"Make him wonder which one of his buddies that he bragged to will turn him in."
The 1 million for conviction is nice, but they should also offer a $50,000 reward just for his arrest because convictions can take years but arrests usually happen within days of police finding evidence.
I'd turn in my friends for 50 grand if they did something so stupid, but then, how do you get rewarded for securing a company's security holes? If he politely told them what they did wrong, he'd be accused of being a hacker and arrested anyway, but if he keeps his month shut there's only a matter of time before someone else uses it for evil purposes.
"I haven't trusted any vendor on pricewatch to deliver a product remotely resembling what I ordered, at the same price as on the website, in anything less than 2-3 weeks... for over 5 years. Used to use pricewatch religiously, until I started hitting something like a 20% failure rate on receiving my products..."
So you have 144 minutes vs 66 minutes, and don't forget 100gb on DVDs means swapping discs every 5 minutes for over 2 hours. Sounds like a fun way to waste 2 hours to save $4.38 cents ($8.70 for 100gb on a 1tb drive vs $4.32 for 24 DVD-Rs).
DVDs may be sufficient for less than 10gB of data, but if you're using it for weekly backups a few external hard drives would be much easier.
"I did part-time programming for a company for a year, recently. I never used the printer."
If you read the article: "I work for a small manufacturing company....", so I'm guessing they probably print shipping labels, invoices, etc. Obviously some offices use printers less often.
"Even if your current task requires the printer, you can probably work on a future task..."
True, but you can't guarantee that 100% of the time. I suppose he could ask each person he helps with a printer issue if they had other work they could have done if he couldn't help them with that.... ok printer's a bad example. How about router issues? Or shared drive issues? Point being there's some tasks he does that effect the entire office, and if it goes out and they have to wait hours for geeksquad to show up that could mean salary for entire office being lost.
"No point planning beyond 40% of the build for me."
Agreed.
Also the article is wrong. The guy built it from aluminum parts he made. This isn't a real Lamborghini. This is equivalent to someone building a PC case out of scrap metal and calling it Antec or Coolermaster.
don't get me wrong it looks nice, but "Lamborghini" is a real brand name. What he did was custom build a car that looks like a Lamborghini.
"Bingo. Games used to be fun because of their interesting mechanics, not their realism."
Exactly. This is how the Nintendo Gameboy lasted from 1989 to nearly 2000 without updates, despite much better systems out there like the NeoGeo and Atari Lynx. The gameboy had games that were fun to play.
I loved the original top down Final Fantasy games and Zelda A Link to the Past was amazing, I'd like to see more games in those series created like that rather than all the 3D crap they have now.
"So, what would the going contractor rates have cost the company for all the break-fix type work you've been doing, not to mention the preventative actions?"
Exactly. If your position wasn't there, who would step in and make the repairs? Contractors, geek squad or similar.
To calculate what you are worth, simply keep a log of all the tech support calls you do in a week. Anytime you help someone, regardless of how small, or restart a server or fix a printer or do anything tech support related at all, write it down. Then call some tech support contractors and ask how much they would charge for the various tasks, but pretend you're dumb and you're really having that problem, ask them how long it will take to get to your office. Remember to calculate the length of time it takes them to arrive as loss productivity for the employee or employees, because a printer problem affecting the entire office means no one can work. Then do the math.
I think you'll quickly see your monthly paycheck would be spent almost daily if they were to call contractors all the time, and the amount of money the DBA is saving will look like nothing compared to your position.
Stupid question, but why is the poster still using CDs for data? Hard drives are down to 10 cents per gigabyte, so why would anyone take the time and data risk to still burn information to CDs? I'm slowly moving away from even DVDs.
"Could the free advertising it gets from rap music be a partial cause of this?"
Yes, because everyone that makes between 25k and 50k listen to rap music.
I don't see why it's so shocking that households making less than 50k are buying iPhones. They're $199 now and the cost of the available cellphone plans aren't much different than traditional phones. All this proves is it's become mainstream, no need for discriminating comments.
"so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature. All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.'""
spoken like a true tyrant. "Obey me, or I will be forced to hurt you. I don't want to hurt you but you're forcing me".
I know you guys are joking, but I think the Army has a point. Twitter could easily be used to quickly tell a large group of people what is going on no matter where they are more effectively than chatrooms or email. Useful for friends and terrorists alike.
"That's the last time I spend over $100 on a case.
Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it, especially if it comes WITHOUT a power supply"
I purchased a Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 a few years ago for ~$150. Giant case, room for two power supplies (one top, one bottom), 11 5.25" bays, removable enclosure for four 3.5" hard drives with a 120mm fan on the front of the enclosure for cooling and a side vent large enough for a 300mm fan directly above where the CPU and video card is. I've used it through two motherboards and have no intentions of replacing it for many more years.
Cases are the one thing that lasts through several iterations of CPUs and upgrades so, if anything, that's where you should do the most research when building your own PC and spend some real $$$$. Saying "Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it" is like saying "No one needs more than 640k of ram". PC enthusiasts drop $200 on a video card or CPU that they'll only keep a year or two and don't bat an eye, so what's wrong with dropping $200 on a case that you'll keep 3 or 4 years?
"It cost me 59 dollars.
I'm not so sure the iPod is "safe"."
iPod is very safe. It's not speed or size or cost that matters, it's content and usability.
Anyone remember the Nintendo Gameboy? It survived 10 years running 4 shades of gray while other portable game systems had full color and much more graphic intensive games. Same with NES, Sega systems offered much more but where's Sega now?
Long as iTunes only works with iPods they will be safe. Being able to link with iTunes and purchase content online and also automatically download new content to the iPod without clicking 10 buttons or converting formats will keep them safe for a long time.
Funny thing about this "computer" is I actually bought one of these 3 years ago at a local general merchandise store (like Family Dollar) in the US. Think I spent $20 and it it broke within a hour. Keyboard was cheap junk and nothing worked right. The "99,999 programs" is actually closer to 99 programs but 100 variations each with different colors.
So this really isn't a "$12 MIT Computer" considering you can buy these at any cheap general store. I had no idea at the time that someday someone at MIT would stumble across it and plaster their name all over it and make/. headlines.
"I don't know if anybody saw Wall-E yet so spoiler ahead, but there are people in the future that are fat, live on hyper sleds, and do nothing but watch advertisement-laden tv while stuffing their pie holes with food."
only fast-food at that, and sucking down soda. I thought of the movie too when I saw this article.
3.7mph is a fast walk, and remember that's maximum top speed (so it probably only gets that going downhill) and I'm sure that's if the passenger is a ideal weight, but the release doesn't disclose weight limit.
I have a feeling people will be walking pass people riding on these so I think they'll have a hard time selling them if they're more than $100. Even the $99 electric scooter @ Walmart does 10mph so who'd want a Segaway doing 3.7mph?
"I'm not saying that TSA shouldn't have these powers, but....they don't always give you a hard time. "
Good to know! Alright I say we give them more powers then, let them shoot on site and be judge, jury and executioner. I mean if it worked out well for you that means everyone will be fine, right?
"A couple who made a combined net income of $5000/month were given a loan, by credible, big name lender, where their monthly payment was going to be $3500."
That's because what they put on their 1033 loan app wasn't $5,000/mo because you can't exceed a 50% DTI... well sometimes 60% but that's very rare. They probably went stated income, claimed they were making 10+ grand a month and got the house.
The LO probably coached them on this, so the LO is just as guilty if not more so for not walking away from the deal. LO could have gotten bank statements and paycheck stubs if requested. The LO knew about the car payments and credit cards because of course it showed up on their credit report.
"bet Hasbro regrets not giving these guys job offers rather than legal complaints."
prolly hard since they've already said they made $25,000+ a month from Scrabulous. I think if I were the guys I'd be begging Hasbro to buy the game from them for a few bucks rather than lose a lawsuit and lose all the money they've made and the game itself.
Also the english pronunciation of Scrabulous is very similar to Scrabble. No one questioned why Lindows was sued by Microsoft for sounding like Windows, so why are we shocked when Scrabulous gets sued?
"it's because people don't want to play a knockoff, they want to play Scrabble."
Exactly. They've been stealing Scrabble's design for years and have become rich from it. I hope Hasbro sues them for years of theft because what good is copyright or trademark if someone can steal it for a few years, make millions from it, then say "Oops Sorry!" and then give it back and walk away with the money?
FTA: "On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of their time gossiping and a disproportionate amount of servers that had failed while gossiping. With a large number of servers gossiping and failing while gossiping, Amazon S3 wasn't able to successfully process many customer requests."
sounds like a restaurant, gossiping servers were failing to process customer requests
"........a *much* higher rate of return than prison. I'm not saying we should keep murderers out of prison, but unarmed robbery?"
agreed. Let the punishment fit the crime. The guy's crime is he sat at a PC and sent out unsolicited emails, he shouldn't be in the same jail as a murderer or rapist or any violent offender.
but the guy should have ran. "His bank account deposits from 2003 to 2006 totaled $3.5 million". He had plenty of cash, he could have escaped to some little south american country and became a hermit and no one would have bothered searching for a non-violent (until now) convicted spammer with a 21 month sentence to serve.
A don't tell me he couldn't cross the border because illegal immigrants do it all the time.
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"Make him wonder which one of his buddies that he bragged to will turn him in."
The 1 million for conviction is nice, but they should also offer a $50,000 reward just for his arrest because convictions can take years but arrests usually happen within days of police finding evidence.
I'd turn in my friends for 50 grand if they did something so stupid, but then, how do you get rewarded for securing a company's security holes? If he politely told them what they did wrong, he'd be accused of being a hacker and arrested anyway, but if he keeps his month shut there's only a matter of time before someone else uses it for evil purposes.
"I haven't trusted any vendor on pricewatch to deliver a product remotely resembling what I ordered, at the same price as on the website, in anything less than 2-3 weeks... for over 5 years. Used to use pricewatch religiously, until I started hitting something like a 20% failure rate on receiving my products..."
Your lack of trust or your run of bad luck is not up to debate. Point is you can currently purchase 1 terabyte drives for 8.7 cents a gigabyte. And while newegg is selling DVD-Rs at 4 cents a gigabyte (100 DVD-Rs for $18 shipped) you have to figure it takes nearly 5 minutes for a modern 20x DVD-R drive to burn 4.3 gigabytes. Add another minute to swap DVD's and you can see it would take hours to burn just 100 gigabytes.... 100 gig / 4.3 gigabytes = 24 dvds x 6 minutes/dvd = 144 minutes.
Based on these results of a dozen USB2 external hard drives we'll assume a slow USB2 rate of 25 mB/sec, or 1.5 gB/min, taking 66 minutes to transfer 100 gigabytes.
So you have 144 minutes vs 66 minutes, and don't forget 100gb on DVDs means swapping discs every 5 minutes for over 2 hours. Sounds like a fun way to waste 2 hours to save $4.38 cents ($8.70 for 100gb on a 1tb drive vs $4.32 for 24 DVD-Rs).
DVDs may be sufficient for less than 10gB of data, but if you're using it for weekly backups a few external hard drives would be much easier.
"I did part-time programming for a company for a year, recently. I never used the printer."
If you read the article: "I work for a small manufacturing company....", so I'm guessing they probably print shipping labels, invoices, etc. Obviously some offices use printers less often.
"Even if your current task requires the printer, you can probably work on a future task..."
True, but you can't guarantee that 100% of the time. I suppose he could ask each person he helps with a printer issue if they had other work they could have done if he couldn't help them with that.... ok printer's a bad example. How about router issues? Or shared drive issues? Point being there's some tasks he does that effect the entire office, and if it goes out and they have to wait hours for geeksquad to show up that could mean salary for entire office being lost.
no no, this is a funny picture. Especially the look on the guy's face, he's like "how did i end up here?"
"No point planning beyond 40% of the build for me."
Agreed.
Also the article is wrong. The guy built it from aluminum parts he made. This isn't a real Lamborghini. This is equivalent to someone building a PC case out of scrap metal and calling it Antec or Coolermaster.
don't get me wrong it looks nice, but "Lamborghini" is a real brand name. What he did was custom build a car that looks like a Lamborghini.
"Bingo. Games used to be fun because of their interesting mechanics, not their realism."
Exactly. This is how the Nintendo Gameboy lasted from 1989 to nearly 2000 without updates, despite much better systems out there like the NeoGeo and Atari Lynx. The gameboy had games that were fun to play.
I loved the original top down Final Fantasy games and Zelda A Link to the Past was amazing, I'd like to see more games in those series created like that rather than all the 3D crap they have now.
"So, what would the going contractor rates have cost the company for all the break-fix type work you've been doing, not to mention the preventative actions?"
Exactly. If your position wasn't there, who would step in and make the repairs? Contractors, geek squad or similar.
To calculate what you are worth, simply keep a log of all the tech support calls you do in a week. Anytime you help someone, regardless of how small, or restart a server or fix a printer or do anything tech support related at all, write it down. Then call some tech support contractors and ask how much they would charge for the various tasks, but pretend you're dumb and you're really having that problem, ask them how long it will take to get to your office. Remember to calculate the length of time it takes them to arrive as loss productivity for the employee or employees, because a printer problem affecting the entire office means no one can work. Then do the math.
I think you'll quickly see your monthly paycheck would be spent almost daily if they were to call contractors all the time, and the amount of money the DBA is saving will look like nothing compared to your position.
"You should probably try dvdisaster..."
Stupid question, but why is the poster still using CDs for data? Hard drives are down to 10 cents per gigabyte, so why would anyone take the time and data risk to still burn information to CDs? I'm slowly moving away from even DVDs.
"Could the free advertising it gets from rap music be a partial cause of this?"
Yes, because everyone that makes between 25k and 50k listen to rap music.
I don't see why it's so shocking that households making less than 50k are buying iPhones. They're $199 now and the cost of the available cellphone plans aren't much different than traditional phones. All this proves is it's become mainstream, no need for discriminating comments.
"let's say I write an app that is so CPU & Screen & power intensive it causes batteries to burst."
Already been done on PCs and there was no lawsuit. Software is called "Vista".
"so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature. All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.'""
spoken like a true tyrant. "Obey me, or I will be forced to hurt you. I don't want to hurt you but you're forcing me".
In other news.... EA has forums?
I know you guys are joking, but I think the Army has a point. Twitter could easily be used to quickly tell a large group of people what is going on no matter where they are more effectively than chatrooms or email. Useful for friends and terrorists alike.
"That's the last time I spend over $100 on a case. Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it, especially if it comes WITHOUT a power supply"
I purchased a Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 a few years ago for ~$150. Giant case, room for two power supplies (one top, one bottom), 11 5.25" bays, removable enclosure for four 3.5" hard drives with a 120mm fan on the front of the enclosure for cooling and a side vent large enough for a 300mm fan directly above where the CPU and video card is. I've used it through two motherboards and have no intentions of replacing it for many more years.
Cases are the one thing that lasts through several iterations of CPUs and upgrades so, if anything, that's where you should do the most research when building your own PC and spend some real $$$$. Saying "Anymore then $100 on a case and you're pushing it" is like saying "No one needs more than 640k of ram". PC enthusiasts drop $200 on a video card or CPU that they'll only keep a year or two and don't bat an eye, so what's wrong with dropping $200 on a case that you'll keep 3 or 4 years?
"It cost me 59 dollars. I'm not so sure the iPod is "safe"."
iPod is very safe. It's not speed or size or cost that matters, it's content and usability.
Anyone remember the Nintendo Gameboy? It survived 10 years running 4 shades of gray while other portable game systems had full color and much more graphic intensive games. Same with NES, Sega systems offered much more but where's Sega now?
Long as iTunes only works with iPods they will be safe. Being able to link with iTunes and purchase content online and also automatically download new content to the iPod without clicking 10 buttons or converting formats will keep them safe for a long time.
Funny thing about this "computer" is I actually bought one of these 3 years ago at a local general merchandise store (like Family Dollar) in the US. Think I spent $20 and it it broke within a hour. Keyboard was cheap junk and nothing worked right. The "99,999 programs" is actually closer to 99 programs but 100 variations each with different colors.
/. headlines.
So this really isn't a "$12 MIT Computer" considering you can buy these at any cheap general store. I had no idea at the time that someday someone at MIT would stumble across it and plaster their name all over it and make
Here's some more links to the "$12 MIT Computer":
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/pirate/pirate-clones-A-M.html
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/nes/pirate/images/consoles/gamestar_fun_educator-box.jpg
"I don't know if anybody saw Wall-E yet so spoiler ahead, but there are people in the future that are fat, live on hyper sleds, and do nothing but watch advertisement-laden tv while stuffing their pie holes with food."
only fast-food at that, and sucking down soda. I thought of the movie too when I saw this article.
"With this winglet's 6km/h speed bicycle is also much faster...."
6km/h = 3.7mph
3.7mph is a fast walk, and remember that's maximum top speed (so it probably only gets that going downhill) and I'm sure that's if the passenger is a ideal weight, but the release doesn't disclose weight limit.
I have a feeling people will be walking pass people riding on these so I think they'll have a hard time selling them if they're more than $100. Even the $99 electric scooter @ Walmart does 10mph so who'd want a Segaway doing 3.7mph?
"I'm not saying that TSA shouldn't have these powers, but ....they don't always give you a hard time. "
Good to know! Alright I say we give them more powers then, let them shoot on site and be judge, jury and executioner. I mean if it worked out well for you that means everyone will be fine, right?
"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"
"...that will just mean they'll keep it longer while they try to crack it."
Or, they'll throw a $50 hard drive in your $1,000 laptop and keep it longer while their kids finish college at the "off-site location".
"A couple who made a combined net income of $5000/month were given a loan, by credible, big name lender, where their monthly payment was going to be $3500."
That's because what they put on their 1033 loan app wasn't $5,000/mo because you can't exceed a 50% DTI... well sometimes 60% but that's very rare. They probably went stated income, claimed they were making 10+ grand a month and got the house.
The LO probably coached them on this, so the LO is just as guilty if not more so for not walking away from the deal. LO could have gotten bank statements and paycheck stubs if requested. The LO knew about the car payments and credit cards because of course it showed up on their credit report.
Put the LO in jail
"bet Hasbro regrets not giving these guys job offers rather than legal complaints."
prolly hard since they've already said they made $25,000+ a month from Scrabulous. I think if I were the guys I'd be begging Hasbro to buy the game from them for a few bucks rather than lose a lawsuit and lose all the money they've made and the game itself.
"Scrabulous was an extremely popular Facebook app"
Yes, to the tune of $25,000+ a month
Also the english pronunciation of Scrabulous is very similar to Scrabble. No one questioned why Lindows was sued by Microsoft for sounding like Windows, so why are we shocked when Scrabulous gets sued?
"it's because people don't want to play a knockoff, they want to play Scrabble."
Exactly. They've been stealing Scrabble's design for years and have become rich from it. I hope Hasbro sues them for years of theft because what good is copyright or trademark if someone can steal it for a few years, make millions from it, then say "Oops Sorry!" and then give it back and walk away with the money?
FTA:
"On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of their time gossiping and a disproportionate amount of servers that had failed while gossiping. With a large number of servers gossiping and failing while gossiping, Amazon S3 wasn't able to successfully process many customer requests."
sounds like a restaurant, gossiping servers were failing to process customer requests
"........a *much* higher rate of return than prison. I'm not saying we should keep murderers out of prison, but unarmed robbery?"
agreed. Let the punishment fit the crime. The guy's crime is he sat at a PC and sent out unsolicited emails, he shouldn't be in the same jail as a murderer or rapist or any violent offender.
but the guy should have ran. "His bank account deposits from 2003 to 2006 totaled $3.5 million". He had plenty of cash, he could have escaped to some little south american country and became a hermit and no one would have bothered searching for a non-violent (until now) convicted spammer with a 21 month sentence to serve.
A don't tell me he couldn't cross the border because illegal immigrants do it all the time.