Actually, I wasn't asking for anything. It was a play on those T-shirts that say something like "My grandparents visited Maui and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt." I think I'm trying to say we didn't get much out of going to war, on any level. But I could be wrong.:-)
Another interesting question: If capitalism and democracy are so naturally great why do we have to resort to terrorism and subversive tactics to promote it around the world?
I sometimes wonder if a person couldn't do more good by just not accumulating so much to begin with. Leave more in the pool rather than try to empty the pool and then attempt to look magnanimous by donating to charity.
Still, it's nice that he gives back and it's one thing I can respect about Bill Gates.
You're not developing for the Lowest Common Denominator, you're developing for people who would like a product that they can use right away to make the best use of their precious time. It's not turning us into a nation of two-year olds any more than engineering cars to be easy maintenance did. Programming so that your software is extremely easy to use is a smart competitive move, not an onerous task bestowed upon you by a moronic public.
Not everyone has the time or desire to be the equivalent of a shade tree mechanic with their computers. I would certainly hate to have to fiddle with my car constantly just to be able to drive to work and school and I'm sure most people would rather their software just work and be intuitive rather than have to plow through yet another thick manual.
Exactly. I essentially do the same except I shelled out a few dollars for some software that does it for me (Web Confidential) and also syncs with my Palm Pilot. Yes, it is a little more hassle than some single click solution but I do have my passwords with me, encrypted, just about wherever I go. Since they're so easy to look up it makes me more likely to use a different password for every single service I sign up for, so even if an insider somewhere goes bad and steals the password about all they can do is screw up the account they probably already have access to.
Another fraud, not exactly through eBay...
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...is the email claiming to come from eBay stating that your account has been suspended pending the update of your personal information, and a link to a web page is provided. Of course, the link goes to some web server with a.tw tld and it looks exactly like the eBay sign in page.
I put in a bogus name and password and it passed me right on to the next page where they ask for all your info, including a credit card. I plugged in more bogus info and it responds with yet enother page that looks exactly like eBay's that says congrats you've updated your info. I wonder how many people fall for this?
I also wonder if it would be technically illegal to use curl to submit a few thousand million POST requests with bogus info to that scam page?
People are apt to believe weird things for a number of reasons. Here is an Amazon review of a book, "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer that sums it up:
Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics.
Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin
Remember the Sony Watchman? It was amazing to see a TV that small and it had a kind of neat-o factor but when it came down to it they were just too small to be useful.
The MS device has more features, to be sure, but making it a portable video player seems like deja vu. How many people do you see carrying around Watchmans today? Or even when they first came out?
I don't care about the Roman gods much, but I am puzzled as to why they would pick a goddess of the sea when it doesn't seem likely that the new planet holds much water. Perhaps we should name the new planet Earth and rename our own rock Sedna?
I couldn't find a way to view the site certificate in Safari when the padlock was showing, but if you have the Debug menu enabled you can go to Debug-->Security and set it to perform strict certificate checks. The default setting was "Allows expired root certificates."
if you haven't seen anything how do you know that you haven't missed anything?
I ditched my TV in 1992. I know I haven't missed anything because I occasionally see stuff on TVs when I'm in public places or at relatives houses. I am apalled when I think about how I used to watch stuff like that, and that includes a show that was considered to be good from all the talk I heard (Sex and the City).
I doubt it happened. Besides, when have you seen campus police move that fast unless it's to ticket your illegally parked car?
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Would it be based on actual arousal or just thinking about sex? Of course, if it's the latter you know that the thing is going to be "glowing" every 2 seconds and therefore useless. It's on everybody's mind almost constantly. It's a wonder we can get anything done at all besides make attempts at procreation.
If you think runing out of disk space can be hard to trouble shoot, try running out of inodes.
That's why I always keep a spare bag or two of inodes on hand, just in case. They're small so they don't take up too much space in the closet. I store them next to those f-stops I used to use for photography.
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous
collective.
They are not economists and therefore, they don't necessarily see the whole picture.
Yep, that'd be me. I certainly don't see the whole picture when I've been harped at for years to "buy American" only to see the corporations buying foreign when it comes to labor. Go ahead and call it sour grapes but I'll be looking for creative ways to "offshore" my money in the form of purchasing products from overseas. Yes, I know. I'm probably just making the problem worse.
Sensitive data? Just because it's found through Google online doesn't make it any more sensitive or useful for terrorists. You can walk into any aviation bookstore and buy sectionals for the whole country, and they've got a lot more info than some MapBlast gif file.
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Another interesting question: If capitalism and democracy are so naturally great why do we have to resort to terrorism and subversive tactics to promote it around the world?
Still, it's nice that he gives back and it's one thing I can respect about Bill Gates.
Not everyone has the time or desire to be the equivalent of a shade tree mechanic with their computers. I would certainly hate to have to fiddle with my car constantly just to be able to drive to work and school and I'm sure most people would rather their software just work and be intuitive rather than have to plow through yet another thick manual.
I put in a bogus name and password and it passed me right on to the next page where they ask for all your info, including a credit card. I plugged in more bogus info and it responds with yet enother page that looks exactly like eBay's that says congrats you've updated your info. I wonder how many people fall for this?
I also wonder if it would be technically illegal to use curl to submit a few thousand million POST requests with bogus info to that scam page?
The MS device has more features, to be sure, but making it a portable video player seems like deja vu. How many people do you see carrying around Watchmans today? Or even when they first came out?
To enable the Debug menu see this tip.
I ditched my TV in 1992. I know I haven't missed anything because I occasionally see stuff on TVs when I'm in public places or at relatives houses. I am apalled when I think about how I used to watch stuff like that, and that includes a show that was considered to be good from all the talk I heard (Sex and the City).
That is according to the minimum wage employees working at the truck stop!
It looks like not being a minimum wage employee didn't stop him from toasting the entire wad of cash.
I doubt it happened. Besides, when have you seen campus police move that fast unless it's to ticket your illegally parked car?
Would it be based on actual arousal or just thinking about sex? Of course, if it's the latter you know that the thing is going to be "glowing" every 2 seconds and therefore useless. It's on everybody's mind almost constantly. It's a wonder we can get anything done at all besides make attempts at procreation.
We are not elitist. In fact, we'd like you to join us. :-)
That's why I always keep a spare bag or two of inodes on hand, just in case. They're small so they don't take up too much space in the closet. I store them next to those f-stops I used to use for photography.
Yeah, those 40 year old punks are so irritating. Oh, to be 40 again....
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
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Yep, that'd be me. I certainly don't see the whole picture when I've been harped at for years to "buy American" only to see the corporations buying foreign when it comes to labor. Go ahead and call it sour grapes but I'll be looking for creative ways to "offshore" my money in the form of purchasing products from overseas. Yes, I know. I'm probably just making the problem worse.
That's OK, so is he. He just happens to be trapped in a man's body.