Yes, on one hand it's good to see some action against companies that use spyware and adware in their business model, but on the other hand you're right: what about the BIG spyware/adware companies? I can think of one that I'd LOVE to see taken down: C2Media. C2Lop is a NASTY piece of spyware/adware for sure.
This has most likely already been said, but ok. Mainly, when I want to read something in terms of a leisure activity, I like to kick off my shoes, sink down into a comfy chair or lie on my couch, and read a paperback book. Light, easy to read and navigate.
E-books, on the other hand: Requires a computer to read them, and computers aren't great when you want to relax. Even if you have a small handheld reader, it just doesn't FEEL the same as turning that page to find out what happens in the next chapter or the next part or whatnot. Just doesn't.
Even if something was available that meets those requirements of being able to relax and read at the same time, the/. post already mentions the fact that for a lot of people, most of the books they want to read aren't available as e-books. Same here.
So until some of these problems are solved or mitigated sufficiently, I won't be reading e-books daily.
Yeah, it'd be a great idea except for the inevitable crowd of people (say better: nerds) that would follow you around once they found out you've got the hotspot.
I can kind of understand what he's saying, but it seems like he's too vague on his idea. What IS a "game with soul"? I think this is just another way of saying "we need to stop making games that are all about realism but fail to succeed at anything else."
... so OF COURSE they're gonna smear Google for their decision!
Personally, I think it's a necessary evil for Google to filter search results in China. Censoring in China is the decision of the Chinese government, and Google is obligated to follow the laws accordingly. It's not unreasonable or "evil" at all.
Exactly right! Take the Manhattan Project, for instance. You had a bunch of geniuses working on that and look what happened. Indeed, I'd say that example proves your argument as well as the argument that genius requires certain circumstances or conditions to happen. If there was no need for that technology at the time, it wouldn't have been created by the geniuses who worked on it.
I'm not surprised. From what I hear, viruses/trojans/cyber attacks are increasingly done for profit only and not fame. And boy, money does talk... in this case, it's 105 billion doing the talking. And t3h h4x0rz are listening.
Meanwhile, a 7% drop in budget for cybersecurity under the dept. of Homeland Security! To how much? A billion, you say? Nope... 16 million. Ouch. I don't think that's nearly enough money... not by a longshot. And what about terrorist attacks on our nations internet infrastructure? I'm sure that's been considered by the terrorists.
Doesn't sound like a good situation to me, not at all..
I don't think we should be worrying about this...if all indications are correct, a pandemic of epic proportions are going to wipe out millions of people, starting with...yes, you guessed it...asia, China included. The l33t Chinese h4x0rs are gonna be hard pressed to h4x the US 'puters if they're dying of bird flu, fo sho'.
...with my ability to jack off to pr0n! Can't have a whole bunch of popup ads in the way of a pr0n video/picture! It simply won't cut it.
But seriously, I block ads because if I didn't, they would overwhelm my computer, literally. I used to get so many ads that it made any sort of web surfing impossible without seeing tons of ads interfering with my viewing of webpages, and having a ton of popup ads to boot, making it impossible to view a page without having to click the close button on a dozen ads, some of which, after closing, opened up even MORE ads. And this was with a spyware-free computer. Finally I got tired of it, started using a popup blocker. My web experience was improved 500% as a result.
Not to go offtopic a whole lot here, but I really don't get the need for ads, and I'd even go so far as to say they're backfiring. If I need something, I will go and get it, so if a company has a good enough product, they shouldn't need to advertise, because I'll come to them. And as for backfiring, before I got the popup blocker, I absolutely refused to have anything to do with any products being advertised by internet ads/popup ads, just because the way they were being advertised was so intrusive, annoying, and insensitive. You aren't going to win over consumers by annoying them.
Just because Yahoo has more users, does not mean it's better. I might also add that Gmail is invite only, whereas anyone can sign up for a Yahoo account.
"In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them."
Right, but I really don't see too much of a difference between a computer under the control of a hacker or hacker group and a destroyed computer, because either one makes a computer unusable for your average end user.
It's an exhaustive effort to get rid of hackers once they're in since they install all kinds of nasty software, so for people who don't know much except their computer is doing something weird and they're having their identity stolen, etc etc, they just throw it out and get a new Dell. I am not saying this applies to every user that doesn't know much about computers but I have seen it over and over again with friends, family, family friends, you name it.
So bottom line is, for a lot of people who have no expertise with computers, destruction of a computer due to hacking OR having the computer infected and controlled by hacker groups means you get rid of it, in which case there's not much difference between the two, since it leads to the same result.
It seems like these probes that study asteroids are really grasping at straws. What are we looking for in the asteroids? Are we looking for anything specific? Why are we looking for that? Etc. All knowledge is worth having but searching without a particular goal in mind is unlikely to get good results.
This may be unrelated but perhaps this continuing evolution shows itself in abilities that are picked up by each generation. For example, young adults are much more technologically savvy than older generations. Is this because they have been brought up in a technologically evolving world or is this the brain's evolution at work in being able to grasp new technological concepts?
I am by no means an expert on any of this, but it seems this would be a classic case of Nature vs. Nurture.
This is getting ridiculous. How else are portable music players supposed to allow their users to select which music tracks they want to listen to? You have a limited amount of screen space and hardware space, so you accordingly have to keep portable music player interfaces simple. The most effective interface is these menus that Creative now has the patent to.
Basically it's putting a patent on maybe the ONLY way (or ONE of the only ways) to navigate a portable music player effectively. Creative surely knows this but as said before by another/.er, it is using this outrageous patent to get something over Apple, 'cos Apple > Creative when it comes to portable music players. And of course, this is all made possible by the ineffective patent office, which has obviously turned into an out of control bureaucracy.
Exactly what law enforcement officials are they talking about here? I'd assume that anyone trying to perform digital forensics knows their way around a computer quite well, alternative browsers or not!
Therefore, if these law enforcement officials are so inexperienced with computers that they cannot handle alternative browsers being used by suspects then they are definitely incompetent and in the wrong job.
It is my sound belief that these allegations are excuses that are being made up to hide the incompetence of these officials when it comes to gathering evidence off of computers. Certainly the FBI/CIA has NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER when it comes to gutting suspects' computers to see what's on them. Maybe these incompetent officials should call them and take some lessons.
This latest statement strikes me as pretty ironic, because they've been going after P2P Networks and filesharers so much when now it's apparently not as harmful as pirated music CD sales. It looks to me like the RIAA is just greedy and is stating this now so they can start cracking down on people who sell pirated music CDs, since they've already bashed the hell out of filesharers and P2P programs.
Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't there already been warnings about Plug and Play prior to this? I know at least one security website that had warnings about Plug and Play a long time ago, along with a handy utility to disable it. See below.
Sounds like you're trying to explain being addicted in terms of the game design. To some extent this is true but you cannot blame addiction all on the game itself; you can still play a MMORPG but control how much time you spend on it every day to a sufficient level.
However, you then sacrifice the time and effort that it takes to get ahead of other players in the game, and thus casual (non-addicted) players of MMORPGs are usually not that successful as compared to the addicts.
Thus, most MMORPGs reward addictive playing and punish moderated playing.
I'm sure Yahoo must have SOME regrets after seeing how successful Google has become, and it's definitely taking traffic away from their own search engine. Anyone worth their salt on the internet has used Google at least once or uses it daily. Yahoo can't be happy about that.
But they're moving in the right direction with free ice cream, can't beat that.
Sounds to me like they want to fund the show so they can watch it at work instead of doing their job, and then claiming "we get inspiration from watching it, so we ARE working".
Uh, yeah. Sure.
It's interesting and could be useful but I'm not sure how many people would actually use it.
This is probably generalizing but anyone that has enough technical expertise to get a webcam and set it up, then set up this jigsaw solver might be a bit bored with solving jigsaw puzzles in the first place.
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Yes, on one hand it's good to see some action against companies that use spyware and adware in their business model, but on the other hand you're right: what about the BIG spyware/adware companies? I can think of one that I'd LOVE to see taken down: C2Media. C2Lop is a NASTY piece of spyware/adware for sure.
I concur. Turn it OFF, for the love of GOD.
This has most likely already been said, but ok. Mainly, when I want to read something in terms of a leisure activity, I like to kick off my shoes, sink down into a comfy chair or lie on my couch, and read a paperback book. Light, easy to read and navigate.
/. post already mentions the fact that for a lot of people, most of the books they want to read aren't available as e-books. Same here.
E-books, on the other hand: Requires a computer to read them, and computers aren't great when you want to relax. Even if you have a small handheld reader, it just doesn't FEEL the same as turning that page to find out what happens in the next chapter or the next part or whatnot. Just doesn't.
Even if something was available that meets those requirements of being able to relax and read at the same time, the
So until some of these problems are solved or mitigated sufficiently, I won't be reading e-books daily.
Yeah, it'd be a great idea except for the inevitable crowd of people (say better: nerds) that would follow you around once they found out you've got the hotspot.
"dude, he's got the hotspot. FOLLOW THAT GEEK!"
I can kind of understand what he's saying, but it seems like he's too vague on his idea. What IS a "game with soul"? I think this is just another way of saying "we need to stop making games that are all about realism but fail to succeed at anything else."
... so OF COURSE they're gonna smear Google for their decision! Personally, I think it's a necessary evil for Google to filter search results in China. Censoring in China is the decision of the Chinese government, and Google is obligated to follow the laws accordingly. It's not unreasonable or "evil" at all.
Exactly right! Take the Manhattan Project, for instance. You had a bunch of geniuses working on that and look what happened. Indeed, I'd say that example proves your argument as well as the argument that genius requires certain circumstances or conditions to happen. If there was no need for that technology at the time, it wouldn't have been created by the geniuses who worked on it.
Sure keyboards are gonna be dirty, what with the availability of pr0n on the 'net... A redundant point, to be sure, but one that bears mentioning.
I'm not surprised. From what I hear, viruses/trojans/cyber attacks are increasingly done for profit only and not fame. And boy, money does talk... in this case, it's 105 billion doing the talking. And t3h h4x0rz are listening.
Meanwhile, a 7% drop in budget for cybersecurity under the dept. of Homeland Security! To how much? A billion, you say? Nope... 16 million. Ouch. I don't think that's nearly enough money... not by a longshot. And what about terrorist attacks on our nations internet infrastructure? I'm sure that's been considered by the terrorists.
Doesn't sound like a good situation to me, not at all..
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I don't think we should be worrying about this...if all indications are correct, a pandemic of epic proportions are going to wipe out millions of people, starting with...yes, you guessed it...asia, China included. The l33t Chinese h4x0rs are gonna be hard pressed to h4x the US 'puters if they're dying of bird flu, fo sho'.
...with my ability to jack off to pr0n! Can't have a whole bunch of popup ads in the way of a pr0n video/picture! It simply won't cut it. But seriously, I block ads because if I didn't, they would overwhelm my computer, literally. I used to get so many ads that it made any sort of web surfing impossible without seeing tons of ads interfering with my viewing of webpages, and having a ton of popup ads to boot, making it impossible to view a page without having to click the close button on a dozen ads, some of which, after closing, opened up even MORE ads. And this was with a spyware-free computer. Finally I got tired of it, started using a popup blocker. My web experience was improved 500% as a result. Not to go offtopic a whole lot here, but I really don't get the need for ads, and I'd even go so far as to say they're backfiring. If I need something, I will go and get it, so if a company has a good enough product, they shouldn't need to advertise, because I'll come to them. And as for backfiring, before I got the popup blocker, I absolutely refused to have anything to do with any products being advertised by internet ads/popup ads, just because the way they were being advertised was so intrusive, annoying, and insensitive. You aren't going to win over consumers by annoying them.
Just because Yahoo has more users, does not mean it's better. I might also add that Gmail is invite only, whereas anyone can sign up for a Yahoo account.
"In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them."
Right, but I really don't see too much of a difference between a computer under the control of a hacker or hacker group and a destroyed computer, because either one makes a computer unusable for your average end user.
It's an exhaustive effort to get rid of hackers once they're in since they install all kinds of nasty software, so for people who don't know much except their computer is doing something weird and they're having their identity stolen, etc etc, they just throw it out and get a new Dell. I am not saying this applies to every user that doesn't know much about computers but I have seen it over and over again with friends, family, family friends, you name it.
So bottom line is, for a lot of people who have no expertise with computers, destruction of a computer due to hacking OR having the computer infected and controlled by hacker groups means you get rid of it, in which case there's not much difference between the two, since it leads to the same result.
It seems like these probes that study asteroids are really grasping at straws. What are we looking for in the asteroids? Are we looking for anything specific? Why are we looking for that? Etc. All knowledge is worth having but searching without a particular goal in mind is unlikely to get good results.
This may be unrelated but perhaps this continuing evolution shows itself in abilities that are picked up by each generation. For example, young adults are much more technologically savvy than older generations. Is this because they have been brought up in a technologically evolving world or is this the brain's evolution at work in being able to grasp new technological concepts? I am by no means an expert on any of this, but it seems this would be a classic case of Nature vs. Nurture.
This is getting ridiculous. How else are portable music players supposed to allow their users to select which music tracks they want to listen to? You have a limited amount of screen space and hardware space, so you accordingly have to keep portable music player interfaces simple. The most effective interface is these menus that Creative now has the patent to.
/.er, it is using this outrageous patent to get something over Apple, 'cos Apple > Creative when it comes to portable music players. And of course, this is all made possible by the ineffective patent office, which has obviously turned into an out of control bureaucracy.
Basically it's putting a patent on maybe the ONLY way (or ONE of the only ways) to navigate a portable music player effectively. Creative surely knows this but as said before by another
Exactly what law enforcement officials are they talking about here? I'd assume that anyone trying to perform digital forensics knows their way around a computer quite well, alternative browsers or not!
Therefore, if these law enforcement officials are so inexperienced with computers that they cannot handle alternative browsers being used by suspects then they are definitely incompetent and in the wrong job.
It is my sound belief that these allegations are excuses that are being made up to hide the incompetence of these officials when it comes to gathering evidence off of computers. Certainly the FBI/CIA has NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER when it comes to gutting suspects' computers to see what's on them. Maybe these incompetent officials should call them and take some lessons.
This latest statement strikes me as pretty ironic, because they've been going after P2P Networks and filesharers so much when now it's apparently not as harmful as pirated music CD sales. It looks to me like the RIAA is just greedy and is stating this now so they can start cracking down on people who sell pirated music CDs, since they've already bashed the hell out of filesharers and P2P programs.
Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't there already been warnings about Plug and Play prior to this? I know at least one security website that had warnings about Plug and Play a long time ago, along with a handy utility to disable it. See below.
http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm
You'll notice this was circa December 2001, fully 4 years before these new exploits.
Yes...way too easy. I read it and I was like "whaaaaat? Oh, it's April 1st. April fools, har har har."
Sounds like you're trying to explain being addicted in terms of the game design. To some extent this is true but you cannot blame addiction all on the game itself; you can still play a MMORPG but control how much time you spend on it every day to a sufficient level.
However, you then sacrifice the time and effort that it takes to get ahead of other players in the game, and thus casual (non-addicted) players of MMORPGs are usually not that successful as compared to the addicts.
Thus, most MMORPGs reward addictive playing and punish moderated playing.
I'm sure Yahoo must have SOME regrets after seeing how successful Google has become, and it's definitely taking traffic away from their own search engine. Anyone worth their salt on the internet has used Google at least once or uses it daily. Yahoo can't be happy about that. But they're moving in the right direction with free ice cream, can't beat that.
Sounds to me like they want to fund the show so they can watch it at work instead of doing their job, and then claiming "we get inspiration from watching it, so we ARE working". Uh, yeah. Sure.
It's interesting and could be useful but I'm not sure how many people would actually use it. This is probably generalizing but anyone that has enough technical expertise to get a webcam and set it up, then set up this jigsaw solver might be a bit bored with solving jigsaw puzzles in the first place.
The Chinese government must be pretty insecure if they're making such a big deal out of a video game.