They did it that way because their corporate is in the USA and they, unlike Google and many others, pay their US taxes. Their app store, etc is all hosted in the USA, and whenever an app is sold, they have to pay US tax on it, not UK or France, or Germany.
They don't. Also, what should scare you, is the scanners that run customized versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, and are directly accessible on the internet via the external to internal network bridge.
Yes, I have seen this at hospitals. As for their medical records departments, etc. That's all mainframe stuff, and quite a bit of it is even kept on tape.
Example: Person A with illicit funds buys Bitcoins with said funds. Person A then has associate B place buy orders. Person A then proceeds to sell their Bitcoins to associate B by fulfilling the buy order. Associate B then is able to then turn around and sell to unwitting dupes C through Z, garnering now "clean" cash for person A without person A having to report any of it to tax authorities.
You want the XP/2K UI in Win 7? Easily done. Slect Classic under Themes, enable. Then turn off the Themes service, and voila. Looks and behaves almost identically to the 2k interface, only with the awesomeness of pinning your stuff to the taskbar still intact.
Wait until someone with enough financial or fanatical interest decides that this is the way to get attention to their cause or extort payments from governments/corporate interests.
Sounds like a bad movie script, but it can, and probably will, happen sooner or later.
I take it you'll be the first to work for the ten cents per hour the companies will be willing to pay you if minimum wage is revoked, and you'll keep your complaints to your fucking self about it.
The spammers get away with this because they intentionally route their calls through the more expensive LECS, CLECS, and ILECS. Don't assume it's the fault of the rural exchange, who is legally obligated to pass or terminate the calls.
We had one joker routing his crap up through Canada and back to the US, just so he could charge an extra $3.99 to the cell phones he called.
You need a PBX-type system to accomplish what you're looking for. Standard COTS phones won't cut it. This stuff can be software controlled. Try looking into Asterisk or something. In fact, I am pretty confident you can do exactly what you're looking for with a customized Asterisk setup.
I don't know. I live in PA, and most online companies don't have any warehouses, etc here (most are in NJ and DE). When I order from say Newegg or Amazon, they have no trouble at all attaching the proper tax rate to my purchases. It comes out in the final total.
Because the window being there and more than likely open during warm weather, is sucking all kinds of crap in through it and straight into your computer case (including rodent and bird feces particulates). The suction is strong enough to overpower the outgoing fan flow from your case fans depending on the setup of your home and which doors are open and shut.
1) They do this mainly so they can lock certain models into only working with certain GPU or motherboard socket types.
2) Most of this can usually be worked around with a bit of creativity, such as zip ties, rotary tools, and fashioning your own extensions for mounting brackets out of spare Bic pens, etc.
3) Always remove thermal tape/paste pre-applied by the manufacturer and clean with 97%+ rubbing alcohol before applying a proper layer of something like Arctic Silver. Not only do manufacturers normally use too much, they also tend to use some generic crap that won't do squat anyhow.
This truly is a stupid question, when we have bunches of children and teens doing quite a bit of this stuff on their own "for the lulz" all over the world.
What next, we're going to drone strike the next kid who defaces a health ministry web page?
These stupid warmongers need to get a fucking grip.
Yes, I do feel entitled, because I, as a US citizen, am fscking sick and tired of subsidizing "poor" countries with obnoxious prices that are several hundreds of percentage points above production costs.
They're that poor? Well, time for them to figure out how to do that shit on their own or go without then, eh?
When you have the monopoly (Madden) on official NFL Football games, there's nothing to compare it to. So saying it's one of the strongest sports franchises is a fucking joke, sir.
NFL2k series was far superior in gameplay to Roster Change 2xxx.
And I quote:
"However, after the competitively priced NFL 2K5 significantly reduced sales of that year's Madden release, EA signed an exclusivity deal with NFL that made Madden NFL the only series allowed to use NFL team and player names."
EA's shitty game couldn't compete on merit, so they ran crying to the NFL.
He was fired due to overall poor revenue. When about the only games you have out that are pulling in any money at all consist of SWTOR (cash shop is raking it in) and Battlefield 3 (ditto), your game company is in trouble for the quarter.
The "free games" giveaway is nothing. That IP has already long made back it's development fees and then some, and all of the "free" copies are digital, meaning absolutely zero reproduction costs and only the minor expenditures taken to post and host on their Origin servers (and I bet any of the games people get to choose from, were already there).
At 1 million copies in the first week alone, SimCity 5 certainly made back its development, marketing, and distribution costs, especially since most copies sold were digital, ergo, no physical production/distribution costs whatsoever.
I would be one of the secondary reasons is this particular CEO was lagging behind the rest of the industry when it comes to mobile gaming. When you're the captain of a gaming ship that keeps pumping out endless console titles while everyone else is starting to pump out new PC and mobile titles, you're not going to see good results on your quarterly reports.
Au contraire. I point to all of the servers running Apache, PHP, etc that were hacked and rooted. Not to be a jackass or anything, but Linux and BSD (especially Apple's version) are not 100% immune to attack, not by a long shot.
People go on about Windows issues (and yes, it has many, but it has improved) while glossing over the fact that Unix and Unix-like OSes are responsible for the terms "rootkit" and "rooted" to begin with.
Lately the issues with Windows have been far less about the core OS components and more about 3rd-party addons. I don't think there will ever be a perfect solution to that problem, as anything that would totally prevent all attacks would also essentially make the system worthless in practical use.
The problem is, with the advent of HTML5, there's all kinds of easy tricks advertisers can use to avoid adblocking software and popup blockers. It's almost like the entire spec was written by and for advertisers.
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They did it that way because their corporate is in the USA and they, unlike Google and many others, pay their US taxes. Their app store, etc is all hosted in the USA, and whenever an app is sold, they have to pay US tax on it, not UK or France, or Germany.
Actually, they already said they'd be using expanded universe content, but not directly filming any particular book from that content.
They also said some of the future movies may also be part of the Star Wars past, a la KOTOR.
They don't. Also, what should scare you, is the scanners that run customized versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, and are directly accessible on the internet via the external to internal network bridge.
Yes, I have seen this at hospitals. As for their medical records departments, etc. That's all mainframe stuff, and quite a bit of it is even kept on tape.
No, it's actually quite good for it.
Example: Person A with illicit funds buys Bitcoins with said funds. Person A then has associate B place buy orders. Person A then proceeds to sell their Bitcoins to associate B by fulfilling the buy order. Associate B then is able to then turn around and sell to unwitting dupes C through Z, garnering now "clean" cash for person A without person A having to report any of it to tax authorities.
*Select not Slect. Derp derp me.
You want the XP/2K UI in Win 7? Easily done. Slect Classic under Themes, enable. Then turn off the Themes service, and voila. Looks and behaves almost identically to the 2k interface, only with the awesomeness of pinning your stuff to the taskbar still intact.
Wait until someone with enough financial or fanatical interest decides that this is the way to get attention to their cause or extort payments from governments/corporate interests.
Sounds like a bad movie script, but it can, and probably will, happen sooner or later.
I take it you'll be the first to work for the ten cents per hour the companies will be willing to pay you if minimum wage is revoked, and you'll keep your complaints to your fucking self about it.
The spammers get away with this because they intentionally route their calls through the more expensive LECS, CLECS, and ILECS. Don't assume it's the fault of the rural exchange, who is legally obligated to pass or terminate the calls.
We had one joker routing his crap up through Canada and back to the US, just so he could charge an extra $3.99 to the cell phones he called.
He means the ones that show up as 1-800-000-1111 and such nonsense on CallerID.
You need a PBX-type system to accomplish what you're looking for. Standard COTS phones won't cut it. This stuff can be software controlled. Try looking into Asterisk or something. In fact, I am pretty confident you can do exactly what you're looking for with a customized Asterisk setup.
I don't know. I live in PA, and most online companies don't have any warehouses, etc here (most are in NJ and DE). When I order from say Newegg or Amazon, they have no trouble at all attaching the proper tax rate to my purchases. It comes out in the final total.
Because the window being there and more than likely open during warm weather, is sucking all kinds of crap in through it and straight into your computer case (including rodent and bird feces particulates). The suction is strong enough to overpower the outgoing fan flow from your case fans depending on the setup of your home and which doors are open and shut.
Speaking of those aftermarket cooling units:
1) They do this mainly so they can lock certain models into only working with certain GPU or motherboard socket types.
2) Most of this can usually be worked around with a bit of creativity, such as zip ties, rotary tools, and fashioning your own extensions for mounting brackets out of spare Bic pens, etc.
3) Always remove thermal tape/paste pre-applied by the manufacturer and clean with 97%+ rubbing alcohol before applying a proper layer of something like Arctic Silver. Not only do manufacturers normally use too much, they also tend to use some generic crap that won't do squat anyhow.
This truly is a stupid question, when we have bunches of children and teens doing quite a bit of this stuff on their own "for the lulz" all over the world.
What next, we're going to drone strike the next kid who defaces a health ministry web page?
These stupid warmongers need to get a fucking grip.
Never assume ISPs like Comcast or Time-Warner would ever invest the time or money into such an egress filter.
"The point is that LOTS of companies do lots of things with your data and have to abide by the law in doing so."
Nope, what they do, is totally break the law whenever it makes financial sense to do so, while hoping nobody at places like the SEC or DOJ notices.
Yes, I do feel entitled, because I, as a US citizen, am fscking sick and tired of subsidizing "poor" countries with obnoxious prices that are several hundreds of percentage points above production costs.
They're that poor? Well, time for them to figure out how to do that shit on their own or go without then, eh?
When you have the monopoly (Madden) on official NFL Football games, there's nothing to compare it to. So saying it's one of the strongest sports franchises is a fucking joke, sir.
NFL2k series was far superior in gameplay to Roster Change 2xxx.
And I quote:
"However, after the competitively priced NFL 2K5 significantly reduced sales of that year's Madden release, EA signed an exclusivity deal with NFL that made Madden NFL the only series allowed to use NFL team and player names."
EA's shitty game couldn't compete on merit, so they ran crying to the NFL.
Spelling correction: Should be "I bet" instead of "I be". Awake way too early, only on first cup of coffee.
He was fired due to overall poor revenue. When about the only games you have out that are pulling in any money at all consist of SWTOR (cash shop is raking it in) and Battlefield 3 (ditto), your game company is in trouble for the quarter.
The "free games" giveaway is nothing. That IP has already long made back it's development fees and then some, and all of the "free" copies are digital, meaning absolutely zero reproduction costs and only the minor expenditures taken to post and host on their Origin servers (and I bet any of the games people get to choose from, were already there).
At 1 million copies in the first week alone, SimCity 5 certainly made back its development, marketing, and distribution costs, especially since most copies sold were digital, ergo, no physical production/distribution costs whatsoever.
I would be one of the secondary reasons is this particular CEO was lagging behind the rest of the industry when it comes to mobile gaming. When you're the captain of a gaming ship that keeps pumping out endless console titles while everyone else is starting to pump out new PC and mobile titles, you're not going to see good results on your quarterly reports.
Au contraire. I point to all of the servers running Apache, PHP, etc that were hacked and rooted. Not to be a jackass or anything, but Linux and BSD (especially Apple's version) are not 100% immune to attack, not by a long shot.
People go on about Windows issues (and yes, it has many, but it has improved) while glossing over the fact that Unix and Unix-like OSes are responsible for the terms "rootkit" and "rooted" to begin with.
Lately the issues with Windows have been far less about the core OS components and more about 3rd-party addons. I don't think there will ever be a perfect solution to that problem, as anything that would totally prevent all attacks would also essentially make the system worthless in practical use.
The problem is, with the advent of HTML5, there's all kinds of easy tricks advertisers can use to avoid adblocking software and popup blockers. It's almost like the entire spec was written by and for advertisers.
Do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGPUYmr4lE
How to install Squid on a Raspberry Pi and use it as a web proxy server.
Nope. as an Ars member myself, I can assure you they suckle at the Apple teat.