Store a list of generated barcodes. Sure its big. Its also a very trivial lookup. If yours doesn't match what's in the DB, prepare for the anal probes.
Or am I crediting the TSA with too many competent technicians ?
As it often happens the summary is rather sensationalist, as I would not dare accuse anyone of actually RTFA, here's Shuttleworth's full response (with which I could not agree more):
Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 2010-03-17: Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize, maximize, close" #167
On 15/03/10 23:42, Pablo Quirós wrote: > It'd have been nice if this comment had been made some time ago, > together with a deep reasoning on the concrete changes that are in mind. > > We are supposed to be a community, we all use Ubuntu and contribute to > it, and we deserve some respect regarding these kind of decisions. We > all make Ubuntu together, or is it a big lie?
We all make Ubuntu, but we do not all make all of it. In other words, we delegate well. We have a kernel team, and they make kernel decisions. You don't get to make kernel decisions unless you're in that kernel team. You can file bugs and comment, and engage, but you don't get to second-guess their decisions. We have a security team. They get to make decisions about security. You don't get to see a lot of what they see unless you're on that team. We have processes to help make sure we're doing a good job of delegation, but being an open community is not the same as saying everybody has a say in everything.
This is a difference between Ubuntu and several other community distributions. It may feel less democratic, but it's more meritocratic, and most importantly it means (a) we should have the best people making any given decision, and (b) it's worth investing your time to become the best person to make certain decisions, because you should have that competence recognised and rewarded with the freedom to make hard decisions and not get second-guessed all the time.
It's fair comment that this was a big change, and landed without warning. There aren't any good reasons for that, but it's also true that no amount of warning would produce consensus about a decision like this.
> If you want to tell us > that we are all part of it, we want information, and we want our opinion > to be decisive. >
No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions.
Last i checked the Nigerian scams, hackers accounts for pushing spam, scammers, and V1agra sellers are all using bank accounts.
AFAIK, its usually small African banks that don't have agreements with other banks worldwide (visa anyone ?) preventing fraudulent and illegal transactions...
Transfer your money there, ask some idiot to pick it up - or better yet, get an actual nigerian setup for someone to help get the money out of the country. I hear Western union isn't easily trackable either when you have a network of people working to earn their 10k out (compared to your cool 1mil).
while i understand the premise behind this move (its always about money, aint it ?;) ), it will have serious consequences: less users from countries that do not get the service for free. this leads to less of an incentive for bands from those countries to sign up, publish their music for free (or for money - doesn't really matter). and that means that the sole reason for which i love last.fm - the amazing variety of music from every corner of the globe available on it - will be gone. it will become just like any bog standard radio station, pushing britney spears, pussycat dolls and just5 (no disrespect - the mentioned are just not my thing;) ). im sure that others will agree that the amazing variety of music in the system is an enormous advantage of last.fm, and loosing it will lead to a slow decay of the service.
having said that - im in the UK, and will be receiving the service for free. and having said _THAT_ i wouldn't mind at all if the service became a globally paid service, and everyone was required to pitch in to keep/raise the quality - i would pay for it myself.
so shouldnt they be cutt off from the global network, but still have a working 'web' of their own ? They must have their own servers, anything going into that cable is just a 'foreign' request.
Those are important - sure, but i would gather they dont make up more then 40% of all requests.
But only some of the routes should be down, and they still should have a very large lan, with dns, www, email and anything else they have on the spot, and im willing to bet that the ISP's there have stuff like that. IIRC the web wasnt just designed to be foolproof, it was also designed to be autonomus once disconected from other networks. Or am i missing something here, and all that they have is cables, no other infrastructure ?
i don't think your looking at this from the right angle. just for a second, lets assume that novell isn't a linux distro company, and that they don't want to make it up to the linux community out there for the microsoft deal, and lets forget that sco is the personification of evil. they have a company that they've sued and won. whatever the reasons:
1) sco owes novell money. 2) sco is going broke. 3) novel wants their money before sco goes down.
id imagine the phb's in novell are looking at the situation exactly this way. its cool that they come out to be the linux advocates, and taking down the bad guy - free good publicity and so on. but that's just a side-effect, they would go after sco regardless of the circumstances.
aside from that - i wouldnt consider novell to be the new 'stewards' of linux. i don't have all the data - so this is just my impression, but....
we have all seen IBM fight the good fight with sco for more than just a few months... i mean - its been years, and lets face it - it would have been cheaper for them to just buy sco, instead of fighting them. novell noticed whats going on with this linux thing, and they manage to make a profit while creating contributing back to the linux community. but IBM is investing a lot more then their getting back (i may be wrong here, as we(i) don't know whats in their agenda for the years to come - this could be one of those investments where you loose money for 10 years, and start making money in 20 - IBM is a company that can afford a business plan like this), and novell is just doing business like everyone else (it may sound cold, but there is no shame here - we all benefit from what they do, so cudos to them).
the hosting provider that piratebay uses has offices in the US.
And they decided to sue the cartell for the ddos attacks.
They ask for mediadefender for a discovery - like sco asked IBM...
I mean - they know the emails are there and that they are proof of illegal activity - that is attacking the company's servers (not thepiratebay itself - that wouldnt fly in the US).
This musthave caused them cash in hardware/staff hours, credibility, and so on.
Should the emails be deleted by accident, they could miraculasly find backups (on piratebay for example), crosscheck them for validity (i dont believe all the emails could be deleted), and after it was confirmed by one of those experts (like the ones the mafia uses to prove that the screenshot says your guilty) sue the dailights out of them ?.
failures ? A single plane that will have a broken device, and wont transmit its position properly will have the option of taking down a lot of stuff. Whatever the shortcomings of the current radar system, radars tend to work regardless of the planes condition, and regardless of its position. Heck, IIRC planes only need special equipment to identify themselves, not to tell if they are actually there, and where they are. Sorry - but i prefer false positives (radar ghosts, or whatever their names) from false negatives (nah, its not a plane, it doesnt have GPS, it must me a bird. [15 minutes later] OH F*CK, EVERONE - RUN!!!....). If its not going to replace radar systems for good - i see no point in spending 40b, and i dont see how it can replace them - given the requirements for such systems.
Amazingly, the website/lang template from tfa (http://docs.google.com/Localizer?f=AllMsgs.hdf), does not contain said entries anymore. Try searching it for 'presentation' or anything noted in tfa. Dunno if it they were removed, or simply never there.
Have fun speculating thou. Maybe it was just something they wanted to do. This may not be traces of any future magic, it maybe something writely was up to before they were bought out by google.
Yet anotheir ghost feature which someone says they found traces of a while back but noone can confirm today.
That said, it would be cool to have anotheir alternative to ppoint and impress. But i doubt that showing presentations on conferences, at school or work will based solely on this service. Other then availability, the same privacy issues as with Gspreadsheets and Gdocs apply.
My my.... Nothing like a little monopoly that cant deliver a product... Oh wait, we already have those in other markets !
But - in all honesty - once the others get the product out - they have the brains to license it, or the product is software, so there are (practicly) no costs of replicating it.
Guess what consumers: they wont just increase production. They will add a minor feature, call it version 2.0, and charge you more for it.
My god, people wait a minute. Sure - the gui lib will be gpl'ed. The rest of kde is and will remain opensource too. But i can not comprehend someone actually rewriting all of the system to make it run on windows. There are just too many *nix connections in kde to make it run smoothly on windows. MacOS ? Sure, its based on bsd. Linux ? Sure, thats where they designed it (thou im sure some of the kde dev's use macOS or just *bsd too). But windows ? Code can and should be portable. But when you work on such a large scale - things tend to break.
Besides - by the time kde4 will be ready vista will actually be rolling out. Nobody has the full specs for that system yet.
So - do they port it to XP ? Maybe. How long will it take ? (...) How long will it take to make a vista port ?...
And no - i dont consider cygwin a real solution here. Imagine the overhead of running a DE on top of a layer on a already blated OS.
The real news here is the new features of kde4 which look nice.
next to the fossil, the researchers just found the burned remains of a small humanoid creature, and a golden ring.... The scientists continue to fight over who gets to keep The precioussssss (Ring).
Im actually interested, how do you measure the age of an object so old, when its not from earth ? I mean the amount of radioactive materials that fall apart a thousand or so years after being 'inserted' into a certain object is valid only if we know the amount on the env surrounding it. How do we know how old this thing is without actually being sure where it came from ?
Maybe there was less of the izotope in the env. ? Or maybe there was much, much more of it ?
This is besides the point if the rock actually contains some fossilized life forms, if its a billion years younger or older, then this fact makes a pretty big difference, right ?
I understand that the age of stars can be measured by the spectrum (iirc, as light travels further/longer it leans towards one of the edges).
I also get how we can determine how we check the basic building block of an object a milion light years away by the light spectrum too.
But the age, when we are not really sure of the exact amount of izotopes in the env. ?
Could somebody educate this fool with a friendly wikipedia link ?
Im pretty sure that if you can boot of a thumb drive, it wouldnt take too much to make this work.
I have a copy of the latest version with me at all times, in my wallet, on a mini-cdr.
All freeware tools, including a full fledged linux (Insert linux i think its called), dozens of msdos utils, net stuff, iirc there were bios flashers in there too at some point.
Despite the fact that i honestly like to hear about linux success stories - id rather keep the raw power thats inside my box by using vim and editing configs by hand or scripting.
I want the system i like to expand and grow, but not become any less powerfull. Its a hard trade off - a price im willing to pay.
I just like my niche - im a nerd, and i dont require others to be nerds. Just the same way that i dont want the car repair guy laughing at me for not knowing every bolt of my car. I just want to drive it, if i want to tinker - ill either spend some time, or get a simpler car. So please stop this 'linux should be simple enough for joe sixpack'. It shouldnt, id doesnt have to, and i dont care if it ever will - i like it just the way it is. More options come along, the old ones are simplified with guis, but i dont care if something is idiot proof, i just want to have total controll over what happening inside my box.
As for the 'doesnt work out of the box' i have only one thing to say: knoppix
No - it doesnt work 100% of the time. But neither does windows.
Im surprised that nobody here mentioned TRON (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084827/) yet. Now that was really stupid tech-wise. Amusing, and pretty, but just unreal.
As for the sci-fi criteria - its pretty much as sci-fi as any other movie out there. Documentaries and bio's excluded.
IANAL, but ive seen these kind of messages in newspapers here in Poland, so i guess its legal over here.
Nobody is required to make the first page though - just an annoucment on any page of a big newspaper (that will reach alot of people) will do.
If so then the summary (and TFA) got it wrong from what i can tell. That case wasnt so much about google indexing the pages and putting them up on news.google.com, it was about google caching the pages that were free and keeping the cache when they werent free anymore (aka paid archive access).
Is this even the same case ? The prev summary mentioned 1 mil$ this one is talking about half a mil, but they look pretty much the same to me... Looks like google might be dropping the.be market altogether, and i wouldnt be surprised if other search engines would follow its lead. Its one thing when your restricted not to publish data containing some words (china, anyone?), its another thing when your not allowed to cache, index and read ANY content whatsoever and later show it unless getting every single bloggers/newspapers/sites author's approval (assuming this: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196836&cid =16130458 is correct).
In my bank, in order to make a tranfer online i have to: 1) go to the trusted secure (ssl) website 2) supply a 8 digit id number 3) supply a PIN code consisting of up to 12 chars (one different from my atm card) 4) fill in the form - if one of the values i filled in doesnt look alright the bank will outright reject the transfer (without giving notice via www, but by calling me on my mobile phone in person telling me to try again) 5) i recieve a one time token for this transaction to be use withing 3 minutes from recieving it to confirm the transfer
afterwards i get an email once the funds are transfered.
this schema requires that i have 3 diff codes, one of which is supplied by the bank itself on a one-time basis, i have the mobile at hand and i promptly respond to the sms with the token.
these are 4 seperate verification methods, and - amazingly - scammers dont even try to get my personall data (whreas i recieve daily mails from 53.com that tell me to update the info for the account i dont have). There are phishing emails that i recieve daily since last year.
To the point: 1) if your stupid enough to give away your account information to a stranger - you have to pay for your stupidity. 2) since this outrages you - you WILL go to another bank that has a better security schema, that WILL NOT let you make that mistake again. Such security schemas are doable in todays day and age. 3) since you just left your bank - they WILL have the motivation to track down and sue the dailights out of any scammer. Banks do have an interest in keeping their customers happy.
This way - you learn a lesson, and the bank takes action. Althou paying for 100% of your losses yourself may be a bit too much - in some cases the scammer can make a debit this way, and end up being robbed of more then you actually have! Maybe meeting half way and paying for half the losses would make both parties equally unhappy ?
Besides - wtf does untracable mean in the information age ? The RIAA is able to locate the people that download a song that costs 2$ on itunes, cant a bank find the scammer that stole 3k$ from their customer ? I call BS. And the banks that actually dont keep the records, and allow the scammers to thrive ? Ban them from the system. Who (except for a few specific customers) tranfers money to nigerian/tunguska/whatever banks anyway ? Why not whitelist those specific banks for those specific customers.
Surprisingly - i havent heard of a single phisher caught and sentenced, or did i miss something ? If there are actions being taken i want to hear about them in the news so that the spammer that makes his living advertising viagra (annoying and costs a sysadmin his time - but isnt exactly theft or fraud) thinks twice before taking a gig from a scammer.
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Store a list of generated barcodes. Sure its big. Its also a very trivial lookup.
If yours doesn't match what's in the DB, prepare for the anal probes.
Or am I crediting the TSA with too many competent technicians ?
Anyone smell the burning plastic ?
(that said, ill have a look once the fire brigade leaves - sounds cool!)
As it often happens the summary is rather sensationalist, as I would not dare accuse anyone of actually RTFA, here's Shuttleworth's full response (with which I could not agree more):
Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 2010-03-17: Re: [Bug 532633] Re: [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize, maximize, close" #167
On 15/03/10 23:42, Pablo Quirós wrote:
> It'd have been nice if this comment had been made some time ago,
> together with a deep reasoning on the concrete changes that are in mind.
>
> We are supposed to be a community, we all use Ubuntu and contribute to
> it, and we deserve some respect regarding these kind of decisions. We
> all make Ubuntu together, or is it a big lie?
We all make Ubuntu, but we do not all make all of it. In other words, we
delegate well. We have a kernel team, and they make kernel decisions.
You don't get to make kernel decisions unless you're in that kernel
team. You can file bugs and comment, and engage, but you don't get to
second-guess their decisions. We have a security team. They get to make
decisions about security. You don't get to see a lot of what they see
unless you're on that team. We have processes to help make sure we're
doing a good job of delegation, but being an open community is not the
same as saying everybody has a say in everything.
This is a difference between Ubuntu and several other community
distributions. It may feel less democratic, but it's more meritocratic,
and most importantly it means (a) we should have the best people making
any given decision, and (b) it's worth investing your time to become the
best person to make certain decisions, because you should have that
competence recognised and rewarded with the freedom to make hard
decisions and not get second-guessed all the time.
It's fair comment that this was a big change, and landed without
warning. There aren't any good reasons for that, but it's also true that
no amount of warning would produce consensus about a decision like this.
> If you want to tell us
> that we are all part of it, we want information, and we want our opinion
> to be decisive.
>
No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But
we are not voting on design decisions.
Mark
Call me when he finds a way to determine the email after gravatar starts adding a pinch of salf to the hashed emails...
If anyone is actually interested:
http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2009Q1.pdf
http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2009-Q2.pdf
to ask the source:
https://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/CreatingVideoforSafarioniPhone/chapter_9_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006514-SW1
requires a login, etc but if your going to develop for an iphone you might as well save yourself some headbashing and sign up.
Last i checked the Nigerian scams, hackers accounts for pushing spam, scammers, and V1agra sellers are all using bank accounts.
AFAIK, its usually small African banks that don't have agreements with other banks worldwide (visa anyone ?) preventing fraudulent and illegal transactions...
Transfer your money there, ask some idiot to pick it up - or better yet, get an actual nigerian setup for someone to help get the money out of the country.
I hear Western union isn't easily trackable either when you have a network of people working to earn their 10k out (compared to your cool 1mil).
while i understand the premise behind this move (its always about money, aint it ? ;) ), it will have serious consequences: ;) ).
less users from countries that do not get the service for free.
this leads to less of an incentive for bands from those countries to sign up, publish their music for free (or for money - doesn't really matter).
and that means that the sole reason for which i love last.fm - the amazing variety of music from every corner of the globe available on it - will be gone.
it will become just like any bog standard radio station, pushing britney spears, pussycat dolls and just5 (no disrespect - the mentioned are just not my thing
im sure that others will agree that the amazing variety of music in the system is an enormous advantage of last.fm, and loosing it will lead to a slow decay of the service.
having said that - im in the UK, and will be receiving the service for free.
and having said _THAT_ i wouldn't mind at all if the service became a globally paid service, and everyone was required to pitch in to keep/raise the quality - i would pay for it myself.
so shouldnt they be cutt off from the global network, but still have a working 'web' of their own ?
They must have their own servers, anything going into that cable is just a 'foreign' request.
Those are important - sure, but i would gather they dont make up more then 40% of all requests.
But only some of the routes should be down, and they still should have a very large lan, with dns, www, email and anything else they have on the spot, and im willing to bet that the ISP's there have stuff like that.
IIRC the web wasnt just designed to be foolproof, it was also designed to be autonomus once disconected from other networks.
Or am i missing something here, and all that they have is cables, no other infrastructure ?
Do these people NEVER learn?
Sure we do !
[..]Milla Jovovich is naked on your shower floor[...]
duh! No way am i letting her outta there this time ! >:)
i don't think your looking at this from the right angle.
just for a second, lets assume that novell isn't a linux distro company, and that they don't want to make it up to the linux community out there for the microsoft deal, and lets forget that sco is the personification of evil.
they have a company that they've sued and won.
whatever the reasons:
1) sco owes novell money.
2) sco is going broke.
3) novel wants their money before sco goes down.
id imagine the phb's in novell are looking at the situation exactly this way.
its cool that they come out to be the linux advocates, and taking down the bad guy - free good publicity and so on.
but that's just a side-effect, they would go after sco regardless of the circumstances.
aside from that - i wouldnt consider novell to be the new 'stewards' of linux.
i don't have all the data - so this is just my impression, but....
we have all seen IBM fight the good fight with sco for more than just a few months... i mean - its been years, and lets face it - it would have been cheaper for them to just buy sco, instead of fighting them.
novell noticed whats going on with this linux thing, and they manage to make a profit while creating contributing back to the linux community.
but IBM is investing a lot more then their getting back (i may be wrong here, as we(i) don't know whats in their agenda for the years to come - this could be one of those investments where you loose money for 10 years, and start making money in 20 - IBM is a company that can afford a business plan like this), and novell is just doing business like everyone else (it may sound cold, but there is no shame here - we all benefit from what they do, so cudos to them).
the hosting provider that piratebay uses has offices in the US.
And they decided to sue the cartell for the ddos attacks.
They ask for mediadefender for a discovery - like sco asked IBM...
I mean - they know the emails are there and that they are proof of illegal activity - that is attacking the company's servers (not thepiratebay itself - that wouldnt fly in the US).
This musthave caused them cash in hardware/staff hours, credibility, and so on.
Should the emails be deleted by accident, they could miraculasly find backups (on piratebay for example), crosscheck them for validity (i dont believe all the emails could be deleted), and after it was confirmed by one of those experts (like the ones the mafia uses to prove that the screenshot says your guilty) sue the dailights out of them ?.
Could something like this work ?
failures ?
A single plane that will have a broken device, and wont transmit its position properly will have the option of taking down a lot of stuff.
Whatever the shortcomings of the current radar system, radars tend to work regardless of the planes condition, and regardless of its position.
Heck, IIRC planes only need special equipment to identify themselves, not to tell if they are actually there, and where they are.
Sorry - but i prefer false positives (radar ghosts, or whatever their names) from false negatives (nah, its not a plane, it doesnt have GPS, it must me a bird. [15 minutes later] OH F*CK, EVERONE - RUN!!!....).
If its not going to replace radar systems for good - i see no point in spending 40b, and i dont see how it can replace them - given the requirements for such systems.
Amazingly, the website/lang template from tfa (http://docs.google.com/Localizer?f=AllMsgs.hdf), does not contain said entries anymore.
Try searching it for 'presentation' or anything noted in tfa.
Dunno if it they were removed, or simply never there.
Have fun speculating thou.
Maybe it was just something they wanted to do.
This may not be traces of any future magic, it maybe something writely was up to before they were bought out by google.
Yet anotheir ghost feature which someone says they found traces of a while back but noone can confirm today.
That said, it would be cool to have anotheir alternative to ppoint and impress.
But i doubt that showing presentations on conferences, at school or work will based solely on this service.
Other then availability, the same privacy issues as with Gspreadsheets and Gdocs apply.
My my....
Nothing like a little monopoly that cant deliver a product...
Oh wait, we already have those in other markets !
But - in all honesty - once the others get the product out - they have the brains to license it, or the product is software, so there are (practicly) no costs of replicating it.
Guess what consumers:
they wont just increase production.
They will add a minor feature, call it version 2.0, and charge you more for it.
My god, people wait a minute.
Sure - the gui lib will be gpl'ed.
The rest of kde is and will remain opensource too.
But i can not comprehend someone actually rewriting all of the system to make it run on windows.
There are just too many *nix connections in kde to make it run smoothly on windows.
MacOS ? Sure, its based on bsd.
Linux ? Sure, thats where they designed it (thou im sure some of the kde dev's use macOS or just *bsd too).
But windows ? Code can and should be portable.
But when you work on such a large scale - things tend to break.
Besides - by the time kde4 will be ready vista will actually be rolling out.
Nobody has the full specs for that system yet.
So - do they port it to XP ? Maybe. How long will it take ? (...)
How long will it take to make a vista port ?...
And no - i dont consider cygwin a real solution here.
Imagine the overhead of running a DE on top of a layer on a already blated OS.
The real news here is the new features of kde4 which look nice.
next to the fossil, the researchers just found the burned remains of a small humanoid creature, and a golden ring....
The scientists continue to fight over who gets to keep The precioussssss (Ring).
Im actually interested, how do you measure the age of an object so old, when its not from earth ?
I mean the amount of radioactive materials that fall apart a thousand or so years after being 'inserted' into a certain object is valid only if we know the amount on the env surrounding it.
How do we know how old this thing is without actually being sure where it came from ?
Maybe there was less of the izotope in the env. ?
Or maybe there was much, much more of it ?
This is besides the point if the rock actually contains some fossilized life forms, if its a billion years younger or older, then this fact makes a pretty big difference, right ?
I understand that the age of stars can be measured by the spectrum (iirc, as light travels further/longer it leans towards one of the edges).
I also get how we can determine how we check the basic building block of an object a milion light years away by the light spectrum too.
But the age, when we are not really sure of the exact amount of izotopes in the env. ?
Could somebody educate this fool with a friendly wikipedia link ?
Its not exactly designed for thumb drives, but its saved my hide numerous times:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Im pretty sure that if you can boot of a thumb drive, it wouldnt take too much to make this work.
I have a copy of the latest version with me at all times, in my wallet, on a mini-cdr.
All freeware tools, including a full fledged linux (Insert linux i think its called),
dozens of msdos utils, net stuff, iirc there were bios flashers in there too at some point.
Despite the fact that i honestly like to hear about linux success stories - id rather keep the raw power thats inside my box by using vim and editing configs by hand or scripting.
I want the system i like to expand and grow, but not become any less powerfull.
Its a hard trade off - a price im willing to pay.
I just like my niche - im a nerd, and i dont require others to be nerds.
Just the same way that i dont want the car repair guy laughing at me for not knowing every bolt of my car.
I just want to drive it, if i want to tinker - ill either spend some time, or get a simpler car.
So please stop this 'linux should be simple enough for joe sixpack'.
It shouldnt, id doesnt have to, and i dont care if it ever will - i like it just the way it is.
More options come along, the old ones are simplified with guis, but i dont care if something is idiot proof, i just want to have total controll over what happening inside my box.
As for the 'doesnt work out of the box' i have only one thing to say:
knoppix
No - it doesnt work 100% of the time. But neither does windows.
Im surprised that nobody here mentioned TRON (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084827/) yet.
Now that was really stupid tech-wise.
Amusing, and pretty, but just unreal.
As for the sci-fi criteria - its pretty much as sci-fi as any other movie out there. Documentaries and bio's excluded.
IANAL, but ive seen these kind of messages in newspapers here in Poland, so i guess its legal over here. Nobody is required to make the first page though - just an annoucment on any page of a big newspaper (that will reach alot of people) will do.
So....5 32230 ?
.be market altogether, and i wouldnt be surprised if other search engines would follow its lead.d =16130458 is correct).
is this the same case as:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/1
If so then the summary (and TFA) got it wrong from what i can tell.
That case wasnt so much about google indexing the pages and putting them up on news.google.com, it was about google caching the pages that were free and keeping the cache when they werent free anymore (aka paid archive access).
Is this even the same case ?
The prev summary mentioned 1 mil$ this one is talking about half a mil, but they look pretty much the same to me...
Looks like google might be dropping the
Its one thing when your restricted not to publish data containing some words (china, anyone?), its another thing when your not allowed to cache, index and read ANY content whatsoever and later show it unless getting every single bloggers/newspapers/sites author's approval (assuming this: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196836&ci
Same here.
In my bank, in order to make a tranfer online i have to:
1) go to the trusted secure (ssl) website
2) supply a 8 digit id number
3) supply a PIN code consisting of up to 12 chars (one different from my atm card)
4) fill in the form - if one of the values i filled in doesnt look alright the bank will outright reject the transfer (without giving notice via www, but by calling me on my mobile phone in person telling me to try again)
5) i recieve a one time token for this transaction to be use withing 3 minutes from recieving it to confirm the transfer
afterwards i get an email once the funds are transfered.
this schema requires that i have 3 diff codes, one of which is supplied by the bank itself on a one-time basis, i have the mobile at hand and i promptly respond to the sms with the token.
these are 4 seperate verification methods, and - amazingly - scammers dont even try to get my personall data (whreas i recieve daily mails from 53.com that tell me to update the info for the account i dont have).
There are phishing emails that i recieve daily since last year.
To the point:
1) if your stupid enough to give away your account information to a stranger - you have to pay for your stupidity.
2) since this outrages you - you WILL go to another bank that has a better security schema, that WILL NOT let you make that mistake again. Such security schemas are doable in todays day and age.
3) since you just left your bank - they WILL have the motivation to track down and sue the dailights out of any scammer. Banks do have an interest in keeping their customers happy.
This way - you learn a lesson, and the bank takes action.
Althou paying for 100% of your losses yourself may be a bit too much - in some cases the scammer can make a debit this way, and end up being robbed of more then you actually have!
Maybe meeting half way and paying for half the losses would make both parties equally unhappy ?
Besides - wtf does untracable mean in the information age ? The RIAA is able to locate the people that download a song that costs 2$ on itunes, cant a bank find the scammer that stole 3k$ from their customer ? I call BS.
And the banks that actually dont keep the records, and allow the scammers to thrive ? Ban them from the system.
Who (except for a few specific customers) tranfers money to nigerian/tunguska/whatever banks anyway ? Why not whitelist those specific banks for those specific customers.
Surprisingly - i havent heard of a single phisher caught and sentenced, or did i miss something ?
If there are actions being taken i want to hear about them in the news so that the spammer that makes his living advertising viagra (annoying and costs a sysadmin his time - but isnt exactly theft or fraud) thinks twice before taking a gig from a scammer.