Of course, once Best Buy and Target et all elimate competition, you can bet they won't be selling discs at cost anymore...
I don't fully agree with your theory about killing then raising prices. This is a common thing pushed by the anti-Walmart clan. You can go to any Walmart in the US and pay almost the same price for the same products. The same Mirro 3 piece cookware set is $9.83 in Seattle, Chicago, Orlando, Pittsburgh and in Smallville and Yourtown. The same Champion car battery is $39.95 in the all locations as is the new Britney Spears cd for $13.29. If they were lowballing mom and pop to put them out of business and then jack up the price don't you think they would have a wide price range based on the local competition? They don't and never have. They CAN beat mom and pop because of the volume they sell and because of the their efficient business and distribution model. Because of this, they do not have to increase the price after mom and pop go away because they are making a decent profit the whole time.
Potential scam!! The seller only has 1 feedback and it's over 6 months old. It's only a A++++++++. I'd be careful of anyone who recieved less then 15 +'s in a single feedback comment. Buyer beware.
You can take that a step further and use IMAP with fetchmail and procmail. Set it up once and fine tune as needed and have one set of folders and filtering available to any IMAP client. The backup is easy if working with standard mailbox style folders because the format is text, readable by any viewer. You can tgz your mail directory to a file via cron. I back mine up on a rotating basis to a different drive. For things I know I will never need but want to keep anyway or for archiving important things, I create a new IMAP folders with my client, move the messages over to that folder, tgz it and move it out of the mail directory. If I ever need it, I can extract it back to the mail directory and view it again or I can add more mail to the archive file later with a few commands I am not familiar with the native format of any mail clients anymore because I have been using IMAP for years. I switched for two reasons, I got tired of always trying to convert proprietary mail formats everytime I wanted to change mail clients and I wanted access to all of my mail regardless of what type of machine or where I was coming from. I will never go back no non-IMAP. The fetchmail and procmail functionality are an added bonus. You get the most from IMAP when it is running 24/7 on a stable machine somewhere on your local/home network. If you don't have such a thing already in place, it might not be worth the initial effort.
At work with Outlook/Exchange, I have some folders labeled:
Auto --7Days --Month --4months
I put somewhat important mail in each of these, some automatically via filters. I set the archive funtion to delete the mail based on the folder name when it gets that old.
For things I want to keep, I use other folders.
At home I use IMAP, fetchmail and procmail so new mail always goes to the correct folders but I have never found a filter system that can run rules on mail already in standard mailbox based mail folders. My workaround has been Pegasus from Windows which connects via IMAP, I set filters to do the autodelete old crap on initial opening of a IMAP folder. An example being my/. messages, they get auto removed from the Slashdot folder when they are 10 days old, same with messages to and from Ebay related addresses. Mailing lists are typically on a 30 day cycle. I'd love to find an autodelete old solution that I can configure once and run it via cron, then I would not have to rely on any specific IMAP client to do it for me.
Not true, you would be patched from the current known exploits, not from the constant problems created by the integration of applications into the OS, and the applications themselves being able to execute code along with data. This method of tying data, applications, and the core OS together is NOT inherently safe and a monthly set of patches is NOT going to fix that.
Email from stanger --> Outlook --> OS running the included code
view web page --> IE --> OS running the included code
Play a WMA file --> Media Player --> OS running the included code
View a compiled Help file --> OS running the included code.
View a word processing document --> OS running the included code
I do not believe that is the case, they give that impression through PR but their own interests are the bottom line. That practice can only keep a company in the black if you operating under a government operated monopoly like the last mile copper owners or if you have created a monopoly yourself over time by squeezing out the others by temporarily undercutting the competitors.
To help you out, the phone company sold you an "unlisted number",
This is either FUD or things have changed. Every phone number I've had for the past 12 years has been unlisted and unpublished [1]. I've had my current number for 5 years now. I might get one telemarketing call every two months and they NEVER address me with my name.
[1] I do feel it is a rip off that I have to pay them to have this "unservice" but to me it is well worth the $2/month.
I don't know if the law considers the difference but being searched at an airport and government offices is to ensure safety of people inside, not to catch that magazine you swiped from airport newsstand. That is why you get scanned on the way IN.
Ohhh, but how did they determine "if"? Maybe the police should be allowed to enter everyones home and listen to everyones phone calls to search for something illegal. If they happen to find something, that's another criminal behind bars.
Remember the infared detectors police thought would be great for to catch people growing drugs in their basements? Luckily, that was shot down by the Supreme Court.
I just did some consecutive rips of an audio track and compared the md5 checksums.
I did the same song three times. The first two times, all things were equal including all settings. The MD5 checksums were the same.
I swapped out my DVD/CD player for a different model. Reripped the track on the same computer with the same exact settings and the MD5 was different.
I am using Exact Audio Copy in secure mode and Lame for the encoding. The ID tags were recieved the first time and the same tags used for all three attempts (EAC remembers the disk).
I'm sure I could try many things like changing the read speed, comparing the wav files and not just the resulting mp3 etc.. but I do not have the time for more analysis.
But that is more then the/. sig character limit! Did you read that whole thread? It is pretty interesting. Same arguements 10 years later. I was actually searching for AMIPRO and WYSIWYG a few months ago when I stumbled across that thread and stole the line.
Peterson suggests that this can be abused by swindlers, child abductors, and terrorists to name a few.
Here's an example of an abuse. Someones posts a negative comment as anonymous to a public trading board or somewhere like FC. The company sues for the AC's information claiming some interpetation of a copyright violation. Who can stop this AC's information from changing hands? Who reviews a case like this to determine if a copyright violation actually occured or not? No one under the current system. The RIAA wants to run by a different set of rules and regulations and under the existing political pressure (money), they are getting special treatment. If you want to look at the exact opposite power of what the RIAA gets, search Google for the horror stories that people have with identity fraud and how hard it is for them to get thier own information from a company or track down accounts opened in thier own fucking name and SSN. The difference? RIAA has lobby money, identity fraud victims do not.
NASA needs to get rid of the Not Invented HERE (tm) syndrome My experiences with IT also. My last two jobs have been in large but remote offices away from the corporate headquarters. Same thing, if you are not part of the "inner circle", you are almost completely ignored. I spend more time configuring and reconfiguring the network and servers to meet the "standardized setup" they want even though we have different functions and requirements at our offices. Sometimes I feel better just sitting there and letting problems go out of frustration.
The warehouse type stores have them extremely cheap. In fact just last weekend I bought a 8 pack of 14watt bulbs (60 watt equivelent) (Feit brand) for ~$16 at Costco. Samsclub.com has a 5 pack online for $17.88 (Lights of America brand). I have used both of these brands many times in the past. Quality of the any brand of CFL's can change drastically between runs and models but I have found these specific cheaper brands don't seem to last as long as they claim. Overall, still a great value as they are so much cheaper then other brand CFL's.
Negatives, they do not work with dimmers as they are not dimmable and they do not work with some security light fixtures (infared automatic type) that require a filament type bulb for trickle current to operate correctly. CFL's do not last long at all in ceiling fan sockets. The constant vibration shortens the life greatly.
I have replaced every possible bulb in my house that I could with a florescent light in some form. When I have to replace fixtures, I specifically look for ones that a CFL will work in and not look odd.
A couple of over-hyped viruses does not make Windows a less secure OS than Linux.
Overhyped? Have you ever been near a corporate network when one of these things hit? Have you ever looked at traffic during one of these incedents? You are sadly mistaken. Did you ever think the reason there are SO many Windows viruses is because of the relative ease of making and deploying them? If it was that easy on any system then they would have just as many worms and viruses. There is no secret pact or unwritten rule between programmers, script kiddies, and system administrators around the world to not right viruses and worms for other platforms. All it takes is one person and a method of entry. The fact that MS systems tie together application data and application code to the core of the OS is the root of the problem. Not some conspiracy between anti MS groups.
What makes VonAge different from any other phone company service a local service area? They happen to use the Internet as the "last-mile" connection instead of leased or owned copper.
Last mile? The whole thing is IP data based. If anything it IS over the copper for the last mile if the recipient does not have VoIP themselves. The only thing this has in common with a telco provider and also the only thing different from from regular data transfer on a computer is you sit on your couch and use it.
What you are saying is the government should just tax any method of directly alerting and communicating between two or more parties. Or better yet, tax anything that has similar functionality to the currently most popular method of communicating between two or more people that are not standing next to each other. Even if those taxes are not directly for the cost of providing those services, like right of way purchasing, franchise fees, rural allocation, maintaining a monopoly on the local lines, sharing the lines etc etc..
They are offering a voice line What does wether or not if has to travel to a regular POTS circuit at some point have anything to do with being a transitional company? I agree they may fail but it has nothing to do with what you describe. It would be mismanagement or lack of customers, not a flawed concept.
Define phone service? Are you talking about the ability to hear and talk to another person? I can do that many of ways now other then the my POTS line. Just because there is a way to directly alert a unit in my house that someone wants to talk to me does not automatically mean it is a telco. Telcos have the rules and regulations because they are monopolies with 100% control of the local copper. If I choose to use VoIP and take the limitations of 911 that go with it (which are NOT hidden if you visit any of the major VoIP sites), I am responsibile enough to make that decision. Yes, that is part of "My Rights Online". I have every right to not have a home phone at all, I also should have every right to use my existing internet connection for VoIP without paying for the less efficient and monopoly based, turtle moving last mile copper company.
You already pay those taxes on the medium you are using to provide VoIP like the existing taxes on your Cable system and DSL line.
The POTS line is dying. The amount of time it takes depends on the how much of your money and length of time the government wants to put into the entrenched big guys to keep them going (like this law). The rules and regulations will get much worse for non last mile guys before it gets better.
I have used Zonealarm before and I set IE to ask everytime for access. I left IE the default browser but never actually used it for my browsing. Spurious requests for to start IE would be a red flag that something was trying something funny.
It's odd that they claim a client can be a security issue. If a rogue client has more or less access to a server and can do things to the server it should not be doing, the problem is the weak security of the SERVER. I don't remember if anyone remembers having fun with WinNuke back in 1997 but I believe the initial responses from MS was Windows itself was not really the problem, it was the rogue software and clients causing it as they were capable of sending OOB packets which would then crash Windows.
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Of course, once Best Buy and Target et all elimate competition, you can bet they won't be selling discs at cost anymore...
I don't fully agree with your theory about killing then raising prices. This is a common thing pushed by the anti-Walmart clan. You can go to any Walmart in the US and pay almost the same price for the same products. The same Mirro 3 piece cookware set is $9.83 in Seattle, Chicago, Orlando, Pittsburgh and in Smallville and Yourtown. The same Champion car battery is $39.95 in the all locations as is the new Britney Spears cd for $13.29. If they were lowballing mom and pop to put them out of business and then jack up the price don't you think they would have a wide price range based on the local competition? They don't and never have. They CAN beat mom and pop because of the volume they sell and because of the their efficient business and distribution model. Because of this, they do not have to increase the price after mom and pop go away because they are making a decent profit the whole time.
Potential scam!! The seller only has 1 feedback and it's over 6 months old. It's only a A++++++++. I'd be careful of anyone who recieved less then 15 +'s in a single feedback comment. Buyer beware.
You can take that a step further and use IMAP with fetchmail and procmail. Set it up once and fine tune as needed and have one set of folders and filtering available to any IMAP client.
The backup is easy if working with standard mailbox style folders because the format is text, readable by any viewer. You can tgz your mail directory to a file via cron. I back mine up on a rotating basis to a different drive. For things I know I will never need but want to keep anyway or for archiving important things, I create a new IMAP folders with my client, move the messages over to that folder, tgz it and move it out of the mail directory. If I ever need it, I can extract it back to the mail directory and view it again or I can add more mail to the archive file later with a few commands I am not familiar with the native format of any mail clients anymore because I have been using IMAP for years. I switched for two reasons, I got tired of always trying to convert proprietary mail formats everytime I wanted to change mail clients and I wanted access to all of my mail regardless of what type of machine or where I was coming from. I will never go back no non-IMAP. The fetchmail and procmail functionality are an added bonus. You get the most from IMAP when it is running 24/7 on a stable machine somewhere on your local/home network. If you don't have such a thing already in place, it might not be worth the initial effort.
At work with Outlook/Exchange,
/. messages, they get auto removed from the Slashdot folder when they are 10 days old, same with messages to and from Ebay related addresses. Mailing lists are typically on a 30 day cycle. I'd love to find an autodelete old solution that I can configure once and run it via cron, then I would not have to rely on any specific IMAP client to do it for me.
I have some folders labeled:
Auto
--7Days
--Month
--4months
I put somewhat important mail in each of these, some automatically via filters. I set the archive funtion to delete the mail based on the folder name when it gets that old.
For things I want to keep, I use other folders.
At home I use IMAP, fetchmail and procmail so new mail always goes to the correct folders but I have never found a filter system that can run rules on mail already in standard mailbox based mail folders. My workaround has been Pegasus from Windows which connects via IMAP, I set filters to do the autodelete old crap on initial opening of a IMAP folder. An example being my
Email from stanger --> Outlook --> OS running the included code
view web page --> IE --> OS running the included code
Play a WMA file --> Media Player --> OS running the included code
View a compiled Help file --> OS running the included code.
View a word processing document --> OS running the included code
Everyone of the above might as well be exe files.
MS give people what they want,
I do not believe that is the case, they give that impression through PR but their own interests are the bottom line. That practice can only keep a company in the black if you operating under a government operated monopoly like the last mile copper owners or if you have created a monopoly yourself over time by squeezing out the others by temporarily undercutting the competitors.
To help you out, the phone company sold you an "unlisted number",
This is either FUD or things have changed. Every phone number I've had for the past 12 years has been unlisted and unpublished [1]. I've had my current number for 5 years now. I might get one telemarketing call every two months and they NEVER address me with my name.
[1] I do feel it is a rip off that I have to pay them to have this "unservice" but to me it is well worth the $2/month.
I don't know if the law considers the difference but being searched at an airport and government offices is to ensure safety of people inside, not to catch that magazine you swiped from airport newsstand. That is why you get scanned on the way IN.
Well, if they were breaking the law.
Ohhh, but how did they determine "if"? Maybe the police should be allowed to enter everyones home and listen to everyones phone calls to search for something illegal. If they happen to find something, that's another criminal behind bars.
Remember the infared detectors police thought would be great for to catch people growing drugs in their basements? Luckily, that was shot down by the Supreme Court.
I just did some consecutive rips of an audio track and compared the md5 checksums.
I did the same song three times. The first two times, all things were equal including all settings. The MD5 checksums were the same.
I swapped out my DVD/CD player for a different model. Reripped the track on the same computer with the same exact settings and the MD5 was different.
I am using Exact Audio Copy in secure mode and Lame for the encoding. The ID tags were recieved the first time and the same tags used for all three attempts (EAC remembers the disk).
I'm sure I could try many things like changing the read speed, comparing the wav files and not just the resulting mp3 etc.. but I do not have the time for more analysis.
But that is more then the /. sig character limit! Did you read that whole thread? It is pretty interesting. Same arguements 10 years later. I was actually searching for AMIPRO and WYSIWYG a few months ago when I stumbled across that thread and stole the line.
Apple designs tend to very often have very open designs with pleanty of empty space.
;)
Kind of like the Mac section in computer stores.
Peterson suggests that this can be abused by swindlers, child abductors, and terrorists to name a few.
Here's an example of an abuse.
Someones posts a negative comment as anonymous to a public trading board or somewhere like FC. The company sues for the AC's information claiming some interpetation of a copyright violation. Who can stop this AC's information from changing hands? Who reviews a case like this to determine if a copyright violation actually occured or not? No one under the current system. The RIAA wants to run by a different set of rules and regulations and under the existing political pressure (money), they are getting special treatment. If you want to look at the exact opposite power of what the RIAA gets, search Google for the horror stories that people have with identity fraud and how hard it is for them to get thier own information from a company or track down accounts opened in thier own fucking name and SSN. The difference? RIAA has lobby money, identity fraud victims do not.
NASA needs to get rid of the Not Invented HERE (tm) syndrome
My experiences with IT also. My last two jobs have been in large but remote offices away from the corporate headquarters. Same thing, if you are not part of the "inner circle", you are almost completely ignored. I spend more time configuring and reconfiguring the network and servers to meet the "standardized setup" they want even though we have different functions and requirements at our offices. Sometimes I feel better just sitting there and letting problems go out of frustration.
The warehouse type stores have them extremely cheap. In fact just last weekend I bought a 8 pack of 14watt bulbs (60 watt equivelent) (Feit brand) for ~$16 at Costco. Samsclub.com has a 5 pack online for $17.88 (Lights of America brand). I have used both of these brands many times in the past. Quality of the any brand of CFL's can change drastically between runs and models but I have found these specific cheaper brands don't seem to last as long as they claim. Overall, still a great value as they are so much cheaper then other brand CFL's.
Negatives, they do not work with dimmers as they are not dimmable and they do not work with some security light fixtures (infared automatic type) that require a filament type bulb for trickle current to operate correctly. CFL's do not last long at all in ceiling fan sockets. The constant vibration shortens the life greatly.
I have replaced every possible bulb in my house that I could with a florescent light in some form. When I have to replace fixtures, I specifically look for ones that a CFL will work in and not look odd.
A couple of over-hyped viruses does not make Windows a less secure OS than Linux.
Overhyped? Have you ever been near a corporate network when one of these things hit? Have you ever looked at traffic during one of these incedents? You are sadly mistaken. Did you ever think the reason there are SO many Windows viruses is because of the relative ease of making and deploying them? If it was that easy on any system then they would have just as many worms and viruses. There is no secret pact or unwritten rule between programmers, script kiddies, and system administrators around the world to not right viruses and worms for other platforms. All it takes is one person and a method of entry. The fact that MS systems tie together application data and application code to the core of the OS is the root of the problem. Not some conspiracy between anti MS groups.
I've got a grand total of 3 from 5 different email accounts, some of which I had since the mid 90's. Maybe I need more friends!!
What makes VonAge different from any other phone company service a local service area? They happen to use the Internet as the "last-mile" connection instead of leased or owned copper.
Last mile? The whole thing is IP data based. If anything it IS over the copper for the last mile if the recipient does not have VoIP themselves. The only thing this has in common with a telco provider and also the only thing different from from regular data transfer on a computer is you sit on your couch and use it.
What you are saying is the government should just tax any method of directly alerting and communicating between two or more parties. Or better yet, tax anything that has similar functionality to the currently most popular method of communicating between two or more people that are not standing next to each other. Even if those taxes are not directly for the cost of providing those services, like right of way purchasing, franchise fees, rural allocation, maintaining a monopoly on the local lines, sharing the lines etc etc..
They are offering a voice line What does wether or not if has to travel to a regular POTS circuit at some point have anything to do with being a transitional company?
I agree they may fail but it has nothing to do with what you describe. It would be mismanagement or lack of customers, not a flawed concept.
Define phone service? Are you talking about the ability to hear and talk to another person? I can do that many of ways now other then the my POTS line. Just because there is a way to directly alert a unit in my house that someone wants to talk to me does not automatically mean it is a telco. Telcos have the rules and regulations because they are monopolies with 100% control of the local copper. If I choose to use VoIP and take the limitations of 911 that go with it (which are NOT hidden if you visit any of the major VoIP sites), I am responsibile enough to make that decision. Yes, that is part of "My Rights Online". I have every right to not have a home phone at all, I also should have every right to use my existing internet connection for VoIP without paying for the less efficient and monopoly based, turtle moving last mile copper company.
You already pay those taxes on the medium you are using to provide VoIP like the existing taxes on your Cable system and DSL line.
The POTS line is dying. The amount of time it takes depends on the how much of your money and length of time the government wants to put into the entrenched big guys to keep them going (like this law). The rules and regulations will get much worse for non last mile guys before it gets better.
I have used Zonealarm before and I set IE to ask everytime for access. I left IE the default browser but never actually used it for my browsing. Spurious requests for to start IE would be a red flag that something was trying something funny.
I was talking about NON MSN clients, ya know, the ones MS says are a security risk and should not be allowed to connect to their servers.
HUH? Not me and no one in this thread.
It's odd that they claim a client can be a security issue. If a rogue client has more or less access to a server and can do things to the server it should not be doing, the problem is the weak security of the SERVER. I don't remember if anyone remembers having fun with WinNuke back in 1997 but I believe the initial responses from MS was Windows itself was not really the problem, it was the rogue software and clients causing it as they were capable of sending OOB packets which would then crash Windows.