitar amps have nothing to do with accurate sound reproduction.
The copyright owner would be the human who owns the camera, the digital film, and created the situation where the photos were taken. If going up to an ATM causes my picture to be taken, I don't have the copyright of that image, even if I know that the camera will take my picture and it is my sole action that caused the picture to be taken. The human photographer below owns the pictures, and can sell them to or be represented by another agency:
Visiting a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, award-winning photographer David Slater left his camera unattended for a while. Slater, from Coleford, Gloucestershire, was on a trip to a small national park north of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi when he met the incredibly friendly bunch.
The notice sent by the Caters News Agency is this:
I have noticed you have used David Slater's images on your website. However we are representing David Slater and syndicating these images on his behalf.
I have a better idea, one track, no more random access. Like an LP record. Drop the head at the beginning and let it read a spiral inward. Have two 'side tracks' read by sub-heads on the same head chip as formatting to keep the main head in the groove. 100% ECC blocks. 2tb drive -> 500gb drive at same density. Now spin the drive at 50,000rpm and drop the needle and get back your 500GB in about five minutes.
You don't use 320kbps VBR (I corrected the K for you), it's either 320kbps orVBR. The only way to get a completely 320kbps file is to encode it CBR and force it to be 320kbps. 320k is wasteful enough that a utility like mp3packer can easily and losslessly reallocate the frames to under 300k.
Anyway, It is speculative to even think evil media could make a case against a user. When the gestapo raids your house based on the digital audio files that the RIAA claims they've found, they'd need both evidence (the ripped audio files and proof they are the copyright holder) and lack of evidence (no original media, no record of purchasing) to even start. I might have all those CDs in a storage shed that I will bring in as surprise evidence.
The lack of original media is an underwhelming argument though, the 1992 audio home recording act specifically clarifies that fair use includes home taping and copying a friend's CDs, even if the destination is digitally encoded. If the OP has guilt, he should look at the thousands he already spent on music to fund lawyers, and for any unknown audio tracks, imagine that all your friends on the internet personally sent you a 'digital tape' of their CDs.
That youtube vid is not prior art on multi-touch gestures. This sure is though: Feb 2006. Apples patent was filed December 19, 2007.
About the only thing the patent has going for it is claims 'a portable multifunction device', which might not have been specifically shown or actualized previously, but it is not novel to extend the scope this way. If we use that logic, I can then patent multi-touch gestures on a car, on a space craft, on electric pants, because nobody thought of it before.
Firefox still has four more version until they catch up with Internet Explorer 9, and seven to even match the version might of Google Chrome 12.0.742.105 (not that you can even tell the Chrome version when you download it...). They have blown right by Lynx 2.8.7! The race is on!
I'm gonna high post and whore, so there can actually be a relevant comment in the first half of this page.
Here is a video of someone who was recording a live show with trading software going, so you can watch the crash in real time, and see the effects of the sell order that drove the price down to 0.01 within minutes. Every buy position was filled, but surprisingly the value bounced back up to 14 very quickly even with as big of a bitcoin dump as the hacked account did. Lesson: always have a stub quote in to buy for a few pennies so when the legit flash crash comes, you can get yours.
Paypal isn't going to do it. Their business model is to move funny money around in their system and take 3% each time it is transferred until there is nothing left. Attempting to take your money out or doing activities that endanger PayPal's profit will get your account locked.
You are completely misinformed. I will reply to your anonymous troll instead of modding it as such, just to alert readers to it's crapitude.
The amount of money that can be transferred out of mtgox at once is $1000 (or $1000 value in BTC). That is not the limit on trades. It's like having a Charles Schwab account with $10,000 in it - you can buy and sell thousands in stocks, futures, and currencies, but your Schwab debit card has security preventing you from withdrawing more than $400 a day at an ATM.
The 'account number' (wallet ID) and the record of transactions that account has made is not anonymous, but the owner of the account is. You can create thousands of wallets and send each of them 0.01 BTC if you really want to . A determined eavesdropper might be able to log IP addresses of other users who are running the bitcoin daemon that provides the P2Pnetwork backbone, but you can't tell if they are even transferring any money. The best a government can do to break anonymity is examine meat space by coercing cooperation or tapping the net, to determine who is transferring real dollars in and out of exchanges and who is buying and selling goods at online stores.
The account that was used for trading had a lot of bitcoins in it. Recent market depth on mtgox was around 7,000 buy orders to buy bitcoins (from memory, since the site down). Those are bids to buy at different prices, one order might be to by 100 BTC at $15 each, another might be to buy 20 at $14 each, from different people. All of the people wanting to buy bitcoins totaled 7000 BTC wanted. That means if the hacked account had 100,000 BTC in their mtgox account (which would have cost you about $500 less than a year ago, now you can get your $500 back and still have 99,950 BTC), a hacker could instantly crash the value on that exchange (and others would follow pretty quickly as I've got a feeling there are some automated traders out there). By putting in an order to sell all of them at $0.001 each, all the buy orders would be filled, and with nobody left to sell to, the value would basically be $0.001 per bitcoin, and it would stay there until more buyers logged on and put in orders to buy all the cheap bitcoins.
That is the biggest failing with bitcoin, early adopters and speculators have major wealth due to two years of unpublicised mining and low early exchange price. If we create a bitcoin v2 currency, maybe there would be more of a land rush that would get it to a stable price quickly, so it can be a currency instead of a speculative investment and prevent the ponzi scheme impressions.
It looks like the hacker did some goofy stuff like dump all the bitcoins, then put in a big order to buy bitcoins back (maybe needed lulz after hitting the withdraw limit). If the hacker employed a strategy for maximum win, he could have crashed the current price, been able to buy the hacked account's remaining bitcoins really cheap with his own account (if he was able to get dollars into mtgox anonymously) and quickly transfer a whole lot of them out of mtgox to his personal wallet, since at that instant they would be valued at much less than the $15 they've been going for. Rolling back mtgox's trade database wouldn't get the bitcoins back, nor is there any mechanism in bitcoin for undoing the transfer and account ownership, even if everybody knows which account number has the stolen money in it. The only way feasible would be to roll out a new bitcoind with a blacklist of bad wallets and get people to agree it is a good idea, but by the time 51% are running the new client, the BTC has already been transferred or spent.
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BAI LING.
Born: October 10, 1966. Her Chinese nationality would have helped hide her true age. According to the article, "The unnamed actress says the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008." Her IMDB profile, created in 2003, had her DOB as 1970 until it was changed at the end of 2008, matching the timeline given in the lawsuit.
Here's a video link showing how she says she is "always 26", clearly not wanting to talk about her age.
"Plaintiff has experience rejection in the industry for each “40-year-old” role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman,” the lawsuit says. It sounds like the litigant is complaining that she can't get 40 year old roles because she looks too young, and can't get younger roles because she is over 40. Bai Ling is 45.
bai-ling.org is hosted in Texas. She filmed two movies in Texas. About the only thing that doesn't match up is the "anglicized name", although her name could be a simplified stage name.
Or 100,000 Blu-ray discs.
Considering Google adds its updater as both a service and as scheduled tasks and will reinstall these to keeps the undocumented service always running, always connecting to the internet, I would say spyware.
Here is an MSNBC report and commentary that is quite good,The last word with Lawrence O'donnell
Clearly 10-key is going to soon be as lost a skill as Gregg shorthand, morse code keying, and communicating without adding your own laugh track. LOL! :)
I did exactly as the submitter suggested, 20 years ago, inverting the number pad on IBM keyboards keycaps in my school (of course without the keyboard remapping to go along with it). A subtle change, except for those who have no touch-typing ability - it confuses the hell out of them!
We (the geeks) actually have a responsibility to educate those poor people rather than calling them idiots. Nothing beats a scammer better than being forewarned.
Don't we more have a responsibility to find the people running these Indian companies, take out a plane ticket to Bangalore, and waterboard them in their own sewage-filled rivers? Nothing says "stop calling" like a respiratory system full of feces... Throwing pies at the CEO that outsourced the jobs didn't seem to work...
These people at Adobe are getting unbelievable. Now, the way that you could previously have gotten an offline installer (choose different OS/different browser), foists you a web downloader instead of a full installer, and guess what? You run it, and it deletes itself! Besides foisting Google Toolbar on you (or McAfee Antivirus crapware if you are downloading Firefox flash), this is about as slimeball as it gets.
Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan armada.
Check out this link, and remember, that's just some hobbyists, not a determined nation-state.
That's why you don't sell uncounterfeitable, undisputable, unrevocable, instantly transferrable Bitcoins for Paypal payments, which can be disputed, paid with stolen credit cards, accounts frozen, etc. Don't blame Bitcoin for PayPal suckage.
The government needs to look into this "Alice" and "Bob", they seem to be exchanging a lot of secrets!
I just did that. If a certificate authority has been compromised and arbitrary signed certificates are being shown in the wild, it's probably best to deauthorize them and let them issue a new root CA and certificates to everyone once they have the person who leaked private info beaten within an inch of their life, and then 2.54cm more.
Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Advanced pane -> Encryption tab. "View Certificates". "Authorities" tab. Select DigiNotar Root CA, Edit Trust, De-select check boxes.
That's how it works. Or how it's supposed to work if the receiver designer knows it's not supposed to be a bass-boost button. It's tied to the volume, although it should really be a loudness knob instead of button, because different speaker placement and efficiency and different source levels make for a different reference level where your ear needs compensation for the 'live concert' frequency response at lower volumes.
It is very possible to have sound levels above +0 db in digital recording, even though the individual samples are not clipped. CD mastering where the volume is digitally maximized can truncate individual clipped samples without regard to the analog output level, so your statement is false.
Talk to any guitarist and they know that guitarists use tube amps because of the sound of the distortion when they are pushed far beyond the rated power. Guitar amps have nothing to do with accurate sound reproduction.
The copyright owner would be the human who owns the camera, the digital film, and created the situation where the photos were taken. If going up to an ATM causes my picture to be taken, I don't have the copyright of that image, even if I know that the camera will take my picture and it is my sole action that caused the picture to be taken. The human photographer below owns the pictures, and can sell them to or be represented by another agency:
Visiting a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, award-winning photographer David Slater left his camera unattended for a while. Slater, from Coleford, Gloucestershire, was on a trip to a small national park north of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi when he met the incredibly friendly bunch.
The notice sent by the Caters News Agency is this:
I have noticed you have used David Slater's images on your website. However we are representing David Slater and syndicating these images on his behalf.
That's about all there is to say.
I have a better idea, one track, no more random access. Like an LP record. Drop the head at the beginning and let it read a spiral inward. Have two 'side tracks' read by sub-heads on the same head chip as formatting to keep the main head in the groove. 100% ECC blocks. 2tb drive -> 500gb drive at same density. Now spin the drive at 50,000rpm and drop the needle and get back your 500GB in about five minutes.
You don't use 320kbps VBR (I corrected the K for you), it's either 320kbps orVBR. The only way to get a completely 320kbps file is to encode it CBR and force it to be 320kbps. 320k is wasteful enough that a utility like mp3packer can easily and losslessly reallocate the frames to under 300k.
Anyway, It is speculative to even think evil media could make a case against a user. When the gestapo raids your house based on the digital audio files that the RIAA claims they've found, they'd need both evidence (the ripped audio files and proof they are the copyright holder) and lack of evidence (no original media, no record of purchasing) to even start. I might have all those CDs in a storage shed that I will bring in as surprise evidence.
The lack of original media is an underwhelming argument though, the 1992 audio home recording act specifically clarifies that fair use includes home taping and copying a friend's CDs, even if the destination is digitally encoded. If the OP has guilt, he should look at the thousands he already spent on music to fund lawyers, and for any unknown audio tracks, imagine that all your friends on the internet personally sent you a 'digital tape' of their CDs.
That youtube vid is not prior art on multi-touch gestures. This sure is though: Feb 2006. Apples patent was filed December 19, 2007.
About the only thing the patent has going for it is claims 'a portable multifunction device', which might not have been specifically shown or actualized previously, but it is not novel to extend the scope this way. If we use that logic, I can then patent multi-touch gestures on a car, on a space craft, on electric pants, because nobody thought of it before.
Banks get 2% a cut of you paying for your parking, and the outsourced parking meter company gets a good share too? 2010's.
A former employer of mine used to call them "vanilla folders".
Firefox still has four more version until they catch up with Internet Explorer 9, and seven to even match the version might of Google Chrome 12.0.742.105 (not that you can even tell the Chrome version when you download it...). They have blown right by Lynx 2.8.7! The race is on!
I'm gonna high post and whore, so there can actually be a relevant comment in the first half of this page.
Here is a video of someone who was recording a live show with trading software going, so you can watch the crash in real time, and see the effects of the sell order that drove the price down to 0.01 within minutes. Every buy position was filled, but surprisingly the value bounced back up to 14 very quickly even with as big of a bitcoin dump as the hacked account did. Lesson: always have a stub quote in to buy for a few pennies so when the legit flash crash comes, you can get yours.
Paypal isn't going to do it. Their business model is to move funny money around in their system and take 3% each time it is transferred until there is nothing left. Attempting to take your money out or doing activities that endanger PayPal's profit will get your account locked.
You are completely misinformed. I will reply to your anonymous troll instead of modding it as such, just to alert readers to it's crapitude.
The amount of money that can be transferred out of mtgox at once is $1000 (or $1000 value in BTC). That is not the limit on trades. It's like having a Charles Schwab account with $10,000 in it - you can buy and sell thousands in stocks, futures, and currencies, but your Schwab debit card has security preventing you from withdrawing more than $400 a day at an ATM.
The 'account number' (wallet ID) and the record of transactions that account has made is not anonymous, but the owner of the account is. You can create thousands of wallets and send each of them 0.01 BTC if you really want to . A determined eavesdropper might be able to log IP addresses of other users who are running the bitcoin daemon that provides the P2Pnetwork backbone, but you can't tell if they are even transferring any money. The best a government can do to break anonymity is examine meat space by coercing cooperation or tapping the net, to determine who is transferring real dollars in and out of exchanges and who is buying and selling goods at online stores.
The account that was used for trading had a lot of bitcoins in it. Recent market depth on mtgox was around 7,000 buy orders to buy bitcoins (from memory, since the site down). Those are bids to buy at different prices, one order might be to by 100 BTC at $15 each, another might be to buy 20 at $14 each, from different people. All of the people wanting to buy bitcoins totaled 7000 BTC wanted. That means if the hacked account had 100,000 BTC in their mtgox account (which would have cost you about $500 less than a year ago, now you can get your $500 back and still have 99,950 BTC), a hacker could instantly crash the value on that exchange (and others would follow pretty quickly as I've got a feeling there are some automated traders out there). By putting in an order to sell all of them at $0.001 each, all the buy orders would be filled, and with nobody left to sell to, the value would basically be $0.001 per bitcoin, and it would stay there until more buyers logged on and put in orders to buy all the cheap bitcoins.
That is the biggest failing with bitcoin, early adopters and speculators have major wealth due to two years of unpublicised mining and low early exchange price. If we create a bitcoin v2 currency, maybe there would be more of a land rush that would get it to a stable price quickly, so it can be a currency instead of a speculative investment and prevent the ponzi scheme impressions.
It looks like the hacker did some goofy stuff like dump all the bitcoins, then put in a big order to buy bitcoins back (maybe needed lulz after hitting the withdraw limit). If the hacker employed a strategy for maximum win, he could have crashed the current price, been able to buy the hacked account's remaining bitcoins really cheap with his own account (if he was able to get dollars into mtgox anonymously) and quickly transfer a whole lot of them out of mtgox to his personal wallet, since at that instant they would be valued at much less than the $15 they've been going for. Rolling back mtgox's trade database wouldn't get the bitcoins back, nor is there any mechanism in bitcoin for undoing the transfer and account ownership, even if everybody knows which account number has the stolen money in it. The only way feasible would be to roll out a new bitcoind with a blacklist of bad wallets and get people to agree it is a good idea, but by the time 51% are running the new client, the BTC has already been transferred or spent.