Last year, I was exploring the idea of a browser-based MMO game - unfortunately, the name was already parked. I asked for a quote and got back "1,900".
I said "hell no" (at this point we hadn't even planned as far as breaking even on the $15 registration fee, so a four-digit investment was out of the question). I got back "800". Then, a week later, "$500".
So just by refusing/not reacting to the first two offers, I brought his price down by three quarters. The moral: Domain squatters use a pricing scheme known as "what can we milk them for?" Unless you are looking at a domain you know is highly marketable ("free.com", "download.net"), you probably shouldn't be paying more than a thousand.
Sounds convenient, but I like being able to personally see my ballot drop into the urn with no identifying information. Perhaps that is paranoia, though.
(This is also why I don't like electronic ballots. Once the process is digital, there are many more security factors to watch out for in the way of secrecy, integrity and reliability. Crypto would allow for a more or less fool-resistant approach, but nobody ever seems to implement it properly.)
The first decision reveals some sorely needed common sense regarding online contracts. Too many websites are defrauding people with hidden costs and secret terms of service - it may seem obvious to us not to sign up for "FREE*" services that require our real name and address, but I know otherwise intelligent people who have fallen for this multiple times.
Around here, failing to help someone in danger when you are aware and able to render help is a criminal offense. The corporation would pay a fine (though unfortunately the fine would be trivial for a corporation).
Fortunately, even lacking prosecution, there are still the courts of public opinion.
Well, the power cut-off could disable all the breaks as well as the steering, transforming a speeding car into a one-ton ballistic projectile on wheels in the name of road safety.
Oh, sorry, you were being sarcastic.:P
I guess it could work as a drastically effective and extremely terminal driver education program.
Unfortunately only my landline forwards to email - the mobile phone has a voicemail number, which is extremely expensive for a prepaid phone. I pay twice as much as the caller to listen to a message. That's why I haven't yet listened to my voicemail this year.
I wouldn't want to rely on voice transcription - especially of a recording that isn't dictated. I've managed to get a dictation tool to more or less transcribe my voice, but only if I speak far more slowly and clearly than I would on the phone.
Doesn't he regularly get asked to set so double the killer delete select all?;)
Question 9 - Is he going to revisit the scene of the crime? Is he checking the internet news sites to find stories about m^Hthis crime? Is he going to give himself away by visiting such a site (like Slashdot) and visiting, leaving his IP address. Who knows, maybe he'll even gladly, comment.;)
Comments can be left at hackingforprofit(the at sign)gmailcom. Drop me a line.;)
Heh.
I'd ask yahoo to check not only the Yahoo cookie when someone logs into that account, but *also* get the Google one also, and 10 others
I'm afraid that if you actually were the cracker in question, your ignorance of the HTTP protocol would mean you are definitely screwed.
All browsers isolate cookies by domain. When your browser requests a page on the Yahoo site, Yahoo does not ask for a cookie - rather, the browser includes it in the request. Naturally, it sends only Yahoo's own cookie, and takes care not to leak any information about the cookies of other websites.:)
You could, of course, ask Yahoo for the IP address and then ask Google etc. to find this IP in their log. But you can't get cross-site cookies.
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Last year, I was exploring the idea of a browser-based MMO game - unfortunately, the name was already parked. I asked for a quote and got back "1,900".
I said "hell no" (at this point we hadn't even planned as far as breaking even on the $15 registration fee, so a four-digit investment was out of the question). I got back "800". Then, a week later, "$500".
So just by refusing/not reacting to the first two offers, I brought his price down by three quarters. The moral: Domain squatters use a pricing scheme known as "what can we milk them for?" Unless you are looking at a domain you know is highly marketable ("free.com", "download.net"), you probably shouldn't be paying more than a thousand.
Yeah, they should. The surprising thing about this is that they decided to do so...
Easy: They put all their lead in the toys, now they need more. :P
... And if things go downhill from here, we may expect some uranium in our cereals all over the world, even if we didn't covet that at all.
Sounds convenient, but I like being able to personally see my ballot drop into the urn with no identifying information. Perhaps that is paranoia, though.
(This is also why I don't like electronic ballots. Once the process is digital, there are many more security factors to watch out for in the way of secrecy, integrity and reliability. Crypto would allow for a more or less fool-resistant approach, but nobody ever seems to implement it properly.)
In before Rick Astley becomes President of Oahu. :)
The first decision reveals some sorely needed common sense regarding online contracts. Too many websites are defrauding people with hidden costs and secret terms of service - it may seem obvious to us not to sign up for "FREE*" services that require our real name and address, but I know otherwise intelligent people who have fallen for this multiple times.
I guess the British government is now following the principle of "information wants to be free". :P
Around here, failing to help someone in danger when you are aware and able to render help is a criminal offense. The corporation would pay a fine (though unfortunately the fine would be trivial for a corporation).
Fortunately, even lacking prosecution, there are still the courts of public opinion.
Well, the power cut-off could disable all the breaks as well as the steering, transforming a speeding car into a one-ton ballistic projectile on wheels in the name of road safety.
Oh, sorry, you were being sarcastic. :P
I guess it could work as a drastically effective and extremely terminal driver education program.
It snowcrashes my computer after less than a minute of playing Albion. White noise fills the screen, and bam.
No idea what's with that yet.
I bet it'll be released any day now! Where can I pre-order?
Unfortunately only my landline forwards to email - the mobile phone has a voicemail number, which is extremely expensive for a prepaid phone. I pay twice as much as the caller to listen to a message. That's why I haven't yet listened to my voicemail this year.
I wouldn't want to rely on voice transcription - especially of a recording that isn't dictated. I've managed to get a dictation tool to more or less transcribe my voice, but only if I speak far more slowly and clearly than I would on the phone.
Doesn't he regularly get asked to set so double the killer delete select all? ;)
Well, now we finally know what "???" stands for. But it seems that the profit the guy hoped for didn't materialize.
Say, that's a nice hard drive you got there.
Be a shame if something happened to it.
This is going to get confusing.
"Tearing itself apart"... bah, what a disappointment. I checked and they can't even make the PC explode. :/
Warning to ESL speakers like myself: Waterboarding, despite the misleading name, is not, not, the same as windsurfing. :P
Blame the plants, not the dinosaurs.
They poisoned our planet with oxygen, and look what happened!
Um... I have several years of experience speaking the English language and I can state with certainty those words aren't spelled that way.
I'm sure that among my ten skulls of Leonardo da Vinci, there is at least one fake. If only I knew which one.
Heh.
I'm afraid that if you actually were the cracker in question, your ignorance of the HTTP protocol would mean you are definitely screwed.
All browsers isolate cookies by domain. When your browser requests a page on the Yahoo site, Yahoo does not ask for a cookie - rather, the browser includes it in the request. Naturally, it sends only Yahoo's own cookie, and takes care not to leak any information about the cookies of other websites. :)
You could, of course, ask Yahoo for the IP address and then ask Google etc. to find this IP in their log. But you can't get cross-site cookies.
Encrypted data is safe from unauthorized access, but it can still be deleted or held for ransom.
If the privacy and surveillance laws here in Germany (or England for that matter) get any worse, I swear to god I'm moving to the States. :P
(Read: This shit is everywhere, alas.)
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Terry Pratchett's Listening Monks yet! :P