The.gov will require you to run a logging program on your computer that sniffs and reports logs of all traffic to a Homeland Security regional datacenter.
Domainsite is on the list because they have just about the cheapest prices on the planet.
Hope they don't come out on the bad end of something, the support is top-notch. I actually got a phone call from the owner on one occasion because an order was interrupted halfway through, and when I called the one time that their management backend was down I actually got to talk to a real live person.
Try that with GoDaddy.
Disclaimer: I am not an employee of domainsite but I have a lot of domains hosted there.
Probably not, since people bitch about UAC (and many of these same who run Linux have no problem supplying the root password when they run an X admin tool from a normal user account).
The key words here are admin tool.
When a userspace app requires root to run, "Houston, we have a problem."
Now they need a hard drive installer for everything that is not included in the boot process, for a single os with the tasty bits loading very fast and the rest on the backend.
I would pay good money for a fast-booting basic Debian GNU/Linux system with the option to put the rest of the distro on a slice of hard drive for use after boot.
In order to defeat a lie detector test, psych yourself up as though you are in danger of being attacked at any moment in order to emulate a "fight-or-flight" response.
Lean forward very slightly and put your weight on the front of your feet as though you may find it necessary to bolt at a moment's notice and imagine yourself in a very dangerous situation.
Trying to play "poker-face" is the absolute worst thing that you can do. In doing so, you will give them a perfect baseline and changes will be more easily seen.
From: Chris Date: Tue, March 13, 2007 2:55 pm To: Editor
Hi Ken:
I just read the above-mentioned article on your site (and the article you personally wrote about the BBB as well), and, yes, the BBB isn't what it appears to be.
I used to work for them, in both Los Angeles CA and Portland OR.
Here's an overview of how the BBB operates -
Companies are recruited into the Better Business Bureau, and every company that becomes a new member pays monthly membership dues.
These dues are based on the overall size of the company (specifically, the number of branch offices and the number of total employees in one city or town, fees are adjusted on a sliding scale).
The more branches and the more emloyees a company actually has, the more expensive their monthly dues will be.
I was a field rep for the BBB. Part of my job involved recruiting new companies into the BBB.
All companies that had "complaints" filed against them were considered "hot leads".
The field reps would call up the companies that had complaints filed against them, and talk to the person who handled each company's checkbook (or branch office's checkbook)...and that person would summarily be informed that there was an outstanding complaint (or complaints) on file against them, and did they realize this?
The representative for the company in question would usually have no clue about the complaint on file at the BBB, and after we made the company's representative nervous by informing them of the complaint, we would then immediately segue into talking about the benefits of membership in the Better Business Bureau...
An appointment would then be set for the field rep to "drop on by and discuss membership benefits, and a proper way for us to handle that complaint" (wink wink).
All companies and/or businesses in any given city or town in the USA are categorized primarily in three different ways -
1) Companies with ZERO complaints on file. (Not much need for the company to join the BBB, since they have no complaints on file.)
2) Companies with complaints on file, for which said companies have been non-responsive. (In other words, these companies have complaints on file but they have never responded to them - these companies are PRIME candidates for BBB membership - wink.)
3) Companies with complaints on file, for which said companies have been responsive. (In other words, these companies have complaints on file and they HAVE responded to those complaints.)
Now, there are some subtleties to this whole thing obviously.
In Portland, I used to work quite closely with the Director of the Portland Bureau, and with her Assistant Director, and one time I recruited a very large, well-known furniture and appliance rental company that charged monthly fees to its clients that were usurious to say the least. Since this company had about 20 branches in the Portland area, and a bunch of employees, their monthly fees for membership to the BBB were quite substantial. (A couple of thousand dollars a month, when all was said and done.)
This company had HUNDREDS of complaints on file with the BBB at the time I signed them up. Once we got the company's first membership check in our hot little hands, that company's BBB "report" suddenly changed and they received what amounted to a good rating on the Bureau's call-in phone service. (People can call the BBB nationwide, and get an automated report on virtually any company.)
But this is standard operating procedure for ANY company that becomes a BBB member.
To explain this a bit more - the automated report for this particular company suddenly became warm and fuzzy after we got their money..."This company has been responsive to all complaints that have been filed against it...this company is a member of the Better Business Bureau...", etc.
So that's how the operation works. The BBB NEVER eliminates all complaints that are on file for a particular company (because they don't have to...there's more than one way to s
I smoked pot until a few years ago, and found that pot made it very easy to stay focused on one particular thing at a time. In the absence of distractions it was a godsend, and was most of the reason that I stuck with *NIX long enough to completely ditch MS products.
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It brings to mind images of Natalie Portman and hot grits.
And gray.
The Missouri DOC uses "state grays", which are a medium gray color.
Much easier on the eyes than day-glo orange.
There are only so many letters! It is a limited supply! We've feared this since the mid-nineties. Who will save us now?
We'll start using ABCv6.
The .gov will require you to run a logging program on your computer that sniffs and reports logs of all traffic to a Homeland Security regional datacenter.
And it only runs on Windows.
And they call it... "aspartame".
Well played, sir.
Well played.
I would like to learn more about Naked Hiking.
Please forward everything you have concerning this important and interesting subject.
Or just use Joomla! /sarcasm
On the upside, the administrator is black, and his root is HUGE!
No, it is more like a fat bald guy throwing chairs at you.
Domainsite is on the list because they have just about the cheapest prices on the planet.
Hope they don't come out on the bad end of something, the support is top-notch. I actually got a phone call from the owner on one occasion because an order was interrupted halfway through, and when I called the one time that their management backend was down I actually got to talk to a real live person.
Try that with GoDaddy.
Disclaimer: I am not an employee of domainsite but I have a lot of domains hosted there.
If anyone is interested, I am selling some oceanfront property in Bangladesh.
Should be perfect for all you former IBM coders looking for a high-paying $0.60 per day job doing second-tier support for AT&T.
IBM can bite my shiny metal ass.
Your last point was very true. My laptop has a 40 gig disk and fewer gigs on the install means more music I can carry around.
Can I get a bigger hard drive for it? Yes.
Will it happen any time soon? No.
I'd be interested to know what that is in non-layman's terms!
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Probably not, since people bitch about UAC (and many of these same who run Linux have no problem supplying the root password when they run an X admin tool from a normal user account).
The key words here are admin tool.
When a userspace app requires root to run, "Houston, we have a problem."
To some degree that's what windows 7 does.
Yeah, but I won't pay good money for that.
Now they need a hard drive installer for everything that is not included in the boot process, for a single os with the tasty bits loading very fast and the rest on the backend.
I would pay good money for a fast-booting basic Debian GNU/Linux system with the option to put the rest of the distro on a slice of hard drive for use after boot.
And in related news, people actually used Yahoo! search for several minutes today.
Details at 11.
We need to educate them by bringing them all here! Which brings me to a question: Why is there no 'invite friends' function on Slashdot!?
cuz all ur frenz r dum
:P
Uh.
You are sort of missing something.
I don't know how to say this without feeling like I am painting you with the color "stupid"...
But...
Each laptop will have a 2 GB CAPACITY.
Not 2 GB of RAM out of the box, but will (possibly) allow you to BUY and INSERT more RAM after purchasing the machine.
In will likely actually ship with the bare minimum RAM to run a tweaked Linux distro, I am thinking maybe...
640 KB?
After all, who would ever need more than 640k of memory?
In order to defeat a lie detector test, psych yourself up as though you are in danger of being attacked at any moment in order to emulate a "fight-or-flight" response.
Lean forward very slightly and put your weight on the front of your feet as though you may find it necessary to bolt at a moment's notice and imagine yourself in a very dangerous situation.
Trying to play "poker-face" is the absolute worst thing that you can do. In doing so, you will give them a perfect baseline and changes will be more easily seen.
If you want to take a "smartening pill" in the form of Nintendo DS, install DSLinux.
It is a learning experience for sure.
From: Chris
Date: Tue, March 13, 2007 2:55 pm
To: Editor
Hi Ken:
I just read the above-mentioned article on your site (and the article you personally wrote about the BBB as well), and, yes, the BBB isn't what it appears to be.
I used to work for them, in both Los Angeles CA and Portland OR.
Here's an overview of how the BBB operates -
Companies are recruited into the Better Business Bureau, and every company that becomes a new member pays monthly membership dues.
These dues are based on the overall size of the company (specifically, the number of branch offices and the number of total employees in one city or town, fees are adjusted on a sliding scale).
The more branches and the more emloyees a company actually has, the more expensive their monthly dues will be.
I was a field rep for the BBB. Part of my job involved recruiting new companies into the BBB.
All companies that had "complaints" filed against them were considered "hot leads".
The field reps would call up the companies that had complaints filed against them, and talk to the person who handled each company's checkbook (or branch office's checkbook)...and that person would summarily be informed that there was an outstanding complaint (or complaints) on file against them, and did they realize this?
The representative for the company in question would usually have no clue about the complaint on file at the BBB, and after we made the company's representative nervous by informing them of the complaint, we would then immediately segue into talking about the benefits of membership in the Better Business Bureau...
An appointment would then be set for the field rep to "drop on by and discuss membership benefits, and a proper way for us to handle that complaint" (wink wink).
All companies and/or businesses in any given city or town in the USA are categorized primarily in three different ways -
1) Companies with ZERO complaints on file. (Not much need for the company to join the BBB, since they have no complaints on file.)
2) Companies with complaints on file, for which said companies have been non-responsive. (In other words, these companies have complaints on file but they have never responded to them - these companies are PRIME candidates for BBB membership - wink.)
3) Companies with complaints on file, for which said companies have been responsive. (In other words, these companies have complaints on file and they HAVE responded to those complaints.)
Now, there are some subtleties to this whole thing obviously.
In Portland, I used to work quite closely with the Director of the Portland Bureau, and with her Assistant Director, and one time I recruited a very large, well-known furniture and appliance rental company that charged monthly fees to its clients that were usurious to say the least. Since this company had about 20 branches in the Portland area, and a bunch of employees, their monthly fees for membership to the BBB were quite substantial. (A couple of thousand dollars a month, when all was said and done.)
This company had HUNDREDS of complaints on file with the BBB at the time I signed them up. Once we got the company's first membership check in our hot little hands, that company's BBB "report" suddenly changed and they received what amounted to a good rating on the Bureau's call-in phone service. (People can call the BBB nationwide, and get an automated report on virtually any company.)
But this is standard operating procedure for ANY company that becomes a BBB member.
To explain this a bit more - the automated report for this particular company suddenly became warm and fuzzy after we got their money..."This company has been responsive to all complaints that have been filed against it...this company is a member of the Better Business Bureau...", etc.
So that's how the operation works. The BBB NEVER eliminates all complaints that are on file for a particular company (because they don't have to...there's more than one way to s
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
I LOL'd. Did you LOL?
I smoked pot until a few years ago, and found that pot made it very easy to stay focused on one particular thing at a time. In the absence of distractions it was a godsend, and was most of the reason that I stuck with *NIX long enough to completely ditch MS products.