People write THE HEAD HONCHO of a multinational corporation with their (in his eyes most certainly seen as) petty complaints about the OS his company makes? Do they REALLY think that he wastes a nanosecond reading them? That he himself does actually care what they think of his product?
Is that the same kind of people who want to talk to "the manager", thinking that he gives half a shit about their ramblings?
I found via my life that people will complain about anything to someone that is in charge of whatever. They will bitch about everything. Most people seem to be whiny bitches that have to get their way with everything and don't care about others.
Marry her. She changes both her official last name, and her pen name. And bam! the guy has to re-buy new domains matching the new name, and has to re-do the smear campaign from scratch:) And preferably, before she changes her name, pre-emptively buy domains before the ex-husband does.
ya, he has a chance, she has proven she has bad taste in men.
Sickbeard is the "DVR" app that cable companies should have released. I would have even paid for it. Web accessable. I log in. I type in a show. Say I want it. Tada. Shows magically appear on my hard drive.
I can put them on my phone, my tablet my laptop. XBMC indexes them they're available on my TV and projector.
Sweet, i got usenet, i will try it out. someone mod this nice person up.
If I tell you that house on the corner of Main St. & Spring Ave is a crack house, did I break the law?
If I had just asked you where I can score some crack, then yes, and you could go down for trafficking.
Doubt it. Because unless you are cop (which would be entrapment, by you asking me), there would be no reason to connect me to the crack house. Just because I know it's there (just like the who neighborhood knows it's there) and I can tell someone it's there, doesn't mean shit, unless you find me there. I'm pretty sure some random crack head isn't going to say, oh, some dude told me where this way, you need to arrest him also. And even if he did, the cops wouldn't care. What they usually want in a person in charge, someone higher up to bust, not some random dude on the street who happens to be friendly enough to tell you where you can score some crack if you ask. And even if they did come find me and try to press charges, I would get off because it's bullshit charges and they would have No way to connect me to the criminal activities.
We are turning into a police state nation, but it hasn't gone that far yet. Maybe in 5 or so years, unless the Federal Government bankrupts America and no one can afford to send cops on such runs.
Sharing links is like sharing addresses. If I tell you that house on the corner of Main St. & Spring Ave is a crack house, did I break the law?
Just because you have a link to something doesn't mean you are going to use it. Or that what the link points to is actually even what it says it is, or is even still to a viable file.
Of course, most of us know that, but law makers don't seem to, and their lobbyist are probably paying them enough money not to care.
I thought I've seen some pattern detection stuff in AVs before, that was supposed to try to detect suspicious activity.
Problem is, there are a lot of legitimate things that look suspicious. Writing a predictive scanner is an even more difficult task than getting the base OS secure without losing too much performance, usability, or user friendliness.
Actually it seems like my scanner likes to just flag on stuff with packed payloads, like compression is a new thing. Or utils, like unlocker. And some cracked files. My Antivirus ever finding a virus? Nope. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware seems to find more stuff though, but I guess Malware isn't Viruses, though I want neither on my computer and requires 2 programs.
So I have an anti-virus program that doesn't nothing good, but has a "shield" and a Anti-Malware program that find scrap, but i have to run it to scan, doesn't have a protection shield (unless I pay out bucks, which I'm not going to do).
But then I'm computer savvy, I understand what it takes to infect computers and usually don't let myself fall for any of the traps. Oh, and I pirate stuff, and yet I don't get infected.
In fact, I'm the person people call when their computers get infected and fucked up. Because I can fix that shit for people. Can't fix them being stupid and getting infected, but I can fix the infection.
Uh, you DO realize that Obama borrowed and spent more money in one year on his "stimulus" bill than 10 years of Bush's wars cost, right?
Oh, and you do realize that every year he has been in office Obama has spent over $1,000,000,000,000 MORE than he takes-in in taxes and that even if he got his demands to "tax the rich" the new money would only fund his INSANE spending for 8 DAYS, right?
Thanks to Obama, who has taken the national debt from 10 trillion to 16+ trillion in only 4 years, we now spend ten times as much money every year on interest payments on the national debt than we spend on the space program!..... and don't try blaming it on Bush; Bush sucked, but the Bush deficits were part of the $10 trillion debt that went on the books before Obama was sworn-in. Every Obama deficit has been 2 to 3 times bigger than the worst Bush deficit.
Stupid anonymous bitch, I'm not an Obama fan. I'm not a Bush fan. I'm not a political party fan, and I am not a fucking fan of corporations. I don't give a fuck which president was worse, they both suck bad. They have been fucking the world in the name of "terrorism" and "IP" for way too long. Not to mention they cater to the lobbyist, not the American People. Congress, The Senate, all guilty. Local governments, same problem.
Our government has been up for sale to the highest bidders for too long. They are morally and physically robbing the people of the United States in the name of "greed" and "terrorism".
But since you are a coward, I will point out that I was bitching about us wasting money in an unneeded war in the middle east that would free up a lot of money for the budget. But much like CEO's of Big Corporations, they still get paid when they fuck people over, so they do NOT care much. How about we withhold the Presidents, Congress and the Senates pay until they can balance a budget?
If we are talking a movie theater with 6 screens, then sure, sounds like a great deal if you like going to movies. At least that way you are going to get a variety of different movies in, if we are talking 1 or 2 screens, then no, sounds like a rip off, seeing as you probably won't get more then 3 or 4 movies a month.
Now the problem with movie theaters is the Movie Industry takes too big of a cut of the ticket sales, without giving back. Considering they are taking in most the profit, they should be doing the refitting to digital, if that is how they are going to be distributing them.
I find movies going to be a horrible experience unless you are talking a very old theater with 1 screen. I'd much rather watch stuff at home, sure on a smaller screen, but cheaper food, I'm free to drink/smoke and be in my underwear. If i have to go to the bathroom, I can pause it.
I try not to contribute to the Movie Industries profits anyways, since not only do they not put stuff into public domain, but since they treat customers like criminals, on the hunt for "supposed" profit, while doing tricky accounting to make sure the actors, producers, etc on a film doesn't make any profit either.
...All the stuff that made it to the public domain that was retroactively clawed back after Congress extended copyright and didn't grandfather stuff that had already lapsed.
Not enough, I say we cut copyright back to 14 years and everything that is over 14 years old goes into the public domain. The corporations have been raping our culture for long enough. Why are we letting corporations lock up our culture and throw away the key in the name of profit?
What we need to do is stop this stupid war in the middle east and quit wasting our money on such low priorities.
I don't have a problem with a defense budget, I have a problem with a needless war while America can't balance it's budget. This would be like me going and spending my most my paycheck on whac-a-mole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole, then eating top ramen and bread because I can't afford better.
I prefer to end the year and same way I start it, stoned off my ass.
I can watch the Space Needle's firework show from my window, so I don't even have to go outside.
Go outside, in the cold and probably rain (this is seattle), to be harassed by panhandlers, cops, drunk fools, more panhandles, then to have to crank my head up to watch 10 mins of fireworks, only to have to deal with more panhandlers, cops, drunk fools, high fools, and traffic.
I could go to a party, but on the way there, have to deal with panhandlers, probably cops, drunk fools, high fools and then once I get to the party, I'm dealing with drunk fools. Then once the cops show up, i'm back outside dealing with the panhandlers, more cops and of course, drunk fools.
I could go to a bar, but i'm sure you get the picture.
In case you didn't notice, drunk people tend to bother me.
It is addictive. But I wish I could play it on a console or PC. I have discovered that using a handheld for hours on end really cramps up my neck. I don't have this problem reading books. Something about the ergonomics of a Vita is wrong.
It's a PS2 game, play it via the PS2 emulator pcsx2 emulator. http://pcsx2.net/
Argg. Stupid copy paste didn't work. Sorry for the bad link. Didn't mean to redirect people to a persona 4 faq. Now slashdot knows I suck at RPGs and read guides. here is billboard link
The billions of views they lost is about the same amount of money the music industry has lost due to piracy.
Who said perception is reality? Just make your own, it's easier.
You've got it slightly wrong. The effect of losing all these "fake views" is exactly the same as the amount they have lost due to piracy -- nearly zero.
And seriously, what kind of bullshit story is this anyway? Nobody gives a rat's ass if Rhianna, Beyonce and Justin Bieber have 12 views or 12 billion.
THis isn't the 1950's where the entire entertainment system, TV, HiFi and Phonograph are all integrated into the same box. Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it. Then make the gadgets to attach to the "Monitor". Maybe we could even have 2K and 4K monitors at 50" for less thank $5K?
No, this is the 10's where the entire entertainment system, TV, Internet Radio and MP3 Player, Plus camera, computer, mic, and the kitchen sink (not really), Not to mention Internet access are integrated into the same box.
Google Plus, Facebook, Foursquare - a lot of services are really pushing the boundaries at the moment. I suspect the social media backlash is going to begin pretty damn soon.
On a similar, on topic note: Did anyone who does sign in to youtube recently get 'tricked' by a box popping up, offering them the option to change their first / last name on the service? I got it and thought, "fantastic! I can finally login with a name other than my gmail mail alias" and attempted setting up a different name. BAM - it made me a Google+ profile which I didn't want. Upon removing the profile, my videos are now tied to my "Google+ youtube account" - so anything I uploaded, any favourites, any comments are not available unless I re-create the account.
Heavy handed indeed and from the musings on the web, I'd say I'm not the only one who got stung by this.
I bet the government is giving them tax breaks for implementing it.
Not sure why Marvel comics are my favorite, even though I do like others. Spider-man, Ice-man, The Hulk, The Thing, Juggernaught, and Sabertooth, my favorite comics book characters. All Marvel.
Happy Birthday, and hopefully you will have many more.
Human civilization is only a few thousand years old, and we have a few million to sort stuff out (barring any major disasters). We may never need warp drive to explore the universe, developing generation ships or becoming immortal cyborgs so the travel time is not an issue.
Human civilization is over 100 thousand years old, recorded history is only like 4k or so old.
Title: New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe Sentence Two: While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions IE6, IE7, and IE8 are Then: "We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8," Then: People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted.""
Could someone please tell me which versions are vulnerable and which ones are not?
It clearly states multiple times that IE 6-8 is affected and 9 & 10 aren't.
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People write THE HEAD HONCHO of a multinational corporation with their (in his eyes most certainly seen as) petty complaints about the OS his company makes? Do they REALLY think that he wastes a nanosecond reading them? That he himself does actually care what they think of his product?
Is that the same kind of people who want to talk to "the manager", thinking that he gives half a shit about their ramblings?
I found via my life that people will complain about anything to someone that is in charge of whatever. They will bitch about everything. Most people seem to be whiny bitches that have to get their way with everything and don't care about others.
Plus most the public is pretty stupid.
Why not? There are more than just one Steve Ballmer on this planet no doubt.
I get the impression that Steve Ballmer either eats them, or kills them (probably via chair).
Maybe it's Gabe from Valve who eats his name clones, I don't know.
Share the links to the sites. I wanna know what's up.
The question I have is, what if the ex is telling the truth?
Marry her. She changes both her official last name, and her pen name. And bam! the guy has to re-buy new domains matching the new name, and has to re-do the smear campaign from scratch :) And preferably, before she changes her name, pre-emptively buy domains before the ex-husband does.
ya, he has a chance, she has proven she has bad taste in men.
Sickbeard is the "DVR" app that cable companies should have released. I would have even paid for it. Web accessable. I log in. I type in a show. Say I want it. Tada. Shows magically appear on my hard drive.
I can put them on my phone, my tablet my laptop. XBMC indexes them they're available on my TV and projector.
Sweet, i got usenet, i will try it out. someone mod this nice person up.
If I tell you that house on the corner of Main St. & Spring Ave is a crack house, did I break the law?
If I had just asked you where I can score some crack, then yes, and you could go down for trafficking.
Doubt it. Because unless you are cop (which would be entrapment, by you asking me), there would be no reason to connect me to the crack house. Just because I know it's there (just like the who neighborhood knows it's there) and I can tell someone it's there, doesn't mean shit, unless you find me there. I'm pretty sure some random crack head isn't going to say, oh, some dude told me where this way, you need to arrest him also. And even if he did, the cops wouldn't care. What they usually want in a person in charge, someone higher up to bust, not some random dude on the street who happens to be friendly enough to tell you where you can score some crack if you ask. And even if they did come find me and try to press charges, I would get off because it's bullshit charges and they would have No way to connect me to the criminal activities.
We are turning into a police state nation, but it hasn't gone that far yet. Maybe in 5 or so years, unless the Federal Government bankrupts America and no one can afford to send cops on such runs.
Because I download copyrighted material.
Sharing links is like sharing addresses. If I tell you that house on the corner of Main St. & Spring Ave is a crack house, did I break the law?
Just because you have a link to something doesn't mean you are going to use it. Or that what the link points to is actually even what it says it is, or is even still to a viable file.
Of course, most of us know that, but law makers don't seem to, and their lobbyist are probably paying them enough money not to care.
I thought I've seen some pattern detection stuff in AVs before, that was supposed to try to detect suspicious activity.
Problem is, there are a lot of legitimate things that look suspicious. Writing a predictive scanner is an even more difficult task than getting the base OS secure without losing too much performance, usability, or user friendliness.
Actually it seems like my scanner likes to just flag on stuff with packed payloads, like compression is a new thing. Or utils, like unlocker. And some cracked files. My Antivirus ever finding a virus? Nope. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware seems to find more stuff though, but I guess Malware isn't Viruses, though I want neither on my computer and requires 2 programs.
So I have an anti-virus program that doesn't nothing good, but has a "shield" and a Anti-Malware program that find scrap, but i have to run it to scan, doesn't have a protection shield (unless I pay out bucks, which I'm not going to do).
But then I'm computer savvy, I understand what it takes to infect computers and usually don't let myself fall for any of the traps. Oh, and I pirate stuff, and yet I don't get infected.
In fact, I'm the person people call when their computers get infected and fucked up. Because I can fix that shit for people. Can't fix them being stupid and getting infected, but I can fix the infection.
The 1990's called and want their stylus's back, they also thought touchscreen was the rage now, you were lording over it during the 2000's.
Uh, you DO realize that Obama borrowed and spent more money in one year on his "stimulus" bill than 10 years of Bush's wars cost, right?
Oh, and you do realize that every year he has been in office Obama has spent over $1,000,000,000,000 MORE than he takes-in in taxes and that even if he got his demands to "tax the rich" the new money would only fund his INSANE spending for 8 DAYS, right?
Thanks to Obama, who has taken the national debt from 10 trillion to 16+ trillion in only 4 years, we now spend ten times as much money every year on interest payments on the national debt than we spend on the space program! ..... and don't try blaming it on Bush; Bush sucked, but the Bush deficits were part of the $10 trillion debt that went on the books before Obama was sworn-in. Every Obama deficit has been 2 to 3 times bigger than the worst Bush deficit.
Stupid anonymous bitch, I'm not an Obama fan. I'm not a Bush fan. I'm not a political party fan, and I am not a fucking fan of corporations. I don't give a fuck which president was worse, they both suck bad. They have been fucking the world in the name of "terrorism" and "IP" for way too long. Not to mention they cater to the lobbyist, not the American People. Congress, The Senate, all guilty. Local governments, same problem.
Our government has been up for sale to the highest bidders for too long. They are morally and physically robbing the people of the United States in the name of "greed" and "terrorism".
But since you are a coward, I will point out that I was bitching about us wasting money in an unneeded war in the middle east that would free up a lot of money for the budget. But much like CEO's of Big Corporations, they still get paid when they fuck people over, so they do NOT care much. How about we withhold the Presidents, Congress and the Senates pay until they can balance a budget?
If we are talking a movie theater with 6 screens, then sure, sounds like a great deal if you like going to movies. At least that way you are going to get a variety of different movies in, if we are talking 1 or 2 screens, then no, sounds like a rip off, seeing as you probably won't get more then 3 or 4 movies a month.
Now the problem with movie theaters is the Movie Industry takes too big of a cut of the ticket sales, without giving back. Considering they are taking in most the profit, they should be doing the refitting to digital, if that is how they are going to be distributing them.
I find movies going to be a horrible experience unless you are talking a very old theater with 1 screen. I'd much rather watch stuff at home, sure on a smaller screen, but cheaper food, I'm free to drink/smoke and be in my underwear. If i have to go to the bathroom, I can pause it.
I try not to contribute to the Movie Industries profits anyways, since not only do they not put stuff into public domain, but since they treat customers like criminals, on the hunt for "supposed" profit, while doing tricky accounting to make sure the actors, producers, etc on a film doesn't make any profit either.
...All the stuff that made it to the public domain that was retroactively clawed back after Congress extended copyright and didn't grandfather stuff that had already lapsed.
Not enough, I say we cut copyright back to 14 years and everything that is over 14 years old goes into the public domain. The corporations have been raping our culture for long enough. Why are we letting corporations lock up our culture and throw away the key in the name of profit?
What we need to do is stop this stupid war in the middle east and quit wasting our money on such low priorities.
I don't have a problem with a defense budget, I have a problem with a needless war while America can't balance it's budget. This would be like me going and spending my most my paycheck on whac-a-mole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole, then eating top ramen and bread because I can't afford better.
I prefer to end the year and same way I start it, stoned off my ass.
I can watch the Space Needle's firework show from my window, so I don't even have to go outside.
Go outside, in the cold and probably rain (this is seattle), to be harassed by panhandlers, cops, drunk fools, more panhandles, then to have to crank my head up to watch 10 mins of fireworks, only to have to deal with more panhandlers, cops, drunk fools, high fools, and traffic.
I could go to a party, but on the way there, have to deal with panhandlers, probably cops, drunk fools, high fools and then once I get to the party, I'm dealing with drunk fools. Then once the cops show up, i'm back outside dealing with the panhandlers, more cops and of course, drunk fools.
I could go to a bar, but i'm sure you get the picture.
In case you didn't notice, drunk people tend to bother me.
It is addictive. But I wish I could play it on a console or PC. I have discovered that using a handheld for hours on end really cramps up my neck. I don't have this problem reading books. Something about the ergonomics of a Vita is wrong.
It's a PS2 game, play it via the PS2 emulator pcsx2 emulator. http://pcsx2.net/
You can find a game image here: http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_2_ISOs/Shin_Megami_Tensei_-_Persona_4_(USA)/150805-download
free download, no need to register, downloading a copy of it now.
What's with the black-and-white photos? Didn't Cassini have colour cameras?
B&W film was on sale, with all the NASA cuts they had no choice.
Argg. Stupid copy paste didn't work. Sorry for the bad link. Didn't mean to redirect people to a persona 4 faq.
Now slashdot knows I suck at RPGs and read guides.
here is billboard link
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/what-really-happened-to-sony-and-universal-1008059892.story
Hows the game? Haven't played it yet.
The billions of views they lost is about the same amount of money the music industry has lost due to piracy.
Who said perception is reality? Just make your own, it's easier.
You've got it slightly wrong. The effect of losing all these "fake views" is exactly the same as the amount they have lost due to piracy -- nearly zero.
And seriously, what kind of bullshit story is this anyway? Nobody gives a rat's ass if Rhianna, Beyonce and Justin Bieber have 12 views or 12 billion.
Their producers and record companies do.
Easy: here's mine that was removed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ReM0v3dVid
It now says it is "unavailable". Can you believe that? All because I said this Halibut was good enough for Jehovah!
Wait, we can post videos that offend people? And I am just finding out about this now?
THis isn't the 1950's where the entire entertainment system, TV, HiFi and Phonograph are all integrated into the same box. Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it. Then make the gadgets to attach to the "Monitor". Maybe we could even have 2K and 4K monitors at 50" for less thank $5K?
No, this is the 10's where the entire entertainment system, TV, Internet Radio and MP3 Player, Plus camera, computer, mic, and the kitchen sink (not really), Not to mention Internet access are integrated into the same box.
Hmm, shit doesn't change much, does it?
Google Plus, Facebook, Foursquare - a lot of services are really pushing the boundaries at the moment. I suspect the social media backlash is going to begin pretty damn soon.
On a similar, on topic note: Did anyone who does sign in to youtube recently get 'tricked' by a box popping up, offering them the option to change their first / last name on the service? I got it and thought, "fantastic! I can finally login with a name other than my gmail mail alias" and attempted setting up a different name. BAM - it made me a Google+ profile which I didn't want.
Upon removing the profile, my videos are now tied to my "Google+ youtube account" - so anything I uploaded, any favourites, any comments are not available unless I re-create the account.
Heavy handed indeed and from the musings on the web, I'd say I'm not the only one who got stung by this.
I bet the government is giving them tax breaks for implementing it.
Not sure why Marvel comics are my favorite, even though I do like others. Spider-man, Ice-man, The Hulk, The Thing, Juggernaught, and Sabertooth, my favorite comics book characters. All Marvel.
Happy Birthday, and hopefully you will have many more.
thanks!
Human civilization is only a few thousand years old, and we have a few million to sort stuff out (barring any major disasters). We may never need warp drive to explore the universe, developing generation ships or becoming immortal cyborgs so the travel time is not an issue.
Human civilization is over 100 thousand years old, recorded history is only like 4k or so old.
When I was a kid, walking on the moon was 'impossible', never going to happen.
Now as an adult, walking on the moon is 'impossible', never going to happen again.
Ya, sucks Michael Jackson died.
Title: New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe
Sentence Two: While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions IE6, IE7, and IE8 are
Then: "We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8,"
Then: People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted.""
Could someone please tell me which versions are vulnerable and which ones are not?
It clearly states multiple times that IE 6-8 is affected and 9 & 10 aren't.