I was also a victim of identity theft. Someone with the same first and last names as me, living in another state, began forwarding my home mail to his address. Then he began contacting my online brokerage directly and changing my account address to HIS address! I immediately changed my address information back, but he changed it again.. EIGHT TIMES! My online brokerage did not care. The postal inspector in my state did not care. The postal inspector in his state did not care. The local police in my state did not care. The local police in his state did not care. The FBI did not care. He was committing inter-state mail fraud, threatening my brokerage accounts, and repeatedly giving us his REAL HOME ADDRESS but still no law enforcement agency cared. The postal inspector in my state even had his handwriting and fingerprints on the change-of-address postcard he mailed, but the postal inspector did not care.
One year later, he tried to apply for credit card using my SSN. Because I had put a warning on my credit report accounts (at my hassle and cost), the credit card company called to warn me. Finally, the police were interested. They nabbed him the next day. After not showing up in court once, he eventually was sentenced to three months in jail. I later found hundreds of dollars of HIS debts on my credit report. I called the police again, but they did not care. They said that since he already spent three months in jail, he has done his time. Nevermind that he went to jail for the credit card fraud, a separate instance of a different crime!
After these two stressful years, this "gub'mint-fearing liberal hippy" has lost any shadow of confidence that our impotent law enforcement can protect the innocent from the criminal. Or that they even care to try.
If the machine is correct 90% of the time, then it is wrong 10% of the time. Of those incorrect 10% responses, how many are false-positives? That is how many times would it incorrectly think YOU or YOUR MOM is a match for Homer J. Terrorist?
Now multiply 10% x millions of airline travelers. How many false-positives would the machine report EVERYDAY?
If NASA software was free, it might help other countries or private companies build their own space vehicles for the better of all of mankind! Oops, nevermind.. I forgot that NASA wants a monopoly on that.
If the US taxpayers paid for the NASA software, then perhaps it should be freely available (ala GPL or BSD). Even if the software is effectively "useless" because few people have space shuttles in their driveways, I think still think it would be useful. Students could learn from reading the "industrial strength" code. Companies and individuals could create alternative implementations, fix bugs, or create test tools.
In California, the average house price is about $350K. In the Bay Area, the average house price is more like $450K. Maybe it's time to move to Mexico..
Instead of integrating Linux code into Solaris, what Sun needs to do, rather, is to implement some of the nicer features and interfaces of Solaris into the Linux kernel, making Linux look more like Solaris.... But it's in Sun's best interest to pave a smooth superhighway upgrade path from Linux to Solaris for users that grow beyond their x86 hardware.
How would adding cool Solaris features to Linux help Sun:
migrate more users from Linux to Solaris? Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
sell more Sparc servers? The Solaris features added to Linux would be GPL and quickly ported to x86 Linux, undercutting Sparc server sales.
Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.
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The next version of Windows is codenamed "Longhorn". It is a kind of cow.
Longhorn is a bar at the Whistler ski resort north of Vancouver, BC (just a few hours drive from Microsoft's Redmond campus). The two mountains there are Whistler and Blackcomb. Whistler was the codename for Windows XP and Blackcomb is/was the codename for Windows.NET Server. See, it all makes sense..
I wonder if OpenBSD will copy this new NetBSD code. Does anyone know which BSD has more users, OpenBSD or NetBSD? I hear few people ever talking about NetBSD, but many of the OpenBSD changelogs have comments like "copied this from NetBSD". Does OpenBSD simply "ripoff" NetBSD development?
Do you really think that computer companies like Gateway and Dell will sell "streamlined" Windows PC, given the chance? Even today, if you buy a "non-modularized" Windows PC from Gateway or Dell, it is completely infested with bad advertising and bad third-party apps. I'm always surprised that "Mom and Pop" users can even get any productive work done when these bad apps try to take over their computers.
QT asks me every damn time I look at something if I want to buy it.
1. Set your system time many years ahead (like 2010) 2. Run QuickTime 3. When it asks you if you would like to upgrade, say no (of course!) 4. QuickTime will then write some secret registry key to remember when it should next remind you to upgrade. Fortunately, your next reminder is now scheduled for the year 2010!;-) 5. Be sure to set your system time back!
I think MenTaLguY's point was that you should not have if statements "sprinkled all over the code". At process init, do the test and then set some global function pointers to the OS-specific version. You complain about having to maintain multiple functions, but you still have the same code in your codebase today. Instead of using nicely modularized functions for each OS, it sounds like your current code has all that same code (plus OS version checks) smooshed into a single monster function.
For example, you could have a global function pointer called TcpSend. Then set it to point to one of an OS-specific implemenation such as TcpSend_MacTcp(), TcpSend_OpenTransport(), and TcpSend_BSD().
but what about Windows XP? I have not found any compelling reason to switch from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. The only reason I have even considered it is the ClearType font blurring and the fact that the Start button and scroll bars "hit areas" actually extend to the edge of the screen, making them easier to click. This is very advanced technology, I think..;-)
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you can't document that you have been a victim of identity theft (or a similar type of crime), then you have to shell out about $10 per report.
Just lie and say that your wallet was stolen. You are then entitled to a free credit report. This worked for me.
I was also a victim of identity theft. Someone with the same first and last names as me, living in another state, began forwarding my home mail to his address. Then he began contacting my online brokerage directly and changing my account address to HIS address! I immediately changed my address information back, but he changed it again.. EIGHT TIMES! My online brokerage did not care. The postal inspector in my state did not care. The postal inspector in his state did not care. The local police in my state did not care. The local police in his state did not care. The FBI did not care. He was committing inter-state mail fraud, threatening my brokerage accounts, and repeatedly giving us his REAL HOME ADDRESS but still no law enforcement agency cared. The postal inspector in my state even had his handwriting and fingerprints on the change-of-address postcard he mailed, but the postal inspector did not care.
One year later, he tried to apply for credit card using my SSN. Because I had put a warning on my credit report accounts (at my hassle and cost), the credit card company called to warn me. Finally, the police were interested. They nabbed him the next day. After not showing up in court once, he eventually was sentenced to three months in jail. I later found hundreds of dollars of HIS debts on my credit report. I called the police again, but they did not care. They said that since he already spent three months in jail, he has done his time. Nevermind that he went to jail for the credit card fraud, a separate instance of a different crime!
After these two stressful years, this "gub'mint-fearing liberal hippy" has lost any shadow of confidence that our impotent law enforcement can protect the innocent from the criminal. Or that they even care to try.
I tried logging in, but it didn't work. thanks!
How many people on death row have:
If the machine is correct 90% of the time, then it is wrong 10% of the time. Of those incorrect 10% responses, how many are false-positives? That is how many times would it incorrectly think YOU or YOUR MOM is a match for Homer J. Terrorist?
Now multiply 10% x millions of airline travelers. How many false-positives would the machine report EVERYDAY?
like Lycos.com ?
If NASA software was free, it might help other countries or private companies build their own space vehicles for the better of all of mankind! Oops, nevermind.. I forgot that NASA wants a monopoly on that.
If the US taxpayers paid for the NASA software, then perhaps it should be freely available (ala GPL or BSD). Even if the software is effectively "useless" because few people have space shuttles in their driveways, I think still think it would be useful. Students could learn from reading the "industrial strength" code. Companies and individuals could create alternative implementations, fix bugs, or create test tools.
exactly. who would want to buy a prodcut that used "skeleton in the closet" source code?
Forget "closed source". Now we have evil "secret source" software!
In California, the average house price is about $350K. In the Bay Area, the average house price is more like $450K. Maybe it's time to move to Mexico..
How would adding cool Solaris features to Linux help Sun:
oops, here's the map link: Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
Here's a cool map of California earthquakes, updated every few minutes.
he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds on the face of the p
and he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds of his face
I just installed NetBSD 1.5 last week and Perl was not included in the base distribution set. I had to install a separate port package.
Watson development to continue, says developer
Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.
The next version of Windows is codenamed "Longhorn". It is a kind of cow.
.NET Server. See, it all makes sense..
Longhorn is a bar at the Whistler ski resort north of Vancouver, BC (just a few hours drive from Microsoft's Redmond campus). The two mountains there are Whistler and Blackcomb. Whistler was the codename for Windows XP and Blackcomb is/was the codename for Windows
I wonder if OpenBSD will copy this new NetBSD code. Does anyone know which BSD has more users, OpenBSD or NetBSD? I hear few people ever talking about NetBSD, but many of the OpenBSD changelogs have comments like "copied this from NetBSD". Does OpenBSD simply "ripoff" NetBSD development?
Do you really think that computer companies like Gateway and Dell will sell "streamlined" Windows PC, given the chance? Even today, if you buy a "non-modularized" Windows PC from Gateway or Dell, it is completely infested with bad advertising and bad third-party apps. I'm always surprised that "Mom and Pop" users can even get any productive work done when these bad apps try to take over their computers.
QT asks me every damn time I look at something if I want to buy it.
;-)
1. Set your system time many years ahead (like 2010)
2. Run QuickTime
3. When it asks you if you would like to upgrade, say no (of course!)
4. QuickTime will then write some secret registry key to remember when it should next remind you to upgrade. Fortunately, your next reminder is now scheduled for the year 2010!
5. Be sure to set your system time back!
I think MenTaLguY's point was that you should not have if statements "sprinkled all over the code". At process init, do the test and then set some global function pointers to the OS-specific version. You complain about having to maintain multiple functions, but you still have the same code in your codebase today. Instead of using nicely modularized functions for each OS, it sounds like your current code has all that same code (plus OS version checks) smooshed into a single monster function.
For example, you could have a global function pointer called TcpSend. Then set it to point to one of an OS-specific implemenation such as TcpSend_MacTcp(), TcpSend_OpenTransport(), and TcpSend_BSD().
The "smart" chip is part of the ink cartridge itself!
but what about Windows XP? I have not found any compelling reason to switch from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. The only reason I have even considered it is the ClearType font blurring and the fact that the Start button and scroll bars "hit areas" actually extend to the edge of the screen, making them easier to click. This is very advanced technology, I think..
Why can't they stay in their shitty third world counties ...
Which county are you from? Hazzard County??