Oh, great. If it's anything like Earth-like craigslist ad experiences, 10 aliens will reply, 7 will flake, 2 will try to barter you down to nearly nothing, and the remaining one will ask you if you can drop the item off at a BART station.
Please tell me they're not beaming the "casual encounters" ads into space..
"Individuals should have the right to challenge an inaccuracy, and to provide documentation disproving it."
I've been caught up in this. My credit report(s) are all riddled with errors. No fraud (fortunately), but definite errors, like addresses that I've never lived at being listed as residences, constant misspellings of my name, etc. I never used a purposely misspelled name as a DBA or anything, so why should it be allowed on my credit report? It's incorrect information, and Experian refuses to remove it or even tell me where the hell they got it from in the first place.
Yeah, that pisses me off as well. Nothing has been added to my credit report in well over a year, and the biggest thing on there is a lawsuit that an old ISP (fuck you, O1) pushed through the courts when they knew I couldn't afford to defend myself, but I still get hit with higher insurance rates. I haven't had a ticket in 5 years, and the only accident I've ever been in while driving was a time when I dented someones bumper in traffic. Yet thanks to credit reporting, I get screwed. Gotta love it.
All 3 credit reports have seemingly random information on them. Addresses that I've never lived at, stuff that was supposed to drop off that hasn't, etc. When I contacted Experian, they simply wrote back saying that the information had been verified. HuH? How do they verify this stuff? Why is it such a chore to get these companies to correct their errors?
I don't want ChoicePoint to have *any* data on me whatsoever. But since I'm not a corporation or anything, I cannot revoke their right to have my data. Even though it's *MY INFORMATION* - I have no right to do revoke it, even from a company that exists to do nothing but sell it to marketers and apparantly whoever else wants to buy it.
Blah. Piss on the whole system. It needs to go down, Fight Club style.
I've never filed any bug reports against it, actually. I'm not a developer, and my comments would go unheard - your "suspect it needs to be marked INVALID" comment proves that.
Call it "bitching" if you want, but it's still a true statement - the calendar in the Mozilla suite (sunbird/whatever) sorely lacks features that people want.
Also, when you create a calendar event and then right click it, one of the options is to email invitation.
Unless this behaviour has changed, I don't know. I don't have Sunbird installed currently.
I've been bitching about that for a LONG time now, and Sunbird/etc has really progressed no further. It can't even read its *own* invites sometimes. This was a huge issue when I was trying to move a small business off of Outlook. The integrated calendar is the main thing that kept them locked into Outlook. No Exchange, mind you, just the simple Outlook calendaring. WebDAV calendars/etc just didn't cut it. Can't schedule things like, oh, conference rooms. Can't apply designate rights. Lots of things that Outlook *can* do.
With all of the additional features in 10.4 (Tiger) Server, including built-in iChat server capabilities, this book is probably nice, but will very soon be on the bargain shelf.
10.3 Server came out in late 2003, if I recall correctly.
Peachpit usually makes nice books, regardless of the topic.
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Diamond also had *THE WORST SOFTWARE* known to man. I bought a Rio 500 as soon as it was available. That crap they shipped with the thing would make me an mp3 and then not even recognize the mp3 that it just created, so I couldn't upload anything to the Rio.
I plugged it into my Mac when iTunes came around, and never looked back at the Diamond software at all.
"Also, just for reference: Comcast highspeed internet without cable, $55/month. Gotta love monopolies fighting tooth and nail to hang on to their huge profits."
It's $62/mo out here in CA if you're not a Comcast cable subscriber. Hrm, why the price difference I wonder.. maybe it's that they can squeeze more out of customers in higher per-capita income areas? Bastards!
I just moved to Mountain View and nowhere on SBC's page do they say anything about a 6mbit package.
They used to offer that in San Francisco (old job had it), but I haven't been able to get any information from them for new subscribers. The fastest thing they list on their website is 1.5-3.0mbit down. for $36.99, 1 dynamic IP.
Got the printout of the SBC site right here.. next to Speakeasy's 6.0/768 package with 4 IP addresses for $115.mo. mmmm.... tempting...
The text of the Copyright Office post is here - Why Slashdot keeps rejecting this, who knows.
Anyway, a lot of these MAME games are practically "orphan-ware" anyway, and they want to address the insane copyrights that tie these games up and out of the public domain.
Public comment period, folks... copyright changes *could* happen!
"Google, based in Mountain View, California, is expected to pay $1.87 million for the parcel of industrial-zoned land 85 miles east of Portland, with an option to buy three other area sites."
Dude, around here, (Mountain View) 1.87 million will get you diddly squat. 1.87 million for 30 acres near Portland, OR isn't all that bad. That's a beautiful area, not far from Portland or the PDX airport (lots of flights to Seattle and down here to the Silicon Valley every day) and Portland also has a lot of young professional types.
I'm currently looking for an apartment. I took a new job in the South Bay Area, and am relocating.
I'm having a hell of a time finding a place because of bad credit. Nothing has been added to my report in well over a year, and the biggest item was a bullshit lawsuit from the assholes at O1 Communications over an old bill. I don't have credit cards or car payments because I've been trying to live debt-free. That's now come back around to screw me because I don't have any *positive* credit to balance out the BS. Perfect rental history: Doesn't matter. High paying job: Doesn't matter. Willing to pay 2 x the deposit: Doesn't matter Lawyer handling credit situation: Doesn't matter. Bad credit, according to the error-riddled report from Experian: ALL that matters.
It sucks, but what the hell can we do about it? Having bad credit from getting behind on bills when my job was sent to India shouldn't fuck me over for *seven years.* I've written to my congress critters proposing that the rules be changed. If you pay off a bill, it shouldn't sit on the report for 7 years. That's just a ridiculous amount of time.
Ugh. Screw ChoicePoint and Chexsystems, speaking of bastards..
"i don't think the journalists should be required to divulge their sources... i really don't"
But, in this case, it's just some kid with a website. That's one thing to keep in mind. This isn't a bona fide journalist.
It's a kid with a website.
Several years ago, the Macworld folks clamped down on "Press passes" because there were *so many* "journalists" applying. They didn't work for any news agency, they were just more kids with websites trying to get into the keynote for free. It used to work for a lot of them, but not anymore.
The line between "kid with a website" and "journalist" needs to be drawn somewhere.
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"Even the story submitters don't RTFA!"
:-)
I'm just drunk as hell, proving my point that even alcoholics can get stuff submitted to Slashdot.
Well, since I didn't go to school in America, I missed those classes. Sorry about that.
However, I don't see why it would bar others convicted of similar violations from using it as a precedent example.
If they cannot ever do so, I'm interested in hearing how that works.
Oh, great. If it's anything like Earth-like craigslist ad experiences, 10 aliens will reply, 7 will flake, 2 will try to barter you down to nearly nothing, and the remaining one will ask you if you can drop the item off at a BART station.
Please tell me they're not beaming the "casual encounters" ads into space..
As if eBay really needed more attention. (eBay owns a lot of craigslist.org now)
"WARNING: The photo this girl uploaded probably looks NOTHING like her."
:)
"WARNING: This girl looked like this - in the 70's"
After trolling AOL, match.com, and half of the rest of the internet for dates, I can personally assure you that we really do need such warnings.
XP saw my SB 128 card without needing any of Creative's drivers, and it's been fine ever since.
:)
No monkey business from Windows, either.
You are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever to show your receipt to the door drones at Best Buy, Fry's, or anywhere.
The only exception to that is Costco, because you're paying them for the membership, and it's part of the membership agreement.
"Individuals should have the right to challenge an inaccuracy, and to provide documentation disproving it."
I've been caught up in this. My credit report(s) are all riddled with errors. No fraud (fortunately), but definite errors, like addresses that I've never lived at being listed as residences, constant misspellings of my name, etc. I never used a purposely misspelled name as a DBA or anything, so why should it be allowed on my credit report? It's incorrect information, and Experian refuses to remove it or even tell me where the hell they got it from in the first place.
This entire system is crap.
Yeah, that pisses me off as well. Nothing has been added to my credit report in well over a year, and the biggest thing on there is a lawsuit that an old ISP (fuck you, O1) pushed through the courts when they knew I couldn't afford to defend myself, but I still get hit with higher insurance rates.
I haven't had a ticket in 5 years, and the only accident I've ever been in while driving was a time when I dented someones bumper in traffic. Yet thanks to credit reporting, I get screwed. Gotta love it.
All 3 credit reports have seemingly random information on them. Addresses that I've never lived at, stuff that was supposed to drop off that hasn't, etc. When I contacted Experian, they simply wrote back saying that the information had been verified. HuH? How do they verify this stuff? Why is it such a chore to get these companies to correct their errors?
I don't want ChoicePoint to have *any* data on me whatsoever. But since I'm not a corporation or anything, I cannot revoke their right to have my data. Even though it's *MY INFORMATION* - I have no right to do revoke it, even from a company that exists to do nothing but sell it to marketers and apparantly whoever else wants to buy it.
Blah. Piss on the whole system. It needs to go down, Fight Club style.
I've never filed any bug reports against it, actually. I'm not a developer, and my comments would go unheard - your "suspect it needs to be marked INVALID" comment proves that.
Call it "bitching" if you want, but it's still a true statement - the calendar in the Mozilla suite (sunbird/whatever) sorely lacks features that people want.
Also, when you create a calendar event and then right click it, one of the options is to email invitation.
Unless this behaviour has changed, I don't know. I don't have Sunbird installed currently.
I've been bitching about that for a LONG time now, and Sunbird/etc has really progressed no further. It can't even read its *own* invites sometimes.
This was a huge issue when I was trying to move a small business off of Outlook. The integrated calendar is the main thing that kept them locked into Outlook. No Exchange, mind you, just the simple Outlook calendaring. WebDAV calendars/etc just didn't cut it. Can't schedule things like, oh, conference rooms. Can't apply designate rights. Lots of things that Outlook *can* do.
I'm near San Francisco. How many times have we seen it get obliterated in movies? "The Core" was one, and "10.5" was another one that comes to mind.
And why don't any *good* movies blow up San Francisco? God, 10.5 was awful... at least "The Core" was reasonably entertaining on some level...
Dude, I didn't see any ads to click on.. at least, they're not showing up in Safari. :|
That's pretty cool. Pioneer makes nice stuff these days.
:D
Thanks!
Around here, this is hardly surprising anymore. Seems to be occuring more often, too.
Photos! Photos! What does the setup look like? I think that would be kind of interesting to see..
I've noticed that TVs always look like crap in the stores, probably because they're all displaying the same fuzzy cable feed.
With all of the additional features in 10.4 (Tiger) Server, including built-in iChat server capabilities, this book is probably nice, but will very soon be on the bargain shelf.
10.3 Server came out in late 2003, if I recall correctly.
Peachpit usually makes nice books, regardless of the topic.
Diamond also had *THE WORST SOFTWARE* known to man. I bought a Rio 500 as soon as it was available. That crap they shipped with the thing would make me an mp3 and then not even recognize the mp3 that it just created, so I couldn't upload anything to the Rio.
I plugged it into my Mac when iTunes came around, and never looked back at the Diamond software at all.
"Also, just for reference: Comcast highspeed internet without cable, $55/month. Gotta love monopolies fighting tooth and nail to hang on to their huge profits."
It's $62/mo out here in CA if you're not a Comcast cable subscriber. Hrm, why the price difference I wonder.. maybe it's that they can squeeze more out of customers in higher per-capita income areas? Bastards!
I just moved to Mountain View and nowhere on SBC's page do they say anything about a 6mbit package.
They used to offer that in San Francisco (old job had it), but I haven't been able to get any information from them for new subscribers. The fastest thing they list on their website is 1.5-3.0mbit down. for $36.99, 1 dynamic IP.
Got the printout of the SBC site right here.. next to Speakeasy's 6.0/768 package with 4 IP addresses for $115.mo. mmmm.... tempting...
Well, they have a $19.95/mo SBC/Yahoo DSL package - if you already subscribe to the other SBC home telephone service packages (long distance, etc)
They kind of hide that fact under disclaimers..
This is quite topical once again.
The text of the Copyright Office post is here - Why Slashdot keeps rejecting this, who knows.
Anyway, a lot of these MAME games are practically "orphan-ware" anyway, and they want to address the insane copyrights that tie these games up and out of the public domain.
Public comment period, folks... copyright changes *could* happen!
"Google, based in Mountain View, California, is expected to pay $1.87 million for the parcel of industrial-zoned land 85 miles east of Portland, with an option to buy three other area sites."
:)
Dude, around here, (Mountain View) 1.87 million will get you diddly squat. 1.87 million for 30 acres near Portland, OR isn't all that bad. That's a beautiful area, not far from Portland or the PDX airport (lots of flights to Seattle and down here to the Silicon Valley every day) and Portland also has a lot of young professional types.
Not a bad move overall.
I'm currently looking for an apartment. I took a new job in the South Bay Area, and am relocating.
I'm having a hell of a time finding a place because of bad credit. Nothing has been added to my report in well over a year, and the biggest item was a bullshit lawsuit from the assholes at O1 Communications over an old bill.
I don't have credit cards or car payments because I've been trying to live debt-free. That's now come back around to screw me because I don't have any *positive* credit to balance out the BS.
Perfect rental history: Doesn't matter.
High paying job: Doesn't matter.
Willing to pay 2 x the deposit: Doesn't matter
Lawyer handling credit situation: Doesn't matter.
Bad credit, according to the error-riddled report from Experian: ALL that matters.
It sucks, but what the hell can we do about it? Having bad credit from getting behind on bills when my job was sent to India shouldn't fuck me over for *seven years.* I've written to my congress critters proposing that the rules be changed. If you pay off a bill, it shouldn't sit on the report for 7 years. That's just a ridiculous amount of time.
Ugh. Screw ChoicePoint and Chexsystems, speaking of bastards..
"i don't think the journalists should be required to divulge their sources... i really don't"
But, in this case, it's just some kid with a website. That's one thing to keep in mind. This isn't a bona fide journalist.
It's a kid with a website.
Several years ago, the Macworld folks clamped down on "Press passes" because there were *so many* "journalists" applying. They didn't work for any news agency, they were just more kids with websites trying to get into the keynote for free. It used to work for a lot of them, but not anymore.
The line between "kid with a website" and "journalist" needs to be drawn somewhere.