So OO2007 is finally catching up to Apple's text editor circa 1996 (think QuickDrawGX with optical kerning). Now that's progress! What revolution is next?
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I wonder how they are going to explain the drop in grades? Probably blame it on the teachers or some such.
Oh hell no...they'll blame it on being "underfunded."
I back up my desktop, my PB, the wife's PB, my Dell, and my Linux server to an extra hard drive in my Desktop. Always been able to restore files that I've needed, and I've had to do one bare metal restore of my PB. Did a barebones install of 10.4.x on it, added the Retro client, clicked the mouse a few times...and came back to MY perfectly functioning PowerBook. A lot of people here will sneer at a commercial solution, but that restore paid for the software in my time and aggravation not spent.
You (or others like you) need to provide proof that God doesn't exist in order to have a reasonable platform from which to convince others that He doesn't exist.
I have thought of every possible way they could have gotten that address, and a security breach seems like the only feasible way. I have never typed those addresses anywhere else (no forums, no re-use on other sites, etc...), have never had a virus or spyware on my machine (OSX, thank you very much), so there is really one source for those addresses, the companies internal database.
anyone else experience this before?
Yeah, my wife and I both use Macs at home ("Rick, you work with Windows every day at work; why do you use Macs at home?" "Why for the same reason that someone who shovels out stables takes a shower at the end of the day.") and I run my own postfix server on our domain, and I have recipient_delimiters set to "-" so rick-foo@ and rick-bar@, etc, all get passed through to the mailbox on the left of the hyphen. My wife online shops a lot and always uses exclusive addresses for EVERYWHERE she shops. She started to get spam on one of them and angrily confronted them, and they tried to blame HER for the address getting into the wild via a harvesting virus, or her giving to someon less secure.
The upshot is that a) she'll never do business with them again and b) since I have my own mail server I get some petty revenge:
: host a.mx.example.net [00.11.123.101] said: 550
5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Rejected
due to address being sold to spamming scum (in reply to RCPT TO command)
I would think that the easiest way to get around this is if you forget the password. If your all shoken up about the case, and forget, who can argue with that?
The Marines at Guatonomo where he'd be sent because "terrorist" has been redefined (again).
One thing they didn't mention was that spammers historically (since Bayesian filters came out) put their spam in the html part of the multipart message, and filler like what's mentioned in the text part to try and train the filters. Nothing much to see here....
So Google "stands up" to the Bush administration and capitulates to the ChiComs, then in typical liberal fashion gives a useless apology for the latter afterwards.
If your world is so cut-and-dried, why is BushCo selling us to the Chinese WITHOUT an apology?
Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Except in China.
Yep, Google did evil in China...but that's a totallydifferent discussion.
Why don't companies announce immediately when they have been forced to do something by the government against their will (like Google)? As far as I was aware America is still a country where you can speak freely against the government without fear of punishment. Why not just admit it in public that you are being forced to hand over confidential information? If the banks are hiding it too, then they are as much to blame and should not be trusted.
Or is the government using threats to keep the banks quiet? If so, what threats do they use? And can anything be done about it to make sure it doesn't happen again?
In the case of the NSA tapping the phone switches, the threat was that of "future government contracts and renegotiations" which was/is CONSIDERABLE $$$. Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Make that "Russian site that isn't stealing from anybody and is completely legal but is charging less than the fat cats of big business think should be charged so said big business starts slandering said site to try to kill fair competition". Get the spelling right.
Wow, you forgot "running dogs of capitalism" in there...."
Typical Slashdot. Never R-ing TFA. Or posting about what they don't comprehend.
Typical reader not reading thoroughly or comprehending what they've read (hey, were your lips moving while you were reading?) I read the whole thing...something you apparently can't claim.
To wit, from the linked rebuttal:
The site claims to have a licence from ROMS, a Russian organisation that claims to be a collecting society. Yet ROMS has no rights from the record companies whatsoever to licence these pieces of music. ROMS and allofmp3.com are well aware that record companies have not granted authorisation for this service.
Downloading from allofmp3.com is illegal in most countries. Consumers should not be fooled by allofmp3.com but download from one the great value licensed and legitimate sites instead. Allofmp3.com clearly violates rules enshrined in national copyright laws and international copyright treaties, notably those established in the EU Copyright Directive and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Treaties. Even if one took allofmp3.com's license from ROMS as legitimate, which it is clearly not, it would still have no extra-territorial effect. As the site itself acknowledges 'you are not able to download audio and video from AllOFMP3.com if is in conflict with the laws of your country of residence.' [sic];
Jesus Christ. How can you make a snide remark about double standards and use the term "stealing" with a straight face.
Easily, because you read your own biases into that line. Think "what if he meant 'Show me a US site that sells pirated Russian music?'" and see how much of a double standard there is.
It's scary how far the US is willing to go to pressure other countries into changing their laws to suit US interests. I can almost imagine the US going to war with other countries that "don't have the same copyright laws as us".
We wouldn't give a shit if it was a Russian site stealing from Russian artists. But since it's a Russian site stealing from US artists/labels (amongst others) that's wholly a different story.
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So OO2007 is finally catching up to Apple's text editor circa 1996 (think QuickDrawGX with optical kerning). Now that's progress! What revolution is next?
I wonder how they are going to explain the drop in grades? Probably blame it on the teachers or some such.
Oh hell no...they'll blame it on being "underfunded."
I back up my desktop, my PB, the wife's PB, my Dell, and my Linux server to an extra hard drive in my Desktop. Always been able to restore files that I've needed, and I've had to do one bare metal restore of my PB. Did a barebones install of 10.4.x on it, added the Retro client, clicked the mouse a few times...and came back to MY perfectly functioning PowerBook. A lot of people here will sneer at a commercial solution, but that restore paid for the software in my time and aggravation not spent.
You (or others like you) need to provide proof that God doesn't exist in order to have a reasonable platform from which to convince others that He doesn't exist.
Prove a negative? Uhh, right.....
I have thought of every possible way they could have gotten that address, and a security breach seems like the only feasible way. I have never typed those addresses anywhere else (no forums, no re-use on other sites, etc...), have never had a virus or spyware on my machine (OSX, thank you very much), so there is really one source for those addresses, the companies internal database.
anyone else experience this before?
Yeah, my wife and I both use Macs at home ("Rick, you work with Windows every day at work; why do you use Macs at home?" "Why for the same reason that someone who shovels out stables takes a shower at the end of the day.") and I run my own postfix server on our domain, and I have recipient_delimiters set to "-" so rick-foo@ and rick-bar@, etc, all get passed through to the mailbox on the left of the hyphen.
My wife online shops a lot and always uses exclusive addresses for EVERYWHERE she shops. She started to get spam on one of them and angrily confronted them, and they tried to blame HER for the address getting into the wild via a harvesting virus, or her giving to someon less secure.
The upshot is that a) she'll never do business with them again and b) since I have my own mail server I get some petty revenge:
: host a.mx.example.net [00.11.123.101] said: 550
5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Rejected
due to address being sold to spamming scum (in reply to RCPT TO command)
I would think that the easiest way to get around this is if you forget the password. If your all shoken up about the case, and forget, who can argue with that?
The Marines at Guatonomo where he'd be sent because "terrorist" has been redefined (again).
1. Plug in external USB/Firewire drive
2. Right-click Desktop --> New shortcut
3. Type: 'rsync -avv [--delete] c:\*.* [external drive letter]'
4. Double click
NTFS perms? Owners? Registry? Open files? At best rsych'll be good for data backup, not for a machine (drive) backup.
elegant, reliable & cheap (free)
You aren't going to get all three in one package. Nope, no way.
One thing they didn't mention was that spammers historically (since Bayesian filters came out) put their spam in the html part of the multipart message, and filler like what's mentioned in the text part to try and train the filters.
Nothing much to see here....
I rememeber Apple's full page ad in the New York Times when Win95 was released:
:-)
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
Those were the days.
Geeze, my sister could even run l0phtcrack. Can't give him much credit here.
So Google "stands up" to the Bush administration and capitulates to the ChiComs, then in typical liberal fashion gives a useless apology for the latter afterwards.
If your world is so cut-and-dried, why is BushCo selling us to the Chinese WITHOUT an apology?
Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Except in China.
Yep, Google did evil in China...but that's a totallydifferent discussion.
Why don't companies announce immediately when they have been forced to do something by the government against their will (like Google)? As far as I was aware America is still a country where you can speak freely against the government without fear of punishment. Why not just admit it in public that you are being forced to hand over confidential information? If the banks are hiding it too, then they are as much to blame and should not be trusted.
Or is the government using threats to keep the banks quiet? If so, what threats do they use? And can anything be done about it to make sure it doesn't happen again?
In the case of the NSA tapping the phone switches, the threat was that of "future government contracts and renegotiations" which was/is CONSIDERABLE $$$. Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Eliminate any requirements that its customer service representatives maintain a minimum number of "saves" in order to earn a bonus;
Perhaps AOHell actually IS honoring the agreement: The CSRs don't get bonuses for retaining people, they just get fired for not retaining them.
Hello, Pavlov? I have a dog on the line....
Avast let 3 Viruses on a system in 1.5 hours, and meanwhile thought that windows was a virus.
And that's wrong how?
Make that "Russian site that isn't stealing from anybody and is completely legal but is charging less than the fat cats of big business think should be charged so said big business starts slandering said site to try to kill fair competition". Get the spelling right.
Wow, you forgot "running dogs of capitalism" in there...."
Typical Slashdot. Never R-ing TFA. Or posting about what they don't comprehend.
Typical reader not reading thoroughly or comprehending what they've read (hey, were your lips moving while you were reading?) I read the whole thing...something you apparently can't claim.
To wit, from the linked rebuttal:
The site claims to have a licence from ROMS, a Russian organisation that claims to be a collecting society. Yet ROMS has no rights from the record companies whatsoever to licence these pieces of music. ROMS and allofmp3.com are well aware that record companies have not granted authorisation for this service.
Downloading from allofmp3.com is illegal in most countries. Consumers should not be fooled by allofmp3.com but download from one the great value licensed and legitimate sites instead. Allofmp3.com clearly violates rules enshrined in national copyright laws and international copyright treaties, notably those established in the EU Copyright Directive and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Treaties. Even if one took allofmp3.com's license from ROMS as legitimate, which it is clearly not, it would still have no extra-territorial effect. As the site itself acknowledges 'you are not able to download audio and video from AllOFMP3.com if is in conflict with the laws of your country of residence.' [sic];
Jesus Christ. How can you make a snide remark about double standards and use the term "stealing" with a straight face.
Easily, because you read your own biases into that line. Think "what if he meant 'Show me a US site that sells pirated Russian music?'" and see how much of a double standard there is.
But are you saying that Russia wouldn't give a shit about about US sites stealing from Russian artists/labels (amongst others)?
Now THAT'S a hypothetical if I've ever heard one!
It's scary how far the US is willing to go to pressure other countries into changing their laws to suit US interests. I can almost imagine the US going to war with other countries that "don't have the same copyright laws as us".
We wouldn't give a shit if it was a Russian site stealing from Russian artists. But since it's a Russian site stealing from US artists/labels (amongst others) that's wholly a different story.
NewScientist is reporting on a new robot modeled on a worm to crawl through your intestines made by European researchers
European researchers certainly didn't create MY intestines!
"That's not what we call Internet at all," says Sir Tim. "That's what we call cable TV."
Beautiful line, and summed up so even a politco could understand it.
"Sorry, but due to other commitments I don't have the time or the inclination to deal with your issues now."
But Mac and Linux users comprise more than 3% of Internet users!