Aggravated rape of an 11 year old could net you 5 years in CT. If the victim were 6, the minimum is only 10 years, which is damn close enough to 9 years for comparison.
If this really is Tony, next time you are clearly wrong apologize under your real name and don't change the argument.
Why is this so incomprehensible for so many people?
I'm not sure, but it reminds be of the time we had a dorm-mate convinced that DST was created so farmers crops would have an extra hour of sunlight in which to grow.
Frankly, I have enough paperwork to keep track of.
Who said anything about "paper"?
I picked up a Brother multifunction printer/scanner with built in network (great deal with large rebate). I can scan a document to a PDF that gets emailed to me.
I put the form, receipt, and UPC on the scanning bed and hit "Scan To Email". About 30 seconds later, it hits my mailbox and I drag the PDF to a folder on my file server. I then rename the file "YYYYMMDD-AMT-WhoIsRebateFor".
Easy to store, easy to reference and it takes less than a minute.
I have yet to see the rebate check for the very laptop I'm typing this post on, and I mailed the claim in the Monday after Thanksgiving.
So, why don't you call the number on the rebate form? You know, the one that you kept a copy of, along with copies of the UPC and receipt?
I've done several thousand dollars of rebates over the last three years and I have never not received them in the end. On a few, I did need to call in when the turnaround date passed without a check. That's why it is really important to keep copies of everything you send in as well as the appropriate due dates for each.
Though I'd like them to prefetch the "next search page" as well... at least, that would tend to speed up *my* googling.
In Firefox and Safari, I've set Google searches started with the keyword 'g' or the search bar to use this URL instead of the normal one (the @@@ represents the search terms).
Thus, my searches are for documents in English and I see 100 results per page... searching is so much quicker that I can see 10 pages of results on one page.
Actually, I think we'll find out that the holodeck fantasy was programmed by Riker and Troi's autistic child who created it after spending many hours staring at his favorite toy - a sno-globe of the NX-01
Let us not forget a couple of decades ago, when the news media were throwing a shitfit because Dungeons and Dragons was causing children to commit suicide.
I heard that they even sometimes cause people to go crazy.
Up until the early 90s, when 911 really wasn't in the area yet, we had little stickers on every phone that said:
Police XXX-YYYY Fire XXX-YYYY Ambulance XXX-YYYY
(this was before 10-digit dialing)
Total cost: free, as we were given the stickers
Flash forward to 2004... I'm a new parent and my wife and I are going out to dinner alone for the first time since becoming parents. On the emergency sheet for the baby sitter, I wrote in big, bold letters:
YOU MUST USE CELL PHONE TO CALL 911
OUR ADDRESS IS:
THE NEAREST INTERSECTION IS:
THE NEAREST MAJOR INTERSECTION IS:
WIFES CELL PHONE IS: NNN-XXX-YYYY
I explained this to the babysitter and showed her the sheet. I placed the sheet and my cell phone on the kitchen table and made sure she knew where it was.
Now, is it a little more complicated than just dialing "911"? Yes.
But, is it any more complicated than the stickers which were fine for us to use for DECADES? No.
Whilst Apple can't condone this, it would be nice if they could go to the record labels and say without DRM we sold x many hundre thousand more tracks.
If you believe that argument is valid, then you should have no trouble with the much more likely corollary:
Apple goes to the the labels and says "The site sold X songs without DRM. This represents less than.01% of total sales. Almost all consumers appear to be happy with the current arrangement. "
Same happened in the infamous Apple vs. Microsoft lawsuit.
No, it didn't.
Instead of hearing that Apple lost that case and jumping to an incorrect conclusion about what it says, maybe you should actually read the ruling?
But, no, this is Slashdot, where people can't even be bothered to RTFA (which, talking about the current article, makes no mention of Apple legal putting pressure on Google). So, I'll sum the ruling up for you:
Apple sues Microsoft for stealing its "look and feel". Apple loses because the judge ruled that the license agreement that Microsoft had with Apple could be interpreted to give Microsoft right to the look and feel. Without the fuzziness in the license wording, Apple would have won easily.
Dunno. Right now, I am a Comcast subscriber and I have a 5 year old Tivo with lifetime sub. I'm not sure what I am going to do when my unit dies. I'm using TurboNet, so I'd hate to have to run a phone line to use their offering, if, in fact, you need a telephone line.
What really scares me, though, is this statement:
The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast's existing DVR platform
... based on press releases from last May, aren't Comcast's PVRs built on an MS platform?
I noticed some people would make the same error so much that I even personalized some of the error messages. Like: "Your passing a string instead of an address John", and "Your reading from a closed object Kevin".
Written by someone who has never been working on a phone line when a call comes in.
While 90V @ 30 Hz is not usually life threatening, it's also not a walk in the park either.
- Tony
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Not that I don't agree with you, but you do realize that the specs for a power supply list how much power it _can_ supply, not how much it _does_ supply at any given point?
For example, the server that I use for development, storage, MP3, SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, SMB, etc is an AMD 2600 with two (2) 200GB 7200 RPM drives and 1 GB RAM.
Even though it has a 400W power supply, I've measured that it uses 140W.
Regardless, your point still stands as the server costs about $15 / mo to run.
You absolutely may NOT incorporated shared code into anything. If you've seen MS source code, you must wash your eyes and cleanse your brain as not to inadvertantly introduce MS code into other projects. Some would say it goes as far as not participating in GPL projects.
(Hold on while I get my tin-foil hat on)
Since the money they put into SCO is fizzling, maybe this is their next attempt. Release code into the open (not "open source" open, just that some non-MS people have access to it), wait a few years, then go after the OSS projects that compete with your product because they have "stolen your code". Whether they did or didn't is not the issue, the legal wrangling is what MS would be after.
I've yet to find a online music store that will let me use my mp3 player.
You do realize that the "Burn Disc" button on iTunes is more than just there for shits and giggles?
Step 1 - Import songs you have in iTunes / Buy songs from iTMS Step 2 - Create playlist Step 3 - Click "Burn Disc" Step 4 - There is no step 4, you're done! When you clicked "Burn Disc", depending upon your preferences, your songs were:
(a) converted to AIFF and burned to a standard Audio CD (b) copied as MP3 or converted from DRM'd AAC to non-DRM MP3 and burned to a data disc.
Although the previous poster is currently mod'ed as "Flamebait", the post has a very good point...
If I'm a corporation and I am going to buy, say, 100 desktops, I don't go to the website for the purchase. I call Dell or IBM or HP or Gateway directly and get a sales rep for pricing and options.
After the options and prices are set, I would ask how much does the price drop if no Windows licenses are included. I'd probably have a much better chance of getting what I want at that point.
It's one thing to turn down $500. It's another to turn away $25,000.
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Fine:
Aggravated rape of an 11 year old could net you 5 years in CT. If the victim were 6, the minimum is only 10 years, which is damn close enough to 9 years for comparison.
If this really is Tony, next time you are clearly wrong apologize under your real name and don't change the argument.
Just for you: Apology withdrawn.
- Tony
It's not that I think 9 years is too long or too short, it's that I think it's not in line with other punishments.
You could commit a murder and probably get a similar sentence, if not shorter.
It really says something about society when you can get a harsher penalty for sending spam than you could for premeditated homicide.
- Tony
Why is this so incomprehensible for so many people?
I'm not sure, but it reminds be of the time we had a dorm-mate convinced that DST was created so farmers crops would have an extra hour of sunlight in which to grow.
Good times.
- Tony
Frankly, I have enough paperwork to keep track of.
Who said anything about "paper"?
I picked up a Brother multifunction printer/scanner with built in network (great deal with large rebate). I can scan a document to a PDF that gets emailed to me.
I put the form, receipt, and UPC on the scanning bed and hit "Scan To Email". About 30 seconds later, it hits my mailbox and I drag the PDF to a folder on my file server. I then rename the file "YYYYMMDD-AMT-WhoIsRebateFor".
Easy to store, easy to reference and it takes less than a minute.
- Tony
I have yet to see the rebate check for the very laptop I'm typing this post on, and I mailed the claim in the Monday after Thanksgiving.
So, why don't you call the number on the rebate form? You know, the one that you kept a copy of, along with copies of the UPC and receipt?
I've done several thousand dollars of rebates over the last three years and I have never not received them in the end. On a few, I did need to call in when the turnaround date passed without a check. That's why it is really important to keep copies of everything you send in as well as the appropriate due dates for each.
- Tony
Pretty cool.
My hat off to you, sir, I didn't know you could do that!
- Tony
Though I'd like them to prefetch the "next search page" as well... at least, that would tend to speed up *my* googling.
In Firefox and Safari, I've set Google searches started with the keyword 'g' or the search bar to use this URL instead of the normal one (the @@@ represents the search terms).
Thus, my searches are for documents in English and I see 100 results per page... searching is so much quicker that I can see 10 pages of results on one page.
- Tony
Actually, I think we'll find out that the holodeck fantasy was programmed by Riker and Troi's autistic child who created it after spending many hours staring at his favorite toy - a sno-globe of the NX-01
Let us not forget a couple of decades ago, when the news media were throwing a shitfit because Dungeons and Dragons was causing children to commit suicide.
I heard that they even sometimes cause people to go crazy.
911 does need to be able to work from VOIP phones
... I'm a new parent and my wife and I are going out to dinner alone for the first time since becoming parents. On the emergency sheet for the baby sitter, I wrote in big, bold letters:
No, it doesn't.
Up until the early 90s, when 911 really wasn't in the area yet, we had little stickers on every phone that said:
Police XXX-YYYY
Fire XXX-YYYY
Ambulance XXX-YYYY
(this was before 10-digit dialing)
Total cost: free, as we were given the stickers
Flash forward to 2004
YOU MUST USE CELL PHONE TO CALL 911
OUR ADDRESS IS:
THE NEAREST INTERSECTION IS:
THE NEAREST MAJOR INTERSECTION IS:
WIFES CELL PHONE IS: NNN-XXX-YYYY
I explained this to the babysitter and showed her the sheet. I placed the sheet and my cell phone on the kitchen table and made sure she knew where it was.
Now, is it a little more complicated than just dialing "911"? Yes.
But, is it any more complicated than the stickers which were fine for us to use for DECADES? No.
- Tony
Now my boss wants 6 weeks notice plus on call service for another 3 months at subsidized rates. Is my boss being reasonable?
No, he's not. Think about it, if they wanted to get rid of you would they give you 6 weeks notice?
Give him two weeks.
Anything beyond that should be charged per hour at the following rate:
(Your yearly salary * 2) / 2080
That's probably about 25-40% more than you cost them right now.
Any hours outside of 9 - 5 are at double-time. Minimum 4 hour charge.
- Tony
Let's get ready to rumble!
- Tony
Whilst Apple can't condone this, it would be nice if they could go to the record labels and say without DRM we sold x many hundre thousand more tracks.
.01% of total sales. Almost all consumers appear to be happy with the current arrangement. "
If you believe that argument is valid, then you should have no trouble with the much more likely corollary:
Apple goes to the the labels and says "The site sold X songs without DRM. This represents less than
- Tony
Same happened in the infamous Apple vs. Microsoft lawsuit.
No, it didn't.
Instead of hearing that Apple lost that case and jumping to an incorrect conclusion about what it says, maybe you should actually read the ruling?
But, no, this is Slashdot, where people can't even be bothered to RTFA (which, talking about the current article, makes no mention of Apple legal putting pressure on Google). So, I'll sum the ruling up for you:
Apple sues Microsoft for stealing its "look and feel". Apple loses because the judge ruled that the license agreement that Microsoft had with Apple could be interpreted to give Microsoft right to the look and feel. Without the fuzziness in the license wording, Apple would have won easily.
- Tony
It's kind of like the feeling I got when I watched a porno with a hot girl and a really hairy guy.
Please don't compare Perl 6 and Ron Jeremy. I think Ron would be insulted.
What really scares me, though, is this statement:
The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast's existing DVR platform
Is fifteen minutes worth a nickel? Hell yeah.
I think many people would argue that fifteen minutes is worth $.99, hence iTMS.
I noticed some people would make the same error so much that I even personalized some of the error messages. Like: "Your passing a string instead of an address John", and "Your reading from a closed object Kevin".
"You keep using "your" instead of "you're" KDN."
That's overkill. Phone lines aren't power lines.
Written by someone who has never been working on a phone line when a call comes in.
While 90V @ 30 Hz is not usually life threatening, it's also not a walk in the park either.
- Tony
Not that I don't agree with you, but you do realize that the specs for a power supply list how much power it _can_ supply, not how much it _does_ supply at any given point?
For example, the server that I use for development, storage, MP3, SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, SMB, etc is an AMD 2600 with two (2) 200GB 7200 RPM drives and 1 GB RAM.
Even though it has a 400W power supply, I've measured that it uses 140W.
Regardless, your point still stands as the server costs about $15 / mo to run.
You absolutely may NOT incorporated shared code into anything. If you've seen MS source code, you must wash your eyes and cleanse your brain as not to inadvertantly introduce MS code into other projects. Some would say it goes as far as not participating in GPL projects.
(Hold on while I get my tin-foil hat on)
Since the money they put into SCO is fizzling, maybe this is their next attempt. Release code into the open (not "open source" open, just that some non-MS people have access to it), wait a few years, then go after the OSS projects that compete with your product because they have "stolen your code". Whether they did or didn't is not the issue, the legal wrangling is what MS would be after.
- Tony
Following their logic, we can deduce exactly which cars are the safest by counting the number of recalls for each model.
Think how much tax money can be saved by shutting down the NHTSA Crash Test facility.
- Tony
Ack. You're right. I'm wrong.
I saw the option there, but never tried it... I just did with a few songs from iTMS and got an error when it went to burn.
You can do it (officially) with an extra step:
(a) Burn Disc (Audio CD)
(b) Import Disc
(c) Burn Disc (MP3)
Or, you can do it (unofficial) with a different extra step:
(a) Buy stuff from iTMS
(b) Run DRM'd AAC through Hymn
(c) Load non-DRM'd AAC into iTunes
(d) Burn Disc (MP3)
- Tony
I've yet to find a online music store that will let me use my mp3 player.
You do realize that the "Burn Disc" button on iTunes is more than just there for shits and giggles?
Step 1 - Import songs you have in iTunes / Buy songs from iTMS
Step 2 - Create playlist
Step 3 - Click "Burn Disc"
Step 4 - There is no step 4, you're done! When you clicked "Burn Disc", depending upon your preferences, your songs were:
(a) converted to AIFF and burned to a standard Audio CD
(b) copied as MP3 or converted from DRM'd AAC to non-DRM MP3 and burned to a data disc.
Isn't this what you are looking for?
- Tony
Although the previous poster is currently mod'ed as "Flamebait", the post has a very good point...
If I'm a corporation and I am going to buy, say, 100 desktops, I don't go to the website for the purchase. I call Dell or IBM or HP or Gateway directly and get a sales rep for pricing and options.
After the options and prices are set, I would ask how much does the price drop if no Windows licenses are included. I'd probably have a much better chance of getting what I want at that point.
It's one thing to turn down $500. It's another to turn away $25,000.
- Tony