Even back in the windows 95 era it would mess up your dial up networking settings to prevent you from connecting to other ISPs using DUN. Many a support query about that fun feature went flying around.
On that matter, I am suprised I have never seen Alienware machines bundled with other over-the-top purchases like sports cars, etc. I would have thought that the play-in-sports-cars types had a large crossover with the play-video-games types, but now that I think about it, I assume they are more into playing console games on a massive LCD/plasma TV than a PC. I guess the PC just doesnt have the glorifyied image that has started to build up around games consoles which is why there is only one company widely known for making these excessively priced gaming PCs.
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Kind of stylish in a gives-you-a-nosebleed-and-a-headache-at-the-same-t ime sort of way?:)
Apple 'what is backwards compatibility' computers is not up the top of the greens, even after they make it so batteries (generally) have to be replaced by their support team instead of third parties? What a shock! I think most of the Apple faithful that I have met are of the 'I love being green but am always too busy to recycle' mindset and so wonder if that is the same with Apple themselves.
How much demand will there really be from corporate users? I would assume that most would be nervous about this sort of application environment due to the failure of ASPs (application service providers) to take off a few years ago, and see a lot of similarities between ASPs and what google and others are offering, the only main difference being that it is google and not some startup. Are the companies that would be interested in this already nervous from being burned by ASPs. Obviously there are many ASPs that are successful, but they tend to be more specialised than the generic offerings from google and yahoo et al. fwiw; here are some of the risks from wikipedia's ASP page:
* Loss of control of corporate data
* Loss of control of corporate image
* Insufficient ASP security to counter risks
* Exposure of corporate data to other ASP customers
* Compromise of corporate data
Are you sure oracle should buy sun to make one super-batshit-insane CEO?! I think you are getting into cartoon supervillain territory there and would say that oracle and sun have to be kept apart at all costs! I can just imagine Larry 'Dr Collosus' Ellison as head of the new company sitting in his volcano lair/oracleSun HQ with a cat on his lap laughing as the google bigwigs are lowered into a tank of sharks.
Indeed, the amount of time that has been spent making pages around the web that detect your browser or flash version using assumptions about old oooold versions and then blocking you from the actual content is time wasted. in 99% of cases (everything but activex) the protected areas will work without any problem in recent versions of firefox/flash player. It gets tiring having to look in the source to figure out where you are supposed to go to get to content that has been needlessly locked out from you.
I called the 800 number and they immediately said, "you used Firefox, didn't you?".
So obviously it is such a common problem that it is one of the first things they say. Hopefully this message will filter through to the higher-ups there and they are (considering?) working on a solution.
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Bob Saget 2.0
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"America's Funniest Home Videos" culled out probably 99% of the tapes they received
The department which did that must have a higher suicide rate than the russian military!
In the book 'Freakonomics' there is a study about a man who used to drop off muffin baskets with a box to put a dollar in for each muffin that was taken. He kept very precise statistics for years in different white-collar offices about where he put the basket, how much money went in and so forth. The results are basically that the lower down in the office rank someone is, the less likely they are to steal and the higher up, the more theft occurs with CEOs and other top-floor executives being by far the worst. They put it down to a sense of entitlement in the execs and the invisibility of the crime relative to stealing from a muffin shop amongst other reasons.
Indeed, I did not mean to sound like I was defending their actions. You state yourself it is only a small step to an extortion ring but that does not mean it should be punished as if it was one unless there is specific evidence they were actually operating one. Good point about ignorance vs harmlessness, but that is where the courts have to decide on the true malicious intent and at the same time is where and why they might be too harsh in some cases.
I would imagine that since most people dont understand the full effect of the crimes, that they are more influenced by fictional events and representations. In a trial by a Jury or Judge who is not familiar with the exact scope of the technology, perhaps they err on the side of (what they see as) caution and give stricter penalties in comparison to something that is easily understood like burglary.
I wonder how long it will take for a lazy professor to include an advert in a test, or how many of the stupider students learn the adverts. I hope they have some standards to make the adverts very different to the text and not like a large number of magazines which print adverts that look a little like articles.
Are mainframes a realistic alternative to clusters of cheap servers for virtualization? I would assume that the cheap, easily replaceable hardware is better but am not sure of all the niche uses of virtualization and know that Sun tends to push the mainframe solution for this. Anybody got any educated opinions on this?
I also use portable apps, with all logs and data from my specific day to day use on it (eg; chat logs, email, etc.) I try to keep anything unique on the memory stick (and back it up every day), as then my work is never delayed by a dead or dying computer. All I need to do is find another computer with a CD drive, throw knoppix in and mount the memory stick. I normally use gentoo on my machines but switch to knoppix if I am without a computer of my own and need to do some work with my thumbdrive.
I would be very suprised if mosad/delta force/sas are not already in Iran keeping an eye on things due to the lack of UN inspectors, so I imagine some non-Iranian govt somewhere has a realistic idea of what is going on in Iran.
I would say the main problem is that 70-100% of all GM crops are controlled by one company (monsanto). They only provide crops which are not able to breed and have a 'terminator gene' which means every year you need to buy new seed from them. This gene has cross pollinated with some wild crops causing them to die out in areas around some GM farms. They are very oppressive with their IP and have patented specific genes and processes including common breeding techniques for pigs, granting ownership of those pigs to monsanto (in 160 countries). So yes, the main problem is that most of the GM crops are controlled by one very unethical monopoly.
Good point, if the defendant can prove they did not have absolute control over their computer, perhaps the charges are null and void. Only if the FBI were directly monitoring him after the tip off would he not be able to use that defense, and even then it can be argued that it was a hacker making his computer do it, making it look like him.
A pointless factoid: the president of Foxconn owns a large castle in the Czech Republic, which, (according to wikipedia) is used for employee holidays.
BAE in the UK have made a wallpaper to do just this. No word on if it is available to consumers though I bet there is a market in the paranoid EM fearing folk that live near 'evil' cell phone masts.
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Even back in the windows 95 era it would mess up your dial up networking settings to prevent you from connecting to other ISPs using DUN. Many a support query about that fun feature went flying around.
On that matter, I am suprised I have never seen Alienware machines bundled with other over-the-top purchases like sports cars, etc. I would have thought that the play-in-sports-cars types had a large crossover with the play-video-games types, but now that I think about it, I assume they are more into playing console games on a massive LCD/plasma TV than a PC. I guess the PC just doesnt have the glorifyied image that has started to build up around games consoles which is why there is only one company widely known for making these excessively priced gaming PCs.
Kind of stylish in a gives-you-a-nosebleed-and-a-headache-at-the-same-t ime sort of way? :)
Just think of the sort of appearance that an AOL door-to-door salesman would have. (shudders)
Apple 'what is backwards compatibility' computers is not up the top of the greens, even after they make it so batteries (generally) have to be replaced by their support team instead of third parties? What a shock! I think most of the Apple faithful that I have met are of the 'I love being green but am always too busy to recycle' mindset and so wonder if that is the same with Apple themselves.
How much demand will there really be from corporate users? I would assume that most would be nervous about this sort of application environment due to the failure of ASPs (application service providers) to take off a few years ago, and see a lot of similarities between ASPs and what google and others are offering, the only main difference being that it is google and not some startup. Are the companies that would be interested in this already nervous from being burned by ASPs. Obviously there are many ASPs that are successful, but they tend to be more specialised than the generic offerings from google and yahoo et al. fwiw; here are some of the risks from wikipedia's ASP page:
* Loss of control of corporate data
* Loss of control of corporate image
* Insufficient ASP security to counter risks
* Exposure of corporate data to other ASP customers
* Compromise of corporate data
Are you sure oracle should buy sun to make one super-batshit-insane CEO?! I think you are getting into cartoon supervillain territory there and would say that oracle and sun have to be kept apart at all costs! I can just imagine Larry 'Dr Collosus' Ellison as head of the new company sitting in his volcano lair/oracleSun HQ with a cat on his lap laughing as the google bigwigs are lowered into a tank of sharks.
Indeed, the amount of time that has been spent making pages around the web that detect your browser or flash version using assumptions about old oooold versions and then blocking you from the actual content is time wasted. in 99% of cases (everything but activex) the protected areas will work without any problem in recent versions of firefox/flash player. It gets tiring having to look in the source to figure out where you are supposed to go to get to content that has been needlessly locked out from you.
So obviously it is such a common problem that it is one of the first things they say. Hopefully this message will filter through to the higher-ups there and they are (considering?) working on a solution.
The department which did that must have a higher suicide rate than the russian military!
In the book 'Freakonomics' there is a study about a man who used to drop off muffin baskets with a box to put a dollar in for each muffin that was taken. He kept very precise statistics for years in different white-collar offices about where he put the basket, how much money went in and so forth. The results are basically that the lower down in the office rank someone is, the less likely they are to steal and the higher up, the more theft occurs with CEOs and other top-floor executives being by far the worst. They put it down to a sense of entitlement in the execs and the invisibility of the crime relative to stealing from a muffin shop amongst other reasons.
I think the bigger story is that a WoW player actually left the house and went far enough away from their computer that they needed a flight!
Indeed, I did not mean to sound like I was defending their actions. You state yourself it is only a small step to an extortion ring but that does not mean it should be punished as if it was one unless there is specific evidence they were actually operating one. Good point about ignorance vs harmlessness, but that is where the courts have to decide on the true malicious intent and at the same time is where and why they might be too harsh in some cases.
You mean you have not gotten your cheque yet? Geez, you should follow that up!
I would imagine that since most people dont understand the full effect of the crimes, that they are more influenced by fictional events and representations. In a trial by a Jury or Judge who is not familiar with the exact scope of the technology, perhaps they err on the side of (what they see as) caution and give stricter penalties in comparison to something that is easily understood like burglary.
I wonder how long it will take for a lazy professor to include an advert in a test, or how many of the stupider students learn the adverts. I hope they have some standards to make the adverts very different to the text and not like a large number of magazines which print adverts that look a little like articles.
Are mainframes a realistic alternative to clusters of cheap servers for virtualization? I would assume that the cheap, easily replaceable hardware is better but am not sure of all the niche uses of virtualization and know that Sun tends to push the mainframe solution for this. Anybody got any educated opinions on this?
I also use portable apps, with all logs and data from my specific day to day use on it (eg; chat logs, email, etc.) I try to keep anything unique on the memory stick (and back it up every day), as then my work is never delayed by a dead or dying computer. All I need to do is find another computer with a CD drive, throw knoppix in and mount the memory stick. I normally use gentoo on my machines but switch to knoppix if I am without a computer of my own and need to do some work with my thumbdrive.
Damnit man, playing doom 3 is just delaying the actions that should be taken! Get some priorities! ;)
Try reading this site at -1 and you'll soon change this theory!
I would be very suprised if mosad/delta force/sas are not already in Iran keeping an eye on things due to the lack of UN inspectors, so I imagine some non-Iranian govt somewhere has a realistic idea of what is going on in Iran.
I would say the main problem is that 70-100% of all GM crops are controlled by one company (monsanto). They only provide crops which are not able to breed and have a 'terminator gene' which means every year you need to buy new seed from them. This gene has cross pollinated with some wild crops causing them to die out in areas around some GM farms. They are very oppressive with their IP and have patented specific genes and processes including common breeding techniques for pigs, granting ownership of those pigs to monsanto (in 160 countries). So yes, the main problem is that most of the GM crops are controlled by one very unethical monopoly.
Good point, if the defendant can prove they did not have absolute control over their computer, perhaps the charges are null and void. Only if the FBI were directly monitoring him after the tip off would he not be able to use that defense, and even then it can be argued that it was a hacker making his computer do it, making it look like him.
A pointless factoid: the president of Foxconn owns a large castle in the Czech Republic, which, (according to wikipedia) is used for employee holidays.
BAE in the UK have made a wallpaper to do just this. No word on if it is available to consumers though I bet there is a market in the paranoid EM fearing folk that live near 'evil' cell phone masts.