Of course Google wants people to land on the moon, they're desperate to find employees for their lunar campus.
Too bad that page is a parody. I would sign up for a job on the moon in a heartbeat. Maybe it isn't a parody, it is google we are talking about after all?
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Your assumption that this stops the average Joe is incorrect. Average Joe will just pay someone else to do it for him. Nothing ever stops half a population from doing something, the unable half will simply pay the other half to do it for them.
That summary is completetly out of touch with the actual article. If you RTFA there is no mention of the Patriot Act, equally the/.summary doesn't even bother to mention the unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act in question.
Thanks for that completely useless and misleading article summary.
The reason why Paypal does this is because creating a charity account without being able to provide documents proving your charity status is suspect. It's a red flag. Another red flag is having a new account suddenly receive a massive amount of funds from many individuals.
To make things clear, the types of accounts that is: A) New accounts B) Unable to provide documents C) Receiving many funds from many separate individuals
If you can't guess already.... accounts created by phishing scams!
The fact that this person is not a phishing scam is a travesty on the part that they were suspended, but the FACT REMAINS that they have no possible means to prove their innocence.
Yes I said prove their innocence. This is a company, not a trial. Likewise, they haven't been found guilty either. The reason for the 180 suspension is obvious:
If the people who sent them money start to increasingly cancel their money payments, then, bingo, the account is a scam. If they don't after a given time, say... 180 days, then hey the account is legitimate.
I'd like to point out that $30 billion lost is based on the price of the item, and not the cost to make.
For instance, jeans at a $60 markup (from cost to make, not including advertizing) means that 500,000,000 jeans were stolen last year. Still a large number in my opinion.
Taxis and Limousines both drive on public roads; their owners can charge whatever they wish, whoever they wish, as long as the person who is charged agrees to pay.
Bad analogy, because taxi and limo fares are for the use of the car and driver, not for the use of the road. The better analogy would be if a private company wanted to put up toll booths on public roads and start charging tolls.
This is a good analogy, but it doesn't support the arguement that net neutrality is a good thing (TM).
There are many roadways which are on public land which are tolled by private companies because private companies funded and own the roads.
In the case of cabel companies, they too own the infrastructure which is laid on public lands. So according to this anology, if private companies can toll privately owned roads (which are public access), which already happens; then cabel companies can do the same with the internet.
'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006'
are you kidding me?
How about just 'Deleting everything Online Act of 2006'
This bill is FAR too broad? How many websites have a forum? Just about all.
If you RTFA then you'll notice that the END of the 3rd part (3 of 4) had a missing null character. Making the last 8 characters spell out idbyrows (ID by Rows) instead of what they should have been: layertwo (Layer Two).
This isn't such a big 'everything was broken' as you may seem to think that it is. The original key still works. So the original people who cracked the 3rd part are still considered the first.
This is an important revilation because it is believed that part 4 (which has not been cracked) is solved via clues in parts 1-3.
This document I found is an executive order from Saddam telling the army to put Kuwaiti POW's in buildings that will be targets of US air strikes. This is Dated March 14, 2003.
And before you start, please don't object that the person affected is a defendant in a criminal proceeding, because that's quite beside the point.
I don't see how this can simply be put aside. The fact that a subpoena has gone through the judicial system makes it legitamite. That is the whole point of a subpoena. As someone said, Google has been ordered to hand over this information. That order is a valid, tested order.
This man is already through a good portion of the trial. As well, prosecution cannot just willy-nilly ask for whatever it wants. It has to prove that there is good reason to ask for this information. That is the basis of a subpoena.
Lastly I would like to say that a number of industries are required BY LAW to hold documents for X number of years. If google didn't keep deleted emails then a law would be made ordering all email companies to do so. I think its a good idea.
I really don't feel that religion has anything to do with this. Most people, even the so called religions right are NOT anti-science. Actually, I could easily see any person living in the United States become deeply conserned in loosing its posisition as a top technological and scientific country, even those conservatives you speak of.
Realistically, the reason is the almighty dollar. Everything revolves around it, it always has and always will. In the US $$ speaks more than any religious morals.
I guess the consern would be that InnoDB isn't going to get as much support as it should be. But as the original story puts it, the MySQL team intends to continue support with InnoDB. As a heavy MySQL user I can see where the worry would come from but I'm not worried because I believe the MySQL team will hold true to their word.
To me this makes 100% sense. I once had the very nice pleasure of talking to a Software patent lawyer. We talked all kinds of things and the basic underlying point is this:
Companies like microsoft are for patents but against companies that make buisness modles out of patent infringement.
The forbes article really doesn't address the impact of the free web-based software. It more goes into the value of Sun shares from the partnership formed. In which case it says that the jump in Sun share trading wasn't really called for.
In other words the Forbes article really has nothing to do with the/. post.
A: Yes.
In TFA it says that one of the reasons this was approved is because it is believed that human's still poses immunity which was passed down from our ancestors in 1918.
The first question and answer really put me off to this whole interview. The question:
1.) Economic Monitoring... by nweaver
How much economic monitoring do you do? Both in-game and on the secondary market (eBay)? Have you considered working with an economist (Steven D. Levitt comes to mind, but there are dozens of others as well) to study some of these phenomenon?
Response -
We monitor the economics of the game very closely. We watch the in-game economy on a regular basis and have personnel that monitor game logs every day. When we see irregularities, we take action. This can range from exploring the account further, finding and removing exploits, or even possible suspension and bans. We also look closely at out-of-game transactions involving real-world cash for in-game items. Some of those transactions occur over eBay, some do not. But in many cases, the involved parties are warned or suspended, and some accounts are also banned.
The original question didn't even come close to hinting at cheating and they bring it up. In reguards to eBay they simply attacked the issue of selling virtual goods and the possible punishment.
From what I see, the original question was directed at what kind of research was being done on their virtual economies. Instead Blizzard talks about cheating and how selling virtual goods is a violation of the EULA. Not to mention that I could read this kind of 'PR' response from no less that 10 different sources.
The idea is that the information is on the hard drive no matter how you are able to get at it. Handing someone your hard drive after you've deleted and emptied the recycle bin is equivalent to handing them your privacy.
They could finalize this as the solution to avoid bots, except everyone doesn't have a cell phone. However, I can easily see this as being a solution for Japan. Anyone who bothers to use email does so by their mobile phone. "Then why get gmail?" Well, some people like having more than one email account.
World of Warcraft is debuted as the worlds largest MMO. What do you think was the formula for World of Warcraft's success? What is your strategy to keep it that way? And do you have any worries that 'the honeymoon may soon be over'?
One development I see this coming from is how phisers will try to 'spear phish' to get the most detailed information out of an individual then pose as that individual to phish out the rest of the pool.
Suppose a phisher was able to get very detailed information about a xyz CEO. Impersonating said CEO could give the phiser much more valuable information from the other employees.
Spear phishing can catch small fish so that they can use it for bait for larger fish.
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Your assumption that this stops the average Joe is incorrect. Average Joe will just pay someone else to do it for him. Nothing ever stops half a population from doing something, the unable half will simply pay the other half to do it for them.
That summary is completetly out of touch with the actual article. If you RTFA there is no mention of the Patriot Act, equally the /.summary doesn't even bother to mention the unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act in question.
Thanks for that completely useless and misleading article summary.
The reason why Paypal does this is because creating a charity account without being able to provide documents proving your charity status is suspect. It's a red flag. Another red flag is having a new account suddenly receive a massive amount of funds from many individuals.
To make things clear, the types of accounts that is:
A) New accounts
B) Unable to provide documents
C) Receiving many funds from many separate individuals
If you can't guess already.... accounts created by phishing scams!
The fact that this person is not a phishing scam is a travesty on the part that they were suspended, but the FACT REMAINS that they have no possible means to prove their innocence.
Yes I said prove their innocence. This is a company, not a trial. Likewise, they haven't been found guilty either. The reason for the 180 suspension is obvious:
If the people who sent them money start to increasingly cancel their money payments, then, bingo, the account is a scam. If they don't after a given time, say... 180 days, then hey the account is legitimate.
Paypal sucks, but not in this particular case.
I'd like to point out that $30 billion lost is based on the price of the item, and not the cost to make.
For instance, jeans at a $60 markup (from cost to make, not including advertizing) means that 500,000,000 jeans were stolen last year. Still a large number in my opinion.
Taxis and Limousines both drive on public roads; their owners can charge whatever they wish, whoever they wish, as long as the person who is charged agrees to pay. Bad analogy, because taxi and limo fares are for the use of the car and driver, not for the use of the road. The better analogy would be if a private company wanted to put up toll booths on public roads and start charging tolls. This is a good analogy, but it doesn't support the arguement that net neutrality is a good thing (TM).
There are many roadways which are on public land which are tolled by private companies because private companies funded and own the roads.
In the case of cabel companies, they too own the infrastructure which is laid on public lands. So according to this anology, if private companies can toll privately owned roads (which are public access), which already happens; then cabel companies can do the same with the internet.
'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006' are you kidding me? How about just 'Deleting everything Online Act of 2006' This bill is FAR too broad? How many websites have a forum? Just about all.
If you RTFA then you'll notice that the END of the 3rd part (3 of 4) had a missing null character. Making the last 8 characters spell out idbyrows (ID by Rows) instead of what they should have been: layertwo (Layer Two).
This isn't such a big 'everything was broken' as you may seem to think that it is. The original key still works. So the original people who cracked the 3rd part are still considered the first.
This is an important revilation because it is believed that part 4 (which has not been cracked) is solved via clues in parts 1-3.
This may be a good thing, most of the site has become compleatly illegible.
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents-docex/I raq/Released-20060317/CMPC-2003-012666-Translation .pdf
This document I found is an executive order from Saddam telling the army to put Kuwaiti POW's in buildings that will be targets of US air strikes. This is Dated March 14, 2003.
I don't see how this can simply be put aside. The fact that a subpoena has gone through the judicial system makes it legitamite. That is the whole point of a subpoena. As someone said, Google has been ordered to hand over this information. That order is a valid, tested order.
This man is already through a good portion of the trial. As well, prosecution cannot just willy-nilly ask for whatever it wants. It has to prove that there is good reason to ask for this information. That is the basis of a subpoena.
Lastly I would like to say that a number of industries are required BY LAW to hold documents for X number of years. If google didn't keep deleted emails then a law would be made ordering all email companies to do so. I think its a good idea.
I agree with you defiantly. Having just graduated I always considered my college a business over anything else.
I really don't feel that religion has anything to do with this. Most people, even the so called religions right are NOT anti-science. Actually, I could easily see any person living in the United States become deeply conserned in loosing its posisition as a top technological and scientific country, even those conservatives you speak of.
Realistically, the reason is the almighty dollar. Everything revolves around it, it always has and always will. In the US $$ speaks more than any religious morals.
I guess the consern would be that InnoDB isn't going to get as much support as it should be. But as the original story puts it, the MySQL team intends to continue support with InnoDB. As a heavy MySQL user I can see where the worry would come from but I'm not worried because I believe the MySQL team will hold true to their word.
To me this makes 100% sense. I once had the very nice pleasure of talking to a Software patent lawyer. We talked all kinds of things and the basic underlying point is this:
Companies like microsoft are for patents but against companies that make buisness modles out of patent infringement.
The forbes article really doesn't address the impact of the free web-based software. It more goes into the value of Sun shares from the partnership formed. In which case it says that the jump in Sun share trading wasn't really called for.
/. post.
In other words the Forbes article really has nothing to do with the
A: Yes. In TFA it says that one of the reasons this was approved is because it is believed that human's still poses immunity which was passed down from our ancestors in 1918.
The original question didn't even come close to hinting at cheating and they bring it up. In reguards to eBay they simply attacked the issue of selling virtual goods and the possible punishment.
From what I see, the original question was directed at what kind of research was being done on their virtual economies. Instead Blizzard talks about cheating and how selling virtual goods is a violation of the EULA. Not to mention that I could read this kind of 'PR' response from no less that 10 different sources.
I wrote to Arnold against this bill, you can too: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/
Install an old version of windows, unpached with no firewall protection.
The idea is that the information is on the hard drive no matter how you are able to get at it. Handing someone your hard drive after you've deleted and emptied the recycle bin is equivalent to handing them your privacy.
Ignorance is not a defense.
They could finalize this as the solution to avoid bots, except everyone doesn't have a cell phone. However, I can easily see this as being a solution for Japan. Anyone who bothers to use email does so by their mobile phone. "Then why get gmail?" Well, some people like having more than one email account.
World of Warcraft is debuted as the worlds largest MMO. What do you think was the formula for World of Warcraft's success? What is your strategy to keep it that way? And do you have any worries that 'the honeymoon may soon be over'?
One development I see this coming from is how phisers will try to 'spear phish' to get the most detailed information out of an individual then pose as that individual to phish out the rest of the pool. Suppose a phisher was able to get very detailed information about a xyz CEO. Impersonating said CEO could give the phiser much more valuable information from the other employees. Spear phishing can catch small fish so that they can use it for bait for larger fish.
I find it ironic how Hillary doesn't seem to appreciate how sexual acts can offer you free publicity.