You cry when someone sends you 1 or 2 spams a day, but then you go ahead and cheer on the people who do stuff like this? That's fucking unbelievable. Have you no sense? It's hypocrisy like this that's going to keep spam a problem forever.
Any responce via phone to spam is a *solisited* responce. "Stop sending me spam" would be a very approperate responce to such a foofoo head.
Because the system is automated, the guy is going to get several million responces to the spam he sent. If you run a business based on this model, you are required in most countries to be taken off their mailing list if you ask.
So, I don't see it as being hyprocritical at all. The guy runs a business of contacting people. If people don't want to be contacted, they have every right to ask him to stop.
Actually, wouldn't it make sense to wear a metal bracelet with a thick gauge copper wire wired directly to ground.
Actually, I think it's preferable not to be grounded at all, this way in case you accidently touch a live wire there is no flow. I'd vote for gum shoes, thick rubber gloves, and an insolated platform.
Also, while I've not tried this at home.... I would imagine that having a grounded right hand and touching a hot wire would *probally* cause your hand to clamp up, rather then it flowing to a mussle and causing you to jerk.
Lastly, wearing anything metal is really bad news when working with hot wires. Even if all the power goes through the bracelet to ground, it's going to get freaking hot, and in the panic anything could happen, like removing that groundstrap that is protecting you.
I vote NO to flaming pieces of metal on my wrist.
I vote YES to not being grounded at all. This way, if you hit a live wire you are protected by a glove, shoes, and what ever insolated platform you happen to be standing on, rather the same reason why birds on a wire don't get fried.
Anything where I can cut the breaker on I feel somewhat safe working with. Franky, I think there *might* be a breaker, on the pole, with a hell of alot of power that could fry you in a moment.
In theory you need to be grounded to get a shock. with a rat's nest style breaker box, it sounds like this would be painfuly easy. Unless there was a logical means of the end user cutting the main power at the pole, I really would highly reccomend not attempting this sort of repair.
If you really must do it your self, wear shoes good solid shoes with a high level of insolation. Work with only one hand so in the event you do get shocked it doesn't go through your heart or vital organs. And if you still feel you must do it your self, work with a 2nd person who has a bat with an insolated handle and instrict them to hit you with the bat in the event you get shocked. Broken arm is better then cooked organs anyday. This is a good rule them that is drilled into you in any begining electrical engeniering class.
But I wouldn't reccomend it, because you could kill your self. Without a good solid background in electrcity, it would be foolish to engage such a project. Even if I phoned the electric company and told them to shut off the power for a day, I still wouldn't do it my self.
Pay someone else to do it! If it was plumbing that's a diffrent story, worst case is you could be knee deep in shit, smelly but not dead.
If you are on a tight budget, then contact your local school of electrical engeniering and ask if there are students available to use your pad as an assignment.
If you are in doubt as to your ability to tackle this project DON'T DO IT.
FAX should be dead, dead as a can of spam. You would *think* in this digital age that people would rather go with e-mail which even for monochrome graphics is likely to be faster then 9600/14400 fax even on a typical dialup connection. But I see more common then anything else people taking ye'old data/fax modem and automating the process of faxing.
Hardcopy is still the prefered media for the storage of records, and for some bizzar reason there seems to be some assurance that placing that paper in the fax machine is somehow more more legit then sending a digital graphic image via e-mail. If not more legit, a fair bit easier and certainly more reliable as physical fax machine requires no maintance except for print/printable media.
VoIP service does exist, even in america in the form of 10 digit dialing. While I believe in the future you may indeed beable to contact someone via a url rather then a phone number, I also think that for legacy reasons that digit dialing isn't really going to go away any time soon.
i can do this... I'm considered to be an odd duck because I read my phonebook's information section. To be honest, I never inquired about passive call forwarding, to be honest it was never listed in my phone book and I didn't want to deal with the pesky humans.
However, other people can't do this, or don't think about doing it, or you bring it up to them and they'll get around to it and don't actually bother doing it.
Why shouldn't I do this? Well had they actually offered a seperate prefix or area code for mobiles in the first place, they may not have needed to split the area codes up in the first place.
Ok, number portability... this is cool... I have to say keeping your old number when switching carriers, this is just spiffy. Paying a fee for it... well might as well, you are nickled and dimed on this issue anyway... not a big thing.
I live in the States, while I mobile use isn't quite up there with the rest of the world, we already have had create quite a few extra area codes. That pesky issue of running out of seven digit phone numbers.
What I want is a system where by you actually keep your freaking landline number, and dial a diffrent prefix to hit the users mobile or fax/data device.
Now that would be what I call real number portability!
Part of my issues in buying a game system such as PS2 / Xbox / GameCube is not so much their practical value as a gamming platform, but rather their practical value to do other shit.
I'm happy to say I own none of the above.
The GameCube takes those funky ass 3 inch disks, making them none to useful to play full sized DVDs
In theory both PS2 and x-box have the ability to do DVD, I don't know the details nor do I know if they do VCD/SVCD.
I would *hope* the next generation of concole game devices would take into account not so much the teen crowd, but the adults that might want something useful as well. At least DVD support is considered, but what of (S)VCD, mp3, Ogg, mpeg-4, and other on the edge standards.
If there came out today a basic console game system, that had the ability to read a hard drive, removable media, or network any of the newer video / audio standards I'd be the first one to buy it. But I'm not really what you'd call a true blue gamer.
Impressive as the gains have been, it isn't quite clear yet that the wind can blow a fat cock up the ass of the developed world's fossil-fuel dependence.
Righto-- I'd say this was a troll... unless having a cock up the ass would impact our global dependance of power.
Last time I looked at the faq... it didn't seem to have any information regarding the quicktime versions of starblasers season 1 which I believe were released legitamatly by the copyright holders. Not sure on that issue but I downloaded them from http://www.studionext.com.
Anyone else have info on this subject, i'm curious whether or not they may be freely redistrubed.
You mean like the people who supported the war on Iraq?
DING DING DING
You're one of the first to replay to my post without a racist biased attitude. I would indeed rank GW Bush as a terrorist and a stupid idiot, but smart enough to fuel american rage tward Iraq by stating they had both nuclear and chemical WoMD.
Terrorist doesn't mean middle eastern terrorist. It's important to remember this as that region doesn't hold the monopoly on foofoo heads.
When is it that game developers are oging to finally realize that people who use linux (and *nix) are also games not just code junkies? Or there gonna be a Fud capaing like sco is trying?
Hell, how long did it take the Myst folks to make a windows NT version? You ask them about it and they say, "Windows NT is for the office". They honestly didn't think it was worth their while.
I have heard, though, to never piss off Beanie Baby collectors... they can be mean and tenacious.
I wouldn't know a Beanie Baby if it bit me on the arse. I guess I've sorta seen them around in various shapes and sizes with the TY logo. I personaly wouldn't care if I indeed found a pseudo beenie baby in a shape that I enjoyed, assuming I wanted to purchace useless but cute crap. I've seen sidewalk sales with counterfit beanie babies, at least according to the raving loon who seemed insistant to inform people of the inferior Beanie Baby plague and how it's so very important to buy real Beanie Babies.
I've known people who seem to have the skill to point out real vs knockoff Beanie Babies. While I appricate the fact that these are collectables and buying a counterfit sucks for resale value, I have little empathy for an artificaly created limited edition market.
About the same level of empathy I had for people who complained about a guy named Mike Mayers, who was in the business of buying surplus commics from warehouses and selling them in 3 for $1.00 bags in places like walmart. While these were not counterfits, the market was flooded with older rare commics that were actually produced in great quanity but for some reason didn't hit store shelves. Eventually he changed his business practice to reflect that these genuine commics where purached surplus in order to support the artificaly inflated comicbook market.
Yep, scary stuff. Note the absence of "and cut electricity lines... ooooh I'm scared".
Cut the electricity for the most part cuts out much of our normal communication. Add a few bombs or biological agent to add the the impact and you are stuck with individuals who can't really ask for help, nor aware specificly what's going on.
Blowing up a building as in 9/11 is scarry. blowing up a building during a major blackout would be down right freaky to those who are there. Can we say mass panic?
There was a scam in Washington. I forget the name of the company, but basicly they auctioned computers and used a diffrent account to bid outlandish prices so no one wins. In turn, they then offered to sell the same system to other people who bid on the item at the price they bid. Got sent money, but no system. Couldn't actually complain on e-bay because the auction happened outside of e-bay. They did eventually get caught, but it kinda shows how painfuly easy it is to get postal money orders sent to a p.o. box.
I've not been burned on e-bay yet personaly, but mostly I tend to buy things like camera lenses and other propriority goods. I tend to think the scammers would be more inclined to sell more universaly useful items like ram, keyboards, mice, laptops.
As for whether "terrorists" would target the power grid, I don't see it. Not much bang for the buck. How many died in this, the biggest outage in the US for decades? A half-dozen. It'll be forgotten in a few weeks. Blowing stuff up and killing lots of people is much simpler and does a much better job of terrorising the population. Cutting the power off for a few hours just pisses them off.
Because they are terrorists, they evoke terror, that's why they call them terrorists and not the easter bunny.
Terrorists don't do practical things that are actually effective. Typicaly they use home brewed explosives to try to level a building and fail miserably, or take onboard a plane enough plastic explosive to level a building when you don't really need all that much.
Terrorists typicaly speaking are stupid people fueled by cause and emotion not rational.
I must admit, I do own an L shaped somewhat ergo desk, a microsoft un-natural keyboard as well as a microsoft optical track ball. I even have heavy duty platform for my keyboard.
I appricate the i-desk on some level... but there just isn't enough desk for my tastes, and it's freaking tacky as hell.
L shape design.. this I like. Place to route cables, added bonus. But even if I owned an i-mac I would want a bit more desk to my deskstation. not this rounded corner look from hell.
I honestly don't know that specific kernel SCO expects people to pay for. It would seem I'm running 2.2.14 on my 486sx laptop. I'm only 1/2 way aware of vague fingerpointing newer versions... as in I find it impossible to sift through the FUD SCO is generating to find actual facts.
I'm probally one of the few people that have a Caldera distro. It was given to me freely as a promo. I thought cool, I can see what this is all about. I installed it on a 486sx laptop, in fact it was one of the few distrobutions that wouldn't crash due to the absence of a mathco. It's just a glorified network terminal. I know I could have recompiled the kernel to take this into account, but I'm lazy and I was given something that works.
The way I see it, Caldera gave it to me for free. They didn't have to, but they did choose to. If they wanted money they should have asked for it. Any code, propriorty or not, was given to me freely.
Because it was made clear on the CD I was sent in the mail I could make unlimited copies of it... SCO is NOT going to get any money from me.
Somewhere around here I have a video called, "Don't Copy That Floppy". It's something produced by the SPA before they became SIIA.
"License vary but the law is clear. You can install one program from one disk on one machine. You may make one backup of that one disk and that's it".
Having the ability to make unlimited copies does not violate this law because the license says you can make as many as you like. If the license didn't permit one backup, then it would be in violation of the law.
If what SCO is saying is true, then shareware can not exist, for it permits free distrobution with a license specifying terms of use, whether it means use over x number of days requires purchace, or additional features requires purchace or whatever.
At one point I had to dispite charges with some company with my bank. It was for some piece of hardware they claim I opened and screwed it up.
The company in question, in their defence, sent a letter stating that I "sounded stressed". I had streap throat at the time and I'm sure I indeed did sound stressed. I was going to get billed for $400 for something that I paid $300 for.
I was able to dispute the charges, because they sent me detail instructions on how to open the device and replace the rom as well as a screwdriver with their logo on it, but the moral of the story is when the term "stress" is used to justify someone position one way or another but in reality is meaningless.
Smart-alec. It is evident that you do not administer anything complex..
Very interesting attitude. I would have thought that the more complex the layout, the more dependent you are on the network. Not nessicarly internet, more like intranet.
More over, I would think that a cd-r would be more approperate then a CD-RW.
Not that I disagree with you about downloading the service packs onto protected media, such as CD-R or tape. But I would think that the more complex setups would distribute the service patches via the intranet so you don't have to drag the media around to every damn machine.
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You cry when someone sends you 1 or 2 spams a day, but then you go ahead and cheer on the people who do stuff like this? That's fucking unbelievable. Have you no sense? It's hypocrisy like this that's going to keep spam a problem forever.
Any responce via phone to spam is a *solisited* responce. "Stop sending me spam" would be a very approperate responce to such a foofoo head.
Because the system is automated, the guy is going to get several million responces to the spam he sent. If you run a business based on this model, you are required in most countries to be taken off their mailing list if you ask.
So, I don't see it as being hyprocritical at all. The guy runs a business of contacting people. If people don't want to be contacted, they have every right to ask him to stop.
Actually, wouldn't it make sense to wear a metal bracelet with a thick gauge copper wire wired directly to ground.
Actually, I think it's preferable not to be grounded at all, this way in case you accidently touch a live wire there is no flow. I'd vote for gum shoes, thick rubber gloves, and an insolated platform.
Also, while I've not tried this at home.... I would imagine that having a grounded right hand and touching a hot wire would *probally* cause your hand to clamp up, rather then it flowing to a mussle and causing you to jerk.
Lastly, wearing anything metal is really bad news when working with hot wires. Even if all the power goes through the bracelet to ground, it's going to get freaking hot, and in the panic anything could happen, like removing that groundstrap that is protecting you.
I vote NO to flaming pieces of metal on my wrist.
I vote YES to not being grounded at all. This way, if you hit a live wire you are protected by a glove, shoes, and what ever insolated platform you happen to be standing on, rather the same reason why birds on a wire don't get fried.
Anything where I can cut the breaker on I feel somewhat safe working with. Franky, I think there *might* be a breaker, on the pole, with a hell of alot of power that could fry you in a moment.
In theory you need to be grounded to get a shock. with a rat's nest style breaker box, it sounds like this would be painfuly easy. Unless there was a logical means of the end user cutting the main power at the pole, I really would highly reccomend not attempting this sort of repair.
If you really must do it your self, wear shoes good solid shoes with a high level of insolation. Work with only one hand so in the event you do get shocked it doesn't go through your heart or vital organs. And if you still feel you must do it your self, work with a 2nd person who has a bat with an insolated handle and instrict them to hit you with the bat in the event you get shocked. Broken arm is better then cooked organs anyday. This is a good rule them that is drilled into you in any begining electrical engeniering class.
But I wouldn't reccomend it, because you could kill your self. Without a good solid background in electrcity, it would be foolish to engage such a project. Even if I phoned the electric company and told them to shut off the power for a day, I still wouldn't do it my self.
Pay someone else to do it! If it was plumbing that's a diffrent story, worst case is you could be knee deep in shit, smelly but not dead.
If you are on a tight budget, then contact your local school of electrical engeniering and ask if there are students available to use your pad as an assignment.
If you are in doubt as to your ability to tackle this project DON'T DO IT.
FAX should be dead, dead as a can of spam. You would *think* in this digital age that people would rather go with e-mail which even for monochrome graphics is likely to be faster then 9600/14400 fax
even on a typical dialup connection. But I see more common then anything else people taking ye'old data/fax modem and automating the process of faxing.
Hardcopy is still the prefered media for the storage of records, and for some bizzar reason there seems to be some assurance that placing that paper in the fax machine is somehow more more legit then sending a digital graphic image via e-mail. If not more legit, a fair bit easier and certainly more reliable as physical fax machine requires no maintance except for print/printable media.
VoIP service does exist, even in america in the form of 10 digit dialing. While I believe in the future you may indeed beable to contact someone via a url rather then a phone number, I also think that for legacy reasons that digit dialing isn't really going to go away any time soon.
Why not ... call forward
i can do this... I'm considered to be an odd duck because I read my phonebook's information section. To be honest, I never inquired about passive call forwarding, to be honest it was never listed in my phone book and I didn't want to deal with the pesky humans.
However, other people can't do this, or don't think about doing it, or you bring it up to them and they'll get around to it and don't actually bother doing it.
Why shouldn't I do this? Well had they actually offered a seperate prefix or area code for mobiles in the first place, they may not have needed to split the area codes up in the first place.
Ok, number portability... this is cool... I have to say keeping your old number when switching carriers, this is just spiffy. Paying a fee for it... well might as well, you are nickled and dimed on this issue anyway... not a big thing.
I live in the States, while I mobile use isn't quite up there with the rest of the world, we already have had create quite a few extra area codes. That pesky issue of running out of seven digit phone numbers.
What I want is a system where by you actually keep your freaking landline number, and dial a diffrent prefix to hit the users mobile or fax/data device.
Now that would be what I call real number portability!
sweet, will have to check that out
Part of my issues in buying a game system such as PS2 / Xbox / GameCube is not so much their practical value as a gamming platform, but rather their practical value to do other shit.
I'm happy to say I own none of the above.
The GameCube takes those funky ass 3 inch disks, making them none to useful to play full sized DVDs
In theory both PS2 and x-box have the ability to do DVD, I don't know the details nor do I know if they do VCD/SVCD.
I would *hope* the next generation of concole game devices would take into account not so much the teen crowd, but the adults that might want something useful as well. At least DVD support is considered, but what of (S)VCD, mp3, Ogg, mpeg-4, and other on the edge standards.
If there came out today a basic console game system, that had the ability to read a hard drive, removable media, or network any of the newer video / audio standards I'd be the first one to buy it. But I'm not really what you'd call a true blue gamer.
You misunderstand me - it's not the cock in the ass per-se, but having a fat cock forced up their ass every time they mod up a blatant troll.
I think that would be preferable, rather then moding the people who point out how way off topic post getting moded down for their observance.
Impressive as the gains have been, it isn't quite clear yet that the wind can blow a fat cock up the ass of the developed world's fossil-fuel dependence.
Righto-- I'd say this was a troll... unless having a cock up the ass would impact our global dependance of power.
Last time I looked at the faq... it didn't seem to have any information regarding the quicktime versions of starblasers season 1 which I believe were released legitamatly by the copyright holders. Not sure on that issue but I downloaded them from http://www.studionext.com.
Anyone else have info on this subject, i'm curious whether or not they may be freely redistrubed.
You mean like the people who supported the war on Iraq?
DING DING DING
You're one of the first to replay to my post without a racist biased attitude. I would indeed rank GW Bush as a terrorist and a stupid idiot, but smart enough to fuel american rage tward Iraq by stating they had both nuclear and chemical WoMD.
Terrorist doesn't mean middle eastern terrorist. It's important to remember this as that region doesn't hold the monopoly on foofoo heads.
When is it that game developers are oging to finally realize that people who use linux (and *nix) are also games not just code junkies? Or there gonna be a Fud capaing like sco is trying?
Hell, how long did it take the Myst folks to make a windows NT version? You ask them about it and they say, "Windows NT is for the office". They honestly didn't think it was worth their while.
I have heard, though, to never piss off Beanie Baby collectors... they can be mean and tenacious.
I wouldn't know a Beanie Baby if it bit me on the arse. I guess I've sorta seen them around in various shapes and sizes with the TY logo. I personaly wouldn't care if I indeed found a pseudo beenie baby in a shape that I enjoyed, assuming I wanted to purchace useless but cute crap. I've seen sidewalk sales with counterfit beanie babies, at least according to the raving loon who seemed insistant to inform people of the inferior Beanie Baby plague and how it's so very important to buy real Beanie Babies.
I've known people who seem to have the skill to point out real vs knockoff Beanie Babies. While I appricate the fact that these are collectables and buying a counterfit sucks for resale value, I have little empathy for an artificaly created limited edition market.
About the same level of empathy I had for people who complained about a guy named Mike Mayers, who was in the business of buying surplus commics from warehouses and selling them in 3 for $1.00 bags in places like walmart. While these were not counterfits, the market was flooded with older rare commics that were actually produced in great quanity but for some reason didn't hit store shelves. Eventually he changed his business practice to reflect that these genuine commics where purached surplus in order to support the artificaly inflated comicbook market.
Yep, scary stuff. Note the absence of "and cut electricity lines... ooooh I'm scared".
Cut the electricity for the most part cuts out much of our normal communication. Add a few bombs or biological agent to add the the impact and you are stuck with individuals who can't really ask for help, nor aware specificly what's going on.
Blowing up a building as in 9/11 is scarry. blowing up a building during a major blackout would be down right freaky to those who are there. Can we say mass panic?
There was a scam in Washington. I forget the name of the company, but basicly they auctioned computers and used a diffrent account to bid outlandish prices so no one wins. In turn, they then offered to sell the same system to other people who bid on the item at the price they bid. Got sent money, but no system. Couldn't actually complain on e-bay because the auction happened outside of e-bay. They did eventually get caught, but it kinda shows how painfuly easy it is to get postal money orders sent to a p.o. box.
I've not been burned on e-bay yet personaly, but mostly I tend to buy things like camera lenses and other propriority goods. I tend to think the scammers would be more inclined to sell more universaly useful items like ram, keyboards, mice, laptops.
As for whether "terrorists" would target the power grid, I don't see it. Not much bang for the buck. How many died in this, the biggest outage in the US for decades? A half-dozen. It'll be forgotten in a few weeks. Blowing stuff up and killing lots of people is much simpler and does a much better job of terrorising the population. Cutting the power off for a few hours just pisses them off.
Because they are terrorists, they evoke terror, that's why they call them terrorists and not the easter bunny.
Terrorists don't do practical things that are actually effective. Typicaly they use home brewed explosives to try to level a building and fail miserably, or take onboard a plane enough plastic explosive to level a building when you don't really need all that much.
Terrorists typicaly speaking are stupid people fueled by cause and emotion not rational.
I must admit, I do own an L shaped somewhat ergo desk, a microsoft un-natural keyboard as well as a microsoft optical track ball. I even have heavy duty platform for my keyboard.
I appricate the i-desk on some level... but there just isn't enough desk for my tastes, and it's freaking tacky as hell.
L shape design.. this I like. Place to route cables, added bonus. But even if I owned an i-mac I would want a bit more desk to my deskstation. not this rounded corner look from hell.
I honestly don't know that specific kernel SCO expects people to pay for. It would seem I'm running 2.2.14 on my 486sx laptop. I'm only 1/2 way aware of vague fingerpointing newer versions... as in I find it impossible to sift through the FUD SCO is generating to find actual facts.
I'm probally one of the few people that have a Caldera distro. It was given to me freely as a promo. I thought cool, I can see what this is all about. I installed it on a 486sx laptop, in fact it was one of the few distrobutions that wouldn't crash due to the absence of a mathco. It's just a glorified network terminal. I know I could have recompiled the kernel to take this into account, but I'm lazy and I was given something that works.
The way I see it, Caldera gave it to me for free. They didn't have to, but they did choose to. If they wanted money they should have asked for it. Any code, propriorty or not, was given to me freely.
Because it was made clear on the CD I was sent in the mail I could make unlimited copies of it... SCO is NOT going to get any money from me.
Somewhere around here I have a video called, "Don't Copy That Floppy". It's something produced by the SPA before they became SIIA.
"License vary but the law is clear. You can install one program from one disk on one machine. You may make one backup of that one disk and that's it".
Having the ability to make unlimited copies does not violate this law because the license says you can make as many as you like. If the license didn't permit one backup, then it would be in violation of the law.
If what SCO is saying is true, then shareware can not exist, for it permits free distrobution with a license specifying terms of use, whether it means use over x number of days requires purchace, or additional features requires purchace or whatever.
Me thinks SCO is on crack.
Rare trinkets, perhaps... I imagine it's possible that the combo of mold and cracking of the factory vinyl might resemble a Jackson Pollock.
At one point I had to dispite charges with some company with my bank. It was for some piece of hardware they claim I opened and screwed it up.
The company in question, in their defence, sent a letter stating that I "sounded stressed". I had streap throat at the time and I'm sure I indeed did sound stressed. I was going to get billed for $400 for something that I paid $300 for.
I was able to dispute the charges, because they sent me detail instructions on how to open the device and replace the rom as well as a screwdriver with their logo on it, but the moral of the story is when the term "stress" is used to justify someone position one way or another but in reality is meaningless.
"Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury"
Perjury is a crime with pentalities.
Being wrong or just plain stupid unfortunatly isn't a criminal offence.
Smart-alec. It is evident that you do not administer anything complex..
Very interesting attitude. I would have thought that the more complex the layout, the more dependent you are on the network. Not nessicarly internet, more like intranet.
More over, I would think that a cd-r would be more approperate then a CD-RW.
Not that I disagree with you about downloading the service packs onto protected media, such as CD-R or tape. But I would think that the more complex setups would distribute the service patches via the intranet so you don't have to drag the media around to every damn machine.