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  1. Amazon is best here on Programming Collective Intelligence · · Score: 1

    The problem is where you post your algorithm, if you wait till they are paying for their items ( as at Amazon) where they add in the shopping cart, the people who bought this book also bought this book, or we have a sale, 2 books one of which you have plus this one, for less...

    This can only be done with a shopping cart style, where as Netflickshas to wait for them to select their movie before they can recommend anything, seriously they should partner up with Amazon,
    the people who rented this movie from Netflicks, also bought this book from....lol!

  2. they don't explain properly on Game Designers Earn More In UK Than In US · · Score: 1

    See I hate surveys like this, they so give you the wrong info.
    Did you know that the price of living in the UK is also higher then here, so guess what that extra 15k a year for developers goes to paying their bills, taxes, mortgages, etc...
    In the end, with the Canadian dollar being much higher now then before, we could actually say we are making more money GLOBALLY then they....

  3. come on people....can't we all be frineds on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    This is one of those few times where we as Americans, take over the power from the globe to conduct a full concerted effort in keeping all the satellites orbiting on the left side of the planet when it passes us on the right side in 2029. Seriously, we do not have to worry it hitting anything if the sats. are out of the way...but that would take awhile to do, and we should get started right away!...

  4. Re:Open database on Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data? · · Score: 1

    could you post the one software you are talking about and using,
    not leaving anything to the imagination...

  5. Re:paypal sucks on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 1

    Even if they had, ebay being the biggest auction online company decides to use theirs and only theirs, nothing we can do about it....
    sucks really, should be some form of government regulation on this.

  6. Re:I'm Shocked! on Experts Hack Power Grid in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    Simple, follow the regulation set up for the power grid by the main power grid company,

    NO COMPUTER SHOULD BE NETWORKED WITH ANY OTHER COMPUTER THAT HAS INTERNET ACCESS.

    This means the only social engineering capable, is having someone walk into your office,
    then stands the question how hard do you blast your security personnel when they let just anybody in???

  7. sorry to say on Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Regardless of all previously posted comments, I feel the ISPs should pay for the
    change, if a store wants to sell me something, do I pay for his shelves to store bigger items,
    or the display cases for showing me what I might want to buy, no I just pick up what I want and pay, couldn't care less about the decor, however if they feel it necessary to offer us
    this way better bandwidth, they will never give it for free, they will always hide the charges,
    story is moot

  8. paypal sucks on eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory · · Score: 3, Informative

    because we all know how great paypal is, and how often that they want to talk with you in case of problems, most people can't even find their contact phone number, let alone get someone worth while on the phone who knows what they are doing....

    My experience and friends experience with them, makes this one of those things that saddens me.
    If they could up their regulations and communications with their clients, then maybe but they do everything to avoid talking with you about the problems you may be having. NEVER KEEP LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNTS, THEY CAN FREEZE IT AT THEIR DISCRETION AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.

    My friends sells batteries, as a powerseller, and whenever he has problems with credit cards, he can usually get info from the card company, even if he has to swallow the charge, however if there is an indiscretion with someone else's paypal used to purchase his item, he gets frozen until they can figure out what happened, and they are very slow, almost retarded...so he waits and waits, he has a few accounts set up in case of such thing, that way he can still do business..
    but what a hassle, it isn't his fault someone frauded someone else's account, so why does he pay
    in lost revenue etc....?

  9. china... on HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its simple , the infection happened when they outsourced to China to build the flash drives, and do not have a quality control set in the middle as it arrives into our country without delivering directly to store warehouses...problem and i speak from experience with the textiles importing industry based out of china, is that when you have no quality control in place to review this stuff, such as a drive verificator that you would plug all drives into before sending out, and letting that be in the hands of the Chinese, who are at the root of the cyber attack problem against the states right now, is that they could be putting anything on those drives and we don't check...

  10. Re:I'm not suprised, given my experience with 2wir on AT&T, 2Wire Ignoring Active Security Exploit [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that this was only the case because you had someone smart enough to hack your router being a wireless router, and not a wired one, and then once in would know the reset commands???

  11. Re:Why? on Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback · · Score: 1

    Seems funny Panda would go out and name Linux as a sole heir to
    this possible infection, I wonder how much money they are getting
    under the table from M$ to write this bull...

  12. If i could tell them something on Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack · · Score: 1

    If I could tell them something, I would tell the Swiss that they can charge the amount that would have been charged on that money for taxes back home and keep a fair share (40%???) for their efforts, this would take care of companies and individuals trying to escape the arm of the law of their country, and keep the locals using their banks unaffected.

  13. isn't that outlawed, sending your kids to work ??? on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 1

    I am glad that someone can help out a school in need, and maybe this will look good on the kids resume, but remember he is a kid, and needs to do kid things to have the ability to know how to have fun, and not become another wacko jacko....kids should not be pushed to grow up too fast.

    I applaud this however as it shows that we as a generation are getting smarter quicker in the tech department, now as for social ineptitude, this is a diff. story.

  14. Re:Let me be the first to say on Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    especially that these guys know better and can't hide behind the excuse that a grandmother might at 80 years old....i didn't know anything about that, i just needed to do something with a photo album
    I hope this also sets a precedent that the ones who cry wolf, should also receive double the penalty as they tried to use those same laws against others for their gain.

  15. Re:Waste...? on Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    Built any nuclear bombs lately have we???

  16. against perfect storms on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    I always said that if a few fighter planes were to launch multiple warheads into a storm, (hurricane or tornado) that they could actually destroy enough of the deadly force that it could
    make the storm dissipate, however, the American gov. seems to love to rebuild all the time, and would not interfere in such disasters even if it were preventable. Too many jobs would be lost.

    I truly applaud the Chinese for showing us up, now that the populace will know such things are quite capable, they might make enough stink to force some sort of action next time a class 5 hurricane hits Miami, or a class 5 tornado hits Texas etc.

    I wonder if they were to be able to dissipate the clouds too to avoid flash flooding by dispersing the clouds over a wider area, instead of allowing it to accumulate all in 1 small place, causing these floods

  17. Re:Proposed new budget on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    I don't totally agree with the old school way of thinking, this is what got us in this mess in the first place.
    If we review a few lines
    $2.40 Marketing/promotion - do we really need so much hype $1.20 a CD
    (if spent 2 million for promoting the album, why would it break down to per cd price?)
    $1.70 Label profit - worse than the artists, 80 cents a CD now
    $1.60 Artists' royalties - mega artists can get skimpier - down to $1 a CD even
    $0.82 Publishing royalties - first thing to go, we'll halve this to 41 cents safely I imagine

    Some of these are a set price...recording an album costs 500,000$ that's it, it ends there...
    So why do we need to always say per cd...did the price go up after the fact....no...it's the record label playing with the numbers to justify an imaginary price.

    Ok, we calculate from each ...so add up all the pricing as a total that we can, then divide the sales for 1 million cds, most artists can do this much nowadays, and anything over is profit,
    I am sure you would get closer to 5$ per cd then 15$...even with the artist getting their 1$ per cd profit.

    Snoop and Dre did it best, they just decided to bypass the middle man, and distribute themselves.
    See who gets all the money now...and they don't bitch about piracy and such, they know they are still making great coin...

  18. Re:not even on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    Just viewing a page that has that link hosted, might get you in trouble, what sort of person are you to visit a website that has a link to redirect you to a site that has a link, er wait a minute...

  19. Re:Another unPolice. on The International Cyber Cop Unit · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected, I think this way because I am a developer myself that would jump at the chance to own a botnet to fight the good fight against these criminals, using their own software against them, and I don't work for a company that would be given fines for such things.

    I guess it would be nice to have a policing system that could be able to use these botnets and gain even more botnets and even more botnets, until even the newer botnets are consumed by the bigger and more concentrated one, then after all resistance is eradicated from other botnets, just hand it over to the US gov. and call it skynet....

    oops, sorry, I guess I have been watching too much spike television lately...

        ; )

  20. Re:Another unPolice. on The International Cyber Cop Unit · · Score: 1

    I would love to hear more about these meetings you say you have been apart of, I am not challenging you per say, but more so the content of those meetings, if they could have interceded in those botnets, they would have already, sending to ISPS all the clients on the list with compromised machines, or emails to each owner of each machine...hell even take over the control until they find something to do with them, legally speaking.

  21. Re:Wow, that's a big fat ASS^H^HPI on Visualizing the .NET Framework · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with you, I have worked for many companies that have had in house built apps, that wasted a lot of time and their money into, and when approached about simply replacing the defective code with new apps etc...their stand was, well we already invested into this, so we are stuck now. You are never stuck...if this was the case we would all still be using assembler. At some point someone sees the advantage of upgrading to a new language or a new way of doing things...and then the reward is later with fewer lines of code to maintain and less man power to do it.

    I will also not name names, but this particular company in charge of massive amounts of personal data in the french speaking Canadian section... were very vulnerable to attack, and a quick redraw using asp.net technology to replace aging less secure asp technology with third party add ons everywhere could not bring themselves to see the light.

  22. Re:Call me a cook if you want ... on Discussion of Internet Addiction as Mental Illness Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    I so agree with you, I could have been your college roommate...lol
    I wonder sometimes if people are made aware of this by the parents, or other "true seers"
    This sounds very plausible for me, yet explain this to someone who hasn't traveled a bit around the globe to see other countries, they would call your a traitor to your country, however consumer oriented it might be.

    I don't want to mention also the fact that had we voted no to Bush in the white house, people might still be unaware of the media handling that goes on everywhere. I for one am glad Bush got in,
    'cuz once you get sh*t on your hands, you make sure to avoid it in the future

  23. Re:can anyone tell me the checksum of the code? on 10,000-website Strong Malware Maze Created by Criminals · · Score: 1

    Actually , i think he meant a checksum for his site and all its content, not to end up one day with diff. pages online without knowing about it. Of course the checksum verificator could obvisously not be hosted on the same server....and it could send you an email if any content on your wesite has changed. I guess a reverse google cache of sorts...

  24. just shows the lies on MPAA Touts Record Year For Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Just shows how much falsity is actually being spread with the propaganda and the media, when the sharing of certain files is a great thing, p2p torrents are being hurt by the ISPs trying to do good by the big movie companies, which is only hurting us in the end, we pay more for our bandwidth etc...

    All I can say is, "see i told you so"...they are all f*cking liars

  25. Re:slashvertisement on MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I concur as they would say in medical speak. I think with the amounts of flights I have taken, the belt the shoes etc...its stupid, I could easily find somewhere else to put it. I can make a small clay potery and lightly bake the outside without harming the inside, guess what I smuggled half pound of explosives on a plane disguised as my mom's delicate cooking pot gift. As for the security, they are brainless drones... unable to think for themselves, you are telling me that no one had seen one of the thin air models before....with all the ads being shown everywhere. I just hope this will go to court and hold them accountable, make it end this farce....if they are in a position to make you wait with no good excuse, then there should be accountability. They didn't take tech courses to keep up to date with technology, their fault not ours, now pay my missed airfare and personal damages.

    Hope also that it can set a precedent that in future will hold up that you can't just start acting like a chief without having the proper training.

    Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.