I couldn't agree with you more. For various reasons my connection generally goes through various other countries, meaning that any website using Geo-IP information (and yes Google, I'm talking to you!) gets it wrong. It's really a case of people trying to make their software too clever. It really makes a lot more sense to provide a tiny drop down list in one corner of your site to allow people to choose location/language.
According to a Vodafone salesman (who admittedly seemed very unprepared for the iPhone release), unlocked iPhones will indeed be available. Want to take a guess at the price?
$1400 (AU)
Can you say Ouch?
It's not totally impossible, I've seen high end phones in the past here go for $1200 out of contract, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
That would have to be the worst attempt at an IQ test I've ever seen... A combination of general knowledge and some pattern recognition in only ten questions is so far from qualifying as an IQ test that it's not funny.
Actually this is not that common. It's quite difficult for them to get working keyloggers on peoples accounts due to how thorough Blizzard are at scanning running processes once you start to play. It's really not worth it to them, especially when they can simply either get a free trial account (with the limitations involved), or pay a few dollars for a legit account which they can usually spam from for quite some time before it gets noticed and killed off. While keyloggers for WoW are out there, they're more likely to result in all of the person's items and gold being stripped off, rather than being used to spam with. Of course, there's no reason they couldn't be spamming while they do it, but that'd be increasing the risk to them, so I wouldn't have thought it likely.
Actually, my understanding of the concept/history of steam engines, is that the Babylonians (2000-3000 BC?) appeared to use steam to power the opening of some of their temple doors, as a "hand of god" type thing. Everything gets re-invented again and again till it becomes commercially viable.
Actually I find it a lot more fun starting from scratch every now again than simply grinding away at level 60. To date I have two level 60s I hardly ever play any more, a 54 that I still use at times, and a dozen or so characters at levels 10-40. On top of this I just started up yet another from scratch last night. One of my level 60s is on a server I don't really like (for various reasons, one of which is the gold farmers messing with the economy), so I switched servers. I really think the only really good reason for sticking to a server is if you have lots of friends playing there.
Actually there is a pretty straightford case for doing this -- gaming. Currently the only thing that Windows has going for it that Mac is lacking (looking only at my own usage), is the range of games available.
To be able to use my Mac for everything else, including many of my favourite games, but with the option of switching to Windows for specific games that simply aren't available on the Mac sounds fantastic to me.
Surely spam by definition is unsolicited? If you have a group of people choosing to receive it then it's no longer spam. Whatever the intention and results of this study, linking it to spam is simply wrong.
Oh I agree that watermarking can be pretty complex these days, but as long as you know it's there, adding your own "anti-watermark" will nullify the original one.
<snip>The right to play will be governed by whether the library is "legal" or not (ie: if any tracks have the same signature as on the iTunes website, but no DRM, prevent playback of either the entire library or just those songs.<snip>
Signature? Off the top of my head I can't think of any way to force a signature that can't be easily bypassed. First thing I thought of when I read this was when Metallica got the original Napster to prevent anyone sharing files with the word "Metallica" in it... kind of like a signature really. So people just changed the names, putting 1 instead of i, and the signature check was bypassed.
Any signature on a music file can be trivially bypassed by flipping a bit, thus rendering the any signature system useless.
There may be other ways to implement some sort of music check, but they would all be just as easily bypassed. How can a server possibly determine whether an mp3/aac/whatever is one that has been ripped from a cd, or downloaded/bought from iTunes, or from somewhere else completely?
Don't know if anyone else noticed this, but on a pic of the bottom of the mouse I finally see something I've been seeking since my first wireless mouse -- an on/off switch! Huzzah for Logitech!!
So spammers either use slightly old hardware without the reverse-firewall, or simply use some of their ill-gotten gains to purchase higher end equipment, same as large companies or ISPs already do, which wouldn't have the reverse-firewall in it. Or even find a cheap hardware manufacturer who is will take simply not include the reverse-firewall in exchange for the spammers buying all their hardware for them.
I would have thought that many of the customers who only buy during sales would be buying a lot more products than if they bought on a semi-regular (non-sale) basis. Surely this means that the customers make up in bulk for the slightly lower profit margin due to sales? After all, the point of sales is to attract a higher product turnover at a lower profit margin, so what are they complaining about?
Seriously, what's the point of blocking SlashDot referals? I can understand that getting slashdotted can be a problem for some sites, especially those with a lot of dynamic content such, but for a basically static site all that will result from slashdotting is that some of the people coming in from slashdot will take a while to get through. If a static page is there it wants to be seen. SlashDot does just that!
Disclaimer: Posted under the influence of way too much flu medication:(
"I'll give one million dollars to a random person selected from the pool of people who each give me ten dollars!. Sorry, you weren't the winner, but thanks for playing!"
Sound like a good way to get sign ups?
Anyone seen any proof that this guy has these accounts to give away?
From my initial glance I really fail to see how this is really any better or different from MS Passport, even once it's ready for release. At least MS have the clout to have Passport used on more than just their own site, which is where the value really is. I'm also not to sure about the idea of a public Alpha test of this sort of technology. Seems a bit too early in the development cycle for it to be worthwhile. Getting the site slashdotted really only resuls in load testing, and they don't seem even close to that! And lets not forget the dumb name... how many [G|U|etc|UIDs do we need?
Speaking as a contractor, I'm in two minds about this. First off it's enough of a pain having to try and either obtain sufficent access from the sysadmins or else hack it myself just in order to do my job, without having to worry about even more restrictions. My laptop is a hell of a lot more secure than just about any other machine I've seen around my work environment at the moment. I think that the average employee with a laptop is more of a risk than the average contractor.
On the other hand, I'm probably not a typical contractor:-)
I know that on the rare occasion I do network/system lockdowns, I don't let anyone on that I'm not expecting.
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Safari does this too, it's a very cool feature! (Posted from Chrome too!)
I couldn't agree with you more. For various reasons my connection generally goes through various other countries, meaning that any website using Geo-IP information (and yes Google, I'm talking to you!) gets it wrong. It's really a case of people trying to make their software too clever. It really makes a lot more sense to provide a tiny drop down list in one corner of your site to allow people to choose location/language.
According to a Vodafone salesman (who admittedly seemed very unprepared for the iPhone release), unlocked iPhones will indeed be available. Want to take a guess at the price? $1400 (AU) Can you say Ouch? It's not totally impossible, I've seen high end phones in the past here go for $1200 out of contract, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Just tried it and getting everything timing out... yay for the SlashDot effect!
That would have to be the worst attempt at an IQ test I've ever seen... A combination of general knowledge and some pattern recognition in only ten questions is so far from qualifying as an IQ test that it's not funny.
Actually I'd tend to agree, especially if it's in the same geographic area. Except I'd use an IronKey flash drive to maintain security.
Actually this is not that common. It's quite difficult for them to get working keyloggers on peoples accounts due to how thorough Blizzard are at scanning running processes once you start to play. It's really not worth it to them, especially when they can simply either get a free trial account (with the limitations involved), or pay a few dollars for a legit account which they can usually spam from for quite some time before it gets noticed and killed off. While keyloggers for WoW are out there, they're more likely to result in all of the person's items and gold being stripped off, rather than being used to spam with. Of course, there's no reason they couldn't be spamming while they do it, but that'd be increasing the risk to them, so I wouldn't have thought it likely.
Didn't he just describe the already shipping Nokia N95?
Phone? Check!
Output to TV? Check!
Video playback to TV? Check!
Plus GPS, running Symbian Series 60 3rd Ed., etc...
So once again M$ comes in late. Good going...
Hmm, I was actually thinking Spies Like Us would be a more apt source of inspiration!
Actually, my understanding of the concept/history of steam engines, is that the Babylonians (2000-3000 BC?) appeared to use steam to power the opening of some of their temple doors, as a "hand of god" type thing. Everything gets re-invented again and again till it becomes commercially viable.
Actually I find it a lot more fun starting from scratch every now again than simply grinding away at level 60. To date I have two level 60s I hardly ever play any more, a 54 that I still use at times, and a dozen or so characters at levels 10-40. On top of this I just started up yet another from scratch last night. One of my level 60s is on a server I don't really like (for various reasons, one of which is the gold farmers messing with the economy), so I switched servers. I really think the only really good reason for sticking to a server is if you have lots of friends playing there.
Actually there is a pretty straightford case for doing this -- gaming. Currently the only thing that Windows has going for it that Mac is lacking (looking only at my own usage), is the range of games available. To be able to use my Mac for everything else, including many of my favourite games, but with the option of switching to Windows for specific games that simply aren't available on the Mac sounds fantastic to me.
"Spam" count = 3 "Smap" count = 1 Which is the typo? :)
Surely spam by definition is unsolicited? If you have a group of people choosing to receive it then it's no longer spam. Whatever the intention and results of this study, linking it to spam is simply wrong.
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Oh I agree that watermarking can be pretty complex these days, but as long as you know it's there, adding your own "anti-watermark" will nullify the original one.
Any signature on a music file can be trivially bypassed by flipping a bit, thus rendering the any signature system useless.
There may be other ways to implement some sort of music check, but they would all be just as easily bypassed. How can a server possibly determine whether an mp3/aac/whatever is one that has been ripped from a cd, or downloaded/bought from iTunes, or from somewhere else completely?
Don't know if anyone else noticed this, but on a pic of the bottom of the mouse I finally see something I've been seeking since my first wireless mouse -- an on/off switch! Huzzah for Logitech!!
So spammers either use slightly old hardware without the reverse-firewall, or simply use some of their ill-gotten gains to purchase higher end equipment, same as large companies or ISPs already do, which wouldn't have the reverse-firewall in it. Or even find a cheap hardware manufacturer who is will take simply not include the reverse-firewall in exchange for the spammers buying all their hardware for them.
I would have thought that many of the customers who only buy during sales would be buying a lot more products than if they bought on a semi-regular (non-sale) basis. Surely this means that the customers make up in bulk for the slightly lower profit margin due to sales? After all, the point of sales is to attract a higher product turnover at a lower profit margin, so what are they complaining about?
Or possibly you just got lucky?
:(
Seriously, what's the point of blocking SlashDot referals? I can understand that getting slashdotted can be a problem for some sites, especially those with a lot of dynamic content such, but for a basically static site all that will result from slashdotting is that some of the people coming in from slashdot will take a while to get through. If a static page is there it wants to be seen. SlashDot does just that!
Disclaimer: Posted under the influence of way too much flu medication
Nice to see Trillian and GAIM developers working together on these sorts of issues!
Sound like a good way to get sign ups?
Anyone seen any proof that this guy has these accounts to give away?
From my initial glance I really fail to see how this is really any better or different from MS Passport, even once it's ready for release. At least MS have the clout to have Passport used on more than just their own site, which is where the value really is. I'm also not to sure about the idea of a public Alpha test of this sort of technology. Seems a bit too early in the development cycle for it to be worthwhile. Getting the site slashdotted really only resuls in load testing, and they don't seem even close to that! And lets not forget the dumb name... how many [G|U|etc|UIDs do we need?
On the other hand, I'm probably not a typical contractor :-)
I know that on the rare occasion I do network/system lockdowns, I don't let anyone on that I'm not expecting.