In middle earth - one ring to in the darkness bind them.
In America - one web ring to the internet dark ages bind them.
I agree something must be done about terrorism... what the Bush administration is proposing is nothing less than taking the USA into Stalin's USSR. Anyone read the news about the hundreds of Iranians and other arabs jailed in southern california? If the democratic party, or any other party can't grab our attention, tearing at these practices, then we deserve another McCarthyism and all the horrors of that time.
What appears to be the case is that it doesn't try to put a lot of technical DRM restrictions on the content, and that is nice.
True. However, borrowing from our 'In Soviet Russia' fan, might we expect (probably already in place where you watch TV) you're watching habits will be kept by the cable company, in turn the FBI will keep tabs on what you watch, too, all in the names of targeted marketing and national security.
"Subject #579145 watches reruns of StoneFeld and Monty Pythagoras Flying Circus... and has fails doesn't skip Matsumora Fishworks and Tamorobuchi Heavy Manufacturing Consultants commercials."
I'm sure this is the lawyers doing, as once the intrested parties realize the lack of attention to such vital details, they'll be at each others throats again, keeping the lawyers fully employed until 2010.
BTW, in case you didn't notice it, also in the news today, AOL quietly was awarded Patents on IM. All very low key and bearing the finest attention and guesswork you can muster.
I never trust rumor sites anyway, and that goes double for Slashdot...
...uh...
"I'm sorry Madam, but your crystal ball has to be shut down for precdicting trade secrets and reverse engineering technology in violation of the DMCA, please come along quietly."
Unenforcible, and it would be a great source of e-mail addresses for spammers. Ironic, isn't it?
I dunno, at 11K$ a pop, they could probably afford to enforce it nicely. I wouldn't even mind getting a share of that fine, as I've certainly cumulatively spent many hours clearing the crap from my mailboxes and devising ways to be rid of it. Besides, most of these spammers are domestic USA businesses and shouldn't be too hard to track down and flog. A few harsh examples and I think you could see this stuff drying up pretty quick. Americans typically are less inclined to do business internationally, so foreign spam shouldn't be too much of a problem. If it is, Bush could just threaten economic sanctions, etc. against the offending country, or even invade.
It has always been crap, and even it's creator has stated that it's not a good game. Just because something is rare doesn't mean it's worth collecting.
This reminds me of Miner 2049'er, which seemed to be on almost every platform, but totally sucked. I think it got by on the cover art.
I've probably got the first Zork game for Apple][ computers, back before they called it Zork I. It was simply Zork.
I've tried a couple times to buy M.U.L.E. with the original packaging, manual, disk, etc. on eBay and see it regularly surpass $35. When accounting for inflation it's still lost some value, but I can't imagine an E.T. VCS cartridge doing better, what with 10 million or so of them disposed of. ("Just when did Earth get that second moon?")
I've still got a stack of Apple magazines from 80-81 and a couple promotional posters, one for Sneakers and the other, IIRC, for Beer Run. Rest assured, they're safely stowed.
I'm continually amazed how such an open thing as the ARPANET and HTML have given rise to patentable mechanisms and methods. Seems as absurd. Too bad the internet, as a medium, didn't require forfeiture of any right to exclusive intellectual property for delivering media or providing service.
Then again, MPAA and RIAA would probably be even more deadset against such an idea.
Many areas of the US can't get DSL service due to their distance from the phone company central office. So they are left with no choice but to get cable, if it's availible.
So what you are really stating is, because cable was laid in the 60's forward, and phone from the 20's forward, both with respective costs of laying the lines, cable is the choice because its began with better bandwidth, and possibly was planned better and benefitted from matured neighborhoods.
Whereas phone became a morass with changing neighborhoods and changing technology.
I fell into this category, as even though DSL was availible in my town (a suburb outside of NYC), I was
wayyyy too far from the central office to get DSL. Only just recently did my local cable supplier begin
offering broadband.
A fellow I work with, in a fairly densely populated area, not far from silicon valley, can't get DSL because the routing of PacBell's lines. You can only go so far with bundles of copper. When it snakes, you could be across the street and still not get it. Yet with cable, you could be on a border between one company and another, you get the bad company, while the good company's lines are 50 feet away. Tough luck.
In smaller countries with more concentrated populations, more people live within the appropriate distance
from the central office. Hence the larger amount of people with DSL service.
I'd like to point out that most densely populated urban areas of the USA didn't get cable until well after suburban areas were connected. Mostly due to local government concern over who owned what and attempting to get the best deal when letting a monopoly in the door. For the provider it meant a more sizeable investment in running cable through underground access and up into buildings. Not a task for the feint of heart, but the cable technology would still be better into the home. Many telcos atleast upgraded trunk lines to glass, but the cost of replacing copper into each house is prohibitive.
Remember when the phone companies were all profitable, before pricing themselves right out of enough revenue to upgrade their technology. Much of Europe still has state or effectively otherwise telephone monopolies.
ven though the term "stalking" has been over used into near meaninglessness, using research tools *never* becomes "stalking" as in physically following someone around.
So virtual snooping isn't the same as, say, physically lurking in the shadows and following them around.
I spent a good many years working in a college IT department and had written a quick student schedule viewer/printer for the scheduling department (so in an emergency they could locate a student by their schedule, they weren't the same as admissions or regisration, so didn't normally have the need for student info.) One day someone asks me, while I'm working on a printer in their office, who would have printed off this schedule that's on the printer. I look and it's someone I know. I also know someone who works parttime in that office and know they know that person too, as we're all three in the same student organization. I place a monitor in the code to see who is logged in and when they view his schedule. Turns out, she does, about 20 times a day. A small change to the program to post a scary warning of breech of ethics, authorities being notified, etc. seemed to clear it up the next time she pulled up his schedule. None the less, I feel the elements of stalking where there.
WTF? That thing only reduced the tempreture by half a centigrade!
My GEIL DDR 256MB came with a spreader, it's kinda odd, as I don't think it's going to do much of a job as a heatsink, but it does afford a bit more surface area and that ram does get warm. And overclocking memory, from what I've heard, does make it run hotter, just like when you OC a CPU. Sockets being as close together as they are, I don't think there's much else that can safely be done to heatsink your memory. Many something vertical with a few blunt spines which won't cut into cables.
I don't think you've measured the maximum capacity of a PSU until you hear a BANG!
Nah, I hate to see electronics head for the landfill as much as the other guy. I picked up the PC Power and Cooling PSU they reviewed last time. It's doing a fine job and is quiet. Actually the loudest fan in the case is that tiny little stock AMD CPU fan, what a racket! Seems to keep the CPU cool enough (XP2600/333), but I'd like to know where I can get a quieter fan for the stock HS.
More like, in Soviet Russia the government might have spied on you.
In the USA, post 9/11, the government will spy on you.
So... what was the objective of this Cold War thing again?
Nice to know..
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I just recieved Mandrake 9.0 PowerPack by chronopost/fedex on Thursday, which means I paid for it, rather than downloaded it. I figure the money is well spent, especially if it keeps them going.
Guy I work with just mailed out his Telocity DSL modem this morning, since he jumped ship over price. He had no issued with DirecTV, even liked having the static IP. Now he's having a bit of a problem with the customer service where he's moved to (Charter), they offer some rebate or reduced cost of service and now can't seem to remember any such agreement, even though he has a signed piece of paper.
Well, along with this from Michigan's Upper Penninsula.
"It's the second week of deer camp, and all the guys are here.
We drink, play cards and shoot the bull, but never shoot no deer.
The only time we leave the camp is when we go for beer.
The second week of deer camp is the greatest time of year!" -- Da Yoopers
Representatives of eBay were not immediately available for comment, but the company has issued a general warning on its Web site, urging caution over e-mails seeking passwords or credit card numbers.
Sounds like they've mentioned it on the website to me.....
I received the spam on this one about a week ago. I haven't received *any* warning from eBay on being careful with ID or personal info, even as a general warning, particularly via email. I'm sure, as most things I've found, there is a warning buried deep within eBay and only those with the greatest of patience and available time (or just luck) actually can find it. The site is poorly designed for navigation.
About a month ago I attempted to post a similar article as this to Slashdot concerning very much the same style of attack in an email from a www.paypal-ebay.com site, registered to some schmuck in Nebraska. I tried, carefully worded with good references, etc. to get submit it and it died both times. So, slashdot, which often runs duplicate stories, missed the boat on that one.
It's amazing what a pain it was trying to raise anyone at eBay or PayPal with their forms, etc. Customer service at both are terrible, just terrible. I only got through to PayPal with the help of some information provided by a powerseller friend. PayPal said, "yeah we know about it and are trying to shut the site down", this 6 hours after I got the spam and the site was still up at that point. Forwarding passwords to the email address of paypal@c2.hu
So be careful, eh? Not many people are as helpful as the users.
"That night I dreamed of Mr. Christmas and a baseball bat, some duct tape, and roofing nails."
The detectives of the Chicago PD would actually show up, quickly, for this sort of activity.
I've had a lesser run in with a scammer who decided he was tired of accepting money and sending things, so he stopped sending things. See my journal entries for the story. Over a $30 item they hauled the guy in, in Tseun Wan.
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In America - one web ring to the internet dark ages bind them.
I agree something must be done about terrorism... what the Bush administration is proposing is nothing less than taking the USA into Stalin's USSR. Anyone read the news about the hundreds of Iranians and other arabs jailed in southern california? If the democratic party, or any other party can't grab our attention, tearing at these practices, then we deserve another McCarthyism and all the horrors of that time.
True. However, borrowing from our 'In Soviet Russia' fan, might we expect (probably already in place where you watch TV) you're watching habits will be kept by the cable company, in turn the FBI will keep tabs on what you watch, too, all in the names of targeted marketing and national security.
"Subject #579145 watches reruns of StoneFeld and Monty Pythagoras Flying Circus... and has fails doesn't skip Matsumora Fishworks and Tamorobuchi Heavy Manufacturing Consultants commercials."
"Yeah, must be a terrorist, haul him in."
I'm sure this is the lawyers doing, as once the intrested parties realize the lack of attention to such vital details, they'll be at each others throats again, keeping the lawyers fully employed until 2010.
BTW, in case you didn't notice it, also in the news today, AOL quietly was awarded Patents on IM. All very low key and bearing the finest attention and guesswork you can muster.
All the better to watch the CowboyNeal Variety Hour in living digital color with digital surround sound.
So Amazon wants to patent a Hash Table?
"I'm sorry Madam, but your crystal ball has to be shut down for precdicting trade secrets and reverse engineering technology in violation of the DMCA, please come along quietly."
I dunno, at 11K$ a pop, they could probably afford to enforce it nicely. I wouldn't even mind getting a share of that fine, as I've certainly cumulatively spent many hours clearing the crap from my mailboxes and devising ways to be rid of it. Besides, most of these spammers are domestic USA businesses and shouldn't be too hard to track down and flog. A few harsh examples and I think you could see this stuff drying up pretty quick. Americans typically are less inclined to do business internationally, so foreign spam shouldn't be too much of a problem. If it is, Bush could just threaten economic sanctions, etc. against the offending country, or even invade.
This reminds me of Miner 2049'er, which seemed to be on almost every platform, but totally sucked. I think it got by on the cover art.
I've tried a couple times to buy M.U.L.E. with the original packaging, manual, disk, etc. on eBay and see it regularly surpass $35. When accounting for inflation it's still lost some value, but I can't imagine an E.T. VCS cartridge doing better, what with 10 million or so of them disposed of. ("Just when did Earth get that second moon?")
I've still got a stack of Apple magazines from 80-81 and a couple promotional posters, one for Sneakers and the other, IIRC, for Beer Run. Rest assured, they're safely stowed.
Then again, MPAA and RIAA would probably be even more deadset against such an idea.
So what you are really stating is, because cable was laid in the 60's forward, and phone from the 20's forward, both with respective costs of laying the lines, cable is the choice because its began with better bandwidth, and possibly was planned better and benefitted from matured neighborhoods. Whereas phone became a morass with changing neighborhoods and changing technology.
I fell into this category, as even though DSL was availible in my town (a suburb outside of NYC), I was wayyyy too far from the central office to get DSL. Only just recently did my local cable supplier begin offering broadband.
A fellow I work with, in a fairly densely populated area, not far from silicon valley, can't get DSL because the routing of PacBell's lines. You can only go so far with bundles of copper. When it snakes, you could be across the street and still not get it. Yet with cable, you could be on a border between one company and another, you get the bad company, while the good company's lines are 50 feet away. Tough luck.
In smaller countries with more concentrated populations, more people live within the appropriate distance from the central office. Hence the larger amount of people with DSL service.
I'd like to point out that most densely populated urban areas of the USA didn't get cable until well after suburban areas were connected. Mostly due to local government concern over who owned what and attempting to get the best deal when letting a monopoly in the door. For the provider it meant a more sizeable investment in running cable through underground access and up into buildings. Not a task for the feint of heart, but the cable technology would still be better into the home. Many telcos atleast upgraded trunk lines to glass, but the cost of replacing copper into each house is prohibitive.
Remember when the phone companies were all profitable, before pricing themselves right out of enough revenue to upgrade their technology. Much of Europe still has state or effectively otherwise telephone monopolies.
ven though the term "stalking" has been over used into near meaninglessness, using research tools *never* becomes "stalking" as in physically following someone around.
So virtual snooping isn't the same as, say, physically lurking in the shadows and following them around.
I spent a good many years working in a college IT department and had written a quick student schedule viewer/printer for the scheduling department (so in an emergency they could locate a student by their schedule, they weren't the same as admissions or regisration, so didn't normally have the need for student info.) One day someone asks me, while I'm working on a printer in their office, who would have printed off this schedule that's on the printer. I look and it's someone I know. I also know someone who works parttime in that office and know they know that person too, as we're all three in the same student organization. I place a monitor in the code to see who is logged in and when they view his schedule. Turns out, she does, about 20 times a day. A small change to the program to post a scary warning of breech of ethics, authorities being notified, etc. seemed to clear it up the next time she pulled up his schedule. None the less, I feel the elements of stalking where there.
Maybe so, but in P.R. China you probably can't google any one you know who is Taiwanese.
Good thing I have a common first and last name, there's at three people in my urban area with the same name and one famous author, too.
"Geez, how many times can one guy listen to CowboyNeal Sings Manilow?"
<Troy McClure Voice>Shhhh! Let's just let that one be our little secret, shall we?</Troy McClure Voice>
My GEIL DDR 256MB came with a spreader, it's kinda odd, as I don't think it's going to do much of a job as a heatsink, but it does afford a bit more surface area and that ram does get warm. And overclocking memory, from what I've heard, does make it run hotter, just like when you OC a CPU. Sockets being as close together as they are, I don't think there's much else that can safely be done to heatsink your memory. Many something vertical with a few blunt spines which won't cut into cables.
Nah, I hate to see electronics head for the landfill as much as the other guy. I picked up the PC Power and Cooling PSU they reviewed last time. It's doing a fine job and is quiet. Actually the loudest fan in the case is that tiny little stock AMD CPU fan, what a racket! Seems to keep the CPU cool enough (XP2600/333), but I'd like to know where I can get a quieter fan for the stock HS.
Damn, and I thought this was going to be a story about another dipsh!t getting his due.
More like, in Soviet Russia the government might have spied on you.
In the USA, post 9/11, the government will spy on you.
So... what was the objective of this Cold War thing again?
I just recieved Mandrake 9.0 PowerPack by chronopost/fedex on Thursday, which means I paid for it, rather than downloaded it. I figure the money is well spent, especially if it keeps them going.
Survival of the least fit, once again.
On my Commodore Amiga.
Well, along with this from Michigan's Upper Penninsula.
"It's the second week of deer camp, and all the guys are here.
We drink, play cards and shoot the bull, but never shoot no deer.
The only time we leave the camp is when we go for beer.
The second week of deer camp is the greatest time of year!" -- Da Yoopers
Sounds like they've mentioned it on the website to me.....
I received the spam on this one about a week ago. I haven't received *any* warning from eBay on being careful with ID or personal info, even as a general warning, particularly via email. I'm sure, as most things I've found, there is a warning buried deep within eBay and only those with the greatest of patience and available time (or just luck) actually can find it. The site is poorly designed for navigation.
About a month ago I attempted to post a similar article as this to Slashdot concerning very much the same style of attack in an email from a www.paypal-ebay.com site, registered to some schmuck in Nebraska. I tried, carefully worded with good references, etc. to get submit it and it died both times. So, slashdot, which often runs duplicate stories, missed the boat on that one.
You can see some of it here:
The email
The webpage
It's amazing what a pain it was trying to raise anyone at eBay or PayPal with their forms, etc. Customer service at both are terrible, just terrible. I only got through to PayPal with the help of some information provided by a powerseller friend. PayPal said, "yeah we know about it and are trying to shut the site down", this 6 hours after I got the spam and the site was still up at that point. Forwarding passwords to the email address of paypal@c2.hu
So be careful, eh? Not many people are as helpful as the users.
"That night I dreamed of Mr. Christmas and a baseball bat, some duct tape, and roofing nails."
The detectives of the Chicago PD would actually show up, quickly, for this sort of activity.
I've had a lesser run in with a scammer who decided he was tired of accepting money and sending things, so he stopped sending things. See my journal entries for the story. Over a $30 item they hauled the guy in, in Tseun Wan.