...I'm getting to the point where I want to say 'if they go offshore to hide from SPAM rules in the US then let's unplug them from the internet connections into the US. The whole country. If they won't play ball then let's play hardball.
Though that could scream censorship and all, but still something has to be done when US citizens are exploiting the legal loopholes to fill my inbox with dick enlargment, cheap software, and now the new trend seems to be XM Radio hawking).
There are technological ways around them, but we can't let them flounder too long or someone like MS will step in and 'save' us and lock out internet email unless you pay a microsoft tax.
I know spammers don't just spam email addresses. They dictionary attack SMTP servers. I moved hosting companies for my domain to a 'lesser known' domain and my spam went from 100s a day to 10 - 15. Unfortunately 7 - 9 of those 10 - 15 are the ones that manage to sneak through every filter I use for some reason.
I know this is rather incoherant foaming rant but I'm just getting so fed up with this crap it's not funny anymore. We need to treat all spammers like 419s and hunt them all down
I'm managed to fly 49 flights on American so far this year and I'm really ticked they shared my travel information without my consent.
Had they asked, I'd have given it to them. I'm sick of fucking (in)security with arbitrary random acts of rudeness and stupidity.
I'm tired of standing in lines. I'm on an airplane a week it seems like and you'd think the'yd be able to go 'oh yeah, he flys with us all the time so lets not randomly search his ass because he's got a ticket that goes to one city but leaves from another' or things like that.
Hell if they checked my flight patterns for the last 5 years they'd see a pretty businessman like pattern of 70+ flights on their airline alone a year, and then another 20 or so from other airlines to cities they don't cover.
They need to replace the writers. This season as been pretty lackluster. I think it's jumped the shark at this point. Pretty disappointing. I've found myself shutting it off midway through most episodes this season which is sad really.
I don't know if it was just the ads but the recent one for the re-run of Marge writing the romance novel had homer's bare ass fuzzed out. Hope that's not a boobie-gate reaction
Absolutely. In my experience we have people that we call 'WIMPs' (windows icon mouse pointer) and those that actually edited an autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a PCMCIA card to work in a system. The guys/girls that did the latter have so much better troubleshooting skills than the folks that learned how to install Windows by clicking 'next next next' all the time.
The one time I played around with Gentoo it really opened my eyes to how Linux boots up - something that was a bit of a mistery up until I tried Gentoo. That being said I'm running RH9 and Fedora on my machines because I needed a driver that was only written for Red Hat and I don't have the C++ experience to want to dink with it that long.
It's pretty funny to me how a computer maker with only 3% of the total computer market can garner so much attention over one little statement.
As others have pointed out there have been just as many other biased, false, and outright ridiculus claims such as faster inernet thanks to a processor, dancing flourescant colored clean room suits, and all sorts of stuff.
yet intel's marketing arm, er, Dell decides they need to file a complaint with the BBB over it and they hold the #1 spot for desktops?
I'd think that the industry forum would have been leary of adopting an OSS code based CODEC that could be sued by some idiot company that claimed that IBM copied their code and plugged it into the Ogg Vorbis Codec.
Oh Wait, SCO doesn't own any audio companies.
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That and they fail to mention what a bitch the Time Warner DVR is to use compared to TiVo. I had TiVo, moved, got DVR because I thought 'eh what the heck' and then lasted 3 weeks and sent it back. TiVo's software is much more mature.
Plus it's eminently hackable.
3 TiVo's, 1 DVD/TiVo and counting (one is dead, hit by lightning)
How would an insurance company no my speed is over the limit based where I am? Maybe i'm driving 55 mph - which is a legal limit - but I'm driving through a playground with children running screaming for their life.
I use iMovie to pull in my video of my 2yr old girl running around like a fool and send it to her grandparents on the other side of the north american continent.
I've never found it unable to 'do what you need to do' other than the ability to make lasers shoot from her eyeballs or something fun like that.
Physicis is not my strong point, but I'm wondering something.
Is this a new phenomena that hair dryers & razors rot your brain? Or have they always been this evil and we just noticed it or soemthing? Because haven't electric razors, and hair dryers, and other motorized implements been around for a few decades if not 50 - 60 years? Just that 50-60 years ago you'd get electrocuted if it got wet. Now it fries your brain?
I must be one of the rare ones but I've found that the TiVo remote isn't the panacea led to believe by the article.
The numeric keys are to me in a very odd position and require me to either set the remote down or use two hands - one to hold and the other to push the buttons - to type in the direct channel number.
Everything else is in a good spot though I wish it had a 'live TV button' like the sony versions did instead of having to hit the TiVo button twice - because sometimes it gets a little behind and you play the flipping TiVo menus as it goes to live TV and back.
Just my $0.02 from someone who's had a TiVo since 2000.
Contrary to popular belief, the Evil Empire as some have already put it like to keep their population employed. Companies doing things for free with a hope to have services foot the bill don't employ a lot of people - or last that long.
Companies that charge for their software product and keep the source code closed do - in fact on any given day if they blink they can affect the entire stock market.
That's what the US is going to be interested in protecting. OSS may solve a lot of things but it creates other socio-economic issues that need to be addressed as well. I for one don't hail our communist overlords in that we all work for free - as in speech - and have no way to make a buck off my work unless someone altruistic wants to pay me to give away my work for free.
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Don't forget Yahoo. A former high school classmate of mine went to Stanford and was one of the three founding members of Yahoo.
...I'm getting to the point where I want to say 'if they go offshore to hide from SPAM rules in the US then let's unplug them from the internet connections into the US. The whole country. If they won't play ball then let's play hardball.
Though that could scream censorship and all, but still something has to be done when US citizens are exploiting the legal loopholes to fill my inbox with dick enlargment, cheap software, and now the new trend seems to be XM Radio hawking).
There are technological ways around them, but we can't let them flounder too long or someone like MS will step in and 'save' us and lock out internet email unless you pay a microsoft tax.
I know spammers don't just spam email addresses. They dictionary attack SMTP servers. I moved hosting companies for my domain to a 'lesser known' domain and my spam went from 100s a day to 10 - 15. Unfortunately 7 - 9 of those 10 - 15 are the ones that manage to sneak through every filter I use for some reason.
I know this is rather incoherant foaming rant but I'm just getting so fed up with this crap it's not funny anymore. We need to treat all spammers like 419s and hunt them all down
I'm managed to fly 49 flights on American so far this year and I'm really ticked they shared my travel information without my consent.
Had they asked, I'd have given it to them. I'm sick of fucking (in)security with arbitrary random acts of rudeness and stupidity.
I'm tired of standing in lines. I'm on an airplane a week it seems like and you'd think the'yd be able to go 'oh yeah, he flys with us all the time so lets not randomly search his ass because he's got a ticket that goes to one city but leaves from another' or things like that.
Hell if they checked my flight patterns for the last 5 years they'd see a pretty businessman like pattern of 70+ flights on their airline alone a year, and then another 20 or so from other airlines to cities they don't cover.
At least that is what it said earlier in the week on the Star Wars website when you hovered over the list of movies.
Now it says in production.
Barring an April Fools by the folks at Lucasfilm did someone goof?
He didn't say TO an iPod he said ON an iPod. slight difference there no?
Point toward ground, start it up, and dig your way home.
They need to replace the writers. This season as been pretty lackluster. I think it's jumped the shark at this point. Pretty disappointing. I've found myself shutting it off midway through most episodes this season which is sad really.
I don't know if it was just the ads but the recent one for the re-run of Marge writing the romance novel had homer's bare ass fuzzed out. Hope that's not a boobie-gate reaction
I'm with you. I hate april fools day. It's the one day a year I have to actually work instead of randomly surf links thrown out by Slashdot.
Because I wouldn't normally go to a game, now I'd go so I could do something worth my time.
Absolutely. In my experience we have people that we call 'WIMPs' (windows icon mouse pointer) and those that actually edited an autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a PCMCIA card to work in a system. The guys/girls that did the latter have so much better troubleshooting skills than the folks that learned how to install Windows by clicking 'next next next' all the time.
The one time I played around with Gentoo it really opened my eyes to how Linux boots up - something that was a bit of a mistery up until I tried Gentoo. That being said I'm running RH9 and Fedora on my machines because I needed a driver that was only written for Red Hat and I don't have the C++ experience to want to dink with it that long.
mainly because the world outside the US shows nothing but bare tits all the time! Well at least they do according to HBO's shock TV (insert year here)
now *that* was funny.
It's pretty funny to me how a computer maker with only 3% of the total computer market can garner so much attention over one little statement.
As others have pointed out there have been just as many other biased, false, and outright ridiculus claims such as faster inernet thanks to a processor, dancing flourescant colored clean room suits, and all sorts of stuff.
yet intel's marketing arm, er, Dell decides they need to file a complaint with the BBB over it and they hold the #1 spot for desktops?
Things that make you go hmmm.
Each processor in the cluster has 512k of cache. These are Xeon DP systems, not Xeon MP.
I'd think that the industry forum would have been leary of adopting an OSS code based CODEC that could be sued by some idiot company that claimed that IBM copied their code and plugged it into the Ogg Vorbis Codec.
Oh Wait, SCO doesn't own any audio companies.
That and they fail to mention what a bitch the Time Warner DVR is to use compared to TiVo. I had TiVo, moved, got DVR because I thought 'eh what the heck' and then lasted 3 weeks and sent it back. TiVo's software is much more mature.
Plus it's eminently hackable.
3 TiVo's, 1 DVD/TiVo and counting (one is dead, hit by lightning)
No, no, no, no. You got it all wrong.
Say it with me now.
DAMN HIPPIES!
Everything?
How would an insurance company no my speed is over the limit based where I am? Maybe i'm driving 55 mph - which is a legal limit - but I'm driving through a playground with children running screaming for their life.
I use iMovie to pull in my video of my 2yr old girl running around like a fool and send it to her grandparents on the other side of the north american continent.
I've never found it unable to 'do what you need to do' other than the ability to make lasers shoot from her eyeballs or something fun like that.
Physicis is not my strong point, but I'm wondering something.
Is this a new phenomena that hair dryers & razors rot your brain? Or have they always been this evil and we just noticed it or soemthing? Because haven't electric razors, and hair dryers, and other motorized implements been around for a few decades if not 50 - 60 years? Just that 50-60 years ago you'd get electrocuted if it got wet. Now it fries your brain?
I must be one of the rare ones but I've found that the TiVo remote isn't the panacea led to believe by the article.
The numeric keys are to me in a very odd position and require me to either set the remote down or use two hands - one to hold and the other to push the buttons - to type in the direct channel number.
Everything else is in a good spot though I wish it had a 'live TV button' like the sony versions did instead of having to hit the TiVo button twice - because sometimes it gets a little behind and you play the flipping TiVo menus as it goes to live TV and back.
Just my $0.02 from someone who's had a TiVo since 2000.
US Torpedos summit US doesn't like OSS.
Contrary to popular belief, the Evil Empire as some have already put it like to keep their population employed. Companies doing things for free with a hope to have services foot the bill don't employ a lot of people - or last that long.
Companies that charge for their software product and keep the source code closed do - in fact on any given day if they blink they can affect the entire stock market.
That's what the US is going to be interested in protecting. OSS may solve a lot of things but it creates other socio-economic issues that need to be addressed as well. I for one don't hail our communist overlords in that we all work for free - as in speech - and have no way to make a buck off my work unless someone altruistic wants to pay me to give away my work for free.
Or employ anyone with large amounts of cash. The sword cuts both ways.
...they fired my whole body into space and put some type of ion engine like DS1 had that never shuts off until I'm well away from the solar system.