In addition, stop tech supporting friends who use MS products. "Sorry, I can't help you with that, I don't use windows." I'm sure most of us end up as the tech support hotline for friends and family. Just explain that you don't use MS software and aren't familiar with how to do stuff in it. Then tell them you'd gladly help them if they used something you were familiar with, like KDE on RedHat.
Government is in the pocket of big business. Elected officials waste tax dollars and sodomize constituents. Video footage at eleven.
Not that I think we should just let this slide because it happens all the time, but...well...it does. We're more likely to sit up and take notice because it's in the tech industry, but everyone here is acting like this is the first time government officials have wasted tax dollars. It's been going on for centuries. Sitting here and typing away about how this *could* be fixed isn't really solving anything. I don't have any answers, and I don't want to sound like a parrot, but it's not just the tech industry that's fucked up - it's every industry. Everyone buys politicians. This will take sweeping reforms to fix, and those with the power to fix it are far too taken with getting rich off the system to care. You can vote for 'the other guy' but he's probably corrupt too. They've got us all by the balls now...
If we can attribute the buffer overflow to be a problem with directx and not with half-life itself, then all three of your most horrific moments ever are the direct result of MS negilgence. Try to collect damages...they should be available for more court dates sometime around 2017;)
I can remove the browser from Mac OS (at least versions 7-9, never tried to remove it from OS X) and I also have a small (30 or 40 meg) install of linux running as a firewall that doesn't even have lynx.
I betcha there's an EULA on any free software you use as well. Maybe not as nefarious as KaZaA's "all your network resource are belong to us", but something along the lines of having to redistribute code changes, or whatever clauses for it's flavour of gpl/bsd/lgpl/whatever.
watch your firewall logs. look for anything unauthorized going out. run ad-aware after you install it. you should never ever ever automatically assume that any piece of software is safe unless you wrote it yourself (you know, if you want to be all paranoid...).
Wasn't there something about a.kids or some-such tomfoolery not too long ago? I thought it a fantastic idea. Wouldn't take much to restrict your home internet access to only go to.kids sites without some sort of adult supervisor password thingie. Make sure they lock up registration tightly like they used to for.org, and have some rules about.kids only being able to link to other.kids sites (under penalty of having your domain name revoked). Simple answers people...
I've heard a lot of arguments against windows, but this is the first time I've heard "it can only handle 32 processors". I don't think I've ever heard *only* 32 processors as a valid argument against an OS...nor did I ever expect to...
When I first heard about emusicb(back in december), I went to their site and read through everything. When I discovered that their "high quality mp3s" were 128 kbit, I sent an email. Here's how it went:
I was perusing your website, and I noticed that you only encode your music to 128 Kbps. While I'm sure it's probably an issue of server space, I have found that most people can notice a difference in sound quality at 128 Kbps, and many still notice it at higher rates. I find for myself that 160 or 192 is preferable. The reason I bring this up is that your service looks to be rather impressive and definitely interests me, but I was wondering if you had any future plans to increase the bitrate of your music (maybe even offer higher quality tracks for a "premium" membership fee).
Thanks for your time,
(my name here)
Here's the response I got:
Hello,
Thank you for writing to EMusic.
Customer satisfaction is very important at EMusic. Although there are no current plans to change the bitrate, we continually monitor customer's feedback regarding bitrate preference. While increasing our bitrate improves the sound quality of downloads, it also dramatically increases file size and download time. Many of our customers use dial-up connections, which would create issues for them with increased download time. And, unfortunately, offering multiple bit rates would be cost prohibitive to our customers.
Regards,
EMusic.com Service
So it seems that they have no real plans to increase the quality of their tracks, and I would have to actually be a customer for my feedback to matter to them anyways. When somebody starts to offer better quality at comparable prices, I'll join.
The other alternative is that if there are already that many sellers a couple of weeks after publishing, the book must not be worth keeping. Most people I know will keep a book in their collection rather than sell it for less than half what they paid for it - that is, unless the book sucked.
that's what I did for my company's site as well. I have a linked src file with variables (orders = "steve" or what have you) and then just use a document.write( eval(orders) + String.FromCharCode(64)... and so on as I stated before. I definitely like your idea for borderless tables though. Between javascript, borderless tables, images, and the alt property, we should be able to keep harvesting bots confused. I'm sure there's a way to use the summary property of table tags for more fun, but I'm too tired to figure it out right now (it's 4pm on a friday...)
<img src="myemailaddress.jpg" alt="me at domain dot com">
that way people who use browsers that speak (ie. the blind) would still hear your address correctly, so long as spambots don't start to pick up on the spelling out of "at" and "dot".
I like that idea...look up the originating host, and make links back to abuse@, root@, webmaster@, and whatever else you can think of. Clog their mailservers. The problem is, it would be simple enough (if it's not already in place) to have your spam bot ignore addresses for your own domain.
I've found that a lot of people just won't send email if there's not a link to facillitate it. I've become rather fond of using javascript to write the address to the page. Spambots read the source so they don't piece the address together but *most* browsers will still do it right. Just use something like:
Seems to work fine. Anyone know of any reason it shouldn't, or have any other way to keep down spam without totally removing the Mailto: ? I know this won't work with *every* browser, but it beats totally removing mail links. And I don't think spammers can get it without having a human actually look at the page...
It seems to be one of those grey areas. If I play a CD I purchased at home with some friends over, does that constitute a 'public performance'? Should I have to pay (even) more for a CD because my friends didn't technically purchase a license to listen to the music? How many people have to hear it to be considered a 'public performance'? Do we actually have any rights at all?
I don't know how it is with TW, but Rogers / Cogeco / Bell Sympatico here in Canada all run ads along the lines of "download music faster with our always on connection". And I've heard word that Rogers is planning to pull something along the lines of metered bandwidth. So how is it that they go from offering me always on unlimited bandwidth for downloading music to telling me that I have to pay more to run p2p so I can get that music that they're telling me I can get? If they want to advertise always connected, unlimited bandwidth, then they should be willing to provide it.
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I don't charge myself labour costs when I do things on my own time. If I did, I'd probably never build anything myself. I just assume that my time out of work is my own free time and I don't have to bill anyone for it.
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If you wanted to go all out portable machine, you could mount a small (5" or so) lcd in the top (you'd have to move a fan) and have a full computer in a box. Get a foldable pda keyboard and a small mouse. Stuff 'em in the box for travel and plug into the front usb ports - it's the perfect traveling computer repairman box. That gives me an idea...
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In addition, stop tech supporting friends who use MS products. "Sorry, I can't help you with that, I don't use windows." I'm sure most of us end up as the tech support hotline for friends and family. Just explain that you don't use MS software and aren't familiar with how to do stuff in it. Then tell them you'd gladly help them if they used something you were familiar with, like KDE on RedHat.
what would make you think you'd find a geek at the beach? there aren't computers/star trek reruns at the beach. silly newbie...
I'm sure it'll be broken up on entry into our atmosphere, and by the time it hits it'll be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
Well, maybe the one that takes out Long Island, or Buffalo.
we slashdotted his brother's geocities page. and here I thought none of us read the damn articles...
Government is in the pocket of big business. Elected officials waste tax dollars and sodomize constituents. Video footage at eleven.
Not that I think we should just let this slide because it happens all the time, but...well...it does. We're more likely to sit up and take notice because it's in the tech industry, but everyone here is acting like this is the first time government officials have wasted tax dollars. It's been going on for centuries. Sitting here and typing away about how this *could* be fixed isn't really solving anything. I don't have any answers, and I don't want to sound like a parrot, but it's not just the tech industry that's fucked up - it's every industry. Everyone buys politicians. This will take sweeping reforms to fix, and those with the power to fix it are far too taken with getting rich off the system to care. You can vote for 'the other guy' but he's probably corrupt too. They've got us all by the balls now...
If we can attribute the buffer overflow to be a problem with directx and not with half-life itself, then all three of your most horrific moments ever are the direct result of MS negilgence. Try to collect damages...they should be available for more court dates sometime around 2017 ;)
I can remove the browser from Mac OS (at least versions 7-9, never tried to remove it from OS X) and I also have a small (30 or 40 meg) install of linux running as a firewall that doesn't even have lynx.
I betcha there's an EULA on any free software you use as well. Maybe not as nefarious as KaZaA's "all your network resource are belong to us", but something along the lines of having to redistribute code changes, or whatever clauses for it's flavour of gpl/bsd/lgpl/whatever.
watch your firewall logs. look for anything unauthorized going out. run ad-aware after you install it. you should never ever ever automatically assume that any piece of software is safe unless you wrote it yourself (you know, if you want to be all paranoid...).
he has to pay for his bandwidth somehow. it's a lot better to do it that way than to install apps on our computers for the advertisers benefit.
furry carpet covers like seat covers for your car to protect the case over time
Yeah, that's what my athlon needs...a fur coat, just in case it gets a little cold.
Wasn't there something about a .kids or some-such tomfoolery not too long ago? I thought it a fantastic idea. Wouldn't take much to restrict your home internet access to only go to .kids sites without some sort of adult supervisor password thingie. Make sure they lock up registration tightly like they used to for .org, and have some rules about .kids only being able to link to other .kids sites (under penalty of having your domain name revoked). Simple answers people...
I thought politicians were smart.
You're new to the planet, aren't you?
I've heard a lot of arguments against windows, but this is the first time I've heard "it can only handle 32 processors". I don't think I've ever heard *only* 32 processors as a valid argument against an OS...nor did I ever expect to...
Here's the response I got:
So it seems that they have no real plans to increase the quality of their tracks, and I would have to actually be a customer for my feedback to matter to them anyways. When somebody starts to offer better quality at comparable prices, I'll join.
The other alternative is that if there are already that many sellers a couple of weeks after publishing, the book must not be worth keeping. Most people I know will keep a book in their collection rather than sell it for less than half what they paid for it - that is, unless the book sucked.
that's what I did for my company's site as well. I have a linked src file with variables (orders = "steve" or what have you) and then just use a document.write( eval(orders) + String.FromCharCode(64)... and so on as I stated before. I definitely like your idea for borderless tables though. Between javascript, borderless tables, images, and the alt property, we should be able to keep harvesting bots confused. I'm sure there's a way to use the summary property of table tags for more fun, but I'm too tired to figure it out right now (it's 4pm on a friday...)
hell, go one step further:
<img src="myemailaddress.jpg" alt="me at domain dot com">
that way people who use browsers that speak (ie. the blind) would still hear your address correctly, so long as spambots don't start to pick up on the spelling out of "at" and "dot".
I like that idea...look up the originating host, and make links back to abuse@, root@, webmaster@, and whatever else you can think of. Clog their mailservers. The problem is, it would be simple enough (if it's not already in place) to have your spam bot ignore addresses for your own domain.
I've found that a lot of people just won't send email if there's not a link to facillitate it. I've become rather fond of using javascript to write the address to the page. Spambots read the source so they don't piece the address together but *most* browsers will still do it right. Just use something like:
<script>document.write("<A CLASS=\"link\" HREF=\"mailto: " + "myname" + String.FromCharCode(64) + "mydomain"</script>
Seems to work fine. Anyone know of any reason it shouldn't, or have any other way to keep down spam without totally removing the Mailto: ? I know this won't work with *every* browser, but it beats totally removing mail links. And I don't think spammers can get it without having a human actually look at the page...
It seems to be one of those grey areas. If I play a CD I purchased at home with some friends over, does that constitute a 'public performance'? Should I have to pay (even) more for a CD because my friends didn't technically purchase a license to listen to the music? How many people have to hear it to be considered a 'public performance'? Do we actually have any rights at all?
I don't know how it is with TW, but Rogers / Cogeco / Bell Sympatico here in Canada all run ads along the lines of "download music faster with our always on connection". And I've heard word that Rogers is planning to pull something along the lines of metered bandwidth. So how is it that they go from offering me always on unlimited bandwidth for downloading music to telling me that I have to pay more to run p2p so I can get that music that they're telling me I can get? If they want to advertise always connected, unlimited bandwidth, then they should be willing to provide it.
I don't charge myself labour costs when I do things on my own time. If I did, I'd probably never build anything myself. I just assume that my time out of work is my own free time and I don't have to bill anyone for it.
If you wanted to go all out portable machine, you could mount a small (5" or so) lcd in the top (you'd have to move a fan) and have a full computer in a box. Get a foldable pda keyboard and a small mouse. Stuff 'em in the box for travel and plug into the front usb ports - it's the perfect traveling computer repairman box. That gives me an idea...