I know bankers love the caps lock key. Back in the terminal days, everything was uppercase. When they went to PCs and terminal emulation, they started using caps lock because the emulation required it. Now that we are no longer using terminal emulation, bankers still think it is required and you can't convince them otherwise. Whenever I have to grab remote control of someone's computer, I need to ask them to please turn off the caps lock key. I tell them they no longer need to use it, but they insist they do. I'm sure if they ever get rid of caps lock on normal keyboards, we'll get requests for special-order keyboards with caps lock keys. You think I joke? Not in this case.
Troll? I post links to a story on three different news sites updating the status of the story with no editorial comment other than to ask how the photographs got by Reuters' editorial process and it gets modded Troll? I see at least one moderator is using their mod points to further their own agenda. Don't want facts to get in the way of your views? Isn't this against mod guidelines? I think someone needs to be meta-modded.
In case anyone is still interested, Reuters has pulled all 920 photos by this photographer. Only two have been proven faked but they are not taking any chances. The question remains though, how did they get through Reuters' editorial process? Here are a few links to the story:
In addition to the photos, there are many fake news stories out there. Like the one the photo was supposed to accompany said the photo was of a jet firing three missiles was actually the jet firing one flare. The report that a particular Israeli strike in Lebanon killed 40 civilians. There was only one casualty in that strike.
The fact that Reuters didn't even look at the photos before publishing is just laughable. Anyone with an ounce of experience in photography could tell they were fake. Either Reuters is so inept you can't trust them to know the truth from lies or they don't care to tell the difference. Heck, a death threat to "Zionist pigs" was traced to a Reuters IP. Sure, I'll believe anything they say.
Either way, as a previous poster said, read from a wide variety of news sources and figure it out for yourself.
I agree. Then two seasons later, they made that exact scene with Vir having an impish grin on his face. Only someone who was paying attention two years previously would have realized what the deal was. Of course the vast majority watching to that point HAD seen all the previous episodes.
Now the "What a day" "What a week" exchange between Vir and Lanier ranks up there too. "You win", "Same time tomorrow?"
Here's what they show. I've added the % of spam coming from each country as the last entry in each line:
Top 15 Countries in Internet Usage Internet Users (#X1000) Users% Spam% 1. U.S. 185,550 19.86 23.2% of spam 2. China 99,800 10.68 20.0% 3. Japan 78,050 8.35 1.6% 4. Germany 41,880 4.48 2.5% 5. India 36,970 3.96 N/A 6. UK 33,110 3.54 1.8% 7. South Korea 31,670 3.39 7.5% 8. Italy 25,530 2.73 3.0% 9. France 25,470 2.73 5.2% 10. Brazil 22,320 2.39 3.1% 11. Russia 21,230 2.27 N/A 12. Canada 20,450 2.19 N/A 13. Mexico 13,880 1.49 N/A 14. Spain 13,440 1.44 4.8% 15. Australia 13,010 1.39 N/A Top 15 Countries 662,360 70.88 Worldwide Total 934,480 100
It looks like the USA's numbers are right about on track with most other countries with China way out in front as to percent of the spam problem compared to percent of Internet connected computers. What's this? France has twice the percent of spams relaying through their country compared to the percent of Internet users? For shame!
I know this won't fix all problems with phishing emails, but it should fix one factor of it. Could those who contribute their programming skills to Firefox make it so the actual domain of the site you are at is highlighted? This means that if you are at a site
I know some victims refuse to think about it at all and refuse to even look at the URL but this would give them one more tool to use to possibly see it is a scam.
Hey! Don't you know all PHBs need to have administrative priviledges on their network? He's the most powerful person around so he gets to use the most powerful computer in the place and be able to do whatever he wants on the network. What do you mean I can't access my email from the mainframe? YOU'RE FIRED!
Makes you wonder why children take the male's family name?
While this is the most common way it is done, even in societies where it is now the norm it wasn't always this way. In Germany, it was common that the spouse and children would take the name of the person who inherited the family estate. For example, one of my great (x6) grandfathers in Germany took the last name of my great (x6) grandmother because she inherited the family estate from her parents.
Okay, I played the original Ogre pocket game. It was pretty cool. One player plays the part of one very large, very powerful battle tank. The other player plays a swarm of small, fast-moving, easily swatable mini-battlebots. The object is to destroy the other guy. Neat tactical war game.
But where in the !@#$ did they come up with "Let Us Cling Together"? I'm guessing it is where the minibots can cling together to create one large bot. Defeats the whole point of the original and is an incredibly stupid name (hence its place in this list). Had to have been a marketing droid that came up with this one.
I'd quote them a price to fix whatever they say needs fixing, then fix that. If they did a good job of troubleshooting it, they get a good deal and you get business. No problem. If that wasn't the cause, ask them if they'd like further troubleshooting for additional cost. Then ask if they want to pay you to really fix it. Otherwise, they should be agreeing to have you troubleshoot the system to begin with, then fix it. Of course, I haven't been in the retail business of PC repair for years so I don't know how the billing works nowadays but if they are being paid for troubleshooting it, you should trust their word or else be paid to troubleshoot it for them.
Is it really a good idea to give a company this kind of an incentive? I mean, if they don't release it by the end of the year, they basically get nothing. If they release it by the end of the year they get a decent amount. Maybe not as much as the original deal but $500,000 compared to less than $5000 is a pretty decent incentive. Are there stipulations as to the quality of the software? I mean, they could just crank out some crappy version or one with way too many bugs, but they released it before the end of the year so they get their money. I'm hoping the contract specifies a few things like this.
Great, now they just need to expand their IPod business by merging with P.I.E. and then get into the Real Estate software business by merging with A La Mode. Appleberry Pie a la mode. Now that's a company I could sink my teeth into.
But "burned" DVDs have a limited life. They may only last a few years depending on the quality of the DVDs etc. Properly pressed DVDs last nearly forever. How happy will the consumers be when a few years down the track the DVDs stop working?
Well, given they want to keep changing the format, plus the fact that discs get scratched all the time unless you are very careful with them and many if not most households have kids in them that aren't careful. Plus many people buy or rent a disc and watch it a few times then let it gather dust, especially in these same households with kids. They'll watch them til their eyes fall out for the first few months, then never watch them again. Given these factors, I'm thinking a lot of society would never notice.
Me? I'm the only one in my house, I only buy movies that I know I enjoy and will watch multiple times over the years and I'm careful so the disc lifetime matters to me but to many out there, it wouldn't enter the picture.
Would you please be so glad to tell me more details about the stretching you perform?
While I didn't write the comment you replied to, my story pretty much mirrors the parent poster. My problem started with an accident injuring my neck and shoulders and working on a computer most of the time didn't help the healing. He may post his stretching exercises but in case he doesn't, here are mine.
For each of these stretches, you won't be able to actually touch the body parts as listed but if you attempt it, the stretching will happen as intended. Only stretch as far as you can comfortably while still feeling the stretch. Do not over extend. Hold each for 5 seconds and repeat 3 times. 1. Tuck chin to chest 2. Lean head way back 3. Right ear to right shoulder (move only the neck and head, not the shoulder) 4. Left ear to left shoulder (move only the neck and head, not the shoulder) 5. Right ear to chest 6. Left ear to chest 7. Right elbow to left shoulder (use left hand on right elbow to make the stretch) 8. Left elbow to right shoulder (use right hand on left elbow to make the stretch) 9. Stand facing corner of room with palms at shoulder level on each wall, lean chest into corner 10. Lay down with forehead on floor. Reach hands forward on floor, holding one hand in the other. Lift hands up from floor with arms straight.
These stretches really helped me. I hope they do the same for you.
The answer is a big electro-magnet. We purchased one for our company. This thing is really cool. One of our people learned the hard way not to wear a watch or have your wallet on you when using it. Her ccs were wiped and her watch stopped working. It makes a really fun noise, too, as the moving parts in a drive are knocked together repeatedly as the magnet turns itself on and off very quickly. Any drives that are to be disposed of get deguassed. Any malfunctioning drives that had data on them that we are going to send back for warranty replacement get deguassed. If the company doesn't take them back because it is really totally hosed, oh well. We'd rather eat the cost of a drive than have private data exposed.
We also use Symantec Antivirus, actually Client Security with the firewall included. The key is to use a different vendor for each level of protection. Use one vendor's email gateway, another vendor's email server mailbox protection and a third vendor's client protection. As an example, we use Barracuda at the email gateway. It appears to act pretty much like a managed Spam Assassin box. I know Spam Assassin is the way to go but I just don't have the time to manage it. This way we get what appears to be the quality of protection of SA but I don't have to spend as much time on it. Then we use Sybari (now Microsoft) Antigen on the mail server. This protects all mailboxes (not the mail server itself) with five different scan engines. Of course, all this is protected by a firewall and an intrusion prevention system plus the vast majority of users are locked down to prevent them from damaging anything anyway. This is on a network with well over 1000 pcs.
I don't like that we're going to have to roll out an upgrade to all machines, but I believe that given our other levels of protection, we should be ok long enough to get this done.
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But then I remembered I had just read this story.
Goldfish don't wear Speedos. At least that's one indication they are smarter than dolphins.
At this years rate, we're looking at a very quiet year, the global amount of storms will still be significantly down from average.
And they will blame the lack of storms on the climate change brought about by global warming.
I know bankers love the caps lock key. Back in the terminal days, everything was uppercase. When they went to PCs and terminal emulation, they started using caps lock because the emulation required it. Now that we are no longer using terminal emulation, bankers still think it is required and you can't convince them otherwise. Whenever I have to grab remote control of someone's computer, I need to ask them to please turn off the caps lock key. I tell them they no longer need to use it, but they insist they do. I'm sure if they ever get rid of caps lock on normal keyboards, we'll get requests for special-order keyboards with caps lock keys. You think I joke? Not in this case.
Troll? I post links to a story on three different news sites updating the status of the story with no editorial comment other than to ask how the photographs got by Reuters' editorial process and it gets modded Troll? I see at least one moderator is using their mod points to further their own agenda. Don't want facts to get in the way of your views? Isn't this against mod guidelines? I think someone needs to be meta-modded.
In case anyone is still interested, Reuters has pulled all 920 photos by this photographer. Only two have been proven faked but they are not taking any chances. The question remains though, how did they get through Reuters' editorial process? Here are a few links to the story:
- 07T162044Z_01_L06301298_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-REU TERS-DC.html
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http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060807/2006-08
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/reuters
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207352,00.htm
In addition to the photos, there are many fake news stories out there. Like the one the photo was supposed to accompany said the photo was of a jet firing three missiles was actually the jet firing one flare. The report that a particular Israeli strike in Lebanon killed 40 civilians. There was only one casualty in that strike.
The fact that Reuters didn't even look at the photos before publishing is just laughable. Anyone with an ounce of experience in photography could tell they were fake. Either Reuters is so inept you can't trust them to know the truth from lies or they don't care to tell the difference. Heck, a death threat to "Zionist pigs" was traced to a Reuters IP. Sure, I'll believe anything they say.
Either way, as a previous poster said, read from a wide variety of news sources and figure it out for yourself.
Gads, you're right. That's what I get for letting it get to be over a couple of years since I last watched the entire series.
I agree. Then two seasons later, they made that exact scene with Vir having an impish grin on his face. Only someone who was paying attention two years previously would have realized what the deal was. Of course the vast majority watching to that point HAD seen all the previous episodes.
Now the "What a day" "What a week" exchange between Vir and Lanier ranks up there too. "You win", "Same time tomorrow?"
Google Maps
Sorry, Google Maps does not work on your Palm Treo-650.
I figured I'd use it before heading out on the road to find the best way to get somewhere, NOT while driving. That'd just be foolish.
I see a number of people asking the question "But how many computers are there per country?" I found the numbers at:
http://www.c-i-a.com/pr0904.htm
Here's what they show. I've added the % of spam coming from each country as the last entry in each line:
Top 15 Countries in Internet Usage
Internet Users (#X1000) Users% Spam%
1. U.S. 185,550 19.86 23.2% of spam
2. China 99,800 10.68 20.0%
3. Japan 78,050 8.35 1.6%
4. Germany 41,880 4.48 2.5%
5. India 36,970 3.96 N/A
6. UK 33,110 3.54 1.8%
7. South Korea 31,670 3.39 7.5%
8. Italy 25,530 2.73 3.0%
9. France 25,470 2.73 5.2%
10. Brazil 22,320 2.39 3.1%
11. Russia 21,230 2.27 N/A
12. Canada 20,450 2.19 N/A
13. Mexico 13,880 1.49 N/A
14. Spain 13,440 1.44 4.8%
15. Australia 13,010 1.39 N/A
Top 15 Countries 662,360 70.88
Worldwide Total 934,480 100
It looks like the USA's numbers are right about on track with most other countries with China way out in front as to percent of the spam problem compared to percent of Internet connected computers. What's this? France has twice the percent of spams relaying through their country compared to the percent of Internet users? For shame!
In many places in this wide world, you can get pussy delivered.
Only on Slashdot could this be modded "Interesting".
I know this won't fix all problems with phishing emails, but it should fix one factor of it. Could those who contribute their programming skills to Firefox make it so the actual domain of the site you are at is highlighted? This means that if you are at a site
http://citibusinessonline.da.us.citibank.com.tufel -club.ru/sahdlhasal
Firefox would display it as:
http://citibusinessonline.da.us.citibank.com. tufel-club.ru /sahdlhasal
I know some victims refuse to think about it at all and refuse to even look at the URL but this would give them one more tool to use to possibly see it is a scam.
CNN also has an article on the release of the letters:e instein.reut/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/10/israel.
Looks like he wasn't a true geek! He had six girlfriends in addition to his wife.
Hey! Don't you know all PHBs need to have administrative priviledges on their network? He's the most powerful person around so he gets to use the most powerful computer in the place and be able to do whatever he wants on the network. What do you mean I can't access my email from the mainframe? YOU'RE FIRED!
Makes you wonder why children take the male's family name?
While this is the most common way it is done, even in societies where it is now the norm it wasn't always this way. In Germany, it was common that the spouse and children would take the name of the person who inherited the family estate. For example, one of my great (x6) grandfathers in Germany took the last name of my great (x6) grandmother because she inherited the family estate from her parents.
I wonder if the guy who cracked this has nunchuck skills and bowhunting skills too.
Okay, I played the original Ogre pocket game. It was pretty cool. One player plays the part of one very large, very powerful battle tank. The other player plays a swarm of small, fast-moving, easily swatable mini-battlebots. The object is to destroy the other guy. Neat tactical war game.
But where in the !@#$ did they come up with "Let Us Cling Together"? I'm guessing it is where the minibots can cling together to create one large bot. Defeats the whole point of the original and is an incredibly stupid name (hence its place in this list). Had to have been a marketing droid that came up with this one.
I'd quote them a price to fix whatever they say needs fixing, then fix that. If they did a good job of troubleshooting it, they get a good deal and you get business. No problem. If that wasn't the cause, ask them if they'd like further troubleshooting for additional cost. Then ask if they want to pay you to really fix it. Otherwise, they should be agreeing to have you troubleshoot the system to begin with, then fix it. Of course, I haven't been in the retail business of PC repair for years so I don't know how the billing works nowadays but if they are being paid for troubleshooting it, you should trust their word or else be paid to troubleshoot it for them.
I'd say yes. Plus she's a geek chick. What more could you ask for?
Is it really a good idea to give a company this kind of an incentive? I mean, if they don't release it by the end of the year, they basically get nothing. If they release it by the end of the year they get a decent amount. Maybe not as much as the original deal but $500,000 compared to less than $5000 is a pretty decent incentive. Are there stipulations as to the quality of the software? I mean, they could just crank out some crappy version or one with way too many bugs, but they released it before the end of the year so they get their money. I'm hoping the contract specifies a few things like this.
Great, now they just need to expand their IPod business by merging with P.I.E. and then get into the Real Estate software business by merging with A La Mode. Appleberry Pie a la mode. Now that's a company I could sink my teeth into.
sorry. ok bye.
But "burned" DVDs have a limited life. They may only last a few years depending on the quality of the DVDs etc. Properly pressed DVDs last nearly forever. How happy will the consumers be when a few years down the track the DVDs stop working?
Well, given they want to keep changing the format, plus the fact that discs get scratched all the time unless you are very careful with them and many if not most households have kids in them that aren't careful. Plus many people buy or rent a disc and watch it a few times then let it gather dust, especially in these same households with kids. They'll watch them til their eyes fall out for the first few months, then never watch them again. Given these factors, I'm thinking a lot of society would never notice.
Me? I'm the only one in my house, I only buy movies that I know I enjoy and will watch multiple times over the years and I'm careful so the disc lifetime matters to me but to many out there, it wouldn't enter the picture.
Would you please be so glad to tell me more details about the stretching you perform?
While I didn't write the comment you replied to, my story pretty much mirrors the parent poster. My problem started with an accident injuring my neck and shoulders and working on a computer most of the time didn't help the healing. He may post his stretching exercises but in case he doesn't, here are mine.
For each of these stretches, you won't be able to actually touch the body parts as listed but if you attempt it, the stretching will happen as intended. Only stretch as far as you can comfortably while still feeling the stretch. Do not over extend. Hold each for 5 seconds and repeat 3 times.
1. Tuck chin to chest
2. Lean head way back
3. Right ear to right shoulder (move only the neck and head, not the shoulder)
4. Left ear to left shoulder (move only the neck and head, not the shoulder)
5. Right ear to chest
6. Left ear to chest
7. Right elbow to left shoulder (use left hand on right elbow to make the stretch)
8. Left elbow to right shoulder (use right hand on left elbow to make the stretch)
9. Stand facing corner of room with palms at shoulder level on each wall, lean chest into corner
10. Lay down with forehead on floor. Reach hands forward on floor, holding one hand in the other. Lift hands up from floor with arms straight.
These stretches really helped me. I hope they do the same for you.
The answer is a big electro-magnet. We purchased one for our company. This thing is really cool. One of our people learned the hard way not to wear a watch or have your wallet on you when using it. Her ccs were wiped and her watch stopped working. It makes a really fun noise, too, as the moving parts in a drive are knocked together repeatedly as the magnet turns itself on and off very quickly. Any drives that are to be disposed of get deguassed. Any malfunctioning drives that had data on them that we are going to send back for warranty replacement get deguassed. If the company doesn't take them back because it is really totally hosed, oh well. We'd rather eat the cost of a drive than have private data exposed.
We also use Symantec Antivirus, actually Client Security with the firewall included. The key is to use a different vendor for each level of protection. Use one vendor's email gateway, another vendor's email server mailbox protection and a third vendor's client protection. As an example, we use Barracuda at the email gateway. It appears to act pretty much like a managed Spam Assassin box. I know Spam Assassin is the way to go but I just don't have the time to manage it. This way we get what appears to be the quality of protection of SA but I don't have to spend as much time on it. Then we use Sybari (now Microsoft) Antigen on the mail server. This protects all mailboxes (not the mail server itself) with five different scan engines. Of course, all this is protected by a firewall and an intrusion prevention system plus the vast majority of users are locked down to prevent them from damaging anything anyway. This is on a network with well over 1000 pcs.
I don't like that we're going to have to roll out an upgrade to all machines, but I believe that given our other levels of protection, we should be ok long enough to get this done.