I've had my (now ex)-bank's anti-fraud system automatically call me. "This is an automated telephone call from Lloyds TSB for Mr xxxxxx. To confirm you are the card holder, please enter in your 16 digit card number." Needless to say, I hung up and called the number printed on the back of my card. I asked the person what it was about and then asked if they would have entered their number onto an automated system that randomly called them - nope(!)
Not necessarily. For example, in the UK I could get a free non-graphical number (such as 0871 or 0845) which would be the sort used by financial institutions, I could then get that number "pointed" at a VoIP number (such as Gizmoproject) which I could then pay using a stolen CC to forward onto a Skype VoIP number which, also paid with a stolen CC, would then forward onto a landline in Russia. That's 4 different companies (in 3 different countries) which would need to be contacted in turn to trace down the ultimate destination of the call.
Ahh - we do adult hosting "on the side" and had a customer with a problem the other day - my poor co-worker got the call and when he said "To access to cPanel control panel, go to www. fuckmeanyways.com/cpanel" the whole office want strangely quite before a bit of laughter (URL slightly changed to protect the guilty).
The details in the Slashdot posting are slightly incorrect. Todays/yesterdays launch (the scheduled on on the 1st of July) was postponed at T-9minutes after a 40 minute scheduled hold (if it's scheduled, why didn't they add it into the count down?) and approximately 3 minutes of 5 into an "extended hold" (after they "polled" all the various sections of the launch team). Then the decision was made the "scrub" (abort) the launch due the weather being too unpredictable and there being storm clouds (anvil clouds) within 20 miles of the emergency landing strip (although they have got backup landing strips in France and Spain). They will retry the launch tomorrow, and can abort for any reason up to 31 seconds before main ignition.
At the moment, they are still "go" for the launch tomorrow.
BTW: You learn a lot from watching the live stream on nasa.gov!
Hmm, Google Directory for Kids eh? Now that'll be a good idea - maybe if it could be human edited and even better if those cool guys which work at Mozilla (which also makes Firefox) could have a hand in it:)
As a late 80's/early 90's programmer, I learnt 3D programming without GPUs and I still can't get my head around the fact that nowadays we *neeeed* graphics cards - I managed quite well to do some damn good 3D all in assembler (hell, some quite good stuff in Basic!) - and that was just a week after I learnt the calculations for 3 dimensional geography in a 2 dimensional plane (and that's about all I can remember now:( ).
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I think you are thinking of.name rather than.me.uk:.name was the firstname.lastname.name design - me.uk was just name.me.uk . On the plus side, Nominet is slightly strict with the second level domains (just try getting a.ltd.uk domain name which doesn't exactly match your company name - or a.sch.uk one if you aren't a bona-fida school) and this does have benefits. I managed to get a three letter me.uk domain matching my initals - the same initals as a major car recovery service: they've got the domain name in practically every other extension, but since they aren't a "person", they can't have the.me.uk domain name - leaving it to moi!;)
To me, "Alpha" always meant "Works inhouse, does what it is is expected to do" and "Beta" meant "It's being tried outside of the developers machine to see if it does something it ISN'T expected to do" (i.e. screw up your machine).
Erm, Max Headroom wasn't animated(!). It was Matt Frewer (or whatever the spelling of his name is) - who also played Edison Carter (who Max was "brain cloned sortof" from) in a latex mask and suit in front of a green screen. Admittedly, they did use slightly more computer graphic animation (for the backdrop) than that other "computer graphic powered" show of the 1980's - the BBC's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (which had the computer bits "hand drawn").
Oh, for the record, the BBC has a brilliant network in the UK and the US - http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/network/ . I believe, although I haven't even attempted to confirm it, that they have peering agreements with most of the major UK ISPs.
Frightening for everybody apart from you. Because when you - DCstewieG - close your eyes and fall asleep, the entire world stops until you wake up. I'm not allowed to say that the entire world exists only in your head as that'll get you paranoid, but we are out to get you!
Echoed here! I'm a server admin and hence have access to every single email passing through the server and any files uploaded. However, it'll be a massive breach of ethics and probably the UK Data Protection Act and Computer Misuse Act to look at those emails or files without good enough reason (i.e. reports of copyright material, customer saying they've got a problem with email etc). Hell, every single email my boss receives goes through the servers I admin and whilst it can be tempting to "have a peek", I don't as it'll be "wrong".
I brought some of Nescafe's self-heating expresso cups around a year ago here in the UK - around 1 UKP per cup (if I remember correctly) - expensive, but still cheaper than airport waiting area coffee (and coffee on the train to the airport).
We used to have a similar system in the UK - stores (no matter what type) were not allowed to sell books at a different price then that marked on the cover (and it was/is illegal to sell a book - even second hand - without it's cover). However, the "price fixing" was dropped as being anti-competitive and to allow stores to sell books more cheaply: which is odd, as I've seen book prices rise quite considerably since then.
It's worth noting that they don't deny access any more - I placed a 200GBP order with them on Saturday using Firefox without any problems. I have no problems using online bank (Lloyds TSB and Mint) or filling in my Tax Return using Firefox either.
I'm the complete opposite. Jan 2004, I got hooked on a certain Japanese TV show (SM) and enjoyed it so much (along with another show), that I booked a holiday/vacation in Japan for September that year to watch an episode "live" and to buy all available DVDs. I've now got 16 DVDs in Japanese - and I know around 3 words of Japanese.... Most of them are still wrapped up in the original packaging as I know I can't understand them without the Fansubs subtitles (and I also brought some of the merchandise as I know the shows makes some money that way). I'll love to be able to buy English-language variants, but the likelyhood of that actually happening legally is extremely low.
When I went to Tokyo from Heathrow, London, UK via Munich, Germany - the Munich to Tokyo flight (all the route was by Luthansa German Airlines), they had wireless internet access by Boeing Connexions. If you look out at airport (Munich had them in September when I flew), you may be able to get a $10 free internet access voucher. Just a quick note: The internet access is WiFi, so you will need an appropriate Wifi card - I took plenty of network cables, but my Wifi card for my laptop was "faulty" so I didn't have any internet access:( . It's worth also pointing out that at least in "cattle class" (I can't say for Business or First class), there are NO charging points, so make sure you have plenty of battery power.
Or just use Outlook Express which doesn't have the limit (as it doesn't use single PST files). I actually had to "downgrade" from a paid Office XP installation to OE to work around this bug (I have a large amount of email and some of them are a few hundred meg in size per day). That's caused me not to need Office at all so we sold it on and I'm using OpenOffice. At home, I've swopped to Thunderbird though...
Exactly. At home, I've got 1x400Gb RAID0 array and 2x200Gb HDs - 800Gb alone and I'm running out of space (and machines to put HDs into!). I've looked at tape backup solutions etc - but they are miniscule and extremely expensive - I just need to archive off all this data in case of HD failure: at the present time, it's cheapest for me just to buy a couple of standby machines and fill them full of HDs...
I know TVNihon started fansubbing PGSM around Jan 2004, but mid-Feb I was hooked, by June I had a holiday in Japan booked (didn't even consider a holiday in Japan before hand!) and by the end of September, I had 8 DVD in Japanese (that I can't understand) and a soft toy relating to the series. I've also tried to buy the rest of the series via UK stores (HMV, for instance, actually sells the series in the JP stores) - but no one will actually get them for me!
I very much doubt this series will be official dubbed or subbed or even released outside of JP - but I want it and, as shown, am willing to pay for it. But no one will let me buy it here in the UK and I can't really justify a 1.5k (UKP) flight to JP just to buy a couple of DVDs...:(
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>> "The public are morons" I've heard it more as "catering to the lowest common denominator". Why aim a show at only 20% of the population when if you "dumb-it-down", you can get 1,000s of extra Redneck BillyJoeBob's in trailer parks to watch ("'cause its funny" etc) and boost the audience share and the cost to advertisers.
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I've had my (now ex)-bank's anti-fraud system automatically call me. "This is an automated telephone call from Lloyds TSB for Mr xxxxxx. To confirm you are the card holder, please enter in your 16 digit card number." Needless to say, I hung up and called the number printed on the back of my card. I asked the person what it was about and then asked if they would have entered their number onto an automated system that randomly called them - nope(!)
Not necessarily. For example, in the UK I could get a free non-graphical number (such as 0871 or 0845) which would be the sort used by financial institutions, I could then get that number "pointed" at a VoIP number (such as Gizmoproject) which I could then pay using a stolen CC to forward onto a Skype VoIP number which, also paid with a stolen CC, would then forward onto a landline in Russia. That's 4 different companies (in 3 different countries) which would need to be contacted in turn to trace down the ultimate destination of the call.
Ahh - we do adult hosting "on the side" and had a customer with a problem the other day - my poor co-worker got the call and when he said "To access to cPanel control panel, go to www. fuckmeanyways .com/cpanel" the whole office want strangely quite before a bit of laughter (URL slightly changed to protect the guilty).
The details in the Slashdot posting are slightly incorrect. Todays/yesterdays launch (the scheduled on on the 1st of July) was postponed at T-9minutes after a 40 minute scheduled hold (if it's scheduled, why didn't they add it into the count down?) and approximately 3 minutes of 5 into an "extended hold" (after they "polled" all the various sections of the launch team). Then the decision was made the "scrub" (abort) the launch due the weather being too unpredictable and there being storm clouds (anvil clouds) within 20 miles of the emergency landing strip (although they have got backup landing strips in France and Spain). They will retry the launch tomorrow, and can abort for any reason up to 31 seconds before main ignition.
At the moment, they are still "go" for the launch tomorrow.
BTW: You learn a lot from watching the live stream on nasa.gov!
Hmm, Google Directory for Kids eh? Now that'll be a good idea - maybe if it could be human edited and even better if those cool guys which work at Mozilla (which also makes Firefox) could have a hand in it :)
As a late 80's/early 90's programmer, I learnt 3D programming without GPUs and I still can't get my head around the fact that nowadays we *neeeed* graphics cards - I managed quite well to do some damn good 3D all in assembler (hell, some quite good stuff in Basic!) - and that was just a week after I learnt the calculations for 3 dimensional geography in a 2 dimensional plane (and that's about all I can remember now :( ).
I think you are thinking of .name rather than .me.uk: .name was the firstname.lastname.name design - me.uk was just name.me.uk . On the plus side, Nominet is slightly strict with the second level domains (just try getting a .ltd.uk domain name which doesn't exactly match your company name - or a .sch.uk one if you aren't a bona-fida school) and this does have benefits. I managed to get a three letter me.uk domain matching my initals - the same initals as a major car recovery service: they've got the domain name in practically every other extension, but since they aren't a "person", they can't have the .me.uk domain name - leaving it to moi! ;)
To me, "Alpha" always meant "Works inhouse, does what it is is expected to do" and "Beta" meant "It's being tried outside of the developers machine to see if it does something it ISN'T expected to do" (i.e. screw up your machine).
I guess picking up litter is technically theft (either from the person who's litter it is our the local authorities litter clearance department0.
How about the multiplatform Gizmoproject ?
Erm, Max Headroom wasn't animated(!). It was Matt Frewer (or whatever the spelling of his name is) - who also played Edison Carter (who Max was "brain cloned sortof" from) in a latex mask and suit in front of a green screen. Admittedly, they did use slightly more computer graphic animation (for the backdrop) than that other "computer graphic powered" show of the 1980's - the BBC's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (which had the computer bits "hand drawn").
We can scrimp and save!
Oh, for the record, the BBC has a brilliant network in the UK and the US - http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/network/ . I believe, although I haven't even attempted to confirm it, that they have peering agreements with most of the major UK ISPs.
Frightening for everybody apart from you. Because when you - DCstewieG - close your eyes and fall asleep, the entire world stops until you wake up. I'm not allowed to say that the entire world exists only in your head as that'll get you paranoid, but we are out to get you!
Echoed here! I'm a server admin and hence have access to every single email passing through the server and any files uploaded. However, it'll be a massive breach of ethics and probably the UK Data Protection Act and Computer Misuse Act to look at those emails or files without good enough reason (i.e. reports of copyright material, customer saying they've got a problem with email etc). Hell, every single email my boss receives goes through the servers I admin and whilst it can be tempting to "have a peek", I don't as it'll be "wrong".
I brought some of Nescafe's self-heating expresso cups around a year ago here in the UK - around 1 UKP per cup (if I remember correctly) - expensive, but still cheaper than airport waiting area coffee (and coffee on the train to the airport).
We used to have a similar system in the UK - stores (no matter what type) were not allowed to sell books at a different price then that marked on the cover (and it was/is illegal to sell a book - even second hand - without it's cover). However, the "price fixing" was dropped as being anti-competitive and to allow stores to sell books more cheaply: which is odd, as I've seen book prices rise quite considerably since then.
IANAL = I Am Not An Anal Liberator? Well, we'll take your word for it, but the parent poster has an uncashed check for you...
It's worth noting that they don't deny access any more - I placed a 200GBP order with them on Saturday using Firefox without any problems. I have no problems using online bank (Lloyds TSB and Mint) or filling in my Tax Return using Firefox either.
I'm the complete opposite. Jan 2004, I got hooked on a certain Japanese TV show (SM) and enjoyed it so much (along with another show), that I booked a holiday/vacation in Japan for September that year to watch an episode "live" and to buy all available DVDs. I've now got 16 DVDs in Japanese - and I know around 3 words of Japanese.... Most of them are still wrapped up in the original packaging as I know I can't understand them without the Fansubs subtitles (and I also brought some of the merchandise as I know the shows makes some money that way). I'll love to be able to buy English-language variants, but the likelyhood of that actually happening legally is extremely low.
When I went to Tokyo from Heathrow, London, UK via Munich, Germany - the Munich to Tokyo flight (all the route was by Luthansa German Airlines), they had wireless internet access by Boeing Connexions. If you look out at airport (Munich had them in September when I flew), you may be able to get a $10 free internet access voucher. Just a quick note: The internet access is WiFi, so you will need an appropriate Wifi card - I took plenty of network cables, but my Wifi card for my laptop was "faulty" so I didn't have any internet access :( . It's worth also pointing out that at least in "cattle class" (I can't say for Business or First class), there are NO charging points, so make sure you have plenty of battery power.
Or just use Outlook Express which doesn't have the limit (as it doesn't use single PST files). I actually had to "downgrade" from a paid Office XP installation to OE to work around this bug (I have a large amount of email and some of them are a few hundred meg in size per day). That's caused me not to need Office at all so we sold it on and I'm using OpenOffice.
At home, I've swopped to Thunderbird though...
Exactly. At home, I've got 1x400Gb RAID0 array and 2x200Gb HDs - 800Gb alone and I'm running out of space (and machines to put HDs into!). I've looked at tape backup solutions etc - but they are miniscule and extremely expensive - I just need to archive off all this data in case of HD failure: at the present time, it's cheapest for me just to buy a couple of standby machines and fill them full of HDs...
I know TVNihon started fansubbing PGSM around Jan 2004, but mid-Feb I was hooked, by June I had a holiday in Japan booked (didn't even consider a holiday in Japan before hand!) and by the end of September, I had 8 DVD in Japanese (that I can't understand) and a soft toy relating to the series. I've also tried to buy the rest of the series via UK stores (HMV, for instance, actually sells the series in the JP stores) - but no one will actually get them for me!
I very much doubt this series will be official dubbed or subbed or even released outside of JP - but I want it and, as shown, am willing to pay for it. But no one will let me buy it here in the UK and I can't really justify a 1.5k (UKP) flight to JP just to buy a couple of DVDs... :(
>> "The public are morons" I've heard it more as "catering to the lowest common denominator". Why aim a show at only 20% of the population when if you "dumb-it-down", you can get 1,000s of extra Redneck BillyJoeBob's in trailer parks to watch ("'cause its funny" etc) and boost the audience share and the cost to advertisers.