There are a number of flash based games which use the flash cookies to save info you might want around so you don't have to start from scratch each time.
To the best of my recollection (NYCL, a little help?), the constitutionality of the damages has never been challenged.
And even if it has, in one Circuit, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be challenged in another Circuit. Of course, if two Circuit Courts give different rulings on said topic, then it would almost certainly end up in front of the US Supreme Court.
The basic reason that the Chinese do not allow porn is that they believe that it demeans women.
And China's deification of Mao, who preferred young women (we'd consider him a pedophile) didn't demean women? (The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng)
How about the one-child policy, which causes Chinese to prefer male children, to the point where female children are abandoned or "accidentally" killed? You'd think that would demean women.
Only it wasn't my youthful mistake. Someone else caused the Secret Service to come look at some systems on my campus; one of which I was connected to when the incident occurred.
Many employers will be reasonable about it, especially if no charges were filed. Those that won't, you probably don't want to work for anyway.
I will note that even having this Secret Service record didn't stop me from getting hired by a Federal Government Agency. It just took an extra three weeks for all the additional paperwork.
(Though, to be fair, if a prospective employer searched on my name, they're going to get more links about an Honor Harrington character than the real me.)
I admit, I don't know how a botnet exactly works, but I understand that one can "rent" time on them.
If the botnet was told "for the next X days, send out this spam" and they didn't queue up another command to follow, perhaps the McColo takedown corresponded with the end of a block of time.
Of course, this reminds me that I need to check my EVE training queue.
Customers are not the primary source of income for publishers.
Ads are.
What this will be is Kindle--, now with extra ads. Ads you can't skip. Ads interrupting you every 60 seconds while reading a story. Ads that pop up between stories and can't be avoided.
They can't, unless certain, very specific criteria are met.
And even if they are, it's usually cheaper to have purchased the data rights to an end of line product, and turn around and find another vendor who will make them to those specs.
The US Military doesn't own large scale fabrication plants to "just make" whatever they need. And even if they did, Congress wouldn't let them use them, because it would be taking money away from US corporations.
Let me give an example: There's a base that has SEABEE units. Naval Construction Battalions (CB -> SeaBee). It is not unknown that such a navy base might need, at some point, a new pier. This is the sort of thing that, when the SeaBees are sent overseas, that they build. But they can't do this at the base, even if they label it a "training exercise", because statutorally, the money has to go to contracted construction companies.
The Department of Defense has what is called the "DOD E-Mall".
If you're a registered vendor with it, you list your products, ARO times, costs, minimum order, etc.
Included in there is if you're a minority owned company, small business, and a couple other equal opportunity things.
Then, when a DoD user (who has taken and passed the necessary training) needs something, they can log into it, and if armed with the right search criteria (the search there is crap, unless you have a manufacturer part number), you get a list of all the vendors who have it.
Then, armed with your list of who you're allowed to buy from (not specifically excluding any vendors, just things like - haven't purchased from them more than 3 times this month), you pick one and go to whoever in your area has the authority to use the credit card, and the purchase is made. After, of course, the requisite paperwork.
It regularly works well, except for when the vendors forget to remove products they aren't carrying anymore, go out of business and forget to tell anyone, or change their ordering address / phone number.
So if this guy was in the system as having these various chips, and he was the low cost option, he'd get picked a lot. Split through a number of codes (departments) he could see some regular sales.
They probably meant to only censor these things in China, but v1 of their filters are worldwide.
They'll have it fixed by v3. Probably. Maybe. I doubt it.
(Note: I also think that the MS Bing commercials are about the dumbest I've seen. They beat out the mother and son's college roommate making kissy faces at each other. And that takes doing.)
The operators will think that any level of control they have is insufficient and the users will think that any level of control the operators have is far too much.
I've played an engineer in WoW since the first day I created my toon.
Engineering items fall into a few categories. (Note: I haven't played in a few months, so it is entirely possible that some of these -might- have been addressed... but I rather doubt it.)
Vanity: The Hog, and similar items. To be honest, I wouldn't trade my Hog for any other land mount out there, but it doesn't offer anything that other land mounts don't. Admittedly, I liked it better when I could fall from any distance on without anything happening... But hey.
Single user items: Aka, the teleporters. I used them all the time when I was in the appropriate areas / level range, but they don't make the profession, in and of itself, worthwhile.
Explosives: Largely bloody worthless.
Scopes: Useful, but so flooded on the market that you don't really have to worry about making one yourself; just hit up the AH.
Item "enchants": Never used. Seriously, there's no point to them, everyone would rather have a real enchant to their items rather than something with a short use, long cooldown, and questionable utility (especially in raid). Boots? Enchant. Cloak? Enchant. Belt? Put the belt buckle on there and socket a gem. Etc.
Helms: Most engineers would greatly prefer if they could make them for non-engineers. It would actually be a moneymaker.
The problems with engineering could be solved in a few ways:
1) Recycling: Let engineers turn gray/white items into metal scrap which functions similar to ore, but you can't get gems from it. 2) Let them make items for non-engineers: Engineering is the only profession where the majority of the actual items (not parts) can't be used by non-engineers. 3) Give engineers a bonus on mechanical mounts. Bonus speed / damage. It wouldn't even have to be much of a bonus. Say, skill/75 as a percentage. 4) Give engineers something that actually makes them useful on a raid... other than repair bots. Yes, I recognize that there are certain things that are useful with single bosses (the Shadow Reflector for Twin Emps was one), but I'm looking for something with the more constant utility that enchantment or alchemy (flasks) provides. 5) Lower the failure rate. Engineering doesn't work like that; it's actually genuinely reliable.
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If you were going only with 10BaseT, you could get away with baluns.
Something like this:
http://www.computercablestore.com/Monoline_Coax_Balun_Femal_PID7450.aspx
There are a number of flash based games which use the flash cookies to save info you might want around so you don't have to start from scratch each time.
You get such interesting stuff when it's way off.
I recently picked up, at a going out of business sale, a piece of jewelry that was normally $1200 for less than $200.
Since then, I've gotten several high end credit card offers, none of which I would normally qualify for.
So mess with the system.
Use your grocery store card... but only when buying beef jerkey and toilet paper.
Get your name on a couple strange mailing lists.
etc.
If the data becomes so worthless that they can't actually use it, they'll stop. But only if enough of us go through with this.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
No sister, no daughter, and if you think my mom is hot, then there's something -really- wrong with you.
To the best of my recollection (NYCL, a little help?), the constitutionality of the damages has never been challenged.
And even if it has, in one Circuit, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be challenged in another Circuit. Of course, if two Circuit Courts give different rulings on said topic, then it would almost certainly end up in front of the US Supreme Court.
More basic than that: Friends don't let friends -buy- computers from Best Buy.
The basic reason that the Chinese do not allow porn is that they believe that it demeans women.
And China's deification of Mao, who preferred young women (we'd consider him a pedophile) didn't demean women? (The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng)
How about the one-child policy, which causes Chinese to prefer male children, to the point where female children are abandoned or "accidentally" killed? You'd think that would demean women.
Only it wasn't my youthful mistake. Someone else caused the Secret Service to come look at some systems on my campus; one of which I was connected to when the incident occurred.
Many employers will be reasonable about it, especially if no charges were filed. Those that won't, you probably don't want to work for anyway.
I will note that even having this Secret Service record didn't stop me from getting hired by a Federal Government Agency. It just took an extra three weeks for all the additional paperwork.
(Though, to be fair, if a prospective employer searched on my name, they're going to get more links about an Honor Harrington character than the real me.)
The ninja is a cockroach.
He scurries in the darkness because he fears the light that is the Sun Source... Sinanju.
Let this be a lesson to you, Remo. Never trust the ninja.
I admit, I don't know how a botnet exactly works, but I understand that one can "rent" time on them.
If the botnet was told "for the next X days, send out this spam" and they didn't queue up another command to follow, perhaps the McColo takedown corresponded with the end of a block of time.
Of course, this reminds me that I need to check my EVE training queue.
Step 1: Back up your data.
Step 2: Install SUSE Linux.
Step 3: Profit?
Step 4: Laugh at Microsoft. [schadenfreude here]
Customers are not the primary source of income for publishers.
Ads are.
What this will be is Kindle--, now with extra ads. Ads you can't skip. Ads interrupting you every 60 seconds while reading a story. Ads that pop up between stories and can't be avoided.
Did I mention the ads?
Allow you to be a smoker and still get your iCrap serviced under warranty?
They can't, unless certain, very specific criteria are met.
And even if they are, it's usually cheaper to have purchased the data rights to an end of line product, and turn around and find another vendor who will make them to those specs.
The US Military doesn't own large scale fabrication plants to "just make" whatever they need. And even if they did, Congress wouldn't let them use them, because it would be taking money away from US corporations.
Let me give an example: There's a base that has SEABEE units. Naval Construction Battalions (CB -> SeaBee). It is not unknown that such a navy base might need, at some point, a new pier. This is the sort of thing that, when the SeaBees are sent overseas, that they build. But they can't do this at the base, even if they label it a "training exercise", because statutorally, the money has to go to contracted construction companies.
The answer is pretty simple.
The Department of Defense has what is called the "DOD E-Mall".
If you're a registered vendor with it, you list your products, ARO times, costs, minimum order, etc.
Included in there is if you're a minority owned company, small business, and a couple other equal opportunity things.
Then, when a DoD user (who has taken and passed the necessary training) needs something, they can log into it, and if armed with the right search criteria (the search there is crap, unless you have a manufacturer part number), you get a list of all the vendors who have it.
Then, armed with your list of who you're allowed to buy from (not specifically excluding any vendors, just things like - haven't purchased from them more than 3 times this month), you pick one and go to whoever in your area has the authority to use the credit card, and the purchase is made. After, of course, the requisite paperwork.
It regularly works well, except for when the vendors forget to remove products they aren't carrying anymore, go out of business and forget to tell anyone, or change their ordering address / phone number.
So if this guy was in the system as having these various chips, and he was the low cost option, he'd get picked a lot. Split through a number of codes (departments) he could see some regular sales.
This is Microsoft.
They probably meant to only censor these things in China, but v1 of their filters are worldwide.
They'll have it fixed by v3. Probably. Maybe. I doubt it.
(Note: I also think that the MS Bing commercials are about the dumbest I've seen. They beat out the mother and son's college roommate making kissy faces at each other. And that takes doing.)
If you buy from Massachusetts, and then go back to tax free New Hampsire, do you get a Use Tax Refund?
Does it have a panel where Captain America punches out Hilter?
I mean, it could be done as a math problem...
Ray-traced footguns, perhaps?
The next version comes with a pair of complimentary hockey shin guards.
1.21 gigawatts should be enough for anyone.
The operators will think that any level of control they have is insufficient and the users will think that any level of control the operators have is far too much.
Shatnerian... levels... of... confusion...
Who... to... root... for... or... against...
Microsoft... or... the... malware... people...
Ask the Chinese if it costs more to keep someone in a cage or execute them behind the courthouse.
Given that the Chinese are turning around and selling the organs of the executed, I'd say that helps the balance sheet a little.
No, I don't think that I have.
I've played an engineer in WoW since the first day I created my toon.
Engineering items fall into a few categories. (Note: I haven't played in a few months, so it is entirely possible that some of these -might- have been addressed... but I rather doubt it.)
Vanity: The Hog, and similar items. To be honest, I wouldn't trade my Hog for any other land mount out there, but it doesn't offer anything that other land mounts don't. Admittedly, I liked it better when I could fall from any distance on without anything happening... But hey.
Single user items: Aka, the teleporters. I used them all the time when I was in the appropriate areas / level range, but they don't make the profession, in and of itself, worthwhile.
Explosives: Largely bloody worthless.
Scopes: Useful, but so flooded on the market that you don't really have to worry about making one yourself; just hit up the AH.
Item "enchants": Never used. Seriously, there's no point to them, everyone would rather have a real enchant to their items rather than something with a short use, long cooldown, and questionable utility (especially in raid). Boots? Enchant. Cloak? Enchant. Belt? Put the belt buckle on there and socket a gem. Etc.
Helms: Most engineers would greatly prefer if they could make them for non-engineers. It would actually be a moneymaker.
The problems with engineering could be solved in a few ways:
1) Recycling: Let engineers turn gray/white items into metal scrap which functions similar to ore, but you can't get gems from it.
2) Let them make items for non-engineers: Engineering is the only profession where the majority of the actual items (not parts) can't be used by non-engineers.
3) Give engineers a bonus on mechanical mounts. Bonus speed / damage. It wouldn't even have to be much of a bonus. Say, skill/75 as a percentage.
4) Give engineers something that actually makes them useful on a raid... other than repair bots. Yes, I recognize that there are certain things that are useful with single bosses (the Shadow Reflector for Twin Emps was one), but I'm looking for something with the more constant utility that enchantment or alchemy (flasks) provides.
5) Lower the failure rate. Engineering doesn't work like that; it's actually genuinely reliable.