Actually, scanning checks locally has been a feature for a number of people who accept checks for a number of years now, but hey why not take any opportunity to whine about Obama. No really, please do, as in the end your just betting against the American worker.
Keep up that talk, as the worse it seems, the more secure Obama and the Democratic party will be in 2010 and 2012. The trouble is that you're betting all of the Republican political hay on "the economy is going to fall apart", but it won't, and besides most people still blame the Republicans for getting us into the this trouble in the first place.
In the end, you're betting against the American Worker, good luck with that.
I believe that a fairly quick turn around now that housing and oil have corrected, and it looks like we will have missed the "10% jobless" mark just barely. In typical recessions jobs (re)growth tends to lag, but this recover will have the addition of a the stimulus package which is just starting to create new jobs and the census which will be creating a million more jobs soon. We should be mature in the economic recover by maybe a year from November, just in time for the Republicans to bleed some more senate seats, I don't care to who; maybe someone can restart the old Whig party.
With the recent economy, even if he had the money then, its gone now.
Not really, as it was 1995ish when he stashed the money; I'm guessing that it's in gold. About that time it was about $350/oz, now it's 940/oz. Of course there is every chance that he laundered it to friends, gave it away to strangers, or was taken to the cleaners, but I suspect that we'll never really know.
Wait to after the break and we'll tell you about the potentially dangerous substance, that's sure to be in your house, and even in your children's bath water. Hydrogen Dioxide and what it means to your family. Also, find out how the apple store, only launched a year ago will fail due to a author's trouble publishing a custom ebook. Later, we'll have an interview with Chicken Little and hear of his latest dire warnings.
(appologies to Anderson Cooper, and many, many others)
It isn't helpful that TFA is wrong on at least one point. It said that Eclipse 3.1 lacks code completion, refactoring, and debugging features.
Also, Eclipse is at 3.5 (3.2 debutted a couple of years ago), and I've used all of those features since 2.[something]. This was only on Windows, but I think that the only thing that is different are the interface drivers, not any of the functionality, so it would be hard for me to understand why he would have had the experience that he claims to have had.
I'd say that 40% of the messages is people posting short angry rants, 30% is a retransmit of old messages, 20% is relevant data but in itself not nearly enough information and 10% spam and other deceptions.
And how is that different than a typical conversation on any site?
So, you disagree with the submitter, as 'taken' / 'fixed' is exactly the sort of performance metric he's complaining about. Also, I hope that you just made up that formula, as it doesn't really make any sense;
Excellent employee:
s (total calls) = 100
h (total solved) = 100
d (time in hours)= 2
total 5
very bad Employee;
s = 100
h = 50
d = 2
total 6
As I see it you would have to get below half your calls resolved for calls to affect that number at all, assuming some down time.
I did the FTC form for all 3 of my calls, and even got back 3 separate letters back, oddly, all at the same time; You must of had a mailbox full. Seemed rather inefficient, but I guess that the FTC never counted on a scam where they kept calling the same people multiple times.
VPN connections need special routing. If you don't trust your VPN partner totally, you should be sure that only the traffic you want goes over the connection.
Wow it's nice to know that Comcast has both a twitter account and a brand new Slashdot account. Oh, it's most likely that you're an employee (maybe tech support), I'd watch what you call an 'Official Response' as many corporations have very strict rules about talking to the press, or making any binding claims to a general audience. Are you authorized for such communication? If so, I'd suggest a listing on the main corporate 'contacts' page, so that it'd be easy to verify it as 'official'. Also, the DNS team (or even the guy on duty) might not be complicit in the skulduggery, so your assessment might not be correct.
Sure the vast majority of telemarketers are legit businesses looking for a way to reach out to consumers, but I don't want to spend my day telling random losers such as yourself that I don't want it. Just think if highway billboards dipped themselves in the middle of road, or if your TV just turned on by itself to show a commercial.
It's a lousy way to make a living; unsolicited sales calls should always be illegal
I've seen the same calls, on my cell phone, both times I waited for the bastards. The first time I complained and got hung up on immediately, the second, I simply asked "what company is this", and was immediately disconnected. I couldn't be sure, but I could swear it was the same woman. Also, both times I filed with the FCC, I'm glad that it seemed to help (well sort of)
Only if it can be exposed within minutes of torturing everyone they come across, the bad guys have a mole in the Counter Terrorism Unit, and the nature of the threat changes 12 hours into the investigation.
While the submitter, nor the editor said it directly, I'll assume that the article wondered about finding 'sick', 'flu', 'can't get off the toilet', or such phrases in twitter. With millions of people now willing to tell the world what they had for lunch, epidemics will likely show up on twitter before the hospitals can even call the CDC.
An alliance of car thieves are calling for legislation to force people to leave their keys in their car.
While I agree that it's important to keep up with such stories, can't we just wrap up all twenty or so of these in a 'This Week (or Today) in Intellectual Property'. For the sake of poster's time, I'd suggest an auto submit with the twenty or so most popular comments.
Reminds me of people who try to pay the government in pennies, or I guess that dimes would be more appropriate in this case. However, it's the pirate bay who owes the money, and need to pay, not 'random people'. I suppose that they could collect the (I'm guessing) coins and haul it to them in wheelbarrows, but it's likely that's been done to lawyers already and it's somehow prohibited.
Sorry, but I'm having a hard time swallowing your comment; First you insist that building a computer is too difficult and insist that it's best to buy a 'modest machine', then you tell people to 'upgrade as needed'. We'll unless you think that upgrades are something done by a shop, they'll need to crack the case. However I'm certain that you mean a 'professional upgrade'. Well, last year (without talking to me) my mom had some 'professional' service done to her pc, and $350 dollars later, they ran a spyware program and installed maybe $75 of RAM. The average user is MUCH better off buy a little better machine that'll last 3 or more years than being ripped off by a 'pro'. Others who have a little OS experience, dealing with difficult drivers, finding and installing new programs, you know 'power users' could find personally building and upgrading PCs a rewarding challenge. One won't save a lot of money really, but you'll get the machine you want.
Of course, sometimes motherboards can be a real bitch, but I've noticed that they gotten easier every couple of years. Better firmware, better drivers, and better manuals. I'm not sure when you've last seen a retail Intel cpu, but the fans come with pre-applied paste, and even if you wanted to use the 'real stuff', if you are getting silver paste in the memory slots, I'd serious suggest that you stay away from anything sharp. Today's motherboards are color coded, and built to be easy to install. Every thing on it will only snap in the right way, and generally you really have to screw up to do it wrong. The only downside is the occasional bad from the factory part. Even the 'missing instructions' can be found using the miracle of the internet search engine. If one takes their time, reads the instructions (a good idea ever for me), plans their build, keeps a working PC handy, and is willing to ask questions (rl friend, forum, or the part's customer service), then it should be good experience.
Also, people who buy Alienware are generally more interested in fps than threading. I'd even go as far as saying that most people, even most gamers aren't very inclined to learning programming. It's very complex, often frustrating, and I'd say much harder than snapping together a box. I love doing both, but I'm weird in other ways too.
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*This* is why you voted for Obama?
Actually, scanning checks locally has been a feature for a number of people who accept checks for a number of years now, but hey why not take any opportunity to whine about Obama. No really, please do, as in the end your just betting against the American worker.
Barack Obama is way ahead of you.
Keep up that talk, as the worse it seems, the more secure Obama and the Democratic party will be in 2010 and 2012. The trouble is that you're betting all of the Republican political hay on "the economy is going to fall apart", but it won't, and besides most people still blame the Republicans for getting us into the this trouble in the first place.
In the end, you're betting against the American Worker, good luck with that.
I believe that a fairly quick turn around now that housing and oil have corrected, and it looks like we will have missed the "10% jobless" mark just barely. In typical recessions jobs (re)growth tends to lag, but this recover will have the addition of a the stimulus package which is just starting to create new jobs and the census which will be creating a million more jobs soon. We should be mature in the economic recover by maybe a year from November, just in time for the Republicans to bleed some more senate seats, I don't care to who; maybe someone can restart the old Whig party.
I see a profitable road ahead for Tesla if they can keep building cars people want to buy.
There fixed that for you.
So, 2% unemployment is like morbid obesity? So which of the seven deadly sins do we need to break to 'suffer' the indignation of 2% unemployment?
How about 8) Conficker got too big, and commercial uses as a group became too risky; Instead it's a recruitment tool for a smaller botnets.
With the recent economy, even if he had the money then, its gone now.
Not really, as it was 1995ish when he stashed the money; I'm guessing that it's in gold. About that time it was about $350/oz, now it's 940/oz. Of course there is every chance that he laundered it to friends, gave it away to strangers, or was taken to the cleaners, but I suspect that we'll never really know.
Wait to after the break and we'll tell you about the potentially dangerous substance, that's sure to be in your house, and even in your children's bath water. Hydrogen Dioxide and what it means to your family. Also, find out how the apple store, only launched a year ago will fail due to a author's trouble publishing a custom ebook. Later, we'll have an interview with Chicken Little and hear of his latest dire warnings. (appologies to Anderson Cooper, and many, many others)
It isn't helpful that TFA is wrong on at least one point. It said that Eclipse 3.1 lacks code completion, refactoring, and debugging features.
Also, Eclipse is at 3.5 (3.2 debutted a couple of years ago), and I've used all of those features since 2.[something]. This was only on Windows, but I think that the only thing that is different are the interface drivers, not any of the functionality, so it would be hard for me to understand why he would have had the experience that he claims to have had.
I'd say that 40% of the messages is people posting short angry rants, 30% is a retransmit of old messages, 20% is relevant data but in itself not nearly enough information and 10% spam and other deceptions.
And how is that different than a typical conversation on any site?
the problem can be solved by simply carrying your cell phone with you. It's not like it's a 50lb weight strapped to your back.
Do you carry your wallet all the time in your house? When I'm home, sometimes I don't even have pockets.
As I see it you would have to get below half your calls resolved for calls to affect that number at all, assuming some down time.
I thought IT got paid for the number of times they said 'No' to us during the day.
Here's a trick, if you want them to start saying 'yes' give them more of a budget, as most 'no's comes from a lack of money.
I did the FTC form for all 3 of my calls, and even got back 3 separate letters back, oddly, all at the same time; You must of had a mailbox full. Seemed rather inefficient, but I guess that the FTC never counted on a scam where they kept calling the same people multiple times.
And yet Canadians travel overseas at a far greater rate.
I'd guess that's mostly because they have no place that's really warm.
VPN connections need special routing. If you don't trust your VPN partner totally, you should be sure that only the traffic you want goes over the connection.
Wow it's nice to know that Comcast has both a twitter account and a brand new Slashdot account. Oh, it's most likely that you're an employee (maybe tech support), I'd watch what you call an 'Official Response' as many corporations have very strict rules about talking to the press, or making any binding claims to a general audience. Are you authorized for such communication? If so, I'd suggest a listing on the main corporate 'contacts' page, so that it'd be easy to verify it as 'official'. Also, the DNS team (or even the guy on duty) might not be complicit in the skulduggery, so your assessment might not be correct.
I always post from random free access points, using a wireless nic I bought with cash!
It's a lousy way to make a living; unsolicited sales calls should always be illegal
I've seen the same calls, on my cell phone, both times I waited for the bastards. The first time I complained and got hung up on immediately, the second, I simply asked "what company is this", and was immediately disconnected. I couldn't be sure, but I could swear it was the same woman. Also, both times I filed with the FCC, I'm glad that it seemed to help (well sort of)
This sounds like something out of 24
Only if it can be exposed within minutes of torturing everyone they come across, the bad guys have a mole in the Counter Terrorism Unit, and the nature of the threat changes 12 hours into the investigation.
Why don't you try a box and use magnets as packing peanuts? Be sure to leave them in a hot, humid place, like a shower, and never every spin them up
Dry, cool, and individually placed in anti-static bags, just be sure to spin them up every so often.
While the submitter, nor the editor said it directly, I'll assume that the article wondered about finding 'sick', 'flu', 'can't get off the toilet', or such phrases in twitter. With millions of people now willing to tell the world what they had for lunch, epidemics will likely show up on twitter before the hospitals can even call the CDC.
An alliance of car thieves are calling for legislation to force people to leave their keys in their car.
While I agree that it's important to keep up with such stories, can't we just wrap up all twenty or so of these in a 'This Week (or Today) in Intellectual Property'. For the sake of poster's time, I'd suggest an auto submit with the twenty or so most popular comments.
Reminds me of people who try to pay the government in pennies, or I guess that dimes would be more appropriate in this case. However, it's the pirate bay who owes the money, and need to pay, not 'random people'. I suppose that they could collect the (I'm guessing) coins and haul it to them in wheelbarrows, but it's likely that's been done to lawyers already and it's somehow prohibited.
Sorry, but I'm having a hard time swallowing your comment; First you insist that building a computer is too difficult and insist that it's best to buy a 'modest machine', then you tell people to 'upgrade as needed'. We'll unless you think that upgrades are something done by a shop, they'll need to crack the case. However I'm certain that you mean a 'professional upgrade'. Well, last year (without talking to me) my mom had some 'professional' service done to her pc, and $350 dollars later, they ran a spyware program and installed maybe $75 of RAM. The average user is MUCH better off buy a little better machine that'll last 3 or more years than being ripped off by a 'pro'. Others who have a little OS experience, dealing with difficult drivers, finding and installing new programs, you know 'power users' could find personally building and upgrading PCs a rewarding challenge. One won't save a lot of money really, but you'll get the machine you want.
Of course, sometimes motherboards can be a real bitch, but I've noticed that they gotten easier every couple of years. Better firmware, better drivers, and better manuals. I'm not sure when you've last seen a retail Intel cpu, but the fans come with pre-applied paste, and even if you wanted to use the 'real stuff', if you are getting silver paste in the memory slots, I'd serious suggest that you stay away from anything sharp. Today's motherboards are color coded, and built to be easy to install. Every thing on it will only snap in the right way, and generally you really have to screw up to do it wrong. The only downside is the occasional bad from the factory part. Even the 'missing instructions' can be found using the miracle of the internet search engine. If one takes their time, reads the instructions (a good idea ever for me), plans their build, keeps a working PC handy, and is willing to ask questions (rl friend, forum, or the part's customer service), then it should be good experience.
Also, people who buy Alienware are generally more interested in fps than threading. I'd even go as far as saying that most people, even most gamers aren't very inclined to learning programming. It's very complex, often frustrating, and I'd say much harder than snapping together a box. I love doing both, but I'm weird in other ways too.