The question of the timing of the previous experience is discussed by Essjay here - I note in particular that he does not describe himself as a "licensed paralegal", simply a "paralegal", and specifically notes that no training/licensing is required in Kentucky.
But that doesn't matter - in theory, they could just say the law still applies, and force those providers to START going up to that level, or pay fines or simply be removed from the country.
You'd be surprised about the stability of C&W - be careful what you wish for. According to this article, Exodus may not be a C&W product for much longer. And if they can't sell it, you know what they might do... liquidation, baby. We're getting out of Exodus while the getting's good.
Account cancelleation can be found in the "Profile" tab, listed as "Close Account". It's not that hard to find, if you really want to, rather than just trying to find an excuse to bitch about PayPal.
dyndns.org has been accepting PayPal for the donations that keep our service running for years, and never had a problem. We've processed hundreds of thousands of dollars through PayPal, and accept more each day, and we've never had a single problem like those described on PayPalWarning.com and other sites. Those problems account for a tiny fraction of all PayPal users, and PayPal is actually improving service to big customers like us, because of these problems - people are getting scared off, and they're trying to keep the big players from running away, too. They'd be very stupid to kill OSDN's account, and they know it.
Actually, the fee is due to their account type, not yours. It's only the account of the recipient that matters, because they're the ones that the fee is assessed against. And it's not too much more than normal credit card processing fees; you can't realistically believe that they would have been providing this service completely for free forever, can you?
Perhaps they're dedicating too many of their staff to providing "dedicated" account managers to their bigger "VIP" accounts. They have special phone numbers ("don't give this out to anyone else, it's just for our special VIP customers") and real e-mail addresses and everything. They seem to be staff at the same (or yet another) call center out in Omaha, Nebraska, anyway, though - the home of telephone support outsourcing!
dyndns.org has been accepting PayPal as our main source of income for quite some time now - we've had probably over $200,000 pass through PayPal without a single problem. In fact, yesterday they called to tell me that we've been assigned a dedicated account manager, with a secret VIP phone number and direct e-mail address and everything. So it seems that, at least to their larger customers, they're at least TRYING to improve the customer service.
All of these lawsuits and threats from states are sure making us nervous, though, and due to various other things we were probably dropping PayPal soon - that timeline's just been moved up now. But I agree with what someone said or at least alluded to earlier; even if 10,000 people have had problems like this, that's only a tiny fraction of PayPal's actual userbase, and that's pretty impressive to me.
In the current economic climate, travel stipends from conferences are going way down, and sometimes even being eliminated. Then there are also talks to smaller groups, which can't necessarily afford to fly someone out to see them, but would get a great benefit (and hopefully give back in some way, too) from having a visit; local Perl Mongers groups, to name just one example.
As I posted in a different comment thread, Larry was laid off by ORA in October, and has been without work since then. He could go back into industry and get a "real job". I imagine his old employer, the JPL, for one, would be happy to have him back, but that would leave him with very little time to dedicate to the continued development of Perl 6.
As the "patron" of the foundation, I do not believe Larry had any input into this, and I also believe that he will no longer be filling this position, as the recipient of this grant.
Larry was, up until October, funded by O'Reilly to continue his development of Perl. Unfortunately, in the economic climate that we are all facing, ORA had to make the decision to lay off Larry in October, after 5 years of supporting him. The previous two grants were arranged and planned when it was assumed that Larry would still be working. When that ceased to be the case, things were brought together such that Larry could also be brought on board.
FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE was, in my experience, badly broken in many and sundry ways. Maybe it worked better from CDs, but all the FTP installs I did were horrible. Additionally, there were some major problems with the TCP implementation that have now been fixed. I had a good experience with 4.1.1, 4.2, and 4.3, but 4.4 was a nightmare for me - I've been installing 4.4 and immediately upgrading to the -STABLE branch to avoid all the problems in the distribution.
You are correct, Java support has been incorporated into the FreeBSD-STABLE source tree since briefly before the 4.5-PRERELEASE code freeze, and has been in testing since then. As far as I know it's working fine, and should be in 4.5-RELEASE without any worries. The FreeBSD Foundation worked with Sun to get this licensing taken care of.
The number of people who actually bother to read DynDNS.org's status announcements is so pitifully low it's not gonna make a difference. ---
Tim Wilde
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This is known and, in fact, a big part of the point of half-empty; they want to get a large enough, diverse enough base of users that all opinions will be represented almost equally. Now, mind you, a slashdotting isn't the best way in the world to do that, because/. has a lot of biases, but eventually, things would theoretically even out and work pretty well. We've got some diverse views there already, in fact.
It should be reasonably accessible right now, we've done some server tweaking and it's being reasonably responsive, considering the load it's under. ---
Tim Wilde
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I didn't say they were giving it away free. I said the opinion in the article I was replying to was heavily biased towards "freedom" to undercut on prices. And I certainly did not say that Amazon has no right to let people sell used books. But they have no obligation to do so, either. Both sides are blowing this thing way the fuck out of proportion, and when things get out of proportion,/. does nothing but make them worse. ---
Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!
You can't compare apples and oranges like this. I'm not talking about houses, I'm talking about books, and software. The house market is a totally different thing. What planet are you living on? ---
Tim Wilde
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The question of the timing of the previous experience is discussed by Essjay here - I note in particular that he does not describe himself as a "licensed paralegal", simply a "paralegal", and specifically notes that no training/licensing is required in Kentucky.
But that doesn't matter - in theory, they could just say the law still applies, and force those providers to START going up to that level, or pay fines or simply be removed from the country.
You'd be surprised about the stability of C&W - be careful what you wish for. According to this article, Exodus may not be a C&W product for much longer. And if they can't sell it, you know what they might do... liquidation, baby. We're getting out of Exodus while the getting's good.
Not for long, if this is any indication.
Account cancelleation can be found in the "Profile" tab, listed as "Close Account". It's not that hard to find, if you really want to, rather than just trying to find an excuse to bitch about PayPal.
dyndns.org has been accepting PayPal for the donations that keep our service running for years, and never had a problem. We've processed hundreds of thousands of dollars through PayPal, and accept more each day, and we've never had a single problem like those described on PayPalWarning.com and other sites. Those problems account for a tiny fraction of all PayPal users, and PayPal is actually improving service to big customers like us, because of these problems - people are getting scared off, and they're trying to keep the big players from running away, too. They'd be very stupid to kill OSDN's account, and they know it.
Actually, the fee is due to their account type, not yours. It's only the account of the recipient that matters, because they're the ones that the fee is assessed against. And it's not too much more than normal credit card processing fees; you can't realistically believe that they would have been providing this service completely for free forever, can you?
Perhaps they're dedicating too many of their staff to providing "dedicated" account managers to their bigger "VIP" accounts. They have special phone numbers ("don't give this out to anyone else, it's just for our special VIP customers") and real e-mail addresses and everything. They seem to be staff at the same (or yet another) call center out in Omaha, Nebraska, anyway, though - the home of telephone support outsourcing!
dyndns.org has been accepting PayPal as our main source of income for quite some time now - we've had probably over $200,000 pass through PayPal without a single problem. In fact, yesterday they called to tell me that we've been assigned a dedicated account manager, with a secret VIP phone number and direct e-mail address and everything. So it seems that, at least to their larger customers, they're at least TRYING to improve the customer service.
All of these lawsuits and threats from states are sure making us nervous, though, and due to various other things we were probably dropping PayPal soon - that timeline's just been moved up now. But I agree with what someone said or at least alluded to earlier; even if 10,000 people have had problems like this, that's only a tiny fraction of PayPal's actual userbase, and that's pretty impressive to me.
In the current economic climate, travel stipends from conferences are going way down, and sometimes even being eliminated. Then there are also talks to smaller groups, which can't necessarily afford to fly someone out to see them, but would get a great benefit (and hopefully give back in some way, too) from having a visit; local Perl Mongers groups, to name just one example.
As I posted in a different comment thread, Larry was laid off by ORA in October, and has been without work since then. He could go back into industry and get a "real job". I imagine his old employer, the JPL, for one, would be happy to have him back, but that would leave him with very little time to dedicate to the continued development of Perl 6.
As the "patron" of the foundation, I do not believe Larry had any input into this, and I also believe that he will no longer be filling this position, as the recipient of this grant.
Larry was, up until October, funded by O'Reilly to continue his development of Perl. Unfortunately, in the economic climate that we are all facing, ORA had to make the decision to lay off Larry in October, after 5 years of supporting him. The previous two grants were arranged and planned when it was assumed that Larry would still be working. When that ceased to be the case, things were brought together such that Larry could also be brought on board.
FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE was, in my experience, badly broken in many and sundry ways. Maybe it worked better from CDs, but all the FTP installs I did were horrible. Additionally, there were some major problems with the TCP implementation that have now been fixed. I had a good experience with 4.1.1, 4.2, and 4.3, but 4.4 was a nightmare for me - I've been installing 4.4 and immediately upgrading to the -STABLE branch to avoid all the problems in the distribution.
You are correct, Java support has been incorporated into the FreeBSD-STABLE source tree since briefly before the 4.5-PRERELEASE code freeze, and has been in testing since then. As far as I know it's working fine, and should be in 4.5-RELEASE without any worries. The FreeBSD Foundation worked with Sun to get this licensing taken care of.
The token is falling out, and getting caught in the ether net? You'd better go looking for it on the floor around you... :)
And, by the way, .5e's advertising revenue for the month of January currently totals $0.50 US.
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Tim Wilde
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I wish I was. I'd rather be there than here. *sigh*
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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!
The number of people who actually bother to read DynDNS.org's status announcements is so pitifully low it's not gonna make a difference.
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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!
This is known and, in fact, a big part of the point of half-empty; they want to get a large enough, diverse enough base of users that all opinions will be represented almost equally. Now, mind you, a slashdotting isn't the best way in the world to do that, because /. has a lot of biases, but eventually, things would theoretically even out and work pretty well. We've got some diverse views there already, in fact.
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Tim Wilde
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It should be reasonably accessible right now, we've done some server tweaking and it's being reasonably responsive, considering the load it's under.
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Tim Wilde
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The /. effect tends to make even some of the biggest commercial sites around come to a crawl.
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Tim Wilde
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It's surviving, just slow.
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Tim Wilde
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I didn't say they were giving it away free. I said the opinion in the article I was replying to was heavily biased towards "freedom" to undercut on prices. And I certainly did not say that Amazon has no right to let people sell used books. But they have no obligation to do so, either. Both sides are blowing this thing way the fuck out of proportion, and when things get out of proportion, /. does nothing but make them worse.
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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!
You can't compare apples and oranges like this. I'm not talking about houses, I'm talking about books, and software. The house market is a totally different thing. What planet are you living on?
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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!