Name is Eric, had a teacher that called me Erk, then it became Erksum and thus Irksome. On other boards I go by EA, just because that's my initials (and the fact that EA sports makes a good hockey game).
Region 7 (The Amateur in this story is N7QVC if I read the comments correctly, the arrl link is likely slashdotted...) is mostly midwestern states like Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, etc.
Umm... Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada are very rarely referred to as "Midwestern" states. Typically, when I think of the Midwest, I think of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and maybe the Dakotas.
I'm not sure that Media None would be better than Ameridrech in the Ann Arbor area. I really wouldn't want to trust America's Worst Cable company to be handling my phone service as well.
Yes, but this case is different for precisely that reason. Cyberspace Communications, Inc., while not technically an ISP, would probably be judged as one under this act. The whole lawsuit is based on the fact that Grex, their BBS, is totally free, and that CCI does not do any verification that users really are who they say they are.
...that says if you lick the acceptence button it's...
Umm. I don't know why you're licking the buttons on your computer screen. I'm not really sure I want to know. But did you really need to share it with the rest of the world?
I saw a copy of RedHat 6.2 in the campus bookstore, which is kind of surprising to me, because this is the same bookstore that didn't know the difference between an ethernet cable and a phone cord.
That's totally wrong. You may have just gotten lucky with your first picks. I find that about 20% of the time, my first click will find a mine, and end the game right there.
Most universities will sell the right to have an e-mail address at their university. I know UMich does.
Be careful though, some universities will also sell their e-mail address mailing list. I've gotten targeted spam on my school account, and I don't give that one out.
Most people don't actually read the EULA when installing software. There are 2 reasons for this.
#1 - people just got some new software, and are excited to play with it. They don't want anything in the way of thier use of the new software. This leads people to just click on "I Agree" without reading the agreement.
#2 - EULA's are usually pretty long. Do they really need to be this long? Some people will see a long document, and just skim it, or read the first paragraph then bypass the rest. Some programs (Napster comes to mind) make you read all the way to the bottom, but all you have to do to bypass this is just drag the scrollbar to the bottom, then you're free to go on.
My hotmail account has an underscore in the name. I still get a metric ton of Spam each day. I set up the Hotmail "Blocked Senders" thing to reject anything from about 40 different domains, and yet I still get mail from them.
The sad thing is that some of the Spambots automatically use the username as a greeting. So I was getting spam that said "Hi m_hockey, you have just won"
1) If they get a certain percentage of the vote this election, they get more official money
This is, in my opinion, one of the fundamental problems with our political system right now. Campaign Finance is a mess. Candidates can get funding from the government, special interests, and big corporations. If I were redesigning the system, I would make it so that candidates can only get money from individual donors, who can donate up to a maximum of $50. Candidates would not be permitted to spend more than $20,000 total for the campaign. Every cent spent would be accounted for, and the information would be publicly available. Yes, I know this means less TV ads, and less annoying yard signs. Candidates will have to actually promote themselves on merit, rather than just mass mailing/flyers/signage/advertisements. That way they'd have to get people to say good things about them, so there'd have to be something good to talk about. If any candidate spent more than $20,000, even 1 cent, they would be instantly disqualified.
Why doesn't someone *gasp* compete and build another one?
You *gasp* can't compete and build another cable network. Most cities that I know of have franchise agreements with a particular carrier. This agreement states that the only one allowed to provide service within that city is that specific carrier. If competetion in the local cable market could be done, it would have been done already.
I would like to patent the process of developing a cheap barcode scanner, letting some market-droid name it with all sorts of random punctuation. I will then give out these scanners for free, and earn all my money by suing people who actually attempt to use these free items. In addition, I will attempt to claim that I still own them, even though I've illegally mailed them, and therefore they can be considered a gift under US Postal Regulations.
Or if that doesn't work, I will patent the process of using browser-based cookies to track people's web site visitation habits, then charge them varying rates based on how many times they've visited my website.
Or maybe I could get a patent on the process of creating something that is so common sense that it doesn't deserve a patent, but yet applying for and receiving a patent on it. Then I can threaten legal action against all who claim that my patent is stupid and doesn't deserve a patent.
If you want a great example of a real life flamewar, go to a University of Michigan hockey game. Of course, usually it's not really a war, because there's only one side yelling and the other side is just sitting and taking it. However, it's really quite inspiring to hear 6000 people yelling "It's all your fault" in unison at one hapless soul. This article from the Michigan Daily (the UM Student Newspaper) lists what they're saying, but you've got to experience it to see what I really mean
P.S. --What it would look like if we took Q & R out of the alphabet
Well, fo( ) one thing, it would be ( )eal hard to have a ( )we( )ty keyboa( )d.:) And the alphabet would be A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
(or z-y-x-w-v-u-t-s-p-o-n-m-l-k-j-i-h-g-f-e-d-c-b-a if you'( )e in a backwa( )ds mood) And we'd have to come up with a new HTML tag to ( )eplace <B( )>
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Name is Eric, had a teacher that called me Erk, then it became Erksum and thus Irksome. On other boards I go by EA, just because that's my initials (and the fact that EA sports makes a good hockey game).
http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/business/28 TOON.html has the article without the registration
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Region 7 (The Amateur in this story is N7QVC if I read the comments correctly, the arrl link is likely slashdotted...) is mostly midwestern states like Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, etc.
... Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada are very rarely referred to as "Midwestern" states. Typically, when I think of the Midwest, I think of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and maybe the Dakotas.
Umm
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I'm not sure that Media None would be better than Ameridrech in the Ann Arbor area. I really wouldn't want to trust America's Worst Cable company to be handling my phone service as well.
Yes, but this case is different for precisely that reason. Cyberspace Communications, Inc., while not technically an ISP, would probably be judged as one under this act. The whole lawsuit is based on the fact that Grex, their BBS, is totally free, and that CCI does not do any verification that users really are who they say they are.
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IBM is charging people $30, not paying people $30. They make money all around
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...that says if you lick the acceptence button it's...
Umm. I don't know why you're licking the buttons on your computer screen. I'm not really sure I want to know. But did you really need to share it with the rest of the world?
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There are a few people in the rest of the US that know about North Dakota. Mostly because of College Hockey.
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I saw a copy of RedHat 6.2 in the campus bookstore, which is kind of surprising to me, because this is the same bookstore that didn't know the difference between an ethernet cable and a phone cord.
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"Hmm. An overlock sewing machine. I've heard good things about these - I should probably get one."
I swear I read that as "overclock" sewing machine. I was thinking to myself -- how the fsck can you overclock a sewing machine?
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That's totally wrong. You may have just gotten lucky with your first picks. I find that about 20% of the time, my first click will find a mine, and end the game right there.
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Eros? But I thought the buggers burned that to a radioactive .... ah. When did I receive security clearance to know this?
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Most universities will sell the right to have an e-mail address at their university. I know UMich does.
Be careful though, some universities will also sell their e-mail address mailing list. I've gotten targeted spam on my school account, and I don't give that one out.
Most people don't actually read the EULA when installing software. There are 2 reasons for this.
#1 - people just got some new software, and are excited to play with it. They don't want anything in the way of thier use of the new software. This leads people to just click on "I Agree" without reading the agreement.
#2 - EULA's are usually pretty long. Do they really need to be this long? Some people will see a long document, and just skim it, or read the first paragraph then bypass the rest. Some programs (Napster comes to mind) make you read all the way to the bottom, but all you have to do to bypass this is just drag the scrollbar to the bottom, then you're free to go on.
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My hotmail account has an underscore in the name. I still get a metric ton of Spam each day. I set up the Hotmail "Blocked Senders" thing to reject anything from about 40 different domains, and yet I still get mail from them.
The sad thing is that some of the Spambots automatically use the username as a greeting. So I was getting spam that said "Hi m_hockey, you have just won"
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It's too early in the morning. I meant 2,000,000. This is a good reason why Mondays should be eliminated.
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1) If they get a certain percentage of the vote this election, they get more official money
This is, in my opinion, one of the fundamental problems with our political system right now. Campaign Finance is a mess. Candidates can get funding from the government, special interests, and big corporations. If I were redesigning the system, I would make it so that candidates can only get money from individual donors, who can donate up to a maximum of $50. Candidates would not be permitted to spend more than $20,000 total for the campaign. Every cent spent would be accounted for, and the information would be publicly available. Yes, I know this means less TV ads, and less annoying yard signs. Candidates will have to actually promote themselves on merit, rather than just mass mailing/flyers/signage/advertisements. That way they'd have to get people to say good things about them, so there'd have to be something good to talk about. If any candidate spent more than $20,000, even 1 cent, they would be instantly disqualified.
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Why doesn't someone *gasp* compete and build another one?
You *gasp* can't compete and build another cable network. Most cities that I know of have franchise agreements with a particular carrier. This agreement states that the only one allowed to provide service within that city is that specific carrier. If competetion in the local cable market could be done, it would have been done already.
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No, no slashbot. DOS the other robots. Make sure they've got a website, then put a link to them on the front page of /. Instant victory :)
So you're trying to say that Sony's new laptop is half man, half dog, and serves as it's own best friend? Or it just looks that way?
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I would like to patent the process of developing a cheap barcode scanner, letting some market-droid name it with all sorts of random punctuation. I will then give out these scanners for free, and earn all my money by suing people who actually attempt to use these free items. In addition, I will attempt to claim that I still own them, even though I've illegally mailed them, and therefore they can be considered a gift under US Postal Regulations.
Or if that doesn't work, I will patent the process of using browser-based cookies to track people's web site visitation habits, then charge them varying rates based on how many times they've visited my website.
Or maybe I could get a patent on the process of creating something that is so common sense that it doesn't deserve a patent, but yet applying for and receiving a patent on it. Then I can threaten legal action against all who claim that my patent is stupid and doesn't deserve a patent.
Why do you think they called it a Pentium, rather than a 586? They tried to add 486 and 100 on one of the (then) new chips, and got 585.9997
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If you want a great example of a real life flamewar, go to a University of Michigan hockey game. Of course, usually it's not really a war, because there's only one side yelling and the other side is just sitting and taking it. However, it's really quite inspiring to hear 6000 people yelling "It's all your fault" in unison at one hapless soul. This article from the Michigan Daily (the UM Student Newspaper) lists what they're saying, but you've got to experience it to see what I really mean
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A 3D word processor? Sounds like that would be REALLY fat (bloated) to me. Just what the world needs, 3D Bloatware.
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P.S. --What it would look like if we took Q & R out of the alphabet
:) And the alphabet would be A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
(or z-y-x-w-v-u-t-s-p-o-n-m-l-k-j-i-h-g-f-e-d-c-b-a if you'( )e in a backwa( )ds mood) And we'd have to come up with a new HTML tag to ( )eplace <B( )>
Well, fo( ) one thing, it would be ( )eal hard to have a ( )we( )ty keyboa( )d.
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