According to the story, the attacker wrote a script that opened thousands of accounts at dozens of these providers.
i think it also implies he created thousands of accounts at paypal/google checkout also and had each of them create new accounts at the broker firms that paid out the pocket change.
it all in the numbers, if the seller sees no machines selling with linux pre-installed, they simply won't offer them any more. Plus its just ammo for Microsoft to say "hey we sold X units, eat that Apple!"
the deal is as this, if the person doing the job doesn't feel they're getting enough money they should not be doing the job. simple as that. Economics 101 says people will only pay for what they're willing to pay for, and vice versa for the people being payed. The market, more or less, decides the pay rate itself by people deciding what they're willing to work at.
"how about someone patents "Detecting changed files" as an indication of a virus. Too obvious? I guess there is prior art (tripwire), but why the HELL can't they implement such a no-brainer?"
there's already an app that does this. I can't remember the name of it, but every time I patch or update any program it asks me essentially "cancel or allow" the running of the program the next time i try to run it. Of course yet again this just trains the user to always hit "allow" until we simply turn it off.
"The only winning move is not to play." In other words, only use programs you can be sure of the source and only go to websites which are well known and with a browser besides IE. "Winning is only half the battle!"
while ignorance can often be bliss, can it not often also be a bitch?
while its not possible to know everything, its very possible and preferred to know something, often just a small amount will go an incredibly long way.
From the makers of Trunk Monkey, why not get a Laptop Monkey for theft recovery? Upon activation of the stolen laptop the monkey will leap out from nowhere with ninja-monkey-like reflexes, subdue the nefarious thief and hitchhike all the way back to your home with your property!
I've oft heard the conspiracy theory that Google was set up just to develop better resources for government privacy violations. Has any elaborated version of this ever been formally published?
They're probably too busy smokin pot to finish it up...
Thanks for the car analogy that really has nothing to do with how software, interoperability, and change work. I mean gas has been the same for how many year? And how quickly does software change?
Anyway to the point is that one of Microsoft's biggest concerns should have been compatibility with existing hardware, to make it easier on vendors to update/convert/create drivers with little fuss, and it seems they did little. I'd have to imagine their big code redux 2 years or so before release certainly didn't help either since you know nVidia had to have been working with them all along the process of the creation of Vista.
As a programmer, there's things I can admit to being my fault as I'm not perfect, but then there's many things that are simply out of my control because of dependencies on a certain other piece of software, operating system, database, process, and so on ad infinitum. I'm not saying nVidia is completely out of blame, I'm just saying maybe nVidia had crap to work with from the beginning.
Perhaps there is some blame on nVidia, but there would have to be equal blame to Microsoft for not being more compatible with windows XP drivers and spending far too long in development.
try AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/download/index.phtml), there's a windows version.
course if you switch over to something like Ubuntu it would be even better, though I'd imagine that would be pretty tough to do at least until XP stops getting supported some year
"Oh, and for those that will mention HD downloads, I'm already rolling on the floor with laughter." - parent
iTunes has already made a lot of progress for music, movies will most assuredly follow. All it will take is something like a Tivo that can purchase movies online and allow you back them up for playback on your home PC (presumably after loggin in online) or the "tivo" you purchased it from. And if netflix ever starts actually putting good, and new movies, online for download, which is certainly in their benefit since they dont pay any shipping and handling fees....well you can see where this will go. The prices of server hardware is dropping as always, and very soon we will start seeing better options for downloading video than iTunes et al.
aye, but there's a difference between minimum requirements and recommended requirements. Quality and response time are what you'll notice in Aero between a simply on board accelerator and say a Geforce 5 series or higher
on a separate, but very related issue about the disc versus download:
As a PC gamer for years I have collected a ton of games on CDrom and DVD. Doubly so with Xbox, PS2, and the 360. But in the last year or so every PC game I have purchased (ok maybe 90%) have all been purchased online either through Steam, Direct2Drive, or EA online (guess they choose not to play nice with others). This is actually very preferable to me however because not only do I not have another useless CD i have to keep putting in when i want to play a game, but I can't lose my CD rom! There are other benefits, too, like I can legally make backups of the setup files, and if the authentication servers for these ever die I can probably find a way to hack the game installation so I can play it years down the road.
Now apply these same concepts to permanently owning a digital copy of a movie, without any of this ridiculous digital renting crap, and the future looks good because you can't lose your DVD, you can't damage it beyond use, and in some cases if you lose the softcopy you can simply get it again via download or P2P.
So what is the significance of when the Cylons occupy the new home planet in season 2.5 (or 3?), and the humans are carrying out suicide bombings and other such guerilla tactics? It seems as if the Cylons are actually the big governmental organization and the humans are the terrorists...
exactly as snail mail has mostly gone the way of email (cept for critical business docs), so will libraries become rooms of servers dedicated to serving out the info to the masses. Only then one library will be able to serve, potentially, the world, whereas now and before libraries could only serve those who can visit it physically.
I couldn't help but be reminded about the article from Sony about the "race to the bottom" (yes i'm too lazy to post slashdot link).
With the exception of graphics artists and programmers, most people simply do not need a laptop worth over 500 dollars or so. I'm not just talking about the eeePC, which is great in its own way due to its size, but any laptop which can reach that price point and still be a regular size laptop for ease of typing up a document, or any other purpose. As I type this from my eee the only thing I know is that i'll never pay 1000 bucks plus for another laptop ever again. I have a desktop for all the heavy lifting/gaming/programming/media, this I have for the web.
It almost seems like what you're saying is the API is open because you can write software that integrates with their services.
But what if you want to modify their services, change iTunes or Front Row or Quicktime itself. I'm not sure how right I am about this, but it seems to me like they want you interacting with their apps, but they don't want you to be able to directly change their apps. Peek only, no touching. Thats not open.
You do have to realize the point of technology is to make life, generally, easier, more comfortable, etc. Therefore having their homes heated by "whitey's" tech has led to certain conveniences. Sure people can live without em, but given the choice, would you really want to unless you had to?
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its only worth $7200 if you can find a sucker to sell it to for $7200
i think it also implies he created thousands of accounts at paypal/google checkout also and had each of them create new accounts at the broker firms that paid out the pocket change.
it all in the numbers, if the seller sees no machines selling with linux pre-installed, they simply won't offer them any more. Plus its just ammo for Microsoft to say "hey we sold X units, eat that Apple!"
the deal is as this, if the person doing the job doesn't feel they're getting enough money they should not be doing the job. simple as that. Economics 101 says people will only pay for what they're willing to pay for, and vice versa for the people being payed. The market, more or less, decides the pay rate itself by people deciding what they're willing to work at.
"how about someone patents "Detecting changed files" as an indication of a virus. Too obvious? I guess there is prior art (tripwire), but why the HELL can't they implement such a no-brainer?"
there's already an app that does this. I can't remember the name of it, but every time I patch or update any program it asks me essentially "cancel or allow" the running of the program the next time i try to run it. Of course yet again this just trains the user to always hit "allow" until we simply turn it off.
"The only winning move is not to play." In other words, only use programs you can be sure of the source and only go to websites which are well known and with a browser besides IE. "Winning is only half the battle!"
while ignorance can often be bliss, can it not often also be a bitch? while its not possible to know everything, its very possible and preferred to know something, often just a small amount will go an incredibly long way.
From the makers of Trunk Monkey, why not get a Laptop Monkey for theft recovery? Upon activation of the stolen laptop the monkey will leap out from nowhere with ninja-monkey-like reflexes, subdue the nefarious thief and hitchhike all the way back to your home with your property!
They're probably too busy smokin pot to finish it up...
that's right, REEFER!
Thanks for the car analogy that really has nothing to do with how software, interoperability, and change work. I mean gas has been the same for how many year? And how quickly does software change?
Anyway to the point is that one of Microsoft's biggest concerns should have been compatibility with existing hardware, to make it easier on vendors to update/convert/create drivers with little fuss, and it seems they did little. I'd have to imagine their big code redux 2 years or so before release certainly didn't help either since you know nVidia had to have been working with them all along the process of the creation of Vista.
As a programmer, there's things I can admit to being my fault as I'm not perfect, but then there's many things that are simply out of my control because of dependencies on a certain other piece of software, operating system, database, process, and so on ad infinitum. I'm not saying nVidia is completely out of blame, I'm just saying maybe nVidia had crap to work with from the beginning.
Perhaps there is some blame on nVidia, but there would have to be equal blame to Microsoft for not being more compatible with windows XP drivers and spending far too long in development.
while I generally hate taking the stance "if you don't like it, then geeeeeet ouuuuut"
but when it comes to people complaining I make an exception
try AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/download/index.phtml), there's a windows version.
course if you switch over to something like Ubuntu it would be even better, though I'd imagine that would be pretty tough to do at least until XP stops getting supported some year
my eeePC has a nice little green LED that indicates activity on its flash drive, and fortunately its not blindingly bright!
not a very fun game, as the only way to win is not to play.
how about a nice game of chess? no wait i suck at chess...
how about a nice game of paper-rock-scissors?
Maybe the point is that if everyone used adblock we would't worry ourselves with discussions about online advertising?
"Oh, and for those that will mention HD downloads, I'm already rolling on the floor with laughter." - parent
iTunes has already made a lot of progress for music, movies will most assuredly follow. All it will take is something like a Tivo that can purchase movies online and allow you back them up for playback on your home PC (presumably after loggin in online) or the "tivo" you purchased it from. And if netflix ever starts actually putting good, and new movies, online for download, which is certainly in their benefit since they dont pay any shipping and handling fees....well you can see where this will go. The prices of server hardware is dropping as always, and very soon we will start seeing better options for downloading video than iTunes et al.
aye, but there's a difference between minimum requirements and recommended requirements. Quality and response time are what you'll notice in Aero between a simply on board accelerator and say a Geforce 5 series or higher
on a separate, but very related issue about the disc versus download:
As a PC gamer for years I have collected a ton of games on CDrom and DVD. Doubly so with Xbox, PS2, and the 360. But in the last year or so every PC game I have purchased (ok maybe 90%) have all been purchased online either through Steam, Direct2Drive, or EA online (guess they choose not to play nice with others). This is actually very preferable to me however because not only do I not have another useless CD i have to keep putting in when i want to play a game, but I can't lose my CD rom! There are other benefits, too, like I can legally make backups of the setup files, and if the authentication servers for these ever die I can probably find a way to hack the game installation so I can play it years down the road.
Now apply these same concepts to permanently owning a digital copy of a movie, without any of this ridiculous digital renting crap, and the future looks good because you can't lose your DVD, you can't damage it beyond use, and in some cases if you lose the softcopy you can simply get it again via download or P2P.
So what is the significance of when the Cylons occupy the new home planet in season 2.5 (or 3?), and the humans are carrying out suicide bombings and other such guerilla tactics? It seems as if the Cylons are actually the big governmental organization and the humans are the terrorists...
exactly as snail mail has mostly gone the way of email (cept for critical business docs), so will libraries become rooms of servers dedicated to serving out the info to the masses. Only then one library will be able to serve, potentially, the world, whereas now and before libraries could only serve those who can visit it physically.
I couldn't help but be reminded about the article from Sony about the "race to the bottom" (yes i'm too lazy to post slashdot link).
With the exception of graphics artists and programmers, most people simply do not need a laptop worth over 500 dollars or so. I'm not just talking about the eeePC, which is great in its own way due to its size, but any laptop which can reach that price point and still be a regular size laptop for ease of typing up a document, or any other purpose. As I type this from my eee the only thing I know is that i'll never pay 1000 bucks plus for another laptop ever again. I have a desktop for all the heavy lifting/gaming/programming/media, this I have for the web.
the body is mostly retained of water too, I say we use people who make bad puns as the source of energy :)
simple: heat is always wasted somewhere (especially friction), as is any water that is simply evaporated before it can be utilized
It almost seems like what you're saying is the API is open because you can write software that integrates with their services.
But what if you want to modify their services, change iTunes or Front Row or Quicktime itself. I'm not sure how right I am about this, but it seems to me like they want you interacting with their apps, but they don't want you to be able to directly change their apps. Peek only, no touching. Thats not open.
You do have to realize the point of technology is to make life, generally, easier, more comfortable, etc. Therefore having their homes heated by "whitey's" tech has led to certain conveniences. Sure people can live without em, but given the choice, would you really want to unless you had to?