I wouldn't know, I shop at a store that advertises that they don't play those stupid card games. Even if it wasn't the closest grocery store to me, I'd shop there for that reason alone.
By signing up for the card, you are voluntarily giving them this info. You are giving it up. You wrote your name and address on the application. There should be no expectation of privacy between you and the store.
The only reasonable expectation of privacy you should have with the card would be that the store would not give or sell their mailing list to others. That's the only gray area I can see with these cards. But in this particular case, the store itself contacted the customers because of meat they bought in the store. There is no third-party involvement. Thus, there was no breach of privacy.
The "frequent shopper" cards are no more than an undisguised marketing tool. You should expect no privacy, since you are, in fact, giving up your privacy in exchange for a few cents off.
Given that there is no moral reason for them not to contact the purchasers of the tainted beef, they would have been held liable had they not used every means at their disposal to contact the purchasers.
The first people I thought of were diabetics. One of the effects of diabetes is poor circulation in general. My father always had extremely cold feet and hands. These would have been great for him.
This supposedly happened on a cross country flight many years ago.
A plane was having troubles so the pilot was ditching weight, and he flipped the switch to pump the tanks mid-flight. The blue liquid froze almost instantly at altitude, leaving a giant chunk of blue ice that came down right through the roof of a farmhouse, killing one of the occupants.
He was the only civilian ever killed by an ICBM (icy B.M.) in the U.S...
Oh, I remember longing for 96 column cards to do RPG on. We had to make do with 80 column cards.
And the joy when we got that card punch and we discovered it had a buffer which meant -- get this -- we had a BACKSPACE key! Oh, yeah, we were the kings of the world that day.
Somewhere here in my cube, I still have a 96 column card that had its holes punched in the shape of a hand with a raised middle finger. Now THAT's "computer graphics" for you.
"Has anyone else noticed how much lamer the newbies are these days?"
Or maybe we are just old. Maybe Slashcode really needs a new mod tag: "-1, Geezer reminiscing"
By the way, I really was whistling 110 baud into phones before many of you were born. I couldn't whistle specific characters, but at least I could get the modem on the other end to believe it had carrier. But you try telling that to kids these days, and they just mod you offtopic...
At the moment I'm using Moz 1.6b (1.6 is arriving in Download Manager at the moment) and I'm not willing to drop functionality of my browser down to the firebird level yet. I like having a browser with all the bells and whistles, but that's where I want it to end, too. I've got a different mail program, I don't use composer, and frankly I couldn't care less about news. I'd rather not have all that other crap along with my browser, but Mozilla is so much better than anything else at UI and dodging crap HTML that I can't give it up.
Hmm...it's been a little while since I last tried [fire|thunder]bird. Perhaps it's time to take another look...
A lot of the "preloaded for your pleasure" stuff simply gets swapped right back out to disk again because you ran a large memory footprint program (such as a game) after preloading. "Loading the browser into memory" in many of these cases means gathering data out of the various configuration files, loading it into memory, and then swapping it back out as virutal memory. Not much of a performance gain.
I find most programs with "quick launch" features to behave more like "slow boot" features. As a rule, I disable them.
Is FineTex a separate liner layer like GoreTex, or is it built in to the exterior fabric like Columbia's OmniTech?
Just so you know I bought a new GoreTex jacket this winter because I hated the way my four year old OmniTech soaked through after maybe an hour in the rain. ReviveX helped, but I still am not a big "integral waterproofing" fan. I prefer the separate layer.
And since you seem to be responding better than your server (no offense intended, a slashdotting is not a trivial thing to survive) are all the seams taped and/or sealed?
I'm seriously considering this because I go camping for a week at a time and none of my gear (Palm Tungsten, cell phone or Rino) will last a full week without external juice.
However, I really use the Tungsten only at night (for satellite predictions), and so I could charge it during the day in camp with an ordinary solar charger. Last trip I hiked it out to the vehicle for mid-week charging. And the GPS takes 3 AA batteries, which are also replaceable in camp. But the phone...
I just realized something else. When the sun is actually shining, the jacket is usually not on my body. I wear it only in the rain! And since I live in Minnesota the sun is not shining when I'm outside during the week -- I travel to work before sunrise and return home after sunset.
OK, consideration over. The cool factor is high, but the practicality factor for me is about zero.
To tell you the truth, I've checked my coat every time I've flown since September 11th, 2001. No point in lugging extra crap around that they're just going to search anyway.
But with my current run of luck, I could probably show up at the gate naked and they'd still want to search me. I must have a name on a watch list or something. Perhaps Slashdot readers are automatically entered in the Homeland Security Sweepstakes?
Plus, even though I ordered a medium, it still seems like you have to be a fat, overweight geek with 17 gadgets in his pockets in order for it to fit right.
If I were the slashdot tailor, that would put me out of business right there...
Heh. I wanted to be there a lot more than my son (who was only mildly interested.) But it seemed more like a little kids theme park, and had my son been 7 years old, we would have gone in.
Y'know, if he'd been raised on POLB (Plain Old Lego Bricks) he probably would have been a lot more excited. But assembling Harry Potter castles from detailed instructions apparently didn't give him quite the same sense of satisfaction... or maintain the same level of interest.
I read near the bottom of the article where they mentioned "forays" into other things such as the Legoland parks. I know that the last time I was in San Diego, I drove the family out to the park (my son was 14 at the time.) We saw the $40 price tags and decided it simply wasn't worth it (so we drove up Mt. Palomar to the observatory, which was indeed worth the drive.)
I recall being surprised that the parking lot for Legoland was nearly deserted, until I saw the admission price.
Anyway, I know I'll miss Mindstorms. I wonder what other lines they'll drop?
The case came with an 80mm fan mounted to the side, venting in facing the CPU heatsink fan. There is another 80mm fan on the top, venting out. The 400W Antec power supply has a fan, which I believe vents in. I have added another 80mm fan venting into the side of the case, pointing edge-on at the Radeon GPU card. The Radeon card has an inadequate looking heat sink (not enough surface area) and a pathetic fan set in the middle of it.
I think my biggest problem is that the entire case sits inside the bottom of this enclosed desk furniture thing my wife bought. I have it placed to the far right side of the cabinet, where there are no fans on that side of the case. There is perhaps 4"-8" of head room above the case, and another 4" behind. The left side of the case (the side with the fans) is wide open to the rest of the cabinet. I finally removed the doors on this cabinet, but I still require a small fan to sit on the floor in front of the cabinet blowing fresh air in. The fan is by far the noisiest part of the operation, but without it the inside case temperature climbs above 90 F. With the fan, the inside case temperature remains around 82 F. I don't have a CPU thermometer program other than the one I see on the BIOS screen. I have noticed stability problems with the box when the case temperature reads above 90, though.
I've seen that there are two pre-pierced 80mm grills in the back near the top (but below the power supply.) I'm wondering if I should fill those with two more fans, and if so, should I orient them as intakes or exhaust fans?
Also, do you or does anyone you know have any experience with replacing the cheesy heat sink and fan on a Radeon GPU? That card could serve as a poor man's space heater (OK, maybe a rich man's space heater) and I'm afraid of burning up an investment like that.
My problem is not the CPU fan, it's that my case fans could drown out a Steerman bi-plane. Even with them I still need a portable fan pointed at the case to keep providing cooler air for them to draw. Having an ATI RADEON 9800 in the box doesn't help with cooling, either. It would only be as simple as moving the case if I considered placing the case in an adjacent room.
I wish their site wasn't slashdotted already, I really have need of a better solution. (Yes, I know, I should shut up and subscribe already.)
OnStar can also initiate contact at my request to unlock the doors. I suspect they might be able to flash the lights and honk the horn in a parking lot, if I asked them to.
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Q: How do you pronounce Daimler-Chrysler?
A: The Chrysler is silent.
[deep radio announcer voice:]
Camaro: For you low-rent losers who are never going to be able to afford a Corvette.
Anyway, didn't you see the banner posted above? "Abandon hope, all ye who click here."
Thank you, John Smallberries, that's all I could think of when I read the article. :-)
I wouldn't know, I shop at a store that advertises that they don't play those stupid card games. Even if it wasn't the closest grocery store to me, I'd shop there for that reason alone.
The only reasonable expectation of privacy you should have with the card would be that the store would not give or sell their mailing list to others. That's the only gray area I can see with these cards. But in this particular case, the store itself contacted the customers because of meat they bought in the store. There is no third-party involvement. Thus, there was no breach of privacy.
Given that there is no moral reason for them not to contact the purchasers of the tainted beef, they would have been held liable had they not used every means at their disposal to contact the purchasers.
The first people I thought of were diabetics. One of the effects of diabetes is poor circulation in general. My father always had extremely cold feet and hands. These would have been great for him.
A plane was having troubles so the pilot was ditching weight, and he flipped the switch to pump the tanks mid-flight. The blue liquid froze almost instantly at altitude, leaving a giant chunk of blue ice that came down right through the roof of a farmhouse, killing one of the occupants.
He was the only civilian ever killed by an ICBM (icy B.M.) in the U.S...
Danke, I'll be here all ze veek...
And the joy when we got that card punch and we discovered it had a buffer which meant -- get this -- we had a BACKSPACE key! Oh, yeah, we were the kings of the world that day.
Somewhere here in my cube, I still have a 96 column card that had its holes punched in the shape of a hand with a raised middle finger. Now THAT's "computer graphics" for you.
Ya, ich bin Microsofted.
"Has anyone else noticed how much lamer the newbies are these days?"
Or maybe we are just old. Maybe Slashcode really needs a new mod tag: "-1, Geezer reminiscing"
By the way, I really was whistling 110 baud into phones before many of you were born. I couldn't whistle specific characters, but at least I could get the modem on the other end to believe it had carrier. But you try telling that to kids these days, and they just mod you offtopic ...
At the moment I'm using Moz 1.6b (1.6 is arriving in Download Manager at the moment) and I'm not willing to drop functionality of my browser down to the firebird level yet. I like having a browser with all the bells and whistles, but that's where I want it to end, too. I've got a different mail program, I don't use composer, and frankly I couldn't care less about news. I'd rather not have all that other crap along with my browser, but Mozilla is so much better than anything else at UI and dodging crap HTML that I can't give it up.
Hmm...it's been a little while since I last tried [fire|thunder]bird. Perhaps it's time to take another look...
A lot of the "preloaded for your pleasure" stuff simply gets swapped right back out to disk again because you ran a large memory footprint program (such as a game) after preloading. "Loading the browser into memory" in many of these cases means gathering data out of the various configuration files, loading it into memory, and then swapping it back out as virutal memory. Not much of a performance gain.
I find most programs with "quick launch" features to behave more like "slow boot" features. As a rule, I disable them.
Just so you know I bought a new GoreTex jacket this winter because I hated the way my four year old OmniTech soaked through after maybe an hour in the rain. ReviveX helped, but I still am not a big "integral waterproofing" fan. I prefer the separate layer.
And since you seem to be responding better than your server (no offense intended, a slashdotting is not a trivial thing to survive) are all the seams taped and/or sealed?
However, I really use the Tungsten only at night (for satellite predictions), and so I could charge it during the day in camp with an ordinary solar charger. Last trip I hiked it out to the vehicle for mid-week charging. And the GPS takes 3 AA batteries, which are also replaceable in camp. But the phone ...
I just realized something else. When the sun is actually shining, the jacket is usually not on my body. I wear it only in the rain! And since I live in Minnesota the sun is not shining when I'm outside during the week -- I travel to work before sunrise and return home after sunset.
OK, consideration over. The cool factor is high, but the practicality factor for me is about zero.
But with my current run of luck, I could probably show up at the gate naked and they'd still want to search me. I must have a name on a watch list or something. Perhaps Slashdot readers are automatically entered in the Homeland Security Sweepstakes?
If I were the slashdot tailor, that would put me out of business right there...
You read Slashdot, right? The answer is simple. Bring it upstairs to your mom, and ask her to wash it. :-)
Y'know, if he'd been raised on POLB (Plain Old Lego Bricks) he probably would have been a lot more excited. But assembling Harry Potter castles from detailed instructions apparently didn't give him quite the same sense of satisfaction ... or maintain the same level of interest.
I recall being surprised that the parking lot for Legoland was nearly deserted, until I saw the admission price.
Anyway, I know I'll miss Mindstorms. I wonder what other lines they'll drop?
The case came with an 80mm fan mounted to the side, venting in facing the CPU heatsink fan. There is another 80mm fan on the top, venting out. The 400W Antec power supply has a fan, which I believe vents in. I have added another 80mm fan venting into the side of the case, pointing edge-on at the Radeon GPU card. The Radeon card has an inadequate looking heat sink (not enough surface area) and a pathetic fan set in the middle of it.
I think my biggest problem is that the entire case sits inside the bottom of this enclosed desk furniture thing my wife bought. I have it placed to the far right side of the cabinet, where there are no fans on that side of the case. There is perhaps 4"-8" of head room above the case, and another 4" behind. The left side of the case (the side with the fans) is wide open to the rest of the cabinet. I finally removed the doors on this cabinet, but I still require a small fan to sit on the floor in front of the cabinet blowing fresh air in. The fan is by far the noisiest part of the operation, but without it the inside case temperature climbs above 90 F. With the fan, the inside case temperature remains around 82 F. I don't have a CPU thermometer program other than the one I see on the BIOS screen. I have noticed stability problems with the box when the case temperature reads above 90, though.
I've seen that there are two pre-pierced 80mm grills in the back near the top (but below the power supply.) I'm wondering if I should fill those with two more fans, and if so, should I orient them as intakes or exhaust fans?
Also, do you or does anyone you know have any experience with replacing the cheesy heat sink and fan on a Radeon GPU? That card could serve as a poor man's space heater (OK, maybe a rich man's space heater) and I'm afraid of burning up an investment like that.
Apparently, Pingular can't tell shit from shinola!!!
(Go look up shinola on google, and you'll probably figure out what it really means...)
I wish their site wasn't slashdotted already, I really have need of a better solution. (Yes, I know, I should shut up and subscribe already.)
OnStar can also initiate contact at my request to unlock the doors. I suspect they might be able to flash the lights and honk the horn in a parking lot, if I asked them to.