I like this part of the article about using ebay:
"In one 9 month period, I bought and sold 5 laptops, taking a loss of around $200-300 per sale, before settling on one to keep. This is a bit extreme and certainly involved a fair amount of hassle, but on the plus side, I was able to try out several brand new laptops on my own terms, and sell them for a relatively minimal loss. After about 9 months, I still had a new laptop for around US $1500 (as opposed to leasing laptops)."
Given the conservative estimate of $200 loss per purchase, that would $1000. That would mean that at the end he either had a $1500 laptop for $2500, or else he bought a $500 laptop for $1500. Either way this is not "Tech on the Cheap."
"With pressure on Google after the request by the Bush administration for personal information, privacy concerns may be hard hitting."
If you have privacy concerns, don't use the service. If you are stupid enough to transfer private or sensitive information over someone elses network, let alone store it on their drives, you deserve what you get. I use some online storage for information that I would not want to lose in the event of a catastrophe at my home, but it is nothing I consider sensitive. If it was, I would either store it elsewhere or use some kind of encryption on the files.
"Research from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. shows that the 20th century was the warmest for the northern hemisphere since approximately 800AD.... The findings support the argument for global warming as a result of human interference rather than natural climate change"
Help me out here. If it was warmer in 800 AD, what 'human interferance' caused the global warming in the 9th century?
"Perhaps as one of the first high profile uses of Alexa's WebSearch Platform, the U.S. government plans to search, link and reference every news site, blog and email on the Internet, using sophisticated AI codenamed ADVISE to do the correlations."
I don't suppose this is going to honor the rules in my robots.txt.
"And even more important: Is it important that donations from rich billionaires be public or should they remain private?""
I think this is the more interesting question. Personally, I believe charity should be a private thing. If you make a public announcement every time you do a charitable act, you are doing it for the publicity as much as anything. The amount of wealth given by Bill Gates is a drop in the bucket compared to his total wealth. I am sure he gets a sizeable tax deduction as well. This all reminds me of the parable of the widows mite.
I am always confused by the fact that everyone thinks the theory of evolution is a theory about the creation of life on earth. The theory of evolution can be summed up in two words; species evolve. Sure there is all that subtext about natural selection, but in essence, the theory is that species evolve.
I do not understand how anyone can deny the truth of this. We see it in action time and time again. There are species that were introduced to Hawaii in modern times that have since evolved into new species. I saw one of the best arguments for evolution here on/. as a sig. It said "If you do not believe in evolution, why are you worried about the bird flu?"
According to the article here is why it is a good idea: "He added that the idea for the show has been embraced on Madison Avenue by potential advertisers."
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"isn't this what speed step did back with the PIII"
This is what AMD did with their PowerNow!(TM) technology. It dynamically adjusts CPU power consumption based on CPU load. According to AMD, it can reduce CPU power at Idle by 75%. I know on my laptop, I can hear the fan speed up and slow down based on the load on the CPU.
"I wonder how many of these billions is the cost of hunting script kiddies when the money would be better spent hiring someone who knows a thing or two about security and preventing an attack from happening in the first place."
Yeah but hiring a security guy costs money too. So does developing and implementing a security strategy. I wonder if the FBI's numbers take into account the costs incurred by companies in preventing computer crime.
I don't know if it does per say, but if it is blantantly innaccurate, I won't be able to watch it. Let me give youu a non-IT example I saw on TV the other day.
A father and daughter were having a heart to heart while the father worked on the car. He asked her to hand him a half inch wrench. She asked "Crescent or socket?" He replied "Socket." She handed him a box end wrench. At that moment I wondered if every mechanic in America was changing channels just like me.
For one thing, a crescent wrench (spanner for you Brits) is adjustable, so a half inch wrench would never be a crescent. Second she did not give hime what he asked for. Third, it was a modern car so it would have been metric.
Maybe I am too picky, but I am a geek not a mechanic and even I knew it was wrong
Yeah this is from a blog, and even the blog says 'An Opera official outright denied this claim, after I asked about it, saying "Rumors come and go. Google is not buying Opera."'
"Newer articles probably would have a higher error rate."
I think the choice to use scince-related articles slants the results. There are not a lot of people who feel capable of writing about Epitaxy. On the other hand, those subjects that are more accessible to a large group of people, such as Ethanol or Thyroid have significantly higher error rates. I think it is probable that more popular subjects would have a higher error count due to 'urban myth' being included as fact.
"This is not 'full disclosure', its selling information to the criminals."
Cosidering that the opening bid was set at $0.01, I doubt he really expected to profit. Instead he probably just wanted to call public attention to the exploit and force Microsoft to address it quickly.
"The sell order, which was more than the available shares, somehow went through the TSE system."
"That to me is much more disturbing."
I am not sure that this is a problem. There is this concept in the stock market called "Selling Short." In essence if you think a stock is going to go down in value, you can sell shares of the stock that you do not own. You have to have assets worth half the value of the stock you are selling, and you have to buy an equal number of shares within (I think) three months to cover the deal. In theory this could have been seen by the software as a short sell.
"My family runs two Windows PCs behind solid firewall without any virus protection software at all. They don't swap files over IM, they don't click nonsense (they've learned the hard way), they don't use gnutella, etc. For a year now they've been without a single issue or zombie infection, even with using IE instead of Firefox."
I do not doubt you. I have only gotten a virus when I mistakenly clicked on a link sent by a co-worker. The minute I did it I realized it was a mistake, but we are all thoughtless sometime. What I want to know is this: Without a virus scanner, how do you know they are not infected?
" What good is it to have the xxx TLD if they won't enforce it? "
I think the idea is not to force them to use.xxx but to allow them to use it. If a business is legitimately selling sex, I think they would be eager to have a.xxx domain.
When I read "But there are not only people. There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people." I immediately invisioned billions of internet enabled sex toys.
"Much worse than not detecting it before Russinovich's discovery was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case."
Yeah that has been my reaction. When I heard about it the first thing I began doing was searching for detection and removal software. I found nothing. I could not believe that Mcafee was not publishing a fix.
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Wow, what a waste. Do you know what vintage porn from the 30's and 40's is worth? I would love to have inherited my grandfathers porn collection.
"In one 9 month period, I bought and sold 5 laptops, taking a loss of around $200-300 per sale, before settling on one to keep. This is a bit extreme and certainly involved a fair amount of hassle, but on the plus side, I was able to try out several brand new laptops on my own terms, and sell them for a relatively minimal loss. After about 9 months, I still had a new laptop for around US $1500 (as opposed to leasing laptops)."
Given the conservative estimate of $200 loss per purchase, that would $1000. That would mean that at the end he either had a $1500 laptop for $2500, or else he bought a $500 laptop for $1500. Either way this is not "Tech on the Cheap."
"the Korean dominance of the event"
In Korea only old people play MMOGs.
If you have privacy concerns, don't use the service. If you are stupid enough to transfer private or sensitive information over someone elses network, let alone store it on their drives, you deserve what you get. I use some online storage for information that I would not want to lose in the event of a catastrophe at my home, but it is nothing I consider sensitive. If it was, I would either store it elsewhere or use some kind of encryption on the files.
Wow! What a well thougth out and articulate response. What are you doing on /.?
Help me out here. If it was warmer in 800 AD, what 'human interferance' caused the global warming in the 9th century?
I don't suppose this is going to honor the rules in my robots.txt.
Yeah, sure. But then I am 41 years old. I pre-date email.
I think this is the more interesting question. Personally, I believe charity should be a private thing. If you make a public announcement every time you do a charitable act, you are doing it for the publicity as much as anything. The amount of wealth given by Bill Gates is a drop in the bucket compared to his total wealth. I am sure he gets a sizeable tax deduction as well. This all reminds me of the parable of the widows mite.
I do not understand how anyone can deny the truth of this. We see it in action time and time again. There are species that were introduced to Hawaii in modern times that have since evolved into new species. I saw one of the best arguments for evolution here on /. as a sig. It said "If you do not believe in evolution, why are you worried about the bird flu?"
According to the article here is why it is a good idea:
"He added that the idea for the show has been embraced on Madison Avenue by potential advertisers."
This is what AMD did with their PowerNow!(TM) technology. It dynamically adjusts CPU power consumption based on CPU load. According to AMD, it can reduce CPU power at Idle by 75%. I know on my laptop, I can hear the fan speed up and slow down based on the load on the CPU.
Yeah but hiring a security guy costs money too. So does developing and implementing a security strategy. I wonder if the FBI's numbers take into account the costs incurred by companies in preventing computer crime.
I don't know if it does per say, but if it is blantantly innaccurate, I won't be able to watch it. Let me give youu a non-IT example I saw on TV the other day.
A father and daughter were having a heart to heart while the father worked on the car. He asked her to hand him a half inch wrench. She asked "Crescent or socket?" He replied "Socket." She handed him a box end wrench. At that moment I wondered if every mechanic in America was changing channels just like me.
For one thing, a crescent wrench (spanner for you Brits) is adjustable, so a half inch wrench would never be a crescent. Second she did not give hime what he asked for. Third, it was a modern car so it would have been metric.
Maybe I am too picky, but I am a geek not a mechanic and even I knew it was wrong
Yeah this is from a blog, and even the blog says 'An Opera official outright denied this claim, after I asked about it, saying "Rumors come and go. Google is not buying Opera."'
Hahhaha, next thing apple with bring out intel based macs... "
I think I will start planning that ski trip in Hell.
I think the choice to use scince-related articles slants the results. There are not a lot of people who feel capable of writing about Epitaxy. On the other hand, those subjects that are more accessible to a large group of people, such as Ethanol or Thyroid have significantly higher error rates. I think it is probable that more popular subjects would have a higher error count due to 'urban myth' being included as fact.
Wow, I wrote my first basic aroung 1975:
Cosidering that the opening bid was set at $0.01, I doubt he really expected to profit. Instead he probably just wanted to call public attention to the exploit and force Microsoft to address it quickly.
"That to me is much more disturbing."
I am not sure that this is a problem. There is this concept in the stock market called "Selling Short." In essence if you think a stock is going to go down in value, you can sell shares of the stock that you do not own. You have to have assets worth half the value of the stock you are selling, and you have to buy an equal number of shares within (I think) three months to cover the deal. In theory this could have been seen by the software as a short sell.
I do not doubt you. I have only gotten a virus when I mistakenly clicked on a link sent by a co-worker. The minute I did it I realized it was a mistake, but we are all thoughtless sometime. What I want to know is this: Without a virus scanner, how do you know they are not infected?
The requirement that all free software be called GNU/Software.
I think the idea is not to force them to use .xxx but to allow them to use it. If a business is legitimately selling sex, I think they would be eager to have a .xxx domain.
When I read "But there are not only people. There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people." I immediately invisioned billions of internet enabled sex toys.
Yeah that has been my reaction. When I heard about it the first thing I began doing was searching for detection and removal software. I found nothing. I could not believe that Mcafee was not publishing a fix.