Fulfillment of this plan was through PeoplePC; a Linux implementation would have required Ford to set up the whole program themselves (not likely to be a cost-saver).
try to live almost any where in this country without a driver's license or auto
I live in the world's most motorized city, L.A. and have since 1997. I have never driven.
This, however, is quite different. Obviously, the intention is "security." That means anyone who does not have this can correctly be viewed as "not secure." That is different from being considered a "non-driver."
If Ebay had to be a cop on all sales, their business would be shot to hell. Ebay has always strongly recommended escrow accounts.
Consumers and sellers both have resisted them, considering them inconvenient. But if I were buying a high-ticket item online from Joe Schmoe, and escrow wasn't available by the seller's decision, I would pass it by. The escrow services I've used have been quite easy to set up and the delay was minimal to non-existent.
Atually MSN email is a Passport account. Any microsoft email id/pw combo will log you into Passport as well. In XP, ANY use of their mail client, even for non-MS account, actually logs you into Passport via MS Messenger at the same time (at least by default, haven't really looked for a means to disable that).
If one reads the article, one finds that "soon" means "by 2005." One also learns that the cost obstacle is not in the fibre itself, nor in "getting it to your house" (this is internal channels fibre). The cost prohibition lay in converting your household electrical current to light, and back to electrons for the non-optical components. When this becomes affordable depends on how long it takes VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting laser diodes) to become nice and cheap.
I have filed a patent on the the representation of pi in binary format. Since binary representations of all future patents may be derived from my IP, I have served notice on the patent office to cease and desist from issuing any further patents.
This is the "fresnel lens" dealio? God, Commander Taco, you have been sucked in, just like Timothy was yesterday by the "Stegdetect" guy!
I don't really think things are so bad that we need to moderate the editors, but just a weensy bit of research can help in these cases. There will always be slips, thank god for the BS detectors of the/. readers!
Sounds like Timothy was "taken in," or seriously misread the submission. "Niels" says after searching fruitlessly through Ebay, "we" "found" a pic that was planted by ABC? Where's the triumph?
From Stegdetect's website:
Stegdetect...is capable of detecting several different steganographic methods to embed hidden information in JPEG images. Currently, the detectable schemes are jsteg jphide (unix and windows) invisible secrets, and outguess 01.3b.
OutGuess 0.2 can not be detected using these techniques.
Obviously, if we can convince terrorists to limit their tools to the "breakable" stuff, we'll be safe from terrorism at last.
For the record, I thought your post was funny and would have moderated it up, had I the points. I suspect your karma loss has more to do with the unfunny "joke" from another poster that followed, than with your own. Moderators are not always careful readers, as we all can testify.
They did not "get anthrax," they were exposed to anthrax. So far, with all the exposures reported there are only two instances where those exposed actually showed symptoms of the disease. The constant harping by the media on the numbers exposed, rather on the numbers actually infected, is helping to create hysteria, and ignorant substitution of "got anthrax" for "exposed to anthrax" is of no help.
Further, there is no need for any of these six to have been viewing the materials for them to show exposure to the air-borne variety of anthrax. And, in fact, four have tested negative for exposure, the remaining two are presently "inconclusive," so your fantasy of crowds of microsofties huddling over porn are invalid.
Your disregard for the facts shows. This isn't a matter of PC, it's a matter of ignorant posting on an issue of some importance. STFU.
Multiplying the number of people exposed at MS by 12-fold does NOT make a funny joke, as each of the professionals you cite would know. If you want to pusue this further at least have the cojones to log in, "Coward."
We heard you the first time, not that you were saying anything we weren't already aware of. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt when I say you haven't really considered what affect this post could have on some people.
I stated that I was putting aside how funny it may be. The text of the post, however, does state, "The funny part is..." and "that 75 people were exposed..."
This sort of post is especially unfunny if you happen to live in reno, and/or have friends employed at ms. I have no abstract sacred cows, but this is a practical matter. In these very edgy times and just a small bit of regard for your fellows will go a long way.
If our reps were interested in filtering out the spam, they could.
Off the top of my head: I'd create a registry for my constituents; register your IP, and then our webforms will work for you. Don't register, or abuse the system, and you're outta there. For people without a dedicated IP, you could assign logins, or use other methods to require responsible use of email.
...me about this article:
...their courage was rewarded when IBM generously volunteered $15,000 for the project budget.
So he gets his dream box for free?!?!!
and
You could build the ULB yourself from scratch. But...you shouldn't. I wouldn't. There are subtle gotchas that can cost you a lot of grief. A good example, Gary tells me, is installing PC coolers...it's pretty easy to use too much pressure and damage the CPU socket, or even crack the CPU itself. "This design will be available for purchase from Los Alamos Computers...
Plus, he gets a kickback!?!!
I've been building my own boxes, and boxes for friends, for many years, and I am not a rocket scientist. I once fried one of those hard disks with the exposed circuit board on the bottom (it was exchanged immediately by the vendor even tho my fault), but no other hardware casualties.
Do others here really believe that people reading this article (we are talkin' bout the Linux Journal audience) are likely to crack their processors by installing today's cooling units?
why is it funny to laugh at people because they're poor? Humanity is disgusting.
How do you reconcile your disgust with humanity with your intolerance of jokes made at their expense? I mean, if they're so damn disgustng, why not laugh at the way they smell?
(By the way, I was also offended by the Afghan Tv Guide...but only because the jokes were so lame.)
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the pic itself isn't pr0n.
But the popups are. Jeez, some of us are at work...besides this picture was linked in the original article. Redundant!!!!
At the risk of (-1, redundant): please read above. "This option is automatically turned ON when an emergency call is placed, then turned back OFF when the call is completed."
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Interesting sidenote:
PeoplePC's stock shot up 27% yesterday!!!
Unfortunately, that's a climb of three cents to $0.14
I can't think of a single voice recognition app that can't send audio input to a text file. Try this.
I live in the world's most motorized city, L.A. and have since 1997. I have never driven.
This, however, is quite different. Obviously, the intention is "security." That means anyone who does not have this can correctly be viewed as "not secure." That is different from being considered a "non-driver."
Consumers and sellers both have resisted them, considering them inconvenient. But if I were buying a high-ticket item online from Joe Schmoe, and escrow wasn't available by the seller's decision, I would pass it by. The escrow services I've used have been quite easy to set up and the delay was minimal to non-existent.
I don't really think things are so bad that we need to moderate the editors, but just a weensy bit of research can help in these cases. There will always be slips, thank god for the BS detectors of the /. readers!
From Stegdetect's website:
Stegdetect...is capable of detecting several different steganographic methods to embed hidden information in JPEG images. Currently, the detectable schemes are jsteg
jphide (unix and windows)
invisible secrets,
and outguess 01.3b.
OutGuess 0.2 can not be detected using these techniques.
Obviously, if we can convince terrorists to limit their tools to the "breakable" stuff, we'll be safe from terrorism at last.
Further, there is no need for any of these six to have been viewing the materials for them to show exposure to the air-borne variety of anthrax. And, in fact, four have tested negative for exposure, the remaining two are presently "inconclusive," so your fantasy of crowds of microsofties huddling over porn are invalid.
Your disregard for the facts shows. This isn't a matter of PC, it's a matter of ignorant posting on an issue of some importance. STFU.
Multiplying the number of people exposed at MS by 12-fold does NOT make a funny joke, as each of the professionals you cite would know. If you want to pusue this further at least have the cojones to log in, "Coward."
We heard you the first time, not that you were saying anything we weren't already aware of. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt when I say you haven't really considered what affect this post could have on some people.
This sort of post is especially unfunny if you happen to live in reno, and/or have friends employed at ms. I have no abstract sacred cows, but this is a practical matter. In these very edgy times and just a small bit of regard for your fellows will go a long way.
If our reps were interested in filtering out the spam, they could.
Off the top of my head: I'd create a registry for my constituents; register your IP, and then our webforms will work for you. Don't register, or abuse the system, and you're outta there. For people without a dedicated IP, you could assign logins, or use other methods to require responsible use of email.
So he gets his dream box for free?!?!!
and
You could build the ULB yourself from scratch. But...you shouldn't. I wouldn't. There are subtle gotchas that can cost you a lot of grief. A good example, Gary tells me, is installing PC coolers...it's pretty easy to use too much pressure and damage the CPU socket, or even crack the CPU itself.
"This design will be available for purchase from Los Alamos Computers...
Plus, he gets a kickback!?!!
I've been building my own boxes, and boxes for friends, for many years, and I am not a rocket scientist. I once fried one of those hard disks with the exposed circuit board on the bottom (it was exchanged immediately by the vendor even tho my fault), but no other hardware casualties.
Do others here really believe that people reading this article (we are talkin' bout the Linux Journal audience) are likely to crack their processors by installing today's cooling units?
Humanity is disgusting.
How do you reconcile your disgust with humanity with your intolerance of jokes made at their expense? I mean, if they're so damn disgustng, why not laugh at the way they smell?
(By the way, I was also offended by the Afghan Tv Guide...but only because the jokes were so lame.)
the pic itself isn't pr0n.
But the popups are. Jeez, some of us are at work...besides this picture was linked in the original article. Redundant!!!!
IANAL, but while it may be a violation of law, it is not the downloader's violation, it is another instance of violation by the original distributor.
I question the sampling methods used in this poll.
At the risk of (-1, redundant): please read above. "This option is automatically turned ON when an emergency call is placed, then turned back OFF when the call is completed."