Every single IP frame contains the (possibly spoofed) MAC address of the sender. All you need is a wireless card that will pick up packets not addressed to it (called promiscuous mode, and not hard to find) and you can quite easily steal the MAC address of any wireless card around you sending unencrypted packets. No *nix operating systems required, the MAC is in plain text in the IP header.
I'd be more concerned if not for the fact that, on music at least, the DRM has gotten LOOSER since iTMS debuted. You used to only be able to authorize three machines. Now you can authorize five.
Contact Nintendo directly. When the DS was near impossible to find, Nintendo still had a stock of replacement units on hand for warranty fulfillment. I understand they take your credit card number and mail you a new one. You mail yours back in the same box after you've gotten replacement. As long as they get yours within so many days, they don't charge your card at all.
Treat the consumers with respect, and honesty. Ninety-nine percent of them will treat you with money! (The other one percent you really don't (or shouldn't) give a shit about anyway.)
Slashdot is only free as long as your time (and maybe job) are worth nothing.:P
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And will they be able to do so with a half decent interface and execution? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd rather have several devices that each do one thing really well than one device that does lots of things not so well. The iPod fits that bill for music playback.
So, let me get this straight. If I post a blatent troll and get modded to -1 and lose my karma bonus as a result, I can sue the moderators and Slashdot for violating my First Amandment rights since less people will see my posts? 'Cause it sure sounds like what's happening here. Kinderstart posted a garbage link-farming site, Google moderated it as such, and now it's not on the first page results anymore. Give me a break.
Docking bays with full size expansion ports were around ages ago (I had one back in '96 for my old 20 MHz Toshiba T1600, IIRC), but they seem to have dissapeared over the past few years. I think they were a casuality of the trend to make notebooks complete standalone desktop replacements, which lead to port replicators replacing docking station, and finally port replicators themselves disapearing. None of my last four laptops have had any kind of docking-type support built in. Silly little USB solutions that don't replicate video or PC card slots are still around, but they have certainly faded into obscurity.
I think this is pretty nifty, even if it has been done before. One of the biggest obsticles to buying a notebook for quite a while now has been a lack of upgradable video. This will certianly help to remedy that problem. Not all of us really like having a seperate notebook for work and desktop for gaming. This would be perfect for me.
I don't really know for sure if Windows actaully encrypts the files or not when you set them to private. I'm guessing it just sets the permissions to the Windows equivalent of 700 on the individual files (you can still read the folder) because I know for certain the method I just described works, and works quickly, as I've used it several times. Now, if they've been encrypted by another method, then I'd guess you're up a creek if you've lost your decrpytion key.
Just FYI, I have run in to a problem doing exactly that. There is an option in the Users control panel to make a user's My Documents folder private. If that option was checked, Windows will flat-out refuse to touch those files. The work-around I've always used is to log off, then log back on as Administrator. (If it's Win XP Home Edition, to log on as Administrator, you have to reboot the computer in to Safe Mode and press ctrl-alt-del twice at the Welcome screen to force you to the standard login screen (if necessary). The administrator password is blank by default). As Administrator, a new option is added to the file context menu in exporer: Take Ownership. This will seize ownership of the files, clearing the privacy flag in the process. You can then manipulate them as you please.
Just try playing WoW for 15 minutes, and see how much you can do...
Surprisingly, a lot, especially if you like to play the market to get rich. The auction house is great for folks who just want to log on for a couple minutes. I doesn't take long to search through items looking for underpriced stuff that you can resell for a profit or seeing if the market is ripe for listing your goods. You can make quite a lot of money keeping an eye out for obscure rare items that many players don't realize is a component in an epic high level recipe. For example, Black Diamonds are quite rare, and on my old server, you could get 40 gold for one easily (40 gold isn't a fortune, but it's a pretty good chunk of money). With some regularity, one would drop for a player unaware of its value who would happily part with it for 5 gold. 35 gold profit right there, and nearly no time spent.
Likewise, there are items whos value fluctuates greatly from day to day, especially with low level crafting components. Linen cloth is a great example. Linen is a critical component for building your tailoring skill. Every few days, some rich player will create a new character who they want to be a tailor, and they'll wind up wiping out the linen market, driving the price way up. When there aren't any on the merket, you can easily sell linen for 1 gold per stack of 20. After this happens, the supply will gradually replinish and the price will go back down, usually stabalizing at around.4 gold per stack of 20. Obviously, there's money to be made buying it at.4 and selling it at 1, and it doesn't take but 5 minutes to log in, check on the current price of linen and several other items subject to the same fluctuation, buy some if it's cheap, and list some for sale if it's expensive.
In addition, many (nowhere near all, but many) of the quests all the way from level 1 to 60 can be completed in 15 minutes. Also, most quests can be done in as many sitting as you want, and you can log out anywhere, so if you have a quest to kill 20 harpies, nothing's stopping you from killing 10, logging out, and then killing the other 10 next time you log in.
No, you can't do everything in WoW in 15 minute chunks, but 15 minutes is certainly long enough for you to accomplish something. In fact, the stuff that only takes 15 minutes tends to be the most productive per time spent! It's easy to spend 4 hours raiding and walk away with nothing but a high repair bill, even if you're playing your best. Spend four hours over a couple weeks playing the market, and (assuming you're careful) you're likely to walk away with a bundle of cash.
Nothing's stopping you from using multiple Google accounts, especially since they gave everyone and their dog a hundred invites a few months ago. It would be a bit of a pain having to log out and log back in, but then, I'd find it a pain having to log in multiple times to use different services, so you lose either way. I like Milo_oliM's plan posted above. A second password needed for only the more sensitive services.
I guess an example of this would be if, say, I came up with a new object-oriented implementation of bubble sort. Instead of swapping items inline, I would construct an instance of class Swapper. Swapper's constructor would take two Object parameters, and would have methods RetrieveFirst() that would return the second Object passed in and RetrieveSecond() that would return the first Object passed in (effectively swapping them). I then proceed to get a patent on this.
To a judge whos education is strictly law (and thus has no idea what the heck these object things are), being able to swap any two of them no matter what they are could very well sound ingenious. Polymorphism isn't exactly a concept you can really grasp without getting your hands dirty writing some code, and of course, I would go out of my way in writing this patent to explain polymorphism in a very confusing yet seemingly intellegent way (i.e. I sound smart but am over the judge's head). To this judge, my technique might sound brilliant.
However, the average Slashdotter should be able to immediately see that this is anything but briliant. I imagine most of us have done some hardcore object oriented design work before where you use object's to accomplish EVERYTHING. In that kind of work, the bubble sort iteself would be an object, the compare used to determine if two objects need to be sorted would be an object, and of course, the swap itself would be an object. Hello, that's fairly obvious in an object-oriented design mindset. (It can also be easily argued that using a constructed object to swap two objects is a retarded implementation, but I digress). Thus, to someone who is not a "skilled practitioner" in computer science/software engineering, this may sound like a non-obvious idea, but to an experienced computer scientist/software engineer, this is very obvious. A "skilled practitioner" thus would find it obvious, and the patent should be thrown out.
Why not both call and send a letter? Snail mail certinaly has the biggest impact, but you can call in about five minutes while you type up your letter, and doing both will have a bigger impact than doing either alone. I agree, now is the time to act.
A few days ago, in the story about the boradcast flag, someone posted an excellent guide to calling your senator. I'll see if I can find and and link to it.
The question is, what big hit came out in May of last year, or what came out in April of this year? Major hits don't come out every month, nor do they come out on the same months each year, and they have a huge effect on monthly sales. Simply seeing month over month numbers without this information doesn't tell you much about how the industry as a whole is doing.
So, what's the difference between this and any other motherboard with two processor slots? Those have been around for ages. For that matter, Apple's highest model Power Mac has had two dual-core processors for some time now, so having dual dual-core processors isn't new.
Still, Microsoft could get a chunk of the market if 1) the next IE has an MSN search box built in It does
2) defaults to MSN homepage It does
3) And MSN search rivals Googles in its ability to return good results Supposudly it's getting there, though I haven't tried it myself to say for sure.
I agree with you. This is going to get interesting. I personally don't think Microsoft will be able to knock out Google, but as long as they have Windows and Office, Microsoft can't really lose either. They can just keep throwing money at it until the cows come home.
It's true that active voice is not always a better choice over passive voice. However, active voice is more engaging to the reader, and active voice tends to result in shorter, more direct sentences. There are, or course, exceptions to that (which is why active is not always the better choice), but in general, those hold true and active is preferential.
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Every single IP frame contains the (possibly spoofed) MAC address of the sender. All you need is a wireless card that will pick up packets not addressed to it (called promiscuous mode, and not hard to find) and you can quite easily steal the MAC address of any wireless card around you sending unencrypted packets. No *nix operating systems required, the MAC is in plain text in the IP header.
I'd be more concerned if not for the fact that, on music at least, the DRM has gotten LOOSER since iTMS debuted. You used to only be able to authorize three machines. Now you can authorize five.
Contact Nintendo directly. When the DS was near impossible to find, Nintendo still had a stock of replacement units on hand for warranty fulfillment. I understand they take your credit card number and mail you a new one. You mail yours back in the same box after you've gotten replacement. As long as they get yours within so many days, they don't charge your card at all.
Treat the consumers with respect, and honesty. Ninety-nine percent of them will treat you with money! (The other one percent you really don't (or shouldn't) give a shit about anyway.)
This just might be my new favorite quote.
Slashdot is only free as long as your time (and maybe job) are worth nothing. :P
And will they be able to do so with a half decent interface and execution? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd rather have several devices that each do one thing really well than one device that does lots of things not so well. The iPod fits that bill for music playback.
So, let me get this straight. If I post a blatent troll and get modded to -1 and lose my karma bonus as a result, I can sue the moderators and Slashdot for violating my First Amandment rights since less people will see my posts? 'Cause it sure sounds like what's happening here. Kinderstart posted a garbage link-farming site, Google moderated it as such, and now it's not on the first page results anymore. Give me a break.
It just sort of appeared without fanfare a few days ago.
Docking bays with full size expansion ports were around ages ago (I had one back in '96 for my old 20 MHz Toshiba T1600, IIRC), but they seem to have dissapeared over the past few years. I think they were a casuality of the trend to make notebooks complete standalone desktop replacements, which lead to port replicators replacing docking station, and finally port replicators themselves disapearing. None of my last four laptops have had any kind of docking-type support built in. Silly little USB solutions that don't replicate video or PC card slots are still around, but they have certainly faded into obscurity.
I think this is pretty nifty, even if it has been done before. One of the biggest obsticles to buying a notebook for quite a while now has been a lack of upgradable video. This will certianly help to remedy that problem. Not all of us really like having a seperate notebook for work and desktop for gaming. This would be perfect for me.
I don't really know for sure if Windows actaully encrypts the files or not when you set them to private. I'm guessing it just sets the permissions to the Windows equivalent of 700 on the individual files (you can still read the folder) because I know for certain the method I just described works, and works quickly, as I've used it several times. Now, if they've been encrypted by another method, then I'd guess you're up a creek if you've lost your decrpytion key.
Just FYI, I have run in to a problem doing exactly that. There is an option in the Users control panel to make a user's My Documents folder private. If that option was checked, Windows will flat-out refuse to touch those files. The work-around I've always used is to log off, then log back on as Administrator. (If it's Win XP Home Edition, to log on as Administrator, you have to reboot the computer in to Safe Mode and press ctrl-alt-del twice at the Welcome screen to force you to the standard login screen (if necessary). The administrator password is blank by default). As Administrator, a new option is added to the file context menu in exporer: Take Ownership. This will seize ownership of the files, clearing the privacy flag in the process. You can then manipulate them as you please.
Just try playing WoW for 15 minutes, and see how much you can do...
.4 gold per stack of 20. Obviously, there's money to be made buying it at .4 and selling it at 1, and it doesn't take but 5 minutes to log in, check on the current price of linen and several other items subject to the same fluctuation, buy some if it's cheap, and list some for sale if it's expensive.
Surprisingly, a lot, especially if you like to play the market to get rich. The auction house is great for folks who just want to log on for a couple minutes. I doesn't take long to search through items looking for underpriced stuff that you can resell for a profit or seeing if the market is ripe for listing your goods. You can make quite a lot of money keeping an eye out for obscure rare items that many players don't realize is a component in an epic high level recipe. For example, Black Diamonds are quite rare, and on my old server, you could get 40 gold for one easily (40 gold isn't a fortune, but it's a pretty good chunk of money). With some regularity, one would drop for a player unaware of its value who would happily part with it for 5 gold. 35 gold profit right there, and nearly no time spent.
Likewise, there are items whos value fluctuates greatly from day to day, especially with low level crafting components. Linen cloth is a great example. Linen is a critical component for building your tailoring skill. Every few days, some rich player will create a new character who they want to be a tailor, and they'll wind up wiping out the linen market, driving the price way up. When there aren't any on the merket, you can easily sell linen for 1 gold per stack of 20. After this happens, the supply will gradually replinish and the price will go back down, usually stabalizing at around
In addition, many (nowhere near all, but many) of the quests all the way from level 1 to 60 can be completed in 15 minutes. Also, most quests can be done in as many sitting as you want, and you can log out anywhere, so if you have a quest to kill 20 harpies, nothing's stopping you from killing 10, logging out, and then killing the other 10 next time you log in.
No, you can't do everything in WoW in 15 minute chunks, but 15 minutes is certainly long enough for you to accomplish something. In fact, the stuff that only takes 15 minutes tends to be the most productive per time spent! It's easy to spend 4 hours raiding and walk away with nothing but a high repair bill, even if you're playing your best. Spend four hours over a couple weeks playing the market, and (assuming you're careful) you're likely to walk away with a bundle of cash.
6 for GBA has already been announced and is due out by the end of this year. No word on 7, yet.
Nothing's stopping you from using multiple Google accounts, especially since they gave everyone and their dog a hundred invites a few months ago. It would be a bit of a pain having to log out and log back in, but then, I'd find it a pain having to log in multiple times to use different services, so you lose either way. I like Milo_oliM's plan posted above. A second password needed for only the more sensitive services.
I guess an example of this would be if, say, I came up with a new object-oriented implementation of bubble sort. Instead of swapping items inline, I would construct an instance of class Swapper. Swapper's constructor would take two Object parameters, and would have methods RetrieveFirst() that would return the second Object passed in and RetrieveSecond() that would return the first Object passed in (effectively swapping them). I then proceed to get a patent on this.
To a judge whos education is strictly law (and thus has no idea what the heck these object things are), being able to swap any two of them no matter what they are could very well sound ingenious. Polymorphism isn't exactly a concept you can really grasp without getting your hands dirty writing some code, and of course, I would go out of my way in writing this patent to explain polymorphism in a very confusing yet seemingly intellegent way (i.e. I sound smart but am over the judge's head). To this judge, my technique might sound brilliant.
However, the average Slashdotter should be able to immediately see that this is anything but briliant. I imagine most of us have done some hardcore object oriented design work before where you use object's to accomplish EVERYTHING. In that kind of work, the bubble sort iteself would be an object, the compare used to determine if two objects need to be sorted would be an object, and of course, the swap itself would be an object. Hello, that's fairly obvious in an object-oriented design mindset. (It can also be easily argued that using a constructed object to swap two objects is a retarded implementation, but I digress). Thus, to someone who is not a "skilled practitioner" in computer science/software engineering, this may sound like a non-obvious idea, but to an experienced computer scientist/software engineer, this is very obvious. A "skilled practitioner" thus would find it obvious, and the patent should be thrown out.
Here it is. Check out this post Wylfing made a few days ago: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189149&cid =15578999. The replies are good too.
Why not both call and send a letter? Snail mail certinaly has the biggest impact, but you can call in about five minutes while you type up your letter, and doing both will have a bigger impact than doing either alone. I agree, now is the time to act.
A few days ago, in the story about the boradcast flag, someone posted an excellent guide to calling your senator. I'll see if I can find and and link to it.
AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers
They misspelled the phrase "continues to use." Oops.
Alas, 8 mod points worth no karma.
The question is, what big hit came out in May of last year, or what came out in April of this year? Major hits don't come out every month, nor do they come out on the same months each year, and they have a huge effect on monthly sales. Simply seeing month over month numbers without this information doesn't tell you much about how the industry as a whole is doing.
So, what's the difference between this and any other motherboard with two processor slots? Those have been around for ages. For that matter, Apple's highest model Power Mac has had two dual-core processors for some time now, so having dual dual-core processors isn't new.
They're the only ones who can. Noone else has the clout to tell the manufacturers what the lowest acceptable hardware is.
Still, Microsoft could get a chunk of the market if
1) the next IE has an MSN search box built in
It does
2) defaults to MSN homepage
It does
3) And MSN search rivals Googles in its ability to return good results
Supposudly it's getting there, though I haven't tried it myself to say for sure.
I agree with you. This is going to get interesting. I personally don't think Microsoft will be able to knock out Google, but as long as they have Windows and Office, Microsoft can't really lose either. They can just keep throwing money at it until the cows come home.
That's probably why in OS X they changed it so that the trash can turns in to an eject icon when you start dragging a mounted disc (such as a CD).
It's true that active voice is not always a better choice over passive voice. However, active voice is more engaging to the reader, and active voice tends to result in shorter, more direct sentences. There are, or course, exceptions to that (which is why active is not always the better choice), but in general, those hold true and active is preferential.