"I set MSN Search as my default search engine on Firefox"
I set my Firefox home page to open MSN search with the default search strings "openoffice.org google 'how do I replace microsoft windows with linux?'".
"If the spammers were smart they would have a list of gullible people by now and target their population more intensly, to save on effort. You might as well bleed em dry, right?"
There's a sucker born everyday.
Rephrased, there's a new internet user that's willing to buy from spam going online every day.
Google for Tony Suzuki to see what he did with a 6502 in 1981 or so. It was eyepopping to see a fluid sidescroller game created with a handful of registers and 1MHz processor.
Good point. However, recent scientific studies have shown that workers who don't point slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 are responsible for 37.6% of the total unemployment rate. So the fraud effect would essentially swamped out by the daily increase in new slashdot users.
Re:With a hopefully smaller burst of the bubble
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"consistently buying these stocks with P/E ratios of 300 and higher"
I'd rephrase that a bit. It was so crazy back then that any company with an actual P/E was pretty much frowned upon. The momentum went toward companies showing deals and eyeballs. Even the top-line dollars from the deals didn't matter; any press release with AOL would guarantee a 50-100% jump in market cap (usually in a day). I even customized my PR feed to catch the three letters "AOL" and automatically buy any other ticker in the release. And it worked just about every time.
The profit/earnings were strictly secondary. The mantra was to spend wildly on Aerons and salaries and claim as much of the "new West" as possible. The internet was the biggest innovation since the automobile. Everyone from cab drivers to CEOs believed this and stated it daily on CNBC and the mainstream press.
It's tough to look back without the benefit of hindsight so others may remember it differently. Fwiw, that's my recollection.
Shouldn't be a problem. Back in the 80's I remember wirewrapping Ciarcia's projects up to 10MHz. Judicious use of decoupling caps (.1uf) and standard digital design techniques were necessary but TTL and CMOS was pretty idiot proof at those frequencies.
1) The consumer pays when disposing. Pretty unfair because a bunch of computers can simply be thrown in the trash by those not wanting to recycle. Well, life's not fair but it's the starting point in the article.
2) The manufacturer plus consumer. If the burden shifts to the manufacturer then the recycling cost will inevitably be added to the initial price tag. So every purchaser pays up front whether the fee is buried in the purchase price or listed as a separate disposal fee. A little better. Home builders like myself would seem to be excluded. Not to mention that some type of fund would need to be set up for such a thing.
However, the real key to getting something like this to work is by marketing. Play up the fact that your computer is "green" and appeal to soccer moms to buy brand X for Christmas morning. Maybe throw in a little lower power consumption and stripped down packaging to boot. It could certainly be made to work to the manufacturer's advantage financially. That's the "3) Profit!" aspect.
Btw, Honda advertises that the Pilot is 90% recyclable...it actually was a factor in my decision to by it.
Umm, so Susan left her small child alone at home? Did you mean your post to be an example of infringement by Big Brother or as an indictment of poor parenting?
Seems to me that no matter what, Susan has some explaining to do...
With GreenCine, they use a list of ZIP codes that they won't ship to. My guess when I saw it was that there were around a thousand of them listed, not surprisingly about half are 3xxxx (in the south).
Couldn't find the link it in their faq but it's on the site somewhere if you're curious.
Isn't the NY Post like the Enquirer or Fox News in journalistic integrity? The article said they were being investigated, not arrested. How 'bout reserving judgement until there's an actual charge filed instead of acting like a lynch mob.
Yes, you're correct however it was much worse back then. As drafted, the original DRM spec of 1778 allowed for no more than 2Hz of processing power be used for authentication checks.
Unfortunately, machines back then only ran at 0.5Hz so there was never enough processing power available to save the word doc that expressed his thoughts on the issue.
Google on "+Ben +Franklin +DRM +Microsoft +sucks" for links.
My favorite was "unsunctioned". I'll be using that one in casual conversation over the next few days. Feel free to do the same. Btw, I'm officially placing it in the public domain so no fees will be required upon its usage.
I don't get some of these phishing guys. Just got this in my inbox. Sure, there are some phishes that look believable but are the phishers really as stupid as the people that click on them? Would anyone who'd create a brain-dead phish like this one actually be afraid of jail time and/or a fine?
-- Subject: E-gold secutity patchHBhdGNo
Dear E-gold user, we receive many complaints concerning unsunctioned taking the money off the balance of our users recently, thus we earnestly ask you to install the following service-pack onto your Personal Computer.
- This innovation blocks all known Trojans which let take the money off your account without your consent. We earnestly ask you to install this service-pack in order to keep your money safe and sound.
- In case of the lost of your money, E-gold *DOES NOT* bear any responsibility if the service-pack had not been installed on your computer before.
- The installation archivated file of the service-pack is attached to this letter.
Yep and I'm surprised he didn't mention that saving every penny possible to establish an account with F.U. money is important. Reducing stress from not living paycheck-to-paycheck greatly adds to quality of life and career path decision making. It's easier to do this when you're twenty than married with two kids.
I'm seeing this with my 6-year old daughter. We're having a blast playing with a Lego Mindstorms kit and she loves playing the 4-year old copy of Contraptions fished from the bottom of a CompUSA $2 bin. But I can tell she doesn't look at it the same way I fondly reminisce disassembling my first broken dishwasher. Or, for that matter, my Apple ][ around 10 or so. The glory was in the guts.
Balance seems to be the key. Although an hour of playing Princess Barbie with her is enough to drive any male crazy.
Yeah, kind of like my garage
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But at least I don't have to listen to Windows Explorer whine "So when are you planning on cleaning this mess up? This century would be nice."
I hadn't been in Best Buy for over 5 years. Last week a power supply went out and had to get a replacement asap so BB was the only option.
During checkout the girl asked me for my phone number and, as I usually do when asked by any store, gave my fax number. Sure enough she said that the number was incorrect which had to mean that they were checking phone numbers against the credit card record.
At that point it could be argued that they could simply check a driver's license as proof but I had no desire whatsoever to argue with the manager.
So far there haven't been any calls. But I still cringe at the fact that for all intents and purposes giving a phone number could be used as an opt-in for their telemarketing. Even whether or not my theory is correct about how the number was checked.
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"I set MSN Search as my default search engine on Firefox"
I set my Firefox home page to open MSN search with the default search strings "openoffice.org google 'how do I replace microsoft windows with linux?'".
It's the little things that make life enjoyable.
I, for one, welcome our seditious overlords!
Oh, wait...
Wow, talk about postus interruptus. You had us on the edge of our seats ready for the big climax then...
So what exactly fixed the problem?
"If the spammers were smart they would have a list of gullible people by now and target their population more intensly, to save on effort. You might as well bleed em dry, right?"
There's a sucker born everyday.
Rephrased, there's a new internet user that's willing to buy from spam going online every day.
The pipeline doesn't seem to be running dry.
Google for Tony Suzuki to see what he did with a 6502 in 1981 or so. It was eyepopping to see a fluid sidescroller game created with a handful of registers and 1MHz processor.
"Peter-esque loss of eye contact with the Great Commissioner"
Excuse my ignorance but can someone explain what this means? Genuinely curious.
Good point. However, recent scientific studies have shown that workers who don't point slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 are responsible for 37.6% of the total unemployment rate. So the fraud effect would essentially swamped out by the daily increase in new slashdot users.
"consistently buying these stocks with P/E ratios of 300 and higher"
I'd rephrase that a bit. It was so crazy back then that any company with an actual P/E was pretty much frowned upon. The momentum went toward companies showing deals and eyeballs. Even the top-line dollars from the deals didn't matter; any press release with AOL would guarantee a 50-100% jump in market cap (usually in a day). I even customized my PR feed to catch the three letters "AOL" and automatically buy any other ticker in the release. And it worked just about every time.
The profit/earnings were strictly secondary. The mantra was to spend wildly on Aerons and salaries and claim as much of the "new West" as possible. The internet was the biggest innovation since the automobile. Everyone from cab drivers to CEOs believed this and stated it daily on CNBC and the mainstream press.
It's tough to look back without the benefit of hindsight so others may remember it differently. Fwiw, that's my recollection.
And if I can help only one ignorant slashdotter spell "flamebait" then it's worth it.
We'll work on spelling "troll" next article...
Shouldn't be a problem. Back in the 80's I remember wirewrapping Ciarcia's projects up to 10MHz. Judicious use of decoupling caps (.1uf) and standard digital design techniques were necessary but TTL and CMOS was pretty idiot proof at those frequencies.
1) The consumer pays when disposing. Pretty unfair because a bunch of computers can simply be thrown in the trash by those not wanting to recycle. Well, life's not fair but it's the starting point in the article.
2) The manufacturer plus consumer. If the burden shifts to the manufacturer then the recycling cost will inevitably be added to the initial price tag. So every purchaser pays up front whether the fee is buried in the purchase price or listed as a separate disposal fee. A little better. Home builders like myself would seem to be excluded. Not to mention that some type of fund would need to be set up for such a thing.
However, the real key to getting something like this to work is by marketing. Play up the fact that your computer is "green" and appeal to soccer moms to buy brand X for Christmas morning. Maybe throw in a little lower power consumption and stripped down packaging to boot. It could certainly be made to work to the manufacturer's advantage financially. That's the "3) Profit!" aspect.
Btw, Honda advertises that the Pilot is 90% recyclable...it actually was a factor in my decision to by it.
Umm, so Susan left her small child alone at home? Did you mean your post to be an example of infringement by Big Brother or as an indictment of poor parenting?
Seems to me that no matter what, Susan has some explaining to do...
With GreenCine, they use a list of ZIP codes that they won't ship to. My guess when I saw it was that there were around a thousand of them listed, not surprisingly about half are 3xxxx (in the south).
Couldn't find the link it in their faq but it's on the site somewhere if you're curious.
Isn't the NY Post like the Enquirer or Fox News in journalistic integrity? The article said they were being investigated, not arrested. How 'bout reserving judgement until there's an actual charge filed instead of acting like a lynch mob.
Just a thought.
Under fair use, only if the burglar isn't a friend of yours or he leaves a note promising to just borrow it.
"Didn't Ben Franklin say something about this?"
Yes, you're correct however it was much worse back then. As drafted, the original DRM spec of 1778 allowed for no more than 2Hz of processing power be used for authentication checks.
Unfortunately, machines back then only ran at 0.5Hz so there was never enough processing power available to save the word doc that expressed his thoughts on the issue.
Google on "+Ben +Franklin +DRM +Microsoft +sucks" for links.
My favorite was "unsunctioned". I'll be using that one in casual conversation over the next few days. Feel free to do the same. Btw, I'm officially placing it in the public domain so no fees will be required upon its usage.
I don't get some of these phishing guys. Just got this in my inbox. Sure, there are some phishes that look believable but are the phishers really as stupid as the people that click on them? Would anyone who'd create a brain-dead phish like this one actually be afraid of jail time and/or a fine?
--
Subject: E-gold secutity patchHBhdGNo
Dear E-gold user, we receive many complaints concerning unsunctioned taking the money
off the balance of our users recently, thus we earnestly ask you to install the
following service-pack onto your Personal Computer.
- This innovation blocks all known Trojans which let take the money off your account
without your consent. We earnestly ask you to install this service-pack in order
to keep your money safe and sound.
- In case of the lost of your money, E-gold *DOES NOT* bear any responsibility if the
service-pack had not been installed on your computer before.
- The installation archivated file of the service-pack is attached to this letter.
Yep and I'm surprised he didn't mention that saving every penny possible to establish an account with F.U. money is important. Reducing stress from not living paycheck-to-paycheck greatly adds to quality of life and career path decision making. It's easier to do this when you're twenty than married with two kids.
Great post.
I'm seeing this with my 6-year old daughter. We're having a blast playing with a Lego Mindstorms kit and she loves playing the 4-year old copy of Contraptions fished from the bottom of a CompUSA $2 bin. But I can tell she doesn't look at it the same way I fondly reminisce disassembling my first broken dishwasher. Or, for that matter, my Apple ][ around 10 or so. The glory was in the guts.
Balance seems to be the key. Although an hour of playing Princess Barbie with her is enough to drive any male crazy.
But at least I don't have to listen to Windows Explorer whine "So when are you planning on cleaning this mess up? This century would be nice."
Downloaded from the U.S and mine's working fine; just selected UK as the country and it installed ok.
Oh btw, remind me again how I'm supposed to know if there's some Lycos spyware embedded in it? Just curious.
"dancing midgets throwing pickles at a naked woman"
I'd actually pay to see that.
Fwiw...
I hadn't been in Best Buy for over 5 years. Last week a power supply went out and had to get a replacement asap so BB was the only option.
During checkout the girl asked me for my phone number and, as I usually do when asked by any store, gave my fax number. Sure enough she said that the number was incorrect which had to mean that they were checking phone numbers against the credit card record.
At that point it could be argued that they could simply check a driver's license as proof but I had no desire whatsoever to argue with the manager.
So far there haven't been any calls. But I still cringe at the fact that for all intents and purposes giving a phone number could be used as an opt-in for their telemarketing. Even whether or not my theory is correct about how the number was checked.
Hey dude lighten up. I prefer to use the words "pleasantly plump" and "spirited".