and oh my, do I SO know what you're talking about.... they put a "contact us" link on their website, and it SO goes unanswered, even though [whatever company] is taking 20% of our charges per month...
Get over it, guys, if you WANT our money (more than you currently are), at LEAST get SOMEONE on the phone that we can talk to!
(I've recently had a problem with CapitolOne charging me for some insane charges, and it took me nothing short of two HOURS to TALK to a person about it... at my last pay-scale, CapitolOne owes me a $150 credit... wtf!)
I'm sorry, I'm a geek/nerd, been involved with computers for MORE than half my life (and computers, when I got started, dealt with eight-bits-or-less [another good tag for slashdot, btw]... ) but if I'd received financial information erroneously from some fiscal establishment, be it credit card or bank or whatever, I would immediately turn around sent an email to root/postmaster/webmaster of said website...
I am "hurting" as much as everyone else in this current fiscal crisis, but I'm not going to take advantage of someone elses accidently-revealed information, as such.....
What HAS our world come to?
...many moons ago, I cannot see DiMaggio demanding $75k PER SHOW... The man was a really nice guy. We used to hang out at the same pub in Hollywood...
In the unlikely event John (or one of his friends) is reading this.... Jager Dave from BB says hey:)
Mostly just knowing how people felt about Vista. Fool me once, shame on you - Fool me twice....ummm...dang, lemme get Bush on the phone to remember how this ended...
Other than the brave, and IT professionals (on their own machines}, I feel people will WAIT to switch to Win7, until they see how it performs, and how many bugs/security holes are revealed in the first month or two... SO many people jumped on Vista before they realized it was a steaming pile of....code... Granted, -I- do not have that many problems with Vista, but I usually only run it to play games, and Linux is on my laptop (Yeah, Wine is OK, but still a pain to get some games to run under).
Does Microsoft realizes that nobody in their right mind is going to immediately switch to Win7 (if at all?)
They're trying to secure as many patents that could potentially bring them some sort of income NOW, lest they go bankrupt in the future.
The vagueness of this patent could easily cover someone's picture on Facebook if they said "Tell me how I look!", "What do you think of this makeup?", or "Do you think the pocket-protector goes with these pants?"
Back off Microsoft - you're not IBM - leave the pointless patents to them...
...would be, simply...well...
Windows7 Advanced Home Networked Gamer Professional Multimedia Edition...
Guess we'll be seeing MSCA (Microsoft Credit Acceptance Corporation) sometime in the not-to-distant future, to assist people in paying for their new Operating Systems...
I honestly don't see why someone needs to pay Belkin to promote their gear positively. It's good gear. Good quality, decent performance.
Belkin's biggest downfall is that it is grossly overpriced compared to it's competitors. An 8' Cat6 cable just should not cost $25, when I could buy a length of cable, some ends, and a crimping tool, for about $20 (ok maybe not THAT cheap, but you get my drift...)
Of course, now we see it's because Belkin's spending too much money having people promote itself on Amazon (and who knows how many other websites - there are a large number of positively-reviewed products on NewEgg and such, that I have to wonder what the people were thinking....)
I've been blocking any and all traffic from DoubleClick in my router's hardware firewall practically since the day I bought it.
Sometimes I'll click on a link to something completely innocuous, the firewall says "Blocked", and after doing a little investigation, I see it was trying to track my click from DoubleClick.
Just say NO to Big Brother's Cookies.
So it is illegal for you to read someone else's email, or for them to read yours. Unless you work for the government or a telco. Then you don't need a warrant, permission, or even a reason, and you can do so without fear of repercussion.
Thank you, Mr. Bush, for a lovely eight years....
Hey - at least if Bush said that, you can guarantee that we'd have 'boots on the ground', on Mars, as quick as he can get them there.
Bush: "We MUST liberate the planet Mars from the oppressive leadership of those pesky terrorist microbes!"
I've always considered a "legal pad" as any pad of paper with college-ruled lines (the narrow-spaced lines, guys), that was colored yellow. If it ain't yellow, it ain't a legal pad.
Actually the average starting salary is about $29k, with a little less in places like Podunk. I live in an average-sized town in southern Miami-Dade county, and our cops start at about $36k (if I'm to believe what I've been told).
Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department starts at nearly $49k - could have something to do with D.C. having the highest per capita murder rates for much of the 90's...of course, regardless of what they get paid, all the, ummm, "considerations" they get from those senators and congressmen to let them slide on the DUI, or look the other way while the underage male prostitute sneaks out the back door (pun unintentionally intended) will certainly help pad the bank account a bit....
You sound like a total pussy.
Don't like it, don't make a free website. It's because of people like you that we get all these crazy laws for the interwebs.
Sounds like you're one of the people posting on his website:)
Letting morons like this access the internet is akin to giving a bunch of loaded.45's to 10 year olds in a locked room. Just give it some time, they'll eventually kill themselves or one of the others.
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After you see the film, come back, and you'll be offering to present the Oscar to his family personally. Having lived in Hollywood for over a decade and worked in "the industry", I came to think of the Oscars as a pretentious waste of time.
Give him an Oscar. Give him a Golden Globe. Give him every award for one DAMN fine acting job that there is to give, on this planet.
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and oh my, do I SO know what you're talking about.... they put a "contact us" link on their website, and it SO goes unanswered, even though [whatever company] is taking 20% of our charges per month... Get over it, guys, if you WANT our money (more than you currently are), at LEAST get SOMEONE on the phone that we can talk to! (I've recently had a problem with CapitolOne charging me for some insane charges, and it took me nothing short of two HOURS to TALK to a person about it... at my last pay-scale, CapitolOne owes me a $150 credit... wtf!)
I am "hurting" as much as everyone else in this current fiscal crisis, but I'm not going to take advantage of someone elses accidently-revealed information, as such..... What HAS our world come to?
Why did Den of Geek feel it necessary to set in excess of dozen cookies for one simple story? That just annoys the hell out of me...
It's called the "Republican National Convention"....
JUST when I thought all my conspiracy-theorist friends would have something new to pursue in their spare time...
...many moons ago, I cannot see DiMaggio demanding $75k PER SHOW... The man was a really nice guy. We used to hang out at the same pub in Hollywood... In the unlikely event John (or one of his friends) is reading this.... Jager Dave from BB says hey :)
...perhaps Rush Limbaugh had liposuction?
Other than the brave, and IT professionals (on their own machines}, I feel people will WAIT to switch to Win7, until they see how it performs, and how many bugs/security holes are revealed in the first month or two... SO many people jumped on Vista before they realized it was a steaming pile of....code... Granted, -I- do not have that many problems with Vista, but I usually only run it to play games, and Linux is on my laptop (Yeah, Wine is OK, but still a pain to get some games to run under).
They're trying to secure as many patents that could potentially bring them some sort of income NOW, lest they go bankrupt in the future.
The vagueness of this patent could easily cover someone's picture on Facebook if they said "Tell me how I look!", "What do you think of this makeup?", or "Do you think the pocket-protector goes with these pants?" Back off Microsoft - you're not IBM - leave the pointless patents to them...
Just so long as they still cast Rosamund Pike (the girl that played Samantha Grimm) :)
...would be, simply...well... Windows7 Advanced Home Networked Gamer Professional Multimedia Edition... Guess we'll be seeing MSCA (Microsoft Credit Acceptance Corporation) sometime in the not-to-distant future, to assist people in paying for their new Operating Systems...
I honestly don't see why someone needs to pay Belkin to promote their gear positively. It's good gear. Good quality, decent performance. Belkin's biggest downfall is that it is grossly overpriced compared to it's competitors. An 8' Cat6 cable just should not cost $25, when I could buy a length of cable, some ends, and a crimping tool, for about $20 (ok maybe not THAT cheap, but you get my drift...) Of course, now we see it's because Belkin's spending too much money having people promote itself on Amazon (and who knows how many other websites - there are a large number of positively-reviewed products on NewEgg and such, that I have to wonder what the people were thinking....)
I've been blocking any and all traffic from DoubleClick in my router's hardware firewall practically since the day I bought it. Sometimes I'll click on a link to something completely innocuous, the firewall says "Blocked", and after doing a little investigation, I see it was trying to track my click from DoubleClick. Just say NO to Big Brother's Cookies.
So it is illegal for you to read someone else's email, or for them to read yours. Unless you work for the government or a telco. Then you don't need a warrant, permission, or even a reason, and you can do so without fear of repercussion. Thank you, Mr. Bush, for a lovely eight years....
"Windows XP" was codenamed "Whistler" during it's development and Beta testing....Hopefully that NDA I signed has long since expired. ;)
Hey - at least if Bush said that, you can guarantee that we'd have 'boots on the ground', on Mars, as quick as he can get them there. Bush: "We MUST liberate the planet Mars from the oppressive leadership of those pesky terrorist microbes!"
I've always considered a "legal pad" as any pad of paper with college-ruled lines (the narrow-spaced lines, guys), that was colored yellow. If it ain't yellow, it ain't a legal pad.
Oh...wait....nevermind.
This was invented awhile ago... it's called a legal pad.
Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department starts at nearly $49k - could have something to do with D.C. having the highest per capita murder rates for much of the 90's...of course, regardless of what they get paid, all the, ummm, "considerations" they get from those senators and congressmen to let them slide on the DUI, or look the other way while the underage male prostitute sneaks out the back door (pun unintentionally intended) will certainly help pad the bank account a bit....
Republicants?
....as calculated by the Bush Administration. To upgrade it, you just use one of their handy $870 Sporks to pry the case open.
You sound like a total pussy. Don't like it, don't make a free website. It's because of people like you that we get all these crazy laws for the interwebs.
Sounds like you're one of the people posting on his website :)
Letting morons like this access the internet is akin to giving a bunch of loaded .45's to 10 year olds in a locked room. Just give it some time, they'll eventually kill themselves or one of the others.
Give him an Oscar. Give him a Golden Globe. Give him every award for one DAMN fine acting job that there is to give, on this planet.