Slight problem: the diskette usually failed a few weeks later.
That's because you were spinning the disk backward when you turned it over. Any/all of the dirt or dust that was picked up by the jacket went right back onto the floppy disk when when you flipped it that way.
THIS method is obviously BS (to put it mildly) but back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth we could double the size (or was that 1.5x, I can't remember) of a MFM hard drive by hooking it up an RLL controller. I remember putting a full-height IBM 10mb hard drive into my 386 and making it into either a 15mb or 20mb hard drive. I used that hard drive to store and rotate Fidonet echomail for several years, as I recall.
That worked because RLL encoded the data using a different method than MFM.
If I use a credit card instead, I never pay for it at all--by the time I get billed by the credit card company, I already have my reimbursement check and can pay for the charges.
But are (as you stated earlier) subject to being stuck thousands of miles from home with no way to pay for purchases and keep a roof over your head that night.
you have nothing to prove that they ever did anything about it.
And what have you to "prove" that they did or didn't do anything even if you have an email purportedly from them or anyone else?
Give me 90 seconds with any text editor and I'll provide you with an email that's from anyone that you want containing any set of facts that you desire. So what?
Later, after not using my AMEX card for months, I charged a lot of money in CA. Next thing you know, my card is being declined and I can't even fill up my gas tank anymore.
What in the world is wrong with cash?
I pay for just about everything that I buy in cash, with the exception of some bills that I mail in payments for using cheques. My credit card use is limited to the (very) occasional online purchase from some outfit like Amazon. In the past year I think I've used my physical plastic credit card maybe once and I can't recall offhand what it was for. Maybe a big unexpected purchase of some "deal" where I didn't have the cash in my wallet for some reason.
Pay cash. Why not? "Here's your $20" completes the transaction and everybody's happy.
what's a legitimate reason to have $10,000 in cash in your house?
You own a small business and haven't made a deposit yet this week because the bank charges you a service fee for each deposit and one deposit per week is enough, maybe?
You want to buy a car from someone who won't take a cheque from you for whatever reason.
You're expecting a C.O.D. delivery of a big-ticket item from a freight company that doesn't accept cheques from anyone that hasn't established an acount, and the "C" in C.O.D. does indeed stand for "Cash".
There's three examples and it only took me five seconds to come up with those....
Does it seem reasonable for PayPal to suspend my account? Does it seem reasonable for the buyer to have downloaded a copy of my software and claim that they just wanted to see what it was?
Well, I can see how it could happen. Someone fraudulently charges something to my account at *whatever*, I would like to know what it is or was that they charged to my account to insure that it wasn't, say, my wife "borrowing" my account to order something of use to her.
I would look awfully silly if I reported a theft or fraud and then discovered that it was a "Oh by the way, did I tell you that..." situation.
but the difference between Lucas Nursery, an RL business with no net presence, and lucasnursery.com, with no content implying that it's owned by the nursery, is a bit more pronounced.
Apparently it's even more pronounced than that. The RL business's name is Lucas Nursery and Landscaping Inc., not Lucas Nursery.
That's the kind of thinking that will result in a 'golden age' of exploitable software. NX does not close the vulnerability left by a buffer overflow. All it does is require you to use a different class of attack.
So just because a burglar can break the window means that we shouldn't bother to lock the car door?
Some people do. Maybe not exclusively "plumbing", but home renovations and whatnot. Some folks take their summer vacation and build houses for Habitat for Humanity and sthings like that.
it's inevitable he'll have to be deposed or testify if the case goes to trial,
One question that I've never found a real answer to anywhere:
If Mr. Greer is a highly paid consultant and he receives a subpoena to testify in this (or any other) case, does he get paid for doing so? If so, at his regular rates or at something ridiculous like $15/day or whatever they pay to juries these days?
google has gone the other way and their page today is simplier than it was back then.
A nice side-effect (for them) is that any change that makes the length of the average page served even a byte or two slightly smaller would add up to humungous megabytes of bandwidth every hour.
3 directors who I couldn't provide contact information for, and I've been here for years....
But at least you are aware that they exist, which this woman apparently was not. In fact, it appears that she specifically denied that he was a director in the original phone call, which is more definitive (and damning) than "I don't know".
Robby Roto is NOT a public domain rom. Its owner has made it available for non-commercial use. That is substantially different than public domain.
Gridlee has also been released by its owner under similar conditions. So that's number two. And as the copyright owner for East Germany's Polyplay seems to have disappeared completely, it is for all practical purposes public domain, as well.
1) Anything normal people don't want to do that needs to be done (cleaning up highways like they do, manual labor, etc.)
In a "former life" I was responsible for assigning and supervising what in this area are called Community Service Orders. These are the orders that are issued by a judge that so-and-so must complete X number of hours of community service.
Believe me, it's not as simple as saying, "Go over there and pick up garbage in that ditch" or "Paint this fence at the local town hall". I had people who were supposed to do community service that had never(!) held a broom before. Had no idea of how to paint. Never even seen a rake before.
And the lack of motivation is also something to behold. If you (or someone) is not there every minute to supervise, the work won't be getting done. I had a whole "gang" of six people sleeping under a tree one afternoon when they were supposed to be cleaning up a public park.
Plus you have public service unions to worry about. Get a random person to pick up trash; you're putting the unionized garbage man out of work. And so on. It's hard to find a worthwhile job that's not already filled by paid staff.
3) If nothing else, they should be put on exercise bikes hooked up to generators and create electricity for the rest of us.
And when they refuse to do this work? Then what? Floggings?
Believe me, there is absolutely zero incentive and zero interest in working, and even less interest in doing anything approaching a good job, when you have a community service order.
Are there any OSS projects or standards creation efforts for universal, OS-independent, product firmware updaters?
A number of new motherboards come with firmware updating software on a freedos boot disk. That way, you just slam the disk into your floppy drive, boot and go.
Less for the chap who writes the firmware update to worry about because there's less there to go wrong at a critical moment during an update than requiring a full installation of Windows XP to be running while you're trying to update something.
And a gen-yoo-wine boot disk that you can actually give to your customers without having to cough up per-unit royalties!
and maybe you would get it right without needing to "update/mess about with" every 3months
And meanwhile your competition brings Whiz-Bang Widget Mark II to the market and you're outta luck. And you're left with 100,000 Whiz-Bang Widgets in a rented warehouse with the landlord at your door....
Sometimes it can work from the other end too. Low-level managers want to be noticed by their higher-ups so they can get a promotion. If you can provide the low-level manager with a "project" that he can resolve and thereby demonstrate how clever he is, sometimes that's enough incentive for that low-level manager to act and resolve your problem.
Of course, you have to present the problem in the proper way to accomplish this.
I think you missed the point. Allow me to extend the analogy a bit and then see what you think.
Let's say that prior to setting up my restaurant I spent thousands of dollars doing marketing surveys and research, and put in hundreds of hours scouting possible locations for my new restaurant. And as a result of all of my labour and dollars is that I determine that the corner of X and Y is, by ghawd, the best damn place in the whole world for my restaurant.
Now, once I've built the place my prized location (found after great expense and labour) is pretty much "out there". I've got a big sign and anyone who walks, drives, flies or crawls past the corner of X and Y can see what the result of my researches has been. "Hey, there's a restaurant on that corner!"
Now, is the guy who sees that I have built a restaurant at the corner of X and Y and subsequently decides to build his own restaurant across the street at the corner of X and Y somehow "stealing" from me? He didn't conduct the research that I did when I decided to put my restaurant there, he certainly didn't compensate me for everything that I put into doing that research, and by ghawd all of my customers are going to his restaurant now! And all that he actually did was to see that my restaurant was at the corner of X and Y and decide that X and Y looked like a good location to him as well.
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Many governments will provide many types of assistance to victims of crime, but I've never heard of a government paying compensation to victims:
Now you have.
Slight problem: the diskette usually failed a few weeks later.
That's because you were spinning the disk backward when you turned it over. Any/all of the dirt or dust that was picked up by the jacket went right back onto the floppy disk when when you flipped it that way.
THIS method is obviously BS (to put it mildly) but back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth we could double the size (or was that 1.5x, I can't remember) of a MFM hard drive by hooking it up an RLL controller. I remember putting a full-height IBM 10mb hard drive into my 386 and making it into either a 15mb or 20mb hard drive. I used that hard drive to store and rotate Fidonet echomail for several years, as I recall.
That worked because RLL encoded the data using a different method than MFM.
This, though, is smoke and mirrors.
Good for advertising revenue!
Bad for advertising revenue!
(But great for web surfing and getting things done without flashing ads in your face.)
If I use a credit card instead, I never pay for it at all--by the time I get billed by the credit card company, I already have my reimbursement check and can pay for the charges.
But are (as you stated earlier) subject to being stuck thousands of miles from home with no way to pay for purchases and keep a roof over your head that night.
Are you sure that the trade-off is worth it?
you have nothing to prove that they ever did anything about it.
And what have you to "prove" that they did or didn't do anything even if you have an email purportedly from them or anyone else?
Give me 90 seconds with any text editor and I'll provide you with an email that's from anyone that you want containing any set of facts that you desire. So what?
Later, after not using my AMEX card for months, I charged a lot of money in CA. Next thing you know, my card is being declined and I can't even fill up my gas tank anymore.
What in the world is wrong with cash?
I pay for just about everything that I buy in cash, with the exception of some bills that I mail in payments for using cheques. My credit card use is limited to the (very) occasional online purchase from some outfit like Amazon. In the past year I think I've used my physical plastic credit card maybe once and I can't recall offhand what it was for. Maybe a big unexpected purchase of some "deal" where I didn't have the cash in my wallet for some reason.
Pay cash. Why not? "Here's your $20" completes the transaction and everybody's happy.
what's a legitimate reason to have $10,000 in cash in your house?
You own a small business and haven't made a deposit yet this week because the bank charges you a service fee for each deposit and one deposit per week is enough, maybe?
You want to buy a car from someone who won't take a cheque from you for whatever reason.
You're expecting a C.O.D. delivery of a big-ticket item from a freight company that doesn't accept cheques from anyone that hasn't established an acount, and the "C" in C.O.D. does indeed stand for "Cash".
There's three examples and it only took me five seconds to come up with those....
Does it seem reasonable for PayPal to suspend my account? Does it seem reasonable for the buyer to have downloaded a copy of my software and claim that they just wanted to see what it was?
Well, I can see how it could happen. Someone fraudulently charges something to my account at *whatever*, I would like to know what it is or was that they charged to my account to insure that it wasn't, say, my wife "borrowing" my account to order something of use to her.
I would look awfully silly if I reported a theft or fraud and then discovered that it was a "Oh by the way, did I tell you that..." situation.
but the difference between Lucas Nursery, an RL business with no net presence, and lucasnursery.com, with no content implying that it's owned by the nursery, is a bit more pronounced.
Apparently it's even more pronounced than that. The RL business's name is Lucas Nursery and Landscaping Inc., not Lucas Nursery.
That's the kind of thinking that will result in a 'golden age' of exploitable software. NX does not close the vulnerability left by a buffer overflow. All it does is require you to use a different class of attack.
So just because a burglar can break the window means that we shouldn't bother to lock the car door?
Their idea of compensation is 90 days
Try companies in the oilpatch. Drillers, what-have-you. 6 months is about standard for payment there.
Does anybody do plumbing as a hobby?
Some people do. Maybe not exclusively "plumbing", but home renovations and whatnot. Some folks take their summer vacation and build houses for Habitat for Humanity and sthings like that.
So the answer to your question is, yes.
it's inevitable he'll have to be deposed or testify if the case goes to trial,
One question that I've never found a real answer to anywhere:
If Mr. Greer is a highly paid consultant and he receives a subpoena to testify in this (or any other) case, does he get paid for doing so? If so, at his regular rates or at something ridiculous like $15/day or whatever they pay to juries these days?
google has gone the other way and their page today is simplier than it was back then.
A nice side-effect (for them) is that any change that makes the length of the average page served even a byte or two slightly smaller would add up to humungous megabytes of bandwidth every hour.
3 directors who I couldn't provide contact information for, and I've been here for years....
But at least you are aware that they exist, which this woman apparently was not. In fact, it appears that she specifically denied that he was a director in the original phone call, which is more definitive (and damning) than "I don't know".
Robby Roto is the only PD rom.
Robby Roto is NOT a public domain rom. Its owner has made it available for non-commercial use. That is substantially different than public domain.
Gridlee has also been released by its owner under similar conditions. So that's number two. And as the copyright owner for East Germany's Polyplay seems to have disappeared completely, it is for all practical purposes public domain, as well.
1) Anything normal people don't want to do that needs to be done (cleaning up highways like they do, manual labor, etc.)
In a "former life" I was responsible for assigning and supervising what in this area are called Community Service Orders. These are the orders that are issued by a judge that so-and-so must complete X number of hours of community service.
Believe me, it's not as simple as saying, "Go over there and pick up garbage in that ditch" or "Paint this fence at the local town hall". I had people who were supposed to do community service that had never(!) held a broom before. Had no idea of how to paint. Never even seen a rake before.
And the lack of motivation is also something to behold. If you (or someone) is not there every minute to supervise, the work won't be getting done. I had a whole "gang" of six people sleeping under a tree one afternoon when they were supposed to be cleaning up a public park.
Plus you have public service unions to worry about. Get a random person to pick up trash; you're putting the unionized garbage man out of work. And so on. It's hard to find a worthwhile job that's not already filled by paid staff.
3) If nothing else, they should be put on exercise bikes hooked up to generators and create electricity for the rest of us.
And when they refuse to do this work? Then what? Floggings?
Believe me, there is absolutely zero incentive and zero interest in working, and even less interest in doing anything approaching a good job, when you have a community service order.
Are there any OSS projects or standards creation efforts for universal, OS-independent, product firmware updaters?
A number of new motherboards come with firmware updating software on a freedos boot disk. That way, you just slam the disk into your floppy drive, boot and go.
Less for the chap who writes the firmware update to worry about because there's less there to go wrong at a critical moment during an update than requiring a full installation of Windows XP to be running while you're trying to update something.
And a gen-yoo-wine boot disk that you can actually give to your customers without having to cough up per-unit royalties!
and maybe you would get it right without needing to "update/mess about with" every 3months
And meanwhile your competition brings Whiz-Bang Widget Mark II to the market and you're outta luck. And you're left with 100,000 Whiz-Bang Widgets in a rented warehouse with the landlord at your door....
push the ownership of ideas
And the ownership of ideas is desirable because...?
I should have a right to tell you that you can't think about X or improve X because X is, by gahwd, my idea! Get your mind off of my idea, damn you!
No thanks.
Sometimes it can work from the other end too. Low-level managers want to be noticed by their higher-ups so they can get a promotion. If you can provide the low-level manager with a "project" that he can resolve and thereby demonstrate how clever he is, sometimes that's enough incentive for that low-level manager to act and resolve your problem.
Of course, you have to present the problem in the proper way to accomplish this.
without being able to tell your clients when you might actually be able to return to serving them?
Did they seize the ISP's telephones too? "Hello, customer? This is Joe..."
I am sure they don't want to get involved, but this can't be in the spirit they built up the whole thing once upon a time?
You mean the spirit of what AT&T tells them to build?
I think you missed the point. Allow me to extend the analogy a bit and then see what you think.
Let's say that prior to setting up my restaurant I spent thousands of dollars doing marketing surveys and research, and put in hundreds of hours scouting possible locations for my new restaurant. And as a result of all of my labour and dollars is that I determine that the corner of X and Y is, by ghawd, the best damn place in the whole world for my restaurant.
Now, once I've built the place my prized location (found after great expense and labour) is pretty much "out there". I've got a big sign and anyone who walks, drives, flies or crawls past the corner of X and Y can see what the result of my researches has been. "Hey, there's a restaurant on that corner!"
Now, is the guy who sees that I have built a restaurant at the corner of X and Y and subsequently decides to build his own restaurant across the street at the corner of X and Y somehow "stealing" from me? He didn't conduct the research that I did when I decided to put my restaurant there, he certainly didn't compensate me for everything that I put into doing that research, and by ghawd all of my customers are going to his restaurant now! And all that he actually did was to see that my restaurant was at the corner of X and Y and decide that X and Y looked like a good location to him as well.
What do you think?