A good portion of Android tablets are $99 specials with names like Colby that parents buy to mollify their kids... and yes they often get left in the drawer after the kids get tired of them.
Another thing is, most Android tablets (even the big brand name ones) don't have cellular antennas, so no internet browsing away from home.
There was no other indication of a DDOS than the "I did it" tweet by a lone troll. To knock out someone as big as Godaddy for as long as they did would've required an epic-scale DDOS and you'd think something like that would've been noticed by their upstream providers.
This is the second time this week an Anonymous troll lied about an attack (the other one was stealing iPad device ID from FBI)... Anonymous's sterling reputation is being tarnished!
Unique trademark-able names are fine. Giving a different fruity name to every version isn't. The developers think the universe revolves around their product and everyone will remember all their little names and applaud them for their cleverness... but they're wrong.
Android 2.2, 3.0, 4.0 -- ok Froyo, Donut, Fruitcake, Ice Cream Sandwich -- not ok
Debian 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 -- ok Potato, Buzz, Woody, Blowjob -- not ok
Apple seems to have wizened up and does not give fruity names to every minor version of iOS. Maybe with MacOS XI they'll stop with the cat names.
now that Steve Jobs is dead, there is no reason to continue his personal thermonuclear war. Tim Cook should get together with Samsung, Google, HTC et al and sign the equivalent of ABM treaty and cross-license all patents like all normal industries.
Well they're not sending out an armed robot drone to kill the person identified by the software. It's not an irreversible process.
I imagine false positives would be handled by human agents looking at the photograph, then looking at the person's face in real life, and perhaps talking to them.
They got hit by a double whammy. Foreign exchange rates on one hand, and more nimble Korean competition on the other.
Strong Yen eroded their profits, while at the same time Samsung and LG made huge aggressive bets by pouring billions into new LCD and LED making equipment and benefited from economy of scale. Basically the Koreans are doing to the Japanese companies what the Japanese themselves were doing to American companies back in the 70's.
Samsung makes a healthy profit from TVs, while Sony and Sharp loses money on every TV they make.
Politicians have been destroying the power of unions for decades and never really wanted them in the first place. And that's almost certainly because politicians are the dogs and the corporations are the masters who pull their chains (running dogs of capitalism no less!).
That's only true of private sector unions. Public employees' unions are bigger and more powerful than ever.
This is ass-backwards, exact reverse of how things should be. We've all heard about unscrupulous companies stiffing workers of their pay and making them work in dangerous environments, etc. But I've never heard of anything like that for any government workers... at least not in the US. If anything, gov't overpays and is too generous; politicians don't mind handing out money, after all it's not coming out of their pocket. Example: CA prison guards making $90k a year average and some raking in $250k.
We need more private sector unions and less (or none!) government ones.
Wow, this is like the worst AC ever. How the hell this got modded to +5 is beyond me.
Protip: the plane under discussion is a LSA, not an ultralight.
Protip: ultralight is one word, and it's a legitimate word so you do not need to wrap it in quotes.
Protip: when the entirety of your knowledge on a subject comes from reading some Wikipedia articles (very evident from your post), you are not an expert. Don't jump in a discussion among people who actually build and fly airplanes and spout "check things before you say dumb things on the internet". You're the biggest dummy around.
Perhaps you didn't get the memo. Apps are trendy now. Apps are what AOL Keyword was in '98. Things that would work better as a simple webpage need to be released as an app.
not a troll, maybe a stealth shill. Look at the print in bold:
That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar.
It boots fast, looks great and, right out of the gate, fully supports every bell and whistle on my laptop (including the touch screen). Applications launch faster, and are generally more responsive, than I have ever seen on this piece of hardware. Hell, I even like the copy file dialog.
As I sat in traffic yesterday for a few hours -- as those of us in Seattle seem to enjoy doing so much -- I thought long and hard about this.
I run a web forum. Our admin control panel is constantly being bombarded with attempted logins (none of them successful so far, knock on wood)
Our logs show the attacker's IP plus the user account they tried to log in as. They are all valid forum administrator/moderator names. So the attacker isn't some random distributed script, somebody actually read the forum and gleaned our staff member names.
The attackers' IPs don't match anything in our database, so it's most likely not a disgruntled user. A lot of it comes from Russia.
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He has a Star Trek face to boot.
He looks just like Chekov! Take a look for yourself:
http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Visionary-Launchers-Employees.html
is there anything they can't do?
A good portion of Android tablets are $99 specials with names like Colby that parents buy to mollify their kids... and yes they often get left in the drawer after the kids get tired of them.
Another thing is, most Android tablets (even the big brand name ones) don't have cellular antennas, so no internet browsing away from home.
There was no other indication of a DDOS than the "I did it" tweet by a lone troll. To knock out someone as big as Godaddy for as long as they did would've required an epic-scale DDOS and you'd think something like that would've been noticed by their upstream providers.
This is the second time this week an Anonymous troll lied about an attack (the other one was stealing iPad device ID from FBI)... Anonymous's sterling reputation is being tarnished!
www.nbc.com/Crime_Scene
Unique trademark-able names are fine. Giving a different fruity name to every version isn't. The developers think the universe revolves around their product and everyone will remember all their little names and applaud them for their cleverness... but they're wrong.
Android 2.2, 3.0, 4.0 -- ok
Froyo, Donut, Fruitcake, Ice Cream Sandwich -- not ok
Debian 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 -- ok
Potato, Buzz, Woody, Blowjob -- not ok
Apple seems to have wizened up and does not give fruity names to every minor version of iOS. Maybe with MacOS XI they'll stop with the cat names.
now that Steve Jobs is dead, there is no reason to continue his personal thermonuclear war. Tim Cook should get together with Samsung, Google, HTC et al and sign the equivalent of ABM treaty and cross-license all patents like all normal industries.
People watch shows like Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime and think forensic results are infallible and always available in less than 40 minutes.
we do not refer to it as a "capsule"
I thought it had something to do with tentacle porn, but upon closer reading it didn't say hentai virus, it's hanta virus
No, free peach. With cream.
Speech is something entirely different though.
Well they're not sending out an armed robot drone to kill the person identified by the software. It's not an irreversible process.
I imagine false positives would be handled by human agents looking at the photograph, then looking at the person's face in real life, and perhaps talking to them.
They got hit by a double whammy. Foreign exchange rates on one hand, and more nimble Korean competition on the other.
Strong Yen eroded their profits, while at the same time Samsung and LG made huge aggressive bets by pouring billions into new LCD and LED making equipment and benefited from economy of scale. Basically the Koreans are doing to the Japanese companies what the Japanese themselves were doing to American companies back in the 70's.
Samsung makes a healthy profit from TVs, while Sony and Sharp loses money on every TV they make.
Tell that to Will Smith. He was just buying some lingerie for his wife like any normal person when weird shit happened and the Feds came after him.
flush toilets: improves sanitation and hygiene, reduces disease, lengthens human lifespan
cellphones: does none of the above, contributes to brain cancer, increases traffic accident deaths, decreases human lifespan
Comparing cellphones to flush toilets doesn't work. Facebook would be a better comparison.
don't worry, Australia has Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Hunter guarding their freedoms down there.
Politicians have been destroying the power of unions for decades and never really wanted them in the first place. And that's almost certainly because politicians are the dogs and the corporations are the masters who pull their chains (running dogs of capitalism no less!).
That's only true of private sector unions. Public employees' unions are bigger and more powerful than ever.
This is ass-backwards, exact reverse of how things should be. We've all heard about unscrupulous companies stiffing workers of their pay and making them work in dangerous environments, etc. But I've never heard of anything like that for any government workers... at least not in the US. If anything, gov't overpays and is too generous; politicians don't mind handing out money, after all it's not coming out of their pocket. Example: CA prison guards making $90k a year average and some raking in $250k.
We need more private sector unions and less (or none!) government ones.
and heating it? Works on rusted bolts...
no we were successful because our germans were better than their germans
Wow, this is like the worst AC ever. How the hell this got modded to +5 is beyond me.
Protip: the plane under discussion is a LSA, not an ultralight.
Protip: ultralight is one word, and it's a legitimate word so you do not need to wrap it in quotes.
Protip: when the entirety of your knowledge on a subject comes from reading some Wikipedia articles (very evident from your post), you are not an expert. Don't jump in a discussion among people who actually build and fly airplanes and spout "check things before you say dumb things on the internet". You're the biggest dummy around.
Perhaps you didn't get the memo. Apps are trendy now. Apps are what AOL Keyword was in '98. Things that would work better as a simple webpage need to be released as an app.
not a troll, maybe a stealth shill. Look at the print in bold:
That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar.
It boots fast, looks great and, right out of the gate, fully supports every bell and whistle on my laptop (including the touch screen). Applications launch faster, and are generally more responsive, than I have ever seen on this piece of hardware. Hell, I even like the copy file dialog.
As I sat in traffic yesterday for a few hours -- as those of us in Seattle seem to enjoy doing so much -- I thought long and hard about this.
I run a web forum. Our admin control panel is constantly being bombarded with attempted logins (none of them successful so far, knock on wood)
Our logs show the attacker's IP plus the user account they tried to log in as. They are all valid forum administrator/moderator names. So the attacker isn't some random distributed script, somebody actually read the forum and gleaned our staff member names.
The attackers' IPs don't match anything in our database, so it's most likely not a disgruntled user. A lot of it comes from Russia.
No, because UK doesn't have Al Gore.
This guy is the most interesting person at Maker Fairs... that he has never attended.