The treadmill is a USB input device. Unplug it and start using your keyboard/mouse again. Looking at the geek-a-cycle site, it appears there is no computer interface: As you think, pedal. When you type, stop pedaling. Yep, looks like there's no excuse for keeping that Mountain Dew Belly there, geekboy.
Hollywood really should call Walmart's bluff. No way Walmart is going to hand over 40% of the DVD market to Target, Kmart, Costco, Best Buy, etc. It's the studio execs that need to grow some balls.
And for your completely laughable comment about Walmart launching their own service, I would like to remind you this is precisely what Walmart did when the iTunes Store started selling music. Do you know anyone who buys their Windows-only tracks at $.88 a piece from this service? If you do, I'll bet you know at least 10 people using iTunes for every one using the Walmart service.
Yes, this is true. If you read what I posted, I am enumerating multiple instances where we have responded to chargebacks with copies of signatures for deliveries to the billing address on the card. We told we could not prove it was the cardholders' signature, and were charged back the money anyway. Probably because one of their latchkey kids made the charge, and signed for the package. There is no appeal in such a case.
This is the most inaccurate idea thrown around about credit card companies. That they have plenty of money and that's how they just forgive various charges on your card when you complain or are defrauded. This is only half true, and that part is that they have plenty of money. Sure, they forgive charges to your cards all the time. But who pays for it? Does anyone really know? Well, any merchant knows that it is the merchant that pays for fraudulent and otherwise disputed charges. That, plus a $30-35 charge just like a returned check fee.
Sure the credit card companies have a clause if you only ship the goods to the billing address, have AVS verification, make sure the CSC matches, AND have a signature required for the delivery, they claim that they will eat the cost and not pass it on to the merchant. Aside from the fact that shipping only to the billing address will cause one to lose business, in actual experience, I have observed multiple instances of credit card companies claiming the signature was forged for one reason or another. The merchant has no recourse. There is no appeal process. The only recourse is to discontinue accepting transactions from a card vendor, or to accept fraud expenses as part of the cost of doing business, and adjust consumer prices accordingly.
And to think the article attempts to paint some shade of altruism on these crooks by saying they make a "donation" to charitable causes to verify the card is useable. These crooks are costing these organizations money for the returned charge fees.
Absolutely this is a case of employee theft. I think we should be writing our congressmen demanding an investigation, no way those bastards should get away with taking a perk at our expense.
Yeah, except my ear canals are sooo small, I can't wear those without extreme pain. And yes, I did use the smallest pair of plugs they provided. The foam ones were slightly less irritating, but still too painful to wear for more than an hour. I really liked them because I really couldn't hear anything around me, not even cranky infants. Now I use a Bose sound-cancelling headset to mitigate the engine noise, but they do little to cancel out voices.
IIRC, the Gas Company around here (So. Cal.) has been replacing a lot of those tubes with this orange plastic-looking stuff. Something about it being more reliable when the earth shifts, as it tends to do around here. Don't think that's going to transmit a radio signal very well.
How can you calculate the cost of CPU cycles? If a $150/hr programmer is sitting there waiting whilst CPU cycles are being burned, those cycles cost much much more than when your $15/hr customer service rep is putting a customer on hold.
BS it's not a QA issue. When you're writing a file system, you must develop a test program that serves as a proof that the file system works. At least that's what they taught me back in the CP/M days. Anyway, that's not QA's job, it's the developers job. Either they failed to develop such a program, they under-developed it, or the guy coding the patch failed to run it. PERIOD.
I think you might want to do a little research into the NSA's TEMPEST security standard. This evolved primarily out of the revelation of Wim van Eck who in 1985 demonstrated that it was possible to duplicate the display of a monitor at a range of several hundred meters, using $15 worth of electronics and a TV set. Unless they've been training people to decrypt (with their eyes and brains) information they read off a monitor, I think it's safe to assume that data displayed on a monitor aboard one of these ships is unencrypted, and potentially containing text messages about current intelligence, commands to the ship, etc. It's not that big of a reach to think with the advancements in DSPs since 1985, that $1500 worth of sniffing equipment could easily extend that several hundred metre range to 5 or 10 miles.
You might also do well to actually watch the video. Only the first batch of retrofitted ships are on regular patrol in the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually all the 123-foot Cutters, including those used in the Arctic and The Persian Gulf will receive the same retrofits.
Just because they do it for free does nothing to prevent "significant hierarchies", as digg's Adelson suggests they must avoid:
"What's important to the community is not to favor anyone," Adelson said. "If we betray that and start compensating users one way or another, you create significant hierarchies where individuals are motivated based on compensation."
I've read several threads on digg about 20-30 users submitting most of the front page stories. If you actually pay attention, you can easily spot this by looking at the front page there. There are also several completely buried threads I've run across that suggest there is an automated system where a story submitted by one of the top diggers is automatically "dugg" by a bevy of co-conspirators. None of the 10 or so I submitted to digg were ever promoted; instead someone else made a later posting to the same link, and they made it because they were one of the "chosen few". Compare that to 3 of the 5 stories I've ever submitted to/. getting posted. Just because a cabal works for free does not make them superior nor does it make them more "social". It's still a cabal.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with Netscape paying people to work for them. It's no surprise to me that the "other" social news sites are launching ad hominem attacks to attempt to smear them. The idea of paying someone for effort (instead of leaching it from them like a slumlord) only serves to cut into their profits.
In closing, I'd like to say I've not always agreed with Slashdot editors, nor have I liked all of their choices, but I can say this for them, they have never lied to us. Integrity is the essential foundation of a functional community.
Notably absent are any specs on the unit at all. I was interested in the dimensions of the actual unit. The closest thing I could come up with were some figures in the user guide that appear to indicate that the device is about twice as thick as an iPod Nano. Hardly an iPod rival. Apple will be bumping up the Nano line any time now.
Back when I was college-aged, we had a saying: "What happens in ______ stays in ______". Now, how the hell is that supposed to happen when you document (anywhere) every detail of your cavorting and debauchery? That shit should just be stories to reminisce on when you're running low on beer and there's no chicks around to bang, not posted on a blog for everyone to read.
How many 19 year olds really give serious thought to advance directives? In addition to thinking I was one of the world's greatest programmers, I pretty much felt invincible at that time.
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The treadmill is a USB input device. Unplug it and start using your keyboard/mouse again. Looking at the geek-a-cycle site, it appears there is no computer interface: As you think, pedal. When you type, stop pedaling. Yep, looks like there's no excuse for keeping that Mountain Dew Belly there, geekboy.
Hollywood really should call Walmart's bluff. No way Walmart is going to hand over 40% of the DVD market to Target, Kmart, Costco, Best Buy, etc. It's the studio execs that need to grow some balls.
And for your completely laughable comment about Walmart launching their own service, I would like to remind you this is precisely what Walmart did when the iTunes Store started selling music. Do you know anyone who buys their Windows-only tracks at $.88 a piece from this service? If you do, I'll bet you know at least 10 people using iTunes for every one using the Walmart service.
Yes, this is true. If you read what I posted, I am enumerating multiple instances where we have responded to chargebacks with copies of signatures for deliveries to the billing address on the card. We told we could not prove it was the cardholders' signature, and were charged back the money anyway. Probably because one of their latchkey kids made the charge, and signed for the package. There is no appeal in such a case.
and they have deep pockets
This is the most inaccurate idea thrown around about credit card companies. That they have plenty of money and that's how they just forgive various charges on your card when you complain or are defrauded. This is only half true, and that part is that they have plenty of money. Sure, they forgive charges to your cards all the time. But who pays for it? Does anyone really know? Well, any merchant knows that it is the merchant that pays for fraudulent and otherwise disputed charges. That, plus a $30-35 charge just like a returned check fee.
Sure the credit card companies have a clause if you only ship the goods to the billing address, have AVS verification, make sure the CSC matches, AND have a signature required for the delivery, they claim that they will eat the cost and not pass it on to the merchant. Aside from the fact that shipping only to the billing address will cause one to lose business, in actual experience, I have observed multiple instances of credit card companies claiming the signature was forged for one reason or another. The merchant has no recourse. There is no appeal process. The only recourse is to discontinue accepting transactions from a card vendor, or to accept fraud expenses as part of the cost of doing business, and adjust consumer prices accordingly.
And to think the article attempts to paint some shade of altruism on these crooks by saying they make a "donation" to charitable causes to verify the card is useable. These crooks are costing these organizations money for the returned charge fees.
Absolutely this is a case of employee theft. I think we should be writing our congressmen demanding an investigation, no way those bastards should get away with taking a perk at our expense.
Yeah, except my ear canals are sooo small, I can't wear those without extreme pain. And yes, I did use the smallest pair of plugs they provided. The foam ones were slightly less irritating, but still too painful to wear for more than an hour. I really liked them because I really couldn't hear anything around me, not even cranky infants. Now I use a Bose sound-cancelling headset to mitigate the engine noise, but they do little to cancel out voices.
Harrr laddy, looks like yer takin' a good long pull from a shot of reality.
Nothing to see here. Installer asks for admin password, gets root. This how installers work.
They forgot the best game ever, Robotron: 2084
IIRC, the Gas Company around here (So. Cal.) has been replacing a lot of those tubes with this orange plastic-looking stuff. Something about it being more reliable when the earth shifts, as it tends to do around here. Don't think that's going to transmit a radio signal very well.
How can you calculate the cost of CPU cycles? If a $150/hr programmer is sitting there waiting whilst CPU cycles are being burned, those cycles cost much much more than when your $15/hr customer service rep is putting a customer on hold.
BS it's not a QA issue. When you're writing a file system, you must develop a test program that serves as a proof that the file system works. At least that's what they taught me back in the CP/M days. Anyway, that's not QA's job, it's the developers job. Either they failed to develop such a program, they under-developed it, or the guy coding the patch failed to run it. PERIOD.
I am absolutely astonished. That must be a gag. Jeez, I really hope it's a gag. Sadly though, it's probably not a gag.
Are you sure the disclaimer isn't just a CYA for those packages that contain something other than nuts?
"Good news everyone"
I wasn't aware of how far back TEMPEST went. Thanks.
I think you might want to do a little research into the NSA's TEMPEST security standard. This evolved primarily out of the revelation of Wim van Eck who in 1985 demonstrated that it was possible to duplicate the display of a monitor at a range of several hundred meters, using $15 worth of electronics and a TV set. Unless they've been training people to decrypt (with their eyes and brains) information they read off a monitor, I think it's safe to assume that data displayed on a monitor aboard one of these ships is unencrypted, and potentially containing text messages about current intelligence, commands to the ship, etc. It's not that big of a reach to think with the advancements in DSPs since 1985, that $1500 worth of sniffing equipment could easily extend that several hundred metre range to 5 or 10 miles.
You might also do well to actually watch the video. Only the first batch of retrofitted ships are on regular patrol in the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually all the 123-foot Cutters, including those used in the Arctic and The Persian Gulf will receive the same retrofits.
Netscape's top submitters do it for the money.
Digg's top submitters do it to get their ego stroked.
Which do you think is healthier?
I'll buy you half a latte...anyone else wanna kick in for the second half?
Just because they do it for free does nothing to prevent "significant hierarchies", as digg's Adelson suggests they must avoid:
/. getting posted. Just because a cabal works for free does not make them superior nor does it make them more "social". It's still a cabal.
"What's important to the community is not to favor anyone," Adelson said. "If we betray that and start compensating users one way or another, you create significant hierarchies where individuals are motivated based on compensation."
I've read several threads on digg about 20-30 users submitting most of the front page stories. If you actually pay attention, you can easily spot this by looking at the front page there. There are also several completely buried threads I've run across that suggest there is an automated system where a story submitted by one of the top diggers is automatically "dugg" by a bevy of co-conspirators. None of the 10 or so I submitted to digg were ever promoted; instead someone else made a later posting to the same link, and they made it because they were one of the "chosen few". Compare that to 3 of the 5 stories I've ever submitted to
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with Netscape paying people to work for them. It's no surprise to me that the "other" social news sites are launching ad hominem attacks to attempt to smear them. The idea of paying someone for effort (instead of leaching it from them like a slumlord) only serves to cut into their profits.
In closing, I'd like to say I've not always agreed with Slashdot editors, nor have I liked all of their choices, but I can say this for them, they have never lied to us. Integrity is the essential foundation of a functional community.
Definitely expecting the 8GB Nano, sooner than later. I also expect it to remain close to the .27" thickness of the current model.
Ok, as thick as an iPod video, with the footprint of a Nano. That's not going to fit in the watch pocket of a pair of Levi's very well.
Notably absent are any specs on the unit at all. I was interested in the dimensions of the actual unit. The closest thing I could come up with were some figures in the user guide that appear to indicate that the device is about twice as thick as an iPod Nano. Hardly an iPod rival. Apple will be bumping up the Nano line any time now.
Back when I was college-aged, we had a saying: "What happens in ______ stays in ______". Now, how the hell is that supposed to happen when you document (anywhere) every detail of your cavorting and debauchery? That shit should just be stories to reminisce on when you're running low on beer and there's no chicks around to bang, not posted on a blog for everyone to read.
How many 19 year olds really give serious thought to advance directives? In addition to thinking I was one of the world's greatest programmers, I pretty much felt invincible at that time.