Again, I think you missed the point here that this bill really has no chance of passing. Computer manufacturers have no desire to do this, and Dell being the biggest company outside of Austin, there isn't much chance this will pass.
I dunno, this is the state that is protecting us from buying or shipping realistic dildos within its precious borders as well... I can see where they'd pass a stupid law like this. Also a state where grandparents or abuseive, drunken husbands can get custody of children if their mother is a "witch".
And what defines a personal computer? What about those email machines? Or other 'netpliances? Can't *gasp* porn show up on those too? So are palm pilots and visors personal computers? how do we stop the spam of porn? Run away! Run away!
I grew up in that damn state and sometimes I wonder how they get all that sand out of their ears.
I had thought about a writing a fiction book about someone taking over the satellites and holding them hostage, didn't know if it was feasable, I guess it is:) Truth is stranger than fiction.
Funny, I've been looking for the same thing for Jon Katz. I no longer even click on his articles, because I don't want to imply that/. should continue to carry his editorials.
Upper left side of your browser window. Find the menu. Click preferences. Scroll down to Exclude Stories From Homepage: Authors. Scroll down to the checkbox beside Jon Katz. Click the box to mark it. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the button marked savehome.
True for now, but when the 21 million AOL users upgrade to the version using Netscape instead of IE and find that many pages don't work, they're going to be a bit upset.
Yeah, but when?
I've seen the upgrade for AOL 6.0 advertised on TV and it doesn't say anything about Netscape.
Additionally, I've got AOL 5.0 loaded at home, and although it upgraded some things, it still uses IE and on the occasion when I pop open IE instead of Netscape outside of AOL, it says IE provided by AOL. Is AOL really going to make use of Netscape? I don't think so.
we have an opt-out list that we can join, for a fee. It is sponsored by the telephone company.
However, it doesn't do us a blooody bit of good because telemarketing companies are not required to subscribe to it.
If we do that with email, it's the same thing...if headers are forged and companies don't use it, what's the use of the list? I'd like to bill some of the S0B's for the time and bandwith they are wasting.
Of course, that is the point, that they figure we will just ignore them rather than hunt them down. A few places I know have sold my email addy...I call them up personally and tell them to stop it; it usually works. Then again, that's what I have my "spam me" email account for.
Gore: I can fix medicare, save the enviroment, and make everyone happy!
Bush: I can do everything Gore says he can but TWICE as good.
Microsoft: We think this should take 5 months for a preliminary review, and documents filed by each side should be allowed to be twice as long as the Government wants.
Government: We think we can wrap this up by Christmas, and documents should be half as long as Microsoft wants.
I picked one up at Radio Shack, and couldn't install it because the CD was cracked. Oh well. Nothing on the packaging says I can't do what I want with it, so I guess it's time to have fun with it...
Mynn the Museless
The eighties relfected all this in their evening drammaz... and it's coming back again, just look at the new fall line up. Power, greed, drugs and 'puters.
Then again, hasn't it always been there? The drugs, the alochol? Beer in the office, beer at company meetings?
http://www.ubersoft.net/comics/hd19991110e.gif
My favorite solution was sold by the last company I worked for, sorry, no names as they still owe me things (eight months after quitting!)... But they are a small small company in Florida...and will be forever until the sheriff chases them out of town.
They sold non-Y2K compliant accounting software until 1998. Then, they shut the company down, started a new one with a new name in a new office building with new money:). They then signed nearly all of their old clients to new contracts and agreements with higher maintenance prices (in most cases) and sold them contracts to rewrite the software to be Y2K compliant.
As well as selling them websites and other solutions. I left when the money started running out and they started bouncing pay and reimbursement checks on me, as well as changing my job to be an administrative position under a new manager (instead of what I had been hired to do, documentation and training).
Last I heard, they hadn't been able to get enough administrative staff to make up for me and others who had left, and the business partner was still trying to drum up more Venture Capital, and quite a few of the better employees had left.
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I dunno, this is the state that is protecting us from buying or shipping realistic dildos within its precious borders as well... I can see where they'd pass a stupid law like this. Also a state where grandparents or abuseive, drunken husbands can get custody of children if their mother is a "witch".
And what defines a personal computer? What about those email machines? Or other 'netpliances? Can't *gasp* porn show up on those too? So are palm pilots and visors personal computers? how do we stop the spam of porn? Run away! Run away!
I grew up in that damn state and sometimes I wonder how they get all that sand out of their ears.
I had thought about a writing a fiction book about someone taking over the satellites and holding them hostage, didn't know if it was feasable, I guess it is :) Truth is stranger than fiction.
Upper left side of your browser window. Find the menu. Click preferences. Scroll down to Exclude Stories From Homepage: Authors. Scroll down to the checkbox beside Jon Katz. Click the box to mark it. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the button marked savehome.
Works for me every time.
True for now, but when the 21 million AOL users upgrade to the version using Netscape instead of IE and find that many pages don't work, they're going to be a bit upset.
Yeah, but when?
I've seen the upgrade for AOL 6.0 advertised on TV and it doesn't say anything about Netscape.
Additionally, I've got AOL 5.0 loaded at home, and although it upgraded some things, it still uses IE and on the occasion when I pop open IE instead of Netscape outside of AOL, it says IE provided by AOL. Is AOL really going to make use of Netscape? I don't think so.
we have an opt-out list that we can join, for a fee. It is sponsored by the telephone company.
However, it doesn't do us a blooody bit of good because telemarketing companies are not required to subscribe to it.
If we do that with email, it's the same thing...if headers are forged and companies don't use it, what's the use of the list? I'd like to bill some of the S0B's for the time and bandwith they are wasting.
Of course, that is the point, that they figure we will just ignore them rather than hunt them down. A few places I know have sold my email addy...I call them up personally and tell them to stop it; it usually works. Then again, that's what I have my "spam me" email account for.
Nope, sorry, Miami wins that one. They'll have to think of another name. :)
I don't like the idea of a software firewall or the networking needed on a small home system for a hardware one...
You appear to have discovered an entirely new Troll, was it intentional or not?
huh?
Um, there is no online trading going on at the nasdaq.com website. Its a pure information source.
Okay, I need a lot more than two hours sleep. no more posting for me today.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
As an aside, I believe MSFT was the first stock on the Dow not traded on the NYSE.
Yeah, that's it. My brain always assumes that anything on the Dow is traded on the NYSE.
Guess I'm Mynn the Clueless today.
Guess online trading is buggy.
Microsoft trades on the Dow, right?
There is no Light Side without a Dark Side.
Gore: I can fix medicare, save the enviroment, and make everyone happy!
Bush: I can do everything Gore says he can but TWICE as good.
Microsoft: We think this should take 5 months for a preliminary review, and documents filed by each side should be allowed to be twice as long as the Government wants.
Government: We think we can wrap this up by Christmas, and documents should be half as long as Microsoft wants.
With no Dark Side, there is no Light Side.
At least it's not a bannable offence.
but probably over-budget too.
I didn't realise that my sig was broken, excuse me. I'm sorry to have offended you you Anonymous Coward.
And kill the bacteria with an industrial version? Or a series: Mr. Clean goes to Mir! Mynn the Museless
I picked one up at Radio Shack, and couldn't install it because the CD was cracked. Oh well. Nothing on the packaging says I can't do what I want with it, so I guess it's time to have fun with it... Mynn the Museless
The eighties relfected all this in their evening drammaz... and it's coming back again, just look at the new fall line up. Power, greed, drugs and 'puters. Then again, hasn't it always been there? The drugs, the alochol? Beer in the office, beer at company meetings? http://www.ubersoft.net/comics/hd19991110e.gif
My favorite solution was sold by the last company I worked for, sorry, no names as they still owe me things (eight months after quitting!)... But they are a small small company in Florida...and will be forever until the sheriff chases them out of town.
:). They then signed nearly all of their old clients to new contracts and agreements with higher maintenance prices (in most cases) and sold them contracts to rewrite the software to be Y2K compliant.
They sold non-Y2K compliant accounting software until 1998. Then, they shut the company down, started a new one with a new name in a new office building with new money
As well as selling them websites and other solutions. I left when the money started running out and they started bouncing pay and reimbursement checks on me, as well as changing my job to be an administrative position under a new manager (instead of what I had been hired to do, documentation and training).
Last I heard, they hadn't been able to get enough administrative staff to make up for me and others who had left, and the business partner was still trying to drum up more Venture Capital, and quite a few of the better employees had left.
Yep, similar thing...lights went out someplace in the county; some guy had hit a light pole. Saw it on the news the next morning. (South Florida)