This is sort of like comparing these netbooks to that Apple sub-notebook that has only one USB port and a power port, no other externally accessible I/O devices. Except that these netbooks are affordable and that Apple thing is, well, for yuppies to show off at the cafe.
This comment will be unpopular in this forum, but here goes: The government is out of control. Rather than specifically blame Bush or someone else, I think it's better to blame everyone in Washington right now. There are checks and balances that are supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but somehow the government is working around those things right now. Plus, there is an election coming up Real Soon Now and, let's face it, you either vote Obama/Biden or you vote McCain/Palin. No third-party or independent candidate has a prayer of a chance of winning the presidency. Now look at my sig -- don't think for even one moment that I think McCain is anything special. My vote will be going to him only in the hopes that he will actually appoint Palin to some task that involves cleaning up the shit that's happening in Washington. I believe that if she gets such an appointment, she will make a tremendous difference, even if it's only a small percentage of the total waste going on right now (because a tiny percentage of trillions if still billions of dollars). About Obama -- he looks sharp, dresses sharp, has a great haircut, and speaks marvelously, but although he touts "Change" and "Hope" I really think he's more of the same bullshit we've seen from Washington. He's just really awesome at marketing himself. Kind of like the way Microsoft is really great at marketing their "more of the same" products that everyone continues to buy when better alternatives are out there. The testament to Obama's marketing prowess is how many people are enamored with him, but I know there are certain facts behind the scene that negate the marketing bullshit. With McCain -- let's just say that until he brought Palin in, I thought this election and what followed was going to suck no matter who won. Now I think there's a chance. Because this country needs more people like Palin in Washington -- people who don't know that things are supposed to be corrupt and fscked up over there, and therefore will help clean up the mess. In this upcoming election, we really need to think about who we have in office, not just in the presidency, but across the board. And I think that as many incumbents as possible should be changed for new people who haven't been to Washington yet. McCain in the presidency only because Obama is the worse choice (I know this is making me unpopular but look beyond the great looking guy and see what he really stands for) and nobody else has a chance. Bottom line, I'm voting McCain/Palin to get Palin into Washington and because Obama, although excellent at marketing himself,
If my memory serves, since Windows 95, Microsoft has had a tendency to release new major versions of Windows somewhat later than originally scheduled. The delay was the most pronounced with the late release of Windows Vista, even with major features dropped to speed up release. Does the state of Maine have an alternative plan in the event that Windows 7 is delayed long enough that their 11,000 machines begin to break with no replacement capable of running the "obsolete" Windows XP (due to lack of XP drivers for new hardware) available? Perhaps instead of planning a move to Windows 7, which may not be released for some time, the state of Maine should at least investigate other possibilities, such as adopting F/OSS software or Apple machines.
I suppose it would make sense if you had to make an exchange of keys with someone before initiating communication. Thus, when you give out your email to people, you could give them a key that they would need in order to send you an email, and similar methods would apply to other communication mechanisms. Now the spammers will need to waste inordinate amounts of computer time computing all kinds of keys, and the practice of spamming will (hopefully) disappear. Now this being/., someone will tell me why such a scheme is impossible.:-)
I don't think you meant "if it's illegal to stop abortion" -- I think you meant "if it's illegal to perform abortion" but thanks for your question: There is a huge difference between aborting an unborn child and, say, not giving money to a homeless person:
In the case of abortion, you are acting with the intention of deliberately ending a life. Note the important point here: It is your intention to end the life and you are putting the life in that situation.
In the case of not giving money to a homeless person, you are not actively and deliberately killing that person. You're not even the cause of his being homeless. You merely choose not to give money. If he dies, it is not your fault, since you did not cause him to be homeless.
In the case of jumping on top of a grenade to save other people, it is an honorable thing for someone to give up his own life in order to save others. However, again, you are not the cause of that grenade being there. So if you choose not to jump on the grenade, it is not you who kills those around you, it is whoever threw the grenade at you. It's his fault.
In other words, there is NO moral equivalence between:
The case of deliberately killing, where you are the one putting the life in danger, and:
The case of how hard you try to save a life when whatever puts that life in danger is NOT the result of your actions.
But the machine doesn't support more than 64 GB, or in the case of most machines, you usually can't install more than 4 GB or 8 GB. An IDE interface to such a thing allows ANY computer to access ANY amount of RAM. The IDE interface will know how to select the proper memory bank because you can split it up into several groups if the total amount you need exceeds the addressing capability of a RAM addressing scheme.
Liberals claim abortion has something to do with the rights of the mother, like privacy rights or whatever such nonsense. But this is bullshit. It has nothing to do with anyone's rights and everything to do with reducing the world's population. Because they are population alarmists. Well, you know what? Unborn children have just as much right to be born and live as do the population alarmists who want to have those children killed. Because if it's OK to abort (read: KILL) fetuses that are nearly ready to be born, then why stop at birth? Why not make a law that you can abort any child, born or unborn, at any age? Heck, if you're a 72 year old parent and your 53 year old child is annoying you, then simply take them to one of your convenient neighborhood free government-run abortion clinics and have them aborted! How convenient! And why stop there? Why not build massive government-run gas chambers and put anyone in there who is disabled, sick, elderly, hard of hearing, nearsighted, or Jewish, and then burn the bodies and use the result to make soap! Why not? I'll tell you why not: Because it's MURDER, no matter what it's called and no matter how it's justified. Abortion is MURDER of a child! And when you make it OK to MURDER, then you've opened a door and taken a step down the path that leads to gas chambers and death camps. Who the hell does any living human think he is to decide who will live and who will die?
I have 64 GB of RAM and my swap partition is the same size at 64 GB. I thought 128 GB is a little excessive. What I would really like is if someone would make up an IDE interface to RAM modules and build a large amount of such RAM into the form factor of a hard disk drive. Then, you could populate this RAM-based "hard drive" with the necessary data during startup, and use it for swap and for all of your system's various "temp" folders. This would make swapping (and temp stuff) extremely fast to access, and more importantly, it would eliminate the need to encrypt your swap and/or temp partitions, as the data would simply disappear when power is removed. So when the agents (including Agent Smith) come to bust down your door, all you do is pull the plug and voila! Your secrets are safe.:-)
I have a great idea. I'm gonna write a Python script that goes, word for word, through a dictionary file for each of the world's 13 most common languages, and compares each of those words to the list of copyrighted words in each of the world's 20 most influential countries, and automatically spits out a trademark form, completely filled out, in PDF format, for each word that is not already trademarked. Now in just about any lawsuit relating to one of these trademarks, it is pretty obvious that the trademark will be thrown out, so the script will then compute every permutation of 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-word phrases that can be constructed with all of these words, and spit out the corresponding trademark forms for them, too. Thus, the trademark system can be completely hijacked and nobody can say any sentence because it will consist entirely of, or contain within it, one of the trademarked phrases.
Why should they seize his stuff? He was the honest guy who came to tell them. It's almost as if they'd prefer that people who somehow get confidential documents would not step forward! Those police are stupid.
They should lock him, er, excuse me, it up in one of their famous gulags. Make him carry huge rocks from one spot to another, and then back again. Don't let him leave until he verbally tells them the master key. I don't care if he'll have to look it up in his computer. They should keep him there until he verbally tells them the key.
To solve the issue of personal laptops being connected to the corporate network, there needs to be some kind of server software where every approved device's MAC address is registered. When a non-approved device is connected, it will not be assigned an IP address by the DHCP server. This will cut 90% of the devices from ever being connected, since most lusers have no idea about MAC addresses, IP addresses, DHCP, and the fact that they can manually assign an IP address if they know the proper range. This does leave a rather gaping hole, though, so another layer of security is needed. It's not coming to me just yet...
On the other issue of people installing ICQ and whatnot, you set up all computers used by lusers to boot from a fresh image every time they boot. You'll have to set the darn thing up exactly the way it needs to be and then use VMware or some other solution that causes the computer to start from a known image each time. They'll install ICQ, but the next time they boot, it won't be there. They'll install it again. It'll be gone again. After five or six iterations, they'll get tired of reinstalling it. I would say that by properly setting up permissions, the issue of ICQ or any other software being installed in the first place will disappear, but given the way permissions work in Windows (and the way most software ceases to work unless you have Administrator privileges), that isn't a very good answer. The advantage of the approach where the system boots from a known image each time is that your lusers can get all the viruses, spyware, adware, etc., installed on their machine, but it won't be there for more than a few hours. Like the previous paragraph, not a perfect solution, but one that cuts down on your headache by 90%.
Just as a responsible institution has an independent auditor come to inspect their financial books for correctness, so should a responsible institution do with its computer systems and network security. The two are different only insofar as financial accounting is different from computer administration, but the need to audit both is equally pressing. This story serves as yet another example of the necessity for such things.
Don't write tech support on your resume. Either find some fancy tech-sounding euphemism to call it, or take it off your resume. When they ask what you did during that period of time, tell them you took a long vacation from working. If you consider tech support to be a no-brainer that doesn't make you do "real work" then you're probably telling the truth in some way.
To figure this out, I jumped into my time machine, compliments of the Flux Transformer from the movie Blast To The Future, and I went to the future to the location of the LHC to find out what happens. What happens is that the LHC does, in fact, blow itself to smithereens as described in this story due to the magnetic currents and the whole Bose sound system thing. The explosion is so big that Europe and Asia, which are currently parts of one super huge continent, split apart to form two separate continents. There forms a rather large canal between the two land masses, which is convenient for passing large ships through. Unfortunately, the Alps are blasted all the way to China, and the Eiffel tower is upside-down in India. The explosion is attributed by conspiracy theorists to be the result of Ahmadinejad's nukes, which, due to the total inaction and ineptitude of the world's governments, he will have within a year, and he'll use it to hold the entire world hostage.
Now wait a minute. That's a bridge to somewhere. Heck, there are a dozen people living there! Sure justifies a quarter billion bucks of government spending if you ask me. I'm saying she didn't support the bridge to nowhere and there's a difference: A bridge to somewhere takes you somewhere. A bridge to nowhere, on the other hand, well, you drive down that bridge and then disappear from existence. Like it's a portal to the Bermuda Triangle under a full moon during the summer equinox on Mars or something. Nobody wants that. But a bridge to somewhere, well, I'm only disappointed the government didn't pork-fund a trillion dollars for it to build the damn thing out of gold and diamonds.
Seriously though, thanks for the articles. Damn politicians. I never said they're perfect. Only that they're a helluva lot better than the good-looking dude from Illinois. He's bad news.
Hu in the fook said that I'd be using this mobile Internet system? In my opinion, and I don't have one, tiz better to be using tha Intornet from the comfy of your gosh darn desk than to use it from some tiny screen on a mobal fone in the streets of New York with all kinds of rude peopel pushing and shoving while yer trying to read the damn game scores. But that's just my opinoion that I don't have. Beside,s typical in the govment style to spend a billion trillion bucks on something that should "oinly" cost a million billion bucks. Dost ye get tha pictoor? My speling iz tha cottonpickin' suxx0rz. Please mod this funny.
The way to fight this problem is simple: Hire a bunch of black hat hackers to break into your own systems and wreak havoc. Then you have to hire ten times the legitimate support staff to fight the problem and keep the system up and running. You don't tell your legitimate employees that the bad guys work for you, too. Now if one of your "legitimate" guys goes evil and decides to jack up the system, it'll be like business as usual for the rest of your legitimate folks, since they're used to fighting this kind of stuff on a daily basis. It'll also create jobs, expose security flaws in your system, and give everyone that adrenaline rush of working in a battle zone.
As the.sig says... McCain/Palin '08. For those of you who haven't done any research into B. Hussein Obama's history, the dude looks great, dresses great, has a great haircut, and his rhetoric sounds great, but there's no substance behind any of it except a 20-year history of associating himself with certain people who... well, let's just say a potential U.S. president shouldn't associate with such people. Not to mention that his rhetoric changes depending on his audience at the moment -- but then again, he did promise change, right? On the other hand, you've got McCain and Palin. I don't agree with all of McCain's opinions, just so you understand, but Palin is just something else. If you want transparent government and all kinds of wonderful stuff like that, then Palin needs to be elected vice president. Because of her smart decisions, people in Alaska are receiving $1,200 checks in the mail! She goes after people who do unethical stuff, even people in her own party. So what do you prefer? Do you want a president who looks great but has a shady history, changes his story depending on the audience at the moment, and promises higher taxes? Or do you want the duo that Washington is so afraid of (because all those politicians in Washington know their bullshit is going to be exposed)... I think the choice is clear.
This is ridiculous. When I sell on eBay, the ONLY method I accept is U.S. postal money orders. Not even checks. Just money orders. And when I buy, I only buy from sellers who accept money orders. They're the only payment method that can be trusted at all. Forget this electronic trash. I'm going to stop using eBay unless they reverse this stupid decision.
Ok, let me get this straight. No copy protection so it will play on anything, but it won't play on iPods because they don't have a SD slot? WTF?! If there's no copy protection, then you put the songs on your computer and then sync them to the iPod. I love how these sorts of articles are written when the person writing them has never used a computer before.
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Only in your dreams, since you have never been within a hundred miles of one in real life.
This is sort of like comparing these netbooks to that Apple sub-notebook that has only one USB port and a power port, no other externally accessible I/O devices. Except that these netbooks are affordable and that Apple thing is, well, for yuppies to show off at the cafe.
This comment will be unpopular in this forum, but here goes: The government is out of control. Rather than specifically blame Bush or someone else, I think it's better to blame everyone in Washington right now. There are checks and balances that are supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but somehow the government is working around those things right now. Plus, there is an election coming up Real Soon Now and, let's face it, you either vote Obama/Biden or you vote McCain/Palin. No third-party or independent candidate has a prayer of a chance of winning the presidency. Now look at my sig -- don't think for even one moment that I think McCain is anything special. My vote will be going to him only in the hopes that he will actually appoint Palin to some task that involves cleaning up the shit that's happening in Washington. I believe that if she gets such an appointment, she will make a tremendous difference, even if it's only a small percentage of the total waste going on right now (because a tiny percentage of trillions if still billions of dollars). About Obama -- he looks sharp, dresses sharp, has a great haircut, and speaks marvelously, but although he touts "Change" and "Hope" I really think he's more of the same bullshit we've seen from Washington. He's just really awesome at marketing himself. Kind of like the way Microsoft is really great at marketing their "more of the same" products that everyone continues to buy when better alternatives are out there. The testament to Obama's marketing prowess is how many people are enamored with him, but I know there are certain facts behind the scene that negate the marketing bullshit. With McCain -- let's just say that until he brought Palin in, I thought this election and what followed was going to suck no matter who won. Now I think there's a chance. Because this country needs more people like Palin in Washington -- people who don't know that things are supposed to be corrupt and fscked up over there, and therefore will help clean up the mess. In this upcoming election, we really need to think about who we have in office, not just in the presidency, but across the board. And I think that as many incumbents as possible should be changed for new people who haven't been to Washington yet. McCain in the presidency only because Obama is the worse choice (I know this is making me unpopular but look beyond the great looking guy and see what he really stands for) and nobody else has a chance. Bottom line, I'm voting McCain/Palin to get Palin into Washington and because Obama, although excellent at marketing himself,
If my memory serves, since Windows 95, Microsoft has had a tendency to release new major versions of Windows somewhat later than originally scheduled. The delay was the most pronounced with the late release of Windows Vista, even with major features dropped to speed up release. Does the state of Maine have an alternative plan in the event that Windows 7 is delayed long enough that their 11,000 machines begin to break with no replacement capable of running the "obsolete" Windows XP (due to lack of XP drivers for new hardware) available? Perhaps instead of planning a move to Windows 7, which may not be released for some time, the state of Maine should at least investigate other possibilities, such as adopting F/OSS software or Apple machines.
I suppose it would make sense if you had to make an exchange of keys with someone before initiating communication. Thus, when you give out your email to people, you could give them a key that they would need in order to send you an email, and similar methods would apply to other communication mechanisms. Now the spammers will need to waste inordinate amounts of computer time computing all kinds of keys, and the practice of spamming will (hopefully) disappear. Now this being /., someone will tell me why such a scheme is impossible. :-)
I don't think you meant "if it's illegal to stop abortion" -- I think you meant "if it's illegal to perform abortion" but thanks for your question: There is a huge difference between aborting an unborn child and, say, not giving money to a homeless person:
In other words, there is NO moral equivalence between:
But the machine doesn't support more than 64 GB, or in the case of most machines, you usually can't install more than 4 GB or 8 GB. An IDE interface to such a thing allows ANY computer to access ANY amount of RAM. The IDE interface will know how to select the proper memory bank because you can split it up into several groups if the total amount you need exceeds the addressing capability of a RAM addressing scheme.
Liberals claim abortion has something to do with the rights of the mother, like privacy rights or whatever such nonsense. But this is bullshit. It has nothing to do with anyone's rights and everything to do with reducing the world's population. Because they are population alarmists. Well, you know what? Unborn children have just as much right to be born and live as do the population alarmists who want to have those children killed. Because if it's OK to abort (read: KILL) fetuses that are nearly ready to be born, then why stop at birth? Why not make a law that you can abort any child, born or unborn, at any age? Heck, if you're a 72 year old parent and your 53 year old child is annoying you, then simply take them to one of your convenient neighborhood free government-run abortion clinics and have them aborted! How convenient! And why stop there? Why not build massive government-run gas chambers and put anyone in there who is disabled, sick, elderly, hard of hearing, nearsighted, or Jewish, and then burn the bodies and use the result to make soap! Why not? I'll tell you why not: Because it's MURDER, no matter what it's called and no matter how it's justified. Abortion is MURDER of a child! And when you make it OK to MURDER, then you've opened a door and taken a step down the path that leads to gas chambers and death camps. Who the hell does any living human think he is to decide who will live and who will die?
I have 64 GB of RAM and my swap partition is the same size at 64 GB. I thought 128 GB is a little excessive. What I would really like is if someone would make up an IDE interface to RAM modules and build a large amount of such RAM into the form factor of a hard disk drive. Then, you could populate this RAM-based "hard drive" with the necessary data during startup, and use it for swap and for all of your system's various "temp" folders. This would make swapping (and temp stuff) extremely fast to access, and more importantly, it would eliminate the need to encrypt your swap and/or temp partitions, as the data would simply disappear when power is removed. So when the agents (including Agent Smith) come to bust down your door, all you do is pull the plug and voila! Your secrets are safe. :-)
Actually, the search for Sarah Palin did bring up some results but after going through a few pages, I saw nothing about conspiracies or the like.
I wonder what a search for Barack Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden will bring up?
Apply logic to a post? On Slashdot? You must be new here.
I have a great idea. I'm gonna write a Python script that goes, word for word, through a dictionary file for each of the world's 13 most common languages, and compares each of those words to the list of copyrighted words in each of the world's 20 most influential countries, and automatically spits out a trademark form, completely filled out, in PDF format, for each word that is not already trademarked. Now in just about any lawsuit relating to one of these trademarks, it is pretty obvious that the trademark will be thrown out, so the script will then compute every permutation of 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-word phrases that can be constructed with all of these words, and spit out the corresponding trademark forms for them, too. Thus, the trademark system can be completely hijacked and nobody can say any sentence because it will consist entirely of, or contain within it, one of the trademarked phrases.
A luser in computer administration is kind of like an lvalue in C programming. You take a word, prepend a lowercase "L" to it, and voila!
Why should they seize his stuff? He was the honest guy who came to tell them. It's almost as if they'd prefer that people who somehow get confidential documents would not step forward! Those police are stupid.
They should lock him, er, excuse me, it up in one of their famous gulags. Make him carry huge rocks from one spot to another, and then back again. Don't let him leave until he verbally tells them the master key. I don't care if he'll have to look it up in his computer. They should keep him there until he verbally tells them the key.
To solve the issue of personal laptops being connected to the corporate network, there needs to be some kind of server software where every approved device's MAC address is registered. When a non-approved device is connected, it will not be assigned an IP address by the DHCP server. This will cut 90% of the devices from ever being connected, since most lusers have no idea about MAC addresses, IP addresses, DHCP, and the fact that they can manually assign an IP address if they know the proper range. This does leave a rather gaping hole, though, so another layer of security is needed. It's not coming to me just yet...
On the other issue of people installing ICQ and whatnot, you set up all computers used by lusers to boot from a fresh image every time they boot. You'll have to set the darn thing up exactly the way it needs to be and then use VMware or some other solution that causes the computer to start from a known image each time. They'll install ICQ, but the next time they boot, it won't be there. They'll install it again. It'll be gone again. After five or six iterations, they'll get tired of reinstalling it. I would say that by properly setting up permissions, the issue of ICQ or any other software being installed in the first place will disappear, but given the way permissions work in Windows (and the way most software ceases to work unless you have Administrator privileges), that isn't a very good answer. The advantage of the approach where the system boots from a known image each time is that your lusers can get all the viruses, spyware, adware, etc., installed on their machine, but it won't be there for more than a few hours. Like the previous paragraph, not a perfect solution, but one that cuts down on your headache by 90%.
Just as a responsible institution has an independent auditor come to inspect their financial books for correctness, so should a responsible institution do with its computer systems and network security. The two are different only insofar as financial accounting is different from computer administration, but the need to audit both is equally pressing. This story serves as yet another example of the necessity for such things.
Don't write tech support on your resume. Either find some fancy tech-sounding euphemism to call it, or take it off your resume. When they ask what you did during that period of time, tell them you took a long vacation from working. If you consider tech support to be a no-brainer that doesn't make you do "real work" then you're probably telling the truth in some way.
To figure this out, I jumped into my time machine, compliments of the Flux Transformer from the movie Blast To The Future, and I went to the future to the location of the LHC to find out what happens. What happens is that the LHC does, in fact, blow itself to smithereens as described in this story due to the magnetic currents and the whole Bose sound system thing. The explosion is so big that Europe and Asia, which are currently parts of one super huge continent, split apart to form two separate continents. There forms a rather large canal between the two land masses, which is convenient for passing large ships through. Unfortunately, the Alps are blasted all the way to China, and the Eiffel tower is upside-down in India. The explosion is attributed by conspiracy theorists to be the result of Ahmadinejad's nukes, which, due to the total inaction and ineptitude of the world's governments, he will have within a year, and he'll use it to hold the entire world hostage.
Now wait a minute. That's a bridge to somewhere. Heck, there are a dozen people living there! Sure justifies a quarter billion bucks of government spending if you ask me. I'm saying she didn't support the bridge to nowhere and there's a difference: A bridge to somewhere takes you somewhere. A bridge to nowhere, on the other hand, well, you drive down that bridge and then disappear from existence. Like it's a portal to the Bermuda Triangle under a full moon during the summer equinox on Mars or something. Nobody wants that. But a bridge to somewhere, well, I'm only disappointed the government didn't pork-fund a trillion dollars for it to build the damn thing out of gold and diamonds.
Seriously though, thanks for the articles. Damn politicians. I never said they're perfect. Only that they're a helluva lot better than the good-looking dude from Illinois. He's bad news.
Hu in the fook said that I'd be using this mobile Internet system? In my opinion, and I don't have one, tiz better to be using tha Intornet from the comfy of your gosh darn desk than to use it from some tiny screen on a mobal fone in the streets of New York with all kinds of rude peopel pushing and shoving while yer trying to read the damn game scores. But that's just my opinoion that I don't have. Beside,s typical in the govment style to spend a billion trillion bucks on something that should "oinly" cost a million billion bucks. Dost ye get tha pictoor? My speling iz tha cottonpickin' suxx0rz. Please mod this funny.
The way to fight this problem is simple: Hire a bunch of black hat hackers to break into your own systems and wreak havoc. Then you have to hire ten times the legitimate support staff to fight the problem and keep the system up and running. You don't tell your legitimate employees that the bad guys work for you, too. Now if one of your "legitimate" guys goes evil and decides to jack up the system, it'll be like business as usual for the rest of your legitimate folks, since they're used to fighting this kind of stuff on a daily basis. It'll also create jobs, expose security flaws in your system, and give everyone that adrenaline rush of working in a battle zone.
As the .sig says... McCain/Palin '08. For those of you who haven't done any research into B. Hussein Obama's history, the dude looks great, dresses great, has a great haircut, and his rhetoric sounds great, but there's no substance behind any of it except a 20-year history of associating himself with certain people who... well, let's just say a potential U.S. president shouldn't associate with such people. Not to mention that his rhetoric changes depending on his audience at the moment -- but then again, he did promise change, right? On the other hand, you've got McCain and Palin. I don't agree with all of McCain's opinions, just so you understand, but Palin is just something else. If you want transparent government and all kinds of wonderful stuff like that, then Palin needs to be elected vice president. Because of her smart decisions, people in Alaska are receiving $1,200 checks in the mail! She goes after people who do unethical stuff, even people in her own party. So what do you prefer? Do you want a president who looks great but has a shady history, changes his story depending on the audience at the moment, and promises higher taxes? Or do you want the duo that Washington is so afraid of (because all those politicians in Washington know their bullshit is going to be exposed)... I think the choice is clear.
This is ridiculous. When I sell on eBay, the ONLY method I accept is U.S. postal money orders. Not even checks. Just money orders. And when I buy, I only buy from sellers who accept money orders. They're the only payment method that can be trusted at all. Forget this electronic trash. I'm going to stop using eBay unless they reverse this stupid decision.
Ok, let me get this straight. No copy protection so it will play on anything, but it won't play on iPods because they don't have a SD slot? WTF?! If there's no copy protection, then you put the songs on your computer and then sync them to the iPod. I love how these sorts of articles are written when the person writing them has never used a computer before.