1) Experian's site was broken --- it reported an error, but I bet the annualcreditreport.com now thinks I've used up my 1 free report with them anyway.
Same thing happened to me with Experian, when it asked for the last 4 of my SSN. But I tried again 10 minutes later and it worked. The annualcreditreport.com site is just a portal to the three CRAs, and until you have actually got a report frem them, you'll not have used up your freebie.
Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
Bender: Wow! I'm finally gonna see my favourite chef, TV's Elzar. Oh this is the greatest nanosecond of my life. No, this one is - no, this one. Wait...that one was slightly worse. Ah, so far so good on this one.
Basically, a company called Chamberlain was suing another company called Skylink for building a "universal" door opener that operated with Chamberlain's products. Chamberlain cited the DMCA, but the case was thrown out on appeal.
A guy goes to dinner with his girlfriend's family, and finds he is a bit windy about the arse. Anyway, he is sitting down at table, and the family dog is lying down behind his chair, so he figures he'll try a little experiment. So, he shifts his weight to his left cheek, and squeezes out a fairly quiet fart.
The mother looks up at the noise, and says "Baron!" (this being the dog's name). Encouraged, the guy lets out another one, quite a bit louder this time.
Again, the mother looks up, and exclaims "Baron!" in a more urgent tone.
By now the guy figures he's got carte blanche for whatever trouser stunts he wants to pull, so he let's rip with all his might, and lets one go that sounds like the curtains are being ripped in half!
At this, the mother stands up, panic-stricken, and shouts "Baron! Get away from that man before he shits all over you!"
What did we learn? Um... accelerometers only work in one direction... if you install them backwards, things don't happen right!
Yes. But the real lesson here is that when you are designing something of this sort, don't design it so that it only works one way round. Make sure that it works in both directions, with the output only enabled for the correct direction...
For those fans of "Only Fools and Horses," does anybody else think that Trig must be a re-incarnation of HAL-9000, since he keeps on calling Rodney "Dave"?
Not to mention that a "mixed" breed will usually have fewer health problems (some defensive cat-slaver will no doubt chime in to dispute that - True, under optimal conditions, you can breed genetic disease out of a line. It simply does not happen in practice, as the largest motivation to breed involves profit, which you don't maximize by "rendering nonviable" two out of every three newborns).
The easiest way to "breed" genetic disease out of a populations is to kill those with the disease (or you can substitute "undesirable trait" for "disease" if you wish), and this has been done successfully by many breeders, most notably breeders of horses, and most commonly in those societies where horse breeding is a rich man's pastime. Thus, for example, the stud of Manuel Tavares Veiga, for four generations in Portugal, has been ruthless in shooting all offspring with undesirable traits, and as a result, has the most sought after, and incidentally, among the hardiest lines of the Lusitano horse in the world. It happens in Spain, too, and with Arabian horses.
Naturally, I can (though I was in error when I stated it was Linux Magazine: it was Linux Journal).
In any case, there was the annual Ultimate Linux Box article, which contained a sidebar entitled If you buy no other hardware this year...
Text if the sidebar follows:...get a pre-ban HDTV card. In a major setback for those who choose to build their own entertainment devices, the US Federal Communications Commission has approved the so-called Broadcast Flag regulation for high-definition television (HDTV). That's bad news for Linux boxes, Ultimate and otherwise. Future HDTV-capable tuner cards will be required to enforce a to-be-determined digital rights management (DRM) regime. This is one product category that won't get better next year; it'll be worse because of mandatory DRM. If you live in the US, if you buy no other PC hardware before the end of 2004, pick up a pcHDTV card.
The pcHDTV HD-2000 Hi Definition Television Card works with the open-source player Xine and it will be illegal to sell next year. You'll still be able to use the card you stashed this year, though. We give you fair warning right now that in 2005 Linux Journal will cover projects that require pre-ban cards. Buy now or kick yourself next year.
There was a suggestion in Linux Magazine a month or so ago that it might be a good idea to buy one of these Linux cards if you wanted to be able to watch HDTV without worrying about the broadcast flag. I got myself two, and I'm very glad I did.
However, I wonder how long it will be before some assHatch^H^H^H^H^Hhole attempts to make it illegal even to own one of these devices...
Assistant: Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret: that all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent. Chimp: No, I don't think we'll be telling them _that_.
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1) Experian's site was broken --- it reported an error, but I bet the annualcreditreport.com now thinks I've used up my 1 free report with them anyway.
Same thing happened to me with Experian, when it asked for the last 4 of my SSN. But I tried again 10 minutes later and it worked. The annualcreditreport.com site is just a portal to the three CRAs, and until you have actually got a report frem them, you'll not have used up your freebie.
Try again, is my advice...
From "1984":
Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
Y'know, I really like the ability to take the ads out of your web site using AdBlock...
Bender: Wow! I'm finally gonna see my favourite chef, TV's Elzar. Oh this is the greatest nanosecond of my life. No, this one is - no, this one. Wait...that one was slightly worse. Ah, so far so good on this one.
"He gave Bush a five-page, handwritten letter in which he stated"
Actually, that's a typo: it should read "five-letter, handwritten page"
Is it known whether these cards ignore the broadcast bit?
Lisa the Vegetarian
"And now the pig de resistance"
What about when he pees on the kitchen floor?
So PLEASE don't mention Java Applets. You're likely to get stoned for it.
Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was "That piece of applet was good enough for Java".
Apple Computer actually seems to have a sense of humour about these things: sosumi
Sorry, but the garage door has already been shut on this possibility.
Basically, a company called Chamberlain was suing another company called Skylink for building a "universal" door opener that operated with Chamberlain's products. Chamberlain cited the DMCA, but the case was thrown out on appeal.
Beats blaming it on the dog I guess... :)
A guy goes to dinner with his girlfriend's family, and finds he is a bit windy about the arse. Anyway, he is sitting down at table, and the family dog is lying down behind his chair, so he figures he'll try a little experiment. So, he shifts his weight to his left cheek, and squeezes out a fairly quiet fart.
The mother looks up at the noise, and says "Baron!" (this being the dog's name). Encouraged, the guy lets out another one, quite a bit louder this time.
Again, the mother looks up, and exclaims "Baron!" in a more urgent tone.
By now the guy figures he's got carte blanche for whatever trouser stunts he wants to pull, so he let's rip with all his might, and lets one go that sounds like the curtains are being ripped in half!
At this, the mother stands up, panic-stricken, and shouts "Baron! Get away from that man before he shits all over you!"
piracy@microsoft.com or calling 1-800-RULEGIT
as RULE GIT, rather than aRe yoU LEGITimate?
What did we learn? Um... accelerometers only work in one direction... if you install them backwards, things don't happen right!
Yes. But the real lesson here is that when you are designing something of this sort, don't design it so that it only works one way round. Make sure that it works in both directions, with the output only enabled for the correct direction...
"There's many, many different species and they're all based on real things, like a Lupe is a dog, a Scorchio is a dragon," Jacqui said.
/.
And if they think dragons are real, they've got problems as well...
Oh, wait: this is
Yeah, dragons'n'orcs'n'hobbits, all real, yeah, real!
This is like the German Jews all over again...
s/ Jew//
For those fans of "Only Fools and Horses," does anybody else think that Trig must be a re-incarnation of HAL-9000, since he keeps on calling Rodney "Dave"?
Not to mention that a "mixed" breed will usually have fewer health problems (some defensive cat-slaver will no doubt chime in to dispute that - True, under optimal conditions, you can breed genetic disease out of a line. It simply does not happen in practice, as the largest motivation to breed involves profit, which you don't maximize by "rendering nonviable" two out of every three newborns).
The easiest way to "breed" genetic disease out of a populations is to kill those with the disease (or you can substitute "undesirable trait" for "disease" if you wish), and this has been done successfully by many breeders, most notably breeders of horses, and most commonly in those societies where horse breeding is a rich man's pastime. Thus, for example, the stud of Manuel Tavares Veiga, for four generations in Portugal, has been ruthless in shooting all offspring with undesirable traits, and as a result, has the most sought after, and incidentally, among the hardiest lines of the Lusitano horse in the world. It happens in Spain, too, and with Arabian horses.
Are we afraid of teenage-terror-girls ?
/.ers...
Hell, yes! We're
Naturally, I can (though I was in error when I stated it was Linux Magazine: it was Linux Journal).
...get a pre-ban HDTV card. In a major setback for those who choose to build their own entertainment devices, the US Federal Communications Commission has approved the so-called Broadcast Flag regulation for high-definition television (HDTV). That's bad news for Linux boxes, Ultimate and otherwise. Future HDTV-capable tuner cards will be required to enforce a to-be-determined digital rights management (DRM) regime. This is one product category that won't get better next year; it'll be worse because of mandatory DRM. If you live in the US, if you buy no other PC hardware before the end of 2004, pick up a pcHDTV card.
In any case, there was the annual Ultimate Linux Box article, which contained a sidebar entitled If you buy no other hardware this year...
Text if the sidebar follows:
The pcHDTV HD-2000 Hi Definition Television Card works with the open-source player Xine and it will be illegal to sell next year. You'll still be able to use the card you stashed this year, though. We give you fair warning right now that in 2005 Linux Journal will cover projects that require pre-ban cards. Buy now or kick yourself next year.
There was a suggestion in Linux Magazine a month or so ago that it might be a good idea to buy one of these Linux cards if you wanted to be able to watch HDTV without worrying about the broadcast flag. I got myself two, and I'm very glad I did.
However, I wonder how long it will be before some assHatch^H^H^H^H^Hhole attempts to make it illegal even to own one of these devices...
Although WB expressed some concern, this was done with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in NY, Boston.
Judge rules that duplication of stories on /. illegal. Taco et. al. to go down for 20 years
Assistant: Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret: that all the chimps we sent into space came back super-intelligent.
Chimp: No, I don't think we'll be telling them _that_.
[Roller skates away, making monkey noises]
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Wow, those are some pretty nice jpegs! I expecially like the ~~~.&!# No carrier