According to VISA rules, the merchant is NOT allowed to store the cardnumber - its the property of VISA.
Can you point out the source of this? I'm not trying to argue it, I'd just like to know as this strikes me as somewhat odd.
The convenience/computer stores I've worked at in the past have all had credit card numbers printed right on the receipt, which in turn are stored away in secure filing cabinets, etc.
completely failed to consider the relevance of competition in broadband services coming from cable (and to a lesser extent satellite). We agree.
Cable is absolutely NO competition for DSL.
You should be comparing companies, and not the medium they use for the service. Just because the cable company in your neighborhood doesn't offer static doesn't mean other neighborhood's don't. Same goes for hosting rules etc.
Guess what, in my neighborhood it's the cable that you can get a static ip with, and the DSL is dynamic (usually -- depends on the DSL provider).
So compare Rogers vs. Bell or whatever you folks have down in your neck of the woods, not just the service.
I always thought it'd be nice to have two physical devices, possibly connected to the same service and same rate plan. I'd love to just use my cellphone for talking on, and using something with a regular QWERTY keyboard for typing (like Motorola's Vbox).
I'd really like to get a Vbox to do messaging with, but I wouldn't want to use it for a phone. I have a phone (V60), but it's awkward to do messaging with (even with T9). Of course if I did get both, I'd have to pay for both! No thanks!
Oh, you mean like the dozen or so "helpful reminders" we get from every magazine subscription we own?
No, not quite like that. This is more like Maclean's sending you a renewal notice when your Newsweek subscription is about to expire.
Verisign is sending "renewal" notices to customers of other registrars. For example, I don't use verisign for anything, but they sent me a letter telling me it's time or renew my domain! All I have to do is fill in my name and credit card number and send it back to them.
I refuse to use the opera browser simply because of the advertisement banner displayed up top. Opera is great, and will continue to get better, dont get me wrong. The day they remove that advetisement banner I will ditch IE. Just my opinion. -Robbie
You could buy the browser to get rid of that:-)
Personally, I like leaving it on, for the past week all I've seen are amusing "Opera" comics.
This is why I'll only buy a genuine Palm or even a quality Sony Clie. I can't believe they'd build a palm so cheap that it leaks.... that stuffs gotta be pretty poisonous too.
To be honest, I agree with the parent too. Thing is, I have no idea how my germ paranoid friends were raised.
Actually, I think that'd be an interesting study, to see how a person's upbringing and exposure to germs/bacteria affects them in the rest of their life.
For the record I rarely get sick (once-twice/year) and can't remember the last time I had anything worse than a 24 hour fever (which I've heard is usually food poisoning anyways).
The funny thing is that people that I know who use paper towels to open restroom doors, or use ass gaskets on a perfectly dry toilet seat seem to me to be always sick.
If you were sick as often as they are you'd probably be more germ paranoid too:-)
in which case, you should check out O'Reilly's Safari [oreilly.com]
You should check out O'Reilly's safari, they even offer 30 day trial accounts with complete access to their entire library.
However, I've found the site slow enough to be annoying and the search interface not the best. I think I feel this way because I'm comparing safari to the O'reilly CD bookshelves, which I copy onto my webserver (in a password protected folder of course) and can quickly browse and search through it.
Assuming such lighting causes severe interference tothe 2.4 GHz band, would some government organizationg (FCC or whatever) not regulate this? I would think that I could not produce a product that causes interference to these devices without registration/approval from the right regulation boards.
The 2.4 GHz is unregulated. Microwaves produce interference at this frequency, which is why your portable phone gets all staticy when your kid sister throws in a bag of microwave popcorn.
Tabs and that it saves complete Web pages perfectly, perhaps? IE does very funny things if you tell it to save a page, like converting valid XHTML to a pile of crap.
What's this tabs thing? Multiple browser sessions in one window like Opera?
When I save a page in IE it saves as an.MHT file. Which, if you open it up and look at it, is an Email file, which I expect could open up in any regular email client (though I've never tried except for Outlook Express). When you reopen the file it opens up exactly as the original. All the images have been MIME encoded into the one file.
How does Konq, Opera, and Mozilla handle saving files? I'd expect it's in a similar way...
I prefer the fact, that when Mozilla crashes, my entire OS doesn't die. It gives me time to exit all of my other apps normally, and reboot correctly. I love Konq, and except for the fact that it crashes when I try to view [www.wilwheaton.net], it is plenty enough of a browser for me. =)
IE hasn't crashed my entire OS in years either, so this doesn't explain "better" either. When IE does crash or freeze (maybe once a week) and I have to kill it, it either kills all my IE sessions, or just the one frozen window and the windows that spawned from it (From doing CTRL+N's).
I rarely have the need to block pop-ups... the sites I go to just don't have any. I get maybe 2-3 per day. If you do visit sites with popups I can see why you'd like that.
What's tabbed browsing? I have no idea what that means.... is that like what Opera has?
For a full browser suite, the latest Mozilla was the most impressive and like Netscape, has the best looking interface, is available on multiple platforms and includes a good help system. But unlike Netscape, Mozilla is rapidly developing, is easy to upgrade, is better than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express and includes some great features: it can use Tabs by default and saves complete Web pages perfectly.
Not to be a troll, but it irks me when I hear someone saying "this" is better than "that" cause I said so. It causes me to lose some respect for the reviewer.
As a happy user of IE and OE, I'd love to hear what the reviewer find better in Mozilla over IE/OE. My experience in the past with *nix web browsers hasn't been all that great. I think the IE interface is quite nice, easy to upgrade, and can save complete web pages perfectly as well (.mht).
School is about socializing? WTF?! Did you drop out or something?
School is about learning, or at least it SHOULD be.
Socialize on the weekends. Thats like saying work is the place to socialize, no you do that after work at the bar.
Yes, I think elementary school is about socializing. Yes it's also about learning, but I have yet to see or hear of an elementary school effectively teaching anything to do with computers.
By socializing, I mean learning to interact with others. That's a big part of growing up. And those social skills are *very* important in work, love, friends, etc.
I think that troll who posted that msg that school is about playing and socializing, is most likely some dropout kid.
No, no dropout. Just a kid who went through elementary school and spent way too much time messing on those stupid Unisys ICONs and QNX OS. I'd rather my kids grow up having more fun. As I get older I realize how much value there is in spending time with others (I'm a pretty solitary guy now).
Kids should learn computers are soon as possible, this isnt 1920, this is 2002, we are in the information age, and we need as many programmers as possible to build the nanites, and robots which will be used in our future society.
Point well taken, and if kids were actually learning about the computers and not using them to learn math or spelling, or whatever (which in my opinion is just gaming), I'd be much more likely to agree with that first part. I don't worry too much about the nanites though;)
Perhaps your elementary school was very different than mine, but we never had any lab equipment, and I can't imagine any situations where we would've done computer simulations.
So many of my friends have kids that are overweight and spend all there time inside (like I did with mine!). I'm thinking of the life I'd like to see my kid lead, with an emphasis on social (not virtual Evercrack social) and active lifestyle.
All the computer stuff I did was a kid was such a waste of time. Sure, maybe I'm a little more comfortable with computers than I would've been, but I doubt it would've prevented me from doing the same job I do now. And rather than worthless memories of playing Super Mario Bros, I'd have fond memories of hanging out with friends, maybe winning a jr. soccer league or something.
To each their own though, raising kids is a delicate matter, and everyone's input is important on topics like this.
but it seems to me that a book is still a book and a pen is still a pen
Absolutely. I can see computers in a few classes in High School (Like say, programming:-) But in elementary school??? Pffft, why bother. You might as well have a TV and a nintendo too while you're at it.
Kids should be spending more time socializing, maybe replace the computers with sports equipment -- that'd do them some good. Heck, the amount of money some schools spend on computers you could probably put in a swimming pool.
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According to VISA rules, the merchant is NOT allowed to store the cardnumber - its the property of VISA.
Can you point out the source of this? I'm not trying to argue it, I'd just like to know as this strikes me as somewhat odd.
The convenience/computer stores I've worked at in the past have all had credit card numbers printed right on the receipt, which in turn are stored away in secure filing cabinets, etc.
completely failed to consider the relevance of competition in broadband services coming from cable (and to a lesser extent satellite). We agree.
Cable is absolutely NO competition for DSL.
You should be comparing companies, and not the medium they use for the service. Just because the cable company in your neighborhood doesn't offer static doesn't mean other neighborhood's don't. Same goes for hosting rules etc.
Guess what, in my neighborhood it's the cable that you can get a static ip with, and the DSL is dynamic (usually -- depends on the DSL provider).
So compare Rogers vs. Bell or whatever you folks have down in your neck of the woods, not just the service.
That's a really good idea.... by removing routed from the system, the chances of a remote exploit go down significantly.
ARGH!!! You already ruined it a few weeks ago by telling me they were dead, and now you ruin the finale by telling me they aren't!!!!
HELLO? Spoiler Warnings please???!! Next you're going to be telling me that Anakin is Luke's father and that Clark Kent is really Superman!
I always thought it'd be nice to have two physical devices, possibly connected to the same service and same rate plan. I'd love to just use my cellphone for talking on, and using something with a regular QWERTY keyboard for typing (like Motorola's Vbox).
I'd really like to get a Vbox to do messaging with, but I wouldn't want to use it for a phone. I have a phone (V60), but it's awkward to do messaging with (even with T9). Of course if I did get both, I'd have to pay for both! No thanks!
"deceptive 'renewal notices'"
Oh, you mean like the dozen or so "helpful reminders" we get from every magazine subscription we own?
No, not quite like that. This is more like Maclean's sending you a renewal notice when your Newsweek subscription is about to expire.
Verisign is sending "renewal" notices to customers of other registrars. For example, I don't use verisign for anything, but they sent me a letter telling me it's time or renew my domain! All I have to do is fill in my name and credit card number and send it back to them.
I refuse to use the opera browser simply because of the advertisement banner displayed up top. Opera is great, and will continue to get better, dont get me wrong. The day they remove that advetisement banner I will ditch IE. Just my opinion. -Robbie
:-)
You could buy the browser to get rid of that
Personally, I like leaving it on, for the past week all I've seen are amusing "Opera" comics.
Handspring Treo 270 Leaked
This is why I'll only buy a genuine Palm or even a quality Sony Clie. I can't believe they'd build a palm so cheap that it leaks.... that stuffs gotta be pretty poisonous too.
and perhaps others may be defeated by invalidating the outer ring of the CD with a black marker or post-it sticky note
So does these mean sharpies and post-it notes are violations of the DMCA?
To be honest, I agree with the parent too. Thing is, I have no idea how my germ paranoid friends were raised.
Actually, I think that'd be an interesting study, to see how a person's upbringing and exposure to germs/bacteria affects them in the rest of their life.
For the record I rarely get sick (once-twice/year) and can't remember the last time I had anything worse than a 24 hour fever (which I've heard is usually food poisoning anyways).
The funny thing is that people that I know who use paper towels to open restroom doors, or use ass gaskets on a perfectly dry toilet seat seem to me to be always sick.
:-)
If you were sick as often as they are you'd probably be more germ paranoid too
in which case, you should check out O'Reilly's Safari [oreilly.com]
You should check out O'Reilly's safari, they even offer 30 day trial accounts with complete access to their entire library.
However, I've found the site slow enough to be annoying and the search interface not the best. I think I feel this way because I'm comparing safari to the O'reilly CD bookshelves, which I copy onto my webserver (in a password protected folder of course) and can quickly browse and search through it.
...Slashdot keeps reposting the same stories. Their "writethroughs", not reposts.
Assuming such lighting causes severe interference tothe 2.4 GHz band, would some government organizationg (FCC or whatever) not regulate this? I would think that I could not produce a product that causes interference to these devices without registration/approval from the right regulation boards.
The 2.4 GHz is unregulated. Microwaves produce interference at this frequency, which is why your portable phone gets all staticy when your kid sister throws in a bag of microwave popcorn.
I don't know about the others but XINE has some kind of aalib output plugin so you can watch your movies on a text console.
<Elaine shove="true">Get Out!!</Elaine>
Oh man, I'm going to have to install linux at home tonight just to see that.
...a DVD->ANSI Animation converter. How cool would that be?
It'd solve a lot of those bandwidth problems... much like this site which was posted a while ago.
You wouldn't need a player if it's ANSI animation either, "cat" and "type" could become the hottest media players around.
LOL, yeah, I think Wil Wheaton must've posted this story. He wants to save the world this time instead of just the Enterprise :-)
Tabs and that it saves complete Web pages perfectly, perhaps? IE does very funny things if you tell it to save a page, like converting valid XHTML to a pile of crap.
.MHT file. Which, if you open it up and look at it, is an Email file, which I expect could open up in any regular email client (though I've never tried except for Outlook Express). When you reopen the file it opens up exactly as the original. All the images have been MIME encoded into the one file.
What's this tabs thing? Multiple browser sessions in one window like Opera?
When I save a page in IE it saves as an
How does Konq, Opera, and Mozilla handle saving files? I'd expect it's in a similar way...
I prefer the fact, that when Mozilla crashes, my entire OS doesn't die. It gives me time to exit all of my other apps normally, and reboot correctly. I love Konq, and except for the fact that it crashes when I try to view [www.wilwheaton.net], it is plenty enough of a browser for me. =)
IE hasn't crashed my entire OS in years either, so this doesn't explain "better" either. When IE does crash or freeze (maybe once a week) and I have to kill it, it either kills all my IE sessions, or just the one frozen window and the windows that spawned from it (From doing CTRL+N's).
I rarely have the need to block pop-ups... the sites I go to just don't have any. I get maybe 2-3 per day. If you do visit sites with popups I can see why you'd like that.
What's tabbed browsing? I have no idea what that means.... is that like what Opera has?
For a full browser suite, the latest Mozilla was the most impressive and like Netscape, has the best looking interface, is available on multiple platforms and includes a good help system. But unlike Netscape, Mozilla is rapidly developing, is easy to upgrade, is better than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express and includes some great features: it can use Tabs by default and saves complete Web pages perfectly.
Not to be a troll, but it irks me when I hear someone saying "this" is better than "that" cause I said so. It causes me to lose some respect for the reviewer.
As a happy user of IE and OE, I'd love to hear what the reviewer find better in Mozilla over IE/OE. My experience in the past with *nix web browsers hasn't been all that great. I think the IE interface is quite nice, easy to upgrade, and can save complete web pages perfectly as well (.mht).
School is about socializing? WTF?! Did you drop out or something?
School is about learning, or at least it SHOULD be.
Socialize on the weekends. Thats like saying work is the place to socialize, no you do that after work at the bar.
Yes, I think elementary school is about socializing. Yes it's also about learning, but I have yet to see or hear of an elementary school effectively teaching anything to do with computers.
By socializing, I mean learning to interact with others. That's a big part of growing up. And those social skills are *very* important in work, love, friends, etc.
I think that troll who posted that msg that school is about playing and socializing, is most likely some dropout kid.
;)
No, no dropout. Just a kid who went through elementary school and spent way too much time messing on those stupid Unisys ICONs and QNX OS. I'd rather my kids grow up having more fun. As I get older I realize how much value there is in spending time with others (I'm a pretty solitary guy now).
Kids should learn computers are soon as possible, this isnt 1920, this is 2002, we are in the information age, and we need as many programmers as possible to build the nanites, and robots which will be used in our future society.
Point well taken, and if kids were actually learning about the computers and not using them to learn math or spelling, or whatever (which in my opinion is just gaming), I'd be much more likely to agree with that first part. I don't worry too much about the nanites though
Perhaps your elementary school was very different than mine, but we never had any lab equipment, and I can't imagine any situations where we would've done computer simulations.
So many of my friends have kids that are overweight and spend all there time inside (like I did with mine!). I'm thinking of the life I'd like to see my kid lead, with an emphasis on social (not virtual Evercrack social) and active lifestyle.
All the computer stuff I did was a kid was such a waste of time. Sure, maybe I'm a little more comfortable with computers than I would've been, but I doubt it would've prevented me from doing the same job I do now. And rather than worthless memories of playing Super Mario Bros, I'd have fond memories of hanging out with friends, maybe winning a jr. soccer league or something.
To each their own though, raising kids is a delicate matter, and everyone's input is important on topics like this.
but it seems to me that a book is still a book and a pen is still a pen
:-) But in elementary school??? Pffft, why bother. You might as well have a TV and a nintendo too while you're at it.
Absolutely. I can see computers in a few classes in High School (Like say, programming
Kids should be spending more time socializing, maybe replace the computers with sports equipment -- that'd do them some good. Heck, the amount of money some schools spend on computers you could probably put in a swimming pool.