Incorrect. The mentioned are foul and irrelevant. Jump the shark means that something is not finished yet, but shows a decline in quality. Like, for example, "Santa Barbara" tv-series.
Russian for "jump the shark" would be something about "second freshness" - there are a lot of jokes about it. Although I can't find the exact synonym for "jump the shark", it is only because my brain is busy with other things. Russian language definitely more rich than English and the only language it can compete with is Chinese.
However, there is another Russian saying, which can be translated as "For each artful ass a dick with a groove can be found". And this is quite relevant to situation with VISA:) In fact, I think this is the main idea behind the AllOfMP3.com.
Retention of internet traffic is extremely costly, especially when you dump all multimedia content and so on. Who will pay for this?
In Latvia, a small country in north Europe, they have a policy of data retention, which doesn't work. Because nobody has money enough to support it. ISPs have no money to store even one day of internet traffic. And that's in Latvia, with total country population about 7 times less than New York city.
So the obvious question is - who will pay for this? I guess in all cases - American citizens.
The "Internet" in the start menu of Windows XP/2003 is the default web browser. If your default web browser is Firefox, then even the icon of "Internet" will be firefox icon.
I'm sorry for my English, but I can't understand this phrase from TFA: "We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2."
Do I get right, that they fixed some bugs from RC1, but nevertheless implemented these bugs in RC2? Why?
Not necessary. There is a lot of worms, that once penetrating your computer read your address book and submit all addresses to spammer's website. So they don't have to sell your address, this happens automatically once your e-mail address is saved on infected machine... Or once machine, where your address was saved, becomes infected.
"is there room for a new type of organization that throws away the archaic and monolithic organizational structure of today and from there form a company that has its direction dictated by all of the members that run it."
Yes, there is a room. It's called communism, or Utopia. Where everyone is even to others and everyone has the same rights as others... But I'm afraid it's only words, as it goes against the nature - because everyone has it's own gift, features, skills, whatever, and every job requires a special skill or even gift, talent. Being a good programmer doesn't mean being a good director, and vice versa.
From the point of view of Russian language, that was natural event, nothing unexpected. Some sailors say - how you name a ship, she will float that way. While in German language "gluck" means "happiness", in Russian it means "glitch".
The major physician of Russia, the one who forbidden the import of Georgian wines because of "too much" pesticides it contains, said that Tamiflu does not really cure the birds flu. At least no better than anything else. He also argued that medical corporations goes too far in advertising "cures" to serious diseases like birds flu or AIDS, just to earn more money.
Taking into account that Tamiflu costs about 1000% more than thing like Paracetamolum (which doesn't cure anything either, but advertised as "a cure for flu") I can believe him.
Nothing surprising about Israel. They, for example, buy the Russian "Black Shark" helicopter and change electronics there.
And regarding that protection system, it is deadly efficient for a tank and just deadly for supporting infantry. Because it fires whatever you want but not bullets. I heard that American copy of Russian protection system is firing steel balls, while Russian system fires shrapnel. Not a big deal, I guess American engineers think that kids of Teheran loves steel balls.
I wonder if it will be used in Iran. USA will save some armor but how many lives of supporting infantry will be lost, bearing in mind they refused to wear that new heavy body armor?
Well, I've seen this thing on CeBIT this year. It wasn't really noticable booth, although quite large, with a huge portrait of Depeche Mode... There was a nigga DJ with all his tools, and he was constantly saying one phrase... Let me remember... It was like...
"Yo, check this out, TRECKSTORE, yeeeeah.... Check this out... This is the most expensive MP3 player on Earth... twenty five thousands dollars... Check this out... Yeah.... Aha... twenty five thousands..."
So I assume it is about 25 000 USD for one piece of electronics. It's like, for example, a Siemens phone from Escada - uglyness with jewelry for about 1000 USD. Well, some people have a taste substituted with money, I guess.
Although the EU approved such measures just now, it is already a law in a small country of Latvia, which is also a member of EU. Although with some difference. Latvian politics are not tech guru, so their version of the law states, that all data, including the data being sent and received, should be stored. Technically impossible, and if enforced, this law would lead to unexpected consequences in this tiny part of european internet.
Personally, I think even storage of logs of all network activity (not only ports 25-110-80) will lead to necessity of huge investments, probably kicking off small providers out of business, raising the price of internet services.
Moreover, we will see some scandals caused by theft of such data, using it, selling etc.
I think this is a bad thing for european economy and will anger new members of EU even more, but there is a good side - things like anonymizers, personal proxies and encryptors will gain a commercial quality and support, and old good hacking scene will probably rise again. People will have to be more IT-educated, because going against the government is always interesting, thanks to Hollywood:)
Bearing in mind, that some encryption like AES or Twofish, are nearly impossible to crack during a lifetime, UK police should give a choice to suspects - shoot them immediately, or wait until data will be decrypted. That would be fair.
They already have a device that detects snipers, but in a different way. Instead of detecting snipers by listening to a shot (which may be a few at the battlefield, echoed etc) it finds optics, sniper's lens. I have no idea how it detects optics, but I've seen the video record of such experiment and it was succesful. They used it in Chechnya, I heard, but as always, don't have enough money to make it popular.
What really makes this 64-bit edition interesting, is the amount of RAM that is available for user. As you know, the 32-bit edition supports up to 4Gb which is not even nearly needful for most appliances, including hard 3D gaming, but may be insufficient (in some rare cases) for things like video and multimedia edit. Probably 128Gb, supported by 64-bit edition is a key feature for multimedia designers for making a switch decision.
What did they mean exactly by customer records? I am in doubt a little that any company may have a 1 600 000 000 customers, that's 1/4 part of the planet's population, isn't it?
But it's not an operating system name, right? Not any software product in wide use. So probably it's ok. However, a good reason for that organization to sue MS and make some profit of it.
And I doubt it's a really wise marketing step to name OS this way. At least a small country in baltics, with 2.5 millions of inhabitants, will have fun of this new OS.
Instead, it should be a form on a website, where spammer must enter e-mail address for checking (and do it manually, so a simple "type the word from picture" check would be nice), and the system then answers, if this e-mail address is in fact in the database. That would protect data from stealing, IMHO.
First of all, the modern credit cards, i.e. smart cards, allow you to use PKI if you are using chip reader. There are certificates of Visa, of your bank and reader manufacturer's. However, the same card has a magnetic stripe, which only holds credit card number, expiration date and some other value like possible limits.
What is important, is that you can not eliminate legacy authentication method, i.e. number and expiration date, just because you will have no possibility then to authorize offline transactions. If you will not allow offline transactions, then it will paralyze commerce on some places like cruise ships, mountains, gas stations etc. Communications are expensive these days, and new technologies like GSM card readers are expensive as well. Millions of such readers required, and even they have their own flaws, like the stupid PKI implementation and WiFi/GSM bugs.
And more. Why your proposed system is stupid. Just because it depends not from VISA or MasterCard, but from specific bank, and there is a bunch of banks even in Paraguay, and I can only imagine how many of them operates in New York. So imagine a small shop, a half of it is occupied by super-secure card readers.
However, what you described is a simplified version of current smart card PKI infrastructure. The point is - it should not be used alone, although it is more secure.
But if to think more on this subject, I think that in the future, don't know how near, all your bank cards, no matter of system, VISA or Amex, will be on one card, one chip, the same as in your mobile phone. In fact, it will be on your mobile phone chip. It is possible, and the only difficulty here is who will own this card - mobile operator, or bank, or you...
You know why Russians don't care about US initiatives of Space Wars, like SDI? Simple.
It takes one transport ship full of garbage, to effectively wipe out all satellites, friend or foe, from space. So USA can waste tens of millions, it will not become a serious argument agains any, even small, space country.
Where you take a picture to the glass, and if it is splitted, you can watch the missing part using the rest of the picture, like window. But it requires laser and time and immobility of the target during "photo session".
However, it seems like new technology may increase the number of wannabe photographers, producing superb pictures... And imagine, what delicious porn we'll see in 4D! And, of course, tons of spam, offering that porn... Time to update SpamAsassin with that new terms...
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Incorrect. The mentioned are foul and irrelevant. Jump the shark means that something is not finished yet, but shows a decline in quality. Like, for example, "Santa Barbara" tv-series.
:) In fact, I think this is the main idea behind the AllOfMP3.com.
Russian for "jump the shark" would be something about "second freshness" - there are a lot of jokes about it. Although I can't find the exact synonym for "jump the shark", it is only because my brain is busy with other things. Russian language definitely more rich than English and the only language it can compete with is Chinese.
However, there is another Russian saying, which can be translated as "For each artful ass a dick with a groove can be found". And this is quite relevant to situation with VISA
Retention of internet traffic is extremely costly, especially when you dump all multimedia content and so on. Who will pay for this?
In Latvia, a small country in north Europe, they have a policy of data retention, which doesn't work. Because nobody has money enough to support it. ISPs have no money to store even one day of internet traffic. And that's in Latvia, with total country population about 7 times less than New York city.
So the obvious question is - who will pay for this? I guess in all cases - American citizens.
The "Internet" in the start menu of Windows XP/2003 is the default web browser. If your default web browser is Firefox, then even the icon of "Internet" will be firefox icon.
Moreover, why did they say "many of your bugs"? Why my bugs? I haven't even touched Vista, but I already made some bugs? I won't posess MS logic...
I'm sorry for my English, but I can't understand this phrase from TFA: "We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2."
Do I get right, that they fixed some bugs from RC1, but nevertheless implemented these bugs in RC2? Why?
Not necessary. There is a lot of worms, that once penetrating your computer read your address book and submit all addresses to spammer's website. So they don't have to sell your address, this happens automatically once your e-mail address is saved on infected machine... Or once machine, where your address was saved, becomes infected.
What was the name of this technology, until DVD Jon hacked it?..
"is there room for a new type of organization
that throws away the archaic and monolithic organizational structure of
today and from there form a company that has its direction dictated by
all of the members that run it."
Yes, there is a room. It's called communism, or Utopia. Where everyone is even to others and everyone has the same rights as others... But I'm afraid it's only words, as it goes against the nature - because everyone has it's own gift, features, skills, whatever, and every job requires a special skill or even gift, talent. Being a good programmer doesn't mean being a good director, and vice versa.
From the point of view of Russian language, that was natural event, nothing unexpected.
Some sailors say - how you name a ship, she will float that way.
While in German language "gluck" means "happiness", in Russian it means "glitch".
The major physician of Russia, the one who forbidden the import of Georgian wines because of "too much" pesticides it contains, said that Tamiflu does not really cure the birds flu. At least no better than anything else. He also argued that medical corporations goes too far in advertising "cures" to serious diseases like birds flu or AIDS, just to earn more money.
Taking into account that Tamiflu costs about 1000% more than thing like Paracetamolum (which doesn't cure anything either, but advertised as "a cure for flu") I can believe him.
Nothing surprising about Israel. They, for example, buy the Russian "Black Shark" helicopter and change electronics there.
And regarding that protection system, it is deadly efficient for a tank and just deadly for supporting infantry. Because it fires whatever you want but not bullets. I heard that American copy of Russian protection system is firing steel balls, while Russian system fires shrapnel. Not a big deal, I guess American engineers think that kids of Teheran loves steel balls.
I wonder if it will be used in Iran. USA will save some armor but how many lives of supporting infantry will be lost, bearing in mind they refused to wear that new heavy body armor?
Well, I've seen this thing on CeBIT this year. It wasn't really noticable booth, although quite large, with a huge portrait of Depeche Mode... There was a nigga DJ with all his tools, and he was constantly saying one phrase... Let me remember... It was like...
"Yo, check this out, TRECKSTORE, yeeeeah.... Check this out... This is the most expensive MP3 player on Earth... twenty five thousands dollars... Check this out... Yeah.... Aha... twenty five thousands..."
So I assume it is about 25 000 USD for one piece of electronics. It's like, for example, a Siemens phone from Escada - uglyness with jewelry for about 1000 USD. Well, some people have a taste substituted with money, I guess.
Although the EU approved such measures just now, it is already a law in a small country of Latvia, which is also a member of EU. Although with some difference. Latvian politics are not tech guru, so their version of the law states, that all data, including the data being sent and received, should be stored. Technically impossible, and if enforced, this law would lead to unexpected consequences in this tiny part of european internet.
:)
Personally, I think even storage of logs of all network activity (not only ports 25-110-80) will lead to necessity of huge investments, probably kicking off small providers out of business, raising the price of internet services.
Moreover, we will see some scandals caused by theft of such data, using it, selling etc.
I think this is a bad thing for european economy and will anger new members of EU even more, but there is a good side - things like anonymizers, personal proxies and encryptors will gain a commercial quality and support, and old good hacking scene will probably rise again. People will have to be more IT-educated, because going against the government is always interesting, thanks to Hollywood
Bearing in mind, that some encryption like AES or Twofish, are nearly impossible to crack during a lifetime, UK police should give a choice to suspects - shoot them immediately, or wait until data will be decrypted. That would be fair.
They already have a device that detects snipers, but in a different way. Instead of detecting snipers by listening to a shot (which may be a few at the battlefield, echoed etc) it finds optics, sniper's lens. I have no idea how it detects optics, but I've seen the video record of such experiment and it was succesful. They used it in Chechnya, I heard, but as always, don't have enough money to make it popular.
What really makes this 64-bit edition interesting, is the amount of RAM that is available for user. As you know, the 32-bit edition supports up to 4Gb which is not even nearly needful for most appliances, including hard 3D gaming, but may be insufficient (in some rare cases) for things like video and multimedia edit. Probably 128Gb, supported by 64-bit edition is a key feature for multimedia designers for making a switch decision.
What did they mean exactly by customer records? I am in doubt a little that any company may have a 1 600 000 000 customers, that's 1/4 part of the planet's population, isn't it?
Russian investigators identified about ten million suspects, including russian programmer Eugene Kaspersky.
But it's not an operating system name, right? Not any software product in wide use. So probably it's ok. However, a good reason for that organization to sue MS and make some profit of it.
And I doubt it's a really wise marketing step to name OS this way. At least a small country in baltics, with 2.5 millions of inhabitants, will have fun of this new OS.
Instead, it should be a form on a website, where spammer must enter e-mail address for checking (and do it manually, so a simple "type the word from picture" check would be nice), and the system then answers, if this e-mail address is in fact in the database. That would protect data from stealing, IMHO.
First of all, the modern credit cards, i.e. smart cards, allow you to use PKI if you are using chip reader. There are certificates of Visa, of your bank and reader manufacturer's. However, the same card has a magnetic stripe, which only holds credit card number, expiration date and some other value like possible limits.
What is important, is that you can not eliminate legacy authentication method, i.e. number and expiration date, just because you will have no possibility then to authorize offline transactions. If you will not allow offline transactions, then it will paralyze commerce on some places like cruise ships, mountains, gas stations etc. Communications are expensive these days, and new technologies like GSM card readers are expensive as well. Millions of such readers required, and even they have their own flaws, like the stupid PKI implementation and WiFi/GSM bugs.
And more. Why your proposed system is stupid. Just because it depends not from VISA or MasterCard, but from specific bank, and there is a bunch of banks even in Paraguay, and I can only imagine how many of them operates in New York. So imagine a small shop, a half of it is occupied by super-secure card readers.
However, what you described is a simplified version of current smart card PKI infrastructure. The point is - it should not be used alone, although it is more secure.
But if to think more on this subject, I think that in the future, don't know how near, all your bank cards, no matter of system, VISA or Amex, will be on one card, one chip, the same as in your mobile phone. In fact, it will be on your mobile phone chip. It is possible, and the only difficulty here is who will own this card - mobile operator, or bank, or you...
Writing, actually, that to defeat your enemy you have to love him, understanding alone is not enough. What if...
You know why Russians don't care about US initiatives of Space Wars, like SDI? Simple.
It takes one transport ship full of garbage, to effectively wipe out all satellites, friend or foe, from space. So USA can waste tens of millions, it will not become a serious argument agains any, even small, space country.
Where you take a picture to the glass, and if it is splitted, you can watch the missing part using the rest of the picture, like window. But it requires laser and time and immobility of the target during "photo session".
However, it seems like new technology may increase the number of wannabe photographers, producing superb pictures... And imagine, what delicious porn we'll see in 4D! And, of course, tons of spam, offering that porn... Time to update SpamAsassin with that new terms...