Gee, I wonder why so few Americans vote. Could it be because Congress does worthless shit like the Do-Not-Call-Unless-You're-Taking-A-"Survey" Registry and renaming french fries?
Because the bill is designed to make Americans think that the Congress is doing something in their interest. Judging by the posts here (so far), it looks like it's been a great success.
Of course, the bill will not actually do anything.
...and then when you call them, they reiterate exactly what you said in the e-mail, because they really did understand it, but they wanted to waste your time with a phone call.
"They are trying to create a network friendly version of Tivo (with far less consumer goodness as a side effect) that they can get the networks backing."
NBC, a pretty large network, was one of the initial investors. In fact, AOL was also an initial investor:
I figured we took all of the land and claimed it as our own, and then later reserved land for them (perhaps before developing on it ourselves). To me, that seems like we gave it to them, but I might be wrong about the facts.
Why should fairness in gambling be regulated? The people participating are greedy - they're hoping to make easy money with no effort. So what if they lose it. Sometimes greed bites ya.
I'm not an account manager, I'm basically a tech support rep (just one of the many hats, really) in a group of people. We used to do IM support, but it's fundamentally flawed for groups - customers end up always contacting the same IM address, and get frustrated when the one person is not there. Or even if you're all there, one person has to handle all the requests.
I think an IM client that allows multiple people to use the same nick could be very useful for ISP TS departments.
Heh, embarassed. I read the article, without reading the entire summary - I guess the/. submitter must have found out it was in US dollars. My bad. Mod me down, please.
Since it's initially available only in Europe, Asia, and Australia, I guess we must assume that 399 is the Australian price (they're the only one with a dollar, of the three).
except when registrars are in other countries, then your sites may be subject to their local laws, such as what happened with joker.com (and which is why i've moved all of my domains from them.)
People who get these searches should turn around and leave, and then have the tickets refunded by way of their credit card companies (or small claims). It'd only take a few people to stop them.
A lot of companies (even non-porn) offer subscription services. They could still encrypt the credit cards (and should) but they need to be able to decrypt them to send them to the processing company.
The answer here would be for the processing company to offer their client a one-way encrypted hash of the card/exp date/cvv2 so the merchant doesn't need to keep it. It'd be tied to the merchant account number. Hell, could work for non-subscription services too. Doesn't prevent that merchant from draining the account, but at least if it gets out, it won't of much use.
I have a '97 SL2. When someone backed in to the side of it at about 5mph, they did some serious damage ($3500), which included replacing the two door panels. They weren't damaged much, but they weren't patchable, either.
Later the same year my car was broken in to - they bent the driver's door (someone's out to get my doors, heh) and they had to replace that door panel, too.
The suckiest part was how long it took them to do this - it took 2-3 weeks to get the door panels in stock.
I always enjoyed how they were not ashamed of re-packaging products (the shrink wrap machines behind the counters next to the registers):)
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You aren't limited to 36 hours of gameplay. And in EQ, that wouldn't get you very far, in any case..
Consider tho, that $170 for 36 hours of gameplay is ~$4.72/hour. Pretty cheap compared to many alternatives. If you play 100 hours in that year, there ya go, $1.70/hour. Gets better the more you play!!;)
A recent patch sent out in October actually made the servers vulnerable again. So if you patched with the old patch, and then the one in October, you were screwed.
it probably costs AOL a lot more to handle spam than it does their customers, even collectively. they're hardly "doing nothing" for their users to handle spam. at the very least, they have to install a lot of mail servers to process incoming mail.
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Speaking of worthlessness:
Congress renames French Fries
Gee, I wonder why so few Americans vote. Could it be because Congress does worthless shit like the Do-Not-Call-Unless-You're-Taking-A-"Survey" Registry and renaming french fries?
Because the bill is designed to make Americans think that the Congress is doing something in their interest. Judging by the posts here (so far), it looks like it's been a great success.
Of course, the bill will not actually do anything.
...and then when you call them, they reiterate exactly what you said in the e-mail, because they really did understand it, but they wanted to waste your time with a phone call.
e-mail > IM > phone > face-to-face > meeting
The author has things all backwards.
(I would have modded you up, had I the points).
Not that I disagree with you, but...
"They are trying to create a network friendly version of Tivo (with far less consumer goodness as a side effect) that they can get the networks backing."
NBC, a pretty large network, was one of the initial investors. In fact, AOL was also an initial investor:
http://www.tivo.com/5.6.2.asp
Of course the linux specific search doesn't answer your question. It's for linux.
Try http://www.google.com/bsd
We just need to start beaming data through the earth instead through fiber optics draped through the ocean or satelites. ;)
Hm. I guess I misunderstood.
I figured we took all of the land and claimed it as our own, and then later reserved land for them (perhaps before developing on it ourselves). To me, that seems like we gave it to them, but I might be wrong about the facts.
Why should fairness in gambling be regulated? The people participating are greedy - they're hoping to make easy money with no effort. So what if they lose it. Sometimes greed bites ya.
Yes, given. After it was taken away. It certainly wasn't left for them as part of the original plan.
I'm not an account manager, I'm basically a tech support rep (just one of the many hats, really) in a group of people. We used to do IM support, but it's fundamentally flawed for groups - customers end up always contacting the same IM address, and get frustrated when the one person is not there. Or even if you're all there, one person has to handle all the requests.
I think an IM client that allows multiple people to use the same nick could be very useful for ISP TS departments.
Heh, embarassed. I read the article, without reading the entire summary - I guess the /. submitter must have found out it was in US dollars. My bad. Mod me down, please.
Since it's initially available only in Europe, Asia, and Australia, I guess we must assume that 399 is the Australian price (they're the only one with a dollar, of the three).
According to Yahoo! (Reuters?), that's US$245.03
Definitely not a bad price.
except when registrars are in other countries, then your sites may be subject to their local laws, such as what happened with joker.com (and which is why i've moved all of my domains from them.)
People who get these searches should turn around and leave, and then have the tickets refunded by way of their credit card companies (or small claims). It'd only take a few people to stop them.
It's also bogus, satire.
& oe =UTF-8&q=link:ieVDGMb7XnEC:www.cantrip.org/nobugs. html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
someone else mentioned this, I'm just re-posting it.
A lot of companies (even non-porn) offer subscription services. They could still encrypt the credit cards (and should) but they need to be able to decrypt them to send them to the processing company.
The answer here would be for the processing company to offer their client a one-way encrypted hash of the card/exp date/cvv2 so the merchant doesn't need to keep it. It'd be tied to the merchant account number. Hell, could work for non-subscription services too. Doesn't prevent that merchant from draining the account, but at least if it gets out, it won't of much use.
Do you then remember to record 120 seconds after the show to catch the end? :)
And post a link to it? That'd be interesting. (And that way the guy wouldn't end up with 10000000 of /.'ers all asking him for it).
I have a '97 SL2. When someone backed in to the side of it at about 5mph, they did some serious damage ($3500), which included replacing the two door panels. They weren't damaged much, but they weren't patchable, either.
Later the same year my car was broken in to - they bent the driver's door (someone's out to get my doors, heh) and they had to replace that door panel, too.
The suckiest part was how long it took them to do this - it took 2-3 weeks to get the door panels in stock.
Fry's is always an exception, ain't it?
:)
I always enjoyed how they were not ashamed of re-packaging products (the shrink wrap machines behind the counters next to the registers)
You aren't limited to 36 hours of gameplay. And in EQ, that wouldn't get you very far, in any case..
;)
Consider tho, that $170 for 36 hours of gameplay is ~$4.72/hour. Pretty cheap compared to many alternatives. If you play 100 hours in that year, there ya go, $1.70/hour. Gets better the more you play!!
Heh, did you read the article? No, you didn't.
A recent patch sent out in October actually made the servers vulnerable again. So if you patched with the old patch, and then the one in October, you were screwed.
don't believe what you read on SPEWS. some of their records are over *6 months* out of date. probably longer. worst. bl. ever.
yeah me too. phew! i was like, trippin. OMG OMG, my SAX parser!
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it probably costs AOL a lot more to handle spam than it does their customers, even collectively. they're hardly "doing nothing" for their users to handle spam. at the very least, they have to install a lot of mail servers to process incoming mail.