Yeah, I have a Treo 600 and its lens is in exactly the wrong place. It's in the far right, on the rear of the phone. When I hold the phone in my left hand, I have to be careful to remember not to put my finger on the lens.
I do wish it came with a lens cap.
Anyways, I think the main reason the photos that I have taken have sucked is the lack of a flash. Plus, it's all fixed-focus stuff. It's just not designed to be a good quality digital camera.
It's "good enough" for some applications. I don't always have a real camera with me, so if I got in a car accident, it'll be nice to be able to take pictures with the phone.
Plus if I end up at a nude beach on accident, I can collect proof!
Btw: Sprint picturemail sucks.:) I'm going to try to replace it. I had no idea I was sending Sprint ads to people...
This weapon shot down artillery shells. It's useful for far more than just large scale missiles. It's mobile, too, so it can be deployed in the battlefield.
Yes, it's not going to protect against terrorists who fight more efficiently (targeting civilians/semi-civilians, as opposed to armies that fight against like-trained armies), but it's still very useful for "standard" warfare.
The user can send their complaint directly to the spammer, instead of going through Spamcop. There's nothing requiring Spamcop to forward the message on intact. That's what standard mail servers are for.
It is unfortunate. What the credit card companies have done is increased the prices of goods 2-3% across the board. Considering that some retail businesses are only going to see 15-30% margin after expenses, that is significant.
Debit is appealing to merchants because often they can let the consumer pay the convenience fee. I'm definitely a fan of that. I'll pay for the convenience of not having to carry cash all the time.
Speaking quite frankly here, if you don't have money you can piss away, don't bother with buying individual stocks.
Also, keep in mind that you have to pay a commission on purchase and on sale. So lets say you buy $500 worth of Google, and it goes up to $600. You pay $10.95/trade (Ameritrade, say). That's $78.10 profit. If you sold it within 18 months of buying it, you have to pay income taxes on that money, lets say that is 25%. That's $58.57 profit. (Actually, I don't remember if you can discount the commissions for tax purposes). That's around a 11% return. If you buy $1000, and it goes up to $1200, gives you $133 profit after the 25% taxes and commissions, a 13% gain. The more you invest, the less significant the commissions become.
If you insist, though, you don't have to spend all of the money in your brokerage account on stock. You can leave some in as cash. You probably won't earn interest on it, but since its only a few hundred dollars anyways, that shouldn't matter too much.
Btw, you may be interested in a service such as Sharebuilder. They can automatically debit a certain amount every month, and then buy fractional shares. It's like $12/month for the service, though.
amendment to 4) Whine to Congress about how they are getting flack for not doing their jobs properly, because Congress doesn't let them keep more than a fraction of what they collect in revenues.
If AXA wins, it means that Google is responsible for screening all ads for trademarks. Since there are legal uses for other people's trademarks, the task becomes even more difficult.
AXA should be suing the company that made the ad. Except that wouldn't get much publicity.
"If you have the keys to an encrypted file and you refuse to decode it and a judge issues a warrant for that data"
That amounts to being asked to incriminate oneself. They'd only *need* to ask for that if they didn't have enough evidence against you to convict you.
Besides, keys really do get lost. I have some encrypted files from a machine which I forgot to back up, so I don't have the private key any longer. My bad, sure, but should I really go to jail for it? There's nothing in those files that would work against me, but they don't know that. I don't think it is appropriate for them to be able to jail me until I prove that I'm innocent.
"The NMAP issue seems like one of FUD to me. The word "hacking" is nowhere in the actual text of the document."
Er, check out this text, Article 2:
Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right. A Party may require that the offence be committed by infringing security measures, with the intent of obtaining computer data or other dishonest intent, or in relation to a computer system that is connected to another computer system.
I've bolded the significant part. They're saying that the laws can be constructed such that you can be punished for "infringing security measures" "in relation to a computer system that is connected to another computer system". Since the latter is basic networking, and is the basic building block of the Internet, and "infringing security measures" could mean trying to connect to a firewalled port (or successfully, accidentally getting through a firewall because of a misconfiguration), nmapping could count.
This is bad news. There's not enough protections in the treaty to prevent abuse by the government.
You're right, it must have been the democrats seeking to pay $87B for a "pre-emptive" strike against a nation not even close to being ready to attack us.
You're right - however, I've played a few MMOGs, and the random events that I was able to participate in (when I was logged in, that is) were very rare. Everquest, they were practically non-existant, and FFXI I only ran in to one "event". It wasn't random, it was scheduled and lasted many days. (Which I'm cool with..) Nothing in Anarchy Online (when I played). I don't remember any such thing happening in UO, but I haven't played it for years.
Maybe I'm just bitter, because I see the potential in these games, and I see how little it is used. I think it's fair to advise others to tone down their expectations too.
So what are you saying he meant? That they're going to put the votes in a box and send them to the President? Perhaps I am ignorant, but I don't see how changing to to for would make that sentence any less damning.
This probably should not be flagged as a troll. This is what past history has dictated. Once a game goes public, the random events like this become few and far between, if they exist at all.
Maybe they'll do something different in this game, but it is fair to advise a little restraint when it comes to expectations...
As I understand it, it wouldn't be possible to create a trustworthy "quantum-aware" switch. This is all "point to point", as in physically laying a wire from you to your bank, or wherever.
This may sound like a stupid question, but how long does it take for the second photon to take on the opposite property? Is it based on the distance between the two in space, or is it instantaneous (I think you can guess where I'm going here)?
Heh, yep. I really like FreeBSD - it has made my job *so* much easier it's not even funny. It's the best server OS I've used.
But I also like Windows XP for my home machine. I don't have any problems with it - probably because I run Mozilla instead of IE, and I don't download misc. executables and such. It's been good to me. It's easy to use, and doesn't get in the way of my job.
Before then I used '98, and while I had some problems with it, more often than not it was perfectly functional for what I needed.
I use what works best for me. While I rarely use Redhat (around 8 servers, or 3% of the network), I'm glad to see that they're still supporting the 2.4 kernel. I only wish FreeBSD's releases would be supported as long!*
(* Yeah, I know, it's a volunteer thing. Wishes don't have to coincide with reality).
Redhat is supporting a kernel they've used for some time now, by backporting patches. What's the big deal? *Lots* of people are going to be running 2.4.x for a long time, and having vendor support still available is great. We should be supportive of Redhat here.
The worst thing they could do is drop support for 2.4.x entirely and mandate everyone upgrades to 2.6.x. Why make such a major change to something that works?
XM has been spamming me because one of their customers apparently used my e-mail address when they signed up. They do have "premium" channels, like Playboy Radio, so it's similar to cable in that respect. But I don't know if they have "packages" or not (I only read that one Playboy spam, the rest goes to SA).
...you'll love www.gametab.com . I'm not affiliated, it's just something I wish I had done when I thought of it.:)
It even links to the reviews, so you can read through them all. The numbers help, so you don't have to waste too much time reading about really, really low rated games.
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Yeah, I have a Treo 600 and its lens is in exactly the wrong place. It's in the far right, on the rear of the phone. When I hold the phone in my left hand, I have to be careful to remember not to put my finger on the lens.
:) I'm going to try to replace it. I had no idea I was sending Sprint ads to people...
I do wish it came with a lens cap.
Anyways, I think the main reason the photos that I have taken have sucked is the lack of a flash. Plus, it's all fixed-focus stuff. It's just not designed to be a good quality digital camera.
It's "good enough" for some applications. I don't always have a real camera with me, so if I got in a car accident, it'll be nice to be able to take pictures with the phone.
Plus if I end up at a nude beach on accident, I can collect proof!
Btw: Sprint picturemail sucks.
This weapon shot down artillery shells. It's useful for far more than just large scale missiles. It's mobile, too, so it can be deployed in the battlefield.
Yes, it's not going to protect against terrorists who fight more efficiently (targeting civilians/semi-civilians, as opposed to armies that fight against like-trained armies), but it's still very useful for "standard" warfare.
A car sub could be pretty sweet. Or more appropriately, a RV-sub combo. Killer vacation vehicle!
The user can send their complaint directly to the spammer, instead of going through Spamcop. There's nothing requiring Spamcop to forward the message on intact. That's what standard mail servers are for.
It is unfortunate. What the credit card companies have done is increased the prices of goods 2-3% across the board. Considering that some retail businesses are only going to see 15-30% margin after expenses, that is significant.
Debit is appealing to merchants because often they can let the consumer pay the convenience fee. I'm definitely a fan of that. I'll pay for the convenience of not having to carry cash all the time.
Speaking quite frankly here, if you don't have money you can piss away, don't bother with buying individual stocks.
Also, keep in mind that you have to pay a commission on purchase and on sale. So lets say you buy $500 worth of Google, and it goes up to $600. You pay $10.95/trade (Ameritrade, say). That's $78.10 profit. If you sold it within 18 months of buying it, you have to pay income taxes on that money, lets say that is 25%. That's $58.57 profit. (Actually, I don't remember if you can discount the commissions for tax purposes). That's around a 11% return. If you buy $1000, and it goes up to $1200, gives you $133 profit after the 25% taxes and commissions, a 13% gain. The more you invest, the less significant the commissions become.
If you insist, though, you don't have to spend all of the money in your brokerage account on stock. You can leave some in as cash. You probably won't earn interest on it, but since its only a few hundred dollars anyways, that shouldn't matter too much.
Btw, you may be interested in a service such as Sharebuilder. They can automatically debit a certain amount every month, and then buy fractional shares. It's like $12/month for the service, though.
Perhaps a helpful pusher bot to push grandma down the stairs? Now that'd sell!
amendment to 4)
Whine to Congress about how they are getting flack for not doing their jobs properly, because Congress doesn't let them keep more than a fraction of what they collect in revenues.
They have a procedure for complaints:
Trademark Complaint
The question here would then be did AXA file any complaints, and were they ignored? Or did AXA just sue and send out a press release?
If AXA wins, it means that Google is responsible for screening all ads for trademarks. Since there are legal uses for other people's trademarks, the task becomes even more difficult.
AXA should be suing the company that made the ad. Except that wouldn't get much publicity.
"If you have the keys to an encrypted file and you refuse to decode it and a judge issues a warrant for that data"
That amounts to being asked to incriminate oneself. They'd only *need* to ask for that if they didn't have enough evidence against you to convict you.
Besides, keys really do get lost. I have some encrypted files from a machine which I forgot to back up, so I don't have the private key any longer. My bad, sure, but should I really go to jail for it? There's nothing in those files that would work against me, but they don't know that. I don't think it is appropriate for them to be able to jail me until I prove that I'm innocent.
"The NMAP issue seems like one of FUD to me. The word "hacking" is nowhere in the actual text of the document."
Er, check out this text, Article 2:
Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right. A Party may require that the offence be committed by infringing security measures, with the intent of obtaining computer data or other dishonest intent, or in relation to a computer system that is connected to another computer system.
I've bolded the significant part. They're saying that the laws can be constructed such that you can be punished for "infringing security measures" "in relation to a computer system that is connected to another computer system". Since the latter is basic networking, and is the basic building block of the Internet, and "infringing security measures" could mean trying to connect to a firewalled port (or successfully, accidentally getting through a firewall because of a misconfiguration), nmapping could count.
This is bad news. There's not enough protections in the treaty to prevent abuse by the government.
You're right, it must have been the democrats seeking to pay $87B for a "pre-emptive" strike against a nation not even close to being ready to attack us.
Heh, you can go ahead and sniff the FTP traffic, and see for yourself what is sent, and what is not sent after opting out.
You're right - however, I've played a few MMOGs, and the random events that I was able to participate in (when I was logged in, that is) were very rare. Everquest, they were practically non-existant, and FFXI I only ran in to one "event". It wasn't random, it was scheduled and lasted many days. (Which I'm cool with..) Nothing in Anarchy Online (when I played). I don't remember any such thing happening in UO, but I haven't played it for years.
Maybe I'm just bitter, because I see the potential in these games, and I see how little it is used. I think it's fair to advise others to tone down their expectations too.
So what are you saying he meant? That they're going to put the votes in a box and send them to the President? Perhaps I am ignorant, but I don't see how changing to to for would make that sentence any less damning.
This probably should not be flagged as a troll. This is what past history has dictated. Once a game goes public, the random events like this become few and far between, if they exist at all.
Maybe they'll do something different in this game, but it is fair to advise a little restraint when it comes to expectations...
As I understand it, it wouldn't be possible to create a trustworthy "quantum-aware" switch. This is all "point to point", as in physically laying a wire from you to your bank, or wherever.
This may sound like a stupid question, but how long does it take for the second photon to take on the opposite property? Is it based on the distance between the two in space, or is it instantaneous (I think you can guess where I'm going here)?
$45k is hard to live on with $1000/month rent? What SUVs do you "own" (ie have loans on)?
Heh, I still have "porn4christ.com". Haven't done anything with it though.
The sad part is no registrars will let you put fu*k in a domain name. Fuck that pisses me off.
Heh, yep. I really like FreeBSD - it has made my job *so* much easier it's not even funny. It's the best server OS I've used.
But I also like Windows XP for my home machine. I don't have any problems with it - probably because I run Mozilla instead of IE, and I don't download misc. executables and such. It's been good to me. It's easy to use, and doesn't get in the way of my job.
Before then I used '98, and while I had some problems with it, more often than not it was perfectly functional for what I needed.
I use what works best for me. While I rarely use Redhat (around 8 servers, or 3% of the network), I'm glad to see that they're still supporting the 2.4 kernel. I only wish FreeBSD's releases would be supported as long!*
(* Yeah, I know, it's a volunteer thing. Wishes don't have to coincide with reality).
Redhat is supporting a kernel they've used for some time now, by backporting patches. What's the big deal? *Lots* of people are going to be running 2.4.x for a long time, and having vendor support still available is great. We should be supportive of Redhat here.
The worst thing they could do is drop support for 2.4.x entirely and mandate everyone upgrades to 2.6.x. Why make such a major change to something that works?
XM has been spamming me because one of their customers apparently used my e-mail address when they signed up. They do have "premium" channels, like Playboy Radio, so it's similar to cable in that respect. But I don't know if they have "packages" or not (I only read that one Playboy spam, the rest goes to SA).
...you'll love www.gametab.com . I'm not affiliated, it's just something I wish I had done when I thought of it. :)
It even links to the reviews, so you can read through them all. The numbers help, so you don't have to waste too much time reading about really, really low rated games.