Really, I despise them, their pricing, their services, their customer service is appaling from the experience I had trying to get the flippin dialup off em. And the fact that they might be about to hike prices again according to this leak is damned frustrating.
But this comes along as such a blatant plug for whirlpool, it seems like such a load of bollocks.
whirlpool has the reputation from people Ive talked to that.. well, its comparable to the submission acceptenace / bash windows ratio everyone rants about on slashdot.
It all seems rather sad if you ask me.
You refuse to pay boy, Im gonna come out dar and bust your ass boy!
Whats dat? Yew not scared of me? I'll get some of my consultants and I'll teach you to be scared.
Nom.
Another question worth asking: Even if the copyright holds-up, is it the end-users who are liable for infringement, or the Telco's who are on-selling the numbers as their own property?
This is a good point you have brought out. If they really are trying to thumb there nose at copyright laws and big businesses, and they get telcos paying royalties on numbers, you know whos gonna get the end result. the customer. on the phone bill. If this succeds (which I doubt) they will have, in a way, made things worse.
Nice try guys, but plan before you try to pull it off, rather than after. *sigh*
Hmm. Lets think about this for a second. Its sort of a crude forumla.
Slashdot doesnt have much if any profit.. just enough toover wages and bandwidth. And the banners probably only just cover bandwidth.
So. 1 page: 10c Bandwidth: 10c Ads.
... 3pages: 30c Bandwidth: 30c Ads.
Wheres the profit which they can donate?
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This is not an attack on America, as much as it was intended to be. It was an attack on the World.
A large portion, if not most, Companies in the world trade center have their Headqaurters in other countries all over the world. The WTC was merely on American Soil.
It wasn't America's economy that was hurt and terrorized - it was thousands of secretaries, salesmen, computer operators, and janitors. Ordinary people trying to make a living. They have been devastated, as have been their friends neighbors and families.
Let me make a suggestion. All the people who are yakking away about america deserved it, or along those lines, sit back for a moment, shut up, and THINK. Use some of that precious gray matter.
These people, for the most part, were not americans by birth or origin. They were people just like you and me.
Would YOU still be staying "it was America's fault, and oh hey, they should change their policy" if it was YOUR wife, son, husband, relative, friend in there? WOULD YOU!?
Didn't Think So.
Just imagine how those PEOPLE.. real live people.. must be feeling about how everyone is talking about their loved one dying saying things like 'America had it coming', especially when they and their son was born and grew up in Australia, on the other side of the damn world like one couple Ive seen on the TV.
Grab the right end of the stick. Please.
Visit This Register Article and see for your self, just how many foreign companies there were.
Hell, the only thing a sane male would use the 10 GB for is pr0n! And it wouldnt be much of a viewing experience on that screen. Who would waste such precious GB on music for goodness sake!
Have you even been on irc before? You sure dont sound like it. EFnet is a collection of servers. Notice the s on the end of servers. And, it is also HIGHLY unlikely that the semi official webpage at EFnet.org is even hosted on one of the IRC servers. Please. Humor Me. True, they probably dont really want a slashdot effect right about now, but, its highly unlikely that its connected to the IRC Network.
Call me a troll if you want but Doc here needs a sortin out.
The AOL CEO Steve Ballmer was in a car crash earlier ths evening while testing one of the new VW Golfs, after drifting over into the left lane. The AOL CEO was quoted as saying "It wasn't my fault Officer! I got distracted by the car repeatedly telling me "You've got mail!"
What we have here is a mobile phone which only encrypts to the communications partner. Not to the person you call, the that can still be tapped.
And, if you think this will protect you from goverment services, think again. Most large goverments (hint: America) could break that very easily (hint: Super Computer (Cray?)).
And dont get me started on the price!
I think Im going to go run and download emulator so I can experience crappyish graphics with an awkward keyboard/mouse set up to play almost no games or demos and be chained to my desk with it. (Unless, I had, say, a laptop) WHAT FUN!:D
I just finished reading the Logitech Mouse/Keyoard Wireless fiasco down the page a bit. It contained a comment written by Cardhore saying Mouse data is useful.
Your double-click speed, combined with mouse acceleration, velocity, and number of buttons is practically a DNA fingerprint of your computer! I laughed at the time.
This comment was also posted 10s of hours ago as well. Now hows that for a coincidence!
Find the comment here.
I fail to understand the goal which Chicgo is trying to acheive by giving an IBM employee 30 days community service. Giving the corporation as a whole a fine is logical, and worth while, but a singular employee makes no sense. Even if this employee spray painted all of the ads, which I doubt, he would only be following orders, especially if he thought his job would be in danger.(How ever, that would make one hell of a lawsuit) If anyone should be getting community service, it should be the marketing team or perhaps the people who authorized the ads or maybe, just maybe, the lawyers who said it would be legal (If they were consulted in the first place).
By the looks of it, this poor person has been suckered into doing something which he does not deserve.
irc addict.
This is Yet Another Way to kill people. No Kidding.
This brings me back to when slashdot ran a story on a space war simulation run by the Army set in 2017.
This would be one of the weapons, surely. It couldnt be all that easy to try and blow up an asteroid hurtling at you at many km/h.
Why risk having planes or subs or ships vulnerable out over sea or land, when you could just ditch them sn asteroid from outer space. Just have a coupler kamikazee satellite nukes up there ready to go boom with a clikety clikety. Risk free aye.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah. THAT's why they are still going then.
We all know Quebec isnt subject to Canada's laws.
Roland Emmerich, is that you?
You mean like two planes crashing into the WTC, a plane crashing into the pentagon and a plane crashing in Pensylvannia?
Heh.
Legal department?
That was cut out of the budget 4 years ago..
You've read Executive Orders havent you? ;-)
Now where was it.. Ah yes! :)
I swear I just saw one of those hybrid cars go by.. ;P
wait..
snifff
whats that smell?
Really, I despise them, their pricing, their services, their customer service is appaling from the experience I had trying to get the flippin dialup off em. And the fact that they might be about to hike prices again according to this leak is damned frustrating.
But this comes along as such a blatant plug for whirlpool, it seems like such a load of bollocks.
whirlpool has the reputation from people Ive talked to that.. well, its comparable to the submission acceptenace / bash windows ratio everyone rants about on slashdot.
It all seems rather sad if you ask me.
.. Eyes in the back of your head.
Sorry. Couldnt Resist.
You refuse to pay boy, Im gonna come out dar and bust your ass boy!
Whats dat? Yew not scared of me? I'll get some of my consultants and I'll teach you to be scared.
Nom.
Another question worth asking: Even if the copyright holds-up, is it the end-users who are liable for infringement, or the Telco's who are on-selling the numbers as their own property?
This is a good point you have brought out. If they really are trying to thumb there nose at copyright laws and big businesses, and they get telcos paying royalties on numbers, you know whos gonna get the end result. the customer. on the phone bill. If this succeds (which I doubt) they will have, in a way, made things worse.
Nice try guys, but plan before you try to pull it off, rather than after. *sigh*
Hmm. Lets think about this for a second. Its sort of a crude forumla.
Slashdot doesnt have much if any profit.. just enough toover wages and bandwidth. And the banners probably only just cover bandwidth.
So. 1 page: 10c Bandwidth: 10c Ads.
... 3pages: 30c Bandwidth: 30c Ads.
Wheres the profit which they can donate?
This is not an attack on America, as much as it was intended to be. It was an attack on the World. A large portion, if not most, Companies in the world trade center have their Headqaurters in other countries all over the world. The WTC was merely on American Soil. It wasn't America's economy that was hurt and terrorized - it was thousands of secretaries, salesmen, computer operators, and janitors. Ordinary people trying to make a living. They have been devastated, as have been their friends neighbors and families. Let me make a suggestion. All the people who are yakking away about america deserved it, or along those lines, sit back for a moment, shut up, and THINK. Use some of that precious gray matter. These people, for the most part, were not americans by birth or origin. They were people just like you and me. Would YOU still be staying "it was America's fault, and oh hey, they should change their policy" if it was YOUR wife, son, husband, relative, friend in there? WOULD YOU!? Didn't Think So. Just imagine how those PEOPLE.. real live people.. must be feeling about how everyone is talking about their loved one dying saying things like 'America had it coming', especially when they and their son was born and grew up in Australia, on the other side of the damn world like one couple Ive seen on the TV. Grab the right end of the stick. Please. Visit This Register Article and see for your self, just how many foreign companies there were.
CmdrTaco oughta take up writing for segfault. He's got a real knack for it.
Oh wait. He's accurately predicting what the world will be like in 5 years. Doh!
Hell, the only thing a sane male would use the 10 GB for is pr0n! And it wouldnt be much of a viewing experience on that screen. Who would waste such precious GB on music for goodness sake!
Have you even been on irc before? You sure dont sound like it. EFnet is a collection of servers. Notice the s on the end of servers. And, it is also HIGHLY unlikely that the semi official webpage at EFnet.org is even hosted on one of the IRC servers. Please. Humor Me. True, they probably dont really want a slashdot effect right about now, but, its highly unlikely that its connected to the IRC Network.
Call me a troll if you want but Doc here needs a sortin out.
The AOL CEO Steve Ballmer was in a car crash earlier ths evening while testing one of the new VW Golfs, after drifting over into the left lane. The AOL CEO was quoted as saying "It wasn't my fault Officer! I got distracted by the car repeatedly telling me "You've got mail!"
What we have here is a mobile phone which only encrypts to the communications partner. Not to the person you call, the that can still be tapped.
And, if you think this will protect you from goverment services, think again. Most large goverments (hint: America) could break that very easily (hint: Super Computer (Cray?)).
And dont get me started on the price!
Pentium Computers? 10 years on a "Pentium Computer"?
:-)
What, a Pentium 133Mhz? Im sure that'll be really helpful.
And they think computing is a safe hobby ;-)
I think Im going to go run and download emulator so I can experience crappyish graphics with an awkward keyboard/mouse set up to play almost no games or demos and be chained to my desk with it. (Unless, I had, say, a laptop) WHAT FUN! :D
I just finished reading the Logitech Mouse/Keyoard Wireless fiasco down the page a bit. It contained a comment written by Cardhore saying
Mouse data is useful.
Your double-click speed, combined with mouse acceleration, velocity, and number of buttons is practically a DNA fingerprint of your computer! I laughed at the time.
This comment was also posted 10s of hours ago as well.
Now hows that for a coincidence! Find the comment here.
IRC Addict.
but it wasnt Jack Ryan, but John "Clark". Jack Ryan, at that stage, was the President. :-)
I fail to understand the goal which Chicgo is trying to acheive by giving an IBM employee 30 days community service. Giving the corporation as a whole a fine is logical, and worth while, but a singular employee makes no sense. Even if this employee spray painted all of the ads, which I doubt, he would only be following orders, especially if he thought his job would be in danger.(How ever, that would make one hell of a lawsuit) If anyone should be getting community service, it should be the marketing team or perhaps the people who authorized the ads or maybe, just maybe, the lawyers who said it would be legal (If they were consulted in the first place).
By the looks of it, this poor person has been suckered into doing something which he does not deserve.
irc addict.
This is Yet Another Way to kill people. No Kidding.
This brings me back to when slashdot ran a story on a space war simulation run by the Army set in 2017.
This would be one of the weapons, surely. It couldnt be all that easy to try and blow up an asteroid hurtling at you at many km/h.
Why risk having planes or subs or ships vulnerable out over sea or land, when you could just ditch them sn asteroid from outer space. Just have a coupler kamikazee satellite nukes up there ready to go boom with a clikety clikety. Risk free aye.