crApple
What's apple got to do with any of this?
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An Oldie....
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. MickeySoft would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps, even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.
12. Every time MickySoft introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
No, what happened is that the bank was going to run a promotion along the lines of "accounts for aardvark to ???????" and want to know what was the first and the last (alphabetically sorted) names of people in the bank and got suspicious when the found an account where the names was all Zs.
Can't have been a very good programmer, he forgot to check for boundary conditions i.e. when setting up bogus accounts, pick a common name (John Smith etc)
Having read the Washington post article, it seems that Chertoff is using the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not on the suspected terrorist /no fly list as justification to put the perv scanners in airports.
That's Michael Chertoff, the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA Patriot Act, consultant to and shareholder in Rapiscan Systems, which has received $250 million in scanner orders, complaining that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not on Homeland Security's no-fly list.
Conspiracy theorist, moi? never..
The Independent recently stated that the UK taxpayer is currently saddled with £26.3bn of government IT projects that are deemed “not fit for purpose”.
But I thought all UK gruberment projects supposed to be managed using PRINCE 2 (PRojects IN a Controlled Environment)?
So who wrote the business case and the expected benefits and costs?
The business case is usually written by the senior business user (PRINCE 2 role), the project executive (PRINCE 2 role) is responsible for verifying that the benefits are achievable and represent value for money and the business case is used at each stage by the project board (PRINCE 2 role - comprises at least:- senior business user, senior supplier and executive) to ensure that the project is still on target.
Oh hang on I think I see the problem, the senior business user is a civil servant, the executive is a civil servant and the senior supplier is a large consultancy firm....
Therefore project manager = fall guy (or girl)
Why does the idea of a MickySoft antivirus not make me feel my PC is secure.... Possibly the same way the MickeySoft firewall does not block unauthorized communication with redmond and its minions.
My experience of MickeySoft is such that they are the last people I would go to to get anti-virus software. It would be a bit like going to PC world to get a PC
Blunt nose, high aerodynamic drag,
The crinkly wing covering is also bad for the laminar flow over the wing, by the way which NACA profile are you using?
I also note you do not provide any pictures of Paris's flaps, does Paris have any flaps? Plain flaps are the simplest, however fowler flaps would be more efficient, but more complex, as these flaps slide backwards before hinging downwards.
One last question, does Paris have a black box?
It's nothing to do with than the CPU's ability to use big numbers, the limiting factor for disk sizes is the fact that the boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the count of the number of sectors on a disk, this limits the volume size to 2 TB regardless of whether you use FAT, NTFS of UFS.
LOL, presumably you mean "law abiding respectable entertainment companies" like SONY that illegally installed rootkit software on peoples PC's that could be used by virus writers as well, just because somebody played a "protected CD" on their PC.
Once again the copyright mafia show that they feel they are above the law, a case of don't do as we do, do as we say.
The market has already decided what it will pay... my son lives in merkin-land and me has as part of his cable package he has netflix, which enables him to queue up the films he wants to watch, and he has access to then until he wants to remove them from his list.
And he's not limited to single films either, entire seasons wold count as 1 choice, e.g. South park season 8 would count as 1 choice.
And all for $9.99 a month, makes sky movies look fairly shit
Steam is a load of bollicks, I had the misfortune to buy a game that was stream protected, it installed a 60MB runtime that was ALWAYS loaded and was constantly STEALING my internet broadband, even when I was not playing the game.
Stream is not a DRM scheme, it is a marketing tool, it kept offering me free game demos.
Note that I speak in the past tense.
I've said it before, my PC, my Broadband, I own the battlefield, so THQ and every other games producer that uses stream, you can shove your fucking games up your arse while you are using that stream shit..... Don't you just love it when the one thing stream is supposed to prevent, is the one thing it helps promote!!!! What a bunch of assholes.
Many years ago I was a BIG fan of a particular band and I bought all their albums on vinyl.
The band broke up in 1980 but interest in the band was maintained in part by word of mouth and, ironically, and a lot of music sharing
Unknown to the band (allegedly), their record company/management sold off all their back catalog to another company who a few years ago started selling the back catalog on CD at €9.99 each, and yes I bought quite a lot of them (for the second time).
The band then realised what was happening and started a long legal battle to regain their back catalog, and when they got control of it they immediately bumped the price of all their CDs to €18.99 (including the live "double album" which fits on 1 CD anyway).
Having saturated the marked with their back catalog, they are now re-releasing a lot of their CDs with the dreaded bonus tracks (i.e. spurious live recordings) for €18.99 as it's much more profitable to entice people into buying all their music for a third time rather than releasing a separate CD with all this co-called bonus material on it
It seems to me that some parts of the music industry, while they object to being ripped off, have no problem ripping off joe public.
As the saying goes, "what goes around, comes around"
'sfunny how everyone seems to assume that the 72 virgins are female, would a female jihadist/whack-job suicide bomber be met by 72 male virgins?
Does the jihadist /whack-job suicide bomber have to marry the 72 virgins, otherwise they'd both have to be stoned, and I don't mean on the whacky-bacy, for committing adultery.... well the women will be stoned for committing adultery.
And why do people refer to them as religious wars? Most "religious" wars are not between different religions but between sects of the same religion, the Iran-Iraq war was essentially between Sunnis and Shiites, Catholics and Protestants in northern Ireland have been fighting each other for about 600 years. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all refereed to as the faiths of Abraham. they all worship the same god!
So whoever made the "your imaginary friend is better that your imaginary friend" type posting should have said "my version of our imaginary friend is better than your version of our imaginary friend"
All I can say is thank the flying spaghetti monster that I'm an agnostic.
Most people are missing the point. Zepeda committed a computer crime, but lets be clear about one thing, this is not any clever computer hack, Zepeda just noticed a flaw in the existing human systems.
The companies concerned could have prevented the scam by the simple expedient of not placing the cards where they can be freely accessed (until a crooked employee becomes part of the scam), but no, the companies want to stick the cards in your face every time you go to the cash register, it's the cheap way to advertise them. You don't see banks doing the same thing with credit/debit cards do you? I wonder why.
Zepeda should not get a criminal record out of this, he should be rewarded and be offered a position as a security consultant to ALL of the companies he ripped off. Zepeda's error is that he only stole $6K, hardly a lunch bill for a senior executive and easily absorbed by any company, much cheaper to pay back the customers and maintain the status quo rather than introduce any real security measures.
I's love the mods to leave this thread open so we can all report how different companies have changed their procedures to combat this form of fraud, but we all know companies will do nothing to combat this sort of crime.
I hope somebody repeats this scam, I really do, except that they send the card to a executive who uses the gift card and the executive gets arrested. That would help focus their minds.
Since most banks adopt a daily limit on the amount of cash that can be withdrawn from an ATM in one day, usually 700, they want accounts where they can withdraw the maximum amount. No point in letting somebody know their account details have been compromised for just 20 quid, is there?
It's all the other stuff, ATMs, swipe readers, POS machines etc. that aren't......
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/chip_pin_security_unpicked/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/atm_trojans/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/10/organized_crime_doctors_chip_and_pin_machines/
Well, this what happens when you give an important support contract to a company who's CEO only aim is to boost his own earning by increasing the company share price, when sales are falling, by buying your own stock and sacking trained and experienced personnel.
I too have seen the IBM field circus fuck up and bend a pin on a chip after 'servicing' the mainframe and as a result the machine could not do simple maths.
Another place I worked in used to get a significant portion of their hard ware from Amdahl, just to remind big blue that there were alternatives....
"The message was that Windows 7 is Microsoft's most successful operating system ever"
In what context?
Does that mean the earlier version of windoze were not a success?
The least number of bugs on release?
The biggest number of re-used lines of code?
The biggest profit margin?
Paris, who also likes success, and I'm sure cess likes it as well
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I think this is a fantastic idea and I really do hope that crApple get this patent. on a "System and method for providing content associated with a product or service", which they will probably be call the iSmpcapos service (pronounced I-swamp-crap-os) or spam as most normal people call it.
Look at the advantages of crApple getting this patent, their lawyers will spend all their time suing spammers and won't be able to take out any more stupid patents.
Simples
It's not a public network, it is in fact a private network.
Well the ownership of it is in private hands, but then that is the American dream, it doesn’t matter how you make your money as long as you make lots of it. Hence the private network industry is contracted to support public/military functionally.
This keeps everybody happy:-
The grubermant are happy because they can claim they are protection the public finances by getting a service for the lowest cost bidder.
The civil servants are happy because the running of public services is now somebody elses problem leaving then free to concentrate on career advancement.
The military leaders are happy because when they retire they can get jobs in the thankful private sector.
The spy’s are happy because they have an excuse to spy on the citizens and boost their own budgets thereby proving their usefulness. After all, the biggest treat to their existence is not foreign terrorists/freedom fighters but senate oversight committee.
The terrorists/freedom fighters are happy because the military are using commercial equipment to communicate with their spy planes and the signal is easily intercepted
The unmarried mothers, whose boy friend lost his legs in Iraq and can’t work has to take a job as a cleaner that require her to take a job as a cleaner in a location that is 2 hours away on a bus or else she will loose her welfare entitlements is not too happy, but the people she is working for are as the yare getting a cheap house cleaner, and they are also paid up members of the republican/democrat parties.
Meanwhile in other news, L.A. and New York are tuned into prison camps for people with unpatriotic thoughts. I can’t wait for Snake Plissken to EMP the whole place.
The court PDF contains interesting statistics.
“The American motion picture and television industries employ approximately 2.4 million people, to whom the industries pay over $140 billion in wages yearly. “
That’s an average salary of 58,333, given the high salaries that some of the high rollers earn, the average salary in the motion picture and television industries must be fairly shit. This explains the quality of some of the ‘merkin TV and films I’ve had the misfortune to see recently.
“The U.S. economy loses an estimated $25.6 billion per year, and an estimated 375,000 jobs per year, to criminal copyright infringement.”
That’s 6,667 per job!!! FFS that not a job that slavery!!!!
Maybe these people can't afford to buy their own product. I’m beginning to see a pattern.
I was listening to this on the car radio (broadcast by a commercial radio station, nothing sinister) going home yesterday and they had this snippet from Chapman’s arraignment.
She had been give a fake passport by an FBI undercover agent, and told to deliver the passport to somebody; instead she went to the police and handed over the passport to the police.
This, the prosecution claimed, was proof she was a spy, as she only handed over the passport to the police to try and prove she was not a spy. Presumably if she had delivered the passport to where she was supposed to deliver it would have also proved she was a spy.
BB would be proud of logic like that
Of course the other shocking news to come out of this story is that someone exaggerated their work experience on their CV (resume to 'merkins).
Yeah, there called cops, and they should be out preventing real crime instead of wasting public money on these stupid exercises.
Still, it’s a lot easier to apply the jackboot to a 16 year old kid for taking photographs instead for chasing bag snatchers & shop lifters; after all they are real criminals and might fight back. The kid wasn’t wearing a loud shirt in built up area, was he?
It’s a matter of context, Bono complains about the Irish government not giving enough money to the third world and fist chance they get U2 move their copyright holding operation to Holland because they can pay less tax on it.
The only good thing about Bono hurting his back is that it will be a while before he can climb up his own arse again….. Well maybe not.
Not a valid comparison, Churchill, to a certain extent inherited the war, Maggie had a chance to talk her way out of the war, UN sanctions, etc. but chose to go to war to bolster popular support for her government in order to help win the 1983 general election, just as the Argentinean junta invaded the Falklands to bolster their own popularity having destroyed their own economy. Funny how the UK didn’t start fighting then Argentina invaded Corbeta Uruguay in 1976.
And there’s the question of whether the Argentineans were invading or simply re-occupying the islands.
Re “These bastards got what they deserved” and others, if that is truly a criteria for war can you tell me when/if Burma, Indonesia, North Korea, Iran are going to get “what they deserve”? How about Turkey? I don’t remember the UK or the USA rushing off to invade Turkey and trying to liberate Crete when Turkey invaded.
Whatever about the pros and cons of the sinking of the Belgrano, the battle of Leyte Gulf and other in 1942 and 1943 showed what the likely result of any battleship versus aircraft engagement was going to be. One of the propaganda stories about the Falklands was the Argentineans were using old WWII bonds that failed to detonate, in reality that they were dropping modern Mk81 & Mk82 low drag bombs that didn’t have enough time to fuse fully or else they passed straight through the soft aluminum parts of the destroyers. If all the bombs that struck British destroyers had detonated then the outcome may have been different.
It’s also interesting to note the effort required to bomb Stanley airport with the “we don’t need a conventional bomber” Vulcan, were these Vulcan not on the edge of retirement at that point, I think some of them were mothballed and had to be stripped for parts to fly the Vulcan missions. That I think says more about procurement policy and perceived enemies than anything else.
Not only does Canada have a military, but, like Britain, it also once had a innovative aircraft industry that produced ground breaking designs like the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, however nowadays the Canadian air force files McDonnell-Douglas F-18s.
Britain‘s aerospace industry also produced the innovative (for its time) Saunders-Roe SR.177; however the project failed when Germany instead “decided” to buy Lockheed F-104s, helped by some ‘sales incentives’ from Lockheed.
Other examples come to mind, such as the advanced high performing TSR-2 that was controversially cancelled in favour of the General Dynamics F-111
I’m beginning to see a pattern….
More alarmingly, do you want military electronics supplied by the cheapest bidder who may be the enemy in the future? Did nobody watch Battlestar Galactica?
Gunner: Commander we’re been laser designated, bearing 062…
Tank Commander: Roger, enemy tank, bearing 062, moving left to right, ENGAGE!!!
Gunner: Sorry Sir, everything’s stopped worki..... hisssssss <transmission ends>