out of 1 billion spams, there were 8 million complaints, or 0.8% complainers. Does that mean 8 millions online reports on spam, or 8 million calls? I don't know if I should be shocked at how low the number of reports is, or how high the number of calls is.
I propose we all stop referring to this bill as the "Patriot" act. That cheapens the word Patriot.
Patriots fought and died for freedom. This bill kills freedom.
America is the land of the Free and the home of the Brave. This anti-freedom bill was passed by cowards so scared to death of terrorists they can't trust the people who elected them.
Bush says the terrorists hate our freedom and attacked it. By that definition, those who voted for this bill are terrorists.
This bill is counter to the fundamental rights America originally broke away from Britain over.
I propose we refer to it as the Benedict Arnold bill from now on, as it is an act of treason against our principles.
My Clie works from across my room with no trouble, and I have a big living room. The remote software it comes with for free is better than any of the universal remotes that came with my components.
Once upon a time my wife was a systems engineer. She engineered large defence systems for a gov't contracter and dealt with components and suppliers and integration and testing and documentation. Nothing to do with computers or networks.
Now that everyone who knows what a book looks like calls themself an engineer, it was only a matter of time before non-engineers began calling themselves systems engineers.
I suppose the arguement could be made that sysadmins are "computer system engineers", but there is no excuse to steal someone else's title. Go steal "computer engineer" as no real electrical engineer would call himself that.
Today, if my wife does a job search on her title, she gets a thousand hits for things she's never heard of.
Never buy anything online without checking resellerratings.com. Half the sellers on pricewatch are scam artists, and the BBB is usually a waste of time.
Wow, upstate Games has a "perfect" 0.00 rating: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2804 .html
Great, so I can spend $1,000 on yet another Sony product that will die after one year?
My Sony 200-disc CD player stopped playing CDs after 1 year and a few days, but they were kind enough to fix that, even though it was almost a week out of warantee.
My Sony DVD player would turn off after one second of use a little more than a year after I bought it. Turns out this has happened to over 50% of owners of this player according to several audiophile websites. I called Sony, but they denied they had ever heard of the problem and said it would cost $179 for them just to LOOK at my player!!! I could buy 3 for that much money.
[I eventually fixed my DVD player with a lot of bending, some tinfoil, and silver paste. Others cut holes in the case and added fans. Others also have out-of-sync problems]
My Sony receiver, bought at the same time as my DVD player, started acting up after a year. Sometimes it crashes completely or just "mutes" and has to be unplugged and plugged back in. Sometimes it blasts noise at full volume then goes back to normal. At least I don't get error messages on the screen like other owners. Sony also denies they have ever heard of this problem.
Sony also refuses to divulge information about their big screen TV's, like how many pixels the can display. Sony claims this is unimportant. Call them and ask if you don't believe me. Luckily people like me set up very outdated web pages that divulge all sorts of things they don't want to get out, like how to adjust you convergence without paying a Sony tech:
HP outsourced support to India. This saved them some money, but the level of support plummeted. Gee, who knew a clear understanding of English was important in tech support?
Apparently, complaints about support have skyrocketed 50% in ONE QUARTER!
You are assuming everybody is living near a TV signal, a TV and electricity.
Before seeing this story, I only knew of two ways to get weather information while boating far from shore: very expensive Internet over a satelite phone or very very expensive custom weather service.
Weather maps are extremely important when one depends on the weather to blow them from place to place.
Oooh ooh, I just remembered a great one!
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So, my wife's family's scanner wasn't working, and neither was their phone line. The called us on their cell phone a bitched endlessly, and we told them to call the freakin phone company.
Well, to make a long story short, the phone guy pulled the USB scanner cable out of the phone jack and everything worked again.
That one is even better than a friend's mom who jammed a 3.5" floppy into a 5.25" drive.
My wife's family was having all sorts of AOL troubles and slowdowns which weren't solvable by the means they had tried: screaming and accusations. So, one weekend we made the 4 hour drive to visit them and I checked out their computer. I hit ctrl-alt-del to see what is running, expecting 3 or 4 apps.
I had to scroll down 2 screens to see everything.
Every piece of spyware, adware, malware was there. ISP software from ISPs they don't use. Tons of programs HP included for no good reason. Random apps of unknown orogin. Kazaa. Napster. Multiple installations of AOL. Everything.
It runs much faster now.... I can't tell you how many people have had this conversation with me: Them: "I am having such-n-such problem" Me: "What OS?" Them "Windows 97"
I have had people adamently insist they were runing "windows97." I think I've also heard of windows99. It's probably better than 97.
You, and all those who replied, seem to forget that wood is generally covered with something. Paint is one, but even "wood" furnature that looks like wood is not just wood. [Assuming it is made out of solid wood, not vaneer or engineered wood with toxic glues] It is stained, and then varished. Almost all varnishes have formaldehyde in them, you have to specifically search for ones that don't.
Not realy up on the contents of brick and mortar, but what do you want to make out of glass, and what kind of glass? Leaded glass? Stained glass in lead frames? Stained glass in copper soldered with lead solder (though most solder is lead free now).
It is just about impossible to avoid harsh chemicals unless you make your own house/furniture.
And even if you do, you better be sure your home is well ventilated and there are no leaks or you can get invisible mold that releases toxic gas that causes brain damage.
Personally, I believe central AC with no air exchange is the cause of most problems -- open a damn window. There is also the psychological aspect, and people generally just being to steryl and their immune system freaking out.
That's why I live in a mess - it's healthy. My wife just doesn't understand.
I also guess that everytime I'm between two radio stations and my radio can't decide which to lock on to (FM recievers lock onto the strongest signal, AM plays both at once) I must be hallucinating.
By his definition of "interference" I suppose he's right: photons don't crash into each other, but that is an utterly useless definition and he needs to take an EE class, but he would probably fail - they're much harder than CS classes:)
This article was all over the place, and he basically admits he has no answer other than the FCC is wrong. So what is he proposing? Nothing? Spread spectrum? Frequency hopping? CDMA? I like his idea of bursting an entire DVD in a second with a "very wide band" transmittion. THAT won jam anything, mostly because it doens't exist.
Hybrid cars are cleaner than Hydrogen cars
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Hydrogen requires alot of energy to be produced, and most of that energy will come from coal.
I know this has been mentioned, and this MIT study has been mentioned, but here is a link to a more readable news story
When I was in 5th grade (the first time) we went on a field trip to visit some weird dude and his science museum-type-thing. He had a peg leg and was a little strange. He might have been famous, I don't really remember who he was. He may have affected me mor ethan I imagine, but anyway...
He made a mylar speaker on which he played music to silently to be heard. He reflected a beam of regular light off the mylar and it was picked up by a photovoltaic sensor on the other side of the room which amplified the signal and sent through a normal speaker.
Voila - sound transmitted by light, or light modulated by sound, however you want to see/hear it.
I always wanted to make a setup like that and "listen" to lightning.
I ran a Dr Pepper rip off page (one of the first, not the best) and tried repeatedly to get any response from Dr Pepper. They had no interest in me whatsoever, and the one time I visited Texas and took the opportunity to take a photo of their sign, a SECURITY GUARD ran out and chased me away, as it was a SECURITY VIOLATION TO LOOK AT THE SIGN. What a bunch of assholes. Why the fuck do you put up a sign next to a fucking highway if you don't want people to look at it? And exactly how the fuck is looking at a fucking logo going to,make a fucking difference to their "security?" (I am not aware if that guard's name was Rumsfeld)
Anyway, when I got tired of my collection and knew others were, too, I wondered if Dr Pepper would want it for their Dr Pepper Museum. Although they make it impossible to find a way to contact them, I eventually did, and was replied to with a form letter about where I can buy merchadise.
The newly discovered planet "Earth" is bombarded daily with so much solar radiation that it forms clouds of water vapor. It is unlikely life could have evolved to survive so much energy.
Gotta love it. What a great law.
Anyway, here is another article about it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29526.html
Sorry, for some reason html formatting wont work.
Software that doesn't support DRM will not be able to view these documents, and making software such as open office compatible will be a DMCA violation.
It's all falling into place quite well. It's amazing what kind of ROI you can get on Senators.
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out of 1 billion spams, there were 8 million complaints, or 0.8% complainers. Does that mean 8 millions online reports on spam, or 8 million calls? I don't know if I should be shocked at how low the number of reports is, or how high the number of calls is.
I propose we all stop referring to this bill as the "Patriot" act. That cheapens the word Patriot.
Patriots fought and died for freedom. This bill kills freedom.
America is the land of the Free and the home of the Brave. This anti-freedom bill was passed by cowards so scared to death of terrorists they can't trust the people who elected them.
Bush says the terrorists hate our freedom and attacked it. By that definition, those who voted for this bill are terrorists.
This bill is counter to the fundamental rights America originally broke away from Britain over.
I propose we refer to it as the Benedict Arnold bill from now on, as it is an act of treason against our principles.
My Clie works from across my room with no trouble, and I have a big living room. The remote software it comes with for free is better than any of the universal remotes that came with my components.
Once upon a time my wife was a systems engineer. She engineered large defence systems for a gov't contracter and dealt with components and suppliers and integration and testing and documentation. Nothing to do with computers or networks.
Now that everyone who knows what a book looks like calls themself an engineer, it was only a matter of time before non-engineers began calling themselves systems engineers.
I suppose the arguement could be made that sysadmins are "computer system engineers", but there is no excuse to steal someone else's title. Go steal "computer engineer" as no real electrical engineer would call himself that.
Today, if my wife does a job search on her title, she gets a thousand hits for things she's never heard of.
Never buy anything online without checking resellerratings.com. Half the sellers on pricewatch are scam artists, and the BBB is usually a waste of time.
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Wow, upstate Games has a "perfect" 0.00 rating:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller280
My Sony 200-disc CD player stopped playing CDs after 1 year and a few days, but they were kind enough to fix that, even though it was almost a week out of warantee.
My Sony DVD player would turn off after one second of use a little more than a year after I bought it. Turns out this has happened to over 50% of owners of this player according to several audiophile websites. I called Sony, but they denied they had ever heard of the problem and said it would cost $179 for them just to LOOK at my player!!! I could buy 3 for that much money.
[I eventually fixed my DVD player with a lot of bending, some tinfoil, and silver paste. Others cut holes in the case and added fans. Others also have out-of-sync problems]
My Sony receiver, bought at the same time as my DVD player, started acting up after a year. Sometimes it crashes completely or just "mutes" and has to be unplugged and plugged back in. Sometimes it blasts noise at full volume then goes back to normal. At least I don't get error messages on the screen like other owners. Sony also denies they have ever heard of this problem.
Sony also refuses to divulge information about their big screen TV's, like how many pixels the can display. Sony claims this is unimportant. Call them and ask if you don't believe me. Luckily people like me set up very outdated web pages that divulge all sorts of things they don't want to get out, like how to adjust you convergence without paying a Sony tech:
Hack your Sony big screen
I bought Sony because I heard they were quality. What they were was overpriced and low quality. Never again.
The movies in the German version of CnC (DOS/Gold) were changed so instead of humans being killed there were robots dying.
Apparently, complaints about support have skyrocketed 50% in ONE QUARTER!
Register story
Yes.
You are assuming everybody is living near a TV signal, a TV and electricity.
Before seeing this story, I only knew of two ways to get weather information while boating far from shore: very expensive Internet over a satelite phone or very very expensive custom weather service.
Weather maps are extremely important when one depends on the weather to blow them from place to place.
So, my wife's family's scanner wasn't working, and neither was their phone line. The called us on their cell phone a bitched endlessly, and we told them to call the freakin phone company.
Well, to make a long story short, the phone guy pulled the USB scanner cable out of the phone jack and everything worked again.
That one is even better than a friend's mom who jammed a 3.5" floppy into a 5.25" drive.
My wife's family was having all sorts of AOL troubles and slowdowns which weren't solvable by the means they had tried: screaming and accusations. So, one weekend we made the 4 hour drive to visit them and I checked out their computer. I hit ctrl-alt-del to see what is running, expecting 3 or 4 apps.
...
I had to scroll down 2 screens to see everything.
Every piece of spyware, adware, malware was there. ISP software from ISPs they don't use. Tons of programs HP included for no good reason. Random apps of unknown orogin. Kazaa. Napster. Multiple installations of AOL. Everything.
It runs much faster now.
I can't tell you how many people have had this conversation with me:
Them: "I am having such-n-such problem"
Me: "What OS?"
Them "Windows 97"
I have had people adamently insist they were runing "windows97." I think I've also heard of windows99. It's probably better than 97.
Besides a high price, limited music content, and OS restrictions, my.phillips.com even blocks my browser - Opera, and I'm on a PC.
Miraculously, the site works when I tell Opera to identify as IE.
You, and all those who replied, seem to forget that wood is generally covered with something. Paint is one, but even "wood" furnature that looks like wood is not just wood. [Assuming it is made out of solid wood, not vaneer or engineered wood with toxic glues] It is stained, and then varished. Almost all varnishes have formaldehyde in them, you have to specifically search for ones that don't.
Not realy up on the contents of brick and mortar, but what do you want to make out of glass, and what kind of glass? Leaded glass? Stained glass in lead frames? Stained glass in copper soldered with lead solder (though most solder is lead free now).
It is just about impossible to avoid harsh chemicals unless you make your own house/furniture.
And even if you do, you better be sure your home is well ventilated and there are no leaks or you can get invisible mold that releases toxic gas that causes brain damage.
Personally, I believe central AC with no air exchange is the cause of most problems -- open a damn window. There is also the psychological aspect, and people generally just being to steryl and their immune system freaking out.
That's why I live in a mess - it's healthy. My wife just doesn't understand.
jammers dont exist, either.
:)
I also guess that everytime I'm between two radio stations and my radio can't decide which to lock on to (FM recievers lock onto the strongest signal, AM plays both at once) I must be hallucinating.
By his definition of "interference" I suppose he's right: photons don't crash into each other, but that is an utterly useless definition and he needs to take an EE class, but he would probably fail - they're much harder than CS classes
This article was all over the place, and he basically admits he has no answer other than the FCC is wrong. So what is he proposing? Nothing? Spread spectrum? Frequency hopping? CDMA? I like his idea of bursting an entire DVD in a second with a "very wide band" transmittion. THAT won jam anything, mostly because it doens't exist.
Hydrogen requires alot of energy to be produced, and most of that energy will come from coal. I know this has been mentioned, and this MIT study has been mentioned, but here is a link to a more readable news story
When I was in 5th grade (the first time) we went on a field trip to visit some weird dude and his science museum-type-thing. He had a peg leg and was a little strange. He might have been famous, I don't really remember who he was. He may have affected me mor ethan I imagine, but anyway...
He made a mylar speaker on which he played music to silently to be heard. He reflected a beam of regular light off the mylar and it was picked up by a photovoltaic sensor on the other side of the room which amplified the signal and sent through a normal speaker.
Voila - sound transmitted by light, or light modulated by sound, however you want to see/hear it.
I always wanted to make a setup like that and "listen" to lightning.
Anyway, when I got tired of my collection and knew others were, too, I wondered if Dr Pepper would want it for their Dr Pepper Museum. Although they make it impossible to find a way to contact them, I eventually did, and was replied to with a form letter about where I can buy merchadise.
I felt loved.
I'm glad I've been so loyal.
Anyway, here is my sadly outdated page
The newly discovered planet "Earth" is bombarded daily with so much solar radiation that it forms clouds of water vapor. It is unlikely life could have evolved to survive so much energy.
Where does the staph come from? Why is it resistant? Is that natural, or because of human use of antibiotics, or perhaps run-off from farms?
Try using a US analog clock in a country like Thailand that has 50Hz power. You loose 10 minutes every hour!
Make sure to use a converter as 120v clocks don't like 240v.
Gotta love it. What a great law. Anyway, here is another article about it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29526.html
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the only country to use small pox or nukes against civilians is the US.
Software that doesn't support DRM will not be able to view these documents, and making software such as open office compatible will be a DMCA violation.
It's all falling into place quite well. It's amazing what kind of ROI you can get on Senators.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29425.html
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