Bah, this is old news. My old Ford Pinto must've had a remote stall feature. Someone had clearly hacked it because they were able to cause my car to stall in the worst possible places (middle of busy squares, left lane of notoriously dangerous highways, etc).
Yeah, my Pontiac J(unk) 2000 had the same "feature".
There was a libertarian in 2004. Micheal Badnarik. I know at least 3 people who voted for him. Unfortunately, those 3 were a significant percentage of his total support.
I have another concern about banlists. What if I'm running a site, and I have to ban "Imma Troll" for being an @$$? I don't really give a damn who Imma is IRL, but I DO care if "Imma Nice Guy Honest", who registered 5 minutes after I banned the Troll, happens to have the same IP as the banned Troll.
One more last thing - banks DO NOT send you an email telling you that they will suspend your account if you dont hurry up and click the link and type in your sensitive personal information. If you get one, its a scam
Also, if you get such an email from a bank that you don't have an account with, you can be reasonably sure that it's a scam.:)
Personally, I think Norton is a total POS! When I first switched to Avast, it found malware on the D:\ partition that Norton missed. Also, it doesn't slow or break my system the way Norton does.
It sounds like overkill on Linux. But it would shut up the naysayers that claim that non-root doesn't help because you can still lose your personal files.
Well, what about all those ancient gods we have up there? They're just as distanced from reality as star trek
Agreed! I don't mind naming planets after the king of the gods (Jupiter), god of speed (Mercury), or god of the underworld (Pluto). But when we get down to the god of flatulence (Uranus), you know we need to find new people to name them after.
I had a long stretch without Linux because trying to install it on a previous machine was a huge PITA. After trying Vista, I decided to give Linux another try, and I had very mixed results.
First, I tried Ubuntu. The good news is, nearly everything worked. The bad news is, the partition resize seemed to break Vista! It no longer booted! To be fair, I had some problems with that BEFORE the resize, but that was the straw that broke the camel's, um, window.
After fiddling with Ubuntu awhile, I switched to Fedora with similar mixed results. The Linux stuff worked, but Grub didn't set up Windows dual boot (Ubuntu's did, even though Vista itself was borked).
My conclusion? Linux STILL isn't ready, at least for people who still need Windows. I MIGHT have been able to fix my booting problems if I hadn't already moved my Windows software to my laptop, but most people would be screwed.
I think the situation is generally pretty simple: any time a group declares that "God is on our side" they stake a position that they have to defend. If they see another group who is more successful -- more powerful, more money, whatever -- they *have* to explain to their followers why this is happening. There are only two explanations: "we were wrong: God isn't on our side" or "those people are in league with the devil!"
I can think of a problem with that line of thinking. If God is on our side, and the guy who's in league with the devil is richer than us, that implies that the devil is more powerful than God!:-O
If you really want an online bank every major bank offers online banking. Some have more features than others, but there are a few where you can get an almost full service banking experience without ever visiting a branch
My brick-and-mortar bank gives me 0.90% interest rate. ING Direct is about 5.00%. I don't recall what Netbank's rate was, but it was surely much more than the brick-and-mortar place.
Ehhh, you do realise you'd get an extra hour of daylight in the morning without DST?
But in the morning, I'm getting ready to go to work, and can't really enjoy the extra hour. After work, I have time to walk for an hour in the extra light.
A lot of first-generation immigrants DON'T learn English. And these days, a lot of American kids are learning Spanish so they can get summer jobs in one of those places that say "Hablamos Espanol".
Even Spanish is iffy. Where I live, I can easily hear random people on the street speaking it, but my friends and family don't. Only a couple of my acquaintances speak it, and they had good reasons for learning it (one came from a Hispanic country, the other married a Hispanic).
Bingo! Where I live, there's little point in learning anything but English or Spanish, simply because there's very few people who speak anything else. If I tried to learn, say, German, I'd probably forget it in a couple of months through lack of use.
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Yeah, my Pontiac J(unk) 2000 had the same "feature".
Yippee Caiyay, mudder fsker!
It sure would have got less press.
If it was a gun, the stupid cop might not have been so quick to use it, since dead bodies are hard to explain.
There was a libertarian in 2004. Micheal Badnarik. I know at least 3 people who voted for him. Unfortunately, those 3 were a significant percentage of his total support.
Yeah, and I think their lead in that area is insurmountable.
But I run Linux!
Yeah, they'd better copy the movie before they have to return it!
I have another concern about banlists. What if I'm running a site, and I have to ban "Imma Troll" for being an @$$? I don't really give a damn who Imma is IRL, but I DO care if "Imma Nice Guy Honest", who registered 5 minutes after I banned the Troll, happens to have the same IP as the banned Troll.
Also, if you get such an email from a bank that you don't have an account with, you can be reasonably sure that it's a scam.
Personally, I think Norton is a total POS! When I first switched to Avast, it found malware on the D:\ partition that Norton missed. Also, it doesn't slow or break my system the way Norton does.
It sounds like overkill on Linux. But it would shut up the naysayers that claim that non-root doesn't help because you can still lose your personal files.
I've always thought that Bush himself is smarter than he looks. Though, that is a low bar.
Agreed! I don't mind naming planets after the king of the gods (Jupiter), god of speed (Mercury), or god of the underworld (Pluto). But when we get down to the god of flatulence (Uranus), you know we need to find new people to name them after.
I had a long stretch without Linux because trying to install it on a previous machine was a huge PITA. After trying Vista, I decided to give Linux another try, and I had very mixed results.
First, I tried Ubuntu. The good news is, nearly everything worked. The bad news is, the partition resize seemed to break Vista! It no longer booted! To be fair, I had some problems with that BEFORE the resize, but that was the straw that broke the camel's, um, window.
After fiddling with Ubuntu awhile, I switched to Fedora with similar mixed results. The Linux stuff worked, but Grub didn't set up Windows dual boot (Ubuntu's did, even though Vista itself was borked).
My conclusion? Linux STILL isn't ready, at least for people who still need Windows. I MIGHT have been able to fix my booting problems if I hadn't already moved my Windows software to my laptop, but most people would be screwed.
8 hours? Meh! My "obsolete" copper wire phone service kept working during a 5 day power outage. Hooray to progress! :-P
I can think of a problem with that line of thinking. If God is on our side, and the guy who's in league with the devil is richer than us, that implies that the devil is more powerful than God!
I got the same impression from them. I still have, er had, an account there, but it was strictly chump change. Most of my money is in ING.
My brick-and-mortar bank gives me 0.90% interest rate. ING Direct is about 5.00%. I don't recall what Netbank's rate was, but it was surely much more than the brick-and-mortar place.
Yeah, but in a nuclear war, the whole planet might go! We really need to establish a backup repository on another planet.
But in the morning, I'm getting ready to go to work, and can't really enjoy the extra hour. After work, I have time to walk for an hour in the extra light.
Ewww! TMI!
A lot of first-generation immigrants DON'T learn English. And these days, a lot of American kids are learning Spanish so they can get summer jobs in one of those places that say "Hablamos Espanol".
Even Spanish is iffy. Where I live, I can easily hear random people on the street speaking it, but my friends and family don't. Only a couple of my acquaintances speak it, and they had good reasons for learning it (one came from a Hispanic country, the other married a Hispanic).
Bingo! Where I live, there's little point in learning anything but English or Spanish, simply because there's very few people who speak anything else. If I tried to learn, say, German, I'd probably forget it in a couple of months through lack of use.