Is to have the team switch off a lot and visit other places in the casino. It's a heck of a lot harder to track a team of about 30 around the place, with spotters switching off and blowing money on craps and roulette. I mean, they're already blowing money on the minimum bet, why not make them chase you around the entire casino? Then have the BP's and Gorillas only play for an hour or so, and switch them off with other BP's.
Course, that would mean you don't get caught. Probably not the most effective way to win your money.
And then someone gets greedy....
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Indeed, he had 1-5 million. There were what, 25 members on the team?
If you know how to install/operate linux, then you're probably building your own PC, for a whole lot cheaper than dell can get you one.
True, if you're planning on buying a desktop, however laptops aren't something that people buy parts for and put together. And there aren't many other options for laptops, toshiba and ibm are pretty much it. (sony restricts OS installs in the bios i believe)
I mean, I bought a dell with winME pre-installed. I wiped it and put
well.. eventually redhat, but not before i attempted to get debian to work.
I have one legal version of a MS product though.. that counts for the few pirated versions i own.. right?
Man, I've been avoiding sony since they came out with those little mp3 players for $400 that only held one cd worth of songs. And didn't support anything except win98. And it was buggy anyway. That was just the beginning. Then they got all stupid about their intellectual property and their record label is paranoid. And you can't install any operating system besides the one it comes with on their computers. And my friend had a car stereo of theirs and the volume broke. Ok, 2 friends.
Yeah, I don't trust Sony. Pretty soon they'll be putting chips in their TV's to see if you're taping a music video and recording the music from it. Because that's a loss for them.
What I wanna know is how many lexus' and mercedes' they have in their garages of their multimillion dollar houses. One for each day of the week. Except Monday, they need a new one for that day. That's why this is such a big deal.
Uh, just what are you going to pirate on your ps3? Heck, what are they going to report on your ps3? 'Oh, this guy spends far too much of his time playing GTA5.' So what?
Granted, I'm sure it's more for use to see if people are burning games, but I can't imagine them being able to tell the difference between a burned game and a real one. '500,000 games sold, 600,000 games in use.' Again, what are they going to do?
Nothing.
It's already hard enough tracking down someone physically with an IP. They're also under the assumption that people will plug their consoles into the network. I'd assume that it's about a half and half shot there. All depends on if they're doing first person multiplayer shooters (or stuff like UO and WCIII) on the console (and if they're doing that, I am SO in). Also, a lot of consoles are bought for kids, and somehow I doubt parents who don't know the first thing about computing are going to attempt to network the box. That's one of the main points of the console. Plug and go, easy as that.
This is just something to make themselves feel more secure. It doesn't actually effect us in a monumental way. (at least with console games)
The Screwtape Letters on film. Now that would be interesting. Of course some lawyer in CA would call up and complain, saying something about how Christianity shouldn't be put in American theatres.
Oh trust me, you can still easily be "too far away" from an access point. Think about it this way, when you're out in the boonies, how well do you get cell phone reception? I'd imagine that the proposal would start in the cities, and then they might stick up towers and such in the towns. The problem arises that you can't multi hop very well with 802.11. The bandwidth decreases exponentially with each hop. I don't believe (though I may be wrong) that cell towers work that way. I think their signal can be bounced around a ton without as much loss. So not only will you get 'broken reception' (packet loss) farther away from the tower, but if they set it up as a repeater then your bandwidth will be blown away too. Between the two factors, I can't imagine it happening any time soon. They'll wait until they figure out how to hop without losing bandwidth.
In any case, I'm pretty sure we're still far away from having 802.11 coverage throughout the nation. If you're lucky you might be able to grab a connection from the city, but that's as close as we're gonna get for awhile.
Nyhedstjenesten Newsbooster shall brake by that publish the news letter by deep linker to commodities at danish dagblades websider. A upset manager Duck-breeding Lautrup discloses, that Newsbooster lost at all points.
So will it all happen again if you go for the counter-offer? I say it will. While you lose the comfort of your current job by taking on the new one, you also gain experience.
Chances are, if your boss is offering a counter-offer, he still likes you and will give you a good reference if needed in the future. I'd fear that he would re-cut your salary and all around treat you like crap if you took it though. He's probably just afraid that all the little things will fall apart after you leave, but that happens when *anyone* leaves a job. If he cut it before, there's a good chance he'll cut it again. I say go for the other employment, mix up your life a bit.
Aren't we in the middle of a recession? And isn't this going to destroy the economy even more? "Let's give the big companies more reason to charge little companies more and put them out of business." WooHoo. Great idea. I'm excited.
Don't forget that half of the FTP servers that were listed in audiogalaxy had an MOTD that was something of the following:
Hi, in order to use this ftp server, you have to go to http://somesite.com and click on the little blue box in the bottom corner. When the popup comes up, click on the words "Enter Here" and then you will get redirected to another page. On the other page, subscribe to the free newsletter, and the fifth word in the newsletter is the actual username, and the 20th word is the password. Thank you, and have a nice day.
I actually did that once. Sent it to my 'junk' email. Still get the emails. Don't think I ever made it onto the server, either.
Agreed, but that only includes some software problems. The other amount has to do with the fact that a) people are running outdated software and haven't bothered to patch it and b) they don't know how to use it (ran out of the car without locking the doors at all).
Heck there are even people who would stick the check in their front window of their old, crappy car. (at least if it was a new one it'd be harder to get into).
In any case, I agree somewhat. Yes there are software companies who don't test through their software enough to find the spot where if you hit it enough you can get in. However I think that those are the only companies that should be held liable for security breaches. I can't imagine they'd last long in this age anyways the way word travels.
I have no idea why I'm babbling on about this, so I'll shut up now.
Right. A better analogy (going with the car theme here) would be something like:
I have a $30,000 check sitting in my car, not necessarily completely hidden and locked in the glove box, but out of view none the less. Now, my car is an '86 Caprice Classic. So basically if anyone is actually looking (which in this industry they would have to figure out what server the info is on), they'd be able to get into the car with a slim jim, no problem. Rifle around a bit, find the nice check, sign the check over to themselves and there ya go. (If you're having problems with the check thory, you can still use an American Express credit card as bait.)
Is it Chevy's problem for making crappy locks, or should I have taken the check out of that car and put it into a 2002 Lexus with all the bells and whistles of alarms it takes to get in there.
If you don't have the security, don't put valuable information on the machines, that's your own stupidity, not the software companies'.
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Is to have the team switch off a lot and visit other places in the casino. It's a heck of a lot harder to track a team of about 30 around the place, with spotters switching off and blowing money on craps and roulette. I mean, they're already blowing money on the minimum bet, why not make them chase you around the entire casino? Then have the BP's and Gorillas only play for an hour or so, and switch them off with other BP's.
Course, that would mean you don't get caught. Probably not the most effective way to win your money.
And then someone gets greedy....
Indeed, he had 1-5 million. There were what, 25 members on the team?
So 25-125 million dollars payoff for the team.
I wouldn't mind that in my pocket
If you know how to install/operate linux, then you're probably building your own PC, for a whole lot cheaper than dell can get you one.
True, if you're planning on buying a desktop, however laptops aren't something that people buy parts for and put together. And there aren't many other options for laptops, toshiba and ibm are pretty much it. (sony restricts OS installs in the bios i believe)
I mean, I bought a dell with winME pre-installed. I wiped it and put well.. eventually redhat, but not before i attempted to get debian to work.
I have one legal version of a MS product though.. that counts for the few pirated versions i own.. right?
Man, I've been avoiding sony since they came out with those little mp3 players for $400 that only held one cd worth of songs. And didn't support anything except win98. And it was buggy anyway. That was just the beginning. Then they got all stupid about their intellectual property and their record label is paranoid. And you can't install any operating system besides the one it comes with on their computers. And my friend had a car stereo of theirs and the volume broke. Ok, 2 friends.
Yeah, I don't trust Sony. Pretty soon they'll be putting chips in their TV's to see if you're taping a music video and recording the music from it. Because that's a loss for them.
What I wanna know is how many lexus' and mercedes' they have in their garages of their multimillion dollar houses. One for each day of the week. Except Monday, they need a new one for that day. That's why this is such a big deal.
Uh, just what are you going to pirate on your ps3? Heck, what are they going to report on your ps3? 'Oh, this guy spends far too much of his time playing GTA5.' So what?
Granted, I'm sure it's more for use to see if people are burning games, but I can't imagine them being able to tell the difference between a burned game and a real one. '500,000 games sold, 600,000 games in use.' Again, what are they going to do?
Nothing.
It's already hard enough tracking down someone physically with an IP. They're also under the assumption that people will plug their consoles into the network. I'd assume that it's about a half and half shot there. All depends on if they're doing first person multiplayer shooters (or stuff like UO and WCIII) on the console (and if they're doing that, I am SO in). Also, a lot of consoles are bought for kids, and somehow I doubt parents who don't know the first thing about computing are going to attempt to network the box. That's one of the main points of the console. Plug and go, easy as that.
This is just something to make themselves feel more secure. It doesn't actually effect us in a monumental way. (at least with console games)
Enough of my rambling.
The Screwtape Letters on film. Now that would be interesting. Of course some lawyer in CA would call up and complain, saying something about how Christianity shouldn't be put in American theatres.
Then we'd tie him up and force him to watch it.
Oh trust me, you can still easily be "too far away" from an access point. Think about it this way, when you're out in the boonies, how well do you get cell phone reception? I'd imagine that the proposal would start in the cities, and then they might stick up towers and such in the towns. The problem arises that you can't multi hop very well with 802.11. The bandwidth decreases exponentially with each hop. I don't believe (though I may be wrong) that cell towers work that way. I think their signal can be bounced around a ton without as much loss. So not only will you get 'broken reception' (packet loss) farther away from the tower, but if they set it up as a repeater then your bandwidth will be blown away too. Between the two factors, I can't imagine it happening any time soon. They'll wait until they figure out how to hop without losing bandwidth.
In any case, I'm pretty sure we're still far away from having 802.11 coverage throughout the nation. If you're lucky you might be able to grab a connection from the city, but that's as close as we're gonna get for awhile.
Nyhedstjenesten Newsbooster shall brake by that publish the news letter by deep linker to commodities at danish dagblades websider. A upset manager Duck-breeding Lautrup discloses, that Newsbooster lost at all points.
It's all about duck breeding.
(used http://www.tranexp.com:2000 to translate)
So will it all happen again if you go for the counter-offer? I say it will. While you lose the comfort of your current job by taking on the new one, you also gain experience.
Chances are, if your boss is offering a counter-offer, he still likes you and will give you a good reference if needed in the future. I'd fear that he would re-cut your salary and all around treat you like crap if you took it though. He's probably just afraid that all the little things will fall apart after you leave, but that happens when *anyone* leaves a job. If he cut it before, there's a good chance he'll cut it again. I say go for the other employment, mix up your life a bit.
Aren't we in the middle of a recession?
And isn't this going to destroy the economy even more?
"Let's give the big companies more reason to charge little companies more and put them out of business."
WooHoo.
Great idea.
I'm excited.
Don't forget that half of the FTP servers that were listed in audiogalaxy had an MOTD that was something of the following:
Hi, in order to use this ftp server, you have to go to http://somesite.com and click on the little blue box in the bottom corner. When the popup comes up, click on the words "Enter Here" and then you will get redirected to another page. On the other page, subscribe to the free newsletter, and the fifth word in the newsletter is the actual username, and the 20th word is the password. Thank you, and have a nice day.
I actually did that once. Sent it to my 'junk' email. Still get the emails. Don't think I ever made it onto the server, either.
nah, she'll get emails saying
'Do you want to increase your ejaculation by 581%?!'
or
'Great new cream increses your penis by 12 inches!'
wait, that's just what I get in my email.....
Tryin to get points with the ladies I see.
;)
Good job, you're one of the few that realize it works
What geek isn't?
Girl geeks.
We just don't like other women
i'm perfectly happy with cloud9.org
it wasn't me
i swear!
Agreed, but that only includes some software problems. The other amount has to do with the fact that a) people are running outdated software and haven't bothered to patch it and b) they don't know how to use it (ran out of the car without locking the doors at all).
Heck there are even people who would stick the check in their front window of their old, crappy car. (at least if it was a new one it'd be harder to get into).
In any case, I agree somewhat. Yes there are software companies who don't test through their software enough to find the spot where if you hit it enough you can get in. However I think that those are the only companies that should be held liable for security breaches. I can't imagine they'd last long in this age anyways the way word travels.
I have no idea why I'm babbling on about this, so I'll shut up now.
Right. A better analogy (going with the car theme here) would be something like:
I have a $30,000 check sitting in my car, not necessarily completely hidden and locked in the glove box, but out of view none the less. Now, my car is an '86 Caprice Classic. So basically if anyone is actually looking (which in this industry they would have to figure out what server the info is on), they'd be able to get into the car with a slim jim, no problem. Rifle around a bit, find the nice check, sign the check over to themselves and there ya go. (If you're having problems with the check thory, you can still use an American Express credit card as bait.)
Is it Chevy's problem for making crappy locks, or should I have taken the check out of that car and put it into a 2002 Lexus with all the bells and whistles of alarms it takes to get in there. If you don't have the security, don't put valuable information on the machines, that's your own stupidity, not the software companies'.
You mean people actually install new kernels from RPMs?
They shouldn't call themselves linux users.