If you live close to Central Jersey, there's an arcade called 8 on the Break in Dunellen that has about 10 pinball tables. They have old and new pinball tables, very well maintained, and the price per game is really cheap. Most are $0.50 a game. There's also a pinball league that's currently active and run tournaments there every Wednesday night.
1 time use numbers. Discovers expire the same month as your normal card.
Discover card's secure numbers aren't exactly one time use they're one vendor use. When you generate number X and use it to buy something from Y, the number is locked into Y and no one else can use it. A little less secure than one time use numbers but a lot more convenient in my opinion.
Rick wasn't one of the maintainers of Adblock Plus. He was the maintainer of Easylist, a filter list that works with ABP, and quite possibly the best one I might add.
Not exactly automated, but I wouldn't exactly call typing 2 lines to be manual labor; and once you've got the sums you really just need the second line.
Put something like this in a shell script and you can make it automatically replace files that fail a hash check with a good backup. Use perl, python, or whatever, and you can make it work across Windows, OS X, and *nix.
I loved Bill Nye the Science Guy when I was a kid, it's a shame you don't really see this much of this stuff on TV anymore. The show can probably be downloaded or viewed online, but they're also available for purchase from the show's website (flash intensive!). The site is pretty nice if you can tolerate all that flash. It has simple experiments you can do at home, question of the week, and some other neat things.
I'm not a big word processing or spreadsheet person. The only complaint I really have about OO is that it takes an eternity and a half to start up. Whether or not I use that quick-start-up feature doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. The only thing that feature does is making Windows many many seconds slower to start up. Does 2.4 improve OO's start up time in any way? Is this even an issue that the developers consider to be a problem?
I would consider defacing websites more of a prank.
Defacing websites isn't much different than spray painting the side of someone's building or place of business. It is graffiti and can be viewed as vandalism.
The CompUSA in my area didn't have stocking issues, but the few times I bought hardware from them it was clear that someone else had already owned it. Manuals were crumpled, things you'd expect to be shrink wrapped wasn't, that distinctive "new smell" isn't there, and some other give aways. After that I stopped buying anything from them except for things like blank media, and even then it's only if I couldn't wait for shipping.
If the poster doesn't plan on taking courses, the books can actually be really cheap. What this person should do is find out what textbook the college is using and then shop online for a used previous edition. I've bought used physics and math books through Amazon for as low as $5.00; shipped! Education is practically free if you can tolerate books that aren't in the best condition.:)
The best thing to do if the person needs to take a class is to just buy what is required. If the book is worth keeping after the semester is over, sell it (I typically get about 70% of the cost back) and buy the previous edition.
What bothered me even more was that Kerry just stood there [presumably] on stage like nothing was wrong. They needed so many officers to handle this one kid that it might as well had been a SWAT team. Yes, he seemed rude and obnoxious but that doesn't matter. Then, AFTER they wrestled the kid to the ground, with officers on his back, they said if he doesn't comply he'll get tased. That's like someone breaking your legs and threatening to tase you if you don't sit down and behave. Kerry just stood there, he didn't even raise his voice to make sure officers can hear him when he said he would answer the boy's questions. Well kid, I guess you now have an answer as to why he conceded; he's a fucking pussy.
Nine senators opposed the measure, including Bob Margett (R-Arcadia), who said it is premature to legislate technology that has not yet proved to be a problem. "It sounded like it was a solution looking for a problem," Margett said. "It didn't seem like it was necessary."
Maybe if it was tatooing barcodes on people's arms instead of RFID chips, then they'll see the problem.
This may not be how EB employees talk, but it's how A LOT of business people talk.
That is true and I understand why they need to be more specific especially when there are multiple versions of a product. However, when conveying information to the general public it's just stupid to use that term because people don't go out looking for a particular SKU nor ever really even look at the SKU. Do you ever hear people in a store asking, "that's the premium SKU, right? I don't want to end up with just a regular SKU."
NO! It's for the premium XBOX. People don't buy a SKU, they buy the XBOX! Come ON, what is with all the SKU nonsense? I used to work at an EB Games and I nor any of the other employees EVER talked like that. Don't any of you realize how lame you sound?
The idea is that gamma-ray bursts from pulsars would kill off all life near by.
That's pretty interesting and raises the question: What if the intergalactic overlords have quarantined our part of the galaxy at one point and just simply forgot about this place?
I don't understand why an email client would need extensions in the first place. If it can get email, read email, and send email, then there you go. What else do you want it to do? I thought people wanted "lean and mean".
As a new computer science student, the security problems of the voting machines has always baffled me. Is it really that hard to secure a machine that simply adds 1 to the item I tell the machine to add 1 to? It is reasonable to assume that the easier the function, the easier it is to make that function secure. So why is it so difficult?
This sounds like a rush to put out a new product, not for the sake of market need, but for the sake of patent royalties.
Actually, it is license free, so if it means what I think it means, there are no royalties to use this interface. I do believe it is rushed though. Just look at the connector, it's like it doesn't even need any help for it to fall out of its socket. The wonderfully original name also says something. Apparently it can transmit audio data as well, so why doesn't the name at least give some sort of impression of that ability.
How is NoScript a fix? If you browse sites with scripting ON as the default, wouldn't it be a little too late to turn off scripting after visiting a malicious site? And how would you know a site is malicious if you browse sites with scripting OFF as the default? You might think the site is safe and turn on scripting only to find out it wasn't safe at all, but then it's too late.
Try the tracfones. My mother has the Motorola C139 which is only $15 and doesn't do any fancy things. It's a simple phone with voicemail, caller ID, text messages, and call waiting. If your mother isn't going to use the cell phone much, this option will cost cheaper even though minute-wise it is more expensive. Also, I don't know when this started, but apparently you can refill your minutes straight from the phone, so in addition to not having to deal with bills and contracts, you don't even need to visit their website.
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If you live close to Central Jersey, there's an arcade called 8 on the Break in Dunellen that has about 10 pinball tables. They have old and new pinball tables, very well maintained, and the price per game is really cheap. Most are $0.50 a game. There's also a pinball league that's currently active and run tournaments there every Wednesday night.
Aren't cell phones annoying enough as it is without people projecting the person on the other end in my face?
Not sure where the 10 days comes from when the article clearly indicates it was over 2 months. It was just a clever trick to make me RTFA wasn't it?
1 time use numbers. Discovers expire the same month as your normal card.
Discover card's secure numbers aren't exactly one time use they're one vendor use. When you generate number X and use it to buy something from Y, the number is locked into Y and no one else can use it. A little less secure than one time use numbers but a lot more convenient in my opinion.
Rick wasn't one of the maintainers of Adblock Plus. He was the maintainer of Easylist, a filter list that works with ABP, and quite possibly the best one I might add.
md5sum *.pdf > sums
md5sum -c sums
Not exactly automated, but I wouldn't exactly call typing 2 lines to be manual labor; and once you've got the sums you really just need the second line.
Put something like this in a shell script and you can make it automatically replace files that fail a hash check with a good backup. Use perl, python, or whatever, and you can make it work across Windows, OS X, and *nix.
I loved Bill Nye the Science Guy when I was a kid, it's a shame you don't really see this much of this stuff on TV anymore. The show can probably be downloaded or viewed online, but they're also available for purchase from the show's website (flash intensive!). The site is pretty nice if you can tolerate all that flash. It has simple experiments you can do at home, question of the week, and some other neat things.
we can stop using those ridiculous kibi, mebi, and gibi prefixes?
I'm not a big word processing or spreadsheet person. The only complaint I really have about OO is that it takes an eternity and a half to start up. Whether or not I use that quick-start-up feature doesn't seem to make a bit of difference. The only thing that feature does is making Windows many many seconds slower to start up. Does 2.4 improve OO's start up time in any way? Is this even an issue that the developers consider to be a problem?
I would consider defacing websites more of a prank.
Defacing websites isn't much different than spray painting the side of someone's building or place of business. It is graffiti and can be viewed as vandalism.
The CompUSA in my area didn't have stocking issues, but the few times I bought hardware from them it was clear that someone else had already owned it. Manuals were crumpled, things you'd expect to be shrink wrapped wasn't, that distinctive "new smell" isn't there, and some other give aways. After that I stopped buying anything from them except for things like blank media, and even then it's only if I couldn't wait for shipping.
Porn breeds technology! Therefore, porn breeds technology AND crime! What a slut.
If the poster doesn't plan on taking courses, the books can actually be really cheap. What this person should do is find out what textbook the college is using and then shop online for a used previous edition. I've bought used physics and math books through Amazon for as low as $5.00; shipped! Education is practically free if you can tolerate books that aren't in the best condition. :)
The best thing to do if the person needs to take a class is to just buy what is required. If the book is worth keeping after the semester is over, sell it (I typically get about 70% of the cost back) and buy the previous edition.
This is what the internet is going to turn into if we don't have net neutrality:
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What bothered me even more was that Kerry just stood there [presumably] on stage like nothing was wrong. They needed so many officers to handle this one kid that it might as well had been a SWAT team. Yes, he seemed rude and obnoxious but that doesn't matter. Then, AFTER they wrestled the kid to the ground, with officers on his back, they said if he doesn't comply he'll get tased. That's like someone breaking your legs and threatening to tase you if you don't sit down and behave. Kerry just stood there, he didn't even raise his voice to make sure officers can hear him when he said he would answer the boy's questions. Well kid, I guess you now have an answer as to why he conceded; he's a fucking pussy.
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your operational cost.
Nine senators opposed the measure, including Bob Margett (R-Arcadia), who said it is premature to legislate technology that has not yet proved to be a problem. "It sounded like it was a solution looking for a problem," Margett said. "It didn't seem like it was necessary."
Maybe if it was tatooing barcodes on people's arms instead of RFID chips, then they'll see the problem.
This may not be how EB employees talk, but it's how A LOT of business people talk.
That is true and I understand why they need to be more specific especially when there are multiple versions of a product. However, when conveying information to the general public it's just stupid to use that term because people don't go out looking for a particular SKU nor ever really even look at the SKU. Do you ever hear people in a store asking, "that's the premium SKU, right? I don't want to end up with just a regular SKU."
That's for the premium SKU
NO! It's for the premium XBOX. People don't buy a SKU, they buy the XBOX! Come ON, what is with all the SKU nonsense? I used to work at an EB Games and I nor any of the other employees EVER talked like that. Don't any of you realize how lame you sound?
The idea is that gamma-ray bursts from pulsars would kill off all life near by.
That's pretty interesting and raises the question: What if the intergalactic overlords have quarantined our part of the galaxy at one point and just simply forgot about this place?
I don't understand why an email client would need extensions in the first place. If it can get email, read email, and send email, then there you go. What else do you want it to do? I thought people wanted "lean and mean".
As a new computer science student, the security problems of the voting machines has always baffled me. Is it really that hard to secure a machine that simply adds 1 to the item I tell the machine to add 1 to? It is reasonable to assume that the easier the function, the easier it is to make that function secure. So why is it so difficult?
This sounds like a rush to put out a new product, not for the sake of market need, but for the sake of patent royalties.
Actually, it is license free, so if it means what I think it means, there are no royalties to use this interface. I do believe it is rushed though. Just look at the connector, it's like it doesn't even need any help for it to fall out of its socket. The wonderfully original name also says something. Apparently it can transmit audio data as well, so why doesn't the name at least give some sort of impression of that ability.
How is NoScript a fix? If you browse sites with scripting ON as the default, wouldn't it be a little too late to turn off scripting after visiting a malicious site? And how would you know a site is malicious if you browse sites with scripting OFF as the default? You might think the site is safe and turn on scripting only to find out it wasn't safe at all, but then it's too late.
Try the tracfones. My mother has the Motorola C139 which is only $15 and doesn't do any fancy things. It's a simple phone with voicemail, caller ID, text messages, and call waiting. If your mother isn't going to use the cell phone much, this option will cost cheaper even though minute-wise it is more expensive. Also, I don't know when this started, but apparently you can refill your minutes straight from the phone, so in addition to not having to deal with bills and contracts, you don't even need to visit their website.