I hate to tell you, but it never happened. This is an AMD TV commercial (available on Youtube) saying, basically, run Nvidia and get raided for running a pot growing operation due to excessive power usage.
Oh, and a side note, in the US, the power companies DO regularly report users with sudden spikes of excessive power usage that are indicative of grow ops. This data is volunteered by the power companies, and the police do not need a warrant to collect it.
Except Satoshi didnt say Wikileaks is evil or bad or illegal or anything else the guy I replied to implied.... all he said was Bitcoin would effectively bubble up and burst, much like the housing market did and the dotbomb and whatnot.
I don't particularly agree with him on that point, and I don't think any other big name in the Bitcoin community does. We actually want to see Bitcoin get major usage sometime soon.
I'm one of the major third party developers (I wrote DiabloMiner, a OpenCL miner written in Java), and at no point has anyone in the community said they don't want to be associated with Wikileaks.
If anything, many of us have asked Julian and his associates to accept Bitcoin so we can donate to Wikileaks.
Its only likely to happen if you buy bad media. This is why I wrote this guide so people don't continually blame CDs for their own error. Oh, and its been featured on Slashdot's front page... twice.
It seems like hes paying a lot for managed service and is getting angry when they try to manage him. Just go do business with RapidXen or some other VPS/dedi provider that isn't a bunch of dicks.
Disclaimer: I am a RapidXen customer, and am quite happy with their service.
I just got the letter today, and my interpretation is if you get any MSN or Yahoo value added services or use a Verizon email address, you now access these services through a Fairpoint URL and Fairpoint email servers. You are no longer a Verizon DSL customer, you are now a Fairpoint DSL customer.
In other words, nothing has changed, you just type in a new URL from now on to access webmail and MSN/Yahoo Verizon^WFairpoint services, and you change the POP/SMTP settings in your email client.
At no point is Fairpoint blocking the real MSN and Yahoo websites nor blocking you from using MSN and Yahoo directly for your non-bundled-service services.
Actually, the credit card company won't eat the charge... Dell will, and their merchant processor will charge them a fee for a reversed charge (who in turn was also charged a fee by the bank who issued the card). Typically, Dell will pay 10-15% more than the laptop was originally worth if this isn't resolved in a favorable manner.
Most likely, as long as eleventypie has the credit card company reverse the charge, the credit card company will find in his favor just to make sure he keeps spending on that card. If Dell doesn't like it, tough: although they can sue him in small claims for it, they honestly know better not to even try, they've already lost business because of his Slashdot post.
eleventypie, you may also try contacting the Consumerist over this for additional media coverage.
Don't look at me. Whoever this anonymous coward is, he/she must have a sense of humor. I've written for Free Software Magazine three times I think, and one of those even made it to Slashdot. As much as it rocks to be linked to Slashdot twice in one day, I do not, and have never, described myself as some famous author, nor as as a famous coder, nor as any of the other things I've seen.
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the article in question. Yeah, I had laptops-charging-while-syncing in mind as well when I wrote the article, its only a step up from PDAs who charge while syncing (which already is done via normal USB on some PDAs).
I'm a fan of Firewire as well, which is mainly why I wrote this article in the first place. Powered USB handles all the power issues (except for the flaws I noted in my article), and a future USB 3.0 revision will catch USB up to Firewire 800 over 9 pin cables (as opposed to the new over-CAT5 and over-Optical versions that are really for special use applications and completely outside the realm of desktop computing), so I just don't see why they don't clean up Powered USB and either integrate it into USB 3.0, or release it as a more official optional extension.
USB may have killed Firewire, but that doesn't mean USB is ready to replace it quite yet; the fact Firewire 800 was even released, and supported on non-Apple devices pretty much proves that.
Since, like most geeks, I wear glasses. Why can't they just embed a clear LCD into my glasses and Bluetooth that? Hell, that'd be useful for lots of other applications as well. Have Bluetooth on your iWhatever? Bluetooth your song titles! Want to be passed information, say, during a college test? Bluetooth that from a nearby laptop!
The applications are endless! Expensive, but endless!
Don't forget that this has no realistic application, and may in fact put the patient's life at serious risk. Of course, it will also double or triple the monetary cost of such an operation...
Although on the Gnutella network (which Limewire does not own or control), you may find unsavoury or even illegal things to download, I support Limewire in their decision to fight back against the RIAA. How can Limeware possibly become legal if the RIAA just tries to ruin anyone who allows people to download music and also tries to ruin any artist who doesn't sign with the RIAA?
Unless I'm misreading things, why would someone in a politician role be appointed? We need people who understand the technology, not people who influence bad outcomes in Congress. Net Neutrality, anyone?
If the stats on my website are any indication, there are more Firefox users than MSIE users. Since the beginning of September there have been roughly two times as many Firefox users as MSIE users, over almost 159k visitors.
I agree that banks should be liable for what equates to theft; but where is the security for their websites in the first place? Shouldn't there be someway to prevent phishers from being able to enter the data they phished? "Oh, hey, that IP has logged in to over a hundred accounts, he must be a phisher with customer data", or something akin to that.
I've been saying for years that the last great platforms were the Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo, and the Neo Geo, where fun games were prized over realistic gritty violence and hot coffee.
So why doesn't Verizon just use Linux or some other OS that works in small constraints? If I can run Linux on my wrt54g (which is just a tiny little MIPS box with 8 megs of ram and 4 megs of flash), then they surely can ditch Microsoft's stuff altogether and use Linux.
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I'm going to repeat the comment I made on the Time story covering this 2 hours ago:
I hate to tell you, but it never happened. This is an AMD TV commercial (available on Youtube) saying, basically, run Nvidia and get raided for running a pot growing operation due to excessive power usage.
Oh, and a side note, in the US, the power companies DO regularly report users with sudden spikes of excessive power usage that are indicative of grow ops. This data is volunteered by the power companies, and the police do not need a warrant to collect it.
Except Satoshi didnt say Wikileaks is evil or bad or illegal or anything else the guy I replied to implied.... all he said was Bitcoin would effectively bubble up and burst, much like the housing market did and the dotbomb and whatnot.
I don't particularly agree with him on that point, and I don't think any other big name in the Bitcoin community does. We actually want to see Bitcoin get major usage sometime soon.
I'm one of the major third party developers (I wrote DiabloMiner, a OpenCL miner written in Java), and at no point has anyone in the community said they don't want to be associated with Wikileaks.
If anything, many of us have asked Julian and his associates to accept Bitcoin so we can donate to Wikileaks.
So, please, don't spread FUD.
Its only likely to happen if you buy bad media. This is why I wrote this guide so people don't continually blame CDs for their own error. Oh, and its been featured on Slashdot's front page... twice.
A lot of people use stuff like MiniBufExplorer or Taglist or Vim 7's built in OmniComplete. Everything an IDE can do, Vim itself can do a lot better.
It seems like hes paying a lot for managed service and is getting angry when they try to manage him. Just go do business with RapidXen or some other VPS/dedi provider that isn't a bunch of dicks.
Disclaimer: I am a RapidXen customer, and am quite happy with their service.
I just got the letter today, and my interpretation is if you get any MSN or Yahoo value added services or use a Verizon email address, you now access these services through a Fairpoint URL and Fairpoint email servers. You are no longer a Verizon DSL customer, you are now a Fairpoint DSL customer.
In other words, nothing has changed, you just type in a new URL from now on to access webmail and MSN/Yahoo Verizon^WFairpoint services, and you change the POP/SMTP settings in your email client.
At no point is Fairpoint blocking the real MSN and Yahoo websites nor blocking you from using MSN and Yahoo directly for your non-bundled-service services.
Slashdot jumped the gun.
Chargeback rights vary by the US Federal law on the subject, not by issuer. I believe it is 60 days.
Actually, the credit card company won't eat the charge... Dell will, and their merchant processor will charge them a fee for a reversed charge (who in turn was also charged a fee by the bank who issued the card). Typically, Dell will pay 10-15% more than the laptop was originally worth if this isn't resolved in a favorable manner.
Most likely, as long as eleventypie has the credit card company reverse the charge, the credit card company will find in his favor just to make sure he keeps spending on that card. If Dell doesn't like it, tough: although they can sue him in small claims for it, they honestly know better not to even try, they've already lost business because of his Slashdot post.
eleventypie, you may also try contacting the Consumerist over this for additional media coverage.
Yup, they do.
And now for something different...
Don't look at me. Whoever this anonymous coward is, he/she must have a sense of humor. I've written for Free Software Magazine three times I think, and one of those even made it to Slashdot. As much as it rocks to be linked to Slashdot twice in one day, I do not, and have never, described myself as some famous author, nor as as a famous coder, nor as any of the other things I've seen.
Both of those were fixed before you posted the comment. Thanks anyways ;)
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the article in question. Yeah, I had laptops-charging-while-syncing in mind as well when I wrote the article, its only a step up from PDAs who charge while syncing (which already is done via normal USB on some PDAs).
I'm a fan of Firewire as well, which is mainly why I wrote this article in the first place. Powered USB handles all the power issues (except for the flaws I noted in my article), and a future USB 3.0 revision will catch USB up to Firewire 800 over 9 pin cables (as opposed to the new over-CAT5 and over-Optical versions that are really for special use applications and completely outside the realm of desktop computing), so I just don't see why they don't clean up Powered USB and either integrate it into USB 3.0, or release it as a more official optional extension.
USB may have killed Firewire, but that doesn't mean USB is ready to replace it quite yet; the fact Firewire 800 was even released, and supported on non-Apple devices pretty much proves that.
Something I wrote finally has been Slashdotted. Thank $DEITY I'm not paying the server bills on this one.
Since, like most geeks, I wear glasses. Why can't they just embed a clear LCD into my glasses and Bluetooth that? Hell, that'd be useful for lots of other applications as well. Have Bluetooth on your iWhatever? Bluetooth your song titles! Want to be passed information, say, during a college test? Bluetooth that from a nearby laptop!
The applications are endless! Expensive, but endless!
Don't forget that this has no realistic application, and may in fact put the patient's life at serious risk. Of course, it will also double or triple the monetary cost of such an operation...
Although on the Gnutella network (which Limewire does not own or control), you may find unsavoury or even illegal things to download, I support Limewire in their decision to fight back against the RIAA. How can Limeware possibly become legal if the RIAA just tries to ruin anyone who allows people to download music and also tries to ruin any artist who doesn't sign with the RIAA?
Ubuntu started shipping Vim 7.0 way back in April or May. Even though I quit Ubuntu, I have to say Ubuntu managed to do something right for once.
Whats wrong with starting out with something simple like Lego's NXT robotics system?
Unless I'm misreading things, why would someone in a politician role be appointed? We need people who understand the technology, not people who influence bad outcomes in Congress. Net Neutrality, anyone?
If the stats on my website are any indication, there are more Firefox users than MSIE users. Since the beginning of September there have been roughly two times as many Firefox users as MSIE users, over almost 159k visitors.
I'm the guy who wrote the series of critical entries against Rob Levin. Today I have made my final entry.
I agree that banks should be liable for what equates to theft; but where is the security for their websites in the first place? Shouldn't there be someway to prevent phishers from being able to enter the data they phished? "Oh, hey, that IP has logged in to over a hundred accounts, he must be a phisher with customer data", or something akin to that.
I've been saying for years that the last great platforms were the Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo, and the Neo Geo, where fun games were prized over realistic gritty violence and hot coffee.
So why doesn't Verizon just use Linux or some other OS that works in small constraints? If I can run Linux on my wrt54g (which is just a tiny little MIPS box with 8 megs of ram and 4 megs of flash), then they surely can ditch Microsoft's stuff altogether and use Linux.