You'd be surprised how little it takes to get a company's attention.
Tomorrow, at when they're reviewing a Severity-1 incident call on the morning issues log and the RCA is DDOS by "black fax," some engineering team is going to spend plenty of time and money working on the fix.
Having myfax.com and other free internet faxing services not accepting faces for "the bad guys" will also be a win for Anonymous.
The short-term damage is in the prank.
The long-term damage is in the fallout.
...sure, it might go to a mail server as an attachment....but they have a limited number of phone lines, and all of the 1-page junk faxes in my inbox are 40k.
If their fax number is perpetually busy, then they're missing whatever business they need that fax for.
DDOS.
And because the fax line is for "real" business, someone has to, at minimum, open and look at all of them.
Further, despite the fact that I have a fax that dumps to my Exchange mailbox, it doesn't mean that we don't have physical fax machines still.
While I'm certainly in favor of renting games in general, this certainly has at least ONE replay in it. The difference between a a good, evil, or even "middle of the road" adventure provide quite different experiences.
An oversimplification.
Again, I'm not suggesting the job is worth it FOR ME, but $40 to pre-install all updates, clean up the bloat-ware (at least visually), and perform a few tweaks (status bars enabled, automatic updates enabled, etc.) isn't out of line for a big-box company to charge.
The problem isn't that they offer the service and that you get marginal value for it -- the problem that Consumerist has is that you can't seem to avoid paying for it.
"Sorry, they're all pre-optimized."
...of course this is probably a junk "service," but it's unlikely that the reference PCs were bloated with the sort of crap that they MIGHT be removing in the service.
Sure, they probably update drivers and "set aside" obvious bloatware, but other than that, they can't do anything -- and your reference PCs are probably least likely to get benefit from that, ahem, service.
Correction:
If you had automatic updates on, you DID CHOOSE to install this; as you made that choice when choosing to allow automatic updating of your machine.
GrandCentral - from whom I've had a number since before Google bought them - gives you the option of providing either (a) the caller's caller-ID, or (b) GrandCentral's caller-ID. If you use option (b), you give up knowing who's calling you before picking up the phone, but you can add GrandCentral to your "Fave-5" or whever you might have.
GrandCentral will still tell you who's calling, of ocurse...
I work in the IT "automation" department of a company where I help support 30,000 desktops and 2,000 servers. Nearly 5,000 of our desktops now run a shell replacement that was designed only as a way to prevent a small number of machines from ever having access to their printer settings. Someone at the top liked it, and now our tiny widget is a desktop standard.
Every time that song is on the air, I remark that it was the first "dirty" word I had ever heard broadcast on the radio or television.
I imagine it got censored somewhere/sometime, but the Wikipedia page notes (without reference) that it's pretty much always been played that way, with little controversy.
I'm not entirely certain if you can see 100x odds any more, but they HAVE been available, and may still be. I don't have full surfing of gambling websites from work.
That said, most odds are moving to what they call 3-4-5x odds, which allow you to place 3x odds on the 4 and 10, 4x odds on the 5 and 9, and only 3x odds on the 6 and 8. This (a) allows the players to place reasonable odds bets, (b) minimizes the casinos exposure, and (c) most importantly, makes the game easier for the dealers as a full odds bet will always pay 6 times the pass bet. The easier for the dealers, the FASTER the game plays, and the more the casino makes.
If you're not seeing 3-4-5x odds at your favorite casino, it may be coming.
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Depending on how you look at it, there are four love scenes. The male character can end up with Ash or the Asari. The female character can end up with Kaiden or the Asari.
To get the love scene, you have to do two things.
(a) Finish a majority of the game. (b) Talk to your love interest for about 2 minutes four of five times after major milestones.
To get the love scene, you need to add about 30 minutes of playtime to your game (the dialog, walking, loading, etc.)
Having seen both the "normal" love scene, and it's "not-quite-lesbian" version, I'll remind you all that it's pretty darned tame. It could be shown, uninterrupted, unedited on prime time television. Much worse is shown in COMMERCIALS for television shows.
Seriously, have a few more people, and have them be slightly more efficient.
You don't need to see my boarding pass more than once. Any idiot can print one of those anyway. Make the parts of the screening process independant of each other. There's no reason the boarding pass guy should be able to have ANY impact on the metal dection guy or the x-ray guy. I'll gladly take my shoes and belt off if I don't have to stand in line for 45 minutes. As others have pointed out, you know EXACTLY how many planes are taking off today. Staff correctly. I'll pay $1 more per ticket.
The problem is that this week, with the XBL outages, you can't sign in as yourself -- at all. So you're stuck not being able play your own games IF you switched to a new 360 and you need your gamertag to validate ownership.
I'm forced to disagree. Carcassonne makes a GREAT 360 game. While you may like or dislike it for whatever reasons you may have, online play optimized by a computer scorekeeper and rule-manager is fantastic. No "mistakes" playing on a 360. You can't make an accident setting a follower on the wrong land, etc. It's good for a number of the reasons that UNO makes a good 360 game -- without the vastly higher luck factor in UNO.
I'm only upset that they're not giving something ELSE to those of us who bought Carcassonne already...
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You'd be surprised how little it takes to get a company's attention.
Tomorrow, at when they're reviewing a Severity-1 incident call on the morning issues log and the RCA is DDOS by "black fax," some engineering team is going to spend plenty of time and money working on the fix.
Anonymous has their attention, I assure you.
Having myfax.com and other free internet faxing services not accepting faces for "the bad guys" will also be a win for Anonymous. The short-term damage is in the prank. The long-term damage is in the fallout.
...sure, it might go to a mail server as an attachment. ...but they have a limited number of phone lines, and all of the 1-page junk faxes in my inbox are 40k.
If their fax number is perpetually busy, then they're missing whatever business they need that fax for.
DDOS.
And because the fax line is for "real" business, someone has to, at minimum, open and look at all of them.
Further, despite the fact that I have a fax that dumps to my Exchange mailbox, it doesn't mean that we don't have physical fax machines still.
Actually, since the Treasury accepts credit cards, you can use reward cards to get as many free points as you'd like.
A quick internet search will show hundreds of people cycling these for cashback.
Uh, it's going to notify you... ...that's warning.
While I'm certainly in favor of renting games in general, this certainly has at least ONE replay in it. The difference between a a good, evil, or even "middle of the road" adventure provide quite different experiences.
An oversimplification. Again, I'm not suggesting the job is worth it FOR ME, but $40 to pre-install all updates, clean up the bloat-ware (at least visually), and perform a few tweaks (status bars enabled, automatic updates enabled, etc.) isn't out of line for a big-box company to charge. The problem isn't that they offer the service and that you get marginal value for it -- the problem that Consumerist has is that you can't seem to avoid paying for it. "Sorry, they're all pre-optimized."
...of course this is probably a junk "service," but it's unlikely that the reference PCs were bloated with the sort of crap that they MIGHT be removing in the service.
Sure, they probably update drivers and "set aside" obvious bloatware, but other than that, they can't do anything -- and your reference PCs are probably least likely to get benefit from that, ahem, service.
He's going to have to etch his barcodes into cut diamonds. Those are going to outlast pretty much everything.
Correction: If you had automatic updates on, you DID CHOOSE to install this; as you made that choice when choosing to allow automatic updating of your machine.
No, most of the time, copies that you make of the program aren't "...in excess of a license."
Agree or disagree, fine - but the meat of this discussion isn't "programs are copied on execution," but "...in excess of license."
GrandCentral - from whom I've had a number since before Google bought them - gives you the option of providing either (a) the caller's caller-ID, or (b) GrandCentral's caller-ID. If you use option (b), you give up knowing who's calling you before picking up the phone, but you can add GrandCentral to your "Fave-5" or whever you might have.
GrandCentral will still tell you who's calling, of ocurse...
I work for a company with a grandfathered .edu domain - not on the Wikipedia link.
.org site.
Sure, chw.edu is a hospital, and, as such, has student doctors, but it's not a school, as such. It's web presense is redirected to a
Very, very true.
I work in the IT "automation" department of a company where I help support 30,000 desktops and 2,000 servers. Nearly 5,000 of our desktops now run a shell replacement that was designed only as a way to prevent a small number of machines from ever having access to their printer settings. Someone at the top liked it, and now our tiny widget is a desktop standard.
Every time that song is on the air, I remark that it was the first "dirty" word I had ever heard broadcast on the radio or television.
I imagine it got censored somewhere/sometime, but the Wikipedia page notes (without reference) that it's pretty much always been played that way, with little controversy.
10,000 pages != 10,000 sites. ...unless the sites each only have one page.
Current link (from wikileaks.cx) working just fine... A lowly 60k/sec, but that's just a minute or two download.
I'm not entirely certain if you can see 100x odds any more, but they HAVE been available, and may still be. I don't have full surfing of gambling websites from work.
http://www.google.com/search?q=100x+odds
That said, most odds are moving to what they call 3-4-5x odds, which allow you to place 3x odds on the 4 and 10, 4x odds on the 5 and 9, and only 3x odds on the 6 and 8. This (a) allows the players to place reasonable odds bets, (b) minimizes the casinos exposure, and (c) most importantly, makes the game easier for the dealers as a full odds bet will always pay 6 times the pass bet. The easier for the dealers, the FASTER the game plays, and the more the casino makes.
If you're not seeing 3-4-5x odds at your favorite casino, it may be coming.
http://www.google.com/search?q=3-4-5x+odd
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Entry is only open to Australian residents residing in NSW, VIC, QLD, NT, or SA who are Microsoft OEM Channel Partners. The promotion commences at 09:00am (Sydney time) on Friday 14th December 2007 and closes at 11:59pm (Sydney time) on Friday 14th March 2008 ("Promotional Period"). The Promoter's decision in relation to all aspects of this promotion is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
That's not entirely true.
Depending on how you look at it, there are four love scenes. The male character can end up with Ash or the Asari. The female character can end up with Kaiden or the Asari.
To get the love scene, you have to do two things.
(a) Finish a majority of the game.
(b) Talk to your love interest for about 2 minutes four of five times after major milestones.
To get the love scene, you need to add about 30 minutes of playtime to your game (the dialog, walking, loading, etc.)
Having seen both the "normal" love scene, and it's "not-quite-lesbian" version, I'll remind you all that it's pretty darned tame. It could be shown, uninterrupted, unedited on prime time television. Much worse is shown in COMMERCIALS for television shows.
No, they still haven't turned a profit.
No, games aren't $100 ea.
A "Year" of Live is 13 months.
If you feel this service isn't worth it, please don't buy it.
Seriously, have a few more people, and have them be slightly more efficient.
You don't need to see my boarding pass more than once. Any idiot can print one of those anyway.
Make the parts of the screening process independant of each other. There's no reason the boarding pass guy should be able to have ANY impact on the metal dection guy or the x-ray guy.
I'll gladly take my shoes and belt off if I don't have to stand in line for 45 minutes. As others have pointed out, you know EXACTLY how many planes are taking off today. Staff correctly. I'll pay $1 more per ticket.
The problem is that this week, with the XBL outages, you can't sign in as yourself -- at all. So you're stuck not being able play your own games IF you switched to a new 360 and you need your gamertag to validate ownership.
I'm forced to disagree. Carcassonne makes a GREAT 360 game. While you may like or dislike it for whatever reasons you may have, online play optimized by a computer scorekeeper and rule-manager is fantastic. No "mistakes" playing on a 360. You can't make an accident setting a follower on the wrong land, etc. It's good for a number of the reasons that UNO makes a good 360 game -- without the vastly higher luck factor in UNO.
I'm only upset that they're not giving something ELSE to those of us who bought Carcassonne already...