... that "new car smell" is actually a perfume! They put that in to mask the actual smell of a new car which is mainly glue. So maybe just "don't spray it in" would be the obvious way to not have that smell?
but somehow i fail to see cable boxes mentioned in this text: "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
maybe get rid of all the parts of your website that is in conflict with the GPDR?
I tried it with two games so far. Cold Waters worked - of sorts (no fonts in the ingame UI at all, sounds distorted - unplayable) OFP: Red River - didn't even launch.
I like the idea, but so far I'll stick to rebooting to "that other OS".
I deleted my account, and other than one confirmation email plus one with the link to the download of all the data FB had on me I didn't get any "urgings" to reconsider... and by now it's gone for good.
Am I the only one who sees "Someday, there will be billions of intelligent machines in manufacturing, home delivery, warehouse logistics and much more." and translates that to "some day there will be billions of unemployed"?
Can someone PLEASE wake up those idiots and make them understand that ROBOTS do not buy PRODUCTS?
since noone here seems to bother to actually find out what was going on:
german banks do use a two factor authentication scheme: - to log in you need your account number and a five digit pin - to authorize a transaction after logging in, you need one out of 100 one-time-use 4 digit pins; The bank issues you 100 of those at a time, and then chooses one of them randomly when you enter a transaction ("Please enter pin number 17").
In this particular case the victim had: - fallen for a phising website / trojan / keylogger, even after all the warnings in the german IT press (how else would the crooks get his account number and superpin) - entered at least ten different PINs on one page, which the banksspecifically tell customers to NEVER do. all the bank pages have a big fat "We NEVER ask you for more than one pin" warning labels.
In other news: man drank nitroglycerine then went to jump around on a trampoline, widow sues maker of nitroglycerine.
... about 1 hour, about 55 minutes of which are spent for adding 17 additional package sources (packman, guru, kde base from buildtree, etc etc) and installing massive amounts of software from there. the actual configuration after a clean install is done in about 15 seconds, thanks to dhcp/nis/automounter... the _only_ setting i have to tweak is to make the dhcp client send a release packet before quitting on shutdown.
I Wouldn't want it, even if it were much cheaper and came without that diamond. Here's what I'd expect from the manufacturer of a laptop at the upper end of the price scale:
- a bit more of a website than just a "contact us" form. For example, Spec sheets, driver downloads for every OS that can run on it, a support area.
and here's what i'd expect from a laptop that is THAT HIGH above the upper end of the price scale: - full warranty replacement within 2 hours, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees. - full toll-free phone support, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees. - no matter what broke, the full laptop gets replaced, but with your data copied over. Even in case of destruction by fire etc (data recovery service included in maintenance contract)
well, I used to have a chihuahua and a shi-tsu, so...
anyways, when I was a kid I used to visit the annual small animal breeders show in our hometown (basically, a show such as where the breeder of those "dog-sized" rabbits won that prize) because there was not much else to do in our little town, and I don't think 23lbs is that much bigger than some of the rabbits I've seen there.
yea... it comes with something called "linpus linux"...
from the linpus website:
INTRODUCTION
Linpus LINUX 9.3 OS is the secure, compatible and easy to use for home computing and networking. It provides powerful compatibility with the popular hardware devices, such as IEEE 802.11 b/g wireless LAN card, USB Flash disk and SATA hard disk, etc.
For friendly Chinese operating environment, there is no better choice than Linpus LINUX 9.3. It features a quick and easy to install Linux system that lets you create the MS Word documents, view PDF files, browse Web site, send e-mail, chat with friends, view the digital photos and play movie and music, etc.
Also notable about linpus: there's no source available for download (GPL, anyone?), and the "privacy" and "legal" links on the website actually aren't even links, they just look that way...
Now, I don't know about you guys, but I would have little or no use at all for a chinese linux installation.
...but the morons who actually BUY spamvertized products.
As long as there's ONE SINGLE PERSON on the 'net who follows the stock advice, buys the phenomenally new herbal shlong enlargement pills, etc, the criminals who want to sell them will keep giving jobs to spammers.
Solution:
1. make it illegal to advertize by spamming. make it equally illegal to pay others to do it for you. 2. make it illegal to buy products that have been advertized for in any way thats not legal. 3. make sure that any civilized country does the same. 4. hit them hard.
So i guess you can imagine why i moved my domain OFF the _free_ webhosting that comes with my 1& DSL towards a hoster that actually lets me edit my zonefile myself...
just look at some of the stuff that comes out of the AMV scene... (For the outsiders: AMV = Anime Music Video, video clips for music made from snippets of anime shows, and/or with anime characters) Any of you remember this elvis title that came out around 2003, and its video clip? someone re-made that with anime characters... pretty impressive if you consider that that person would have had to re-draw it, frame by frame, to get the siluettes of the characters in all those boxes...
If I buy a Van Gogh (unlikely), I own that painting. I can take pictures of it, copy it, move it around my house, do whatever I want. Now, I don't have the right to sell it or anything, but it shouldn't come in a case that disallows pictures, copying, or moving it.
Like almost any example, this is a bad one.
If you buy a painting, you own it. Of course you can sell it. You can't sell copies of it.
Compare with a CD: You can sell a CD you bought. You can not sell copies.
Except for that glitch in your argumentation, I agree... If you buy something, you shouldn't get it in a wrapper that prohibits fair use.
Or to put it ore bluntly:
If I buy a music CD from sony, I want to be able to play it on my Sony in-car cd player. If it's a "un-cd" (which is what "broken" audio cds are called over here in germany [you know, cds that don't follow the CDDA standards, to prohibit copying]), I can't.
Luckily, i can still rip it (with the right software, which runs on the right OS... you know, the one with the penguin...), then put the mp3 files on a data cd, and play those... on the very same sony in-car cd player.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pretty sure that
1. there is only one chinese government
2. it is not controlled by a company
... that "new car smell" is actually a perfume! They put that in to mask the actual smell of a new car which is mainly glue.
So maybe just "don't spray it in" would be the obvious way to not have that smell?
I.
HATE.
Geoblocking.
Just saying.
for anyone else hit by the same "here be dragons" wall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
but somehow i fail to see cable boxes mentioned in this text:
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
maybe get rid of all the parts of your website that is in conflict with the GPDR?
I tried it with two games so far.
Cold Waters worked - of sorts (no fonts in the ingame UI at all, sounds distorted - unplayable)
OFP: Red River - didn't even launch.
I like the idea, but so far I'll stick to rebooting to "that other OS".
I can't really confirm that experience.
I deleted my account, and other than one confirmation email plus one with the link to the download of all the data FB had on me I didn't get any "urgings" to reconsider... and by now it's gone for good.
Am I the only one who sees "Someday, there will be billions of intelligent machines in manufacturing, home delivery, warehouse logistics and much more." and translates that to "some day there will be billions of unemployed"?
Can someone PLEASE wake up those idiots and make them understand that ROBOTS do not buy PRODUCTS?
I wouldn't spend that much for ANY phone. Especially not when I can get pretty much any phone for a dollar if I get a new mobile contract.
since noone here seems to bother to actually find out what was going on:
german banks do use a two factor authentication scheme:
- to log in you need your account number and a five digit pin
- to authorize a transaction after logging in, you need one out of 100 one-time-use 4 digit pins; The bank issues you 100 of those at a time, and then chooses one of them randomly when you enter a transaction ("Please enter pin number 17").
In this particular case the victim had:
- fallen for a phising website / trojan / keylogger, even after all the warnings in the german IT press (how else would the crooks get his account number and superpin)
- entered at least ten different PINs on one page, which the banksspecifically tell customers to NEVER do. all the bank pages have a big fat "We NEVER ask you for more than one pin" warning labels.
In other news: man drank nitroglycerine then went to jump around on a trampoline, widow sues maker of nitroglycerine.
anyone got a link to a working mirror of that other page, the http://flag.codeforamerica.org/ one? seems to be /.ed to death.
... about 1 hour, about 55 minutes of which are spent for adding 17 additional package sources (packman, guru, kde base from buildtree, etc etc) and installing massive amounts of software from there.
the actual configuration after a clean install is done in about 15 seconds, thanks to dhcp/nis/automounter... the _only_ setting i have to tweak is to make the dhcp client send a release packet before quitting on shutdown.
I Wouldn't want it, even if it were much cheaper and came without that diamond.
Here's what I'd expect from the manufacturer of a laptop at the upper end of the price scale:
- a bit more of a website than just a "contact us" form. For example, Spec sheets, driver downloads for every OS that can run on it, a support area.
and here's what i'd expect from a laptop that is THAT HIGH above the upper end of the price scale:
- full warranty replacement within 2 hours, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees.
- full toll-free phone support, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees.
- no matter what broke, the full laptop gets replaced, but with your data copied over. Even in case of destruction by fire etc (data recovery service included in maintenance contract)
... i was about to say the same things...
I bought a new HP laptop today. It came with vista home premium preinstalled.
I poked around in vista for maybe three quartes of one hour.
Now the laptop's running xp pro and suse 10.2.
'nuff said.
well, I used to have a chihuahua and a shi-tsu, so...
anyways, when I was a kid I used to visit the annual small animal breeders show in our hometown (basically, a show such as where the breeder of those "dog-sized" rabbits won that prize) because there was not much else to do in our little town, and I don't think 23lbs is that much bigger than some of the rabbits I've seen there.
from the linpus website:
Also notable about linpus: there's no source available for download (GPL, anyone?), and the "privacy" and "legal" links on the website actually aren't even links, they just look that way...Now, I don't know about you guys, but I would have little or no use at all for a chinese linux installation.
bye,
[L]
...their gmail account and icq uin with the state, and then use their yahoo email and yahoo messenger for "other" things?
...but the morons who actually BUY spamvertized products.
As long as there's ONE SINGLE PERSON on the 'net who follows the stock advice, buys the phenomenally new herbal shlong enlargement pills, etc, the criminals who want to sell them will keep giving jobs to spammers.
Solution:
1. make it illegal to advertize by spamming. make it equally illegal to pay others to do it for you.
2. make it illegal to buy products that have been advertized for in any way thats not legal.
3. make sure that any civilized country does the same.
4. hit them hard.
bye,
[L]
So i guess you can imagine why i moved my domain OFF the _free_ webhosting that comes with my 1& DSL towards a hoster that actually lets me edit my zonefile myself...
the headline makes it sound as if it's something to be proud of.
same here...
just look at some of the stuff that comes out of the AMV scene...
(For the outsiders: AMV = Anime Music Video, video clips for music made from snippets of anime shows, and/or with anime characters)
Any of you remember this elvis title that came out around 2003, and its video clip? someone re-made that with anime characters... pretty impressive if you consider that that person would have had to re-draw it, frame by frame, to get the siluettes of the characters in all those boxes...
Except for that glitch in your argumentation, I agree... If you buy something, you shouldn't get it in a wrapper that prohibits fair use. Or to put it ore bluntly:
If I buy a music CD from sony, I want to be able to play it on my Sony in-car cd player. If it's a "un-cd" (which is what "broken" audio cds are called over here in germany [you know, cds that don't follow the CDDA standards, to prohibit copying]), I can't. Luckily, i can still rip it (with the right software, which runs on the right OS... you know, the one with the penguin...), then put the mp3 files on a data cd, and play those... on the very same sony in-car cd player.
womens judo!
...have clicked the link to the article for the only reason of seeing chicks in swimsuits?