Indeed, the consumers are like kids in a candy shop with all these flavors of software to chose some.
Gotta feel bad for the candymakers in such a cut-throat field.
Simply by playing video games, one can become bilingual! Examples:
"Your playing skills are more developed than mine" becomes "omfg j00 fuxing h4x0r! i h8 u luser!!!!".
"I suspect you are playing with an unfair advantage" becomes "votekick".
I don't really see this lasting long... The first few episodes will be catchy, cause it's something new (particularly something new involving Stewie Griffin) - but after a while, where can you go with it?
Is it just me or are a lot of people hypersensitive to issues like this? Who cares if Apple knows my playlist? To their servers, I'm just another consumer, they don't have the time/will to sit there and read incoming data, "HEHE, THAT GUY LISTENS TO MICHELLE BRANCH."
Seriously now. There are issues far greater than this that should be stressed.
Being 17, I have to say I'm ashamed of being part of a generation called "The MySpace Generation". Reason? Take a look at this bulletin posted by a friend.
do not stop reading this or something bad will happen.
One day, Sarah was walking home from school when her boyfriend drove by and honked at her to get in. She got in his car and he drove her to the lake. Her boyfriend said he was going to tell her something very important. Sarah could have sworn he was going to propose. However, he flicked her off, pushed her in the lake and yelled, "I am breaking up with you, you awful *!! I hate you and I think that maybe you should just end your * life! DUMB * *!!!" He laughed and drove off. It was a very cold day. Sarah climbed out of the lake, freezing cold, and feeling the worst she had in her entire life. She got home went in a hot bath, and slit her wrists and died in the bathtub. Her parents yelled and screamed at her to get out until they finally broke the door down. They saw no body, but the entire bathroom was dripping with her blood. Her mom went insane and killed herself three days later, her dad is in prison, accused of murder. Later that week, Sarah's exboyfriend was taking a shower when she came from the drain, rotting and bloody, with a razor in her hand and said "Goodbye Jason." She cut his throat before he could scream.
If you do not repost this with the title "100 ways to break up", you are a heartless * and Sarah come to you in the shower from the drain, and will kill you the same way she killed her boyfriend.
Have you ever seen RSA SecurID tokens? They're tiny, and will fit right on your keychain...that eliminates the problem of you losing it (unless you lose your keys).
Referring to your comment that the code could be duped...SecurID keys change once every 60 seconds. It generates 6 numbers (IIRC). What are the chances of an attacker guessing that particular number in one minute?
I don't know about you, but if I had access to a powerful account on an important system, I'd have a lot more piece of mind with two-factor authentication.
Over the Summer, my school's district replaced their old SIS (Student Information System) with "SchoolMAX", designed by Maximus. After talking to a guidance counselor regarding schedule modifications, I noticed her log in to the new system - I noticed it required 4 credentials, one which the counselor left blank, and I made a mental note to Google the name of the system for more info on it for curiosity sake.
The counselor printed me my new schedule, right from the web page. Sweet, thanks for doing the work for me - the URL was on the bottom of the sheet.
I got home, hopped on the web, and keyed in the URL. The credentials required were school district, operator ID, password, and screen ID. Screen ID was what the counselor had left blank, so I was down to 3.
I figured school district would be available online - a quick Google search confirmed this, and I was down to 2 fields remaining.
There doesn't seem to be any real security on the site, and I predict a simple brute force or something more practical such as social engineering would enable anyone to an entire district worth of information.
What makes video games designed in Japan so phenomenally popular all over the world? Fuzzy little fictional characters targeted at children that re-release themselves under new names every 6 months?
"xMax is trespassing radio frequencies, although trespassing is not the right word, because we're allowed to transmit a signal if it doesn't interfere with other, stronger signals"
It's also not trespassing if it's occupying a public band in the first place.
How do they "suck"? I'm curious as to why you think that, as a public bidding service like eBay has been a great source of income for some and a great place for deals for others.
It shipped -today-, of course the price is going to be up there... Given time, prices for a new one will drop, people will begin to sell used ones for cheaper prices; and of course, there's always eBay!
Would we be where we are in technology today? Would someone else have thought of the concept of integrated circuitry? Maybe... what about a more efficient (or less efficient) one?
Thank you, Jack.
Maybe I've been lucky, but none of the critical updates I've applied have screwed up my system, heh.
Neither did this one....It's still funny how IE craps the bed when it tries to render a transparent PNG, though (post-update).
Just because you used Firefox doesn't mean you shouldn't update your IE... It's not like the update will harm anything on your PC, so why leave the vulnerabilities open in the first place?
On my old computer (a 249 MHz Cyrix/192 MB RAM), I installed Win2k because Win2k wouldn't be able to operate very well with such outdated hardware.
It ran absolutely flawlessly.
I'm currently on my new machine (AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2GHz, 512 MB RAM), and even though this would handle XP easily, I stuck with Win2k.
I think stopping support for Win2k is a bad move for Microsoft... a lot of their customers still use 2k due to older machinery or simply because XP can be a pain.
If Microsoft were to make a Win2k 64, it'd probably sell fairly well. I really don't like being forced to upgrade to WinXP 64 to take advantage of my 64-bit capability (for Windows, anyway.)
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Indeed, the consumers are like kids in a candy shop with all these flavors of software to chose some. Gotta feel bad for the candymakers in such a cut-throat field.
Simply by playing video games, one can become bilingual! Examples:
"Your playing skills are more developed than mine" becomes "omfg j00 fuxing h4x0r! i h8 u luser!!!!".
"I suspect you are playing with an unfair advantage" becomes "votekick".
I don't really see this lasting long... The first few episodes will be catchy, cause it's something new (particularly something new involving Stewie Griffin) - but after a while, where can you go with it?
Telling Apple what I listen to? HEAVEN FORBID IT!
Is it just me or are a lot of people hypersensitive to issues like this? Who cares if Apple knows my playlist? To their servers, I'm just another consumer, they don't have the time/will to sit there and read incoming data, "HEHE, THAT GUY LISTENS TO MICHELLE BRANCH."
Seriously now. There are issues far greater than this that should be stressed.
Being 17, I have to say I'm ashamed of being part of a generation called "The MySpace Generation". Reason? Take a look at this bulletin posted by a friend.
do not stop reading this or something bad will happen.
One day, Sarah was walking home from school when her boyfriend drove by and honked at her to get in. She got in his car and he drove her to the lake. Her boyfriend said he was going to tell her something very important. Sarah could have sworn he was going to propose. However, he flicked her off, pushed her in the lake and yelled, "I am breaking up with you, you awful *!! I hate you and I think that maybe you should just end your * life! DUMB * *!!!" He laughed and drove off. It was a very cold day. Sarah climbed out of the lake, freezing cold, and feeling the worst she had in her entire life. She got home went in a hot bath, and slit her wrists and died in the bathtub. Her parents yelled and screamed at her to get out until they finally broke the door down. They saw no body, but the entire bathroom was dripping with her blood. Her mom went insane and killed herself three days later, her dad is in prison, accused of murder. Later that week, Sarah's exboyfriend was taking a shower when she came from the drain, rotting and bloody, with a razor in her hand and said "Goodbye Jason." She cut his throat before he could scream.
If you do not repost this with the title "100 ways to break up", you are a heartless * and Sarah come to you in the shower from the drain, and will kill you the same way she killed her boyfriend.
You have 13 minutes
Point?
Common sense isn't so common anymore.
On 640x480x16, maybe...
Have you ever seen RSA SecurID tokens? They're tiny, and will fit right on your keychain...that eliminates the problem of you losing it (unless you lose your keys).
Referring to your comment that the code could be duped...SecurID keys change once every 60 seconds. It generates 6 numbers (IIRC). What are the chances of an attacker guessing that particular number in one minute?
I don't know about you, but if I had access to a powerful account on an important system, I'd have a lot more piece of mind with two-factor authentication.
Duke Nukem Forever? HA!
Now VISTA on the other hand...
The day Microsoft will oppose patents is when they, by some force, can't file any more...then they'll look for a new way to register "their" ideas.
Over the Summer, my school's district replaced their old SIS (Student Information System) with "SchoolMAX", designed by Maximus. After talking to a guidance counselor regarding schedule modifications, I noticed her log in to the new system - I noticed it required 4 credentials, one which the counselor left blank, and I made a mental note to Google the name of the system for more info on it for curiosity sake. The counselor printed me my new schedule, right from the web page. Sweet, thanks for doing the work for me - the URL was on the bottom of the sheet. I got home, hopped on the web, and keyed in the URL. The credentials required were school district, operator ID, password, and screen ID. Screen ID was what the counselor had left blank, so I was down to 3. I figured school district would be available online - a quick Google search confirmed this, and I was down to 2 fields remaining. There doesn't seem to be any real security on the site, and I predict a simple brute force or something more practical such as social engineering would enable anyone to an entire district worth of information.
"Aggregated diamond nanorods: She'll pretty much have to."
What makes video games designed in Japan so phenomenally popular all over the world?
Fuzzy little fictional characters targeted at children that re-release themselves under new names every 6 months?
Perhaps.
The difference being that (public) bands don't have 'No Trespassing' signs :)
"xMax is trespassing radio frequencies, although trespassing is not the right word, because we're allowed to transmit a signal if it doesn't interfere with other, stronger signals" It's also not trespassing if it's occupying a public band in the first place.
I predict a swarm of FireFox BT plug-ins within the next two weeks.
How do they "suck"? I'm curious as to why you think that, as a public bidding service like eBay has been a great source of income for some and a great place for deals for others.
It shipped -today-, of course the price is going to be up there... Given time, prices for a new one will drop, people will begin to sell used ones for cheaper prices; and of course, there's always eBay!
Interesting guys, thanks for the info =)
Not downloading at all.
Would we be where we are in technology today? Would someone else have thought of the concept of integrated circuitry? Maybe... what about a more efficient (or less efficient) one? Thank you, Jack.
Maybe I've been lucky, but none of the critical updates I've applied have screwed up my system, heh. Neither did this one. ...It's still funny how IE craps the bed when it tries to render a transparent PNG, though (post-update).
Just because you used Firefox doesn't mean you shouldn't update your IE... It's not like the update will harm anything on your PC, so why leave the vulnerabilities open in the first place?
At least this didn't happen at the begining of the trading day, the very last thing we need is strain on the economy...
On my old computer (a 249 MHz Cyrix/192 MB RAM), I installed Win2k because Win2k wouldn't be able to operate very well with such outdated hardware. It ran absolutely flawlessly. I'm currently on my new machine (AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2GHz, 512 MB RAM), and even though this would handle XP easily, I stuck with Win2k. I think stopping support for Win2k is a bad move for Microsoft... a lot of their customers still use 2k due to older machinery or simply because XP can be a pain. If Microsoft were to make a Win2k 64, it'd probably sell fairly well. I really don't like being forced to upgrade to WinXP 64 to take advantage of my 64-bit capability (for Windows, anyway.)
... Just when I thought that jingle was out of my head forever. :<