The alleged scheme involved the purchase of low-value cards, typically with balances of about $15. Tenenbaum would then exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities in Direct Cash's server to increase the value of the cards. The amount of a single card was inflated to more than $1m
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What's that site running? IIS, of course. This is petty theft next to the current collapse but it's still no way to run a bank.
updates will be made to my journal article."
the signal the product sends that HP doesnt need Microsoft quite so much anymore.
... The HP mini laptops customized look and feel is the labor of the Experience team in HPs Personal Systems Group, which is working to make its products feel simpler and more intuitive than the industry-standard Windows-based PCs.
Crunchgear coos over that interface:
The specs are only half the story as the OS is where it gets interesting.
... This Mobile Internet Experience streamlines most common uses into a custom built homescreen that screams of HPs Touchsmart interface — thats a good thing. ... take note at HPs netbooks, but dont copy em. Instead, hire a design firm and actually produce something that is innovative instead of another EEE clone.
Things will really get interesting when $100 MIPS and ARM netbooks hit the market.
Updates, if any, will be in my journal."
I can now say — with some confidence — that Microsoft has once again dropped the ball.
... Just as slow as Vista. Just as consumer-focused as Vista. ... Just as confusing as Vista. ... Overall, I'm extremely disappointed with Windows 7. Far from atoning for Vista's sins, Windows 7 simply carries them forward, visiting them upon yet another generation.
Looks like Windows 7 is part of the Vista failure but worse. This version dumps media applications that were the core of Vista's "consumer" focus. In related news, people are calling Azure "Hailstone 2.0", remember that?
Updates will be added to my journal entry"
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke