I demand it because I'm tired of NAT. As I have more devices at home that I might want to access remotely, or that need full inbound and outbound access for full functionality (as jump-in, jump-out games often do), I get more and more tired of dealing with NAT.
And it's not just me. When I'm trying to help my dad with his machine, I can't connect to it remotely to access it.
Even my DirectTV satellite receiver uses IP access now, and due to NAT, they can't count on being able to contact your receiver from their end. So, any centralized service like remote booking has to take special measures to work.
IPv6 makes all this a lot easier, for example if you "request assistance" on Windows Vista/7, the first thing it does is create a Teredo tunnel so that your machine can be accessed remotely to diagnose and fix it.
As mentioned elsewhere, this fee doesn't apply to patches. And it isn't Sony who put bugs in CoD5, it was Activison/Treyarch. Why do you blame Sony for buggy 3rd party games?
In every online game I've played on PSN and Live you can mute players if they are causing feedback or saying stupid stuff. It's not a function of PSN (or Live), and it's done differently in each game. Kicking players depends on the game, most games won't let you kick people on Live or or PSN.
Running as root (local privilege escalation) isn't the same as running in ring 0.
As to your conundrum, frankly, no, I don't consider VMs to be uncrossable. They are running on the same hardware, a bug in the system could allow one VM to write into the storage space of another and breach security even without any fault in the system or motherboard.
These people (I refuse to type their names) employ hype incredibly effectively.
The implications of these exploit are incredibly minimal. They might help a rootkit hide a little better, but they don't make it any easier to install one.
If you have malicious code running in ring 0, you're already so boned, you really need to dust off and nuke the machine from orbit anyway. And if you have malicious code that modified your BIOS (as some people list as a nightmare scenario), you again already have problems so large a little bit of SMM trouble means little additional pain.
In the last decade, Europe retired something like 15 paper currencies, only one of which had been run into the ground.
For some reason, fiat currency nutters want to state that all paper currencies have failed. They do this by stating that all the ones that are gone are by definition failed and the ones that are here just haven't failed yet. But the first isn't true (and even if it were, it would be true of many gold-backed currencies too) and the second isn't provable, it's just a fatalist statement.
Simply start by making a non-administrator account on XP and surf from that account. It will reduce the likelihood of getting a system-wide virus or worm to near zero. You still could end up with a bunch of crudware on that account if she clicks "yes" to questions about installing plug-ins and such. But you should be able to fix all that by just deleting that user and making a new non-administrator one.
Are they saying the music is the future of entertainment? Because sampling started in the past.
Are they saying 4 minute videos of 3 seconds loops is the future of entertainment? Even if this were to displace all music videos, videos are not the bulk of the entertainment industry. People seem to like to watch content which is 23 or 100 minutes in length and is not composed of small loops of video repeated.
This guy seems to be the new EBN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network), which means he'll be nearly forgotten in just a few short years.
Given that they aren't actually paying for the cards, it isn't important what the resale is as a percentage, but what it is as a total amount.
If you find something that resells for 50% of value but you can only sell 1 a week, did you come out ahead?
I think you're just seeing this as the market at work. Whomever is selling these numbers (not the reseller mentioned in the article, but his source that he speaks about) is just trying to sell as many as possible as fast as possible. Strike while the iron is hot, if you get a hot/fake credit card number, get as much money out of it as possible as fast as possible, because maybe your source for these numbers is selling them to someone else too. If you don't use it today, it may not work tomorrow.
Also, perhaps Apple doesn't check their credit card numbers for being real as well as other places. Maybe Apple doesn't check them AT ALL for a couple days, which they do with regular ($0.99 purchases).
Who knows for sure? I just find it really unlikely Apple doesn't have a database they consult for gift code redemptions. So someone is managing to get entries into that database, and that's either by hacking the database (unlikely) or just by buying the numbers legitimately (likely). And the latter only makes sense financially if they do it with fraudulent purchase info.
Possibility 1: Apple doesn't use a database for cards, they use a hash even though that would be stupid. That hash and algorithm for arranging the data before the hash was cracked even though all the verification is done on the server and thus there is no code out there to reverse-engineer. Someone is generating and selling cards using that hash.
Possibility 2: Someone is simply buying the largest email iTMS gift certificate allowed (I checked) with fake or stolen credit card numbers.
Possibility 1 is possible but unlikely. Possibility 2 is very common, very easy and very likely.
Occam's Razor says people likely people are jumping to an unwarranted conclusion here.
I understand eInk. What I don't understand is people like you who think they have cornered the market on understanding.
First of all, about LCDs and Jeff Bezos. You heard all that shit Bezos told you, like looking into a flashlight? Remember one thing Jeff Bezos is selling you something. Of course he has phrases that make the competition sound like getting bamboo shoved under your fingernails. That doesn't make them true. I've worked with computers for quite some time. I've spent far more time in my life starting at computer displays than staring at pages in a book. I can safely tell you that if LCD is worse than reading eInk, it's at least good enough that I can do 10-12 hours of it easy. So that makes LCD a-ok in my book.
And yes, I've used a Kindle. I even used a Kindle 2 last Tuesday, the day it came out (have friends who work on it).
What people like you are refusing to understand is some of us don't like buying a separate device for each task. You're talking about a world where many people don't even wear watches anymore. I could buy a watch, a pager, a cell phone, a PDA and a music player. But I didn't. I don't want to pay for them, don't want to carry them. I've got one device, which although not perhaps perfect at all these jobs, can do them quite well.
And this same thing applies to Kindle, especially when it's more expensive than anything I mentioned in that list above. eInk is pretty, great. But I fail to see why I should spend $360 for what it offers. And others telling me "I just don't get it" doesn't change my mind.
BTW, the cover/case for the new Kindle 2 is really nice. It's ridiculous Amazon thinks they can charge extra for it. They should ship it with a cut-down, non-leatherette cover or something, because that display does not feel like it will last uncovered. It's just too big for starters, it increases the possibility of it coming into contact with the one piece of metal swimming around in your bag that you forgot about.
But it seems odd to me this is considered a crisis when the only sure fire way to detect is merely that the URL of the site you are at isn't the site you went to!
I know all the stuff about how international glyphs can look similar, but that still shouldn't be enough to fool people. Few legit sites that you submit personal info to have really long URLs to them, so if you see that the TLD isn't visible, that's a tip off to be on guard right there.
They have not invented a new power supply system. They are just suggesting it be applied to NAND and the high voltage needed be fed into the chip from a central supply, instead of having a charge pump (switching capacitors) in each NAND chip.
I'm not certain this will save power, but it will reduce peak currents because when the charge pumps switch on in the NAND chips, it creates a huge (but short) current spike. And if you write to two NAND chips in parallel, the spike is doubled.
The average consumer could cut their energy use quite a bit (say 30%) without affecting their lifestyle one bit.
Conservation is not the same as going back to the stone age. That's just a lousy attempt to use reducto ad absurdum to avoid taking even simple steps to reduce energy waste.
Anyone who is dumb enough to install random shit on their equipment has bigger things to worry about than just being tracked.
I don't believe in taking the choice to run this software away from the rest of us just because dumb people might be tricked into installing it. Should we get rid of email because of Nigerian 419 spams?
So don't install the app. The article says the problem is you could trick Google into tracking someone who doesn't want to be tracked, but it's not true. They have to install the app.
I don't want to be tracked either, so I won't be installing the app.
See, it isn't like Google is tracking people by asking the phone company to track your phone. They are just tracking people by giving them an app to run on the phone that reports its location periodically.
So given that you have to install an app on any phone that is to be tracked, it's unlikely someone could trick Google into tracking your phone. At least, not unless they have access to your phone to install the app.
Cell is being tapped right now. Have you seen Motorstorm 2? Killzone 2? The Cell is finally being properly programmed and it looks great. It finally is doing things Xbox 360 can't do (about time!). It definitely will be tapped out by the time PS4 comes out.
You don't understand the 10 year platform thing. It doesn't mean 10 years between consoles, it means that there are two active consoles at a time. Like PS1 overlapped with PS2 for 4 years. Like PS2 right now has game releases weekly.
Sony isn't talking specs for PS4, the Register is. However, internally Sony has to have a PS4 ready very soon. The biggest advantage Xbox 360 had this generation was it came out a year earlier. Sony cannot afford to be caught behind this year, they need to have something ready for a year from now in case MS announces right now. They might not use it, if MS holds off, but they have to have it ready.
MS recommended people stop using admin accounts 5 years ago. And they changed their software to make accounts not admin by default several years ago.
The main problem is most people insist on running a version of Windows that is 7 years old (XP). Then they bitch that MS OSes seem frozen in time, feature-wise.
I'm not saying Vista is faultless, far from it. But if you use it, you'll see MS actually made a lot of changes in response to how much the world has changed since XP came out.
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I demand it because I'm tired of NAT. As I have more devices at home that I might want to access remotely, or that need full inbound and outbound access for full functionality (as jump-in, jump-out games often do), I get more and more tired of dealing with NAT.
And it's not just me. When I'm trying to help my dad with his machine, I can't connect to it remotely to access it.
Even my DirectTV satellite receiver uses IP access now, and due to NAT, they can't count on being able to contact your receiver from their end. So, any centralized service like remote booking has to take special measures to work.
IPv6 makes all this a lot easier, for example if you "request assistance" on Windows Vista/7, the first thing it does is create a Teredo tunnel so that your machine can be accessed remotely to diagnose and fix it.
As mentioned elsewhere, this fee doesn't apply to patches. And it isn't Sony who put bugs in CoD5, it was Activison/Treyarch. Why do you blame Sony for buggy 3rd party games?
In every online game I've played on PSN and Live you can mute players if they are causing feedback or saying stupid stuff. It's not a function of PSN (or Live), and it's done differently in each game. Kicking players depends on the game, most games won't let you kick people on Live or or PSN.
Running as root (local privilege escalation) isn't the same as running in ring 0.
As to your conundrum, frankly, no, I don't consider VMs to be uncrossable. They are running on the same hardware, a bug in the system could allow one VM to write into the storage space of another and breach security even without any fault in the system or motherboard.
These people (I refuse to type their names) employ hype incredibly effectively.
The implications of these exploit are incredibly minimal. They might help a rootkit hide a little better, but they don't make it any easier to install one.
If you have malicious code running in ring 0, you're already so boned, you really need to dust off and nuke the machine from orbit anyway. And if you have malicious code that modified your BIOS (as some people list as a nightmare scenario), you again already have problems so large a little bit of SMM trouble means little additional pain.
In the last decade, Europe retired something like 15 paper currencies, only one of which had been run into the ground.
For some reason, fiat currency nutters want to state that all paper currencies have failed. They do this by stating that all the ones that are gone are by definition failed and the ones that are here just haven't failed yet. But the first isn't true (and even if it were, it would be true of many gold-backed currencies too) and the second isn't provable, it's just a fatalist statement.
Simply start by making a non-administrator account on XP and surf from that account. It will reduce the likelihood of getting a system-wide virus or worm to near zero. You still could end up with a bunch of crudware on that account if she clicks "yes" to questions about installing plug-ins and such. But you should be able to fix all that by just deleting that user and making a new non-administrator one.
Are they saying the music is the future of entertainment? Because sampling started in the past.
Are they saying 4 minute videos of 3 seconds loops is the future of entertainment? Even if this were to displace all music videos, videos are not the bulk of the entertainment industry. People seem to like to watch content which is 23 or 100 minutes in length and is not composed of small loops of video repeated.
This guy seems to be the new EBN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_Network), which means he'll be nearly forgotten in just a few short years.
Given that they aren't actually paying for the cards, it isn't important what the resale is as a percentage, but what it is as a total amount.
If you find something that resells for 50% of value but you can only sell 1 a week, did you come out ahead?
I think you're just seeing this as the market at work. Whomever is selling these numbers (not the reseller mentioned in the article, but his source that he speaks about) is just trying to sell as many as possible as fast as possible. Strike while the iron is hot, if you get a hot/fake credit card number, get as much money out of it as possible as fast as possible, because maybe your source for these numbers is selling them to someone else too. If you don't use it today, it may not work tomorrow.
Also, perhaps Apple doesn't check their credit card numbers for being real as well as other places. Maybe Apple doesn't check them AT ALL for a couple days, which they do with regular ($0.99 purchases).
Who knows for sure? I just find it really unlikely Apple doesn't have a database they consult for gift code redemptions. So someone is managing to get entries into that database, and that's either by hacking the database (unlikely) or just by buying the numbers legitimately (likely). And the latter only makes sense financially if they do it with fraudulent purchase info.
Yes, I would imagine that at least some of the gift codes (there are no cards here, just the codes) will be revoked soon.
As to the "no comment" situation, since when does Apple comment on anything?
If you do that, you have to ship the purchased items somewhere.
With this, you take receipt of the items over email. Then later you throw the email address away.
And the best part about this scheme? You've already received all the money for the stolen goods within minutes or hours of beginning to use a card.
Possibility 1:
Apple doesn't use a database for cards, they use a hash even though that would be stupid.
That hash and algorithm for arranging the data before the hash was cracked even though all the verification is done on the server and thus there is no code out there to reverse-engineer.
Someone is generating and selling cards using that hash.
Possibility 2:
Someone is simply buying the largest email iTMS gift certificate allowed (I checked) with fake or stolen credit card numbers.
Possibility 1 is possible but unlikely.
Possibility 2 is very common, very easy and very likely.
Occam's Razor says people likely people are jumping to an unwarranted conclusion here.
I work with lots of Indians and Chinese. And most are very good workers and smart.
But times are tough right now. Everyone is hurting. It's going to be tough to justify more work visas and green cards when companies are laying off.
The economy will turn around some day and hopefully things will be different for these workers then.
I understand eInk. What I don't understand is people like you who think they have cornered the market on understanding.
First of all, about LCDs and Jeff Bezos. You heard all that shit Bezos told you, like looking into a flashlight? Remember one thing Jeff Bezos is selling you something. Of course he has phrases that make the competition sound like getting bamboo shoved under your fingernails. That doesn't make them true. I've worked with computers for quite some time. I've spent far more time in my life starting at computer displays than staring at pages in a book. I can safely tell you that if LCD is worse than reading eInk, it's at least good enough that I can do 10-12 hours of it easy. So that makes LCD a-ok in my book.
And yes, I've used a Kindle. I even used a Kindle 2 last Tuesday, the day it came out (have friends who work on it).
What people like you are refusing to understand is some of us don't like buying a separate device for each task. You're talking about a world where many people don't even wear watches anymore. I could buy a watch, a pager, a cell phone, a PDA and a music player. But I didn't. I don't want to pay for them, don't want to carry them. I've got one device, which although not perhaps perfect at all these jobs, can do them quite well.
And this same thing applies to Kindle, especially when it's more expensive than anything I mentioned in that list above. eInk is pretty, great. But I fail to see why I should spend $360 for what it offers. And others telling me "I just don't get it" doesn't change my mind.
BTW, the cover/case for the new Kindle 2 is really nice. It's ridiculous Amazon thinks they can charge extra for it. They should ship it with a cut-down, non-leatherette cover or something, because that display does not feel like it will last uncovered. It's just too big for starters, it increases the possibility of it coming into contact with the one piece of metal swimming around in your bag that you forgot about.
Thank you for the accurate and lengthy info.
But it seems odd to me this is considered a crisis when the only sure fire way to detect is merely that the URL of the site you are at isn't the site you went to!
I know all the stuff about how international glyphs can look similar, but that still shouldn't be enough to fool people. Few legit sites that you submit personal info to have really long URLs to them, so if you see that the TLD isn't visible, that's a tip off to be on guard right there.
This is great news.
No more $99 20GB HDDs for Xbox 360 (now $79)!
I guess no more making their own standards to replace other companies' attempts, like Java vs C# and Flash versus Silverlight.
A boost converter is FAR from new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter
They have not invented a new power supply system. They are just suggesting it be applied to NAND and the high voltage needed be fed into the chip from a central supply, instead of having a charge pump (switching capacitors) in each NAND chip.
I'm not certain this will save power, but it will reduce peak currents because when the charge pumps switch on in the NAND chips, it creates a huge (but short) current spike. And if you write to two NAND chips in parallel, the spike is doubled.
The average consumer could cut their energy use quite a bit (say 30%) without affecting their lifestyle one bit.
Conservation is not the same as going back to the stone age. That's just a lousy attempt to use reducto ad absurdum to avoid taking even simple steps to reduce energy waste.
Anyone who is dumb enough to install random shit on their equipment has bigger things to worry about than just being tracked.
I don't believe in taking the choice to run this software away from the rest of us just because dumb people might be tricked into installing it. Should we get rid of email because of Nigerian 419 spams?
So don't install the app. The article says the problem is you could trick Google into tracking someone who doesn't want to be tracked, but it's not true. They have to install the app.
I don't want to be tracked either, so I won't be installing the app.
And I was quite concerned too.
See, it isn't like Google is tracking people by asking the phone company to track your phone. They are just tracking people by giving them an app to run on the phone that reports its location periodically.
So given that you have to install an app on any phone that is to be tracked, it's unlikely someone could trick Google into tracking your phone. At least, not unless they have access to your phone to install the app.
Cell is being tapped right now. Have you seen Motorstorm 2? Killzone 2? The Cell is finally being properly programmed and it looks great. It finally is doing things Xbox 360 can't do (about time!). It definitely will be tapped out by the time PS4 comes out.
You don't understand the 10 year platform thing. It doesn't mean 10 years between consoles, it means that there are two active consoles at a time. Like PS1 overlapped with PS2 for 4 years. Like PS2 right now has game releases weekly.
Sony isn't talking specs for PS4, the Register is. However, internally Sony has to have a PS4 ready very soon. The biggest advantage Xbox 360 had this generation was it came out a year earlier. Sony cannot afford to be caught behind this year, they need to have something ready for a year from now in case MS announces right now. They might not use it, if MS holds off, but they have to have it ready.
Kids nowadays.
Although the new one wasn't a bad movie, it didn't match the original and the name didn't make much sense, since as you noticed, it's mostly in LA.
MS recommended people stop using admin accounts 5 years ago. And they changed their software to make accounts not admin by default several years ago.
The main problem is most people insist on running a version of Windows that is 7 years old (XP). Then they bitch that MS OSes seem frozen in time, feature-wise.
I'm not saying Vista is faultless, far from it. But if you use it, you'll see MS actually made a lot of changes in response to how much the world has changed since XP came out.
The top paragraph points out that the 60mb service has no cap.
Of the candidates I talk to.
I have no control over if Americans can't manage to figure out how to get their resumes through HR.