Yes, the peak of douchebaggery are ranking-makers.
My power supplier was awarded "consumer friendly company" and "reliable company" awards last year, while they've sent all their invoices late (usually after payment deadline) and threatened customers with "outstanding" invoices with submission to the "bad debt registry".
I even called ranking-maker about this issue and learned, that companies submit themselves, then categories were created, and asked people (some 400 people in total, this was not an open vote) to indicate the most reliable companies. In largely monopolized categories (such as power supply) company can be nearly sure to be voted winner. (but that is ok, as they've paid fee for contest admission)
and published it in a newpaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?
In my country - yes, you could. And people have right to their name until they are forecefully convicted, so until they are convicted - newspapers have to name the president e.g. Barack O., not Barack Obama.
Seems that ex-communist legislation protects people better than land of free.
A right, by definition, does not require action on the part of another.
Quotation needed / Is it some sort of "common law" brilliant idea?
Does "claim right" sound familiar to you? Right to healthcare? Right to an attorney? These require action on the part of another. Also right of property embraces requiring from others not to infringe your rights to your property/
but once you post to someone else's server, you've relinquished control of that information, permanently
In Europe thought are closer to the concept that the data concerning my person is owned by me, I can put it on your database but if you misconduct or I change my mind, I can revoke your rights to process it.
I guess you've noticed that data and privacy protection in USA is broken, serves mainly big corps, but why are you so mean to export your legal system ideas abroad?
nobody prohibits you from using your gmail account, this is just that when dealing with state offices (e.g. tax office, land registry, local authorities, voting), their registered email would be useful.
I don't know about your RIR, but in practice getting PI from RIPE in mid-2010 (last time a friend from my local IX tried) was very difficult and there was not silver bullet solution that granted obtaining it. Also decisive process takes a random amount of time (ie. you may get reply in few days or few months, if any). There are more and more companies claiming that they do "consulting services' in obtaining PI or ASN, with the scope of advertised actions / influences somehow beyond what one would expect that "sponsor LIR" should be responsible for.
As a side note, there is problem with obtaining ASN, these are also in short supply.
I'd rather use free dns from a few different providers (so having multiple secondary DNSs). I use one from my registrar, https://freedns.42.pl/ and http://xname.org/
Stop whining. Now you have to pay your dues for the 4-year live feed of "internationally significant" OJ Simpson trial. (Outside USA he was relevant only as an actor in The Naked Gun trilogy, still not justifying complete lack of any other programming on CNN 'International')
Thanks man! So far I've been using thing called Lazycat - which was developed until 2000 and apparently dropped around that time. It was also fast, but I had growing discomfort about software not updated any longer.
I've recently moved from "oldschool" Nokia (on S40) to iphone 4.
What I miss the most is that I could have unlocked nokia without looking at it and dial a few selected people with just one button pressed (and I memorised that pressing and holding 2 for two seconds called my wife, etc). And I was able to do it when drunk or not fully woke up.
On iphone I may be able to unlock phone without looking, but navigating without looking could be very tricky and result in doing something completely surprising (for you and perhaps for other people).
nope. I just needed a nice pic of my city for a webpage header. Found one on flickr, and I've attibuted the author. So your claim that "nobody ever calls them on it" is false.
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Yes, the peak of douchebaggery are ranking-makers.
My power supplier was awarded "consumer friendly company" and "reliable company" awards last year, while they've sent all their invoices late (usually after payment deadline) and threatened customers with "outstanding" invoices with submission to the "bad debt registry".
I even called ranking-maker about this issue and learned, that companies submit themselves, then categories were created, and asked people (some 400 people in total, this was not an open vote) to indicate the most reliable companies. In largely monopolized categories (such as power supply) company can be nearly sure to be voted winner. (but that is ok, as they've paid fee for contest admission)
and published it in a newpaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?
In my country - yes, you could.
And people have right to their name until they are forecefully convicted, so until they are convicted - newspapers have to name the president e.g. Barack O., not Barack Obama.
Seems that ex-communist legislation protects people better than land of free.
A right, by definition, does not require action on the part of another.
Quotation needed / Is it some sort of "common law" brilliant idea?
Does "claim right" sound familiar to you? Right to healthcare? Right to an attorney? These require action on the part of another.
Also right of property embraces requiring from others not to infringe your rights to your property/
but once you post to someone else's server, you've relinquished control of that information, permanently
In Europe thought are closer to the concept that the data concerning my person is owned by me, I can put it on your database but if you misconduct or I change my mind, I can revoke your rights to process it.
I guess you've noticed that data and privacy protection in USA is broken, serves mainly big corps, but why are you so mean to export your legal system ideas abroad?
the only computer-related stuff that was bad about SW:NH was CGI processing done in 1990s. It even screwed the original plot (Han shot first!).
British Waking the Dead are not so bad; corpses are decayed, less fancy machinery. Unfortunately, still lab ppl get into chases.
They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!
and virgins!
Oh wait, Julian was there ...
I bet the local TLD administration is in Tripoli, so they could direct all DNSs to loyalist sites (or goatse, at their will).
come on, you could problably get some 486's for free on the scrap-heap ;-)
I don't have any, but there is a proof:
http://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Command_line_arguments
Networking options
-left
Run as the left screen in three screen mode.
-right
Run as the right screen in three screen mode.
nobody prohibits you from using your gmail account, this is just that when dealing with state offices (e.g. tax office, land registry, local authorities, voting), their registered email would be useful.
Already tried this in 1994 or 1995.
As 486's would suffice, I guess cone could do this at the cost of 2nd hand displays.
URL: open.org/y
I don't know about your RIR, but in practice getting PI from RIPE in mid-2010 (last time a friend from my local IX tried) was very difficult and there was not silver bullet solution that granted obtaining it. Also decisive process takes a random amount of time (ie. you may get reply in few days or few months, if any). There are more and more companies claiming that they do "consulting services' in obtaining PI or ASN, with the scope of advertised actions / influences somehow beyond what one would expect that "sponsor LIR" should be responsible for.
As a side note, there is problem with obtaining ASN, these are also in short supply.
anyway, some guy in future may claim that he spent all evening "on Facebook"
Like PIs are hanging on the trees in 2011. Get serious.
provide name of the bank, login credentials and passwords ... or it did not happened.
I'd rather use free dns from a few different providers (so having multiple secondary DNSs). I use one from my registrar, https://freedns.42.pl/ and http://xname.org/
Stop whining. Now you have to pay your dues for the 4-year live feed of "internationally significant" OJ Simpson trial. (Outside USA he was relevant only as an actor in The Naked Gun trilogy, still not justifying complete lack of any other programming on CNN 'International')
yeap, not always
Thanks man!
So far I've been using thing called Lazycat - which was developed until 2000 and apparently dropped around that time. It was also fast, but I had growing discomfort about software not updated any longer.
Irrelevant.
The one you've posted is dated Jan 11, 2011 ... the article discusses the Feb 13 flare.
if watching kittens or going to church was the only thing a mass murderer did to entertain himself, would you raise idea to ban these things?
I've recently moved from "oldschool" Nokia (on S40) to iphone 4.
What I miss the most is that I could have unlocked nokia without looking at it and dial a few selected people with just one button pressed (and I memorised that pressing and holding 2 for two seconds called my wife, etc). And I was able to do it when drunk or not fully woke up.
On iphone I may be able to unlock phone without looking, but navigating without looking could be very tricky and result in doing something completely surprising (for you and perhaps for other people).
nope.
I just needed a nice pic of my city for a webpage header. Found one on flickr, and I've attibuted the author.
So your claim that "nobody ever calls them on it" is false.
just few days ago I used CC-BY-2.0 image on the webpage and attibuted the author. Use of quantifier (nobody) is not justified.