Can Facebook go away already? Head the way of the Walkman... in to history and a humorous glance back at what it was, "Wow, did we really use that? Scary!"
Actually, this is being perpetuated by the people in EVE Online, they had lots of practice setting up fake ISK banks in EVE and then robbing them, now they've graduated to bitcoins. LOL. And they're worth about the same at the end of the day, too.
Yeah this whole situation.. to me I view it like someone broke into a MMO and wiped out someone's account. Sucks, but really, no one cares, its just virtual BS. Bitcoins are dumb, and people paying REAL cash to acquire them are dumber. This post isn't news, its comedy and tragedy. Entertainment.
Yeah, I wanna drive 90 MPH during commute on I-80 in SF Bay Area. Sadly, the congestion just won't let me. Ever stop to think, no one is throttling anyone, it's just congestion? Pipes are only so wide ya know. There is a limit, and it could very well be there's no malicious or spiteful intent, there's just too many of us driving on the net.
Example: I'm at a tire store and it will take 45 minutes before my car is ready. I plug the address of the tire store into Google and search for nearby restaurants within a 10 minute walk. It tells me that up the street, which I did not come by from, has a Denny's.
Call me strange, but... couldn't you just step outside the tire store and... uhh.. look around? I've never even heard of this now missing feature until I read this/. post. Does anyone actually use their feet and eyes anymore to locate places of interest? Geeze.
I think it's a good thing Google removed this, perhaps people will re-learn how to use their own internal navigational system, you know, that squishy stuff between your ears.
They'll be using Star Control 2 as a template and an inspiration for all aspects of the game, though they won't be using any of the IP from Star Control I & II.
Sorry, it just won't be Star Control without the Arilou, Yehat and Pkunk. No original IP means it's just not going to be Star Control. Just a totally new game hijacking the original name.
I bought some LED bulbs once. They were really expensive (like $8 each) and frankly.. they're not very good, they're not nearly the light output claimed (equivalent to a incandescent.) I think the tech needs just a bit more time to mature.
CFL's on the other hand, I love 'em. They're nothing like the flickering florescent you get with long cylinder type bulbs in overheads. Disposal of CFL's is an issue though. There needs to be a better way of dealing with dead CFL's, because, well, I hate to admit it, but I have no idea what the proper thing to do with dead ones is. No one tells you that one.
My only gripe about CFL's, especially the high wattage equivalents (like 100W incandescent equivalents), is they do take a good 15-45 seconds to 'warm up' to the full brightness. It's almost kind of errie, flick the switch, lights come on, then slowly they get brighter and brighter until they reach their full potential.
No, usually the people on the other end are just poor souls with a lousy job. They are often not the ones running the scam.
Actually, they are running the scam, it's pretty much irrelevant if you think they're just a cog in the machine, they are a cog with a choice. They don't have to choose to try to scam people. So I say belittle and shame them to your hearts content. They're just as responsible for perpetuating this junk as anyone else.
On the original topic.. I'd just change my phone number personally.
I'm sure they'll gladly *take* your money from anywhere in the world but good luck being paid out without proving you are a NJ resident or being physically present in NJ. You can count on them policing that end of the system hard since they get to keep forfeit winnings.
So uh, if I drive to NJ, rent a hotel room, gamble online and win, it's forfeit? How is that legal? More importantly, if I did the same thing through a proxy located in NJ, how the heck are you gunna tell the difference?
In all truth, the abundant number of legitimate reasons many users would connect from the same world-visible IP address would pretty much make blocking something on that basis alone be silly and probably anger customers with legitimate reason to be behind some IP address along with many others.
Hotels are the biggest source. If all their rooms are behind proxy and guests are coming and going, the number of 'new customers' coming from that single address would be very high.
In short, wagging around the 'large number of people from one IP' as an issue is not going to work, too many real legitimate reasons for it. It's not any kind of indication about who is behind that IP address. I wish people would figure that out one of these days. IP address != identity. Not by a long shot.
Let's train our babies and kids to get used to being watched and monitored at all times. Then the next generation won't mind the NSA spying on us as much. Good work! SMH
Your opinion doesn't matter here; "substantially harder to use" effectively means "shut down" in this case, as the vast, vast, vast majority of internet users lack the technical know-how to surf without DNS.
I just glanced at beta.slashdot.org (the actual one, your link is incorrect, its just a link back to this story).. and.. I don't see the problem? Looks pretty good to me.
If you were the US Government, how would you go about completely (or functionally completely) shutting off the Internet? Could it be done?
Considering that the US government has nigh exclusive control over the core DNS servers (not to mention countless backdoors in every ISP's terminal room), yea, it could totally be done.
I was under the impression the internet by its very design would route around 'problems.' Can the US Government really shut down every pipe? DNS is irrelevant, in my opinion. It's important, no doubt, but shutting DNS does not shut the internet. Just makes it substantially harder to use.
Snowden told us all something that we already knew, so nothing changed there.
Just to be clear, Snowden told us something we all suspected, perhaps even strongly suspected as in almost accepted truth. But Snowden revealed these things we suspected. Concrete and clear, no doubts left.
With you on this. May not be terribly user friendly, but securely storing things on 'cloud' services is only something YOU can do.
The last thing you want when securely storing data is some cookie cutter solution someone else designed.
I've written about this before.. I use EC2 myself, with OpenVPN for transit and truecrypt on the server to secure my data.
Is it perfect? No. It is easy to use? For the average guy? No. But I think it's easy to use, I run samba over the openvpn. Once set, its just a matter of mounting network drives and copying files. I dunno how you can get much easier. I also can't see how it could possibly get any more secure. Well, ok I could drop truecrypt and encrypt on my end so nothing is ever visible on the server itself in the clear (despite the server being pretty much inaccessible without the openvpn key) but that's not my aim. My goal was to have transit and storage encrypted and secure. All bets are off if someone breaks into the server (without rebooting it, if it gets rebooted, the truecrypt volume is gone until I come along to put in the key.) That was the level of protection and risk I decided upon.
And that's why you need to design a solution that fits your needs. Everyone's protection and risk requirements are different, and so you really should have a solution that's tailored to you. There's lots of free tools and most of them aren't too hard to use, in my opinion. But I've been around computers for 30 years, I find little of it 'difficult to use.'
I mean, if I go across a state line, buy a tank of gas, drive around a bit, then go home with half of it left..do I pay? What about a half-eaten dinner? It's just a goofball tax, which is why most people (despite the legality) don't even bother.
(many states that tax Amazon don't tax other online retailers).
This seems quite unfair. Should definitely be fixed. I call BS on a state that taxes Amazon ONLY and leaves everyone else alone. That's plainly unfair, surprised they can get away with that.
Didn't think you could pass laws to tax specific business entities. Learn something new every day!
Having lived in a "use tax" state... it's pretty much unenforced.
It's next to impossible to enforce even if they tried. I don't think they try. Unless you're a fairly decent sized business importing materials and goods from out of state.
Average American I bet has no idea what a 'use tax' is, and even less declare it on their state taxes.
I ran a small business in that state for several years, and we never paid use tax on anything we bought online for our business. No one noticed, no one cared.
Keep in mind, this is the same company they put a rootkit on Music CDs, and also the same company that hid a serious data breach for months, where customer payment info was pilfered.
Do not do business with Sony. Don't buy anything they make. They've proven they're completely untrustworthy and irresponsible.
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Can Facebook go away already? Head the way of the Walkman... in to history and a humorous glance back at what it was, "Wow, did we really use that? Scary!"
Actually, this is being perpetuated by the people in EVE Online, they had lots of practice setting up fake ISK banks in EVE and then robbing them, now they've graduated to bitcoins. LOL. And they're worth about the same at the end of the day, too.
Yeah this whole situation.. to me I view it like someone broke into a MMO and wiped out someone's account. Sucks, but really, no one cares, its just virtual BS. Bitcoins are dumb, and people paying REAL cash to acquire them are dumber. This post isn't news, its comedy and tragedy. Entertainment.
I'm seeing faster speeds to AWS too, 60mb down from AWS California, about 35-40 on Linode Fremont. Charter cable here.
Yeah, I wanna drive 90 MPH during commute on I-80 in SF Bay Area. Sadly, the congestion just won't let me. Ever stop to think, no one is throttling anyone, it's just congestion? Pipes are only so wide ya know. There is a limit, and it could very well be there's no malicious or spiteful intent, there's just too many of us driving on the net.
Um, AWS caters to anyone, just put your innovative project on an AWS VM, and you'll have no worries of throttling, everyone will think you're Netflix!
Example: I'm at a tire store and it will take 45 minutes before my car is ready. I plug the address of the tire store into Google and search for nearby restaurants within a 10 minute walk. It tells me that up the street, which I did not come by from, has a Denny's.
Call me strange, but... couldn't you just step outside the tire store and... uhh.. look around? I've never even heard of this now missing feature until I read this /. post. Does anyone actually use their feet and eyes anymore to locate places of interest? Geeze.
I think it's a good thing Google removed this, perhaps people will re-learn how to use their own internal navigational system, you know, that squishy stuff between your ears.
They'll be using Star Control 2 as a template and an inspiration for all aspects of the game, though they won't be using any of the IP from Star Control I & II.
Sorry, it just won't be Star Control without the Arilou, Yehat and Pkunk. No original IP means it's just not going to be Star Control. Just a totally new game hijacking the original name.
I bought some LED bulbs once. They were really expensive (like $8 each) and frankly.. they're not very good, they're not nearly the light output claimed (equivalent to a incandescent.) I think the tech needs just a bit more time to mature.
CFL's on the other hand, I love 'em. They're nothing like the flickering florescent you get with long cylinder type bulbs in overheads. Disposal of CFL's is an issue though. There needs to be a better way of dealing with dead CFL's, because, well, I hate to admit it, but I have no idea what the proper thing to do with dead ones is. No one tells you that one.
My only gripe about CFL's, especially the high wattage equivalents (like 100W incandescent equivalents), is they do take a good 15-45 seconds to 'warm up' to the full brightness. It's almost kind of errie, flick the switch, lights come on, then slowly they get brighter and brighter until they reach their full potential.
So will people claim this moon landing is fake too?
No, usually the people on the other end are just poor souls with a lousy job. They are often not the ones running the scam.
Actually, they are running the scam, it's pretty much irrelevant if you think they're just a cog in the machine, they are a cog with a choice. They don't have to choose to try to scam people. So I say belittle and shame them to your hearts content. They're just as responsible for perpetuating this junk as anyone else.
On the original topic.. I'd just change my phone number personally.
I'm sure they'll gladly *take* your money from anywhere in the world but good luck being paid out without proving you are a NJ resident or being physically present in NJ. You can count on them policing that end of the system hard since they get to keep forfeit winnings.
So uh, if I drive to NJ, rent a hotel room, gamble online and win, it's forfeit? How is that legal? More importantly, if I did the same thing through a proxy located in NJ, how the heck are you gunna tell the difference?
In all truth, the abundant number of legitimate reasons many users would connect from the same world-visible IP address would pretty much make blocking something on that basis alone be silly and probably anger customers with legitimate reason to be behind some IP address along with many others.
Hotels are the biggest source. If all their rooms are behind proxy and guests are coming and going, the number of 'new customers' coming from that single address would be very high.
In short, wagging around the 'large number of people from one IP' as an issue is not going to work, too many real legitimate reasons for it. It's not any kind of indication about who is behind that IP address. I wish people would figure that out one of these days. IP address != identity. Not by a long shot.
Let's train our babies and kids to get used to being watched and monitored at all times. Then the next generation won't mind the NSA spying on us as much. Good work! SMH
Is it just me or does this look pretty silly? One proxy inside their virtual fence and it's utterly pointless and useless?
Your opinion doesn't matter here; "substantially harder to use" effectively means "shut down" in this case, as the vast, vast, vast majority of internet users lack the technical know-how to surf without DNS.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I just glanced at beta.slashdot.org (the actual one, your link is incorrect, its just a link back to this story).. and .. I don't see the problem? Looks pretty good to me.
If you were the US Government, how would you go about completely (or functionally completely) shutting off the Internet? Could it be done?
Considering that the US government has nigh exclusive control over the core DNS servers (not to mention countless backdoors in every ISP's terminal room), yea, it could totally be done.
I was under the impression the internet by its very design would route around 'problems.' Can the US Government really shut down every pipe? DNS is irrelevant, in my opinion. It's important, no doubt, but shutting DNS does not shut the internet. Just makes it substantially harder to use.
Snowden told us all something that we already knew, so nothing changed there.
Just to be clear, Snowden told us something we all suspected, perhaps even strongly suspected as in almost accepted truth. But Snowden revealed these things we suspected. Concrete and clear, no doubts left.
With you on this. May not be terribly user friendly, but securely storing things on 'cloud' services is only something YOU can do.
The last thing you want when securely storing data is some cookie cutter solution someone else designed.
I've written about this before.. I use EC2 myself, with OpenVPN for transit and truecrypt on the server to secure my data.
Is it perfect? No. It is easy to use? For the average guy? No. But I think it's easy to use, I run samba over the openvpn. Once set, its just a matter of mounting network drives and copying files. I dunno how you can get much easier. I also can't see how it could possibly get any more secure. Well, ok I could drop truecrypt and encrypt on my end so nothing is ever visible on the server itself in the clear (despite the server being pretty much inaccessible without the openvpn key) but that's not my aim. My goal was to have transit and storage encrypted and secure. All bets are off if someone breaks into the server (without rebooting it, if it gets rebooted, the truecrypt volume is gone until I come along to put in the key.) That was the level of protection and risk I decided upon.
And that's why you need to design a solution that fits your needs. Everyone's protection and risk requirements are different, and so you really should have a solution that's tailored to you. There's lots of free tools and most of them aren't too hard to use, in my opinion. But I've been around computers for 30 years, I find little of it 'difficult to use.'
Oh I agree, 'use tax' is pretty gosh-darn silly.
I mean, if I go across a state line, buy a tank of gas, drive around a bit, then go home with half of it left..do I pay? What about a half-eaten dinner? It's just a goofball tax, which is why most people (despite the legality) don't even bother.
Got that backwards pal. There should be no INCOME tax anywhere and federal sales tax everywhere, on everything. Income taxes are so grossly unfair.
(many states that tax Amazon don't tax other online retailers).
This seems quite unfair. Should definitely be fixed. I call BS on a state that taxes Amazon ONLY and leaves everyone else alone. That's plainly unfair, surprised they can get away with that.
Didn't think you could pass laws to tax specific business entities. Learn something new every day!
Having lived in a "use tax" state... it's pretty much unenforced.
It's next to impossible to enforce even if they tried. I don't think they try. Unless you're a fairly decent sized business importing materials and goods from out of state.
Average American I bet has no idea what a 'use tax' is, and even less declare it on their state taxes.
I ran a small business in that state for several years, and we never paid use tax on anything we bought online for our business. No one noticed, no one cared.
Keep in mind, this is the same company they put a rootkit on Music CDs, and also the same company that hid a serious data breach for months, where customer payment info was pilfered.
Do not do business with Sony. Don't buy anything they make. They've proven they're completely untrustworthy and irresponsible.