True story: About 8 years some friends and I were getting o3ned DAILY by a hacker. One of these friends had a buddy in IBM's security division, who somehow got us a name and phone # of our hacker. We felt like asses when we found out we were getting beat down by a 15 years old. But we called his dad, explained what was going on, and that we knew where he lived. Problem SOLVED:)
It could use GPS, but I doubt it. The discounts are a cookie. What they *WANT* to do is develop statistical models that predict risky drivers so they can eject them.
I drive an early 60's, when I bought it it wasn't equipped with seat belts because at that point in history there were no seatbelt laws
Oh please:) Here's how it will work: Government will require you to have insurance (which in most states it does). Insurance companies won't insure a car WITHOUT the device.
A friend of mine from sweeden says, while marijuana is legal in sweeden, you can't get a job or car insurance if you use it, so you're effectively a non-citizen.
insane price... Have you ever tried to get plastics made as an individual or small company? Got news for you, its *damned expensive*. I was trying to get a product made the size of a hockey puck, two pieces, not complicated. The mold costs alone were like $10,000.
I bet the mold costs for that thing are like $100,000.
If someone knows more about plastics then my amateur ass, please feel free to correct me.
If you buy the google IPO, you are freaking crazy. IPO's do one thing: allow the business investors to cash out of the company. Buy 5 years from now when we know the real value of the company, and how it faced its competitors (MS most notably).
There are lots of counter-intuitive reasons a stock like SCO goes up. The buying is *probably* people who have shorted SCO getting out. A short allows you to make money when you think a stock is going to go down in price. Basically, a brokerage "lends" you their stock. You sell it, and return the stocks later (hopefully purchased at a lower price). News like this is probably making a few people with short positions nervous enough to get out.
I think internet addiction is really an extremely low tolerance for being bored.
I've had the internet since 92 or 93, and before that Compuserve, and before that BBS's, and with each service came an increasing ability to *ALWAYS* be able to find something to entertain myself. If its reading an article, learning a new programming language, a piece of software to play with. That was 5 years ago.
Now with mp3s, and bit torrent, the entire world of music, film, and television are avaliable online and I have no tolerance for being presented with entertainment a television network or someone else thinks I might want to see. I want to assemble my own entertainment, I watch/read/play what I want to, when I want to, on my schedule.
After a few years of this, I just have no patience.
Thats the thing. I got a warm fuzy feeling when I saw the report:) Insurance companies aren't stupid, and neither are reinsurerers (sp? the companies that insure insurance companies). The fact that they're willing to insure it at all probably means they think theres no chance of a claim:
When you insure cars for theft, *EVERY* car you insure can't get stolen at once. When you insure linux, you're either 100% liable, or 100% not. If Linux goes down, this company suddenly owes billions.
Scum of the earth though for releasing this report they know to be false.
This is my greatest fear. Diebold promised to "deliver electoral votes" to bush.
The only reason I can think of for these voting systems to be *SO* insecure is so they can be tampered with, then if the deception is discovered they will say "oops, can't tell you who did it or how it happened... we don't keep records;-)"
Well its true the last videogame I played through was Jak and Daxter (200?), and Before that Grim Fandango (1998)... but the game just wasn't *FUN* after awhile. That stupid ice boss in the phenandra region? I did that like 15 times before I got it right. Maybe europeans have better hand eye coordination:)
The Metroid title for GC is like that as well... Save points are *20* minutes apart, enemies are insanely hard, and worst of all the map is *HUGE*. I gave up when I needed to go some place in the game -- that I had been BEFORE, but could not figure out a course that would get me there, even with the help of the built in map (there were all these transports that were 15 minutes of gameplay apart, I couldn't figure out a series of transports that would take me where I needed to go).
If you look carefull, the machines *LOOK* like macs but use windows NT4 mouse pointers and seem to use dos filenames with UNIX upslashes in their pathnames. I always thought it was a little cookie for us idiots who know that stuff.
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True story: About 8 years some friends and I were getting o3ned DAILY by a hacker. One of these friends had a buddy in IBM's security division, who somehow got us a name and phone # of our hacker. We felt like asses when we found out we were getting beat down by a 15 years old. But we called his dad, explained what was going on, and that we knew where he lived. Problem SOLVED :)
Yep. In my town, 5000 people showed up for 400 *walmart* jobs. For people like myself with engineering degrees, theres just no hope.
Yep, they don't call it the "Mitnick Attack" for no reason.
It could use GPS, but I doubt it. The discounts are a cookie. What they *WANT* to do is develop statistical models that predict risky drivers so they can eject them.
Oh please :) Here's how it will work: Government will require you to have insurance (which in most states it does). Insurance companies won't insure a car WITHOUT the device.
A friend of mine from sweeden says, while marijuana is legal in sweeden, you can't get a job or car insurance if you use it, so you're effectively a non-citizen.
I bet the mold costs for that thing are like $100,000.
If someone knows more about plastics then my amateur ass, please feel free to correct me.
If people can't be experts in their fields, who will build the things that only experts can build?
The guy is the head of the recording head department? What other industry do they expect him to find employment in?
I would use the crypto ibutton as an authentication scheme, possibl storing the password.
20,000 every two years? I get bout 6,000 pieces a month. Not kidding.
Harry Connick Jr has been making Frank Sinatra albums for years :)
I guarantee google will fall from signifigantly from its IPO price. Might take a month, might take 5 years. Thats when I will buy.
If you buy the google IPO, you are freaking crazy. IPO's do one thing: allow the business investors to cash out of the company. Buy 5 years from now when we know the real value of the company, and how it faced its competitors (MS most notably).
There are lots of counter-intuitive reasons a stock like SCO goes up. The buying is *probably* people who have shorted SCO getting out. A short allows you to make money when you think a stock is going to go down in price. Basically, a brokerage "lends" you their stock. You sell it, and return the stocks later (hopefully purchased at a lower price). News like this is probably making a few people with short positions nervous enough to get out.
more or less? yes...
I think that happens quite a lot actually ... You'll see images that are visually the same, about the same size, but have different MD5 sums.
I've had the internet since 92 or 93, and before that Compuserve, and before that BBS's, and with each service came an increasing ability to *ALWAYS* be able to find something to entertain myself. If its reading an article, learning a new programming language, a piece of software to play with. That was 5 years ago.
Now with mp3s, and bit torrent, the entire world of music, film, and television are avaliable online and I have no tolerance for being presented with entertainment a television network or someone else thinks I might want to see. I want to assemble my own entertainment, I watch/read/play what I want to, when I want to, on my schedule.
After a few years of this, I just have no patience.
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First Gallagher quote on slashdot in years, +5!
When you insure cars for theft, *EVERY* car you insure can't get stolen at once. When you insure linux, you're either 100% liable, or 100% not. If Linux goes down, this company suddenly owes billions.
Scum of the earth though for releasing this report they know to be false.
thanks for handling that, amazingly awesome 4 digit user :)
The only reason I can think of for these voting systems to be *SO* insecure is so they can be tampered with, then if the deception is discovered they will say "oops, can't tell you who did it or how it happened... we don't keep records ;-)"
Well its true the last videogame I played through was Jak and Daxter (200?), and Before that Grim Fandango (1998)... but the game just wasn't *FUN* after awhile. That stupid ice boss in the phenandra region? I did that like 15 times before I got it right. Maybe europeans have better hand eye coordination :)
The Metroid title for GC is like that as well ... Save points are *20* minutes apart, enemies are insanely hard, and worst of all the map is *HUGE*. I gave up when I needed to go some place in the game -- that I had been BEFORE, but could not figure out a course that would get me there, even with the help of the built in map (there were all these transports that were 15 minutes of gameplay apart, I couldn't figure out a series of transports that would take me where I needed to go).
If you look carefull, the machines *LOOK* like macs but use windows NT4 mouse pointers and seem to use dos filenames with UNIX upslashes in their pathnames. I always thought it was a little cookie for us idiots who know that stuff.