>i> Ahlerup said that if authorities deem that Reuters retrieved the information from a public part of the Web site, it could set an important precedent, making anything on a company's Web server public information, he said.
I don't konw about you, but every webserver I have ever seen (and configured) has been completely independant of data I did not want to share with the outside world. (minus.htpasswd, and perl/cgi files) Any company that puts private information onto a webserver is bound to be asking for trouble. Suppose Reuters was someone inscrupulous? (sp?) That information would be snagged, posted on half a zillion shared sites, and anonymously "shared" with individuals who could profit from it.
heh.. I know what you mean.. Almost every coding book I've read since C++ came around has had the asterisk up against the descriptor instead of with the actual variable. I HATE that... even Hungarian Notation isn't as irritating as that.
Pharmacutical (sp?) companies, as said in one other comment to this, go through millions in research. On another note, when they go through FDA testing, they have to pay a very high price to them in order to actually have the testing done. It's in the *millions* of dollars. Although I don't agree with the prices of prescription drugs, it's far more valid than the prices of the games.
On a side note, my wife is a laboratorian and was in the lab one day when a salesman stopped by that sold migraine prescription drugs. (he's a drug rep that basically schmoozes the doctor to make them prescribe the drug) My wife was having sinus issues, and he told her that it's probably a migraine and she should take one.. wouldn't she want to get rid of her pain? She looked at him and told him first off it's sinuses which have nothing to do with migraines, and second off why whould she pay 20 dollars a PILL? He just smiled and said, "When your in pain, and you can get rid of your pain for only 40 dollars (2 pills), wouldn't you pay it?" He got a tongue lashing after that from my wife lol.. but that's how they think.
All of that is well and good, but PayPal at least knows where the money went. That would be a good enough lead for law enforcement to start an examination into it.
Why does it need to be protected, though? I mean.. your going to download it and burn it to a CD, so whats to stop you from ripping that CD? Just save everyone the trouble of the "protection" and offer real music. Like someone else said, www.emusic.com offers it like so.. but it isn't top 40s most times.
How do we know whether a song is "filler" or "underappreciated gem" until we hear it? How do we hear it before we pay for it?
The odds are better at Sams Town in Vegas...Just take that money you gamble on that and put it into the slots by the door.. your going to come out better off.
I still say all of this was concocted by the Sharpie marketeers. They are in cahoots with Intel, IBM, and Phillips. It was the secret "black budget" that they spent on R&D with Phillips and IBM in order to get the cd-burner out to the market. Then, secretly, they devised a surface that was perfect for their own special ink, and created a diversion while swapping the original plans with the ones that contained the secret ingredients for the special surface.
Now, Sharpie has a monopoly. They are stronger than Microsoft, and nothing, nobody, anywhere, can stop them. If you have a blank CD, Sharpie will touch it, and that is an industry standard. Sure, many have come up with other labelling techniques, but have you noticed their poor quality? Either that, or their expensiveness? It's because of Sharpie's pull in congress. Everytime competition comes around, Sharpie provides a congressional donation and a special tax is applied to the competitions product! It's just like Microsoft, and it's going to rip America apart!
How will we label our CDs once Sharpie gets a deeper hold in the CD labelling business by systematically removing all our other options, and raising the prices of their crown-jewel: the black fine-point Sharpie? Conforms to ASTM D-4236, indeed... I wonder if any of their users have ever verified this claim? Considering the smell that comes from the tip when you remove the cap, I am sure that it should have some sort of labeling denoting hazardous vapors.. per the Hazardous Art Materials Act of 1990. Congressional payoff, indeed! I hear money going in all directions, simply to line the pockets of Sanford, the owner of Sharpie. When, oh when, will coporate greed and corruption ever come to an end in this fine, free country known as America!
I weep. weep weep weep.
(the above is supposed to be satirical.. I don't want anyone running off with it, making some grass-roots cause or anything.)
It happens, dude. Whether you don't want to admit it, or you just have this excellent choice of music that never leads to having any songs on a purchased CD being a song you don't like at all. If that is the case, then count yourself as lucky. I for one would have *loved* to pick up one or two songs off of NiN's album "the fragile". Another one I picked up and wanted only one or two songs off of was a "more pure 80's" cd I picked up. Yet another example? Quite a few soundtracks for movies that contained songs only released for the movie. One or two are good, the rest just go along for the ride, trying to make the other artists feel good that their music was purchased... in reality it was only because it was tacked onto the ass of a decent song. LOL
Just use msn messenger LOL No but seriously.. I had my DNS server completely down (doing maintenence on my server) and my wife was using the other computer. I forgot to tell her that I was taking the server down, and I heard her asking why the web browser wasn't working. Her yahoo messenger wasn't working either... but MSN Messenger was cooking right along. I asked her to restart msn messenger to see if it was just kinda stuck, cuz I wanted to see if it was indeed working. It logged in, and worked perfectly. So, I guess they hardcoded IP addresses into the client.
hell, now that people have decided that they want to sell stuff on the net, if it goes down even for an hour the NSA, CIA, FBI, and god knows what other agencies are on full alert.
I'm sorry, but if a customer ever asked that, I'm very sure that customer service rep would say something along the lines of, "Have you read the owners manual, sir?"
Because.. quite frankly... it's in there, and simple:) It's like people not knowing what a right-click is and using the internet. (and not on a mac)
but today, we medicate for everything, im sure 95% of/. readers had chickenpox as a child.
Unfortunately, I'm in the 5% that didn't, and it scares the hell out of me. My daughter hasn't gotten it yet, but when she does I'm either going to get it and end up in the hospital, or find out that I have some sort of immunity to it. I sure hope it's the later.
By the way: DON'T call them "Native Americans". It annoys them. (If you're born here YOU are a "Native American".) "American Indians", however, is a running "ignorant/stupid/crazy European invaders" joke: They were so dumb they thought they were in India - half a world away, Ho Ho! B-) (A poll of members of a large number of tribes showed the preference for "A. I." over "N. A." runs in the 80s-90s% range.)
I happen to be married to a Native American, myself. (Navajo) I consider it rather hilarious that any Native American would *want* to be called an American Indian. I've never heard that used except by political types and people attempting to be politically correct. Native American is the proper term, and people born in America are considered Natural-born American citizen. (Append any other country you want to that if you will, but that is the given term)
Calling a Native American an American Indian would be like calling myself an American Turkish... extremely wrong considering I'm primarily German, and have no Turkish in my genes. A person from India moving to the United States and gaining Naturalized citizenship status would be called an American Indian. But you've already called that one, I just wanted to further clarify that the point your making (and the rest of the world outside California thinks differently) is flawed.
I suppose since 80-90% of the tribes you refer to consider American Indian to be correct that they'll be changing the name of the N.A.C. to A.I.C.? (Native American Church -> American Indian Church)
Slashdot Mirror
One thing I forgot to post...
robots.txt file...
Very nice addition if you don't want your directory to be harvested by search engines.
>i> Ahlerup said that if authorities deem that Reuters retrieved the information from a public part of the Web site, it could set an important precedent, making anything on a company's Web server public information, he said.
.htpasswd, and perl/cgi files) Any company that puts private information onto a webserver is bound to be asking for trouble. Suppose Reuters was someone inscrupulous? (sp?) That information would be snagged, posted on half a zillion shared sites, and anonymously "shared" with individuals who could profit from it.
I don't konw about you, but every webserver I have ever seen (and configured) has been completely independant of data I did not want to share with the outside world. (minus
But it loads so fast and doesn't have a splash screen... never get to see the bird unless you go to help->about Phoenix
I think it's kinda cool though, in a stupid sorta way.. I live in Phoenix, AZ and now they have a browser with the same name =)
6. Cool ness -> you gf comes and sees the dragon, my o my after boring netscape and IE logos you will show people u use the cool new browser.
LOL
I got my wife to install Mozilla on the Win2K box, and the first thing she said was, "awwwww, the little dragon is just soo cute!"
hardly dehydration.. that happens over a period of time. This was due to the atmosphere.
Good point...
C++ has been basically stagnant as a standard... just that everyone else is trying to optimize to that standard.
Of course, to really go with a C++ standard, you have to turn on ANSI in the flags.
heh.. I know what you mean.. Almost every coding book I've read since C++ came around has had the asterisk up against the descriptor instead of with the actual variable. I HATE that...
even Hungarian Notation isn't as irritating as that.
Pharmacutical (sp?) companies, as said in one other comment to this, go through millions in research. On another note, when they go through FDA testing, they have to pay a very high price to them in order to actually have the testing done. It's in the *millions* of dollars. Although I don't agree with the prices of prescription drugs, it's far more valid than the prices of the games.
On a side note, my wife is a laboratorian and was in the lab one day when a salesman stopped by that sold migraine prescription drugs. (he's a drug rep that basically schmoozes the doctor to make them prescribe the drug) My wife was having sinus issues, and he told her that it's probably a migraine and she should take one.. wouldn't she want to get rid of her pain? She looked at him and told him first off it's sinuses which have nothing to do with migraines, and second off why whould she pay 20 dollars a PILL?
He just smiled and said, "When your in pain, and you can get rid of your pain for only 40 dollars (2 pills), wouldn't you pay it?"
He got a tongue lashing after that from my wife lol.. but that's how they think.
Probably something related tot he tech industry.
You know, those useless tidbits of information!
No one cares about anything in that field, do they?
All of that is well and good, but PayPal at least knows where the money went. That would be a good enough lead for law enforcement to start an examination into it.
and more commercial support of devices and such.
Why does it need to be protected, though?
I mean.. your going to download it and burn it to a CD, so whats to stop you from ripping that CD?
Just save everyone the trouble of the "protection" and offer real music. Like someone else said, www.emusic.com offers it like so.. but it isn't top 40s most times.
How do we know whether a song is "filler" or "underappreciated gem" until we hear it?
How do we hear it before we pay for it?
The odds are better at Sams Town in Vegas...Just take that money you gamble on that and put it into the slots by the door.. your going to come out better off.
I still say all of this was concocted by the Sharpie marketeers. They are in cahoots with Intel, IBM, and Phillips. It was the secret "black budget" that they spent on R&D with Phillips and IBM in order to get the cd-burner out to the market. Then, secretly, they devised a surface that was perfect for their own special ink, and created a diversion while swapping the original plans with the ones that contained the secret ingredients for the special surface.
Now, Sharpie has a monopoly. They are stronger than Microsoft, and nothing, nobody, anywhere, can stop them. If you have a blank CD, Sharpie will touch it, and that is an industry standard. Sure, many have come up with other labelling techniques, but have you noticed their poor quality? Either that, or their expensiveness? It's because of Sharpie's pull in congress. Everytime competition comes around, Sharpie provides a congressional donation and a special tax is applied to the competitions product! It's just like Microsoft, and it's going to rip America apart!
How will we label our CDs once Sharpie gets a deeper hold in the CD labelling business by systematically removing all our other options, and raising the prices of their crown-jewel: the black fine-point Sharpie?
Conforms to ASTM D-4236, indeed... I wonder if any of their users have ever verified this claim? Considering the smell that comes from the tip when you remove the cap, I am sure that it should have some sort of labeling denoting hazardous vapors.. per the Hazardous Art Materials Act of 1990. Congressional payoff, indeed! I hear money going in all directions, simply to line the pockets of Sanford, the owner of Sharpie. When, oh when, will coporate greed and corruption ever come to an end in this fine, free country known as America!
I weep. weep weep weep.
(the above is supposed to be satirical.. I don't want anyone running off with it, making some grass-roots cause or anything.)
It happens, dude.
Whether you don't want to admit it, or you just have this excellent choice of music that never leads to having any songs on a purchased CD being a song you don't like at all. If that is the case, then count yourself as lucky.
I for one would have *loved* to pick up one or two songs off of NiN's album "the fragile". Another one I picked up and wanted only one or two songs off of was a "more pure 80's" cd I picked up. Yet another example? Quite a few soundtracks for movies that contained songs only released for the movie. One or two are good, the rest just go along for the ride, trying to make the other artists feel good that their music was purchased... in reality it was only because it was tacked onto the ass of a decent song. LOL
Just use msn messenger LOL
No but seriously.. I had my DNS server completely down (doing maintenence on my server) and my wife was using the other computer. I forgot to tell her that I was taking the server down, and I heard her asking why the web browser wasn't working. Her yahoo messenger wasn't working either... but MSN Messenger was cooking right along.
I asked her to restart msn messenger to see if it was just kinda stuck, cuz I wanted to see if it was indeed working. It logged in, and worked perfectly. So, I guess they hardcoded IP addresses into the client.
hell, now that people have decided that they want to sell stuff on the net, if it goes down even for an hour the NSA, CIA, FBI, and god knows what other agencies are on full alert.
client side.. client side.
he's talking about client side.
We don't need to worry about that.
There aren't many non-idiots around, and the ones that aren't idiots are busy keeping up the slack for the idiots. So, we're in the clear.
Well, it's due time to upgrade, so ...
royalties?
I'm sorry, but if a customer ever asked that, I'm very sure that customer service rep would say something along the lines of, "Have you read the owners manual, sir?"
:) It's like people not knowing what a right-click is and using the internet. (and not on a mac)
Because.. quite frankly... it's in there, and simple
but today, we medicate for everything, im sure 95% of /. readers had chickenpox as a child.
Unfortunately, I'm in the 5% that didn't, and it scares the hell out of me. My daughter hasn't gotten it yet, but when she does I'm either going to get it and end up in the hospital, or find out that I have some sort of immunity to it. I sure hope it's the later.
and New Jersey was the first of that line-up.
I'd believe that before believing the drunk, filthy white people off the reservation :D
By the way: DON'T call them "Native Americans". It annoys them. (If you're born here YOU are a "Native American".) "American Indians", however, is a running "ignorant/stupid/crazy European invaders" joke: They were so dumb they thought they were in India - half a world away, Ho Ho! B-) (A poll of members of a large number of tribes showed the preference for "A. I." over "N. A." runs in the 80s-90s% range.)
I happen to be married to a Native American, myself. (Navajo) I consider it rather hilarious that any Native American would *want* to be called an American Indian. I've never heard that used except by political types and people attempting to be politically correct. Native American is the proper term, and people born in America are considered Natural-born American citizen. (Append any other country you want to that if you will, but that is the given term)
Calling a Native American an American Indian would be like calling myself an American Turkish... extremely wrong considering I'm primarily German, and have no Turkish in my genes. A person from India moving to the United States and gaining Naturalized citizenship status would be called an American Indian. But you've already called that one, I just wanted to further clarify that the point your making (and the rest of the world outside California thinks differently) is flawed.
I suppose since 80-90% of the tribes you refer to consider American Indian to be correct that they'll be changing the name of the N.A.C. to A.I.C.? (Native American Church -> American Indian Church)