Everyone uses it becasue it is a unique number that everyone has. That is why it became the defacto number to use to ID a person. Only in the last few years did they realize that it was bad. Shoot, my Bank uses SSN for your login ID for its Online Banking. I have old paperwork from the Army that has pages of SSN numbers. It was written on letters sent to me, etc. A few months ago I was asked by a utility comapny for my SSN, I told them no and why do they need it. They said we just need an identifying info, I can also take you drivers license number. Why did they not ask that in the first place.
I find that most "Old Dogs" do not really fully use their computers. They know the few tasks it takes to do their thing and that is all. I would say that out of my company, a Bank, 80% have no computer skills. They know how to launch their one app they use daily and how to use it. The desktop admin put shortcuts on there desktops for everything since most of them don't even know how to use the start menu.
So for the Business Power Users would be the most problem. They know stuff like Word and Excel inside and out. They would have to relearn all this stuff. Others, computer stupid and computer expets alike would have no problem learning a new office suite.
The computer stupid can relearn the 3 tasks they know and the computer experts can pick it up quickly.
I remember hearing that a reusable spacecraft, like the shuttle is only worth the cost IF it is used often, like every month. Over the last decade they have only been doing a few launches a year. Wiht that disposable rockets would have been cheaper.
I am all for seperate ships for cargo and humans. Have a supersafe launch ship to just carry the people, then have a big fat rocket to launch the payload.
This happened to me. I like Debians ideology but apt-get bit me too many times and I hated using software that was very old. Gentoo is working fine for me now
I once heard bad sectors on hard drives was "normal" too and the sectors are just maked not to be used. Something to do with the platter being hard to make wihtout any inperfections.
I heard once too that a lot of LCDs fail during the manufacture process and that is why they were so expensive.
I think it is BS to sell something with even one dead pixel. Is LCD design just flawed?
Does anyone know if OLED will be better. LCD should be out soon and replaced by OLED so I would hate to see a new technology come in and still be plagued by something like dead pixels.
You can get anything under the sun in binary newsgroups, easier then P2P. So why don't they block port 119? It is because these new fangled P2P apps are the hot new item I guess. Just shows how uneducated these people are. Same people that thing IM and chatting is new. They have no clue about IRC.
Everyon always whines about how kids are getting dumber, etc. It is all BS. I am 30 years old, basically failed my way thru school. Probally had a 2.0 oe less GPA. I now make over $70,000 a year working at a bank doing the Online Banking, Security and other websites. I had no collage. We had a entry level college grade just start, he makes $30,000 and sets up peoples preinters. Real good his expensive college education did him.
Weh nI was in grade school, my first homework was in 4th grade. I took algebra in my Senior year... and failed it. My kids take algebra in Jr.High now. They have 4 times more homework then me.
So the kids are not getting dumber, they are making the classes harder and harder.
For me it was because I do not learn by reading books and being lectured too, I learn by tearing it apart and puting it back together. The reason computers and programming come so naturally to me. AlthoughI do suck at programming, but I understand how they work and I get paid for my problem solving and off beat thinking.
School keeps getting harder and we are blaming the kids. they brains are no more evolved then someone of $1000 years ago. So how can they be expected to learn more. Also since no one learns the same kids like who I was get shit on, but now i laugh my ass off when I see my smart college going school mates putting tires on my sports car.
I have to agree. If you are stupid enough to fall for it, you deserve it. Just like seat belt laws. I wear my selt belt so I do not get killed. The law protected people who are too stupid to wear it on their own.
Funny.... Friends and Family are heavily infested everytime I visit. Install Firefox and Mike's Ad Blocking Host File and guess what, no more spyware. The best solution is prevention.
Nickelodeon has been doing this for a while. all there shows are way off. They have a block of 3-4 hours where shows are just lumped in with hosts that talk between the shows.
I watched TV last night wihtout a PVR and it was horrible. At this point I would rather not pay the $60+ per month for TV and simply download my favorite 2 shows.
Because their stuff sucks. Also their name sucks. I will not buy somethingif the name sucks. I would rather have a Sony or Panasonic TV then a Magnavox TV, yuck!!
I remeber a few years ago in Microsoft's Antitrust lawsuit they stated that they could not remove Internet Explorer and other things as it would make the OS unstable as they were built-in.
Now they are offereing XP Embedded and stripped down versions to other countries.
This sounds like perjury to me. They lied to the courts becasue they are doing exactly what they said was impossable. I just don't get it.
I am a IE to Firefox convert (back in the day I was a Netscape to IE convert) but I wish I could remove or totally disable IE. I would love to type in a URL in a window and have it launch Firefox instead of becoming IE and viewing the page that way.
47% of statistics are made up on the fly. I would have to agree with some others that and OEM copy of windows adds like $30 to the cost of a computer, if you can even get it without Windows.
At my comapny we have 2 mail servers that came with Windows 2000 Server and they ran bad, the same mail server vendor make a Linux Appliance. Pop in the CD, it formats the drive and installed a stripped down RedHat install. It runs 4 times faster. We simply ate it on the Windows licenses. More free money to Microsoft.
I almost always go to Matinees which are about $5.50 right now. So me and my kids comes to $16.50. Parking is free and I do not waste the money on the theater snack items. I am there to see the movie on a huge screen wiht surround sound, not eat overpriced junk.
I do have about 30 DVDs but I stoppped buying them, unless it is something like The Lord of the Rings uber special edition, or Lexx first season which I had to buy in Canada. I simply have a netflix account and rent them. I rarely watch a movie more then once or twice. If it is a classic like Office Space then I buy it, but otherwise I just rent and wait a few days.
So overall. I go to the theater for big movies where the screen and sound will have an impact. You lose so much on the puny 27" screen.
No they know nothing of security. I know their ATMs well and they are piles of junk. It makes me sick to see the gapping open wounds we use to get money with.
You know there are more then two political parties.
I am sure the Democrats and Republicicans would love a machine with two buttons so they can keep their monopoly on telling us how to run our lives. Cause you know what, they are both exactly the same.
I would have to agree with Parent. I see absolutly no point in gift-cards. The retailers push them because they make money on them since they charge a monthly fee or the card goes unused. Then they say a gift card if different then a gift certificate so they can charge those fees. That is kinda like saying a mini-van is not a passenger car so it can pass bad crash tests.
I for one laugh!!! HAHAHA Gift cards are lame, anyone who buys them deserves this.
I still get them due to the loopholes. Mainly the "survey" loophole. They call me and say, "I would like to ask you a few questions about your long distance service". I hang up by thge time they get to "ask. I also love the "polition" loophole. They keep making laws but exempt themselves. They are not above the law.
Actually I never really found them to be a big problem for me, I would udually play with them, keeping them on as long as possible wating there money. I do the same for junk mail. I stuff the postage paid envolopes with junk, costing them money. Oh fun hobbies.
I have been holding off on buying a new computer for almost a year now. Waiting for a few key items to fall into place. My current rig is a Athlon 1.4ghz, 512ddr, 40gb c:, 200gb d:, Geforce 4Ti. This has worked well for me for almost 3 years now. I really see no need to upgrade except to run games at higher resolution.
My wish list is: DDR2 Gigabit Ethernet 3.0 Ghz Intel (I dig hyper theading) SATA2
SATA2 can do Command Queueing to speed up data retrival. This is a big thing for me as I see this new rig will last me till 2008. When I do upgrade my hard drive in a year or so I can get a 10,000rpm SATA2 drive.
Does anyone know any details is 915 or 925 will have SATA2?
Exactly. I am confused by all this. I remember back in the day the NSF ran the Internet. They contracted an outside vendor, Network Solutions, to run the database of somina names. Very common practice for goverment stuff.
Later ICANN was created to take over the Internet from NSF. Versign bought Network Solutions. Differnt people, same situation. ICANN runs the Internet and contracts out to Verisign to run the database. I figure somewhere they is a contract that says what they can and cannot do.
ICANN needs to actually do something like revoke Verisigns contract. Get a new company and say "we want XYZ, nothing more nothing less" "for your trouble you can charge what ever you want for people to register domain names".
I started to take the survey, it is like 20 minutes long. I hate long surveys. Oh well. They seem to ask the same questiosn over and over and ask questions where I say "i dunno" and I just guess. Making the survey totally useless.
Hey that is an idea. 10kg worth of No Trespassing signs. Its a win-win situation. I am sure a few would survive the crash. For $6mil I hope then can land it on my plot of land.
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Everyone uses it becasue it is a unique number that everyone has. That is why it became the defacto number to use to ID a person. Only in the last few years did they realize that it was bad. Shoot, my Bank uses SSN for your login ID for its Online Banking. I have old paperwork from the Army that has pages of SSN numbers. It was written on letters sent to me, etc. A few months ago I was asked by a utility comapny for my SSN, I told them no and why do they need it. They said we just need an identifying info, I can also take you drivers license number. Why did they not ask that in the first place.
I find that most "Old Dogs" do not really fully use their computers. They know the few tasks it takes to do their thing and that is all. I would say that out of my company, a Bank, 80% have no computer skills. They know how to launch their one app they use daily and how to use it. The desktop admin put shortcuts on there desktops for everything since most of them don't even know how to use the start menu.
So for the Business Power Users would be the most problem. They know stuff like Word and Excel inside and out. They would have to relearn all this stuff. Others, computer stupid and computer expets alike would have no problem learning a new office suite.
The computer stupid can relearn the 3 tasks they know and the computer experts can pick it up quickly.
I remember hearing that a reusable spacecraft, like the shuttle is only worth the cost IF it is used often, like every month. Over the last decade they have only been doing a few launches a year. Wiht that disposable rockets would have been cheaper.
I am all for seperate ships for cargo and humans. Have a supersafe launch ship to just carry the people, then have a big fat rocket to launch the payload.
This happened to me. I like Debians ideology but apt-get bit me too many times and I hated using software that was very old. Gentoo is working fine for me now
I once heard bad sectors on hard drives was "normal" too and the sectors are just maked not to be used. Something to do with the platter being hard to make wihtout any inperfections.
I heard once too that a lot of LCDs fail during the manufacture process and that is why they were so expensive.
I think it is BS to sell something with even one dead pixel. Is LCD design just flawed?
Does anyone know if OLED will be better. LCD should be out soon and replaced by OLED so I would hate to see a new technology come in and still be plagued by something like dead pixels.
You can get anything under the sun in binary newsgroups, easier then P2P. So why don't they block port 119? It is because these new fangled P2P apps are the hot new item I guess. Just shows how uneducated these people are. Same people that thing IM and chatting is new. They have no clue about IRC.
Everyon always whines about how kids are getting dumber, etc. It is all BS. I am 30 years old, basically failed my way thru school. Probally had a 2.0 oe less GPA. I now make over $70,000 a year working at a bank doing the Online Banking, Security and other websites. I had no collage. We had a entry level college grade just start, he makes $30,000 and sets up peoples preinters. Real good his expensive college education did him.
Weh nI was in grade school, my first homework was in 4th grade. I took algebra in my Senior year... and failed it. My kids take algebra in Jr.High now. They have 4 times more homework then me.
So the kids are not getting dumber, they are making the classes harder and harder.
For me it was because I do not learn by reading books and being lectured too, I learn by tearing it apart and puting it back together. The reason computers and programming come so naturally to me. AlthoughI do suck at programming, but I understand how they work and I get paid for my problem solving and off beat thinking.
School keeps getting harder and we are blaming the kids. they brains are no more evolved then someone of $1000 years ago. So how can they be expected to learn more. Also since no one learns the same kids like who I was get shit on, but now i laugh my ass off when I see my smart college going school mates putting tires on my sports car.
I have to agree. If you are stupid enough to fall for it, you deserve it. Just like seat belt laws. I wear my selt belt so I do not get killed. The law protected people who are too stupid to wear it on their own.
Funny.... Friends and Family are heavily infested everytime I visit. Install Firefox and Mike's Ad Blocking Host File and guess what, no more spyware. The best solution is prevention.
Nickelodeon has been doing this for a while. all there shows are way off. They have a block of 3-4 hours where shows are just lumped in with hosts that talk between the shows.
I watched TV last night wihtout a PVR and it was horrible. At this point I would rather not pay the $60+ per month for TV and simply download my favorite 2 shows.
I thought Evil Dead 2 was a remake of Evil Dead?
Because their stuff sucks. Also their name sucks. I will not buy somethingif the name sucks. I would rather have a Sony or Panasonic TV then a Magnavox TV, yuck!!
I remeber a few years ago in Microsoft's Antitrust lawsuit they stated that they could not remove Internet Explorer and other things as it would make the OS unstable as they were built-in.
Now they are offereing XP Embedded and stripped down versions to other countries.
This sounds like perjury to me. They lied to the courts becasue they are doing exactly what they said was impossable. I just don't get it.
I am a IE to Firefox convert (back in the day I was a Netscape to IE convert) but I wish I could remove or totally disable IE. I would love to type in a URL in a window and have it launch Firefox instead of becoming IE and viewing the page that way.
47% of statistics are made up on the fly. I would have to agree with some others that and OEM copy of windows adds like $30 to the cost of a computer, if you can even get it without Windows.
At my comapny we have 2 mail servers that came with Windows 2000 Server and they ran bad, the same mail server vendor make a Linux Appliance. Pop in the CD, it formats the drive and installed a stripped down RedHat install. It runs 4 times faster. We simply ate it on the Windows licenses. More free money to Microsoft.
I almost always go to Matinees which are about $5.50 right now. So me and my kids comes to $16.50. Parking is free and I do not waste the money on the theater snack items. I am there to see the movie on a huge screen wiht surround sound, not eat overpriced junk.
I do have about 30 DVDs but I stoppped buying them, unless it is something like The Lord of the Rings uber special edition, or Lexx first season which I had to buy in Canada. I simply have a netflix account and rent them. I rarely watch a movie more then once or twice. If it is a classic like Office Space then I buy it, but otherwise I just rent and wait a few days.
So overall. I go to the theater for big movies where the screen and sound will have an impact. You lose so much on the puny 27" screen.
WinSCP does it and it is free.
No they know nothing of security. I know their ATMs well and they are piles of junk. It makes me sick to see the gapping open wounds we use to get money with.
Why only two buttons?
You know there are more then two political parties.
I am sure the Democrats and Republicicans would love a machine with two buttons so they can keep their monopoly on telling us how to run our lives. Cause you know what, they are both exactly the same.
I would have to agree with Parent. I see absolutly no point in gift-cards. The retailers push them because they make money on them since they charge a monthly fee or the card goes unused. Then they say a gift card if different then a gift certificate so they can charge those fees. That is kinda like saying a mini-van is not a passenger car so it can pass bad crash tests.
I for one laugh!!! HAHAHA Gift cards are lame, anyone who buys them deserves this.
I still get them due to the loopholes. Mainly the "survey" loophole. They call me and say, "I would like to ask you a few questions about your long distance service". I hang up by thge time they get to "ask. I also love the "polition" loophole. They keep making laws but exempt themselves. They are not above the law.
Actually I never really found them to be a big problem for me, I would udually play with them, keeping them on as long as possible wating there money. I do the same for junk mail. I stuff the postage paid envolopes with junk, costing them money. Oh fun hobbies.
"More interesting is that he predicted the Y2K bug all the way back in 1971"
.. All banks knew about the bug then too because when they calculated 30 year mortgages they did not calculate correctly.
B.S.
I have been holding off on buying a new computer for almost a year now. Waiting for a few key items to fall into place. My current rig is a Athlon 1.4ghz, 512ddr, 40gb c:, 200gb d:, Geforce 4Ti. This has worked well for me for almost 3 years now. I really see no need to upgrade except to run games at higher resolution.
My wish list is:
DDR2
Gigabit Ethernet
3.0 Ghz Intel (I dig hyper theading)
SATA2
SATA2 can do Command Queueing to speed up data retrival. This is a big thing for me as I see this new rig will last me till 2008. When I do upgrade my hard drive in a year or so I can get a 10,000rpm SATA2 drive.
Does anyone know any details is 915 or 925 will have SATA2?
Exactly. I am confused by all this. I remember back in the day the NSF ran the Internet. They contracted an outside vendor, Network Solutions, to run the database of somina names. Very common practice for goverment stuff.
Later ICANN was created to take over the Internet from NSF. Versign bought Network Solutions. Differnt people, same situation. ICANN runs the Internet and contracts out to Verisign to run the database. I figure somewhere they is a contract that says what they can and cannot do.
ICANN needs to actually do something like revoke Verisigns contract. Get a new company and say "we want XYZ, nothing more nothing less" "for your trouble you can charge what ever you want for people to register domain names".
Plain and simple, I just don't get it.
I started to take the survey, it is like 20 minutes long. I hate long surveys. Oh well. They seem to ask the same questiosn over and over and ask questions where I say "i dunno" and I just guess. Making the survey totally useless.
Hey that is an idea. 10kg worth of No Trespassing signs. Its a win-win situation. I am sure a few would survive the crash. For $6mil I hope then can land it on my plot of land.