My parents recently had something weird happen in their Jeep Grand Cherokee (last year's model). They were parked in a parking lot, got into their car, turned on the ignition and switched the car into reverse to back out of the spot. As soon as the car was shifted from park into reverse, the engine gunned to full throttle. Fortunately, my father still had his foot solidly on the break so the car simply made a hell of a noise but didn't go anywhere. My father was able to turn the car off and immediately brought it to a garage. They were told that the garage could verify that something had gone wrong with the internal computer, but couldn't explain why or what it had been.
Appartently, after further research, my parents found that there appears to be a design flaw with some jeeps where shifted from park directly into reverse will occasionally cause this to happen. If you don't have your foot solidly on the break, you'll go careening backward at full speed.
It's not outrageous to claim that a car has a major design flaw. Whether or not the car has one in this situation I have no idea, but it certainly deserves attention.
Well I knew a person in the US who was sued and had to sell their kidneys to pay the RIAA. And then they had to send them thank you cards in the mail every Christmas... and promise to name their first born child Metallica.
In Sims 2, you can have your Sims play Sims 1. Pictures here. Now, the true question of what lies hidden in your soul can be answered not by how you treat your creation, but how your creation treats its creations. Have you been able to teach your creature to be a good god, just as you have been a good god, or have you left it secretly vengeful and full of malice. Only through this sort of recursive investigation will you find out how clean your god slate is.
What part of the Constitution did the 18th Amendment ignore? There never was a "thou shalt drinketh as much booze as thou canst grab" article, as far as I can recall.
Sure, but that's 24Mb/s in some crazy foreign country... it's probably metric. What's the conversation rate between foreign Mb/s into good old American Mb/s?
Yegads, how on Earth was this modded up? I'd argue that it's probably a troll, but even so, it's so far offtopic that it deserves to be sitting at negative one with the goatse and the grits. Comon people, who's in charge of modding these days?
Well, but aren't you doing this already? I mean, lets say you send me an email. You've got absolutely NO way to know that I don't simply take what you sent me and archive it for later use, or take what you sent me and post it immediately on usenet somewhere. Once you've sent the email it's out of your hands and you need to trust that the person you've sent it to, and the organization they're getting their service from is a good one. If you know that the recipient or the service is faulyt, and you're unwilling to send them email, just let them know and don't send them anything until they change.
If you're so concerned about your privacy that you're worried about what your recipient is going to do with his/her email, it might be time for you to start making phone calls.
I'm thinking about buying a new computer about a year or a year and a half from now, is there any chance that Longhorn will actually be out by then, or is it still just a silly pipe dream?
You're confusing who is controlling what is on the screen. I, the user, have chosen to have Gator on my screen (assuming I choose to download and install Gator). I can have whatever advertisements I want on my computer screen at any time. LLBean has no right to tell me how I choose to display their website, and what other material I choose to have open at the same time.
Would you be ok with them sueing ad blocking software? I presume that you would not.
That's not really a fair comparison. It's more like them sending me a catalogue in the mail, and then I invite over a representative from J. Crew to come over and hand me images and prices of their competing products. It's happening on my premises WITH MY PERMISSION (assuming that people actually agreed to have Gator on their computer). It may not be ethical, but it certainly shouldn't be illegal.
The idea that a website owner should be able to dictate what other information is on a computer screen while you are visiting their webpage is ridiculous. It would be like saying that I'm not allowed to have the llbean.com website open at the same time as the jcrew.com website... jcrew.com is unfairly competing.
I agree that spyware is a problem, but it's a problem that the user needs to deal with. LLBean has no right to tell me that I can't have Gator on my system providing me with ads for competing products, and they have no right to attempt to litigate such advertisements out of existence. I personally don't want to see those ads, and most people don't want to see them either, but I'll bet there are some people who are completely happy to have Gator infest their system and provide alternative options to LLBean.
This sort of thing makes me angry. Why don't they sue people over the content of background wallpapers that show competing products? It just doesn't make sense, they have no right to control the content of users computers and I hope they lose in court and lose big.
They keep saying they want to operate as "Insiders" at the IPO, but they don't realize it's a Dutch Auction IPO. There are no insiders... nobody can buy the stock below the price initially set by the auction and everyone is welcome to put in a bid and hopefully their bid will be at or above the number the stock goes on sale for. Everybody is an insider. I hope they sue so Google's lawyers can laugh at them.
And anyway, can you even sue someone for co-opting a math term? It would be like suing over C++ because it's got those addition signs thrown in there without giving credit to Saffius Addius, the creator of the symbol.
I wrote a letter to complain to T-Mobile when they added that fee a month or two ago. I had been so happy about the fact that they DIDN'T have that fee when all the other carriers added it with Number Portability that I felt let down. They got my letter a month ago, and surprise, I haven't heard anything back from them. I guess I didn't really ask for an answer, just expressed my dissatisfaction. Oh well. I still get a far better service at a far better price than I had when I was with AT&T.
Why would you be interested in an audio recording of another planet? It's not like you're going to hear someone whispering, or a jet flying by overhead. I'd venture to guess you'd hear very little with the exception of some occasional wind. Maybe if a storm broke out, which I imagine would be something of a catastrophe for the mission in general, you might get some other noises. Otherwise, nothing happens on Mars. There really isn't anything to hear, and adding a microphone seems like a waste of space and resources. I'd rather they add more cameras... maybe video cameras.
I refuse to believe you're pro-technology with that webpage. Rainbow divider lines? What is this, 1994. Hire some kid to steal the design from a major candidates website and you'll stand a chance. Nobody's going to vote for the guy who looks like he threw his webpage together with Netscape Composer.
C'mon New York Times, you're usually not too behind the curve on technology stories. IRC being a wild west? Yeah, I guess, but it hasn't really changed much in the last 6 years. It's always been a wild west environment, and hopefully it always will be. The Internet needs some unpleasantness. The Internet needs script kiddies. Sure, they're a hassle and they occasionally do something disasterously stupid, but it's part of the fun of the internet. It's amazing that something as important and complicated as this all-powerful international communication has become is still legitimately threatened by some 14 year old in his bedroom. I know it seems rather threatening, but I hope it stays that way... I like the idea of the little guy still having an impact now and then. I doesn't happen with Television, it doesn't happen with Radio, it doesn't happen with Film... it's only online that there's even a chance.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, it's pretty neat. I set it up and it works. Now, does anybody know how to UNinstall it? Just wondering.
Hey, here's a link to a bunch of examples of this occuring in jeeps.
My parents recently had something weird happen in their Jeep Grand Cherokee (last year's model). They were parked in a parking lot, got into their car, turned on the ignition and switched the car into reverse to back out of the spot. As soon as the car was shifted from park into reverse, the engine gunned to full throttle. Fortunately, my father still had his foot solidly on the break so the car simply made a hell of a noise but didn't go anywhere. My father was able to turn the car off and immediately brought it to a garage. They were told that the garage could verify that something had gone wrong with the internal computer, but couldn't explain why or what it had been.
Appartently, after further research, my parents found that there appears to be a design flaw with some jeeps where shifted from park directly into reverse will occasionally cause this to happen. If you don't have your foot solidly on the break, you'll go careening backward at full speed.
It's not outrageous to claim that a car has a major design flaw. Whether or not the car has one in this situation I have no idea, but it certainly deserves attention.
Well I knew a person in the US who was sued and had to sell their kidneys to pay the RIAA. And then they had to send them thank you cards in the mail every Christmas... and promise to name their first born child Metallica.
Because nobody who speaks German could be bad.
And the down side to this is what exactly?
In Sims 2, you can have your Sims play Sims 1. Pictures here. Now, the true question of what lies hidden in your soul can be answered not by how you treat your creation, but how your creation treats its creations. Have you been able to teach your creature to be a good god, just as you have been a good god, or have you left it secretly vengeful and full of malice. Only through this sort of recursive investigation will you find out how clean your god slate is.
They're down under. They can't use satelites, they'd be underground... in order to get the thing up in the air they'll need to use submarines.
What part of the Constitution did the 18th Amendment ignore? There never was a "thou shalt drinketh as much booze as thou canst grab" article, as far as I can recall.
Sure, but that's 24Mb/s in some crazy foreign country... it's probably metric. What's the conversation rate between foreign Mb/s into good old American Mb/s?
Side note, jokes aside, what country are you in?
Ha ha, mod me down as overrated. Very funny. I get it.
Yup.
For copyright infringement. Now if you bought it abroad and carried it into the country, who knows what would happen.
Yegads, how on Earth was this modded up? I'd argue that it's probably a troll, but even so, it's so far offtopic that it deserves to be sitting at negative one with the goatse and the grits. Comon people, who's in charge of modding these days?
Well, but aren't you doing this already? I mean, lets say you send me an email. You've got absolutely NO way to know that I don't simply take what you sent me and archive it for later use, or take what you sent me and post it immediately on usenet somewhere. Once you've sent the email it's out of your hands and you need to trust that the person you've sent it to, and the organization they're getting their service from is a good one. If you know that the recipient or the service is faulyt, and you're unwilling to send them email, just let them know and don't send them anything until they change.
If you're so concerned about your privacy that you're worried about what your recipient is going to do with his/her email, it might be time for you to start making phone calls.
I'm thinking about buying a new computer about a year or a year and a half from now, is there any chance that Longhorn will actually be out by then, or is it still just a silly pipe dream?
Don't worry, I just bought lkwdlgkhlhkgwq.com and I'm going to mirror the old sitefinder page. Just as a service to those who were missing it.
You're confusing who is controlling what is on the screen. I, the user, have chosen to have Gator on my screen (assuming I choose to download and install Gator). I can have whatever advertisements I want on my computer screen at any time. LLBean has no right to tell me how I choose to display their website, and what other material I choose to have open at the same time.
Would you be ok with them sueing ad blocking software? I presume that you would not.
That's not really a fair comparison. It's more like them sending me a catalogue in the mail, and then I invite over a representative from J. Crew to come over and hand me images and prices of their competing products. It's happening on my premises WITH MY PERMISSION (assuming that people actually agreed to have Gator on their computer). It may not be ethical, but it certainly shouldn't be illegal.
The idea that a website owner should be able to dictate what other information is on a computer screen while you are visiting their webpage is ridiculous. It would be like saying that I'm not allowed to have the llbean.com website open at the same time as the jcrew.com website... jcrew.com is unfairly competing.
I agree that spyware is a problem, but it's a problem that the user needs to deal with. LLBean has no right to tell me that I can't have Gator on my system providing me with ads for competing products, and they have no right to attempt to litigate such advertisements out of existence. I personally don't want to see those ads, and most people don't want to see them either, but I'll bet there are some people who are completely happy to have Gator infest their system and provide alternative options to LLBean.
This sort of thing makes me angry. Why don't they sue people over the content of background wallpapers that show competing products? It just doesn't make sense, they have no right to control the content of users computers and I hope they lose in court and lose big.
Idiots.
They keep saying they want to operate as "Insiders" at the IPO, but they don't realize it's a Dutch Auction IPO. There are no insiders... nobody can buy the stock below the price initially set by the auction and everyone is welcome to put in a bid and hopefully their bid will be at or above the number the stock goes on sale for. Everybody is an insider. I hope they sue so Google's lawyers can laugh at them.
And anyway, can you even sue someone for co-opting a math term? It would be like suing over C++ because it's got those addition signs thrown in there without giving credit to Saffius Addius, the creator of the symbol.
I wrote a letter to complain to T-Mobile when they added that fee a month or two ago. I had been so happy about the fact that they DIDN'T have that fee when all the other carriers added it with Number Portability that I felt let down. They got my letter a month ago, and surprise, I haven't heard anything back from them. I guess I didn't really ask for an answer, just expressed my dissatisfaction. Oh well. I still get a far better service at a far better price than I had when I was with AT&T.
Presumably that won't start upon the request of the user though, one of his stated requirements.
Why would you be interested in an audio recording of another planet? It's not like you're going to hear someone whispering, or a jet flying by overhead. I'd venture to guess you'd hear very little with the exception of some occasional wind. Maybe if a storm broke out, which I imagine would be something of a catastrophe for the mission in general, you might get some other noises. Otherwise, nothing happens on Mars. There really isn't anything to hear, and adding a microphone seems like a waste of space and resources. I'd rather they add more cameras... maybe video cameras.
I refuse to believe you're pro-technology with that webpage. Rainbow divider lines? What is this, 1994. Hire some kid to steal the design from a major candidates website and you'll stand a chance. Nobody's going to vote for the guy who looks like he threw his webpage together with Netscape Composer.
C'mon New York Times, you're usually not too behind the curve on technology stories. IRC being a wild west? Yeah, I guess, but it hasn't really changed much in the last 6 years. It's always been a wild west environment, and hopefully it always will be. The Internet needs some unpleasantness. The Internet needs script kiddies. Sure, they're a hassle and they occasionally do something disasterously stupid, but it's part of the fun of the internet. It's amazing that something as important and complicated as this all-powerful international communication has become is still legitimately threatened by some 14 year old in his bedroom. I know it seems rather threatening, but I hope it stays that way... I like the idea of the little guy still having an impact now and then. I doesn't happen with Television, it doesn't happen with Radio, it doesn't happen with Film... it's only online that there's even a chance.
God bless IRC.