I can just imagine how it would sound in a movie: My name is Wolschansky, Vojzeh Wolschansky.
There was an old police sitcom called Barney Miller with a character named Stan Wojciehowicz. When ever anyone asked how do you spell it he would simply say, "spell it like it sounds". But as you might imagine the character had the nickname Wojo.
Going to school with kids who also had -ski/-sky sirnames also got abbrivated. I would imagine this person would get shortened to Wolsky and be happy with it.
I wonder how other fellow slashdotters from overseas solve this problem
I'm not from overseas and my name wasn't hard to convert to english. Just replace Z with dot above (stupid slashdot) with a Z and sometimes replace I with Y randomly. It's not hard to pronounce but no bugger knows how to spell it. The nickname Zuke became common among my family and others who share my sirname.
Though I can't for example say "Z" because it will end up being C.
I can say that some form of every slovak last name I could think of from my neighborhood is on that list..
You must mean Cleveland. Either Cleveland or Philly.
This is not shocking.... There are about 10 million Poles in America. Chicago and New York are up on the list of Polish american cities with about 700,000 and 600,000 respectivly. In the past Cleveland was said to have the largest Polish population second only to Warsaw. I never checked if that was true.
Actually, that's pretty much how most telemarketers I've spoken with (however briefly) talk.
Yep! Sadly I had the same conversation with them over and over again until I started jacking my stereo into the receiver and playing full blast random Dead Milkmen hits or some random New York 976 porn.
TM: Vinyl siding? Tape: Lick my feet... lick my feet with some feeling you bad slave! Do it now! Do it now! TM: What the?!?! Tape: No I want you to masturbate in that fresh maid apron. TM: OH my God Tape: Now lick it up TM: -*-click-*-
I got "I don't know what area you are in" to "I ain't gotta phone book" and even "I thought it was 8am everywhere". Sadly I was being serious about screened phones. I nice little program that would highlight the area you are phoning would actually resolve this issue.
With a phone like this telemarketing drones could actually see the timezone they are calling rather than the current system of "how am i suppose to know it's 5am where you at".
Why risk 1.5 billion on a "rescue" mission, when there is no guarantee that some other aging system won't malfunction in another 6 months anyway?
This is an interesting question. We know we can shoot up an atlas rocket with a new telescope. And it's pretty clear this is cheaper than using NASA and one of the three shuttles. But what i'm not clear on is whether it would be more cost effective to hitch a ride on the Russian Soyuz and make repairs.
Are you saying I do not have a right to watch these? or follow them with my friends who might get them first? I will have to wait and wait months maybe a year to see them, by the time spoilers are posted everywhere? It should be illegal that they are forcing us to pirate (no I won't say theft!) these videos just to keep up with what other people are able to see. The internet is the great equalizer.
I will say it will be wise to consider world distribution rather then the current system. People like your self will just end up pirating it as was the case with Battlestar Galactica being shown first on UK's Skyone network.
Unfortunately copyright holders have no obligation to make your live easier by making sure their material gets released in your country in a timely fashion if at all. While you and I think this is farking stupid to alienate potential markets... it's their choice to be bastards. In the world of executives who can only see in short term benefits of having one group pay a premium to get it first it would be hard to convince them anything different would be in their best interest. Perhaps in a decade or they will see the wisdom in making material available globally esp since we can distribute on line.
I agree, they seem rather fishy, I can't find any reference to GPL or ANY license for that matter on their site, even when trying to purchase the product.
Sounds fishy?
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But it's totally unclear what a CNR service is or what these 1900 software titles are. No reference to them on the website what so ever. No idea what it costs or if it's access to an existing OSS database that they are taking the time to charge you for.
Did they forget to list it, or do they really think a notebook without a USB port would actually sell?
You can get USB for cardbus with ease. In fact they tend to be dirt cheap because any just about any system with cardbus is going to have usb. I don't know if linux would support it but hey.
I have to admit... I was first turned off from Family Guy because I found it to be very similar to "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". In fact i'm still convienced that the characters were modeled after this little known Hanna Barbera cartoon. The "why me" father figure... the brain damaged son with bad hair... the wife that puts everything into perspective... the daughter who's obsessed with losing weight... and the child/baby who's plotting for money/world domination. It grows on you and you accept the fact that it's just a very good parity of the old great family comedies like "All in the family" and "Happy Days". It makes you sit back and smile and question whether or not television has improved over the past 30 years.
I think the bill should be expanded to force AOL to pay a $.10 recycle fee for every unsolicited CD they send out.
Damn... no mod points. This should be insightful or interesting.
One of the problems with the bill that I see is the fact that the accountability for trash is on the consumer and not the producer with no obvious reward like deposit on cans/bottles. No sale and no recycle fee... but it's still trash.
While I would agree with a recycle fee on all unsolicited CDs I see it and being hard to enforce and would affect other forms of media distrubtion that I wouldn't like to see pay extra fees. A blanket media recycle tax would be more fair and reasonable as a David Hasselhoff x-mas CD is just as worthless as an AOL CD.
Besides AOL CDs can always be marked returned to sender which I presume will just get resent to some one else. There is no excuse to have them in the landfill.
Nice idea. I am working on something like that for my wine cellar.
I can see the benifit. So much faster to ping a bottle to see if it's corked or not. No more wasted trips to the cellar. You better be careful and block port 25 from you cellar... some of those Brazil wines are known spammers.
The only reason I've ever been asked for ID here in the US is if I'm using a credit card or checking transaction. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with tracking, but everything to do with making sure you are the person who OWNS said credit card or checks. Damn these conspiracy theorists are really getting wacky nowadays.
Hotels have a few forms to fill out. Paying cash usually results in the person behind the desk saying, "Oh you don't have to fill that out". Nice for me so I don't have to run out to the car to get my car license plate number. I said nothing about tracking or privacy, conspiracies or tinfoil hats. I imagine if you liked your privacy, conspiracies, and tinfoil hats you could follow the same approach. For me it's nice when i've been driving for far too long and can't focus on paperwork.
I don't know the rules on hotels whether or not they are requred by law to ask for ID and keep a valid register.
Let's get some perspective on this. Other countries are not exactly the bastion of privacy that they are made out to be on Slashdot. It is common in Europe that you need to present identification when checking into a hotel. For foreigners, they usually make a copy of your passport. This information is then kept for later use or forwarded to the police so that they can then (you guessed it) track you.
I can speak for the US. There seems to be an unwritten rule about not asking for ID if you pay cash. Not that I care one way or another I found that paying cash makes for less paperwork to fill out, very nice if you've been on the road too long. I don't know if the same rule applies to foreigners but who would know you are a foreigner unless you presented ID.
Computers do not inherently amplify the severity of a crime.
Was the crime taking the test, selling the answers, or the keyboard logger?
What about a wiretap? Wiretapping a telephone is the best analog I can think of for a non-computer related crime. It would not be unreasonable for the punishment to be equal for a computer tap as a telephone tap.
Don't get me wrong, I actually agree that getting the police involved was the result of paranoid tinfoil hat wearing foofoo heads who are so stupid they think a computer hacker could make their toilet flow backwards and it's likely that this person's interest would be best served by being expelled then going to an alternative school filled with criminals, druggies, and other misc hoods. I even agree that the use of a computer should not inherently amplfy the severity of a crime. I do however feel that the level of severity should be no more or less than that of a wiretap should law enforcement be involved.
If Windows were properly locked down (ala User rights for students) then Windows wouldn't be able to properly detect and use said hardware device.
Windows does not complain when I swap out any keyboard on the PS/2 port. Whether I use a Microsoft Natural Pro... an old compaq, modern logitech wireless, or even old IBM 101 keyboard that many users are very fond of.
USB is a different story. I can not boot to windows and attach a ps/2 keyboard on the fly. I can hookup a USB keyboard on the fly and it will detect and use it.
I'm sure you could lock out users from installing a different USB keyboard but there is no way to prevent someone from hooking any keyboard and plugging in a dongle and using the same damn keyboard. It's not a device that requires windows drivers and is... if designed correctly... transparent to the PC.
IMHO they should fire whom ever is in charge of network security. They OBVIOUSLY did not perform their job. If a student was able to install a key logger, the computer wasn't secure
They should fire who ever didn't secure the keyboard connector to the PC?
What do you recommend to secure a keyboard connector? JB Weld? Krazy Glue?
Seriously. Did he think that the teacher wouldn't notice a DONGLE that was added to the computer?
From what I understand FTFA the teacher didn't notice but rather police were informed the kid was selling the answers to tests. It's also pretty clear the kid took it home which means no one noticed it. I.e. it's not the dongle that gave him away but rather someone who ratted him out, likely someone who he tried selling test answers to.
A trojan-type logger would likely have less covert as unless you take the time to remove it will still be on the system. A dongle forces you to take the evidence with you leaving no trace of anything installed on the system. Sure it's not as elite but it does get the job done.
Back in the good-ole days of VHS fansubbing in the 1980s, that was an unlikely event. But today, if an anime has any substantial appeal to Americans, it'll certainly get an international DVD release inside of two years. (Indeed, anime companies are making the USA market a critical part of their business plans. Some anime, like Big-O, has been renewed for new episodes solely on the strength of USA viewership)
So... in order expand the market of anime there must be an existing viewer base before it's released in order to justify the expence of making DVDs. In other words there must be people already watching unreleased material in a country to help make it popular in that country in order to get it in that country.
To me it sounds like they either need to market this material in a new way... for example sub one episode of each series and release a disc in order to get an idea what is desire... or depend on subpirates.
I can imagine the face of a kid clerk getting handed a 2$ or even 1$ bill...;-)
I get told that I should keep 'em my self. During the Expo '86 in Vancover many tourists tossed their money in the street after leaving. Either they didn't understand that this script was legal tender or perhaps they were going back to the states and knew how much of a pain it is to exchange. Needless to say I collected a a bit of the paper $1s and $2s that I run across in odd places.
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I can just imagine how it would sound in a movie: My name is Wolschansky, Vojzeh Wolschansky.
/-sky sirnames also got abbrivated. I would imagine this person would get shortened to Wolsky and be happy with it.
There was an old police sitcom called Barney Miller with a character named Stan Wojciehowicz. When ever anyone asked how do you spell it he would simply say, "spell it like it sounds". But as you might imagine the character had the nickname Wojo.
Going to school with kids who also had -ski
I wonder how other fellow slashdotters from overseas solve this problem
I'm not from overseas and my name wasn't hard to convert to english. Just replace Z with dot above (stupid slashdot) with a Z and sometimes replace I with Y randomly. It's not hard to pronounce but no bugger knows how to spell it. The nickname Zuke became common among my family and others who share my sirname.
Though I can't for example say "Z" because it will end up being C.
Baltimore/DC area, actually.
Damn, off by 100 miles (from philly that is). I have a brother you moved out that way.
I can say that some form of every slovak last name I could think of from my neighborhood is on that list..
You must mean Cleveland. Either Cleveland or Philly.
This is not shocking.... There are about 10 million Poles in America. Chicago and New York are up on the list of Polish american cities with about 700,000 and 600,000 respectivly. In the past Cleveland was said to have the largest Polish population second only to Warsaw. I never checked if that was true.
Actually, that's pretty much how most telemarketers I've spoken with (however briefly) talk.
Yep! Sadly I had the same conversation with them over and over again until I started jacking my stereo into the receiver and playing full blast random Dead Milkmen hits or some random New York 976 porn.
TM: Vinyl siding?
Tape: Lick my feet... lick my feet with some feeling you bad slave! Do it now! Do it now!
TM: What the?!?!
Tape: No I want you to masturbate in that fresh maid apron.
TM: OH my God
Tape: Now lick it up
TM: -*-click-*-
I got "I don't know what area you are in" to "I ain't gotta phone book" and even "I thought it was 8am everywhere". Sadly I was being serious about screened phones. I nice little program that would highlight the area you are phoning would actually resolve this issue.
With a phone like this telemarketing drones could actually see the timezone they are calling rather than the current system of "how am i suppose to know it's 5am where you at".
Why risk 1.5 billion on a "rescue" mission, when there is no guarantee that some other aging system won't malfunction in another 6 months anyway?
This is an interesting question. We know we can shoot up an atlas rocket with a new telescope. And it's pretty clear this is cheaper than using NASA and one of the three shuttles. But what i'm not clear on is whether it would be more cost effective to hitch a ride on the Russian Soyuz and make repairs.
Are you saying I do not have a right to watch these? or follow them with my friends who might get them first? I will have to wait and wait months maybe a year to see them, by the time spoilers are posted everywhere? It should be illegal that they are forcing us to pirate (no I won't say theft!) these videos just to keep up with what other people are able to see. The internet is the great equalizer.
I will say it will be wise to consider world distribution rather then the current system. People like your self will just end up pirating it as was the case with Battlestar Galactica being shown first on UK's Skyone network.
Unfortunately copyright holders have no obligation to make your live easier by making sure their material gets released in your country in a timely fashion if at all. While you and I think this is farking stupid to alienate potential markets... it's their choice to be bastards. In the world of executives who can only see in short term benefits of having one group pay a premium to get it first it would be hard to convince them anything different would be in their best interest. Perhaps in a decade or they will see the wisdom in making material available globally esp since we can distribute on line.
Sounds fishy?
But it's totally unclear what a CNR service is or what these 1900 software titles are. No reference to them on the website what so ever. No idea what it costs or if it's access to an existing OSS database that they are taking the time to charge you for.
Did they forget to list it, or do they really think a notebook without a USB port would actually sell?
You can get USB for cardbus with ease. In fact they tend to be dirt cheap because any just about any system with cardbus is going to have usb. I don't know if linux would support it but hey.
I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.
Family guy
Wait Till your father gets home
I have to admit... I was first turned off from Family Guy because I found it to be very similar to "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". In fact i'm still convienced that the characters were modeled after this little known Hanna Barbera cartoon. The "why me" father figure... the brain damaged son with bad hair... the wife that puts everything into perspective... the daughter who's obsessed with losing weight... and the child/baby who's plotting for money/world domination. It grows on you and you accept the fact that it's just a very good parity of the old great family comedies like "All in the family" and "Happy Days". It makes you sit back and smile and question whether or not television has improved over the past 30 years.
I think the bill should be expanded to force AOL to pay a $.10 recycle fee for every unsolicited CD they send out.
Damn... no mod points. This should be insightful or interesting.
One of the problems with the bill that I see is the fact that the accountability for trash is on the consumer and not the producer with no obvious reward like deposit on cans/bottles. No sale and no recycle fee... but it's still trash.
While I would agree with a recycle fee on all unsolicited CDs I see it and being hard to enforce and would affect other forms of media distrubtion that I wouldn't like to see pay extra fees. A blanket media recycle tax would be more fair and reasonable as a David Hasselhoff x-mas CD is just as worthless as an AOL CD.
Besides AOL CDs can always be marked returned to sender which I presume will just get resent to some one else. There is no excuse to have them in the landfill.
Nice idea. I am working on something like that for my wine cellar.
I can see the benifit. So much faster to ping a bottle to see if it's corked or not. No more wasted trips to the cellar. You better be careful and block port 25 from you cellar... some of those Brazil wines are known spammers.
The only reason I've ever been asked for ID here in the US is if I'm using a credit card or checking transaction. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with tracking, but everything to do with making sure you are the person who OWNS said credit card or checks. Damn these conspiracy theorists are really getting wacky nowadays.
Hotels have a few forms to fill out. Paying cash usually results in the person behind the desk saying, "Oh you don't have to fill that out". Nice for me so I don't have to run out to the car to get my car license plate number. I said nothing about tracking or privacy, conspiracies or tinfoil hats. I imagine if you liked your privacy, conspiracies, and tinfoil hats you could follow the same approach. For me it's nice when i've been driving for far too long and can't focus on paperwork.
I don't know the rules on hotels whether or not they are requred by law to ask for ID and keep a valid register.
Let's get some perspective on this. Other countries are not exactly the bastion of privacy that they are made out to be on Slashdot. It is common in Europe that you need to present identification when checking into a hotel. For foreigners, they usually make a copy of your passport. This information is then kept for later use or forwarded to the police so that they can then (you guessed it) track you.
I can speak for the US. There seems to be an unwritten rule about not asking for ID if you pay cash. Not that I care one way or another I found that paying cash makes for less paperwork to fill out, very nice if you've been on the road too long. I don't know if the same rule applies to foreigners but who would know you are a foreigner unless you presented ID.
Computers do not inherently amplify the severity of a crime.
Was the crime taking the test, selling the answers, or the keyboard logger?
What about a wiretap? Wiretapping a telephone is the best analog I can think of for a non-computer related crime. It would not be unreasonable for the punishment to be equal for a computer tap as a telephone tap.
Don't get me wrong, I actually agree that getting the police involved was the result of paranoid tinfoil hat wearing foofoo heads who are so stupid they think a computer hacker could make their toilet flow backwards and it's likely that this person's interest would be best served by being expelled then going to an alternative school filled with criminals, druggies, and other misc hoods. I even agree that the use of a computer should not inherently amplfy the severity of a crime. I do however feel that the level of severity should be no more or less than that of a wiretap should law enforcement be involved.
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If Windows were properly locked down (ala User rights for students) then Windows wouldn't be able to properly detect and use said hardware device.
Windows does not complain when I swap out any keyboard on the PS/2 port. Whether I use a Microsoft Natural Pro... an old compaq, modern logitech wireless, or even old IBM 101 keyboard that many users are very fond of.
USB is a different story. I can not boot to windows and attach a ps/2 keyboard on the fly. I can hookup a USB keyboard on the fly and it will detect and use it.
I'm sure you could lock out users from installing a different USB keyboard but there is no way to prevent someone from hooking any keyboard and plugging in a dongle and using the same damn keyboard. It's not a device that requires windows drivers and is... if designed correctly... transparent to the PC.
I.e. windows can't tell the difference.
IMHO they should fire whom ever is in charge of network security. They OBVIOUSLY did not perform their job. If a student was able to install a key logger, the computer wasn't secure
They should fire who ever didn't secure the keyboard connector to the PC?
What do you recommend to secure a keyboard connector? JB Weld? Krazy Glue?
Seriously. Did he think that the teacher wouldn't notice a DONGLE that was added to the computer?
From what I understand FTFA the teacher didn't notice but rather police were informed the kid was selling the answers to tests. It's also pretty clear the kid took it home which means no one noticed it. I.e. it's not the dongle that gave him away but rather someone who ratted him out, likely someone who he tried selling test answers to.
A trojan-type logger would likely have less covert as unless you take the time to remove it will still be on the system. A dongle forces you to take the evidence with you leaving no trace of anything installed on the system. Sure it's not as elite but it does get the job done.
You misspelled "iPod."
:P.
Actually... iPods don't have FM radios
Back in the good-ole days of VHS fansubbing in the 1980s, that was an unlikely event. But today, if an anime has any substantial appeal to Americans, it'll certainly get an international DVD release inside of two years. (Indeed, anime companies are making the USA market a critical part of their business plans. Some anime, like Big-O, has been renewed for new episodes solely on the strength of USA viewership)
So... in order expand the market of anime there must be an existing viewer base before it's released in order to justify the expence of making DVDs. In other words there must be people already watching unreleased material in a country to help make it popular in that country in order to get it in that country.
To me it sounds like they either need to market this material in a new way... for example sub one episode of each series and release a disc in order to get an idea what is desire... or depend on subpirates.
Are you going to wander around with a speaker in your hand?
I heard the walkman is a pretty popular item.
I can imagine the face of a kid clerk getting handed a 2$ or even 1$ bill... ;-)
I get told that I should keep 'em my self. During the Expo '86 in Vancover many tourists tossed their money in the street after leaving. Either they didn't understand that this script was legal tender or perhaps they were going back to the states and knew how much of a pain it is to exchange. Needless to say I collected a a bit of the paper $1s and $2s that I run across in odd places.
It *is* here. LightScribe is standard on all new HP desktops. Holla.
:P
Show me the DVD+/-Rs