Awesome story. This is one that I will definitely pass on to others.
I find it interesting that they asked you for your password though. Customer Support Law dictates that a CS rep "will never ask you for your password".
Who decides what is enough though? Is it enough for me (as an ISP) to simply post a message on my web site to my users? Should I be required to send a letter to all customers? Or should I have to go to the extreme of monitoring all traffic? This becomes a very disturbing point because all of the funding for such ventures comes from me, not the companies who have problems with the content passed through my systems. The recording industry(s) want the most advanced and extreme measures taken but does anyone know where the $$ comes from to implement this? No wonder my cable bill went up.
I'm sure M$ will secretly release a nice java virus or threat of some kind. This will in turn set the media into a frenzy and M$ can step up to the plate and say "Our OS won't allow such things to happen..." Of course, they won't say anything more than that to allow themselves to look good. Everyone will hear about it on their "Power Lunch" and run out to buy XP.
Pretty slick.
How many people have figured out the ATM machines? How many have used the self-serv checkout at Meijer?
Use the pen or mouse to check the correct boxes (or a touch screen) on an old x86 workstation (running X?).
Ballots can then be enlarged for the viewing impaired so that they can be double checked before submitting.
The terminal then prints out (or punches.. HEY a use for all the old punchcard machines!!!) a ballot. When the ballot is turned in, the tally is counted from the computer and from the machine. That way, we have a backup/physical method to re-count if necessary.
The cool thing though, would be that you could vote from any precinct and simply log into yours. (The physical ballot would have the appropriate information printed on it).
Voting should not be allowed from home. There is too much room for error at this time.
Wait until you're the Enemy of the State and they want you dead.;) I'm not a conspiracy theorist to that degree but sometimes I wonder. It does make me a little nervous that all of this info is gathered on me and then manipulated to ruin me simply because I stumble on one of their acts of idiocy and hypocrisy.
Tell me I've seen one too many movies and I'll tell you that that's where Uncle Sam looks for ideas:)
As I unpack my spanky new 61" with a fork lift and lovingly set it upon the concrete foundation I had to have installed, I wonder... Can the world be an more wonderful? No.
I make my connections and give the monitor a once over to relish in this historical moment.
I depress the power button, my heart is beating fast.... ... ...
The lights dim and go out.
The breaker box blows.
I am in the dark.
The world could not be more wonderful... I love this.
The phone rings.
I answer.
Not only have I blown my power, but half the grid is down.
Life is good.
You seem to be stereotyping Americans. There are many Americans who do treat women and foreigners with the same amount of respect and consideration as if they were Americans themselves. Its unfortunate that some people choose to blind themselves with such ideas. You have made yourself no better than those you accuse.
It's unfortunate that we live in a world where that stupid rule holds true about buying a bad product and telling 3x as many people than if it were good. Unfortunately, the bad stand out in society because the good are not recognized. By all means, damn those who deserve but do not wish damnation upon those who do not.
In a world that is supposed to be "coming together", why do you wish such things on those who, like it or not, will be your neighbors?
Besides, the world can't afford another flood... Too many people have boats.
--I took a bit of a "bite" while reading about a drive
I think you are mistaken. This did take place over international waters.
To correct your analogy to reflect what happened...
A peeping tom named Uncle Sam was sitting in a tree in a park looking down on a girl named China. China's little brother saw him and climbed the tree and broke his nose. The Sam lost his balance as a result of the crippling injury and had to jump out of the tree. The safest place to land was on China's picnic blanket so he did and apologized.
Now, what is the problem? Sam, according to our fantasy laws (for the sake of the analogy) had the right to be in the tree. He also had the right to be looking wherever he wanted to. If China didn't want to be seen, she should move her "viewable" items to another place or hide them. The problem occurred when Sam was forced onto China's blanket where he did not belong...
(incidentally, Sam thumped the little brother twice, rendering him deceased or at least MIA, before falling from the tree)
Now, does China deserve an apology? Yes she does. Sam landed on her territory without permission or even any kind of warning. Does she deserve an apology for the peeping? (according to our fantsy law) No.
God forbid users don't remember their own passwords. Would you expect anything less from MS? Unfortunately, they don't get the benefit of the doubt that they probably didn't mean it in the way we are interpreting it. That's a sign of bad (or good) TOS writing by the suits.
Why would you entrust your passwords to anyone? If someone has that many important passwords, they should really come up with a better system than asking someone else to manage them. How irresponsible is that?
Save yourselves all the trouble. If you have that many passwords, buy a $10 lock box and write them all on paper and save them in there:)
--does anyone else's fingers get pruned from surfing the net?
You will need:
A frying pan
the plug-in
a friend if you need help with the pan
Instructions:
install the plug-in, don't mind if you think it doesn't work... it does.
Next, put your face right up to the monitor so your nose touches the glass.
Keep your eyes open until they start to water and then slowly back your face away from the screen.
Once you are about 18 inches away from the screen, immediately hit yourself (or have your friend hit you) 3 times in succession over the head with the frying pan. DON'T BLINK! If you blink, you will have to start all over.
The color should jump right out at you in a blinding flash.
Trust me.
--Do anyone else's fingers get pruned from surfing the net?
It has to do with the euphoria and warm fuzzy feeling we all get when we are swept back to the days...
Where 100 little off-colored blocks were stuck together to make a dragon in KQ, a Hero in HQ, a space suit in SQ, or a BIG GULP in LLL. The best part: We believed and were engrossed in it more then than we are with most of today's games...
"If you've been around since the dawn of time, Regardless of what you have now,
you never want to see the dinosaurs die,
So you cherish and save them somehow."
If you have an SB Live with digital i/o, you can rip your digital music to your computer and then record to MD. This will strip the copy protection and then let you record protected material to your minidisc. It takes a little longer but the quality is there.
If you don't have digital i/o or a Live. Get a Value and check out Hoontech.com for more information
Hope this helps.
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Awesome story. This is one that I will definitely pass on to others. I find it interesting that they asked you for your password though. Customer Support Law dictates that a CS rep "will never ask you for your password".
Who decides what is enough though? Is it enough for me (as an ISP) to simply post a message on my web site to my users? Should I be required to send a letter to all customers? Or should I have to go to the extreme of monitoring all traffic? This becomes a very disturbing point because all of the funding for such ventures comes from me, not the companies who have problems with the content passed through my systems. The recording industry(s) want the most advanced and extreme measures taken but does anyone know where the $$ comes from to implement this? No wonder my cable bill went up.
I'm sure M$ will secretly release a nice java virus or threat of some kind. This will in turn set the media into a frenzy and M$ can step up to the plate and say "Our OS won't allow such things to happen..." Of course, they won't say anything more than that to allow themselves to look good. Everyone will hear about it on their "Power Lunch" and run out to buy XP. Pretty slick.
How many people have figured out the ATM machines? How many have used the self-serv checkout at Meijer?
Use the pen or mouse to check the correct boxes (or a touch screen) on an old x86 workstation (running X?). Ballots can then be enlarged for the viewing impaired so that they can be double checked before submitting.
The terminal then prints out (or punches.. HEY a use for all the old punchcard machines!!!) a ballot. When the ballot is turned in, the tally is counted from the computer and from the machine. That way, we have a backup/physical method to re-count if necessary.
The cool thing though, would be that you could vote from any precinct and simply log into yours. (The physical ballot would have the appropriate information printed on it).
Voting should not be allowed from home. There is too much room for error at this time.
I agree with your second one.
:)
I know soemone who has a plastic heart. They take blood thinners and definitely move slower.
Ideally I'd take the real thing if I could, but in such a situation, I'd just take what I could get
Wait until you're the Enemy of the State and they want you dead. ;) I'm not a conspiracy theorist to that degree but sometimes I wonder. It does make me a little nervous that all of this info is gathered on me and then manipulated to ruin me simply because I stumble on one of their acts of idiocy and hypocrisy.
:)
Tell me I've seen one too many movies and I'll tell you that that's where Uncle Sam looks for ideas
As I unpack my spanky new 61" with a fork lift and lovingly set it upon the concrete foundation I had to have installed, I wonder... Can the world be an more wonderful? No.
...
...
I make my connections and give the monitor a once over to relish in this historical moment.
I depress the power button, my heart is beating fast....
The lights dim and go out.
The breaker box blows.
I am in the dark.
The world could not be more wonderful... I love this.
The phone rings.
I answer.
Not only have I blown my power, but half the grid is down.
Life is good.
You seem to be stereotyping Americans. There are many Americans who do treat women and foreigners with the same amount of respect and consideration as if they were Americans themselves. Its unfortunate that some people choose to blind themselves with such ideas. You have made yourself no better than those you accuse.
It's unfortunate that we live in a world where that stupid rule holds true about buying a bad product and telling 3x as many people than if it were good. Unfortunately, the bad stand out in society because the good are not recognized. By all means, damn those who deserve but do not wish damnation upon those who do not.
In a world that is supposed to be "coming together", why do you wish such things on those who, like it or not, will be your neighbors?
Besides, the world can't afford another flood... Too many people have boats.
--I took a bit of a "bite" while reading about a drive
This is public knowledge now. I don't think something like this can sneak up on anyone.
perhaps they'll cloak it!
---I took a bit of a "bite," reading about a drive.
I think you are mistaken. This did take place over international waters.
To correct your analogy to reflect what happened... A peeping tom named Uncle Sam was sitting in a tree in a park looking down on a girl named China. China's little brother saw him and climbed the tree and broke his nose. The Sam lost his balance as a result of the crippling injury and had to jump out of the tree. The safest place to land was on China's picnic blanket so he did and apologized.
Now, what is the problem? Sam, according to our fantasy laws (for the sake of the analogy) had the right to be in the tree. He also had the right to be looking wherever he wanted to. If China didn't want to be seen, she should move her "viewable" items to another place or hide them. The problem occurred when Sam was forced onto China's blanket where he did not belong...
(incidentally, Sam thumped the little brother twice, rendering him deceased or at least MIA, before falling from the tree)
Now, does China deserve an apology? Yes she does. Sam landed on her territory without permission or even any kind of warning. Does she deserve an apology for the peeping? (according to our fantsy law) No.
MS: "Good morning, Microsoft Registration Department, how may I help you?"
Customer: "Yes, I have Windows XP but I don't have an internet connection. I'd like to register though."
MS: "Ok, if you would please click on the 'Manually register' button."
Customer: "OK... WHOAH!!!"
MS: "Yes, I understand, if you could read me that 512 character string you'll be all set!"
Customer: (click)
MS: "Well, chalk up another product return"
God forbid users don't remember their own passwords. Would you expect anything less from MS? Unfortunately, they don't get the benefit of the doubt that they probably didn't mean it in the way we are interpreting it. That's a sign of bad (or good) TOS writing by the suits. :)
Why would you entrust your passwords to anyone? If someone has that many important passwords, they should really come up with a better system than asking someone else to manage them. How irresponsible is that?
Save yourselves all the trouble. If you have that many passwords, buy a $10 lock box and write them all on paper and save them in there
--does anyone else's fingers get pruned from surfing the net?
For those of you having trouble...
You will need:
A frying pan
the plug-in
a friend if you need help with the pan
Instructions:
install the plug-in, don't mind if you think it doesn't work... it does.
Next, put your face right up to the monitor so your nose touches the glass.
Keep your eyes open until they start to water and then slowly back your face away from the screen.
Once you are about 18 inches away from the screen, immediately hit yourself (or have your friend hit you) 3 times in succession over the head with the frying pan.
DON'T BLINK! If you blink, you will have to start all over. The color should jump right out at you in a blinding flash.
Trust me.
--Do anyone else's fingers get pruned from surfing the net?
CA hasn't got enough energy to power their basic necessities but hey... Let's shoot a really big laser in the sky...
It has to do with the euphoria and warm fuzzy feeling we all get when we are swept back to the days...
Where 100 little off-colored blocks were stuck together to make a dragon in KQ, a Hero in HQ, a space suit in SQ, or a BIG GULP in LLL. The best part: We believed and were engrossed in it more then than we are with most of today's games...
"If you've been around since the dawn of time, Regardless of what you have now,
you never want to see the dinosaurs die,
So you cherish and save them somehow."
If you have an SB Live with digital i/o, you can rip your digital music to your computer and then record to MD. This will strip the copy protection and then let you record protected material to your minidisc. It takes a little longer but the quality is there. If you don't have digital i/o or a Live. Get a Value and check out Hoontech.com for more information Hope this helps.