This is a common characteristic of NiMH and is stated many times in threads above. I have not seen this to be as pronounced as others believe and as I have read on various battery sites. I have 4 Rayovac 1800mA AA NiMH's (from Target for $11) in my portable police scanner and it lasts for a few months of occasional use without being charged and it definately lasts longer then the AA rechargable NiCD's I used to use. Same with the two sets I use in my digital camera. I do not doubt that they do self discharge but I'd still use them before other rechargeable options. Maybe the PDA having such a low consumption may make a difference? YMMV
The cheapest place(s) I've found for NiMH batteries and chargers is SamsClub and Costco. You can normally pick up a 4-8 pack of AA's and a charger for $15-25.
"Do Not Recall" pretty much sums up the last few years of business practice in the US.
There was a really good editorial on this in my local newspaper last week. This phrase seems to have replaced "pleading the 5th", and outright lying in court. It is funny how Enron, Worldcomm and a few other executives, working with outside specialists helped produced hundreds of shell companies and transferred money around for years to avoid stating loses and paying taxes but when confronted about specifics, they seemed to claim "I don't recall". Funny that they had no problem remembering to swap the funds around at tax time and earnings reporting time but suddenly it is all a blank. Maybe the CDC, AMA, or FDC should fund a study to see what happens to the memory of a perfectly functioning executive when they come under investigation. I wonder if any of these "DO NOT RECALL" statements were on thier resume when they applied for the $500 million jobs.
I've thought about that but I don't believe that would keep my number from the harvesting masses. I don't know how places (like 411.com and whowhere.net) get bulk lists but I'd assume it is not by scanning the local phone books. The phone company probably sells it electronically and probably updates it more then once a year. My new number would probably be out in less then 3 months and I'm sure the calls would start soon after that.
I don't see your way of thinking. People RELY on a phone for communications. If that communication channel gets filled with junk, it is useless.
If contacting someone for a purpose they don't appreciate is illegal, we have already lost many of our freedoms.
Freedom of speech which I assume is what you are refering to here, is not taken away. Freedom of speech does not mean that anyone HAS to listen to you and does not mean you can use my time and resources to get that speech to me. You want to sell or tell me something? Walk with me from the bus stop to my office, run with me while I am jogging (and don't be surprised on the third day when I pull out a pipe and club you with it). Buy a commercial on TV. Mail me a snail mail or buy a billboard near my house. I do not HAVE to provide you with my phone number and email address so you can contact me at your convienence with your autodialer when I am at my house eating dinner, that is not a "right" someone has.
We should simply not answer the doorbell if it's someone we don't like.
And exactly what system do you have that you can look and see who is calling your phone? Caller ID is not accurate enough and "spoofable" enough to be very unreliable. If you have to not answer your phone because of the potential waste of time you may be losing important calls.
Making silly little laws against everything that annoys certain individuals eventually leads to a world where you can't do anything without getting sued.
The DO NOT CALL list is an option for you to sign up on. It is not required for you to do anything if you do not want to be on the list and still recieve calls. It is YOUR choice. Based on the amount of people signing up, I would say those certain individuals is a fairly significant amount of people.
As for the 2 million or whatever jobs potentialy lost? Tough shit. It is not my concern that these companies fold when thier business depends on bothering other people.
I also have to pay a $2 monthly fee to NOT list my name and number in the phone book. Yes, I have to pay for this lack of service to subsidize the phone companies white/yellow page business because I choose to be delisted. I've been doing this everytime I move and it cuts my junk calls to about 2/month. But... I have to pay for it.
Evidence? You mean a list of file name scanned and filtered somehow in mass by an automated scanner? The RIAA's evidence is a file NAME stored on a computer, that is NO different then me writing down a couple of groups and song name on a piece of paper. We are talking about a court and lawsuits here worth 10's of thousands of dollars each here, not a bunch of people sitting around a card table thinking someone is guilty of something based on something they overheard near the water cooler. These are real lawsuits and real courts where real evidense should be required to proceed. There is NOTHING illegal about sharing out bogus files with bogus names and anyone can do it. It does not matter if it is not ethical, not right in your mind, and questionably stupid to do so but the point is again, it is not illegal to do it and nothing prevents anyone from doing it. You should not get prosecuted or have to defend yourself for thousands of dollars, lose you ISP account and have to put up with the strong arm tactics of the RIAA because of it. The simple fact that they have this power over you right now is simply amazing. A reply of "well don't have those file names shared out" is not a justification for what they are doing. I can walk into Walmart and put any merchandise down my pants and they can do nothing until I leave the store without paying for it. I can have a car that can triple the max speed limit in my state and never actually speed. A female with huge breasts can walk the city streets with high heels and almost no close at 2am and not get arrested for prostitution until solicated. I can buy all the papers and bongs I want and never get arrested for drugs. We can all sit around and guess what those examples above are going to lead to something illegal but until they are caught by REAL evidence, there is nothing you can do. Why can I not have a file named "Hotel Califonia" listed on P2P?
People that call for a geek are the ones that know nothing about computers. These are the same people how tie all hardware and software into one thing called the computer. I've had instances where I'd recieve a call two weeks later that the MS Word toolbars are messed up and the Palm will no longer sync up since I installed the new printer. Another one.. I installed and configured a small LAN with CM access. I got a call a few days later stating "shortly after I left, the computers started crashing, can you come look at the network". Turns out a doc they were opening with MS Word was corrupt and they tried opening it on different PC's. Luckily I was able to open it on my laptop with OO and convert it to RTF. It is really hard for me to deal with these situations. I always show up and fix the issue first, then try to explain the two are not related, many people complain and I end up reducing my fee or not charging and make up some of the loss on my next visit (which could be months). I do not advertise as most of my work is repeat customers and we have very good relationships. The word of mouth is my only expansion effort. There are bad people to work for though.
I wonder how long it is going to be before the alt.binaries start getting heat. I assume the RIAA feels one or more of the following:
[1] Does not consider this a real threat compared to P2P. [2] Considers usenet not 'popular' and do not want to alert the unknowing that usenet even exists. [3] They don't know that usenet exists themselves.
I would say that usenet would be an easy target for the RIAA as it is easy to track down the posting users and servers they are using.
Again, you completely missed the point. I am talking about using integration of applications into the OS and then allowing these applications to accept application data and software code (from anyone in the world that chooses to email you or from any web page you visit) and run files. That is completely different issue all together. That method is NOT safer by any stretch of the imagination. Not one of the applications you mentioned above is required to be installed on a nix system, they can be installed at will and removed as easily. Adding or removing those applicatins only results in the loss or gain of that applications functions, not other systems or loss of major parts of the OS's functionality. These applications can be installed, removed, or replaced with any alternative or functionality that you desire. They do have holes but not a single one of them was triggered by viewing a web page with a BGSOUND tag, by opening an email, or by viewing a rouge porn site. Can you name me one hole on a *nix box that would be triggered the same way? You need to compare apples to apples here.
Applications that are so tightly integrated into the OS that they are not really seperate applications anymore. That was my point. A new version of DirectX comes out that allows Internet Explorer and ActiveX controls to open up a security hole that can manipulate the underlying OS. Try removing DirectX or finding a third party application with similar funcionality, try removing IE and see what else will no longer work. These items were integrated so tightly on purpose for increased convienence and to tie you into everything MS. The Mozilla Firebird browser for W32 is a zip equivelent of a tarball, unzip and double click the exe file and it is running, there is no OS modification at all. This integration was a major issue during the antitrust case. Another example is MS Windows update that REQUIRES a recent version of IE, I am sure MS could easily come up with a small standalone application like every other software company in the world uses to allow automated scheduling and downloading of updates. They choose to tie these together to limit the less technical from wandering for alternatives.
Applications or not, this and many other flaws are involved with the OS and functions outside of the at risk applications. Integrating data with application code and scripting and tying it all together with the core of the OS is a convienence but also a security risk.
True, should have been clearer, scripts that are automatically installed and run by opening or 'previewing' an email that can access your address book or whatever it is written to do.
Can you name another OS that exposes a security flaw via the BGSOUND tag? How about one where simply previewing or opening an email will cause security problems? How about one where scripts can be run and have access to your address books for mass emailing. How about one where browsing the web with certain active x controls causes security problems? How about one where the mime encoding is ignored or misrepresented and arbitrary local programs can be run via email or web browsing? How about one where the help system can run arbitrary code in the background? How about embedding viruses and macros into documents that can run arbitrary code and start any program automaticially?. I can keep going if you'd like. Can you even name a single OS that has ANY of these issues of data and code combined into one? Getting a perfect bugfree OS is unrealistic, getting one that is swiss cheese and a complete security clusterf**k should not be acceptable either.
Meditation is *very* useful for clearing the mind and relieving stress. It's a useful tool for collecting your thoughts, visualizing the achievement of goals, and quieting the useless chatter in your mind that keeps you from being productive.
Substitute "Mediation" with "six pack" and you have what the rest of us do. The effects are amazingly similar plus it has the added bonus of the beer goggle effect.
I see your points to some extent but consider Apache was been by far the most popular web server for at least the last 8 years running on various platforms. Security is in design and not proportional to popularity. Hack ATTEMPTS maybe be higher with popularity but those attempts are useless until you find the hole.
From the medical bills I currently pay, some are to a third party that handles the payments and some are from the medical facility itself. From my experience, neither of these added anything extra to the amount owed as long as you pay them monthly (no interest or fees either). I had one that slip through the cracks when I was on leave in the military (should have been 100% covered) and I had to deal with a collector directly. I would have blown it off since it was over 5 years old but I had to pay it before my home mortgage was approved. Not worth fighting at that point. I guess medical places can go both ways.
My real point was there are two types of collectors, the debt collecting type and the debt buying type (which then collect for themselves). The government uses the collecting type. Private businesses use either one.
Besides, most collectors don't get paid on a contract basis - they get a percentage of what's collected. This gives them much more incentive to collect than a government desk worker.
Collecting debt due the government is different then a private business. A private business sells your debt to a collector at a fraction of what is actually owed. Your debt is written off and you no longer owe the original company money. It is in the best interest of the collector to get as much as possible as anything over what they bought it for would cover costs and be profit. This is why it is common for private debt collectors to negotiate with you if they feel you are not going to pay and also why they hound you like a dog to get thier money.
The government wants all of thier money and does not "sell" your debt, they contract out someone to collect it for them. Government debt collectors have to add to what you owe to make any money and only get paid when you pay. I believe it is normally an option to bypass the collector and still pay the original government debt directly to the government and avoid the extra fees the collector adds on. If it finally gets to the point where your income or tax return money will be docked to get the money, the contracted collector is out of the loop and docking is for the original amount owed.
the recording industry organization provides a KaZaA screen name, an Internet Protocol, or IP, address, and a list of songs it says were shared from the location.
A LIST of files. No actual files, just a list. The actual file called "Metallica - Master of Puppets" could conatin my voice saying "Lars, this was your last album worth buying" repeating over and over again to fill the 5.53 time slot. Everyone knows these are out there and I swear I read in the past about the RIAA doing this themselves to water down the results. How can a list of file names possibly stand up in court? I am not sticking up for copyright violators but the RIAA was no real evidence here.
Your "sludge" may be anothers gold mine. Not everyone shares the same interests. Most of what I listen to, many people have never heard or care to hear again. So be it. Might not be a blockbuster but to ignore it would hit the heart of the RIAA plan of music control (fabricate a few big stars to limit the advertising and production costs). That is the whole reason indies exist and are getting more popular.
Having more does not mean having less. I agree that a FIFO policy would not be very effective but a LFUDA replacement policy would be more logical but only required if they are short on space. $40 should easily cover storage expenses for 65MB of files.
It is not so much the absurd notion that everything on the net is free, it is the simple fact that whatever your are about to access and pay a micropayment for, is more then likely available free somewhere else. This is why micropayments are failing. It would take a cartel of thousands of members in a common field working together to get a critical mass before micropayments will go anywhere, or a very specific niche location. Cell phone ringer sites are a textook example. There are pay-for play but there are tons of free ones also. The users paying are doing so because they do not know about the free ones, or they like the content on certain pay sites. If you run a pay site, you better hope it offers something unique because most people will eventually find the free ones.
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This is a common characteristic of NiMH and is stated many times in threads above. I have not seen this to be as pronounced as others believe and as I have read on various battery sites. I have 4 Rayovac 1800mA AA NiMH's (from Target for $11) in my portable police scanner and it lasts for a few months of occasional use without being charged and it definately lasts longer then the AA rechargable NiCD's I used to use. Same with the two sets I use in my digital camera. I do not doubt that they do self discharge but I'd still use them before other rechargeable options. Maybe the PDA having such a low consumption may make a difference? YMMV
The cheapest place(s) I've found for NiMH batteries and chargers is SamsClub and Costco. You can normally pick up a 4-8 pack of AA's and a charger for $15-25.
"Do Not Recall" pretty much sums up the last few years of business practice in the US.
There was a really good editorial on this in my local newspaper last week. This phrase seems to have replaced "pleading the 5th", and outright lying in court. It is funny how Enron, Worldcomm and a few other executives, working with outside specialists helped produced hundreds of shell companies and transferred money around for years to avoid stating loses and paying taxes but when confronted about specifics, they seemed to claim "I don't recall". Funny that they had no problem remembering to swap the funds around at tax time and earnings reporting time but suddenly it is all a blank. Maybe the CDC, AMA, or FDC should fund a study to see what happens to the memory of a perfectly functioning executive when they come under investigation. I wonder if any of these "DO NOT RECALL" statements were on thier resume when they applied for the $500 million jobs.
I've thought about that but I don't believe that would keep my number from the harvesting masses. I don't know how places (like 411.com and whowhere.net) get bulk lists but I'd assume it is not by scanning the local phone books. The phone company probably sells it electronically and probably updates it more then once a year. My new number would probably be out in less then 3 months and I'm sure the calls would start soon after that.
Dude, you need some serious help..
Your unsubstantiated claims and unassociated examples of concept are interesting but completely unrelated to any of the context in this conversation.
I don't see your way of thinking. People RELY on a phone for communications. If that communication channel gets filled with junk, it is useless.
If contacting someone for a purpose they don't appreciate is illegal, we have already lost many of our freedoms.
Freedom of speech which I assume is what you are refering to here, is not taken away. Freedom of speech does not mean that anyone HAS to listen to you and does not mean you can use my time and resources to get that speech to me. You want to sell or tell me something? Walk with me from the bus stop to my office, run with me while I am jogging (and don't be surprised on the third day when I pull out a pipe and club you with it). Buy a commercial on TV. Mail me a snail mail or buy a billboard near my house. I do not HAVE to provide you with my phone number and email address so you can contact me at your convienence with your autodialer when I am at my house eating dinner, that is not a "right" someone has.
We should simply not answer the doorbell if it's someone we don't like.
And exactly what system do you have that you can look and see who is calling your phone? Caller ID is not accurate enough and "spoofable" enough to be very unreliable. If you have to not answer your phone because of the potential waste of time you may be losing important calls.
Making silly little laws against everything that annoys certain individuals eventually leads to a world where you can't do anything without getting sued.
The DO NOT CALL list is an option for you to sign up on. It is not required for you to do anything if you do not want to be on the list and still recieve calls. It is YOUR choice. Based on the amount of people signing up, I would say those certain individuals is a fairly significant amount of people.
As for the 2 million or whatever jobs potentialy lost? Tough shit. It is not my concern that these companies fold when thier business depends on bothering other people.
I also have to pay a $2 monthly fee to NOT list my name and number in the phone book. Yes, I have to pay for this lack of service to subsidize the phone companies white/yellow page business because I choose to be delisted. I've been doing this everytime I move and it cuts my junk calls to about 2/month. But... I have to pay for it.
A 500k video of clippy getting his ass kicked.
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You can still get it from Microsoft right here..
My life story...
Why do today what you can put off until tommorrow.
Evidence? You mean a list of file name scanned and filtered somehow in mass by an automated scanner? The RIAA's evidence is a file NAME stored on a computer, that is NO different then me writing down a couple of groups and song name on a piece of paper. We are talking about a court and lawsuits here worth 10's of thousands of dollars each here, not a bunch of people sitting around a card table thinking someone is guilty of something based on something they overheard near the water cooler. These are real lawsuits and real courts where real evidense should be required to proceed. There is NOTHING illegal about sharing out bogus files with bogus names and anyone can do it. It does not matter if it is not ethical, not right in your mind, and questionably stupid to do so but the point is again, it is not illegal to do it and nothing prevents anyone from doing it. You should not get prosecuted or have to defend yourself for thousands of dollars, lose you ISP account and have to put up with the strong arm tactics of the RIAA because of it. The simple fact that they have this power over you right now is simply amazing. A reply of "well don't have those file names shared out" is not a justification for what they are doing. I can walk into Walmart and put any merchandise down my pants and they can do nothing until I leave the store without paying for it. I can have a car that can triple the max speed limit in my state and never actually speed. A female with huge breasts can walk the city streets with high heels and almost no close at 2am and not get arrested for prostitution until solicated. I can buy all the papers and bongs I want and never get arrested for drugs. We can all sit around and guess what those examples above are going to lead to something illegal but until they are caught by REAL evidence, there is nothing you can do. Why can I not have a file named "Hotel Califonia" listed on P2P?
Credibility and liability..
People that call for a geek are the ones that know nothing about computers. These are the same people how tie all hardware and software into one thing called the computer. I've had instances where I'd recieve a call two weeks later that the MS Word toolbars are messed up and the Palm will no longer sync up since I installed the new printer. Another one.. I installed and configured a small LAN with CM access. I got a call a few days later stating "shortly after I left, the computers started crashing, can you come look at the network". Turns out a doc they were opening with MS Word was corrupt and they tried opening it on different PC's. Luckily I was able to open it on my laptop with OO and convert it to RTF. It is really hard for me to deal with these situations. I always show up and fix the issue first, then try to explain the two are not related, many people complain and I end up reducing my fee or not charging and make up some of the loss on my next visit (which could be months). I do not advertise as most of my work is repeat customers and we have very good relationships. The word of mouth is my only expansion effort. There are bad people to work for though.
Nerds? you mean like on usenet?
I wonder how long it is going to be before the alt.binaries start getting heat. I assume the RIAA feels one or more of the following:
[1] Does not consider this a real threat compared to P2P.
[2] Considers usenet not 'popular' and do not want to alert the unknowing that usenet even exists.
[3] They don't know that usenet exists themselves.
I would say that usenet would be an easy target for the RIAA as it is easy to track down the posting users and servers they are using.
My county library still has cd's and cassettes to check out. It is a surprisingly decent and up to date collection.
Again, you completely missed the point. I am talking about using integration of applications into the OS and then allowing these applications to accept application data and software code (from anyone in the world that chooses to email you or from any web page you visit) and run files. That is completely different issue all together. That method is NOT safer by any stretch of the imagination.
Not one of the applications you mentioned above is required to be installed on a nix system, they can be installed at will and removed as easily. Adding or removing those applicatins only results in the loss or gain of that applications functions, not other systems or loss of major parts of the OS's functionality. These applications can be installed, removed, or replaced with any alternative or functionality that you desire. They do have holes but not a single one of them was triggered by viewing a web page with a BGSOUND tag, by opening an email, or by viewing a rouge porn site. Can you name me one hole on a *nix box that would be triggered the same way? You need to compare apples to apples here.
A lot of your gripes are with applications anyway
Applications that are so tightly integrated into the OS that they are not really seperate applications anymore. That was my point. A new version of DirectX comes out that allows Internet Explorer and ActiveX controls to open up a security hole that can manipulate the underlying OS. Try removing DirectX or finding a third party application with similar funcionality, try removing IE and see what else will no longer work. These items were integrated so tightly on purpose for increased convienence and to tie you into everything MS. The Mozilla Firebird browser for W32 is a zip equivelent of a tarball, unzip and double click the exe file and it is running, there is no OS modification at all. This integration was a major issue during the antitrust case. Another example is MS Windows update that REQUIRES a recent version of IE, I am sure MS could easily come up with a small standalone application like every other software company in the world uses to allow automated scheduling and downloading of updates. They choose to tie these together to limit the less technical from wandering for alternatives.
Applications or not, this and many other flaws are involved with the OS and functions outside of the at risk applications. Integrating data with application code and scripting and tying it all together with the core of the OS is a convienence but also a security risk.
True, should have been clearer, scripts that are automatically installed and run by opening or 'previewing' an email that can access your address book or whatever it is written to do.
Can you name another OS that exposes a security flaw via the BGSOUND tag? How about one where simply previewing or opening an email will cause security problems? How about one where scripts can be run and have access to your address books for mass emailing. How about one where browsing the web with certain active x controls causes security problems? How about one where the mime encoding is ignored or misrepresented and arbitrary local programs can be run via email or web browsing? How about one where the help system can run arbitrary code in the background? How about embedding viruses and macros into documents that can run arbitrary code and start any program automaticially?. I can keep going if you'd like. Can you even name a single OS that has ANY of these issues of data and code combined into one? Getting a perfect bugfree OS is unrealistic, getting one that is swiss cheese and a complete security clusterf**k should not be acceptable either.
Meditation is *very* useful for clearing the mind and relieving stress. It's a useful tool for collecting your thoughts, visualizing the achievement of goals, and quieting the useless chatter in your mind that keeps you from being productive.
Substitute "Mediation" with "six pack" and you have what the rest of us do. The effects are amazingly similar plus it has the added bonus of the beer goggle effect.
I see your points to some extent but consider Apache was been by far the most popular web server for at least the last 8 years running on various platforms. Security is in design and not proportional to popularity. Hack ATTEMPTS maybe be higher with popularity but those attempts are useless until you find the hole.
From the medical bills I currently pay, some are to a third party that handles the payments and some are from the medical facility itself. From my experience, neither of these added anything extra to the amount owed as long as you pay them monthly (no interest or fees either). I had one that slip through the cracks when I was on leave in the military (should have been 100% covered) and I had to deal with a collector directly. I would have blown it off since it was over 5 years old but I had to pay it before my home mortgage was approved. Not worth fighting at that point. I guess medical places can go both ways.
My real point was there are two types of collectors, the debt collecting type and the debt buying type (which then collect for themselves). The government uses the collecting type. Private businesses use either one.
Besides, most collectors don't get paid on a contract basis - they get a percentage of what's collected. This gives them much more incentive to collect than a government desk worker.
Collecting debt due the government is different then a private business. A private business sells your debt to a collector at a fraction of what is actually owed. Your debt is written off and you no longer owe the original company money. It is in the best interest of the collector to get as much as possible as anything over what they bought it for would cover costs and be profit. This is why it is common for private debt collectors to negotiate with you if they feel you are not going to pay and also why they hound you like a dog to get thier money.
The government wants all of thier money and does not "sell" your debt, they contract out someone to collect it for them. Government debt collectors have to add to what you owe to make any money and only get paid when you pay. I believe it is normally an option to bypass the collector and still pay the original government debt directly to the government and avoid the extra fees the collector adds on. If it finally gets to the point where your income or tax return money will be docked to get the money, the contracted collector is out of the loop and docking is for the original amount owed.
Just a guess but I doubt they were spelling out the words during the conversation.
the recording industry organization provides a KaZaA screen name, an Internet Protocol, or IP, address, and a list of songs it says were shared from the location.
A LIST of files. No actual files, just a list. The actual file called "Metallica - Master of Puppets" could conatin my voice saying "Lars, this was your last album worth buying" repeating over and over again to fill the 5.53 time slot. Everyone knows these are out there and I swear I read in the past about the RIAA doing this themselves to water down the results. How can a list of file names possibly stand up in court? I am not sticking up for copyright violators but the RIAA was no real evidence here.
Your "sludge" may be anothers gold mine. Not everyone shares the same interests. Most of what I listen to, many people have never heard or care to hear again. So be it. Might not be a blockbuster but to ignore it would hit the heart of the RIAA plan of music control (fabricate a few big stars to limit the advertising and production costs). That is the whole reason indies exist and are getting more popular.
Having more does not mean having less. I agree that a FIFO policy would not be very effective but a LFUDA replacement policy would be more logical but only required if they are short on space. $40 should easily cover storage expenses for 65MB of files.
It is not so much the absurd notion that everything on the net is free, it is the simple fact that whatever your are about to access and pay a micropayment for, is more then likely available free somewhere else. This is why micropayments are failing. It would take a cartel of thousands of members in a common field working together to get a critical mass before micropayments will go anywhere, or a very specific niche location. Cell phone ringer sites are a textook example. There are pay-for play but there are tons of free ones also. The users paying are doing so because they do not know about the free ones, or they like the content on certain pay sites. If you run a pay site, you better hope it offers something unique because most people will eventually find the free ones.