Is this because the proliferation of Skype has reached the point where the revenue from the potential lost subscribers outweighed the revenue from people going over their 'free minutes'? Sounds unlikely, but very cool if so.
Now, if only someone Spotify would make their iPhone client use the business model of the desktop version (ad-supported) instead of requiring a full, paid-for subscription.
"could even limit which software the owner installs on his cell phone"
Oh, they needn't bother then - WAP already does a stellar job of limiting software downloads by dint of gradually eroding the soul until you give up and just pretend that you're playing that $4 copy of space invaders you just spent $20 trying to find whilst staring at a rotating hourglass. You even get the RSI from typing in the URL - it's the full experience right there.
I was going to say something +5 Informative, +5 Interesting and +5 Funny but the lameness filter has no sense of humour. Junk characters indeed... philistine...
The university provides firewall software (Kerio) but that doesn't work with Win 2003 (works with XP). And so we keep getting hit by zombie machines taken over in the Education Department or from Liberal Arts:-). So what does the Slashdot crowd use when they need to secure their Linux and Windows servers?
We fire the person responsible for only purchasing a solution which covers a percentage of our machines and hire someone that we believe won't repeat the mistake. But we're not total bastards. If the percentage is 0.5, we simply give them an atomic wedgie.
it may be short-lived once ATI comes out with their latest GPU technology, code-named R520
What a crap codename. If I was inventing what was going to be the fastest chip around, I'd have called it "Codename: BASTARDFIRE" or "SHITSTORM" or something. Let the marketing guys mod it down to R520 upon release.
NASA PR EXECUTIVE: We've just had word that some foreign guy Time voted 13th Most Influential Global Leader back in 2001 wants a major role in the development of the space station.
NASA PROJECT MANAGER: Oh, for the love of God... where do you find these people? Alright, give him a desk next to Dave Chapelle and that politician guy who reckons he invented the internet. Tell him not to touch anything. And tell Lucas over on Token Consultant Desk #371 that he can stick his turbolaser suggestion up his ass.
"The typical phisher, he discovered, isn't a movie-style villain but a Romanian teenager, albeit one who belongs to a social and economic infrastructure that is both remarkably sophisticated and utterly ragtag."
This is a vast exaggeration. The image of an eastern europe, 'ragtag' social and economic infrastructure is, for example, in complete contrast to the well-dressed, hip, bling-bling superstars that make up my crew.
I'm all for it. Provided that the DOJ is similarly obliged to log and deliver to my inbox a notification that someone in the DOJ has mentioned considering making me the subject of an investigation, so that I can run away and change my name.
Also, if I get apprehended and the case goes to trial, I want the log of every jury member, prosecutor and member of the judiciary subpoenaed and presented as evidence for the defence.
I'd happily be imprisoned for a cause I believe in, but I'll be damned if I'm being convicted by someone that likes shopping for antique furniture and goat porn.
First, at a company like Microsoft, I'd be asking about the 2 senior managers who didn't know about heap attacks.
That would be Elliot MacHangerstanger (Witchsmeller Pursuivant Of The Hunting For Uses Of The Word 'Windows' or 'Microsoft' Unaccompanied By The Registered Trademark Symbol Directorate) and Horace Ebelfleffer (Vice President In Charge Of Concocting Windows License Keys Whilst Ensuring No Naughty Words Are Accidentaly Formed).
Elliot thought it had something to do with international food surplusses. Horace simply dislikes raising his arm.
Method and system for purchasing goods or services in the physical world. After construction of suitable 'premises' (Pat. 6,907,317 - a space altered by arranging materials for the purpose of creating a distinction between 'outside' and 'inside') a person enters the premises via the 'door' (Pat. 6,907,318 - a hole made in the materials of Pat. 6,907,317 to facilitate access to the 'inside' space) and is greeted by an 'employee' (Pat. 6,907,319 - a poor loser unable to to engage in any entrepreneurial activities due to the lack of unpatented processes left in the world and therefore forced to work for an evil overlord quicker off the mark to exploit the idiocy of the patent system). The customer selects goods or services for purchase, pays the 'employee' and exits through the 'door'. The funds are then used by the evil overlords to continue to pay high-priced lawyers in their ongoing effort to patent the 'patent process' (Pat. 6,907,320 - Pending).
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It's weird, kind of like falling in love - for everyone else, the lady in question is but another female, yet once you've tasted the forbidden fruit, you love every aspect of her - her smell, her smile, her hair, her skin...
Great, now I don't know whether to install it, or fuck it.
However, with that in mind, 99 Euros isn't that steep after all...
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Is this because the proliferation of Skype has reached the point where the revenue from the potential lost subscribers outweighed the revenue from people going over their 'free minutes'? Sounds unlikely, but very cool if so. Now, if only someone Spotify would make their iPhone client use the business model of the desktop version (ad-supported) instead of requiring a full, paid-for subscription.
Oh, they needn't bother then - WAP already does a stellar job of limiting software downloads by dint of gradually eroding the soul until you give up and just pretend that you're playing that $4 copy of space invaders you just spent $20 trying to find whilst staring at a rotating hourglass. You even get the RSI from typing in the URL - it's the full experience right there.
'Quite a stir', eh? Blimey - no wonder those guys only get one mouse button. Any more and they'd soil themselves in wonder.
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
Ahaha...
I was going to say something +5 Informative, +5 Interesting and +5 Funny but the lameness filter has no sense of humour. Junk characters indeed... philistine...
Chief Scientist: Nope.
Director: Hmm. So there's a significant chance that this could go 'boom'?
Chief Scientist: Quite spectacularly.
Director: Okay. Let's put it in France. We'll tell them they won a competition or something...
We fire the person responsible for only purchasing a solution which covers a percentage of our machines and hire someone that we believe won't repeat the mistake. But we're not total bastards. If the percentage is 0.5, we simply give them an atomic wedgie.
Arrested and prosecuted by the owners of The Wacky PC and Seafaring Supplies Warehouse?
Oh no, wait, this is /., I know this one...
"Horny at the possibilities."
What a crap codename. If I was inventing what was going to be the fastest chip around, I'd have called it "Codename: BASTARDFIRE" or "SHITSTORM" or something. Let the marketing guys mod it down to R520 upon release.
NASA PROJECT MANAGER: Oh, for the love of God... where do you find these people? Alright, give him a desk next to Dave Chapelle and that politician guy who reckons he invented the internet. Tell him not to touch anything. And tell Lucas over on Token Consultant Desk #371 that he can stick his turbolaser suggestion up his ass.
This is a vast exaggeration. The image of an eastern europe, 'ragtag' social and economic infrastructure is, for example, in complete contrast to the well-dressed, hip, bling-bling superstars that make up my crew.
We call it Fly Phishing.
I'm all for it. Provided that the DOJ is similarly obliged to log and deliver to my inbox a notification that someone in the DOJ has mentioned considering making me the subject of an investigation, so that I can run away and change my name. Also, if I get apprehended and the case goes to trial, I want the log of every jury member, prosecutor and member of the judiciary subpoenaed and presented as evidence for the defence. I'd happily be imprisoned for a cause I believe in, but I'll be damned if I'm being convicted by someone that likes shopping for antique furniture and goat porn.
That would be Elliot MacHangerstanger (Witchsmeller Pursuivant Of The Hunting For Uses Of The Word 'Windows' or 'Microsoft' Unaccompanied By The Registered Trademark Symbol Directorate) and Horace Ebelfleffer (Vice President In Charge Of Concocting Windows License Keys Whilst Ensuring No Naughty Words Are Accidentaly Formed).
Elliot thought it had something to do with international food surplusses. Horace simply dislikes raising his arm.
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Method and system for purchasing goods or services in the physical world. After construction of suitable 'premises' (Pat. 6,907,317 - a space altered by arranging materials for the purpose of creating a distinction between 'outside' and 'inside') a person enters the premises via the 'door' (Pat. 6,907,318 - a hole made in the materials of Pat. 6,907,317 to facilitate access to the 'inside' space) and is greeted by an 'employee' (Pat. 6,907,319 - a poor loser unable to to engage in any entrepreneurial activities due to the lack of unpatented processes left in the world and therefore forced to work for an evil overlord quicker off the mark to exploit the idiocy of the patent system). The customer selects goods or services for purchase, pays the 'employee' and exits through the 'door'. The funds are then used by the evil overlords to continue to pay high-priced lawyers in their ongoing effort to patent the 'patent process' (Pat. 6,907,320 - Pending).
However, with that in mind, 99 Euros isn't that steep after all...