If you leave the car unlocked and the key in the ignition, then you should be held liable for any damage caused by the car, no matter who's driving it.
What if it is in a locked garage?
Serious question here, actually. I (and I am sure a lot of other people) keep my vehicle in a locked private garage, but I leave the vehicle door unlocked and the key in the ignition for the sake of convenience.
I do "in-home Internet setup" for a cable ISP in my area. Most of the time this involves plugging in the modem, installing the occasional network card, and setting up MS LookOut to check their email.
While Winodows XP is indeed the most common by a large margin, I would say that about one in four or five setups that I do are on old computers running Windows 98, and maybe one in fifteen or so are on Windows 95.
I suspect this story was posted for the purpose of generating an interesting discussion about "classic" video games. Which is certainly a legitimate objective on Slashdot.
I don't know if it does or doesn't, but assuming that it does, how long do you think it would take some enterprising soul to write a program that tags all of his traffic as 911-PRIORITY to download his porn faster?
Studying it, learning how it's done, learning new techniques and technologies, designing new devices, improving the existing code so it runs better in some way, solving unique problems or situations that you may encounter.
you are innocent until the jury hands you a guilty verdict. No ifs, ands, or buts.
So if you are arrested after killing those 20 people and kept in jail for several weeks or months before and during your trial, you are then a currently innocent man sitting in jail.
How does this square with your statement? If I am innocent I should be free to leave and go where I want to, should I not? Bail? Why should I, as an innocent person, be punished by having to post a bond or abide by conditions that don't apply to other innocent people?
A couple of years ago the phone service went out completely in a fairly large city not too far away from the town where I live. The radio station started broadcasting "If you have an emergency, radio-equipped police cars with lights activated are located at the following intersections" followed by a list of locations. They did this over and over continuously for about three hours until the phone service was restored.
First time I've ever heard of that being done. I thought it was a rather clever idea.
I just ordered ten thousand plastic bags, printed with a custom logo and information. I initially sent the bag manufacturer a PDF of what I want on the bags; the price was $50 more when I didn't submit it as a SVG.
About 20 years ago, I was a part-time repo man for one of the in-house auto credit outfits. They generally sent me a copy of the keys along with the paperwork when they wanted me to pick something up.
Why corps don't pay for training anymore like they used to is a mystery to me,
It's not much of a mystery.
"Corps" are in business to make money, not to spend it unnecessarily. If they can spend $X to train you for something, or hire someone who comes already trained and not have to spend that $X, (and assuming that all other factors are equal) which one is the better deal for the company?
I happen to own a theatre. And a couple of months back, I did just exactly that.
A woman was here with a kid that wouldn't be quiet. After listening to the kid for a short while (with her taking no action that I could see), I asked her to take the kid somewhere else so others could enjoy the movie tha they had paid for.
She got upset and asked me what authority I had to tell her to leave; I pointed out that it was my theatre and she left. Problem solved.
I do some occasional "internet tech" work for a cable communications company.
I went to a customer's house a while back and discovered a really weird situation with their Windows XP machine. As I really don't know much about Windows (haven't used it myself ever, really) I called the NOC and asked the senior technical helpdesk there what to do. He gave me a long commandline to type in and by golly, everything started working!
I said, "Dandy. It's working. Now can you tell me what that command actually does so I'll know how to handle this situation if it ever happens again?"
The new dentist pulled it out while I was all groggy on nitrous, and I didn't feel a thing.
You didn't feel it at all?
When I was getting a wisdom tooth removed,he anaesthetic suddenly stopped working in the middle of the job. They gave me that nitrous stuff and after that they finished the job with no problem. I could feel everything. But I didn't care at all.
The most major one (with no fix that I'm aware of) is that starting a new GUI program from a terminal window doesn't give focus to the new program. This makes things like xmame -fullscreen impossible to use.
The installation problems that I ran into include the fact that Privoxy doesn't update properly between FC4 and FC5 (it crashes on start until you uninstall Privoxy and reinstall it from scratch), and Squid loses its configuration until you rename squid.conf.rpmnew back to squid.conf. Not large problems, but a bit of a head-scratcher until I figured out what was happening.
Having said that, with the exception of the focus problem listed here I have solved everything else and am most happy with FC5 on this computer.
Under a definition like that, pretty much any research university would be considered a patent troll, which doesn't seem right.
If they are publicly funded, then I'd say that it's right. I believe that taxpayers should have the right to use inventions created using their tax dollars without any additional payment.
Finally, we switched to Xenon lamphouses from the '70s. While brighter, they required more power, the bulbs are expensive and dangerous, and the machine was harder to maintain.
Pardon me?
Xenon lamps are indeed pretty damned expensive, but once you have it in place and properly focused that job is done for 1500 to 2000 hours (depending on the lamp quality), and after that you just switch the light on at the beginning of the show and turn 'er off at the end.
Focusing a Xenon lamp takes me about ten to fifteen minutes. Changing the lamp takes about an hour, but I don't do it often enough to be really efficient at it.
I really think that a lot of people are more deaf than they used to be, probably due to the noise that most people live with on a more-or less continuous basis. (Boom boxes, elevator music, loud mufflers, what-have-you.)
I own a movie theatre. I am also slightly hard-of-hearing and have been ever since I was a kid.
I can sit in my lobby, 40 feet away from my auditorium, and listen to the dialogue that's currently playing, which I can hear over the noise created by the soda fountain, the refrigerator, the heating system fan, and everything else that's going on in the lobby at the time.
And I have people come out occasionally and ask me to turn up the sound!
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If you leave the car unlocked and the key in the ignition, then you should be held liable for any damage caused by the car, no matter who's driving it.
What if it is in a locked garage?
Serious question here, actually. I (and I am sure a lot of other people) keep my vehicle in a locked private garage, but I leave the vehicle door unlocked and the key in the ignition for the sake of convenience.
I do "in-home Internet setup" for a cable ISP in my area. Most of the time this involves plugging in the modem, installing the occasional network card, and setting up MS LookOut to check their email.
While Winodows XP is indeed the most common by a large margin, I would say that about one in four or five setups that I do are on old computers running Windows 98, and maybe one in fifteen or so are on Windows 95.
I suspect this story was posted for the purpose of generating an interesting discussion about "classic" video games. Which is certainly a legitimate objective on Slashdot.
I don't know if it does or doesn't, but assuming that it does, how long do you think it would take some enterprising soul to write a program that tags all of his traffic as 911-PRIORITY to download his porn faster?
Studying it, learning how it's done, learning new techniques and technologies, designing new devices, improving the existing code so it runs better in some way, solving unique problems or situations that you may encounter.
Just some minor stuff like that, is all.
you are innocent until the jury hands you a guilty verdict. No ifs, ands, or buts.
So if you are arrested after killing those 20 people and kept in jail for several weeks or months before and during your trial, you are then a currently innocent man sitting in jail.
How does this square with your statement? If I am innocent I should be free to leave and go where I want to, should I not? Bail? Why should I, as an innocent person, be punished by having to post a bond or abide by conditions that don't apply to other innocent people?
What do you think?
A couple of years ago the phone service went out completely in a fairly large city not too far away from the town where I live. The radio station started broadcasting "If you have an emergency, radio-equipped police cars with lights activated are located at the following intersections" followed by a list of locations. They did this over and over continuously for about three hours until the phone service was restored.
First time I've ever heard of that being done. I thought it was a rather clever idea.
if a run occurs on the bank, what do you think the FDIC does? sends over an armored car?
That's exactly what they do.
Really.
i was never subsequently contacted, so AFAIK, the scumbag got away with credit card fraud...
And you didn't call the police because.... ??
I just ordered ten thousand plastic bags, printed with a custom logo and information. I initially sent the bag manufacturer a PDF of what I want on the bags; the price was $50 more when I didn't submit it as a SVG.
Folks with your site bookmarked still need to be redirected.
No legit site shunts off visitors to third party sites with zero delay.
You do if you're hosting a website as a subdomain on your ISP's server and then change ISP's.
And still can, according to the article. Cordless power tools are exempt from the ban.
A huge marketing budget and flashy trailers
Did you know that one of the awards for best trailer is called the Golden Fleece Award.
About 20 years ago, I was a part-time repo man for one of the in-house auto credit outfits. They generally sent me a copy of the keys along with the paperwork when they wanted me to pick something up.
Why corps don't pay for training anymore like they used to is a mystery to me,
It's not much of a mystery.
"Corps" are in business to make money, not to spend it unnecessarily. If they can spend $X to train you for something, or hire someone who comes already trained and not have to spend that $X, (and assuming that all other factors are equal) which one is the better deal for the company?
I answer the phone all the time saying "Help Desk, Matt speaking." and quite regularly I get asked immediately afterwards "is this the Help Desk?"
I own a movie theatre. At least once a week I answer my office phone and get asked, "What time does the 9 o'clock show start?"
This isn't quite as dumb as it first sounds. Sometimes the "late show" might start at 9:15 or 9:30 depending on how long the 7pm show is.
I happen to own a theatre. And a couple of months back, I did just exactly that.
A woman was here with a kid that wouldn't be quiet. After listening to the kid for a short while (with her taking no action that I could see), I asked her to take the kid somewhere else so others could enjoy the movie tha they had paid for.
She got upset and asked me what authority I had to tell her to leave; I pointed out that it was my theatre and she left. Problem solved.
One ISP here used to advertise "Unlimited Internet Service." But they had (and still have) a cap.
Someone apparently called them on this and now they advertise like this:
UNLIMITED CONNECTION time.
Notice the fine print at the end of the headline.
I do some occasional "internet tech" work for a cable communications company.
I went to a customer's house a while back and discovered a really weird situation with their Windows XP machine. As I really don't know much about Windows (haven't used it myself ever, really) I called the NOC and asked the senior technical helpdesk there what to do. He gave me a long commandline to type in and by golly, everything started working!
I said, "Dandy. It's working. Now can you tell me what that command actually does so I'll know how to handle this situation if it ever happens again?"
And I couldn't believe my ears when he answered:
"It makes it start working again."
The new dentist pulled it out while I was all groggy on nitrous, and I didn't feel a thing.
You didn't feel it at all?
When I was getting a wisdom tooth removed,he anaesthetic suddenly stopped working in the middle of the job. They gave me that nitrous stuff and after that they finished the job with no problem. I could feel everything. But I didn't care at all.
Weirdest sensation that I have ever had.
The most major one (with no fix that I'm aware of) is that starting a new GUI program from a terminal window doesn't give focus to the new program. This makes things like xmame -fullscreen impossible to use.
The installation problems that I ran into include the fact that Privoxy doesn't update properly between FC4 and FC5 (it crashes on start until you uninstall Privoxy and reinstall it from scratch), and Squid loses its configuration until you rename squid.conf.rpmnew back to squid.conf. Not large problems, but a bit of a head-scratcher until I figured out what was happening.
Having said that, with the exception of the focus problem listed here I have solved everything else and am most happy with FC5 on this computer.
Under a definition like that, pretty much any research university would be considered a patent troll, which doesn't seem right.
If they are publicly funded, then I'd say that it's right. I believe that taxpayers should have the right to use inventions created using their tax dollars without any additional payment.
Finally, we switched to Xenon lamphouses from the '70s. While brighter, they required more power, the bulbs are expensive and dangerous, and the machine was harder to maintain.
Pardon me?
Xenon lamps are indeed pretty damned expensive, but once you have it in place and properly focused that job is done for 1500 to 2000 hours (depending on the lamp quality), and after that you just switch the light on at the beginning of the show and turn 'er off at the end.
Focusing a Xenon lamp takes me about ten to fifteen minutes. Changing the lamp takes about an hour, but I don't do it often enough to be really efficient at it.
(I own a theatre.)
The people around here WON'T turn up the sound.
I really think that a lot of people are more deaf than they used to be, probably due to the noise that most people live with on a more-or less continuous basis. (Boom boxes, elevator music, loud mufflers, what-have-you.)
I own a movie theatre. I am also slightly hard-of-hearing and have been ever since I was a kid.
I can sit in my lobby, 40 feet away from my auditorium, and listen to the dialogue that's currently playing, which I can hear over the noise created by the soda fountain, the refrigerator, the heating system fan, and everything else that's going on in the lobby at the time.
And I have people come out occasionally and ask me to turn up the sound!