How is this news? I have had a Samsung Precedent from Wallmart (Sprint network, CDMA) for 4 months now... Decent phone... But you have to root it and install custom mods to get full use of it. Stock only hase android 2.2.3 if i remember... I am running AreaRom's 2.3.7 now... So much smoother.
I was USAF stationed in Germany. I wont lie.... I download a few things from Torrents... 99.9% of that was TV Shows since it was hard to watch 6 hours ahead (AFN is crap)... Right before i left Germany, i got a certified letter in the mail stating (in german) that i download Bens Fold Five or something. Anyone that knows me, knows i listen to metal.. and metal.. and mostly all metal... Also, they said i downloaded it around 8am on a sunday.... Again, anyone that knew me knows i dont even wake up till noon on sundays... The letter stated that i owed 6000 euro to some lawyer in Munchen. Well, since it came to me and not the base legal office, i ignored it... and left country a few months later (my tour was over)... So, i was never sued by the RIAA directly... but i was told i owed money for a song i allegedly downloaded.
Disclaimer: I am not in the AF... I do not represent the AF.... I may or may not have had a few drinks... and i "CBF"ed to capitalize my "i"s or even use correct grammar... Get over it...
I purchased a domain name for our WoW guild from Bluehost. They only wanted $56 per year, and gave WAY more then i could ever need for a forums.... Due to suspected botting (i guess they thought we were a scammer?) they had me call to verify my identity. They did not ask for SSN or anything else that really ID me as me. I guess talking to a real person was more then enough for them. On the flip side, I used web.com for my personal space a long time ago... They charge me $19.99 a month (239.88/year) for less bandwidth, less space, less SQL DBs, and 1 FTP account.
Where am i going with this you may ask? I have no idea.... both domains were TLD.COM. Just a vast difference in pricing, and the cheaper one seemed to do more to ensure i was real, then the more expensive one.
Not sure if this was meant to be funny, but in Europe (well, Germany i am sure of) the lights go Green, Yellow, Red.. then Red, Yellow, Green. Not Red, Green like in the states.
I bet WOW patches are high ranking. One problem with this is, how many people actually download from ONLY the HTTP source? The wow Patcher uses a BitTorrent based P2P system. There is a rather high chance that you will get little, if any from their Direct HTTP Download source on any given patch day. Now, as the time that the patch was released and the time that you are downloading increases, this amount will increase as not nearly as many people will have the P2P Updater running.
Ok.. so Audio CAPTCHAs have been broken. Visual ones have been broken... Why not either Mix the two? or require some actual LOGIC to answer it? Maybe a picture of a cat. then 4 radio buttons asking what this is a picture of. If you are unable to tell what a CAT is in the picture, then you shouldn't be on the internet anyway.
Or maybe a multi-visual CAPTCHA. 2 Captchas. 2 Text boxes. Captcha 1, goes to text box 2, or can even be swapped.
CAPTCHA one says "Enter 12345 in box 2"
CAPTCHA one says "Enter DOG in box 1"
These can be rearranged on the server side. Sometimes 1 goes in 1, 2 goes and 2, etc. Even though the Captcha can be read by the computer, it would then have to be able to figure out what the sentence is saying. These don't have to be as easy as the examples. It could say "Box 1 should contain a dog" change the structure around so it would just take even more programming to figure out what should go where.
Again, this will be broken too. But at least there is a 50% chance that it will get it wrong even if the CAPTCHA was broken.
You also have to think about what he is allowed to say. Sure it is doctored up with PR jargon and filler text, but he still gives a bit of information in there. It was like when I joined the AF. I am ground Radio. The job description pretty much just said i will work with radios including FM, AM, TacSat, etc. They couldnt tell me that really what i would be getting into. Hell, even now that i am in, i still dont know what i am doing until i am told to do it.
If he were to say every little detail about how things are going to work, then the enemy would know as well. If they knew that we used such and such hardware with these versions that did have these vulnerabilities then there wouldn't be much of a defense left.
Dont get me wrong, i hate it when people "beat around the bush". But sometimes it is better left untold.
Being in the armed forces, I can say that they ARE blocked via the firewall/proxy server. But it is not for the same reason. The military wastes enough money on overpriced hardware and services, they dont want to waste bandwidth and time by people sitting at work all day watching Youtube and other video websites. You are at work, to work. There are a few sites that i dont know why they get blocked. For some reason, parts of Slashdot are blocked as well. Notably the Games section. I could understand that if it was actually Games, but it is just news.
Incorrect. But it doesnt use very much bandwidth in comparison to, say streaming video. I have ran many tests on WoW due to a rather unusual situation of playing over a Cell phone internet connection. The bandwidth (if i remember correctly) of a 56K modem is about 7KB/sec. My Cingular AeroCard 860 could sustain about 12KB/sec and this was NOT enough for Molten Core. Now, being a wireless connection with MANY data conversionions taking place, i had a rather high latency in wow. I could ping Google for the "OK" 300ms. WoW reported a 1200ms ping. While raiding MC with my Broadband connection, i still used about 12-18KB/sec depending on the fight. AV BG was just horendous on the connection.
I used a mix of Internet Explorer and Firefox for 6 months. I did my usual "Surfing". My Surfing is NOTHING compared to what some people do. My surfing includes Slashdot, Experts-Exchange, and a few WoW guild webpages.
In the period of 6 months, i did NOT run Spybot or Adaware (did not even have then installed).
My findings: No spyware. (except a few dataminer cookies for displaying adds)
Summary: Dont go to stupid sites, and you wont get stupid spyware. Simple as that.
My "real" PC blew up. So, i was able to throw my video card in an old ass 800mhz Gateway Pentium III. My video card has 256 mb, the system only have 384. Know what? It ran just fine. Not with all the graphics maxed out, but it ran just fine with defaults.
So, i dont wanna hear that WoW makes you upgrade your PC.
>>Also, Blizzard is releasing new content every month or so that requires even more graphics power.
4 months ago - Honor system (Load of crap).
2 months ago Battlegrounds (pretty fun).
1 month ago BWL (cant even do MC, let alone BWL).
SOON - ZG, and a 3rd BG.
NONE of these push your pc any harder then the original content.
Try loading EQ2 or L2 on your PC and see what you think about your hardware then.
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How is this news? I have had a Samsung Precedent from Wallmart (Sprint network, CDMA) for 4 months now... Decent phone... But you have to root it and install custom mods to get full use of it. Stock only hase android 2.2.3 if i remember... I am running AreaRom's 2.3.7 now... So much smoother.
I was USAF stationed in Germany. I wont lie.... I download a few things from Torrents... 99.9% of that was TV Shows since it was hard to watch 6 hours ahead (AFN is crap)... Right before i left Germany, i got a certified letter in the mail stating (in german) that i download Bens Fold Five or something. Anyone that knows me, knows i listen to metal.. and metal.. and mostly all metal... Also, they said i downloaded it around 8am on a sunday.... Again, anyone that knew me knows i dont even wake up till noon on sundays... The letter stated that i owed 6000 euro to some lawyer in Munchen. Well, since it came to me and not the base legal office, i ignored it... and left country a few months later (my tour was over)... So, i was never sued by the RIAA directly... but i was told i owed money for a song i allegedly downloaded.
Disclaimer: I am not in the AF... I do not represent the AF.... I may or may not have had a few drinks... and i "CBF"ed to capitalize my "i"s or even use correct grammar... Get over it...
I purchased a domain name for our WoW guild from Bluehost. They only wanted $56 per year, and gave WAY more then i could ever need for a forums.... Due to suspected botting (i guess they thought we were a scammer?) they had me call to verify my identity. They did not ask for SSN or anything else that really ID me as me. I guess talking to a real person was more then enough for them. On the flip side, I used web.com for my personal space a long time ago... They charge me $19.99 a month (239.88/year) for less bandwidth, less space, less SQL DBs, and 1 FTP account. Where am i going with this you may ask? I have no idea.... both domains were TLD .COM. Just a vast difference in pricing, and the cheaper one seemed to do more to ensure i was real, then the more expensive one.
Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa..... This is not my batman glass...
Oh, its real! And so is The Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and Duke Nukem Forever!!!
http://maps.live.de/LiveSearch.LocalLive?cp=52.128640763766924~5.276527404785161&style=h&lvl=14
Works in M$ Live search crap...
Similar error in Ms Access 97 when our Database went corrupt:
"Reserved Error: There is no message for this error"
I dont know why that posted Anon.. I didnt check the box... (Prev post was me)
Not sure if this was meant to be funny, but in Europe (well, Germany i am sure of) the lights go Green, Yellow, Red.. then Red, Yellow, Green. Not Red, Green like in the states.
Ok.. so Audio CAPTCHAs have been broken. Visual ones have been broken... Why not either Mix the two? or require some actual LOGIC to answer it? Maybe a picture of a cat. then 4 radio buttons asking what this is a picture of. If you are unable to tell what a CAT is in the picture, then you shouldn't be on the internet anyway.
Or maybe a multi-visual CAPTCHA. 2 Captchas. 2 Text boxes. Captcha 1, goes to text box 2, or can even be swapped.
CAPTCHA one says "Enter 12345 in box 2"
CAPTCHA one says "Enter DOG in box 1"
These can be rearranged on the server side. Sometimes 1 goes in 1, 2 goes and 2, etc. Even though the Captcha can be read by the computer, it would then have to be able to figure out what the sentence is saying. These don't have to be as easy as the examples. It could say "Box 1 should contain a dog" change the structure around so it would just take even more programming to figure out what should go where.
Again, this will be broken too. But at least there is a 50% chance that it will get it wrong even if the CAPTCHA was broken.
Just a thought.
You also have to think about what he is allowed to say. Sure it is doctored up with PR jargon and filler text, but he still gives a bit of information in there. It was like when I joined the AF. I am ground Radio. The job description pretty much just said i will work with radios including FM, AM, TacSat, etc. They couldnt tell me that really what i would be getting into. Hell, even now that i am in, i still dont know what i am doing until i am told to do it.
If he were to say every little detail about how things are going to work, then the enemy would know as well. If they knew that we used such and such hardware with these versions that did have these vulnerabilities then there wouldn't be much of a defense left.
Dont get me wrong, i hate it when people "beat around the bush". But sometimes it is better left untold.
Being in the armed forces, I can say that they ARE blocked via the firewall/proxy server. But it is not for the same reason. The military wastes enough money on overpriced hardware and services, they dont want to waste bandwidth and time by people sitting at work all day watching Youtube and other video websites. You are at work, to work. There are a few sites that i dont know why they get blocked. For some reason, parts of Slashdot are blocked as well. Notably the Games section. I could understand that if it was actually Games, but it is just news.
Atlanta has had MetroPCS for about 5 years now. I am not sure on the features, but it was only $39/mo about 5 years ago.
Incorrect. But it doesnt use very much bandwidth in comparison to, say streaming video. I have ran many tests on WoW due to a rather unusual situation of playing over a Cell phone internet connection. The bandwidth (if i remember correctly) of a 56K modem is about 7KB/sec. My Cingular AeroCard 860 could sustain about 12KB/sec and this was NOT enough for Molten Core. Now, being a wireless connection with MANY data conversionions taking place, i had a rather high latency in wow. I could ping Google for the "OK" 300ms. WoW reported a 1200ms ping. While raiding MC with my Broadband connection, i still used about 12-18KB/sec depending on the fight. AV BG was just horendous on the connection.
I used a mix of Internet Explorer and Firefox for 6 months. I did my usual "Surfing". My Surfing is NOTHING compared to what some people do. My surfing includes Slashdot, Experts-Exchange, and a few WoW guild webpages. In the period of 6 months, i did NOT run Spybot or Adaware (did not even have then installed). My findings: No spyware. (except a few dataminer cookies for displaying adds) Summary: Dont go to stupid sites, and you wont get stupid spyware. Simple as that.
I love how the "name" of the chip uses the exact same font as the quantum line of HDs. Quantum Fireball HD
My "real" PC blew up. So, i was able to throw my video card in an old ass 800mhz Gateway Pentium III. My video card has 256 mb, the system only have 384. Know what? It ran just fine. Not with all the graphics maxed out, but it ran just fine with defaults. So, i dont wanna hear that WoW makes you upgrade your PC. >>Also, Blizzard is releasing new content every month or so that requires even more graphics power. 4 months ago - Honor system (Load of crap). 2 months ago Battlegrounds (pretty fun). 1 month ago BWL (cant even do MC, let alone BWL). SOON - ZG, and a 3rd BG. NONE of these push your pc any harder then the original content. Try loading EQ2 or L2 on your PC and see what you think about your hardware then.
Mellisa was not "the good old days". I remember the first virus i got on my old 386. Monkey.B. http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/monkey.shtml