How long until thieves break in to the cars to steal the gps and wireless equipment?
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Apparently, this guy doesn't realize that we have yet to develop a finite probability generator. How improbable is a time machine? If he does create one, he's bound to be mauled by his peers.
Serious question: has anyone here received spam (in the past three years, say) with a "remove" link that actually did anything but attract more spam?
Just today, an alias I created for an Ameritrade account (back when it was still fun) got spammed. They were pushing a voice activated answering system from angel.com.
After reporting it to spamcop and emailing it to uce@ftc.gov as well as the abuse and postmaster accounts at Ameritrade, I noticed that there was an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the page.
Well, it appeared to work. It opened up a browswer window pointed to http://www.uptilt.com/functions/unsubscribed.html which displayed a brief text page that said "You have successfully unsubscribed from this mailing list".
What really irks me about this is the wording used. By giving me an "unsubscribe" link, they are implying that I "subscribed" to the list in the first place. I do realize that this is just semantics, but I would prefer that they use the more honest word "remove" instead of "unsubscribe"
Don't those morons at Co$ realize that having google remove a site will in turn cause a press story to be written about the removal. Then, that story will be in google. If they want that one removed, well, another story, another listing, etc.
DirecTV's got it. Satellite... Go ahead, give in. It didn't hurt that bad. I've almost completely healed.
On an off topic: Today, I finally got a Sony DSS box hooked up to a pc so SnapStream can change channels! It ain't Tivo, but it ain't bad. I got the cable instructions from Snapstream's website. Certain RCA boxes can also be used.
The posted article states, "Similar nasty hijinks have already dogged cell phone owners in Japan and Europe." It goes on to give more detail, of course. Granted, it does say that there has been no phone to phone propogation of code, but I don't think that is such a huge leap of thinking to make.
And, yes, we have one mobile phone system, one landline phone system, one operating system, and one office suite. I think that is the sort of "grief" we have in the USA.
Maybe the reason there have been so many submissions about mobile security and viruses hitting phones is this article on the same cnn.com Sci-Tech page as the one posted. Hopefully, people are trying to head off some of the grief that our European and Asian neighbors have had to deal with.
If I'm not using my computer, I don't want others using it...
So long as you have to opt-in to enable this, I don't see a problem letting others use my idle cpu time. It actually makes me happy when I see it happening. Mod me as freak-1, but personally, I'd love to see a seti@home/distributed.net type thing that would allow downloadable tasks so that the client would not be limited to just doing crypto or statistical analysis. Sure, the security would be a bitch. There would have to be a responsible group or something that would validate programs before releasing them to prevent virus mayhem, or worse. But, how nice would it be for researchers around the world if they could have cheap access to vast amounts of cpu time?
The popunder for the "World's Largest Casino." (NOT)
If by (NOT), you mean the popunder did not happen, then disregard this post. Otherwise... I tried loading the msnbc page several times from various boxes and could not get a popunder to appear.
Are you sure you don't have something installed inadvertently that creates these popunders? If you haven't already, give something like AdAware a try to see just what is lurking about.
If you are absolutely sure that you are getting popunders from msnbc, then why the hell am I not getting them! I hate feeling left-out.
Either most of the US is comprised of idiots, or the broadcasters are absolutely out of touch.
That kind of exclusionary thinking is downright un-American! Can't we have the US being comprised of idiots AND the broadcasters being absolutely out of touch?
I used to agree until my highly-modified HAM radio picked up the following transmission:
"Attention all Planetary Overseers! With the demise of Supreme Commander Oort, members of the Council have brought forth a major policy change in regards to the human population on Earth. The earth population must now be controlled by internal means. Our agents will directly develop and distribute the necessary genetic alterations from this point forward. There will be no randomization allowed anymore. All cosmic ray generators are to be aimed away from Earth at once..."
And, then I lost the transmission and couldn't get it back.
The additional memory (you should have at least 1GB) is necessary for many things. First, and foremost, we must leave room on our systems to allow the U.S. Government to install their goodies -- you know, to make sure we aren't terrorists. Also, we need the extra space so that corporations can install spyware to monitor our usage of their side of the internet. After all,.com is theirs, isn't it? 128MB is just not enough for all of that, and running an innovative OS that we have all been clamoring for. We know this because Microsoft has told us this.
I use a laptop and am rather mobile with it. Boot times are very important when you just need to check that one little thing that some pesky client "needs". There is nothing more frustrating than having the conversation with the client go on to something entirely different while still waiting for a login prompt to appear.
I agree totally. I use a Thinkpad A21p which isn't exactly the fastest thing around anymore! It contains a P3/850, 256MB RAM, and a 16MB ATI Mobility 128. WindowsXP performance is just fine on this machine. For what it is worth, I also have Mandrake 8.1 on this box using kde and it doesn't seem to be any faster than WindowsXP . I have linux (Redhat 7.1) running on an old Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM -- a perfect little router/firewall box -- it even runs apache just fine. But, when I try to run X (with either gnome or kde) on this machine, it feels like an HP150 running Windows 1.0
I don't know about other U.S. cities, but in St. Louis, Missouri, there are a quite a few DSL providers. They all get their lines from SBC, but they do differentiate themselves: some use PPPoE, others use DHCP, while some offer static IP's. They all charge about the same ($50/mo). My provider (valuenet.net) offers the standard DSL 1500/384kbps with one static IP address. Of course, web space and email is provided but I don't use it. Other choices available to me are: brick.net, primary.net, swbell.net, and a few others I have not had any experience with. They are all decent and do offer choices. And, choice is good. I switched from primary.net to valuenet.net (for the static ip). When I did so, my old Alcatel dsl modem would not work with valuenet's dslam -- Valuenet sent a guy to my house to get it working. I would have never have gotten that level of support without there being competition.
Ok, LAN, WAN, PAN, MAN, (and whatever my unsober mind can't think of) have all been around... Now we are getting W's put in front of them all. Wireless is here now, but, something else will be here then. In the words of Fletch, "It's all ball-bearings these days". I wish more import were given to the fact that all of these have places under the IEEE 802 umbrella for standards.
I'd still love to have a neighborhood wireless network. I need to move to a different neighborhood.
I live in St. Louis, Missouri and perused the index looking for local museums that were represented in the new TLD. The only one I found was magichouse.stlouis.museum. The Magic House (www.magichouse.com), to be fair, is a branch of the St. Louis Children's Museum. However, it is not quite what I would call a museum. Granted, it is a great place to take your kids on a rainy afternoon, or for a birthday party. But, there are many, many other museums in St. Louis that are more deserving -- particularly the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, or the new Science Center (with the brand new planetarium), even the Bowling Hall of Fame deserves mentioning! These at least have something to do with the preservation of culture. Maybe I wouldn't be so disappointed if the Magic House didn't charge $5.50 per person (children under 2 free).
If it had an integrated dispenser of that pheromone stuff I keep getting emails about, It could turn itself back on, and easily get you dates with hot, sexy women.
Why do we even bother to pretend we're a democracy anymore?
I've been asking that question for a number of years now. Our representative form of democracy is far from a true democracy. Hell, it isn't even a true representative democracy! Even though the vast majority of our elected officals have been elected by the people (or less representative yet, the Electoral College), too many of them serve the corporations and businesses as their constituents rather than the individuals that had cast the actual votes. I'm sure that this is not true of all elected officials, but I would wager that the percentage is high enough to be significant.
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I saw the vcd and the divx and they sucked. The movie content was ok, but the video/audio quality was horrible. Worst cam cap ever.
How long until thieves break in to the cars to steal the gps and wireless equipment?
Apparently, this guy doesn't realize that we have yet to develop a finite probability generator. How improbable is a time machine? If he does create one, he's bound to be mauled by his peers.
Just today, an alias I created for an Ameritrade account (back when it was still fun) got spammed. They were pushing a voice activated answering system from angel.com.
After reporting it to spamcop and emailing it to uce@ftc.gov as well as the abuse and postmaster accounts at Ameritrade, I noticed that there was an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the page.
Well, it appeared to work. It opened up a browswer window pointed to http://www.uptilt.com/functions/unsubscribed.html which displayed a brief text page that said "You have successfully unsubscribed from this mailing list".
What really irks me about this is the wording used. By giving me an "unsubscribe" link, they are implying that I "subscribed" to the list in the first place. I do realize that this is just semantics, but I would prefer that they use the more honest word "remove" instead of "unsubscribe"
What fools.
On an off topic: Today, I finally got a Sony DSS box hooked up to a pc so SnapStream can change channels! It ain't Tivo, but it ain't bad. I got the cable instructions from Snapstream's website. Certain RCA boxes can also be used.
phone owners in Japan and Europe." It goes on to give more detail, of course. Granted, it does say that there has been no phone to phone propogation of code, but I don't think that is such a huge leap of thinking to make.
And, yes, we have one mobile phone system, one landline phone system, one operating system, and one office suite. I think that is the sort of "grief" we have in the USA.
The article url is http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/03/08/cebit.preview/i ndex.html. I don't know what happened to the html in my first post. No, I did not mean "first post"!
Maybe the reason there have been so many submissions about mobile security and viruses hitting phones is this article on the same cnn.com Sci-Tech page as the one posted. Hopefully, people are trying to head off some of the grief that our European and Asian neighbors have had to deal with.
So long as you have to opt-in to enable this, I don't see a problem letting others use my idle cpu time. It actually makes me happy when I see it happening. Mod me as freak-1, but personally, I'd love to see a seti@home/distributed.net type thing that would allow downloadable tasks so that the client would not be limited to just doing crypto or statistical analysis. Sure, the security would be a bitch. There would have to be a responsible group or something that would validate programs before releasing them to prevent virus mayhem, or worse. But, how nice would it be for researchers around the world if they could have cheap access to vast amounts of cpu time?
Or, am I just high.
If by (NOT), you mean the popunder did not happen, then disregard this post. Otherwise... I tried loading the msnbc page several times from various boxes and could not get a popunder to appear.
Are you sure you don't have something installed inadvertently that creates these popunders? If you haven't already, give something like AdAware a try to see just what is lurking about.
If you are absolutely sure that you are getting popunders from msnbc, then why the hell am I not getting them! I hate feeling left-out.
That kind of exclusionary thinking is downright un-American! Can't we have the US being comprised of idiots AND the broadcasters being absolutely out of touch?
I used to agree until my highly-modified HAM radio picked up the following transmission:
"Attention all Planetary Overseers! With the demise of Supreme Commander Oort, members of the Council have brought forth a major policy change in regards to the human population on Earth. The earth population must now be controlled by internal means. Our agents will directly develop and distribute the necessary genetic alterations from this point forward. There will be no randomization allowed anymore. All cosmic ray generators are to be aimed away from Earth at once..."
And, then I lost the transmission and couldn't get it back.
My God, that is one powerful oven.
Dare I say it -- it must utilize a beowolf cluster of something, say perhaps Athlons running at various GHz.
The additional memory (you should have at least 1GB) is necessary for many things. First, and foremost, we must leave room on our systems to allow the U.S. Government to install their goodies -- you know, to make sure we aren't terrorists. Also, we need the extra space so that corporations can install spyware to monitor our usage of their side of the internet. After all, .com is theirs, isn't it? 128MB is just not enough for all of that, and running an innovative OS that we have all been clamoring for. We know this because Microsoft has told us this.
I wish I was a cool, moron spammer
I use a laptop and am rather mobile with it. Boot times are very important when you just need to check that one little thing that some pesky client "needs". There is nothing more frustrating than having the conversation with the client go on to something entirely different while still waiting for a login prompt to appear.
I agree totally. I use a Thinkpad A21p which isn't exactly the fastest thing around anymore! It contains a P3/850, 256MB RAM, and a 16MB ATI Mobility 128. WindowsXP performance is just fine on this machine. For what it is worth, I also have Mandrake 8.1 on this box using kde and it doesn't seem to be any faster than WindowsXP . I have linux (Redhat 7.1) running on an old Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM -- a perfect little router/firewall box -- it even runs apache just fine. But, when I try to run X (with either gnome or kde) on this machine, it feels like an HP150 running Windows 1.0
I don't know about other U.S. cities, but in St. Louis, Missouri, there are a quite a few DSL providers. They all get their lines from SBC, but they do differentiate themselves: some use PPPoE, others use DHCP, while some offer static IP's. They all charge about the same ($50/mo). My provider (valuenet.net) offers the standard DSL 1500/384kbps with one static IP address. Of course, web space and email is provided but I don't use it. Other choices available to me are: brick.net, primary.net, swbell.net, and a few others I have not had any experience with. They are all decent and do offer choices. And, choice is good. I switched from primary.net to valuenet.net (for the static ip). When I did so, my old Alcatel dsl modem would not work with valuenet's dslam -- Valuenet sent a guy to my house to get it working. I would have never have gotten that level of support without there being competition.
Wouldn't it be great if something like this would do the trick?
I'd still love to have a neighborhood wireless network. I need to move to a different neighborhood.
That's why the per unit price is so high.
I live in St. Louis, Missouri and perused the index looking for local museums that were represented in the new TLD. The only one I found was magichouse.stlouis.museum. The Magic House (www.magichouse.com), to be fair, is a branch of the St. Louis Children's Museum. However, it is not quite what I would call a museum. Granted, it is a great place to take your kids on a rainy afternoon, or for a birthday party. But, there are many, many other museums in St. Louis that are more deserving -- particularly the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, or the new Science Center (with the brand new planetarium), even the Bowling Hall of Fame deserves mentioning! These at least have something to do with the preservation of culture. Maybe I wouldn't be so disappointed if the Magic House didn't charge $5.50 per person (children under 2 free).
Aside from the picture on the cover of Byte magazine when introduced, the *Peanut* was never popular.
If it had an integrated dispenser of that pheromone stuff I keep getting emails about, It could turn itself back on, and easily get you dates with hot, sexy women.
I've been asking that question for a number of years now. Our representative form of democracy is far from a true democracy. Hell, it isn't even a true representative democracy! Even though the vast majority of our elected officals have been elected by the people (or less representative yet, the Electoral College), too many of them serve the corporations and businesses as their constituents rather than the individuals that had cast the actual votes. I'm sure that this is not true of all elected officials, but I would wager that the percentage is high enough to be significant.