Actually, I happened to be in an AT&T store this weekend* and overheard a couple of people complaining to the store reps that they couldn't activate their iPhone. Their problem actually lied in being unable to install XP SP2 on their computer, but like most non-technologically inclined consumers they didn't understand that this was a PC/Microsoft problem. They were pissed and the poor Cingular/AT&T/name-of-the-day reps had no idea how to help the customers. And who can blame the customers either? They just spent $500-$600 on a new "superphone" and can't even use the thing.
I played with the iPhone and it is a very cool phone. Just like the iPod, the iPhone interface is extremely intuitive. My only complaint was that I found the onscreen keyboard hard to use. Without any sort of tactile feedback, such as what I get with my current QWERTY keyed phone, I found that I had a lot of mistyped letters on the screen. That would probably be a deal breaker for me, personally.
I really want the iPhone to succeed because it is a cool product with a lot of cool new ideas. The more the iPhone succeeds the better the market on the whole will get, as more and more competitors start including many of the iPhone's features. But I just can't help but wonder if the iPhone will ever be able to live up to its own hype.
*Note: while I refuse to give Cingular any more of my money after the way they treated me before, like a good little geek I did have to play with the demo phones in the store. If the next version of the iPhone is released on a cross-carrier basis and it's a little more reasonably priced, I would probably consider it.
Well, I've seen a few on college campuses that will accept student IDs and deduct from a student's cash spending account (Tulane and Vanderbilt are two with this type of vending machine), but never one that will accept a major credit/debit card.
I'm at the point where I actually get pissed when I see somebody writing a check these days. Especially when they're standing there with their checkbook open and I can SEE their debit card in their wallet. In fact, lately I've been noticing more and more places that won't even take checks. The local McDonald's is one. The Hooters I went to last night was another. Hell, the only thing I pay by check every month is my parking spot becuase the guy doesn't offer another form of payment. And I have a tendency to forget about him becuase of this fact, too.
I see no reason to ever need to write a check aside from monthly bills. I've got 4 different bank accounts at 4 different banks and everyone of them issue debit cards as standard. Are there actually banks out there who don't issue debit cards?
The same thing goes with cash. About the only things I ever use cash for are soda vending machines and strippers. And I think it's only a matter of time before the former start offering debit card payments.
Firstly, I think a lot of this depends on your geographical area. In a lot of parts of the country, a person with sufficient credit will find that their mortgage is less than their rent payments for an apartment half the size of the house. At that point, it only make sense to purchase a house. I know a lot of people tend to be anti-debt, but just like with a business, debt financing for assets isn't necessarily a bad thing. Now, I'm not talking about going out and financing a 60" plasma TV. That TV will do nothing but depreciate in value, and will not contribute anything to your overall ability to generate wealth. Now a house, on the other hand, will generally appreciate in value and so it makes sense to finance one, so long as you can make the payments -- especially if the payments are less than rent. A car, while it won't appreciate in value, usually contributes to one's ability to generate wealth by transporting them to and from their employment, so A car makes sense to finance in that case.
Anyway, it's all a moot point if you have no credit history, as you'll not be able to buy a house without one. Living off the grid is fine as long as you don't desire to own anything of significant value until much later in life (assuming that you are able to save up the case to buy said significant value item).
Personally, I think the question poster just sounds like an immature kid who wants to complain about not getting his way. I can't see why he wouldn't want a bank account and a desire to obtain credit unless he truly desired to live incognito, off the grid. If that were the case, he's already failed by attending university. Attending university generates a whole ton of paperwork, and not just at the university itself. You also have things such as the FAFSA application that you are required to fill out each year, which is basically a government credit check to determine how much student aid you are elligible for.
So, the poster says he doesn't trust banks. Why not? I would genuinely be interested to hear of a legitimate reason not to trust a federally insured institution with my hard earned dollars. It may make me think twice about storing my own money in a bank. Yeah, banks may make mistakes from time to time, but one just needs to keep track of their balance in their account and pay attention to their transaction statements. This is no different from needing to keep track of how much cash one has on hand at all times. The only thing I can think of is that the student is either a) earning his money through illicit means and attempting to keep the authorities from discovering this fact and/or b) is illegally misreporting his yearly earnings in order to perpetrate financial fraud against various agents of the government -- he's trying not to pay taxes and/or he's trying to keep his income level low enough to qualify for federal student aid. Or maybe c) he's just a naieve kid who doesn't have any real reason aside from some silly, paranoid, mistrust of any sort of authority.
My advice to the poster: grow up. Open a bank account or get a money order and quit belly aching. You'll need to do it eventually if you ever plan to have a real job.
By illegal fuel they most likely meant off-road only diesel. Farmers are allowed to purchase a special grade of off-road only diesel, usually dyed a different color for identification purposes, in order to run farm equipment off of. The taxes are lower, hence the illegality of using the fuel in a road going vehicle. In many rual areas, you can even find off-road diesel pumps at gas stations next to the regular road vehicle fuel pumps.
That said, I know of a few farmers who've put in a gallon or two of their off-road diesel stock in order to get to the pumps and fill up their trucks. It happens and I'm sure there are those out there who try to save a few pennies by completely filling up from their stock of diesel. Kind of funny when you consider that right now pump diesel is cheaper than regular gas.
Not to mention all the publicity he gives Rockstar... Aha! Maybe that's just it! Maybe all along he's secretly been a Rockstar shill sent out to cause a ruckus about their most recent games and therby generate massive ammounts of publicity.
Now we just need a judge with enough balls to assess such a penalty. Of course, this says nothing about the judges in the courts above him. I'm afriad that even if this judge were to assess such penalties, the penalties would be overturned on appeal by a higher court. But maybe I'm just being too pessimistic.
I'm still trying to figure out how it's faster. It seems like you've a couple of extra steps to the process in between the take out penis and replace penis stages.
Also, sounds like you guys need more sound deadening in your office. That is kind of gross that you can hear other people pissing while you're on the phone, but conversely did you ever think that everybody in your office knows that you sit to pee because they can't hear you pee?;)
It is, unfortunately, more common than you think. I used to have a (girl)friend who was a toilet seat nazi. If it was at her place, fine. Her hour, her rules, and I put the lid down becuase I respected that. But what got me was when she would come over to my place and come out of the bathroom bitching about how the toilet seat was always up. My response to her once, when I'd finally had enough, was along the lines of:
"No shit. There are three guys living here. Now leave it the fuck up."
...I'm wondering if that's because they don't generally have such things or they do but they're ignorant of this. I'd chose the latter instead of the former. Almost every newer vehicle I've driven in the last 10 years has had some sort of electronic security method in the vehicle ignition. My '95 Oldsmobile had it. My '03 Honda Civic has it. Both of my parents' cars have it. My dad's old '94 Cadillac even had it and that was even worse since the keys were also gold plated, meaning it cost an arm and a leg to replace the key. I want to say that my '91 Jimmy had it, but I might be lying since I can't remember. Suffice it to say that it's not uncommon these days.
That reminds me of the time we found that Dad's trunk release button for his Cadillac activated the panic button on the alarm of a nearby car. It was funny for about 30 seconds until we realized that if his trunk release opened the other guy's trunk then there may be somebody else out there whose remote would unlock his doors.
I think it was a typo. They meant they want to track student asses. You know, the jackasses who get drunk and trash parts of the campus or the ones who think "Animal House" was a video student manual on how to act when at college. Clearly you didn't have enough fun in college.;)
Actually, just last week I was talking to one of my help desk guys. He was on his way to replace a motherboard because... you guessed it. The user didn't shut down when swapping his keyboard with the "better" one that used to belong to a guy who just left. It still happens. Unfortunately.
Actually, back when I used to do desktop support, I would occasionally rearrange keys on users who really pissed me off. I tried to keep it as subtle as possible. Usually just swap the N and M keys and the ; and ' keys since neither of those are really obvious at first glance. Occasionally, I'd also swap the numpad keys around so that they were in the phone keypad style, but on a lot of keyboards, that's immediately noticable since not all of the numpad keys are shaped the same on some of them.
It was always a lot of fun to see their reaction, though.:)
Yahoo isn't bad, but my personal experience with it is that it can sometimes be a little overzealous. My mom uses one of those free fax services for her small business. Despite some of my suggestions to recitify the situation, she still finds the email from the company landing in her spam folder, and her receiving her faxes late. I haven't looked at it myself yet, but my mom isn't exactly computer illiterate so I trust that she has at least looked for a "NOT SPAM" button to mark.
Interesting statistics about my Yahoo account, though: bulk mail folder goes back to 6/2006. That may be the last time I emptied it (doubt it -- I use the account so little that I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted), or it may just be that I recieve so little spam there. From 6/2006 to 4/2007 there doesn't appear to be any mail in my Bulk mail folder. Maybe Yahoo automatically empties my bulk mail and for some reason has missed the two from 2006. Whatever the reason, I have 145 emails from the last month in my bulk mail folder. During that same period, I received 23 Spam emails in my Inbox for a total of 13.6% uncaught messages. That's not as bad as Hotmail, but not as good as I would wish. While acceptable, It's still not as good as my Gmail address.
Other random statistic... 87 total emails in my inbox, about 10 of which are from the Netscape.com mailing list, 7 of which are from Yahoo! itself back in 2004 detailing various aspects of their email service and my old Geocities page I may not be aware of, and 4 of which are legitimate emails addressed to me back in 2003 when I last actively used the account. That means that I've only received 66 spam emails in my inbox in the last few years, although that could be mostly attributable to a lower overall email volume at that account.
Take these numbers for whatever they're worth. Yahoo's not too bad, IMHO, but I still think Google does a little better job (much higher volume at my Gmail account versus fewer emails that slip through the cracks).
Actually, my last boss has a CCW and we were talking about this just a couple of weeks ago. A sign at a business does indeed trump your right to carry in that location. A business is defined as private property. Legally, when entering private property, a permit holder must declare his weapon and ask permission to carry it on the premises. If that permissions is denied, the permit holder must dispense of his weapon before entering the property. A sign at the door acts as a continuous denial of CCW carriers, and therefore does indeed trump your state issued permit.
In practice, I'm not sure how often the declaration-entry process actually happens, but that is apparently what's supposed to happen. I'm not sure what the consequences are, but should you draw while on a person's private property without their knowledge of the gun, I think you would at least be liable for any personal property damage, if not more. A lot of people take a rather cavalier attitude about somebody obtaining a concealed carry permit, but due to the training and the laws involved, the permit in fact makes the carrier more aware of his actions and the consequences that could follow those actions. I would trust a permit holder to be more responsible with his weapon in a stressful situation than I would your average weekend sportsman who has not taken the CCW course.
I'm surprised that much actually made it to your inbox. I get a ton of spam at my Gmail account, but I've found their spam filters to be surprisingly effective. I think the number of emails that actually reach my inbox is on the order of 3 - 5 per month. The rest get filed as spam where I never have to look at them.
This is in stark contrast to my Hotmail account (yeah, yeah, I know, but I've had the account since before MS bought Hotmail) where about 90% of the spam makes it to my inbox. I've found Gmail to be pretty good...
I agree wholehartedly. I finally came back to GTASA last month with the intenet of finishing it up. I forgot how annoying the whole eating/exercising thing was. Eating restores health? Fine. Lose health if you don't eat enough? WTF. Exercising makes you stronger? Great. I have to keep exercising to maintain those muscles? I don't even do that in real life!
The dressing didn't bother me too much towards the end. Eventually I picked out some nice duds and just wore them for the rest of the game. What was annoying was the damn load times between trying on clothes. I'm sure that was just a PS2 problem, but it was stupid as hell.
The whole girlfriend thing seemed kind of pointless as well. Was there any benefit to any of the girlfriends other than the kinky one from whom you stole some kind of swipe card?
I also hated how you had to go to friggin' "flight school" just to begin to be able to fly aircraft. I think most of us could have picked it up right away, especially after Vice City. But hey! At least he could swim.
Main problem with the Dell's is that they are horribly noisy. This is not something that reviewers think worth a mention for some reason. And when you do find comments they can be useless. I'm surprised to hear you say this. I've generally found my Dells to be quieter machines than most of my others and/or most others that I've worked on in the past. Most machines that I have here seem to have loud, noisy fans and loud hard drives that make that horrible whining sound and of course make a lot of noise when actively reading/writing to the computer. My Dells have typically had better quality hard drives that make less noise, and slightly higher quality fans with built in temperature sensors to throttle the fans as necessary. I always found my current primary machine (Dimension 8300) to be quiet enough until I had to replace the power supply with some off the shelf unit from CompUSA.
That said, they can't compete with a home built machine with quality fans. Dell has to cut costs somewhere and it doesn't make sense for them to toss in a couple of Panaflo's when the average consumer won't know any better. They just have to be slightly better than the rest, and in my experience they are. (Actually, my queitest machine of all of them is my Dimension 8100, but that's probably because it has a bad motherboard.)
The major difference between the two operating systems being that Windows is the 600lb. gorilla of the industry, and so you are almost guaranteed to have a driver for a pice of hardware as long as it is relatively current.
Point of example would be the video hardware in one of my laptops. The GPU is a somewhat obscure chip that I wasn't even familiar with when I inherited the laptop. While the hardware had support in Windows, I have so far not had much luck finding dedicated Linux drivers for this piece of hardware. It's not a huge deal to me as there is a generic driver that works. (It just means that I'm limited to 1024x768 resolution on the LCD, and it doesn't look that bad either.) But, it is a case of a piece of hardware being used in a mass marketed laptop (Compaq something or other my mom purchased in 2002) that doesn't appear to have Linux support.
But then driver support has always been a bit of an issue when compared to Windows. 5 - 6 years ago, I had serious issues getting my Voodoo 3 3000 to work properly under Linux. In the end, I would just reboot in to Windows to play Quake 3 since it was easier than trying to figure out why Linux was having issues with the 3D driver.
The problem is that the article is a little light on details. They mention a subpoena, but not a warrant. Did they mean a warrant?
Actually, I don't see where probable cause even factored in to this article. Stating that an open WAP is sufficient for probable cause, would mean that an officer drove by, noticed that a particular house had an open WAP, and then traipsed off to obtain a warrant to search the house becuase having an open WAP is indicative of "X-Y-Z".
According to the friendly article, this investigation started due to an IM sent from a yahoo account. This account was then tracked back to the house's address via the orriginating IP address. The link between the IM account and the address would have been enough for the investiagion, allowing a warrant to be issued and the house to be searched. That should have been the probable cause to issue the search warrant. Upon searching the house, they police found a stack of CDs in the guy's room with child pornography. Case closed. End of story.
It appears to be the defendant himself who is trying to draw the link between an open WAP and that being the source of probable cause for the investigation. That's pure FUD. The IP address linked to the IM was the probable cause. This could happen to somebody with a secured WAP or no WAP at all. Where's the open WAP come in to the picture? To my knowledge, the police didn't even mention the WAP in their presentation of evidence for a search warrant. The defendant's merely attempting to confuse the issue with the open WAP defense. In this case, the physical presence of the pornographic materials on site was more than enough evidence to convict him.
Any one of use could get our houses searched due to this same process of discovery, open WAP or no WAP. This guy's just pissed because he's about to get gang raped in prison.
How did this not get modded flamebait? This post has absolutely nothing to do with open WAPs and is an intentionally inflamatory comment, posted no doubt with the hopes that others will respond with similarly inflamatory comments about our rights to own guns.
Mods, please review your guidelines. (Specifically the part about not modding comments simply becuase you may or may not agree with the poster's sentiments.)
I'm sure that inkjet would be cost effective for me if only the cartridges would stop drying out. I don't print that often, and find that most of the time the ink has dried up before I have the time to use even half of it. This is why I gave up on my old ink jet printer. The last time I tried to use it was over 2 years ago, when I realized that my ink cartridges had yet again dried out. I managed to acquire a used HP LaserJet 2100 not long after that, and have never looked back. It's not the fastest printer in the world, but I print pretty rarely, and I don't have to buy new ink cartridges for it every time I do want to print something. HP toner isn't exactly cheap, but I have yet to replace the toner that came with it when I bought it. Also, a quick Froogle search shows that toner can be had for as little $9. That should last ~5000 pages as well. In the end, it's turned out to be a much better investment as I've already achieved a lower cost/page than with my inkjet printer. And for those rare times that I do have to print in color... well, I either go to Kinko's or drive to my mom's store and borrow her color inkjet that always has working cartridges.:)
"Yeah, but when the printer costs $50, and a new manufacturer ink cartridge costs $45, I'm willing to go with the $20 third-party cartridge and risk having to buy a new printer." Depends on what kind of printer you have. The higher-quality printers you wouldn't do that. If he's only paying $50 for a printer, it's not going to be a higher quality printer. When you buy a cheap inkjet printer at that price point, you pretty much count on it being disposable. You use it for as long as you can, use the cheap ink, and when it does finally break, count yourself grateful that you got more than 3 months out of it.
Anyway, I think your "question" (what kind of printer?) was answered in the GP's post.
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Actually, I happened to be in an AT&T store this weekend* and overheard a couple of people complaining to the store reps that they couldn't activate their iPhone. Their problem actually lied in being unable to install XP SP2 on their computer, but like most non-technologically inclined consumers they didn't understand that this was a PC/Microsoft problem. They were pissed and the poor Cingular/AT&T/name-of-the-day reps had no idea how to help the customers. And who can blame the customers either? They just spent $500-$600 on a new "superphone" and can't even use the thing.
I played with the iPhone and it is a very cool phone. Just like the iPod, the iPhone interface is extremely intuitive. My only complaint was that I found the onscreen keyboard hard to use. Without any sort of tactile feedback, such as what I get with my current QWERTY keyed phone, I found that I had a lot of mistyped letters on the screen. That would probably be a deal breaker for me, personally.
I really want the iPhone to succeed because it is a cool product with a lot of cool new ideas. The more the iPhone succeeds the better the market on the whole will get, as more and more competitors start including many of the iPhone's features. But I just can't help but wonder if the iPhone will ever be able to live up to its own hype.
*Note: while I refuse to give Cingular any more of my money after the way they treated me before, like a good little geek I did have to play with the demo phones in the store. If the next version of the iPhone is released on a cross-carrier basis and it's a little more reasonably priced, I would probably consider it.
Well, I've seen a few on college campuses that will accept student IDs and deduct from a student's cash spending account (Tulane and Vanderbilt are two with this type of vending machine), but never one that will accept a major credit/debit card.
I'm at the point where I actually get pissed when I see somebody writing a check these days. Especially when they're standing there with their checkbook open and I can SEE their debit card in their wallet. In fact, lately I've been noticing more and more places that won't even take checks. The local McDonald's is one. The Hooters I went to last night was another. Hell, the only thing I pay by check every month is my parking spot becuase the guy doesn't offer another form of payment. And I have a tendency to forget about him becuase of this fact, too.
I see no reason to ever need to write a check aside from monthly bills. I've got 4 different bank accounts at 4 different banks and everyone of them issue debit cards as standard. Are there actually banks out there who don't issue debit cards?
The same thing goes with cash. About the only things I ever use cash for are soda vending machines and strippers. And I think it's only a matter of time before the former start offering debit card payments.
Firstly, I think a lot of this depends on your geographical area. In a lot of parts of the country, a person with sufficient credit will find that their mortgage is less than their rent payments for an apartment half the size of the house. At that point, it only make sense to purchase a house. I know a lot of people tend to be anti-debt, but just like with a business, debt financing for assets isn't necessarily a bad thing. Now, I'm not talking about going out and financing a 60" plasma TV. That TV will do nothing but depreciate in value, and will not contribute anything to your overall ability to generate wealth. Now a house, on the other hand, will generally appreciate in value and so it makes sense to finance one, so long as you can make the payments -- especially if the payments are less than rent. A car, while it won't appreciate in value, usually contributes to one's ability to generate wealth by transporting them to and from their employment, so A car makes sense to finance in that case.
Anyway, it's all a moot point if you have no credit history, as you'll not be able to buy a house without one. Living off the grid is fine as long as you don't desire to own anything of significant value until much later in life (assuming that you are able to save up the case to buy said significant value item).
Personally, I think the question poster just sounds like an immature kid who wants to complain about not getting his way. I can't see why he wouldn't want a bank account and a desire to obtain credit unless he truly desired to live incognito, off the grid. If that were the case, he's already failed by attending university. Attending university generates a whole ton of paperwork, and not just at the university itself. You also have things such as the FAFSA application that you are required to fill out each year, which is basically a government credit check to determine how much student aid you are elligible for.
So, the poster says he doesn't trust banks. Why not? I would genuinely be interested to hear of a legitimate reason not to trust a federally insured institution with my hard earned dollars. It may make me think twice about storing my own money in a bank. Yeah, banks may make mistakes from time to time, but one just needs to keep track of their balance in their account and pay attention to their transaction statements. This is no different from needing to keep track of how much cash one has on hand at all times. The only thing I can think of is that the student is either a) earning his money through illicit means and attempting to keep the authorities from discovering this fact and/or b) is illegally misreporting his yearly earnings in order to perpetrate financial fraud against various agents of the government -- he's trying not to pay taxes and/or he's trying to keep his income level low enough to qualify for federal student aid. Or maybe c) he's just a naieve kid who doesn't have any real reason aside from some silly, paranoid, mistrust of any sort of authority.
My advice to the poster: grow up. Open a bank account or get a money order and quit belly aching. You'll need to do it eventually if you ever plan to have a real job.
By illegal fuel they most likely meant off-road only diesel. Farmers are allowed to purchase a special grade of off-road only diesel, usually dyed a different color for identification purposes, in order to run farm equipment off of. The taxes are lower, hence the illegality of using the fuel in a road going vehicle. In many rual areas, you can even find off-road diesel pumps at gas stations next to the regular road vehicle fuel pumps.
That said, I know of a few farmers who've put in a gallon or two of their off-road diesel stock in order to get to the pumps and fill up their trucks. It happens and I'm sure there are those out there who try to save a few pennies by completely filling up from their stock of diesel. Kind of funny when you consider that right now pump diesel is cheaper than regular gas.
Very sneaky Rockstar.
Now we just need a judge with enough balls to assess such a penalty. Of course, this says nothing about the judges in the courts above him. I'm afriad that even if this judge were to assess such penalties, the penalties would be overturned on appeal by a higher court. But maybe I'm just being too pessimistic.
I'm still trying to figure out how it's faster. It seems like you've a couple of extra steps to the process in between the take out penis and replace penis stages.
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Also, sounds like you guys need more sound deadening in your office. That is kind of gross that you can hear other people pissing while you're on the phone, but conversely did you ever think that everybody in your office knows that you sit to pee because they can't hear you pee?
It is, unfortunately, more common than you think. I used to have a (girl)friend who was a toilet seat nazi. If it was at her place, fine. Her hour, her rules, and I put the lid down becuase I respected that. But what got me was when she would come over to my place and come out of the bathroom bitching about how the toilet seat was always up. My response to her once, when I'd finally had enough, was along the lines of:
"No shit. There are three guys living here. Now leave it the fuck up."
I think that pretty much ended the discussion.
I think that find is a little out of the ordinary, though. How about coming up with a better example of a typical salvage find?
...I'm wondering if that's because they don't generally have such things or they do but they're ignorant of this. I'd chose the latter instead of the former. Almost every newer vehicle I've driven in the last 10 years has had some sort of electronic security method in the vehicle ignition. My '95 Oldsmobile had it. My '03 Honda Civic has it. Both of my parents' cars have it. My dad's old '94 Cadillac even had it and that was even worse since the keys were also gold plated, meaning it cost an arm and a leg to replace the key. I want to say that my '91 Jimmy had it, but I might be lying since I can't remember. Suffice it to say that it's not uncommon these days.That reminds me of the time we found that Dad's trunk release button for his Cadillac activated the panic button on the alarm of a nearby car. It was funny for about 30 seconds until we realized that if his trunk release opened the other guy's trunk then there may be somebody else out there whose remote would unlock his doors.
Actually, just last week I was talking to one of my help desk guys. He was on his way to replace a motherboard because... you guessed it. The user didn't shut down when swapping his keyboard with the "better" one that used to belong to a guy who just left. It still happens. Unfortunately.
Actually, back when I used to do desktop support, I would occasionally rearrange keys on users who really pissed me off. I tried to keep it as subtle as possible. Usually just swap the N and M keys and the ; and ' keys since neither of those are really obvious at first glance. Occasionally, I'd also swap the numpad keys around so that they were in the phone keypad style, but on a lot of keyboards, that's immediately noticable since not all of the numpad keys are shaped the same on some of them.
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It was always a lot of fun to see their reaction, though.
Yahoo isn't bad, but my personal experience with it is that it can sometimes be a little overzealous. My mom uses one of those free fax services for her small business. Despite some of my suggestions to recitify the situation, she still finds the email from the company landing in her spam folder, and her receiving her faxes late. I haven't looked at it myself yet, but my mom isn't exactly computer illiterate so I trust that she has at least looked for a "NOT SPAM" button to mark.
Interesting statistics about my Yahoo account, though: bulk mail folder goes back to 6/2006. That may be the last time I emptied it (doubt it -- I use the account so little that I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted), or it may just be that I recieve so little spam there. From 6/2006 to 4/2007 there doesn't appear to be any mail in my Bulk mail folder. Maybe Yahoo automatically empties my bulk mail and for some reason has missed the two from 2006. Whatever the reason, I have 145 emails from the last month in my bulk mail folder. During that same period, I received 23 Spam emails in my Inbox for a total of 13.6% uncaught messages. That's not as bad as Hotmail, but not as good as I would wish. While acceptable, It's still not as good as my Gmail address.
Other random statistic... 87 total emails in my inbox, about 10 of which are from the Netscape.com mailing list, 7 of which are from Yahoo! itself back in 2004 detailing various aspects of their email service and my old Geocities page I may not be aware of, and 4 of which are legitimate emails addressed to me back in 2003 when I last actively used the account. That means that I've only received 66 spam emails in my inbox in the last few years, although that could be mostly attributable to a lower overall email volume at that account.
Take these numbers for whatever they're worth. Yahoo's not too bad, IMHO, but I still think Google does a little better job (much higher volume at my Gmail account versus fewer emails that slip through the cracks).
Actually, my last boss has a CCW and we were talking about this just a couple of weeks ago. A sign at a business does indeed trump your right to carry in that location. A business is defined as private property. Legally, when entering private property, a permit holder must declare his weapon and ask permission to carry it on the premises. If that permissions is denied, the permit holder must dispense of his weapon before entering the property. A sign at the door acts as a continuous denial of CCW carriers, and therefore does indeed trump your state issued permit.
In practice, I'm not sure how often the declaration-entry process actually happens, but that is apparently what's supposed to happen. I'm not sure what the consequences are, but should you draw while on a person's private property without their knowledge of the gun, I think you would at least be liable for any personal property damage, if not more. A lot of people take a rather cavalier attitude about somebody obtaining a concealed carry permit, but due to the training and the laws involved, the permit in fact makes the carrier more aware of his actions and the consequences that could follow those actions. I would trust a permit holder to be more responsible with his weapon in a stressful situation than I would your average weekend sportsman who has not taken the CCW course.
Oh yeah. IANAL.
I'm surprised that much actually made it to your inbox. I get a ton of spam at my Gmail account, but I've found their spam filters to be surprisingly effective. I think the number of emails that actually reach my inbox is on the order of 3 - 5 per month. The rest get filed as spam where I never have to look at them.
This is in stark contrast to my Hotmail account (yeah, yeah, I know, but I've had the account since before MS bought Hotmail) where about 90% of the spam makes it to my inbox. I've found Gmail to be pretty good...
I agree wholehartedly. I finally came back to GTASA last month with the intenet of finishing it up. I forgot how annoying the whole eating/exercising thing was. Eating restores health? Fine. Lose health if you don't eat enough? WTF. Exercising makes you stronger? Great. I have to keep exercising to maintain those muscles? I don't even do that in real life!
The dressing didn't bother me too much towards the end. Eventually I picked out some nice duds and just wore them for the rest of the game. What was annoying was the damn load times between trying on clothes. I'm sure that was just a PS2 problem, but it was stupid as hell.
The whole girlfriend thing seemed kind of pointless as well. Was there any benefit to any of the girlfriends other than the kinky one from whom you stole some kind of swipe card?
I also hated how you had to go to friggin' "flight school" just to begin to be able to fly aircraft. I think most of us could have picked it up right away, especially after Vice City. But hey! At least he could swim.
That said, they can't compete with a home built machine with quality fans. Dell has to cut costs somewhere and it doesn't make sense for them to toss in a couple of Panaflo's when the average consumer won't know any better. They just have to be slightly better than the rest, and in my experience they are. (Actually, my queitest machine of all of them is my Dimension 8100, but that's probably because it has a bad motherboard.)
The major difference between the two operating systems being that Windows is the 600lb. gorilla of the industry, and so you are almost guaranteed to have a driver for a pice of hardware as long as it is relatively current.
Point of example would be the video hardware in one of my laptops. The GPU is a somewhat obscure chip that I wasn't even familiar with when I inherited the laptop. While the hardware had support in Windows, I have so far not had much luck finding dedicated Linux drivers for this piece of hardware. It's not a huge deal to me as there is a generic driver that works. (It just means that I'm limited to 1024x768 resolution on the LCD, and it doesn't look that bad either.) But, it is a case of a piece of hardware being used in a mass marketed laptop (Compaq something or other my mom purchased in 2002) that doesn't appear to have Linux support.
But then driver support has always been a bit of an issue when compared to Windows. 5 - 6 years ago, I had serious issues getting my Voodoo 3 3000 to work properly under Linux. In the end, I would just reboot in to Windows to play Quake 3 since it was easier than trying to figure out why Linux was having issues with the 3D driver.
The problem is that the article is a little light on details. They mention a subpoena, but not a warrant. Did they mean a warrant?
Actually, I don't see where probable cause even factored in to this article. Stating that an open WAP is sufficient for probable cause, would mean that an officer drove by, noticed that a particular house had an open WAP, and then traipsed off to obtain a warrant to search the house becuase having an open WAP is indicative of "X-Y-Z".
According to the friendly article, this investigation started due to an IM sent from a yahoo account. This account was then tracked back to the house's address via the orriginating IP address. The link between the IM account and the address would have been enough for the investiagion, allowing a warrant to be issued and the house to be searched. That should have been the probable cause to issue the search warrant. Upon searching the house, they police found a stack of CDs in the guy's room with child pornography. Case closed. End of story.
It appears to be the defendant himself who is trying to draw the link between an open WAP and that being the source of probable cause for the investigation. That's pure FUD. The IP address linked to the IM was the probable cause. This could happen to somebody with a secured WAP or no WAP at all. Where's the open WAP come in to the picture? To my knowledge, the police didn't even mention the WAP in their presentation of evidence for a search warrant. The defendant's merely attempting to confuse the issue with the open WAP defense. In this case, the physical presence of the pornographic materials on site was more than enough evidence to convict him.
Any one of use could get our houses searched due to this same process of discovery, open WAP or no WAP. This guy's just pissed because he's about to get gang raped in prison.
How did this not get modded flamebait? This post has absolutely nothing to do with open WAPs and is an intentionally inflamatory comment, posted no doubt with the hopes that others will respond with similarly inflamatory comments about our rights to own guns.
Mods, please review your guidelines. (Specifically the part about not modding comments simply becuase you may or may not agree with the poster's sentiments.)
Anyway, I think your "question" (what kind of printer?) was answered in the GP's post.