When does this take effect? I purchased the $50 donation with t-shirt gift a couple weeks ago. Am I going to be able to include that for 2004 on my tax return?
JANICE I'm not obsessed. I'm just a fan, and I care.
JOSH What's your name again?
JANICE Janice.
JOSH I'm a fan. I'm a sports fan, I'm a music fan and I'm a Star Trek fan. All of them. But here's what I don't do. Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: "Let's list our ten favorite episodes. Let's list our least favorite episodes. Let's list our favorite galaxies. Let's make a chart to see how often our favorite galaxies appear in our favorite episodes. What Romulan would you most like to see coupled with a Cardassian and why? Let's spend a weekend talking about Romulans falling in love with Cardassians and then let's do it again." That's not being a fan. That's having a fetish. And I don't have a problem with that, except you can't bring your hobbies in to work, okay?
I've even stopped using IE in favor of Moz on XP, and still got new spyware installed. So there's an exploit in this browser as well. Has to be, as I don't Kazaa, or any shareware utilities.I'm pretty picky about what I install, 99% commercial s/w.
Please stop with the hyperbole, it isn't doing anyone any good. Know a site that puts spyware on your machine through Mozilla? Post it. Methinks if your machine keeps getting riddled with spyware try laying off the pr0n.
What's really important, though, is how many Starbucks he has seen across the street from another Starbucks.
This happened to me in Columbus, Ohio a few years back. It sufficiently freaked me out that I was numb for the rest of the day.
I think it is akin to the dream of seeing yourself of the street and your brain becomes overloaded, "how can I be here if I'm there". A primal urge crept into my skull suggesting that I had to destroy the other in order to assert my existence. It was all very Solaris (the movie, not the OS).
Am I the only one that sees an inherent danger in useragent spoofing to ie/windows for mozilla/* users? I understand that it may unfortunately be necessary to access sites but isn't that feeding the beast which makes something like this a necessary feature?
If everyone is lying about who they are, how do you know who anyone is, or does it not matter from a market share perspective?
1. Back up entire d: drive to iMac upstairs. rsync rocks. 2. Find Windows XP install disc. 3. Reboot with Windows XP install disc. 4. Asked for product activation. Curse Microsoft. 5. Search my house in vain for my original, 100% legitimate, retail Windows XP box. 6. Reboot. 7. Search control panels in vain for a window, dialog, tab, or pane that displays my current product key. 8. Search Google for "windows xp get current product key". 9. Find a utility on a cracker web page in Russia that displays the current product key. This is one of the more lame utilities, since most of the good ones allow you to change it. I don't wish to change it; I actually have a perfectly good product key, I just don't know what it is. 10. Reboot with Windows XP install disc. 11. Reboot repeatedly as required. 12. Boot screen. Choose between "Windows XP Professional" and "Windows XP Professional". Brilliant. Pick one. The wrong one. Boot into fucked Windows XP install. Hard reboot. Pick the right one. Make mental note to hack boot.ini later. 13. "Welcome to Windows XP. You have no useful programs and no internet access. You have 30 days left for activation. Would you like to activate now?" Yes, I would, but I have no internet access. 14. Unnecessarily loud and cheerful startup noises. Make mental note to turn off all sounds later. 15. Search the "Network and Internet Connections" wizards in vain for some way to set up my Linksys wireless card. Having never done a clean install of XP (I previously upgraded from Windows 2000), and having been moderately impressed by the new wireless networking features in XP, I naively assumed this would "just work". Silly rabbit. 16. Search my house for my Linksys wireless card driver install disc. Find the install disc that came with the old card, that broke and was replaced by the new-and-improved version 3.0 card. Wonder if that will suffice. 17. Fight with the "Add New Hardware Wizard" trying to install the obviously inferior drivers off this disc. 18. Wonder where the "Device Manager" is hiding. 19. Find the "Device Manager". Right-click on the unknown device, "Linksys_Instant_Wireless_Card". Update driver. "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device. Would you like to search on the internet?" Yes, I'd love to, but I can't, you moron. Install driver from specific location. Specify WIN2000 folder on old-and-inferior install disc. 20. "This driver is not digitally signed." OK. 21. "This driver may cause your computer to become unstable." OK. 22. "This driver may anally rape your mother while pouring sugar down your gas tank." OK. 23. Nothing. No connection, no internet access, no acknowledgment of any device whatsoever. 24. Reboot. 25. Doesn't work. 26. "Take a tour of Windows XP!" I am. 27. Reboot. 28. Doesn't work. 29. Dig out old wired PCMCIA card. Take computer upstairs. Plug directly into switch. cmd. ipconfig. We have an IP address. ping www.google.com. We have name resolution and internet access. 30. Fire up Internet Explorer. runonce.msn.com. No. www.linksys.com. Support. Downloads. WPC11. Windows XP. Linksys.com rocks. 31. Insert Linksys wireless card. 32. Back to Device Manager. 33. Uninstall old-and-inferior driver. 34. Update driver. 35. "This driver is not digitally signed." OK. 36. "This driver may cause your computer to become unstable." OK. 37. "This driver may…" OK. 38. cmd. ipconfig. We have internet access. 39. "Add your.NET Passport to Windows XP!" No. 40. Fire up Internet Explorer. www.msn.com. No. www.mozilla.org. Download Mozilla. 41. Realize I should create an "f8dy" user because it will make my life easier later. 42. Create "f8dy" as an administrator. Log out. Log in. 43. Install Mozilla. Yes, I would like to make you my default
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WTF? 6 onboard GPS receivers? What's wrong with one good one. Surely a =10m precision is enough, and if it isn't they could try a differential GPS setup with two receivers, but six?!
I don't think it is a precision issue so much as it is a maintenance issue. If you only had two GPS receivers and one failed, how quickly (and expensively) are you going to be able to get up there and fix the broken before the remaining one failed and you're SOL? I'm guessing five extra GPS receivers is a lot cheaper than three deployments to repair one. With six (or more) GPS receivers you can take a couple failures before repair is necessary thus reducing cost/risk.
Hudson joins Ripley and Hicks, who are laying out their armament. Flamethrowers. Grenades. M-41A magazines. Hudson's tracker beeps. Then again. The tone continues through the SCENE, its rhythm increasing.
HUDSON Movement! Signal's clean.
He pans the scanner. Stops. The range display reads out, counting down.
HUDSON Range twenty meters.
RIPLEY (to Vasquez) Seal the door.
Vasquez picks up a hand-welder and moves to comply.
HUDSON Seventeen meters.
HICKS Let's get these things lit.
He hands one flamethrower to RIpley and begins priming the other himself. It lights with a muffled POP. Ripley's lights a moment later. Sparks shower around Vasquez as she begins welding the door. Hudson's tracker is beeping like mad now, as fast as their hearts.
RIPLEY They learned. They cut the power and avoided the guns. They must have found another way in, something we missed.
HICKS We didn't miss anything.
HUDSON Fifteen meters.
RIPLEY I don't know, an acid hole in a duct. Something under the floors, not on the plans. I don't know!
She picks up Vasquez' scanner and aims it the same direction as Hudson's.
HUDSON Twelve meters. Man, this is a big fucking signal. Ten meters.
RIPLEY They're right on us. Vasquez, how you doing?
Vasquez is heedlessly showering herself with molten metal as she welds the door shut. Working like a demon.
HUDSON Nine meters. Eight.
RIPLEY Can't be. That's inside the room!
HUDSON It's readin' right. Look!
Ripley fiddles with her tracker, adjusting the tuning.
HICKS Well you're not reading it right!
HUDSON Six meters. Five. What the fu --
He looks at Ripley. It dawns on both of them at the same time. She feels a cold premonitory dread as she angles her tracker upward to the ceiling, almost overhead. The tone gets louder.
You beat me to it! Was working on mine when you posted yours. Just a suggestion: put ecode tags around the whole thing and post as HTML Formatted, that way it shows up nicer in a fixed width font.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (*) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers (*) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (*) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (*) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (*) Asshats (*) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (*) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (*) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation (*) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (*) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I just got a gmail invite today sent to yahoo and they put it in the bulk mail folder. Thanks to this article, otherwise I would not have thought to look there for it so quickly.
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Here's my journal entry on my experience of trying to get SuSE 9.0 & Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless pccard on a Dell Inspiron 3500 notebook to all play nice together.
Boring story short: it works, but damn is the YaST screen is nasty and watch out for non-acpi compliant (read old) mobos.
The whole point of the War on Terror is to protect our system of law... letting it to start going down the slippery slope towards an opressive system is exactly the way the terrorists want to push us.
We're having a real fucking good war with Iraq, under God. Why do you hate freedom?
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(*) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (*) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers (*) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (*) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (*) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (*) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (*) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable (*) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck (*) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (*) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome (*) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Ever ghost a teammate in America's Army (before version 2.1) and panned around? Sometimes if your subject was standing next to wall your point view would get crammed into the body of the solider itself. At this point you were looking out at the world from his insides. It appeared as a crude wireframe for the most part. For the other part, the developers rendered the backs of the teeth and gums inside the head. Let me tell you, this looked so damn creepy the first time I saw it I couldn't stop staring at it. I later wondered why they bothered rendering the teeth if you can't even see them from the outside anyway? It had to be to creep people out. Had to be. *shiver*
I like to grab there inages and email them ack to them.
I'm sorry, this sentence hurt a little too much to read. Let's see if we can fix it.
I like to grab theirimages and email them back to them.
Ah, that's better. Now the humor comes shining through. I'm no spelling nazi, just a concerned netizen. Do yourself and everyone you expect to read your posts a huge favor and proof read them. It only takes a second. No one expects perfection, but do have a little sympathy for the rest of us.
heh... I got a lot of angry responses. I like the ones where they call me stupid.
How profound. Meditate on that one for a couple minutes.
Wow. I'd like to think that I'm big enough to admit this. I knew about the Internet, computer, and car but if you had asked me 20 minutes ago who I thought invented the light bulb and the telephone I would have said Edison and Bell. I can't even recall a mention in reading or lecture about anyone else in those fields from my primary education in America.
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How about an emergency plan to make sure that in case of attack, the elections continue as scheduled. That sounds like a stronger message to send.
someone please mod parent post up
In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's Gum.
When does this take effect? I purchased the $50 donation with t-shirt gift a couple weeks ago. Am I going to be able to include that for 2004 on my tax return?
I've even stopped using IE in favor of Moz on XP, and still got new spyware installed. So there's an exploit in this browser as well. Has to be, as I don't Kazaa, or any shareware utilities .I'm pretty picky about what I install, 99% commercial s/w.
Please stop with the hyperbole, it isn't doing anyone any good. Know a site that puts spyware on your machine through Mozilla? Post it. Methinks if your machine keeps getting riddled with spyware try laying off the pr0n.
What's really important, though, is how many Starbucks he has seen across the street from another Starbucks.
This happened to me in Columbus, Ohio a few years back. It sufficiently freaked me out that I was numb for the rest of the day.
I think it is akin to the dream of seeing yourself of the street and your brain becomes overloaded, "how can I be here if I'm there". A primal urge crept into my skull suggesting that I had to destroy the other in order to assert my existence. It was all very Solaris (the movie, not the OS).
If everyone is lying about who they are, how do you know who anyone is, or does it not matter from a market share perspective?
WTF? 6 onboard GPS receivers? What's wrong with one good one. Surely a =10m precision is enough, and if it isn't they could try a differential GPS setup with two receivers, but six?!
I don't think it is a precision issue so much as it is a maintenance issue. If you only had two GPS receivers and one failed, how quickly (and expensively) are you going to be able to get up there and fix the broken before the remaining one failed and you're SOL? I'm guessing five extra GPS receivers is a lot cheaper than three deployments to repair one. With six (or more) GPS receivers you can take a couple failures before repair is necessary thus reducing cost/risk.
You beat me to it! Was working on mine when you posted yours. Just a suggestion: put ecode tags around the whole thing and post as HTML Formatted, that way it shows up nicer in a fixed width font.
... I should get to know the same information about the people "screening" me.
I just got a gmail invite today sent to yahoo and they put it in the bulk mail folder. Thanks to this article, otherwise I would not have thought to look there for it so quickly.
Anyone else remember MSAV for DOS?
Boring story short: it works, but damn is the YaST screen is nasty and watch out for non-acpi compliant (read old) mobos.
The whole point of the War on Terror is to protect our system of law... letting it to start going down the slippery slope towards an opressive system is exactly the way the terrorists want to push us.
We're having a real fucking good war with Iraq, under God. Why do you hate freedom?
Ever ghost a teammate in America's Army (before version 2.1) and panned around? Sometimes if your subject was standing next to wall your point view would get crammed into the body of the solider itself. At this point you were looking out at the world from his insides. It appeared as a crude wireframe for the most part. For the other part, the developers rendered the backs of the teeth and gums inside the head. Let me tell you, this looked so damn creepy the first time I saw it I couldn't stop staring at it. I later wondered why they bothered rendering the teeth if you can't even see them from the outside anyway? It had to be to creep people out. Had to be. *shiver*
I like to grab there inages and email them ack to them.
I'm sorry, this sentence hurt a little too much to read. Let's see if we can fix it.
I like to grab their images and email them back to them.
Ah, that's better. Now the humor comes shining through. I'm no spelling nazi, just a concerned netizen. Do yourself and everyone you expect to read your posts a huge favor and proof read them. It only takes a second. No one expects perfection, but do have a little sympathy for the rest of us.
heh... I got a lot of angry responses. I like the ones where they call me stupid.
How profound. Meditate on that one for a couple minutes.
You spin me right round baby right round
Thanks for the book links.. they look interesting. I'll definitely give An Underground Education a read.
Bastards.