I get maybe 20-40 hunks of spam a day, and 90% of them go right into Mr. Spamfolder. It's up a bit recently I think because of some recent online purchases, but what can you do.
Well, you could try doing something... or rather, anything other than your current method. That's the primary point of this discussion, after all.
For various registrations, I simply create aliases to my mail account that are specific to each new vendor so I can keep track of the origins of most spam that hits my server. That allows me to respond accordingly, and it's a thirty-second solution (which would be faster if I were a faster typist, alas). But of course, I control my own mail server.
A previous employer offered to change my title from "Manager, Systems Integration" to "God of Information." An earlier boss wanted my title to be "Deputy Minister of Pain" (when I was Assistant Network Manager), but then, he'd always fancied himself a BOFH.
...which, in IBM terminology, means "Delivery Project Executive," yet another title that — on its face — doesn't necessarily mean anything in particular.
My official job title conveniently breaks down to an eight-letter acronym (or more accurately, an eight-letter series of three separate acronyms).
If you truly believe that the term, "system operator," is obsolete, perhaps it's because you've simply not been exposed to the breadth of technologies currently in use at the enterprise level and the varying levels of skill required to maintain them. For example, when I make a call to have tapes relocated from one library to another, it's not to someone who's at all qualified to do very much more than that in the datacenter.
Mine is approximately six years old and is still under development (my house doesn't appear on Google Maps, which instead shows a series of empty lots mixed with new construction), but casual observation tells me that by design, every house in my cookie-cutter subdivision has at least one tree in front. There happen to be three in front of mine due to its specific position on the block.
Hey, it's purely anecdotal evidence, but then, so is yours.
guess/hope most people would find the idea of Peary patenting the very process of reaching a pole rather silly
...and it would indeed be rather silly, had he not invented any new and novel means to achieve that particular end. Your failure to see the difference between the circumstances presented in your exceptionally obtuse analogy (there existed prior art for numerous forms of self-sustained human ambulatory movement, as well as other basic and elaborate forms of geographic transport) and reality is a reflection not of a general failure in the system, but of your lack of understanding of that system.
The first team to reach either pole by means of a teleportation device that they invented has a very good chance of acquiring a valid patent on the process.
You can get a 7200 rpm drive, its not a standard but its an option.
It's no longer listed as an option for the 15.4" model, unfortunately. That's a shame, really, as my Shiny-New-Thing envy quickly fizzled when I realized that the MacBook Pro on my lap has better disk performance than the new one I'd want. Even with 3GB RAM, Photoshop would still need to use a scratch disk, and 5400 RPM simply won't cut it. The 17" model is more bulk than I want to carry.
Yes, I could swap it out with the drive in my current one, but that would decrease the resale value of the system I'd no longer need. Alternatively, I could purchase a new drive from another retailer and... throw away money on a drive I won't use, with a resale value that really doesn't make it worth the effort to sell.
The real strawman is when people say they support someone's Rights, but only if those Rights agree with their own ideals.
You'll find that it's very rare for people who claim to be great lovers of freedom to actually bear that conviction far beyond endorsing your freedom to agree with and act in accordance with their very specific points of view.
Also lately I can hardly make it go higher than 70.0 MB, and I use flash to watch youtube and play games.
My anecdotal evidence trumps your anecdotal evidence. I'm using Firefox 2.0 RC3 (with Adblock 0.5.3.043, Talkback 2.0, Flash, and Adobe Reader; I don't keep it loaded down) on WinXP Pro to create this particular post, it's only been running for approximately three hours with intermittent use, and it's already up to 99,756KB of system memory. What's worse, browser.cache.memory.capacity is still hard-coded to 16384.
I only really resent it passing 250MB when it's time to wake this laptop from hibernation, so I routinely shut Firefox down before putting this computer down for the night. Yes, I had that same problem with 1.5.x and even 2.0 RC2, as recently as last night.
Pine is still my preferred mail user agent, actually, and Eudora used to be my favorite alternative (until my beloved NeXT Mail app, which had become somewhat inconvenient to use, came bundled with a newer, more viable version of its host OS).
My employer, however, prefers the use of Lotus Notes... probably because they own that company.
"I recently read a survey that said that 30-40 percent of Americans get their news from late night comedy shows, and I just want to say one thing to those people... DON'T DO THAT! WE MAKE THINGS UP! WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING!"
Despite having changed the browser.cache.memory.capacity setting on Firefox 1.5.0.7 — running only Talkback 1.5.0.7 and Adblock 0.5.3.042 — to 16MB (half of the automatic default for 1GB RAM) on the XP Pro-equipped employer-issued ThinkPad, I only have to leave the app open for a couple of days before it hits 300MB, and it never stops there. Because of this behavior, I now close Firefox prior to directing the ThinkPad to hibernate for the night, unless I happen to experience some masochistic desire to wait for its disk to thrash about for an excessive duration upon waking.
This is not at all convenient, but 1) it's still far better than using IE, and 2) for no real, quantifiable reason, I prefer Firefox over Opera.
I'm guessing this whole campaign is an attempt to stop Apple getting more of the PC market share.
And that would benefit Intel exactly how? One of my Macs has Intel Woodcrest Xeons and another has an Intel Core Duo. Considering the relative expense of the CPUs that Apple loads into their high-end desktop systems — at a minimum of two each — what would Intel have to gain by limiting the number they sell?
Your still out the cash until you discover the fraud and report it.
...which takes about ten minutes, at least with my bank. They put the funds from disputed charges back into the account immediately, and ask questions later.
Cardinal rule is to never expose your own pile of money.
If, by that, you mean one's entire pile of money, then doing so it roughly equivalent to putting all of your money into your checking account. That would just be silly, and would negate the purpose of a savings account. I like the interest mine accrues.
Regardless, if you're just looking for an excuse to distrust a system of fraud protections, you can easily latch onto pretty much any answer that validates your hypothesis. The point, however, is that these safeguards do exist, are effective, and are available to just about anyone with a passable credit history; it doesn't even have to be "good," per se.
Because it is a credit card, your exposure is limited and you have fraud protections. With a debit card, all of the money you have in your bank is exposed.
...unless, of course, you do business with one of the better banks. Mine offers excellent, zero-liability fraud protections on my debit card, which leads me to believe that many of the horror stories I've heard could have rather easily been avoided by devoting a relatively negligible amount of time to researching bank policies on things like fraudulent charges and identity theft.
Bear in mind that both Orange Micro and Apple sold Processor Direct Slot cards with x86 chips for Macs. Some systems of the era, like the Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible, shipped with an onboard 486DX2-66 in addition to its standard PPC 601.
most Government agency are more efficient then the private sector.
Having worked with various municipal, state, and federal government agencies on numerous projects, I simply don't share your opinion on the matter. In my experience, a relative few are efficiently run, and as they get larger in size and scope of responsibility, the probability that they're more likely to get mired in bureaucratic muck grows asymptotically.
HP is neither therefore -gate would not be correct.
Perhaps you somehow missed the part of the GP post that read, "when will they turn their high powered invest-i-scopes back onto politicians," and therefore subsequently missed the point.
Given the scope of the operation, are these losses to be expected or is this an example of poor government security standards?
Yes.
There's really nothing about any of this that denotes a requirement for these two conditions to be mutually exclusive. In fact, both statements clearly can be — and actually are — quite true, and it's probable that a causal relationship exists between the latter and the former. Most US government agencies are not known for being paragons of efficiency; the larger they become, the worse they're managed. The worse they're managed, the more their standards and parctices become lax, which is unfortunate, because data asset management and retention is tricky enough for even a well-run mid-sized organization.
If you really want to carry the analogy all the way through, then it will simply require yet another reasonably high-level whistleblower (like a Deputy Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example) to leak vital information on actionable offenses. Watergate had its Deep Throat, after all.
If this happens, though, use of "gate" as a suffix is strictly forbidden, because that's just silly.
Indeed. When I was much younger, it was only natural for me to have significantly more free time for gaming. I didn't have a career, a house, or a girlfriend, and being under 18 meant that opportunities to pursue certain hobbies or entertainment that took me far from home were at their minimum. It was at that time that the appeal of my games was undeniable.
Now in my 30s, gaming is pursued when there's nothing more compelling on the agenda, which means that though I've owned Devil May Cry 3 for well over a year (and the first in the series was the primary reason why I purchased a PS2), the disc has yet to be removed from its case. It would be fun, yes, but I've grown to discover that it's not nearly as enjoyable as dozens of other things.
I don't have as much time for gaming; and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to have as much time for gaming.
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Well, you could try doing something... or rather, anything other than your current method. That's the primary point of this discussion, after all.
For various registrations, I simply create aliases to my mail account that are specific to each new vendor so I can keep track of the origins of most spam that hits my server. That allows me to respond accordingly, and it's a thirty-second solution (which would be faster if I were a faster typist, alas). But of course, I control my own mail server.
A previous employer offered to change my title from "Manager, Systems Integration" to "God of Information." An earlier boss wanted my title to be "Deputy Minister of Pain" (when I was Assistant Network Manager), but then, he'd always fancied himself a BOFH.
...which, in IBM terminology, means "Delivery Project Executive," yet another title that — on its face — doesn't necessarily mean anything in particular.
My official job title conveniently breaks down to an eight-letter acronym (or more accurately, an eight-letter series of three separate acronyms).
If you truly believe that the term, "system operator," is obsolete, perhaps it's because you've simply not been exposed to the breadth of technologies currently in use at the enterprise level and the varying levels of skill required to maintain them. For example, when I make a call to have tapes relocated from one library to another, it's not to someone who's at all qualified to do very much more than that in the datacenter.
Mine is approximately six years old and is still under development (my house doesn't appear on Google Maps, which instead shows a series of empty lots mixed with new construction), but casual observation tells me that by design, every house in my cookie-cutter subdivision has at least one tree in front. There happen to be three in front of mine due to its specific position on the block.
Hey, it's purely anecdotal evidence, but then, so is yours.
Oh, why choose?
"I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection."- Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
...and it would indeed be rather silly, had he not invented any new and novel means to achieve that particular end. Your failure to see the difference between the circumstances presented in your exceptionally obtuse analogy (there existed prior art for numerous forms of self-sustained human ambulatory movement, as well as other basic and elaborate forms of geographic transport) and reality is a reflection not of a general failure in the system, but of your lack of understanding of that system.
The first team to reach either pole by means of a teleportation device that they invented has a very good chance of acquiring a valid patent on the process.
It's no longer listed as an option for the 15.4" model, unfortunately. That's a shame, really, as my Shiny-New-Thing envy quickly fizzled when I realized that the MacBook Pro on my lap has better disk performance than the new one I'd want. Even with 3GB RAM, Photoshop would still need to use a scratch disk, and 5400 RPM simply won't cut it. The 17" model is more bulk than I want to carry.
Yes, I could swap it out with the drive in my current one, but that would decrease the resale value of the system I'd no longer need. Alternatively, I could purchase a new drive from another retailer and... throw away money on a drive I won't use, with a resale value that really doesn't make it worth the effort to sell.
Oh well.
You'll find that it's very rare for people who claim to be great lovers of freedom to actually bear that conviction far beyond endorsing your freedom to agree with and act in accordance with their very specific points of view.
My anecdotal evidence trumps your anecdotal evidence. I'm using Firefox 2.0 RC3 (with Adblock 0.5.3.043, Talkback 2.0, Flash, and Adobe Reader; I don't keep it loaded down) on WinXP Pro to create this particular post, it's only been running for approximately three hours with intermittent use, and it's already up to 99,756KB of system memory. What's worse, browser.cache.memory.capacity is still hard-coded to 16384.
I only really resent it passing 250MB when it's time to wake this laptop from hibernation, so I routinely shut Firefox down before putting this computer down for the night. Yes, I had that same problem with 1.5.x and even 2.0 RC2, as recently as last night.
Well, first you'll need to fashion a catapult. After that, it's pure entertainment.
Pine is still my preferred mail user agent, actually, and Eudora used to be my favorite alternative (until my beloved NeXT Mail app, which had become somewhat inconvenient to use, came bundled with a newer, more viable version of its host OS).
My employer, however, prefers the use of Lotus Notes... probably because they own that company.
"I recently read a survey that said that 30-40 percent of Americans get their news from late night comedy shows, and I just want to say one thing to those people... DON'T DO THAT! WE MAKE THINGS UP! WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING!"
- Jon Stewart {The Daily Show}Despite having changed the browser.cache.memory.capacity setting on Firefox 1.5.0.7 — running only Talkback 1.5.0.7 and Adblock 0.5.3.042 — to 16MB (half of the automatic default for 1GB RAM) on the XP Pro-equipped employer-issued ThinkPad, I only have to leave the app open for a couple of days before it hits 300MB, and it never stops there. Because of this behavior, I now close Firefox prior to directing the ThinkPad to hibernate for the night, unless I happen to experience some masochistic desire to wait for its disk to thrash about for an excessive duration upon waking.
This is not at all convenient, but 1) it's still far better than using IE, and 2) for no real, quantifiable reason, I prefer Firefox over Opera.
And that would benefit Intel exactly how? One of my Macs has Intel Woodcrest Xeons and another has an Intel Core Duo. Considering the relative expense of the CPUs that Apple loads into their high-end desktop systems — at a minimum of two each — what would Intel have to gain by limiting the number they sell?
...which takes about ten minutes, at least with my bank. They put the funds from disputed charges back into the account immediately, and ask questions later.
If, by that, you mean one's entire pile of money, then doing so it roughly equivalent to putting all of your money into your checking account. That would just be silly, and would negate the purpose of a savings account. I like the interest mine accrues.
Regardless, if you're just looking for an excuse to distrust a system of fraud protections, you can easily latch onto pretty much any answer that validates your hypothesis. The point, however, is that these safeguards do exist, are effective, and are available to just about anyone with a passable credit history; it doesn't even have to be "good," per se.
...unless, of course, you do business with one of the better banks. Mine offers excellent, zero-liability fraud protections on my debit card, which leads me to believe that many of the horror stories I've heard could have rather easily been avoided by devoting a relatively negligible amount of time to researching bank policies on things like fraudulent charges and identity theft.
Bear in mind that both Orange Micro and Apple sold Processor Direct Slot cards with x86 chips for Macs. Some systems of the era, like the Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible, shipped with an onboard 486DX2-66 in addition to its standard PPC 601.
Having worked with various municipal, state, and federal government agencies on numerous projects, I simply don't share your opinion on the matter. In my experience, a relative few are efficiently run, and as they get larger in size and scope of responsibility, the probability that they're more likely to get mired in bureaucratic muck grows asymptotically.
Perhaps you somehow missed the part of the GP post that read, "when will they turn their high powered invest-i-scopes back onto politicians," and therefore subsequently missed the point.
Yes.
There's really nothing about any of this that denotes a requirement for these two conditions to be mutually exclusive. In fact, both statements clearly can be — and actually are — quite true, and it's probable that a causal relationship exists between the latter and the former. Most US government agencies are not known for being paragons of efficiency; the larger they become, the worse they're managed. The worse they're managed, the more their standards and parctices become lax, which is unfortunate, because data asset management and retention is tricky enough for even a well-run mid-sized organization.
If you really want to carry the analogy all the way through, then it will simply require yet another reasonably high-level whistleblower (like a Deputy Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example) to leak vital information on actionable offenses. Watergate had its Deep Throat, after all.
If this happens, though, use of "gate" as a suffix is strictly forbidden, because that's just silly.
Indeed. When I was much younger, it was only natural for me to have significantly more free time for gaming. I didn't have a career, a house, or a girlfriend, and being under 18 meant that opportunities to pursue certain hobbies or entertainment that took me far from home were at their minimum. It was at that time that the appeal of my games was undeniable.
Now in my 30s, gaming is pursued when there's nothing more compelling on the agenda, which means that though I've owned Devil May Cry 3 for well over a year (and the first in the series was the primary reason why I purchased a PS2), the disc has yet to be removed from its case. It would be fun, yes, but I've grown to discover that it's not nearly as enjoyable as dozens of other things.
I don't have as much time for gaming; and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to have as much time for gaming.
And just how many Xbox Live accounts do you think are purchased for the under-18 crowd with the credit cards of adoring parents?
Oh well; so much for the idea of statistically-accurate age verification of players via credit cards.