Easy answer: they might, but you'll never find out about it. The number of attemped hacks would increase a hundredfold, as ambitious hackers try to get hired. If what you suggest does happen, it'll only ever happen behind closed doors.
Cybersquatting is a growing problem for brands around the world and we hope to educate other brand holders and encourage them to take action," said Aaron Kornblum, senior attorney on Microsoft's internet safety enforcement team.
Or else we'll pay you a call, like those weenies at the Dyslexic Domains Company*
*knock knock*
"Who dat?"
"Internet Safety Enforcement, hit the dirt motherfuckers!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
> Now that they've finally admitted it, will they stop with their WGA and activation junk?
Not at all. It's generally agreed that historically, piracy has helped M$. They just seem to be trying to direct the process more these days.
WGA is a tool to tap this 'new' marketing channel. You want the latest DirectX redist/IE/WMP? Oh dear, you don't seem to be legit, here's an ad for you, you're missing out you know, and look at all these other benefits...
Most won't buy, some will, and it'll irritate quite a few people, but that's the nature of marketing.
From the Daily Mail article: "More significantly, we had the details which would allow a fraudster, people trafficker or illegal immigrant* to set up a new life in Britain. The criminal could open a bank account, claim state benefits and undertake a myriad financial and legal transactions in someone else's name. "
So basically, exactly what goes on now, except for the new false sense of security. Great!
Sony rolled a PS2 online adapter in late 2002 to compete with Microsoft, with several online first party titles released alongside it, such as SOCOM US Navy SEALS to show its active support for Internet play. Sony also advertised heavily, and its online model had the advantage of being supported by Electronic Arts.
> So this means we can look forward to a quadrupling of gaming-related deaths . . . awesome! And a quadrupling in the sizes of EverCrack Support Groups.
> Also, I will never use any product that makes false positives intentionally
Hmm, you make an interesting point. Ever notice that when you run one of these expensive security suites and you don't get any meaningful results, you always get a couple of "dangerous" cookies found, just to keep the results above zero?
The logic must be: Don't tell them it's clean. Use fud if necessary.
Every year, US-Cert produces huge fireworks in the security trade press with their annual summary of misinformation about security flaws. [...] The summary gives a total for flaws found in Windows and another total for flaws found in Unix and Linux. Last year, those totals were 812 for Windows and 2,312 for Unix/Linux.
Oh ****! Quick, someone tell me how to upgrade to this "Windows" thing!
Even if pre-NT OSs are not supported in the future, legacy versions of Firefox will be still be useful to people using old OSs.
Imagine the scenario.. for work, you are stuck on a Win98 PC, PII 333 Mhz. Yes, there is quite a few workplaces that still use kit like this. For the sake of argument, and website limitations aside, let's say you have the choice of Firefox 1.0.x or MSIE 5.5.
First they chipped the products,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was not a product. ...(livestock, house pets, immigrants, felons)...
Then they chipped me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Good point, well made. It must be terrible living in a country with only consumer goods, felons and immigrants for company.
When the hell did that come about?
(in reference to MSN Video)
I hadn't heard of it either. But according to the article link, it's beating both Google Video and YouTube for audience..
Top video sites in February 2006
Site Audience, 000 YTY Change
MSN Video 9,279 44%
YouTube 9,045 NA
Google Video 6,246 NA
iFILM 4,336 102%
video.search.yahoo.com 3,774 148%
TFA: "Every man is, or wants to be, an idler," wrote the great Samuel Johnson in 1758.
I don't think this is necessarily true.. if I didn't have to work, and had a complete life of leisure, I wouldn't be happy. I'd need to do work of one form or another. It would definitely be something I enjoyed (no doubt for bad/average pay - enjoyable jobs seem to have that kind of relationship). I may be in the minority here, but, you know, a surprising number of people who win the lottery here state the same thing.
Then again, both my parents came into this country (England) from overseas (China, France) so maybe it's the immigrant ethic. Who knows.
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Must be hell frozen!
Maybe all those girls will sleep with you now..
With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users
Then they'll spend another 8 weeks clicking [C]ancel or [A]llow? popups
"Wired is running an article exploring several studies of giving the human brain 'new input devices.'
Get ready for plug-and-pray, mark 2..
I mean, there wasn't any sci-fi in Star Wars either. Fantasy based in the future, sure. But sci-fi?
I think you'll find that's a long time ago. In a galaxy far, far away, no less.
Why don't they just hire him?
Easy answer: they might, but you'll never find out about it. The number of attemped hacks would increase a hundredfold, as ambitious hackers try to get hired. If what you suggest does happen, it'll only ever happen behind closed doors.
Sadly, Britain has become another state of the US
.uk.com domains..
I blame the
Google Working on a Mobile Phone?
It's been working on mine for years. *badum-tish*
Cybersquatting is a growing problem for brands around the world and we hope to educate other brand holders and encourage them to take action," said Aaron Kornblum, senior attorney on Microsoft's internet safety enforcement team.
Or else we'll pay you a call, like those weenies at the Dyslexic Domains Company*
*knock knock*
"Who dat?"
"Internet Safety Enforcement, hit the dirt motherfuckers!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
--
* Ream name.. see TFA!
> Now that they've finally admitted it, will they stop with their WGA and activation junk?
Not at all. It's generally agreed that historically, piracy has helped M$. They just seem to be trying to direct the process more these days.
WGA is a tool to tap this 'new' marketing channel. You want the latest DirectX redist/IE/WMP? Oh dear, you don't seem to be legit, here's an ad for you, you're missing out you know, and look at all these other benefits...
Most won't buy, some will, and it'll irritate quite a few people, but that's the nature of marketing.
From the Daily Mail article: "More significantly, we had the details which would allow a fraudster, people trafficker or illegal immigrant* to set up a new life in Britain. The criminal could open a bank account, claim state benefits and undertake a myriad financial and legal transactions in someone else's name. "
So basically, exactly what goes on now, except for the new false sense of security. Great!
* I knew they'd bring this up
No, wait Mom, I was playing the "Shake the Bottle" game! Mom!!!
From wikipedia page on the PS2.. comedy gold!:
Sony rolled a PS2 online adapter in late 2002 to compete with Microsoft, with several online first party titles released alongside it, such as SOCOM US Navy SEALS to show its active support for Internet play. Sony also advertised heavily, and its online model had the advantage of being supported by Electronic Arts.
Uhm...
TFA: "If you keep looking over the fence at you neighbor's back yard, you're going to get poked in the eye"
:-)
I like this
Also Chinese defence program is called "Assassin's Mace".. it's straight out of a badly dubbed movie!
So, where do I get my designer tinfoil hat?
(I hope those diamantes and platinum weave won't affect it's brain protection capabilities..)
For TFSummary: "Microsoft is still struggling with: application separation, and decent resource utilization."
And above all: security. Surely.
> So this means we can look forward to a quadrupling of gaming-related deaths . . . awesome! And a quadrupling in the sizes of EverCrack Support Groups.
In other words...Quad Damage!
(sorry)
> Also, I will never use any product that makes false positives intentionally
Hmm, you make an interesting point. Ever notice that when you run one of these expensive security suites and you don't get any meaningful results, you always get a couple of "dangerous" cookies found, just to keep the results above zero?
The logic must be: Don't tell them it's clean. Use fud if necessary.
Every year, US-Cert produces huge fireworks in the security trade press with their annual summary of misinformation about security flaws. [...] The summary gives a total for flaws found in Windows and another total for flaws found in Unix and Linux. Last year, those totals were 812 for Windows and 2,312 for Unix/Linux.
Oh ****! Quick, someone tell me how to upgrade to this "Windows" thing!
Even if pre-NT OSs are not supported in the future, legacy versions of Firefox will be still be useful to people using old OSs.
Imagine the scenario.. for work, you are stuck on a Win98 PC, PII 333 Mhz. Yes, there is quite a few workplaces that still use kit like this. For the sake of argument, and website limitations aside, let's say you have the choice of Firefox 1.0.x or MSIE 5.5.
I'd take Firefox. Every time.
First they chipped the products,
...(livestock, house pets, immigrants, felons)...
...
and I didn't speak up,
because I was not a product.
Then they chipped me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Good point, well made. It must be terrible living in a country with only consumer goods, felons and immigrants for company.
What country is that, by the way?
"I have a very low opinion of human nature ..." [snip]
:-)
Now that's how to gain customers! Insult them in FORTUNE magazine!
See, now, if this guy read Slashdot, he'd know that unpopular comments are a big no-no, doesn't matter how insightful they are
"Few businesses are as spread out as MySQL, which employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home."
;-)
That's a lot of employees! They need an Oracle db!
When the hell did that come about?
(in reference to MSN Video)
I hadn't heard of it either. But according to the article link, it's beating both Google Video and YouTube for audience..
Top video sites in February 2006
Site Audience, 000 YTY Change
MSN Video 9,279 44%
YouTube 9,045 NA
Google Video 6,246 NA
iFILM 4,336 102%
video.search.yahoo.com 3,774 148%
TFA: "Every man is, or wants to be, an idler," wrote the great Samuel Johnson in 1758.
I don't think this is necessarily true.. if I didn't have to work, and had a complete life of leisure, I wouldn't be happy. I'd need to do work of one form or another. It would definitely be something I enjoyed (no doubt for bad/average pay - enjoyable jobs seem to have that kind of relationship). I may be in the minority here, but, you know, a surprising number of people who win the lottery here state the same thing.
Then again, both my parents came into this country (England) from overseas (China, France) so maybe it's the immigrant ethic. Who knows.
Journal of gatzke (2977): I am a thirty-something engineer that grew up with personal computers. When I was in elementary school, I was learning BASIC while playing Atari games like Asteroids, Pong, and Night Rider at the arcade in the mall. Games improved around middle school, Pac-man, Centipede, Galaga, Spy Hunter, Donkey Kong and others were available at the local arcades. At that time my favorite dinner destination was the pizza place
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