I never bother because there's just too much info going out to a company who makes no claims to privacy for providing this information.
In fact, not only do I not bother, but I tend to avoid shopping in stores that use them as a selling point, like FutureShop. A horrible Canadian chain with know-nothing droids (for the most part). Every single sale at this point is really just a mail-in rebate, or an in store rebate or both.
And they always try this Extended Warranty scam. I buy a 70$ dimm and they'd try to sell me a 5 dollar extended warranty. Have I ever had a dimm, simm, etc., die after the original product warranty has failed? Once, but that was a power surge, and the chances that these fucks would honour the warranty are exactly zero.
The best way to fight back against this kind of shit is to not buy from these stores (the savings without the rebate that never comes are usually less than what you can get elsewhere anyway) and to let them know, every time you don't buy something from them, the reason why you didn't purchase the product from them. They had an NEC 1700NX flat panel display on sale this week but without the 50$ rebate it wasn't that great a deal and so I bought elsewhere (a Dell UltraSharp 1800 for 799$ Canadian, FWIW). And I let them know it. I do the same for another chain here called CompuSmart, although they are somewhat less evil than FutureShop.
Buy elsewhere, let them know why. It only takes a couple minutes to send an email once in a while to remind them that they are losing sales because of their bullshit policies.
I tried to like Python a couple of years ago. I bought a book and plowed through it and wrote a few scripts, but I could never get used to looking at the damn blocks of code indented by whitespace. I guess this is one of the most common beefs. I sure wish they'd optionally support braces to delineate blocks of text.
Ruby looks quite nice, but I haven't tried it yet.
I'm currently getting 9kB/s from rhn.redhat.com, and frankly, if enough people are willing to go try this BitTorrent concept my download time might actually finish before the week is up (and the real shit hits the fan at redhat.)
Christ on a crutch, I've read misinformed posts on/. before, but this one takes the cake, and to add insult to injury, it gets modded all the way up to 5.
The only thing the proxy could to is change the request from straight text to compressed, if the http server supports sending compression. The real question is, why don't the web browsers all support this?
There is nothing wrong with a persistant http connection, and it certainly has nothing to do with tcp breakage recently exposed on/. I didn't really pursue that claim though so I can't comment on that.
How the fsck can you prefetch on a pipe that's already full? The only thing that could possibly accomplish this is compression. And, looking at the base technology, it certainly is compression that they're taking advantage of. Think about it, what kind of gzip compression ratio does one commonly see when compressing ascii text? Somewhere between 20% and 50% of original size, hence an increase in throughput of 2 to 5 times.
Zaurus? Sharp's zaurus has supported several ogg players for ages. And it's more than just a digital music recorder/player. I've been drooling over the damn thing for months, but cannot bring myself to spend the $800CAN for one of these things yet. Perhaps next week when I go consultant full time and can write off the PDA as a business expense.
These guys would be all over their corporate buddies if'n they ever got a chance at power, which is unlikely in the current political climate in Canada. I wouldn't trust an Alliance politician as far as I could throw him, which would be about 15 mm given what fatcats they are.
BTW, when the party formed they called themselves, The Canadian Reform Alliance Party, aka CRAP. No shit. Bunch of morons.
And, BTW, I'd rather pay a few cents on every CDR if it would mean that the goddamn RIAA would back off on they're idiotic claims about music piracy.
And finally, is it really that much of a stretch to realise that rebroadcasting copyrighted television signals on the net is going to get you into trouble?
George Bush can sleep well knowing that there are morons everywhere.
On which planet do you buy the glue that you are sniffing? Mozilla has absolutely no problem on the vast majority of sites that I visit and I've never visited a site that causes Mozilla to barf on "100% compliant HTML".
It's still crap. And their design engineers must be on fucking glue. VCR that displays 'REW' on the LEDs while rewinding instead of the current positino on the tape . I've never used a consumer electronics product with such a poorly desinged UI. And the quality is crap too. Crap crap crap.
And regardless of who made the damn thing, RCA or not, it's still crap if it has RCA on it. I'll believe that the company has changed when I read it on consumerreports. No farking way am I going to be one of their beta testers again.
When you consider that a replacement cartridge for an Optra E310 is over 200 bucks Canadian. No wonder the farkin' printer was so cheap. And the cartridge that came with mine (2 years ago) is starting to get blotchy. Fucking crazy when a replacement cartridge is 30% of the price of the printer.
Dunno about that... I used to work in a University and the thieves often would steal only the harddisks, or ethernet nics (at the time the cards were a bit more costly). I suspect this is because a single person can walk out of a computer lab with upwards of 50 harddrives, but only one computer. Oh yeah, DIMMS were another popular option.
I'm surprised that JVC is rated here below RCA because I hear nothing but bad things about RCA, which is complete crap terribly engineered and just fucking useless, but the JVC stuff that I've bought has been really reliable. I just bought a JVC I'Art telly last year and it is fantastic, and that one replaced another that was 8 years old and is still going strong. I'm going to have to check out the consumer reports report.
And everyone knows that sony is crap. I wouldn't buy sony if you held a gun to my head. In fact, I won't even go into one of their creepy mall stores that sell only sony -- oh yeah, there's a good way to get a competative price!
Michael Moore was completely off the mark when he said that Canadians have more guns per capita than Americans. There are approximately (by 1997 estimates) 0.25 guns per capita in Canada, compared with 0.82 guns per capita in the US, including all firearms. That is 3.3 times as many guns per capita. There are 1.2 million handguns in Canada compared to 76 million in the US or about 63.3 times as many. Since the population of the US is about 9 times that of Canada, per capita handgun ownership is 7 times higher (63.3/9) in the US than in Canada. The total number of firearms in Canada is 7.4 million, compared to an estimate of 222 million in the US which works out to 30 times as many firearms.
I'm not sure where Moore got his statistics but they are completely outside of any statistics on gun ownership that I've ever seen.
for more statistics (compiled from Centre for Justice Statistics; FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Data, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada Homicide Survey; Research and Statistics Division Department of Justice (Kwing Hung) June 2001).
My forecast, FWIW, would be more like 500 farkin' percent, based on the increase in the amount of spam I've been receiving over the past year. I have one account that has been on the internet since 1988 and I used to get, until a couple of years ago, only two or three a day. I now get over 50 a day on that account! I use it for very little but monitoring spam these days though so most days I just grep the Subject lines from the mbox and use a script to trash it if there's nothing of interest. And that's not including the spam filters in my procmail script.
It's a lost cause. Email is a dead duck in its current format and without a sender verification scheme will be gone before 5 years is up, IMNSHO.
Good on ya. The proliferation of SUV's is enough to make me want to move far far away from the Yoo Ess. The other reason would be taht farkin' moron George Dubya Bush, and the criminals he's surrounded himself with (Cheney, Kissinger, Lay). But mostly the SUV proliferation just makes me extremely angry, especially when I'm on my bike riding to work and facing down one of those butt ugly fucking Cadillac Escalades, invariably being drivin by some butt ugly rich bitch up on t'hill. And the cow's excuse? "I didn't see you."
Wake up and smell the fucking exhaust ya bunch of idiots!
And if your hydrogen is produced by hydro electric? You sound like a farking republican with your violent reaction to a competing fuel source. Either that, or an Iraqi.
Perhaps this third party software can read the permanent MAC address on a number of different types of nics -- there really aren't *that* many different chipsets out there so it wouldn't be unthinkable that this would be part of their implementation. The point is, you can change the MAC address but the original permanent HWaddr remains encoded on the nic. And if you did change your MAC address the software might detect the change and disable your access to the site.
That's what I would do if I were writing the software. Bwa ha ha ha, etc.
Seems to me that your blanket statement that most DSL users have a static IP is a gross inaccuracy. My bet is that most DSL connections get an IP address via DHCP or PPPoE. Most DSL service providers don't want users to have a static IP address because then they can use their home boxen to serve http, ftp, etc. The reason this gets up their shorts is that businesses pay a pretty premium to do just that on their expensive T1 lines. Why this gets up the providers shorts still eludes me though because most home users are not running multi-million dollar corporations.
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In fact, not only do I not bother, but I tend to avoid shopping in stores that use them as a selling point, like FutureShop. A horrible Canadian chain with know-nothing droids (for the most part). Every single sale at this point is really just a mail-in rebate, or an in store rebate or both.
And they always try this Extended Warranty scam. I buy a 70$ dimm and they'd try to sell me a 5 dollar extended warranty. Have I ever had a dimm, simm, etc., die after the original product warranty has failed? Once, but that was a power surge, and the chances that these fucks would honour the warranty are exactly zero.
The best way to fight back against this kind of shit is to not buy from these stores (the savings without the rebate that never comes are usually less than what you can get elsewhere anyway) and to let them know, every time you don't buy something from them, the reason why you didn't purchase the product from them. They had an NEC 1700NX flat panel display on sale this week but without the 50$ rebate it wasn't that great a deal and so I bought elsewhere (a Dell UltraSharp 1800 for 799$ Canadian, FWIW). And I let them know it. I do the same for another chain here called CompuSmart, although they are somewhat less evil than FutureShop.
Buy elsewhere, let them know why. It only takes a couple minutes to send an email once in a while to remind them that they are losing sales because of their bullshit policies.
Ruby looks quite nice, but I haven't tried it yet.
So's yer post.
How much fuckin' porn can you view at once?!?
Sony is shite.
I'm currently getting 9kB/s from rhn.redhat.com, and frankly, if enough people are willing to go try this BitTorrent concept my download time might actually finish before the week is up (and the real shit hits the fan at redhat.)
The only thing the proxy could to is change the request from straight text to compressed, if the http server supports sending compression. The real question is, why don't the web browsers all support this?
There is nothing wrong with a persistant http connection, and it certainly has nothing to do with tcp breakage recently exposed on /. I didn't really pursue that claim though so I can't comment on that.
How the fsck can you prefetch on a pipe that's already full? The only thing that could possibly accomplish this is compression. And, looking at the base technology, it certainly is compression that they're taking advantage of. Think about it, what kind of gzip compression ratio does one commonly see when compressing ascii text? Somewhere between 20% and 50% of original size, hence an increase in throughput of 2 to 5 times.
Feh
Zaurus? Sharp's zaurus has supported several ogg players for ages. And it's more than just a digital music recorder/player. I've been drooling over the damn thing for months, but cannot bring myself to spend the $800CAN for one of these things yet. Perhaps next week when I go consultant full time and can write off the PDA as a business expense.
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And, BTW, I'd rather pay a few cents on every CDR if it would mean that the goddamn RIAA would back off on they're idiotic claims about music piracy.
And finally, is it really that much of a stretch to realise that rebroadcasting copyrighted television signals on the net is going to get you into trouble?
George Bush can sleep well knowing that there are morons everywhere.
On which planet do you buy the glue that you are sniffing? Mozilla has absolutely no problem on the vast majority of sites that I visit and I've never visited a site that causes Mozilla to barf on "100% compliant HTML".
And regardless of who made the damn thing, RCA or not, it's still crap if it has RCA on it. I'll believe that the company has changed when I read it on consumerreports. No farking way am I going to be one of their beta testers again.
When you consider that a replacement cartridge for an Optra E310 is over 200 bucks Canadian. No wonder the farkin' printer was so cheap. And the cartridge that came with mine (2 years ago) is starting to get blotchy. Fucking crazy when a replacement cartridge is 30% of the price of the printer.
Dunno about that ... I used to work in a University and the thieves often would steal only the harddisks, or ethernet nics (at the time the cards were a bit more costly). I suspect this is because a single person can walk out of a computer lab with upwards of 50 harddrives, but only one computer. Oh yeah, DIMMS were another popular option.
And everyone knows that sony is crap. I wouldn't buy sony if you held a gun to my head. In fact, I won't even go into one of their creepy mall stores that sell only sony -- oh yeah, there's a good way to get a competative price!
BTW, if you're going to quote statistics, it's a good idea to refer to some actual statistics.
I'm not sure where Moore got his statistics but they are completely outside of any statistics on gun ownership that I've ever seen.
See International Comparisons at,
The coalition for gun control
for more statistics (compiled from Centre for Justice Statistics; FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Data, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada Homicide Survey; Research and Statistics Division Department of Justice (Kwing Hung) June 2001).
Who are the dumbfucks who think this comment is funny? Probably related to Jack Valenti.
It's a lost cause. Email is a dead duck in its current format and without a sender verification scheme will be gone before 5 years is up, IMNSHO.
Wake up and smell the fucking exhaust ya bunch of idiots!
Shania is much sexier than Pam Anderson (she's dropped the Lee, I think, no?) I won't even mention Celine Dion ...
D'oh!
And if your hydrogen is produced by hydro electric? You sound like a farking republican with your violent reaction to a competing fuel source. Either that, or an Iraqi.
BTW, who pissed in your wheaties this morning?
That's what I would do if I were writing the software. Bwa ha ha ha, etc.
Seems to me that your blanket statement that most DSL users have a static IP is a gross inaccuracy. My bet is that most DSL connections get an IP address via DHCP or PPPoE. Most DSL service providers don't want users to have a static IP address because then they can use their home boxen to serve http, ftp, etc. The reason this gets up their shorts is that businesses pay a pretty premium to do just that on their expensive T1 lines. Why this gets up the providers shorts still eludes me though because most home users are not running multi-million dollar corporations.
Since it's tcp you could simplify things by doing,
netstat -at | grep 6667
or to see the process that is using that port do,
netstat -atp
have fun.