...maybe they weren't being lazy and instead wanted to be able to make money from both Square Enix and Blizzard even if the player used both services. I bet Digipass makes more money when they sell two of them as opposed to just one.
It doesn't come off as impressive when you throw all 28 years of your computing experience into your brag. I don't think malware was prevalent when people were coding with punch cards.
That's not malware. That's a targeted attack. We're talking about garden-variety, drive-by download, infected porn site malware here. We're talking about flies, you're talking about a unicorn.
Hidden software that logs keystrokes and sends the results off to a remote system has a lot of value. It doesn't need to only hit a targeted system. When they see results like:
mail.yahoo.com apoc@yahoo.com 123jass8
In the log file they know they have a new account to search through for any valuable personal data. Same with bank accounts, ordering online, etc, etc. They have the advantage of not needing to show pop-ups on the victim machine so it never appears to be infected. The website the victim visited is what handles the installation of the software so they don't need the infected machine to spread it around. The website can even have legitimate uses and an established community. Victims may even return to the website over and over to post comments on interesting stories and nothing ever appears to be malicious. The page they are visiting isn't dealing with illegal topics, porn, etc.
As a side note I suggest you check out a fan-page I run for Bennie Baby collectors: http://www.benniebabybrigade.com
I have more than a few friends that are firefighters. This is in Texas so I can't tell you exactly how it works in the rest of the USA but my friends all work 24 on and 48 off. During the 24 on they stay in the firehouse away from home. During their free time at the station (during no calls, no chores, etc) they can do whatever they want in the building. Halo tournaments between stations are fairly common. My wife and I have been invited numerous times to play at the station while our friends are working their 24 hours. They are paid for the entire 24 hours.
This is in a town with a population of around 35,000 - 40,000 so it isn't a huge city and there is more downtime than at most stations I'm sure.
"The reason you are confused is because you have fallen prey to companies misuse of the term salary. They would like you to think that salary means "x dollars for 40 hours a week and we don't pay you for overtime". If you are docked pay for not showing up, you are an hourly employee, not salary, irrelevant of what your HR department says."
Exactly! So many people get hosed by this. They tell you salary means you get paid a certain amount every week no matter how much you work. If you miss a day and you lose 8 hours of pay you aren't salary. You are butt fucked.
I do feel lucky that my current technical position is hourly. I work Monday - Friday 40 hours a week and I'm on call around one week a month. During the week I am on call I get paid an extra dollar an hour during the regular 40 hour week and on-call pay for any time spent working after hours. We get a minimum of two hours of on call time for every call we take (even if it takes 15 minutes). I am expected to be within 30 minutes of the office during my on call week as well. I get an average of 5 calls per an on call week.
I tell people that when I hear the pager go off it makes an annoying beeping sound but when my wife hears it go off it sounds more like, "cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching."
I've been running Windows 7 on my Dell Mini 10 Netbook for around 5 months now and I've been very pleased with it. I wouldn't have tried putting Vista on the thing at all with the 1 gig of ram it has but Windows 7 doesn't give me trouble really. I enjoy it more than Vista by far. It just seems more agreeable (if that's possible when talking about an OS).
I read a quote just a few days ago
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"Autonomy and decision making are keys to retaining excellent staff. Being micromanaged by ones boss is the surest way to lose talented people
Yeah, they are just oversubscribing their lines. The more subscribers you have the better it works. Let's say you have 50 subscribers paying for T1 and hosted space. They are just working under the assumption that not everyone is going to use a full T1 at the same time. If they used half the money coming in for T1 lines and picked up 6 of them (which is doubtful, I bet it's lower) they might have only one or two servers that can actually come up with a use for a full T1 all the time. 30 of the 50 subscribers are probably mom and pop type places that never use a full T1.
It's like a CLEC or the telephone company... There are 24 channels on a T1. Each one can hold a phone call. How many people OVER 24 do you think they put on one T1? It's a large number.
I came in here to read about locks and lock security and lockpicking. Instead it has turned into almost complete gun control debate. Letting people stray so far off topic should be discouraged so we can read posts that relate more to the subject at hand./if there is an off topic mod I guess this should be given the same rank as well.
Pop N Music 1, 2, 3 Append and 4 Append. Only because it was a great four player game that was easy for anyone to pick up. The people that sucked hardest would get less keys to control. It was always fun with a little drink in your system.
I'll be ready to pick up a DS Lite on the first day of release here in the USA and I already own the old version. Of course, I'll be giving the old one to my wife so we can both have a system. I wouldn't be surprised to see the DS Lite sell even better at launch than the original. Remember when the first one came out everyone here in the US was talking about how it would suck, how it was a gimmick and how the PSP would be so much better. Now that everyone is starting to see these great games on the DS they might be wanting to pick one up...they just want to wait and get the new one when it comes out. We'll see what happens soon I guess.
**AA will blame it all on piracy. Everything. Every time. It doesn't matter if they've just released less CDs in the same proportion, or they just had two months of crap movie releases that noone wants to watch, or whatever. It's those damn pirates
No joke. I picked up a new release DVD last Tuesday and it has that forced "Piracy is Stealing" thing you have to watch. What is the point of that? I can't imagine that any movie pirate actually leaves that message on the begining of a DVD rip or anything. So the only people that are forced to watch it are the people that bought the movie.
That varies by store. Stores that sell more 360 games get more copies. The EB I work at has a pretty good stock of games, new and used.
No joke, you would think the poster above you would have thought about that but I guess not. I can go to the only store to buy games (Wal-Mart) in the town I live in and they don't even bother to get some games now. It almost seems like they aren't carrying some of them at all. I can drive 15 miles away to the next town over and they have everything I could want at that store (but the town also has a Gamestop, Target and Best Buy with games as well).
Along those same lines, I have long wondered why there is a firewire port on the PS2. Nice that they put one in "for future use" but I never heard of anything that used it.
That firewire port is used to connect multiple PS2s together so you can play against someone else on a different TV. Like system link for the Xbox. Some games that work with it are Armored Core 2, Unreal
Tournament, Gran Turismo 3. I think you could have 6 PS2s hooked up together on Gran Turismo 3 (as long as you had a TV for each one). I've hooked up two PS2s before but never more than that.
Side note: Anything on a console that's there "for future use" will never get used.
The Sega Genesis had an expansion port on the right side "for future use" and it was used for the Sega CD. The N64 had the expansion port for the 4 meg ram pack. It was used. The N64 DD plugged into the bottom of the system. I'm sure there are more but those are a few I could think of right away.
Yeah, I got #9 wrong as well. I was just basing my phish/no phish answer on the url they list at the bottom of the page. What the hell is bfi0.com though? The domain shows nothing so I thought it was fake. Weak.
No joke. I have an Axim and I've been using DVD to Pocket PC for a long time now. I can use SD or CF memory and it makes a movie about 100 megs. You can switch to widescreen and flip on the side. It works great for me at least.
No one argued that the Game Gear competed with the Super Nintendo. It's slowly becoming clear that the PSP and DS are just as different.
But wasn't the Nintendo Gameboy competing with the Sega Game Gear and the Turbo Express and Atari Lynx? The Gameboy was a no-color handheld video game system. The Lynx was color. The Sega Game Gear and the Turbo Express were color and they both had TV adapters so you could not only play games but you could watch TV on them as well. Sega even released a portable Genesis (The Nomad) and it still failed. Somehow the grayish dull pixels of the Gameboy has outlasted any of those other systems. They were all different but they were still competing with each other.
My parents are joining in with the local PTA to ban The Sims and The Sims 2. Allowing children to kill their parents in the pool, starve them to death, etc, is just way beyond what we have come to expect from a decent game maker.
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Nice. I have no mod points but I did laugh.
...maybe they weren't being lazy and instead wanted to be able to make money from both Square Enix and Blizzard even if the player used both services. I bet Digipass makes more money when they sell two of them as opposed to just one.
It doesn't come off as impressive when you throw all 28 years of your computing experience into your brag. I don't think malware was prevalent when people were coding with punch cards.
That's not malware. That's a targeted attack. We're talking about garden-variety, drive-by download, infected porn site malware here. We're talking about flies, you're talking about a unicorn.
Hidden software that logs keystrokes and sends the results off to a remote system has a lot of value. It doesn't need to only hit a targeted system. When they see results like:
mail.yahoo.com apoc@yahoo.com 123jass8
In the log file they know they have a new account to search through for any valuable personal data. Same with bank accounts, ordering online, etc, etc. They have the advantage of not needing to show pop-ups on the victim machine so it never appears to be infected. The website the victim visited is what handles the installation of the software so they don't need the infected machine to spread it around. The website can even have legitimate uses and an established community. Victims may even return to the website over and over to post comments on interesting stories and nothing ever appears to be malicious. The page they are visiting isn't dealing with illegal topics, porn, etc.
As a side note I suggest you check out a fan-page I run for Bennie Baby collectors: http://www.benniebabybrigade.com
I have more than a few friends that are firefighters. This is in Texas so I can't tell you exactly how it works in the rest of the USA but my friends all work 24 on and 48 off. During the 24 on they stay in the firehouse away from home. During their free time at the station (during no calls, no chores, etc) they can do whatever they want in the building. Halo tournaments between stations are fairly common. My wife and I have been invited numerous times to play at the station while our friends are working their 24 hours. They are paid for the entire 24 hours. This is in a town with a population of around 35,000 - 40,000 so it isn't a huge city and there is more downtime than at most stations I'm sure.
"The reason you are confused is because you have fallen prey to companies misuse of the term salary. They would like you to think that salary means "x dollars for 40 hours a week and we don't pay you for overtime". If you are docked pay for not showing up, you are an hourly employee, not salary, irrelevant of what your HR department says."
Exactly! So many people get hosed by this. They tell you salary means you get paid a certain amount every week no matter how much you work. If you miss a day and you lose 8 hours of pay you aren't salary. You are butt fucked.
I do feel lucky that my current technical position is hourly. I work Monday - Friday 40 hours a week and I'm on call around one week a month. During the week I am on call I get paid an extra dollar an hour during the regular 40 hour week and on-call pay for any time spent working after hours. We get a minimum of two hours of on call time for every call we take (even if it takes 15 minutes). I am expected to be within 30 minutes of the office during my on call week as well. I get an average of 5 calls per an on call week. I tell people that when I hear the pager go off it makes an annoying beeping sound but when my wife hears it go off it sounds more like, "cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching."
I've been running Windows 7 on my Dell Mini 10 Netbook for around 5 months now and I've been very pleased with it. I wouldn't have tried putting Vista on the thing at all with the 1 gig of ram it has but Windows 7 doesn't give me trouble really. I enjoy it more than Vista by far. It just seems more agreeable (if that's possible when talking about an OS).
That stated: "Autonomy and decision making are keys to retaining excellent staff. Being micromanaged by ones boss is the surest way to lose talented people
Yeah, they are just oversubscribing their lines. The more subscribers you have the better it works. Let's say you have 50 subscribers paying for T1 and hosted space. They are just working under the assumption that not everyone is going to use a full T1 at the same time. If they used half the money coming in for T1 lines and picked up 6 of them (which is doubtful, I bet it's lower) they might have only one or two servers that can actually come up with a use for a full T1 all the time. 30 of the 50 subscribers are probably mom and pop type places that never use a full T1. It's like a CLEC or the telephone company... There are 24 channels on a T1. Each one can hold a phone call. How many people OVER 24 do you think they put on one T1? It's a large number.
I came in here to read about locks and lock security and lockpicking. Instead it has turned into almost complete gun control debate. Letting people stray so far off topic should be discouraged so we can read posts that relate more to the subject at hand. /if there is an off topic mod I guess this should be given the same rank as well.
Wouldn't it be better to say, "I'm sorry Mickey, but you can't divorce your wife because she isn't insane."
Pop N Music 1, 2, 3 Append and 4 Append. Only because it was a great four player game that was easy for anyone to pick up. The people that sucked hardest would get less keys to control. It was always fun with a little drink in your system.
I'll be ready to pick up a DS Lite on the first day of release here in the USA and I already own the old version. Of course, I'll be giving the old one to my wife so we can both have a system. I wouldn't be surprised to see the DS Lite sell even better at launch than the original. Remember when the first one came out everyone here in the US was talking about how it would suck, how it was a gimmick and how the PSP would be so much better. Now that everyone is starting to see these great games on the DS they might be wanting to pick one up...they just want to wait and get the new one when it comes out. We'll see what happens soon I guess.
**AA will blame it all on piracy. Everything. Every time. It doesn't matter if they've just released less CDs in the same proportion, or they just had two months of crap movie releases that noone wants to watch, or whatever. It's those damn pirates
No joke. I picked up a new release DVD last Tuesday and it has that forced "Piracy is Stealing" thing you have to watch. What is the point of that? I can't imagine that any movie pirate actually leaves that message on the begining of a DVD rip or anything. So the only people that are forced to watch it are the people that bought the movie.
That varies by store. Stores that sell more 360 games get more copies. The EB I work at has a pretty good stock of games, new and used.
No joke, you would think the poster above you would have thought about that but I guess not. I can go to the only store to buy games (Wal-Mart) in the town I live in and they don't even bother to get some games now. It almost seems like they aren't carrying some of them at all. I can drive 15 miles away to the next town over and they have everything I could want at that store (but the town also has a Gamestop, Target and Best Buy with games as well).
Along those same lines, I have long wondered why there is a firewire port on the PS2. Nice that they put one in "for future use" but I never heard of anything that used it.
That firewire port is used to connect multiple PS2s together so you can play against someone else on a different TV. Like system link for the Xbox. Some games that work with it are Armored Core 2, Unreal Tournament, Gran Turismo 3. I think you could have 6 PS2s hooked up together on Gran Turismo 3 (as long as you had a TV for each one). I've hooked up two PS2s before but never more than that.
Side note: Anything on a console that's there "for future use" will never get used.
The Sega Genesis had an expansion port on the right side "for future use" and it was used for the Sega CD. The N64 had the expansion port for the 4 meg ram pack. It was used. The N64 DD plugged into the bottom of the system. I'm sure there are more but those are a few I could think of right away.
Yeah, I got #9 wrong as well. I was just basing my phish/no phish answer on the url they list at the bottom of the page. What the hell is bfi0.com though? The domain shows nothing so I thought it was fake. Weak.
No joke. I have an Axim and I've been using DVD to Pocket PC for a long time now. I can use SD or CF memory and it makes a movie about 100 megs. You can switch to widescreen and flip on the side. It works great for me at least.
Or make it where you have to buy enough of a particular product so you can trade in points for a free game based on that product. Kool-Aid Man
Gotcha. I thought he was pointing out the ability to watch movies on the PSP and not the DS. I was slow yesterday.
I don't know if you meant to type this:
No one argued that the Game Gear competed with the Super Nintendo. It's slowly becoming clear that the PSP and DS are just as different.
But wasn't the Nintendo Gameboy competing with the Sega Game Gear and the Turbo Express and Atari Lynx? The Gameboy was a no-color handheld video game system. The Lynx was color. The Sega Game Gear and the Turbo Express were color and they both had TV adapters so you could not only play games but you could watch TV on them as well. Sega even released a portable Genesis (The Nomad) and it still failed. Somehow the grayish dull pixels of the Gameboy has outlasted any of those other systems. They were all different but they were still competing with each other.
My parents are joining in with the local PTA to ban The Sims and The Sims 2. Allowing children to kill their parents in the pool, starve them to death, etc, is just way beyond what we have come to expect from a decent game maker.
I haven't heard of it, and it certainly hasn't shown up on Slashdot.
Brain Training Coming to the West
It has mini tests and questions to help stimulate your brain on a daily basis. Like simple math problems, reading questions, visual tests, etc.
You beat me to it. The rumble pack also works with Mario & Luigi Partners in Time I think.