That would explain the bombardment of random privacy statements I've received in the mail this past week. The first was from Mellon bank with nothing in the envelope but a one page privacy statement, and I *know* I don't have any accounts with Mellon.
This is an interesting topic. It seems that corporate places spend a lot less on education, even though they can afford it. Being a startup, we get a lot of grants etc, and some are education grants, so we have money, and there is no trouble getting it approved. The only stipulations are you can't just go buy a bunch of books, you can buy some, but you should use some of the money for classes. Protech offers some good deals to stretch the money, like 2 for 1. A good way to convince your employer to send you to training is to try and find some free/cheap seminars, before requesting more expensive training or training that involves travel. I recently attended a workshop on XML sponsored by Software AG. It was an excellent seminar and they only plugged their database software, Tamino, for about 5 minutes. That's the kind of stuff you gotta look for. Get involved in some local user groups and often they will sponsor some seminars.
Also, if we spend the money on CBTs or certifications, we have to have the certification by the end of the financial year that the money was alloted for. But this is a reasonable request.
We try to use all our education money because if we don't, they may think we don't need all of it and cut back. Our company is very focused on continuing education.
From what I read, the default on the publically released IE6 will be smart tags OFF. And there will also be a meta tag for authors to include to opt-out. So it's a little of both. Why would you want to turn on the smart tags anywayz?
*nods* Also, I've gotten pulled over before for doing exactly the speed limit. Too slow. No joke. If you get fined for doing 56 because they deem that you can't go over 55, then they're going to have issues. Not to mention, they talk about 55mph... in PA the interstate is 65! Everyone does about 80. Hell, I got passed by a cop last night on 279, i was doing 70 in a 55, and he didn't have his lights on.
It was rejected at k5? I followed the link while it was in the submission queue, and damn, that was a good read. I came back here to vote for it so i'll just ask for my vote to be counted in this thread:) Interesting enough to hold my attention for all 11 or so pages, that takes quite a talent since i'm one of those anti-depressant popping ADD types:P
SecurityFocus.com has a VPN mailing list that you may want to search, and/or subscribe to. I found the contacts I made through it quite helpful in setting up and troubleshooting our VPN.
Verizon blows... they took months to run more cabling at CMU so the new apartments could get on the LAN... bandwidth is a good thing. it's too bad the bandwidth price was included in the rent and there was NO bandwidth for about half the school year.
They required it at my college... in fact they wouldn't connect your port until you delivered your PC to the help desk and they installed NetWare and Norton. They finally, in my last semester, decided to try and let people install their own stuff but you had to buy a cd that auto installed everything, including a version of Norton Corporate with LiveUpdate locked with a key. So now I'm off campus with this copy of Norton I bought and I can't use LiveUpdate. But you still had to sign something saying you had installed it.
Actually I purchased it a year or two ago on cd when I found it in a store. I was disapointed that the feature that lets you write gravestones for the dead members of your party no longer is available. That was always the best when we'd name people in our party for people in our class and write gravestones about them and then other people would play and see them later. OK, we were like 8, it was entertaining then.
Dammit, you beat me to the "when i was a young'un..." post.
When I was in elementary school, we had Apple IIes, you booted off that 5 1/2" floppy and we had to learn how to type, and we got to play shit like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. I remember manipulating that little turtle thingy too.
This was the subject of discussion a while back on/. IIRC. Here's a link to a story from last month with pictures of what they think the early universe looked like.
You are right about what it would take to change the voting age.
The driving age, however, has been the subject of a proposed bill that has yet to be passed. The first step was implementing the midnight curfew for those under 18. There are groups dedicated to trying to raise the driving age as a safety measure.
If it's legit, it's not spam. Spam is unsolicited. Now if that company sells your email and you receive information from someone else, that's spam. But not from the company you signed up with, if you didn't opt out from their emailing info deal.
Oh yeah, plus since the USPS is a centralized AND governmental organization, I would guess it's not a good idea to spam so much through them. At least with email they can keep exploiting various mail servers.
Well I don't know about you but I get a ton more email spam than snail mail spam. I would guess in part because it costs more to send snail mail spam, postage and paper and all.
And I've never gotten some of the retarded spam in snail mail like I do for email... every day I get the same two messages, one is for financial crap, and one is for some female viagra (my sex life is already great thank you very much!:P). They always have a ton of spaces after the subject then a string of numbers. And last month they were always from a foreign country and easy to filter, this month they've moved on to hotmail and msn, etc.
I think snail mail would also be easier to trace, with postage marks and because the USPS is a government run organization, they would put the smack down real quick on abuse like that.
What if you have a natural schedule that doesn't coincide with your work schedule?
Seriously... My natural sleep cycle has been about 2am-10am all my life. Even when I was a baby, according to my mom. Too bad I need to be at work at 9...
I tried taking some pills that help me sleep, prescribed by my doctor but they made me feel drunk and made me sleep like 12 hours...
i was able to quit irc, all forms of online chatting for a couple years. but i could never shake the MUD. not only can you chat on gossip channels like irc, but youre killing things. there's never a dull moment.
altho, i can only get into the text based MUDs, i tried UO for a while and that whole graphical click and drag thing turned me off.
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That would explain the bombardment of random privacy statements I've received in the mail this past week. The first was from Mellon bank with nothing in the envelope but a one page privacy statement, and I *know* I don't have any accounts with Mellon.
Also, if we spend the money on CBTs or certifications, we have to have the certification by the end of the financial year that the money was alloted for. But this is a reasonable request.
We try to use all our education money because if we don't, they may think we don't need all of it and cut back. Our company is very focused on continuing education.
From what I read, the default on the publically released IE6 will be smart tags OFF. And there will also be a meta tag for authors to include to opt-out. So it's a little of both. Why would you want to turn on the smart tags anywayz?
what are the 6? i know daddy longlegs' venom could but their mouths are too small to bite humans...
*nods* Also, I've gotten pulled over before for doing exactly the speed limit. Too slow. No joke. If you get fined for doing 56 because they deem that you can't go over 55, then they're going to have issues. Not to mention, they talk about 55mph... in PA the interstate is 65! Everyone does about 80. Hell, I got passed by a cop last night on 279, i was doing 70 in a 55, and he didn't have his lights on.
It was rejected at k5? I followed the link while it was in the submission queue, and damn, that was a good read. I came back here to vote for it so i'll just ask for my vote to be counted in this thread :) Interesting enough to hold my attention for all 11 or so pages, that takes quite a talent since i'm one of those anti-depressant popping ADD types :P
SecurityFocus.com has a VPN mailing list that you may want to search, and/or subscribe to. I found the contacts I made through it quite helpful in setting up and troubleshooting our VPN.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/ 6/13/13341/1119
Verizon blows... they took months to run more cabling at CMU so the new apartments could get on the LAN... bandwidth is a good thing. it's too bad the bandwidth price was included in the rent and there was NO bandwidth for about half the school year.
They required it at my college... in fact they wouldn't connect your port until you delivered your PC to the help desk and they installed NetWare and Norton. They finally, in my last semester, decided to try and let people install their own stuff but you had to buy a cd that auto installed everything, including a version of Norton Corporate with LiveUpdate locked with a key. So now I'm off campus with this copy of Norton I bought and I can't use LiveUpdate. But you still had to sign something saying you had installed it.
Actually I purchased it a year or two ago on cd when I found it in a store. I was disapointed that the feature that lets you write gravestones for the dead members of your party no longer is available. That was always the best when we'd name people in our party for people in our class and write gravestones about them and then other people would play and see them later. OK, we were like 8, it was entertaining then.
When I was in elementary school, we had Apple IIes, you booted off that 5 1/2" floppy and we had to learn how to type, and we got to play shit like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. I remember manipulating that little turtle thingy too.
Wow... seriously old-school hehe.
I read the hole in the ozone layer is actually slowly closing up though. So maybe we're not that bad off :P
btw... i tried partners.nytimes for the hell of it and it loaded.
Last week it was channel.nytimes... Don't know if that still works either.
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/00/pr0025.htm
It's funny these two should end up in the same topic right above one another and neither of them noticed.
The driving age, however, has been the subject of a proposed bill that has yet to be passed. The first step was implementing the midnight curfew for those under 18. There are groups dedicated to trying to raise the driving age as a safety measure.
It's not set in *our* past... just in the past of the other Star Trek series'.
The Sci-fi news site has a discussion on this same topic here. Also with the same link to trektoday...
If it's legit, it's not spam. Spam is unsolicited. Now if that company sells your email and you receive information from someone else, that's spam. But not from the company you signed up with, if you didn't opt out from their emailing info deal.
Oh yeah, plus since the USPS is a centralized AND governmental organization, I would guess it's not a good idea to spam so much through them. At least with email they can keep exploiting various mail servers.
And I've never gotten some of the retarded spam in snail mail like I do for email... every day I get the same two messages, one is for financial crap, and one is for some female viagra (my sex life is already great thank you very much! :P). They always have a ton of spaces after the subject then a string of numbers. And last month they were always from a foreign country and easy to filter, this month they've moved on to hotmail and msn, etc.
I think snail mail would also be easier to trace, with postage marks and because the USPS is a government run organization, they would put the smack down real quick on abuse like that.
Seriously... My natural sleep cycle has been about 2am-10am all my life. Even when I was a baby, according to my mom. Too bad I need to be at work at 9...
I tried taking some pills that help me sleep, prescribed by my doctor but they made me feel drunk and made me sleep like 12 hours...
So i just kind of suck and deal...
i was able to quit irc, all forms of online chatting for a couple years. but i could never shake the MUD. not only can you chat on gossip channels like irc, but youre killing things. there's never a dull moment.
altho, i can only get into the text based MUDs, i tried UO for a while and that whole graphical click and drag thing turned me off.