That law forbids booksellers from offering discounts of more than 5 percent off the list price, and Amazon was found to be exceeding that discount when the free shipping was factored in.
Wouldn't that mean the cover price on the book itself? I don't see how shipping and/or tax would be included in that.
How the hell does giving free shipping mean that the price of the book is discounted? The book is $7.99 or whatever regardless of the price of shipping, free or not.
As a side point, MAC address filtering is tremendously ineffective.
Why is it ineffective? Is there some way to spoof a MAC Address? If so, how could someone get the MAC address of another computer they do not have physical access to?
I have a Linksys WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT firmware. I use a MAC filter that only allows computers I SPECIFICALLY tell it to, I have disabled administrative access to the router wirelessly and changed the default login AND password, and I password protect my wireless access on top of all that. It took me about an hour (if I recall correctly) to set the router up, including flashing the DD-WRT firmware on it. But once it is done, I don't have to bother changing any more settings, aside from rotating the admin password and updated the MAC filter as needed.
Unfortunately, far too many are just that - out-of-box and plugged in.
I wonder if it is too much to expect that when the routers are first set up, the default password should expire on the first log-in and should require a different password. Are there any routers out there that do this? How come this isn't default behavior?
On the other hand there's this thing called the Live Music Archive, where you can fill your music player with hours upon hours of live music from talented musicians.
Here is the link to the Live Music Archive in case anyone is interested.
Thanks for the contact info. The EFF site link in the summary has a form letter on it. Fill out your information and the EFF will send it to the appropriate senators for you. Took me less than a minute, and it was sent to both my senators.
And how do paying customers benefit when MS reveals unknown security holes in their products, even after they are patched?
Transparency in things like security would go a long way in bettering Microsoft's reputation. Techies give their opinion to Joe Sixpack when asked, and I bet most of the opinions about Microsoft's security is lacking. One can only imagine what they haven't disclosed when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Maybe that is the way it has to be with closed-source, but it makes you wonder.
Discount the Zune? Heck, they could just give away the Zune to everyone in America and still have cash left.
I don't know if I'd expect them to go that far, but maybe they should think about their (existing)paying customers when dealing with bugs, firmware, licensing, pricing, etc...
I mean come on, if they said they had no security holes, nobody would believe them. If they released too many security holes, their stock would go down. So they have to find a happy medium.
So do you agree with them in their belief that their stockholders are more important than their paying customers?
In this case though, they should allow them because the graphic nature serves a greater purpose to humanity. In other words, if their policy is hiding a truth that people need to know, they should not apply their policy in that case.
Don't you think that opens up a bigger can of worms? Applying TOS to some things, and not others, regardless of truth or intent or anything else that is intangible like that seems to me to be dangerous. Apply the TOS across the board, or change the TOS. That should be the only 2 choices.
This internal decision was made because of the internal management who decided that they like the internally spent money from their internal bank account which was transferred from an unkown party, internally. Or they simply don't want to lose the internal bonus if Egypt decides to block YouTube nationwide, strictly internally speaking.
The article states that videos with gratuitous or graphic violence is against YouTube's TOS and that is why the account was suspended.
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Ah...the new Britney Spears model.
You just know that the dialog in that one is going to be great. MST3K material for sure.
That's all his films are. The only way I'd see a Boll film is if I was drunk and could make fun of it while it was playing.
But TFA says "list price".
That law forbids booksellers from offering discounts of more than 5 percent off the list price, and Amazon was found to be exceeding that discount when the free shipping was factored in.
Wouldn't that mean the cover price on the book itself? I don't see how shipping and/or tax would be included in that.
How the hell does giving free shipping mean that the price of the book is discounted? The book is $7.99 or whatever regardless of the price of shipping, free or not.
Thanks for all the responses! I learned a lot and also heard some things I never thought of.
Based on these comments, I decided to go with this.
Wouldn't NoScript protect the Firefox users out there?
Oh, and I have a dog guarding my yard. A REALLY BIG dog with a laser strapped to its head.
If only you had a SHARK with a laser strapped to its head. Then your router would truly be secure.
As a side point, MAC address filtering is tremendously ineffective.
Why is it ineffective? Is there some way to spoof a MAC Address? If so, how could someone get the MAC address of another computer they do not have physical access to?
I have a Linksys WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT firmware. I use a MAC filter that only allows computers I SPECIFICALLY tell it to, I have disabled administrative access to the router wirelessly and changed the default login AND password, and I password protect my wireless access on top of all that. It took me about an hour (if I recall correctly) to set the router up, including flashing the DD-WRT firmware on it. But once it is done, I don't have to bother changing any more settings, aside from rotating the admin password and updated the MAC filter as needed.
Just my take on it.
Unfortunately, far too many are just that - out-of-box and plugged in.
I wonder if it is too much to expect that when the routers are first set up, the default password should expire on the first log-in and should require a different password. Are there any routers out there that do this? How come this isn't default behavior?
36% seems like a severe lowball estimate, to me. I wouldn't be at all surprised if 1/3 of WAP's still have the manufacturer's default admin login.
1/3 is 33 1/3%. How is that severly off of the 36% estimate?
I'm not sure if there is an easy way to rip bought music back off an iPod or not...
Sharepod is what you are looking for.
On the other hand there's this thing called the Live Music Archive, where you can fill your music player with hours upon hours of live music from talented musicians.
Here is the link to the Live Music Archive in case anyone is interested.
It's a personal preference - I like Vanilla Ice cream...
Wow. You had me worried, then I saw "cream" at the end of that.
A coworker...
Thanks for the info. I'm off to ebay.
Get an older cheap Palm before they put in too many bells and whistles...
If one were to take your advice, what models would be the ones to look for?
Thanks for the contact info. The EFF site link in the summary has a form letter on it. Fill out your information and the EFF will send it to the appropriate senators for you. Took me less than a minute, and it was sent to both my senators.
I predict that as soon as Blizzard's legal department is done with them they will need millions....
The articel says that Blizzard has helped them by giving them special access to extra information in The Armory to help them with the modeling.
Do they run Linux?
And how do paying customers benefit when MS reveals unknown security holes in their products, even after they are patched?
Transparency in things like security would go a long way in bettering Microsoft's reputation. Techies give their opinion to Joe Sixpack when asked, and I bet most of the opinions about Microsoft's security is lacking. One can only imagine what they haven't disclosed when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Maybe that is the way it has to be with closed-source, but it makes you wonder.
Discount the Zune? Heck, they could just give away the Zune to everyone in America and still have cash left.
I don't know if I'd expect them to go that far, but maybe they should think about their (existing)paying customers when dealing with bugs, firmware, licensing, pricing, etc...
Of course they are. The idea of the company is to make money, not to make happy customers.
Don't you think that more happy customers would mean more money to Microsoft's bottom line?
I mean come on, if they said they had no security holes, nobody would believe them. If they released too many security holes, their stock would go down. So they have to find a happy medium.
So do you agree with them in their belief that their stockholders are more important than their paying customers?
In this case though, they should allow them because the graphic nature serves a greater purpose to humanity. In other words, if their policy is hiding a truth that people need to know, they should not apply their policy in that case.
Don't you think that opens up a bigger can of worms? Applying TOS to some things, and not others, regardless of truth or intent or anything else that is intangible like that seems to me to be dangerous. Apply the TOS across the board, or change the TOS. That should be the only 2 choices.
This internal decision was made because of the internal management who decided that they like the internally spent money from their internal bank account which was transferred from an unkown party, internally. Or they simply don't want to lose the internal bonus if Egypt decides to block YouTube nationwide, strictly internally speaking.
The article states that videos with gratuitous or graphic violence is against YouTube's TOS and that is why the account was suspended.