Oh, I know how it is. I accidentally sent the wrong mailbox to sa-learn and now my mailserver gets a sneezing fit whenever someone sends me a mail about topless filking.
And, I'm allergic to nuts too. Two years in techsupport nearly killed me off.
Profesors of Investment Banking have opinions just like the rest of us. One of the fircest opponents to soft patents that I know is a lawyer specializing in Intellectual Property. Interesting? Yes, but not surprising.
The thing is, having an strong opinion and announcing it loudly causes publicity. Both for the opinion itself, and fhr the one announcing it. Publicity for the one announcing it makes their other opinions noticed too, as well as their ideas, services and books.
I'm not saying that they've got the opinion because it's a means to get the public's attention, but it certainly doesn't hurt their exposure.
That much said, I applaud their stance. The patent system is totally broken and needs to be either thrown out completely or severely reworked.
Actually, adding, deleting and changing domains causes changes at #2 and #3. The root-servers are never affected unless there is a change in the TLD delegations. Changing a Second level domain requires changes in the TLD nameservers (#2) and the nameservers responsible for the SLD (#3). Changes within the domain only affects #3. Unless, of course, the change is on an authorative nameserver, in which case #2 is also affected. This article describes how the changes in #2 will take effect faster.
In journalism, 39400 is a difficult number. Many reporters have trouble understanding numbers such as those. Thus, it is rounded up to 40000, because that's both easier to comprehend and it looks cooler (lots of zeros).
Next in line are the editors. The editors like round numbers, that's why the reporters always round their numbers up. Most editors like round numbers so much that they round them up to, let's say, 50000, which obviously is half of 100000.
You might also have noticed that lexmark stock is down $3.46 from this morning. Let's apply the same techniques that we learned earlier. Let's make this a nice, round figure of $5.
Now, Lexmark has about 129.5 million shares outstanding. This means, in journalist-speak, that there are 200 million lexmark shares on the market. Multiply this with the figure you got earlier (this part is very difficult for most reporters and editors) and you get $1,000,000,000.
This looks very impressive, right? Still, there's something missing. Of course there is! Let's add the word "over". What do we get?
LEXMARK MAKES OVER $1,000,000,000 LOSS ON PRINTER RECALL
Isn't that a headline to be proud of?
Of course, you might ask what the heck I'm smoking and what this has to do with reality. If you do that, you've uncovered one of the greatest secrets about journalism - it has nothing to do with reality at all.
Oh, and by the way, where did all those $1,000,000,000 USD go? Well, I'll tell you. In fact, I could use a bit of help in transfering those to a private bank acount. If you care to help me out, I can offer you a 30% share of the money...
The charge was made by SCO VP of engineering Sandeep Gupta in a declaration that is currently under seal, but is quoted, albeit tersely, in the new filings.
Even when it comes to snailmail, small errors can result in things being sent way off course.
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Credit card number? Forget it, most (smart) people would never give out their credit card number just to "authenticate" themselves. (On the other hand, enough idiots do this already, so maybe I'm wrong). Also, not everyone has a credit card.
SSN? Great, Lots of fake ones out there. Besides the fact that many countries don't even HAVE social security numbers. Some have equivalent forms of ID, but many doesn't even have that.
Passports? Well, I bought a Sealand passport off of eBay.;)
In my personal opinion, I think this might actually be a good thing. Considering the fact that didtheyreadit.com uses external images for tracking, and that they're getting a whole bunch of publicity right now (partially due to this very article), this is just another reason for email clients to block external images by default - spam apparently not being a big enough reason yet.
With a bit of luck, this will make more sites and clients want to implement image blocking, which will in turn make it harder for spammers to get their messages across.
Spam is merely an annoyance to most people. Privacy issues are not.:)
Uhh, no. The recipient "downloads" their mail from their ISPs mailserver. There's nothing didtheyreadit.com can do to change that. What the extra ".didtheyreadit.com" does is simply being an email adress that forwards the mail to the recipients server, and adding a tracking-image to the mail.
Of course, if you don't believe me, please feel free to call my free 1-800 number and I'll explain it further. I promise not to redirect your call to an international $9.95/min number.
If you have a new Nokia phone (IE, new model, not just new purchase), you just upload the ringtones (in MIDI, AMR or MP3 format) by IR or Bluetooth.
Considering the vast amount of MIDI, AMR or MP3 format songs out there, and for that matter the ease of creating one in the first place, I don't see why this is such big news. Unless, of course, this is a way to create monophonic ring tunes out of MP3s, which is pretty darn stupid IMHO.
American scientists use Celcius (or Kelvin) for experiments, since the international science community use Celcius (or Kelvin) in documentation. American scientists use Farenheit for weather, because American scientists live in a country that use Farenheit for weather.
Unless they are American meteorology scientists, that is. Then they use degrees Celcius, like other international meteorologists.
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Oh, I know how it is. I accidentally sent the wrong mailbox to sa-learn and now my mailserver gets a sneezing fit whenever someone sends me a mail about topless filking.
And, I'm allergic to nuts too. Two years in techsupport nearly killed me off.
The insightful posts are being outmodded by the rehashing-something-already-stated-before-and-gett ing-insightful-modded posts?
:)
Not too surprising when you consider that the insightful posts are a new design and... errr... yeah, something like that.
And I thought I was bad...
An informative post responding to a post that noted that they got insightful modding when they tried to joke, gets modded funny?
Wow! Imagine the karma I'd get if I started to troll or, I dunno... post offtopic? O:)
Profesors of Investment Banking have opinions just like the rest of us. One of the fircest opponents to soft patents that I know is a lawyer specializing in Intellectual Property. Interesting? Yes, but not surprising.
The thing is, having an strong opinion and announcing it loudly causes publicity. Both for the opinion itself, and fhr the one announcing it. Publicity for the one announcing it makes their other opinions noticed too, as well as their ideas, services and books.
I'm not saying that they've got the opinion because it's a means to get the public's attention, but it certainly doesn't hurt their exposure.
That much said, I applaud their stance. The patent system is totally broken and needs to be either thrown out completely or severely reworked.
Well, besides the fact that I really want that tank (hey, imagine that! Free tanks! Do they come with big guns too?), what color are they?
And where's the sports car option?
I can connect my iPod to my car.
Actually, adding, deleting and changing domains causes changes at #2 and #3. The root-servers are never affected unless there is a change in the TLD delegations. Changing a Second level domain requires changes in the TLD nameservers (#2) and the nameservers responsible for the SLD (#3). Changes within the domain only affects #3. Unless, of course, the change is on an authorative nameserver, in which case #2 is also affected. This article describes how the changes in #2 will take effect faster.
You, my dear, have never worked in journalism.
In journalism, 39400 is a difficult number. Many reporters have trouble understanding numbers such as those. Thus, it is rounded up to 40000, because that's both easier to comprehend and it looks cooler (lots of zeros).
Next in line are the editors. The editors like round numbers, that's why the reporters always round their numbers up. Most editors like round numbers so much that they round them up to, let's say, 50000, which obviously is half of 100000.
You might also have noticed that lexmark stock is down $3.46 from this morning. Let's apply the same techniques that we learned earlier. Let's make this a nice, round figure of $5.
Now, Lexmark has about 129.5 million shares outstanding. This means, in journalist-speak, that there are 200 million lexmark shares on the market. Multiply this with the figure you got earlier (this part is very difficult for most reporters and editors) and you get $1,000,000,000.
This looks very impressive, right? Still, there's something missing. Of course there is! Let's add the word "over". What do we get?
LEXMARK MAKES OVER $1,000,000,000 LOSS ON PRINTER RECALL
Isn't that a headline to be proud of?
Of course, you might ask what the heck I'm smoking and what this has to do with reality. If you do that, you've uncovered one of the greatest secrets about journalism - it has nothing to do with reality at all.
Oh, and by the way, where did all those $1,000,000,000 USD go? Well, I'll tell you. In fact, I could use a bit of help in transfering those to a private bank acount. If you care to help me out, I can offer you a 30% share of the money...
Am I the only one to find it amusing to see SCO Linux listed as one of the validated distros? :)
Mine is eight inches!
This is going to have some serious implications on the world's superhero balance of power.
Since everyone seems to have missed it, I was refering to the fact that they seem to sell the same thing, besides having the last name, that is.
The charge was made by SCO VP of engineering Sandeep Gupta in a declaration that is currently under seal, but is quoted, albeit tersely, in the new filings.
Any relation to Dr Samir Gupta?
Joe Sixpack in VA, or Joe Sixpack in PA?
Even when it comes to snailmail, small errors can result in things being sent way off course.
Credit card number? Forget it, most (smart) people would never give out their credit card number just to "authenticate" themselves. (On the other hand, enough idiots do this already, so maybe I'm wrong). Also, not everyone has a credit card.
;)
SSN? Great, Lots of fake ones out there. Besides the fact that many countries don't even HAVE social security numbers. Some have equivalent forms of ID, but many doesn't even have that.
Passports? Well, I bought a Sealand passport off of eBay.
Oh, don't worry. It happens all the time. We consider it a feature. :)
What do the Gray areas on the World Map indicate? Most of Europe is gray, and the key does not explain the meaning of this color.
It indicates countries that aren't part of this survey.
Oh? I dare you to prove that it DOES install vaporware. :D
Actually, I was refering to the myth that someone can have you call a 1-800 number and then "secretly" redirect you to somewhere else.
In my personal opinion, I think this might actually be a good thing. Considering the fact that didtheyreadit.com uses external images for tracking, and that they're getting a whole bunch of publicity right now (partially due to this very article), this is just another reason for email clients to block external images by default - spam apparently not being a big enough reason yet.
:)
With a bit of luck, this will make more sites and clients want to implement image blocking, which will in turn make it harder for spammers to get their messages across.
Spam is merely an annoyance to most people. Privacy issues are not.
Uhh, no. The recipient "downloads" their mail from their ISPs mailserver. There's nothing didtheyreadit.com can do to change that. What the extra ".didtheyreadit.com" does is simply being an email adress that forwards the mail to the recipients server, and adding a tracking-image to the mail.
Of course, if you don't believe me, please feel free to call my free 1-800 number and I'll explain it further. I promise not to redirect your call to an international $9.95/min number.
Server-push. Very simple.
If you have a new Nokia phone (IE, new model, not just new purchase), you just upload the ringtones (in MIDI, AMR or MP3 format) by IR or Bluetooth.
Considering the vast amount of MIDI, AMR or MP3 format songs out there, and for that matter the ease of creating one in the first place, I don't see why this is such big news. Unless, of course, this is a way to create monophonic ring tunes out of MP3s, which is pretty darn stupid IMHO.
American scientists use Celcius (or Kelvin) for experiments, since the international science community use Celcius (or Kelvin) in documentation. American scientists use Farenheit for weather, because American scientists live in a country that use Farenheit for weather.
Unless they are American meteorology scientists, that is. Then they use degrees Celcius, like other international meteorologists.