I may be wrong, but I believe that you would have to earn at least seven or eight hundred dollars in order to have to report it as income (in the US anyways). As always, I'm leary of giving out my SS# to companies I know relatively little about, especially if they shouldn't need it. They shouldn't request it unless you earn enough for it to matter.
Sometimes I'm suprised how far ahead of us Europe is. With many social issues such as drugs being treated way more properly than here than in the United States, or with the Death Penalty being outlawed. Other times, though, like this, I'm suprised how they manage to walk with their ass on backwards. I seriously hope this is not a glimmer of things to come for the United States.
Now I might wait to buy my notebook. But the thing I really want is a notebook mobo to support ddr ram for my notebook. I want to work that 200mhz bus out. Anyone know if this is gonna happen?
I'm pretty sure I read an interview in an anime magazine with the creators of bebop where they said they "WERE" working on a movie. I suppose its always possible it could die in production, but I'm pretty sure its more than just rumors. Anyone know for sure?
I'm surprised this got posted. I'm sure this must have come up on slashdot before.
Ok, here's the scoop. A very good portion of DVD players will not play CD-R. If your sony player doesn't play them (it will likely play cd-rw btw) it is not because "sony has turned its back on cd-r", but rather because Sony didn't make the extra effort to make it cd-r compatible.
Only DVD drives which have been certified as multi-read compatible are guarenteed to play CD-RW, and CD-R both. There has been a push to get all dvd players to meet this standard, but some manufacturers have held off for various reasons (citing a lack of consumer demand and so forth).
As for Sony's own part, they arne't turning their back on CD-R at all. Look at the facts: They've just released a cd-r based Mavica digital camera (using the smaller 80mm type discs)and all of their non-dvd cd players are now labeled as "cd-r compatible" (as if it wasn't obvious). Do you honestly think they would buck such a huge trend in computing? The stockholders would have none of that.
Sometimes certian brands of cd-rs will work when others won't becuase of slightly better reflectivity and such. For instance, certain shinco models will only play princo made cd-rs.
Everyone knows that mail-order CD/comic warehouses try to rip you off. If you were stupid or greedy enough to think you could get 12 CDs for $1 or whatever and never be obligated for more, you deserve the hassle (especially since artists generally don't get royalties for CDs sold at a discount like that).
Artists not getting royalties from cds sould like that? I'm pretty sure that's wrong. I think you just made that up.
The deer guy? I lived somewhere with shitloads of deer, too (there were 19 on my lawn once), and I never hit any. To some degree, it's luck, but it's also a test of reflexes. The insurance company sees two claims in six months, and figures that either a) you suck at driving, b) you like hitting deer, or c) you drive at risky times in risky places. Consequently, you end up having to pay more for insurance. You still got insurance, it just cost more.
No, the point was that he DID NOT get insurance. He was denied. Maybe he can try again somewhere else and then get insurance while just paying more, but what does he do in the meantime? I'd also point out that one of the deers (and I find this part rather amusing) hit him, ran into the side of his car.
All the other people are being nailed for offenses they actually did commit. Drunk driving, and she only got a 60-day suspension? What the
fuck? She could easily have killed someone. I wasn't that stupid when I was 16 or 18. Personally, I don't think she should be allowed to drive until she's 30. Getting turned down for a job seems like a small price to pay. Funny how everyone went nuts over Bush's DWI conviction, but it's somehow OK if you're just Joe Citizen.
The point here is that should a person be held accountable forever for that which was done in youth. Getting turned down for one job may well be a small price to pay, but when she goes to apply for the next one what is to say that she won't be turned down for that one as well? Should she be unemployable all of her life for one night of partying? And for the record, the reaction to Bush's DUI seemed suprisingly apathetic to me. Maybe where you live people "went nuts" over it.
The real problem here is not that these agencies exist and do what they do, but that it isn't easy enough for people to check and correct their own records. People should be notified whenever an "incident" is added to their record, and given the opportunity to dispute it. Jon Katz should be complaining about the errors, not the actual collection of the data. If you fuck up, there are consequences. Learn that, and everyone will be better off.
True enough. To a large extent, I agree. But John Katz was for the most part complaining about the errors. Perhaps you missed the first and main story?
Popup ads have been around forever. Just because they were the first ISP to do it, they think they are the only ISP that gets to do it? I don't believe that for a second. They know perfectly well they're barking up a tree. If you want my opinion, and you probably don't, they probably are just trying find a new way to actually turning a profit. Being a legitimate buisiness didn't work, now maybe nuisance lawsuits will. . .
Public computers, those of both Schools and libraries, rarely require anything close to resembling skill to crack. From the sound of the article this wasn't even a remote intrusion, but rather just disabling/bypassing a proxy or perhaps some security installed on the workstation to limit activities. Probably something along the lines of fortres 101 or Fool Proof security. Both of which are insanely easy to get around (Fool proof might be fool proof but even an idiot can get passed it). The only effective way of actually securing a public terminal was pretty extreme. It involved actually removing the part of the mouse so you couldn't right click, no keyboard, and blocking off access to the computer itself so you couldnt' turn the power off or mess with hardware. All that while being locked into one peice of software with no menus which was set as shell. Of course thats just becuase public places insist on using windows, which was never designed with any sort of security in mind.
It seems to be happening more and more often now. The large #1 company, tired of competing with the #2 company, simply buys the #2 company to make its problems go away. Creative bought A3D, Microsoft has vanquished several foes this way over the past (but finally have enough pressure on them to make them stop), and AOL bought Compuserve. HOw much more of this can we sit by and watch? Every time this happens each individual market inches closer and closer to a monopoly. From every tiny pool of starting companies, it aways seems to end up as one mega-corporation after a bit of competition. How many choices do you now actually have for Videocards? Two, maybe 3, ATI and NVIDIA. And what if you don't happen to like your options? Thats too bad. With such a huge giant in the market there is simply no room for a startup to compete. When was the last time you saw a startup company put out a word processor or spreadsheet program that went up against Microsoft and put a dent in their marketshare? Never.
Perhaps the part of this that disturbs me most is that there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. We've seen our government slowly turn into a government run for and by corporations via lobyists and PACs. And unless Ralph Nader suddenly discovers another 30 million votes next election, it doesn't look like anything will change. Sorry to be such a downer, but this is really starting to bother me.
No actually MOore's law says we will double every 18 months, which means quadruple in 3 years. Somehow you got this wrong but you managed to get your math right. Just a bit of nitpicking on my part.
Moore's Law would have us reaching this milestone much sooner. If we're at 1.5ghz now (or just under) then in 3 years, December 2003, we would hit would 6Ghz, which would put as at 12Ghz by June of 2005 (using 1.4Ghz intead of 1.5 still gives us 11.2GHz). So what gives? If anything, as of late we've been increasing faster than moore's law thanks to intels and AMD's one-upmanship. So it sounds like this, being slower than Moore's law, which itself is slower than our current pace, sounds like we should be expecting 10GHz a bit later than we thought?
Every single joke fell flat on its face, the deliver was there, they just weren't funny. As for plot, it lacked. And the directing was obnoxious. EVERY SINGLE Scene opened with a spiraling shot around the surface of a building. I can now say I've seen about 20 computer generated towers from all angles whereas before I hadn't seen any.
Thats not at all true...If a particular store is doing something like that, they could get into some trouble. . . I've never got crap for selling anything. Never. Actually, it kind of pisses me off. I see myself as one of the few employees who actually knows anything about anything in the store. I'm considering trying a different job somewhere else.
I work at a best buy in indiana (not the fort wayne store though) and one of our HP P4's was recalled. However its my understanding that the Micron made to order P4's are still shipping on schedule and this was a problem with that particular system.
Everytime I fire up ye olde news client, I get a scan from authscan.blah.home.com. I assume rather than simlpy blocking the port they choose to scan you and should a hit be detected, they shall let you know about their displeasure in the matter. I've not noticed any sort of scanning on any other port so I can only assume that if there is something else they feel that strongly about you *not* doing, they've simply blocked the port out. For the record, I'm able to contact my other computer which is on my network using a different ip address. And I'm able to do it over the internet, not just through the local ip address.
My uploading bandwidth seems to have rested solidly around the 120KB (not Kb) range now for a while and hasn't shown any signs of getting slower, but I've heard lots of people speaking of how they were just one day out of the blue capped from their 100k or so speed down to 12k.
hahahahaha..Thats completely messed up. Gore is shown as in the lead, none of the numbers add up in any sane fashion.
Crack: The official Drug of choice of The CNN Newsteam.
The Florida Supreme court's ruling was two pronged. It wanted to both the extend the deadline for certification and to allow time for votes to be recounted, but also it wanted to set the deadline early enough to allow for Contests afterwards (as dictated by Florida law). The Gore camp has a three item list of things it plans to protest. So whoever posted this story is largely mis-informed. This does not indicate the end of the fight for the election, it represents the half-way mark. This will absolutely not be over until all the electors have cast their ballots.
Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6, since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so.
How about we all go use a REAL browser like Netscape 4? The only time I've ever seen an upgrade improve a Microsoft product is from Nt4 to win2k (personal opinion). Look how they ruined Media Player, 6.4 was actually a little bit decent, but 7.0 takes 5 times longer to load files (seriously, 15 seconds compared to 3) and drops twice as many frames while decoding divx on my old system. I say go back to the classics. My choice is Netscape 4, but an Older version of I.E. will certainly be better than any new bloated version.
When did I miss the change to the United States of Microsoft? If Microsoft so much as suspects you are involved in the usage if illicit software they can simply command you to be auditted? What gives Microsoft the authority to make such an audacious demand of anyone, much less an entire city government? I do so hope that city officials put Microsoft in it's place.
Heh, What really grabs me about that statement (besides the obviously encryption joke) is how easy it is for someone to simply read a barcode from across the room, jot it down and later use a program to print a copy of it out. I'm reminded of the students reading other peoples social security numbers (teachers and faculty) from barcodes as a form of protest.
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I may be wrong, but I believe that you would have to earn at least seven or eight hundred dollars in order to have to report it as income (in the US anyways). As always, I'm leary of giving out my SS# to companies I know relatively little about, especially if they shouldn't need it. They shouldn't request it unless you earn enough for it to matter.
Sometimes I'm suprised how far ahead of us Europe is. With many social issues such as drugs being treated way more properly than here than in the United States, or with the Death Penalty being outlawed. Other times, though, like this, I'm suprised how they manage to walk with their ass on backwards. I seriously hope this is not a glimmer of things to come for the United States.
Now I might wait to buy my notebook. But the thing I really want is a notebook mobo to support ddr ram for my notebook. I want to work that 200mhz bus out. Anyone know if this is gonna happen?
I'm pretty sure I read an interview in an anime magazine with the creators of bebop where they said they "WERE" working on a movie. I suppose its always possible it could die in production, but I'm pretty sure its more than just rumors. Anyone know for sure?
Ahh good old shinco. See? In a communist country if the market demands something, it actually gets it! At least you've got to give them that. . .
I'm surprised this got posted. I'm sure this must have come up on slashdot before.
Ok, here's the scoop. A very good portion of DVD players will not play CD-R. If your sony player doesn't play them (it will likely play cd-rw btw) it is not because "sony has turned its back on cd-r", but rather because Sony didn't make the extra effort to make it cd-r compatible.
Only DVD drives which have been certified as multi-read compatible are guarenteed to play CD-RW, and CD-R both. There has been a push to get all dvd players to meet this standard, but some manufacturers have held off for various reasons (citing a lack of consumer demand and so forth).
As for Sony's own part, they arne't turning their back on CD-R at all. Look at the facts: They've just released a cd-r based Mavica digital camera (using the smaller 80mm type discs)and all of their non-dvd cd players are now labeled as "cd-r compatible" (as if it wasn't obvious). Do you honestly think they would buck such a huge trend in computing? The stockholders would have none of that.
Sometimes certian brands of cd-rs will work when others won't becuase of slightly better reflectivity and such. For instance, certain shinco models will only play princo made cd-rs.
Read more at the following:
Goes into much greater detail
Or Read here for a list of DVD's that *CAN* read CD-R (also cd-rw and vcd compatibility listed)
Everyone knows that mail-order CD/comic warehouses try to rip you off. If you were stupid or greedy enough to think you could get 12 CDs for $1 or whatever and never be obligated for more, you deserve the hassle (especially since artists generally don't get royalties for CDs sold at a discount like that).
Artists not getting royalties from cds sould like that? I'm pretty sure that's wrong. I think you just made that up.
The deer guy? I lived somewhere with shitloads of deer, too (there were 19 on my lawn once), and I never hit any. To some degree, it's luck, but it's also a test of reflexes. The insurance company sees two claims in six months, and figures that either a) you suck at driving, b) you like hitting deer, or c) you drive at risky times in risky places. Consequently, you end up having to pay more for insurance. You still got insurance, it just cost more.
No, the point was that he DID NOT get insurance. He was denied. Maybe he can try again somewhere else and then get insurance while just paying more, but what does he do in the meantime? I'd also point out that one of the deers (and I find this part rather amusing) hit him, ran into the side of his car.
All the other people are being nailed for offenses they actually did commit. Drunk driving, and she only got a 60-day suspension? What the fuck? She could easily have killed someone. I wasn't that stupid when I was 16 or 18. Personally, I don't think she should be allowed to drive until she's 30. Getting turned down for a job seems like a small price to pay. Funny how everyone went nuts over Bush's DWI conviction, but it's somehow OK if you're just Joe Citizen.
The point here is that should a person be held accountable forever for that which was done in youth. Getting turned down for one job may well be a small price to pay, but when she goes to apply for the next one what is to say that she won't be turned down for that one as well? Should she be unemployable all of her life for one night of partying? And for the record, the reaction to Bush's DUI seemed suprisingly apathetic to me. Maybe where you live people "went nuts" over it.
The real problem here is not that these agencies exist and do what they do, but that it isn't easy enough for people to check and correct their own records. People should be notified whenever an "incident" is added to their record, and given the opportunity to dispute it. Jon Katz should be complaining about the errors, not the actual collection of the data. If you fuck up, there are consequences. Learn that, and everyone will be better off.
True enough. To a large extent, I agree. But John Katz was for the most part complaining about the errors. Perhaps you missed the first and main story?Popup ads have been around forever. Just because they were the first ISP to do it, they think they are the only ISP that gets to do it? I don't believe that for a second. They know perfectly well they're barking up a tree. If you want my opinion, and you probably don't, they probably are just trying find a new way to actually turning a profit. Being a legitimate buisiness didn't work, now maybe nuisance lawsuits will. . .
21 cents Canadian is nothing.... Like what? 2 cents American :), NO big deal :)
Public computers, those of both Schools and libraries, rarely require anything close to resembling skill to crack. From the sound of the article this wasn't even a remote intrusion, but rather just disabling/bypassing a proxy or perhaps some security installed on the workstation to limit activities. Probably something along the lines of fortres 101 or Fool Proof security. Both of which are insanely easy to get around (Fool proof might be fool proof but even an idiot can get passed it). The only effective way of actually securing a public terminal was pretty extreme. It involved actually removing the part of the mouse so you couldn't right click, no keyboard, and blocking off access to the computer itself so you couldnt' turn the power off or mess with hardware. All that while being locked into one peice of software with no menus which was set as shell. Of course thats just becuase public places insist on using windows, which was never designed with any sort of security in mind.
It seems to be happening more and more often now. The large #1 company, tired of competing with the #2 company, simply buys the #2 company to make its problems go away. Creative bought A3D, Microsoft has vanquished several foes this way over the past (but finally have enough pressure on them to make them stop), and AOL bought Compuserve. HOw much more of this can we sit by and watch? Every time this happens each individual market inches closer and closer to a monopoly. From every tiny pool of starting companies, it aways seems to end up as one mega-corporation after a bit of competition. How many choices do you now actually have for Videocards? Two, maybe 3, ATI and NVIDIA. And what if you don't happen to like your options? Thats too bad. With such a huge giant in the market there is simply no room for a startup to compete. When was the last time you saw a startup company put out a word processor or spreadsheet program that went up against Microsoft and put a dent in their marketshare? Never.
Perhaps the part of this that disturbs me most is that there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. We've seen our government slowly turn into a government run for and by corporations via lobyists and PACs. And unless Ralph Nader suddenly discovers another 30 million votes next election, it doesn't look like anything will change. Sorry to be such a downer, but this is really starting to bother me.
At that price how could the pentagon afford NOT to use them.
No actually MOore's law says we will double every 18 months, which means quadruple in 3 years. Somehow you got this wrong but you managed to get your math right. Just a bit of nitpicking on my part.
Moore's Law would have us reaching this milestone much sooner. If we're at 1.5ghz now (or just under) then in 3 years, December 2003, we would hit would 6Ghz, which would put as at 12Ghz by June of 2005 (using 1.4Ghz intead of 1.5 still gives us 11.2GHz). So what gives? If anything, as of late we've been increasing faster than moore's law thanks to intels and AMD's one-upmanship. So it sounds like this, being slower than Moore's law, which itself is slower than our current pace, sounds like we should be expecting 10GHz a bit later than we thought?
Every single joke fell flat on its face, the deliver was there, they just weren't funny. As for plot, it lacked. And the directing was obnoxious. EVERY SINGLE Scene opened with a spiraling shot around the surface of a building. I can now say I've seen about 20 computer generated towers from all angles whereas before I hadn't seen any.
Thats not at all true...If a particular store is doing something like that, they could get into some trouble. . . I've never got crap for selling anything. Never. Actually, it kind of pisses me off. I see myself as one of the few employees who actually knows anything about anything in the store. I'm considering trying a different job somewhere else.
I work at a best buy in indiana (not the fort wayne store though) and one of our HP P4's was recalled. However its my understanding that the Micron made to order P4's are still shipping on schedule and this was a problem with that particular system.
Everytime I fire up ye olde news client, I get a scan from authscan.blah.home.com. I assume rather than simlpy blocking the port they choose to scan you and should a hit be detected, they shall let you know about their displeasure in the matter. I've not noticed any sort of scanning on any other port so I can only assume that if there is something else they feel that strongly about you *not* doing, they've simply blocked the port out. For the record, I'm able to contact my other computer which is on my network using a different ip address. And I'm able to do it over the internet, not just through the local ip address.
My uploading bandwidth seems to have rested solidly around the 120KB (not Kb) range now for a while and hasn't shown any signs of getting slower, but I've heard lots of people speaking of how they were just one day out of the blue capped from their 100k or so speed down to 12k.
hahahahaha..Thats completely messed up. Gore is shown as in the lead, none of the numbers add up in any sane fashion. Crack: The official Drug of choice of The CNN Newsteam.
The Florida Supreme court's ruling was two pronged. It wanted to both the extend the deadline for certification and to allow time for votes to be recounted, but also it wanted to set the deadline early enough to allow for Contests afterwards (as dictated by Florida law). The Gore camp has a three item list of things it plans to protest. So whoever posted this story is largely mis-informed. This does not indicate the end of the fight for the election, it represents the half-way mark. This will absolutely not be over until all the electors have cast their ballots.
Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6, since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so.
How about we all go use a REAL browser like Netscape 4? The only time I've ever seen an upgrade improve a Microsoft product is from Nt4 to win2k (personal opinion). Look how they ruined Media Player, 6.4 was actually a little bit decent, but 7.0 takes 5 times longer to load files (seriously, 15 seconds compared to 3) and drops twice as many frames while decoding divx on my old system. I say go back to the classics. My choice is Netscape 4, but an Older version of I.E. will certainly be better than any new bloated version.
When did I miss the change to the United States of Microsoft? If Microsoft so much as suspects you are involved in the usage if illicit software they can simply command you to be auditted? What gives Microsoft the authority to make such an audacious demand of anyone, much less an entire city government? I do so hope that city officials put Microsoft in it's place.
Heh, What really grabs me about that statement (besides the obviously encryption joke) is how easy it is for someone to simply read a barcode from across the room, jot it down and later use a program to print a copy of it out. I'm reminded of the students reading other peoples social security numbers (teachers and faculty) from barcodes as a form of protest.
Apparently you *can* compare apples to oranges.