Judging by the window decoration and ugly fonts, you're using Windows:) Windows tends to pick up programs called "ad-ware" and "spyware" that do things like modify images in web browsers. Try running spybot...
Either that or Taco's been porn-surfin' on the servers. That's why we always get that "500 Internal Error"...
No matter how much I may disagree with or not like the broadcast flag, part of my job is doing those tasks assigned to me, and should I be told to do so, I will. I may not like it or be happy doing it, but it is my job.
I totally agree with you. In fact, I just wrote a little essay about this (and other things about IT jobs)
1. The GP used the term "insult". Would you like me to call you a "selfish, elitist prick"? No? That was the GP's point.
2 True. But you have to admit... there's a lot of low-quality (in terms of musical talent, etc.) music at WalMart. But a lot of people like that stuff.
I get my music from iTMS. Convienient, inexpensive, simple.
I haven't seen any, but that's a good point. Apple has good software, but if it's broken you can't fix it. That does bother me a bit (like iCal has some minor brokenness that I could fix in about 30 seconds if I had the code.)
Then why are intelligence agencies taking pictures of me? "Don't take my picture, but please submit to me when I take yours." That's fair.
Obey, citizen, obey. We're only here to help.
Besides, we had no proof that they were undercover agents until the governments blabbed about it.
Gov't: "Take down the pictures of undercover agents." "Criminals": "What, they're undercover agents? We didn't know that but now we do. Boys, dispatch the gunmen!"
Good work guys. (Frankly I hope all the undercover agents get shot at now, they don't personally deserve it but that's just the risk of doing the job. What goes around comes around.)
Good. Now we can have store-owners setup scanners in the doors of their stores. 239487239847 came in and robbed us.
Then the police will setup scanners in the surrounding area. Looks like 239487239847 is buying a coffee! Nab him, boys!
Oh but it turned out that the scanner that the store-owner bought was slightly faulty, and it wasn't really 239487239847 that robbed the store. Good luck arguing that in court.
I think I will pass on this. You can implant a tag into my cold, dead body.
I agree with you. All the posts above mine (in reply to yours) seem to think iTunes + iPod sucks, but they are very uneducated.
If I listen to an audiobook on my computer for a bit, then sync with my ipod, the ipod resumes where I left off. When I get back to my computer and sync, the bookmark (on the computer) is right where it was when I was listening to it on the iPod. Perfect integration.
If I change the per-song EQ setting in iTunes, it is reflected on the iPod.
The song count, last-played timestamp, etc. are all synchronized between iTunes and the iPod.
Soundcheck works on both iTunes and the iPod.
(need I mention the iTMS?)
All of these things make the iTunes + iPod combination perfect. Everything that the iPod does, iTunes does. Everything iTunes does, the iPod does. It even syncs with iCal and Address Book, too.
That is why the iPod has not been killed by some "iRiver" (how did they get away with that name!?) or Sony ATRAC3 player. Nobody else has paid attention the software, all they pay attention to is bullet-points (0.3 megapixel camera! yay! that's just what my music player needed!) and names like "iPod killer".
I like firefox on Linux (and XP), but I hate the mac version. Mostly because I can't middle-click links to open them in a new tab! Safari lets me do this. (Oh the irony, the vendor that ships with a one-button mouse has better multi-button support than a program originally designed to run on X11, a platform that has had three-button mice forever!)
I also like PithHelmet better than AdBlock.
Safari is my choice browser on OSX because it blends in with the rest of my apps. It looks the same as iTunes and iCal and iEverythingElse (Mail.app seems to stick out like a sore thumb, though.)
Also, firefox has this weird pseudo-window that only shows itself when Exposé is activated. What is with that...
Libpng had the ability to run arbitrary code a few versions ago. Make a nice png signature on those sites that let you and you could root everyone that read your posts!
That's why I always pay PayPal with my credit card. Something goes wrong? *chargeback* Done. It's against their ToS, but they can lick my balls. It's my money and I'm not going to cry if they're not allowed to steal it.
Exactly what I was thinking. Where are the technical specs for this system? Oh, there aren't any because it's impossible unless there's some support for it in the phone.
What we "need", is a phone that will switch into vibrate mode when it detects a signal. Easy.
I am actually one who is not bothered by phones ringing. It's like coughing or sneezing. Yeah it's disruptive, but it doesn't really distract me from anything. Cell phone goes off in class. Okay, three seconds later it's off and we can continue. Big deal. Sometimes, people need to communicate with each other (and still be in class). It's part of the über-high-tech-life. (or something:)
Well. Say you list an item today. Nobody bids on it because you only take paypal and they know paypal doesn't work. Your auction ends with no bids. You are out the auction fee. Paypal comes back on-line, and you relist. You then finally sell your item.
You lost the original listing fee, and interest in the bank. There was a loss (albeit small).
Hmm, maybe you should rethink this, or at least tell me what you think in this case. I really like Apple computers. I have an Apple shirt ("Think Different!"), and I often tell people about the good points of Apple computers. I may even go so far as to convince them to buy a Powerbook instead of a Dell laptop.
Is my opinion less credible because the Apple logo is on my shirt? Or is it more credible because some corporate entity has excited me so much about their products that I use my body as an advertisement for them?
(I also have a Linux t-shirt, and try to convince people to use Linux.)
It is a slippery slope. First you decide you don't want us looking at child porn. Then it's regular porn. Then it's anime that might contain nudity. Then it's all anime. Then it's cartoons. Then it's DVDs from Asia. Then it's all DVDs. Then it's movies. Then it's TV. Then it's radio. Then it's newspapers. Then it's freedom of speech.
Welcome to the Police State, zoloto.
Look, I can see the logic behind outlawing child porn. I don't really agree with it being illegal. Abusing children, that's illegal. Downloading a picture of it, I don't see anything wrong with that. Note that I never intend to do that myself, but it's not my job to tell other people what's right and wrong. If you want to look at 17-year-olds fuck, great. I don't really care. I do care that people try to take away the rights of my fellow man, though.
Outlawing regular porn, porn made by consenting ADULTS, is the first step on a very slippery slope. When you tell adults what they can and cannot see, you are taking away a very important right. When you take away one thing, it only gets easier to take more. Slippery slope.
Prove it. You can speculate all you want, but you don't have any proof. Exactly how many more dollars do I pay for my milk than I would if there was a TV tax.
I can prove that not paying the TV tax saves me 110 (or whatever) pounds a year.
Why do I have to pay for each location in which I want to watch TV? Why do hotels have to pay to provide TVs? Why do I have to prove that I am using the TV in a non-chargeable way (CCTV monitoring, or something). Why am I guilty until proven innocent!? Why do I have to pay the TV Detector van crews? I mean, seriously. TV Detector Van! It's 1984, twenty years late!
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Judging by the window decoration and ugly fonts, you're using Windows :) Windows tends to pick up programs called "ad-ware" and "spyware" that do things like modify images in web browsers. Try running spybot...
Either that or Taco's been porn-surfin' on the servers. That's why we always get that "500 Internal Error"...
No matter how much I may disagree with or not like the broadcast flag, part of my job is doing those tasks assigned to me, and should I be told to do so, I will. I may not like it or be happy doing it, but it is my job.
I totally agree with you. In fact, I just wrote a little essay about this (and other things about IT jobs)
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1. The GP used the term "insult". Would you like me to call you a "selfish, elitist prick"? No? That was the GP's point.
2 True. But you have to admit... there's a lot of low-quality (in terms of musical talent, etc.) music at WalMart. But a lot of people like that stuff.
I get my music from iTMS. Convienient, inexpensive, simple.
I haven't seen any, but that's a good point. Apple has good software, but if it's broken you can't fix it. That does bother me a bit (like iCal has some minor brokenness that I could fix in about 30 seconds if I had the code.)
Are they saying that if I sent slashdot this letter that slashdot would have to immediately take themselves off-line? What?
Dear slashdot.
I do not like this site. Please take it down immediately.
Sincerely,
Dewey Cheetam & Howe Law Firm
Umm, did HE dial the number? No. I don't see anything wrong with that other than that such moronic people are teaching our children :)
Then why are intelligence agencies taking pictures of me? "Don't take my picture, but please submit to me when I take yours." That's fair.
Obey, citizen, obey. We're only here to help.
Besides, we had no proof that they were undercover agents until the governments blabbed about it.
Gov't: "Take down the pictures of undercover agents."
"Criminals": "What, they're undercover agents? We didn't know that but now we do. Boys, dispatch the gunmen!"
Good work guys. (Frankly I hope all the undercover agents get shot at now, they don't personally deserve it but that's just the risk of doing the job. What goes around comes around.)
No that's the US. In Soviet Russia, a chip implants the government in you!!
Good. Now we can have store-owners setup scanners in the doors of their stores. 239487239847 came in and robbed us.
Then the police will setup scanners in the surrounding area. Looks like 239487239847 is buying a coffee! Nab him, boys!
Oh but it turned out that the scanner that the store-owner bought was slightly faulty, and it wasn't really 239487239847 that robbed the store. Good luck arguing that in court.
I think I will pass on this. You can implant a tag into my cold, dead body.
iTunes crashed on you? Go try it on a real computer (a Mac) and see what happens?
:)
Ohh, it works perfectly and makes you smile. That's why there's no iPod killer yet
I agree with you. All the posts above mine (in reply to yours) seem to think iTunes + iPod sucks, but they are very uneducated.
If I listen to an audiobook on my computer for a bit, then sync with my ipod, the ipod resumes where I left off. When I get back to my computer and sync, the bookmark (on the computer) is right where it was when I was listening to it on the iPod. Perfect integration.
If I change the per-song EQ setting in iTunes, it is reflected on the iPod.
The song count, last-played timestamp, etc. are all synchronized between iTunes and the iPod.
Soundcheck works on both iTunes and the iPod.
(need I mention the iTMS?)
All of these things make the iTunes + iPod combination perfect. Everything that the iPod does, iTunes does. Everything iTunes does, the iPod does. It even syncs with iCal and Address Book, too.
That is why the iPod has not been killed by some "iRiver" (how did they get away with that name!?) or Sony ATRAC3 player. Nobody else has paid attention the software, all they pay attention to is bullet-points (0.3 megapixel camera! yay! that's just what my music player needed!) and names like "iPod killer".
You are the dumbest troll ever to post to slashdot. You can't get iTunes to work with your iPod? You must be a cretin.
I like firefox on Linux (and XP), but I hate the mac version. Mostly because I can't middle-click links to open them in a new tab! Safari lets me do this. (Oh the irony, the vendor that ships with a one-button mouse has better multi-button support than a program originally designed to run on X11, a platform that has had three-button mice forever!)
I also like PithHelmet better than AdBlock.
Safari is my choice browser on OSX because it blends in with the rest of my apps. It looks the same as iTunes and iCal and iEverythingElse (Mail.app seems to stick out like a sore thumb, though.)
Also, firefox has this weird pseudo-window that only shows itself when Exposé is activated. What is with that...
And here's the Windows XP equivalent:
OMFGWTFBBQ! Would you like some After-
Illegal memory access at 0x0000000
Driver status: STOP
Press SPACE to reboot.
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.
Press any key to reboot.
Libpng had the ability to run arbitrary code a few versions ago. Make a nice png signature on those sites that let you and you could root everyone that read your posts!
That's why I always pay PayPal with my credit card. Something goes wrong? *chargeback* Done. It's against their ToS, but they can lick my balls. It's my money and I'm not going to cry if they're not allowed to steal it.
:-)
They can sue me for all $200 I possess.
Exactly what I was thinking. Where are the technical specs for this system? Oh, there aren't any because it's impossible unless there's some support for it in the phone.
:)
What we "need", is a phone that will switch into vibrate mode when it detects a signal. Easy.
I am actually one who is not bothered by phones ringing. It's like coughing or sneezing. Yeah it's disruptive, but it doesn't really distract me from anything. Cell phone goes off in class. Okay, three seconds later it's off and we can continue. Big deal. Sometimes, people need to communicate with each other (and still be in class). It's part of the über-high-tech-life. (or something
Exactly what I'm going to do. I might even open it at the same bank, to ease funds transfers.
Can't they drain your linked account too, if they feel like it? I think the ToS says they can.
Well. Say you list an item today. Nobody bids on it because you only take paypal and they know paypal doesn't work. Your auction ends with no bids. You are out the auction fee. Paypal comes back on-line, and you relist. You then finally sell your item.
You lost the original listing fee, and interest in the bank. There was a loss (albeit small).
At least they shut it down before it hurt something!
Hmm, maybe you should rethink this, or at least tell me what you think in this case. I really like Apple computers. I have an Apple shirt ("Think Different!"), and I often tell people about the good points of Apple computers. I may even go so far as to convince them to buy a Powerbook instead of a Dell laptop.
Is my opinion less credible because the Apple logo is on my shirt? Or is it more credible because some corporate entity has excited me so much about their products that I use my body as an advertisement for them?
(I also have a Linux t-shirt, and try to convince people to use Linux.)
It is a slippery slope. First you decide you don't want us looking at child porn. Then it's regular porn. Then it's anime that might contain nudity. Then it's all anime. Then it's cartoons. Then it's DVDs from Asia. Then it's all DVDs. Then it's movies. Then it's TV. Then it's radio. Then it's newspapers. Then it's freedom of speech.
Welcome to the Police State, zoloto.
Look, I can see the logic behind outlawing child porn. I don't really agree with it being illegal. Abusing children, that's illegal. Downloading a picture of it, I don't see anything wrong with that. Note that I never intend to do that myself, but it's not my job to tell other people what's right and wrong. If you want to look at 17-year-olds fuck, great. I don't really care. I do care that people try to take away the rights of my fellow man, though.
Outlawing regular porn, porn made by consenting ADULTS, is the first step on a very slippery slope. When you tell adults what they can and cannot see, you are taking away a very important right. When you take away one thing, it only gets easier to take more. Slippery slope.
Prove it. You can speculate all you want, but you don't have any proof. Exactly how many more dollars do I pay for my milk than I would if there was a TV tax.
I can prove that not paying the TV tax saves me 110 (or whatever) pounds a year.
Then put it in my tax bill.
Why do I have to pay for each location in which I want to watch TV? Why do hotels have to pay to provide TVs? Why do I have to prove that I am using the TV in a non-chargeable way (CCTV monitoring, or something). Why am I guilty until proven innocent!? Why do I have to pay the TV Detector van crews? I mean, seriously. TV Detector Van! It's 1984, twenty years late!