More likely, those involved were criminals and knew one another before embarking on this scheme. It's more common than you think, or did you think movies were the only places such ideas were put into action?
Scenario: Criminal ringleader gets the idea of duplicating credit information and pilfering bank account details. Criminal ringleader has his lackeys (the ones with no serious records) apply for bank teller, waiter, cashier, etc jobs out of the local Help Wanted ads. Pilfering commences.
The turnover rate amongst these types of employees is high, I think more groups get away with it than get caught.
It ought to, since even most F2P model MMOs use this type of thing in their games.
I know LOTRO for one, uses something very similar, and that game was around for much longer than Apple's apparent patent attempt.
It can be accessed from within the game itself, or from within the game launcher.
Global Agenda also uses a similar interface, and that might in turn qualify Steam, since if you purchased or downloaded the game via Steam, you have the option of using the in-game store, or launching the Steam overlay to make in-game purchases using your Steam wallet.
They DO rifle through your wallet while your hands are planted at 30 degree angles up on the trunk of your car and their backup is standing behind you with his baton ready to crack your skull if you even turn your head sideways.
Power users most certainly did submit data via this method. The entire IT department at my corporation partook in this before the release of Win7 (in return, MS was kindly enough to give our IT employees reduced cost versions of Win7 and free Office for home use). Mind you, this company has approximately 80k PCs in use at any given time, 3k of which are solely for the use of the IT staff. That doesn't count the non-Windows PCs in the PR/Marketing departments (Mac Pros) or the Linux/Unix/BSD boxes that most of the programming staff uses (embedded systems programming for industrial machines).
Children should be outside playing and learning to socialize with their peers, not sitting in front of a computer screen ruining their eyesight and getting carpal tunnel syndrome (aka basement dweller syndrome).
I have a hard enough time limiting console and television use for my son (as do most parents I personally know), the "internet" is right out until he is older and can handle the responsibility.
In either event, use of a computer by children should be strictly monitored. Hell, I know plenty of adults who deserve that same kind of strict supervision. I often wonder how they circumvent Darwin's Law.
If it wasn't for sale, then lobbyists wouldn't be writing most legislation, giving constant, expensive "gifts" to members of Congress, and all campaign funding would be from a public fund, and not from "unlimited donations from anonymous entities" aka SuperPACs.
There is a strict prohibition against them being funded by foreign nationals and foreign corporate entities. Guess how they all circumvent that prohibition?
If you think they aren't for sale, then you've been living in a fantasy world.
I've been reading your nonsense, and I must tell you. Go get an education. The entire source material of the bible is suspect, and is full of translation errors, etc since well, it was first translated. Then it was translated some more, and then some of the "original" source documents were destroyed, so all of the "new" versions were then based on the original faulty translations. Holding up a faulty work and calling it 100% fact is ignorant.
Not to mention, that if you trust supposedly historic accounts that were written on sheepskins and papyrus from an ORAL recounting of superstitious traditions, then you really are mentally retarded.
Also, the entire "Jesus" myth was patently stolen from the worship of Mithras.
A big plus if you can figure this out: Which books of the bible weren't mistranslated from Aramaic to Greek, and then into Latin, and then further mangled by "scribes" attempting to appease a few Roman Emperors and their view on what was and was not heresy as it applied to their divine right to rule.
As to which historical accounts in the bible have been proven wrong? That's the wrong question to ask. The better question is, "Given what we know of world history, exactly which historical events in the bible have ever been proven true?"
And for that very reason, turntable.fm lost me forever as a potential customer. They've been assigned to the equivalent of/dev/null on my network, along with Facebook, Zynga, and the rest of that gutter trash.
This was to make them somewhat competitive with Amazon, and also Tigerdirect, and also because they did user surveys of registered Newegg members (you had to have purchased items I believe), and apparently they asked for Newegg to start selling that kind of thing. So they did.
Won't matter, because then they just store the cookie someplace else other than "Temporary Internet Files".
Facebook has just had a lawsuit filed against it in Ireland (where Facebook has its EU headquarters) by the German government for violating the EU data privacy laws because of this very issue - apparently those cookies stored all sorts of information that third parties (aka not the owner of the data) might find "useful", which is what brought it all into contention with the laws. Coupled with being coded to avoid being deleted by "Clear Private Browsing Data" and the like, it made for the situation that Nik Cubrilovic discovered.
I've always thought of the US being made up of 50 individual countries and various external territories. We call them States/Commonwealths (with the counties/parishes being like provinces elsewhere), but really, it's nothing more than basically what the EU is now. Sovereign regional governments with a central over-arching government. Ours happens to be in Washington, D.C. Europe has theirs in Brussels with their "Supreme Court" hanging out somewhere in The Netherlands.
Everything new is the same as before. It's just an extended and revised model of the ancient Greek city-state form of governing and comes with many of the same issues.
When political activists/protesters were rounded up by the George Bush goon squad during a convention in NYC and thrown into Riker's Island because they refused to be corralled in cages that were called "Free Speech Zones", zones that are completely un-Constitutional to begin with.
I saw on PBS, where they are testing language immersion courses starting at pre-kindergarten and going the entire way through 12th grade. They were dual-learning English and Mandarin Chinese. It was amazing to see 2nd and 3rd graders speaking fluently in both languages, even if it was only "basic" things.
They were even learning Math and Science courses in both languages.
To me, this is what Americans should be doing. As much as we all seem to be reliant on English as our primary language, this won't be the case in the future, even with all of the chest-thumping coming out of certain political parties.
I speak with a "Pennsylvania Dutch" accent. I do get funny looks. I accept this. I also have no problems understanding most people from India or Asia either, and I think that has something to do with it - having spoken and heard a form of German growing up as well as English made it easier for me to pick out what others were saying.
In my area, we've had more advertising for Apple than even Microsoft, and that's including the Xbox360 stuff. This is in Pennsyltucky, aka "The Keystone Light" state.
And what's to prevent such a payload from containing a script to automate the action in question? No user initiation needed if it exploits any sort of drive-by-download vulnerability. The user doesn't even have to remain logged in at all either, if said script and malware can exploit Javascript and HTML5 - Just think of the fun times when all of these dumb websites will force storage of your account information in all of those different spots on your "hard drive" in the Evercookie type of way. Now think what happens if said script/malware then has those programs "share" all of that data to whatever website it wants.
Don't jump on him because he pointed something out. This isn't the best news for online security or network security for that matter.
Except you won't make a damned bit of difference, because wait for it...if you aren't a lawyer, current/former CEO, or doctor in Congress, you aren't taken seriously, even by other members. For as often as they let Sen. Al Franken open his mouth, it's well-known that most of his fellow Senators see him as a joke just waiting for the punchline.
Laws in the USA, at least, seem to be more on the side of benefiting those who practice law for a living, than anything else. If this were not true, we wouldn't be seeing all of these silly proposed IP laws, anti-online gambling laws, etc cropping up in consistent intervals.
Ever notice how many new laws and proposed laws seem to appear during dead times as far as major cases are concerned? It's almost like they are constantly creating themselves more work on purpose....
They aren't poising the unit itself to be purchased. What they are doing, is poising all of the data that they have collected or will collect, to be sold to the highest bidder or made available to whichever lawyer or government entity takes an interest in it (for a modest fee of course).
Lexis-Nexis for one, comes to mind as a company who would like this information. Why? Because of the MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) system they got when they purchased Seisint. It's still fully operational, even with the system breach they experienced a few years ago that had the data of 310,000 people compromised.
Not shocking, as the game sucks and paying a monthly sub for it is just retarded. I think everyone but the die-hard masochists subbing it right now have figured that out.
"The previous demonstrations were always technology demonstrations of the underlying architecture," he said. "All of the apps for ARM are going to come through the store which means they're all going to be Metro style." Answering another question on whether Windows 8 on ARM will only run Metro style applications, Sinofsky insisted "That is definitely the message to ISVs."
âoeThe previous demonstrations were always technology demonstrations of the underlying architecture,â he said. âoeAll of the apps for ARM are going to come through the store which means theyâ(TM)re all going to be Metro style.â Answering another question on whether Windows 8 on ARM will only run Metro style applications, Sinofsky insisted âoeThat is definitely the message to ISVs.â
Not surprising in the least, considering the long history of the Jewish people in science (both good and bad). Heck, before the hardliners way back in the day, some of the great science and cultural advances came out of the joint partnerships of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Spain, while the rest of Europe was still piddling about in the Dark Ages.
That's because it would then allow IBM to incorporate any improvements more quickly into Lotus (competitor to both OO and LO) while at the same time slowing down improvements to LO (because they would have to delay even longer to review, improve, and approve any of the new stuff) and simultaneously giving them (IBM) and Oracle a way to muscle things where the Document Foundation is concerned.
That entire situation was "I scratch your back, you scratch mine."
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More likely, those involved were criminals and knew one another before embarking on this scheme. It's more common than you think, or did you think movies were the only places such ideas were put into action?
Scenario: Criminal ringleader gets the idea of duplicating credit information and pilfering bank account details. Criminal ringleader has his lackeys (the ones with no serious records) apply for bank teller, waiter, cashier, etc jobs out of the local Help Wanted ads. Pilfering commences.
The turnover rate amongst these types of employees is high, I think more groups get away with it than get caught.
It ought to, since even most F2P model MMOs use this type of thing in their games.
I know LOTRO for one, uses something very similar, and that game was around for much longer than Apple's apparent patent attempt.
It can be accessed from within the game itself, or from within the game launcher.
Global Agenda also uses a similar interface, and that might in turn qualify Steam, since if you purchased or downloaded the game via Steam, you have the option of using the in-game store, or launching the Steam overlay to make in-game purchases using your Steam wallet.
My mobile version of Opera would like a word with you.
...sales of black mock turtlenecks have fallen to an all-time low.
Let me inform you of this:
They DO rifle through your wallet while your hands are planted at 30 degree angles up on the trunk of your car and their backup is standing behind you with his baton ready to crack your skull if you even turn your head sideways.
Power users most certainly did submit data via this method. The entire IT department at my corporation partook in this before the release of Win7 (in return, MS was kindly enough to give our IT employees reduced cost versions of Win7 and free Office for home use). Mind you, this company has approximately 80k PCs in use at any given time, 3k of which are solely for the use of the IT staff. That doesn't count the non-Windows PCs in the PR/Marketing departments (Mac Pros) or the Linux/Unix/BSD boxes that most of the programming staff uses (embedded systems programming for industrial machines).
Children should be outside playing and learning to socialize with their peers, not sitting in front of a computer screen ruining their eyesight and getting carpal tunnel syndrome (aka basement dweller syndrome).
I have a hard enough time limiting console and television use for my son (as do most parents I personally know), the "internet" is right out until he is older and can handle the responsibility.
In either event, use of a computer by children should be strictly monitored. Hell, I know plenty of adults who deserve that same kind of strict supervision. I often wonder how they circumvent Darwin's Law.
If it wasn't for sale, then lobbyists wouldn't be writing most legislation, giving constant, expensive "gifts" to members of Congress, and all campaign funding would be from a public fund, and not from "unlimited donations from anonymous entities" aka SuperPACs.
There is a strict prohibition against them being funded by foreign nationals and foreign corporate entities. Guess how they all circumvent that prohibition?
If you think they aren't for sale, then you've been living in a fantasy world.
I've been reading your nonsense, and I must tell you. Go get an education. The entire source material of the bible is suspect, and is full of translation errors, etc since well, it was first translated. Then it was translated some more, and then some of the "original" source documents were destroyed, so all of the "new" versions were then based on the original faulty translations. Holding up a faulty work and calling it 100% fact is ignorant.
Not to mention, that if you trust supposedly historic accounts that were written on sheepskins and papyrus from an ORAL recounting of superstitious traditions, then you really are mentally retarded.
Also, the entire "Jesus" myth was patently stolen from the worship of Mithras.
A big plus if you can figure this out: Which books of the bible weren't mistranslated from Aramaic to Greek, and then into Latin, and then further mangled by "scribes" attempting to appease a few Roman Emperors and their view on what was and was not heresy as it applied to their divine right to rule.
As to which historical accounts in the bible have been proven wrong? That's the wrong question to ask. The better question is, "Given what we know of world history, exactly which historical events in the bible have ever been proven true?"
And for that very reason, turntable.fm lost me forever as a potential customer. They've been assigned to the equivalent of /dev/null on my network, along with Facebook, Zynga, and the rest of that gutter trash.
This was to make them somewhat competitive with Amazon, and also Tigerdirect, and also because they did user surveys of registered Newegg members (you had to have purchased items I believe), and apparently they asked for Newegg to start selling that kind of thing. So they did.
One-stop shopping for geeks, essentially.
Won't matter, because then they just store the cookie someplace else other than "Temporary Internet Files".
Facebook has just had a lawsuit filed against it in Ireland (where Facebook has its EU headquarters) by the German government for violating the EU data privacy laws because of this very issue - apparently those cookies stored all sorts of information that third parties (aka not the owner of the data) might find "useful", which is what brought it all into contention with the laws. Coupled with being coded to avoid being deleted by "Clear Private Browsing Data" and the like, it made for the situation that Nik Cubrilovic discovered.
I've always thought of the US being made up of 50 individual countries and various external territories. We call them States/Commonwealths (with the counties/parishes being like provinces elsewhere), but really, it's nothing more than basically what the EU is now. Sovereign regional governments with a central over-arching government. Ours happens to be in Washington, D.C. Europe has theirs in Brussels with their "Supreme Court" hanging out somewhere in The Netherlands.
Everything new is the same as before. It's just an extended and revised model of the ancient Greek city-state form of governing and comes with many of the same issues.
When political activists/protesters were rounded up by the George Bush goon squad during a convention in NYC and thrown into Riker's Island because they refused to be corralled in cages that were called "Free Speech Zones", zones that are completely un-Constitutional to begin with.
I saw on PBS, where they are testing language immersion courses starting at pre-kindergarten and going the entire way through 12th grade. They were dual-learning English and Mandarin Chinese. It was amazing to see 2nd and 3rd graders speaking fluently in both languages, even if it was only "basic" things.
They were even learning Math and Science courses in both languages.
To me, this is what Americans should be doing. As much as we all seem to be reliant on English as our primary language, this won't be the case in the future, even with all of the chest-thumping coming out of certain political parties.
I speak with a "Pennsylvania Dutch" accent. I do get funny looks. I accept this. I also have no problems understanding most people from India or Asia either, and I think that has something to do with it - having spoken and heard a form of German growing up as well as English made it easier for me to pick out what others were saying.
In my area, we've had more advertising for Apple than even Microsoft, and that's including the Xbox360 stuff. This is in Pennsyltucky, aka "The Keystone Light" state.
And what's to prevent such a payload from containing a script to automate the action in question? No user initiation needed if it exploits any sort of drive-by-download vulnerability. The user doesn't even have to remain logged in at all either, if said script and malware can exploit Javascript and HTML5 - Just think of the fun times when all of these dumb websites will force storage of your account information in all of those different spots on your "hard drive" in the Evercookie type of way. Now think what happens if said script/malware then has those programs "share" all of that data to whatever website it wants.
Don't jump on him because he pointed something out. This isn't the best news for online security or network security for that matter.
Except you won't make a damned bit of difference, because wait for it...if you aren't a lawyer, current/former CEO, or doctor in Congress, you aren't taken seriously, even by other members. For as often as they let Sen. Al Franken open his mouth, it's well-known that most of his fellow Senators see him as a joke just waiting for the punchline.
Laws in the USA, at least, seem to be more on the side of benefiting those who practice law for a living, than anything else. If this were not true, we wouldn't be seeing all of these silly proposed IP laws, anti-online gambling laws, etc cropping up in consistent intervals.
Ever notice how many new laws and proposed laws seem to appear during dead times as far as major cases are concerned? It's almost like they are constantly creating themselves more work on purpose....
I feel that way about console games.
PC games however, they will pry from my decrepit old fingers after I die.
If you don't have the enthusiasm anymore, it could be because you've been brainwashed into acting like some else's definition of an adult.
PETER PAN DAMMIT.
They aren't poising the unit itself to be purchased. What they are doing, is poising all of the data that they have collected or will collect, to be sold to the highest bidder or made available to whichever lawyer or government entity takes an interest in it (for a modest fee of course).
Lexis-Nexis for one, comes to mind as a company who would like this information. Why? Because of the MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) system they got when they purchased Seisint. It's still fully operational, even with the system breach they experienced a few years ago that had the data of 310,000 people compromised.
Not shocking, as the game sucks and paying a monthly sub for it is just retarded. I think everyone but the die-hard masochists subbing it right now have figured that out.
Stupid Slashcode. Fixed.
"The previous demonstrations were always technology demonstrations of the underlying architecture," he said. "All of the apps for ARM are going to come through the store which means they're all going to be Metro style." Answering another question on whether Windows 8 on ARM will only run Metro style applications, Sinofsky insisted "That is definitely the message to ISVs."
You're still wrong.
âoeThe previous demonstrations were always technology demonstrations of the underlying architecture,â he said. âoeAll of the apps for ARM are going to come through the store which means theyâ(TM)re all going to be Metro style.â Answering another question on whether Windows 8 on ARM will only run Metro style applications, Sinofsky insisted âoeThat is definitely the message to ISVs.â
You're wrong.
Not surprising in the least, considering the long history of the Jewish people in science (both good and bad). Heck, before the hardliners way back in the day, some of the great science and cultural advances came out of the joint partnerships of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Spain, while the rest of Europe was still piddling about in the Dark Ages.
That's because it would then allow IBM to incorporate any improvements more quickly into Lotus (competitor to both OO and LO) while at the same time slowing down improvements to LO (because they would have to delay even longer to review, improve, and approve any of the new stuff) and simultaneously giving them (IBM) and Oracle a way to muscle things where the Document Foundation is concerned.
That entire situation was "I scratch your back, you scratch mine."