I always think that using Laptops for gaming is a bit of a silly idea. Every couple of months a new game comes out that requires more powerful graphics, and you can't upgrade the graphics cards in a laptop. So your top of the range laptop bought today will be a pale shadow of its former self when playing the latest game in a year's time. With a desktop PC, you can simply replace the old graphics card with a new one.
[quote]Who hasn't done something goofy and thought in retrospect wished they hadn't done it (not necessarily something criminal). Google might make their "second chance" disappear.[/quote]
If only finding out about these youthful misdemeanours could end someone's career...
I welcome this news. For too long, research on the Internet has been a frustrating task. For any events after about 1997, there's oodles of information. However there's a giant hole in the amount of information available for events before then. Google Books went some way towards addressing this, but it was still an intense task because a lot of the time, you still have to find and buy the books (or find them in a Library).
I really hope they plan to go as far as putting local, regional newspapers online as well.
Day of the Tentacle (DOTT) is, IMHO, the finest point and click adventure ever to have graced the PC.
The interaction between the three different characters in their three different periods of history adds an astonishing level of depth to the surreal humor.
If the operator ever needs me to prove my identity, I am asked to provide eg the 4th & 5th character, not the whole thing. Sounds like Lloyds needs to update their security procedures!
My bank als asks me for two letters from my password, and my bank is Lloyds!
How do you know for sure that your bank's operator can't see the full password when they're asking you for two letters?
A previously unknown Indian hacker successfully breached the IT defences of the Best Western Hotel group's online booking system and sold details of how to access it through an underground network operated by the Russian mafia.
It is a move that has been dubbed the greatest cyber-heist in world history.
This sounds a bit exaggerated to me. Greatest Cyber-Heist? WHat's the odds they just hadn't bothered to encrypted the details or had done something silly with the encryption keys?
"I go to microsoft.com they have a download center" HUH? Cince when does the Head executive of the company refer to the company as "they" instead of "we"?
He's not referring to the company, he's referring to "Microsoft.com" which is the internal name of the team that manages the web site. If you look at the original document, you'll see that web department is referenced as "Microsoft.com" on multiple occasions.
From my experience, WHOIS details are mostly used by spammers and scammers. I get a steady stream of snail mail from scammers trying to pretend that they are my registrar and want me to renew with them (for a significant sum of course).
I've never had any legitimate mail sent to the snail mail address that I use to register my domains.
I get a torrent of spams to my registered email addresses. Ocassionally I get offers to buy my domains or just people wanting to contact me but that's may 1 or 2 emails a year.
I think having contact details in WHOIS is an archaic system left over from the days were everyone on the Internet was polite to each other (or something). It should be scrapped and only law enforcement agencies with a warrant should be able to access my contact details.
Well, I for one am quite excited about this. It may have taken them 10 years, but they're finally getting around to fixing the blue screen problem on Windows. i for one won't be missing it!
A common unscrupulous SEO trick is to post something outrageously controversial on your web site. By doing so, you will enrage people and incite them to blog about your statement, thus giving your site more link-juice, catapulting it up the search engine results pages.
I wonder if people who do that sort of thing are equally liable to be criminals? If so... someone call 911 and tell them abourt Matt Cutts!
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The only three core processors I know of are effectively defective quad core processors.
The 4th core is defective so, rather than disposing of them, they are sold as tri-core processors.
Whilst there's no requirement for base two, there is usually a requirement for an even number of cores in SMP (symmetric multi processing)
I always think that using Laptops for gaming is a bit of a silly idea. Every couple of months a new game comes out that requires more powerful graphics, and you can't upgrade the graphics cards in a laptop. So your top of the range laptop bought today will be a pale shadow of its former self when playing the latest game in a year's time. With a desktop PC, you can simply replace the old graphics card with a new one.
[quote]Who hasn't done something goofy and thought in retrospect wished they hadn't done it (not necessarily something criminal). Google might make their "second chance" disappear.[/quote]
If only finding out about these youthful misdemeanours could end someone's career...
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I welcome this news. For too long, research on the Internet has been a frustrating task. For any events after about 1997, there's oodles of information. However there's a giant hole in the amount of information available for events before then. Google Books went some way towards addressing this, but it was still an intense task because a lot of the time, you still have to find and buy the books (or find them in a Library).
I really hope they plan to go as far as putting local, regional newspapers online as well.
I'm still holding out hope for it to be resurrected.
Day of the Tentacle (DOTT) is, IMHO, the finest point and click adventure ever to have graced the PC.
The interaction between the three different characters in their three different periods of history adds an astonishing level of depth to the surreal humor.
If the operator ever needs me to prove my identity, I am asked to provide eg the 4th & 5th character, not the whole thing. Sounds like Lloyds needs to update their security procedures!
My bank als asks me for two letters from my password, and my bank is Lloyds!
How do you know for sure that your bank's operator can't see the full password when they're asking you for two letters?
The summary is misleading:
The details wern't "Lost", the server was comprimised and they were stolen.
This doesn't affect all Best Western hotels, just some European ones.
The details stolen are from 2007-2008 (up to 20 months)
From TFA:
Yes, it's just in Europe. It doesn't affect US hotels.
From TFA:
This sounds a bit exaggerated to me. Greatest Cyber-Heist? WHat's the odds they just hadn't bothered to encrypted the details or had done something silly with the encryption keys?
Encryption nowadays is so damn easy to use. Why don't they?
What happened to the /. we all loved so much?
It's gone to pot!
>>The internet has confirmed it.
Ah, but what does Netcraft say?
He's not referring to the company, he's referring to "Microsoft.com" which is the internal name of the team that manages the web site. If you look at the original document, you'll see that web department is referenced as "Microsoft.com" on multiple occasions.
Comparing Apple with Google is like comparing apples with oranges, or, like comparing Apple with Orange!
From my experience, WHOIS details are mostly used by spammers and scammers. I get a steady stream of snail mail from scammers trying to pretend that they are my registrar and want me to renew with them (for a significant sum of course).
I've never had any legitimate mail sent to the snail mail address that I use to register my domains.
I get a torrent of spams to my registered email addresses. Ocassionally I get offers to buy my domains or just people wanting to contact me but that's may 1 or 2 emails a year.
I think having contact details in WHOIS is an archaic system left over from the days were everyone on the Internet was polite to each other (or something). It should be scrapped and only law enforcement agencies with a warrant should be able to access my contact details.
I prefer to use a sledgehammer. Sure it's a bit heavy handed, but if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well!
The actual article can be found here...
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/the-first-genet.html
You must be new here.
Well, I for one am quite excited about this. It may have taken them 10 years, but they're finally getting around to fixing the blue screen problem on Windows. i for one won't be missing it!
I personally think that games are too complex to be turned into films without losing a lot of their values.
Converting a game to a movie is as bad an idea as converting a movie into a book. Maybe sometimes it can work, but certainly not always.
[quote]100mbps would suffice to wire any home I'm likely to occupy.[/quote]
Yes, and I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Also, 10 megabytes should be enough for anyone.
A common unscrupulous SEO trick is to post something outrageously controversial on your web site. By doing so, you will enrage people and incite them to blog about your statement, thus giving your site more link-juice, catapulting it up the search engine results pages.
I wonder if people who do that sort of thing are equally liable to be criminals? If so... someone call 911 and tell them abourt Matt Cutts!
Was I the only person expecting to see a video of Rick Astley under that YouTube link?