This is not very hard to do. My son knows which games he can play and which ones he can not play. When I buy a new game and he sees it he will always ask first if it's a game he is allowed to play. If he wants to keep playing games and wants me to keep buying him new ones, then he is to not complain about which ones he can play. Which there are some very fun kid friendly games out there, mostly for the Wii, which he has a large library. The xbox is a little limited however, I've only found a few that are for his age. This works the same for movies too! I don't understand parents who have trouble with this. I was over at Gamestop the other day picking up Mario Galaxy for him and Mass Effect for myself, while a mother was there buying Halo3 for her son. She asked the guy at the counter if it was violent and if it had adult language. When he answered yes to both questions SHE BOUGHT IT ANYWAY!!!
That being said I would like to see better parental controls in game systems. An access allow/deny list type thing would work perfectly if added into the xbox style profiles. Give each person in the house a profile, perhaps with a password and choose to allow all access or only certain games to each profile. This would prevent a child who was able to buy/borrow/rent a mature game from a store that did not care the ability to play it. This is not to say good parenting can be replaced with a switch on the game system (which is how most parents would treat it I'm sure), it would be a reliable extra step to make sure kids dont play adult games in my house however.
"The move towards voting on issues makes it closer to direct democracy, which your founding fathers had serious issues with, believing it to be nothing more than mob rule."
You say that like it's a bad thing...::reaches for revolver::
RIM must have done some awesome field tests on these things, my bb 7250 has survived flying out a window, sliding across the street and landing in a patch of snow.
I have a problem like that on my blackberry. When key lock is on the three options available for selection from the scroll wheel on the side of the phone are:
[ unlock ] [ emergency call ] [ cancel ]
I must have dialed 911 at least a dozen times in the first year I had the phone. I eventually found the option to not lock the phone ever, now I just randomly call people in my address book from my pocket.
"do you really want to be standing on the tracks when its perfectly feasible not to?"
No, what I'd like is science publications to remain fact oriented. The facts show climate change, and those facts can be proven, let's stick to that and not veer off into other things for (what seems to be) the sake of scaring people into better policy. Leave the stuff about what will happen to so-and-so's economy to the economics professors and get the facts out without any dilution.
"at this point it's very much religion-like political fervor rather than weighing of evidence and reality."
If I had not commented already you would get my mod points for this. This is the most truthful statement anyone has made about the climate change debate.
Some (not all) of these "certain terms" that where debated where simply scare tactics that have no place in science, for example, the draft talked about economic problems N. America would face *with certainty* in the future. What purpose does a section about the economy serve in a document about global warming? This was just one of those debated terms, there where more that where either legitimately questionable or had no place in a science document. You have to take a step back and realize that when you get this many people together there are going to be ridiculous notions made on both sides. There are also going to be crazy people who will want things added or removed to push their agenda. Your knee jerk reaction to legitimate open debate about science should never be "$%@% those guys questioning things".
7-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty begins from the original in-service date 1-year/12,000-mile non-powertrain warranty begins after expiration of original warranty 3 years/36,000 miles or on date sold as certified preowned
Exactly. Post something you know will create controversy and watch your readership go up. No doubt many others saw Haliberton on their RSS feed and clicked the link just like I did to see what they where up to. This is a good story for the bottom line of OSTG. It's no different than how the nightly news operates. Comparatively, by comment numbers, this article has done much better than many of the other front page stories... Which is what really matters at the end of the day for the business folks at OSTG. If slashdotters hated Nabisco we would likely see stories about them too. Nabisco does not create controversy within the nerd population nor does it entice prolonged discussion, flame wars and the sort however.
Your local municipal government should offer the advice that you moving to another county / state is not a good idea. If you leave any and all of your remaining assets (and any profits) will be taxed 500% for 10 years...
No offense, but Dreamweaver and Zend Studio are indications that you're only doing small-time jobs.
You could not be further from the truth. I work with Zend Studio at a Fortune 500 working on very large scale projects. Please do tell, where is this alternate "enterprise" PHP IDE? Can you provide a link along with your claims? I recall about 10 years ago some UNIX geek making that same claim about my use of Linux in the enterprise. Baseless claims are too easy to make, especially as an anonymous user.
For truly professional development (i.e. scalable, enterprise-level stuff), most of the development tools are available for Linux.
Like... Zend Studio, which is available for Linux. Before making the claim that someone is using a "windows-only tool" at least go to the product website and check for yourself.
Also, do your claims and the slashdot readers some justice by providing some additional information, for example, what are the names of these elite enterprise tools you allude to?
Wow, open source web authoring tools... I used Bluefish once for about twenty minutes before quickly removing it. Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Linux, it's my primary desktop, on my notebook and my servers... but it's seriously lacking in professional development environments. Sure the open source software is better than nothing, but for professional use they can't compete with the likes of Zend Studio or Dreamweaver. Switching to open source would be great, I'd lose three software licenses off the bat for Zend Studio, Dreamweaver and Crossover Office (for making DW work on Linux), but I can't see that happening anytime soon.
Yes, going totally off topic is ok so long as the topic is blatant marketing campaigns for one of ostg's golf buddies.
Not sure how all ISPs handle this but a few years back when I would get these letters to the NOC at the provider I worked for we would send out one boiler plate mail to the customer letting them know we got the complaint along with a copy of the complaint and another to the **AA, BSA, etc acknowledging we received their letter and that we would not provide them any of the additional information they wanted without a court ordered subpoena. For each letter we would get the customer would also get a letter from us, mostly just as a heads up to the customer. We where a common carrier, and not obligated in anyway to act on these letters.
A liver is a physical part of a person, but that does not stop over 60% of the adult united states population from drinking... point is, physical extension of our body or not, a good portion of people just don't care about the filth they live in and the dangers they pose to themselves or the planet.
Website is down now, maybe they are fixing the problems?
"Site Temporarily Unavailable The Wal-Mart Video Downloads store is currently unavailable due to temporary site maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
I moved from netsol to dotster couple years ago. They have a great price $14.95, with better responsiveness than I recall having before. They also email out registration discount offers a few times a year, they often send one a week before the domain expires too btw. You have to put up with occasional email discounts about a new virtual or hosting plan, but the renewal discount offers I've seen are from $1.99-9.99 so they make up for it. I have never had any service issues with either netsol or dotster. After signing up a domain with dotster to try their service I ended up moving registrations to them as they expired for the lower cost. A friend of mine uses GoDaddy exclusively, and has received legal notices from large companies before without a loss in connectivity with them however.
I am a BofA customer and have wondered myself how this is stopping anyone. If someone where to create a phishing site, they could extend the simple mockups they do now to operate a "man in the middle" attack. By actually using the user name you gave them to login right then and get the security question to ask you. They get the cookie, the image and then the password from you. Now with the cookie, they don't need the answers to any of those other pesky security questions. All they have to do is use the already open session to transfer some $$$. The only problem with this is the bank might notice multiple connections coming from the phishing site, but I suppose the little phishing operation could throw a few hundred together for a small botnet to take care of that problem.
I have no illusions about this protecting me more than I was before. Since they added "sitekey" I've just had one other thing to look at when logging in. Having worked in IT at Major Conglomerate Co many times I imagine some exec handed down the order to IT to fix "the phishing site" problem, and knowing there is no software patch for common sense some lucky individual got to whip this up to satisfy the demand.
From another source, it would seem Microsoft is not interested in helping Gorbachev...
"Microsoft on Monday rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy." - http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/business/pi rate.php
I've got a dedicated server running a few over hundred domains. Some very well maintained and other not. The general consensus from the SEO bigwigs is that burst of traffic you'll see at first is from GoogleBot's spiders picking up your keywords. If you site hits on some good keywords with low PKI you'll see good traffic within a couple months. Once that traffic starts rolling in someone at Google may actually view your site. If you happen to get decent traffic from low PKI keywords you'll see your traffic boost of diminish sooner, than with less traffic on higher PKI keywords. This is likely because spammers intentionally pick those lower PKI keywords to get those quick traffic bursts where there's little keyword competition and therefor Google pays closer attention to them. If it's determined that the site is garbage, incomplete, or just re posts from other sites your pagerank will be manually turned down. This is not permanent unless you're obviously abusing the system however.
Microsoft has always had a supported way of making your own changes to your timezone settings. It comes in a program called tzedit.exe and has existed since windows 95 at least. This requires no downloads from third parties. Here's the instructions (taken from: http://www.dbaplace.com/2007-dst-change/#comments) Every version of Windows has a "resource kit", though Microsoft only supports Win98+ so you may need to hit old download sites for those ancient versions of Windows. You can download the resource kit from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/. Download this if you do not have it already.
Once the resource kit is downloaded and installed search your disk drive for tzedit.exe and run it.
Select your timezone from the list and click edit.
You'll have two boxes "Start Day" and "End Day" change these from what they are to what they need to be for the new change.
Click Ok, then Close.
To make the settings take effect restart, or select Date/Time from the control panel, choose a different timezone, save and close then repeat selecting your correct timezone this time.
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This is not very hard to do. My son knows which games he can play and which ones he can not play. When I buy a new game and he sees it he will always ask first if it's a game he is allowed to play. If he wants to keep playing games and wants me to keep buying him new ones, then he is to not complain about which ones he can play. Which there are some very fun kid friendly games out there, mostly for the Wii, which he has a large library. The xbox is a little limited however, I've only found a few that are for his age. This works the same for movies too! I don't understand parents who have trouble with this. I was over at Gamestop the other day picking up Mario Galaxy for him and Mass Effect for myself, while a mother was there buying Halo3 for her son. She asked the guy at the counter if it was violent and if it had adult language. When he answered yes to both questions SHE BOUGHT IT ANYWAY!!!
That being said I would like to see better parental controls in game systems. An access allow/deny list type thing would work perfectly if added into the xbox style profiles. Give each person in the house a profile, perhaps with a password and choose to allow all access or only certain games to each profile. This would prevent a child who was able to buy/borrow/rent a mature game from a store that did not care the ability to play it. This is not to say good parenting can be replaced with a switch on the game system (which is how most parents would treat it I'm sure), it would be a reliable extra step to make sure kids dont play adult games in my house however.
"The move towards voting on issues makes it closer to direct democracy, which your founding fathers had serious issues with, believing it to be nothing more than mob rule."
::reaches for revolver::
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Registered user #156262 !! This could be accurate if people used it.
RIM must have done some awesome field tests on these things, my bb 7250 has survived flying out a window, sliding across the street and landing in a patch of snow.
I have a problem like that on my blackberry. When key lock is on the three options available for selection from the scroll wheel on the side of the phone are:
[ unlock ]
[ emergency call ]
[ cancel ]
I must have dialed 911 at least a dozen times in the first year I had the phone. I eventually found the option to not lock the phone ever, now I just randomly call people in my address book from my pocket.
"do you really want to be standing on the tracks when its perfectly feasible not to?"
No, what I'd like is science publications to remain fact oriented. The facts show climate change, and those facts can be proven, let's stick to that and not veer off into other things for (what seems to be) the sake of scaring people into better policy. Leave the stuff about what will happen to so-and-so's economy to the economics professors and get the facts out without any dilution.
"at this point it's very much religion-like political fervor rather than weighing of evidence and reality."
If I had not commented already you would get my mod points for this. This is the most truthful statement anyone has made about the climate change debate.
Some (not all) of these "certain terms" that where debated where simply scare tactics that have no place in science, for example, the draft talked about economic problems N. America would face *with certainty* in the future. What purpose does a section about the economy serve in a document about global warming? This was just one of those debated terms, there where more that where either legitimately questionable or had no place in a science document. You have to take a step back and realize that when you get this many people together there are going to be ridiculous notions made on both sides. There are also going to be crazy people who will want things added or removed to push their agenda. Your knee jerk reaction to legitimate open debate about science should never be "$%@% those guys questioning things".
Searching for used cars online can confirm hummers with 300k + miles on them and also Prius models with 100k +. Cars.com has many cases of both.
7-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty begins from the original in-service date
1-year/12,000-mile non-powertrain warranty begins after expiration of original warranty
3 years/36,000 miles or on date sold as certified preowned
"This just seems like bait for a flame war"
Exactly. Post something you know will create controversy and watch your readership go up. No doubt many others saw Haliberton on their RSS feed and clicked the link just like I did to see what they where up to. This is a good story for the bottom line of OSTG. It's no different than how the nightly news operates. Comparatively, by comment numbers, this article has done much better than many of the other front page stories... Which is what really matters at the end of the day for the business folks at OSTG. If slashdotters hated Nabisco we would likely see stories about them too. Nabisco does not create controversy within the nerd population nor does it entice prolonged discussion, flame wars and the sort however.
Your local municipal government should offer the advice that you moving to another county / state is not a good idea. If you leave any and all of your remaining assets (and any profits) will be taxed 500% for 10 years...
No offense, but Dreamweaver and Zend Studio are indications that you're only doing small-time jobs.
You could not be further from the truth. I work with Zend Studio at a Fortune 500 working on very large scale projects. Please do tell, where is this alternate "enterprise" PHP IDE? Can you provide a link along with your claims? I recall about 10 years ago some UNIX geek making that same claim about my use of Linux in the enterprise. Baseless claims are too easy to make, especially as an anonymous user.
For truly professional development (i.e. scalable, enterprise-level stuff), most of the development tools are available for Linux.
Like... Zend Studio, which is available for Linux. Before making the claim that someone is using a "windows-only tool" at least go to the product website and check for yourself.
Also, do your claims and the slashdot readers some justice by providing some additional information, for example, what are the names of these elite enterprise tools you allude to?
I travel a lot. When I do travel GoogleTalk goes with me... it's on my Blackberry.
http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk/
So is Gmail.
http://gmail.com/app
And Google Calendar.
http://www.gcalsync.com/
Wow, open source web authoring tools... I used Bluefish once for about twenty minutes before quickly removing it. Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Linux, it's my primary desktop, on my notebook and my servers... but it's seriously lacking in professional development environments. Sure the open source software is better than nothing, but for professional use they can't compete with the likes of Zend Studio or Dreamweaver. Switching to open source would be great, I'd lose three software licenses off the bat for Zend Studio, Dreamweaver and Crossover Office (for making DW work on Linux), but I can't see that happening anytime soon.
Yes, going totally off topic is ok so long as the topic is blatant marketing campaigns for one of ostg's golf buddies.
"...the only affect will be an increase to my bandwidth bill"
Don't forget the increased page rank...
Not sure how all ISPs handle this but a few years back when I would get these letters to the NOC at the provider I worked for we would send out one boiler plate mail to the customer letting them know we got the complaint along with a copy of the complaint and another to the **AA, BSA, etc acknowledging we received their letter and that we would not provide them any of the additional information they wanted without a court ordered subpoena. For each letter we would get the customer would also get a letter from us, mostly just as a heads up to the customer. We where a common carrier, and not obligated in anyway to act on these letters.
Ever considered running for office in Alaska? Sounds like a solid "Uncle Ted" agenda right there!
A liver is a physical part of a person, but that does not stop over 60% of the adult united states population from drinking... point is, physical extension of our body or not, a good portion of people just don't care about the filth they live in and the dangers they pose to themselves or the planet.
Website is down now, maybe they are fixing the problems?
"Site Temporarily Unavailable
The Wal-Mart Video Downloads store is currently unavailable due to temporary site maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please try again later."
This "news story" was a hoax.
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I moved from netsol to dotster couple years ago. They have a great price $14.95, with better responsiveness than I recall having before. They also email out registration discount offers a few times a year, they often send one a week before the domain expires too btw. You have to put up with occasional email discounts about a new virtual or hosting plan, but the renewal discount offers I've seen are from $1.99-9.99 so they make up for it. I have never had any service issues with either netsol or dotster. After signing up a domain with dotster to try their service I ended up moving registrations to them as they expired for the lower cost. A friend of mine uses GoDaddy exclusively, and has received legal notices from large companies before without a loss in connectivity with them however.
I am a BofA customer and have wondered myself how this is stopping anyone. If someone where to create a phishing site, they could extend the simple mockups they do now to operate a "man in the middle" attack. By actually using the user name you gave them to login right then and get the security question to ask you. They get the cookie, the image and then the password from you. Now with the cookie, they don't need the answers to any of those other pesky security questions. All they have to do is use the already open session to transfer some $$$. The only problem with this is the bank might notice multiple connections coming from the phishing site, but I suppose the little phishing operation could throw a few hundred together for a small botnet to take care of that problem.
I have no illusions about this protecting me more than I was before. Since they added "sitekey" I've just had one other thing to look at when logging in. Having worked in IT at Major Conglomerate Co many times I imagine some exec handed down the order to IT to fix "the phishing site" problem, and knowing there is no software patch for common sense some lucky individual got to whip this up to satisfy the demand.
From another source, it would seem Microsoft is not interested in helping Gorbachev...
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"Microsoft on Monday rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy." - http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/business/p
I've got a dedicated server running a few over hundred domains. Some very well maintained and other not. The general consensus from the SEO bigwigs is that burst of traffic you'll see at first is from GoogleBot's spiders picking up your keywords. If you site hits on some good keywords with low PKI you'll see good traffic within a couple months. Once that traffic starts rolling in someone at Google may actually view your site. If you happen to get decent traffic from low PKI keywords you'll see your traffic boost of diminish sooner, than with less traffic on higher PKI keywords. This is likely because spammers intentionally pick those lower PKI keywords to get those quick traffic bursts where there's little keyword competition and therefor Google pays closer attention to them. If it's determined that the site is garbage, incomplete, or just re posts from other sites your pagerank will be manually turned down. This is not permanent unless you're obviously abusing the system however.
Microsoft has always had a supported way of making your own changes to your timezone settings. It comes in a program called tzedit.exe and has existed since windows 95 at least. This requires no downloads from third parties. Here's the instructions (taken from: http://www.dbaplace.com/2007-dst-change/#comments)
Every version of Windows has a "resource kit", though Microsoft only supports Win98+ so you may need to hit old download sites for those ancient versions of Windows. You can download the resource kit from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/. Download this if you do not have it already.
Once the resource kit is downloaded and installed search your disk drive for tzedit.exe and run it.
Select your timezone from the list and click edit.
You'll have two boxes "Start Day" and "End Day" change these from what they are to what they need to be for the new change.
Click Ok, then Close.
To make the settings take effect restart, or select Date/Time from the control panel, choose a different timezone, save and close then repeat selecting your correct timezone this time.