You've managed to cancel Experian? Still working on that.
Nothing on the website. Finally found a number to call (through a third party site, as you mentioned). Conversation went like this:
Drone: 'To cancel you must give 28 days notice in writing.' Me: 'OK what's your address?' Drone: 'It's on the website.' Me: 'I've been looking and there's nothing about cancellation' Drone: 'It's on the website.' Me:
Won't work. If your website is hosted in any other country then it's unenforcable. 'local' communities can't agree on stuff like that - the US is decidedly on the puritanical side & would rather view the viewing of naked flesh completely.. Europe is a lot more liberal (and in fact has no meaninful censorship of its adult content), UK somewhere in the middle. In Japan manga shows children having sex regularly and it's considered perfectly normal..
So you're just never going to get a law that'll stick beyond the confines of your own country.
Not really. It's real hard to block a TLD like that effectively... all you need to do is proxy requests to.yyy to go to.xxx for example and the block stops working. If you can make the request to the root nameservers (not necessarily on the same machine or network) you can find the websites.. the rest is just a matter of coding.
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Try configuring a machine across the globe using a Microsoft Word. Aint gonna happen.
vi has an important place. It's installed everywhere (even on embedded systems like Tivo) works the same wherever you are and doesn't require a particularly fast link to work - even today it's easy to be stuck behind dialup.
He tried a partial rewrite with project Noah, but it looks like another one is due. Project Armageddon is running late and the last status report kept going on about dragons and fiery pits....
Since 90% of DNA is useless junk (warning: figure pulled out of ass, but it's a big number I believe) then it would say he was a rather crappy programmer.
The US has no jurasdiction at all on allofmp3... it can't may them pay up or even demand that they appear at court. It's totally meaningless. If the RIAA were serious they'd sue in the russian courts.
This is just a PR stunt. It happens to be good advertising for allofmp3 too so they're not complaining.
The fact that it won't necessarily recognize your hardware, combined with the fact that you will probably end up hunting all over the 'net for drivers. Combined with the fact that when you install a package, make sure that you installed the other two packages that you need (although you didn't know you needed them - you found that out after being told to RTFM in a forum, after 10 hours of browsing). That is pretty much the problem with Linux. Mod me troll all you want. I tried with linux, I really did.
Wow.. didn't realize that. WTF were they thinking?
I'm currently on a 2gb vista test machine and it's going into swap all the time. 2gb is really not enough... it's dog slow due to the swapping.
Add to that:
Broken program files menu that doesn't cascade (so you have to know where what you're looking for is before you look for it). Font bugs that regularly turn the fonts to unreadable crap requiring a reboot. Claims to have NFS client but this does not actually function. Running about 50% of available software switches aeroglass off. Sometimes it doesn't come back on without a reboot. S...L...O...W... I mean this is a dual processor 64bit machine and it's slower than the celeron running XP next to it.
It says more about marketing. The product may not be reliable but you can't tell such from this decision.
You know what would have happened if Ford used Windows control systems? Apart from the endless BSOD jokes here it would have bombed with anyone that doesn't trust Windows - and that's a significant chunk of the early adopters who are supposed to make it a success.
We already do that with ipod connectors. I don't know about the US but in the UK ipod connectivity is the 'big thing' - so much so that manufacturers regularly lie about it (saying that having an AUX socket is 'ipod ready' and stuff like that).
A 'None of the above would be great'. IMO we already have that though.... people who stayed at home.
I have this continual argument with a friend who believes that voting should be compulsory and the spoiling the paper should be a crime - forcing you to vote for *someone*.
I argue the other way - that actually the way the voting turnout is dropping is actually healthy. People should vote for what they believe in... ideally policies, but 'he has a nice suit', although not something I'd encourage as a voting decision, is at least a positive vote.
People stay home for 4 reasons:
1. They don't believe in the system 2. They believe in the system, but are not in a marginal so believe it doesn't work for them (similar to (1)). 3. They don't like any candidate 4. They don't give a flying fuck.
I don't *want* people in 3. and 4. to vote. They'll vote randomly, introducing noise into the results. If the purpose of democracy is to elect good government (debatable in itself, probably) then making them vote is against that purpose. 1. and 2. can be sorted out by things like politicians getting off their butts and actually canvasing (thus involving the people.. I haven't seen a politician around here ever), some education, and maybe reform (smaller voting regions perhaps, making them more representative to counter 2.).
Me, I'm a 3. so a 'none of the above' answer would be great. If a politician actually bothered to even ask for my vote, or *gasp* try to tell me why I should vote for them (and party policies don't count - I don't vote for parties I vote for people) then I probably would vote positively.
IANAL (duh), but do we know who owns the rights to the code? If the state has no legal claim on the code (I don't think paying for the code counts, it's a question of what was written in the contract), then the judge would not have the authority to open access to the code.
For something as sensitive as a voting machine the government should have the contract, and all the rights to the source code - the state should be able to request the source from the government.
If that isn't the case then someone should be fired. By a firing squad.
I'm surprised Serenity failed at the box office.. its storyline was a bit generic, but what isn't these days?
Simpsons jumped the shark years ago and should have been killed a long time ago.. the recent episodes are getting painful to watch, they're so bad.
Didn't know x files died after the movie.. the movie was nearly the first thing I saw - watched x files for a long time afterwards (seems like they did thousands of them because it took ages before they started repeating).
We get it in HD from the start, and for other shows (for example SG-1, where we start the second half of this season on 9th Jan) we even get them before the US.
btw. They're on Sky One here not SciFi (SciFi UK is mostly a horror film channel, with the occasional repeats of V and Logans Run).
Actually thinking about it they may not bother marketing it in europe at all anyway.
ipod video has been basically killed here due to the non-availability of video for download, presumably because apple couldn't get the rights. It's marketed as a larger ipod, but of everyone I know that's got an ipod in the last few months they've gone for the cheaper version because video on its own is a bit pointless (not to mention video mobile phones are freely available and much cheaper).
xbox 360 in the US apparently has video downloads - not in europe (unless you count a couple of crappy game demos). So MS couldn't get the rights either.
If iTV has to rely on internet downloads it simply won't have any use here unless apple can get the rights to sell full length episodes etc.. It's not worth paying for a device that can browse utube and that's it.. they'd sell about 3 of them.
If Apple can come up with a box that (a) can control external boxes, (b) has an EPG equivalent in functionality to Tivo, and (c) has HD capture via component it'll clean up (especially in this country where Tivo died in 2002 and we were left with the crappy DVR wannabe Sky+).
The third one is the killer. No MCE box currently available will do that.
Apple wasn't a conflict until Apple computers went into music distribution. Dashboard isn't a trademark, only a product name (Techically Gnome could be sued because Apple now have the trademark on that, even though Gnome was first).
You can't define it that easily (especially where work is involved.. most places I've been at the only rule has been 'if anyone objects then it'll be removed' - so windows desktops featuring large breasted women are commonplace).
In other places NSFW might be someone saying 'fuck' on a web page.
In still others it may be going to the website of an 'unfriendly' country.
Work-wise it's far better for the company to define the policy and enforce it in the proxy.
*many* companies are still using NT4 throughout. Because it works and it's stable.
It's not quite the majority any more (there's been a lot of Win2003 adoption recently).
It's only 9 months ago that a large company (multi million dollar) told us they couldn't run our software because we wanted NT4 SP6 and their IS department specified SP3.
NT4 is still the staple in the banking world - they have upgrade cycles of tens of years (In 2000 many of them were still running bespoke systems written in assembler.. I know because several of my friends made a fortune resurrecting their old skills to fix them..)
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You've managed to cancel Experian? Still working on that.
Nothing on the website. Finally found a number to call (through a third party site, as you mentioned). Conversation went like this:
Drone: 'To cancel you must give 28 days notice in writing.'
Me: 'OK what's your address?'
Drone: 'It's on the website.'
Me: 'I've been looking and there's nothing about cancellation'
Drone: 'It's on the website.'
Me:
Won't work. If your website is hosted in any other country then it's unenforcable. 'local' communities can't agree on stuff like that - the US is decidedly on the puritanical side & would rather view the viewing of naked flesh completely.. Europe is a lot more liberal (and in fact has no meaninful censorship of its adult content), UK somewhere in the middle. In Japan manga shows children having sex regularly and it's considered perfectly normal..
So you're just never going to get a law that'll stick beyond the confines of your own country.
Not really. It's real hard to block a TLD like that effectively... all you need to do is proxy requests to .yyy to go to .xxx for example and the block stops working. If you can make the request to the root nameservers (not necessarily on the same machine or network) you can find the websites.. the rest is just a matter of coding.
Try configuring a machine across the globe using a Microsoft Word. Aint gonna happen.
vi has an important place. It's installed everywhere (even on embedded systems like Tivo) works the same wherever you are and doesn't require a particularly fast link to work - even today it's easy to be stuck behind dialup.
Nothing to stop you writing a virtual burner that spits out an ISO image... it's fairly trivial in fact.
He tried a partial rewrite with project Noah, but it looks like another one is due. Project Armageddon is running late and the last status report kept going on about dragons and fiery pits....
Since 90% of DNA is useless junk (warning: figure pulled out of ass, but it's a big number I believe) then it would say he was a rather crappy programmer.
They're not pirated. If you buy something legally in russia, using rubles, then it's your property. What the US thinks doesn't mean diddlysquat.
Importing your own property is legal.
The US has no jurasdiction at all on allofmp3... it can't may them pay up or even demand that they appear at court. It's totally meaningless. If the RIAA were serious they'd sue in the russian courts.
This is just a PR stunt. It happens to be good advertising for allofmp3 too so they're not complaining.
Plus with so few people ipv6 makes no sense for them.
Normal people had no problem with DOS for years. Normal people preferred WordPerfect, which is a mess of arcane keyboard commands.
Anyway the previous poster said nothing about CLI. He said XP was a pain to navigate (wait until he's seen Vista, which is damned near impossible..)
The pinnacle seems to be Windows 2000. XP is where the eye candy started to take over the design, and vista is, well, you'll see it eventually...
The fact that it won't necessarily recognize your hardware, combined with the fact that you will probably end up hunting all over the 'net for drivers. Combined with the fact that when you install a package, make sure that you installed the other two packages that you need (although you didn't know you needed them - you found that out after being told to RTFM in a forum, after 10 hours of browsing). That is pretty much the problem with Linux. Mod me troll all you want. I tried with linux, I really did.
Sounds exactly like vista to me.
Linux has none of these problems.
Crippled wordpad can't read .doc
Wow.. didn't realize that. WTF were they thinking?
I'm currently on a 2gb vista test machine and it's going into swap all the time. 2gb is really not enough... it's dog slow due to the swapping.
Add to that:
Broken program files menu that doesn't cascade (so you have to know where what you're looking for is before you look for it).
Font bugs that regularly turn the fonts to unreadable crap requiring a reboot.
Claims to have NFS client but this does not actually function.
Running about 50% of available software switches aeroglass off. Sometimes it doesn't come back on without a reboot.
S...L...O...W... I mean this is a dual processor 64bit machine and it's slower than the celeron running XP next to it.
It says more about marketing. The product may not be reliable but you can't tell such from this decision.
You know what would have happened if Ford used Windows control systems? Apart from the endless BSOD jokes here it would have bombed with anyone that doesn't trust Windows - and that's a significant chunk of the early adopters who are supposed to make it a success.
We already do that with ipod connectors. I don't know about the US but in the UK ipod connectivity is the 'big thing' - so much so that manufacturers regularly lie about it (saying that having an AUX socket is 'ipod ready' and stuff like that).
A 'None of the above would be great'. IMO we already have that though.... people who stayed at home.
I have this continual argument with a friend who believes that voting should be compulsory and the spoiling the paper should be a crime - forcing you to vote for *someone*.
I argue the other way - that actually the way the voting turnout is dropping is actually healthy. People should vote for what they believe in... ideally policies, but 'he has a nice suit', although not something I'd encourage as a voting decision, is at least a positive vote.
People stay home for 4 reasons:
1. They don't believe in the system
2. They believe in the system, but are not in a marginal so believe it doesn't work for them (similar to (1)).
3. They don't like any candidate
4. They don't give a flying fuck.
I don't *want* people in 3. and 4. to vote. They'll vote randomly, introducing noise into the results. If the purpose of democracy is to elect good government (debatable in itself, probably) then making them vote is against that purpose. 1. and 2. can be sorted out by things like politicians getting off their butts and actually canvasing (thus involving the people.. I haven't seen a politician around here ever), some education, and maybe reform (smaller voting regions perhaps, making them more representative to counter 2.).
Me, I'm a 3. so a 'none of the above' answer would be great. If a politician actually bothered to even ask for my vote, or *gasp* try to tell me why I should vote for them (and party policies don't count - I don't vote for parties I vote for people) then I probably would vote positively.
IANAL (duh), but do we know who owns the rights to the code? If the state has no legal claim on the code (I don't think paying for the code counts, it's a question of what was written in the contract), then the judge would not have the authority to open access to the code.
For something as sensitive as a voting machine the government should have the contract, and all the rights to the source code - the state should be able to request the source from the government.
If that isn't the case then someone should be fired. By a firing squad.
I'm surprised Serenity failed at the box office.. its storyline was a bit generic, but what isn't these days?
Simpsons jumped the shark years ago and should have been killed a long time ago.. the recent episodes are getting painful to watch, they're so bad.
Didn't know x files died after the movie.. the movie was nearly the first thing I saw - watched x files for a long time afterwards (seems like they did thousands of them because it took ages before they started repeating).
We get it in HD from the start, and for other shows (for example SG-1, where we start the second half of this season on 9th Jan) we even get them before the US.
btw. They're on Sky One here not SciFi (SciFi UK is mostly a horror film channel, with the occasional repeats of V and Logans Run).
Actually thinking about it they may not bother marketing it in europe at all anyway.
ipod video has been basically killed here due to the non-availability of video for download, presumably because apple couldn't get the rights. It's marketed as a larger ipod, but of everyone I know that's got an ipod in the last few months they've gone for the cheaper version because video on its own is a bit pointless (not to mention video mobile phones are freely available and much cheaper).
xbox 360 in the US apparently has video downloads - not in europe (unless you count a couple of crappy game demos). So MS couldn't get the rights either.
If iTV has to rely on internet downloads it simply won't have any use here unless apple can get the rights to sell full length episodes etc.. It's not worth paying for a device that can browse utube and that's it.. they'd sell about 3 of them.
If Apple can come up with a box that (a) can control external boxes, (b) has an EPG equivalent in functionality to Tivo, and (c) has HD capture via component it'll clean up (especially in this country where Tivo died in 2002 and we were left with the crappy DVR wannabe Sky+).
The third one is the killer. No MCE box currently available will do that.
Apple wasn't a conflict until Apple computers went into music distribution. Dashboard isn't a trademark, only a product name (Techically Gnome could be sued because Apple now have the trademark on that, even though Gnome was first).
It's probably a protected name in the US too - ITV do export home grown shows around the world.. all TV stations do.
It's the same problem apple has with the iPhone. Great name on paper, but somebody got there first.
The problem becomes defining SFW and NSFW.
You can't define it that easily (especially where work is involved.. most places I've been at the only rule has been 'if anyone objects then it'll be removed' - so windows desktops featuring large breasted women are commonplace).
In other places NSFW might be someone saying 'fuck' on a web page.
In still others it may be going to the website of an 'unfriendly' country.
Work-wise it's far better for the company to define the policy and enforce it in the proxy.
Meanwhile.. back in the real world.
*many* companies are still using NT4 throughout. Because it works and it's stable.
It's not quite the majority any more (there's been a lot of Win2003 adoption recently).
It's only 9 months ago that a large company (multi million dollar) told us they couldn't run our software because we wanted NT4 SP6 and their IS department specified SP3.
NT4 is still the staple in the banking world - they have upgrade cycles of tens of years (In 2000 many of them were still running bespoke systems written in assembler.. I know because several of my friends made a fortune resurrecting their old skills to fix them..)