Look, if you don't have a problem with your car, then don't apply the update. It's as simple as that.
If your required by your insurance agency, yes, update then.
But you trusted toyota when you bought your car, all 100 million lines of code and all. Why you aren't trusting them with the update makes NO SENSE at all.
People are stupid if they don't bother to check what the program does that they are installing. No amount of legislative action is going to change that.
P2P isn't the problem, shit for brains users are.
I have a buddy that doesn't pay attention when he installs stuff, so he ends up with toolbars and other crap installed on his computer that I end up fixing. Or he'll download some game and can't get it working, when all he had to do was read the nfo file. I'm like wtf, and I get sort of short with him, because he's an idiot, he's been using the computer long enough to know better, but doesn't.
People need to start thinking for themselves, take it upon themselves to actually read what the programs do, go thru the settings to see if you need to change anything, and quit being lazy.
Everyone that has their info being shared, deserves it.
and don't give me crappy excuses like, "someone else installed the program on my machine". ya, so? it's your machine, show some control over it. If you got kids or roommates that use it, give them their own account on it.
Seriously, peeps need to start using their brains with computers, since the computers aren't doing any thinking for them.
Microsoft doesn't pay taxes in Washington state because they are corporated (or whatever it's called), in Nevada, where you don't have to pay a state tax for corportations.
In fact Sneakers is probably the best hacker movie to date. Wargames is certainly in the top five, too.
Heretic.
Wargames in the top five hacker movies? Nonsense. Wargames is the greatest film ever made. No need to restrict the statement to "hacker movies." Get out of here with your foolish Sneakers superiority complex.
Tron is the greatest movie ever made.
And it had hacking. and video games. And great quotes.
Hmmm, again, info@fabulis.com does not appear to be good enough for you. How about this then or this. Any google search for Jason Goldberg + Fabulis turns up a ton of news articles, information about the site, it's investors and his past endeavors, like xing. It all looks pretty lame to me, but I think that about Facebook and Twitter too. Other then looking like another useless social media site I don't see anything wrong with it and it doesn't feel scammy to me unless you also think twitter and facebook (and Buzz!) are scammy.
Yes, I do feel twitter and facebook are scammy, but I don't see any problems with Fabulis.
The solution is for everyone to pull money out of Chase bank and cancel their accounts. Granted, like any boycott is may not be very effective, but that's about all the individual can do. See the website move your money for more information http://moveyourmoney.info/
You do that and they'll blame it on piracy and ask for another bailout.
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
The question of trust was not the point. The point is, that the landlord is telling you, to give you a copy of keys of the apartment, or he’d throw you out. In Germany, he would get dragged to court, and lose big time, when trying this on anyone.
The same should be true for GoDaddy. Everything else would be laws not keeping up with progress.
"The request was secretly approved by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains."
That is, till they figure out they don't have those domains anymore, and go to their backup DNS server. Like they don't have a way to switch control with or without warning.
Sometimes I wonder if MS had planners like these criminals, we might actually get a decent OS from them...
What broke the camel's back was when I managed, some time after the fact, to piece together what had happened with the Dark Knight hardcovers. When they were announced, you could prepay something like $75 and reserve a signed copy. There were delays and by the time all the signed copies had shipped, the book had totally blown up. The demand for the signed collectible hard cover was huge, with new stock selling for $300.
Every lousy fucking dealer in Houston that I was able to get info on (except one, A Few Books and Records on the SW side), told every kid who had prepaid for their book that their book never arrived and the order needed to be canceled. They refunded the $75. Some of them didn't wait a week before they stuck that kid's book in the display case with a huge price tag on it.
With just one exception, every comics dealer I've ever known has been a scumbag.
ya, I preorder/reserved a copy of that book and got a refund, plus a $25 gift certificate to the comic book store because "they didn't receive enough".
Don't see what the problem is. For flash, all you'd have to do is make a "virtual mouse pointer" which you control with your finger, for mouseovers and what not.
Guess they don't pay ya for your creative thinking.
The DHS has a total of around 200,000 employees. The number of those who are actually armed (as opposed to sitting on their butts in an air conditioned office in D.C.) is significantly less. In a cursory search, I couldn't turn up any concrete numbers, but I imagine it's safe to say that probably 10% of DHS employees are actually "agents" of some type (Border Patrol, ATF, Air Marshals, etc). So that's 20,000 armed employees.
I don't see a 1% loss rate as "statistically insignificant" when you're talking about firearms lost through negligence.
Really? How about one of those 1% guns was used in a crime that killed you, or your wife/husband/kid/mom?
Its not about statistics, it's about reality.
Homeland Security is supposed to be protecting us, yet they can NOT even secure their own guns. don't care if it's just 1% of the guns that went missing. I'm sure there was a 1% chance that the World Tradecenter would get ran into by an airplane.
lets look at it this way, way less then 1% of america died on 9/11. Guess we should just chalk it up to life and move on, huh?
Slashdot Mirror
duh, it's got what gamers crave!
We crave no DRM also, but I don't see that happening that much...
Look, if you don't have a problem with your car, then don't apply the update. It's as simple as that.
If your required by your insurance agency, yes, update then.
But you trusted toyota when you bought your car, all 100 million lines of code and all. Why you aren't trusting them with the update makes NO SENSE at all.
I don't see what the problem is.
People are stupid if they don't bother to check what the program does that they are installing. No amount of legislative action is going to change that.
P2P isn't the problem, shit for brains users are.
I have a buddy that doesn't pay attention when he installs stuff, so he ends up with toolbars and other crap installed on his computer that I end up fixing. Or he'll download some game and can't get it working, when all he had to do was read the nfo file. I'm like wtf, and I get sort of short with him, because he's an idiot, he's been using the computer long enough to know better, but doesn't.
People need to start thinking for themselves, take it upon themselves to actually read what the programs do, go thru the settings to see if you need to change anything, and quit being lazy.
Everyone that has their info being shared, deserves it.
and don't give me crappy excuses like, "someone else installed the program on my machine". ya, so? it's your machine, show some control over it. If you got kids or roommates that use it, give them their own account on it.
Seriously, peeps need to start using their brains with computers, since the computers aren't doing any thinking for them.
Are you new here?
Microsoft doesn't pay taxes in Washington state because they are corporated (or whatever it's called), in Nevada, where you don't have to pay a state tax for corportations.
In fact Sneakers is probably the best hacker movie to date. Wargames is certainly in the top five, too.
Heretic.
Wargames in the top five hacker movies? Nonsense. Wargames is the greatest film ever made. No need to restrict the statement to "hacker movies." Get out of here with your foolish Sneakers superiority complex.
Tron is the greatest movie ever made.
And it had hacking. and video games. And great quotes.
...Did you even read the blog? ... It's obvious that Citibank as a company doesn't feel thsi way, they apologized and reinstated his account. ...
Did you read the article?
Calls into Citibank tonight resulted in a temporary lifting of the block while a compliance officer is asked to re-review our website on Thursday.
Not sure how you got "they apologized and reinstated his account" out of that.
Hmmm, again, info@fabulis.com does not appear to be good enough for you. How about this then or this. Any google search for Jason Goldberg + Fabulis turns up a ton of news articles, information about the site, it's investors and his past endeavors, like xing. It all looks pretty lame to me, but I think that about Facebook and Twitter too. Other then looking like another useless social media site I don't see anything wrong with it and it doesn't feel scammy to me unless you also think twitter and facebook (and Buzz!) are scammy.
Yes, I do feel twitter and facebook are scammy, but I don't see any problems with Fabulis.
Heck, America doesn't protect it's whistle blowers. Why should Latvia?
Dr. Doom will deal with it.
The solution is for everyone to pull money out of Chase bank and cancel their accounts. Granted, like any boycott is may not be very effective, but that's about all the individual can do. See the website move your money for more information http://moveyourmoney.info/
You do that and they'll blame it on piracy and ask for another bailout.
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
The question of trust was not the point. The point is, that the landlord is telling you, to give you a copy of keys of the apartment, or he’d throw you out.
In Germany, he would get dragged to court, and lose big time, when trying this on anyone.
The same should be true for GoDaddy. Everything else would be laws not keeping up with progress.
I guess you've never lived in an apartment.
Your landlord has a copy of your key already.
That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy. ...
He uses women's bodies to advertise: Bob Parson's Video Blog.
OMG!!!!!
Someone is using womens bodies to advertise!!!!!!!
What, you just arrive on our planet? Almost everything uses womens bodies to advertise.
"The request was secretly approved by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains."
That is, till they figure out they don't have those domains anymore, and go to their backup DNS server. Like they don't have a way to switch control with or without warning.
Sometimes I wonder if MS had planners like these criminals, we might actually get a decent OS from them...
Far as I'm concern, MS can pay us taxes if they want to have any say in how we build any infrastructure in Seattle/King County/Washington State.
Until then, they can fuck off.
Every time I hear the term "Czar", I think Russian mobster with protection racket. Is it just me?
Nope, I just see us losing the cold war when I see the "Czar" as an American rank.
Wait, what, we won the cold war? Then how come they are now running our security? And KGB is a text messaging 'ask any question' service.
Are you sure we won the cold war?
...
What broke the camel's back was when I managed, some time after the fact, to piece together what had happened with the Dark Knight hardcovers. When they were announced, you could prepay something like $75 and reserve a signed copy. There were delays and by the time all the signed copies had shipped, the book had totally blown up. The demand for the signed collectible hard cover was huge, with new stock selling for $300.
Every lousy fucking dealer in Houston that I was able to get info on (except one, A Few Books and Records on the SW side), told every kid who had prepaid for their book that their book never arrived and the order needed to be canceled. They refunded the $75. Some of them didn't wait a week before they stuck that kid's book in the display case with a huge price tag on it.
With just one exception, every comics dealer I've ever known has been a scumbag.
ya, I preorder/reserved a copy of that book and got a refund, plus a $25 gift certificate to the comic book store because "they didn't receive enough".
bastards.
3 Strikes and your out!
Um, thats out for that time at bat. Not out of the game.
So if I was the baseball commission, i'd sue over the improper use of the term.
I used to have fun back in those days.
but now? games look like shit and I have no idea how I played with the crappy controls.
Tell your friend to quit crying like a little girl and move on with tech, before it moves too far past you.
And quit telling me to get off your lawn, I'm standing in your driveway!
This isn't a news submission, it's dude using a news story to get his opinion out about how he feels, without using /. comment & moderation system.
guess this means I enable muggers by walking down the street with a cell phone and mp3 player.
Now maybe they can get to work on shipping on-board graphics cards that can actually play games released within the past couple of years...
How about you don't be so cheap and by a dedicated graphics card?
Um, they don't seem to make those tracks safe at all if someone crashes.
Don't see what the problem is. For flash, all you'd have to do is make a "virtual mouse pointer" which you control with your finger, for mouseovers and what not.
Guess they don't pay ya for your creative thinking.
Blizzard's anti-cheat software for WoW is just as deep-scanning as this, if not more so. What's new here?
And doesn't work.
Ms. Hudson disagrees with Mr. Hudson.
A girl called Tom, hmm, must be a song in that somewhere...
The DHS has a total of around 200,000 employees. The number of those who are actually armed (as opposed to sitting on their butts in an air conditioned office in D.C.) is significantly less. In a cursory search, I couldn't turn up any concrete numbers, but I imagine it's safe to say that probably 10% of DHS employees are actually "agents" of some type (Border Patrol, ATF, Air Marshals, etc). So that's 20,000 armed employees.
I don't see a 1% loss rate as "statistically insignificant" when you're talking about firearms lost through negligence.
Really? How about one of those 1% guns was used in a crime that killed you, or your wife/husband/kid/mom?
Its not about statistics, it's about reality.
Homeland Security is supposed to be protecting us, yet they can NOT even secure their own guns. don't care if it's just 1% of the guns that went missing. I'm sure there was a 1% chance that the World Tradecenter would get ran into by an airplane.
lets look at it this way, way less then 1% of america died on 9/11. Guess we should just chalk it up to life and move on, huh?