What's more, the organizations victimized by this kind of fraud often don't report it and choose to settle privately with the alleged culprits involved.
Don't they say this about every kind of fraud that affects a company? Whether it's procurement fraud, credit fraud, social engineering, expense account fraud, or Ted from Accounting stealing pencils, it seems pretty universal that no company ever wants to look like it falls victim to anything, or falls for anything.
I don't much approve of destructive viri, but if they're going to be out there, they might as well have a little character to them. Who needs yet another boring old "spams your adress book and erases your HD" routine when you can be 0wned by something just a bit more interesting?
Reminds me of the good old days of "gimme a cookie."
For the past decade, my Linux books have been calling me a "Complete Idiot" and a "Dummy" for reading them. Finally, one that only thinks I'm a "Geek!"
So we're one step closer to actually being able to do the dramatic image-enhancing stuff that's routine in film and television crime drama? You know, where the brooding detective notices four interesting pixels in the background of a scratchy security video, strokes his chin thoughtfully, and says "enhance this bit" to the stereotype computer geek. The geek types noisily, the computer zooms in on thouse four pixels, and clears it up into a detailed image of the bad guy, often moving other foreground stuff out of the way to do so.
I expect the policy will be clarified to allow things like screenshots from virtual worlds, but disallow things like movie posters and screenshots from desktop applications.
Then we get into the tricky situation of defining a "virtual world" vs. a "desktop application." Any MMOG client is an application, and a certain popular spreadsheet has a flight simulator easter egg.
To take it to further levels of headache-induction, many mapped textures in 3D games and other CGI are based on a real photo of the texture to some degree. Plus, there is the huge subset of actual photographs that are augmented or virtualized in some way.. my own flickr account, for instance, is full of infrared photos which look nothing like most people percieve the real world, and almost all pro photographers photoshop their work in some way these days.
I can totally see Flickr's side of the issue, it was never intended to be another deviantart/imageshack/whatever. Free image hosts are a dime a dozen these days. And if you do really want to stay on flickr, upload enough random real-life photos to satisfy the more-than-half requirement.
2015? We'll all be too busy with our flying cars, fusion generators, dehydrated pizza, levitating skateboards, and holographic sharks to worry about what our phones do.
In elementary school, I was in the "gifted" class where they'd ocasionally have us do creative projects liek this instead of normal schoolwork. Most of the results of those were at about the same level of insanity as these. Mine in particular tended to go in more of a rocket-pack/robot motorcyle direction.
When you're nine years old, your zany ideas earn you a spot on the fridge for your new drawing. When you're in college, I guess it earns you a gallery on BBC news.
He later elaborated on the specific humans who should go into space, including several people he went to school with, that one snooty teller at his bank, his obnoxious neighbors with their noisy children, and that little bastard who egged his house last Halloween.
and are calling for pre-emptive security measures.
Hey, you!...Yes, you, with the fancy "pre-emptive security mesures!" DO you know where you are? This is the Internet, darnit, and we just don't do that sort of thing around here! We've got a reputation to protect, after all. Now, get outta here kid, ya bother me.
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OMG How dare you correct my grammar blah blah. Actually, thank you! I did not know that, and have been saying it wrong all these years.
I do know, however, that I misspelled "address." And I don't regret that in the slightest.
True, but I'm more of a SMB3 type of guy. *puts on a customized Tanooki suit with "JUST POWERED UP - NOT A FURRY AT ALL" embroidered across the front*
I don't much approve of destructive viri, but if they're going to be out there, they might as well have a little character to them. Who needs yet another boring old "spams your adress book and erases your HD" routine when you can be 0wned by something just a bit more interesting?
Reminds me of the good old days of "gimme a cookie."
Next in TFA: Where did we come from?
Annnd, it's back to the women again...
Fear leads to anchors, anchors lead to hate..
For the past decade, my Linux books have been calling me a "Complete Idiot" and a "Dummy" for reading them. Finally, one that only thinks I'm a "Geek!"
So we're one step closer to actually being able to do the dramatic image-enhancing stuff that's routine in film and television crime drama? You know, where the brooding detective notices four interesting pixels in the background of a scratchy security video, strokes his chin thoughtfully, and says "enhance this bit" to the stereotype computer geek. The geek types noisily, the computer zooms in on thouse four pixels, and clears it up into a detailed image of the bad guy, often moving other foreground stuff out of the way to do so.
(+5 Pants-Wettingly Hilarious)
Someone ripped the video and posted the whole thing to youtube. No quarters needed.
To take it to further levels of headache-induction, many mapped textures in 3D games and other CGI are based on a real photo of the texture to some degree. Plus, there is the huge subset of actual photographs that are augmented or virtualized in some way.. my own flickr account, for instance, is full of infrared photos which look nothing like most people percieve the real world, and almost all pro photographers photoshop their work in some way these days.
I can totally see Flickr's side of the issue, it was never intended to be another deviantart/imageshack/whatever. Free image hosts are a dime a dozen these days. And if you do really want to stay on flickr, upload enough random real-life photos to satisfy the more-than-half requirement.
And how many Libraries of Congress could it hold?
2015? We'll all be too busy with our flying cars, fusion generators, dehydrated pizza, levitating skateboards, and holographic sharks to worry about what our phones do.
In elementary school, I was in the "gifted" class where they'd ocasionally have us do creative projects liek this instead of normal schoolwork. Most of the results of those were at about the same level of insanity as these. Mine in particular tended to go in more of a rocket-pack/robot motorcyle direction.
When you're nine years old, your zany ideas earn you a spot on the fridge for your new drawing. When you're in college, I guess it earns you a gallery on BBC news.
Then my work is done here!
*rides off into the sunset as the credits roll*
Dibs on Marcia Clark!
Many Bothans died for this post...
He later elaborated on the specific humans who should go into space, including several people he went to school with, that one snooty teller at his bank, his obnoxious neighbors with their noisy children, and that little bastard who egged his house last Halloween.