I know precisely how it's pronounced. And that is, in fact, how I pronounce it when I speak it out loud. Among those I know who have a simliar opinion of Fox News, they all prounounce it Faux News, too.
The the owner(s) are afraid their IT people will back up (and document) their porn collections? Seriously, there may be very rational reasons they don't want you looking at their computers.
(A guy I knew quit a fairly good paying job when his boss, the owner, wouldn't allow him to put up any kind of firewall, specifically because he didn't want any logs of his porn downloading.)
Are you referring to the criminals running the botnets, or to the crusaders who combat them? Because if your evolutionary pressure applies to one, it certainly must apply to the other.
... and pay our fees, and publish only using our proprietary DRM that requires that our server still be up and running before you can read what you've paid for, but we'll shut that server down if we don't make enough money off this.
Kindle's bad enough on the "you can't buy this, only rent it, and we won't even promise you can read it once" business model. No, this isn't a threat to Kindle.
I hate to say it, but Craig's List has been a spam haven for some time. Some parts of better than other, but at least 90% (really) of everything in the personals section is pure, 100% spam and scam. Very little of the community section is real now, too.
Most of the top 1000 sites are in the top 1000 because they're indexed by Google. In other words, if 1001-2000 suddenly become 1-1000, very few people will even notice the difference.
The flash memory itself is actually fairly robuts, and easier (or, rather, cheaper) to recover from than a trashed hard drive. Googling for "flash drive recovery service" produces 2.5 million hits, and a lot of it is software you can use yourself. Some tests have involved driving nails through camera memory cards, and all but a handful of pictures being recovered with minimal effort.
I'm pretty sure you have a damned good point there, but I was so distracted by the use of the made up word "unrelentlessly," used in such as way to be mean the exact opposite of what it would actually mean if it were a real word, that I must have missed it.
(The real problem is the concept of publicly held corporations. Once you allow them, the only way to judge whether or not the people running the company are fullfilling their obligations to their investors is the bottom line. For Disney's execs to act any other way would be criminal.)
Suddently, all the technobable makes perfect sense. Of course it's jibberish! It's because the characters really are just making up words as they go, beccause they don't understand it either! The computers run everything, and design and build themselves. The characters are allowed to believe they're in charge, but they're really just lab rats in a maze, experimental subjects for the Master Computers to collect data on.
A 1% error rate will produce a hundred times as many false positives - all innocent people accused of a crime - as real positives. And a 20% error rate is far, far more likely.
Scams like this are the reason why you have to show up at airports three hours early now.
Is it smart enough to knwo that "terroristic" isn't a real word, at least?
Speaking of aguring from ignorance. Or at least illiteracy. I didn't say non-ionizing radiation was harmless. I said it was different from ionizing radiation. Which it is. And I also said, which you completely ignored, that this guy has household appliacnes that put out more of it than his precious garlic will be exposed to from a cell tower, or whatever the hell it is he's opposed to.
Fact is, anybody who lives in a modern, technological society is constantly exposed to EM radiation across all the spectra, all the time, every day. And has been for decades. The more you pretend that has not been pointed out, the more I will laugh at your claims.
Yeah, the difference is between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. And most people can't grasp there is a difference, much less what it is, even when you explain it to them. Hell, you and I put out radiation. The guy's television puts out more EM radiation than a cell phone. So, probably, does his refrigerator. And, for that matter, whatever equipment he uses to plant and harvest his crop.
We need to figure out how to run cars on stupidity, because it really is an infinite resource. Oh, wait, I live (and drive) in southern California, where, judging by the traffic on the freeway every day, we *have*.
The problem in IT jobs is that not all decisions should or will be made on technical grounds. The best technical decision may be too expensive, too time consuming to deploy, or have any of a million other fatal flaws. And the managers need to know that. And when a decision needs to be made on non-technical grounds, the manager needs to make it anyway. This can often make them asses from the perspective of their employees, and it literally becomes a case of being nice or being competent.
IT people so often deal with very objective situations, where there is a clear right and wrong, that we often have difficulty understanding that there is a bigger picture, and we get testy when that bigger pictuer intrudes in our safe little world.
While there are nice, competent people in any field, they are exceedinly rare. To refuse to work for someone who is not both is to spend a lot of time selling pencils on the street corner.
And often, bosses must be jerks, by the standards of their employees. It's part of being competent to make the tough decisions, and implement them.
The nicest guy I ever worked for laid me off, and told me he had no choice because my next paycheck would bounce anyway. He lost the business a few months later. The best boss I've ever worked for can be a complete ass, but he really is almost always right, and the smartest guy I've ever, ever worked for. I've never once worred about my paycheck bouncing.
Aside from what buggy bloatware their crappy AV is, the last time I worked on a new computer with a "trial" verison of Norton, I discovered that I couldn't completely uninstall their crapware even in safe mode. So where do I sign up? I want to report Symantec for distributing malware.
Neither the networks (cable of otherwise) nor Neilson have any interest in accurate reporting. Accurate reporting would show that more and more people are using their DVRs to fast forward through pretty much all the commercials. And make no mistake, ratings are entirely and only about ratings, or, rather, the advertising rates that are based on ratings. Nothing else matters in the least. The day advertising rates are based on something else, we will never see another ratings list again.
And everyone, even the advertisers, but especially the networks and the people who make commercials, are terrified of this. They can't make commercials are aren't just annoying, it's beyond them. And people simply will not watch annoying commercials any more. On the very rare occasions I watch live TV, and it's no more than once or twice a week, I routinely (without even thinking about it) must the sound during commercials, because I refuse to let my own television scream at me that some retarded comapny wants retards to buy their retarded products (and that seems to be, literally, the gist of most of it - "OUR PRODUCTS ARE FOR STUPID PEOPLE - BUY OUR PRODUCTS OR YOU WILL DIE!").
Eventually, the truth will come out, and either televisionland will learn to make commercials that aren't offensive, or the entire advertising based business model will die. I expect the latter, given how stupid Hollywood is.
Right. And then the criminal sues you because you broke his arm or leg or whatever, as is happening with a local Pennsylvanian who hit a thief with a bat, to stop him from stealing his truck. The police arrested the homeowner, and the criminal is suing for medical expenses.
In most states, there are laws saying that one cannot proft from committing a crime. This means that they can't sue you, or rather, they can, but they can't collect any judgement. In California, for instance, if they sue and win, any money collected from the judgement is automatically sent to the Victim's Restitution Fund. Before the attorney's fees are taken out. Makes it damned hard to find a lawyer willing to work on a percentage.
If this isn't the case in your state, move to a more civilized place.
A quick search at Google will give you a list of "test" credit card numbers, used by programmers testing their software and such. Some of them will actually return "approved" results with an authorization number.
Then they have committed enough violations of the Fair Debt Collections Act to be worth going after them for the statutory damages.
If they show up at your door, call the cops. End of story.
But they won't. Ever. Nor will they sue you. Ever. Collections people who routinely break the law (and most of them do) know they do so, and know if they actually file a lawsuit to try to collect even a legitimate debt, they'll end up owing more for FDCPA violations than they're trying to collect. In many cases, whoever shows up to represent them might end up in prison for their crimes.
I don't understand why people are so afraid of debt collectors. They're helpless, and useless. Even when they're pursuing a real, legitimate debt, they routinely break the law. I had one outfit try to forge checks against my bank account, then threaten to have me arrested when their forged checks bounced (because, being morons, they told me in advance they were going to do this). From that point on, they becase The Elmer Fudd Collection Agency, lost in the woods, hunting wabbit. They tried harassing me at work, until my boss called them retarded, and I told them to sue me. "You want us to sue you?" "Yes, I want you to sue me. Because then, your actions will be supervised by the judge. You will never see a penny of my money unless you sue me." And that was a legitimate debt I wanted to pay, but they made it literally impossible to collect from me.
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it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law.
They've already proved with the blatently illegal settlement on the book scanning deal that the law doesn't apply to them.
Microsoft doesn't want you to have to have a license to use the internet. Microsoft wants you to have to pay them for a license to use the internet.
I know precisely how it's pronounced. And that is, in fact, how I pronounce it when I speak it out loud. Among those I know who have a simliar opinion of Fox News, they all prounounce it Faux News, too.
"Staged, faked and mostly naked."
Isn't that the corporate slogan for Faux News?
The the owner(s) are afraid their IT people will back up (and document) their porn collections? Seriously, there may be very rational reasons they don't want you looking at their computers.
(A guy I knew quit a fairly good paying job when his boss, the owner, wouldn't allow him to put up any kind of firewall, specifically because he didn't want any logs of his porn downloading.)
In other words, guy's too picky :-)
Not to mention shallow and narcisstic.
It's only an additional laundry cost if you don't actually launder your own clothes.
Which might be why the company wants to make you wear a uniform.
Are you referring to the criminals running the botnets, or to the crusaders who combat them? Because if your evolutionary pressure applies to one, it certainly must apply to the other.
... and pay our fees, and publish only using our proprietary DRM that requires that our server still be up and running before you can read what you've paid for, but we'll shut that server down if we don't make enough money off this.
Kindle's bad enough on the "you can't buy this, only rent it, and we won't even promise you can read it once" business model. No, this isn't a threat to Kindle.
It's a hell of a lot more likely to be true than the random dribblings of some Slashtard.
I hate to say it, but Craig's List has been a spam haven for some time. Some parts of better than other, but at least 90% (really) of everything in the personals section is pure, 100% spam and scam. Very little of the community section is real now, too.
Most of the top 1000 sites are in the top 1000 because they're indexed by Google. In other words, if 1001-2000 suddenly become 1-1000, very few people will even notice the difference.
The flash memory itself is actually fairly robuts, and easier (or, rather, cheaper) to recover from than a trashed hard drive. Googling for "flash drive recovery service" produces 2.5 million hits, and a lot of it is software you can use yourself. Some tests have involved driving nails through camera memory cards, and all but a handful of pictures being recovered with minimal effort.
I'm pretty sure you have a damned good point there, but I was so distracted by the use of the made up word "unrelentlessly," used in such as way to be mean the exact opposite of what it would actually mean if it were a real word, that I must have missed it.
(The real problem is the concept of publicly held corporations. Once you allow them, the only way to judge whether or not the people running the company are fullfilling their obligations to their investors is the bottom line. For Disney's execs to act any other way would be criminal.)
Suddently, all the technobable makes perfect sense. Of course it's jibberish! It's because the characters really are just making up words as they go, beccause they don't understand it either! The computers run everything, and design and build themselves. The characters are allowed to believe they're in charge, but they're really just lab rats in a maze, experimental subjects for the Master Computers to collect data on.
you give us another billion dollars to finish it.
Yeah, right.
A 1% error rate will produce a hundred times as many false positives - all innocent people accused of a crime - as real positives. And a 20% error rate is far, far more likely.
Scams like this are the reason why you have to show up at airports three hours early now.
Is it smart enough to knwo that "terroristic" isn't a real word, at least?
Speaking of aguring from ignorance. Or at least illiteracy. I didn't say non-ionizing radiation was harmless. I said it was different from ionizing radiation. Which it is. And I also said, which you completely ignored, that this guy has household appliacnes that put out more of it than his precious garlic will be exposed to from a cell tower, or whatever the hell it is he's opposed to.
Fact is, anybody who lives in a modern, technological society is constantly exposed to EM radiation across all the spectra, all the time, every day. And has been for decades. The more you pretend that has not been pointed out, the more I will laugh at your claims.
Yeah, the difference is between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. And most people can't grasp there is a difference, much less what it is, even when you explain it to them. Hell, you and I put out radiation. The guy's television puts out more EM radiation than a cell phone. So, probably, does his refrigerator. And, for that matter, whatever equipment he uses to plant and harvest his crop.
We need to figure out how to run cars on stupidity, because it really is an infinite resource. Oh, wait, I live (and drive) in southern California, where, judging by the traffic on the freeway every day, we *have*.
The problem in IT jobs is that not all decisions should or will be made on technical grounds. The best technical decision may be too expensive, too time consuming to deploy, or have any of a million other fatal flaws. And the managers need to know that. And when a decision needs to be made on non-technical grounds, the manager needs to make it anyway. This can often make them asses from the perspective of their employees, and it literally becomes a case of being nice or being competent.
IT people so often deal with very objective situations, where there is a clear right and wrong, that we often have difficulty understanding that there is a bigger picture, and we get testy when that bigger pictuer intrudes in our safe little world.
While there are nice, competent people in any field, they are exceedinly rare. To refuse to work for someone who is not both is to spend a lot of time selling pencils on the street corner.
And often, bosses must be jerks, by the standards of their employees. It's part of being competent to make the tough decisions, and implement them.
The nicest guy I ever worked for laid me off, and told me he had no choice because my next paycheck would bounce anyway. He lost the business a few months later. The best boss I've ever worked for can be a complete ass, but he really is almost always right, and the smartest guy I've ever, ever worked for. I've never once worred about my paycheck bouncing.
I know which I prefer.
Aside from what buggy bloatware their crappy AV is, the last time I worked on a new computer with a "trial" verison of Norton, I discovered that I couldn't completely uninstall their crapware even in safe mode. So where do I sign up? I want to report Symantec for distributing malware.
Neither the networks (cable of otherwise) nor Neilson have any interest in accurate reporting. Accurate reporting would show that more and more people are using their DVRs to fast forward through pretty much all the commercials. And make no mistake, ratings are entirely and only about ratings, or, rather, the advertising rates that are based on ratings. Nothing else matters in the least. The day advertising rates are based on something else, we will never see another ratings list again.
And everyone, even the advertisers, but especially the networks and the people who make commercials, are terrified of this. They can't make commercials are aren't just annoying, it's beyond them. And people simply will not watch annoying commercials any more. On the very rare occasions I watch live TV, and it's no more than once or twice a week, I routinely (without even thinking about it) must the sound during commercials, because I refuse to let my own television scream at me that some retarded comapny wants retards to buy their retarded products (and that seems to be, literally, the gist of most of it - "OUR PRODUCTS ARE FOR STUPID PEOPLE - BUY OUR PRODUCTS OR YOU WILL DIE!").
Eventually, the truth will come out, and either televisionland will learn to make commercials that aren't offensive, or the entire advertising based business model will die. I expect the latter, given how stupid Hollywood is.
Right. And then the criminal sues you because you broke his arm or leg or whatever, as is happening with a local Pennsylvanian who hit a thief with a bat, to stop him from stealing his truck. The police arrested the homeowner, and the criminal is suing for medical expenses.
In most states, there are laws saying that one cannot proft from committing a crime. This means that they can't sue you, or rather, they can, but they can't collect any judgement. In California, for instance, if they sue and win, any money collected from the judgement is automatically sent to the Victim's Restitution Fund. Before the attorney's fees are taken out. Makes it damned hard to find a lawyer willing to work on a percentage.
If this isn't the case in your state, move to a more civilized place.
A quick search at Google will give you a list of "test" credit card numbers, used by programmers testing their software and such. Some of them will actually return "approved" results with an authorization number.
Then they have committed enough violations of the Fair Debt Collections Act to be worth going after them for the statutory damages.
If they show up at your door, call the cops. End of story.
But they won't. Ever. Nor will they sue you. Ever. Collections people who routinely break the law (and most of them do) know they do so, and know if they actually file a lawsuit to try to collect even a legitimate debt, they'll end up owing more for FDCPA violations than they're trying to collect. In many cases, whoever shows up to represent them might end up in prison for their crimes.
I don't understand why people are so afraid of debt collectors. They're helpless, and useless. Even when they're pursuing a real, legitimate debt, they routinely break the law. I had one outfit try to forge checks against my bank account, then threaten to have me arrested when their forged checks bounced (because, being morons, they told me in advance they were going to do this). From that point on, they becase The Elmer Fudd Collection Agency, lost in the woods, hunting wabbit. They tried harassing me at work, until my boss called them retarded, and I told them to sue me. "You want us to sue you?" "Yes, I want you to sue me. Because then, your actions will be supervised by the judge. You will never see a penny of my money unless you sue me." And that was a legitimate debt I wanted to pay, but they made it literally impossible to collect from me.