ICANN is the organisation we should turn to: perhaps make a rule that the owner of a domain has to actually do something with it within a set period of time (say 6 months to a year).
I've often thought that a person or corporation should only be allowed to own 1 domain. If a person/company really wants more domains then they can create additional child corporations. But it would be impossible to acquire hundreds of thousands of domains because of the overhead of creating corporations, annually re-registering them, filling income tax for the profits on the page views, etc.
[Janie Crane presses a button on a television, turning it off.]
Janie Crane: "An off switch?"
Metrocop: "She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!"
Many manufacturers seem to exaggerate the numbers to sell more products (i.e.) Hard Drives to accomplish one of two goals: sell more product or sell for a higher price. A common way that this is done is to define the MTBF as counting only those failures that occur before the expected "wear-out" time of the device. Continuing with the example of hard drives, these devices have a definite wear-out mechanism as their spindle bearings wear down, perhaps limiting the life of the drive to five or ten years (say fifty to a hundred thousand hours). But the stated MTBF is often many hundreds of thousands of hours and only considers those other failures that occur before the expected wear-out of the spindle bearings.
I've no idea how much money had to go missing before someone at one of the CC companies (or an automated program of some sort) decided to take a closer look and see what the common thread was
They may have figured it out from his IP address. If your on highspeed you IP tends to remain the same for weeks or months at a time. Other providers may be different. The credit card API that I used had an optional field to send through the IP address of the customer making the purchase. If enough online retailers fill in the field then it's pretty obvious that you have charge backs on different CC numbers that were purchased from the same IP address.
At least HP responded to the thread, acknowedged the problem and have said that a patch is comming on the 22nd. I guess it did take 6 months to get this fixed but I imagine BIOS updates aren't easy to push through.
At least they didn't just delete the post. *cough* apple *cough*
Aren't windows code names traditionally cities? The fact that they are using a contry name for an upgraded version of Vista that experienced a military coup d'état a year ago (while vista development was in full swing) makes me wonder if this is a bad omen.
If I read the articles correctly it seems there are 2 ways to access the clipboard data.
Via the javascript windows.clipboard object.
You embed an active-x spreadsheet in your page (which gets installed with office) then java script can call a method to paste the contents of the clipboard into a cell in the spreadsheet.
Anyone know if both methods are now fixed? The Washington Post article doesn't seem to say.
I worked with a guy in his sixties who had a lot of experience in the business world. He told me companies are a lot like people. As children they're nibble, quick, and go through a lot of growing pains, then as they grow older they get hardening of the arteries.
The CBC had a good program on this called The Denial Machine. You can watch it online.
What I found shocking is that some of the same scientists who had funding ties to big tobacco and were saying that there was no evidence that smoking caused cancer are now the same scientists with funding ties to big oil and are claiming there is no proof of global warming.
If he's really pulling in 70K a month and only 10% of his revenue is comming from PTR sites then why bother with them. He's just risking getting caught by Google and Yahoo and losing the other 90% of his revenue.
If the backbone is too busy to provide the ultra-high speed service today, what about the future, when it's capable of handling more data at higher speeds?
The problem is all ISPs give their customer's free bandwidth even though the ISPs have to pay for bandwidth themselves. With free bandwidth a lot of customers just saturate their connection with some bandwidth hogging P2P app. Why should the ISP upgrade their network when they can't pass the cost on to the customers
I think that ISPs should start charging like all of the other utilities. Have a low base monthly rate and then charge for usage on top of that. A lot of customers could see a drop in their monthly bill if they don't use the Internet much. For those power customers I'm sure the ISP would be more then happy to increase upload/download bandwidth, stop throttling P2P and upgrade their infrastructure because these customers would now be seen as profitable customers instead of problem customers.
His plane was supposed to be loaded with 12400 hogsheads to make the 18,000 hectaire journey. Instead they used gallons.
There actually was a case back in 1983 when they loaded a Boeing 767 up with X pounds of fuel when it should have been X kilograms so they were short by a factor of 2.2. Luckily the captain happened to be an experienced glider pilot.
Salon also has an article from 1997 written by a former Microsoft contractor. My favorite line from the article is
Introduced to a full-timer with relative power whose star would crash and rise again before I left, I stuck my hand out to shake his. He ignored it, gave me a sideways glance and said, "Do I need to know you?" I laughed nervously and returned to my den.
Do what we tell you (don't download stuff) or we'll make you regret it (erase your hard drive) sure sounds like racateering to me
It's only racketeering if you threaten to do something illegal. At the moment erasing a persons hard drive is illegal and so the RIAA could be charged under the RICO act if they were to make this threat. However they are lobbying to make it legal for them to erase peoples hard drives so that they will not be gangsters (in the eyes of the law anyways).
So do you want an appliance that when hacked it burns your house down?
I think it depends on how the appliance is designed. If the web server and the computer that controls the appliance are separate then even if you hack the web server you can only send the standard commands to the controller that are available through the web interface.
The important thing is that you shouldn't be able to do anything malicious through the web interface like defrost a fridge or put an oven on broil. I noticed in the article that you can remotely "delay the cooking time, change the cooking temperature or cancel the cooking order altogether". Canceling or delaying the time are fine since the worst that can happen if someone hacks your microwave is that your dinner isn't ready when you get home. I'm surprised that they let you change the cooking temperature though since this sounds dangerous. Even if the device has a built in smoke detector to prevent a fire you could still come home and find you house smells like a burnt TV dinner because someone hacked your microwave.
I would LOVE to see this type of technology for the general public
Like most new technology the adult entertainment industry will be the first to adopt this. Simply wear the goggles while you're driving and then everywhere you look you see nothing but naked chicks.
I have a hard time grasping why we are not dealing with a fundamentally more dangerous situation in North Korea...
Because it's doesn't serve US interests.
I think this is one of the problems with US foreign policy. The US does what is in the best interest of the US. While this works well in the short term it comes back to haunt you later. The US would get much better long-term gains from a policy of doing what is in the best interests of the global community. This would also go a long way to improving US relations with the rest of the world and eliminating terrorism, which is caused by people hating the US, and it's foreign policies.
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I've often thought that a person or corporation should only be allowed to own 1 domain. If a person/company really wants more domains then they can create additional child corporations. But it would be impossible to acquire hundreds of thousands of domains because of the overhead of creating corporations, annually re-registering them, filling income tax for the profits on the page views, etc.
The Secret Service says that it will help to bring judges and prosecutors up to speed as well.'"
What about defense attorneys?
Reminds me of an old Max Headroom episode
From the wikipedia article
I've no idea how much money had to go missing before someone at one of the CC companies (or an automated program of some sort) decided to take a closer look and see what the common thread was
They may have figured it out from his IP address. If your on highspeed you IP tends to remain the same for weeks or months at a time. Other providers may be different. The credit card API that I used had an optional field to send through the IP address of the customer making the purchase. If enough online retailers fill in the field then it's pretty obvious that you have charge backs on different CC numbers that were purchased from the same IP address.
At least they didn't just delete the post. *cough* apple *cough*
Aren't windows code names traditionally cities? The fact that they are using a contry name for an upgraded version of Vista that experienced a military coup d'état a year ago (while vista development was in full swing) makes me wonder if this is a bad omen.
- Via the javascript windows.clipboard object.
- You embed an active-x spreadsheet in your page (which gets installed with office) then java script can call a method to paste the contents of the clipboard into a cell in the spreadsheet.
Anyone know if both methods are now fixed? The Washington Post article doesn't seem to say.I worked with a guy in his sixties who had a lot of experience in the business world. He told me companies are a lot like people. As children they're nibble, quick, and go through a lot of growing pains, then as they grow older they get hardening of the arteries.
What I found shocking is that some of the same scientists who had funding ties to big tobacco and were saying that there was no evidence that smoking caused cancer are now the same scientists with funding ties to big oil and are claiming there is no proof of global warming.
If he's really pulling in 70K a month and only 10% of his revenue is comming from PTR sites then why bother with them. He's just risking getting caught by Google and Yahoo and losing the other 90% of his revenue.
The problem is all ISPs give their customer's free bandwidth even though the ISPs have to pay for bandwidth themselves. With free bandwidth a lot of customers just saturate their connection with some bandwidth hogging P2P app. Why should the ISP upgrade their network when they can't pass the cost on to the customers
I think that ISPs should start charging like all of the other utilities. Have a low base monthly rate and then charge for usage on top of that. A lot of customers could see a drop in their monthly bill if they don't use the Internet much. For those power customers I'm sure the ISP would be more then happy to increase upload/download bandwidth, stop throttling P2P and upgrade their infrastructure because these customers would now be seen as profitable customers instead of problem customers.
There actually was a case back in 1983 when they loaded a Boeing 767 up with X pounds of fuel when it should have been X kilograms so they were short by a factor of 2.2. Luckily the captain happened to be an experienced glider pilot.
Video and story here
The Washington Post also had an article on July 1st (Canada day) talking about legal marijuana, gay marriage and other stuff happening up north.
It's only racketeering if you threaten to do something illegal. At the moment erasing a persons hard drive is illegal and so the RIAA could be charged under the RICO act if they were to make this threat. However they are lobbying to make it legal for them to erase peoples hard drives so that they will not be gangsters (in the eyes of the law anyways).
Considering that the patent office has turned into a revenue source for the government I'd say it's worse.
Space has an article with pictures on a server that isn't slash dotted... yet.
I believe you are talking about this SCO letter and this parody.
Does anyone think Microsoft would have it any other way?
I think it depends on how the appliance is designed. If the web server and the computer that controls the appliance are separate then even if you hack the web server you can only send the standard commands to the controller that are available through the web interface.
The important thing is that you shouldn't be able to do anything malicious through the web interface like defrost a fridge or put an oven on broil. I noticed in the article that you can remotely "delay the cooking time, change the cooking temperature or cancel the cooking order altogether". Canceling or delaying the time are fine since the worst that can happen if someone hacks your microwave is that your dinner isn't ready when you get home. I'm surprised that they let you change the cooking temperature though since this sounds dangerous. Even if the device has a built in smoke detector to prevent a fire you could still come home and find you house smells like a burnt TV dinner because someone hacked your microwave.
Just wait till tomorrow when everything is back to normal and they start posting dupes of the previous days stories.
Like most new technology the adult entertainment industry will be the first to adopt this. Simply wear the goggles while you're driving and then everywhere you look you see nothing but naked chicks.
Slashdot is getting off to an early start this year. I wasn't expecting to see the April Fools articles for another 6 days.
Because it's doesn't serve US interests.
I think this is one of the problems with US foreign policy. The US does what is in the best interest of the US. While this works well in the short term it comes back to haunt you later. The US would get much better long-term gains from a policy of doing what is in the best interests of the global community. This would also go a long way to improving US relations with the rest of the world and eliminating terrorism, which is caused by people hating the US, and it's foreign policies.