Neti Pot. I used to have constant infections until I picked up one of these at the drug store. Boiled water that you let cool a bit and add on of it's little salt packets. Bing Bang Done! After 3 months of regular use I dialed down so i only do it once or twice a year when i have symptoms, but i went from constant throat and nose infections to the odd cough and sore throat a couple times a year.
First of when using firefox, use the password manager. From what i understand it encyrpts your passwords with your master password. For everything else from secure notes, ssl keys, to passwords i use a custom container in Key Chains. The built in password manager of any OS X machine.
I think it's a bit sad that this entire topic is viewed from the pirating side of the table. Just the way we approach the idea of books becoming freely available is off-centre. Ebook readers are about to do what the iDevices did for music. We should be rejoicing the coming panacea of freely, easielly accessible books. The shear number of classics that are legally out of copyright, that are still popular with the masses and are housed in libraries around the world will ensure a large collection of free, high quality content, that will compete with anyone who wants to try and lock in the eco-system around sub par choices at super expensive prices.
People do this for one simple reason. To get by in life we all must boil down our knowledge of unfamilar fields to it's most basic constructs.
A car transports you from point A > B. The only component in your car that performs this basic task is the engine. When ever any lay person discusses a car problem they know nothing about it invariably will be a discussion about the engine. Engines move machines from point A > B, every other component is secondary.
A computer stores and retrieves information. And while there are many components critical to doing this the only one people associate with is the Hard Drive. It's full of information, their information, and thus it's what things get boiled down to. The box under the desk is the Hard Drive.
Shaw Communications(the cable company) just launched VOIP. Its a blow to TELUS(the phone company) which is going to launch IPTV someday.
Their IPTV solution apperently sucks beyond belief, and they can't get it to work very effectively. They were doing trials in the regional offices more then a year ago now, and it couldn't get it working in half of them.
Which indicates they had the basic infastructure in place that long ago, and they have had over a year to work on the problems and to roll out fiber to the reginal neighbourhoods.
But even with a partly working system a year ago they are still not ready to start a mass home trial within the deveopment teams.
Hi, i'm joe i work in a garage, you know like The Woz, i make internet things that pretty l33t. We'll anyway nerdo, i was thinking one night on the internet and seeing all this news and stuff about iraq and i figured it would be keeno to help our soilders out with a bomb sniffer.
Yeh so me and a buddy figured we could make million* cough*a modest profit selling these things to help the boys. You know cause the current ones me make now are really expensive, errr, i mean these guys can't buy enough of them maybe the governments not giving them enough money or something to buy them from halib...err... halifornia. You know home of all us geeks and techno companies.
So yeh we would really like you to save us a billion in research... *cough i mean... i mean save, save our billies from retarded terrorists who use bomb.
So if you could just send your ideas too.
Two Guy Garage Defense Company 5 Houston Center 1401 McKinney, Suite 2400 Houston, TX 77010 USA
Two Guy Garage Defense Co. is trademarked by our sponsors.
Once i called my city alderman's office cause my neighbors screen door was banging all the time. So i was like yoo alderperson you need to get the bylaw officers to fine people with screen doors that bang. Anyway long story short i was walking home and I saw the kid next door run up to open the door and instead of slamming he carefully brought the door in. I knew right then that city must have launch an awareness campaign in the local schools to warn children about the destruction of the neighborhood audiosphere that results from screen door slamming.
And that is how I single handedly fixed my society.
The network is trying to be the next cnn, i would imagine being unbiased is at least somewhat ingrained in its corporate culture. Give the reporters a break some computer company just bought their network cause it had lots of monye.
From what i've heard telemarketing is not nearly as bad up here as it is down in the states, the combination of these privacy laws severly limit the channels these companies can get our info from. For the most part they have to rely on automated dialers and if you ask to be put on their do not call list it applies to the telemarketing companies not the current client/product they happen to be calling about, which means if one day the companie is selling sun newspapers and they put you on the do not call list the next day their selling MDG computers they still can't call you.
The advertisements don't set a minimum length in order for them to work. It doesn't say for example that their product does not work on anything over 8inchs. So some reasonably hung dude, say 10 inchs, could go out get the pills because he wants to be 13 inchs and then sue cause it didn't work. Not only does he get a shit load of money but he gets to be known as that dude with the 11 inch thing. A rich man with a court verified long shlong he'll never be lonely again.
Privacy concerns be damned, what really steams me about this article, not discount cards could be an invasion of privacy, but that the convience of the information allows retail chains to use fear as a marketing tool.
Any scientist/expert will tell you the chance of any american/japanese/human contracting mad cow diesease because of these two cases of BSE are so astronmically small a 22 year old gym instructer is more likely to die of the flu in the middle of july.
The most shocking revelation is that this retail chain for all intensive purposes, intentional or not, used this oppertunity to falsely re-enforce the fears of a hypertensive public. To foster a more comforting branding in the public conscience.
And the public buys it. Information is becoming so readily avaliable uninformed neofites are weighing in on topics they known little about, passed off as learned experts to general populous.
This retail chain can easily notify customners of a "risk" that has been inflated by the media distortion field, when the customer recieves the notice they react with out thinking. They precieve that the effort is extensive on the store's part, and therefore the risk must be very great to warrent such actions. Which take a normally small local concern and expands it beyond anything imaginable.
Farmers are loseing their homes, over steers who were born before feed regulation was implemented years agao (97's in canada, 2003 US). There are an estimated 12-15 active cases of bse somewhere in north america. If the hype about bse is to believed people should be in sheer panic and there should be at least 2 - 3 deaths already. But its not and no expert is concerned because bse just happens to have the lucky distition of having public profile.
But depsite it the border remains closed,canadian farmers kill off entire herds,but ground beef costs the same and the front counter now sell a little post bse "security" plan.
When you look at this from the view of apple( i'm flattering myself by pretending to know apple's view on things), its a very smart move to keep the price at 250.
First everyone and their dog was looking for a cheaper ipod, and they delivered, obviously not to the extent everyone wanted but they still did bring down the entry level. To that extent they listened to the market.
Secondly the size limit is important as far as marketing goes, 1000 songs is 899 songs better then 999 in the mind of the consumer. I don't think we'll ever see an ipod that you can't store at least 1000 songs on it, aka one weekends worth of continous listening ( 1000[songs] * 4[minutes per song] / 1440 [minutes in a day]). Apple has avoided sacrificing function for price.
Thirdly the 250 price perserves the higher ipod market. If the price was too low consumers would flock to the cheap ipods when high revenue margins are made on the more expensive, tried, true and established models, and if some small problem did crop up on this new breed of ipod it would severely damage apple's reputation and could risk it's dominance in the player market itself. However by lowering the price just a little it keeps the demand manageable for those that may think the price is two high for just 4 gigs, apple has decreased the form factor. The smaller size alone is not enough to justify the price but freebies like choice in color and armband help win most consumers over. By doing this Apple has avoided cannabalizing its higher end ipod business.
At the same time having the mini out and on the market gives apple the flexibility to release say an 8 gig mini for 250 and lower the 4 gig to 175 6 month down the road should the market begin to turn towards the competition. I think more consumers are reaching that $50 deeper then are buying none ipod devices, as soon as that trend begins to really shift you'll see a cheaper ipod but apples going to bilk the market for as much as it will bear as long as it will bear.
It sucks this story broke today and not after the weekend. I've started building a site around this to gain support for an activist campain against this tax.
Check out the site, basicly i'm asking that anyone in canada who opposes this levy, tax, on their recordable media stand up for it and take a little bit of action.
The plan is to take a normal cd-r, burn any data file, (image, text) to it, address it to your mp, or the copyright board and throw it in the mail ( you don't need a stamp when you are mailing parliment hill).
Write "Free the CD" on the cd and include a letter either on the cd or handwritten asking for a 21 cent refund for that specific cd, they can't dispute it cause they have the evidence of your legal use in their hands, if we can get thousands of cds sent to mps from all over canada we might get some proper resolution to this.
Right now the site is mostly mostly just an unedited rants i jotted down this week and i hope to have it properly cleaned up before monday.
Generally I wouldn't post it but its probably better to grab the traffic now with something crappy in place then nothing at all.
17 % of california used Diebold's system someone calculated the scores based on the information that was provided and discoverd counties with Diebolds systems skimmed votes from the top candidates and gave them to certian lower candidates.
When verisign went ahead and changed the TLD the argument by icann was that the ensueing enviroment in the internet community would cause chaos as organizations attempted to accomidate a once static internet infastructure.
I'm not sure about this but most building it is the responsiblity of the landlord to get this type of stuff, it is in fact a fire hazard and if the company has not been there all this time i would say you could demand your landloard pay to have the whole thing fixed. If thats not the case it needs to be done professionally, what are you going to do the next time you need add yet another plug, its how the breakers go that way in the first place, one too many joe blows adding jsut one more plug.
Doesn't that consitute circumvention of a security device? Does that not mean that the DCMA would apply, seriously.
1. When your shredding paper your applying a security device(the paper shedder) to the document (paper). Much like if you used a special frag program to fragment a file across your harddrive then store the fat somewhere else, except the paper shredder doesn't keep a key on how to reconstruct the document. But you could easiely setup a system that printed say a b across the page and down one line fromt he previous, that way each and every strip could be identified with its order in that document, but only you would know that its the letter b. It's possible therefore a legitment legal scenerio that could be argued in court.
2. By scanning the document and reconstructing it your circumventing this security measure, by using computers and a scanner your enacting the dcma. So everyone that worried about how this will effect your shredded security, just take this up with a lawyer and bring down the DMCA hammer on these guys.
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Neti Pot. I used to have constant infections until I picked up one of these at the drug store. Boiled water that you let cool a bit and add on of it's little salt packets. Bing Bang Done! After 3 months of regular use I dialed down so i only do it once or twice a year when i have symptoms, but i went from constant throat and nose infections to the odd cough and sore throat a couple times a year.
First of when using firefox, use the password manager. From what i understand it encyrpts your passwords with your master password. For everything else from secure notes, ssl keys, to passwords i use a custom container in Key Chains. The built in password manager of any OS X machine.
I think it's a bit sad that this entire topic is viewed from the pirating side of the table. Just the way we approach the idea of books becoming freely available is off-centre. Ebook readers are about to do what the iDevices did for music. We should be rejoicing the coming panacea of freely, easielly accessible books. The shear number of classics that are legally out of copyright, that are still popular with the masses and are housed in libraries around the world will ensure a large collection of free, high quality content, that will compete with anyone who wants to try and lock in the eco-system around sub par choices at super expensive prices.
People do this for one simple reason. To get by in life we all must boil down our knowledge of unfamilar fields to it's most basic constructs.
A car transports you from point A > B. The only component in your car that performs this basic task is the engine. When ever any lay person discusses a car problem they know nothing about it invariably will be a discussion about the engine. Engines move machines from point A > B, every other component is secondary.
A computer stores and retrieves information. And while there are many components critical to doing this the only one people associate with is the Hard Drive. It's full of information, their information, and thus it's what things get boiled down to. The box under the desk is the Hard Drive.
Here in Calgary, Alberta....Canada.
Shaw Communications(the cable company) just launched VOIP. Its a blow to TELUS(the phone company) which is going to launch IPTV someday.
Their IPTV solution apperently sucks beyond belief, and they can't get it to work very effectively. They were doing trials in the regional offices more then a year ago now, and it couldn't get it working in half of them.
Which indicates they had the basic infastructure in place that long ago, and they have had over a year to work on the problems and to roll out fiber to the reginal neighbourhoods.
But even with a partly working system a year ago they are still not ready to start a mass home trial within the deveopment teams.
Bye bye TELUS
Hi, i'm joe i work in a garage, you know like The Woz, i make internet things that pretty l33t. We'll anyway nerdo, i was thinking one night on the internet and seeing all this news and stuff about iraq and i figured it would be keeno to help our soilders out with a bomb sniffer.
... i mean save, save our billies from retarded terrorists who use bomb.
Yeh so me and a buddy figured we could make million* cough*a modest profit selling these things to help the boys. You know cause the current ones me make now are really expensive, errr, i mean these guys can't buy enough of them maybe the governments not giving them enough money or something to buy them from halib...err... halifornia. You know home of all us geeks and techno companies.
So yeh we would really like you to save us a billion in research... *cough i mean
So if you could just send your ideas too.
Two Guy Garage Defense Company
5 Houston Center
1401 McKinney, Suite 2400
Houston, TX 77010
USA
Two Guy Garage Defense Co. is trademarked by our sponsors.
Once i called my city alderman's office cause my neighbors screen door was banging all the time. So i was like yoo alderperson you need to get the bylaw officers to fine people with screen doors that bang. Anyway long story short i was walking home and I saw the kid next door run up to open the door and instead of slamming he carefully brought the door in. I knew right then that city must have launch an awareness campaign in the local schools to warn children about the destruction of the neighborhood audiosphere that results from screen door slamming.
And that is how I single handedly fixed my society.
The network is trying to be the next cnn, i would imagine being unbiased is at least somewhat ingrained in its corporate culture. Give the reporters a break some computer company just bought their network cause it had lots of monye.
Actually ie peaked 1 year ago for market share and has dropped steadly since then. They have dropped about 1.5% in the last year.
http://www.livejournal.com/~hillbilly1980/
From what i've heard telemarketing is not nearly as bad up here as it is down in the states, the combination of these privacy laws severly limit the channels these companies can get our info from. For the most part they have to rely on automated dialers and if you ask to be put on their do not call list it applies to the telemarketing companies not the current client/product they happen to be calling about, which means if one day the companie is selling sun newspapers and they put you on the do not call list the next day their selling MDG computers they still can't call you.
The advertisements don't set a minimum length in order for them to work. It doesn't say for example that their product does not work on anything over 8inchs. So some reasonably hung dude, say 10 inchs, could go out get the pills because he wants to be 13 inchs and then sue cause it didn't work. Not only does he get a shit load of money but he gets to be known as that dude with the 11 inch thing. A rich man with a court verified long shlong he'll never be lonely again.
Privacy concerns be damned, what really steams me about this article, not discount cards could be an invasion of privacy, but that the convience of the information allows retail chains to use fear as a marketing tool.
Any scientist/expert will tell you the chance of any american/japanese/human contracting mad cow diesease because of these two cases of BSE are so astronmically small a 22 year old gym instructer is more likely to die of the flu in the middle of july.
The most shocking revelation is that this retail chain for all intensive purposes, intentional or not, used this oppertunity to falsely re-enforce the fears of a hypertensive public. To foster a more comforting branding in the public conscience.
And the public buys it. Information is becoming so readily avaliable uninformed neofites are weighing in on topics they known little about, passed off as learned experts to general populous.
This retail chain can easily notify customners of a "risk" that has been inflated by the media distortion field, when the customer recieves the notice they react with out thinking. They precieve that the effort is extensive on the store's part, and therefore the risk must be very great to warrent such actions. Which take a normally small local concern and expands it beyond anything imaginable.
Farmers are loseing their homes, over steers who were born before feed regulation was implemented years agao (97's in canada, 2003 US). There are an estimated 12-15 active cases of bse somewhere in north america. If the hype about bse is to believed people should be in sheer panic and there should be at least 2 - 3 deaths already. But its not and no expert is concerned because bse just happens to have the lucky distition of having public profile.
But depsite it the border remains closed,canadian farmers kill off entire herds,but ground beef costs the same and the front counter now sell a little post bse "security" plan.
When you look at this from the view of apple( i'm flattering myself by pretending to know apple's view on things), its a very smart move to keep the price at 250.
First everyone and their dog was looking for a cheaper ipod, and they delivered, obviously not to the extent everyone wanted but they still did bring down the entry level. To that extent they listened to the market.
Secondly the size limit is important as far as marketing goes, 1000 songs is 899 songs better then 999 in the mind of the consumer. I don't think we'll ever see an ipod that you can't store at least 1000 songs on it, aka one weekends worth of continous listening ( 1000[songs] * 4[minutes per song] / 1440 [minutes in a day]). Apple has avoided sacrificing function for price.
Thirdly the 250 price perserves the higher ipod market. If the price was too low consumers would flock to the cheap ipods when high revenue margins are made on the more expensive, tried, true and established models, and if some small problem did crop up on this new breed of ipod it would severely damage apple's reputation and could risk it's dominance in the player market itself. However by lowering the price just a little it keeps the demand manageable for those that may think the price is two high for just 4 gigs, apple has decreased the form factor. The smaller size alone is not enough to justify the price but freebies like choice in color and armband help win most consumers over. By doing this Apple has avoided cannabalizing its higher end ipod business.
At the same time having the mini out and on the market gives apple the flexibility to release say an 8 gig mini for 250 and lower the 4 gig to 175 6 month down the road should the market begin to turn towards the competition. I think more consumers are reaching that $50 deeper then are buying none ipod devices, as soon as that trend begins to really shift you'll see a cheaper ipod but apples going to bilk the market for as much as it will bear as long as it will bear.
It sucks this story broke today and not after the weekend. I've started building a site around this to gain support for an activist campain against this tax.
www.green-light.ca/freethecd
Check out the site, basicly i'm asking that anyone in canada who opposes this levy, tax, on their recordable media stand up for it and take a little bit of action.
The plan is to take a normal cd-r, burn any data file, (image, text) to it, address it to your mp, or the copyright board and throw it in the mail ( you don't need a stamp when you are mailing parliment hill).
Write "Free the CD" on the cd and include a letter either on the cd or handwritten asking for a 21 cent refund for that specific cd, they can't dispute it cause they have the evidence of your legal use in their hands, if we can get thousands of cds sent to mps from all over canada we might get some proper resolution to this.
Right now the site is mostly mostly just an unedited rants i jotted down this week and i hope to have it properly cleaned up before monday.
Generally I wouldn't post it but its probably better to grab the traffic now with something crappy in place then nothing at all.
MAn this is just scarey, glad i live in canada.
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17 % of california used Diebold's system someone calculated the scores based on the information that was provided and discoverd counties with Diebolds systems skimmed votes from the top candidates and gave them to certian lower candidates.
http://www.opednews.com/miller1003_CA_Voting.ht
According to infoshop the company in the middle of this is sending out notices to squash the free speech on this issue.
When verisign went ahead and changed the TLD the argument by icann was that the ensueing enviroment in the internet community would cause chaos as organizations attempted to accomidate a once static internet infastructure.
YOU DAMN DIRTY VERISIGN.
Two words an apostephy and a question mark sum up why itunes will beat ephpod.
"What's Ephpd?"
I'm not sure about this but most building it is the responsiblity of the landlord to get this type of stuff, it is in fact a fire hazard and if the company has not been there all this time i would say you could demand your landloard pay to have the whole thing fixed. If thats not the case it needs to be done professionally, what are you going to do the next time you need add yet another plug, its how the breakers go that way in the first place, one too many joe blows adding jsut one more plug.
Doesn't that consitute circumvention of a security device? Does that not mean that the DCMA would apply, seriously.
1. When your shredding paper your applying a security device(the paper shedder) to the document (paper). Much like if you used a special frag program to fragment a file across your harddrive then store the fat somewhere else, except the paper shredder doesn't keep a key on how to reconstruct the document.
But you could easiely setup a system that printed say a b across the page and down one line fromt he previous, that way each and every strip could be identified with its order in that document, but only you would know that its the letter b. It's possible therefore a legitment legal scenerio that could be argued in court.
2. By scanning the document and reconstructing it your circumventing this security measure, by using computers and a scanner your enacting the dcma. So everyone that worried about how this will effect your shredded security, just take this up with a lawyer and bring down the DMCA hammer on these guys.
This message was brought to you in part by dmca supporters like you.
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Do you suffer from a annoying bowel syndrome from that fast food place?
Does that neighbors dogs wake you up at night?
Are you digusted with the high cost of gas?
Well no more, fight back with this one of a kind, all inclusive law brought to you by the United States of America.
The DMCA is used by over 2 million people country wide every day, are you being left behind while others apply the dmca to their legal disputes?
Client
I thought i would never be able to file for damages over my bowel uncomfort that resulted two days after eating at burger king, but the dmca helped me win damages exceeding 2 million dollars, thanks dmca.
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DMCA, when other laws lack, this one fights back.
That entire post was just a cheap excuse to advertise you have a girlfriend. Geek.
Newspapers have had columns sighting the location (pages) of specific section of the paper for hundreds of years, the only difference with the web is the fact that location is not displayed to the user but rather accessed via a click on the section instead of a visually. The concept is the same the mechinism to access it has been adapted to the technology.
But of course we all need a link ... You'll notices the governer made number 4 on the top ten list.
And for the mulitmedia inclined, you gotta check out the bush video as well.
Ahhh classic "talking to americans" i love that show
So if you had any reason to attempt to get things right the first time, there is no excuse now. This might just usher in a new breed of lazy writers.