Remember the Iomega class action suit? After having a drive get the "click of death", I got 4 coupons each worth about $5 for more Iomega products. The lawyers got something like 4 or 5 million. Yeah, great job.
And what the hell does this have to do with the President?! Yeah, we all know he's pro-business, but saying he'll make you live in an abestos house? A tad much, wouldn't you say? Considering we found out abestos was bad about, oh, 20 years before he bacame President.
New York taxes cigs up to about 8$ a pack now, I think. I used to buy my cigs from Europe, but they came in through JFK or LaGaurdia (sp?), and NY state confiscated all of them for owing back taxes. Back taxes on paying state tax on an international shipment? Basically every state is going to try to tax the hell out of cigarettes until us regular folk can't afford to pay for them anymore.
Guess what?
At a certain price point (different for each person), we will quit. I'm just at that point myself, a few more dollars in tax and I'm willing to give it up. Of course the "legislators" (aka, the screw 'em till they bleed) won't notice until people actually stop smoking, at that point they will freak and wonder why all that money just dried up. Go figure.
"There are many other ways to identify leaks - the best being drop multiple hooks to people that are suspected, and watch for the fake hook to be posted."
Wow- do you live in a Tom Clancy novel? You really think they should use super-spy tactics instead of trying to find out who leaked the info in the first place?
Keep waiting for your martyrdom (sp?), but Apple wasn't squashing free speech, they were looking for the leak, which is probably fully ok (NDA and such). Yeah, they overstepped in their zealousness, but they backed off. How often do you see that?
Thanks for letting me know the "bitch" is back on the air. The site died for some reason a while back and after a while I never checked back. I like cranky people.
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Not necesarrily, because the replier was German and he may not have seen the movie. The OP was replying to ensure he was not mistaken as trying to be factual.
Maybe- If I have to explain why, involving someone who probably wouldn't get the joke, a joke isn't funny, maybe I'm just being a wee bit dumb?
I know this was not you writing this, but I just had to chime in here-
"Books are not searchable."
They are called indexes, asshat (Mr. Godin, not Mr. Jale). Or even a table of contents. The reason you don't hear people whining about books is that they (for technical stuff) have indexes! I have seen very, very few PDFs that have an index included. And what the heck is "they stick together when you forward them"?!? Do Word docs decode when you forward them? Do pic files scramble themselves into pics of your cat when you forward them? Does your spreadsheet turn into a powerpoint file via the ehter?
And by the way, most PDFs I've printed do not print as well as a.doc.
I think the point is... why not? Why should we have to patch and install umpteen programs to protect the system? Ok, I can understand new virii and worms, but there have been many stories how IE has had exploits that don't get fixed in a timely fashion.
As far as I know, you can pop a Linux or OS X system pretty much out of the box onto a DSL line and be ok.
Yes, I know Windows is many times more popular, so more people write more attacks for it, but with that extra popularity comes extra money, which you would think that at least some of it gets put back in for security.
Your analogy is a bit off because the walking around part is very location dependent. I saw many young things in that outfit at Penn State- no problem. I saw that in New York City- better have some cash if you're interested. Connecting to the internet is pretty much neutral; you get screwed equally hard no matter where you are.
Anyway, after all that rambling, in a decent world the end user should not have to be/. aware just to use email and find recipes on the net.
Can't believe no one has commented on this yet- since when is a flashlight of the order animalia? Where does this elusive flashlight live, what does it eat, how does it reproduce.
Depending on when it shipped, you still may be able to get the price discount. Check out this comment: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1 37358&cid= 11480807
The average temperature during the dino age was 3-5 degrees above what it is now; they seemed to take it ok. Now we are going to blame a big volcano for global warming? How about the ash it would put up and block sunlight (hmm, cooling) and cause respiratory problems. How about all the great gasses it released, such as CO2, SO2, and whatever else volcanos belch up.
I do not disagree that the planet may be getting warmer, but labeling an ancient volcano as killing off most life as global warming is just sensationalistic. The crap that is getting put out as "science" when it comes to global warming is starting to push the fringe of being reasonable. Didn't some guy say that we should all stop eating meat so we cull most of the cows so their methane gasses would no longer contribute to greenhouse gasses?
This place is getting nuts, and I haven't found any Vogon ships recently.
You forgot to mention the whole grade inflation thing. I think I shall a quick news blurb about a year ago where Harvard's GPA is now around an A-. For everyone. Dang, I should've gone there instead of PSU, my grades would have had to be better!
But why in the heck are coffee servers now called "Baristas"?!? They serve coffee. McDonalds people serve burgers (or at least something resembling a burger), yet they have no special name (McServerista?). Not to offend any "baristas", but you serve coffee; I do lawn work- shall I make up a title of "lawnista" to make me sound refined? "Hello, I'm Bryan your lawnista, would you like your lawn regular or really fried?"
"You better not make me mad or I'll come over in my black helicopter and hit you with a mind control ray."
I like you. You have moxy.
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I believe we are thinking about this differently. I agree with all you said in your response, but when I said "future big wars" I was refering to a WWI or WWII size war. I just have a feeling if a global war starts, someone (us, them, whoever) will not be able to keep their hands off the nuke button.
I do agree that traditonal-type wars/invasions/"police actons" do last for years, but unfortuneately I just have this sense that something big is going to pop in the coming years.
Good explanation and expamples of the problem, but how about a little info on how to avoid these problems? Towards the end the artice mentions Microsoft buying an anti-spyware company, but that's it. No mention of Ad-Aware, no mention of Spybot. At least come up with something usefull to help people out even if you don't mention specific programs or companies.
From the few blurbs I read/heard and the article, they were basically telling the truth as we (the common dreck; ie. non-laywers) see it.
Let's see- using the 1st Amendment rights impeded... uh, what other rights? The 3553rd right to not be made fun of? Kinda neat how the most important Amendment was the 1st.
Lead paint! Blocks out unwanted wardriving, radio signals, pesky UHF and VHF signals, all cellular, and the sporadic beeper. As an added bonus, children love the taste!
Which would leave a lot of flamebait and trolls up higher. While it is fun to cruise around at -1 occasionally, especially on Apple related article, I usually just want to catch the highlights and dig deeper into individual posts if they interest me. By taking about 5 points, no one is ever going to negatively moderate. Maybe 1/2 point?
After the slavery comment- I meant to say "and NOT correct".
Again not "and correct", but rather "and NOT correct".
I am very, very sorry for that typo. This is a very good reason/. should allow editing. Many people will see the above remark without seeing this correction, and be very mad. And yes, I did preview. Don't know how I missed it at first.
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Remember the Iomega class action suit? After having a drive get the "click of death", I got 4 coupons each worth about $5 for more Iomega products. The lawyers got something like 4 or 5 million. Yeah, great job.
And what the hell does this have to do with the President?! Yeah, we all know he's pro-business, but saying he'll make you live in an abestos house? A tad much, wouldn't you say? Considering we found out abestos was bad about, oh, 20 years before he bacame President.
New York taxes cigs up to about 8$ a pack now, I think. I used to buy my cigs from Europe, but they came in through JFK or LaGaurdia (sp?), and NY state confiscated all of them for owing back taxes. Back taxes on paying state tax on an international shipment? Basically every state is going to try to tax the hell out of cigarettes until us regular folk can't afford to pay for them anymore.
Guess what?
At a certain price point (different for each person), we will quit. I'm just at that point myself, a few more dollars in tax and I'm willing to give it up. Of course the "legislators" (aka, the screw 'em till they bleed) won't notice until people actually stop smoking, at that point they will freak and wonder why all that money just dried up. Go figure.
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"There are many other ways to identify leaks - the best being drop multiple hooks to people that are suspected, and watch for the fake hook to be posted."
Wow- do you live in a Tom Clancy novel? You really think they should use super-spy tactics instead of trying to find out who leaked the info in the first place?
Keep waiting for your martyrdom (sp?), but Apple wasn't squashing free speech, they were looking for the leak, which is probably fully ok (NDA and such). Yeah, they overstepped in their zealousness, but they backed off. How often do you see that?
Have a nice weekend!
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"but go down to Alabama and contrast it with New York. Not so homogenous anymore."
Suddenly I'm hearing the "Deliverance" music playing in my head.....
Howabout 411?
...runs away
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Thanks for letting me know the "bitch" is back on the air. The site died for some reason a while back and after a while I never checked back. I like cranky people.
Just wondering- are you in law enforcement?
Not necesarrily, because the replier was German and he may not have seen the movie. The OP was replying to ensure he was not mistaken as trying to be factual.
Maybe- If I have to explain why, involving someone who probably wouldn't get the joke, a joke isn't funny, maybe I'm just being a wee bit dumb?
I know this was not you writing this, but I just had to chime in here-
.doc.
"Books are not searchable."
They are called indexes, asshat (Mr. Godin, not Mr. Jale). Or even a table of contents. The reason you don't hear people whining about books is that they (for technical stuff) have indexes! I have seen very, very few PDFs that have an index included. And what the heck is "they stick together when you forward them"?!? Do Word docs decode when you forward them? Do pic files scramble themselves into pics of your cat when you forward them? Does your spreadsheet turn into a powerpoint file via the ehter?
And by the way, most PDFs I've printed do not print as well as a
GO Eagles!
I think the point is... why not? Why should we have to patch and install umpteen programs to protect the system? Ok, I can understand new virii and worms, but there have been many stories how IE has had exploits that don't get fixed in a timely fashion.
/. aware just to use email and find recipes on the net.
As far as I know, you can pop a Linux or OS X system pretty much out of the box onto a DSL line and be ok.
Yes, I know Windows is many times more popular, so more people write more attacks for it, but with that extra popularity comes extra money, which you would think that at least some of it gets put back in for security.
Your analogy is a bit off because the walking around part is very location dependent. I saw many young things in that outfit at Penn State- no problem. I saw that in New York City- better have some cash if you're interested. Connecting to the internet is pretty much neutral; you get screwed equally hard no matter where you are.
Anyway, after all that rambling, in a decent world the end user should not have to be
PS- Go Eagles in XXXIX!
Can't believe no one has commented on this yet- since when is a flashlight of the order animalia? Where does this elusive flashlight live, what does it eat, how does it reproduce.
Weirdo geeks want to know!
Depending on when it shipped, you still may be able to get the price discount. Check out this comment:1 37358&cid= 11480807
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=
Maybe you'll get lucky.
The average temperature during the dino age was 3-5 degrees above what it is now; they seemed to take it ok. Now we are going to blame a big volcano for global warming? How about the ash it would put up and block sunlight (hmm, cooling) and cause respiratory problems. How about all the great gasses it released, such as CO2, SO2, and whatever else volcanos belch up.
I do not disagree that the planet may be getting warmer, but labeling an ancient volcano as killing off most life as global warming is just sensationalistic. The crap that is getting put out as "science" when it comes to global warming is starting to push the fringe of being reasonable. Didn't some guy say that we should all stop eating meat so we cull most of the cows so their methane gasses would no longer contribute to greenhouse gasses?
This place is getting nuts, and I haven't found any Vogon ships recently.
You forgot to mention the whole grade inflation thing. I think I shall a quick news blurb about a year ago where Harvard's GPA is now around an A-. For everyone. Dang, I should've gone there instead of PSU, my grades would have had to be better!
But why in the heck are coffee servers now called "Baristas"?!? They serve coffee. McDonalds people serve burgers (or at least something resembling a burger), yet they have no special name (McServerista?). Not to offend any "baristas", but you serve coffee; I do lawn work- shall I make up a title of "lawnista" to make me sound refined? "Hello, I'm Bryan your lawnista, would you like your lawn regular or really fried?"
Your friendly lawinsta,
Bryan
"You better not make me mad or I'll come over in my black helicopter and hit you with a mind control ray."
I like you. You have moxy.
I believe we are thinking about this differently. I agree with all you said in your response, but when I said "future big wars" I was refering to a WWI or WWII size war. I just have a feeling if a global war starts, someone (us, them, whoever) will not be able to keep their hands off the nuke button.
I do agree that traditonal-type wars/invasions/"police actons" do last for years, but unfortuneately I just have this sense that something big is going to pop in the coming years.
Anyway, have a nice weekend!
Thanks for the link.
Thanks. I'll probably pick it up.
Good explanation and expamples of the problem, but how about a little info on how to avoid these problems? Towards the end the artice mentions Microsoft buying an anti-spyware company, but that's it. No mention of Ad-Aware, no mention of Spybot. At least come up with something usefull to help people out even if you don't mention specific programs or companies.
Yeesh.
From the few blurbs I read/heard and the article, they were basically telling the truth as we (the common dreck; ie. non-laywers) see it.
Let's see- using the 1st Amendment rights impeded... uh, what other rights? The 3553rd right to not be made fun of? Kinda neat how the most important Amendment was the 1st.
Lead paint! Blocks out unwanted wardriving, radio signals, pesky UHF and VHF signals, all cellular, and the sporadic beeper. As an added bonus, children love the taste!
(Legaleese- you do this, you dumb)
Which would leave a lot of flamebait and trolls up higher. While it is fun to cruise around at -1 occasionally, especially on Apple related article, I usually just want to catch the highlights and dig deeper into individual posts if they interest me. By taking about 5 points, no one is ever going to negatively moderate. Maybe 1/2 point?
Countries are trying to grab non-existent land in the Arctic in an attempt to... let me get this right.. go shipping and fishing?! On land?
By the way I know 30,000 ways to get money from the government.
(Your head asplodes)
After the slavery comment- I meant to say "and NOT correct".
/. should allow editing. Many people will see the above remark without seeing this correction, and be very mad. And yes, I did preview. Don't know how I missed it at first.
Again not "and correct", but rather "and NOT correct".
I am very, very sorry for that typo. This is a very good reason