See. If you tell the masses it's sophisticated, then there will be fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
It's probably a 6 billion dollar visual basic program that runs under vista (which would require new desktops no doubt) that got sold to LAX by a mideastern security software dev. firm.
I'm thinking along the lines of something like this...
1. the core algorithm :
Public Function GoSequesterRandomPerson(ByVal Low As Long, _
ByVal High As Long) As Long
GoSequesterRandomPerson = Int((High - Low + 1) * Rnd) + Low End Function
Where High and Low describe the boundaries of how many people you really feel like bothering on a given security instance.
2: implementation instructions
Throughout the day, a highly-background checked individual will click on cmd1.command button (perhaps everytime they see someone carrying a colored ipod) which will bring up a msgbox to send them out on their random and necessary check.
3: optional future contract work and waste of tax dollars
Now, to fully randomize this, using this ARMOR v. 2.0 improved software...
I propose a 50 million dollar high tech Random search visual-optimization device (RaSVOD) [please, I'll take on this contract and deliver 6 prototypes within 1 year]
So yes, the RaSVOD (a strip of cloth or blindfold) would be worn to avoid any possibilities of racial profiling. Then we'll be truly randomized. Of course, we could use profiling to decrease the randomization and thereby possibly maybe maximize the chance of identifying a potential terrorist...
4: something tasteless
boolean is_wearing_turban could be optionally checked in the program. to achieve the profiling
Wow, I've always wanted a countertop that can suggest creative deviations for Ramen Noodles and Beer.
Hrmm, "Might I suggest Microwaved Ramen?"
"With the full packet?"
"Without the packet?"
"How about you boil off all the alcohol from your beer, and drink the flavoring packet?"
There's this great opensource package called OpenEyes, and to my knowledge it only requires nominal installation effort by the user. Basically you just have to configure the face.cfg to provide the correct balance of tension and flexion to the ocular.modules.
I don't know. I understand the concept of trademarking distinctive logos and intellectual property, but with sluggish american auto sales, is the best strategy really pissing off ford fanatics?
I'm sure mazda or toyota wouldn't mind someone who pays upwards of 16k putting out a calender of pictures they took of the cars (hey: money for the purchase + free advertising = win)....and more than likely, a few of those guys will be driving imports when they finish paying off the overpriced pile that is ford.
oh well, maybe this will be used to justify plummeting stock in a future quarter.....
heh, my personal experience with network solutions is after 10 years of their hosting I tried to switch registrars. Upon contacting them they asked for the CVV of the original card to register my site (mind you every new card has a new cvv and credit cards expire after a few years)...I got it wrong, they ignored all further communication, changed all the information in my whois, and sold my domain out from under me.
Network solutions absolutely sucks.
Not to spread FUD, but this venture firm might actually deserve it. From what I gathered after reading up on the company, they completed 3 panels this year.
Two go to various museums where they will (probably) never be used or hooked up to anything (Hrmmm....)
The other one is sold via ebay and at time of posting ends : Dec-27-07 17:13:10 PST (6 days 6 hours)
Of note, considering for 100 million in venture funds and 5 years they have only produced 3 panels...and wait, what's this? Oh yes that darn fine print...for 13,000$ you can buy the worlds most expensive Christmas present wrapping paper, because they sort of disclaim more or less that it...probably doesn't work.
Read carefully! If you cannot agree to these terms, DO NOT BID!
This solar panel is sold AS-IS, without any warranties (either express or implied). As we make no claims to any express or implied warranties, all bidders acknowledge and agree that this panel is presented as a collectable item that may have potential historical value, not an item meeting any specifications.
This is a generalized view of how many employers view their new hires.
If you were my new hire, and you spent all your time zealously looking for flaws in others' work, it would probably indicate to me you had no clue how to do your own job. The fact you're looking up code on the internet when your job would quite possibly make me feel as if you didn't understand basic coding, and were an incorrect fit for a particular agency.
However, if you have some grand moral conviction that is based in the rights of some original developer, or protecting the company's bottom line, you could just rewrite the code, and leave lots of room for buffer overflow attacks (sarcasm). As it's only 200 lines and its from a forum, chances are good that it's highly unoptimized clutter-code to perform an extremely basic function that could be written in fewer lines. That fact in itself will justify the revision and help keep you secure in your comfy dev chair. Unfortunately, it won't explain any gap in covering unfinished aspects of the program to either the underlying hardware architecture, or to the management above you.
Actually, you might be surprised to find out that a large percentage of goods used to construct houses (shy of brick and in some instances lumber - which often is being sourced from canada/siberian regions) does come from china. Those snappy little outlet covers? Light switch? the.27 cent outlet? Ceiling fans? Window hardware? Window glass? Lamps? Furnishing for the home (Ashley's homestore is the #1 purveyor of furniture in the US and their source is china), the list goes on nearly infinitely.
Let's move on to food. Haha, you ever picked up a bottle of tropicana apple juice? Apples from argentina, china, mexico, us, etc are listed as sources. In another year (or two, I forgot) a bill that got waylayed by our government will finally activate letting us see where products actually come from.
You'ld be surprised just what actually is MADE in the us and not just shipped to the US and printed in the usa (or made here and shipped to china...it boggles how this is cheaper but it just works out that way)
Even craftsman tools from sears used to build your house are largely made in china other than some of the most simple dropforged items and every other brand of tools is pretty much entirely made in china.
intended to be informative.
Really before anyone thinks "hey we make this stuff on our own" think about outsourcing and how quarter after quarter as many as 250,000 manufaturing jobs get shed as companies go overseas.
5% is enough to start a panic. The bottom 40% of americans (often the civil cervants and lower to mid-middle and working class) are suffering from a shortage of jobs. Yet productivity and wealth grows because 79% of the spending occurs from the top 60%. You start putting the upper mid and upper class in the red and you'ld quickly see a huge flop. Our economy is based on math. Math in and of itself does not feed you when you're hungry.
*shrug*
While I almost would have pity for those poor amateurs who are sexing to make far more than the IT crowd, I don't necessarily feel as if those smaller companies of 1 (or 3) proprietors are the victim of any foul play by this law. If they lack that amazing ability to find a 3$ monthly post office box with an anonymous name like "USC Requests", then it's their fault for publishing their real name and address.
On a similar note, they could always host off shore and funnel money via paypal...
Oh wait. A lot already do.
And on that note...how many porn sites (lacking a news-stand distribution) do you think actually REALLY try to comply with the hundreds of laws governing porn and its dissemination...or insemination...whatever the word is in english.
sadly no entity on earth other than geeksquad (and to a lesser extent, firedog) have a systematic, patented, corporate backed mass scale ability to rip off consumers. I'm glad they focused their attack on the small businesses (many of which are legit, but that would make for boring footage I'm sure)....in turn driving customers to the ever so honest corporate alternatives. (hah)
Sort of has the feel of detergent companies when they started saying "no longer with trisodium phosphate. phosphate free. doesn't clean worth a crap, but new and improved" which is great if you're a fish....
So we laud the microsoft, you are now a level 2 product. welcome to being the "Toilet Paper of IT"
and secretly, we know the success is from declining penetration of MS products. Norton, Mozilla, and leveraged code buyouts have all helped make possible increases in security for your products =)
Now if you excuse me, I need to take a dump. Where's my VistaPaper?
Sorry bout that. Okay, i figured it was something along those lines. I know how my state works and knew there was some exception to how it worked, and figured [incorrectly so it seems] somewhere out there there was a screwy state that was completely off the game from the rest of the states. maybe in the future annexing and giving voting rights to the US territories like puerto rico (and the loss of some states to keep the total at 50 heh) will make my count accurate though so let's keep it for archival sake =P
Thanks for the correction. I'm not a political entity and only know how my box works. And I want to add cold cathode to it. =P
By law in I believe 39 states has to place it's electoral votes all on the winning party. So in a state like california, if the majority of regular people vote democrat, all 54ish college votes have to go to the democrat candidate.
A few (I believe 6-9) allow plurality in vote, where the electoral college can, assuming a candidate had 40% of the vote, could spend a portion not exceeding 40% of their electoral college votes on the lesser candidate, although this is exceptionally rare, as usually everyone goes with the defacto vote for the most selected candidate.
Now, that leaves a few states with murky electoral college laws. I believe they could actually vote for ralph nader even if he only got 1 vote, and skip the other candidates. But decisions like that are ballsy and career killers.
Hope that's informative, I'ld recommend reading up on your particular state electoral college voting procedure.
No joke. Prepare to take that free albeit useless domain name microsoft gave you with their windows live basic that you signed them over as the registrant in the obscure eula...you know the one that if you want to put your own graphics on the page header you have to pay 30$/month? The one you can't write your own anchored hypertext references or embed stuff...
Riight, so prepare as part of cancelling to furnish your domain email address, whatever name and phone number you signed up with, your credit card number, and more...all in an email that's being sent overseas to hopefully cancel your account. if it works they'll email you back to your cancelled account. If not, they'll use the information to let habib urr..."rick" buy a new dell.
Thanks microsoft. Your live service and the fact it takes about 20 faqs and disabling popups to find the link to cancel is craaaap.
brilliant. Just strip the guts of a few obsolete commodores for all that shiny aluminum shielding and start wrapping up patients. Hey, everyone looks like a baked potato. I likes it.
For a work to fall under fair use it must be non commercial in nature along with several other factors. VH1, I would dare say more than likely inserted advertisements during the show that aired his clip. VH1 even if they ran 30 minutes without a commercial (hah), would still be easily proved a commercial entity. Therefore, VH1 can not escape licensing *anything* under "fair use"
At best it can hope for a very subtle clause in the EULA of you tube that indemnifies people from rebroadcasting.
I'ld read the license you signed up for. More than likely you waived your right to your work if VH1 aired it (they got lawyers who buff the VH1 rear end on a moment-to-moment basis) so more than likely although not fair use, it was a legal use of the work in question. To reiterate:
It is amazingly hard to justify fair use for any commercial application. I recommend Understanding Copyright Law, do an amazon search for it, it's around 300 pages and was published I believe in 2002.
By malicious, they steer the conversation away from Vista and say "hey you can download xp updates with firefox now" -- so obviously the malicious code would be vista patches to fix the network mp3 problems and the bluray on 32 bit vista I bet.
...I challenge the validity of any statistical surveys of American religion, recent polls show 94% of Americans believe in the Judeo-Christian God, and 32% attended church more than once last year. Now of the remaining 6%, 333% of them believe in Reincarnation. Otherwise everyone lies on polls, and polls are inherently horridly flawed....
On a similar note, 80% of those (5 people) I surveyed on a Greyhound bus last weekend believed Osama Bin Laden lives in Florida and is on weekly dialysis, and that he has lunch with Bush weekly. (I'm serious).
Maybe the Chinese Government and Greyhound are the same entity....
Has partnered with Microsoft. Now when you donate blood for free, which they'll sell to hospitals for as much as 380$/pint, they will donate a full 1% to the Save Vista Microsoft fund. Your blood donor card will now have a Vista logo on it to boot.
And the world quietly rejoiced, knowing that a life had been saved, Red Cross got more money to pay their 10 mil/year execs (and proctor and gamble lawsuit lawyers), and microsoft got a laughable pittance for a laughable product.
Oh great. As if I am that happy with sony's overly complexified television sets which are difficult to service, their over priced ps3 with no neat games, and their vaio line of laptops with non-existant support and proprietary hardware that linux won't work on.
Imagine a next generation internet designed by....sony.
Why can't japan just go send out a team to air condition hell instead and leave the internet alone?
Is what the educators in North Carolina refer to it as. The whole no child left standing was modeled on north carolina's end of grade tests. At the time it was instituted, north carolina was #49/50 ranked in the nation for public education. After the no child left standing came into play, I think we're #48? or maybe I got them backwards. Anyways, No Child Left standing was based on a patently flawed model, just like NAFTA. Gee, Everytime we plant a bush we come a bit closer to hedging out the sun.
Back to the topic. Because of the intense (and by intense, I seriously mean INTENSE) pressure to produce scores, virtually any school system in any state with a NCLS/NCLB act in place (I think 39 states have adopted this now) forces the teachers to dedicate all of there energy getting the bottom 20% to pass. You don't have to worry substantially about the kid with 150 IQ failing a "If a well stores 10 gallons of water, and I draw out 7, how many gallons are left" (Okay, they're marginally harder than this) test built around the 9-12th grades.
Anyways, the really smart kids who got screwed by the vanishing Academically Gifted programs know to enroll their kids in magnet schools or homeschool.
I say they'll settle out of court for some absurd sum or the riaa will lose it and the RIAA will bounce the check because it'll be that big (considering they get their jollies off of suing 10 year olds for 300,000+$, i can only imagine a class action lawsuit going for at least 300,000$ * number of class action members.
Hurray. The RIAA and MPAA suck. We want better music, and different movies. The cinematography, million dollar actors, and effects could actually be sacrificed if someone came up with a...uhm, plot?
"Netscape users can simply set their browser to IE mode to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but also disables the Ad Block Plus plug-in.
If you are offended by the Mozilla Corporation's endorsement of dishonesty please contact the Mozilla Foundation and ask them to stop empowering internet theft."
I have another option!
It's a simple 5 step process:
1) If I ever come across a site that throws me at that piece of donkey crap site 2) I will just reopen the same site using your handy dandy babelfish.altavista.com (using firefox), translate the referring site to any language (spanish is fine), then click on the "view this page in it's original language" [the query will come from babelfish, instead of my personal browser, and babelfish doesn't use firefox, it uses a proprietary browser script] 3) I will read the page for a contact address 4) I'll sign said contact address up on the "myfreexbox360.com" style sites 5) I'll inform them that advertisements that they are so fond of are now heading their way, while I enjoy my peaceful ad-reduced surfing, a seperate email to the contact address shall inform them Happy ad-filtering MOFO.
Slashdot Mirror
See. If you tell the masses it's sophisticated, then there will be fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
It's probably a 6 billion dollar visual basic program that runs under vista (which would require new desktops no doubt) that got sold to LAX by a mideastern security software dev. firm.
I'm thinking along the lines of something like this...
1. the core algorithm :
Public Function GoSequesterRandomPerson(ByVal Low As Long, _
ByVal High As Long) As Long
GoSequesterRandomPerson = Int((High - Low + 1) * Rnd) + Low
End Function
Where High and Low describe the boundaries of how many people you really feel like bothering
on a given security instance.
2: implementation instructions
Throughout the day, a highly-background checked individual will click on cmd1.command button (perhaps everytime they see someone carrying a colored ipod) which will bring up a msgbox to send them out on their random and necessary check.
3: optional future contract work and waste of tax dollars
Now, to fully randomize this, using this ARMOR v. 2.0 improved software...
I propose a 50 million dollar high tech Random search visual-optimization device (RaSVOD) [please, I'll take on this contract and deliver 6 prototypes within 1 year]
So yes, the RaSVOD (a strip of cloth or blindfold) would be worn to avoid any possibilities of
racial profiling. Then we'll be truly randomized. Of course, we could use profiling to decrease the randomization and thereby possibly maybe maximize the chance of identifying a potential terrorist...
4: something tasteless
boolean is_wearing_turban could be optionally checked in the program. to achieve the profiling
Wow, I've always wanted a countertop that can suggest creative deviations for Ramen Noodles and Beer.
Hrmm, "Might I suggest Microwaved Ramen?"
"With the full packet?"
"Without the packet?"
"How about you boil off all the alcohol from your beer, and drink the flavoring packet?"
could it have been sean paul's music?
oh wait that was a diff article my bad.
There's this great opensource package called OpenEyes, and to my knowledge it only requires nominal installation effort by the user. Basically you just have to configure the face.cfg to provide the correct balance of tension and flexion to the ocular.modules.
Hope it helps.
-Mz
I don't know. I understand the concept of trademarking distinctive logos and intellectual property, but with sluggish american auto sales, is the best strategy really pissing off ford fanatics?
I'm sure mazda or toyota wouldn't mind someone who pays upwards of 16k putting out a calender of pictures they took of the cars (hey: money for the purchase + free advertising = win)....and more than likely, a few of those guys will be driving imports when they finish paying off the overpriced pile that is ford.
oh well, maybe this will be used to justify plummeting stock in a future quarter.....
heh, my personal experience with network solutions is after 10 years of their hosting I tried to switch registrars. Upon contacting them they asked for the CVV of the original card to register my site (mind you every new card has a new cvv and credit cards expire after a few years)...I got it wrong, they ignored all further communication, changed all the information in my whois, and sold my domain out from under me. Network solutions absolutely sucks.
Not to spread FUD, but this venture firm might actually deserve it. From what I gathered after reading up on the company, they completed 3 panels this year.
...probably doesn't work.
Two go to various museums where they will (probably) never be used or hooked up to anything (Hrmmm....)
The other one is sold via ebay and at time of posting ends : Dec-27-07 17:13:10 PST (6 days 6 hours)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150196787450
Of note, considering for 100 million in venture funds and 5 years they have only produced 3 panels...and wait, what's this? Oh yes that darn fine print...for 13,000$ you can buy the worlds most expensive Christmas present wrapping paper, because they sort of disclaim more or less that it
Read carefully! If you cannot agree to these terms, DO NOT BID!
This solar panel is sold AS-IS, without any warranties (either express or implied). As we make no claims to any express or implied warranties, all bidders acknowledge and agree that this panel is presented as a collectable item that may have potential historical value, not an item meeting any specifications.
modme up =P
This is a generalized view of how many employers view their new hires.
If you were my new hire, and you spent all your time zealously looking for flaws in others' work, it would probably indicate to me you had no clue how to do your own job. The fact you're looking up code on the internet when your job would quite possibly make me feel as if you didn't understand basic coding, and were an incorrect fit for a particular agency.
However, if you have some grand moral conviction that is based in the rights of some original developer, or protecting the company's bottom line, you could just rewrite the code, and leave lots of room for buffer overflow attacks (sarcasm). As it's only 200 lines and its from a forum, chances are good that it's highly unoptimized clutter-code to perform an extremely basic function that could be written in fewer lines. That fact in itself will justify the revision and help keep you secure in your comfy dev chair. Unfortunately, it won't explain any gap in covering unfinished aspects of the program to either the underlying hardware architecture, or to the management above you.
Actually, you might be surprised to find out that a large percentage of goods used to construct houses (shy of brick and in some instances lumber - which often is being sourced from canada/siberian regions) does come from china. Those snappy little outlet covers? Light switch? the .27 cent outlet? Ceiling fans? Window hardware? Window glass? Lamps? Furnishing for the home (Ashley's homestore is the #1 purveyor of furniture in the US and their source is china), the list goes on nearly infinitely.
Let's move on to food. Haha, you ever picked up a bottle of tropicana apple juice? Apples from argentina, china, mexico, us, etc are listed as sources. In another year (or two, I forgot) a bill that got waylayed by our government will finally activate letting us see where products actually come from.
You'ld be surprised just what actually is MADE in the us and not just shipped to the US and printed in the usa (or made here and shipped to china...it boggles how this is cheaper but it just works out that way)
Even craftsman tools from sears used to build your house are largely made in china other than some of the most simple dropforged items and every other brand of tools is pretty much entirely made in china.
intended to be informative.
Really before anyone thinks "hey we make this stuff on our own" think about outsourcing and how quarter after quarter as many as 250,000 manufaturing jobs get shed as companies go overseas.
5% is enough to start a panic. The bottom 40% of americans (often the civil cervants and lower to mid-middle and working class) are suffering from a shortage of jobs. Yet productivity and wealth grows because 79% of the spending occurs from the top 60%. You start putting the upper mid and upper class in the red and you'ld quickly see a huge flop. Our economy is based on math. Math in and of itself does not feed you when you're hungry.
*shrug*
While I almost would have pity for those poor amateurs who are sexing to make far more than the IT crowd, I don't necessarily feel as if those smaller companies of 1 (or 3) proprietors are the victim of any foul play by this law. If they lack that amazing ability to find a 3$ monthly post office box with an anonymous name like "USC Requests", then it's their fault for publishing their real name and address.
On a similar note, they could always host off shore and funnel money via paypal...
Oh wait. A lot already do.
And on that note...how many porn sites (lacking a news-stand distribution) do you think actually REALLY try to comply with the hundreds of laws governing porn and its dissemination...or insemination...whatever the word is in english.
sadly no entity on earth other than geeksquad (and to a lesser extent, firedog) have a systematic, patented, corporate backed mass scale ability to rip off consumers. I'm glad they focused their attack on the small businesses (many of which are legit, but that would make for boring footage I'm sure) ....in turn driving customers to the ever so honest corporate alternatives. (hah)
-mza
Sort of has the feel of detergent companies when they started saying "no longer with trisodium phosphate. phosphate free. doesn't clean worth a crap, but new and improved"
which is great if you're a fish....
So we laud the microsoft, you are now a level 2 product. welcome to being the "Toilet Paper of IT"
and secretly, we know the success is from declining penetration of MS products. Norton, Mozilla, and leveraged code buyouts have all helped make possible increases in security for your products =)
Now if you excuse me, I need to take a dump. Where's my VistaPaper?
Sorry bout that. Okay, i figured it was something along those lines. I know how my state works and knew there was some exception to how it worked, and figured [incorrectly so it seems] somewhere out there there was a screwy state that was completely off the game from the rest of the states. maybe in the future annexing and giving voting rights to the US territories like puerto rico (and the loss of some states to keep the total at 50 heh) will make my count accurate though so let's keep it for archival sake =P
Thanks for the correction.
I'm not a political entity and only know how my box works. And I want to add cold cathode to it. =P
By law in I believe 39 states has to place it's electoral votes all on the winning party. So in a state like california, if the majority of regular people vote democrat, all 54ish college votes have to go to the democrat candidate.
A few (I believe 6-9) allow plurality in vote, where the electoral college can, assuming a candidate had 40% of the vote, could spend a portion not exceeding 40% of their electoral college votes on the lesser candidate, although this is exceptionally rare, as usually everyone goes with the defacto vote for the most selected candidate.
Now, that leaves a few states with murky electoral college laws. I believe they could actually vote for ralph nader even if he only got 1 vote, and skip the other candidates. But decisions like that are ballsy and career killers.
Hope that's informative, I'ld recommend reading up on your particular state electoral college voting procedure.
No joke. Prepare to take that free albeit useless domain name microsoft gave you with their windows live basic that you signed them over as the registrant in the obscure eula...you know the one that if you want to put your own graphics on the page header you have to pay 30$/month? The one you can't write your own anchored hypertext references or embed stuff...
Riight, so prepare as part of cancelling to furnish your domain email address, whatever name and phone number you signed up with, your credit card number, and more...all in an email that's being sent overseas to hopefully cancel your account. if it works they'll email you back to your cancelled account. If not, they'll use the information to let habib urr..."rick" buy a new dell.
Thanks microsoft. Your live service and the fact it takes about 20 faqs and disabling popups to find the link to cancel is craaaap.
=)
brilliant. Just strip the guts of a few obsolete commodores for all that shiny aluminum shielding and start wrapping up patients. Hey, everyone looks like a baked potato. I likes it.
For a work to fall under fair use it must be non commercial in nature along with several other factors. VH1, I would dare say more than likely inserted advertisements during the show that aired his clip. VH1 even if they ran 30 minutes without a commercial (hah), would still be easily proved a commercial entity. Therefore, VH1 can not escape licensing *anything* under "fair use"
At best it can hope for a very subtle clause in the EULA of you tube that indemnifies people from rebroadcasting.
I'ld read the license you signed up for. More than likely you waived your right to your work if VH1 aired it (they got lawyers who buff the VH1 rear end on a moment-to-moment basis) so more than likely although not fair use, it was a legal use of the work in question.
To reiterate:
It is amazingly hard to justify fair use for any commercial application. I recommend Understanding Copyright Law, do an amazon search for it, it's around 300 pages and was published I believe in 2002.
By malicious, they steer the conversation away from Vista and say "hey you can download xp updates with firefox now" -- so obviously the malicious code would be vista patches to fix the network mp3 problems and the bluray on 32 bit vista I bet.
=P
...I challenge the validity of any statistical surveys of American religion, recent polls show 94% of Americans believe in the Judeo-Christian God, and 32% attended church more than once last year. Now of the remaining 6%, 333% of them believe in Reincarnation. Otherwise everyone lies on polls, and polls are inherently horridly flawed....
On a similar note, 80% of those (5 people) I surveyed on a Greyhound bus last weekend believed Osama Bin Laden lives in Florida and is on weekly dialysis, and that he has lunch with Bush weekly. (I'm serious).
Maybe the Chinese Government and Greyhound are the same entity....
Hrmm. No wonder I failed logic class.
Has partnered with Microsoft. Now when you donate blood for free, which they'll sell to hospitals for as much as 380$/pint, they will donate a full 1% to the Save Vista Microsoft fund. Your blood donor card will now have a Vista logo on it to boot.
And the world quietly rejoiced, knowing that a life had been saved, Red Cross got more money to pay their 10 mil/year execs (and proctor and gamble lawsuit lawyers), and microsoft got a laughable pittance for a laughable product.
Oh great. As if I am that happy with sony's overly complexified television sets which are difficult to service, their over priced ps3 with no neat games, and their vaio line of laptops with non-existant support and proprietary hardware that linux won't work on.
....sony.
Imagine a next generation internet designed by
Why can't japan just go send out a team to air condition hell instead and leave the internet alone?
Is what the educators in North Carolina refer to it as. The whole no child left standing was modeled on north carolina's end of grade tests. At the time it was instituted, north carolina was #49/50 ranked in the nation for public education. After the no child left standing came into play, I think we're #48? or maybe I got them backwards. Anyways, No Child Left standing was based on a patently flawed model, just like NAFTA. Gee, Everytime we plant a bush we come a bit closer to hedging out the sun.
Back to the topic. Because of the intense (and by intense, I seriously mean INTENSE) pressure to produce scores, virtually any school system in any state with a NCLS/NCLB act in place (I think 39 states have adopted this now) forces the teachers to dedicate all of there energy getting the bottom 20% to pass. You don't have to worry substantially about the kid with 150 IQ failing a "If a well stores 10 gallons of water, and I draw out 7, how many gallons are left" (Okay, they're marginally harder than this) test built around the 9-12th grades.
Anyways, the really smart kids who got screwed by the vanishing Academically Gifted programs know to enroll their kids in magnet schools or homeschool.
Easy nuff.
I say they'll settle out of court for some absurd sum or the riaa will lose it and the RIAA will bounce the check because it'll be that big (considering they get their jollies off of suing 10 year olds for 300,000+$, i can only imagine a class action lawsuit going for at least 300,000$ * number of class action members.
Hurray. The RIAA and MPAA suck. We want better music, and different movies. The cinematography, million dollar actors, and effects could actually be sacrificed if someone came up with a...uhm, plot?
"Netscape users can simply set their browser to IE mode to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but also disables the Ad Block Plus plug-in.
If you are offended by the Mozilla Corporation's endorsement of dishonesty please contact the Mozilla Foundation and ask them to stop empowering internet theft."
I have another option!
It's a simple 5 step process:
1) If I ever come across a site that throws me at that piece of donkey crap site
2) I will just reopen the same site using your handy dandy babelfish.altavista.com (using firefox), translate the referring site to any language (spanish is fine), then click on the "view this page in it's original language" [the query will come from babelfish, instead of my personal browser, and babelfish doesn't use firefox, it uses a proprietary browser script]
3) I will read the page for a contact address
4) I'll sign said contact address up on the "myfreexbox360.com" style sites
5) I'll inform them that advertisements that they are so fond of are now heading their way, while I enjoy my peaceful ad-reduced surfing, a seperate email to the contact address shall inform them Happy ad-filtering MOFO.
The connection has timed out
The server at whyfirefoxisblocked.com is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.