They aren't capable of recognizing "chicken sandwich" or "barbeque sauce" as being part of the thumbprint.
Those new IBM ThinkPads are just begging to get lunch crusted in the fingerprint reader thingy. We got a few of them here, and within a week, food was becoming a problem.
Auugh... men already have enough trouble with their women saying "You said $X before! I remember you saying it!" This gives the females of our species an unfair advantage, as now they can pull the memory right off of your hard drive.:)
... and the older (trumped) California or Washington laws should be put into place.
Spammers should be forced to provide absolute PROOF that you signed up (and verified) that you wanted marketing mail. No selling of email lists. Ever get spams that claim "You're getting this because you subscribed from 207.92.115.25 on $date" at all? they should be able to *prove* that *I* subscribed.
CAN-SPAM has done nothing but open the floodgates for spammers. I have seen it in action, seeing as how I worked for a company that's now on the ROKSO list. I got to deal with it every single day.
CAN-SPAM is a *total failure* and the only right thing to do is repeal it and send it back to the drawing board, allowing the states to come up with their own laws.
It won't even take that long. Many of these operations are the ones that own the multiple lists. So, within that 3 days, they can simply dump your name onto List B, C, D, E, F... and then sell all of them at their leisure.
The Japanese still beat us in pizza delivery. I moved back to the US from Japan in 1994, but even back then, I'd order a pizza and it would always always be at my place in under 30 minutes, and the pizza delivery scooters they use had heated compartments on the back, so the pizzas were always warm & fresh. Back here in the states, it took me a while to get used to hearing "About an hour.." for delivery, drivers that couldn't find my house (or read a map) and lukewarm pizza.
The Japanese beat our asses when it comes to pizza delivery. Although, the pizza company? Dominos. Shakey's. Pizza Hut. I can't really remember any Japanese pizza *chains* at all...
Yeah, AC dude, you're right. Windows boxes with only 256mb RAM are fairly usable, but once you put sp2 on, the RAM requirements seem to go up a bit.. 512 is tolerable. My Athlon XP 1800 at home (old!) only has 512mb, and it's not too bad..
Check out the specs below. What, are they going to make another "thin client" or just a version of Windows XP that runs on something slower than a Pentium 233? These are the requirements for Windows XP Pro, from Microsoft's own site. They say it'll *run* but what they don't tell you is that it'll run slower than cold syrup trying to flow uphill (both ways) in December in Minnesota. It'll run, but once you try to open an application, you'll wish you hadn't.
"Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device"
yeah, Zonk, this really belongs in the "hardware" category. heh.
The demo didn't seem to work for me, but others are already playing with it. Kind of cool, really.
What would be *really* cool is if news websites would let us use something like this instead of having to create usernames & passwords for every news site we want to read (or w/o having to leech a login from bugmenot)
"Countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam, Ukraine, China, Zimbabwe and Indonesia while United States, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom had the lowest."
So, the BSA should back off of us and go attack the Ukraine and Zimbabwe now. I wonder if they consider the reasons that folks in Zimbabwe might pirate software.. perhaps because they want to learn how to use Office but cannot afford it? I'm not sure if the bSA is keeping track of pirated games or just the big commercial apps like Office & Photoshop.
Then again, this was a BSA study. Would they inflate the perceived value of the software? Oh, never!;)
Mods: I've already noted this is off topic. Modding it down would be silly. That being said, I thought that the Google text ads were supposed to be relevant. I've been seeing the same ads popping up a lot.. not just on slashdot.
One reason I'd use it is in the event that I travelled outside of the MetroPCS service area. It's not that often that happens, but it certainly does occur, and I'm very likely to find a hotspot (Starbucks... even some of the middle-of-nowhere ones have T-Mobile now) or at least an open WAP to use for a few minutes.
* No contracts * Your virtual phone numbers * Calling to Canada * Unlimited minutes. No worrying about going over minutes/roaming.
Just a couple reasons. I have a bare-bones cell phone service through MetroPCS and my home phone through Vonage. For everything, I pay about $50/mo total. Something like this might me useful to me, as I'm often in a hotspot.
Meeting A, morning = you're getting laid off. Boxes are placed in your cubes and your computers are dismantled while you're in the meeting. Phones are cut off. Network drops are disabled.
Meeting B, afternoon = you get to hear about the layoffs that morning.
I was one of the meeting B folks back in 2001, but boy, did I wish that I was part of A - the severance packages were nice.
Spammers I worked for did just that. "Oh, since I'm the manager, I should have sudo access.."
Then when the "It's just not working out" crap from the newbie manager (the silk suit wearing little prick) comes, you realize exactly why they demanded access to particular machines.
Otherwise, I'm sure that forcing the new sysadmin to do a quick password recovery wouldn't be too far off the mark.
my GPS has been *really* inaccurate in the past few days. It's also way off on the altitude. (Mountain View, CA is not at 2,800 feet) Also my Sirius stuff has had more drop-offs than usual, even when the sky was clear outside.
Slashdot Mirror
"half of the top russian sites went down, including www.mail.ru, www.rambler.ru, www.lenta.ru, some of them haven't been brought up yet."
And now that you put clicky links to dead websites in a Slashdot article, they're *really* not going to come back up in a timely manner.
"We are havink power outage, da?" "Nyet, comrade.. is slashdot effect."
"In Soviet Russia, power outage causes YOU! Oh, wait, zat is East Coast Blackout.."
What about when the spamware/viruses simply use the ISP's mail server to blat out their crap instead?
It's already been happening. I thought there was even one that was grabbing smtp auth information from mail clients and using it..
Why?
They aren't capable of recognizing "chicken sandwich" or "barbeque sauce" as being part of the thumbprint.
Those new IBM ThinkPads are just begging to get lunch crusted in the fingerprint reader thingy. We got a few of them here, and within a week, food was becoming a problem.
Engineers are such pigs, I swear.
Auugh... men already have enough trouble with their women saying "You said $X before! I remember you saying it!" :)
This gives the females of our species an unfair advantage, as now they can pull the memory right off of your hard drive.
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it! ;)
:)
Japan has the most bizarre combinations of pizza toppings...
Fortunately, you can still get pepperoni & cheese only.
... and the older (trumped) California or Washington laws should be put into place.
Spammers should be forced to provide absolute PROOF that you signed up (and verified) that you wanted marketing mail. No selling of email lists. Ever get spams that claim "You're getting this because you subscribed from 207.92.115.25 on $date" at all? they should be able to *prove* that *I* subscribed.
CAN-SPAM has done nothing but open the floodgates for spammers. I have seen it in action, seeing as how I worked for a company that's now on the ROKSO list. I got to deal with it every single day.
CAN-SPAM is a *total failure* and the only right thing to do is repeal it and send it back to the drawing board, allowing the states to come up with their own laws.
It won't even take that long. Many of these operations are the ones that own the multiple lists. So, within that 3 days, they can simply dump your name onto List B, C, D, E, F... and then sell all of them at their leisure.
CAN-SPAM should be repealed. Immediately.
The Japanese still beat us in pizza delivery. I moved back to the US from Japan in 1994, but even back then, I'd order a pizza and it would always always be at my place in under 30 minutes, and the pizza delivery scooters they use had heated compartments on the back, so the pizzas were always warm & fresh.
Back here in the states, it took me a while to get used to hearing "About an hour.." for delivery, drivers that couldn't find my house (or read a map) and lukewarm pizza.
The Japanese beat our asses when it comes to pizza delivery. Although, the pizza company? Dominos. Shakey's. Pizza Hut. I can't really remember any Japanese pizza *chains* at all...
Shoot the kid AND herself. Problem solved!
:D
I never said it was a good solution.
.40 cal round + head = problem solved!
:-D
Hey, I never said it was a *good* solution, but it's definitely a solution.
I have a Glock 23 and 3 boxes of ammo. Screw 911. There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of gratuitous violence. >:)
Yeah, AC dude, you're right. Windows boxes with only 256mb RAM are fairly usable, but once you put sp2 on, the RAM requirements seem to go up a bit.. 512 is tolerable. My Athlon XP 1800 at home (old!) only has 512mb, and it's not too bad..
Check out the specs below. What, are they going to make another "thin client" or just a version of Windows XP that runs on something slower than a Pentium 233? These are the requirements for Windows XP Pro, from Microsoft's own site. They say it'll *run* but what they don't tell you is that it'll run slower than cold syrup trying to flow uphill (both ways) in December in Minnesota.
It'll run, but once you try to open an application, you'll wish you hadn't.
"Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device"
yeah, Zonk, this really belongs in the "hardware" category. heh.
The demo didn't seem to work for me, but others are already playing with it. Kind of cool, really.
What would be *really* cool is if news websites would let us use something like this instead of having to create usernames & passwords for every news site we want to read (or w/o having to leech a login from bugmenot)
Take a look at the Flash based demo. Look at the bookmarks in the bookmark bar.
Here's a screenshot of it.
"Countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam, Ukraine, China, Zimbabwe and Indonesia while United States, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom had the lowest."
;)
So, the BSA should back off of us and go attack the Ukraine and Zimbabwe now. I wonder if they consider the reasons that folks in Zimbabwe might pirate software.. perhaps because they want to learn how to use Office but cannot afford it? I'm not sure if the bSA is keeping track of pirated games or just the big commercial apps like Office & Photoshop.
Then again, this was a BSA study. Would they inflate the perceived value of the software? Oh, never!
Mods: I've already noted this is off topic. Modding it down would be silly. That being said, I thought that the Google text ads were supposed to be relevant. I've been seeing the same ads popping up a lot.. not just on slashdot.
Image here
More & more "Christian" services popping up. WTF?
The turkeys that flip open their laptop and have Limewire, Bittorrent, Bearshare and Kazaa all launching and downloading cruft.
:(
p2p apps + hotspots = inconsiderate behaviour.
One reason I'd use it is in the event that I travelled outside of the MetroPCS service area. It's not that often that happens, but it certainly does occur, and I'm very likely to find a hotspot (Starbucks... even some of the middle-of-nowhere ones have T-Mobile now) or at least an open WAP to use for a few minutes.
* No contracts
* Your virtual phone numbers
* Calling to Canada
* Unlimited minutes. No worrying about going over minutes/roaming.
Just a couple reasons. I have a bare-bones cell phone service through MetroPCS and my home phone through Vonage. For everything, I pay about $50/mo total. Something like this might me useful to me, as I'm often in a hotspot.
Meeting A, morning = you're getting laid off. Boxes are placed in your cubes and your computers are dismantled while you're in the meeting. Phones are cut off. Network drops are disabled.
Meeting B, afternoon = you get to hear about the layoffs that morning.
I was one of the meeting B folks back in 2001, but boy, did I wish that I was part of A - the severance packages were nice.
Spammers I worked for did just that. "Oh, since I'm the manager, I should have sudo access.."
Then when the "It's just not working out" crap from the newbie manager (the silk suit wearing little prick) comes, you realize exactly why they demanded access to particular machines.
Otherwise, I'm sure that forcing the new sysadmin to do a quick password recovery wouldn't be too far off the mark.
http://www.macrovision.com/company/directions/newo ffice.html
:)
There's the address (info right from their public website)
my GPS has been *really* inaccurate in the past few days. It's also way off on the altitude. (Mountain View, CA is not at 2,800 feet)
Also my Sirius stuff has had more drop-offs than usual, even when the sky was clear outside.
At least Beavis & Butthead were entertaining. :P