Cool. Thanks for chiming back in. Norway, I take it? I hadn't realized how amero-centric my post sounded back to me. I'm not really that way and do have some clue.
Hunger is one of the strongest drives in human, and it overshadows much of what else you might be doing,
True, but people (over)eat for many reasons, often as a means for coping with society.
I think we need to eat out of a "solution to society" rather than "due to society". When was it the last time you saw a late-night TV ad for a fresh garden salad??? Can't say I _ever_ have.
If society readily offers me crap food (inundation of fast food, nutritionally IMbalanced soft drink, etc.) and I accept it, I'm to blame. But there are some other choices available, though those too don't completely escape society's (IMHO, fucked up(*)) notion of nutrition (read: economic and corporate profit).
Intellectualization of what should make a proper diet is useful, but even that too can be carried too far and thereby limit actually enjoyment of life.
*The US Food and Drug Administration (USDA) food pyramid is a theoretical construct and tends to run contrary to aspects of diets around the world that have scientific evidence to good health over the long term.
As I'm sure many are in the same boat, I don't care about the version RedHat is responsible for. I want to know whether the vendor source code is/was vunerable.
Pity, I cannot get past the./ effect to find out myself at this moment.
In order to not just preach to the choir, here are just two examples (pardon me if they have been mentinoed here elsewhere)
Rebates. You having mailed in all those "mail in rebates" forms would put you in the category of "having a prior business relationship" escape clause of the DNC lists. If not that, the vendor you bought from already qualifies you.
Store cards. Ever sign up for one of those gift cards/member cards, and the only way to check the balance is to call them? Well, I realized in time Barnes and Noble does this, so I would be certain not to use a cell phone or a home phone. I would use work phone instead because at least that's blocked from telemarketing. Granted, they don't have my name, but they 1) could compare with lists of names previously associated with that number and 2) might learn that it's a valid number (assuming no caller ID blocking and unblocking one-upsmanship).
I get the feeling that it is only a matter for time beore companies come up with other insidious methods.
A "logical" business model would be not to waste time on a customer who won't be interested so go elsewhere where there is money to be made. However, the tactics of some telemarketers/ing firms involve coersion or a play on the emotions of the telemarketee.
That, my follow readers, is the true evil behind telemarketing and IMO justifies having Do-Not-Call lists.
I'm sure other will notice the similarly between your statement and what is often said about buying (or upgrading) mainboards and CPUs.
For example, hybrid automobiles might be like the PCI-X era, both of which have begun but not en masse. But I agree that technology that will be available in a couple years' time will likely be improved compared to what you can buy now. If you want to be a part of it, though, sometimes you just gotta jump in....
Thanks for the clarification and tempering;) Ah, so if they hear a false information/rumor, the company can issue national public statements with information that is correct -- well, as you say, correct insofar as it's the truth with respect to the data filed with the FDA.
Yeah, let the company deal with it. I sure wouldn't try to correct the public on my own, opening myself up to possible litigation.
I've got an acquaintance at Lily who's been partially sucked into their Collective. He's been told that the company expected their workers to report back any gossip -- particularly negative gossip -- about their products.
Now, wait a minute, you're thinking. It's not inconceivable that in doing so it could help to seal your next step up (hopefully) within the company, but it's been made pretty clear that (at least in his division) your life is the Company's, and vice-versa. A career, if you will.
I just realized that with linux getting very close to going prime-time, as evidenced by the media's attention and now a big hardware vendor like Dell offering linux (no slight to Lindows intended), it's a great time for the SCOes of the world to dig through their... ahem... IP... to find potential sources of new revenue. It suddenly makes sense.
...I'm thankful everyone can read RTF. Its not feature rich, but it works for just about anyone.
That may be true for Windoze, but for me I've gotten nothing but pain in reading RTF generated on Macintoshes running Word on a linux box running OpenOffice. Talk about another step down the rungs of the compatibility ladder....
For my resumes, I just resort to LaTeX, write the PDF file, and then just run a script to convert to PostScript and to plain ol' text (with provisions for removing the nonprintable characters). That way I figure I am covered for when others redistribute my files or want to read an email version.
Man, these RFID people are getting desperate. First it was "it'll stop theft". Then it was "It'll keep food from getting spoiled/infected. And that'll keep food safe from....TERRORISTS!"(Don't worry, I missed that train of thought too, but the T word is like 'dot com' was a couple years ago, so...) Now it's "it'll help you do your laundry."
Yeah, that little perk was the frosting on my cake, as it were. Here is a tidbit many of us may recall:
SHOPPER 1. They changed Malibu Stacy!
SHOPPER 2. She is better than ever!
LISA. She still embodies all the awful stereotypes she did before! pause
SMITHERS. But she's got a new hat!
The crowd subsequently claws their way to the merchandise.
Believe me, we (people outside UK) do and we are really grateful to people like you (no kidding). Tuning to BBC World is literally like a stream of fresh air in almost all countries. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism for us to support BBC, except to occasionally buy some DVDs, but Britain gets our most sincere gratitude.
My sentiment exactly. I think there is quite a bit of innovative programming on the BBC, both TV and radio. Consider the number of programs that were adpated from the BBC for American programming. Other than that, IMO current American mainstream media is just drivel, hardly registering on the radar.
I think the users who aren't paying attention to viruses make it that much harder for those users who do. These users make it possible to leverage the idea of giving away remote root access, effectively. What's to stop Microsoft from bundling a program with this feature with, say, behind/within a whole layer of digital rights management? DRM coming to reality makes it hard for non-Microsoft computer users then.
So basically, MS gets control because users let it be so. Or am I way off on this?
This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked.
Shouldn't that probably be port 4444 ?
http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/security/users/rpcd com-faq.shtml
check whether anything is listening on port 4444 on your machine; this would be a strong indication that the Blaster worm has installed its backdoor, or that your system has been broken into by an attacker who has installed a backdoor program similar to the one automatically installed by the Blaster worm. Note that 4444 is an arbitrary port and there is no reason that intruders or worm writers must continue to use it.
But don't forget to mention that they are willing to yank funding away from you, too, if the wind direction changes. IMO it can get pretty dicey working with^H^H^H^Hfor DARPA.
In the US before cell phones started becoming more common, companies providing long distance service on land lines (AT&T, sprint, MCI, etc.) got to be quite competitive, resulting in their offering to pay on your behalf (or otherwise refund you) a "switching fee" that the local phone company would usually charge (like 5 to 10 bucks). Plus, they would offer to switch you back for free if you weren't satisfied.
Around the same time a phenomenon known as "slamming" was growing into quite a nuisance. This is where your phone service (local or long distance) would end up being switched without your explicit authorization as the result of your agreeing to some telemarketing offer.
My point? IANACPC (not a cell phone customer), but given this number portability stuff, I might expect to see slamming starting with cell phone carriers, causing grief to customers over early termination charges, unless of course the carriers would offer to pay that too.
Finding personal information in the document metadata is one thing, but finding the documents is another.
I still find user accounts on which if you do a manual "up to parent directory" and the user has no index.htm{,l} file, you often get a fully navigable listing of their entire html directory.
Sometimes you find personal files that were never directly linked to, nor intended to be.
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Cool. Thanks for chiming back in. Norway, I take it? I hadn't realized how amero-centric my post sounded back to me. I'm not really that way and do have some clue.
I think we need to eat out of a "solution to society" rather than "due to society". When was it the last time you saw a late-night TV ad for a fresh garden salad??? Can't say I _ever_ have.
If society readily offers me crap food (inundation of fast food, nutritionally IMbalanced soft drink, etc.) and I accept it, I'm to blame. But there are some other choices available, though those too don't completely escape society's (IMHO, fucked up(*)) notion of nutrition (read: economic and corporate profit).
Intellectualization of what should make a proper diet is useful, but even that too can be carried too far and thereby limit actually enjoyment of life.
*The US Food and Drug Administration (USDA) food pyramid is a theoretical construct and tends to run contrary to aspects of diets around the world that have scientific evidence to good health over the long term.
File is broken and cannot be read under acroread-linux-508.
As I'm sure many are in the same boat, I don't care about the version RedHat is responsible for. I want to know whether the vendor source code is/was vunerable.
./ effect to find out myself at this moment.
Pity, I cannot get past the
- Rebates. You having mailed in all those "mail in rebates" forms would put you in the category of "having a prior business relationship" escape clause of the DNC lists. If not that, the vendor you bought from already qualifies you.
- Store cards. Ever sign up for one of those gift cards/member cards, and the only way to check the balance is to call them? Well, I realized in time Barnes and Noble does this, so I would be certain not to use a cell phone or a home phone. I would use work phone instead because at least that's blocked from telemarketing. Granted, they don't have my name, but they 1) could compare with lists of names previously associated with that number and 2) might learn that it's a valid number (assuming no caller ID blocking and unblocking one-upsmanship).
I get the feeling that it is only a matter for time beore companies come up with other insidious methods.Exactly what I was thinking.
A "logical" business model would be not to waste time on a customer who won't be interested so go elsewhere where there is money to be made. However, the tactics of some telemarketers/ing firms involve coersion or a play on the emotions of the telemarketee.
That, my follow readers, is the true evil behind telemarketing and IMO justifies having Do-Not-Call lists.
I'm sure other will notice the similarly between your statement and what is often said about buying (or upgrading) mainboards and CPUs.
For example, hybrid automobiles might be like the PCI-X era, both of which have begun but not en masse. But I agree that technology that will be available in a couple years' time will likely be improved compared to what you can buy now. If you want to be a part of it, though, sometimes you just gotta jump in....
I get calls on a land line that sound like a computer generated female voice (a pretty good one, I might add) which goes like this:
"Please call Mrs. Ungar at (phone no.)".
Since the person does not identify herself or company she might represent, I ignore the call outright. This has been going on for several months now.
Thanks for the clarification and tempering ;) Ah, so if they hear a false information/rumor, the company can issue national public statements with information that is correct -- well, as you say, correct insofar as it's the truth with respect to the data filed with the FDA.
Yeah, let the company deal with it. I sure wouldn't try to correct the public on my own, opening myself up to possible litigation.
"We don't care about the music itself, as long as we can sell our hardware at a premium."
Can't blame them for that.
I've got an acquaintance at Lily who's been partially sucked into their Collective. He's been told that the company expected their workers to report back any gossip -- particularly negative gossip -- about their products.
Now, wait a minute, you're thinking. It's not inconceivable that in doing so it could help to seal your next step up (hopefully) within the company, but it's been made pretty clear that (at least in his division) your life is the Company's, and vice-versa. A career, if you will.
It was just a little too scary to hear.
I just realized that with linux getting very close to going prime-time, as evidenced by the media's attention and now a big hardware vendor like Dell offering linux (no slight to Lindows intended), it's a great time for the SCOes of the world to dig through their ... ahem ... IP ... to find potential sources of new revenue. It suddenly makes sense.
...I'm thankful everyone can read RTF. Its not feature rich, but it works for just about anyone.
That may be true for Windoze, but for me I've gotten nothing but pain in reading RTF generated on Macintoshes running Word on a linux box running OpenOffice. Talk about another step down the rungs of the compatibility ladder....
For my resumes, I just resort to LaTeX, write the PDF file, and then just run a script to convert to PostScript and to plain ol' text (with provisions for removing the nonprintable characters). That way I figure I am covered for when others redistribute my files or want to read an email version.
From US 2000 Census, there were 209.1 million persons aged 18 or older.
41.7 million current registrants is about 20% of people (who I assume are "eligible" to agree "legally" to terms in a telemarketing call).
Take that up to 60 million, and you have almost 30% of people. Though I'm kind of surprised that is not most people, it's not a trivial value either.
WIWTKI, is the percentage of email enabled people who don't want spam much higher than 30% ?
Yeah, that little perk was the frosting on my cake, as it were. Here is a tidbit many of us may recall:
... not only that, the PowerPC is more efficient and has a technically brighter future.
Tell that to Betamax. Just because on paper it might be arguably better, doesn't mean it will come to pass.
Believe me, we (people outside UK) do and we are really grateful to people like you (no kidding). Tuning to BBC World is literally like a stream of fresh air in almost all countries. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism for us to support BBC, except to occasionally buy some DVDs, but Britain gets our most sincere gratitude.
My sentiment exactly. I think there is quite a bit of innovative programming on the BBC, both TV and radio. Consider the number of programs that were adpated from the BBC for American programming. Other than that, IMO current American mainstream media is just drivel, hardly registering on the radar.
Just so we're clear -- the article is not about why you shouldn't change your son's diaper in front of your computer....
I think the users who aren't paying attention to viruses make it that much harder for those users who do. These users make it possible to leverage the idea of giving away remote root access, effectively. What's to stop Microsoft from bundling a program with this feature with, say, behind/within a whole layer of digital rights management? DRM coming to reality makes it hard for non-Microsoft computer users then.
So basically, MS gets control because users let it be so. Or am I way off on this?
This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked.
d com-faq.shtml
Shouldn't that probably be port 4444 ?
http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/security/users/rpc
check whether anything is listening on port 4444 on your machine; this would be a strong indication that the Blaster worm has installed its backdoor, or that your system has been broken into by an attacker who has installed a backdoor program similar to the one automatically installed by the Blaster worm. Note that 4444 is an arbitrary port and there is no reason that intruders or worm writers must continue to use it.
Hey! They've adopted my spelling of the pronounciation!
But don't forget to mention that they are willing to yank funding away from you, too, if the wind direction changes. IMO it can get pretty dicey working with^H^H^H^Hfor DARPA.
In the US before cell phones started becoming more common, companies providing long distance service on land lines (AT&T, sprint, MCI, etc.) got to be quite competitive, resulting in their offering to pay on your behalf (or otherwise refund you) a "switching fee" that the local phone company would usually charge (like 5 to 10 bucks). Plus, they would offer to switch you back for free if you weren't satisfied.
Around the same time a phenomenon known as "slamming" was growing into quite a nuisance. This is where your phone service (local or long distance) would end up being switched without your explicit authorization as the result of your agreeing to some telemarketing offer.
My point? IANACPC (not a cell phone customer), but given this number portability stuff, I might expect to see slamming starting with cell phone carriers, causing grief to customers over early termination charges, unless of course the carriers would offer to pay that too.
I was thinking EKS-oh-VERT, and then I turned on the francophone chip in my positronic brain and voiced zoo-VAIRE.
Finding personal information in the document metadata is one thing, but finding the documents is another.
I still find user accounts on which if you do a manual "up to parent directory" and the user has no index.htm{,l} file, you often get a fully navigable listing of their entire html directory.
Sometimes you find personal files that were never directly linked to, nor intended to be.