What is that even? A better submission summery might have read "Guy who hates movies about costumed heroes and is a bit hung up about it reminds self that movies without costumed heroes will continue to be watchable."
Because he's secretly stroking it to the girls in costumes the whole time and wishes he had a girlfriend who would dress up JUST THE ONE time!
I have a 2010 Camaro SS, which has the older version of the OnStar firmware that is not compatible with their mobile app. Now I'm relatively happy about that. One less attack vector to worry about.
Yeah isn't it great? Actually, I've got a little older model, it looks and runs like the same car from The Flintstones, and doesn't have any of those fancy electro-gizmos like an "engine". Just good ol' feet power my baby, so they they want to come along and steal it, they're welcome to!
When I shop at newegg.ca the reviews can also be by verified owners, who actually bought the product. I tend to check off that when looking at reviews. Everything else is fluff.
..hack the servers and keep them open for another year or so? I mean.. their so good at keeping the servers offline, let's see if they can keep them online!
If you have kids, then you'd understand. I bought the DVD of Finding Nemo when it came out, and like a lot of other parents, ending up playing the DVD over and over and over and... well you get the point. I'm not exaggerating when I say that i've played that movie over a hundred times easy...
Can you imagine if I had to stream it down every single time? Oh lord, I can see my cable internet provider cringing at the thought...
I was in that boat as well - and yes, a bootlegged copy of XP Pro was "good enough" - but after M$ decided to add WGA to the required security updates, everyone with half a brain knew where this was going, and I never updated again. Eventually, I reported my copy to Microsoft as illegal and got a shiny new product key for the discount price of $199 which was cheaper than going to the store and buying an OEM version (so it pays to pirate?).
The WGA update I can confirm does validate product keys (it is what forced me to upgrade), and essentially cripples the OS with a nice message that states the copy of windows is illegal and only allows you access to purchase a new product key.
Of course this was back in 2009ish or so, so I don't remember quite everything, but old article is old.
Other than getting a free Sony Blu-Ray player recently, I really try to avoid Sony products as a rule. I used to LOVE them, their receiver line was one of the best ten years ago, but the only thing I would entertain buying these days is MAYBE a LCD TV. There is just so much better choices out there these days and i'm not into buying name brand for the name anymore.. having a family will do that to ya:)
Oh.... and if we could bundle some of these crappier streams with popular streams, and charge a flat rate for the bundle, this would really be a great value add for the customer!
If my wife didn't watch TV, i'd stop subscribing tommorow, so I hear you loud and clear.
Cable companies could make more money if they could just become repositories for programming on demand for everything. So basically they become one giant PVR - and charge per episode or per season for programming - of course, advertisers would want them to force ads, but if I had enough money to start it up, id offer a full streaming on demand service - one subsidized by on screen ads while you were watching programming and one where you paid to have no ads.
Then if I wanted no ads on a series of programming, for 20 episodes I'd pay like $20.00 for the season, and would have a month to view it. If I wanted to do single episodes, then i'd charge $2 per episode for instance. The thing is, like being in a restaurant - it's all about the selection, and if the selection is good and what people want, they will gladly pay through the nose for it.
You kidding me? I work with 3 monitors at work and come home to one. Personally I think it's more about entitlement and ego than actual need.
Now could I do with one monitor at work? No, because I need to be watching real time status screens displaying information that I need to visibly see at all times. Does coding require watching two or three screens of information at one time? Not really.
I suppose that is very much in line with music / movie downloaders telling artists that they should be happy that they're downloading because it helps spread the word. Or something.
More like the RIAA telling the artists that they should be happy because they made them a superstar, while they cash in on their fame.
Well I wouldn't agree that they don't know what their doing, but I did one time have some girl who stated she was 12 years old try to add me as a friend. I'm old enough to be her father, so needless to say, it was a bit awkward, not withstanding that I didn't even know how she was. Then she states "But i'm a mature 12 years old!"
Blocked and reported to FB. 10 minutes later her profile is completely gone and her name is no longer searchable.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was some kind of law enforcement agency, but if you admit your under 13, i'm going to immediately report you.
As someone who works in an office, where there is nothing but computers at every desk, I wouldn't DREAM of actually upgrading my system. Sure I could buy a nice 26" inch widescreen for my desk, but why? The real question becomes, who's responsible if something goes wrong? Every computer is a shared system, just because it was "assigned" to you, doesn't make it yours. If the computer breaks, you'll obviously expect an immediate replacement, and guess what? It'll be replaced by a refurbished system. Don't even get me started when people swap parts from one system with another - i've spent hours listening to IT bitch and complain about that as well.
Also IT has things like inventory and accountability, something that the GP clearly doesn't understand or wants to understand.
Pretty selfish thinking to be honest, i'm sure the GP doesn't work in any kind of corporate environment at all.
"Anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I'm not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door. Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else's server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony."
Here's the other half that doesn't usually get picked up - people are generally apathetic to this whole situation. Many people don't even know who Geohot is, and most likely don't care either. The ones who are most vocal about the network being offline are the ones who are online 24/7 anyways. Although i'm addressing this to a crowd that generally basement dwells, people generally have lives and most won't even notice. I have hundred and hundreds of "friends" on Facebook, some who I know are heavily into technology and console gaming, and practically nothing has been mentioned except for what i'm seeing posted on/. and similar technology related blogs and news aggregators.
tldr: Geohot is taking advantage by not taking advantage, and generally no one really cares outside of the circle.
The ADSL service provided by my local telco (MTS - Manitoba Telecom Services) features unlimited access, but they also provide a free wireless gateway that AUTOMATICALLY has encryption enabled. The password is the serial number for the unit, so it's clear that they really don't want you to share your connection by default. Besides, I only get about 2200kbps/35000kbps so it wouldn't take a whole lot to saturate my connection, if they were to do a lot of uploading.
The whole idea of someone else using my internet connection that i'm responsible for creeps me out. At the end of the day, it's my name on the bill and my address.
No, because they assume that it is the right number and your probably the people they are looking for; your just not admitting it.
I had a collection agency almost a decade ago now actually call my inlaws and say "I'm looking for Sean Vaandering, i'm actually an old relative of his and just looking for his current phone number so I can call him up and wish him a happy birthday and send this present to him? Did you happen to have his current phone number?"
Oh that was brilliant. Here I am, unlisted number and they come calling one day and i'm racking my brains on how the hell did they all of a sudden get my phone number!? Then my wife talks to her mom that evening and she admits that someone called earlier today asking for our phone number and wanting to ship us a gift. Thanks mother-in-law! Appreciate that. Needless to say, we settled that debt, but we were so damn close to 7 years, that it literally would have dropped off and became unreported on my credit report and a noncollectable debt. I actually had someone who used to work at a collections agency tell me in confidence that I shouldn't pay it back because once the debt falls off your credit report, the collection agency legally cannot collect it and cannot enforce any legal action against you to collect it.
That little act cost me 7 more years of low credit score because once I actually paid it, the collection agency updated my credit report stating the R9 was paid in full - but that now means the R9 remains on my file for ANOTHER 7 years, needless to say I paid dearly when I financed a car I absolutely needed at the time (new baby, taking the bus was not in the cards).
Today, the bank who originally sent the file to the collection agency over 15 years ago now just sent me another mailing asking me to sign up for a pre-approved Platinum $10,000 credit card. Please. Never ever in a thousand years, and i'd love to be able to blast someone there for sending me this crap, but alas, I don't want to blow a hole through some front line lackey, for something that happened probably when he was in diapers. Things are different today, and it was a very long and expensive lesson on collection agencies, but the moral of this story is:
Do not fuck with collection agencies, they are paid for one thing and one thing only: To collect unpaid debt at any cost.
Pay your bills on time and every time - especially if the company updates your credit report. It really is that simple. Not paying at all should NEVER EVER be an option your considering.
I have a shiny Sony X10 Xperia touchphone, and I shudder to think how playing Farmville would even look or "feel" on this phone. It's one thing to have a 26" widescreen display and a mouse, it is a whole different world when you've got me... Fat Finger Freddy, trying to plow fields on a 5" touchscreen. Not to mention another challenge is, are they going to migrate every game into Java? Flash does not work on my phone and it not even an option to install (not that i'd want to, i'm perfectly happy without it on mobile).
Make no mistake, if they can get over the barriers to successful adoption on mobile, then they will truly get scores of people addicted to their phones like never before. Hell, people are addicted to their phones right now and that's just reading text back and forth.
I literally had to shut down every game linked to my profile on Facebook and block them, because it just chewed up way too much time in my day. Those damn games are simple and addictive!
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What is that even? A better submission summery might have read "Guy who hates movies about costumed heroes and is a bit hung up about it reminds self that movies without costumed heroes will continue to be watchable."
Because he's secretly stroking it to the girls in costumes the whole time and wishes he had a girlfriend who would dress up JUST THE ONE time!
I have a 2010 Camaro SS, which has the older version of the OnStar firmware that is not compatible with their mobile app. Now I'm relatively happy about that. One less attack vector to worry about.
Yeah isn't it great? Actually, I've got a little older model, it looks and runs like the same car from The Flintstones, and doesn't have any of those fancy electro-gizmos like an "engine". Just good ol' feet power my baby, so they they want to come along and steal it, they're welcome to!
Or someone bricks your car on the highway while you're driving it because you cut them off.
You mean with a real brick?
When I shop at newegg.ca the reviews can also be by verified owners, who actually bought the product. I tend to check off that when looking at reviews. Everything else is fluff.
.. you never go back.
/or so I've heard..
..hack the servers and keep them open for another year or so? I mean.. their so good at keeping the servers offline, let's see if they can keep them online!
If you have kids, then you'd understand. I bought the DVD of Finding Nemo when it came out, and like a lot of other parents, ending up playing the DVD over and over and over and... well you get the point. I'm not exaggerating when I say that i've played that movie over a hundred times easy...
Can you imagine if I had to stream it down every single time? Oh lord, I can see my cable internet provider cringing at the thought...
Are you freakin serious?
Rodney King might disagree with your opinion.
That said, there is an argument to be made that iAnything means Apple.
No there isn't. iPaq. iPlayer. iOS (not the new version), iMail, IHOP, iCloud...
You do realize that you can get apples baked right into your pancakes?
We didn't need a report to prove this point. :)
I was in that boat as well - and yes, a bootlegged copy of XP Pro was "good enough" - but after M$ decided to add WGA to the required security updates, everyone with half a brain knew where this was going, and I never updated again. Eventually, I reported my copy to Microsoft as illegal and got a shiny new product key for the discount price of $199 which was cheaper than going to the store and buying an OEM version (so it pays to pirate?).
The WGA update I can confirm does validate product keys (it is what forced me to upgrade), and essentially cripples the OS with a nice message that states the copy of windows is illegal and only allows you access to purchase a new product key.
Of course this was back in 2009ish or so, so I don't remember quite everything, but old article is old.
Other than getting a free Sony Blu-Ray player recently, I really try to avoid Sony products as a rule. I used to LOVE them, their receiver line was one of the best ten years ago, but the only thing I would entertain buying these days is MAYBE a LCD TV. There is just so much better choices out there these days and i'm not into buying name brand for the name anymore.. having a family will do that to ya :)
Oh.... and if we could bundle some of these crappier streams with popular streams, and charge a flat rate for the bundle, this would really be a great value add for the customer!
If my wife didn't watch TV, i'd stop subscribing tommorow, so I hear you loud and clear.
:)
Cable companies could make more money if they could just become repositories for programming on demand for everything. So basically they become one giant PVR - and charge per episode or per season for programming - of course, advertisers would want them to force ads, but if I had enough money to start it up, id offer a full streaming on demand service - one subsidized by on screen ads while you were watching programming and one where you paid to have no ads.
Then if I wanted no ads on a series of programming, for 20 episodes I'd pay like $20.00 for the season, and would have a month to view it. If I wanted to do single episodes, then i'd charge $2 per episode for instance. The thing is, like being in a restaurant - it's all about the selection, and if the selection is good and what people want, they will gladly pay through the nose for it.
Fantasy I know, but I can dream
You kidding me? I work with 3 monitors at work and come home to one. Personally I think it's more about entitlement and ego than actual need.
Now could I do with one monitor at work? No, because I need to be watching real time status screens displaying information that I need to visibly see at all times. Does coding require watching two or three screens of information at one time? Not really.
I suppose that is very much in line with music / movie downloaders telling artists that they should be happy that they're downloading because it helps spread the word. Or something.
More like the RIAA telling the artists that they should be happy because they made them a superstar, while they cash in on their fame.
Well I wouldn't agree that they don't know what their doing, but I did one time have some girl who stated she was 12 years old try to add me as a friend. I'm old enough to be her father, so needless to say, it was a bit awkward, not withstanding that I didn't even know how she was. Then she states "But i'm a mature 12 years old!"
Blocked and reported to FB. 10 minutes later her profile is completely gone and her name is no longer searchable.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was some kind of law enforcement agency, but if you admit your under 13, i'm going to immediately report you.
...personally since we want his siblings (recursive) as well i'd go with...
/bin/laden
rm -rf
but nicely done +1 indeed.
Mod parent up.
As someone who works in an office, where there is nothing but computers at every desk, I wouldn't DREAM of actually upgrading my system. Sure I could buy a nice 26" inch widescreen for my desk, but why? The real question becomes, who's responsible if something goes wrong? Every computer is a shared system, just because it was "assigned" to you, doesn't make it yours. If the computer breaks, you'll obviously expect an immediate replacement, and guess what? It'll be replaced by a refurbished system. Don't even get me started when people swap parts from one system with another - i've spent hours listening to IT bitch and complain about that as well.
Also IT has things like inventory and accountability, something that the GP clearly doesn't understand or wants to understand.
Pretty selfish thinking to be honest, i'm sure the GP doesn't work in any kind of corporate environment at all.
"Anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I'm not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door. Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else's server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony."
/. and similar technology related blogs and news aggregators.
Here's the other half that doesn't usually get picked up - people are generally apathetic to this whole situation. Many people don't even know who Geohot is, and most likely don't care either. The ones who are most vocal about the network being offline are the ones who are online 24/7 anyways. Although i'm addressing this to a crowd that generally basement dwells, people generally have lives and most won't even notice. I have hundred and hundreds of "friends" on Facebook, some who I know are heavily into technology and console gaming, and practically nothing has been mentioned except for what i'm seeing posted on
tldr: Geohot is taking advantage by not taking advantage, and generally no one really cares outside of the circle.
The ADSL service provided by my local telco (MTS - Manitoba Telecom Services) features unlimited access, but they also provide a free wireless gateway that AUTOMATICALLY has encryption enabled. The password is the serial number for the unit, so it's clear that they really don't want you to share your connection by default. Besides, I only get about 2200kbps/35000kbps so it wouldn't take a whole lot to saturate my connection, if they were to do a lot of uploading.
The whole idea of someone else using my internet connection that i'm responsible for creeps me out. At the end of the day, it's my name on the bill and my address.
....which also means if that added clause is found to be illegal in your state, the above may not apply to you.
No, because they assume that it is the right number and your probably the people they are looking for; your just not admitting it.
I had a collection agency almost a decade ago now actually call my inlaws and say "I'm looking for Sean Vaandering, i'm actually an old relative of his and just looking for his current phone number so I can call him up and wish him a happy birthday and send this present to him? Did you happen to have his current phone number?"
Oh that was brilliant. Here I am, unlisted number and they come calling one day and i'm racking my brains on how the hell did they all of a sudden get my phone number!? Then my wife talks to her mom that evening and she admits that someone called earlier today asking for our phone number and wanting to ship us a gift. Thanks mother-in-law! Appreciate that. Needless to say, we settled that debt, but we were so damn close to 7 years, that it literally would have dropped off and became unreported on my credit report and a noncollectable debt. I actually had someone who used to work at a collections agency tell me in confidence that I shouldn't pay it back because once the debt falls off your credit report, the collection agency legally cannot collect it and cannot enforce any legal action against you to collect it.
That little act cost me 7 more years of low credit score because once I actually paid it, the collection agency updated my credit report stating the R9 was paid in full - but that now means the R9 remains on my file for ANOTHER 7 years, needless to say I paid dearly when I financed a car I absolutely needed at the time (new baby, taking the bus was not in the cards).
Today, the bank who originally sent the file to the collection agency over 15 years ago now just sent me another mailing asking me to sign up for a pre-approved Platinum $10,000 credit card. Please. Never ever in a thousand years, and i'd love to be able to blast someone there for sending me this crap, but alas, I don't want to blow a hole through some front line lackey, for something that happened probably when he was in diapers. Things are different today, and it was a very long and expensive lesson on collection agencies, but the moral of this story is:
Do not fuck with collection agencies, they are paid for one thing and one thing only: To collect unpaid debt at any cost.
Pay your bills on time and every time - especially if the company updates your credit report. It really is that simple. Not paying at all should NEVER EVER be an option your considering.
..and i'll be busy in my bedroom...
...coding machine language!
/What!?
I have a shiny Sony X10 Xperia touchphone, and I shudder to think how playing Farmville would even look or "feel" on this phone. It's one thing to have a 26" widescreen display and a mouse, it is a whole different world when you've got me... Fat Finger Freddy, trying to plow fields on a 5" touchscreen. Not to mention another challenge is, are they going to migrate every game into Java? Flash does not work on my phone and it not even an option to install (not that i'd want to, i'm perfectly happy without it on mobile).
Make no mistake, if they can get over the barriers to successful adoption on mobile, then they will truly get scores of people addicted to their phones like never before. Hell, people are addicted to their phones right now and that's just reading text back and forth.
I literally had to shut down every game linked to my profile on Facebook and block them, because it just chewed up way too much time in my day. Those damn games are simple and addictive!