Do you people realize that Kevin Butler isn't even a real person? (At least, not at Sony.) He's a fictional character played by an actor. This twitter account is probably manned by dozens of employees in the marketing department paid to do just that. Any one of them could have been tricked or compromised. citation
Let's be real here, the opponent in reference here is not literally a moron. While many persons with mild mental retardation might post to./, I think their posts would be highly recognizable as such.
Why would you try to start a fake rumor like this on a weekend? If you shorted Apple, I would think it would be much more effective when the markets are open. Even if you did manage to freak the markets out enough to make an impact on share price, by Monday morning, everyone will have realized you're full of crap.
Also, even though you posted AC, I think the SEC is one of those organizations that probably has enough pull to get some information about your identity. (Slashdot values privacy, but they do keep some records, and they do have to comply with government subpoenas)
Unless, of course, you took a LiveCD of Ubuntu to a library nowhere near your home (after first making sure there were no surveillance cameras) and posted AC from that computer. Then you should be fine. Unless you make some real money. The SEC is pretty efficient at following money trails.
As an academic exercise, go ahead and get onto their website and try to buy one. I'll wait...
Are you back? Now, I haven't even begun to ask/answer the question of which U.S. carriers will support this phone, if any. I'll get to that once I could possibly buy one.
Now, I can kill someone using a devious, undetectable way. When they find my search history, my defense will be that I clicked on an unmarked slashdot link.
I guess everyone's mileage varies. I've been using RoadRunner in Central Ohio since 1998. (I was a residential beta tester back when you had to install a RoadRunner client and "sign in" to a proxy server using a Kerberos token.) I've had both residential and business class service, and I can only recall one DNS outage which lasted about an hour. Now, I won't say there weren't other outages. We had one winter where the physical circuit went down 5 times in 2 months due to weather-related problems. But DNS has always been rock solid for me.
OK, I don't want to throw too much fuel on the fire, but we as humans have to acknowledge the effects of our biological chemistry on our actions. I certainly wasn't in the room with Assange, but there comes a point for any man during intercourse where there is "no return." If a man is inserted into a woman, and reaches this point during intercourse, then said woman suddenly has a change of heart, it is inconceivable that we should expect the man to stop. I know it sounds barbaric, but there comes a point during intercourse where we are truly not in control of our actions. We are, after all, biological beings that are no less subject to the pull of our chemistry than any other animal. I'm not forgiving anyone of non-consensual sex, but if, as a woman, you enter into the act of intercourse, I believe at that point you have committed to the act.
In the same way, if I run out 20 meters in front of a car traveling at highway speeds, we don't blame the driver of the car for hitting me. There is biological momentum, just as there is the physical momentum of the car. It may not seem that way, since we, as humans, are usually reasonably in control of our actions, but that control is sometimes an illusion.
Again, I don't mean to sound barbaric here, but I know from experience that there's a point during intercourse where I could lose a limb and still carry out the act to its conclusion. I know this point is probably different for every person, but the women in question both acknowledge that they entered into a consensual act of coitus with Assange. In my opinion, they consented to the whole act, not just the part until they changed their minds. Maybe that's not how it played out in the room, but if that is in fact the case, I don't think there's a crime here.
Unarguably, everything is projected onto your retina inverted, i.e. things in the top of your field of vision appear on the bottom of your retina. This is provable. If you're looking top-down at the mouse, and you have that mouse inverted, such that moving it up makes the cursor move down on the screen and vice-versa then the image of the cursor on your retina will unarguably move in the same direction as the mouse.
How you perceive that image is learned. If it were technically possible to remove your retina and re-insert it so that it was rotated by 180 degrees, (and otherwise undamaged) you would most certainly perceive that everything as upside-down. If you did the same thing to a newborn, (or more accurately, an in-utero fetus) it would have no effect on its perception of the world at all, because its brain hasn't yet learned to interpret the data from its eyeball. The retina just transmits data to the brain, which must then learn how to interpret it.
By the way, you missed that the whole post was tongue-in-cheek.
I once came across an application where I had to enter a registration key. I entered something like:
ah745-x8d8e-fe02w-8s89e
The program returned an error that said "It looks like you used lowercase letters. All serial numbers for this program have uppercase-only letters."
So whatever idiot programmed this knew to check to ensure the serial number didn't have lowercase numbers, and thought to return an error message to the user, but didn't think to just interpret lowercase as uppercase. Now, I'm not a programmer, but isn't the former actually more lines of code than just accepting lower or uppercase letters?
Now, thinking like a programmer, he was probably trying to teach the idiot user a lesson, but it really seemed like poor programming to me at the time. Aren't you guys supposed to be coddling the users?
I would say that holding the mouse upside-down is quirky, but not necessarily stupid. You realize that everything you've ever seen in your entire life is upside-down, because your eyeball contains only one lens, right? You're so used to seeing it that way, that you don't even think of up as down and vice-versa, because you've only ever seen it that way your whole life.
By my logic, your colleague may be one of the few people that actually holds the mouse correctly.
I've been using this Windows hack to turn my Caps Lock key into a regular old Shift key for about a year now. I hardly noticed, except I don't have sentences tHAT LOOK LIKE THIS ANYMORE.
I doubt this is unique to Kentucky, but Muslims there can't even get government approval for a self-funded Islamic building, let alone a tax incentive. This country's Christian-bias kills me.
FTP isn't secure, but it's got a very low overhead compared to sftp or smb. Still a very efficient way to send very large files over a trusted, reliable LAN. On a gigabit LAN, I get a significantly higher transfer speed than when using smb.
I'm not saying I'd put it in production over the Internet. It's crazy insecure and is a pain in the butt to set up on a firewall, but for fast, simple transfers on a LAN, it's the best protocol out there.
Travelling has nothing to do with it. It's intelligence, pure and simple. I've never been outside the US (excepting Toronto, which doesn't really count) and I share your views 100%.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but jailbreak opportunity is by definition a security hole. With the iPhone/iPad vulnerability, you could literally go to a webpage and your device was jailbroken. You didn't have to approve or install anything. It was convenient, but that jailbreak code could just as easily have been a toll caller, person tracker, cookie stealer, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
they are knocking houses down
[citation needed]
Most companies have a whole department of those people. They're called "Project Managers."
Yeah, but Polanski wasn't "rape-rape," just "rape."
Do you people realize that Kevin Butler isn't even a real person? (At least, not at Sony.) He's a fictional character played by an actor. This twitter account is probably manned by dozens of employees in the marketing department paid to do just that. Any one of them could have been tricked or compromised. citation
Let's be real here, the opponent in reference here is not literally a moron. While many persons with mild mental retardation might post to ./, I think their posts would be highly recognizable as such.
Don't misuse the word literally, moron.
Why would you try to start a fake rumor like this on a weekend? If you shorted Apple, I would think it would be much more effective when the markets are open. Even if you did manage to freak the markets out enough to make an impact on share price, by Monday morning, everyone will have realized you're full of crap.
Also, even though you posted AC, I think the SEC is one of those organizations that probably has enough pull to get some information about your identity. (Slashdot values privacy, but they do keep some records, and they do have to comply with government subpoenas)
Unless, of course, you took a LiveCD of Ubuntu to a library nowhere near your home (after first making sure there were no surveillance cameras) and posted AC from that computer. Then you should be fine. Unless you make some real money. The SEC is pretty efficient at following money trails.
Shhhhhh... They read these forums you know! Don't give them ideas.
Battery Replacement.
As an academic exercise, go ahead and get onto their website and try to buy one. I'll wait...
Are you back? Now, I haven't even begun to ask/answer the question of which U.S. carriers will support this phone, if any. I'll get to that once I could possibly buy one.
I see what you did there. Funny!
Now, I can kill someone using a devious, undetectable way. When they find my search history, my defense will be that I clicked on an unmarked slashdot link.
I guess everyone's mileage varies. I've been using RoadRunner in Central Ohio since 1998. (I was a residential beta tester back when you had to install a RoadRunner client and "sign in" to a proxy server using a Kerberos token.) I've had both residential and business class service, and I can only recall one DNS outage which lasted about an hour. Now, I won't say there weren't other outages. We had one winter where the physical circuit went down 5 times in 2 months due to weather-related problems. But DNS has always been rock solid for me.
OK, I don't want to throw too much fuel on the fire, but we as humans have to acknowledge the effects of our biological chemistry on our actions. I certainly wasn't in the room with Assange, but there comes a point for any man during intercourse where there is "no return." If a man is inserted into a woman, and reaches this point during intercourse, then said woman suddenly has a change of heart, it is inconceivable that we should expect the man to stop. I know it sounds barbaric, but there comes a point during intercourse where we are truly not in control of our actions. We are, after all, biological beings that are no less subject to the pull of our chemistry than any other animal. I'm not forgiving anyone of non-consensual sex, but if, as a woman, you enter into the act of intercourse, I believe at that point you have committed to the act.
In the same way, if I run out 20 meters in front of a car traveling at highway speeds, we don't blame the driver of the car for hitting me. There is biological momentum, just as there is the physical momentum of the car. It may not seem that way, since we, as humans, are usually reasonably in control of our actions, but that control is sometimes an illusion.
Again, I don't mean to sound barbaric here, but I know from experience that there's a point during intercourse where I could lose a limb and still carry out the act to its conclusion. I know this point is probably different for every person, but the women in question both acknowledge that they entered into a consensual act of coitus with Assange. In my opinion, they consented to the whole act, not just the part until they changed their minds. Maybe that's not how it played out in the room, but if that is in fact the case, I don't think there's a crime here.
Unarguably, everything is projected onto your retina inverted, i.e. things in the top of your field of vision appear on the bottom of your retina. This is provable. If you're looking top-down at the mouse, and you have that mouse inverted, such that moving it up makes the cursor move down on the screen and vice-versa then the image of the cursor on your retina will unarguably move in the same direction as the mouse.
How you perceive that image is learned. If it were technically possible to remove your retina and re-insert it so that it was rotated by 180 degrees, (and otherwise undamaged) you would most certainly perceive that everything as upside-down. If you did the same thing to a newborn, (or more accurately, an in-utero fetus) it would have no effect on its perception of the world at all, because its brain hasn't yet learned to interpret the data from its eyeball. The retina just transmits data to the brain, which must then learn how to interpret it.
By the way, you missed that the whole post was tongue-in-cheek.
ah745-x8d8e-fe02w-8s89e
The program returned an error that said "It looks like you used lowercase letters. All serial numbers for this program have uppercase-only letters."
So whatever idiot programmed this knew to check to ensure the serial number didn't have lowercase numbers, and thought to return an error message to the user, but didn't think to just interpret lowercase as uppercase. Now, I'm not a programmer, but isn't the former actually more lines of code than just accepting lower or uppercase letters?
Now, thinking like a programmer, he was probably trying to teach the idiot user a lesson, but it really seemed like poor programming to me at the time. Aren't you guys supposed to be coddling the users?
I would say that holding the mouse upside-down is quirky, but not necessarily stupid. You realize that everything you've ever seen in your entire life is upside-down, because your eyeball contains only one lens, right? You're so used to seeing it that way, that you don't even think of up as down and vice-versa, because you've only ever seen it that way your whole life.
By my logic, your colleague may be one of the few people that actually holds the mouse correctly.
You're welcome ;-)
I've been using this Windows hack to turn my Caps Lock key into a regular old Shift key for about a year now. I hardly noticed, except I don't have sentences tHAT LOOK LIKE THIS ANYMORE.
I doubt this is unique to Kentucky, but Muslims there can't even get government approval for a self-funded Islamic building, let alone a tax incentive. This country's Christian-bias kills me.
FTP isn't secure, but it's got a very low overhead compared to sftp or smb. Still a very efficient way to send very large files over a trusted, reliable LAN. On a gigabit LAN, I get a significantly higher transfer speed than when using smb.
I'm not saying I'd put it in production over the Internet. It's crazy insecure and is a pain in the butt to set up on a firewall, but for fast, simple transfers on a LAN, it's the best protocol out there.
Travelling has nothing to do with it. It's intelligence, pure and simple. I've never been outside the US (excepting Toronto, which doesn't really count) and I share your views 100%.
Just sayin'. Idiots can travel too.
Bah... it was early...
I'm pretty sure that's why GP was modded funny and not informative. {/sarcasm}
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but jailbreak opportunity is by definition a security hole. With the iPhone/iPad vulnerability, you could literally go to a webpage and your device was jailbroken. You didn't have to approve or install anything. It was convenient, but that jailbreak code could just as easily have been a toll caller, person tracker, cookie stealer, etc.
And don't most USians live in fear of the muslim terrorists and Obama's "Death Panels"?
You believe far too much of what you see on TV. Only about 15% of us are crazy, just like any other country. The rest are pretty normal.