The store probably has the "this card has magnetic strip problems" option just like every other store. Pizza guy calls his accomplice working at the store, reads off the numbers, and the store accomplice tries to charge the card.
These types of crooks rely on the system not caring enough for the small time stuff to do anything to them. So a bit of obscurity and a state line is enough to keep them from jail time, which is about all they care to avoid. Losing the job,not a big deal. Getting a bad rep, what? amongst other drug users? Right.
Except, that the time wasters themselves are the PHBs.
As a web guy forced to deal with this corporate bullshit, the excuse is always "we have critical apps" but nobody can ever name them.
The REAL reason is they have unpatched windows2000 servers with huge security holes in them, unpatched windows2000 workstations with huge security holes in them and they are either too stupid, lazy, or cheap to do anything about it.
So they continually foist "we need this" shit on everybody else.
The "need" for IE6 by most of them is a big fat lie.
I believe you have to "fill" your account first. They don't invoice you or anything.
The GP is correct on the 'upfront' part.
In his mad rush to vilify Google, he forgot the fact that Google gets the float on the prepaid money, (just like paypal) and probably more than makes up for the difference.
Considering Google's ad network is the least obtrusive, not likely to try to infect your computer, doesn't prevent you from hitting the "back" button, etc etc.
Having THEM make money on that type of fraud probably does less damage than Doubleclick, or whomever else would be doing it.
As long as the domains are fully paid for and not typosquatting domain-tasting operations I have no problem with it.
Maybe with tapes this is a reasonable expectation.
However, users and IT folk alike copy files to and from CD, to and from the internet, across networks, from drive to drive, from USB to hard drive and back and they don't run into parity errors.
So it's not unreasonable to assume that software and hardware designed to be backup tools wouldn't fail as often as they do.
When my drives fail, it's almost always VERY OBVIOUS, not some subtle creeping error.
I think most of the time the problem is not data corruption, but lack of planning if the data will be in a usable form or not.
I have Ghost backups for my home PC, and I backup my data using external drives. But I have never gone through the process of learning and doing the recovery on the boot partition because that backup is a last ditch thing. When my drive fails, I will either spend the time to do that, or just say "bah, time for a new computer anyway" and go that route.
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Learned how to suck your own dick yet? You sure are good at patting yourself on the back.
When you take your new-found social skills and get a family, I hope your wife gets shot, and your daughters raped and I sit on the jury.
At which point I will acquit on all charges, because OBVIOUSLY the crime is the fault of the victim and not the perpetrator. I know you will agree.
People like you, who fail to punish the vicious are the reason the world sucks.
There's also that pesky little assumption about the proxy users reading and understanding English. Who's going to translate these quizes into Tin-Pot-Dictator-istan local dialect?
It's ideas like this that make my crazy drunken rants on Facebook look well thought out, reasoned and intelligent.
I use the Pilot Varsity line of DISPOSABLE fountain pens.
Of perhaps 40 used up so far, only one had a problem. The ink doesn't dry out and they write nicely.
Plus, you can lose them without a fuss, share them with people (hint: chicks dig neat pens).
They used to be available retail for about $1 each in three packs (black, blue, purple) but now I can only find them for about twice that on Amazon.com.
Yup. Grocery stores do not make tremendous profits on anything.
Cleaning companies might but markup on groceries is very low.
That's the old "someone is making a killing on product X! So it's ok that my shit seems overpriced!" gambit.
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It might make a good quick-clot type powder then.
This same set of information has been spammed all over the place today. It smells like scam or BS like the Moller Air Car to me. REAL tech comes out in a less organized fashion.
So, write it into the next SciFi short story or forget about it....
The point of suggesting an upgrade is that IE 6 won't be included in it. That's pretty much the ONLY way to be certain the user doesn't do something like... well... NOT upgrade.
And since suggesting going to Vista would be foolish, 7 it is.
Of the "power users" as you say that I know, more than half use a pre-installed OS. You must not know ANY Mac users. Even as a "power user" that built my own machine the last four iterations, I have a laptop (which came with an OS preinstalled) and several work computers (all on the original OS, pre-installed).
Way to COMPLETELY MISS the point dude. And, GO FUCK YOURSELF if you think keeping people on old OS's is good. Security methods for Windows have grown by leaps and bounds in the last three OSs. Keeping Windows2000 or XP even secure is an long line of endless patches, and half-way implemented security methods, or worse simply not possible. You get the fact that a not-so-old CD rom with your "custom installed" OS on it is likely to require a whole day of downloading and 15 or more reboots right?
Yes, it is up to the user to maintain the OS, however most of them are completely clueless as to doing that, so the most effective way to get them in the ballpark is to upgrade the fucking OS.
As someone that has to spend a lot of time supporting older stuff that is simply too fucking broke to be on the modern internet, I find your attitude enraging, I hope you get busted for some felony and your best tech job you can get is doing front line support for AT&T. Dick.
They have had a "heads up" that IE is shit since forever. If your IT folk are so asleep at the switch that "IE6 sucks and is going away" is a surprise, they need to go back to flipping burgers.
The problem comes from two not-so-problematical things working together;
1. That IE can only exist as one version on the machine.
2. That corporate users are so fucking afraid of using a real browser. (I am looking at you, you pathetic corporate dick sucking IT guys that can't seem to handle an easy to install free Browser.)
Put these two together, and you get a large crowd of self-righteous "I am working so I must get to use my shitty equipment on any web site I want" people that subject IE6 on the rest of the Internet that has have moved on. They use IE6 because someone made a bad decision and won't own up to it. And really, what exactly ARE these mysterious and absolutely critical ActiveX apps? Are you fucking serious? If they are that critical, maybe write some VB to do the same thing. Wouldn't that be fancy? Or is this just another lame job protection thing that you are afraid your rickety shitty ass app being replaced by a 16 line batch file will put you out on the street.
It is this attitude that truly makes these corporate idiots deserve a baseball bat to the back of the head.
IE6 doesn't even render DIV tags properly. Which pretty much means two versions of every web site. (It renders them like tables, with all of their limitations. Why even support it at all if you can't layer your DIVs?)
We don't let horse and buggy on the interstate anymore, no matter HOW rich the idiot is. There's no reason to put up with IE6's shit anymore either. The fucking thing is NINE GODDAMN YEARS OLD, and is FOUR FULL OPERATING SYSTEMS BEHIND.
Kill it. Kill IE6. Kill anybody that still uses it, their fault or not.
Please don't get an account. Your opinion means nothing. And worse, if defending religion is what motivates you to join, you missed the point and should fuck off.
All religions are garbage.ALL OF THEM. If you could REASON with religious people there would BE no religious people.
Yes, it's part of human nature, but so is cannibalism. Just because it's human nature does not make it something right for a modern society.
A lot of internal DNS is done with a Windows Domain Controller and the built in DNS there.
So it's not enough that BIND does it, Windows servers need to as well.
Next, consider the number of Windows2000 networks still out there and the problem of implementation becomes more tangled.
I am using BIND, but not DNSSEC. The GUI that sits in front of mine does not have any options for DNSSEC.
Just go look at the Wikipedia article on DNSSEC and the thick mass of references and new terms and it's FUCKING OBVIOUS it's going to take a long time to implement.
"That's it" as in, now all of a sudden my legit copy of windows is saying it's not? After being on the box FOUR YEARS?
Or, like when I helped out my in-laws by wiping their old Acer laptop, using the original sealed "recovery CD" which I assume used the original XP install code (which is present on the bottom of the laptop) which ALSO is now claiming it's not legit.
Or some how that every copy of MS Office 2003 is now starting to do this?
It's not that they want to sell more stuff by pressuring legit customers or anything!
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They do that for civil court reasons, not for criminal court reasons.
It is NOT illegal to photograph someone on the street then make a profit selling the photograph. You are however, probably libel for civil damages
The store probably has the "this card has magnetic strip problems" option just like every other store. Pizza guy calls his accomplice working at the store, reads off the numbers, and the store accomplice tries to charge the card.
These types of crooks rely on the system not caring enough for the small time stuff to do anything to them. So a bit of obscurity and a state line is enough to keep them from jail time, which is about all they care to avoid. Losing the job,not a big deal. Getting a bad rep, what? amongst other drug users? Right.
I don't give a shit what happens to the planet after I die. I don't have kids.
What the heck is this invasion of eurotrash douchebags on Slashdot lately?
Google barely supports NEW versions of FireFox. (At least Google Docs always chokes on me unless I use Chrome or IE. Go figure.)
Except, that the time wasters themselves are the PHBs.
As a web guy forced to deal with this corporate bullshit, the excuse is always "we have critical apps" but nobody can ever name them.
The REAL reason is they have unpatched windows2000 servers with huge security holes in them, unpatched windows2000 workstations with huge security holes in them and they are either too stupid, lazy, or cheap to do anything about it.
So they continually foist "we need this" shit on everybody else.
The "need" for IE6 by most of them is a big fat lie.
You should post that code all over the place. I'd love to have something like that, but don't have enough CSS knowledge to actually produce it.
Just another thing in a long string of homophobic, bigoted, racist and now constitutional right removing crap out of Utah.
Stay classy you pedophilic whack jobs.
We shoulda wiped your asses out when there were only a few of you alone out in the desert.
Lindsey Vonn raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. She hasn't denied it!
I believe you have to "fill" your account first. They don't invoice you or anything.
The GP is correct on the 'upfront' part.
In his mad rush to vilify Google, he forgot the fact that Google gets the float on the prepaid money, (just like paypal) and probably more than makes up for the difference.
Considering Google's ad network is the least obtrusive, not likely to try to infect your computer, doesn't prevent you from hitting the "back" button, etc etc.
Having THEM make money on that type of fraud probably does less damage than Doubleclick, or whomever else would be doing it.
As long as the domains are fully paid for and not typosquatting domain-tasting operations I have no problem with it.
Maybe with tapes this is a reasonable expectation.
However, users and IT folk alike copy files to and from CD, to and from the internet, across networks, from drive to drive, from USB to hard drive and back and they don't run into parity errors.
So it's not unreasonable to assume that software and hardware designed to be backup tools wouldn't fail as often as they do.
When my drives fail, it's almost always VERY OBVIOUS, not some subtle creeping error.
I think most of the time the problem is not data corruption, but lack of planning if the data will be in a usable form or not.
I have Ghost backups for my home PC, and I backup my data using external drives. But I have never gone through the process of learning and doing the recovery on the boot partition because that backup is a last ditch thing. When my drive fails, I will either spend the time to do that, or just say "bah, time for a new computer anyway" and go that route.
Learned how to suck your own dick yet? You sure are good at patting yourself on the back.
When you take your new-found social skills and get a family, I hope your wife gets shot, and your daughters raped and I sit on the jury.
At which point I will acquit on all charges, because OBVIOUSLY the crime is the fault of the victim and not the perpetrator. I know you will agree.
People like you, who fail to punish the vicious are the reason the world sucks.
Have a nice day. :)
There's also that pesky little assumption about the proxy users reading and understanding English. Who's going to translate these quizes into Tin-Pot-Dictator-istan local dialect?
It's ideas like this that make my crazy drunken rants on Facebook look well thought out, reasoned and intelligent.
I use the Pilot Varsity line of DISPOSABLE fountain pens.
Of perhaps 40 used up so far, only one had a problem. The ink doesn't dry out and they write nicely.
Plus, you can lose them without a fuss, share them with people (hint: chicks dig neat pens).
They used to be available retail for about $1 each in three packs (black, blue, purple) but now I can only find them for about twice that on Amazon.com.
Even at twice the price, they are good pens.
So, is that sorta like scientology?
In the middle of a thread about not picking up social cues I find this quite hilarious.
It's not lack of understanding that is the issue.
If the kid has a brain, picking up on the non-verbal cues may just get discarded as more stupid shit from the retarded meathead.
Yup. Grocery stores do not make tremendous profits on anything. Cleaning companies might but markup on groceries is very low. That's the old "someone is making a killing on product X! So it's ok that my shit seems overpriced!" gambit.
It might make a good quick-clot type powder then. This same set of information has been spammed all over the place today. It smells like scam or BS like the Moller Air Car to me. REAL tech comes out in a less organized fashion. So, write it into the next SciFi short story or forget about it....
The point of suggesting an upgrade is that IE 6 won't be included in it. That's pretty much the ONLY way to be certain the user doesn't do something like... well... NOT upgrade.
And since suggesting going to Vista would be foolish, 7 it is.
Of the "power users" as you say that I know, more than half use a pre-installed OS. You must not know ANY Mac users. Even as a "power user" that built my own machine the last four iterations, I have a laptop (which came with an OS preinstalled) and several work computers (all on the original OS, pre-installed).
Way to COMPLETELY MISS the point dude. And, GO FUCK YOURSELF if you think keeping people on old OS's is good. Security methods for Windows have grown by leaps and bounds in the last three OSs. Keeping Windows2000 or XP even secure is an long line of endless patches, and half-way implemented security methods, or worse simply not possible. You get the fact that a not-so-old CD rom with your "custom installed" OS on it is likely to require a whole day of downloading and 15 or more reboots right?
Yes, it is up to the user to maintain the OS, however most of them are completely clueless as to doing that, so the most effective way to get them in the ballpark is to upgrade the fucking OS.
As someone that has to spend a lot of time supporting older stuff that is simply too fucking broke to be on the modern internet, I find your attitude enraging, I hope you get busted for some felony and your best tech job you can get is doing front line support for AT&T. Dick.
They have had a "heads up" that IE is shit since forever. If your IT folk are so asleep at the switch that "IE6 sucks and is going away" is a surprise, they need to go back to flipping burgers.
The problem comes from two not-so-problematical things working together;
1. That IE can only exist as one version on the machine.
2. That corporate users are so fucking afraid of using a real browser. (I am looking at you, you pathetic corporate dick sucking IT guys that can't seem to handle an easy to install free Browser.)
Put these two together, and you get a large crowd of self-righteous "I am working so I must get to use my shitty equipment on any web site I want" people that subject IE6 on the rest of the Internet that has have moved on. They use IE6 because someone made a bad decision and won't own up to it. And really, what exactly ARE these mysterious and absolutely critical ActiveX apps? Are you fucking serious? If they are that critical, maybe write some VB to do the same thing. Wouldn't that be fancy? Or is this just another lame job protection thing that you are afraid your rickety shitty ass app being replaced by a 16 line batch file will put you out on the street.
It is this attitude that truly makes these corporate idiots deserve a baseball bat to the back of the head.
IE6 doesn't even render DIV tags properly. Which pretty much means two versions of every web site. (It renders them like tables, with all of their limitations. Why even support it at all if you can't layer your DIVs?)
We don't let horse and buggy on the interstate anymore, no matter HOW rich the idiot is. There's no reason to put up with IE6's shit anymore either. The fucking thing is NINE GODDAMN YEARS OLD, and is FOUR FULL OPERATING SYSTEMS BEHIND.
Kill it. Kill IE6. Kill anybody that still uses it, their fault or not.
Please don't get an account. Your opinion means nothing. And worse, if defending religion is what motivates you to join, you missed the point and should fuck off.
All religions are garbage. ALL OF THEM. If you could REASON with religious people there would BE no religious people.
Yes, it's part of human nature, but so is cannibalism. Just because it's human nature does not make it something right for a modern society.
A lot of internal DNS is done with a Windows Domain Controller and the built in DNS there.
So it's not enough that BIND does it, Windows servers need to as well.
Next, consider the number of Windows2000 networks still out there and the problem of implementation becomes more tangled.
I am using BIND, but not DNSSEC. The GUI that sits in front of mine does not have any options for DNSSEC.
Just go look at the Wikipedia article on DNSSEC and the thick mass of references and new terms and it's FUCKING OBVIOUS it's going to take a long time to implement.
"That's it!" Really?
"That's it" as in, now all of a sudden my legit copy of windows is saying it's not? After being on the box FOUR YEARS?
Or, like when I helped out my in-laws by wiping their old Acer laptop, using the original sealed "recovery CD" which I assume used the original XP install code (which is present on the bottom of the laptop) which ALSO is now claiming it's not legit.
Or some how that every copy of MS Office 2003 is now starting to do this?
It's not that they want to sell more stuff by pressuring legit customers or anything!