I just started a local community site of my own, after having lived in San Francisco for college I moved back to my small town of Vero Beach, Florida. Unfortunitly I have been unable to find local LAN parties in the area so I put together a small one page site asking people to contact me if interested in having one, well a few people contacted me saying they wished they could help and offering thier skills. With thier help we were able to rebuild the whole site with PHP-Nuke and now have a small but growing community at http://www.verolanparty.com
If your site is really a labor of love and not a idea to make money you will find people out there who want to help. A webdesigner who believes in your idea and community is going to produce a much better site then one in it just for the money. Also one person has even made a sizable donation to us to get us off the ground to go along with my own personal funds I have sunk into it. If it turns into a profitable buisness then good for you, but don't start with that aim. For our site we decided any profit that was made from the party would be donated to charity, I have made sure every person who helps out knows this so we don't have any problems latter.
Also try not to be too specific, a broader community is going to attract more people then one with a very specific topic. Our site is to talk about our LAN party, but we offer to list any party in the Treasure Coast and offer clans their own forum section wether or not they are in the area. Also we discuss any Gamming related news that may affect our users.
Most of all don't expect huge growth at first, we have 18 members after one month of being up. But we just count it as 18 people we did not know before with the same interests.
P.S. Excuse me if my thought process and spelling is a little off today, I am home from work sick.
Off topic? Mods, atleast read the links before you mod someone offtopic, If you had you would see this is a perfectly valid point.
The USSR has had a huge number of failures as you would see if you checked out the last link in the story, the one refering to the "Mars scorecard". But you have mod points so you must know it all huh?
I'm sure this will be labeled flamebait, but If it happened to me it has probably happened to alot of other posts I might have liked to read!!!
"Will this disqualify him from this particular job? Perhaps, perhaps not. What it means is that it is unlikely that this candidate has what it takes to grow beyond that role."
Umm, the position is a Lego Master Builder, 1 of 6 in the world, where exactly is he going to grow to? Sure he probably won't make CEO but otherwise I'm sure he would be more then happy if his career stopped here. Unless there is a Lego Chief Master Builder or Gunnery Builder position I'm not aware of.;)
Also writing a Blog that is being read by tons of people sure seems like a good show of communication skill to me. There is alot more to communication skills then grammer. Are you one of those people who feel you need to go to an Ivy League school to be good at anything?
If some senators made possession of a Saturday night special illegal citing how many gun crimes are committed using these guns , they ignore many law biding citizens who use these guns for purposes other than crime: Personal protection, private security forces, etc.
Actually Dianne Feinstein is famous for trying that too!
"The people opposed see it dehumanizing the student's papers, putting them through some sort of mechanical, computerized system like the multiple choice tests.
Actually it's about time! I don't see the essays themselves being dehumanized, but what I do look forward to is the day a middle school student doesn't receive a bad grade just because his book report was on the "Theory of Relativity" and the teacher couldn't comprehend the subject. (This is from experience) What it will do is take the human factor out of the grading process and grade all reports equally regardless of subject matter.
If you can change the Direct Connect beep on a i95cl it's the only one, but it is the top of the line phone. I have had an i500, i1000, i60, i90, and now a i88 and NONE of them let you change the DC beep, I always had wished they would.
I work at a public High School and turn down many donations for computers, the main reason being they are too old, I can't talk about all school systems but anything I am offered is usually much worse then what I currently have and will not support the software I am running.
That said one thing we have looked at is repairing the computers we ourselves throw away and giving them to needy students. Our main hurdle has been finding the manpower to do this. Try contacting local schools and see if any are trying to do something similar, Or just ask them what they think you can do. Asking is alot easyer and more productive then trying to quess what you can do for them.
Anyone else see the irony that big buisness feels that "Opt-Out" is a fair policy when advertising to thier customers by phone and Spam. But when google gives them an easy and accesable way to opt-out of thier caching system by use of robot.txt and the NOARCHIVE meta-tag that isn't enough for them and they feel opt-in is the only way to go.
I want to see the look in a cops eyes when you turn yourself in for having a NAT box on your network and the cop reliezes he has one on his DSL or Cable at home too.
If something like this protest was done the best thing going for us would be the fact this is not a "geek only" Technology, NAT is something most households with high speed internet would have.
I wonder if the Michigan government uses NAT, someone want to press charges?
Tell them you run an all linux shop. Then they will have to prove you accepted thier agreement before they can audit you.
Who says we start a mass call-in to thier 1-888 number from phone booths? Watch thier phone bill rise and have a literal DDOS of thier phone system! I plan to call in reports for the following orginazations over the next few days. Microsoft and other BSA members along with the IRS, NSA (You can look at our computers but then we would have to shoot you), CIA, FBI, Delta Force (can you audit something that dosen't officially exist?), just to name a few.
Just like.mil it looks like all you are doing is submiting a request, it's not an automatic thing. I have looked through the whole site and unless I missed something I saw no admin data.I am still looking, I do invite someone to show me what I missed though
Also something that they should think about is that hacking this system could get them all fired and possibly involved in a law suit.
While I believe you are right and a lawsuit would be involved, I have to wonder.
How much money can a company expect to win from it's minimum wage employees???
I would be like: ok, I'm not getting a lawyer. Fine, I'll settle out of court. Sure, I owe you 2 million dollars. Will you take a check?;) Well of couse it bounced, if I had 2 million dollars do you think I would have been working for you for $7 an hour in the first place!!!!
Why not hold a mini convention the same weekend as a bigger convention we are lickly to be at anyways? Didn't OSDN have a party the day of the linux convention in San Fran 2 or 3 years ago? I remember something like that, well I remember alot of free booze the rest is blurry....
Anyways hold a get together one of the days of linux world, everyone would be in town anyways.(And for some people the company picks up the tab)
Exact same thing happened to be here in California, Faxes all hours of the day and night, bought a fax machine to collect and make them stop. In 4 months I've slowed it down but a few still get through. They need to change the laws, if they fax you they have to have the opt-out info at the bottom. But if you don't have a fax machine there is no way to get it. Need to make it that if the machine notices no fax responce 3 times or something it removes you. Or they have to use caller ID and answer it.
Sorry if my spelling/grammer isn't perfect, on my way out the door.
My problem is worse then spam and soliciters, it's faxes. The kicker is I don't even have a fax machine. I finally borrowed one from a friend so I could get the number to call back and cancel but it takes time, and fax spamers don't seem to care what time it is, I get calls at 2am with no regard for the fact I am sleeping.
Most of them marketing faxes, some are from large companies who say they can't figure out were the fax is comming from (I haven't gotten any since my last call so I hope they figured it out), one is from the Nigeria scam. This is crazy, there needs to be a law regarding caller ID on faxes, If I hadn't borrowed a fax machine I would still be unable to call them. It's illigal to fax unsolicited, but I have to pay for the fax machine to find out who it is?
I would change phone numbers but I've had this one for about 6 months now, at first it was not bad but it got 100 times worse since then. Based on some of the faxes I am quessing my number used to belong to a realestate agency.
Hopefuly they will do some decent pricing on this system, my biggest complaint with the web features of Sprint (my current cell provider) and many other cell carriers is they charge you for the time you access the web, by this I mean if I surf on my cell phone and stop to read a page for ten minutes I get charged for 10 minutes, not the 30 seconds it took to download the page. Most phones I know offer no way to download a page and then store it so you can read it latter without charge. Hopefully this sytem will charge me for actual download time or bandwidth, and not for the time I spend reading it.
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I just started a local community site of my own, after having lived in San Francisco for college I moved back to my small town of Vero Beach, Florida. Unfortunitly I have been unable to find local LAN parties in the area so I put together a small one page site asking people to contact me if interested in having one, well a few people contacted me saying they wished they could help and offering thier skills. With thier help we were able to rebuild the whole site with PHP-Nuke and now have a small but growing community at http://www.verolanparty.com
If your site is really a labor of love and not a idea to make money you will find people out there who want to help. A webdesigner who believes in your idea and community is going to produce a much better site then one in it just for the money. Also one person has even made a sizable donation to us to get us off the ground to go along with my own personal funds I have sunk into it. If it turns into a profitable buisness then good for you, but don't start with that aim. For our site we decided any profit that was made from the party would be donated to charity, I have made sure every person who helps out knows this so we don't have any problems latter.
Also try not to be too specific, a broader community is going to attract more people then one with a very specific topic. Our site is to talk about our LAN party, but we offer to list any party in the Treasure Coast and offer clans their own forum section wether or not they are in the area. Also we discuss any Gamming related news that may affect our users.
Most of all don't expect huge growth at first, we have 18 members after one month of being up. But we just count it as 18 people we did not know before with the same interests.
P.S. Excuse me if my thought process and spelling is a little off today, I am home from work sick.
Off topic? Mods, atleast read the links before you mod someone offtopic, If you had you would see this is a perfectly valid point.
The USSR has had a huge number of failures as you would see if you checked out the last link in the story, the one refering to the "Mars scorecard". But you have mod points so you must know it all huh?
I'm sure this will be labeled flamebait, but If it happened to me it has probably happened to alot of other posts I might have liked to read!!!
Without the USSR on our team the score would be Earth 11 - Mars 6. We need to send them back to the little leagues!
Actually you could probably finance the whole deal by selling the Television rights to MTV's The Real World.
Problem is the producers would want to choose the people and we would end up with a gay guy, a guy with aids, a lesbian girl, and a hot blond bimbo.
"Will this disqualify him from this particular job? Perhaps, perhaps not. What it means is that it is unlikely that this candidate has what it takes to grow beyond that role."
;)
Umm, the position is a Lego Master Builder, 1 of 6 in the world, where exactly is he going to grow to? Sure he probably won't make CEO but otherwise I'm sure he would be more then happy if his career stopped here. Unless there is a Lego Chief Master Builder or Gunnery Builder position I'm not aware of.
Also writing a Blog that is being read by tons of people sure seems like a good show of communication skill to me. There is alot more to communication skills then grammer. Are you one of those people who feel you need to go to an Ivy League school to be good at anything?
Actually Dianne Feinstein is famous for trying that too!
"The people opposed see it dehumanizing the student's papers, putting them through some sort of mechanical, computerized system like the multiple choice tests.
Actually it's about time! I don't see the essays themselves being dehumanized, but what I do look forward to is the day a middle school student doesn't receive a bad grade just because his book report was on the "Theory of Relativity" and the teacher couldn't comprehend the subject. (This is from experience) What it will do is take the human factor out of the grading process and grade all reports equally regardless of subject matter.
If you can change the Direct Connect beep on a i95cl it's the only one, but it is the top of the line phone. I have had an i500, i1000, i60, i90, and now a i88 and NONE of them let you change the DC beep, I always had wished they would.
I work at a public High School and turn down many donations for computers, the main reason being they are too old, I can't talk about all school systems but anything I am offered is usually much worse then what I currently have and will not support the software I am running.
That said one thing we have looked at is repairing the computers we ourselves throw away and giving them to needy students. Our main hurdle has been finding the manpower to do this. Try contacting local schools and see if any are trying to do something similar, Or just ask them what they think you can do. Asking is alot easyer and more productive then trying to quess what you can do for them.
Anyone else see the irony that big buisness feels that "Opt-Out" is a fair policy when advertising to thier customers by phone and Spam. But when google gives them an easy and accesable way to opt-out of thier caching system by use of robot.txt and the NOARCHIVE meta-tag that isn't enough for them and they feel opt-in is the only way to go.
I want to see the look in a cops eyes when you turn yourself in for having a NAT box on your network and the cop reliezes he has one on his DSL or Cable at home too.
If something like this protest was done the best thing going for us would be the fact this is not a "geek only" Technology, NAT is something most households with high speed internet would have.
I wonder if the Michigan government uses NAT, someone want to press charges?
Tell them you run an all linux shop. Then they will have to prove you accepted thier agreement before they can audit you.
Who says we start a mass call-in to thier 1-888 number from phone booths? Watch thier phone bill rise and have a literal DDOS of thier phone system! I plan to call in reports for the following orginazations over the next few days. Microsoft and other BSA members along with the IRS, NSA (You can look at our computers but then we would have to shoot you), CIA, FBI, Delta Force (can you audit something that dosen't officially exist?), just to name a few.
http://www.bsa.org/usa/about/members/
Just like .mil it looks like all you are doing is submiting a request, it's not an automatic thing. I have looked through the whole site and unless I missed something I saw no admin data.I am still looking, I do invite someone to show me what I missed though
http://www.tiltrac.com
Sure there $50,000 but why re-invent the wheel?
Also something that they should think about is that hacking this system could get them all fired and possibly involved in a law suit.
;)
While I believe you are right and a lawsuit would be involved, I have to wonder.
How much money can a company expect to win from it's minimum wage employees???
I would be like:
ok, I'm not getting a lawyer.
Fine, I'll settle out of court.
Sure, I owe you 2 million dollars.
Will you take a check?
Well of couse it bounced, if I had 2 million dollars do you think I would have been working for you for $7 an hour in the first place!!!!
I love how I make the comment first yet I get labled redundant!
I remember a plug for an intrusion detection system on my old 486's.
Why not hold a mini convention the same weekend as a bigger convention we are lickly to be at anyways? Didn't OSDN have a party the day of the linux convention in San Fran 2 or 3 years ago? I remember something like that, well I remember alot of free booze the rest is blurry....
Anyways hold a get together one of the days of linux world, everyone would be in town anyways.(And for some people the company picks up the tab)
We do this at our private college. At first it was on the down low, but now we actually have it put on by the Student Activities Department.
Tons of fun and way cheaper then a bar.
Oh yeah, this guy can expect a visit from the FBI any day now!
Exact same thing happened to be here in California, Faxes all hours of the day and night, bought a fax machine to collect and make them stop. In 4 months I've slowed it down but a few still get through. They need to change the laws, if they fax you they have to have the opt-out info at the bottom. But if you don't have a fax machine there is no way to get it. Need to make it that if the machine notices no fax responce 3 times or something it removes you. Or they have to use caller ID and answer it.
Sorry if my spelling/grammer isn't perfect, on my way out the door.
"method of sabotaging a train by means of Prying the cover off, bash the insides to pieces with a rock, and/or fill it up with dirt/glue/etc"
. Under this patent I will be suing all the sabotager's. If you have sabotaged a train by this method please send me an e-mail so I may sue you.
My problem is worse then spam and soliciters, it's faxes. The kicker is I don't even have a fax machine. I finally borrowed one from a friend so I could get the number to call back and cancel but it takes time, and fax spamers don't seem to care what time it is, I get calls at 2am with no regard for the fact I am sleeping.
Most of them marketing faxes, some are from large companies who say they can't figure out were the fax is comming from (I haven't gotten any since my last call so I hope they figured it out), one is from the Nigeria scam. This is crazy, there needs to be a law regarding caller ID on faxes, If I hadn't borrowed a fax machine I would still be unable to call them. It's illigal to fax unsolicited, but I have to pay for the fax machine to find out who it is?
I would change phone numbers but I've had this one for about 6 months now, at first it was not bad but it got 100 times worse since then. Based on some of the faxes I am quessing my number used to belong to a realestate agency.
Hopefuly they will do some decent pricing on this system, my biggest complaint with the web features of Sprint (my current cell provider) and many other cell carriers is they charge you for the time you access the web, by this I mean if I surf on my cell phone and stop to read a page for ten minutes I get charged for 10 minutes, not the 30 seconds it took to download the page. Most phones I know offer no way to download a page and then store it so you can read it latter without charge. Hopefully this sytem will charge me for actual download time or bandwidth, and not for the time I spend reading it.
You got an email saying that their privacy policy had been changed and to click a link to go review your personal settings.
Not everyone got such an E-mail, I belong to a large Yahoo group and one of our members posted to let us know, but Yahoo never sent us anything.