I was assured by numerous talking heads that this particular network intrusion against a Japanese multinational was not only state-sponsored; but an act of Cyber-terror-war against America and the Homeland, and something that could only be answered in a suitably apocalyptic fashion, lest our nation's honor be soiled!
How could it possibly be something as pedestrian as upset employees?
Microsoft's move from MSN to Skype isn't helping either. You are forced to merge MSN and Skype accounts or decide to only use 1 (where having seperate ones was easy for people like me who seperated business and personal accounts).. .
Yeah although Word 97 is 12 years old by now and you having to upgrade to some newer version is all plain forced upgrading by Microsoft. Even Word 2003 is 9 years old, meaning you have done at least one or two reinstalls since you got it (cause the hardware that originally ran it is outdated).
It all comes down to weather or not the browser accepts it, and for now it looks like CaCERT is not valided yet. I tried https://www.cacert.org/ and Chrome shows that nice fancy red screen that tells me I am about to do something extremely dangerous, although if you read it it only tells me that they can't validate the owner, encryption is all fine...I wish they would make that more clear.
Reading the posts above this one, where everyone is making a distinction between a bank and paypal, in Europe the situation is different then in the US, PayPal IS a bank here (so no need to make a distinction between the two), from the website:
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A. (R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349) is duly licensed as a Luxembourg credit institution in the sense of Article 2 of the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector as amended (the “Law”) and is under the prudential supervision of the Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier.
link: https://cms.paypal.com/nl/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/ServiceDescription_full&locale.x=en_US
Very true words, however, other companies doing business in these regions also have to comply to the (tax)laws. Do you think that due to the fact that since Amazon chooses to ship worldwide and therefor making their own order process far more complex than "Joe's Books" who only serves his own state and maybe the ones next to it they should be exempt? My example of their recommendation systems was merely to indicate that they are capable of doing very complex things with the techniques available. I understand it would be a lot of work, but the rules they would have to comply to are available (there are just many).
I read quite a few (not all) comments on this page, but what I cannot understand is why people feel that Amazons defense ("it's too complicated") is valid, when you consider that we are talking about the company who can do magic with their recommendations on a sale-level; people who bought this also bought that, 57% people on this page bought this item, the others went here, combo deals with books you viewed before, etc. You'd think they would be able to come up with a system for the taxes... wanting to is something completely different.
I can perfectly understand that it's not as simple as the EU system (e.g. I pay 19% VAT), however, it's not fair to claim that on a $9.99 book they have to pay 0.12 here and 0.53 there instantly, since that is most probably not the case in the first place. Amazon has to collect the amounts and send them off every X (month/quarter), same as they do with VAT they collect.
It would be wonderfull if your reply was a little near the truth, but it isn't. Europe is bigger then the United Kingdom, and in many European countries the gouvernment has the monopoly on offline & online gambling. They claim they can protect the players better to all the downsides that accompany (think addiction) gambling. Oh and did I mention they like the revenues that are part of this whole casino and poker business? Even though a lot of gambling companies are registered within the United Kingdom (and are therefor part of Europe, which means they should be able to do business in Europe as they are in the UK) they actually ban players from certain countries because allowing them to play will result in huge fines...
And the 'addiction thing'? You should read some reports and recent lawsuits.. Addiction problems are in the main reasons the countries are bypassing the EU laws (which are indeed more lose on the gambling part). It's not like in the US, but it is certainly not like in the UK here in mainland Europe. . . . (yet)
Everybody has access to open source code, that is somewhat given away in it's name. I think if you would've read the complete article you would've understood that he meant the M$ codebase is open for all employees to see/learn/fix. IANAC (I am no a coder) so I wouldn't know much about whether that'd be a good idea, but taking into account the number of employees M$ has, the source seems to be reviewed by quite a few people. That has always been one of the selling points of open source software afaik.
And if M$ would've open sourced IE 6 years ago, that could've prevented that whole Active-X fiasco. But they didn't, and now Opera/FireFox are building more marketshare, why is that a bad thing?
In another article on his site he writes about blogs, and why he not dates his articles. However, he does have an XML feed to enable us to see when he has posted something new... if you add that you will see the publishing date, it is obvious this article is more then a year old.
He probably still works there, but this should be filed under 'history for nerds, stuff that mattered'.
On the bottom of that search page you will see this line:
Search within results | Language Tools | Search Tips | Dissatisfied? Help us improve
Click that link, fill out the form ..and see what happens. It is supposed to notify (real) people at google to dive into that search term ..and who knows.. it might help...
"... maintain our market share is what's interesting. She doesn't even say increase. That is not a good sign for Yahoo's search business...."
Is sure is.. growth can come from a bigger market share or by keeping the same share of a growing market, no? In other words.. as long as more people start looking for things, the amount of searches increases (and so does the usage of Yahoo!, with their current market share).
True that, but not everyone wants to leave his e-mail in the hands of our not-evil-yet google overlords... But since their status might change and some businesses just need to keep some data safe other options are always welcome I guess.
Read 'The Salmon of Doubt'. It could well be Douglas was supposed to write some additional material for the movie but they didn't lock him into a hotel room in order to write it. After his death it seems they were forced to seek some other solution. Just guessing though...
That might be the point just there. AFP tried to contact Google before they sued them, but heard nothing (maybe Google thought it would be all forgotten..who know's).. Now they DID sue, and got LOT'S of media attention for it...
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Don't get me wrong, I DO like google & their news service !!
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BUT, what if they'd won? I mean, Google news is only interesting because OTHERS create content for it. If a few (and AFP seems to be a big fish) refuse to apear there for whatever reason... and they succeed.. . other's might join them.. If AP/Reuters start a lawsuit for the exact same reason.. Google news would be, to say the least, 'less interesting'. Google's nice, but I've seen people here shout that being removed from Google will give AFP just a few months before they vanish.. If that'd be the case, why is everyone still M$ bashing instead of GoogleBashing? You can not seriously believe they have that much power, and if you do, why would that be considered a good thing? The 'do no evil' clause? Don't they have shareholders like M$ does?
Google is the main search provider on the web.. but still has less then 50% of searchvolume... The rest of the pie is almost MSN/Yahoo's and a few other's... http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2 156431
(link from another/. article a few days ago, most probably a "Y! BAD! Google GOOD!" kinda topic..
Euhmz.. , excusez le mot, but RTFA!.. They contacted Google way before they decided to sue them. So they did your options in in the order you presented them..
You goto your banks website, and type in your account number and the ATMcard number/id. A new screen will have an 8 digit code and an input field.
Next, you stick your ATM card in a device, you have to enter your personal 4 digit PIN number, then it's ready. You enter the 8 digit code into the device, and it returns a 6 digit code. You enter that in your browser, and you're in.
That means:
- you have to have access to the card
- you have to know the pincode
- sniffing is out of the question (every login gives a new 8 digit code with new 6 digit reply)
The devices are cheap, and not personal. Seems like quite a nice solution imho...
ps: PIN = personal identification number afaik, main advantage is it's short, and my (i think more) bank(s) allow you to change it to something you can remember easily...
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I was assured by numerous talking heads that this particular network intrusion against a Japanese multinational was not only state-sponsored; but an act of Cyber-terror-war against America and the Homeland, and something that could only be answered in a suitably apocalyptic fashion, lest our nation's honor be soiled! How could it possibly be something as pedestrian as upset employees?
I SO hope you are very sarcastic here.
Nothing anywhere near conclusive from the information provided.
While that is true, the same is true for the information released that suggested North-Korea is/was/would-be behind the hack.
Microsoft's move from MSN to Skype isn't helping either. You are forced to merge MSN and Skype accounts or decide to only use 1 (where having seperate ones was easy for people like me who seperated business and personal accounts).. .
Yeah although Word 97 is 12 years old by now and you having to upgrade to some newer version is all plain forced upgrading by Microsoft. Even Word 2003 is 9 years old, meaning you have done at least one or two reinstalls since you got it (cause the hardware that originally ran it is outdated).
Don't get me wrong, I like Opera, but for those of us in Chrome: triple-click, right click, select "go to http://etc/ etc"
It all comes down to weather or not the browser accepts it, and for now it looks like CaCERT is not valided yet. I tried https://www.cacert.org/ and Chrome shows that nice fancy red screen that tells me I am about to do something extremely dangerous, although if you read it it only tells me that they can't validate the owner, encryption is all fine .. .I wish they would make that more clear.
Reading the posts above this one, where everyone is making a distinction between a bank and paypal, in Europe the situation is different then in the US, PayPal IS a bank here (so no need to make a distinction between the two), from the website:
.
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A. (R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349) is duly licensed as a Luxembourg credit institution in the sense of Article 2 of the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector as amended (the “Law”) and is under the prudential supervision of the Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier
link: https://cms.paypal.com/nl/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/ServiceDescription_full&locale.x=en_US
Very true words, however, other companies doing business in these regions also have to comply to the (tax)laws. Do you think that due to the fact that since Amazon chooses to ship worldwide and therefor making their own order process far more complex than "Joe's Books" who only serves his own state and maybe the ones next to it they should be exempt? My example of their recommendation systems was merely to indicate that they are capable of doing very complex things with the techniques available. I understand it would be a lot of work, but the rules they would have to comply to are available (there are just many).
I read quite a few (not all) comments on this page, but what I cannot understand is why people feel that Amazons defense ("it's too complicated") is valid, when you consider that we are talking about the company who can do magic with their recommendations on a sale-level; people who bought this also bought that, 57% people on this page bought this item, the others went here, combo deals with books you viewed before, etc. You'd think they would be able to come up with a system for the taxes ... wanting to is something completely different.
I can perfectly understand that it's not as simple as the EU system (e.g. I pay 19% VAT), however, it's not fair to claim that on a $9.99 book they have to pay 0.12 here and 0.53 there instantly, since that is most probably not the case in the first place. Amazon has to collect the amounts and send them off every X (month/quarter), same as they do with VAT they collect.
It would be wonderfull if your reply was a little near the truth, but it isn't. Europe is bigger then the United Kingdom, and in many European countries the gouvernment has the monopoly on offline & online gambling. They claim they can protect the players better to all the downsides that accompany (think addiction) gambling. Oh and did I mention they like the revenues that are part of this whole casino and poker business? Even though a lot of gambling companies are registered within the United Kingdom (and are therefor part of Europe, which means they should be able to do business in Europe as they are in the UK) they actually ban players from certain countries because allowing them to play will result in huge fines...
And the 'addiction thing'? You should read some reports and recent lawsuits.. Addiction problems are in the main reasons the countries are bypassing the EU laws (which are indeed more lose on the gambling part). It's not like in the US, but it is certainly not like in the UK here in mainland Europe. . . . (yet)
Everybody has access to open source code, that is somewhat given away in it's name. I think if you would've read the complete article you would've understood that he meant the M$ codebase is open for all employees to see/learn/fix. IANAC (I am no a coder) so I wouldn't know much about whether that'd be a good idea, but taking into account the number of employees M$ has, the source seems to be reviewed by quite a few people. That has always been one of the selling points of open source software afaik.
And if M$ would've open sourced IE 6 years ago, that could've prevented that whole Active-X fiasco. But they didn't, and now Opera/FireFox are building more marketshare, why is that a bad thing?
In another article on his site he writes about blogs, and why he not dates his articles. However, he does have an XML feed to enable us to see when he has posted something new... if you add that you will see the publishing date, it is obvious this article is more then a year old.
He probably still works there, but this should be filed under 'history for nerds, stuff that mattered'.
Maybe he did that because it was featured on digg yesterday and he expected it?
On the bottom of that search page you will see this line:
.and see what happens. It is supposed to notify (real) people at google to dive into that search term . .and who knows.. it might help ...
Search within results | Language Tools | Search Tips | Dissatisfied? Help us improve
Click that link, fill out the form .
"... maintain our market share is what's interesting. She doesn't even say increase. That is not a good sign for Yahoo's search business...." Is sure is .. growth can come from a bigger market share or by keeping the same share of a growing market, no? In other words.. as long as more people start looking for things, the amount of searches increases (and so does the usage of Yahoo!, with their current market share).
True that, but not everyone wants to leave his e-mail in the hands of our not-evil-yet google overlords... But since their status might change and some businesses just need to keep some data safe other options are always welcome I guess.
Read 'The Salmon of Doubt'. It could well be Douglas was supposed to write some additional material for the movie but they didn't lock him into a hotel room in order to write it. After his death it seems they were forced to seek some other solution. Just guessing though ...
That might be the point just there. AFP tried to contact Google before they sued them, but heard nothing (maybe Google thought it would be all forgotten..who know's) .. Now they DID sue, and got LOT'S of media attention for it...
.. . other's might join them .. If AP/Reuters start a lawsuit for the exact same reason .. Google news would be, to say the least, 'less interesting'. Google's nice, but I've seen people here shout that being removed from Google will give AFP just a few months before they vanish .. If that'd be the case, why is everyone still M$ bashing instead of GoogleBashing? You can not seriously believe they have that much power, and if you do, why would that be considered a good thing? The 'do no evil' clause? Don't they have shareholders like M$ does?
.. but still has less then 50% of searchvolume... The rest of the pie is almost MSN/Yahoo's and a few other's ... 2 156431 /. article a few days ago, most probably a "Y! BAD! Google GOOD!" kinda topic..
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Don't get me wrong, I DO like google & their news service !!
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BUT, what if they'd won? I mean, Google news is only interesting because OTHERS create content for it. If a few (and AFP seems to be a big fish) refuse to apear there for whatever reason... and they succeed
Google is the main search provider on the web
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/
(link from another
Euhmz.. , excusez le mot, but RTFA! .. They contacted Google way before they decided to sue them. So they did your options in in the order you presented them ..
You goto your banks website, and type in your account number and the ATMcard number/id. A new screen will have an 8 digit code and an input field.
..
...
Next, you stick your ATM card in a device, you have to enter your personal 4 digit PIN number, then it's ready. You enter the 8 digit code into the device, and it returns a 6 digit code. You enter that in your browser, and you're in.
That means:
- you have to have access to the card
- you have to know the pincode
- sniffing is out of the question (every login gives a new 8 digit code with new 6 digit reply)
The devices are cheap, and not personal. Seems like quite a nice solution imho.
ps: PIN = personal identification number afaik, main advantage is it's short, and my (i think more) bank(s) allow you to change it to something you can remember easily
Hmmz.. for 'us Europeans' that would also mean the end of SlashDot .. Since it is in the group of 'bad US things we boycot'