Funny you should mention that. I was arguing with a guy one day at work about something Perl related. I searched google groups and found one of Randal's posts proving me right. He said, "Who the hell is that guy?". I pointed to my bookshelf. He said, "Oh." The discussion subsequently ended.
The reason that they don't require signatures is because it's a small amount. Visa and MC's policies exist to protect the bank. If a merchant accepts charge without a valid signature, they have to eat the charge. Merchants are willing to take this risk because 1) it's convenient for the customer, 2) a customer is unlikely to contest a $5 charge, even though they'd win, and 3) even if they did, the merchant doesn't care because of 1 and 2.
gnuTaxes is looking hopeful, if you're still living in 1999. From their "future release section": 1.0.0 - release gnuTax application with complete tax system definitions by end of 2000..
Seriously, these applications are not simple to write, and they change quite a bit, every year. Further, there's probably a certain amount of liability involved. You're better off sticking with one of the big commercial applications, or a web filing service. Hopefully they'll eventually write one in Java...
It would be better to put a real well-integrated user-oriented distro like JDS on them, than put together a hacked up custom job.
If you want SUSE, just install SUSE. Don't install JDS, which is what you don't want: a hacked-up, outdated version of SUSE that says "Java" and "Sun" on it.
Sun can't even get a GUI right when they borrow 95% of it...
Going to grandma's? Load up the baby pictures on the same miniscule device as the driving music (and 'Bananaphone' to keep Junior happy). Plug it into her TV Your grandma has a TV with a composite video input? Hell, I'm not that old, and both my parents' TV and my in-laws TV don't even have a freakin AV input. I couldn't even get them DVD players without buying them a new TV or a POS modulator. Sad.
1. "My cable company's DVR works just fine, why should I pay extra for a TiVO?" 2. "I don't watch TV, why do I want a TiVo?" 3. "My MythTV box only took me 3 weeks to get working, and I will probably only have to mess with the guide data stream a few times a year, and the hardware only cost twice as much as a TiVo."
They look like rubber, but anything similar would probably work. I would imagine that sound damping sheets for use in cars would work, like Dynamat. The only downside to Dynamat is that it smells like crap for a little while after applying (it's asphalt), but it will go away soon after.
My Dell 400SC has a single 120mm fan in the back. Most of the time, I can't even tell the machine is powered on. It get a little louder when it's doing something CPU intensive. It's the quietest PC I've ever owned.
BTW, you didn't even have to RTFA, you just had to RTF summary. I can't get to the article, but the summary says the steps are inexpensive, which leads me to believe that you don't have to spend loads of money.
One more thing: I am not a Dell fanboy, but Macs are expensive.
As long as we're nitpicking analogies, let's nitpick analogies as a whole. Trying to convey a point with analogies is just stupid. You can never come up with an analogy that has the same set of conditions as your point. Just stick to the facts and it's much simpler.
When you start employment with a company, you agree to a policy manual that spells these things out. In there somewhere is probably a usage policy that says that they can monitor you. In order for your analogy to apply, the husband would have had to sign an agreement giving his wife permission to log his activity. If he had, this story wouldn't be here, would it?
Humoring you: how, exactly, do you know that someone has a gun so that you can arrest him? The easiest way to tell if someone has a gun is to hear it, and when you can hear it, it might be killing people.
True Crime is "GTA style" the same way that a bicycle is "18 wheeler style". True Crime is very boring and repetitive. Screw ethics, it's a friggin video game.
... because the XBox is practically useless apart from being a front-end for MythTV. I mean, yeah it can play some games, but it has like 1/10th of the selection of good ones that are available for the Mac.
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Good god, when will people stop with the fucking riduculous analogies. If you give a DVD to a friend, you don't have it anymore. And obviously, this has nothing to do with multiple people, in the same physical location, watching the same copy. This is about making perfect, or pretty damn good, copies, and distributing them very easily in mass quantities.
I'm not saying I'm completely against downloading stuff from torrent sites -- I do it sometimes, too. But it is trademark infringement, and it is currently against the law. Just stop with the stupid comments, okay? They only make "us" look worse.
To me, this doesn't set a precedent on the dangers of blogging, it speaks more on the dangers of disclosing information that is very likely confidential. He could have blogged it, put it up on a website, or put an ad in the newspaper; I don't think google's response would have been any different.
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Funny you should mention that. I was arguing with a guy one day at work about something Perl related. I searched google groups and found one of Randal's posts proving me right. He said, "Who the hell is that guy?". I pointed to my bookshelf. He said, "Oh." The discussion subsequently ended.
This guy's experiencing a real wooden slashdotting right now. It was before the story even made it out of the mysterious future...
The reason that they don't require signatures is because it's a small amount. Visa and MC's policies exist to protect the bank. If a merchant accepts charge without a valid signature, they have to eat the charge. Merchants are willing to take this risk because 1) it's convenient for the customer, 2) a customer is unlikely to contest a $5 charge, even though they'd win, and 3) even if they did, the merchant doesn't care because of 1 and 2.
gnuTaxes is looking hopeful, if you're still living in 1999. From their "future release section":
1.0.0 - release gnuTax application with complete tax system definitions by end of 2000..
Seriously, these applications are not simple to write, and they change quite a bit, every year. Further, there's probably a certain amount of liability involved. You're better off sticking with one of the big commercial applications, or a web filing service. Hopefully they'll eventually write one in Java...
Evolution is not static.
/opt/gnome/bin/evolution | wc -l
I'll say...
jargoone@lnx:~>ldd
70
Ever heard of Active Directory? Or seen MS's educational pricing? Both of those are much more compelling than you might think.
It would be better to put a real well-integrated user-oriented distro like JDS on them, than put together a hacked up custom job.
If you want SUSE, just install SUSE. Don't install JDS, which is what you don't want: a hacked-up, outdated version of SUSE that says "Java" and "Sun" on it.
Sun can't even get a GUI right when they borrow 95% of it...
Going to grandma's? Load up the baby pictures on the same miniscule device as the driving music (and 'Bananaphone' to keep Junior happy). Plug it into her TV
Your grandma has a TV with a composite video input? Hell, I'm not that old, and both my parents' TV and my in-laws TV don't even have a freakin AV input. I couldn't even get them DVD players without buying them a new TV or a POS modulator. Sad.
Pick your poison:
1. "My cable company's DVR works just fine, why should I pay extra for a TiVO?"
2. "I don't watch TV, why do I want a TiVo?"
3. "My MythTV box only took me 3 weeks to get working, and I will probably only have to mess with the guide data stream a few times a year, and the hardware only cost twice as much as a TiVo."
We've heard them all before...
1. Create site with clever popups /.
2. Annoy someone enough to post on
3. Profit!!
Sorry, there's no "???" in there...
They look like rubber, but anything similar would probably work. I would imagine that sound damping sheets for use in cars would work, like Dynamat. The only downside to Dynamat is that it smells like crap for a little while after applying (it's asphalt), but it will go away soon after.
My Dell 400SC has a single 120mm fan in the back. Most of the time, I can't even tell the machine is powered on. It get a little louder when it's doing something CPU intensive. It's the quietest PC I've ever owned.
BTW, you didn't even have to RTFA, you just had to RTF summary. I can't get to the article, but the summary says the steps are inexpensive, which leads me to believe that you don't have to spend loads of money.
One more thing: I am not a Dell fanboy, but Macs are expensive.
What is my alternative besides Windows 2000?
Gosh, I don't know... maybe one of the dozen or so lightweight window managers in existence?
As long as we're nitpicking analogies, let's nitpick analogies as a whole. Trying to convey a point with analogies is just stupid. You can never come up with an analogy that has the same set of conditions as your point. Just stick to the facts and it's much simpler.
Yes. A notary seal isn't a necessary for a signature to be legally binding.
When you start employment with a company, you agree to a policy manual that spells these things out. In there somewhere is probably a usage policy that says that they can monitor you. In order for your analogy to apply, the husband would have had to sign an agreement giving his wife permission to log his activity. If he had, this story wouldn't be here, would it?
Humoring you: how, exactly, do you know that someone has a gun so that you can arrest him? The easiest way to tell if someone has a gun is to hear it, and when you can hear it, it might be killing people.
True Crime is "GTA style" the same way that a bicycle is "18 wheeler style". True Crime is very boring and repetitive. Screw ethics, it's a friggin video game.
I gotta ask: besides a gas station, where else would you fill a farm vehicle (i.e. a pickup truck) with gas?
http://www.pchdtv.com/
It was a bit unstable and crashed often, but it ran.
How can something be a bit unstable and yet crash often?
... because the XBox is practically useless apart from being a front-end for MythTV. I mean, yeah it can play some games, but it has like 1/10th of the selection of good ones that are available for the Mac.
You're correct -- my mistake.
Good god, when will people stop with the fucking riduculous analogies. If you give a DVD to a friend, you don't have it anymore. And obviously, this has nothing to do with multiple people, in the same physical location, watching the same copy. This is about making perfect, or pretty damn good, copies, and distributing them very easily in mass quantities.
I'm not saying I'm completely against downloading stuff from torrent sites -- I do it sometimes, too. But it is trademark infringement, and it is currently against the law. Just stop with the stupid comments, okay? They only make "us" look worse.
To me, this doesn't set a precedent on the dangers of blogging, it speaks more on the dangers of disclosing information that is very likely confidential. He could have blogged it, put it up on a website, or put an ad in the newspaper; I don't think google's response would have been any different.