Even if we assume that the U.S. wants to be the cop of the world, which is also false.
Not the whole world, true. But at least the sections of the world where one or more large politically-generous U.S. corporations have a vested interest.
Tolerating failure and using a first release of something don't really go together. Best to wait a while and let others find out what does or doesn't work properly.
Shhhhh! Like you said.. somebody has to find out...;-)
This isn't a solution to the original problem, but it has helped me a lot with web navigation.
I've been running an ad-filter program called Proxomitron.
I downloaded a user-created pack of custom filters, including one called a "super opener". This filter places a small up-arrow at the end of every link, which opens the link in a new window.
Since this is a shorter procedure than the
right-click
find the context "Open in New Window"
left-click
method, I use it more often.
I get several browser windows. However, I can close a window when my interest in the tangent subject has terminated (returning to the parent), or I can keep it open for later.
I've customized this filter a bit for my own visual preference; If you want it, email me.
I think the word "stealing" (with the quotes) is the latest buzzword to get your product to sell more units to the 18-30 crowd. Therefore, the statement could have been deliberate to increase sales.
You know, this has *got* to be the same way with AOL subscriptions. Seriously. If you haven't already gotten a dozen discs in the mail and passed over a couple of hundred displays at checkout stands for a free two zillion hours on AOL, are you suddenly going to change your mind?
The only people they (AOL and MS) have left to consume are new computer buyers, and last I heard the number of people without computers is drying up.
You had better be using much more than just a faraday cage to protect your comptuer...
Properly tuned and filtered signals from photomultipliers can now reproduce what is on your CRT merely by catching a ray of light emitted from your room.
Time to either move underground, and/or line your walls and windows with aluminum foil =)
If that were the case, then why do they tend to skip all of the spyware?
I take Provigil
on
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· Score: 4, Informative
I take Provigil for EDS (Excessive Daytime Sleepyness), which it has been a remakable help for me. I haven't tried taking it at night or using it other than how it is perscribed, but if it can keep me awake through the afternoon without having to crawl under my desk and sleep, then I'd imagine it's pretty effective to avoid sleeping at night as well.
The nice thing about Provigil is it doesn't seem to have a down side following the alertness.. It's just like you put off the drowsyness for a few hours, so I'm usually feeling at 7:00pm what I normally feel at about 2:00pm, not more tired (or in a sleep debt) as you'd expect with normal stimulants.
The bad thing is the stuff is about $350 a bottle; over $10 per pill! But it's either take it and work full salary time at a nice office, or stop taking it and probably get fired for sleeping at work. =D
Heh.. Actually I was playing Earth & Beyond when someone on there reminded me that some theatres were playing it at midnight. I got tickets right away and went to watch it, then came back on afterwards and shared my positive opionion of the movie =D
I think the audience for all MMORPGs is the same, regardless of the actual theme involved =D
- The Sims (say what you will... chix dig it)
- Ultima Online (no credit for first really successful MMORPG? Come on...)
Since you brought up MMORPGs, which now also includes The Sims Online (in beta), I thought I'd mention this one as well which I'm currently hooked on... =D
Westwood studios (now owned by EA) has just started up a second generation MMORPG called Earth & Beyond. While it's not completely an MMO version Elite II, it comes pretty close. It has planets, star systems, trading, PvP games, teams, guilds, groups, mining, ore->componet->device refining/building, and some pretty eye candy to go with it all.
It's still in it's infancy and has some minor bugs on occasion, but nothing that blocks it from being quite enjoyable and addictive. They just released a monthly patch today as a matter of fact which added two major new gameplay elements to the game.
Has anyone else here tried it yet? I've only been playing it for a little over a week now and I'm down to 4 hours of sleep a night =D
I'm JE Kestrex on Orion if you want to group up or if you need any wormholes =D
Someone needs to invent a new term for "program which puts eye candy on the screen while you're not using it".
I've seen a lot of "screen savers" like that, the most popular of which is the SETI@Home "screen saver".
Then there are others which do have elements which move around the screen, but don't use the color phosphors in a fairly uniform way.
Actually, IIRC, isn't it true that the different colored phosphors in a monitor fade/age at a different rate? How about inventing a screen saver which counteracts that?
Another useful utility would be something which provides useful information, which I'm sure some do exist. Does anyone know of a useful screen saver which can provide "at a glimpse" view of the status of various information (weather, stocks, network activity, etc)?
shoplifting, fraud, forgery, breaking and entering, theft, robbery
Don't the desperate addicts do that now? At least if most drugs were legalized, the drug prices would plummet and these crimes would decrease proportionally in frequency.
IIRC, you can have multiple balances on PayPal, each in a different currency. You only get charged when you convert between them.
My suggestion is to leave it in CAD, unless it's a large amount that you need to withdrawl. Then the next time you send money to CA, you won't have to pay again for exchanging USD to CAD.
Maybe he should have told the FBI/CIA/SS/NSA/etc that the laptop had mp3's on it. At least then he could have gotten some kind of response from them...
Understand that these 'screen savers' really don't save your screen, current monitors die before any real burn in happens, but that is a different story.
I've seen a lot of people say this, but I spent some time researching used monitors, and I've found that burn-in is still a problem even on newer monitors. Here is an
example.
I'll admit the problem has mostly (but not entirely) gone away with newer technology, but it is still worth running a screen saver/blanker and/or enabling the power saver mode to keep your monitor working it's best.
What we need is another slashdot-like site that you can only become a member of by invitation.
That's interesting. Some sort of responsibility dependency chain would probably work well, where you are at least partially responsible for the people who you have vouched for. You would need some limited abilities to punish them if they act up, since the moderator's reaction to what they say will reflect your rating as well (to a smaller degree).
This happens very often with PayPal as well. I've seen scammers send me an email which looks like a regular PayPal email, but it's done in HTML, so it shows you a link to www.paypal.com, but the href beneath it is to something like www.paypal.com.paypalz.cx.
Of course if you click on that link, you get presented with a page which looks remarkably similar to the paypal front page. The unaware victim/user will attempt to log in with their email/password, and then be presented with a fake error and perhaps then be redirected to the real paypal site (storing the userid/password in the process). The user attempts their login again, and is probably unaware anything happened.
This is also why Microsoft is so successful - they constantly innovate, rather than sitting on their market dominance
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Oh, so that would explain why Outlook Express has improved *so much* since version 4.</sarcasam>
I like OE. It has a clean UI, but it really hasn't changed since I started using it.
the rules system is too simplistic
it doesn't include the original author's name in an automatically forwarded email
going from next to previous message is awkward
memory management on newsgroups is inefficient
there should be plugins for binary decoders
I can't edit a list of file extensions which are "dangerous", so I have to open the settings window, flip to another tab, uncheck the "protect me from dangerous attachments", then save the attachment and go back in and re-enable the setting.
The only really neat feature they did add was the junk filter, and that got removed thanks to some moron e-card quasi-spammer.
A fellow slashdotter pointed me to this page last week, which makes the point that there is a "singularity" of artifiical intelligence, at which point the technology we have created will perpetuate itself (create it's own code, develop it's own hardware), much faster than we ever could.
The advancements from there would snowball, as the hardware and software used to make things would then become meta-creators themselves (and therefore be the meta-meta-creations of the humans who designed this AI). This would go on and on...
While the site calls it a "singularity" I tend to think of it more as an "event horizon" (in more than one sense).
There's an inexpensive shareware program called "FinePrint" which works as a fake printer driver between your applications and your actual printer. This program was originally created to save you paper, by printing up to eight pages on one side of one sheet, but over time it has gained a lot of nice features.
One of the features that I've used for my online transactions reciepts is the option to Save the print job(s) to a file or a bunch of files. It will save in the following formats:
fp (FinePrint)
bmp
emf
jpg
tif
txt
When I save as a TIF, I am given the option of monochrome, 4-bit, 8-bit, or 24-bit, and a resolution 72-1200 or "custom". There is a checkbox for "Create a separ4ate file for each page", so that solves the multi-page problem as well.
I really like this program, as I've been a registered user since nearly the beginning, and I've used nearly all of it's features at one time or another. And I don't get anything for mentioning it either, so =P
Slashdot Mirror
Not the whole world, true. But at least the sections of the world where one or more large politically-generous U.S. corporations have a vested interest.
Shhhhh! Like you said.. somebody has to find out... ;-)
I've been running an ad-filter program called Proxomitron.
I downloaded a user-created pack of custom filters, including one called a "super opener". This filter places a small up-arrow at the end of every link, which opens the link in a new window.
Since this is a shorter procedure than the
- right-click
- find the context "Open in New Window"
- left-click
method, I use it more often.I get several browser windows. However, I can close a window when my interest in the tangent subject has terminated (returning to the parent), or I can keep it open for later.
I've customized this filter a bit for my own visual preference; If you want it, email me.
In academia, more_text == you_look_smarter;
with programmers, more_text == bloat.
I think the word "stealing" (with the quotes) is the latest buzzword to get your product to sell more units to the 18-30 crowd. Therefore, the statement could have been deliberate to increase sales.
The only people they (AOL and MS) have left to consume are new computer buyers, and last I heard the number of people without computers is drying up.
Properly tuned and filtered signals from photomultipliers can now reproduce what is on your CRT merely by catching a ray of light emitted from your room.
Time to either move underground, and/or line your walls and windows with aluminum foil =)
Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays
I take Provigil for EDS (Excessive Daytime Sleepyness), which it has been a remakable help for me. I haven't tried taking it at night or using it other than how it is perscribed, but if it can keep me awake through the afternoon without having to crawl under my desk and sleep, then I'd imagine it's pretty effective to avoid sleeping at night as well. The nice thing about Provigil is it doesn't seem to have a down side following the alertness.. It's just like you put off the drowsyness for a few hours, so I'm usually feeling at 7:00pm what I normally feel at about 2:00pm, not more tired (or in a sleep debt) as you'd expect with normal stimulants. The bad thing is the stuff is about $350 a bottle; over $10 per pill! But it's either take it and work full salary time at a nice office, or stop taking it and probably get fired for sleeping at work. =D
I think the audience for all MMORPGs is the same, regardless of the actual theme involved =D
Westwood studios (now owned by EA) has just started up a second generation MMORPG called Earth & Beyond. While it's not completely an MMO version Elite II, it comes pretty close. It has planets, star systems, trading, PvP games, teams, guilds, groups, mining, ore->componet->device refining/building, and some pretty eye candy to go with it all.
It's still in it's infancy and has some minor bugs on occasion, but nothing that blocks it from being quite enjoyable and addictive. They just released a monthly patch today as a matter of fact which added two major new gameplay elements to the game.
Has anyone else here tried it yet? I've only been playing it for a little over a week now and I'm down to 4 hours of sleep a night =D
I'm JE Kestrex on Orion if you want to group up or if you need any wormholes =D
I've seen a lot of "screen savers" like that, the most popular of which is the SETI@Home "screen saver".
Then there are others which do have elements which move around the screen, but don't use the color phosphors in a fairly uniform way.
Actually, IIRC, isn't it true that the different colored phosphors in a monitor fade/age at a different rate? How about inventing a screen saver which counteracts that?
Another useful utility would be something which provides useful information, which I'm sure some do exist. Does anyone know of a useful screen saver which can provide "at a glimpse" view of the status of various information (weather, stocks, network activity, etc)?
My suggestion is to leave it in CAD, unless it's a large amount that you need to withdrawl. Then the next time you send money to CA, you won't have to pay again for exchanging USD to CAD.
Maybe he should have told the FBI/CIA/SS/NSA/etc that the laptop had mp3's on it. At least then he could have gotten some kind of response from them...
Or read the last FAQ on this page.
I'll admit the problem has mostly (but not entirely) gone away with newer technology, but it is still worth running a screen saver/blanker and/or enabling the power saver mode to keep your monitor working it's best.
That's interesting. Some sort of responsibility dependency chain would probably work well, where you are at least partially responsible for the people who you have vouched for. You would need some limited abilities to punish them if they act up, since the moderator's reaction to what they say will reflect your rating as well (to a smaller degree).
Of course if you click on that link, you get presented with a page which looks remarkably similar to the paypal front page. The unaware victim/user will attempt to log in with their email/password, and then be presented with a fake error and perhaps then be redirected to the real paypal site (storing the userid/password in the process). The user attempts their login again, and is probably unaware anything happened.
I like OE. It has a clean UI, but it really hasn't changed since I started using it.
The only really neat feature they did add was the junk filter, and that got removed thanks to some moron e-card quasi-spammer.
The advancements from there would snowball, as the hardware and software used to make things would then become meta-creators themselves (and therefore be the meta-meta-creations of the humans who designed this AI). This would go on and on...
While the site calls it a "singularity" I tend to think of it more as an "event horizon" (in more than one sense).
Not to mention this idea will make some people think they can safely stare through the hole in the middle...
There's an inexpensive shareware program called "FinePrint" which works as a fake printer driver between your applications and your actual printer. This program was originally created to save you paper, by printing up to eight pages on one side of one sheet, but over time it has gained a lot of nice features.
One of the features that I've used for my online transactions reciepts is the option to Save the print job(s) to a file or a bunch of files. It will save in the following formats:
When I save as a TIF, I am given the option of monochrome, 4-bit, 8-bit, or 24-bit, and a resolution 72-1200 or "custom". There is a checkbox for "Create a separ4ate file for each page", so that solves the multi-page problem as well.
I really like this program, as I've been a registered user since nearly the beginning, and I've used nearly all of it's features at one time or another. And I don't get anything for mentioning it either, so =P
FinePrint