Miles usually expire after a couple of years if you don't use them. For a two-year window, you'd have to fly over 13000 miles a day to earn 10,000,000 miles.
In my experience, they expire if you do not earn any for a number of years. E.g. with American Airlines, your miles expire if you have not earned miles in the past three years -- but as long as you earn miles at least once every three years, none of your miles will ever expire.
Beginning January 1, 2000, miles earned will not expire as long as any mileage earning or redemption activity occurs in your account within 36 months of the last account activity. Each qualifying activity on or after January 1, 2000, will extend the expiration date of all unexpired miles in your account for 36 months from the date of the qualifying activity. Dividend Miles earned through December 31, 1999 are not subject to expiration.
One of the questions was about whether there was an archives of the first slashdot page.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org appears to go back as far as 21 Dec 1997, but when I try to view the older pages, I get a blank document. Maybe a temporary glitch? You can see pages from earch 1998, in any case.
The real problem is that spammers actually make money off of spamming us. There are enough dumb people out there that actually buy crap from the spammers
I'm not so sure about that. The actual spammers do not have a product to sell other than their spamming services. They get paid (up front, I'm sure) as long as they convince some clueless business to use their services -- it doesn't hurt them if not one person buys the product advertised.
Taco's got 1.1 Gigs of attachments from his friends? I must be lucky then, all my friends are smart enough not to click on files attached to emails that look dodgy!
Sircam also gets e-mail addresses from the web browser cache, so Taco's getting it from everyone who's visited slashdot in the last 20 days (or whatever their chache's limit is)
Why not? You don't think people who open up these attachments actually read click-through licenses, do you? I think the author could describe the program's true function in detail without slowing its spread.
Copper is actually too soft a metal to be used as a weapon. If this is the cave man/ ice man that i recall, he also has a lot of tattoos over his body, the axe may have been used for ceremonial reasons.
This is probably exactly what the guy's entire problem was. He was standing there, under attack, and thinking "Gee, I wish I had something that was suitable for use as a weapon, but all I have is this copper axe." :-)
Here's how NSI got their "evidence" of "slamming": They got a market research firm to do a survey of registrants whose
domains had transferred away from NSI and found that 24% of them did not
believe they had authorized the transfer of their domains.
This number is actually remarkably low (I am amazed that 76% of
registrants are actually savvy and involved enough to know which
registrar their domain is with and why) -- many people have all this
stuff handled by their service provider and don't want to hear about it.
That 24% can easily be accounted for by hosts/ISP's who switched
registrars and took with them all the domains they managed.
But I suppose chickens are much easier to work with in a lab than Komodo dragons. Try getting a DNA sample from a giant lizard with sharp teeth encrusted with lethal bacteria!
Well, getting a DNA sample is actually much easier than one would want it to be. Surviving is the tricky part.
that's not avoiding it. They're giving you the sixty days notice, and as a bonus you don't have to come into the office at all during those sixty days.
I don't know about elsewhere but PDF is essential for dead-tree publishing. The advantage it has over all other formats is not that it displays the same on every screen but that it prints the same on every printer (assuming that the author remembered to embed the @#$! fonts, but that's another story:-)
With PDF, you can design and lay out your ad and transmit it electronically (or on disk) to the newspaper, knowing that it will print exactly how it it did for you. Or you can lay out your brochure and send it off to the printers knowing the same thing. With any other format, the publisher/printer's machine is going to have at least one (oh, if only it were ever just one!) setting different than yours, which will change the layout.
PDF is the way that print ads are submitted electronically today. It's either PDF or old-fashioned cut-and-paste (no, even more old-fashioned than you're thinking, I mean with actual scissors and glue). The Associated Press runs a "wire service" called AdSend for ad agencies to transmit PDF ads electronically to newspapers and magazines -- and they are transmitting millions of PDF's a year.
The same thing basically goes for sending anything you want printed to a print shop. In any case, free PDF-making software enables dead-tree publising the same way that the web enables electronic publishing (though we haven't got any print shops that'll work for free, yet:-)
What technical reasons do they have for feeling that its purpose is going to be a DDoS?Did you read the article? It says the crackers have already given it a test run.
Is e-commerce any worse than others?
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When you read anything about starting a business, there's always some statistic about how 75% or 90% (depending how they measure, etc.) of new businesses fail within the first few years. Is e-commerce actually worse off than the average? Even if it's no worse than normal, it's going to seem worse, because they all started about the same time so there's going to be a wave of failures as they reach the "do or die" point
Eight seasons is too many - even Star Trek only ever lasts for seven.
Well, that's got more to do with contracts than whether the show's gotten old. TV actors sign a five-year contract with a two-year renewal option. That means that after seven years, they're "free agents" and it has only been for a few rare shows that the producers have been willing to pay what the actors can ask after that.
I'd say the stripping of constitutional rights constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Actually, most forms of punishment (e.g. imprisonment, fines) involve stripping of constitutional rights, so just stripping him of constitutional rights isn't by itself cruel or unusual. Having said that, this does seem unusual, and, as Mr. Mitnick points out in the article, probation isn't supposed to be punative at all. So there is a case to be made here.
Have you looked at the site? It's not fanatical at all. It's about lobbying hardware/software suppliers to support more distributions than just Red Hat. They have lists of companies that support RH only, that are distribution-independent, and that support multiple distributions, et.c.
At the top it says "Attention: This is not an Anti-Red Hat Linux site"
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In my experience, they expire if you do not earn any for a number of years. E.g. with American Airlines, your miles expire if you have not earned miles in the past three years -- but as long as you earn miles at least once every three years, none of your miles will ever expire.
Seeing as we're talking about USAirways, though, I'll take the 30 secods to look up their terms and conditions for Divendend Miles. Here's the relevant bit:
One of the questions was about whether there was an archives of the first slashdot page.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org appears to go back as far as 21 Dec 1997, but when I try to view the older pages, I get a blank document. Maybe a temporary glitch? You can see pages from earch 1998, in any case.
Testing my link-check evader: http://www.yahoo.com/
Now congress figures "If we can understand it, it must be stupid"
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Here's how NSI got their "evidence" of "slamming": They got a market research firm to do a survey of registrants whose domains had transferred away from NSI and found that 24% of them did not believe they had authorized the transfer of their domains.
This number is actually remarkably low (I am amazed that 76% of registrants are actually savvy and involved enough to know which registrar their domain is with and why) -- many people have all this stuff handled by their service provider and don't want to hear about it. That 24% can easily be accounted for by hosts/ISP's who switched registrars and took with them all the domains they managed.
The letter is to be signed by service providers who have done this http://www.userfriendly.com/transferletter.html -- by the way, http://www.userfriendly.com is a great domain search tool (no affiliatation -- in fact, I'm a competitor)
Well, getting a DNA sample is actually much easier than one would want it to be. Surviving is the tricky part.
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but if the patenter gave CT a cut, they would be acknowledging the existance of this story -- which would be prior art.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=518711395
No, I didn't have anything to do with it -- but at least I got in a bid before it got too high :-)
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I thought the FBI would be happy to get rid of him. Why would they replace him?
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Exactly. The date "Last updated on..." is not necessarily related to the date for "Made public on..."
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With PDF, you can design and lay out your ad and transmit it electronically (or on disk) to the newspaper, knowing that it will print exactly how it it did for you. Or you can lay out your brochure and send it off to the printers knowing the same thing. With any other format, the publisher/printer's machine is going to have at least one (oh, if only it were ever just one!) setting different than yours, which will change the layout.
PDF is the way that print ads are submitted electronically today. It's either PDF or old-fashioned cut-and-paste (no, even more old-fashioned than you're thinking, I mean with actual scissors and glue). The Associated Press runs a "wire service" called AdSend for ad agencies to transmit PDF ads electronically to newspapers and magazines -- and they are transmitting millions of PDF's a year.
The same thing basically goes for sending anything you want printed to a print shop. In any case, free PDF-making software enables dead-tree publising the same way that the web enables electronic publishing (though we haven't got any print shops that'll work for free, yet :-)
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When you read anything about starting a business, there's always some statistic about how 75% or 90% (depending how they measure, etc.) of new businesses fail within the first few years. Is e-commerce actually worse off than the average? Even if it's no worse than normal, it's going to seem worse, because they all started about the same time so there's going to be a wave of failures as they reach the "do or die" point
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no, that would definitely be malice :-)
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Doesn't seem to be in the IBM Patent Server -- maybe it's a Swiss patent, in which case it might be somewhere in here. How's your German/French?
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At the top it says "Attention: This is not an Anti-Red Hat Linux site"
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