Things these guys do aren't pranks. They seem to get a rise out of scaring people while filming. I bet in most of their videos they don't even stop after the prank is finished and tell the people that they are "pranking" that it is indeed a "prank".
Look at the just for laughs pranks, they are more inline with what a prank should be. Pull a joke or a fast one on someone and when your done tell the person and have a good laugh with them about it. Not saying that the Just for laughs pranks all go well and likely not everyone they prank thinks it's as funny as they do. But at least they don't pretend to kidnap or pretend to commit armed robbery, which would generally scare or induce a response from people that is negative.
it saddens me how many times i have argued this point with my parents. earliest memory of it was in grade 8, most recent was about 5 months ago when i tried to warn them about installing a cloud based video system into their house. At least i got to use the line: "what if there is somebody snooping on the non encrypted feed to your house and you guys are fucking in the living room". Sadly being former flower children they got turned on and promptly told me they had something important to attend to and made me leave.
Good luck with tracking ip's on technology like LTE. IP leases only typically last a few hours. Most ISP's likely aren't going to pay someone to baby sit lease requests and given that these copyright holders preform abuse requests with no set standard for the information it's very hard to script a automated system to handle them.
.380 is a pretty crappy caliber. But i guess he needed something small, you'd think though with today's phablets you'd be able to use something a little larger. Even a 9mm is the same diameter, yet a bit longer and more powerful.
In my mind, the next logical step for me would be start writing letters to my state rep and letters to the FCC. Also, i would consult a lawyer and see if there is anything that i could do legaly to track the spoofers, ie: get nasty with the phone company or request phone bills from the people that are calling her and cross check them (using her number as a reference) and see if there is a way for the phone company to track who is really making the calls.
I am not sure if there really is that much you could do with a lawyer, but in any case the lawyer will atleast inform you of your rights in this situation. That little bit of information might lead to the proper solution.
Here in Canada, we don't have people spoofing caller id's with other people's phone numbers yet (or atleast i haven't heard of it yet), however telemarketers do often replace their numbers with something like 000-000-0000.I often get phone calls like that.
Having experience with managing a small enterprise level database, i can understand that many admins wouldn't allow (or want to) customer access to a mission critical database. With the wrong query they can really ruin a good day.
That being said, the database is your company's asset, and with the proper precautions can be turned into a money generating asset. Since it's your asset, you dictate the terms on which customers access your data. You can require that the customer first submits the sql query that they wish to run to the database admin. You can also tell them who ever is writing the querys has to be certified by your company and trained.
Keep in mind, you can charge for the extra certification and train that the customers employees would need, and charge on a monthly basis for database access.
People will pay top dollar for top quality service and goods, people for some reason sometimes don't realize what the market is willing to pay.
The fact is, with scheduled backups (remote and onsite) any customer damage could be undone and your customer contracts could have a clause in them that gives your company the right to sue for lost time and money.
It wasn't a Bomb he made, it was a cutting torch so that he could cut through a door on an armored van, saving the life of the guard inside of the van rather then letting the bad guys blow him up when they blew the door off.
Well from what i can tell, the title of the story is wrong. It's not Vista Service Pack 1 that is causing the issue, it's some other update (they are pre req's for vista service pack 1 which are public and are downloadable through automatic updates), they are required for SP1 when it's released in March.
If the enterprise edition is still under the GNU public license, how is it legal for them to close off the source code to the general public? From my understanding, when you use the GNU license you have to distribute the code with the binaries and cannot sell the code for profit.
Are they just selling as a service, or are they making profit from selling the code? Have i just mis-read the GNU license?
Change is good. The human mind is a wonderful thing, it allows you to learn how to do new things no matter how old you are.
Bottom line, do it if you want a new challange and it interests you. I recently changed jobs (my last day at my current job is actually today), my new job hold alot of challange and requires skills that i both have and haven't developed ~yet~.
If humans were happy doing the same thing all the time, we would have never moved out of caves. It's human nature to want to be challanged and inspired by new things.
heh your right about that, but Bev Oda (the lday in charge of that review) has been linked with some shady dealing with the Canadian version of the RIAA. See http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1528/159/ for more information.
The article in that link pretty much tells how the The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, helped her with "Fund rasing" for her polictical campain. People that let themselfs get bought make me sick. They are spineless.
To bad, cause a Canadian Judge ruled that file sharing isn't illegal in Canada. See http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html for more information. The greed induced coma that record and movie studio's are in now will successfully ruin (read: has ruined) the industry. I personally don't go to the movie theaters anymore because of the following reasons:
1) I don't enjoy paying more than $10 so see a movie, and lets face it, i am too lazy to go out and get a movie rental card:-P 2) I get a far better movie experience at home anyways, i have better sound/images and no jack ass sitting in front of me talking about what he thinks is going to happen in the movie next. 3) Most of the movies that come out today are crap. Also a great deal of them are ether remakes of old movies, or sequels. I would rather watch the original version of the movie an certainly not the 3rd,4th or 5th sequels of the movie.
Maybe if the industry would actually create something good, instead of shoving more of the same tired crap down peoples necks. I am so tired of seeing some pop culture icon (like jessica simpson, etc..) get a movie part. They aren't real actors. I don't find their lack of intellgence funny or cute. All they do is re-enforce the image that women should act stupid because it's cute.
It's the same with the music industry. They have new bands every few months now, and rarely are they any good....just more of the same pop culture or indy music.
As a consumer i have a choice. I choose to not spend money on crap. If i can get free crap and have a better experience in my own home, why wouldn't i take advantage of it? Maybe it's time to change the way you do business and actually create a model that inpires trust from the customer, in a way that will make them feel comfortable about buying something of yours and make them feel like they are getting something for that money.
I tend to dissagree. The company i work for is currently using Office 2003. I use Openoffice because my desktop is linux based (i am the only linux user in the Company) and have no problems doing excel, word or any other operation that the bosses ask for on a daily bases. Quite often they will ask me to make a excel formula (last week i had to do one for payroll deductions) that is more advanced than the regular users can handle. Some of the formulas that i have created in the past are 5-6 lines long and have the max number of nested IF statments (MS office only allows 7 nested IF statments) and other fun stuff in em. I have never had a problem converting a document (excel, word, etc...) to work on, and i have never had a problem with the other users reading my work.
It's not just the newest versions of Open Office that work ether, i have been in a full linux envrionment for 3+ years now (ever since Service Pack 2 came out and messed my Windows XP install), all the while using Open Office on linux.
Now, some stuff like access (the vb side of it) i can't do under linux, but for that i use a virtual computer (vmware server) or a spare desktop that we have lying around in the back, however i rarly have a situation with access...and i have never had to do anything for excel or word under MS office other than access stuff.
Heh, that would be http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/, although they are more like the CIA in reguards to their responsibilities....as they are more responsible for stuff outside the country. The RCMP is (see: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ for more info about them) is the closest thing we (Canadian's) have to the Secret Service.
although, seeing as they pretty much helped condem a man to jail and torcher in Syria for a few years i don't really trust them...see more here: http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/, not to talk about how there have been several people in Canada recently released out of jail because they were convicted wrongly for murder.
Jack Thompson needs to settle down. We are getting tired of his constant law suits, which almost seem to be monthly at this point. When is he going to realize, we don't care and that people will buy the game off the net even if he got it baned from his state. Personally if i was the judge, after his remarks i would have thrown him in jail.
at 10,000 ft, there are more weather patterns that could effect the flight path or even make the object that was launched crash. Which is why they currently have to delay space flights sometimes (like the last one). So i am not sure that it'd be a good idea to launch at that hight.However, your idea about a strait line underground is a good one. Also, by having the system underground they could easily harden it to most conventional bomb threats (ie: bombardment from a plane or missle).
Probably, but to me (and probably a few other people out there) the world governments haven't done much to setup a warning system that all countries can afford and that is easy to install and configure.In my opinion, if the governments aren't going to do much about it, it's up to us (the general public) to find the solution.
A system like this could even help with aid...how do you ask? If a aid company (like Red Cross) got a early warning they could then mobilize and deliver aid much quicker...IMHO the sooner the aid gets there the better chance of having more people survive.
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Things these guys do aren't pranks. They seem to get a rise out of scaring people while filming. I bet in most of their videos they don't even stop after the prank is finished and tell the people that they are "pranking" that it is indeed a "prank". Look at the just for laughs pranks, they are more inline with what a prank should be. Pull a joke or a fast one on someone and when your done tell the person and have a good laugh with them about it. Not saying that the Just for laughs pranks all go well and likely not everyone they prank thinks it's as funny as they do. But at least they don't pretend to kidnap or pretend to commit armed robbery, which would generally scare or induce a response from people that is negative.
it saddens me how many times i have argued this point with my parents. earliest memory of it was in grade 8, most recent was about 5 months ago when i tried to warn them about installing a cloud based video system into their house. At least i got to use the line: "what if there is somebody snooping on the non encrypted feed to your house and you guys are fucking in the living room". Sadly being former flower children they got turned on and promptly told me they had something important to attend to and made me leave.
Good luck with tracking ip's on technology like LTE. IP leases only typically last a few hours. Most ISP's likely aren't going to pay someone to baby sit lease requests and given that these copyright holders preform abuse requests with no set standard for the information it's very hard to script a automated system to handle them.
Makes me said in a way as a Canadian to see another one of our tech companies in it's death throws.
.380 is a pretty crappy caliber. But i guess he needed something small, you'd think though with today's phablets you'd be able to use something a little larger. Even a 9mm is the same diameter, yet a bit longer and more powerful.
In my mind, the next logical step for me would be start writing letters to my state rep and letters to the FCC. Also, i would consult a lawyer and see if there is anything that i could do legaly to track the spoofers, ie: get nasty with the phone company or request phone bills from the people that are calling her and cross check them (using her number as a reference) and see if there is a way for the phone company to track who is really making the calls. I am not sure if there really is that much you could do with a lawyer, but in any case the lawyer will atleast inform you of your rights in this situation. That little bit of information might lead to the proper solution. Here in Canada, we don't have people spoofing caller id's with other people's phone numbers yet (or atleast i haven't heard of it yet), however telemarketers do often replace their numbers with something like 000-000-0000.I often get phone calls like that.
Having experience with managing a small enterprise level database, i can understand that many admins wouldn't allow (or want to) customer access to a mission critical database. With the wrong query they can really ruin a good day. That being said, the database is your company's asset, and with the proper precautions can be turned into a money generating asset. Since it's your asset, you dictate the terms on which customers access your data. You can require that the customer first submits the sql query that they wish to run to the database admin. You can also tell them who ever is writing the querys has to be certified by your company and trained. Keep in mind, you can charge for the extra certification and train that the customers employees would need, and charge on a monthly basis for database access. People will pay top dollar for top quality service and goods, people for some reason sometimes don't realize what the market is willing to pay. The fact is, with scheduled backups (remote and onsite) any customer damage could be undone and your customer contracts could have a clause in them that gives your company the right to sue for lost time and money.
It wasn't a Bomb he made, it was a cutting torch so that he could cut through a door on an armored van, saving the life of the guard inside of the van rather then letting the bad guys blow him up when they blew the door off.
Well from what i can tell, the title of the story is wrong. It's not Vista Service Pack 1 that is causing the issue, it's some other update (they are pre req's for vista service pack 1 which are public and are downloadable through automatic updates), they are required for SP1 when it's released in March.
yeah, we need somebody that can tag these things as a dupe.
I agree, Postgresql is far better.
If the enterprise edition is still under the GNU public license, how is it legal for them to close off the source code to the general public? From my understanding, when you use the GNU license you have to distribute the code with the binaries and cannot sell the code for profit.
Are they just selling as a service, or are they making profit from selling the code? Have i just mis-read the GNU license?
Well, if you can't run Office 2007 on windows XP, how come i have it installed?
Change is good. The human mind is a wonderful thing, it allows you to learn how to do new things no matter how old you are.
Bottom line, do it if you want a new challange and it interests you. I recently changed jobs (my last day at my current job is actually today), my new job hold alot of challange and requires skills that i both have and haven't developed ~yet~.
If humans were happy doing the same thing all the time, we would have never moved out of caves. It's human nature to want to be challanged and inspired by new things.
More info about what Michael Geist said/did/found out can be found out here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1528/159/
heh your right about that, but Bev Oda (the lday in charge of that review) has been linked with some shady dealing with the Canadian version of the RIAA. See http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1528/159/ for more information. The article in that link pretty much tells how the The Canadian Association of Broadcasters, helped her with "Fund rasing" for her polictical campain. People that let themselfs get bought make me sick. They are spineless.
To bad, cause a Canadian Judge ruled that file sharing isn't illegal in Canada. See http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html for more information. The greed induced coma that record and movie studio's are in now will successfully ruin (read: has ruined) the industry. I personally don't go to the movie theaters anymore because of the following reasons:
:-P
1) I don't enjoy paying more than $10 so see a movie, and lets face it, i am too lazy to go out and get a movie rental card
2) I get a far better movie experience at home anyways, i have better sound/images and no jack ass sitting in front of me talking about what he thinks is going to happen in the movie next.
3) Most of the movies that come out today are crap. Also a great deal of them are ether remakes of old movies, or sequels. I would rather watch the original version of the movie an certainly not the 3rd,4th or 5th sequels of the movie.
Maybe if the industry would actually create something good, instead of shoving more of the same tired crap down peoples necks. I am so tired of seeing some pop culture icon (like jessica simpson, etc..) get a movie part. They aren't real actors. I don't find their lack of intellgence funny or cute. All they do is re-enforce the image that women should act stupid because it's cute.
It's the same with the music industry. They have new bands every few months now, and rarely are they any good....just more of the same pop culture or indy music.
As a consumer i have a choice. I choose to not spend money on crap. If i can get free crap and have a better experience in my own home, why wouldn't i take advantage of it? Maybe it's time to change the way you do business and actually create a model that inpires trust from the customer, in a way that will make them feel comfortable about buying something of yours and make them feel like they are getting something for that money.
I tend to dissagree. The company i work for is currently using Office 2003. I use Openoffice because my desktop is linux based (i am the only linux user in the Company) and have no problems doing excel, word or any other operation that the bosses ask for on a daily bases. Quite often they will ask me to make a excel formula (last week i had to do one for payroll deductions) that is more advanced than the regular users can handle. Some of the formulas that i have created in the past are 5-6 lines long and have the max number of nested IF statments (MS office only allows 7 nested IF statments) and other fun stuff in em. I have never had a problem converting a document (excel, word, etc...) to work on, and i have never had a problem with the other users reading my work.
It's not just the newest versions of Open Office that work ether, i have been in a full linux envrionment for 3+ years now (ever since Service Pack 2 came out and messed my Windows XP install), all the while using Open Office on linux.
Now, some stuff like access (the vb side of it) i can't do under linux, but for that i use a virtual computer (vmware server) or a spare desktop that we have lying around in the back, however i rarly have a situation with access...and i have never had to do anything for excel or word under MS office other than access stuff.
Heh, that would be http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/, although they are more like the CIA in reguards to their responsibilities....as they are more responsible for stuff outside the country. The RCMP is (see: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ for more info about them) is the closest thing we (Canadian's) have to the Secret Service. although, seeing as they pretty much helped condem a man to jail and torcher in Syria for a few years i don't really trust them...see more here: http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/, not to talk about how there have been several people in Canada recently released out of jail because they were convicted wrongly for murder.
There are may coins in canada that get special stuff printed on them like the quater that you posted a link to. Here's a news article about a more recent quater that they released: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060331/pink_coin_060331/20060331?hub=Health
It was released to increace awareness about breast cancer.
I can't wait for that day. He wastes just about as much of the court's time as SCO.
Jack Thompson needs to settle down. We are getting tired of his constant law suits, which almost seem to be monthly at this point. When is he going to realize, we don't care and that people will buy the game off the net even if he got it baned from his state. Personally if i was the judge, after his remarks i would have thrown him in jail.
at 10,000 ft, there are more weather patterns that could effect the flight path or even make the object that was launched crash. Which is why they currently have to delay space flights sometimes (like the last one). So i am not sure that it'd be a good idea to launch at that hight.However, your idea about a strait line underground is a good one. Also, by having the system underground they could easily harden it to most conventional bomb threats (ie: bombardment from a plane or missle).
Probably, but to me (and probably a few other people out there) the world governments haven't done much to setup a warning system that all countries can afford and that is easy to install and configure.In my opinion, if the governments aren't going to do much about it, it's up to us (the general public) to find the solution.
A system like this could even help with aid...how do you ask? If a aid company (like Red Cross) got a early warning they could then mobilize and deliver aid much quicker...IMHO the sooner the aid gets there the better chance of having more people survive.
Just my two cents....
Now that's some cool stuff eh!