A different bank's ATM machine ate my debit card. I then continued on my way to lunch expecting to be able to call up the bank later that day and get my card from the nearest branch. You see, this wasn't the first time the machine on campus ate my ATM card and that was the established protocol.
This time, however, the person who got my ATM card out of the machine was the next person in line. They then took the card and proceeded to rampage around the local stores using my card to purchases clothes and shoes; lots of shoes.
Being a debit card, it was drawing the money directly from my checking account. At the time, I was a college student and was basically leaving paycheck to paycheck. I wasn't in debt and I paid all my bills on time, I just didn't make enough money to save anything.
The checks for my rent and all my bills had already been mailed, but not processsed yet. By the time I called the bank about 3 hours after it ate my ATM card, I didn't have any cash left to pay the bills. I was a college student too, so they immediately accuse me of being the one going around on this spending spree as some sort of scam against them. I was quite livid, to say the least.
The next 3 months was a nightmare. Purchases that hadn't posted yet at the time of the theft were being rejected and I was constantly being called and written by merchants trying to get their money back. Of course, everyone eventually did get paid because this was fraud and the bank gave me back most of money. It still took me quite a while to get everything put back correctly on my credit.
It was amazing to me how many purchases waited to post to my account 3 or 4 or even 5 days after I made the purchase. I was being contacted by people that sold coffee, the grocery store, the campus book store and many more because this was all right at the start of classes.
To this DAY, 7 years later, I refuse to get a debit card and always insist on an ATM only card.
What is Blizzard going to do to address the issues that currently exist with low population servers now and in the future. For current issues, I will point at the Warsong Gultch and the Alterac Valley instances; estimated wait time 1 minute, actual wait time 3hrs 14mins.
This is a very real issue NOW and it will be much worse in the future when more and more people have maxed out faction rewards. Personally, the immediate answer that springs to my mind is that PvP instances and instances where people try to form a pick up group through the meeting stone should first attempt to match on the current server and, if that fails within a resonable amount of time, match you up with players from other servers. If this solution is, somehow, too complicated for you to implement then the only other solution I can think of is character transfers from low population servers to medium or high population servers.
I'm not sure that is true in Virginia or Maryland, thanks to their adoption of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCITA
While I don't think you are a troll, and I understand the point you are trying to make, this situation is an extremely complex problem. Pointing the finger at a specific nationality, age group, gender or religion can focus the search too narrowly and miss the exceptional cases.
When I was younger, I was very much the mall rat. I spent a lot of time at the local arcade in the mall and got to know the people that worked there pretty well. I remember one of the managers telling me a similar story. This guy was an area manager in the NC area and would visit the various stores throughout the month. He said one of them (I forget which one) was supposed to have a dent in the wall where a repair guy had done the same thing. The dent was supposed to be autographed too!:)
... although in their defense, in the end, the guy always ends up being guilty of something.
Of course the ones you wind up seeing on TV are guilty, what about all the incidents you do not see that never make it on TV? Also, all the car chases you see on TV end in the death or capture of the criminal... they never show anyone getting away. Of course, I'm not advocating criminal behavior, just pointing out the subtle conditioning that's going on with these shows.
...but the idea of all the books on my bookshelf (and yours, and yours, and yours... in fact, all the books I ever want to read) stored inside the stylus of my 9-day-battery life, white-LED-backlit wireless anything box is pretty tantalizing.
I can think of some many reasons this would be great for mankind and society... unfortunatly, I sincerly doubt the corporations that own these books would be willing to allow such a collection without you paying for each and every book... Such a sad state of affairs.
Only problem, it was too short. I clocked it at around 1.5 hours. I didn't really notice that it was too short though, which is a testament to how great this movie was. The actor which plays Logan/Wolverine must have REALLY read the comics. He had the character down to a tee. The special effects had me wanting more and more. Best way to describe them is 'The Matrix' but, as hard as it may seem, I felt these effects were usually more believable.
DON'T READ BELOW THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE PLOT
Rogue runs away from home to Canada after draining a dude that kissed her. He was in a coma for a week. She heads up north and runs into our favorite Canadian mutant (at least mine that is) Wolvie. Wolvie's fighting in a bar (presumably to make some cash) and kicking everyones ass of course. Rogue seems drawn to him and warns Logan of a guy who's about to stab him. Wolvie cleans up shop again and heads down the road (with an uninvited Rogue hiding in the trailer pulling his cycle.)
Rogue begins to lecture Wolvie that he should be wearing his seatbelt when they have a little encounter with Sabretooth. Fight ensues, Wolvie gets knocked out. Storm and Cyclops show up and kick Sabretooth's ass. Wolvie wakes up in the Mansion. He's a little disoriented, since he's waking up in a strange place and almost takes Jean Grey's head off. Xavier guides him into his office using that old TP ability of his. That's telepathic of course. Xavier encourages Wolvie to join them, at least for 48 hours, and he'll help Wolvie find out about his past. Wolvie takes him up on the offer.
That night, Wolvie has a nightmare about his past. Unfortunatly, Rogue decides to try and comfort him. You see, she has a big crush on him. Well, as one can imagine, you don't go waking up a guy with adamantite claws unless you want them poking through your chest and out the back. To save herself, Rogue touches him and drains his healing factor for a few minutes. So, while Wolvie's knocked out again for a while, the sexy blue babe Mystique shows up in disguise. She wires Cebrero up the wrong way (to take out Xavier) and poses as a VERY young Iceman to convince Rogue that she's not wanted there by the X-Men. Of course, she leaves crying for the train station.
At the train station, Magneto and Toad and Mystique clean up shop and kidnap Rogue. Time to mount an offensive and get her back. But where can she be? Let's use Cerebro and find out! *ZAP BAM* Xavier's gone, at least temporarily. Jean fixes Cerebro back and uses it to find Rogue at the Statue of Liberty. Magneto's gonna use her to power a machine he built which induces a mutation in non-mutants. Unfortunatly, it would kill Magneto to use it so... he'll just give his power to Rogue and kill her instead.
X-Men can't let this happen of course, so they're off to the statue. Toad intercepts them when they arrive and pretty much single handely mops the floor with them for a good 15 mins or so. Well, Mystique is there too but she's busy with Wolvie. Wolvie decides that a few well places claws through her stomach should probably do the trick. Mystique's out for the count. Meanwhile, Storm wakes back up and is extremely pissed off. She zaps Toad with lightning and we get to see him learn how to fly... well, at least for about 15 seconds. Just when it looks like the heros are gonna have an easy time of this, Magneto decides to step in. Wolvie warns them to run, because he finds himself suddenly stuck to the floor. Unfortunatly, they didn't head his advice and they all (yes all) got pinnned to the inside of the Statue's torch. Just to make sure that Wolvie didn't try anything, he positioned his claws pointed at Wolvies neck. Of course, Magneto then leaves to start the mutant weapon.
Meanwhile, Wolvie has promised Rogue that he'll watch after her. So, he does what anyone with an extremely fast healing factor and adamantite claws would do. He slits his own throat but breaks out of the bonds holding him to the Torch. In the time that it take him to recover, Magneto get his ability passed off to Rogue. She cries and screams of course but she can't escape her bonds. Sabretooth and Wolvie have a huge battle and Wolvie wins with Cyclops help. Wolvie frees the rest of the X-Men and gets flown up to the weapon with Storm and Jean Gray's help. Big struggle with Magneto using the fact that Wolvie is mostly metal against him. Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men are still in the Torch but he's getting a bead on the machine. Just as the mutant evil ray beam is about to hit Manhatten, Cyclops blows it up and Wolvie frees Rogue, who develops a white streak in her hair to match the comic. There's much rejoicing as Rogue drains Wolvie again to heal her wounds. They head back to the mansion.
Xavier is back to normal, and tells Wolvie of a military base up in Canada he should check out. Wolvie leads and gets a sad farewell from Rogue. He hands her his dogtags which say 'Wolverine' on them. Xavier makes a visit to Magneto who is now in a plastic jail.
Someone changed the site recently... guess they noticed the/. effect
Contact Information - Press Contact Company Name Microsoft Corporation Name Mark Williams Title Email markwi@microsoft.com Phone # 425-936-1964 Fax # 425-936-7329
From what I've read it appears that if anyone attempts to reverse engineer what I've stored using a copyrighted technique then this action is considered illegal and is punishable with powerful action. I've been browsing through Knuth's Art of Computer Programming vol III and I read of an early sorting program whose sole purpose was to produce optimized copyrighted sorting programs --- an automatic copyrighted code generator. So, here is what I'm thinking:
We create a similar product which creates copyrighted encryption programs. We then use these copyrighted encryption programs to talk about whatever we damn well please. If our communcations are intercepted and decrypted we cite the DMCA and use it against whoever decrypted our message. These programs don't have to be snazzy encryption products, they could and should fit within what is exportable by law. This way, we can use the power of the DMCA to protect our secrets.
Yeah, I wasn't referring to a first post. I was referinng to a device which could play MP3s off of a standard CD-ROM. I was first exposed to the file format about 2 years ago I believe and I thought, "Hey! This would be awesome to compress my collection down" After all, I don't like leaving my CDs around the office where they could be liberated from me (school+cubicle+somewhat high traffic area.) Not to mention the fact that CDs can get scratched fairly easily when you are shuffling them around as much as I do. Who wants to tote 40 CDs to work when they could just take 4.
I wish I had been exposed to linux as I came up through the education system here in the US. My early work was on the apples programming LOGO and then I "moved up" to DOS and BASICA. Even then I didn't like Micro$oft but I didn't have any other options (or so I thought.) Thank goodness those days are behind me. I hope others won't have to go through that.:)
I'd like to see more features on my HUD. Current speed, direction, GPS coordinates, webserver statistics, fuel supply, days until y2k (BTW who compressed 'Year 2000' into 'Y2K'... isn't that kinda what got us into the problem?), maybe information on other objects within view such as the speed of the car in front of me superimposed above its image along with its current direction vector.
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Another data point in the saga of debit cards.
A different bank's ATM machine ate my debit card. I then continued on my way to lunch expecting to be able to call up the bank later that day and get my card from the nearest branch. You see, this wasn't the first time the machine on campus ate my ATM card and that was the established protocol.
This time, however, the person who got my ATM card out of the machine was the next person in line. They then took the card and proceeded to rampage around the local stores using my card to purchases clothes and shoes; lots of shoes.
Being a debit card, it was drawing the money directly from my checking account. At the time, I was a college student and was basically leaving paycheck to paycheck. I wasn't in debt and I paid all my bills on time, I just didn't make enough money to save anything.
The checks for my rent and all my bills had already been mailed, but not processsed yet. By the time I called the bank about 3 hours after it ate my ATM card, I didn't have any cash left to pay the bills. I was a college student too, so they immediately accuse me of being the one going around on this spending spree as some sort of scam against them. I was quite livid, to say the least.
The next 3 months was a nightmare. Purchases that hadn't posted yet at the time of the theft were being rejected and I was constantly being called and written by merchants trying to get their money back. Of course, everyone eventually did get paid because this was fraud and the bank gave me back most of money. It still took me quite a while to get everything put back correctly on my credit.
It was amazing to me how many purchases waited to post to my account 3 or 4 or even 5 days after I made the purchase. I was being contacted by people that sold coffee, the grocery store, the campus book store and many more because this was all right at the start of classes.
To this DAY, 7 years later, I refuse to get a debit card and always insist on an ATM only card.
What is Blizzard going to do to address the issues that currently exist with low population servers now and in the future. For current issues, I will point at the Warsong Gultch and the Alterac Valley instances; estimated wait time 1 minute, actual wait time 3hrs 14mins.
This is a very real issue NOW and it will be much worse in the future when more and more people have maxed out faction rewards. Personally, the immediate answer that springs to my mind is that PvP instances and instances where people try to form a pick up group through the meeting stone should first attempt to match on the current server and, if that fails within a resonable amount of time, match you up with players from other servers. If this solution is, somehow, too complicated for you to implement then the only other solution I can think of is character transfers from low population servers to medium or high population servers.
It's a handy feature but it's not just Google, see this FAQ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/
Note, from the FAQ, "Recent releases of sendmail come with this working already."
I'm not sure that is true in Virginia or Maryland, thanks to their adoption of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCITA
Timothy McVeigh?
Ted Kaczynski?
Charles A. McCoy Jr (soon to see I guess)?
John Malmo?
While I don't think you are a troll, and I understand the point you are trying to make, this situation is an extremely complex problem. Pointing the finger at a specific nationality, age group, gender or religion can focus the search too narrowly and miss the exceptional cases.
When I was younger, I was very much the mall rat. I spent a lot of time at the local arcade in the mall and got to know the people that worked there pretty well. I remember one of the managers telling me a similar story. This guy was an area manager in the NC area and would visit the various stores throughout the month. He said one of them (I forget which one) was supposed to have a dent in the wall where a repair guy had done the same thing. The dent was supposed to be autographed too! :)
Of course the ones you wind up seeing on TV are guilty, what about all the incidents you do not see that never make it on TV? Also, all the car chases you see on TV end in the death or capture of the criminal
That would be Fermat! :)
As in, Fermat's last theorem...
bwahahahaha, quite maniacal that man must've been
:)
I can think of some many reasons this would be great for mankind and society... unfortunatly, I sincerly doubt the corporations that own these books would be willing to allow such a collection without you paying for each and every book... Such a sad state of affairs.
Only problem, it was too short. I clocked it at around 1.5 hours. I didn't really notice that it was too short though, which is a testament to how great this movie was. The actor which plays Logan/Wolverine must have REALLY read the comics. He had the character down to a tee. The special effects had me wanting more and more. Best way to describe them is 'The Matrix' but, as hard as it may seem, I felt these effects were usually more believable.
Rogue runs away from home to Canada after draining a dude that kissed her. He was in a coma for a week. She heads up north and runs into our favorite Canadian mutant (at least mine that is) Wolvie. Wolvie's fighting in a bar (presumably to make some cash) and kicking everyones ass of course. Rogue seems drawn to him and warns Logan of a guy who's about to stab him. Wolvie cleans up shop again and heads down the road (with an uninvited Rogue hiding in the trailer pulling his cycle.)
Rogue begins to lecture Wolvie that he should be wearing his seatbelt when they have a little encounter with Sabretooth. Fight ensues, Wolvie gets knocked out. Storm and Cyclops show up and kick Sabretooth's ass. Wolvie wakes up in the Mansion. He's a little disoriented, since he's waking up in a strange place and almost takes Jean Grey's head off. Xavier guides him into his office using that old TP ability of his. That's telepathic of course. Xavier encourages Wolvie to join them, at least for 48 hours, and he'll help Wolvie find out about his past. Wolvie takes him up on the offer.
That night, Wolvie has a nightmare about his past. Unfortunatly, Rogue decides to try and comfort him. You see, she has a big crush on him. Well, as one can imagine, you don't go waking up a guy with adamantite claws unless you want them poking through your chest and out the back. To save herself, Rogue touches him and drains his healing factor for a few minutes. So, while Wolvie's knocked out again for a while, the sexy blue babe Mystique shows up in disguise. She wires Cebrero up the wrong way (to take out Xavier) and poses as a VERY young Iceman to convince Rogue that she's not wanted there by the X-Men. Of course, she leaves crying for the train station.
At the train station, Magneto and Toad and Mystique clean up shop and kidnap Rogue. Time to mount an offensive and get her back. But where can she be? Let's use Cerebro and find out! *ZAP BAM* Xavier's gone, at least temporarily. Jean fixes Cerebro back and uses it to find Rogue at the Statue of Liberty. Magneto's gonna use her to power a machine he built which induces a mutation in non-mutants. Unfortunatly, it would kill Magneto to use it so... he'll just give his power to Rogue and kill her instead.
X-Men can't let this happen of course, so they're off to the statue. Toad intercepts them when they arrive and pretty much single handely mops the floor with them for a good 15 mins or so. Well, Mystique is there too but she's busy with Wolvie. Wolvie decides that a few well places claws through her stomach should probably do the trick. Mystique's out for the count. Meanwhile, Storm wakes back up and is extremely pissed off. She zaps Toad with lightning and we get to see him learn how to fly... well, at least for about 15 seconds. Just when it looks like the heros are gonna have an easy time of this, Magneto decides to step in. Wolvie warns them to run, because he finds himself suddenly stuck to the floor. Unfortunatly, they didn't head his advice and they all (yes all) got pinnned to the inside of the Statue's torch. Just to make sure that Wolvie didn't try anything, he positioned his claws pointed at Wolvies neck. Of course, Magneto then leaves to start the mutant weapon.
Meanwhile, Wolvie has promised Rogue that he'll watch after her. So, he does what anyone with an extremely fast healing factor and adamantite claws would do. He slits his own throat but breaks out of the bonds holding him to the Torch. In the time that it take him to recover, Magneto get his ability passed off to Rogue. She cries and screams of course but she can't escape her bonds. Sabretooth and Wolvie have a huge battle and Wolvie wins with Cyclops help. Wolvie frees the rest of the X-Men and gets flown up to the weapon with Storm and Jean Gray's help. Big struggle with Magneto using the fact that Wolvie is mostly metal against him. Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men are still in the Torch but he's getting a bead on the machine. Just as the mutant evil ray beam is about to hit Manhatten, Cyclops blows it up and Wolvie frees Rogue, who develops a white streak in her hair to match the comic. There's much rejoicing as Rogue drains Wolvie again to heal her wounds. They head back to the mansion.
Xavier is back to normal, and tells Wolvie of a military base up in Canada he should check out. Wolvie leads and gets a sad farewell from Rogue. He hands her his dogtags which say 'Wolverine' on them. Xavier makes a visit to Magneto who is now in a plastic jail.
The end!!!
From http://www.gnutella.com/
temporarily down. come back later.
Contact Information - Press Contact
Company Name Microsoft Corporation
Name Mark Williams
Title
Email markwi@microsoft.com
Phone # 425-936-1964
Fax # 425-936-7329
From what I've read it appears that if anyone attempts to reverse engineer what I've stored using a copyrighted technique then this action is considered illegal and is punishable with powerful action. I've been browsing through Knuth's Art of Computer Programming vol III and I read of an early sorting program whose sole purpose was to produce optimized copyrighted sorting programs --- an automatic copyrighted code generator. So, here is what I'm thinking:
We create a similar product which creates copyrighted encryption programs. We then use these copyrighted encryption programs to talk about whatever we damn well please. If our communcations are intercepted and decrypted we cite the DMCA and use it against whoever decrypted our message. These programs don't have to be snazzy encryption products, they could and should fit within what is exportable by law. This way, we can use the power of the DMCA to protect our secrets.
Yeah, I wasn't referring to a first post. I was referinng to a device which could play MP3s off of a standard CD-ROM. I was first exposed to the file format about 2 years ago I believe and I thought, "Hey! This would be awesome to compress my collection down" After all, I don't like leaving my CDs around the office where they could be liberated from me (school+cubicle+somewhat high traffic area.) Not to mention the fact that CDs can get scratched fairly easily when you are shuffling them around as much as I do. Who wants to tote 40 CDs to work when they could just take 4.
I wish I had been exposed to linux as I came up through the education system here in the US. My early work was on the apples programming LOGO and then I "moved up" to DOS and BASICA. Even then I didn't like Micro$oft but I didn't have any other options (or so I thought.) Thank goodness those days are behind me. I hope others won't have to go through that. :)
I'd like to see more features on my HUD. Current speed, direction, GPS coordinates, webserver statistics, fuel supply, days until y2k (BTW who compressed 'Year 2000' into 'Y2K'... isn't that kinda what got us into the problem?), maybe information on other objects within view such as the speed of the car in front of me superimposed above its image along with its current direction vector.